Childs Merit Chart
Hughes Specialties: Los Angeles, California, 1944. Very good. Light dust soiling.. A charming 10-week merit chart for kids to use to track chores and tasks, including hundreds of stars to cut out and paste next to completed tasks. This example has been partially used and has been signed in pencil by a young girl named Carolyn Reynolds. She... Read More
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A Guide to Family Nutrition for New York City Parents in Fourteen (14) Leaflets
New York, New York: New York City Department of Health, 1940. Near-fine. This set lacks at least leaflet no. 4; it is unclear whether there were more leaflets published after the last here, no. 14.. A set of printed leaflets from the New York City Department of Health, offering mothers handy guides to family nutrition. Each leaflet addresses... Read More
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National Corn Remover, Instructions and Remover
Washington, DC: Criswell Chemical Company, 1916. General wear. The text on the bandage is faded in some sections. Letter folds on instruction sheet, along with residue on backside due to bandage.. The "National Corn Remover" worked on corns, warts, and calluses, and was as "simple as court plaster" to use. The corn remover was essentially a treated plaster... Read More
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1950s U.S. Army and Air Force Medical Service Information Packet
N.pl: U.S. Army and Air Force Medical Services, 1950. Very good. Sunning and wear to extremities of folder. Could be missing one or two information sheets, but appears largely complete. Pencil to upper cover of folder. An expansive information packet for recruitment officers, published by the U.S. Army and Air Force Medical Services. Offers information on the following... Read More
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The Missionary Herald Vol. XL, Nos. 4, 6, and 7
Boston, Massachusetts: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 1844. Very good. Chipping and wear to wrappers. Minor toning, dust soiling, small water stains.. Vol. XL, Nos. 4, 6, and 7 of The Missionary Herald, a serial published in Boston by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). The present issue publishes news from their members... Read More
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Prospectus and Promotional materials for selling Egyptian Regulator Tea
1900. 24 pp prospectus and promotional brochure encouraging individuals to become sales agent for the Egyptian Drug Company selling Egyptian Regulator Tea. A buy low, sell high scheme including illustrations and text promoting the teas effect on indigestion, pimple, boils, old sores, ulcers, dyspepsia, corpulency, sick headache, rheumatism, nervous debility, neuralgia and premature old age. Additionally includes numerous testimonials.... Read More
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3 Lg Format Sample Swatch Folios for Dimity, Voile and Batiste Cottons
New York: Bedford Mills, 1920. 3 single-fold cards with fabric swatches or sampled of various types of fine weave cotton. The larger two are from Bedford Mills and include 35-36 Inch Turin printed Dimity (2009) and 34-40 Inch Orduna Viole Printed (3019), each with a 12" x 7 1/2" sample and five smaller triangles of the fabric in various... Read More
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School Record for the 6th School District in Woodbury, CT
1896. A manuscript journal recording all of the official actions of the school district beginning with the appointment of George N. Judson as moderator of the School Committee for 1841. The record includes information on the appointment of committee members through the years and all activities related to the school building. A primary focus is the acquisition of cords... Read More
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Chicago Times Portfolio of the Midway Types Vol. 2,3,4,5,6, 7 ,8,9,10 & 11
Chicago: The American Engraving Co, 1893. Ten (10) of 12 vol. 20 pp viewbook; halftone images with descriptive letterpress. Attractive covers with human alphabet letters on the word Types. The volumes consisted largely of photographs accompanied by contextual and interpretive commentary. Some books exclusively devoted pages to images of Midway Plaisance while others presented a more comprehensive documentation of... Read More
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The Boob Wheel Co., Circular Letter Head
Cincinnati OH: The Boob Wheel Co, 1909. A 9 1/4" in diameter letterhead printed on paper die-cut in the shape of a circle, with wheel and spoke border design. The company sold wheels, poles and shafts, so the wheel shaped letterhead was a natural promotion for product awareness. Reverse is blank. Accompanied by file note responding to the correspondence.... Read More
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Boston Work-Horse Parade Association, Bulletin No. 1
1911. 8 pp booklet. Revised and re-issued, August 1911. Content includes information on Watering and Bedding and Bedding and Rest for parade horses. Primarily discusses need for bedding in stables and watering both day and night. The inside cover has a postscript with testimonials from stable owners. Measures 7 1/2" x 5" The Association issued in 1910 a Bulletin... Read More
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Window Display Photograph - Helen Fox Kruser Delicatessen featuring of A-So-Gud Pretzels
1920s. A 9 3/4" x 7 1/2" photograph depicting a window display at Helen Fox Kruser Delicatessen. Large poster in background for "O-So-Gud" Pretzels in the background with open cases of pretzels and pretzels strewn about the base of the display. The pretzels are accompanied by what else but beer...
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Fine Promotional Booklet What She Wears- Migel Quality Silks with Calendar Pages for 1908 - The Modern Woman in Silk
New York & Paris: M. C. Migel & Co, 1908. 8 french-fold pp. with silk screened crane on wraps. The paper for the cover is laid paper with chain lines. The paper for the booklet is more of a washi paper with chain lines. All quite striking. The booklet describes the fine silks produced by the company and the... Read More
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3 Handbills Children's Magazines Wide Awake, Babyland & Our Little Ones 1880s
Advertising handbills for D. Lothrop & Co's Wide Awake and Babyland and George A. Smith & Co.'s Our Little Ones. One in the form of a small format trade card, the second a two-sided flyer for Wide Awake and Babyland with three vignettes from the magazines with three vignettes including Bobby's Conundrum, a letter from Babyland an The Literary... Read More
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Retirement Album for W. B. Gray, Western Electric Company
Baltimore, Maryland: Western Electric Company, 1952. William Breathitt Gray II was born on October 3, 1888 to William Breathitt Gray I (1847-1915) and Mary Jane Draper Gray (1956-1922) in Utica, MT. Originally, a rancher on his parents farm, he moved to Chicago in the early 1920s to start work at the Western Electric Company. He married Mabel Dell St.... Read More
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The Little Chap: A Small Newspaper Published During the School Year - Andover (Philips Academy)
Andover, Mass: Edward H. Williams, III, 8-Jun-04. Overall condition is good, fold lines and a few small tears along the edges.. The small newspaper is published one a week during the school year and includes short, often local news. The two-sided printed newspaper is roughly divide into three sections, general news, sports news, and advertising. The news includes... Read More
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Menu - Tremont House, Boston, September 19, 1886
Single-fold menu with illustration of the exterior of the establishment and surrounding street scenes on front cover. The menu is for September 19, 1886 and features a wide array including various Soup, Fish, Cold, Entrees, Vegetables, Pastry and Dessert. Also includes a comprehensive wine list. Reverse is blank. Measures 5 ¾" x 9". horizontal centerfold.
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The New York Sunday World Feb. 16th c1895 - Adventurous Miniature Woman Rides a Hawk
Letter folds. Intact tear at top.. A 17 5/8" x 12" literary poster for The New York Sunday World - Sunday, Feb 16th (c1895) 3 Magazines Combined iwht all the News bedised. - McDougall ll up in a Balloon (Albuquerque balloon festival), Eight Colored Comic Pages, Fully of Breezy Features and Escape of the Crooks.
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Elaborate Traveling Salesman Sample - Price List with Watertown NY clients, Calendar Pad Catalogue, Extensive Calendar Samples including Hand Painted Bamboo Panels and much more
Cincinnati OH: George H. Jung Co, 1929. Condition is near fine. Almost as new.. A salesman's kit for the George H. Jung Company, Calendars and Advertising Specialties. It consists of approximately 125 items. It includes: An Advertising Blotters Catalog - 44 pp. with 3-6 specimens per page, information on sizes, pricing and a tipped in envelope inside back... Read More
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A Grouping of 22 Bookseller Labels/Tags from the 18th and 19th Centuries
1920. Age toning.. A collection of twenty-two (22) bookseller labels (also called Bookseller Tags) from the 18th and 19th centuries. One of the more unique and largest labels in the collection is from the Female Benevolent and Library Society. This was a small library founded in 1825 by the female members of the town of Seeknok, MA. This... Read More
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Brochure for New England Music Camp
Oakland, ME: New England Music Camp, 1940. Binding staples rusted. Center page has detached.. A brochure for New England Music Camp located in Oakland, ME. Started in 1937 as a nonprofit by Dr. Paul E Wiggin and his wife Nina Wiggin, the camp's goal was to cultivate and refine the musical skills of the youth as well as... Read More
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Promotion & Invitation to 40th Year - The University of Michigan Glee and Mandolin Club - features stunts, specialties "Best College Musical Organization in America
Ann Arbor, MI, 1899. A 3 1/4" x 5 1/2" card stock invitation with an image from a photograph of a dapper gent in tops and tails. Announcement reads "40th Year The University of Michigan Glee and Mandolin Club is Coming -- Its repertoire will include Midnight sons' quartette , Ragtime string trio, Popular Operatic Hits, College Vaudeville. -... Read More
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"Who Comes Here", "A Grenadier". The Nursery Rhymes of Old England
London: Dean & Co., Threadneedle Street, 1840s. Hand colored lithograph on board/heavy stock sheet music with words and music in a central decorative element surrounded by relevant illustrations. Depicts a soldier soldier at an inn keepers door while children look on at top and emulate the should at the base. Decorative elements at sides feature drums with musical instruments... Read More
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Report of the Babies' Wards Post-Graduate Hospital
New York, NY: Babies' Wards Post-Graduate Hospital, 1918. General wear. Covers partially separated from text block.. This booklet is the 1918 yearly report of a New York charity called Babies' Wards Post-Graduate Hospital. During WWI, a lot of local charities were just as hard up for cash as their overseas counterparts and as such the booklet starts with... Read More
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Corrected Rules of the Juvenile Society
Scarborough, UK: Juvenile Society, October 7, 1795. General wear with folds. Text is faded by legible. . The hand written parchment sheet with rules and regulations of a Juvenile Society in Scarborough, England. The manuscripts contains six rules for the Society, such as when and where they will meet, voting in a president, voting on topics of discussion,... Read More
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