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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Die-cut Promotional Book in the shape of a Shoe Heel Promoting Wire Grip Fastening Co
Boston, n.d.. 4 pp. booklet die-cut in the shape of a shoe heel. Promotes the Wire Grip Slugger, a machine forcing solid steel or brass wire into heels and soles of shoes and the Clinch Nailing Machine that inserts nails into shoes at a rate from 250 to 300 per minute. L. Barta & Co. Printer. Boston.
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The Little Showman's Series - Jumbo and the Countryman - Pop-up
New York: McLoughlin Bros. Edge wear on covers.. A single-fold pop-up book with applied litho depicting a family of giraffes grazing in nature. When opened the two-tier pop-up reveals jumbo rearing with a parrot swinging on a perch. The startled countryman waives his umbrella at the elephant. The printed verse on the base page is titled The Tricky... Read More
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Panorama of the Lord Mayor's Show
Seven Dials, W. C.: W. S. Fortey. When closed measures 4 1/2" x 6". Paper wraps. Opens out to an 80" hand colored procession with the Lord Mayor concluding the procession. Created in four sections and glued together.
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Describing Circular Embroidering & Ornamenting Machine for Rug Patterns
Boston, MA: E. S. Frost & Co.'s Turkish Rug Patterns, 1881. Covers detached. Generalized toning and soiling. Loose binding, and several detached interior pages.. An advertising booklet for E. S. Frost & Co.'s Turkish Rug Patterns which starts out by promoting the employment options involved to all persons, men, women and children, in the field of rug making.... Read More
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The Happy Family Movie Dolls - Movable Paper Doll Set - Amusing and instructive - Encouraging Happiness
New York: Henry Heininger Co, 1919. Bends on "skirts" to allow dolls to stand. Tears on back of envelope.. A set of four die-cut wraparound paper dolls with movable arms and eyes. They are the Happy Family - Mr. Al Ways Happy, Mrs. Eve R. Happy, Miss Vera Happy and Little O. So Happy. Each with a rhyming... Read More
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9 Different Promotional Cards depicting Young Girls Cloaks - Hartford Cloak Store -- Our Own Styles
Nine (9) different front and back views of coasts for adolescent girls. The look of sophisicated youth The reverse of half of the cards is blank, the other's promote the Hartford Cloak Store, G. O. Sawyer & Co., Hartford CT and their new Domans, Newmarkets, Langtry's, Walking Jackets, Havelocks, Sacques, &c. Measures 6" x 3 5/8". Beatty & Foret... Read More
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Heliogravure and ALS by Louis Morin. Risque imagery. c1890s
A single-page heliogravure created by Louis Morin, publisher. The content of the letter discusses the publishing of a book including the cost of "aquarelle" or watercolor. Penned and signed by Louis Morin. Measures 5 3/4" x 9
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Les Maitres Humoristes=Numero 7, Lucien Metivet
Paris: Juven, 1907. unpaginated. Printed color paper cover, periodical, sketches with quotes. "Les Maitres Humoristes: Les meilleurs Dessins, Les meilleures Legendes" translates to the Comedian Masters; the best drawings, the best legends. Lucien Metivet (1863-1930/32) was a French poster artist, illustrator, cartoonist, and author. A collection of cartoon sketches with quotes entirely in French. 9 1/2" x 6... Read More
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Souvenir Booklet with Menu and Dance Card for Inauguration of The Alexander Hamilton Hotel, Paterson NJ, 1925
An unnumbered 34 pp booklet with embossed cameo of Alexander Hamilton on the front cover. It is the souvenir for the opening of the hotel and includes a description of the hotel with pictures and sundry remarks on Paterson and the district thereabout, together with a succinct historical account of the doings of Alexander Hamilton. Images from photographs and... Read More
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Medical School Notes of Elbert S. Dupuy for a Course on Laryngology at the Miami School of Medicine, circa 1899-1901
Cincinnati, OH: J. H. Moss & Co., Stationers and Printers, 1899. General wear and toning due to age. Intact covers detached from text block.. A school notebook belonging to Elbert S Dupuy (1876-1941), who attended Miami School of Medicine in Cincinnati, OH This notebook contains the notes from a course taught by Dr. John Albert Thompson (1859-1944) on... Read More
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The Peek-A-Boos at School
Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Bros., Inc, 1929. unpaginated. Printed color applied board cover, blue patterned background, illustrated end papers, black and white illustrations and full page color illustrations. The Peek-A-Boo children, Kenneth, Algernon, and Jane kept getting into trouble. Their nurse gave her notice and their parents were fed up. They found a boarding school to send them to where... Read More
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Elaborate Weeping Willow and Ballerina Lace Paper
United States, 1850. Very good to near-fine. The most minor of toning around the edges.. An elaborate and remarkably well-preserved embossed lace paper colored with blue and pink, depicting ballerinas, putti, and swans underneath a canopy of weeping willow branches. Measures approx. 4.5" by 7", for octavo-sized Valentine.
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Alice Murphy School Reports for the Day School for Young Ladies and Girls, February 1890 to June 1892 and examination excuse, 1903
New Haven, 1903. A collection of 15 reports for Miss Alice Murphy, 1 excuse from examination card from 1903. Reports from Day School for Young Ladies and Girls, New Haven. Principals: Miss Orton and Miss Nichols. reports are signed A.K. Murphy. Examination excuse card is from 1903 and is signed H.J. Whiton. loose reports, slight creases and staining. ... Read More
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