Sweet Potato Slips!
Nashville, TN: A. J. Green & Bro. & Byers & Fain, 1876. Letter folds.. An 18" x 12" broadside promoting Sweet Potato Slips! and All Other Plants in Season. Provides pricing information for a variety of Sweet Potato Slips, Cabbage, Tomato and Pepper Plants and prices for quantities of 100 and 1000 plants. Plant's include Brazil Yam, Pumpkin... Read More
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Analytic Workbook including Textile Specimens, Philadelphia Textile School, Pennsylvania Museum & School of Industrial Arts by Adolphe Rusch, Jr. Pioneer in Lightweight Aviation Fabrics
c1900. A hard cover analysis book created by a student Adolphe Rusch, Jr. while a student at the Textile School. In depth analysis for each fabric including warp required, filling requires, warp dressing and filling arrangement details. This is followed by the actual finished piece of fabric and detailed hand created grids including design, harness chain and drawing-in draft... Read More
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Program for City Council Celebration, signing of the Constitution of the United States of America. Independence Square. September 1861
1861. Printed in blue and red on white paper. Graphic depicts clasped hands, the Constitution and the American flag with a field of stars in the background. Contents include a Memorial, the resolution to hold the celebration, Order of Exercise, and Music. Single-fold 8 ½’ x 11”. Light surface soiling on cover page; edge wear and letter folds. ... Read More
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Newspaper Cover Handmade Commonplace Book, June 4, 1809
1809. 8 pages of laid paper stitched in place between a portion of a newspaper page from 1809. Includes Bible verses and quotes, bills sent to Bridgeport Bank, Mohawk Bank and several to Manhattan Bank. This is followed by additional devotionals and banking notes. Articles on the covers include petitions of the New York state assembly, buildings to be... Read More
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Fine c1820 PinPrick Art Watercolor Embellishments
1820s. A 10" x 8 1/2" pinprick work depicting a nomad or perhaps a shepherd. The costume is pinprick with watercolor embellishments. Pin-prick pictures were just one of many ways in which paper was used without paint or pencil to create images as a genteel way to pass the time. By the end of the 18th century it... Read More
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Receipt to make Elixer (sic) for the Bilious Cholic - which has also been found very useful in Agues to carry of the Bile
1810. Age toning, letter folds.. A manuscript receipt listing all of the necessary ingredients with an explanation on processing "let them stand in a warm place" and when done mix equal parts of Brandy -- take half a wine glass morning and night. "Receipt to make Elixer(sic) for the Cholic & Ague". Written on laid paper. Measures 8"... Read More
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Pencil Sketches by Sophia Long Deani
1860. A 6 1/2" x 8 1/4" sketchbook with marbled paper wraps. Naive drawings including love birds in a basket, a church yard, a basket of fruit with a bird(in the style of a theorem), an ancient castle, a fortress on a river and more.
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Fall River Line Menu - Steamer Plymouth c1900
1900. A single-fold 8" x 5 1/2" menu with cover illustrations with Art Nouveau influenced decoration and illustration of asailing vessel. The menu is for breakfast on the Steamer Plymouth. Comprehensive menu. Wine List on reverse.
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Presbyterian Hospital Annual Report and Fundraising appeal
New York. NY: Presbyterian Hospital, 1908. 16 (unnumbered) pp. Printed on lightly polished paper. Images from photographs throughout of staff assisting patients, mostly the indigent. The narration begins with acknowledgment of the trend in hospital work toward scientific exactness, and the keeping of fuller records of all symptoms and treatment of the patient followed by two pages of examples.... Read More
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Gems of Sacred Poetry. American Tract Society New York
New York: American Tract Society, 1850. 256 pp. Blind stamped brown cloth hard cover, gilt spine, miniature book, index in back-first by subject then by first lines. Collection of sacred, religious poetry. 3 1/4" x 2 1/2" faintly inscribed "Mrs. Louisa Witson Jan. 22, 1851
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Frank and the Farmer
Troy, NY: Merriam & Moore. 12 pp. Illustrated paper cover, wood cut illustrations throughout, frontispiece, "The Edgeworth Toys" Story of a boy, Frank, who learns about farming, flowers, haying, animals, honey bees are highlighted. 6" x 4" pencil inscription, foxing throughout, one stain that has bleed through, cover illustration was colored.
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Jerry and the Voice
New York, New York: American Tract Society, 1860. Good. Toned, damp staining, wrps loose and reinforced with crude early sewing.. An instructive and moralistic tale published by the American Tract Society for young children. 16mo (4.25" by 3"), pp. 16, illus., original illus. wrps. Approx. 5 copies on WorldCat (Jan. 2024).
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Promotional Card - The Eureka Nebulizer - Special Treatment of the Ears, Nose, Throat and Lungs
Le Grange, IL: O. Q. Holman, 1900. Sharp imagery.. A 5 1/4" x 3' heavy stock card depicting a five chamber device on the front and boasting "Far better than the Pulitzer Air Bag and Catheter in the Treatment of the Ear"... The narrative on revere advises it is for the treatment of Chronic Bonchitis (sic) incipient Consumption... Read More
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The Japanese Marriage Ceremony Promotional Brochure by Department Store
Kobe, Japan: William Rae, 1930. General wear.. This tri-fold pamphlet details the Japanese wedding ceremony, starting from the arrangement of the couple by their family, to their wedding ceremony and what life for the bride is like after the wedding. The pamphlet was created by William Rae as a way of stirring interest in Japan and its culture... Read More
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Correspondence from Gouveuneur Tillotson, Princeton student to Richard V. W. Thorne, Jr. of West Point Academy 1837-1838
Seven (7) different letters written by Tillotson to his close friend cadet Thorne. The letters are newsy in nature and written in an engaging style. He refers to various individuals by their full names with explicit details on their carrying-ons. Gouveuneur Tillotson antics and lack of interest in school became a somewhat prominent attorney in New York City and... Read More
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Original Art - Baby's Book Created for Helen Davis Sage by her Father - Watercolor on Vellum
1890. 12 leaves. vellum, bound with braided silk tie. Cover reads "Baby's Book" With quote at top "each day sees some rare unfolding of the sweet young life, the dawning of a new intelligence" from A Child Shall Lead Them. Elaborately penned with watercolor illustrations. The next page is a verse entitled "Babies Skies" This is followed by Monday's... Read More
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1830s Scherenschnitte Cutwork Valentine & Punch Paper Sampler Rose Bookmark John Ripley, Putnam-Houser House, Belpre, Ohio
Glass lacking on frame.. A grouping of materials belonging to John D. Ripley found by a descendant among papers in the of the Putnam-Houser House in 1981. Contents include:A 12" x 15" scherenschnitte or cut-work paper valentine with elongated floral design and circular decorative elements at border. Center has a hand-penned verse reading "This Valentine I... Read More
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Silk Menu - Dinner in honour of HRH Prince Henry of Prussia Tendered by the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung to the American Press, Feb. 26, 1902, Waldorf Astoria NYC and Official Program and Souvenir of Prince Henry's Visit to the United States
New York: R. A. Ringler Co., engraver, 1902. Light wear to program. A 12" 5 1/2" silk menu with a color illustration of HRH Prince Henry of Prussia. Fare included Oysters, Terrapin Philadelphia Style, Sweetbread, New Century and much more. Various wines and liqueurs served through. The dinner was to introduce the Prince to the American press. Also,... Read More
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Album of 17 Original Watercolors Done in the Same Hand. The subject: Things Floral, The Alphabet of Angela - Language of Flowers c1870s-80s
1870. Somewhat naive yet elegant watercolors, all with a floral or nature theme. Each is captioned in pencil. The first is captioned Preparing for Winter showing a young girl gathering sticks. There are single floral specimens, garlands and mixtures of both. Includes flowers as Inidan Azilie, Persian Tulip and Pomegranate. A bouquet in a vase is captioned The Alphabet... Read More
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A large format autograph and friendship album with fine Calligraphy, Autographs and Stamp Portraits of classmates belonging to J. W. Hertzog, Exeter Station PA, from his senior year at Eastman College, Poughkeepsie, New York. 1894.
1894. Unpaginated autograph and friendship album with a perfusion on entries from classmates from across the country, the islands, Mexico, Canada and Japan. A majority of entries include an identified photographic stamp of the classmate. It concludes with a series of stamp portraits identifying the individuals and their state of residence. The book also includes eleven (11) full page... Read More
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Thanksgiving, A Menu from the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics 1915 Thanksgiving Dinner
Gallipolis, OH: Ohio Hospital for Epileptics, Nov-15. Letter fold. Minor penciling on covers.. A single fold menu for the 1915 Thanksgiving Dinner at the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics. The menu is done in dark blue ink and the front cover features an illustration of an autumn scene with a turkey standing next to a pumpkin with a bunch... Read More
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9 Letters Between Sisters and Cousins, Wheelers and Spragues, Massachusetts 1819-1852
A series of nine letters from 1819-1852 from a Massachusetts family. In summary discussions include wanting to become a teacher to teach her siblings, a healing water in short supply to cure a little boys eye disease, the price of wheat, concerns about scarlet fever, the cost of a home ($400), a hard cough that may take a... Read More
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Mid -18th C. Poem & Watercolor - an acerbic commentary on the artifices and contrivances of contemporary womanhood
The hand painted satirical caricature measures 5 3/4 x 9 inches and the accompanying poem is also on a 5 3/4 x 9 inch page. Loosely translated the verse is titled "Confidential report on the findings during an autopsy" and begins The heart was split and perforated by arrows that had entered it a sponge's ____ would have... Read More
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Wishin' Books Greetings
Chicago: Whitehall, 1950. A colorful illustrated folder with side clasp depicting fairy tale and anthropomorphic characters. Two sections within each containing six (6) books and envelopes. The set includesThree clowns of Yetti Putti wishin' book / Rob Fink ; illustrations by Eoina -- Poncho the elephant wishin' book / Rob Fink ; illustrations by Eoina -- Gingerbread man wishin'... Read More
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Waters' Patent Improved Paper Boats for Racing, Exercise, Pleasure, Shooting, Fishing & Traveling
Troy, NY, 1875. Waters' Patent Improved Paper Boats for Racing, Exercise, Pleasure, Shooting, Fishing & Traveling. E. Waters & Sons, Sole Builders, Troy N.Y. c1875. Illustrations and brief description and pricing information on the Adirondack Gig, 14 Ft. Gig, Ladies' Gig with two views, Dingey, New York Working Boat, Stannard Skiffs with three views, Rob Roy Canoe, Baden Powell... Read More
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