7" x 10" magazine "The Circus Colossal - Combining the two unequaled institutions of the amusement world: Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows." Magazine and Daily Review. 36 page magazine with a 16 page program from 1919. Vertical fold and wear to the covers of the magazine as.....
Debbie McHugh is in the throes of her youth when in 1964 The Beatles make an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Debbie’s daily musings are recorded in the Five-Year Diary, which is used for 1964 only. She doesn’t love school but she’s a church-going girl, and she has many.....
This 12 leaves/24 rigid page photo album, measures 12 1/4” x 8 1/2”, and contains 142 black and white photographs cover-to-cover. The photos vary in size and are glued to the page or inserted into slots. A photo taken from an airplane, which is on the inside cover, is attached.....
This is an album documenting the introduction of American-style school systems and educational methods to the major islands of the Philippines in the years following the Spanish-American War (1898) and the Philippines-American War (1899-1902). There are about 120 photos in this 11” x 15” photo album, which has.....
Four 11" x 13" photo album pages with 46 photos, 39 of which show CCC camp work in Michigan and West Virginia in the mid 1930s. The photos are various sizes, including two panoramic photos from Camp Brevort in Moran Michigan. Other photos show Soo Locks, road construction in the.....
There are over 150 photos of various women posing nude, mostly on a sailboat. These photos range from the 1950s to the 1980s and include two photos of naked man decades apart, who I think of as a Hugh Hefner wannabe. Most of the photos are from the 60s and.....
There are 53 color snapshots and Polaroids of nude women at a resort, which appears to be some sort of porn beauty contest. One photo shows port star Ron Jeremy and a little Googling leads me to believe that this lot is from the Nudes-A-Poppin' pageant, which was organized by.....
Astonishing collection of Harvard-related memorabilia from the first years of the 20th Century, and a window into the theater world of Boston’s various performance venues of that era. The scrapbook has 200 pages/100 leaves, the last 30 blank. It measures 10” wide x 14” high x 4 1/2” thick.....
An astounding, utterly unique scrapbook, from the national tour of Thomas Edison’s latest phonograph, and the national tour to demonstrate its exceptional fidelity and sound-capture capabilities. We have a collection here of over 100 newspaper clippings, from all over the U.S. and some Canadian provinces, organized by an.....
There are 80 numbered pages in this 6" x 8.5" catalog from Vantine's - The Oriental Store, New York, which was an importer of Asian goods from 1866-1921. The catalog has both black and white pages and some in vivid color, and features such items as children's toys, chinaware, foot.....
9 1/2” x 11 1/2” x 1 1/2”; 20 leaves/40 pages, black, plus decorative grey end papers Front cover completely detached; back cover attached but stripped of protective/decorative layer, as is spine; both covers worn all around. All pages, by contrast, fully intact, attached, in excellent condition, with neither tears.....
A collection of over 130 pieces of original child art done by Erdix Winslow Capen, who was born in 1909 and lived in Monson, Massachusetts. He attended the Vesper George School of Art in Boston, and went on to be a maker of masks, for theatrical use and decorative purposes.....
Interesting document of German interwar Naval life. 29 leaves/58 pages, black and dark gray, interleaved with spiderweb-pattern protectors. Inside covers also utilized for photos. 9 7/8” x 7” x 1 1/4”. Careful captions in white ink, in German cursive, fully legible. 75 photos carefully pasted in, with three.....
28 leaves/56 pages, dark gray; 228 photos, black & white; 3 missing from the last pages; 12 7/8” x 9 3/8” x 1 1/4” Opening with a picture of the local secondary school, this album starts with a series of class photos of the students studying there at the.....
A most extraordinary assemblage of 62 photographic portraits, landscapes, watercolors, ink drawings, and ephemera, curated by a wealthy and well-connected British eccentric, and bound in bespoke leather. Most of the items that are dated in the album are from the 1930s, with a few from 1950/1951. This unique.....
A fill-it yourself templated book and photo album - "Baby Days - Our Baby's History by Amy Neally, Illusrated by Eddie J. Andrews, Harriet M. Bennett & Ida Waugh." Published by E.P. Dutton, New York. This book is filled out by the parents of Marion Weild Kent, born.....
A wonderfully documented photo album and handwritten diary from a trip from Monson, MA to California and back in 1939. Over 11,000 miles were covered in the three months that Erdix W. Capen and his ward, Millard traveled, as they visited sites and friends along the way. Erdix was a......
This 11” x 7 1/4” 56 page album of 44 photos (measure 2 3/4” x 4 1/2”), with daily handwritten entries of a trip abroad from New York to Ireland, France, England, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, and back again. All photos, postcards, etc. are glued to the thick pages of this.....
This album documents a move by a Missionary family from Havana, Cuba to Nassau, Bahamas in the 1950s. Elder Kuester from Nashville, TN worked as Secretary of the Home Missionary and Sabbath School for the Antillian Union Mission in Cuba and was being relocated to the Bahamas. This.....
11 1/2” w X 6 13/16” h X 1 1/4” d Album in exceptional condition 48 black leaves/96 pages, all present, all cleanly attached to lace binding; latch button clean and operational. Suede leather wraparound cover, embossed with “Casper, Wyo.” in Gothic text, with color illustrations of a Native.....
A large (11” w X 16” h X 1 3/4” d), heavy (6 lb., 8 oz.) thick (300-page) tome, this is actually an old-fashioned ledger book (Wilson-Jones Account Book, Model S287) which was utilized as a personal journal. This was kept by one T. Raymond Lewis, who was awarded.....
Black lace-bound album, 48 gray leaves/96 pages, 15.25” X 11.25” X 1”; very little in the way of tearing or creasing, still tightly bound although the cover is worn and a little damaged around the edges. Some bumping along the thick spine of the pages. There are over.....
3.75” x 4” memory album/autograph book with gilded edges and a cover embossed with a floral pattern. It has 56 leaves/112 pages, with many detached from the frayed binding. The pages are mostly white, with bright green and light gray sections. The first page indicates this was “the property.....
Ivory cover with embossed heraldic device (generic, not specific) Lace-bound cover in good condition, though spine is fragile 36 thick newsprint leaves/72 pages - four torn out (probably at the time) - inside covers also utilized - 12 5/12 w X 15 3/4 h X 1 3/4 d This.....
7 1/2” x 5 1/2” x 1 1/4”. 46 leaves/92 pages; several pages are detached from the binding. Presentation photo album of the E. E. White Coal Company in West Virginia, from December, 1918. Page 1 is blank; pages 2 thru 5 have pasted-in plates (approx. 4” x......