Cardboard box with over fifty handwritten recipes and receipts, mostly from the 19th century. Someone has written on the box in pencil "Old papers, 1836, mostly old recipes." I did find a few dated items in the box, with the oldest being 1831 and running to 1915. They come from...
Two business cards for Louis Wagner, who was a dealer in Granite and Marble monuments, headstones,, etc. Circa 1880s cards measure 2.75" x 4.375" and 2.75" x 4.5." One has some faded notes on the back for "Martha A., wife of C.M. Hughs. Died Sp. 3, 1888, aged 56 years...
1897 Premo Camera catalog, from the Rochester Optical Co., Rochester, NY, which was one of the most dominant and influential camera companies in the 1880's and 90's, prior to the rise of the Eastman Kodak Company. 5.5" x 7.5" with eighty pages of cameras and supplies, including shutters, plate holder...