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.....
12.25 x 14.75” dark brown photo album with gold decoration and border framing on the front cover. Loose within the album are homework items, artwork and clippings from Robert Slepicka's time as a student at Spry School in Chicago. There are several handwritten pages from around 1951 to 1962 of.....
10 x 13” black string-bound scrapbook with a map of the White Sulphur Springs area of West Virginia pasted to the cover. The album is filled with correspondence Diane Curtis received from soldiers that she worked with during her time as a nurse's aide at Ashford General Hospital around 1944.....
This delightful 4 x 8” autograph book features a fine black hardcover with embossed frame design around a gilded image of a book, quill, and ink, with “Autograph” written above the illustration. The edges of the pages are also gilded. This Civil War-era book appears to have belonged to S......
Stuffed full, this 8 x 11.5” green string-bound scrapbook contains ephemera from the career of Helen Donovan, a cellist. The first page of the album reads: “Professional Scrapbook No. I Years - 1932-1934” although in fact the material within the scrapbook goes to 1935. Helen was a professional cellist and.....
A 9.75 x 15” brown folder containing service records for Florence Portman Canedy, a junior grade Lieutenant in the Navy WAVES in 1943-1945. Most of the service records are documents about appointments, transfers, and change of duty. There is also a certificate appointing Flo an ensign, forms describing her civilian.....
An adorable handmade autobiography of Forrest Glenn Fogg Jr. done for a school assignment in 1935. The 9.5 x 12” white covers appear to be made of folder material and are held together with two metal rings. The autobiography contains typed pages describing Forrest’s ancestors, boyhood days, trips he has.....
This small archive (it fills a manila envelope about an inch-and-a-half thick) functions as a sort of guide to swinging and cuckolding. It contains odd bits of ephemera, phamplets selling various pornographic publications (Nurse In Rubber and The Love Pavilion, to name two) a few color snapshots of a partially-clothed.....
Eight letters, almost all of which were written by Jennie while on vacation in Honolulu, Hawaii. Jennie wrote one letter to her children, while the rest are addressed to Nellie. One of the letters was written in 1938 in Berkeley, California, which I believe was Jennie’s home. The letters from.....
Large 10 x 14.75” marbled hardcover album with a black spine. A sticker of a globe on the front cover reads “Around the World.” This oversized album documents a 1923 cruise around the world undertaken by Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McMillan. The tour was organized by Raymond-Whitcomb, and there.....
Twelve 8.5" x 11.25" pages of promotional material that appear to have been sent to theaters to help with advertising for the 1953 film The Young and the Passionate (Vitelloni) by Federico Felliini. Information includes several different options that could be used in print media, along with information on the.....
A lot of items belonging to Flight Attendant Beryl Douglass, who was a Stewardess for Colonial Airlines. Included in the lot is a 31 page booklet, which is an Agreement between Colonial Airlines, and The Airline Stewardesses in the service of Colonial Airlines, a Colonial Airlines Label, a pay stub.....
7.5" x 9.75" Composition book made into an Herbarium, featuring trees and ferns from New York City. Written on the cover is "Trees - Leon Moses," and on the first page it says "Trees of New York City & Ferns of N.Y.C." A quick Google search, brings up two possible.....
18.5" x 25" newspaper from 1901, whose bold headline reads "HYPNOTISM." The newspaper tells you the benefits of learning how to hypnotize people and how you can earn money as a hypnotist. The paper tries to sell you a mail-order course by "the World's Greatest Hypnotist," Prof. L. A. Harraden.....
Lovely marble-covered notebook with a black spine measuring 7 x 8.25”. The label on the front cover bears the name Mary Agnes Bushway, along with "Botany book." An internet search reveals that she was probably from Haverill, MA, where she graduated high school in 1908. The dates 1904 and 1908.....
A collection of around 100 handwritten and typed pages, along with identified photos from the Clemens family. Typed on the cover is "History of Clemens Family by Amelia H. Gibb, 6/1/48." This starts with Jonathan Clemens, who was born in Harleysville, Pennsylvania in 1861, and his wife, Annie Reed Clemens.....