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.....
This collection consists of 7 manila folders which are housed in a transparent pink plastic folder with snap closure. The material relates to the Sherman family, including items from Maurice Sinclair Sherman, who became Publisher of the Hartford Courant in 1944. The 7 manila folders are labeled as follows: ●.....
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.....