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.....
Large collection of ephemera, including a scrapbook, letters, diaries, and ephemera from the Edge family of New Jersey, a prominent family that settled in the Jersey City area when they emigrated to the United States from Derbyshire, England in the early 1800s. Items date from around 1898 to 1954. The.....
Scrapbook, letters, photos and ephemera all concerning Paul Earl Tombaugh (1897-1954), who went to law school and military school and became an instructor and Colonel in the U.S. Army. He served as the Adjutant General of Indiana from 1931 to 1933, practiced law, and was an officer in the 38th.....
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.....
There are over 100 pieces of art in this 10” x 14” green burlap portfolio, which belonged to Charlotte Whiting of Plymouth, Massachusetts. The dates are from the mid 1930s and there are pencil sketches, drawings and watercolor paintings. Sizes range from smallish 3” x 5” to larger artworks measuring.....