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.....
Handwritten diary from 1926 by a man who worked at Heywood Wakefield in Gardner, Massachusetts. He appears to be a lonely man, and some entries from inside include: "Mental torture, 2 weeks after marriage. Choose between wife and mother." "Tonight is the fourth week that Fid has been.....
Late 1980s to early 1990s handwritten journal by a teenage boy as he finishes high school and begins classes at Utica college. He talks of girls, not getting along with his father and overall angst. Interspersed between the diary entries are mix-tape song lists, including bands like the Doors, Aerosmith.....
10.5" x 16" Police Blotter from the 35th Precinct in New York City, with 600 pages, which was used from August 10, 1918 to October 7, 1918. Pasted inside the front cover it says “This Blotter was opened at 12 am, August 10, 1918, and contains consecutively numbered pages from.....
Two 1950’s type-written compositions featuring humorous anecdotes and risqué art. The manuscript measures 8.5” x 13” with each having about 50 pages. There are also several other typewritten sheets, clippings etc., all kept in an Eaton’s Berkshire Typewriter paper Box, where the author/artist’s name is written, D.C. Eckhardt, 45 Fox.....
6 x 9” top spiral notepad from National Blank Book Co. filled with love letters. The love letters are written from Jim to Kelly, who seem to be a couple about to get married, from November 1976 to February 1977. Some of the letters have prompts, such as how Jim.....
The Russell/Pratt family from the North Hadley area of Massachusetts includes several albums, including scrapbooks, diaries, over 60 letters and over 250 photos. The collection documents the lives of a few key individuals in the Pratt/Russell family from 1879 to the 1960s. In particular, the collection is focused on Miriam.....
Manila folder upon which is written “Love letters written by Winslow Russell to Eva Bullock Russell + Family (1900-1928). Traveled for Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company.” The folder contains around 38 letters written between members of the family, although most are from Winslow to his wife and children. A majority.....
5.5” x 12” notebook with 154 handwritten pages that appear to be a Nurses log from a hospital ward in New Jersey. The dealer I bought this from told me that he thought it was from Overbrook Asylum in Essex County, NJ, and he has written that in pencil on.....
A collection of just under 100 handwritten letters written between 1860 to 1898. Many of the letters are still folded within the small envelopes that they were sent in. Some have had their stamps cut out, and some letters are without envelopes and there are some empty envelopes. Most of.....
7” x 8.5” leather bound memory books with “Autographs” in gilded letters on the cover. The album belonged to Clara F. Dodge of Compton Village, NH, whose name is written in a colorful display on the first page. Most of the dates are from the mid 1870s, and many start.....
12 x 12.25” string-bound album with a red cover and gold letters on the front that spell out “This Is Your Life”; the ‘i’ in ‘life’ is missing and the ‘f’ has been damaged. There is also an illustration of flowers from an anniversary card pasted onto the cover. Contains.....
A beautiful 6.25 x 8” hardcover album with a worn and peeling spine. On the front cover, in lovely font, it says “Album of Friendship” while the back cover features a gilded illustration. Written in calligraphy on the first page is “Present to Rebecca Parry, by a friend, …. 1855.”.....
7” x 11” suede bound photo album showing “The Kiss of the Oceans,” along with “Photo-Log, U.S. Navy, Panama” on the front cover. The first photo shown in the album is a 5” x 8” photo of the USS Dutchess. The next photo is the same size and is identified.....
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......
This 1720 document measures around 10 x 15” and is in rather good shape. The back of the sheet has been reinforced with tape, the glue of which is visible on the front of the document. There are a couple of rips in the paper, but the full text remains.....
This 10.25 x 12.25” hardcover book was used for copying letters and practicing penmanship. The book begins with an alphabetical index used to write down letters, speeches, poems, and addresses written or copied by title. The pages are numbered and start at #56 and go to #486, with a little.....
Brown hardcover book with a lovely gold frame pattern on the front, measuring 8 x 9.5”. Contains handwritten poems by Emily C. Davis, or Emily C. Swann and friends from 1824 to the 1840s. The hand-numbered 304 pages of the book are almost all filled, although a couple of pages.....
A gorgeous 7.5 x 10” hardcover book with a marble patterned front and back cover with black corners and spine. The front cover and first few pages are detached. The book contains the original poems of Henrietta Lighthipe, who, according to the penciled in dates on the first page, was.....
Black 9 x 7” autograph album that says “Album” on the cover in gold and “J.F. Bener” on the back in gold. However, according to newspaper clippings later in the album, it seems the name is meant to be “J. F. Beyer.” The front cover is detached from the body.....
6.5 x 8” green and red marbled book with black corners and spine. Both covers are detached from the spine. The book, which has blue pages, and it appears to be a ship log kept by Captain Salem O. Norton of Castine, Maine. Norton notes trips from Antwerp to New.....
6.75 x 8.25” composition notebook with a blue cover and brown spine, and a space on the front for Gertrude to write her name and address, which was 330 John Street in Bridgeport, CT. There are a few empty pages, but for the most part the notebook is filled with.....
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.....
This 6.25 x 7.5” hardcover book contains a gorgeous, faded marble cover, on which is written “Daniel Bailey”. The front cover and first few pages are detached. Inside the front cover and first page of the notebook contain this name again, along with “York County Academy” in York, Pennsylvania, and.....
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.....