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.....
8.5 x 11.5” green hardcover scrapbook bound by string. The word “Scrapbook” is embossed onto the cover with a frame design, and there is a label that reads “Trip to Chicago Sept 1953 with Betty Jo.” The first two pages of the album recount, in a charming writing style, a......
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.....