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......