My Scarlet Shawl: A Wife’s Story.
Told in the first-person narrative, Maggie is no Mary Magdalene, and no scarlet woman, but she is the woman with the scarlet shawl. This shawl..... Read More about My Scarlet Shawl: A Wife’s Story
Told in the first-person narrative, Maggie is no Mary Magdalene, and no scarlet woman, but she is the woman with the scarlet shawl. This shawl..... Read More about My Scarlet Shawl: A Wife’s Story
Diminutive tintype portrait of a man, with delicately hand-tinted cheeks and lips, mounted in a leather book-form case. The case housing the tintype is decorated..... Read More about C. Late 1850s Ninth-Plate Tintype Portrait of a Man with Hand-Tinting; mounted within a Gilt...
Popularly known as the story of the Babes in the Wood, is the subject of an old ballad and oft-reprinted as a chapbook for children..... Read More about The Children in the Wood. An Affecting Tale
Unlisted in OCLC, an apparently unrecorded pamphlet devoted to the property definitions of Christ Church Hospital in Philadelphia. “Christ Church Hospital, located at Forty-Ninth Street..... Read More about Christ Church Hospital in Philadelphia:] Brief of Title to all that certain Lot or Square of...
Unrecorded eighteenth century polemical broadside in the tradition satirist Ned Ward or the mock poem Hudibras. While the present broadside includes only a few lines..... Read More about Cut for Cut, the Rubber Rubb’d, Nonsense for Nonsense, or, Dicko-Don-Quacko And his Methodist...
I am uneasy in my mind continually: there seems to be in decision, a want of stern unbending integrity of purpose; and yet a desire..... Read More about Diary for 1844 kept by a Young Man in Albany and Troy, New York starting a Business and...
A rather interesting crossover. The Lord’s Prayer is printed here within a heart placed within a decorative printed border. An embossed sheet of note paper..... Read More about God is Love. [Heart-shaped printed silk, mid-19th c., with handwritten Valentine Day wishes
Scarce guidebook—similar to a like-titled guidebook (OCLC 14103425, [4] cc.)—but this variant published to promote Gettysburg’s City Hotel, owned by John E. Hughes. The inside..... Read More about History of the Battle of Gettysburg. Presented, with the compliments of the City Hotel, to guests...
Extraordinary, complex American millenarian spiritual folk art drawing embodying the Adventist religious beliefs of William Miller (1782–1849) and his followers and illustrating the claim of..... Read More about I wish you would tell me Sir what you do mean By drawing this figure that looks like a chain...
Curious crudely-executed folk art, dated 1818, a German-language taufschein or baptismal certificate illuminated with ink and pencil decorations. Fitting for a baptismal wish, the manuscript..... Read More about Illuminated, German-Language Manuscript Taufschein Fraktur:] A Christian Baptismal Wish: I’ve...
A community cook book printed in double column format and listing the names and addresses of the contributors, the majority women. Spring City and Royersford..... Read More about The Inter-Borough Press Cook Book. Favorite Recipes of Outstanding Cooks of the Twin Boroughs,...
Here is private detective Nick Carter irritating never-do-wells yet again, this time by foiling an assassin. The startling illustration shows Carter in disguise and his..... Read More about The Mysterious Assassin; Or, Nick Carter’s Slender Clew [within:] Nick Carter Library
Attractive mid-19th century watercolor portrait of a woman seated at a table or writing desk and holding a letter. Her face, coiffure, and lace-trimmed, black..... Read More about Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Portrait of Woman holding a Letter
Ephemeral and unrecorded mid-19th century mark publication of the By-Laws and Constitution of a benevolent Pennsylvania fraternal organization. A most interesting section within is between..... Read More about Occupations and Trades:] Constitution and By-Laws of Philanthropic Lodge, No. 15, Independent...
This rare, anonymous broadside is an attack in 1876 upon Governor Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, by excerpting from Southern newspapers from..... Read More about Paying the Southern War Claims [caption title
Gouache painting ca. 1898 showing Uncle Sam declaring War against Spain, i.e. The Spanish-American War. American war vessels with large gun emplacements, and tall smokestacks..... Read More about War I Say [caption title of Spanish-American War-Era Uncle Sam Painting