Hedges & Butler Ltd. Wines & Spirits. Special List.
C.1933 immediate-post-American Prohibition, British trade catalog with American ordering instruction sheet and “Export Price List” issued by Hedges and Butler, Ltd. of London, wine and... Read More
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The Stars Always Shine in Oh, Kay! The Smartest of Musical Comedies [opening lines of handbill].
Handbill for the Jazz Age musical comedy Oh, Kay! starring Gertrude Lawrence in the title role. With music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira... Read More
[C.1890s Photographs of Industrial Titan Jay Cooke at his Hunting Camp, Ogontz Lodge].
Photograph album leaves and loose photographs from American Civil War and railroad financier Jay Cooke’s hunting and fishing camp, “Ogontz Lodge,” Lycoming County, in upstate... Read More
[M.I.T., Cross-Dressing:] Tech Show 1927 “West is East.”
Theater program for West is East, a two-act musical comedy produced in 1927 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and featuring an all-male cast including... Read More
Proceedings in the Great Libel Suit, Hills vs. Lorain. Tried in the Court of Common Pleas of Clearfield County, December Term, 1850.
Exceedingly rare 1851 legal pamphlet concerning a lawsuit for libeling a physician, the case of Hills vs. Lorain. Dr. William P. Hills claimed that he... Read More
[Sammelband of 1852 to 1864 Pennsylvania Supreme Court Arguments made by H.B. Swoope, Attorney].
Sammelband of rare and ephemeral law pamphlets kept by attorney Henry Bucher Swoope (1831–1874) of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. These 21 pamphlets—virtually all of which bear... Read More
Chester Valley Raw Bone Super Phosphate prepared of Pure Ground Bone…Manufactured by W.E. Whann… [Trade Catalog]
Agricultural trade catalog issued by W.E. Whann of Atglen, Pennsylvania, manufacturer of super-phosphate fertilzer for for corn, oats, wheat, and tobacco. The catalog is mainly... Read More
[1939–1940 Social Security Pamphlet Collection].
The Social Security Act of 1935 was amended in 1939 to provide workers with dependents benefits and survivors benefits. These five pamphlets issued by the... Read More
Fun to Cook Book.
C.1955 Children’s cook book with easy, child-friendly recipes issued by the Carnation Company, cheerfully illustrated. While the company’s evaporated milk is not featured in every... Read More
Habana - Madrid Fronton. Spanish National Ball Game (Jai Alai) ... Season 1929 - 1930. Official Program… [opening lines]
Official program for the “Habana-Madrid” frontón or jai-alai venue in Havana, Cuba. The Basque/Spanish sport of jai-alai, played extremely fast with a small ball, was... Read More
Jai-Alai World’s Fastest Sport…Every Night at 8:30 “Habana-Madrid” Fronton. [cover title]
Description and guide to the Basque/Spanish sport of jai-alai—the “World’s Fastest Sport.” The pamphlet explains in detail the rules of the game and its unique... Read More
Guide. Liberty Bell Bird Club. Washington Square Philadelphia. [cover title]
Guide book and advertising prospectus for the Liberty Bell Bird Club. The club was sponsored by The Farm Journal magazine whose founder and editor, Wilmer... Read More
Negro Suffrage. Should the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments be repealed? Speech of Hon. Edward De V. Morrell, of Pennsylvania…
Speech on African American voting rights and the “negro question” by Pennsylvania Congressman Edward De V. Morrell (1863–1917) of Philadelphia, provocatively subtitled “Should the fourteenth... Read More
Black Labor Chant and Other Poems.
Extraordinary volume of posthumously published poetry by an African-American educator. Illustrated poems on themes of racial discrimination, segregation, and violence are prominently featured. Half the... Read More
Slave-Trading in the Old South. [First Edition]
x An excellent copy. Baltimore: J.H. Furst, 1931. First Edition. Frontis, 415pp., top-edge gilt. Publisher’s maroon and gilt-lettered cloth. Illustrated with numerous plates. A near... Read More
History of the Helping Hand Club of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church.
History of this women’s charity founded in 1907, an outgrowth from the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. A brief biography of its founder, Mary Emma Cabaniss... Read More
American Daughter.
Autobiography from this Iowa native writing of her early life in North Dakota, her college degree achievement, and then her removal to Chicago during the... Read More
The Trend of the Races. [Review Copy with Ephemera]
Accompanying this book is a small 3pp., leaflet, in part, describing the work, thus: “A thoughtful attempt to show the relations between the white and... Read More
The Slave Trade. Slavery and Color.
Theodore Dehon Jervey, South Carolina attorney, judge, historian, author, journalist, conservative, here offers a radical solution to “The Negro Problem” —encourage the African-American population of... Read More
Four Lincoln University Poets: Waring Cuney, William Allyn Hill, Edward Silvera, Langston Hughes.
Published by the historically black Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, poetry from Langston Hughes, Waring Cuney, William Allyn Hill, and Edward Silvera. [Lincoln University, Pa. 1930,]... Read More
The Negro Poets by Truda Weil. Thursday Afternoon ... 1932 ... The Literature Division of the Woman’s Club.
Advertising card for a public reading of African American poetry, given by Truda T. Weil at the Woman’s Club of Reading, Pennsylvania. The program consisted... Read More
[Lincoln University] L.U. Class of 1909 requests your presence at their Class Day Exercises…
Illustrated 1909 graduation program from Lincoln University, the United States’ first degree-granting historically black university. The program contains the full morning, afternoon, and evening exercises... Read More
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Boyd & Fichten. [Restaurant Menu]
C. 1910s menus from Madison, Wisconsin confectioners Boyd & Fichten. The menu includes soda fountain treats such as ice cream, sundaes, variously flavored sodas, lemonades... Read More
Religion and Slavery. A Vindication of the Southern Churches. [Inscribed Copy]
Defense of the treatment of slaves in the American South by a prominent Nashville, Tennessee Presbyterian minister and former Confederate chaplain. Rev. Dr. McNeilly here... Read More
Catasauquas’ Home-Coming Celebration for their Soldiers, Sailors and Nurses August 25 to September 1 1919. Official Souvenir.
First World War home-coming celebration program for the borough of Catasauqua in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The cover depicts a triumphal arch adorned with American flags... Read More