![[1894 Eastman Business College Friendship Album augmented with Calligraphy Drawings and Original Photographs]. J. W. Hertzog.](/pictures/thumb/3727222_1.jpg?v=1534362503)
With 190 identified miniature portrait albumen photographs within, this Eastman Business College friendship album was kept by J. W. Hertzog of Exeter Station [now Lorane]... Read More
![Iridor Candy Making Course [Six Publications in Original Box]. Iris F. Leonard, Dorit K. Weigert.](/pictures/thumb/3726591_1.jpg?v=1534362418)
A bright, cheerful suite of candy-making instructional books, very period in design, geared toward women seeking to become candy-making entrepreneurs. (It’s a sweet deal.) The... Read More
Rather scarce late 19th-century tract written by an enthusiastic life insurance agent who wants to broaden and expand the life insurance field into the thoughts... Read More
![The Consumers’ Mutual Coal Company. Capital Stock: 50,000 shares, at $10 per Share, $500,000. President, James Lynd. Treasurer, Josiah Kisterbock, No. 1231 Market Street [...]. Office, No. 5 1/2 South Sixth Street. Consumers' Mutual Coal Company, President James Lynd.](/pictures/thumb/3726492_1.jpg?v=1534362395)
Scarce, immediate post-Civil War-era coal mining prospectus, with only four institutional holdings, for The Consumers’ Mutual Coal Company. It is accompanied by two contemporary circulars... Read More
Early letters and documents of the United States Antimony Company, founded in 1887 during the Great Arkansas Gold and Mineral Rush. The archive includes an... Read More
Small archive of letters and manuscripts by members of the Smith Family of western New York state. The majority of the archive was created by... Read More
The Smith Brothers, George W. (1832–?) and Lyman M. Smith (1835–1872), were picture frame and bracket manufacturers in Portland, Maine ca. 1867–1872. This archive is... Read More
![[1903 South Omaha Live Stock Exchange Photograph—“The Second Market of the World.”]. South Omaha Live Stock Exchange.](/pictures/thumb/3726150_1.jpg?v=1534362338)
The Union Stockyards of South Omaha, Nebraska were founded in 1883 and soon became a rival to the great Chicago stockyard and meatpacking industry. This... Read More
Three handwritten notebooks from the 1840s document the seed, vegetable and fruit selling business of the Rand family as well as their personal lives. This... Read More
10 lines or so, addressed to a Frances Gibbons, Thomas F. De Voe to the latter’s request about “republishing the ‘Market Book’” and notes that... Read More
In 1827, Samuel D. Ingham (1779–1860) of Pennsylvania was serving in Congress as a U.S. Representative. In less than two years he would become the... Read More
A humorous and quirky trade catalog with chromolithographic covers for agricultural plows manufactured by the Rock Island Plow Co. of Rock Island, Illinois: This memorandum... Read More
It always seems amazing how one’s surname is often so closely aligned to one’s occupation (Dr. Foot, the podiatrist, etc.). Here we have Charles W.... Read More
Partly printed certificate conveying the recipe and the right to manufacture “Sun-Light Oil,” a non-explosive kerosene substitute for lamp fuel. Or so was the claim... Read More
![[Autograph Letters Signed written by Topeka, Kansas Lumber Dealer John M. Leidigh to his brother Jacob M. Leidigh, farmer in Stoughstown, Pennsylvania]. John Leidigh.](/pictures/thumb/371931_1.jpg?v=1534362286)
The three keys to real estate, or any business, success,“ Location, Location, Location”, were as true in 1868 as today. This is the one piece... Read More
William P. Cresson Co. of Philadelphia was actively engaged in the hardware commission business in the 1830’s and 1840’s. The company offered a variety of... Read More
