Monograph on Black banks from Reconstruction to the Great Depression by pioneering African American economist, Abram L. Harris (1899–1963). Includes separate chapters on banks in..... Read More about The Negro as Capitalist. A Study of Banking and Business Among American Negroes
Monograph on Black banks from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. Includes separate chapters on banks in Virginia; the District of Columbia and Maryland; Pennsylvania; and..... Read More about The Negro as Capitalist. A Study of Banking and Business Among American Negroes
C.1899 Group of Cuban land development promotional literature issued by the Cuban Land and Steamship Co. of New York City, the first American colonizing effort..... Read More about Cuban Land and Steamship Co. of New York City Archive of Maps and Ephemera for the First American...
Bookbinding salesman’s memorandum book kept by Oscar Schnabel, Manager and later President of the National Library Bindery Co. of Indianapolis, a conglomerate with six binderies..... Read More about 1925–1931 Bookbinding Sales Manager’s Memorandum Book for the National Library Bindery Co....
Nearly 30-year handwritten note book kept by the Directors of The Consolidated Safety Valve Company, a Hartford, Connecticut based manufacturer of safety valves for steam..... Read More about 1879–1910, Directors’ and Shareholders’ Minute Book for The Consolidated Safety Valve...
Diverse group of mid-Victorian scroll saw-related material including trade literature, marketing materials, and oversized pattern sheets for creating fretwork designs in the Queen Anne Revival..... Read More about C. 1877–1881 Scroll Saw Group: Trade Catalog, Chromolithographic Trade Cards, and Oversized...
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Illustrated broadsheet promoting the business, transportation, energy, public infrastructure, lumber, and manufacturing advantages of the City of Tacoma, Washington. Two half tone illustrations show “The..... Read More about The City of Tacoma Washington. [c.1904 illustrated broadsheet
New York City wool broker’s circulars issued by Kitching Brothers reporting on ship arrivals in New York and Boston; the import and export of clothing..... Read More about Six New York 1872 Wool Brokers’ Circulars issued by Kitching Brothers; Statistical Data for...
Rare souvenir advertising booklet for jeweler Julius C. Walk associating his business with Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Illustrated with ten full-page, half tone illustrations..... Read More about Chicago 1893. World’s Columbian Exposition Souvenir Compliments of Julius C. Walk, Jeweler,...
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Large and rather glamorous self-promotional item for the Radio and Television Institute of Chicago, here pitching to men looking to enter into the repair field..... Read More about Radio’s Future and Yours [cover title
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1920 Laboratory note by Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph, concerning moulds for his company’s proprietary “Edison Disc Phonograph” records. Here in his own hand..... Read More about Important Thomas Alva Edison Manuscript Laboratory Note
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Bright, cheerful suite of candy-making instructional books —very period in design— geared toward women seeking to become candy-making entrepreneurs. The First title, Introduction to the..... Read More about Iridor Candy Making Course [Six Publications in Original Box
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 about The Consumers’ Mutual Coal Company. Capital Stock: 50,000 shares, at $10 per Share, $500,000....
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 about 1888–1910 Archive of Arkansas-based United States Antimony Company
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 about 1827 Autograph Letter Signed to Publisher and Economist Mathew Carey from Pennsylvania...
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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 about Rock Island Plow Co., Rock Island, Ill. [cover title of trade catalog
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 about Paper Box Manufacturers’ Machines for Oval Cutting, Circular Cutting… Patented ... 1864...
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 about Family Right for the Sun-Light Oil
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 about Autograph Letters Signed written by Topeka, Kansas Lumber Dealer John M. Leidigh to his brother...
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 about 1837–1845 Manuscript Correspondence of William P. Cresson Company of Philadelphia
