The Negro in Business.
Well-illustrated survey of African American business success and enterprise in the first decade of the 20th century by black educator, author, and orator, Booker T.... Read More about The Negro in Business
American Enterprise
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![Radio’s Future and Yours [cover title]. Radio, Television Institute of Chicago](/pictures/thumb/3728755_1.jpg?v=1557936756)
Radio’s Future and Yours [cover title].
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
![Important Thomas Alva Edison Manuscript Laboratory Note]. “Edison”, 1847–1931,...](/pictures/thumb/3727757_1.jpg?v=1556129873)
[Important Thomas Alva Edison Manuscript Laboratory Note].
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
[1894 Eastman Business College Friendship Album augmented with Calligraphy Drawings and Original Photographs].
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 about 1894 Eastman Business College Friendship Album augmented with Calligraphy Drawings and Original...
![Iridor Candy Making Course [Six Publications in Original Box]. Iris F. Leonard, Dorit K. Weigert](/pictures/thumb/3726591_1.jpg?v=1534362418)
Iridor Candy Making Course [Six Publications in Original Box]
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
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.
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....
[1888–1910 Archive of Arkansas-based United States Antimony Company].
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
[1827 Autograph Letter Signed to Publisher and Economist Mathew Carey from Pennsylvania Congressman and later U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Samuel D. Ingham].
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...
![Rock Island Plow Co., Rock Island, Ill. [cover title of trade catalog]. Rock Island Plow Co.,...](/pictures/thumb/3725513_1.jpg?v=1547665488)
Rock Island Plow Co., Rock Island, Ill. [cover title of trade catalog].
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
Paper Box Manufacturers’ Machines for Oval Cutting, Circular Cutting… Patented ... 1864 [opening lines of broadside].
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...
Family Right for the Sun-Light Oil.
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
[Autograph Letters Signed written by Topeka, Kansas Lumber Dealer John M. Leidigh to his brother Jacob M. Leidigh, farmer in Stoughstown, Pennsylvania].
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...
1837–1845 Manuscript Correspondence of William P. Cresson Company of Philadelphia.
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
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