![Henry Gautschi & Sons, Manufacturers and Importers…Musical Boxes. [trade card]. Henry Gautschi; 1846–1901.](/images/noimage-req.png)
Large trade card for Philadelphia music box manufacturer and dealer, Henry Gautschi & Sons. Vignette illustrations on the front of the card show Gautschi’s Chestnut... Read More
This year unlisted on OCLC, other years scantily held, and not at AAS. An illustrated, advert-heavy, trade catalog of “Jobbers’ Prices” for textiles in bulk... Read More
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
![A Catalogue of French Medical Books to be Supplied by P. Blakiston Son Co. Medical Publishers, Booksellers and Importers [...] Philadelphia [cover title]. Son & Co. P. Blakiston, Presley Blakiston c.1814–1898.](/pictures/thumb/3726525_1.jpg?v=1531245310)
Unusual medical publisher’s trade catalog in the form of a sammelband issued by P. Blakiston, Son & Co. of Philadelphia, publisher of medical, dental, and... 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=1530631707)
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
Woven silk ribbon for the second annual Rochester Industrial Exposition, commemorating the enlarged department store of Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Company. The exposition was held... 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
Leather tanner’s notebook recording a variety of animal skins received and from whom received during six years in the 1830s. Calfskins are dominant; often recorded... Read More
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
![[1930 Travel Diary of an American Agricultural Seedsman in South America]. “Merritt”.](/pictures/thumb/3725579_1.jpg?v=1530631633)
This agricultural businessman’s travel diary offers observant and sharp analyses of South American culture, economics, politics, and urbanism during an important era of economic boom... 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=1530631622)
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
