Pennsylvania directory of black industrial training schools and colleges, black-owned businesses, entrepreneurs, clergy, and professionals. The directory is arranged by county and includes capsule biographies... Read More about Pennsylvania Negro Business Directory Illustrated 1910
![Radio’s Future and Yours [cover title]. Radio, Television Institute of Chicago](/pictures/thumb/3728755_1.jpg?v=1557936756)
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
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...
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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
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 about Notes of a Veteran Life Agent
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
