![[Important Thomas Alva Edison Manuscript Laboratory Note]. “Edison”, 1847–1931, Thomas Alva Edison.](/pictures/thumb/3727757_1.jpg?v=1537910632)
[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
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![[1894 Eastman Business College Friendship Album augmented with Calligraphy Drawings and Original Photographs]. J. W. Hertzog.](/pictures/thumb/3727222_1.jpg?v=1534362503)
[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
![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
Notes of a Veteran Life Agent.
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)
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
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
1827–1836 Archive of Letters and Manuscripts of the Smith Family of Cayuga and Niagara Counties, New York.
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
![[Archive of 113 Letters to and from Picture Frame Manufacturers George W. and Lyman M. Smith of Portland, Maine and their extended family, 1827–1891]. George W. Smith, Lyman M. Smith, Hannah D. Smith.](/pictures/thumb/372125_1.jpg?v=1544051465)
[Archive of 113 Letters to and from Picture Frame Manufacturers George W. and Lyman M. Smith of Portland, Maine and their extended family, 1827–1891].
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)
[1903 South Omaha Live Stock Exchange Photograph—“The Second Market of the World.”]
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
[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
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
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
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
![[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)
[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
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
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