Three 1876 Centennial speeches given by Philadelphia attorney Benjamin H. Brewster; in front of Independence Hall, in Independence Square, and one at the Judges’ Hall..... Read More about Three Centennial Addresses delivered by Benjamin Harris Brewster, Philadelphia, 1876 [cover title
Souvenir trade folder or brochure aimed at women from the World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893. Thomas Harper of Redditch, England advertises and..... Read More about Souvenir of the World’s Columbia Exposition, Chicago, U.S.A. [1893 Chicago Wold’s Fair sewing...
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,...
Guide book to the 1939 New York World’s Fair transportation exhibit Futurama, sponsored by General Motors. Designed by Norman Bel Geddes, the exhibit and ride..... Read More about Futurama
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Selling one’s product in-hand, and via the U.S. mail, this souvenir post card was distributed at the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition in 1915 (“P.P.I.E. 1915”). Upon..... Read More about PNW, Pacific Northwest:] [Souvenir Red Cedar Shingle Post Card and Advertisement for...
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Colorful and beautifully printed ephemera from Swiss luxury watchmakers Henri Grandjean & Cie.—here Enrique Grandjean y Ca.—of Le Locle in the Canton of Neuchâtel. The..... Read More about World Expositions: Pocket Watches, Watchmakers:] Enrique Grandjean y Ca
Interesting letter on the publication of magazine articles by attorney-turned-journalist and popular writer, John Paul Bocock (1856–1903). A Virginian from a leading family, Bocock earned..... Read More about C.1902 ALS by Virginian John Paul Bocock, Attorney, Poet, and Journalist
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Clyde “Slim” Williams, “International Trail Blazer” made his fame hitching his team of sled dogs to a wheeled chariot and then traveling from Alaska to..... Read More about Alaska Our Last Frontier by “Slim” Williams [cover title
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An early prototype? Large flag —almost four feet by six feet in dimensions— from the 1939–1940 New York Wold’s Fair, displaying the fair’s iconic modernist..... Read More about 1939–1940 New York World’s Fair Flag
Almost like being there —not souvenirs or recollections— but five primary and immediate artifacts from the United States’ first world’s fair and its celebration of..... Read More about International Exhibition of 1876. Opening Ceremonies. Order of Exercises, Fairmount Park,...
