![“Messenger Boys Sent as Agents in Dope Traffic is Charge” [sic] [Headline for:] The Day Book. An Adless Newspaper Daily…. Publisher N D. Cochran.](/pictures/thumb/3726601_1.jpg?v=1530631719)
Illustrated, single issue from this sensationalistic and ad-less penny press daily, published in Chicago from 1911 to 1917, owned by E.W. Scripps. This tabloid struck... Read More
Original editorial cartoon drawing depicting the Tammany Tiger of New York City’s Democratic Party political machine. The political cartoon is signed at the lower left... Read More
Interesting ante-bellum diary kept by an older boy or young man in the summer and early fall of 1854 in northern Illinois. Includes four short... Read More
Dramatic letter by American jazz vocalist Connee Boswell (1907–1976) describing the bombing of her hotel room at Gene Autry’s Sahara Inn, Chicago. Boswell is remembered... Read More
Letter from Diocletian Lewis, homeopath and temperance and health advocate, here writing about an upcoming lecture in Peoria, Illinois for the Western Literary Association. Lewis... Read More
Not recorded on OCLC. In two separate OCLC accessions, for two separate years, AAS supplies entries for the years 1848 and 1850, but not this year... Read More
Rare first catalog for the Georgetown Seminary located in Georgetown Township, Vermilion County. We find no material specific to this institution on OCLC. Byrd 1576... Read More
Rare, possibly unlocated, dental medicine pamphlet printed in Jacksonville, Illinois. Dr. Shirley’s pamphlet discusses, in a series of essays, a wide range of topics: diseases... 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
Two Manuscripts, A Religious Network How did a loosely-affiliated network of churches in nineteenth century Illinois build out, to grow a strong network of faith... Read More
Playing upon the novelty of the velocipede making its appearance on the local streets, an ephemeral, privately printed, privately circulated bit of original and illustrated... Read More
Pair of World War II U. S. Army Air Forces Technical Training Command class books from the Chicago School of Aircraft Instruments Training Detachment. These... Read More
Olof Peter Ahlgren (1823-1906) is listed as a carpenter at the rear of 90 Front Street in Chicago in the 1876 Lakeside Annual Directory of... Read More
