Official Recipe Book. What to Eat. How to Cook It.
WWI-era cookbook issued in March 1918 by the State Council of Defense of Illinois. “This book of recipes was compiled for the Patriotic Food Show... Read More
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Storkline. Infant and Juvenile Furniture. Baby Carriages. Catalog No 32. 1940.
Twenty-fifth anniversary catalog of the Storkline Furniture Corporation of Chicago selling baby cribs, high chairs, chifforobes, bathing and changing tables, “play yards” (playpens), potty chairs... Read More
![[1871 Autograph Letter Signed; Anna M. Bartlett’s Eyewitness account of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871]. Anna M. Bartlett.](/pictures/thumb/3727518_1.jpg?v=1535581735)
[1871 Autograph Letter Signed; Anna M. Bartlett’s Eyewitness account of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871].
Hannah Smith received a letter written on November 26, 1871 from her cousin who survived the Great Chicago Fire—“…never again do I want to behold... Read More
Original 1897 Tammany Tiger Political Cartoon by F.K. Houston.
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
![[Semi-Literate’s 1854 Pocket Diary from Lindenwood, Ogle County, Illinois with Original Literary Essays]. C. Blanchard.](/pictures/thumb/3726315_1.jpg?v=1535480925)
[Semi-Literate’s 1854 Pocket Diary from Lindenwood, Ogle County, Illinois with Original Literary Essays].
“What is there more beautiful than the rolling prarie? [sic]” Interesting ante-bellum diary kept by an older boy or young man in the summer and... Read More
1867 Autograph Letter Signed by Diocletian Lewis, Inventor of the Beanbag, Homeopath, Health Advocate.
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
Minutes of the Illinois Annual Conference, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held at Jacksonville, Illinois. September 22, 1847.
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
First Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Georgetown Seminary. Georgetown, Illinois, For the Year ending March 5, 1850.
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
An Essay on Dentistry, for the Benefit of Families, &c.
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
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
![Record of the Rock River Circuit North Illinois Annual Conference Methodist Protestant Church [and] Register of Rock River Circuit Methodist Protestant Church [manuscript caption titles, 1841–1889]. Rock River Circuit Methodist Protestant Church, Rev. Isaac Wood.](/pictures/thumb/3725238_1.jpg?v=1534362304)
Record of the Rock River Circuit North Illinois Annual Conference Methodist Protestant Church [and] Register of Rock River Circuit Methodist Protestant Church [manuscript caption titles, 1841–1889].
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
Pictorial Random Shot, Being a Running Commentary on Frank Crosby Andrew Richard’s Son, One of Galesburg’s Brilliant Gallants [cover title].
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
U. S. Army Air Forces. Technical Training Command. Chicago School of Aircraft Instruments. Training Detachment [cover titles of two distinct pamphlets].
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
![[1855–1881 Manuscript Account Book owned by Swedish-American, carpenter and cabinetmaker, Olof Peter Ahlgren in Sweden and Chicago]. Olof P. Ahlgren.](/pictures/thumb/144504_1.jpg?v=1534362271)
[1855–1881 Manuscript Account Book owned by Swedish-American, carpenter and cabinetmaker, Olof Peter Ahlgren in Sweden and Chicago].
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
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