Diverse group of mid-Victorian scroll saw-related material including trade literature, marketing materials, and oversized pattern sheets for creating fretwork designs in the Queen Anne Revival..... Read More about C. 1877–1881 Scroll Saw Group: Trade Catalog, Chromolithographic Trade Cards, and Oversized...
Manuscript copy of a major address on labor and capital by Wendell Phillips, celebrated American abolitionist, orator, and reformer. Phillips’ December 1865 address, “The Eight..... Read More about “The Eight Hour Movement,” an Address by Wendell Phillips, Tremont Temple. Dec 21, 1865...
![1924 Harvard-Princeton Football-Shaped Dinner Program and Menu]. The Copley-Plaza, Hotel](/pictures/thumb/3727774_1.jpg?v=1542668615)
In outstanding condition, football-shaped program and menu issued for the Harvard-Princeton football game dinner held at Boston’s Copley-Plaza hotel on November 8, 1924. The dinner..... Read More about 1924 Harvard-Princeton Football-Shaped Dinner Program and Menu
Curious, rare, unrecorded. A cook book/shopping directory hybrid aimed at college women in the Boston–New York corridor. The cooking recipes, mostly for candies and desserts..... Read More about College Shopper and Smacker. Spring–1926
Christmas in Boston. This small press book presents approximately six full-page or vignette-styled wood engravings. All support the Christmas theme of the text. Once, Christmas..... Read More about Beacon Hill and the Carol Singers
Excellent circa 1920s photograph of the Boston Symphony Orchestra advertising Buescher True Tone Saxophones: In late 1924, the first bassoonist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra..... Read More about Boston Saxophone Orchestra. Abdon Laus, Director using Buescher True Tone Saxophones
1838 letter from Boston lawyer Charles G. Loring (1794–1867) to his client, Stonington, Connecticut shipowner and businessman Charles P. Williams concerning the legal matter of..... Read More about 1838 Letter of Boston Lawyer Charles G. Loring to Connecticut Shipowner Charles P. Williams...
An apparently unrecorded funeral memorial to Elizabeth Bulfinch Coolidge (1777–1837), sister to American architect, Charles Bulfinch. Elizabeth Coolidge was the daughter of Thomas Bulfinch and..... Read More about Died Jan. 17th, 1837 — Mrs. Elizabeth Coolidge, Aged 60 Years. [Elizabeth Bulfinch Coolidge,...
Native of Toledo, Ohio, F.J. Scott was the son of wealthy Jesup W. Scott who donated funds to establish in Toledo, Ohio the Toledo Manual..... Read More about The Future Palaces of America
About 75 words, an autograph letter signed from Revolutionary War patriot and Boston lawyer Perez Morton (1751–1837) written to Colonel James T.[recothick] Austin (1784–1870). Austin..... Read More about 1832 Autograph Letter Signed from Perez Morton, Revolutionary War patriot and Boston Lawyer, to...
An ephemeral record of the brief, exploited lives of the Fairy Sisters, two diminutive performers often touted as the smallest persons in the world. The..... Read More about The Fairy Sisters. Midget Performers Cassie and Victoria Foster, ca. 1872–1873 Promotional...
![From The 1769 Boston Chronicle Vol. II. No. 31. From Monday July 31, to Thursday August 3, 1769:]...](/pictures/thumb/372326_1.jpg?v=1580241057)
Single complete issue that, notably, prints the entire Middlesex Petition to King George III. First issued in Middlesex county, England, the petition warmly supports the..... Read More about From The 1769 Boston Chronicle Vol. II. No. 31. From Monday July 31, to Thursday August 3, 1769:]...
Charles Taber on his own—and also in partnership with his brother—clearly served the whaling community of New Bedford, Massachusetts as booksellers, stationers, and dealers in..... Read More about The Song of Moses. Deut. XXXI. XXXII. XXXIII
Signed one month after his fortieth birthday, this attractive portrait photograph of the pioneering African-American lyric tenor, Roland Hayes, is boldly inscribed to Hayes’ first..... Read More about 1927 Roland Hayes Inscribed and Autographed Portrait Photograph: Celebrated African-American...
