![[World Expositions: Pocket Watches, Watchmakers:] Enrique Grandjean y Ca. Enrique Grandjean y. Ca., Henri Grandjean, 1803–1879, Cie.](/images/noimage-req.png)
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
![First Grand Fancy and Citizens’ Dress Ball of the William Penn Library Association ... Chester [Pennsylvania] 1860. [ticket]. William Penn Library Association.](/pictures/thumb/3726703_1.jpg?v=1530631734)
Ticket to a ball held for the benefit of the William Penn Library Association of Chester, Pennsylvania. At its head, these words: “We Strive to... Read More
Illustrated trade card for Philadelphia optician Dr. N.C. Gray. In addition to selling and repairing eyeglasses, Dr. Gray offered for sale “Dr. Dickinson’s celebrated Magneto... Read More
1895 Class Day program of music and oratory from Lincoln University, an historically black university in Pennsylvania founded in 1854. The day’s activities included morning... Read More
![[Metamorphic Trade Card:] The Honeymoon. A Tale of Acorn Stoves. Sard & Co. Rathbone.](/pictures/thumb/3726531_1.jpg?v=1530631711)
Metamorphic or moveable trade card using the tale of a newlywed couple to advertising “‘Acorn’ Stoves.” An illustration depicts chilly couple wearing heavy coats and... Read More
Oversized calendar with tipped on color plates depicting women literary characters by American illustrator and poster artist C. Allan Gilbert. The suite of plates depict... Read More
Chambersburg’s Joseph Sierer here promotes what appears to be an expansive business devoted to selling carpets, circa the early 1880s. A large cut at the... Read More
Unrecorded ballad or song sheet printed in New York City c. 1853–1858. The popular religious poem, attributed to J. Adams, was first published around 1840... Read More
Political memorabilia satirizing the “Greenback” Party likely issued during the U.S. Presidential election of 1880. The small, printed leaf imitates the shape and design of... Read More
Political memorabilia satirizing the “Greenback” Party likely issued during the U.S. Presidential election of 1880. The small, printed leaf imitates the shape and design of... Read More
![[1885–1910 YMCA Manuscript Minute Books from Auburn, New York with Related Letters, Manuscripts and Ephemera]. Auburn New York YMCA; Young Men's Christian Association.](/pictures/thumb/3725474_1.jpg?v=1530631631)
Two large ledger books containing handwritten minutes and reports from the Young Men’s Christian Association or YMCA of Auburn, New York, 1885–1910. These two separate... Read More
Chromolithographic calendar commemorating the American Revolution printed by Boston lithographers, L. Prang & Co. The calendar was designed at the New York School of Applied... Read More
Advertising pamphlet for P. Lorrilard & Co. tobacco in the form of a vade mecum or pocket reference book with practical business information and sound... Read More
Colorful, illustrated World War II program for a U. S. Army demonstration game of American-rules football, played “Somewhere in Australia.” The game was played between... Read More
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
Classical music and opera concerts and popular musical and singing performances were favorite leisure pursuits in Belle Époque Germany and Austria. These 61 almost all... Read More
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
