![Valentines:] Accept this little pledge of love, / And love’s request obey… [opening lines of...](/images/noimage-req.png)
Fascinating broadside of Valentine sentiments, printing over 275 poetical quatrains and couplets of romantic love in very small type. Cupid, damsels, “lovely Venus,” future wives..... Read More about Valentines:] Accept this little pledge of love, / And love’s request obey… [opening lines of...
![Great White Fleet] Imperial Japanese Government Railways Special Ticket Issued in Honor of the...](/pictures/thumb/3729181_1.jpg?v=1590518356)
Chromolithographic “Special Ticket” for a rail excursion issued to American sailors of the Great White Fleet during their visit to Japan in 1908. The colorful..... Read More about Great White Fleet] Imperial Japanese Government Railways Special Ticket Issued in Honor of the...
Rare, unrecorded broadside or song sheet for “Lift Every Voice and Sing” with the poem/lyrics written by Jacksonville, Florida native James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), African..... Read More about Capt. Levi M. Hood Lodge. Lift Every Voice and Sing (National Negro Hymn
Set of 16 postcards, reproduced from photographs, showing exterior and interior views of the Masonic Homes complex in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The retirement and..... Read More about Sixteen 1910 to 1914 Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania Postcards showing Masonic Homes
![Wait for the Osborne Man. [1914 Publisher’s Sample for New Jersey Calendar Company]. The...](/pictures/thumb/3727700_1.jpg?v=1579733575)
Publisher’s sample / advertising prospectus for art calendars published by The Osborne Company of Newark, New Jersey. As a selling point to those who would..... Read More about Wait for the Osborne Man. [1914 Publisher’s Sample for New Jersey Calendar Company
Commercially produced c.1920s real photo postcard advertising Chateau Madrid, a Havana, Cuba restaurant and nightclub managed by F. Campuzano. The card contains five photographic inset..... Read More about Dine and Dance at the Most Beautiful Garden in Cuba. ¡Welcome! Chateau Madrid. Habana Cuba....
![Collection of Charles L. Blockson Black History Publishing Ephemera]. Inc Portfolio Associates,...](/pictures/thumb/3728414_1.jpg?v=1556576091)
Small group of advertising ephemera for noted African-Americana book collector and author Charles L. Blockson’s book Pennsylvania’s Black History (1975) and a copy of an..... Read More about Collection of Charles L. Blockson Black History Publishing Ephemera
![Set of 12 Racist Chromolithographic Die Cuts:] Ten Little N****r Boys went out to dine, One...](/pictures/thumb/3728558_1.jpg?v=1556745093)
Complete set of 12 chromolithographic die-cuts depicting hapless African Americans, each die-cut reproducing a poetical verse from or based on the racist poem “Ten Little..... Read More about Set of 12 Racist Chromolithographic Die Cuts:] Ten Little N****r Boys went out to dine, One...
![A.W. Scott, Magnetic Healer and Test Medium ... Boston ... [trade card]. A W. Scott](/pictures/thumb/3728520_1.jpg?v=1554937770)
Trade card for Mr. A.W. Scott of Boston, spiritualist and “magnetic healer.” From his Washington Street establishment, Scott offered “Hot Salt Baths for Cure of..... Read More about A.W. Scott, Magnetic Healer and Test Medium ... Boston ... [trade card
![L.G. Grund Co. Botanic Medicine Group]. L G. Grund Co](/pictures/thumb/3727776_1.jpg?v=1574180562)
Three items issued by L.G. Grund Co. of Philadelphia, wholesale buyers of medicinal roots, barks, herbs, leaves, seeds, &c. Here the company solicits the public..... Read More about L.G. Grund Co. Botanic Medicine Group
![M.I.T., Cross-Dressing:] Tech Show 1927 “West is East.”. Philip K. Bates, G. Elbern Hopkins](/pictures/thumb/3727733_1.jpg?v=1538508662)
Theater program for West is East, a two-act musical comedy produced in 1927 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and featuring an all-male cast including..... Read More about M.I.T., Cross-Dressing:] Tech Show 1927 “West is East.”
Advertising card for a public reading of African American poetry, given by Truda T. Weil at the Woman’s Club of Reading, Pennsylvania. The program consisted..... Read More about The Negro Poets by Truda Weil. Thursday Afternoon ... 1932 ... The Literature Division of the...
From “Freshman” to “Sophomore”—a prospectus for Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, cleverly designed to imitate a strip of movie film with each “cell” depicting a...... Read More about The Reel Smith College
![Envelope with Inset Miniature Tintype Portrait of Isabella Jane Hawthorn]. Isabella Jane Hawthorn](/pictures/thumb/3727513_1.jpg?v=1535409018)
Here, a “gem” tintype portrait of young Isabella Jane Hawthorn, with her hand-tinted rosy cheeks, is conjoined with another Victorian custom of calling cards and..... Read More about Envelope with Inset Miniature Tintype Portrait of Isabella Jane Hawthorn
![Victorian Calling Card for Mrs. John Mowle with Inset Miniature Tintype or “Gem” Portrait]....](/pictures/thumb/3727109_1.jpg?v=1535409018)
Miniature tintype photographs, also called “gem” photos for their diminutive size, were a popular and inexpensive photographic format in the Victorian era. Here a portrait..... Read More about Victorian Calling Card for Mrs. John Mowle with Inset Miniature Tintype or “Gem” Portrait
![World Expositions: Pocket Watches, Watchmakers:] Enrique Grandjean y Ca. Henri Grandjean, Cie,...](/pictures/thumb/3726731_1.jpg?v=1534362451)
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
![African-Americana:] Class Day ’95. Lincoln University. Lincoln University](/pictures/thumb/3726691_1.jpg?v=1534362442)
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 about African-Americana:] Class Day ’95. Lincoln University
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 about C.1880 Uncle Sam Satirical “Greenback” Political Bank Note
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 about 1885–1910 YMCA Manuscript Minute Books from Auburn, New York with Related Letters, Manuscripts...
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 about Revolutionary Calendar Dedicated to the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution… [caption...
![The Texas Terrors:] American Football ... Souvenir Programme. Merchant Navy Day Appeal Committee](/pictures/thumb/3724997_1.jpg?v=1562796869)
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 about The Texas Terrors:] American Football ... Souvenir Programme
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...
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 about 1897–1901 German and Austrian Belle Époque Musical Concert Programs; with related Ephemera; 72...
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,...
