![[1842–1917 Combination Bound Volume of Masonic, Musical, and Theatrical Programs and Scrapbook kept by Musician Albert Ritter of Reading, Pennsylvania]. Albert Ritter, c.1838–1915.](/pictures/thumb/3727221_1.jpg?v=1534362500)
For Christmas 1873, musician Albert Ritter of Reading, Pennsylvania was given a scrapbook. He immediately began to fill it with ephemera from the various fraternal... Read More
![[Philadelphia Academy of Music, 1873 Program:] Forasmuch as Dyvers Syngynge People…. Academy of Music.](/pictures/thumb/3726692_1.jpg?v=1534362443)
Delightfully humorous program for a concert of antique music performed at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Likely getting into the spirit of the nation’s... Read More
![[Rhode Island Printing] Woonsocket Patriot and Rhode Island State Register [Advertorial Envelope]. S. S. Foss Woonsocket Patriot, Proprietor.](/pictures/thumb/3726545_1.jpg?v=1534362409)
A busy envelope with various text and type faces to serve not only as a functional method of letter transmittal, but as a mobile advertising... Read More
Packed with information, here is a detailed inventory of the skills and services offered by H.T. Trappit, Engraver of 26 King Street, Commercial Road. Mr... Read More
![Commercial Cut Co., Designers Illustrators Photo-Engravers…New York [cover title]. The Commercial Cut Company.](/images/noimage-req.png)
Electrotyper’s specimen book of thousands of stock illustration cuts suitable for all manner of commercial and job printing. Illustration cuts available from The Commercial Cut... Read More
![[1899 Black Baltimore Printer’s Military Discharge from a Philadelphia “Colored” Militia Unit]. Will T. Johnson; c.1868–?](/pictures/thumb/3726413_1.jpg?v=1536618657)
Military discharge document for Private Will T. Johnson of Philadelphia’s “Gray Invincibles,” an African American infantry militia unit of the Pennsylvania National Guard. Baltimore-native Johnson... Read More
![[1841 Articles of Agreement to Publish the Anti-Mormon Book, Gleanings by the Way, by Rev. John A. Clark of Philadelphia]. W J. Simon, Washington J. Simon, J K. Simon, James K. Simon, D. D. John A. Clark.](/pictures/thumb/3726411_1.jpg?v=1536618656)
1841 “Articles of Agreement” or contract between Philadelphia author Rev. John A. Clark of Philadelphia and publishers Washington J. Simon and James K. Simon. (The... Read More
An 18th century manuscript document wherein Samuel Wallis pays a little over 13 shillings to Philadelphia bookbinder Benjamin January for “3 Quire Waste Book[s] Whole... Read More
Five 18th century manuscripts for job printing done by Philadelphia printer Henry Tuckniss. Printed for Samuel Wallis are 75 Ejectments to be printed on large... Read More
An interesting example of a daily journal with pre-printed date entries for 1856, but which has been used by the diarist over a span of... Read More
![London Trades’ Council. Great Reform Demonstration Held in Hyde Park, on Monday, July 21st, 1884 [broadside caption title]. Amalgamated Association of Pressmen, London Society of Compositors, Printing Machine Managers' Trade Society.](/pictures/thumb/3725422_1.jpg?v=1536179344)
On July 21, 1884 a parade and radical British labor “Reform Demonstration” was held under the auspices of the London Trades’ Council in that city’s... Read More
![Cut for Cut, the Rubber Rubb’d, Nonsense for Nonsense, or, Dicko-Don-Quacko And his Methodist Brethren all in an Uproar… [broadside caption title]. Anon.](/pictures/thumb/146304_1.jpg?v=1534362284)
Unrecorded eighteenth century polemical broadside in the tradition satirist Ned Ward or the mock poem Hudibras. While the present broadside includes only a few lines... Read More
Most nineteenth century trade cards do not bear an imprint. This one does, in this instance, advertising a resort house in popular Lake George, New... Read More
![Order of Exercises for the Festival of St. John the Evangelist, and the Centennial Anniversary of the Organization of the Grand Lodge of Ancient Freemasons of South-Carolina, Celebrated at the Hall of the South-Carolina Institute, Charleston, 27th December A. L. 5854.[i.e., 1854]. Grand Lodge of Freemasons of South Carolina.](/pictures/thumb/145347_2.jpg?v=1534362277)
Antebellum broadside outlining the order of exercises for the centennial of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of South Carolina. The lyrics for two anthems and... Read More
