For Better Results Always Use Baker’s Flavors and Colors.
C.1910s–1920s counter top display advertisement piece for Baker’s Pure Extract Vanilla and Baker’s Color Paste for baking. The products were made and sold by the... Read More
Food and Drink
College Shopper and Smacker. Spring–1926.
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
Fun to Cook Book.
C.1955 Children’s cook book with easy, child-friendly recipes issued by the Carnation Company, cheerfully illustrated. While the company’s evaporated milk is not featured in every... Read More
![Souvenir and Book of Information of San Francisco Published by and Compliments of Newman’s New Russ House… [cover title]. Proprietors Charles Newman Co.](/pictures/thumb/3727760_1.jpg?v=1537982988)
Souvenir and Book of Information of San Francisco Published by and Compliments of Newman’s New Russ House… [cover title].
Advertising with dogs. Rare, possibly unrecorded, c.1903 illustrated souvenir book of “Newman’s New Russ House,” a San Francisco luxury hotel later destroyed in the city’s... Read More
![Denver Fun Map [cover title]. Entertainment Advertising Company.](/pictures/thumb/3727772_1.jpg?v=1544633425)
Denver Fun Map [cover title].
Exuberant 1950s promotional brochure for the restaurants, supper clubs, cocktail bars and night clubs of Denver, Colorado. A pictorial, stylized map of Denver indicates the... Read More
![[Coffee, Tobacco, Cotton etc., Import/Export Trade with America:] Bremen 10, Dec. 1800. Craving Your Reference to our circular… [opening lines of circular letter with price list]. Fredk., Everhd. Delius, Frederick and Everhard Delius.](/pictures/thumb/3726520_1.jpg?v=1534362400)
[Coffee, Tobacco, Cotton etc., Import/Export Trade with America:] Bremen 10, Dec. 1800. Craving Your Reference to our circular… [opening lines of circular letter with price list]
Signed 18th century circular letter and price list from Frederick and Everhard Delius, merchants of Bremen. The firm imported food goods and other commodities from... Read More
“Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard,” or Canadian Cook Book.
Canadian cooking and home receipt book published by G.C. Briggs & Sons of Hamilton, Ontario, makers of “Briggs’ Original Electric Oil” patent medicine. The front... Read More
Hedges & Butler Ltd. Wines & Spirits. Special List.
C.1933 immediate-post-American Prohibition, British trade catalog with American ordering instruction sheet and “Export Price List” issued by Hedges and Butler, Ltd. of London, wine and... Read More
![Iridor Candy Making Course [Six Publications in Original Box]. Iris F. Leonard, Dorit K. Weigert.](/pictures/thumb/3726591_1.jpg?v=1534362418)
Iridor Candy Making Course [Six Publications in Original Box]
Bright, cheerful suite of candy-making instructional books —very period in design— geared toward women seeking to become candy-making entrepreneurs. The First title, Introduction to the... Read More
![Boyd & Fichten. [Restaurant Menu]. confectioners John L. Boyd and Jacob P. Fichten.](/pictures/thumb/3727553_1.jpg?v=1537547098)
Boyd & Fichten. [Restaurant Menu]
C. 1910s menus from Madison, Wisconsin confectioners Boyd & Fichten. The menu includes soda fountain treats such as ice cream, sundaes, variously flavored sodas, lemonades... Read More
![[1793 for 1794 Almanac] Hutchins Improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris…for the Year of Our Lord 1794…. i. e. John Nathan Hutchins, Andrew Beers.](/pictures/thumb/3725802_1.jpg?v=1534362322)
[1793 for 1794 Almanac] Hutchins Improved: Being an Almanack and Ephemeris…for the Year of Our Lord 1794…
The Anatomy of Man’s Body illustration defines areas controlling neck, breast, bowels, secrets, knees, arms, heart, reigns, thighs, legs. Within, Hugh Gaine advertises he will... Read More
1811 Autograph Document Signed, Establishing a Tavern in Maurice River, Cumberland County, New Jersey.
Twelve men attest with their autographs to the worthiness of the character of John Williams. Williams is a “suitable person to keep an Inn and... Read More
![[1743 Land Indenture Signed by Anthony Morris, Brewer and Mayor of Philadelphia]. Mathew Irwin Jonathan Biles; Ann Biles; Anthony Morris, II.](/pictures/thumb/3726446_1.jpg?v=1537471784)
[1743 Land Indenture Signed by Anthony Morris, Brewer and Mayor of Philadelphia].
Philadelphia land indenture signed by Anthony Morris (II) (1682–1763) of Philadelphia, here acting as “one of his Majesty’s Justices.” Proprietor of the Morris Brewery, Morris... Read More
No License. A Question to be Settled in the State of New York, 19th of May, 1846…
“Citizens of the State of Nfw [sic] York, Look at the Following. Will You Vote License?” On May 19, 1846, an important vote was to... Read More
[“We are Going to Prescott’s to Buy Our Groceries” – Two Original Photographs].
Two photographs depicting circus-like clown characters and an elaborately decorated wagon and horse each advertising L. C. Prescott’s grocery business. One photo shows an Uncle... Read More
Exciting Fruit Gifts from Mission Pak in California.
C.1952 Christmas catalog of fresh and candied California fruit and nuts from pioneering fruit sellers and marketers Mission Pak of Los Angeles. Founded in 1917... Read More
Dining for Moderns with Menus and Recipes—The Why and When of Wining.
Recipes and menu suggestions from the Woman’s Exchange Restaurant, founded in New York City in 1919. The restaurant was an outgrowth of the Woman’s Exchange... Read More
![[Women at War:] Homemaker’s War Guide ... Victory Begins At Home. Do Your Part. Office of War Information.](/pictures/thumb/3727773_1.jpg?v=1539037964)
[Women at War:] Homemaker’s War Guide ... Victory Begins At Home. Do Your Part.
A remarkable Second World War war-effort poster with extraordinary design and excellent modernistic infographic delivery. The whole design matrix is almost that of a present-day... Read More
Vital Health Secrets of the Maya Indians.
Health bulletin promoting the nutritional value of toasted pepitoria squash [pumpkin] seeds as a “wonderfood” eaten by the Hunzas Indians of Central America. The bulletin... Read More
![R. Bolland & Sons Wedding Cakes [Trade Catalogs]. R. Bolland & Sons.](/pictures/thumb/3727712_1.jpg?v=1536690621)
R. Bolland & Sons Wedding Cakes [Trade Catalogs].
C. 1890s trade catalog of wedding cakes issued by Chester, England restaurateurs, R. Bolland & Sons, “Historic Bride Cake Makers to the Royal Family.” Full-page... Read More
![[Americans at Guantanamo:] The Radio Restaurant Rodrigo Rey Doce Propietor [sic] ... Welcome V.S. [sic] Navy ... Good Home Cooking…. Rodrigo Rey Doce.](/pictures/thumb/3726630_1.jpg?v=1543421160)
[Americans at Guantanamo:] The Radio Restaurant Rodrigo Rey Doce Propietor [sic] ... Welcome V.S. [sic] Navy ... Good Home Cooking…
An unusual imprint, and an unusual broadside, which serves as both menu and advertisement for Rodrigo Rey Doce’s restaurant, named “The Radio” and offering “Good... Read More
![[Washington, D.C.] Chinese Lantern Cafe. Native Style Menu. S J. Chan, Chinese Lantern Cafe.](/pictures/thumb/3726696_1.jpg?v=1534362444)
[Washington, D.C.] Chinese Lantern Cafe. Native Style Menu.
Interesting Chinese restaurant menu from Washington, D.C. offering “Native Style” or authentic Chinese cuisine to Americans. The restaurant’s proprietor, S.J. Chan hoped: ...to introduce Chinese... Read More
For Sale, The Following Valuable Plantation or Farm Situated in Somerset County, Maryland…
Unrecorded 1876 broadside issued by prominent Delaware peach farmer and Samuel Townsend (1812–1881) and his son Richard Townsend (1839–?) offering for sale “Peach Blossom” fruit... Read More
![Catalogue and Price List of the Snow Hill Nurseries Near Snow Hill, Md. [...] Worcester Co., Md. W. M. Peters & Sons Snow Hill Nurseries.](/pictures/thumb/3726656_1.jpg?v=1534362434)
Catalogue and Price List of the Snow Hill Nurseries Near Snow Hill, Md. [...] Worcester Co., Md.
Fruit tree nursery trade catalog with a focus on apples and peaches issued by Snow Hill Nurseries of Worcester County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Beginning... Read More
![[1903 South Omaha Live Stock Exchange Photograph—“The Second Market of the World.”]. South Omaha Live Stock Exchange.](/pictures/thumb/3726150_1.jpg?v=1534362338)
[1903 South Omaha Live Stock Exchange Photograph—“The Second Market of the World.”]
The Union Stockyards of South Omaha, Nebraska were founded in 1883 and soon became a rival to the great Chicago stockyard and meatpacking industry. This... Read More