A humorously and amply-illustrated production; a top-of-the line yearbook for this Ivy League school. In addition to a History of the Class of 1881, Class..... Read More about The University Record published by the Graduating Class of the University of Pennsylvania....
Mendicant pamphlet sold during the Great Depression by unemployed or disabled ex-military or naval servicemen. The text consists of humorous military and civilian anecdotes and..... Read More about Comics of War. Hello Buddy. Facts of Service. Remember the Unemployed War Veterans… [caption title
Boxed set of eight cocktail napkins each imprinted with a humorous illustration in the manner of Jazz Age cartoonist, John Held, Jr. (1889–1958). The set..... Read More about Hand Blocked Colored Prints of the Gay 90’s. [box cover title of linen cocktail napkin set...
Pocket book of stereotype jokes and stories characterizing and satirizing Jews, especially immigrants, peddlers, and merchants. Most of the stories and jokes—typically 3 or 4..... Read More about Hebrew Yarns, Jokes and Stories
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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 about Philadelphia Academy of Music, 1873 Program:] Forasmuch as Dyvers Syngynge People…
A lively, albeit disturbing, image using an African-American family to use humor and exaggeration to sell iron stove polish in 1882. On the illustrative side..... Read More about What Uncle Obadiah Rich Says About Dixon’s Stove Polish
Very pleasing example of one of Dick & Fitzgerald’s 25¢ “Western Plays.” Crawford’s Claim is the tale of heroine Nugget Nell, a Western mining claim..... Read More about Crawford’s Claim or Nugget Nell, the Pet of Poker Flat. A Drama in Prologue and Three Acts
An anonymous cheap throwaway filled with titillation and bawdy humor, often in the form of two single-panel captioned cartoons to a page. In one, a...... Read More about Latest Edition. Parisian Frolics. Photos. Jokes. Scenes. And How!
Humorous, fun-spirited program for the First Annual Gymkhana or field day held by the Ninth Company (Company “I”) of New York’s Seventh Regiment, a National..... Read More about First Annual Gymkhana of the Veterans and Actives of the Ninth Company Seventh Regiment, N.G.N.Y....
Autograph letter signed marked “Private” by Tom Taylor (1817-1880), Punch editor and English playwright and comic writer, recommending artist P. Knight for membership in a...... Read More about C.1850–1872 Autograph Letter Signed by Tom Taylor (1817-1880), Punch Editor and English...
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Robert Charles Benchley (1889–1989) honed and developed his skills as a humorist and actor while at Harvard (Class of 1912). Benchley was an active, and..... Read More about Robert Benchley [and] The Marvelous Child [within:] Harvard Club of Boston ... 1912 ... Programme
Humorous group of 12 illustrated comic trade cards advertising the 1880 Fall Styles of Brooklyn, New York boot and shoe merchant, Joseph J. Byers. The..... Read More about Twelve Brooklyn, New York Comic or Ethnically-Themed Trade Cards, 1880s
