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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
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
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
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
Fantastic, humorous tale of how Johannes Gutenberg really invented printing. The illustrated booklet was published by Boston printer Albert Hallet to be given away to... Read More
Of a nosy New Englander, Miss Slimmens’ Window was first published in 1859 and has been attributed to Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (1831–1885), a pioneering... Read More
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
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
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
Playing upon the novelty of the velocipede making its appearance on the local streets, an ephemeral, privately printed, privately circulated bit of original and illustrated... Read More
Illustrated American humor of the 1890s — the perfect foil to staid astronomical calculations, schedule of eclipses, and court calendar of the typical almanac. Over... Read More
Original unpublished manuscript for a one-act play by Philadelphia author and historian, Joseph F. A. Jackson. Written at the age of 19, Jackson’s farce satirizes... Read More
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
