Books
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Images
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Fantastical whimsy of a needle book
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Regular price $120.00
Press photograph of two men and a boy inspecting a wrecked car (with publication markups)
[photograph]
Regular price $45.00
Associated Press photograph of firefighters carrying a woman and child from unspecified disaster (with publication markups)
Regular price $40.00
Associated Press photograph of a plane crash (22 dead; September 28, 1953) with publication markups
Home-fashioned mailing pouch...
[folk art, ephemera, vernacular objects]
Regular price $90.00
"I'd give all my old boots to see you" (Birch Bark Folk Art Rebus Postcard)
[postcard, folk art]
Regular price $50.00
Employee photo badge for a woman worker at Union Switch & Signal (Pittsburgh/Westinghouse)
Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. Pittsburgh Employee Badge
Regular price $60.00
U.S. Steel Photo ID Badge in shadow
Liberty Mirror Works empty Photo ID Badge casing
Regular price $55.00
Oklahoma National Guard Utilities Employee Photo Badge
Regular price $38.00
No. 236 Glascock Bros. Employee Photo Badge
Croquet: Its Principles and Rules
Rover, Prof. A.
The New England Apiarian: Devoted Exclusively to Bee Culture. Volume 1, No. 1 (January, 1883)
[ephemera, bees]
Regular price $75.00
Ohio Penitentiary News Vol. XLVIII, No. 4 (Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, April 19, 1941)
[prison literature, World War II] Henry J. Nitzsche, ed.
Regular price $85.00
The Child's Book
Greenwald, Rev. E.
Regular price $100.00
Portrait of an ambivalent young adult
Regular price $28.00
Voyelles & Consonnes
Provost-Blondel [alphabets, lettering]
Color Design Seat Work
Weinberger, Rose
Regular price $95.00
Advanced Textile Designing: Glossary of Weaves - Ply Fabrics - Pile Weaves - Leno Weaving - Color in Textile Designing (International Textbook Company 14C)
I.C.S. Staff (International Correspondence Schools)
Regular price $125.00
Forms and Centering (Parts 1-2, International Correspondence School 310)
Jones, Everett L. (International Correspondence Schools)
Regular price $15.00
Elements of Timber and Concrete Drawings (International Correspondence School 290)
Baker, Samuel (International Correspondence Schools)
I.C.S. Reference Library 159: Building Stone; Lathing, Plastering & Tiling; Common Brickwork ; Ornamental Brickwork and Terra Cotta; Lighting Fixtures; Use and Design of Lighting Fixtures; Architectural Design
International Correspondence Schools [industrial arts, design]
I.C.S. Reference Library 106: Dress Goods, White Goods, Clothing
International Correspondence Schools [textiles, fashion]
I.C.S. Reference Library 92: Glossary of Weaves, Fabric Analysis, Weave Varieties, Color Designs...
International Correspondence Schools [textiles, weaving, design]
I.C.S. Reference Library 8: Plant Analysis, Distemper Color, Bookcover Designing, Carpet Designing, Oilcloth and Linoleum Designing, Wallpaper Designing, The American Vignola, Color Harmony
[International Correspondence Schools]
Sample salesman's dummy for 5 children's books, ca. 1910
[juvenile, sample book, salesman's dummy]
Tintype of a man looking tough in a bathing costume
[photographs]
Regular price $35.00
A man and his [ ? ]
Folk musicians in the weeds with some unusual instruments
Regular price $65.00
Kleines Ornamentenbuch, oder: Sammlung der verschiedenartigsten Verzierungen im neuesten Geschmack...
Ernst Günther [ornament books, design]
Regular price $800.00
Home-fashioned notebook of crocheted lace & tatting specimens, France ca. 1900-1920
[sewing ephemera, textiles, folk art]
Regular price $225.00
Couture album of sewing classwork, France 1953-1954
[student work, sewing ephemera, textiles]
Regular price $265.00
First Annual Report of the Board of Education, First Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board (Senate No. 26) [with] ...On the Subject of School Houses, Supplementary (No. 80, 1838)
Mann, Horace
Regular price $300.00
The Theory of Color in Its Relation to Art and Art-Industry
Bezold, Wilhelm von; Edward C. Pickering, S. R. Koehler (trans.)
Regular price $700.00
Scientific Billiards. Garnier's Practice Shots, with hints to Amateurs
Garnier, Albert
Draughtsman's Alphabets: A Series of Plain and Ornamental Alphabets Designed especially for Engineers, Architects, Draughtsmen, Engravers, Painters etc.
Esser, Hermann
Alphabets Plain Ornamented and Illuminated: A Selection from the Best Ancient and Modern Styles, Particularly Adapted for the Use of Painters, Engravers, Marbleworkers and Illuminators
L. Prang & Co.
Regular price $575.00
1950s French pictorial sewing skill sample panel
[textiles, sewing ephemera]
The Universal Spelling Alphabet: An Amusing, and Instructive, Parlour Game. Containing 400 Letters, Figures, Notes, &c.
[alphabet, spelling games]
Regular price $375.00
Educational and Industrial Drawing: Mechanical Series, No. 1 (Drawing book with student work)
Thompson, Langdon S. [student drawing]
Regular price $115.00
Educational and Industrial Drawing: "Pictorial Drawing" for Regents' Elementary Examinations, No. 1 (with student work)
The Picture Book; or Familiar Objects Described
[juvenile, chapbook]
A Dark Stranger
Gracq, Julien [Louis Poirier]; W. J. Strachan (trans.).
Regular price $650.00
1920s Interior Design Class Project Binder
[student work, education, home economics]
Regular price $145.00
Product photograph and blueprint for the Leopold Lamp and Desk Set
[furniture, industrial design]
Regular price $135.00
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