Archive: Good & Gone

"Stunts" scrapbook by Indiana PA Normal School graduate Marjorie Nix, 1918-1921 ("Love is Love")

[scrapbooks, women, LGBTQ+]

A passionate friendship booklet of obscure and ominous circumstances. Chester County, Pennsylvania, ca. 1860.

[manuscript friendship booklet, sapphic love token]

Mechanical Drawing [Ohio - University Athens, Ohio]

Hastings, S. M. [Stanley Miller, 1889-1961]

"Hanging in County Jail Yard, 1876" Stereograph of William Adin's execution for killing Barbara Adin (his wife), Hattie McKay (his stepdaughter), and Elizabeth Benton (her friend), in Cleveland on June 22, 1876

[photography, domestic violence]

Wild Flower Note Book (Herbarium)

[herbarium, botanical notebook]

Hand Blocked Colored Prints of the Gay 90’s. [Boxed linen cocktail napkin set]

Haec City / Also Books

Patterns for Turning: Comprising Elliptical and Other Figures Cut on the Lathe Without the Use of Any Ornamental Chuck

Elphinstone, H. W. (Sir Howard Warburton)

An Easy Guide to the Constellations, with a Miniature Atlas of the Stars and Key Maps

Gall, James Jun.

Weaving for the Little Folks

Milton Bradley Co. [Kindergarten Material, Froebel Gifts]

Retail Druggists' Diary and Want Book (1886)

[trade catalogs, pharmaceuticals, ephemera]

Box of 51 nature specimen cards compiled by pharmacy student Howard C. Burns

[medicine, herbarium]

Kansas child's book full of 90+ airplane and automobile drawings

[original art, juvenile]

Mother [Goose] in Hieroglyphics

[Appleton, George S.]

The Picnic That Was Not A Picnic

[manuscripts, handmade books]

Brae Lynn: The Aristocrat of Linens

[trade catalog, sample book]

The Armadillo / The Basket Beautiful [trade catalog]

[trade catalog]

ALS to John Henry Hedley about his alcoholic father and "martyr" mother's plight

[alcoholism, family dynamics]

The Arts of Life; and Lessons from Them

[juvenile]

"The young carmelite" Ornate pen and ink drawing (19c France)

[original drawing, penwork, lettering]

White's Primary School Drawing Cards

Smith, H. P. [drawing, art education, educational ephemera]

Michigan State Industries Catalog of Products for State Departments, Institutions and Political Subdivision (State of Michigan Department of Corrections Division of Prison Industries)

[prison labor catalog]

The Practical Draughtsman's Book of Industrial Design, and Machinist's and Engineer's Drawing Companion: Forming a Complete Course of Mechanical, Engineering, and Architectural Drawing

Armengaud, Jacques-Eugène; Johnson, William (trans.)

The Flower People

"A Lady" (Mary Peabody Mann)

Natural Health Exercises: A Complete System for Home Use, easily and quickly taken without apparatus, health, strength and long life may be secured by its use.

[physical culture] Sarony