A resounding yes. A firm no. A bevy of ambivalence, all the while.
Fun for All
Greenway, Nellie
Ionian Sigma Formal Dance, Trenton Country Club, February 29, 1936.
[volvelles, dance cards]
Regular price $50.00
Hear Ye!! The Gisriel-Long Evangelistic Party
[broadsides, revivals]
Regular price $175.00
"Sock Social under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society of the M.E. Church, Bridgeport, Ill..." (caption title)
[ephemera, party invitations]
"Take a chance and win" King Oscar pull-tab lotto card
[lottery, promotional ephemera]
Regular price $35.00
Hood's Sarsaparilla Book of Parlor Games
[patent medicine, games]
1892-93 Premium List of the "Galaxy of Music"
Ferdinand Trifet
"She is a dandy little woman for fun, but for god sake dont let her man know...” Letter from 22-yo Harry Keelor to his new friend, bemusedly warning of her "pard" (Ohio, 1888).
[correspondence]
Regular price $85.00
1915 Letter from Harry A. Mount, rising newspaper man, on the roller skating craze and sinking of the Lusitania
[correspondence, A.L.S.]
Regular price $150.00
Studio portrait of a man leaning against his bicycle, 1897
[photograph]
Regular price $30.00
What is Best Society? (cover title)
[etiquette, advertising]
Regular price $100.00
Popular Amusements: Destructive & Constructive
Phipps, Lee R. and Dewitt; John E. Roberts
Regular price $125.00
1927 QSL card with photo portrait of broadcast radio pioneer and electronics inventor Parker S. Gates 9DZT
[ephemera, radio, electronics pioneers]
Hazel Miller for National Junior Vice President (V.F.W. Auxiliary campaign paddle fan)
[ephemera]
Enthusiastic letter from Louise thanking her husband for being allowed to attend 4-H Club Camp and promising to be a better wife (1955)
Atlantic City donkey ride, ca. 1900
"Gilbert's Guide" "Vote For Ross S. Gordon for Commissioner" [Lincoln Highway Distance Finder]
[ephemera, mechanical paper]
Tintype of a man looking tough in a bathing costume
[photographs]
Program of Snyder's 15th Annual Band Carnival. Saturday, August 5, 1905. Brookside Park, Near Dover. All Day and Evening. 12 Bands and 1 Mandolin Club Participating
[Americana, pomp & circumstance]
Collection of 21 ham radio QSL cards mailed to Baltimore operator William Ridenour (W3HI) from 1924-1936.
[postcards, radio]
The Berloy Twins Present "Transfer Time," in Four Acts.
[advertising]
The Ten Commandments... Compliments of Hershey Creamery Co.
[advertising fans]
Regular price $60.00
Show 'Em Up in Anagrams
John, James and Judith West
New Book of Riddles (cover title: Select Riddles)
Ott, Irv. (ed.)
Indian Conjuring
Branson, L. H.
Regular price $80.00
Cheiro's Language of The Hand: A complete practical work on the sciences of cheirognomy and cheiromancy, containing the system and experience of Cheiro.
Cheiro
Regular price $25.00
Graphograms for Instant Analysis of Character through Handwriting
Silver, A. Henry
Conneaut Lake Park, Pa. souvenir felt pennant
[souvenirs]
Ford's Grand Opera House (January 1893 program)
[Baltimore, theatre]
Regular price $75.00
Four (4) Whitman series 677 Books to Color and Read
[coloring books]
How to Paint. The Complete Compendium of the Art...
Gardner, F. B.
Stories and Sketches: What People Are Doing
Allen, Nellie B.; Edward K. Robinson; Marguerite Davis (illus.)
Jordan Marsh & Co. No. 25
[textile sample books]
Ten Commandment Number Cards [numbers 1 & 2]
[ephemera, religious education]
Regular price $40.00
Map of Palestine (handmade Sunday School project booklet)
[made by hand]
Visual Aids: A unit for the third grade. Helen Woerner, Education E 141.
[teaching, education] Woerner, Helen
Regular price $275.00
Pair of autograph albums, 1890s
Regular price $65.00
The Kindergarten in the Home.
Newman, Carrie S.; Etheldred B. Barry (illus.)
Homes of the World's Babies in Silhouette
Scantlebury, Elizabeth Ellis
ABC Book of Animals (No. 51)
[juvenile, alphabets] Rogers, Julia Anne