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Full of halftone photos of accomplished athletes who sport Waterbury \"athlete's watch,\" including runner E. C. Carter, high jumper Guy Richards, hurdler AA. A. Jordan, skater S. D. See, cyclist (on a penny-farthing) William A. Rowe, baseball player Thomas Esterbrook, and lawn tennis player Richard Dudley Sears.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[advertising, ephemera, horology] celebrity athlete endorsements","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46394500513942,"sku":"Q2344","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/haec_city-69_ce33a6d9-1726-4fcc-ae6c-eba8d286ac7b.jpg?v=1779815956"},{"product_id":"evidence","title":"Evidence","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePrinted wraps, 5 x 3 inches, 24pp. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eNo date, ca. 1910, with reference to 1906 FDA regulations on the rear wrap. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eVG+ with minor discoloration and finger creasing. 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It was sold through the 1940s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[beauty culture, ephemera]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46394500645014,"sku":"Q2345","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/haec_city-58_eaeac3ab-5049-4a52-ad6d-778fdc08691f.jpg?v=1779575322"},{"product_id":"the-new-york-receipt-book","title":"The New York Receipt Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e(New York: D.B. Dewey, 1882) Pictorial wraps, 16mo, 32pp. Features a calendar for 1883 and recipe pages alternating with ads and testimonials, including one from P. T. Barnum. Beautiful cover graphics and small illustrations throughout. Threaded through the top of spine, else VG+ with light rubbing, small stray watermark to inner cover only. Typical of the range of claims for patent medicine, but also notes product uses distinguished by nationalities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3 in OCLC, which offers the catalog note: \u003cem\u003e\"Booklet of cookery hints and recipes primarily advertising Castoria, invented by Dr. Samuel Pitcher, containing senna, pumpkin seed, mint, aniseed, oil of wormwood, bicarbonate of soda, sugar and wintergreen, but \"no mineral, morphine or other narcotic property\". It helped the digestion, cured constipation, colic, flatulency, diarrhoea, worms, convulsions and fevers. Also Centaur Liniment, which cured rheumatism, sciatica, neuralgia, lumbago, tic douloureux, mumps, burns, sore nipples, boils, bites, scurvy, nervous headache, opium dizziness (p.17) and sprains and Wei de Meyer's Catarrh Cure.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[patent medicine, advertising]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46394500776086,"sku":"Q2346","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/haec_city-39_9002b060-fc0b-4315-bebb-57cf254c1440.jpg?v=1779575834"},{"product_id":"library-walk-in-admission-free-cover-title","title":"Library: walk in, admission free (cover title)","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePrinted wraps, 7 x 2.75 inches, 32pp. Very Good with faint tidemark and discoloration to wraps, two short tears reinforced with tape. 3 in OCLC. 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Generously sized samples in a beautifully preserved binding, backed with tissue that makes a gloriously satisfying sound when you turn the page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[textile sample books]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46395250475158,"sku":"Q2201","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/haec_city-92_9c227fa2-e0a8-46a6-8298-691bd9397e6b.jpg?v=1781559795"},{"product_id":"catalogue-of-goods-from-farrar-follett-co-importers-of-tin-plate-sheet-iron-and-metals","title":"Catalogue of Goods from Farrar, Follett \u0026 Co. Importers of Tin Plate, Sheet Iron and Metals...","description":"\u003cp\u003eFlexible royal blue cloth 16mo, 84pp. Blind and gilt embossed cover, a.e.g. Printed by Geo. C. Rand \u0026amp; Avery in red and blue inks, illustrated only with an engraved frontis of the building. Pages 7 to 80 alternate with product listings and memoranda pages, \"in which the manufacturer or trader can note his wants from time to time.\" Tidemark to upper corner, stray soil to rear wrap, Very Good+.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe high production value exudes sophistication and suggests a quality product, without illustrating the actual goods. Run by Daniel Farrar, Devter H. Follett and Eustace C. Fitz, nothing of the firm is recorded in OCLC, but they're mentioned in Edison's letters as a supplier of galvanized telegraph wire. This catalog features a much broader range of offerings, from sad irons, pea skimmers, candle moulds, shears. Not in Romaine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[trade catalog]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46395250573462,"sku":"Q2203","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/haec_city-8_a214ddad-2289-4064-9c62-8fbb1adfb7a0.jpg?v=1779665587"},{"product_id":"souvenir-of-bernhardt-bros-importers-and-wholesale-dealer-of-wines-liquors-etc","title":"Souvenir of Bernhardt Bros. Importers and Wholesale Dealer of Wines, Liquors, Etc.","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrinted wraps, 7 x 3.5 inches, 24pp. Photographic views from around the world printed in 3 colors on each recto and catalog information on the versos. Fair with chipping and tearing to yapp edges, tape and color bleeding inside front cover. Souvenir novelty that could be customized for various enterprises--in this case for alcohol and related offerings. Nice view of the \"Great Barthold Statue\" on rear wrap. Not in OCLC.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[ephemera, alcohol]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46395250638998,"sku":"Q2210","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/haec_city-26_861d365d-3c85-4ff7-ba2e-5bca3a921aa7.jpg?v=1779760739"},{"product_id":"100-00-reward-mrs-f-j-blair-will-pay-one-hundred-dollars-100-reward-for-apprehension-of-frederick-james-blair-alias-charles-gordon-murray","title":"$100.00 Reward. Mrs. F. J. Blair will pay one hundred dollars ($100) reward for apprehension of Frederick James Blair, Alias Charles Gordon Murray...","description":"\u003cp\u003eBroadside circular, 11 x 8.25 inches, illustrated with a halftone photograph of Frederick James Blair, alias Charles Gordon Murray, \"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWanted in Detroit on charges of abandonment, embezzlement and bigamy.\" Tattering to upper edge where it was formerly pasted-up. Faint creases from being folded for post and gentle age toning, Very Good. With a copy of two newspaper articles illustrating Blair's dodgy activity and verifying him as a \"Gibson type\"—the lesser-memorialized male counterpart to the \"Gibson girl.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA grifter from a wealthy family, Blair had a penchant for fleecing women involved in temperance campaigns. The reward was offered by the latest \"Mrs. Blair,\" who printed the circulars in hope of tracking him down, seemingly still enamored. Her voice comes through in the mix of typical police description (\"Age 41. Height 5 ft. 7 in. Weight about 150 lbs.,\" etc), with more intimate or nuanced observations, \"\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eNervous temperament. Has habit of biting his finger nails. Cigarette fiend. Hangs around sporting houses. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eUsual occupations, commercial traveler, detective and 'philanthropic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eworker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e'\" (emphasis theirs).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[wanted \/ reward circular]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46395250704534,"sku":"Q2221","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/haec_city-22_8c4a22d5-431b-4eed-9bca-524fbe82b1cb.jpg?v=1779665160"},{"product_id":"this-is-a-sample-of-my-writing-photographic-card-showing-m-e-ferris-of-clarinda-iowa","title":"\"This is a sample of my writing\" postcard of M. 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Mr. Ferris has since that time accomplished many difficult feats, such as feeding, dressing and undressing himself, writing, etc., but two of his most wonderful feats are playing the piano or organ and operating driving and controlling his especially equipped Ford Runabout.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[disability, mendicant ephemera]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46395250770070,"sku":"Q2234","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/haec_city-7_7fed1c3a-d3f9-41ec-b152-b7f8c75cfc1d.jpg?v=1779666718"},{"product_id":"sock-social-under-the-auspices-of-the-ladies-aid-society-of-the-m-e-church-bridgeport-ill-1907-cake-and-cream-served-in-the-white-tent-on-christian-church-lot-on-thursday-night-may-2-1907-printed-invitation-to-a-ladies-aid-society","title":"\"Sock Social under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society of the M.E. 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The scheme is explained, in rhyme, on the back--the sock should contain a donation equal to double the recipient's shoe size and brought to the party, where they would be added to a larger sock, the centerpiece of the event.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eThe distribution of \"sock social\" references in archived newspapers suggests they peaked around 1900-1910 in Pennsylvania and the Midwest. The earliest reference we found came from the Decatur, Illinois \u003cem\u003eDaily Republican\u003c\/em\u003e on August 9, 1895--unlikely the first such party, but a rough starting date for context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis little sock we send to you \u003cbr\u003e     Is not for you to wear,\u003cbr\u003ePlease multiply your size by two\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e     And place therein with care,\u003cbr\u003eIn pennies or in cents,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e     Just twice the number you wear\u003cbr\u003e(We hope it is immense);\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e     So if you wear a number ten,\u003cbr\u003eYou owe us twenty-see?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e     Which dropped into the little sock\u003cbr\u003eWill fill our hearts with glee.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e     'Tis all we ask; it isn't much,\u003cbr\u003eAnd hardly any trouble,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e     But if you only have one foot, \u003cbr\u003eWe'll surely charge you double.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e     If you have a friend quite dear\u003cbr\u003eYou'd like to bring with you, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e     Or if you know one who'll come,\u003cbr\u003eWe'll gladly give you two.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e     And if you cannot come yourself,\u003cbr\u003e'Twill please us much, indeed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e     If you will send a well-flled sock;\u003cbr\u003eTis' money that we need.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e     Don't forget the place and date—\u003cbr\u003eWe'll answer when you knock.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e     And welcome you with open arms\u003cbr\u003ePlease don't forget your sock.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[ephemera, party invitations]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46395250835606,"sku":"Q2237","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/haec_city-81_d62c297d-e273-454a-bc90-ee455b9cd3c7.jpg?v=1781475161"},{"product_id":"it-gets-there-just-the-same-with-moral","title":"It Gets There Just the Same. 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A full, cascading list is printed on the last page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[trade catalogs]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46395250507926,"sku":"Q2256","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/haec_city-131_133f7112-fc0b-4870-b378-614036698791.jpg?v=1781706592"},{"product_id":"indian-conjuring","title":"Indian Conjuring","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon: George Routledge \u0026amp; Sons and New York: E. P. Dutton, (1922). Pictorial paper-covered boards, 12mo, 103pp. No date; page 88 mentions and offer \"good for five years from 1922,\" the presumed publication date. Very Good with rubbing to extremities and shallow chipping at the corners. 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Includes the kind of lacing work seen in \u003cem\u003eFlechtschule \u003c\/em\u003ealbums compiled by young women, rather than Kindergarten work. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Engelhardt, Paul; Adolf Lillak","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46395250671766,"sku":"Q2363","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/haec_city-9-2.jpg?v=1779807918"},{"product_id":"pocket-slate-novelty-memo-book-compliments-of-hollister-hardware-plumbing-co-cortland-ny","title":"Pocket slate novelty memo book \"Compliments of Hollister Hardware \u0026 Plumbing Co. Cortland, NY...","description":"\u003cp\u003e8 \"slate\" pages in printed paper-covered boards, approx. 5 x 2.25 inches. Pencil notes on every page, some dated 1913. 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It opens with the heroine at the age of sixteen, and carries her on for some years until she is well past twenty; and, as she is a graceful and pleasing girl, without too ardent a self-consciousness or too vigorous an individuality, one does not tire of her. \u003cstrong\u003eEverybody is a little too much in earnest for the book to be amusing, and the humorous effects of every-day existence are too wholly lost sight of.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Belt, Harriett Pennawell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46395943518358,"sku":"Q2263","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/haec_city-48.jpg?v=1779750789"},{"product_id":"geognosy-or-the-facts-and-principles-of-geology-against-theories","title":"Geognosy or the Facts and Principles of Geology Against Theories.","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrown blind embossed cloth 12mo, 193pp. Very Good- with rubbing to extremities, boards exposed at tips with shallow loss to spine ends, lower rear joint starting, scuff to rear board. Handsome embossed geometric design and gilt spine titles. A cascade of grievances held by an eminently irritated David N. Lord, who refuses to understand why geologists claim things about the earth that are inconsistent with a literal interpretation of Genesis. The book is formatted with a section of questions at the end of each chapter; it's unclear who they're for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\"David Lord (1792-1880) was a graduate of Yale University and a New York businessman. He and his older brother, Eleazar, were prominent conservative Christians during the nineteenth century. David edited the Theological and Literary Journal from 1848 to 1861, in which he frequently attacked geology and evolutionary biology. Geognosy focuses on the \"false theories of geologists\" and posits that \"The whole Bible, as a revelation, thus stands or falls with the first chapter of Genesis.\" Lord repeatedly affirms his belief in a literal six-day creation which he believed happened \"but six thousand years\" ago. In his view, any theory that contradicts this interpretation of scripture is false. He believes that the geological strata were \"derived from the interior of the earth\" and deposited between creation and the flood, as well as after the flood. Lord downplays the impact of the flood on the geological strata, although his brother, Eleazar, believed that the fossil-bearing strata had their origin in the deluge. The Lord brothers were among only a few creationist writers of the late nineteenth century who insisted on a six-thousand-year-old earth.” Hayward, \u003ci\u003eThe Creation\/Evolution Controversy: An Annotated Bibliography \u003c\/i\u003e(1998).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lord, David N.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46395943583894,"sku":"Q2322","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/haec_city-54_91daa2fc-0832-4d95-8efe-c10d4838ab7e.jpg?v=1779750624"},{"product_id":"radiant-suns-a-sequel-to-sun-moon-and-stars","title":"Radiant Suns. A Sequel to 'Sun, Moon and Stars'","description":"\u003cp\u003eNavy cloth 12mo, 328pp. Color frontis and 15 plates; lacking a portrait of Isaac Newton, but retaining 4 great color illustrations and, among other charming views, a photo of a young woman at Lick Observatory (144). In handsome pictorial cloth binding, slightly shaken, else \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eVery Good with light rubbing to extremities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA work on astronomy by children's writer, Agnes Giberne, described in \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English\u003c\/i\u003e: \"This long-lived English writer of dismal evangelical tales for children also produced some immensely readable and highly regarded beginners' guides to scientific subjects such as astronomy and geology” (p.271).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Giberne, Agnes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46395943616662,"sku":"Q2324","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/haec_city-41_a4d9429b-2d17-4005-b512-c9110e52455d.jpg?v=1779808669"},{"product_id":"evenings-among-the-stars","title":"Evenings Among the Stars","description":"\u003cp\u003eCloth backed marbled boards, 16mo, 90pp. Heavy rubbing exposing corners and joints, tidemark and discoloration throughout text, occasional marking. 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Penciling to verso, including clarification of the patient's name, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\"Lillian Friesel,\" rather than \"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eLillie Anfesel.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn uncommon vaccination certificate that used the term \"perfect vaccination\" to indicate the cowpox vaccination \"took\" successfully, based on the physiological response of the patient. By 1892, the idea that \"perfect vaccination\" actually meant lifelong protection was already being challenged, as laid out in \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eCrookshank's 1889 \u003cem\u003eHistory and Pathology of Vaccination\u003c\/em\u003e. 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