Ephemera & Advertising

Child's multicolor notebook with WWI-era jottings

[manuscript notebook]

William Hermes' United States Systematic Drawing Schools, no. 195

[drawing books] Hermes, Wilhelm.

Methods of Business of the Largest Establishment in the World for the Manufacture and Sale of Men's Wear

John Wanamaker

Manual of the Fisk Teachers' Agencies 1896 [with] teacher registration form

(Everett Fisk)

How to Live Long in Good Health: Jones, The Health Lecturer, Demonstrator and Teacher (cover)

[exercise & health] Jones

How to Get Well

Murray, W. John

Wealth in Mice: An appeal for a more extensive propagation of white mice

(vaccines, medical supply)

Cours de mise-en-carte: A portfolio of student work in producing "point paper" drafts for weaving, 1949-1951.

[textiles, mise en carte]

John Grubb’s “Arithmetic in Whole Numbers,” 1811 ciphering book 
with a section for “Ale and Beer Measure;” exercises for calculations related to cloth, land, time, wives (or their dowries), &c.

[student work, manuscripts]

1899 Seat Work notebook with drawing, writing, spelling and math

[student work, notebook, manuscript]

1880 Letter from a middle-aged woman to her friend about her widower boy-toy & bachelor crush

[correspondence]

Flowers (manuscript essay in Class of 1883 prize ribbon binding)

[student work, manuscript]

1860 failed Virginia poet's manuscript compiled before joining the Confederate Army

[manuscript] Evans, Daniel J.

The Phrenological character of Mrs. Emery, “Temperament chiefly nervous” written Nov 8, 1864 (manuscript)

Perry, D. [phrenology charts]

Manuscript thesaurus/poet’s reference turned scrapbook of selected works, &c, by Mary Isabella Purington Cummings

[women poets, scrapbooks]

First Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Industrial School for Girls at Lancaster

[delinquent girls, education]

A Sermon Preached Before the Fatherless and Widows' Society, in the Central Church, on Sunday Evening, October 28, 1849

Gannett, Ezra S.

Anonymous letter to a dying man's "tormentor" wife: "Are you not afraid that people will brand you as his murderess"

[women, threats]

The Numeration Table [manuscript mathematics ciphering book]

[Philadelphia printing, ephemera]

The Delinquent Girl and Woman: Proceedings of a Conference of the National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor; February 3, 1919. (Prison Leaflets 48)

[prison reform]

Circulars issued for the Northwestern Mutual Endowment Society for Unmarried Persons, Organized Dec. 21, 1884 (6 items)

[ephemera, insurance, fraud]

Maxwell’s Plisse Shadings - Parisian and Krinkle Plisse, For the Interior Harmonious

[sample books] S. A. Maxwell & Co.

7 ca. 1930s sample books for specialty papers by Hughes & Hoffman

[sample books] Hughes & Hoffman

Phrenological Developments of James McKendrick, Esq. of Galt (manuscript)

Hagarty, Prof. A[lfred]

A Phrenological Chart of the Character and Talents of Miss Mary E. Shaw

D. H. Campbell [manuscript phrenology chart]

Synopsis of Phrenology; and the Phrenological Developments, Together with the Character and Talents of [Joseph Shore] as Given by [L.N. Fowler and W. R. Strachan] with References

Fowler, O. S. and L. N.; W. R. Strachan

Collection of late-19c manuscript copies of home health remedies ALS to a woman from her sister suggesting treatments for asthma and dropsy copied (without attribution) from popular medicine handbooks

[quackery, patent medicine, home remedies]

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

[alcoholism, family dynamics]