1898 Cautiously romantic letter to an almost-sweetheart
[correspondence, A.L.S.]
Regular price $25.00
1850s earnest & orthographically dynamic letter from Ms. Sarah Riggle to Mollie
1865 Letter to Adolphus H. Smith about his stepmother's imminent death
1859 autograph letter from "D. D. Domer" at the Missionary Institute in Selinsgrove, PA
Regular price $35.00
1856 Autograph letter from a bored, celibate man teaching in Blair County, PA, who "might as well be living in a nunnery"
Regular price $60.00
I believe in the present the future will take care of itself (Autograph postcard, stamped)
[correspondence, postcard]
Freeze Fruits and Vegetables (Circular 317)
Pennsylvania State College [domestic science]
1912 Sunday School and Church Supplies: A Practical Guide for Up-to-Date Sunday School Workers... (trade catalogue)
[trade catalog, church and school supplies]
Abrasive Papers & Cloths for the Student and Home Craftsman
[ephemera, trade catalogs]
The Story of Oak Floors
[ephemera]
Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences: Laundering and Dry Cleaning
International Textbook Co.
Regular price $18.00
The National Stockman and Farmer, Vol. XVI, No. 38. Thursday, January 5, 1892. Whole No. 818.
[agriculture, periodicals]
The National Stockman and Farmer, Vol. XVI, No. 19. Thursday, August 25, 1892. Whole No. 799.
Handmade book of teacher Ruth Hoffman's sixth grade class reports on George Washington
[student work]
Advertising cloth measuring tape
[sewing & textiles, advertising, ephemera]
Regular price $16.00
Alfalfa (in Van Everen "Fitsanybook" Adjustable Book Cover)
Coburn, F. D.
Blair & Co.'s Travelers' Code, compiled from Lieber's Standard Telegraphic Code
Lieber, B. Franklin
How to Make Crepe Paper Flowers
[crafts, how-to]
Written Proofs to Dr. Miles' Medical Co.
[patent medicine, advertising, ephemera]
Regular price $20.00
Nationaline Planalog (Complete bathrooms for value conscious, modern buyers...)
[advertising, ephemera]
Regular price $38.00
Pruning to Keep Your Home More Attractive, Youthful, Salable
[landscaping, ephemera]
Regular price $14.00
The Wing Slip No. 13, Monday June 24, 1918. (Final issue, WWI AEF soldier newspaper)
[WWI, military, soldier newspapers]
Regular price $325.00
Special supplement for Shufu-no-tomo, March 1933 - Repairing clothing (with 100 secret recipes for cleaning stains!)
[sewing ephemera, Japanese publications]
Regular price $100.00
Explanation of Dreams (Dr. J.H. McLean, cover title: No. 2 Dreaming)
Dr. J.H. McLean
Archive of 18 manuscript weaving pattern drafts by a woman in Texas, ca. 1840-1860s
[manuscript, textiles, weaving]
A passionate friendship booklet of obscure and ominous circumstances. Chester County, Pennsylvania, ca. 1860.
[manuscript friendship booklet, sapphic love token]
Box of 51 nature specimen cards compiled by pharmacy student Howard C. Burns
[medicine, herbarium]
Twentieth-century Nottingham lace specimen book with samples extending into the 1960s
[fashion, textiles, sample book]
Regular price $875.00
San Diego Normal School student's binder of manuscript notes, construction examples & Milton Bradley samples, ca. 1913-1917 (incl. 1913 Kindergarten Supplies catalog)
Sloan, Gladys [teaching ephemera, sample books, Milton Bradley]
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]
"I'd give all my old boots to see you" (birch bark folk art rebus postcard)
[postcard, folk art]
Croquet: Its Principles and Rules
Rover, Prof. A.
Hood's Sarsaparilla Proverb Calendar 1900 Die Cut (with custom tailoring)
[die cuts]
The Ghosts of My Friends
Henland, Cecil [occult autograph album]
The Palmer Limbs 1870 order form ("No. 1 - Measures for a Leg...")
B. Frank Palmer [medical ephemera, surgery, prosthetics]
Quelques Accessoires Modernes de Ch. Rousseau et Cie. (1929 Catalog of shop fittings)
[trade catalogue]
Troncy Frères, Manufacture de Glaces, Verres et Cadres (1937 Catalogue of mirrors)