Mohnton, Pa. Cumru Township High School, 1907. 9 x 11 cm. card enclosing 2 leaves printed with invitation to commencement and list of 10 graduating students. Front is embossed with a gilt and color floral illustration; tied with yellow and black ribbon. The commencement was at the Mohnton Auditorium, in... More
Philadelphia: Antrim Lyceum, 1926. 1 ticket (56 x 99 mm.) for admission to any of five productions on dated in Oct. and Nov. and Jan., Feb., and March. The dates indicate that these were in 1926 and 1927. The Antrim Lyceum Bureau was located at 1001 Chestnut St., Philadelphia under... More
New York: Marion Press, 1900. Hardcover. 94 p.: tables; 18 cm. Light blue cloth with dark blue stamped cover title: The Packer Collegiate Institute 1899-1900. Some pages are unopened. The Packer Collegiate Institute is a college preparatory school founded in 1845 as the Brooklyn Female Academy. It has always been... More
New York: Bahamas Scholarship Fund, 1966. Paperback. [44] p.: illustrations; 27 cm. Stapled; cover illustration. The Bahamas Scholarship Fund was incorporated in New York in 1963 to provide scholarships to students from the Bahamas to study in the United States. The first recipient was Edwood L. Donaldson, who was attending... More
Drexel Hill, Pa. School of the Holy Child Jesus, 1940. Paperback. [100] p.: illustrations; 26 cm. Stapled wrappers with brown embossed emblem of the School of the Holy Child Jesus, Drexel, on the front wrapper. The school was established by the Sisters of the Holy Child in 1865 in Sharon... More
Beaver, Pa. Beaver College, 1900. 1 sheet 24 x 16 cm. Illustration of a log cabin, signed E. Bott. Although the centennial referred to in the title is that of the founding of Beaver County in 1800, the emphasis on Military Day was on Beaver County's role in the American... More
Cambridge, Mass. 1933. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 247, [2] p.; 24 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and front cover emblem. No dust jacket. Top page edges gilt. Harvard College is part of Harvard University. This attractive volume contains obituaries of those members of the Harvard class of 1923 who... More
Göttingen: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 1987. Paperback. 87 p.: illustrations; 20 cm. Paperback with white cover printed in black; illustrated front cover. The exhibition appeared in Göttingen, Bonn, and Hannover in 1987 and 1988. The Göttinger Sieben, or Göttingen Seven, were professors from Göttingen who in 1837 protested the alternation of the..... More
Harrisburg, Pa. B. Singerly, Staatsdrucker, 1869. Hardcover. lxii, [2], 280, 104 p.: tables; 25 cm. Dark brown cloth with black spine title: German School Report 1869. Boards have blind-stamped center emblem of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and decorative border. Remains of inscription on front free endpaper indicate the book was... More
Elizabethtown, PA: Elizabethtown College, 1955. [8] p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Commemorates the launching of a new fundraising program for the college, to fund the construction of a women's dorm and new phys ed building, enlargement of the science building, and remodeling of the gym to create an auditorium and chapel... More
Elizabethtown, PA: Elizabethtown College, 1922. Paperback. 141, [1] p.: illustrations, music; 28 cm. Brown wrapper with yapp edges and gilt cover title. Elizabethtown College was founded in 1899 by members of the Church of the Brethren. In 1921, the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction accredited the college, which allowed to... More
Hatboro, Pa. Hatboro High School, 1933. Paperback. 2 leaves; 14 cm. White card covers tied with a dark blue leather strip. Front cover embossed with leaf and vine decoration; printed in black "Hatboro High School" and a calendar for June 1933 with the 22nd, the date of graduation, printed in... More
Lubbock, Texas: Texas Technological College, 1928. Hardcover. 267, [1] p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Black cloth with gilt embossed spine title and gilt, red, and white embossed armorial cover illustration. Decorated endpapers. Texas Technological College opened in 1925; it is now called Texas Tech University. In addition to the usual college... More
Philadelphia: Central High School, 1906. Hardcover. 1 bound volume containing the monthly publication The Mirror for the school year 1905-1906 of Central High School, Philadelphia, Pa. 26, 26, 30, 30, 26, 30, 30, 30, 26, 30 p., 8 leaves of illustrations: in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Red cloth; marbled fixed endpapers... More
Philadelphia: Central High School, 1908. Hardcover. 1 bound volume containing the monthly publication The Mirror for the school year 1907-1908 of Central High School, Philadelphia, Pa. 32, 34, 36, 42, 40, 40, 40, 38, 36, 70 p., frontispiece and 8 leaves of illustration: many full-page and in-text illustrations; 25 cm... More
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 1932. Bacon, Edmund N. Hardcover. 528, [2] p.: illustrations (including red-and-black woodcuts); 31 cm. Brown cloth with black spine title; orange and brown pastedown on front cover. Brown endpapers. Printed in red and black throughout. William T. Thompson editor-in-chief; Robert E. Stevens business manager; Edmund N.... More
S.l. s.n., 2018. Paperback. 240 p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Arranged alphabetically, with both original yearbook photo and a current photo of many, along with contact information as of 1968 and life history up to 2018. Also contains: In memoriam List -- Memorials and Remembrances -- College... More
Malden, Mass. Perry Pictures Co., 1950. Group of Perry Pictures materials consisting of: 4 sepia photographs (13 x 9.5 cm.) produced by the Taber Prang Art Co., Springfield, Mass., 2 captioned "Cupid Awake" and 2 captioned "Cupid Asleep," one of which is stamped on the back "Compliments of the Perry... More
Philadelphia: Board of Public Education Committee on Boys' High Schools, 1906. Paperback. [4] p.; 18 cm. Folded paper printed in brown. "Ninth Annual Series" -- at head of front cover. Program for the 1906-1907 season consisting of five lectures given in the auditorium of the Northeast Manual Training High School... More
Carlisle, Pa. School Publishing Co., 1911. Paperback. [8] p.: printed forms; 13 cm. Stapled grey card covers with portrait of George Washington on the front cover. Cover title. Copyright by William Albright. Back cover contains parts of the new school code of Pennsylvania approved in 1911. Filled in for the... More
Harrisburg: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1872. Hardcover. lxxi,[1], 372 p.: tables; 25 cm. Black pebble-grain cloth with gilt-stamped spine title "Penn'a. School Report 1872." Blind-stamped emblem of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania on both boards, which have triple blind-ruled borders. Former owner's name written on both fixed endpapers: "Levi Smoyer," 1873... More
Berlin: Weidmannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1941. Paperback. 79, [1] p., 4 large folded tables to be kept inside back wrapper: tables; 20 cm. Brown wrappers with black cover title. Four-digit number written in black at top edge of front wrapper. Circular stamp of Hochschule für Lehrerbildung, Bayreuth, on blank p. [6]; each... More
Toronto: Students' Administrative Council, 1936. Hardcover. 199, [1] p., folded map of Toronto attached to back fixed endpaper: portrait of President H.J. Cody, 2-page map of the University of Toronto campus, illustrations in ads; 13 cm. Dark green faux-leather cloth over light card cover. The folded map is Lloyd's Map... More
Cambridge, Mass. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1924. Hardcover. 525, [3] p.: 1 leaf of engraved portrait of William Emerson, 5 leaves of heavier stock with color illustrations precede sections, many black-and-white photographs; 28 cm. Suede binding with black-stamped spine title and front cover illustration. Grey endpapers with "Ex Libris" printed... More
Cambridge, Mass. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1925. Hardcover. 520 p.: 1 leaf of engraved portrait of Allan Winter Rowe, 3 leaves of color illustrations of the campus reproduced from the original water colors by Nelson C. Chase with captioned tissue guards, many black-and-white photographs; 28 cm. Full leather binding with... More