Holyoke, Mass. White & Wyckoff Manufacturing Co. 1915. [12] leaves: illustrations; 16 x 8.2 cm. Attached to cardboard backing showing all 12 months of the year and a hook to hang from. Each leaf contains an illustration in the upper half with a caption about Autocrat Linen Writing Paper and... More
Philadelphia: Williams, Brown & Earle, 1938. 7.5 x 14.5 cm. metal desk calendar with individual leaves for Dec. 1938-Dec. 1939 printed in red and brown. Dec. 1938 has an illustration of a stagecoach and horses in a winter scene. The others each have the main month in the center with... More
Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University, 1963. 1 sheet 23 x 15 cm. The program consisted of the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Karel Husa, performing Debussy's Prelude: L'Après-midi d'un Faune; Glazunov's Violin Concerto in A Minor with Sheldon Kurland on violin; J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto no. 2, featuring Adolf Scherbaum on... More
![5 letters, 1873-1879, to William Ward (1837-1895) [Philadelphia and Chester County Railroad]](/pictures/thumb/004852.JPG?v=1472082389)
1873. 5 handwritten letters to William Ward, 1873-1879, regarding the Philadelphia and Chester County Railroad, which existed from 1872 to 1885; it was succeeded by the Philadelphia Midland Railroad. William Ward was one of the organizers of the Philadelphia and Chester County Railroad and in 1874 was the president and... More
Netherlands: 1701. Paperback. Title page continued: "Nevens eenige overwegingen op de Memorie van den Coning van Vrankryk aan haar Hoog Mog:, en over het belang van verscheide Vorsten en Staaten van het Christenryk in de tegenwoordige gestaltenis van zaaken. ... Uit het Engels overgezet. Volgens de Copy gedrukt tot London."... More
Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley, printers, 1857. Pamphlet. 15, [1] p.; 24 cm. Off-white paper covers; front cover printed in black within decorative border; back cover blank. The Academy of Music, officially named the American Academy of Music, was incorporated by the Pennsylvania legislature in 1852 and built in 1855-57 on... More
Philadelphia: Maas & Vogdes, printers, 1862. Pamphlet. 16 p.; 24 cm. Yellow paper covers; front cover printed in black within decorative border; back cover blank. The Academy of Music, officially named the American Academy of Music, was incorporated by the Pennsylvania legislature in 1852 and built in 1855-57 on Locust... More
Philadelphia, Pa. J.W. Scott, 1808. Paperback. Title page continued: "With Observations on the cording it, its qualities, and the grievances we lie under by not having sufficient room to cord it in a reasonable time after it has come to market, where more landings may be made, or the present... More
Philadelphia: Joseph Park, 1931. 1 sheet 20 x 16 cm. Printed in green and silver on beige stock, folded once vertically in the center. This event was described as the "premier appearance at a Philadelphia fraternity dance" of Cab Calloway and his Cotton Club Orchestra. A very scarce Cab Calloway... More
![Advertising for N. Snellenburg & Co. [boards from Illustrated Sketches and Stories for Young America]](/pictures/thumb/005524.JPG?v=1496537533)
Philadelphia: N. Snellenburg & Co. 1891. Illustrated Sketches and Stories for Young America by George M. Vickers was issued by the Philadelphia department store Snellenburg & Co. in 1891 as an advetisement for the store. These pictorial boards (27 cm. high), long-since removed from the book, have the title of... More
![[Advertising Notebook -- John A. Johnson, real estate and general insurance, Norristown, Pa.]](/pictures/thumb/005491.JPG?v=1495224561)
Detroit: Standard Accident Insurance Co. 1910. Hardcover. [60] pages of rules paper; 11 cm. Flexible green cloth with logo for the Standard Accident Insurance Co. in black on the front. Information about that insurance company on paper lining front and back cover. Inside the front cover is a space left... More
Ville Franche: Paulus Pinceau, 1702. Paperback. 31, [1] p.; 19 cm. Signatures: A-D4 (4to). Plain wrappers (not original). Woodcut title vignette of three heads with wings (printer's device?) and initial letter. "11" in ink in upper right-hand corner of title page. Knuttel, 14824. A very scarce pamphlet relating to the... More
New York: American Bon Marché, 1898. 1 trade card 11.5 x 15 cm. Chromolithographed illustration on one side of flowers in a glass bowl, within a frame. The other side has an advertisement for a sale on "Holiday Goods" at the American Bon Marché, 50 & 52 W. 23rd St... More
Dayton, O. American Mechanical Toy Co. 1913. Paperback. 80 p.: illustrations; 17 x 26 cm. Green wrapper printed in red, black, and orange with front wrapper illustration of a man and a boy building an inclined chain railway. Catalog with drawings of parts and tools that could be purchased separately... More
![Anna Pavlova and her Ballet Russe [Academy of Music program 1920]](/pictures/thumb/003475.JPG?v=1472082292)
Philadelphia: Academy of Music, 1920. 16 p.: illustrated advertisements; 26 cm. Light pink wrappers. This is the program for a performance of "Anna Pavlowa the Incomparable and her Ballet Russe." Under the direction of Fortune Gall, they performed Egyptian Ballet (Verdi and Luigini); Amarilla (Glazounow and Drigo); and seven Divertissements... More
![Anna Pavlova [Academy of Music program 1924]](/pictures/thumb/003476.JPG?v=1472082292)
Philadelphia: Academy of Music, 1924. 16 p.: illustrated advertisements; 26 cm. Grey wrappers printed in dark green. This is the program for the Nov. 19, 1924, performance of "Anna Pavlowa" with Laurent Novikoff, Alexandre Volinine, Hilda Butsova, and others. They performed Don Quixote (Novikoff/Minkus), with Pavlova dancing Kitry and Dulcinea... 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
Leeuwarden, Netherlands: Karst Tjallings, 1702. Paperback. 7, [1] p.: 19 cm. Signatures: A4 (4to). Woodcut title vignette. Not in Knuttell or Worldcat. A response to "Aanmerkingen op de Memorie van den Fransche Resident Barre, Aan de . . . Staaten Generaal . . . den 31. Maart 1702" (Gravenhage: Meyndert... More
![Appointments [appointment book]](/pictures/thumb/005490.JPG?v=1495224561)
Norristown, Pa. J.H. Shuler & Son, Jewelers & Silversmiths, 1925. Hardcover. [84] p.; 77 mm. Dark green faux-leather over card; embossed "Appointments" over a gilt background on front cover, with gilt-stamped business name below. Calendar for 1926 on front fixed endpaper and calendar for 1927 on back fixed endpaper. Most... More
![Army War Show at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, June 1942, to support Army Emergency Relief [Flyer]](/pictures/thumb/002304.jpg?v=1472082234)
Philadelphia: Army Emergency Relief, 1942. 1 sheet: 23 x 15 cm. Printed on both sides in red, blue, and black. Flyer for the advance sale of souvenir tickets to the Army War Show held at Franklin Field, in Philadelphia, June 20, 22-27, 1942. The show benefited Army Emergency Relief, which... More
![Artists and Models: Paris Edition [Chestnut St. Opera House playbill 1926 -- Sid Silvers' Broadway debut]](/pictures/thumb/003464.JPG?v=1472082292)
Philadelphia: Chestnut St. Opera House, 1926. 1 sheet (20 x 16 cm.) printed in two columns, on both sides. Skits and sketches by Harold Atteridge; lyrics by Clifford Grey; music by Alfred Goodman, J. Fred Cootes, and Mourie Rubens; art direction by Watson Barratt; staged and produced by J.J. Shubert... More
New York: Frank V. Strauss & Co. 1909. Paperback. [24] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Stapled with chromolithographed front cover. The program for the week beginning Monday, Sept. 13, 1909. "The Man From Home" by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson was the play for which American actor William Hodge (1874-1932)... More
![Autograph Book "Presented To Miss Ella J. Hartman, As a Christmas Present By Miss Ella J. Diefenderfer" [Catasauqua, Allentown, and Fullerton, Pa.]](/pictures/thumb/005174.JPG?v=1482522299)
1889. Hardcover. [92] p.; 11 x 18 cm. Red velvet over boards with "Album" in metal on front board. One illustration of a girl looking at an autograph book, printed in gilt and sepia, titled "Autographs." Several embossed chromolithographed floral decorations are between the pages. On the first page the... More
![Avacado Lodge, Sea Girt, N.J. [Avacado Lodge calling cards?]](/pictures/thumb/003214.JPG?v=1472082279)
Philadelphia: John Wanamaker, 1920. 2 cards, 10 x 6.5 cm. Two different designs. "John Wanamaker, Philada." embossed in small letters along lower edge. Avocado Lodge was a summer house built in Sea Girt, N.J., by Philadelphia Quaker Elliston P. Morris. After his death in 1914, his daughter Elizabeth Canby Morris... More
London, Eng. Edward Stanford, 1900. The Edinburgh Geographical Institute; Copyright John Bartholomew & Co. 1 sheet 53 x 76 cm. Color map, dissected and mounted on linen. Light blue paper attached to front and back, when folded, printed in black. Cover title: Bartholomew's Road Map of England and Wales. Small... More