1976. A nice little archive featuring: Double-sided flyer requesting like minded ladies to "Help Your Sisters..." & to "Fight 'Sweep' Arrests." The Law, "Loitering for the purpose of engaging in prostitution" was enacted on June 10, 1976, making it possible for police to arrest prostitutes without any evidence of solicitation. Enacted..... More

1915-1917. Hardcover. 152 pages [65 utilized], 33 x 20 cm. Handwritten in pencil on lined paper. Daily menus for what was most likely a Hotel dining room. Elaborate dishes, involving at least six courses, dated, specifying lunch or dinner, and times for service. Dating from April 1916 to November 1916..... More

Self-published, 1989. Spiral bound. 99 pages. 28 x 22.5 cm. Early self-published printing. "Many of slave women's various roles and contributions to plantation life have been swept under the rug of history... Denied the opportunity to read or write, slave women quilted their diaries, creating permanent but unwritten records of..... More

Boston: Haynes, Tilly (Proprietor), 1892. Loose_leaf. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. Two folding menus - featuring illustrations of Boston Harbor and the architectural rendering of the hotel. Interior of the menus promote the "OBJECTS OF INTEREST IN AND ABOUT BOSTON" - Public Buildings, Theatres, Statues, Clubs - Libraries - Museums -..... More

Lagos, Nigeria: c. 1979. Loose_leaf. Three Folded paper programs. 19 x 10.5 cm. folded. Weekly Programme of Events featuring Disco with Femi Oni, Lectures, Aigbe Lebarty and the Sex Bombers performing high-energy disco funk, Blues Night with Segun Bucknor - Nigerian musician and journalist, with club poetry reading, free palm..... More

Boston: The Veterans of Foreign Wars, 1939. Cards. 23 x 15.5 cm. Folding cream card menu featuring photo illustrations of Eugene I. Van Antwerp (Commander-in-Chief) and Anna Mae Lockner (National Auxiliary President). Cover: Reception and Banquet Tendered by the 1939 National Encampment Corp. - HOTEL SOMERSET, Boston, Mass. Wednesday Evening..... More

Paris: 1925. Wraps. 83 pages. 20 x 14.5 cm. Second book in a series published by the great wine house of Nicolas. This edition explores the Bordeaux region - illustrated in color throughout by Pierre Lissac. Color illustrated fold-out map of region and a large folding chart of quantities produced..... More

New Kensington, Pennsylvania: The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company, 1929. Wraps. 48 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Advertising booklet features care tips for the “Wear-Ever” branded aluminum cookware, as well as recipes using the same. Concept based on the pitch of a new cooking method designed to eliminate flavor loss while..... More

Chicago: Rex Bromide Co., c. 1910. Staplebound. 63 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Featuring handy home goods to solve the everyday problems of the homemaker - this catalogue includes hundreds of gadgets. Each page includes 2-3 small write ups for each item, and all items are shown with a detailed..... More

Evansville, Indiana: Servel, Inc., 1942. Staplebound. 47 pages. The Servel Company (formerly Servel-Electrolux) was an American producers of heating and cooling appliances founded in 1922 by Colonel William McCurdy. This recipe book includes various dishes made possible by electric cooling and advertises for Servel’s Electrolux home refrigerator. Black and white..... More

Philadelphia: The Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of PA. 1902. Fourth Edition. Staplebound. 96 pages. 16 x 11.5 cm. Helen Louise Johnson authored a number of targeted cookbooks for various cookware and food production companies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including this volume for the Enterprise Manufacturing Company in..... More

Port Sunlight, U.K. Lever Brothers Ltd., c. 1900. Neilson, Harry B. Staplebound. Unpaginated. [8 pp.] 12 x 9 cm. Charming advertising pamphlet establishing a connection between big business and the homemaker's new purchasing power. The solid yellow bar of soap first introduced in 1884 was one of the first packaged..... More

New York: 1889. Cards. 4 Pages. 11.5 x 10 cm. Charming graduation dinner menu, held at the Brunswick Hotel, situated at the edge of Madison Square Park, featuring sophisticated cuisine along with Toasts. Names of toast masters printed along with two pages of signatures from attendees - of note: Benjamin..... More