![Item #3517 [TEXTILES] PATONS SCOTCH FINGERING OR BEEHIVE SCOTCH FINGERING. Patons, Baldwins Ltd](/pictures/thumb/3517.jpg?v=1678823895)
Alloa, Scotland & Halifax, England: Patons & Baldwins Ltd., 1936-1937. Stiff boards. 12 panels. 24 x 15.5 closed. "P & B" Brand Knitting Wools was a leading British manufacturer of knitting yarn, established from two separate companies - J & J Baldwin and Partners (1770) & John Paton Son and..... More
![Item #3488 [FARMING] Lycons; The Farmer's Friend](/pictures/thumb/3488.jpg?v=1678135087)
New York, NY: B.T. Babbit, Inc., 1940. Staplebound wraps. 48 pages. 8 x 5 in. Advertising handbook for Lycons concentrated lye. History of product, sanitation, and uses. Disease fighting agent. Cleans, disinfects, and destroys odors. Closed tear to spine. Covers rubbed. More
![Item #3487 [MENU] Vintage Holland-America Line S.S. "Maasdam"](/pictures/thumb/3487.jpg?v=1678135085)
1958. Wraps. 10 x 7 in. Vintage dinner menu. West Indies Cruise. Holland America Line is a cruise line based in Seattle. It has been owned by Carnival Corporation & plc since 1989. From 1873 to 1989, it was a Dutch shipping line, a passenger line, a cargo line and..... More
![Item #3486 [MENU] The Cavalier; Pocahontas Dining Room](/pictures/thumb/3486.jpg?v=1678135083)
Virginia Beach, Virginia: The Cavalier, 1936. Wraps. 10 x 7 in. Breakfast menu. For over 80 years, The Cavalier has been the hotel that made Virginia Beach famous. Founded in 1927, the hotel has attracted a wide range of guests and celebrities, including; Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and five other..... More
![Item #3485 [MENU] The Georgian Room](/pictures/thumb/3485.jpg?v=1678135080)
Detroit, Michigan: The J. L. Hudson Company, 1928. Wraps. 11 x 7 in. Two Menus:The J. L. Hudson Company was a retail department store chain based in Detroit, Michigan. Hudson's flagship store was the tallest department store in the world as of 1961, and, at one time, claimed to be..... More
![Item #3484 [MENU] Cunard Line; R.M.S. Franconia](/pictures/thumb/3484.jpg?v=1678135078)
1931. Wraps. 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. Two Vintage Luncheon Menu. The R.M.S. Franconia was an ocean liner operated by the Cunard Line from 1922 to 1956. She was second of three liners named Franconia which served the Cunard Line, the others being RMS Franconia built in 1910 and..... More
![Item #3449 [GERMAN COOKBOOK] [MANUSCRIPT] Illustrirtes Kock-Notis-Buch for gute Hausfrauen](/pictures/thumb/3449.jpg?v=1674570792)
Leipzig: J.G. Bach, 1887-1930. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 18.5 x 13.5 cm.Translation: Illustrated Cooking Notebook for Good Housewives. Illustrated notebook filled with handwritten recipes - two separate hands. Dates indicate this was used between the years 1887 to 1930. Four separate handwritten recipes laid in along with a hand written letter in..... More
Chicago: The Beef Industry Council, 1984. Paperback. 47 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm. Signed on front free end paper by James Beard. Color illustrated with photos, reflections on times spent with James & recipes by Julia Child, MFK Fisher, Jeremiah Tower, Marion Cunningham, Seppi Renggli, Jackie Mallorca, Marcella Hazan, James..... More
![Item #3436 [TRADE CATALOG] The Aladdin Oven Trade Catalog. PAXTON HARDWARE MFG](/pictures/thumb/3436.jpg?v=1674570182)
Paxton, Ill: N. E. Stevens & Sons, PR. C. 1900. Staplebound wraps. 20 pages. 9 X 16 cm. Invented by Edward Atkinson in the late 1800's, this slow cooking apparatus used a kerosene lamp as fuel. Atkinson felt the amount of coal and wood used as a power source was..... More
![Item #3424 [COOKERY-MANUSCRIPT] ALICE WILLIAMS COOK BOOK; "Gilt Edge" loose leaf price book N.Y.,...](/pictures/thumb/3424.jpg?v=1674524204)
c. 1920's. Spiral_bound. Unpaginated. 19 .5 x 14 cm. Unique handmade cook book fashioned from a lined, tabbed, loose leaf binder, covered with heavy waxed wallpaper or waxed cloth. Alice has both typed the various recipes along with her hand written recipes. It appears Alice may have gone back and..... More
![Item #3419 [PHOTOGRAPHY] [VASSAR COLLEGE] [AMERICAN WEST] 1919 - 1922. Ruth Goodkind Calvin](/pictures/thumb/3419.jpg?v=1672789203)
Hardcover. Oblong format. 20.5 x 30 cm. With over 500 images, this album grants the viewer an inside look into a privileged, white, American woman's world during the heady days of the early 1920's. Ruth Calvin Goodkind (1903-1958) lived outside of Chicago with her brother and her parents (her father..... More
![Item #3277 [AUTOGRAPH] The Clipped Autograph of Ida Lewis, Dated Feb 12th 1881. Ida Lewis](/pictures/thumb/3277.jpg?v=1670105696)
Newport, RI: 1881. First Edition. Loose_leaf. An autograph of Idawalley Zorada Lewis (1842-1911), bearing the date Feb 12, 1881. Ida Lewis, an American heroine, born in Newport, RI, took over the duties of keeper of the Lime Rock Lighthouse in Newport Harbor, from her father after he suffered a major..... More