c. 1920. 16 x 11 cm. Black and white photograph depicting, most likely, a college age co-educational student body. Drawing from the handwritten script on the verso of the photo, the students appear to live in the Brooklyn area. The class seems to have at least one white student and..... More

Chicago: Marsay School of Beauty Culture. A collection of material from Marsay School of Beauty Culture correspondence school, based in Chicago, exhibiting world class fictitious claims to provide a speedy path to profit and expertise as a Beauty Culturist. For only $20, and an additional $8.65, the school would furnish..... More

1954. Wraps. 18.5 x 14.5 cm. Folded card. Very good. Full menu with entertainment - "Songs by University Glee Club". Clean, crisp copy. More

Paris: Dreager Imp. c. 1930's. Cards. 18 x 14 cm. (open). Amusing illustrated blank menu distributed by the drug Mictasol, a treatment for gonorrhea. Light toning to paper. More

c. 1940. Loose_leaf. 17 x 10 cm. Whimsical handmade menu suggesting a recent viewing of the 1939 movie - The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The cover states: The Rubinstein Club Thank You for the Honor of Your Presence This Eve and Courteously Invite You to Attend their Concerts the Coming..... More

1905-1907. 3 German Association of Harvard University programs/menus. 1) 8 pages. 20 x 12.5 cm. Commersbuch des Deutschen Verein der Universität Harvard, May 1905. This appears to be a song book related to toasting and drinking. Sewn binding, closed tears to head and tail of spine. 2) 16 x 13..... More

London: Perry Davis & Son, c. 1890. Cards. 11.5 x 7.5 cm. British/European Branch trade card. Legend has it, Perry Davis concocted his "all vegetable" patent medicine in 1839 after becoming ill himself - a combination of mostly alcohol. Card lists agency addresses: General Agency: 74 High Street, Providence, Rhode..... More

Burlington, VT: Penick & Ford, Ltd., Inc., 1930's. Loose-leaf. 16 x 8 cm. Tri-fold color illustrated brochure. Colorful advertisement brochure for Vermont Maid Syrup, Cane/Maple Sugar. Recipes include: Maple Baked Custard, Sweet Potatoes and Apples, and Vermont Maid Caramels. Clean, crisp copy. More

Portland, ME: A.S. Hinds, c.1890's. Staplebound. 16 pages. (4 pp.) 14 x 9 cm. Hinds' Honey and Almond Cream was formulated in the late 1870's by Aurelius Stone Hinds in Portland Maine while working in a drugstore - it was a huge success and was bought out in 1907 by..... More

New York: American Thermos Bottle Co., 1920. Staplebound wraps. 8.5 x 6.5 in. 8 pages. Elegantly illustrated cover - color plate illustration. A sophisticated trade catalogue for the sporty. new well-heeled motorist. Illustrated throughout with prices and varying decorative finishes. Illustrations created by Marshall Field & Company. Pristine... More

c. 1957. Loose_leaf. 16 x 17 cm. (Opened) Folding illustrated beer glass accompanied by a list of the 101 best European Cyclists, listed by their last name and their team - including (1) Jesús Loroño and (2) Miguel Poblet. Damm beer is from a Spanish brewery located in Barcelona. Clean..... More

Paris: Bethune et Plon, 1844. Hardcover. 609 pages. 21 x 13.5 cm. Originally published -1843, in sixty parts, presented here complete. Subtitle translated: The classics of the table for the use of the practitioners and people of the world, with engraved portraits - De M. Le Prince De Talleyrand, Carle..... More

Washington DC: Kuwait-America Foundation, 2008. Sewn binding. 22 x 15.5 cm. Annual Gala Dinner held at the Residence of the Ambassador of the State of Kuwait in Washington DC. This particular Gala's focus was Stand for Africa - for Malaria No More. The honorary patrons were President George W. Bush..... More