![THANKSGIVING] [MASSACHUSETTS] Lancaster House - Invitation; THANKSGIVING BALL](/pictures/thumb/1271.jpg?v=1605295084)
Lancaster, MA: 1850. 16 x 10 cm. Thanksgiving Ball invitation: Sir, - Your company, with Ladies, is respectfully solicited at the LANCASTER HOUSE, On Thursday evening, November 28th, at seven o'clock. 22 names listed as Committee of Arrangements, 2 Floor Managers, and Music by Crossman's Band - Four pieces. Built..... More
![TRADE CATALOG] [CANDY] Masterbuilt Candy Boxes; Catalog Number 13. F. J. Schleicher Paper Box Co](/pictures/thumb/2104.jpg?v=1583271963)
St. Louis, MO: F. J. Schleicher Paper Box Co. Staplebound. 12 pages. No date, circa late 1920's. Profusely illustrated candy box trade catalog. Two page spread of color illustrations. Frank J. Schleicher (1859-1951) established his Paper Box Company in 1904. Prices in pencil, marked throughout. Cover colored and embossed. More
![MENU] Terrace Luncheon Kiddies' Menu; Souvenir Menu for Good Little Boys and Girls. H C. Capwell Co](/pictures/thumb/2368.jpg?v=1606402693)
Oakland, CA: H.C. Capwell Co., c. 1930. Cards. Color illustrated folding cardstock featuring a children's menu, paper dolls, and store highlights. Covers toned, interior clean. More
![PROGRAM] [MENU] Program of the Seventy-Three Club Banquet; In Honor of Mrs. Franklin Delano...](/pictures/thumb/2198.jpg?v=1595962142)
Washington DC: 1936. Staplebound. Unpaginated (8 pages). 23 x 16 cm. A charming Program celebrating Eleanor Roosevelt by the Seventy Three Club on March 25, 1936 at the Mayflower Hotel; the wives of the members of the Seventy-third Congress. The 73rd Congress (1933-1935) passed an extraordinary burst of legislation to..... More
![POLITICS] [PROHIBITION] [CALIFORNIA] Frederick Head Nominee for Congress 5th District; Make Me...](/pictures/thumb/2082.jpg?v=1581356885)
Original Wraps. One page folded pamphlet. 15 x 8 cm. Head, who ran for Congress in 1914 & 1916 on the Prohibition Party ticket, unfortunately did so in the heart of the wine district. Head always ended his stump speeches with "Remember the Kiddies". Frederick Head received less than 6%..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 184 pages. 26 x 20 cm. Signed by the author - "To Mother" on the half title page. Although George and Martha Washington never lived in the White House, they did start the tradition of choosing porcelain to be used on..... More
![HISTORIC FOODWAYS] Hog & Hominy; Soul Food From Africa to America. Frederic Douglass Opie](/pictures/thumb/2200.jpg?v=1591994714)
New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. Hardcover. 238 pages. 23.5 x 16. Beginning with the Atlantic slave trade and concluding with the Black Power movement of the 1960's and 1970's, Frederick Douglass Opie composes a global history of African American foodways and the concept of soul itself, revealing soul food..... More
![CHOCOLATE] [VERMONT] [ADVERTISING] Demand Dartmouth Chocolates; "Like Them? Sure You Will -...](/pictures/thumb/1655.jpg?v=1554922129)
White River Junction, VT: c. 1920's. 46 x 16 inches. This colorful and animated canvas emulates the dreamlike quality of Maxfield Parrish. The sleepy town of White River Junction became a railroad boon town with the help of the transportation revolution that brought the junction of rail lines at the..... More