![POSTCARD] Best Wishes for a happy Thanksgiving; Ripe fruits/as well as/leaves and/flowers be/your...](/pictures/thumb/1273.jpg?v=1550703897)
c. 1910. Cards. 13.5 x 9 cm. Festive color illustrated and embossed vintage postcard, Harvest theme with grapes and wheat. Postmarked Boston, MA, date obscured, one cent stamp. Ink Stamp: "A Remembrance, Sincerely yours, Harold D. Perry, 299 Washington St., Boston, Mass." More
![Our Thanksgiving Dinner; [MANUSCRIPT]. Helen Bigelow](/pictures/thumb/1266.jpg?v=1550704718)
c.1920's. Cardboard covers. 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Eight handmade pages narrating the process of making thanksgiving dinner: shopping, baking & cooking, guests arriving, saying grace, and the feast, all accompanied by pasted in illustrations. Cardboard covers with blue silk ribbon as an attachment. Handwritten in ink. More
Brooklyn: 1911. Sewn binding. Unpaginated (8 pages). Program for the Brooklyn Heights Seminary Club performed at The Brooklyn Academy of Music, April 28, 1911. Featured in the program are the daughters of the social elite including: Eunice Beecher (granddaughter of Henry Ward Beecher), and members of the Van Brunt, Cropsey..... More
Morton, Illinois: Getz Power Washer Co., c.1920. Paper. Color illustrated advertisement for washer/ringer. Before the enclosed electric washing machines, homemakers battled the dangerous washing tub/wringer device. This particular porcelain model claims to be "Silent as a kitten's purr" with "quick action...churning up millions of soap bubbles that are forced through..... More
![Frederick Head Nominee for Congress 5th District; [TEMPERANCE] [CALIFORNIA] Make Me The HEAD Of...](/pictures/thumb/143.jpg?v=1549926381)
Original Wraps. One page folded pamphlet. 15 x 8 cm. Head ran for Congress in 1914 & 1916 on the Prohibition Party ticket. Unfortunately for Head, his district encompassed the heart of the wine country. Head always ended his stump speeches with "Remember the Kiddies". Frederick Head received less than..... More
London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1951. Hardcover. Following the war years, rationing and downright shortages took it's toll on the British appetite. Heath states: "I hope, too, that these recipes will help once again to prove my often reiterated contention that, whatever the circumstances and however modest the ingredients..... More
Atlanta: Cullom & Ghertner, Co., 1948. Hardcover. 102 pages. 25.5 x 18.5 cm. Poems and recipes, some written in dialect. Author romanticized southern experience of African Americans. Illustrated throughout. More
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
![ALMANAC] [QUACKERY] Barker's Illustrated Almanac; Farmers Guide and Household Cook Book. Moore...](/pictures/thumb/2006.jpg?v=1568669108)
Philadelphia: The Barker, Moore & Mien Medicine Co., Inc., 1902. Staplebound. 32 pages. A collection of testimonials, illustrations, recipes, along with the 1902 Almanac. Barker's Nerve and Bone Liniment was established in 1859 to promote their patent medicine which was sold as a cure-all for both "Man & Beast". Heavily..... More