![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 about Our Thanksgiving Dinner; [MANUSCRIPT
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 about Pantomimes; Presented By The Brooklyn Heights Seminary Club
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 about Safe Washing; The New American Beauty Porcelain Washer
![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 about Frederick Head Nominee for Congress 5th District; [TEMPERANCE] [CALIFORNIA] Make Me The HEAD Of...
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 about Fare Wisely and Well; Economical and Appetizing Recipes
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 about The Kitchen and the Cotton Patch
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 about Demand Dartmouth Chocolates; "Like Them? Sure You Will - Everybody Does!
![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 chipped and toned. More about ALMANAC] [QUACKERY] Barker's Illustrated Almanac; Farmers Guide and Household Cook Book