An attractively printed and apparently unrecorded publisher’s broadside advertising the “leading agricultural periodical in the United States.” This broadside promotes The Cultivator & Country Gentleman for 1883 as “the leading agricultural newspaper of the United States” for those interested in “FARM CROPS AND PROCESSES, HORTICULTURE AND FRUIT GROWING, LIVESTOCK AND.....
A most interesting broadside advertising the sale at auction of goods unsold at one of Philadelphia’s sanitary fairs, listing a wide variety of items, including a smattering of interesting Civil War-related objects. Among the 260 items listed here (located either on the store’s second or third floor) are sewing machines.....
An early, important and very rare depiction of the Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Roughly equidistant from Cape Town and Durban, Port Elizabeth was founded in 1820. As a seaport it grew rapidly, to the extent that in 1861, the year before Bowler drew this image, the town was granted autonomous.....