A scarce booklet describing the practical work and “wonderful” conversions of the “most famous gospel rescue mission in the country.” This booklet provides information about the Bowery Mission’s history, major figures, success stories, and of course functions—feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, and providing community, religious education, entertainment, and employment.....
A publisher’s prospectus advertising an American West title by John C. Van Tramp, to be bound in the buyer’s choice of either “Embossed” or “full Leather Library Binding,” and “illustrated with Engravings of Western Scenery, Incidents of Travel, Hunting Scenes, Prairie Life and Adventures.” At 750 pages this would have.....
An apparently unrecorded 1893 edition of this amply illustrated guide to Virginia Beach’s Princess Anne Hotel and vicinity. It includes several train itineraries, descriptions of the resort, and brief notes on the various amusements of its surroundings. The hotel accommodated four hundred guests, boasted electric lights and bells, and a......
A scarce guide to resorts and recreation opportunities around Maine’s Rangeley Lakes, published during the region’s golden age of sporting tourism. This booklet, apparently the third edition published by the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway, provides an overview of accommodations and recreation around the Rangeley Lakes, as well as transportation.....
An apparently unrecorded broadside advertising lots in a nascent frontier town in Indiana, assuring readers that this promotion is more than mere “puff.” This broadside advertises forty lots for sale in the new neighborhood of Charleston, Indiana, which was laid out in 1837 by Joseph P. Anthony, a carpenter by.....
An illustrated broadside employing various racist tropes to explain local Republican election losses in Philadelphia in 1867, here characterized as the death of the "Great Negro Party." The broadside consists of a series of captioned wood-engravings, including the head of an African American man above a coffin accompanied by the.....
An attractive brochure for Santa Fe’s first centennial-style exposition, which was held to boost investment and tourism after the city was bypassed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Claiming to mark one third of a millennium since the founding of the city, The Santa Fe Tertio-Millennial Anniversary Character.....
A scarce “official souvenir program” for an African American exhibition basketball team whose repertoire included trick-shots and trick-dribbling, imitations, “comedy at its finest,” “classy ball handling,” and more. This work opens with a word from the team’s owners, addressed to the basketball team’s many fans throughout America and Canada. Introducing.....
A broadside advertising an appearance of the original ‘Siamese Twins,’ Chang and Eng, featuring an evocative wood engraving of the brothers. A sensation across the U.S. and Europe during the 1830s, Chang and Eng were born co-joined at the sternum in Siam (present-day Thailand) in 1811. The twins were ‘discovered’.....
This illustrated tissue paper souvenir honors the “Captain, Mates, Crew, & Passengers who lost their lives by the foundering of the world’s largest liner, S. S. ‘Titanic’”, and is illustrated with an image of the ship “Whilst on Her Maiden Voyage from Southampton to New York.” A brief message from.....
A scarce newspaper supplement brimming with California gold rush news, mixing grim reports of sickness, death, and discouragement with accounts of success in the gold fields, as well as a host of other matters. The first page of this two-page supplement is devoted almost entirely to the gold rush. It.....
Three general orders issued by officers of the Department of Virginia, Army of the James addressing “matters relating to Negro Affairs,” particularly employment, in the wake of emancipation. The first two of these orders make substantial revisions and reversals to an extensive landmark order (No. 46) issued by Major General.....
Bernard Shaw’s lecture on the question “Is Civilisation Desirable?” was delivered before The Fabian Society, the socialist organization for which he was a chief representative. The event made news across the pond, with several U.S. papers reporting on Shaw’s eccentric views. The Philadelphia Inquirer bemusedly reports: “Right to Be Dirty.....
A bold poster for New York’s 1915 suffrage campaign—the forerunner to the 1917 referendum which made New York the first eastern state to grant women the right to vote. Printed in the Empire State Campaign’s classic colors of blue and gold, this poster exhorts the New York’s male voters to.....
An unrecorded and vividly printed handbill in the colors of the British suffrage movement advertising a 1912 lecture by renowned Suffragette and leftist social organizer Sylvia Pankhurst in Milwaukee, then a “Socialist city.” Sylvia Pankhurst made her appearance at Milwaukee’s landmark Pabst Theatre on the evening of Friday, February 2nd.....
A rare and beautifully hand-colored broadside advertising the latest venture of “the most famous and successful hotel proprietor” in Ohio, with later connections to the Underground Railroad. William Werden (1785–1869),“the most popular landlord in Ohio,” opened his National Hotel, here termed “Werden’s Hotel,” in Springfield in 1829 on the heels.....
A scarce anti-women’s suffrage broadside, evidently printed shortly before the ratification of the 19th amendment, using quotations from Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s Woman’s Bible to attack the suffrage movement. Following a brief history of the Woman’s Bible and numerous quotations of “objectionable” passages, this broadside asks: “Are you willing for women.....
A rare broadside printing a temperance text that also appeared in pamphlet form, illustrated with two wood engravings depicting the evils of drink. Printed in England and Scotland in the 1820s, the pamphlet version of The Wonderful Advantages of Drunkenness appeared in Boston as early as 1823, and was.....
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A scarce set of six posters promoting the American Library Association’s Library War Service program during WWI, a wide-ranging and expansive initiative that distributed books and provided library services to U.S. servicemen at home and in Europe. In 1917, during the First World War, the American Library Association established.....
An unrecorded anti-slavery broadside responding to a local newspaper’s fearmongering by eloquently explaining the real “object and motives of the Anti-Slavery Society.” Abolitionism, as this broadside explains, is motivated by “humanity and justice,” and the aims of the Anti-Slavery Society are not, as the Rochester Gazette article evidently suggested, “to.....
An unrecorded broadsheet advertising a P. T. Barnum show at the American Institute in New York City featuring three lady performers: Madame Dockrill “in her thrilling act on four bareback horses”; Zazel “in her terrific aerial dive or eagle sweep”; and Madame Nelson and her flock of trained doves. Includes.....
A fundraising circular for Mary McLeod Bethune’s all-black Bethune Cookman College in Florida. Celebrated African-American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955)—fondly known as “The First Lady of The Struggle”—is best known for founding this private college for black students in Daytona Beach, Florida. Born to.....
A rare trade card for a Martha’s Vineyard chandler, featuring a small chart of Holmes’ Hole Harbor (today’s Vineyard Haven). The chart extends from East Chop to West Chop, shows their respective lighthouses, and locates Eastville, Norris’ Wharf Ship Stores, the road to the campground, Lagoon Pond, the Marine Railway.....
A scarce and richly illustrated program for the second season at this California horse racing track, including—in addition to photo-illustrations of the track, the horses, and the jockeys—numerous architectural views, portraits of jockey club personnel, and various Southern California scenes. The first season of horse racing at Ascot Park took.....
A scarce broadside in praise of the heroic conduct and “noble traits” of Andrew Neill, a Scottish-born Texan soldier and attorney campaigning for Lieutenant Governor as an independent in 1855. After immigrating to the United States as a young man and establishing himself as a probate judge in Mississippi, Andrew.....