A poignant broadside published by a relative of a young man who drowned when the steamer Bavarian burned on Lake Ontario, describing his appearance and other distinguishing features that would help identify his body. Published after the Bavarian was consumed by fire fifteen miles off shore on November 5th, 1873.....
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A scarce clipper ship card advertising the Talisman of the Cooley packet ship line, illustrated with a vivid image of Columbia printed in red and blue along the left side. Cooley boasts of a 111 day voyage to San Francisco, a guarantee of “prompt dispatch,” and the announcement that the.....
A rare 1806 Pro-Federalist broadside mocking printer James Cheetham and New York Democrat-Republicans. In this satirical broadside, New York Federalists deride fractious author and printer James Cheetham after learning he had farmed out printing work, then charged the state government at a 300+ percent markup as the way to “Cheat’em!”.....
An unrecorded illustrated broadside advertising a recently patented pig pen promising thirty to fifty percent savings in pork-raising—and an improvement in hogs’ manners, “at least in feeding.” Quoting a notice in the Hartford Times, this broadside admits that a patent pig pen “strikes one as a novel thing, and an.....
A scarce broadside published during the 1864 presidential campaign, satirizing President Lincoln and articulating various Democratic criticisms. Dramatizing the question of whether the country ought to switch presidents during the War, these verses begin with Columbia bursting in on “lank Abraam” who is “lolling in his library chair.” Columbia asks.....
An apparently unrecorded War of 1812 broadside, featuring a series of vignettes depicting American naval victories, evidently published in response to Oliver Hazard Perry’s victory on Lake Erie in September of 1813, an image of which takes pride of place at the top. Included here are twelve vignettes, ten of.....
This richly printed cigar advertisement was produced during the height of cigar production in Key West, a hub of the industry, by the New York lithographic firm of George Schlegel. A second-generation lithographer, Schlegel specialized in cigar box labels and advertising posters in the tobacco, liquor, and toiletry industries. The.....
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A delightful Pennsylvania-German birth and baptism certificate featuring a hand-colored “typotecture” border incorporating elements of the fraktur tradition. This broadside records the birth, on 29 June 1859, of one Allen Albert, the son of one David Bemer and his wife Maria (née Miller). The text is enclosed within an ornamental.....
An unrecorded publisher’s broadside promoting a work on the Civil War chronicling the personal experience of the Union soldier, including anecdotes, songs, ballads, and humorous incidents of the war. Advertised here as including over 500 pages and more than 100 illustrations of Union and Confederate officers as well as scenes.....
A rare silk broadside announcing the celebration of the U. S. Centennial aboard the excursion steamer “Plymouth Rock,” in Shanghai, China. The day long program included a “Salute of One Hundred Guns at Sunrise,” a “national Salute at 12 Meridian,” a reading of the Declaration of Independence by O. B......
An attractive timetable for the “Maple Leaf Route” of the Chicago Great Western Railway. Includes schedules, rates, and general information, as well as a large map illustrating the Route through Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and Kansas, with a green maple leaf printed over the area of service. The map shows.....
An impressive brochure and itinerary for Southern Railway System tour of the Battle of Chickamauga battlefield with five routes noted through Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia to Chattanooga. Includes detailed accounts of various aspects of the battle (corresponding to segments of the tour); nine monuments are pictured; also entrances to the.....
An unrecorded broadside advertising an appearance in Gardiner, Maine of Ducello’s touring zoological exhibition, featuring illustrations of lion tamers performing with lions and exotic wild animals. This production of Dan Ducello’s Zoological Exhibition and Museum of Living Wonders took place on Wednesday and Thursday, 24 and 25 October ca. 1880.....
This attractive folding brochure features evocative illustrations of the Historic Deadwood Days of ‘76 festival, including “Sioux Indian Battles and War Dances Every Day,” a covered wagon train, Paris Williams,”the most ensational Woman Rodeo Performer in America.” One image shows President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge taken into the Sioux Tribe.....
An apparently unrecorded broadside, published by noted anti-Federalist printer Thomas Greenleaf, offering a reward for the return of a runaway blacksmith’s apprentice in New York. Eighteen-year-old Jesse Coe ran away from his master Edward Leverich in New-Town, Long Island, on June 17th, 1792. This broadside, printed three months later, announces.....
An extraordinary collection of illustrated envelope covers produced during the Civil War, featuring a cornucopia of themes relating to the war and its effect on everyday life, as mounted and bound by an early twentieth century collector. These envelopes feature a remarkably wide range of subjects: American flags; eagles; military.....
An unrecorded and appealing broadside for a Boston hotel “on the European plan.” This illustrated broadside advertises the various “Advantages of the Falmouth House,” which include its convenient proximity to railroads and streetcars and its “first-class Dining Room.” Rates ranged from fifty to seventy-five cents per day per person, or.....
This appealing and apparently unrecorded broadside advertises hiking excursions up Mt. Tamalpais, some 22 miles north of San Francisco in Marin County, California. “Personally conducted” by one Dawson Mayer, these excursions accommodated up to 60 people and cost $2.50, including a luncheon at the Tavern of Tamalpais. Offered between May.....
Volume 2, No. 1 in this influential series of almanacs containing a variety of tall tales in backwoods dialect, illustrated with wood engravings. This is the fifth Crockett Almanac published in Nashville. The contents include An Unexpected Ride on the Horns of an Elk, Col. Crockett’s Adventure With a Grizzly.....
Volume 2, No. 2 in this celebrated series of almanacs, containing a variety of tall tales in backwoods dialect, illustrated with wood engravings. The contents include The Heroine of Kaintuck; Col. Crockett and the Bear and the Swallows; Gum Swamp Breeding; A Goose Pulling; Severe Courtship; The Way They Travel.....
An engaging promotional brochure for the brand new town of Chula Vista, with a map of the San Diego Bay region. This very engaging brochure promotes the land, climate, crops, and cost of living in the San Diego Bay area and, particularly, the San Diego Land & Town Company’s newly-built.....
A land promotion broadside advertising transportation via the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway to the company’s land grant and elsewhere. Promising the “shortest and quickest route” to points in Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, this broadside publishes the “liberal rates and allowance of baggage for Seekers of land in.....
A richly illustrated leaflet for a lecture in Seattle by explorer and aviator Richard Byrd, during his 1931 speaking tour on his successful Antarctic expedition in 1928 and ‘29. Byrd’s January 13th lecture at Seattle’s Civic Auditorium is advertised here as the “Only Northwest Appearance” on his nationwide tour. Thanks.....
A beautiful chromolithographic trapeze artist letterhead, with portraits of Rosy, Lewis, and Mamie Jordan, and a view of them performing.
Apparently unrecorded Great Depression era sheet music related to the establishment of Social Security. This rousing social activist song includes such lyrics as: “Millions of patriots march along - Tramp, tramp - Swinging along to a vict’ry song - It’s a fight for the right - For Americans never fail.....