The Barnum and Bailey program for the season of 1912, with a total of 16 fantastic acts, including: “The Spectacle of Cleopatra”; “Three Royal Riding Acts” (including “Dainty and dexterous displays of principal bareback equitation by the charming exemplar of grace and agility, Miss Victoria Davenport”); “A Complete Number of.....
This colorful broadside promotes a tight-rope act performed by an unnamed gentleman pictured in numerous illustrations here. He is shown in three different vignettes performing the “sensational drop high to low wire,” the “sensational drop with ladder,” and “nerve tantalizing tricks wire swinging.” Arrows in the illustrations indicate the motion.....
A spectacular Mardi Gras poster for the Krewe of Proteus floats for 1896, depicting a wide variety of animals—here dubbed “Dumb Society,”—in imaginative situations. Represented here are twenty floats with titles such as “Presidential Sport,” “At Home…Dancing,” “In the Surf,” and “A Royal Banquet.” One marvelous float entitled “Five O’clock.....
A captivating poster featuring the Krewe of Rex’s “Heavenly Bodies” floats for the 1896 Mardi Gras. One of the oldest participants in Mardi Gras and the source of many of its storied traditions, the Krewe of Rex was founded in 1872 on the occasion of the visit to New Orleans.....
An 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......
A scarce broadside advertising a Bukowski reading at the Sunset Canyon Recreation Center, with text stating that Jean Genet and John Paul Sartre considered him America’s foremost poet. Also included is a plug from John Williams Corrigan proclaiming that “What Wordsworth claimed to have in mind, what William Carlos Wiliams.....
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.....
Illustrated brochure for the Cody Road into Yellowstone via the Burlington Route of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy lines. “Have you ever heard of the Cody Road into Yellowstone Park?” This brochure is happy to educate. Text and photographs “Along the Road” offer something of a guided tour of.....
A Confederate almanac by noted southern printer Sigmund Goetzel, evidently acquired during the Civil War by Union soldier James Eldridge. Containing the astronomical matter typical of almanacs, this War-time publication includes a table of the moon’s phases for the cities of Richmond, Raleigh, Charleston and Mobile with a middle column.....
A scarce pamphlet produced by the Pacific Steam Whaling Co. of San Francisco and Seattle for prospectors venturing to Alaska’s Cooks Inlet and the Copper River mining district, on Prince William Sound. This “first class line of passenger steamers” ran between San Francisco, Seattle and Copper City, and sailed.....
A lovely Mardi Gras poster for the Phunny Phorty Phellows and its numerous extravagant and intricate floats, whose theme for 1896 was “Popular Phads and Phancies.” The Phunny Phorty Phellows krewe first came onto the Mardi Gras scene in 1878. Known for their satirical costumes reflecting contemporary issues, the.....
A comprehensive, attractively illustrated look at the transportation provided by the Boston and Bangor, [Maine] Steamship Co. in 1882. Steamers traveled daily to Bangor via Rockland, Camden, Belfast, Searsport, Bucksport and Winterport, with a rail connection to Moosehead Lake, and steamer connections to Mount Desert, Bar Harbor, and beyond. The.....
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.....
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Two sequential issues, published a week apart, of an exceedingly scarce Civil War hospital newspaper serving as a window into the lives of hospitalized soldiers in the U.S. Capitol. Of the nineteen known hospital newspapers published in the North and South during or immediately after the Civil War, five.....
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.....
A scarce prospectus for new homes in Grant Park, (now Tampa), Florida, with eight house elevations and eight “ground” or floor plans. All cottages are described as lathed and plastered, include verandas, and range in price from $570 to $1000, “Costs all Complete.” Prospective buyers are advised: “Don’t live another.....
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.....
An unusual indenture binding a young German immigrant woman to the chief warden of the New Orleans city jail, where she was employed for her “understanding of the household business.” This remarkable indenture specifies the financial arrangement and terms of employment for one Annah David of Anspach, Germany—aged twenty-three and.....
A delightful Utica milliner’s broadside featuring illustrations of a top hat flanked by a bear and a beaver below smaller illustrations of umbrellas, muffs, and caps. Judging from records in the AAS catalog, Roberts & Sherman were active mainly from 1847 to 1850. CONDITION: Upper corners trimmed with slight loss.....
A souvenir program for La Fiesta de Los Angeles, a celebration of the history of California, which took place between 10 April and 13 April 1894 in downtown Los Angeles. Includes an account of the grand carnival, with its origins and purpose, as well as an historical sketch of Southern.....
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.....
An engraved invitation to Lincoln's second inaugural ball, filled out with the name of Mrs. Hugh McCulloch, the wife of Lincoln’s Comptroller of Currency (and later Secretary of the Treasury), accompanied by the original envelope addressed to Hugh McCulloch. Portraits of Lincoln and Andrew Johnson appear above a list.....
An railway brochure and map issued in the midst of the Great Dakota Boom. A folding brochure with 8 panels of promotional text and 5 panels of railroad time tables advertising not only its “Low Rates to Settlers and Land Hunters” but also that it “Runs More Through Trains from.....
A promotional guide to the Pacific North-West, with a map of Oregon and Washington Territory. Addressed to prospective settlers and travelers alike, this guide consists of historical, geographical, and agricultural information, and discusses at-length matters such as commerce, climate, education, taxes, prices, and the regions of the Pacific North-West. Each county.....