A rare trade card of a prominent Boston carpet and home furnishing business with an original mounted photograph of the late President Lincoln. Childs, Crosby & Lane, suppliers of carpets, shades, and upholstery, were established in Boston in about 1862, operating out of 80 Union St. before moving to 116.....
![Item #10172 Given Away Toy Samples of Swasey Stoneware[.] Finest Stoneware in the World](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10172_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779183125)
An apparently unrecorded broadside advertising “toy samples” by a prolific Maine stoneware manufactory, illustrated with an original photograph of a little girl posing with a miniature teapot with Swasey Stioneware’s characteristic brown-glazed top and cream-colored bottom. Text on either side of the photograph announces Swasey wares to be “tough as.....
A set of six delightful chromolithographic cards in the shape of artist’s palettes, advertising General Tom Thumb’s Museum and depicting the General and his wife as well as their co-performers, little person Major Edward Newell, Zoe Meleke the “Circassian lady” with her canaries, and others. This set of advertising cards.....
![Item #10189 Daguerrean Gallery! Prof. Wm. P. Bassett, Daguerrian Artist, would respectfull[y]...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10189_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1784729402)
An appealing and apparently unrecorded broadside advertising the services of a traveling daguerreotypist in northwestern Pennsylvania for “a few days” around April 17th, 1850. “Prof. Wm. P. Bassett” announces his arrival “to the Ladies and Gentlemen of this place and vicinity”—that is, the town of Columbus, most likely not in.....
An appealing and detailed broadside announcing a new store, run by a female proprietor, in what was then a hamlet on Long Island, listing dry goods, groceries, and hardware, as well as boats and tackle “to let by the day”—and absolutely no liquor for sale in the evening. Fanny Terry.....