Catalogue of Clydesdale Horses...
Includes a “History of the Clydesdale horse” by James M. Hyatt and a descriptive list of various stallions and mares.
Includes a “History of the Clydesdale horse” by James M. Hyatt and a descriptive list of various stallions and mares.
A broadsheet advertising ornate designs for scroll saw work as well as scroll saws and related tools, offered by a Brooklyn-based tool dealer. One side of this broadsheet shows sixty-five numbered fretwork designs, which correspond to a price list on the verso. These include “Wheelbarrow, clover pattern,” “Fruit,” a “Photograph.....
A scarce and attractively illustrated catalog of photographic equipment, introducing the “Wee Wizard” camera with its 3.5-inch plates, as well as several other models produced only briefly around 1898. The stated “Sixth Issue” of the Manhattan Optical Co.’s catalogs, this amply-illustrated volume opens with an introduction to its smallest offering.....
A charming trade card of a prominent Providence printing, publishing, and bookbinding firm, evidently printed early in the partnership and advertising the additional service of gilding a range of leather items in silver and gold. Printer and publisher “Honest John” Miller and bookseller John Hutchens had worked in partnership since.....
An unrecorded promotional broadside and receipt documenting pottery production in East Liverpool, Ohio. During the nineteenth century, stoneware potteries sprang up in Ohio after clay deposits were discovered along a number of the state’s riverbanks. These potteries availed themselves of the state’s various transportation routes (railroads, canals, the Great Lakes.....