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Niagara: The Lengthening of Niagara Falls by Companies Associated with Buffalo, Niagara and Eastern Power Corporation. ca. 1930 Buffalo, NY: J.W. Clement Co. Lengthening the Scenic Service of Niagara Falls; Lengthening the Economic Service of Niagara Falls. What of the Future? Little book makes the case for "lengthening the scenic beauty and the economic service" of the falls. This Buffalo, Niagara and Eastern System now (when book was published, ca. 1930) pays $10,000 a day in State and Federal Taxes, and pays $20,000 each day in employees' wages. 32 pp. 13 x 19.5 cm. Hard cover booklet, very good. (7538) $22.00. Advertising Norge Refrigerator Brochure: Favorite Foods of Famous Stars 1934 Detroit, MI: The Norge Corporation. Look at what these Hollywood Stars can do, preparing dainty foods for light luncheons in their Norge Rollator Refrigeration. There's Leon Errol clowning over a bottle of milk while he leans on an open Norge. Adrienne Ames offers her menu for a buffet supper, and recipes for Berrymint Ice and Rollator Cookies; Frances Drake offers a Rollator Salad and a Fruit Cake; Lona Andre likes salads; Wynne Gibson prefers light lunches; Kathleen Burke offers a vegetarian luncheon; Ruth Hall contributes a recipe for grapefruit cocktail; Grace Bradley offers a Tomato-Sourkraut Cocktail; Leila Hyams offers Pistachio Mousse; Arline Judge has a recipe for potato salad; Ida Lupino offers Rice Paramount and Southern Cheese Salad; June Knight has a "Good-Knight" suggestion; Gigi Parrish offers Fresh Peach Ice Cream Pie and Colleen Moore offers County Cork Ice Cream (Vanilla ice cream with crushed peanuts); Gail Patrick has a Piquant Tongue Loaf and Dorothy Peterson has a Chicken Drummond recipe. Ginger Rogers poses beside an open Norge, and offers a recipe for a Late Supper Salad. Also recipes from Gloria Stuart, Gloria Shea and Margaret Sullivan. 32 pp. 25 x 20 cm. Paper booklet, cover lightly soiled, very good. (7490) $26.00. Advertising/Cookbooks Rawleigh's 1917 Almanac, Cookbook and Medical Guide, 28th Year: A Valuable Hand Book 1916 Freeport, IL: The W.T. Rawleigh Co. Marvelous book, loaded with advice and information. 140 products for 1917, including toilet articles, spices, medicines, cleaning products, poultry and stock products. Design for an iceless refrigerator using Canton flannel. Recipes for candies. Canning. Rawleigh's Dip for Cattle, Horses, Sheep and Hogs. Louse powder. How soap is made at Rawleigh's. Photos show gathering of raw drugs in faraway India and other spots. 104 pp. 14.7 x 22.4 cm. Paper booklet, full color, very good condition. (6561) $29.00. Advertising Richelieu Mills Women's Underwear ©1911 Utica, NY: Richelieu Mills 16 pp. 11 x 16 cm. Small catalogue shows 19 styles of women's union suits, vests and slips for women and girls; also two photos of knitting machines. Paper booklet, cover stained, worn and edges frayed. Good. (2812) $24.00. Advertising. Soviet Ad: "Tezhe" Moscow Advertisement for toilet soap, powder, eau de cologne and cosmetics ca. 1930 Moscow, USSR: Gosudarstvenniiy Trest "Zhirkost" TeZhe. Typically heavy-handed Soviet advertisement for factory production of cosmetic products "of highest quality" producing 50,000,000 pieces per year. 21 x 34 cm. Paper advertisement, folded, good. (5288) $30.00. Advertising Spot Cotton and the Eastern Cotton Market: New Bedford Storage Warehouse Company ca. 1920 New Bedford, MA: New Bedford Storage Warehouse Co. Promotional booklet for "The Spot Cotton Center of the East--How up to date shippers use it to great advantage…Sprinklered storage capacity for 100,000 Bales at one time. New Bedford's modern fireproof public warehouses for cotton storage exceed in capacity any other city in New England, capable of accommodating approximately 225,000 bales of cotton at one time. New Bedford has over 3,500,000 cotton spindles, or nearly half the total number of spindles in Bristol County, Massachusetts.” Booklet features photos of men unloading cars and ships at warehouse platform, State Pier. Includes "Aeroplane View of the City of New Bedford" showing location of cotton mills, including Manomet, Nonquitt, Nashewena, Whitman, Fairhaven, Wamsutta, Quissett, Potomska, Acushnet, Passaic, more; also other manufacturing and transportation facilities. 12 pp. 21 x 28 cm. Paper booklet, good. (8002) $31.00. Advertising/Commercial Tempest in the Flesh: Daring! Shocking! Adults Only. Advertising and Publicity Campaign Package 1957 New York, NY: Pacemaker Pictures, Inc. "Tempest in the Flesh" stars Francoise Arnoul as Clara, Raymond Pellegrin as Tonio, Philippe Lemaire as Andre and Catherine Gora as Greta. Directed by Ralph Habib; scenario by Jean-Claude Aurel and Jacques Companeez. This is the steamy story of a beautiful woman, shapely as a goddess. Clara cannot control herself. An insatiable hunger compels her to surrender herself to man after man. Nymphomania. Includes samples of proposed advertising displays. 12 pp. 21 x 28 cm. Paper booklet, very good. (7089) $21.00. Advertising/Cinema Ultra Shoes; Moore-Shafer Shoe Mfg. Co., Brockport, NY ca. 1890 Brockport, NY: Moore-Shafer Shoe Mfg. Co. Advertising catalogue for the Ultra $3.50 shoe for women. All-color book shows women in various styles of shoes; pictures and description of shoe styles; advertisement for shoe polish. 32 pp. 10 x 15 cm. Paper booklet, cover has corner chipped off, slight dampstain on some pages, poor. (6075) $32.00. Advertising. Webb's Drug Store: Florida's Greatest Showplace, home of the poster girls; it's more fun than a Circus (promotional brochure) Webb, J.E. "Doc" 1945 St. Peterburg, FL: Webb's drug Store. Advertising brochure for the "World's Most Unusual Drug Store" with more than 600 employees and 30,000 customers daily, with over $7 million receipts daily. Webb's Poster Girls include Powers Models and Life Cover Girls. Includes meat market, cosmetic and drug departments, tobacco counter, cafeteria, liquor store. "Doc" Webb is certainly into Florida over-the-top "hype". 16 panels 10 x 23 cm. Folding brochure, moderate wear, Scotch tape on front panel, good. (7830)$21.00. Advertising/Travel Weir: Modern Glenwood E, Famous Everywhere for its Baking; Catalogue ca. 1918 Taunton, MA: Weir Stove Co. Catalogue features Glenwood patent oven heat indicator, water fronts so you can switch burners to heat laundry water, four different coal grates, and deep hearth pit for easy removal of the ash-pan.These models making lighting the fire and raking clinkers simpler. 12 pp. 13 x 21 cm. Paper booklet, tiny white paint spots on back cover, very fresh looking, very good. (6345) $21.00. Advertising Welcome Soap Premiums Premium Book. ca. 1926. Cambridge, MA: Lever Bros. Co., 164-190 Broadway. 64 pp. 15 x 22 cm. Housewives-- save your wrappers from Lever Bros. Welcome Borax soap! The soap that gives you smooth, soapy water to get clothes clean offers 1000 wonderful premiums, and they are all in this ca. 1926 book! Paper booklet, slight rusting around staples, else very good. (2206) $22.00. Advertising/Ephemera. Wiltshire, Donhead Hall, Donhead St. Mary --offering for Residential and Sporting Estate ca. 1920 Yeovil, Wilts: R.B. Taylor & Sons, Estate Agents. Offering for estate 4 miles from Semley Station and 3 1/2 miles from Shaftesbury. Includes library, drawing room, boudoir, gentleman's lavatory and W.C., Octagon-shaped dining room, 6 bedrooms, two bathrooms; also pleasure grounds including wooded and walks lined with ferns, croquet lawn, magnificently-timbered deer park, and ornamental lake. 220 acres. Photos show estate, farm house, lake, wooded park. Price £18,000. 12 pp. 25 x 20 cm. Paper booklet, includes photos, very good. (6438) $20.00. Advertising/Real Estate/England Wright's Pictorial Family Almanac 1865 Philadelphia, PA: Dr. Wm. Wright, NW Corner Fifty and Race Sts. Civil War edition of Almanac, which advertises Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills, which cleanse the bowels and purify the blood, with good effect upon asthma, acidity of the stomach, biles, dropsy, dysentery, erysipelas, female irregularities, foulness of the complexion, fever and ague, jaundice, scrofula, ulcers, worms, yellowness of the skin, Yellow fever and much more. Humorous cartoons. Testimonials from men in Yankee camps. Man from Pennsylvania volunteers at Brandy Station, VA writes that Indian pills cured bad colds he and comrades had while they were at Culpepper. Man from Eight Pennsylvania cavalry, near Warrenton, VA writes about good effect of Indian Vegetable pills on disordered stomach and diseases of the digestive organs. QM Sgt. Hughes of Penna. Militia writes from Yorktown, VA ordering one-third gross of Indian Vegetable Pills. John Portney in Camp Convalescent, Alexandria, VA writes asking for Indian Vegetable pills. Also music, "The Picket's Last Watch" by David A. Warden. 20 pp. 12.5 x 21 cm. Paper booklet, worn, fair. (7728) $24.00. Advertising/Civil War
American Originals… Here’s a chance to feel first hand our wonderful American experience, with some of the things that people wrote by hand, or collected and stuck in an album, elegantly inscribed in autograph books, scrawled in diaries, journals, in letters, on postcards, in the years when our fathers and mothers, and all the generations before them, were building this country. This is a very personal collection… young people, their eyes full of the future, penning elegant poetry to each other, but often including a grim stanza about death; a scrapbook of clippings carefully pasted into a book a century ago...a woman’s collection of her babies’ photos…postcards to and from young soldiers in World War I and World War II...a postcard to a young man about to go to jail. Also, Easter, Christmas, New Year’s, Thanksgiving and Valentine’s cards. You’ll see things from other countries in our collection, too. A letter from an officer in the Royal Navy beseeching his boss, the Admiral, about a matter relating to damage to his ship, in 1821...A scrapbook of postcards from Sweden. These pages are a part of our extensive collection of ephemera. To find more, search ABE.com using keyword “ephemera” or browse through our advertising, educational, history, religious and other catalogues. See our Site Map. Enjoy what you find here, and let us know if you have something you’d like to offer us! —The Personal Navigator
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Caylor System Baseball Score Book, in Accordance with National League Requirements, No. 3--44 Games ca. 1925 Boston, MA: James W. Brine Company, 286 Devonshire Street. Very nice rare Boston baseball memento. James W. Brine Athletic Goods Baseball Score Book with instructions for scoring by O.P. Caylor's System. Scorecards filled in, dated 1928 to 1941. Teams Mishe Mokwa (summer camp?), Milton, Middlesex, Ayer, Groton, Concord, St. Mark's, Belmont, Belmont Hill, Dartmouth at Harvard (1939), West Concord. Advertising for James W. Brine Official League Baseballs (Guaranteed for 18 innings), sweaters, all kinds of highest quality athletic goods. . 92 pp. 20.5 x 14 cm. Maroon cloth on board, "Whitney Cook" written on cover and on title page. Inside front hinge repaired with binding tape. Inside rear hinge cracked. Cover shows wear, inside also. Fair. (7358) $120.00. Advertising/American Originals Certificate of Appointment of Lieutenant Francis Burbank to Vermont Militia, 1815 by Martin Chittenden, Esq., Seventh Governor of Vermont. 1815 Montpelier, VT: State of Vermont. Seventh Governor of Vermont, Martin Chittenden (1763-1840) also Captain-General and Commander in Chief of State signed this appointment of War of 1812 veteran to Lieutenant of 5th Company, 3rd Regiment, First Brigade and Second Division of State Militia on July 22, 1815. On reverse is signed statement by Burbank in which he "solemnly swears to support the constitution of the United States"; attested to by C. Roberts, Brigadier General. According to records, Burbank was drafted to serve in 1812. Also on reverse is discharge of Burbank in 1819, also signed by Brigadier General Roberts. Martin Chittenden was governor 1813-1815, which included a crucial portion of the War of 1812. Document is sealed with State Seal, with motto "Freedom & Unity". 1 sheet 32 x 19.5 cm. Paper certificate with seal of State of Vermont, good. (8062) $200.00. Ephemera/History Clubwoman's Diary, 1953 Boston, MA: ephemera. This lady is the ultimate clubwoman-- her diary is a list of meetings of VFW Auxiliary, Navy Mothers, Church groups, A.U.W.(Ass'n of Univ. Women?), Republicans, Parent Teachers, Scouts, and more. Son Don is off to the Navy, and is sailing |
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Certificate of Appointment of Lieutenant Francis Burbank to Vermont Militia, 1815 by Martin Chittenden, Esq., Seventh Governor of Vermont. 1815 Montpelier, VT: State of Vermont. Seventh Governor of Vermont, Martin Chittenden (1763-1840) also Captain-General and Commander in Chief of State signed this appointment of War of 1812 veteran to Lieutenant of 5th Company, 3rd Regiment, First Brigade and Second Division of State Militia on July 22, 1815. On reverse is signed statement by Burbank in which he "solemnly swears to support the constitution of the United States"; attested to by C. Roberts, Brigadier General. According to records, Burbank was drafted to serve in 1812. Also on reverse is discharge of Burbank in 1819, also signed by Brigadier General Roberts. Martin Chittenden was governor 1813-1815, which included a crucial portion of the War of 1812. Document is sealed with State Seal, with motto "Freedom & Unity". 1 sheet 32 x 19.5 cm. Paper certificate with seal of State of Vermont, good. (8062) $200.00. Ephemera/History |
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