ABAA Bibliography Week Showcase 2021
Eclectibles
• New Collections • Albums, Journals & Commonplace Books • Collections & Archives
Eclectibles Sheryl Jaeger & Ralph Gallo 860.872.7587 [email protected] www.eclectibles.com
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Part 1 – New Collections - California Virtual Book Fair ...... 3 Part 2 – Albums, Journals & Commonplace Books ...... 15 Part 2 – Collections & Archives ...... 78
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1. [Food][ Food Pricing][ Food as a Commodity] Price Lists - A collection Spanning 100 Years Examining the Availability, Distribution, Price and Pricing Consideration of Food & Other Commodities . . United States. 1834-1935. The collection includes 83 food and associated commodities price lists, catalogs, ledgers, invoices, postal card advertisements and more. It spans a 100 year period and provides considerable information regarding the availability, distribution, price and pricing consideration of these commodities. The materials represent 40 different American markets, with heavy weight on New York, Boston and Philadelphia in the earlier years. The collection includes both retail and wholesale information. Approximately 60% of the materials are pre 1890.
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The journey begins with a 1834 printed list of Ship Stores put up by Hampton and Coffin in New York, including available provisions for both the Ships Stores and Cabin Stores. This is followed by a ledger from a merchant in Sea brook New Hampshire detailing his sales for 1854-1855. By 1861 the printed Commission Market/Exchange reports with reports from Albany, NY, Boston, MA, New York, NY, Philadelphia, PA, San Francisco, CA and Washington DC were appearing consistently over the course of the next 30 plus years and included information on previous period sales, expected prices and information on availability and likelihood of price fluctuation. Commodities by exchange varied significantly and although called and Egg and Butter Exchange one many find Beans, Butter, Cheese, Eggs, and Meats or such things as Includes Ginseng, Snake Root, Butter, Beeswax, Flax, Dried Fruit Eggs, Rags, etc. Of note - fur skin from house cat. Includes envelope to customer in Tennessee. Also included are catalogues from variations on a single food to one catalogue from Retail Price List Cob, Bates & Your Importers and Grocers with 56 pp and hundreds of categories.
The collection includes 27 specialty pieces with price lists for Baker, Confection, Biscuits, Butter Color, Canned Goods and Pickles, Confectioner, Country Produce, Eggs, Fish, Fruits, Honey, Jams
Brooklyn Virtual Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 4 and Marmalade, Canned Tomatoes and Nuts, Jellies, Kara Corn Syrup, Liquors, Meat, Meats & more, Salted, Pickled & Smoked Fish, Ship Stores and Cabin Stores, Syrup, Tea and Coffee, Tobacco, Liquor, Groceries Liquor and Preserves & Canned Goods.
The Butter Color headline reads "How to Increase the Value of Butter". A comprehensive overview of all things Perfected Butter Color. The reverse has the Golden Rules for making gilt-edged butter and The Best System of Setting Milk. Gordon & Dilworth Table Delicacies boasts "More than one hundred Domestic & Foreign Fruits and Vegetables transmuted into Table Delicacies. All of our Productions bear this (displayed) Trade-March Label. We will prosecute all Infringements of the same."
As the years progress more and more retail materials appear including weekly flyers with "Specials" . An interesting tidbit in the 1911 California Fruit Product Company - Direct from California
Brooklyn Virtual Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 5 introductions and information on the Dakota Car leaving on Nov. 5th for distribution in Dakota. | Another interesting marketing approach was the use of printed price lists on Postal Cards presumably sent to regular customers.
The journey ends in the 1930s a large format broadside type list with an image from a photograph of The Tower home Welfare SA. Genoa Colorado. selling a variety of foods, household products, sundries, school supplies and tobacco. It indicates it is providing candy, nuts and oranges at Christmas time for the children of Lincoln County to be sure none goes without. In researching this location it can only be found as a roadside attraction with no mention of groceries. | This is the tip of the iceberg of information available in this collection. A link to the collection database is available upon request and can also be linked through our Catalogue at the lower right corner of our booth. (#210000989) $Price available during the California VBF.
Overall very good; few rough edges.
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3. [Advertising and Promotion][ Illustration Art][ Visual Culture] The Magic of Color in Vintage Advertising - Fifty Years of Color Brochure Covers - 1880s-1920s. 1880-1930s. A collection of over 50 cover illustrations selected for first impression attraction to the color image. Spanning 50 year from the 1880s through the 1930s. Consists predominantly of booklets with a few programmes, a box top etc. The collection may be used in many ways to understand the use of color illustrations in advertising. Some initial observations follow; The change in design and use of color by decade. It demonstrates the evolution of design from the flourishing elaborate Victorian design through the gentle and feel good calmness of the first quarter of the 20th Century ending with the angular, streamline brilliant pops of color of the late 20s and 30s influenced by Art Deco and flight of fancy designs. Note the variants in the inks as time progressed.
Brooklyn Virtual Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 7 A second observation of the collection is the various visual messages employed to inform or persuade the viewer to look further Drama - the die-cut bars of a jail cell to the dramatic images of the star Emotional Draw - from the young boy with his American flag to the College chaps gathered around the piano singing Endorsers - From Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty promoting remedies to the Goddess of the Harvest selling Farm Land in Florida Flight of Fancy - The Linebooks from the Chicago Tribune with pops of color and floating objects to Toy Tinkers with vibrant shapes. Influencers - Images that put you into the picture from the lady golfer to the mother and child under the rainbow of happiness if you used this product this will be you. | Juxtaposition - often used by remedy makers - from plain folk to glamourous actresses appearing with a life size bottle of the product. Non-Sequitur - from scenes of Egyptian pyramids promoting remedies to a anthropomorphic cat promoting as a printer Picture Tells The Story - From the man with the headache to Oil Comes to Us Product Depict - from rich prunes to rice coating the world Product Superiority - run fastest with Keds to the finest spice cookies
One booklet, Peruna for Catarrh. has two different forms of advertising both the juxtaposition on the front the nurse holding the products on the reverse. To this point we have only examined the covers. One item of particular note is Toy Tinkers - a fold-out 8pp. pamphlet that includes futuristic design, emotional draw with loving families playing games together, whimsy and excellent product display.
Aside from the advertising imagery the booklets include information on various types of products including Appliance, Clothing,Cream Separator, Food, Household goods & Remedies, Insurance, Medical, Military, Pianos, Printing, Promotion - Land, Promotion - Natural Resource, Promotion - Newspaper, Promotion - Patriotism, Promotion – Town, Remedy, Shoes, Theatre, Toy and more.
The possible uses for this collection are many.
(#29000889) $ Price available during the California VBF
Minimal wear; few pieces with intact tears and light damage.
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4. [Paper With a Secret][ Transformation][ Metamorphosis] A collection of Transformation or Metamorphic Ephemera. 1827-1940s. A collection of 29 pieces of ephemera that transform from one scene to another. There are 16 different methods utilized. They include
Combustible game - Who Did It - Torch the Maine in the palm of your hand Fortune telling fish - a celluloid fish placed in your palm changes shape to tell your fortune Paper Slides (x2) Advertising Piece - Serving Champagne and Demonstration of gas performance Single image metamorphic card (x2) advertising and non-advertising Two-sided metamorphic card. The top fold changing the image on both sides of the card Hold to the Light (x3) Pinhole view of the London Bridge, A transparent alphabet card, a magic advertising card - promoting eye salve Surprising metamorphoses - a red celluloid sheet placed over the card changes the page Pop-up Advertising (x3) Schubert Piano - woman plays piano, Rocky Ford Cigars - chorus girl kicks when card opens and Dutch chocolate - girl pops out of card and makes hot chocolate Pulling Tab changing scene (x3) from the simple arm movement of a man eating bread to a dancing couple (Biedermeier) from 1827
Brooklyn Virtual Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 9 Disappearing sand - a channel of sand moves up and down the card and either rises as champagne bubbles or falls as gold from a pot. Fold-out paper - Watch him grow advertisement for RyKrisp - as pages are lifted the boy grows to a man Sliced pictures - changing faces. the expression on the face changes as a slide is moved up or down. Unexpected Results - hidden message (x3) - an umbrella with crossed feet gives impression of embrace while actually child receiving a spanking etc. Volvelles (x2) - Hand constructed perhaps from a newspaper cutout with three changing faces as wheel turns and somewhat risqué with feet changing position right after bed time. Articulated paper doll 0 hand constructed from a newspaper (stereotypical racial exaggeration not condoned) Balancing toys (x2) paper butterfly and man with weighted hands balances on the tip of your finger Curious Optical Illusion - when moved the circles appear to revolve in one direction and the center wheel in the opposite.
The largest piece - the three (3) face volvelle measures 9" x 7". (#20000979) $ Price available during the California VBF
Generally VG; some light wear from handling.
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Brooklyn Virtual Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 10 5. [WWI][ Home Front][ Nursing][ Goucher Plan][ Women's History] Archive - The Training Camp for Nurses at Vassar College - WWI plus Student Commonplace Book, Suffrage Poem .... Nelda Miller Red Cross, National Defense League and Vassar College. Poughkeepsie, NY . 1917-1918. An archive consisting primarily of materials belonging to Nelda Miller, mostly while attending Vassar College. The first items include two variations of overviews of Vassar College and Vassar College in War-Time. It describes how the student body voted to stop extracurricular activities such as the Junior "Prom", festivals, etc. and devote the funds thus saved to the employment of expert teachers of certain practical courses to help the war effort. Classes included stenography, typewriting,library work, auto repair, home economics Red Cross first aid to the injured and farming and gardening. The reverse of the page is a diagram of the Grounds and Building. The second of these brochures also includes information on the Vassar Unite for Service Abroad and The Summer Training Camp for Nurses. Presumably Ms. Miller took the path of the Summer Training Camp for Nurses. Booklets related to the program include:
The Training Camp for Nurses at Vassar College Under the auspices of the National Council of Defense and The American Red Cross, Second Edition. 1918. 42 pp. Announcement and catalogue. Nursing -- a National Service by Isabel M. Stewart, R.N. M.A.. Committee on Nursing, General Medical Board. Council of National Defense. Washington DC. 15 pp. subtitled Nursing as a Field of National Service. Explaining what a nurse can do for her country and the importance of proper training. (OCLC -3 Feb. 2021) The Training Camp for Nurses at Vassar College. 4 pp. overview and daily schedule The Training Camp for Nurses, Vassar College, Department of Practical Nursing - General Rules of Cleaning. Privately Printed. Not published. 10 pp. How to accomplish all methods of cleaning from dusting to terminal cleaning. | Mathematics for Nurses. David Eugene Smith. Teachers College, Columbia University. NYC. 1918. 31 pp. Apothecaries' Measures, Metric System, Reductions, Ratios, Algebra and Proportion, Solutions, Fractional Doses and more. The Training Camp for Nurses Vassar college. Department of Bacteriology. Second Term. Pathogenic Microorganisms. First Week, August 5th, 1918 (Dr. Williams). 10 pp. Relation of Microorganisms to Disease. Training Camp for Nurses at Vassar College, 1918 - Program of Reunion, November 26th-28th, 1920 4 pp. A program of events and lectures for the week.
Additionally a prelude to her time at Vassar includes a small notebook with 20 pages of writing by Ms. Miller. Pencil. Manuscript. Probably written while attending Goucher College in 1914 and 1915. Many references to Goucher Plan. Many writing in rhyming verse with titles such as Tea, Mobilizing, Appetite,etc. Measures 6" x 3 3/4". Also two notices for course completion at Goucher. (1914-1915)
Finally, three items, adding to her character, but unrelated include
A printed excerpt from "The Present Hour," by Percy MacKay, titled "Hymn for Equal Suffrage". It begins "They have strewn the burning hearths of Man with darkness and with mire, They have heaped the burning hearts of Man with ashes of desire, Yet from out those hearts and hearths still leaps the quick external fire
Brooklyn Virtual Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 11 Whose flame is liberty". Two unrelated letters from Jerusalem to the Kirness Sisters "The Souvenir Shop" Jaffa Road, Jerusalem, requesting a dress be made. Interesting but unrelated correspondence. Nine (9) war and nursing related items, four (4) others.
(#21001556) $ Price available during the California VBF
GOUCHER The summer work committee of the War Council with the help of Mr. Merritt of the National Department of Agriculture, are drawing up tentative plans for the summer farm. Goucher also had her garden last summer, but this year the farm work is to be better organized, and carried on a much larger scale. WELLESLEY About four hundred girls have signed up for spring work on the farm, and over two thousand have put in their applications for work this summer. The student body has also pledged nearly a thousand dollars to finance the farm. (This information concerning war activities of American Colleges was gathered together by the Vale News.
30 Jun 1898 Williamstown, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA Death: 16 Jun 1938 Berrysburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA
Light wear.
6. [Women's Work][ Gender Roles][ Social History] 85 Years of Print Reinforcement that a Women's place is in the home doing "Women's Work" 1865-1949. Historically, ingrained by
Brooklyn Virtual Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 12 print media, from early childhood females are depicted as being responsible for domestic matters and chores. | This is played out in this small collection of 20 items from the earliest piece an 1865 advertising cover depicting a mother with a modern washer with crank wringer while her child sits near by washing her dolls clothes to the latest a 1949 children's book titled "My Busy Week" a series of images with relevant rhyming verses on a little girls roles in domestic work and play and how she should be equally happy at work and play. | An offset to the remaining items in the collection is a 1921 piece produced by the Women's Bureau - US Department of Labor titled "When Women Work" it contrasts good and back working conditions for women working outside of the home and reinforces the need for gender equality and reinforces that "America will be as strong as her women". | A majority of the materials in the collection are booklets or pamphlets and are illustrated with women and/or girls using the products. The primary objective of many of these pieces is to stress an improved method or product, making less work for the woman, but specifically for the women, there is no implication these products would be used by men. Categories include Cleaning and Sanitation, Cooking & Baking, Gender Roles, Laundry, Domestic Product Catalogs, Shoveling Coal, Sweeping and Vacuuming and Working Women. | A database describing each of the items is available via pdf or in our Catalogue for this fair - found in our "booth" at the lower right. (#21000703) $ Price available during the California VBF.
Overall good, few with some condition issues.
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7. [Herbarium][ Made by Hand] Pintoresco Herbario - 4 Elaborate Handmade Arrays. Mexico. April 5, 1877. A title page done in pressed flowers plus three (3) pressed flower works including the title page. Include one is a symmetrical floral design; the others an elaborate basket of flowers and cornucopia. Embellished with gilt Victorian scrap. Housed in 13" x 17" frames. (#28004513) $ Price available during the California VBF
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Eclectibles
Part 2 – Albums, Journals & Commonplace Books
Eclectibles Sheryl Jaeger & Ralph Gallo 860.872.7587
[email protected] www.eclectibles.com
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8. [Album][ Original Art][ Drawings][ Verse][ Poetry][ Limericks][ Love and Friendship] A book filled with folly in foolish sketch and rhyme as a wedding present for a family member. The Pryke Family c1930. Creative - Charming - Skillful - Whimsical In what appears to be the grips of the Great Slump (depression), a family elects to give one of the daughters the gift of verse and original art as a wedding present. The introduction reads: This book so filled with folly In foolish sketch and rhyme, Comes to wish our Collie Joy till the end of time. A pen and ink drawing of a bride and groom standing between two trees adorns the cover. It includes 44 pen and ink drawings (some with watercolor) and relevant original limericks or often rhyming verse. Each is Initialed by a family member. With one exception the writer of the verse was also the illustrator of the relevant drawing. The book begins with "A dialogue on an Important Subject, between members of the Pryke family". It discusses the lack of funds in the family to purchase an appropriate wedding present for one of the daughters, "Collie". Titles of the verses include The Lobster Tragedy, Household Hints for the Newly-Married. -Saturday's Lunch, Bunnies, Little Black Sambo, Grown-ups, Horrors, The Sweet Old Lady, The Frustration of a Crime (3 pages of text and 3 illustrations), Lucy, Adventures of My Relatives (in 3 parts), Riddle-Mee- Ree, Bounce, Mars, An Escape From Dartmoor, I Wonder, Aunt Fanny, The Sea- Serpent, the Explanation and A Moral Tale. The last is a rhyme of a young girl who disobeyed her mother and fell from a tree. It concludes with
MORAL Now all you little children here Take heed of what I say Always obey your parents dear Or you'll be layed in clay.
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The limericks include a person from Spain, an old lady from China, a policeman whose feet, a boy from Madrid, an old lady of Slough, a bold lady from Bristol, a young lady of Zenda, an old fellow of Louth, an old dame in Peru, a young man of Forquay, a professor at Oxon, an old person of Frith, a person of London, an old lady of Bucks,, an old man of the Hook and
There once was a lady whose face Had slipped by mistake out of place She didn't know where, Though she sought it with care, So she filled up the gap with French lace
A family of equal opportunity insulters leading to some remarkably creative illustrations. A majority of the pages in the book are used. Appears complete as written. Measures 9" x 7 ¼”. (#20204526) $2200.
Edge wear on cover; Faint coffee splash on blank front end paper. Small ink smudge margin dedication page.
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9. [photographs][ photo album][ genealogy][ Marcy] Photograph Album and Genealogy of the Marcy Family, circa 1850-1900. Marcy Family. [1850-1900]. A photograph album of the family of Laban March (1780-1860), an American politician from Massachusetts. The album contains approximately seventy-seven (77) photographs of the great Marcy family. It appears as though one of Laban's children compiled the album, since Laban and his wife, Fanny Howe (1791-1857), don't appear in the album. On the free endpaper is a partial family tree of Laban's children including all six children and the names of some of their children. There are 77 photographs in the album, 42 are identified at least by name written under the photograph, and at times additional information is provided. Photos include Laban's children, sons-and-daughters-in- law, their grandchildren, and other extended family members. In a few instances individuals are noted as great friends of the family. There are 28 young children or babies the remainder are adults of various ages. Several individuals are pictured twice, (and one three times) at different times. The family genealogy is available upon request with asterisks (*) is placed beside the name the individual that has an identified photograph in the album.
There are two photographs in the album of individuals that are clearly not related to the Marcy family in any way. The first is a small photograph of King Edward VII when he was still Prince of Wales. The second is a small photograph of Mrs. Tom Thumb. The album consists of forty (40) pages, evenly split between pages that hold a single large photograph and pages that can hold four smaller photographs. Of the seventy-seven (77) photographs contained in the album, seventeen (17) are large photographs, and sixty (60) are quarter-page photographs. Most pages are completely filled. The majority of the album contains portraits of a single person, however there are five (5) photos with two individuals in them, and one (1) that features a trio of young children. Regardless of the shape of the cut out, the dimensions remain largely the same. The majority of the photographs are in good condition with minimal to no fading. There are a few tin types with the majority of the photographs being cabinet cards or carte de visites . The photographs can be removed and at times there
Brooklyn Virtual Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 18 is information to be found on the back of the card, normally relating to the photographer who took the picture. Some of the photograph studios used were: E. L. Brand & Co. in Chicago, IL, GH. Bercamasco Photographe in St. Petersbourg, Rogers in Hartford, CT, and Richardson in Boston, MA. The album black leather covers with decorative embossing meant to invoke the image of the metal hinges that were once used to hold old books together. The spine of the book has gilt lettering, which states "Album". There are remnants of what appears to have been a clasp meant to secure the book closed. Interior pages are gilt edge. Measures 11" x 8". (#27000358) $325.
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Laban Marcy was born on March 7, 1780 to Asahel Marcy (1738-1819) and Priscilla Dunham (1740-1829) in Greenwich, MA. He married Fanny Howe (1791-1857) on April 4, 1812 and had six children. He attended Woodstock Academy and studied law under Judge Barnes of Tolland, CT. He was elected a Massachusetts State Representative (or Senator, the records are unclear), and was a delegate to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention in 1820 and again in 1853. He died on October 11, 1860 in Greenwich, MA.
Two photographs appear to be missing as there are names written below the cut out, but no photo. One photograph of a young boy has residue over his face. Cover wear and rubbing. Damage to back strip.
10. [business history][ merchants][ ledger][ accounting][ science & technology][ women's history] A Collection of Ledgers Relating to Warren D. Rowley's Merchant Business Personal Financial Accounts. Warren D. Rowley. Trenton & Utica, NY. 1834-1850. A collection of five (5) ledgers
Brooklyn Virtual Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 19 belonging to Warren D. Rowley (1800-1854) Four (4) relate to his mercantile business and one with his personal finances. Rowley conducted business in Trenton and Utica, with his business partner, Daniel S. Curry (1820-1890), who was also his brother-in-law. The ledgers dates from 1834 to 1850.
1) A pair of related ledgers dating 1835 to 1841. The smaller ledger contains alphabetical index tabs listing Rowley & Curry's clients and corresponding page numbers. approx. 80 pgs, 10 are blank, They include the customer name, item purchased and cost. The items listed are for a variety of goods, such as: pocket knife, veal, shovel, oats, shoes, set of china, borax, and candle sticks. Both the index and the majority of the rest of the pages are loose or detached. Plain tan card stock covers. Measures 12 3/4" x 4 1/2". The corresponding ledger lists the accounts for each individual listed in the index. Interesting numbering system, hand numbered by Rowley, every other page, allowing a second page of accounting per customer. Includes 156 accounts and 312 pages with most pages filed. The accounts in this book record only the financial transaction's themselves, rather than the items sold. As such the majority of the entries list the name of the account holder, date of transaction, and a series of monetary numbers that appears to be interest added to the account of a period of time. Notes are made on the account when it is either paid in part or full. Several of both Rowley and Curry's relatives are listed in the ledger. Half bound leather and marbleized covers. Measures 12 1/2" x 8".
2)The third ledger with marbled stock wraps, begins with a Memorandum of Goods for the business, along with a few individual accounts and dates from 1834-1836. Next there are approximately ten (10) pages devoted to transactions between Warren and his brother, Hiram Rowley (1811-1841), as they trade by barter. The rest of the ledger is blank until the end, when reversed and used as a composition notebook for class. This section is entitled "Philosophical Notebook: Names of Pupils in Philosophical Class: Mary Ann Bull, Julia Wakefield". It is unclear how these two girls are related to Rowley, but most likely one his daughters and her friends used the book for notes. There are nine pages of notes relating to a variety of scientific fields such as Physics and Dynamics. Often times within the notes it states a scientific law, such as the law of motion, and then detailed out a small experiment or real word observation that proves the law. Marble covers. Approximately 1/4 filled. Measures 7 3/4" x 6 1/2".
3) The fourth ledger is entitled "Rowley & D. S. Curry Memorandum , April 1847" and includes inventory of their stock from their store in South Trenton, NY. The items are divided into the following categories: Groceries, Dairys [sic], Hardware, Crockery, Dry Goods, Fancy Goods, Hats & Caps, Shoes, and an untitled paper goods section. After this inventory are several pages of recordings of a variety of cash transactions both to individuals and other businesses. Blue wrappers. Stitched binding. Nearly completely filled. Measures 5 1/5" x 3 1/2".
4) The ledger dates from 1840-1950, and appears to record various personal financial transactions of Warren D. Rowley. The front cover of this ledger is embossed with the seal of the Bank of Central New York, Utica. Includes two pages from 1840 and eight from 1850. The remainder is blank. Some of the items are: candles, molasses, flour, "paid
Brooklyn Virtual Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 20 Patrick 1 1/2 day", eggs, 1 1/2 yards of flannel, and beef. One page notes the amount Rowley paid in taxes for 1850, some of which are tax records are for his business with Curry. Brown leather covers with embossed seal. String binding. Measures 5 3/4" x 3 3/4". (#20202289) $425.
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Note: The business name Rowley & Curry should not be confused with Curry, Rowley & Co., a printing firm in Utica, NY started in 1866 by Warren's sons Hiram C. and Warren C. and Orrin Curry (1816-1915), who was Warren D.'s brother-in-law (and Daniel S. Curry's brother), and therefore the two boy's maternal uncle.
Warren Dunham Rowley was born on June 20th, 1800 to Asher Rowley (1766-1843) and Mehitable Dunham (1774-1839) in Winsted, CT. . He married Nancy Davis Stanton (1813-1837) on October 20, 1835 in Trenton, NJ, and had one daughter Nancy Davis Rowley (1837-1846). After the death of his first wife, he remarried Harriet Maria Curry (1818-1889) in 1837 and had 8 children with her: 3 unnamed infant children who died, Warren Curry Rowley (1841-1928), Hiram Curtis Rowley (1844- 1922), Nancy Helen Rowley (1846-1925), Sarah Cornelia Rowley (1850-1952), and Harriet Sophia Rowley Parker (1853-1943). Warren Rowley at the age of twenty taught school for several years in Chesterfield, VA and Winsted, CT before moving to Utica, NY (and later Trenton, NY) and entering the mercantile business. For a time he was business partners with his brother-in-law Daniel S. Curry (1820-1890). He was commissioner of schools and Justice of the Peace for several terms in Trenton, NY. Warren died at the age of 54 on September 5, 1854. Of Note: Warren's son, Hiram C. Rowley would marry Thirza Jane Merriam (1845-1919), and join her family's printing business, Merriam-Webster.
General wear and toning. Binding is loose with majority of pages detached for ledger with index.
11. [Women's History][ commonplace books][ quotes][ literature][ poetry] Hatty's Books of Wisdom and Ignorance, A Trio of Commonplace Books Belonging to Harriet "Hatty" S. Rowley. Harriet S. Rowley. Utica, NY. [1872-1888]. Three commonplace books, belonging to Harriet "Hatty" Rowley of Utica, NY. The books date from circa 1872 to 1888, and cover a variety of topics. The books are nicknamed the Books of Wisdom and Ignorance, in part because one notebook was actually titled "Ignorance Book" by Hatty, while the other two books hold recordings of quotes from famous authors and orators of the late 19th century, and as such they are full of 'wisdom' and advice on life.
The first commonplace book in this collection, holds quotes from a variety of different sources. It dates from 1872 to circa 1884. The quotations mainly focus on the morality of man and how to live a fulfilled life. The majority of the quotes can be attributed to some of more famous authors, poets, and orators, of Hatty's day, though some are from previous centuries, such as Shakespeare. Other examples of individuals quoted from are: Henry Ward Beecher, Sydney Smith, Thomas
Brooklyn Virtual Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 21 Wentworth Higginson, Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Thomas Carlyle, John Adams, Williams Makepeace Thackeray, George Elliot, Margaret E. Sangster, Longfellow, E. B. Browning, Owen Meredith, and Julia C. R. Dorr. There are also quotes from proverbs and plays, such as Nicholas Nickleby, as well as excerpts from poems and stories published in Harper's Magazine or Harper's Bazaar. Sometimes Hatty included quotes regarding specific holidays, such as Easter, Christmas or Valentines. Brown leather covers. Gilt edge interior pages. Completely filled with several pieces of interfoliata. Measures 7 3/4" x 6 1/4".
The second commonplace, dating from 1872-1888 also contains quotes on 'wisdom', but it is organized in a different manner than the first one. This book only contains quotes from books Hatty has read, often starting with the title of the book at the top of the page, and then recording a series of excerpts from the material that she found worth remembering. Often times the location, such as the library, she loaned the book from is recorded, as well as the dates she read it on, and at least the chapter number, if not page number, of the quote. Some of the books quoted from are: Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of Riots of Eighty by Charles Dickens, Christian's Mistake By D. M. Mulock [Craik], Sunnybank by Marion Harland (penname for Mary Virginia Terhune), The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Adam Bede by George Eliot. There are thirty- nine (39) books quoted from, and an index of the books, along with the corresponding page numbers in which they can be found on is located at the back of the book. Half bound leather and marbleized covers. Marbleized edging on interior pages. Nearly two-thirds filled, with interfoliata (which are often actually book pages). Measures 10" x 8".
The third and last item in this collection has been self titled "ignorance Book", and dates from 1883-1888. It features short summaries on random topics that Hatty found intriguing and had been previously ignorant of. There are descriptions of various locations, monuments, churches, short biographies, 'day in history' and other random bits of information. For example, on the first page of the book is information on the US Life Saving Service (which would eventually merge with the Revenue Cutter Service to form the US Coast Guard), which had 201 'life saving stations' along the coast. Some of the other topics within this book are: Christ Church in Boston, MA, Chippendale's Furniture, the first white settler of Boston, Venus of Milo, Florida, 'A Singular Mathematical Fact', and The Oldest Tavern in Boston. There are several newspaper clippings pinned in as well containing random bits of information. These clippings and few annotations stating 'Harper's', makes it clear that when ever Hatty came across a random bit of information she liked in the local magazines and newspapers she was reading, she would record it here. At the back of the book, are several pages of various bits of advice and instruction on household matters with a few small instructional drawings. Some of the topics covered include: how to make a shore wrap, a soiled clothes or rag bag and crotchet curtains. Half bound leather and black cloth covers with gilt embossed decorative border. Marbleized edging on interior pages. Nearly half filled. Measures 8" x 6 1/2".
Below are some quotes (and facts) found within the commonplace books:
"There is no day born, but comes like a stroke of music into the world, and sings itself all the way through. There is no event that is discordant. All times and passages are full of melody, if we would but hear." - H. W. Beecher (1813-1887), American clergyman & Social Reformer
"Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing." -Sydney Smith (1771-1845), English writer and cleric.
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"It isn't the thing you do, dear, / It's the thing you've left undone / Which gives you a bit of heartache / At the setting of the sun / The tender word forgotten ..." - Excerpt from 'At Sunset' by Margaret E. Sangster (1838-1912), American poet
"The ability to secure your own way and impress others with the idea that they are having their own way is rare among men; among women it is as common as eyebrows." - Excerpt from 'Queen of Sheba' by Thomas B. Aldrich
"The New England Spool Company at Saugatuck [CT] make SPOOLS of birch and the wood comes from Maine in sticks 4 ft long and about one inch square. It is piled under the sheds near the factory and allowed to season thoroughly..." - Excerpt from the "Ignorance Book"
"THE FLORENCE NIGHT MISSION. 29 Bleecker St. between Broadway and Bowery, New York, is a temporary home for fallen women desiring to lead better lives. Admission any time, day or night. Meetings every evening at 8:30. Henry D. Gibbert, Supt." - Excerpt from the "Ignorance Book" (#20202497) $1500.
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Harriet "Hatty" Sophia Rowley was born on February 16, 1853, to Warren Dunham Rowley (1800-1854) and Harriet Maria Curry (1818-1889) in New York. She had several siblings: Warren Curry Rowley (1841-1928) and Hiram Curtis Rowley (1844-1922), Sarah Cornelia Rowley (1850-1952), Nancy Helen Rowley (1846-1925), and a half sister, Nancy Davis Rowley (1837-1846). She lived in South Trenton, NY with her family until they moved to Utica, NY In 1866. She eventually would move to Springfield, MA and lived with her brother Hiram until his death in 1922. Harriet herself died at the age of 91 on October 26, 1943. All commonplace books have general toning and wear, along with edge wear. Book 1: Detached front cover. Heavy damage to backstrip and binding. Book 2: Detached covers. Heavy damage to backstrip and binding. Book 3: Detached back cover. Moderate damage to backstrip and binding.
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12. [Albums and Journals][ Manuscript][ Love and Friendship][ Women's History][ Acrostic] Comprehensive Friendship Album for Susan Peters Embellished with Embossed Hand colored illustrations. J. C. Riker (NYC). Providence Township, PA. 1846-1861. 113 hand numbered pages, almost all with verse including the four embossed plate pages, two are been hand colored. Of note, recto and verso of embossed page different colors. Includes an array of personal and copied verses. Only one small naive pen and ink drawing. Two acrostics, one in traditional format - Susan Peters, the second the name of the writer with some positive things to say about himself. Entries from Providence, Port Providence, Upper and Lower Providence, Whitemarch, Philadelphia, Norristown, Plymouth and more. A nice example. (#29001335) $425.
Well read with moderate wear. Along the way some well meaning individual reinforced the backstrip with electrical tape... Pages 113-114 lacking. 115 attached to endpaper. Well used. Flaking short pulp paper backing etc.
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13. [Works by Children][ Social Situations][ Story Sequence][ Family Dynamics][ Child Development] Carol Binkett. Original Art - The Big Drawing Book Consisting of 72 Pencil and Crayon Drawings By Carol Binkett - Grades 2-7. Carbondale PA area. 1940s. Seventy-two (72) Pencil and crayon elaborate and detailed drawings by a young girl, who appears to have a very large family. No detail is too small for this young artist beginning with the title page "The Big Drawing Book by Carol Binkett. Each letter is colored with a different color crayon. From her first chaotic drawing titled "The Color Family" that includes 13 children in a kitchen - scenes such as a boy atop a dish cabinet (filled with multi-colored dishes) His clothing and the vase are one color and the flowers are another. The three (3) girls putting away dishes have stacks of plates and cups all in different colors. Beyond the color, all of the children are working cooperatively and smiling. The art is naive and remains that way with only minimal improvement as she ages, but the degree of detail and story sequences built into each drawing is of particular note. Subject matter crosses a variety of areas from holidays and sporting events to lessons in etiquette and morality. A majority of the scenes feature predominantly girls and often have a sign "No Boys Allowed". Beginning in the third grade multiple scenes or panels are introduced to tell a progressive story. The most detailed pages include 12 panels. Carol appears to be dyslexic with backwards letters strewn throughout. Misspellings are frequent and have been annotated in italics.
The titles of the drawings follow
• The Big • Gas & Rubber • Christmas Drawing Book Saver Morning by Carol • Ghost Street • Playing Binkett • Christmas “Cowboys” at • The color Morning My House Family • Getting the • Going • A Mistake for Christmas Shopping Peggy Tree • Cow in the • Winter • Ha Ha Afreed Road • Safety First of a Mouse • Forbidden • Christmas Eve • Sking • A Baloon Ride • Winter Fun
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With far too much content to discuss click HERE for a detailed overview of the images. The drawings in grades 2-6 are numbers, several pages are lacking. Drawings are on both the front and back of the pages. Pages measure 9" x 12" . To view images click: (#27019938) $2,300.00
Brooklyn Virtual Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 27 14. [friendship album, poem, missionary, India, religion, family] Friendship Album Belonging to India Missionary Amelia Mercy Newton Little, circa 1841-1847, from Sherburne, NY. J C Riker. New York. [1840]. "To the Dear Brother or Sister to whom this album may be allotted. I would gladly have kept this because it was prized by my dear Amelia, but considering the uncertainty of missionary life and the fact that the writers are strangers to me, send it to you knowing that you will prize it highly. Forty hours have past since the spirit of our beloved Amelia sped to its home in heaven. More blessed then we she has gone where sin and sorrow are not. Where her savior is and where angels as well. Her robes are white, a crown of gold upon her head, a harp in her hand, she bows before the great white throne and sings hallelujah to God and the Saints. Oh let us haste to prepare for our journey to the blessed above."
Interfoliata included with the album is the short note quoted above, written by Reverend Charles Little (1818-1892), Amelia's husband, shortly after her death in India, and placed into the album, as he returned it to her family.
Amelia was a young girl from Sherburne, NY, who shortly after marrying her husband in 1847, travel to India with him to work as missionaries. Unfortunately, she passed away shortly after arrival. This friendship album spans the years 1841-1847,as a school girl, prior to her departure to India. The majority of the entries are from her friends from Sherburne, NY or near by towns in 1844-1846, and consist mainly of poetry/. The later entries in 1847, tend to be letters or short notes written as she prepares to start her journey to India. The latest entry in the album, on December 19, 1847, is by her brother, Isaac S. Newton (1825-1889), who is two years her junior, and her closet sibling in age. It is full of hope for the new life his sister will, and also talks about the strength of his love for her, and how the ocean between will not dim its strength. Additionally , some entries discuss Amelia's decision to take on the missionary lifestyle and the sacrifice, deprivation and suffering it will bring. and Below are excerpts from entries in the album:
"While youth's lovely light To moulder in the tomb Beams from thy laughing eye, Then grasp them, vast eternity Account the precious hours of time Alone can fully tell And seize them as they fly The value of thy fleeting youth They'll change thy raven locks to snow Oh then And fade thy cheek of bloom improve And oh! too soon they'll bear thee on it well." - N. A. Turner, Nelson, NY, July 14th, 1845
"Perhaps this is not the proper place, my sister, to express freely the feelings of the heart. Custom may have rendered it the appropriate receptacle of affected expressions & jingling nonsense. If so, let the occasion excuse the impropriety; for, standing as we do upon our country's border - you to bit it, and your friends a final farewell; myself, to accept your adieu and offer the same in return - it is no time for soulless assertions] of friendship and lasting love. What mutual affection which has always existed between us was of no ordinary kind I have often felt. Those natural ties which unite members of the same family are indeed strong; but may they
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not be - in our case have they not been - strengthen by circumstances? In childhood we joined in our sports - holding hands together as we sought the old school house... Though oceans roll between us, the ties of affection will not be severed. We have a sister in heaven. We loved her. Do we not love her still! At her Father's bidding she crossed the wide ocean that separates time from eternity, but to me, sad would be the thought that sister Maria's love died with her death.... If the strong hand of death severs not these ties why should mere separation? To India hereafter I shall look with different feelings not merely as to a land of millions starving for the bread of life, but as to the home of a Dear Sister - the land of her adoption - the abiding place of all I love. Amelia, that you have chosen a life of toil & inspiration. You well know, you will be called to suffer - to endure but these sufferings and this endurance will be borne in a glorious cause - the cause of out Master, he suffered to save souls..." - Isaac S. Newton, Boston, December 19, 1847
"Dear Amelia, we are about to separate, we who just learned to love, just learned to reciprocate kind thoughts and feelings and whose hearts often beat in unison, we are soon to part, perhaps never to meet face to face, this side of eternity " - R. A. Tweidy (Friend)
"You bid me go, my lady, In search for gems of thought, And my coming ready To take the jewels bought. Where shall I seek the treasure, Which best may suit your taste? And yield you greatest pleasure, Now prove a total waste" -L. L. Salisburg, Sherburne, NY, January 2, 1841
The album itself has red covers, with a gilt stamped lyre on both the front and back. The frontispiece is an engraving which shows an indigenous person kneeling by a river surrounded by woods. The rest of the engravings, four in total, don't fit the theme of the frontispiece. The engravings with hand finishes, are of illustrations of an open book, featuring an illustration of the flower and a poem about the flowers - which are crocus, harebell, woodbine, and mountain daisy. There are two pieces of original artwork, hand painted illustrations of flowers as well. Approximately two-thirds filled. Measures 7 ¾” x 6 ¼”. (#20202412) $475.
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General wear. Rubbing. Stains on covers. Tape repair to binding. Some folios are loose. New endpapers. Minor foxing.
Amelia Mercy Newton (sometimes Mercy Amelia) was born on February 7, 1823 to William Newton (1786-1879) and Lois Sage Butler (1790-1885) in Sherburne, NY. She had numerous siblings: William Butler Newton (1811- 1901), Louisa A Newton Lathrop (1813-1904), Lucinda Newton Williams (1815-1892), Warren Newton (1818- 1891), Maria Newton (1820-1836), Isaac Sprague Newton (1825-1889), Lucius L. Newton (1827-1912), Hubert Anson Newton (1830-1896), Albro H, Newton (1832-1919), Homer C. Newton (1835-1915), and Anny Newton (1840-?). She married Reverend Charles Little on September 29, 1847. In December of 1847, they traveled to India to become missionaries arriving in May 1848.. Unfortunately, Amelia would die in Madurai, India shortly after
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her arrival on July 18, 1848. Charles would return later that year, and eventually remarry, Susan Robbins (1825- 1873), in September 1853, and again head to India with his new wife. There Charles and his second wife, Susan, lived for ten years before returning to the States. They had several children while in India, Including a little girl in 1857 named Amelia Newton Little in honor of his first wife. Unfortunately, they baby also died in India in 1857.
15. [firemen, fire department, fire company, rhode island, fire engine, minutes] Coventry Factory Fire Engine Company. A Pair of Journals Belonging to the Coventry Fire Engine Company. Anthony, Coventry, RI. 1864-1894. A set of two notebooks containing nearly thirty years of the meeting minutes of the annual July 4 gathering of the Coventry Factory Fire Engine Company. These minutes includes a list of members and officers voted in each year as well all the outcome of any topic put to vote. The meetings take place in Anthony, RI, which is a small village within Coventry, RI. The smaller copybook, is completely full and contains minutes from their annual meetings dating from 1864 to 1881. The second and larger notebook begins where the first notebook left off, in 1882 and continues until 1890, when at the annual meeting there was no quorum present and as such "the charter [of the company] was declared forfeited [sic] and the company disbanded." In August of 1893, the company was reorganized under the old charter. Four more meetings follow in 1893, with the last meeting recorded stating that the fire company met to compete at the Kent Co. Fair and won the third prize of ten dollars. Included with this set are several receipts and notes of the fire company. There are eight (8) receipts dating between 1893-1894 (two of them are undated). One scrap piece of paper which served as a draft for a portion of one of the annual meeting minutes. A roll call list of members from the 1893 annual meeting. A list of dues paid by each individual member. And lastly a note dated September 15, 1893 which certifies that the fire company won the third prize in the Hand Engine Contest Open at the Kent Co. Fair. Below is an excerpt from one of the entries:
"The squirt gun was tested and proved very satisfactory. It was voted that [Lt Capt] Byron Matteson be a committed to inspect the Hay Cart and any other machine he may see fit, and report as soon as posable. There being more business the meeting adjourned to the call of the Captain."
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- August 3, 1893 Meeting
These journals most likely belonged to Arthur J. Matteson (1859-1925) who was the Secretary of the Company from 1888-1893. Matteson lived in Coventry, RI and worked as a machinist. Small Notebook: Brown illustrated wrappers depicting several scenes of children on a farm. The back cover has a multiplication table and a decorative border. String binding. Completely full. Measures 8" x 6 ½” Large Notebook: Black decorative paper over boards. Red fore edge.. One fourth filled. Measures 8 ½” x 6 ¾”. (#29021415) $500.
General wear and toning. The smaller of the two notebooks has semi detached covers.
16. [Made by Hand][ Friendship Album][ Remembrance][ Journal][ Literature] Louis Gansler. Manuscript Wedding Album Presented to Mr. & Mrs. Fred Wagner as a Souvenir of their Wedding. Mill Hill, Barnet, England. 1897. A 27 page half-bound album with gilt stamp front cover reading Souvenir July 6, 1897 with the bride and grooms initials and a pair of love birds. A manuscript remembrance of the wedding embellished with hand drawn watercolor imagery. The dedication page dated Easter 1898 reads "To my dear Cousins as a token of Love and Esteem - Louis Gansler, Followed by a Preface and Presentation Page including particulars about the wedding. It was the marriage of Lizzie Meadows and Fred Wagner. This is followed by An extensive seven page narrative on the actual wedding and after parties that included a breakfast and evening trip to a local restaurant. This event was not attended by the newlyweds who were off to Switzerland via London. List of Guests - annotated for bridesmaids and groomsmen List of Presents x 2 Invitation to an Evening Concern at the great Dining Hall of "Ye Calfe's Head," Worsten followed by additional rules and activities for the event. Whimsical; tongue-in-cheek. "Epithalamion" an adaptation of Edmund Spenser's poetry. The Biter Bit - the tale of a prank at the event Telegrams from those unable to attend and the bride and groom announcing they were already in London at the
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time of the event A printed wedding invitation and keepsake A photograph of the newlyweds with fine watercolor border embellishments and scripture. A group photograph of the wedding guest Photos of some of the presents and the church.
The watercolor drawings and page borders are well executed, thematic and charming. Great care was taken the selection and development of content and the execution.
Measures 10 ¼” x 14 ¼”. (#29012526) $2200.00
The Preface states: The Object of the writer in preparing this book has been to produce a permanent record of an interesting event; and the attempts at embellishment are not meant as a display of any artistic talent, but rather to make the production as attractive as the limited capabilities of the writer would admit, and it is -- hoped that it may prove interesting to many who were present at the wedding. It is earnestly hope that any personalities the writer has indulge in will cause no offence, and should anyone feel annoyed at anything herein contained they are assured that the offence has been unintentional, and pardon humbly pleaded for. Thanks are due to those who have kindly supplied the writer with various details, and to Mr. Robt. Alison for the poem "Epithalamion".
17. [Watercolor][ Made by Hand][ Genealogy] Charles Arthur Hannaford RBA (1887 - 1972) An Watercolor Typescript Album Created to commemorate parents-in-law Rank Albert Allchin and Emily Cooper 1879-1929. Wroxham,Norfolk, England. 1972. A large format album reconstructed album illustrated and narrated by Charles Arthur Hannaford. The majority of the content, excluding the narration was created by his father in law and reflected the life of Frank Albert Allchin and his wife Emily Cooper, between the years 1879 and 1929. The cover of the album has applied steel initials of the couple handwrought by a member of the Blacksmiths' Guild. This fine album contains 16 typescript pages of commentary, preceding each of the 16 watercolor pages. Each page is
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noteworthy and in most instances includes some original watercolor(s) from the original album. They include
• a galleon at Fowey with the Allchin's family of "St. Willow" in the background; St. Albans, 1925 • "St. Albans" Holborn - sketch made in 1929 - of particular note as the background created by Hannaford was done after his mothers-in-law wedding veil. The white flowers at top are cut away from the background page and the watercolor is tucked beneath it. A copy of their marriage certificate precedes this page. • A view of Tredudwell Manor, Cornwall, with accompanying letters (1972) from Colonel Shakenley who lived at the Manor, embellished with farm animals, bees, etc. • The Royal Fowey Yacht Club, embellished with the yacht clubs pennant • A series of seven (7) small watercolors telling the story of mending the torpedo . Caricatures of Figures in Weymouth, 1916; • Emily in her Cornish garden Frank's Pro bono work • Two (2) fold-down pages of family tress illustrated with nine (9) small watercolors and photographs • A miniature deck of individually made watercolor cards laid out as a game of Patience with a flap when lifted revealing a devil seated atop the ace of hearts A watercolor of a rowboat at sea, about 1879 embellished with a pictorial map of the route to their first country home in Cornish • Houses of Parliament • Frank in his Cornish garden • A child's pencil drawing of his/her siblings with a watercolor of same, presumably created by Charles identifying each of the children A miniature handmade watercolor book signifying Emily's love of reading and a photograph of Frank at his desk. the marriage certificate of Frank (born Frederick) and Emily. Presented in a beautiful leather bound album with initials on the front
Measures 10 ½”" x 15". Exceptional remembrance in both composition and content. (#29012365) $2600.00
Charles A Hannaford, born on 4th August 1887, was the son of the renowned landscape and coastal painter, Charles E Hannaford (1863 - 1955).
Charles A Hannaford was educated at Devonport High School and studied art at Plymouth Art School.
Although he inheritedis hfathersjer artistic talent he went into the banking profession. On retiring from Lloyds Bank in 1935, he settled in Wroxham,Norfolk where he founded “Broads Tours Ltd.. As well as running the business, he used his talent in producing delightful watercolors. Many of his painting were illustrated in the small booklet he produced entitled “The Charm of the Norfolk Broads”. This also featured a centerfold map with drawings of mills, inns and all the landmarks showing places of interest along the waterways and the larger Broads.
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Charles A Hannaford painted right up to his death on 8th August 1972 age 85, the year this book was created.
18. [construction][ ledger][ account][ building][ business history] Memorandum of Expense of Materials, Labor, etc., for the Building by the Nine Mile Creek in South Trenton (NY), 1844. . South Trenton, NY. 1844-1845. A small ledger regarding the expenses, both material and labor, for the construction of an unidentified building along the Nine Mile Creek (also spelled Ninemile Creek) in South Trenton, NY. The owner of the building or the purpose of the building is never specified. The ledger starts with a list of materials purchased for the construction, such as lumber, stone and shingles between April 1844 and September 1844. After a few blank pages of particular interest are a number of notes of agreements between the owner and various contractors for various aspects of construction with detailed specifications and agreed to payments. These notes start in June 1844 and end in May 1845, and deal with everything from the construction of the cellar and chimney, to the installment of doors and painting. Four of these notes have been pinned into the ledger. The last section is a list of days in August and September of 1844 that two men, Humphrey and Jones, worked on the site. Nearly half filled (not including pinned in notes). Marble covers with pasted on title. Measures 6" x 4". (#22023856) $225.
General wear and soiling.
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19. [diaries][ traveling installer][ pocket diary][ social situations][ courting][ love] 1866 Pocket Diary of a Traveling Alarm Bell Installer in Pennsylvania and New York. PA & NY. 1866. diaries, traveling installer, pocket diary, social situations, courting, love |A pocket diary of an identified traveling tradesman whose territory was northwestern Pennsylvania and the southern region of Upstate New York along the Pennsylvania border. It is unclear exactly what type of tradesman the author of the diary is, however throughout the journal there are references to installing bells, or cutting plates (otherwise known as strike plates which metal spokes would hit to create a bell sound), Thus the supposition that he is an alarm bell installer. Often traveling by stage coach, though sometimes rail, the man spends his days drumming up business in the towns he visits, making observations on the town, its people, and surrounding country. |When not working, he visited friends and becoming enamored with young women he meets along the way. His promotion efforts, observations on the towns and calls on young woman are the highlight of this diary. The author is a prolific journaler making an entry for almost everyday of the year. However, these entries start to become shorter in the summer, until the majority of the entries listed only his location. . Some of the Pennsylvania locations he travels to are: Westfield, Elkand, Bingham Township, Muncy, Towanda, Rochester, Williamsport, Carlisle, Milton, Danville, Ashville, Harrisburg, Potter County, and Tioga County. Some of the New York locations he travels to are: Elmira, Troy, Auburn, Binghamton, Norwich, Springtown, and Port Byron. Additionally, in December of 1866, he does make a trip to Cleveland, OH, and stays there much of the month. There are two notes which are out of place in the diary - an inscription "My fathers diary when in the army". and The second a phrase "Williamsport, PA, Married", first written on August 30, and then crossed out with "Mistake" written above it. "WIlliamsport, PA,Married" is written again written on the next day, August 31, but there is no other information provided. Both the entries leading up to the date and after make no mention of a wedding or new bride, or anything similar. Excerpts follow, note that his entries are riddled with spelling errors. Instead of using the term [sic] to denote this, the correct spelling of the inferred word will be placed within the brackets.
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"I stade [stayed] to the Troy House for the first last night and had a splend [splendid] time hear [here] and my buisness [business] havent ben [been] very good hear [here] to day much more than any other place that I ever have ben [been] in my life but I have had some plesent [pleasant] ours [hours] with the young ladies in the house and they are quite plesent [pleasant]. I think to sit down with and talk with to, spend some ours [hours] with them and I have ben [been] having loots [lots] of fun all day." - January 25, 1866.
"I have just ben [been] up and put in a bell on Water St and just one cutting plates to send a way and sent a sample to Towanda, PA." - January 29, 1866
"Stade [stayed] Elmira, I even ...... and have ben [been] quite buisy [busy] all day and this eavning [evening] I ben [been] set up with Mr. & Mrs. Frank and my company is Miss Hamilton and I have had a plesent [pleasant] time there but she was some what fritened [frightened] but I talked to her and she got so she dident [didn't] mind it and I dident [didn't] get a moment sleep and I dident [didn't] feal [feel] as if I wanted any. I must close, so good morning." - April 9, 1866
"I am stying [staying] at Mr. Haders and I have found every thing all gay hear [here] and I have ben [been] out on a walk this afternoon and I had a splendid time with some French gurls [girls] and one of them fell in love with me but I don't think it will do but any good and got back in good reason and wrote severl [several] letters and I retired at 9 Pm, so good night." - April 15, 1866.
"Myncy [Muncy] PA. I am hear [here] and found a quite old place and found my business all right but it seams [seems] not to be growing any, it seams [seems] to me a loss for such rich men to live in a place and then to not help build it up. I sold a good many geiftrs [?], so good night." - July 6, 1866.
"Danville, PA. I came over hear [here] and found to quite a plesent [pleasant] town and feal [feel] quite gay and find that there is very nice rowling [rolling] hills carried on hear [here] and the best part of the town is up on the South Hill, Market St has got some quite nice dwellings on it and one of the welthest [wealthiest] men in the place lives there.... and loots [lots] of business don [down] hear [hear], I feal [feel] as if I was going to start I could make a good more hear [here]." July 30, 1866.
"Ashland, PA. I have ben [ben] up to the coal mines to day and saw them pull mules down 288 yards from the top of the ground and I have had quite a plesent [pleasant] day, so good night." - August 19, 1866.
"Carlisle [PA]. I think this is the prittest [prettiest] leaid [laid] out place there is in the stae and built up the best of place in this state, every thing is so plesent [pleasant] hear [here]." - October 22, 1866
At the back of the diary is a slot to hold a pencil, and the remnants of a small folder to hold loose bits of paper. Black covers. Gilt edged interior pages. Measures 6" x 3 1/2". #29001093) $325.
General wear. Pocket folded on back is missing front flap. Minor edge wear.
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20. [business history][ death][ casket][ ledger][ undertaker] 1914-1915 Sales Journal of the Boyertown Burial Casket Company. Wm. H. Hoskins Co. Philadelphia, PA. [1914]. business history, death, casket, ledger, undertaker
A sales journal belonging to the Boyertown Burial Casket Company (B. B. C. Co.) located in Boyertown, PA dating from May 1914 to August 1915. While the company was perhaps most well known for its sale of caskets, it also sold a variety of items to the funeral industry during its run, such as casket linings, salesmen cars, suits (most likely for undertakers to wear), decor items for funeral homes and embalming chemicals. The majority of the entries into the ledger appear to be orders from undertakers or from different branches of the B. B. C. Co. for more supplies, and often feature a list of items purchased, such as: black suit, pine caskets, silk fabric (for casting lining) and even a candelabra. Part of these orders contain item numbers, instead of names. Some of the more interesting entries in the ledger are from when the company would also sporadically handle the full funeral services themselves, and on these occasions, the deceased name is noted, as well as services render. Some of which included: embalming, transportation of the body, shaving, porters to carrier the casket, permits and certificates, death notices, and prepaid fare for family transportation. On the base of each page is a running total of the finances. The ledger has 504 pages, all of which is a completely filled with the exception of a few blank pages in the middle. These blank pages serve as a divider between the end of 1914 and the beginning of 1915. Additionally, there are 1914 end of the year totals for the different departments and branches of the company. Written on the front cover is "S 3 May 1, 1914". Embossed gilt lettering on the back strip with states "Sales Journal, B. B. C. Co." Covers are red leather with gilt decorative elements and brown suede decorative panels with embossed decorative details. End papers are marbleized. 504 pages, completely filled. Measures 16" x 11". (#20205310) $450.
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The Boyertown Burial Casket Company was established in 1893 by brothers Charles A. Mory and Milton Mory after the towns undertakers complained about not receiving caskets fast enough. The business was extremely successful and at its peak was the second largest casket company in the world with twenty-two sales rooms and five manufacturing sites across the US, which produced about 60,000 caskets a year. In 1987 the company is sold to AMEDCO, a subsidiary of Service
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Corporation International. Unfortunately the sale, and subsequent rounds of layoffs did not save the company, and it went out of business in October 1988. General wear and soiling. Edge wear due to rubbing. The red leather on the covers is peeling up in some locations.
21. [friendship album][ poetry] Friendship Album Belonging to Sisters Caroline and Lucy Smith. Caroline and Lucy Smith . Ipswich, MA. 1831-1870. A friendship album belong to the the sisters, Caroline and Lucy Smith, which was given to them by their brother, A. Smith. The majority of the entries within the album date from the 1830s, and feature short quotes or poetry (some possibly original poetry) written by individuals living in or near Ipswich, MA. Some of the other towns mentioned are: Haverhill, Boston, and Newburyport.
The majority of these entries have been done in pen, though several of them have annotations in pencil, either to reflect the full name of the person writing, or to properly attribute the poem written by their family and friends to its original author. The first entry is titled "The Sisters". One entry features two small pencil sketches of plants. In addition to the entries from family and friends, there are a series of short entries, presumably from Caroline or Lucy. These entries generally date from the 1860s, and appear to be notes on locations or events from which dried flowers were pressed into the album. Unfortunately these flowers appear to have fallen out and none still exist within the album. Some of theses notes are: "Flowers from the bouquet at the Russian Dinner, July 1864", "Prince of Wales, Oct. 17 1860" (referring to a trip the Price took to America in 1860, and on October 17-20 he was in Boston), and "Plum Island [MA], Oct. 1. 1867". There are approximately twenty eight (28) black and white engravings, mostly vignettes topping select pages plus the frontispiece. The majority of them are either landscape or nature scenes, though some feature women and children. The books is approximately two-thirds filled. Ochre leather covers with gilt decorative floral border. Gilt fore-edge. Endpapers have decorative silver filigree. Measures 7 3/4" x 6 1/4".
Below are some excerpts from the entries in the album:
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"Brightly upon their parent stem / I saw two lovely flowers; / Glistening with the morning's gem, / In their native sunny bowers; / Where nourished with affection's dew, / They side by side together grew."- Excerpt from "The Sisters" by Anonymous, Jan. 7, 1834
"Toll not the bell of death for me, / When I am dead : / Strew not the flow'ry wreath o'ver me, / on my cold bed. / Let friendship's sacred tear / on my fresh grave appear, / Gemming with pearls my bier - / When I am dead." - Excerpt from entry "L. Aug. 26, 1831, originally from an old Spanish Ballad.
"I go, sweet friends! yet think of me / When Spring's young voice awakes the flowers; / for we have wandered far and free, / In those bright hours, the violet's hours." - Excerpt from entry "L., Boston, Jan. 18, 1836", originally from the poem "I Go, Sweet Friends" by Felicia Hermans. (#20200109) $400.
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Edge wear. Surface damage to leather on front cover where sticker has removed top layer. Minor scratches and abrasions to covers. General toning. One end paper detached.
22. [friendship album][ poetry] The Sunbeam, A Friendship Album Belonging to Julia Sheldon of Deerfield, MA, 1858-1873. Leavitt & Allen. New York, NY. [1855]. The album was given to Julia Sheldon by her cousin, Edmund, for her 15th birthday on October 3, 1858. While the entries in the album date from 1858-1873, the majority of the entries date from the late 1850s. Additionally, most of the the entries are written by individuals who lived in or near Julia's home town of Deerfield, MA, The entries are either comprised of quotes (from the bible or literature), full length poems or excerpts of poems. Most of the poems can be attributable to their original author, however there are a few that may be original poetry (one is quoted below). Several of the entries are written by different members
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of the Williams family, and as such might have been Julia's relations from her mother's side of the family. Throughout the album there are a child's pencil drawings, mostly of different animals or shapes. It is unclear both who drew them and when they drew them. There are four black and white illustrations, including the frontispiece and the title page. Approximately half filled. Red leather covers with stamped, partially gilt, filigree design. Gilt edge interior multicolor pages. Measures 7" x 5 1/2".
Below are some excerpts from entries in the album.
"Sure, sober daylight is not half so fair / As this blest [charmed] evening hour; / The winds amongst the heavy foliaged trees / Sound like the rush of waves along the seas -- / Nigth hath such magic power." - Excerpt from entry by J. R. Phillips, a "sincere friend", Deerfield, MA, October, 23, 1858. The poem is "Night" by Minerva Osborn.
"Thou waitest late and com'st alone, / When woods are bare and birds are flown, / All frost and shortening days portend / The aged year is near his end."- Excerpt from entry by Jane J. Williams, June 1st, 1859. The poem is "To the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen Bryant.
"Swiftly on the wings of time, / The golden moments fly; / E'en while we pause to write a line, / An hour is passing by. // Our lives are like a flight of stairs, / Of warriors length they seem; / They 're all filled up with toils and care, / Just like a troubled dream. // When first we start our hearts are free, / Our hopes are fair and bright, / We think not that so soon twill be / A dark and dreary night. // And while we linger on out track, / The stair beneath decays; / And as we cannot journey back, / We must our footsteps raise. // So let us live that when we stand / Upon the topmost stair, / That we can see fair Canaan's land, / And hope to enter there." - Excerpt from entry by J. W. Williams, Deerfield, MA, September 27, 1859. Possible original poetry. (#20200253) $300.
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Julia West Sheldon was born on October 3, 1843 to William Sheldon (1815-1881) and Catherine Williams (1817-1891) in Deerfield, MA. She had eight siblings: Caroline Pamelia Sheldon Williams (1839-1886), Frances Williams Sheldon Ball (1841-1914), Catherine Sheldon (1846- 1846), Catherine/Katherine Williams Sheldon Noble Noble (1849-1922), Helen Theresa Sheldon Wells (1851-1925), Edward Sheldon (1854-1880), Ralph William Sheldon (1855-1873), and Miriam Leland Sheldon Hollister (1862-1939). Julia married Rev. George H. Hosmer (1839-1899) on December 10, 1868, and had one child, Ralph Sheldon Hosmer (1874-1963). Ralph would become a Professor at Cornell University. Julia died on October 10, 1919, after a long illness.
General toning and edge wear. Damage to binding. One gathering is loose and partially detached. Missing one sheet of glassine.
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23. [friendship album][ poetry][ Foreign Language][ German] The Friendship's Tablet, No. 6, A Friendship Album Belonging to Hattie, circa 1853-1855. Moss & Brother. Philadelphia, PA. [1850]. A friendship album belonging to Hattie, whose entries date between 1853-1855. Unfortunately, little is known about the owner of the album beyond her first name, though it is probable she was from New York, as several of the authors of the entries are from towns in New York, mostly Syracuse, though other towns such as Salem, and Cambridge, NY, appear as well. (Note: States are rarely provided with the town names in the entries, so this is conjecture). Other entries are from Philadelphia, PA, Pittsburgh, PA, and even a few from Lexington, KY. The entries consists of either quotes or excerpts from poems, most of which appear to center on womanhood, mortality, and friendship. Several of the entries are in German. The album features seven (7) black and white plate engravings (including frontispiece and title page). With the exception of the title page, which depicts the German town of Oberwesel on the river Rhine, all of the images are portraits of women. Approximately one third filled. Red leather covers with gilt stamp decorative designs, along with the word 'Album'. Gilt edge, multicolored, interior pages. Measures 8" x 6 1/4".|
Below are some entries from the album:
|"Her mould of modest dignity,/ Was form'd the heart to win;/ The dew drop glistening in her eye/ Showed all was pure within." - Entry by Horacio, originally an excerpt from a song "The Soldier's Widow"|"Look up! There is a small bright cloud alone amid the skies! / So high, so pure, and so apart, / a woman's honour lies." - Entry by E. W. L. October 29, 1855, originally an excerpt from "The Romaunt of the Page" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
"I see thee in the silver stream, / the budding rose, and graceful willow; / I see thee in yon morning beam, /
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And beauty of the glowing billow; / I see thy innocence and glee / In every lamb that skims the lea."- Entry of Forrester, originally an excerpt from the song/poem 'Marion Graham' by Ettrick Shepherd. (#20200105) $275.
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24. [friendship album][ poetry][ music][ Schools & universities][ Rochester Seminary] A Friendship Album Belonging to Emily S. Stanley during her time at Rochester Seminary, circa 1836-1841. J. C. Riker. New York, NY. 1835. A friendship album that belonged to Emily S. Stanley (1819-1904), who attended Rochester Seminary School in New York in the late 1830s. The album entries date from 1836- 1841, with most of the entries authored by fellow students at the end of each term before they went home. As such there are several entries throughout the years by the same individuals. There are even several entries by the same boy, George W. Stevens, over several different days in April of the same year (1841). Additionally, it appears as though Emily's future husband, James S. Orton (1816-1892), also attended the school, and wrote in the album at least twice. The majority of the entries are poetry, some of which is original, a few entries are notes to Emily or music sung at school, the latter of which sometimes was recorded by Emily herself. The first piece is just the lyrics of a 'Song Sung at the close of the examination', which, based on the lyrics and rhythm of the song appears to be set to the tune of the "Auld Lang Syne". There are two other pieces of music included in the album, these time with accompanying scores, entitled "606 Hymn: Tribute to a Friend" and "A Parting Song". The album itself contains five engravings, each is captioned with a title and the name of the engraver. They are as follows: 'Benares' by J. B. Neagle, 'Why Don't He Come' by Jno. Cheney, 'The Night Storm' by J. B Neagle, 'Death of Hassan' by Geo. B. Ellis, and 'The Castle' by [Geo B.] Ellis. Along with information on the the engraver there is also printer information provided under the image, namely Charles Bowen of Boston, MA. Though on one piece there is an additional printer named, D. Stevens. The
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album also includes a title page that has some small decorative filigree as well as a depiction of an open album and publication information. Brown stamped leather covers with gilt decorative elements, including a lyre, on the both the front and back covers. Interior pages are gilt edged. Completely filled. Most entries are in pen, though a few are in pencil. Measures 7 3/4" x 6".
Below are some excerpts from the entries:
"Many, and various are the thoughts and glowing the words that find record upon these pages. And how unlike are their tone, temper, talent and moral expressions. We can but think that such a book as this is, truly, a very apt emblem of the history of the minds of those who have written their thoughts on its pages. For in its we find many sublime, sweet and tender tributes to the memory of those who hone, trust and love thee..."- Excerpt from entry by George W. Stevens, Dansville, NY, April 20, 1841
"Make to thyself a name, | Not such as wealth can weave, | Whose warp is but a thread of gold, | That dazzles to deceive; | Not with the tints of love | Form out its letters fair, | That scroll within thy hand shall fade | like him who placed it there." - Entry by "Ja. S. Orton, Dansville, NY, Dec 1839", Emily's eventually husband. Poem is an excerpt from 'A Name' by Mrs. L. H. Sigourney
"The morning dawns again, | the shadows of night have flown; | That radiant star [Venus], it twinkles there, | the glory of the morn." - Excerpt from original poetry entitled 'A Morning Scene' by G. W. Stevens, Dansville, NY, April 21, 1841
"Should school room friendships be forgot, and never brought to mind? | And this blest spot, round which old | kind memories has twined?" - "Song Sung at the close of the examination of the Rochester Seminary, April 21, 1837", the entry includes eight stanzas, and the song is most likely set to the tune of the famous song "Auld Lang Syne".
"Parting -- Oh! who hath not felt their power? Who hath not mourned o'er the parting hour? | Quickly we cherish affection's ties | For minds of congenial sympathies; | But our lots may in varied scenes be cast, | Our brief communion too soon is past" Entry from William D. Forbes, Buffalo, NY, Rochester High School, April 14th 1837, poem originally from 'Partings' by Mrs. Abdy. (#20200237) $425.
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Emily S. Stanley was born on May 23, 1819 to Luman Stanley (1779-1839) and Martha "Patty" Mallory Hinman (1776-1859) in Mount Morris, NY. She had at least nine siblings (including an older deceased sister by the same name): Emily Stanley (1800-1817), William Henry Stanley (1802-1880), John Hinman Stanley (1804-1800), Frederick Stanley (1805-?), Elihu Lewis Stanley (1808-1900), Roxa Stanley (1813-1813), Catherine Stanley Whiting (1814-1889), Harriet Cornelia Stanley Allen (1815-1890), and Martha Stanley (1820-?). Her grandfather Deacon Jesse Stanley (1757-1845), was one of the the first 'pioneers of this country who came to Mt. Morris from Goshen, CT in 1811'. Emily was educated at Rochester Seminary (sometimes referred to as Rochester High School). She married James Stanley Orton (1816-1892) on May 22, 1843 in Mt. Morris, and had one child, Frederic S. Orton (1852-1852). She moved with her husband to Genesee, NY in 1844, were he was elected as county clerk and worked as a banker. She died on November 28, 1904. It should be noted, that in the album, James also refers to Emily as his cousin
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in the years prior to their marriage. Given the album's entry and the fact that his middle name is Stanley, this is most likely true, however the connection was not able to be confirmed through genealogical research at this time. Covers are detached, as well as a few pages at the front and back of the album. Some pencil entries are faded and hard to read.
25. [friendship album][ poetry][ women's history][ motherhood][ infant death] A Friendship Album Belonging to Mary Ann Pratt, Livonia, 19 Oct. 1829. Mary Ann Pratt Stanley. Livionia, NY. 1829- 1835. A friendship album belonging to Mary Ann Pratt (1813- c.1880) who lived in Livonia, NY, dating from 1829-1835. The majority of the album entries are from 1830-1832 and appear to be from her local friends from the surrounding towns of Mt. Morris, and Dansville, NY, though there are a few entries from 1834-1835 after her marriage to Frederick Stanley (c. 1807- c. 1870). The entries mostly consists of poems, with some original works, as well as short notes, whose general themes touch on memory, friendship, morality, heaven, and time. There is a acrostic poem of Mary's full name done by her friend, Bradner. There are three (3) pages of tucked in the pages with different verses dealing with the death of an infant child. It is unclear who wrote these poems as they are neither addressed to Mary Ann, or signed and or dated by a friend or family member. Additionally, no record of Mary Ann losing an infant child could be found, though that is not uncommon. Although the poems are sometimes titled incorrectly on the page, they were able to be properly attributed to their originally authors, in doing so, it was noted that in one poem the physical descriptions of the dead child within the poem were changed (blue eyed to black eyed). The poems used are, with incorrect titles in [ ]: "To a Young Mother" by Charles Sprague, "Death of an Infant [The Dead Infant]" By Charles Sprague, and "Lines on the Death of My Much Loved Infant [On the Death of My Dear Little Babe]" by Charlotte. Brown marbled covers. Red and brown marbled end papers. Nearly completely filled. Measures 9" x 7".
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Below are some excerpts from the entries in the album:
"Be assured dear Miss Pratt, that I feel a deep and tender interest in your present and future welfare. That you may be so happy as to secure the favour [sic] of that blessed 'One', whose outstretched arms are ready to encircle you in the embrace of everlasting love, is the sincere desire of your friend."- Excerpt from entry by Austus E. Stow, Livonia, NY, October, 29, 1829
"In summer's beauteous sky afar I view the lovely evening star Its beam ray | The poets say | Illumes [sic] the path for Cupid's ear | Perhaps its course may sometimes be | the star-lit path | But love would see | A fairer light | More pure and bright in J.....'s eyes | So guide to me." - Entry by 'C. N. B.', inferred to C. N. Beecher based on other entries, Dansville Village, NY, October 19, 1829. The excerpt is from the poem a 'Trifle from the French' published in the American Masonic Record and Albany Saturday Magazine
"Thou rarest a tribute, from my pen | A tribute due to friendship shrine | White pleasure I will grant the boon; | And tender forth my thoughts in rhyme. | The time I've set a part to thee, | Shall not be spent in flattery, | I will not say that in thee are combined..." - Entry from original poem by Bingham, Mt. Morris, January 31, 1830.
"There is a world we have not seen | That time shall never dare destroy; | Where mortal footsteps hath not been | Nor earth hath caught tis sound of joy." - Excerpt from entry by Almira Bacon, Mt. Morris, February, 22, 1830, attributed to a poem or hymn called 'The World We Have Not Seen'
"I laid my hands upon her brow and it was damp and cold, | her black [sic, blue] eye was glazed and fixed, the fearful tale was told, | I gently pressed her little lips, I felt her parting breath, | I gazed upon her little face, I asked can this be death?" - Excerpt from Interfoliata entitled "On the Death of my Dear Little Babe", it is actually from a poem entitled "Lines on the Death of My Much Loved Infant" by Charlotte. (#20200380) $350.
Mary Ann Pratt was born in or around 1813 to Jedediah Pratt (1786-1821) and Parna Barker (?- ?) mostly like in Albany County, NY. She lived in Livonia, NY in the 1830s. She married Frederick Stanley (c. 1807- before 1870) in or around 1835 and had several children together: Emily Caroline Stanley Parshall (1836-1908), Cornelia Amanda Stanley (1842-1926), William W. Stanley (1845-1926). Mary Ann's exact date of death is unknown, but it appears that she died sometime before 1880, and is buried with her husband in Waverly, NY.
Moderate rubbing and edge wear. Some pages are detached. General soiling due to age.
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26. [copybook][ manuscripts][ educational][ spelling][ printing & writing][ works by children] The American Writing Book, A Copybook Belonging to Mary Hattie Rogers, circa 1869-1871 - From Travel to Temperance. L. Henry. Pittsfield, MA. 1869-1871. The copybook features several short essays or stories by Rogers, mostly a page or two in length. The essays are on the following topics: the Pacific Railroad, New England, California, Housekeeping, Iron, Description of the High School Room, True Politeness, Mirth, and Intemperance (which appears to be a reference to the Temperance movement and is about salons and alcohol consumption. The four short stories are as follows: "Waiting to Cars" which is a about a waiting to take a train to Hartford, CT, and the people seen at the depot, "The History of a Shoe" is about a shoe owned by Mary and where she goes while wearing it, "A Visit to the Moon" is a fantastical story that is obviously about a trip to the moon, and "Two Characters Illustrated" is a short introspection about a widow and her son, and the son's classmate.
These essays and short stories date from October 27, 1869 to May 31, 1871. The last several pages of the copybook appear to be spelling tests or spelling homework assignments. Each page has been divided up into three columns, with twenty-two (22) words in each column. At the bottom is a line denoting the spelling errors found in the column. The spelling tests date between November 17 and December 28, 1869. The front cover of the copybook depicts what appears to be a large decorative fireplace or monument, and at the top is a woman wearing a crown sitting on a boat surrounded by four cherubs. Each cherub is holding a different item: an oar, a church, a mallet, and a caduceus. Measures 8" x 6 1/2" (#21000475) $125. Missing back cover, and an unknown number of pages. All pages loose and detached. They have been cut from originally binding.
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27. [friendship album][ poetry] Album of Remembrance, Friendship Album Belonging to Mattie Davis, circa 1861-1867 with Patriotic Drawings. Leavitt & Allen. New York. [1856]. A friendship album belonging to Mattie Davis, given to her by her father on Christmas Eve 1861.A first writing "My Album's open! Come and see! What! Won't you waste a line on me? Write but a thought, a word or two, that memory my revert to you." |It is unclear exactly where Davis is from but most of the entries in the album are from Taylorsville, IN, so she is most likely from that area. The album entries date from 1861-1867, and in addition to Taylorsville, IN, there are several entries from Dupont, IN, as well as few from Wilmington, OH. The majority of the album's entries are poetry or short verses with themes of morality and friendship. One poem of interest in the album is an original poem that is a parody of the poem "I Have Something Sweet to Tell You" by Frances Osgood.
The original poem's subject matter is a secret, namely a dream, that is to kept between to lovers. This parody poem turns that idea around as the dream is "the secret, you need not keep". |Also of note, are two drawings, both done by the same person. The first is a of the American Flag and shield, done in red, white, and blue, with the last stanza of the poem 'The American Flag' by Joseph Rodman Drake underneath it. Next there is a lovely pencil drawing of a visiting card, featuring the same motif of the American Flag and shield, along with the name "Konn B. Tayres, Main Street, Wilmington, OH". The album features five (5) black and white engravings, including the title page and frontispiece. The images are a mix of portraits and landscapes. Two of them are titled: "Ele Onora" and "Solitude". Tan leather covers with stamped design. On both the front and back covers, at center is a blue circle with gilt decorative elements and the title "Album of Remembrance". Multicolored interior pages with gilt edges. Approximately one third filled. Measures 7 3/4" x 6 1/4".|
Below are some excerpts from the album's entries:|
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|"Flag of the free hearts' hope and home, | By angels hands to valor given, | Thy stars have lit the welcome dome, | And thy hues were born in heaven." - Excerpt from entry 'The Wilmington Ohio March 10th, 1862, by K. B. T.', attributed to 'The American Flag' by Joseph Rodman Drake
"Harbor not one slight misgiving, For the light of faith is true; Near the sand, and press a foot print, It will lead thee safely through. Though the billows rise as mountains And the shore is shadow dim, Still remember, God is mighty, All is possible with him." - Excerpt from entry by 'Bernice C., Dupont, IN, Nov. 2, 1867', attributed to 'Listen' by Sara, published in Godey's Magazine, Vol. 70-71.
"I have something sweet to tell you, The secret, you need not keep; And remember when I tell you, That I heard it in sleep! For I know it was but in my dreams, That you sang and played all night: And when I woke at morning, You were playing not in night!" - Excerpt from entry by N. A. McGill, Taylorsville, IN, January 25, 1866, an original poem meant as a parody of 'I Have Something Sweet to Tell You' by Frances Osgood. (#20205578) $400.
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28. [copy book][ penmanship][ composition notebook][ morality][ education][ rapid writing] A Pair of Copybooks belonging to Charles A. Carlton. [1855]. This pair of copy books belong to Charles A. Carlton and they showcase the penmanship practices of individual letter, and how one flows into another. The two copy books are entitled: 'The Original Duntonian System of Rapid Writing, Revised and Improved, Designed for Academies, Seminaries, and Common School, No. 4', published by Whittemore, Niles and Hall in Boston, MA in 1855 and 'Potter & Hammond's Analytical and Progressive System of Penmanship, in Twelve Numbers, No. 4' published by Potter, Hammond & Co.
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in 1858 (OCLC 1, Dec 2019). Both books utilize similar systems designed to enhance one's penmanship and rapid writing. The systems involve a series of printed lines, letters, words, and/or phrases printed at the top of each page that one would then repeatedly copy. Each book starts off with simple curved lines repeated over and over again, with each section the curves becoming tighter and closer together. In the next section, individual letters are repeated over and over again with particular attention paid to how one letter connects into the next. For example, repeating the letter 'm' over and over. Eventually individual words are practiced such as 'testament', 'unicorn' and 'reminded'. At the end of the copy book, whole sentences are repeated, such as: "By a good deportment we gain reputation," and "Neglect no opportunity to improve the mind." Both covers feature decorative filigree and borders as well as small engravings of a hand holding a pen. Each cover has a space where the owner of the books, Charles A. Carlton, can write their name. The back covers have different printed advertisements. In the case of 'The Original Duntonian System of Rapid Writing' has information on other books sold by its publisher. The ''Potter & Hammond's Analytical and Progressive System of Penmanship' has information on 'The Providence Commercial Academy', a school for penmanship, book keeping and mathematics as well as a small engraving at the base of the page of a nib of a pen. Both have brown wrappers and string bindings. Measures 8 ½” x 6 ¾”. (#26018571) $125.
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29. [copy book][ penmanship][ composition notebook][ morality][ education][ Westbrook Seminar] A. F. Merrill, D. P. Merrill, & E.M. Merrill. A Set of Three Composition Notebooks belonging to the Merrill Siblings. Falmouth, ME. 1864-1869. A set of three composition notebooks belong to the Merrill siblings of Falmouth, ME. Their names were: Abbie Frances Merrill (1853-1944), Deering P. Merrill (1857-1941), and Esther M. Merrill (1855-?). Below is a description of each child's copybook:
Esther's copybook is entitled "The Scholar's Economical Writing Book for Common Schools" and was published by Sanborn & Carter, with no publication date listed. As this copybook features what appears to be the beginning exercises of penmanship and writing, this book was most likely used by
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Esther in the early 1860s. The book starts off with writing exercises where a single letter is repeated before moving on to individual words and short sentences, such as "Alabama" and "A man manners influence his fortune". Esther's full name is also repeated on a page as she learned how to write it. The front cover features a geometric decorative border, while the back features are more symmetrical delicate decorative border and a multiplication table. Yellow wrappers. String Binding. OCLC 0 (Dec 2019) Measures 8 ¼” x 6 ¾”
Abbie's copybook is entitled "The Young Lady's and Gentleman's Writing Book or Book for Compositions" published by O. L. Sanborn & Co. of Portland, ME. Abby has dated this book from 1864-1865. The copybook features a series of sentences repeated, such as: "Avoid temptation through fear that you might yield" and "Vice punishes itself but virtue secures its own reward." The last several pages are copied fake invites, receipts and short letters. The front cover has a decorative border that looks like lace. The back cover has a multiplication table. Dark blue wrappers. Sting binding. OCLC 0 (Dec 2019) Measures 8" x 7"
'Writing Book' is a copybook full of penmanship exercises belonging to Deering when he was twelve years old in 1869. The In additional various morality sayings that were repeatedly copied, the book also features the repetition of common words or titles like Mr., Mrs., Miss, and the days of the week, as well as local building and businesses such as the local seminary school, 'Westbrook Seminary', and the court house. The book itself was published by L. S. Manufactory of Cambridgeport, MA, with no publication date. Illustrated teal wrappers with a school days border and an engraving at the center of a group of school children, one of which is wearing a dunce cap. The back features the same school days border with a engraving of the store front of L. S. Learned. Teal wrappers. Sting binding. OCLC 0 (Dec 2019) Measures 8 ¼” x 7". (#26018075) $175.
General wear.
The Merrill siblings lived in Falmouth, ME in the mid 1800s. The children were born to John Alexander Pope Merrill (1823-1918) and Elizabeth Susan Merrill (1830-1907). The siblings names were: Abbie Frances Merrill (Feb 1853- Oct 8, 1944), Deering P. Merrill (1857- Dec 28, 1941), Esther M. Merrill (1855-?), Mary E. Merrill (April 2, 1866- Sept. 17, 1956), and Rueben Merrill (1878- Jan 29, 1979).
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30. [copy book][ ledger] Writing Book, An Accounting Book, Ledger for Purchase of Brewster Farm, an apple farm and resulting operation of the farm near Portsmouth NH, 1870-1880. Cutter Tower & Co. Boston, MA. This blank notebook has been partially filled out with an account of the expenditures of an unknown individual, dating form 1870-1880. It lists sold products such as apples and pears and payments for services, taxes, etc. Many of the entries include buyer or seller's name. The first entry is the purchase of Brewster Farm for $3,000. Shortly after L.L. De'Rochement purchased a portion of the farm for $700. The front cover has a large engraving of a hand holding a pen with a decorative border. The back cover also has a decorative border, but with a multiplication chart at the center. Blue wrappers. String binding. OCLC 0 (Dec 2019) Measures 8" x 6 ¾”. (#29001144) $150.
General wear.
31. [drawings][ watercolor][poetry][ poem][ flower][plants][fairy tales][ retellings] Journal of Flowers and Poetry, Reinterpretations of Old Tales. c1880. 68 pg journal filled with poetry and watercolors of flora. There are a total of 25 poems in the journal, as some cover multiple pages, however this is a watercolor piece on every page depicting various flowers. At times one can see the pencil the artist used to sketch the flowers before using paint. The poems are reinterpretations of old stories, for example "What the Old Man Does is Always Right" by Hans Christian Anderson. On the front inside cover, the album has been self -titled, "Monty, Getty, with the Author's Love." The artist has number each page and created an index at the back of the book listing each poem and its corresponding page. Some of the poems included are "The Tame Seagull", "The End of Two Black Beetles", and "The Story of a Greedy Crow". 9" x 7 ½”. (#28016100) $525.
Very Good. Minor soiling and toning on interior pages. Covers show moderate wear, mainly rubbing on the edges.
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32. [Social History][ Visual Culture][ Albums & Journals][ Commonplace Books] A Victorian Album with 78 Works comprised of album cards, hand penned poetry and verse and original art and design. Hildesheimer & Faulkner (album cards). 1870-1880s. Large format album with 39 leaves with applied fine chromolithograph album cards and illustrations on both sides of the page, in other words 78 decorated pages. .At the center of each page is an applied album cards surrounded by watercolor illustrations and elements relevant to the card and elaborate watercolor border designs. Some pages also include manuscript verse done for the most part in artistic writing styles. The decorations vary widely from a chain link necklace, to arching stalks of corn and a hand fan.
One set of pages includes a verse with little pen and ink scenes from nature with anthropomorphic animals and a large gold man in the moon. Another set of pages has an Aesthetic movement theme with appropriate cards and a tiny pen and ink drawing with a woman and an Oscar Wilde character admiring a sunflower. A full page is dedicated to the verse "It's Vera Weel' with the appearance of a page of illuminated manuscript. Each page frame worthy, although a much stronger impact as a
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single work. The cards,verses and decoration are an interesting study in social history and visual culture Album measures 14 ½” x 11 ¼”. (#28010935) $2,750.
Light wear (offset) on a few pages. Although the creator is unknown Great Grandfather Harry 1859-1933 book of calligraphy cards and drawings.
33. [Women's History][ Poetry][ Verse][ Watercolor Drawings][ Commonplace Book] Helen Maria Imrie, etc. A Fine Ladies Album and Commonplace Book - Helen Maria Imrie. Scotland. 1839-1866. 34 leaves. Two rows of elaborate stamped decorative devices on cover; outer border gilt stamped. An array of different colored pages, some with Dobbs Patent embossed border decoration including French love sentiments. A fine lady's book. The content is complete and the book is filled with the exception of two pages. The content includes an array of art including eight (8) cut-out and applied original floral arrays, two (2) near full page watercolors in charcoal and watercolor featuring a pair of grouse signed W. Gunton 1832, a small perforated paper with watercolor of a bird, pencil drawing of Portrait of Rembrandt, pencil drawing of lads around camp fire, pen and ink of Lord Byran, fine miniature penwork titled "Affection" with laurel wreath and a pair of love birds, pencil drawing of a male dancer and his shadow, an applied 2 ¼” x 4 ½” hand penned eternal love knot, a loose fine cutwork depicting a shelter with a shepherd and sheep, applied pencil and pen work of shoes through the ages from 1544-1830, tipped-in watercolor of floral array and a provocative pencil and watercolor of a young woman. (#28001989) $1,100.
Rebound at some point in the past. Light cover wear. Most likely Helen Maria Imrie 4 Aug 1820 - 24 Jul 1904, Ferry-Port-on-Craig, Fife, Scotland.
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34. [Analytic Workbook][ Textile Specimens] Anayltic Workbook including Textile Specimens, Philadelphia Textile School, Pennsylvania Museum & School of Industrial Arts by Adolphe Rusch, Jr. Pioneer in Lightweight Aviation Fabrics. c1900. A hard cover analysis book created by a student Adolphe Rusch, Jr. while a student at the Textile School. In depth analysis for each fabric including warp required, filling requires, warp dressing and filling arrangement details. This is followed by the actual finished piece of fabric and detailed hand created grids including design, harness chain and drawing-in draft to exemplify of how the fabric is constructed. The final component is all of the specifications for the loom. The book includes analysis of Cotton Waisting, Trousering, Figured Madras, Woolen Trousering, Fancy Dress Goods x 2, Fancy Madras, Worsted Suiting, Weave Analysis, Weave Analysis for Mourning Suiting and Fancy Worsted Trousering. Measures 10" x 8 ½”. (#26008125) $900.
Adolphe Rusch Jr. was a prominent member of the American silk industry and became an inventor of note in the pioneering of aviation fabrics. A 1919 Article in Textile World Journal by Rusch was titled "Aviation Textiles and Chemistry; An Interesting Review of Their Combination for War". He also patented electrically conductive flexible cable.
Cover wear.
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35. [Commonplace Book][ Sketch Book] Commonplace Book Illustrated in Pen and Ink and Watercolor- Birds, Spelling, Greek Architecture, The Eye, Trees, Joan of Arc. A 21 page commonplace book complete with index and profusely illustrated in black and white with color embellishments. The index page is boarded by patriotic scenes of an eagle atop a shield and three American flags bordering the side. The subjects include Birds, The Tailor Bird, Wood Pecker, Spelling, Greek Architecture, The Eye, Trees, White Pine, Scotch Pine, Joan of Arc and finally Ar. Concludes with a lone canoer on a lake. Anonymous. Appears to be the work of a senior elementary or high school age child. Measures 8 ½” 8". Housed in a school composition book. c 1910s. (#26005126) $600.
36. [friendship album][ lithography][ hand colored lithography][ art][ watercolor][ pencil][ ink sketch][ music] Album with Original Art and Hand Colored Lithography, musings and verse. England. c
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1830-1850s. An artist's scrap book filled with over fifty (50) pieces of original art work and hand colored lithography and other pieces. What makes this scrap book a unique find, is the consistent fine quality of the work within. Some of the hand-colored lithography is so expertly done that it becomes hard to tell whether or not it is a lithographic print. Pieces of note are: the portrait of a young girl with ringlets, and another portrait of a man in a turban. Some beautiful landscapes of farmland (rendered in pencil), an old stone bridge (watercolor), a boldly colored butterfly (color pencil) and bird (ink & color pencil), and 'A Pas de Deux' of crabs (ink). Additionally includes a pith watch paper with a thistle. A finely detailed tropical bird on a rose stem with nearby butterfly adorned with dried flora.
Along with artwork there are several original pieces of music and poetry. There are two pieces of music, a ballad and a round, along with their music score. The poems are both original pieces, and quotes from other notable poets of the day. Once such quote, written in beautiful calligraphy, is from the poem entitled "Woman" by Eaton Stannard Barrett.
"Would Woman govern tyrants? she concedes In slight concerns, and hence in weight, leads. Opposes first, to make surrender prized, And while she gives advice, appears advised"
Gilt and blind stamp leather. The pages are gilt-edged. The majority of the book has tipped in art work that has been secured to the page by glue and/or thread. Furthermore, the majority of the lithographic prints within have been hand colored, but not all. Most of the artwork is unsigned, however when it is, the initials are general the same three names, E.B., E.T., and A.C. Wigan. There is reference to the Armstrong family as well. A letter is included with the note "To my sister Daisy Armstrong, from my mother Mrs. Armstrong". The bulk of the material in the album dates from the 1930s. Measures 9 ¼” x 7 ¼”. (#27000302) $675.
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Covers show some wear, and the back strip and edges are slightly damaged due to rubbing. The binding is partially. A few interior pages are loose and/or detached. There is some glue residue on the interior pages as well, due to the original owner pasting in prints, but nothing that affects any of the artwork.
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37. [blank book][ copy book][ ledger][ sewing][ business][ business history] J.W. Orr, Engraver (NY) Blank Books Adapted to Fulton & Eastman's Book-Keeping, by Single and Double Entry - "Merchant Day Book" - Dry Goods, Fabric & Sewing Supplies. Moore & Nims. Troy, NY. 1848- . This copy book was provided to customers by the Manufacturers Moore & Nims. An unknown individual has used it as a ledger for their business. The ledger dates from January 3, 1848 to March 29, 1849, with all but the last few pages filled out. It is clear from the entries the author owned a dry goods store with an emphasis on fabric store as most of the items mentioned are fabric, thread or buttons. It also includes the sales of condiments, spices and dried fruits. Each entry is dated, tells the name of the customer, what was purchased and the cost.
An engraving by J. W. Orr is on the front cover. It features a heavily decorated floral and scroll border. On the front interior cover is a message "To the Pupil" which continues onto the back-interior cover. The back cover features an advertisement for Franklin Globes produced by Moore & Nims. There are seven globes engraved in this advertisement.
OCLC -1 (Feb 2019). However, the book cataloged has 24 pgs., versus this book which as 36 pages. All the other fields match this item.
Green paper covers, 36 pages. Measures 8 ¼” x 6 ¾”. (#28016155) $250.
Penciling on front cover. Minor toning and soiling on interior pages due to age.
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38. [song][ hymns][ religion][ poem][ poetry][ verse][ copy book][ music] Copy Book of Religious Hymns. Cover illustration - Pen Mightier than the Sword. Benjamin B. Mussey & Co. 29 Cornhill, Boston. c1850. This blank book was published by Benjamin B. Mussey & Co. sometime in the mid- 1800s. The unknown owner of the book used it to copy hymns of a religious nature. There are six hymns in total in the book, "A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief" by James Montgomery (based on Matthew 25-40), "A Romish Lady", "The Orphan's Song", "The Gloom of Autumn" by Selah and Timothy Gridley, "Remember the Poor" by Rev, H G. Barrus and "Dying Hymn" by Alice Cary. Below is a quote from the "Dying Hymn":
"Earth, with its dark and dreadful ills, Recedes and fades away; Lift up your heads, ye heavenly hills; Ye gates of death give way; My soul is full of whispered song - My blindness is my sight; The shadows that I feared so long Are full of life and light..."
The front cover has an engraving of a Prince meeting Clio, the Nymph of History, along with a parable. Essentially the parable is meant to show how the pen is mightier than the sword. Elaborate border decoration. On the back cover is a multiplication table as well as a list of other books sold by Mussey. No OCLC, Feb 2019.
Blue-green wraps. Strong color. 24 unlined pages. Measures 8" x 6 ¾”. (#28016156) $275.
Excellent condition.
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39. [blank book][ ledger][ accounting][ guardianship. probate court][ legal] Jonathan D Roberts. An Accounting of the Guardianship of Timothy Stevens. Farmington, NH. 1856 - 1864. A copy book used by Jonathan D. Roberts to keep an accounting of his guardianship of Timothy Stevens from 1856 - 1864. On the first page is a note that states Roberts was appointed Stevens guardian on February 5, 1856 and that this fact was advertised in the Dover Gazette on the first Tuesday in February. Next is an inventory of the Estate of Timothy Stevens valued at $1,011.37. What follows is a list of expenses incurred by Roberts, such as the cost of board, travel to the probate court, the cost of his services and a list of different bills paid out.
The front cover has an engraving of a monument that states "To Washington". The back cover has a multiplication table on it as well as the note "Always for sale, a general assortment of Blank, School, and Miscellaneous Books..." There is no mention of a publisher. No OCLC, Feb 2019.
Yellow covers, 16 pages. Completely filled. Measures 8" x 6 ½”. (#28016157) $225.
Covers have minor soiling due to age. On the first interior page the bottom inch has been cut out.
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40. [art][ anatomy][ drawing][ portraits][ science][ art school] Marjorie E Bullock. Artistic Anatomy, Drawings and Notes Penned by Marjorie E. Bullock. Missoula, MN. c1920-1923. The University of Montana's Department of Freehand Drawing offered a course called "Artistic Anatomy", and in the course description catalogue stated that the class "will be found profitable, and even necessary to the student who intends to pursue the study of art." This class was a blend of science and art, which is reflected in the notebook Marjorie Bullock used for this class. The notebook consists of notes on the scientific names of each part of the body as well as their shape and how they are connected to the surrounding tissue and limbs. Predominantly focuses on bones and musculature, all intricately drawn in full detail with all parts identified. Accompanying these notes are drawing (done in black and green ink) exemplifying these bodily features. While there are studies done of the entire body, most are smaller sections, such as "the skull", "Back view of Trunk", and "Outer view of the upper Limb". There are approximately 44 pages of drawings contained within the notebook. Additionally, 4 pages of pencil drawings done on tissue paper. Annotated on the drawings are page numbers, that most likely correspond to what every text book she was using as reference to draw from. Housed in a 1" Black fabric, 2 ring binder with embossed border. 146 pages. Measures 11" x 8 ½”. (#29007100) $650.
The fabric of the cover is soiled due to age. The interior pages are also soiled due to age. Some of the interior pages are partially torn from their ring-hole binding.
Marjorie Elizabeth Bullock was born on January 7, 1902 in Shell Lake, WI to William Loring Bullock (1873-1941) and Nellie Earnestine Nelson (1873-1940). The family moved to Montana shortly thereafter and her father, William, eventually become the County Attorney. Marjorie attended the University of
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Montana from 1920 to 1923 where she was a member and Vice President of the Delta Phi Delta Art Society and a member of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta, She married Capt. John Henry Ringe (1895 - 1943 in September 1923. They had one daughter together, Joanne Ringe (1924-2010). Her husband, a Colonel in the Army by this point, unfortunately died in a plane crash in September of 1943. At the time he was stationed at Camp Harahan, LA, and he and a pilot were on maneuvers when the plane crashed into the \Mississippi River. Marjorie died in October 1974. Both her and her husband are buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
41. [camp][ camping] The Masqua, Published by the Boys of Camp Belknap on Lake Winnipesaukee. Camp Belknap. Tuftonboro, NH. 1936. Camp is an all-boys summer resident camp found in 1903. Originally it was operated by the YMCA until 1996 when it switched to an independent non-profit. The boys ranged in age from 8 to 16 and could stay for one, two, four, six or eight weeks. Each year the camp puts out a Masqua, a compilation of the camp's weekly newsletters. Each week the newsletter would consist of short essays or stories written by one of the campers, copies of letters sent home, songs campers had made up, information on the various clubs at camp (such as the photography or nature club) or information on upcoming events like field trips, the 4th of July, or who won the camp tennis tournament. There is also one drawing that show a man saying "I'm wise, I'm voting for Campbell." This folder consists of 107 typewritten pages.
Below are a few excerpts:
"Gee! Camp is a swell place, especially this camp. We got radios n' everythin', 'cept out leader snores and I can't sleep nights, but it's all right 'cause my leader sleeps most of the afternoon anyway and he keeps the tent quiet so I get my rest in then..."
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- Letter home from Gilbert Stribridge.
"The season ends to our regret But we've made fiends we'll never forget; It's been grand to be here 'neath the pines And give our thanks to the Great Divine; We've helped ourselves, and others as well, How much is something we cannot tell. So, as we depart on our various ways So long, friends, and -- Happy Days." - Written by the Editor, Donald W. MacIssac as a goodbye at the end.
At the end of the Masqua there is a list of all the staff members, counselors (or Leaders as they are called), and campers for the Summer of 1936, along with their addresses. Also included is the letter that was sent to each camper with the Masque from "Pa", the camp director, Ernest P. Colon, and a list of all the boys with October and November birthdays. Wraps with 3-hole brad binding.
Green covers. Brad binding. 114 pages (107 numbered, index and title page not). Measures 11 ½” x 8 ½”. (#29001100) $350.
Interior pages are toned due to age, otherwise fine.
42. [poetry][ poem][ newspaper][ original writing] Wilhelmina Reid Fleming. Journal of Original Poetry of W. R. Flemming. Helensburgh, Scotland 1920-1940. A leather-bound poetry journal of Wilhelmina Reid Fleming that contains both Flemming's amateur original poetry, either in
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handwritten, typed, or newspaper clipping form, and some copied poems of other more famous poets. Below are some excerpts of her poetry:
"How silently the frost king weaves "The West Wind is calling his red flocks His flowers upon my window pane! home, All night he must have been at work To the empty folds below. Such wondrous patterns to attain." From the pastures high -- Excerpt from the Frost King Of the leaf-filled sky, And he whispers soft and low." -- Excerpt from Autumnal Flocks
The front cover of the journal has a decorative floral stamped design in the form of a circle. Approximately one third of the journal is full, pages are gilt edged. The spine of the journal has columns. There are two pressed flowers, one loose, and one which as been attached to a pasted in note card. There is one loose piece of paper found within the pages with another poem on it. Attached to the back interior cover is an envelope that was most likely used to store clipping before they were added to the journal. There is still one folded piece of paper within the envelope that has a handwritten copy of the poem "Tree" by Joyce Kilmer. Measures 10 ½” x 7 ½”. (#29008130) $350.
Minor damage to the covers and spine due to rubbing. Interior pages are toned and soiled due to age.
Although prolific, beyond the clippings, that most likely were from a local newspaper. Wilhelmina's work is unknown. She was also an artist.
Wilhelmina Reid Fleming lived in Helensburgh, Scotland, with her husband John Arnold Fleming. Their house was called Locksley. Wilhelmina and her husband married in 1914 and had no children. She died in 1963. Her husband, John passed away on October 22, 1966.
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43. [drawings][ song bird][ doodles][ cartoons] Joan and Nan's Book Of Cho and Patricia, Hand-drawn Anthropomorphic Drawings, a collection of picture stories about a pig and a bird. 1924-1925. A album featuring a series of drawings depicting the characters Cho and Patricia, a song bird and pig respectively. A collection of series of pictures telling the story of their unusual friendship. They include Cho going to church; a series of misadventures, building a brick wall, moving to a new flat, Pat trying to sing, Waiting for results, Spring 1924; featuring Pat leaving in her new spring bonnet because of Cho's continuous singing followed another series of Cho's misadventures, Pat and Cho playing tennis and concluding with a letter applied to the album - A "Sonit" sent from Cho to Pat about a "buteous" pig with intentional phonetic misspellings through out; truly charming.
Each page features a small drawing, mostly done in black ink, featuring one if not both of the characters. Cho is a small bird who loves to sing, and is often seen lamenting when the weather is bad. Patricia, the pig, appears to follow Cho around, taking care of the bird and worrying that Cho is exhausting herself with all that singing. Sometimes, in addition to the drawings, there is written commentary with the images.
On the inside covers (both front and back) there are two large drawings of a young girl wearing glasses. Additionally the title of the album is inscribed on the inside front cover: "Joan and Nan's Book of Cho & Patricia". The drawings are done on small to medium pieces of paper, sometimes lined, that have been pasted on to the album pages. A few of the inserts have been stapled onto the album pages. Most are either undated, or dated to 1924-1925.18 leaves, with predominately blank reverse. String binding. Measures 10" x 8 ½”. (#29008878) $550.
Covers show minor wear. Minor toning and soiling to interior pages.
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44. [Etymology][ language charts][ German][ Maps] J. T. Melchior. A Comprehensive Manuscript Three Volume Language Series Set of Saxona, the Teutonic Element in the English Language, or A Primer of Anglo Saxon Words. Jasper, IN. 1915-1920. A three volume set that explores in depth the etymology of the English Language, in particular the Teutonic (Germanic branch of the Indo- European language family, of which Anglo Saxons spoke) element found within the language. These three volumes were hand crafted by J. T. Melchior, and include the history of the Germanic Tribes invasion of what is now the United Kingdom, language charts, vocabulary lists, and mathematical analyses of English writing samples (mostly derived from newspaper clippings) to exemplify how many English words origins are Teotonic. The author's passion for this subject comes through from the very first page, the forward, where he states: "The bold Anglo-Saxon folk who settled in the merry England at a time now long agone [sic]; and their hearty speech - OUR MOTHER TONGUE - as it was in ye olden time and as it is spoken now, herein are told about in homely self-written words. JTM (all Saxon words)". The titles of the three volumes are as follows: Language Series Volume 1 "Saxona": The Teutonic Element in the English Language, A Primer of Anglo Sazon Words (1915, 120 pages), Language Series Volume 2, "Teutona", Anglo-Teutona, The Teutonic Element in the English Language (1920, 89 pages), and Language Series Volume 3, Indo-European Words, Language Charts (no date, 30 pages). The books also come with three printed maps, one hand drawn map, and five hand drawn language diagrams. J. T. Melchior is most likely John T. Melchior from Jasper, IN, who was a teacher for eight years before taking over his father's general store. Upon his retirement from his business, he dedicated his time to studying history and literature. Volume One has green marble covers with red accents while volumes two and three have green covers with black accents, with a brad binding. The back cover of volume two has an embossed decorative design. Measures 9" x 8". (#29004641) $925.
General wear and rubbing.
John T. Melchior was born on March 25, 1858 to John Baptiste Melchior (1823-1883) and Anna Schuler (1829-1906) in Jasper, IN. John was a sickly child, who due to a chronic affliction, was invalid from the age of seven to eighteen. He became a teacher and taught in the Ackerman adn Buechler (Indiana) township schools for eight years, before having to leave the profession due to a serious throat infection. He then
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worked at his father's general store, before taking over the business in 1907 upon his father's retirement. He married Mary Catherine Jochim (1862-1957) on November 22, 1881 and had four children: Nicholas Robert Melchior (1882-1912), Edward D. Melchior (1887-1916), Hugo Melchior (1890-1983), and Marcella C. Melchior (1899-1930). John retired from the general store (which was then taken over by his sons) in 1913, at which time he focused on his life long passion of history and language. He died on May 21, 1939 have a long illness, and is buried in Jasper, IN.
45. [education][ Italy][ England][ Ethiopia][ scrap book] Chester Katzman. School Assignment of a Scrap Book of a "European Tour". New Haven, CT. 1936. Created by Chester Katzman, an eleven- year-old boy from New Haven, CT, this scrap book was a school assignment to record an imaginary European tour taken by the student. The book includes various short essays on what was seen, the history and agriculture of the countries and hand drawn maps and flags from his "journeys". At the front of the scrap book is his hand made passport that states Chester's occupation as 'student'. Chester started his "trip" in Italy. He drew an agricultural map of the country including cut-outs or actual bits of product such as wheat and corn. He leaves Italy for Ethiopia and includes magazine cut-outs and newspaper articles about the Ethiopian unrest and war . Indicating his visit was cut short. His essay indicates they left early for safety reasons. The British Isles next and the book ends on some of the British Empire's colonies, such as India. It includes a manuscript map with the locations of manufactured products. The is also a manuscript map of Africa identifying British Possessions. It also includes several mimeographed and completed geography type assignments associated with the project. The scrap book is dated by the newspaper photographs and captions that state the King of England is Edward VIII, who both succeed and abdicated the crown in 1936. Brown covers with string binding. The front cover has a sticker of a bull dog with the caption "feeling bully". Measures 11 ½” x 8 ¼”. (#29014910) $275.
General wear. Pages are brittle from age. Most pages are loose or detached from string binding.
A creative and well-constructed composition
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Chester Katzman was born on September 16, 1925 to Maurice E. Katzman (1897-1879) and Rose Sarah Adelman (1902-2000) in New Haven, CT. He married Natalie Wasserman on April 3, 1949 and had three children: Karen Andrew Katzman Brecher, Terri Katzman Connellan and Bruce Katzman. He joined the Air Force and graduated from Bryant College. He ran his own public accounting firm for 45 years. He died on August 27, 2019.
46. [sketch book][ water color][ art][ drawing][ music][ friendship][ whimsy] M Varney Sketch Book and Friendship Album Madgie Varney w "First Washing Day. . England. 1908-1947. A humorous sketch book and friendship album owned by Madgie Varney, given to her by Bob (Robert) Varney in 1908. The album has over 65 original art work, with 3 photographs, and two music scores. Approximately 10 pieces are done either by Madgie or R M Varney. The majority of the pieces are humorous in tone, for example a drawing of two large leaves hanging on a clothes line with the caption, "First Washing Day". Some of the artwork has been pasted in, while others were drawn directly on the page. A variety of mediums were used, such as pencil, ink, and watercolor. The majority of the pieces were drawn between 1908-1910s, however there are some as late as the 1940s. There are two images from the Disney film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Measures 8 ¼” x 6 ¼”. (#28004101) $800.
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Cover and edge wear due to rubbingSome soiling due to use and transfer from pencils.
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47. [art][ education][ lesson plan] Margarete Hoenemann. A Collection of Seven Art Class Lesson Plans on Drawing Outlines for Grades 1-8. Salem, MA. 1931-1932. A collection of seven different lessons plans of art teacher Margarete Hoenemann for the 1931-1932 school year. The lessons plans include typewritten notes and artwork either intended to be used as samples for the lesson or as artwork decorating the lesson plan itself. The artwork includes drawings, constructed images, colored pencil, watercolor, silhouettes, and stencils. Six of the seven lessons plans, include lessons for Grades 1-8, while the the last one only has a lesson plan for grades 1 &2. The lessons plans are hand bound using brads, and with one exception, have covers with small pieces of artwork on them. Margarete Hoenemann was an art teacher who worked in or around Salem, MA. By the 1960s she would become the Art Director for Salem Public Schools. Measures 12" x 9". (#29012890) $250.
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General wear. Some covers are detached. One is missing.
Margarete M. F. Hoenemann was born on October 4, 1907 to Theodore Emil Hoenemann (1870-1948) and Bertha M. Bertais Hoenemann (1875-1955) in Boston, MA. She had one sibling, Gretchen Hoenemann (1908-?). Her father was a sculptor, and was perhaps where Margarete gain her artist interests. It is unknown when she died.
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48. [hand colored][ Pompeii][ fresco][ artwork][ pochoir] L. Majolino. Pompeii, A Souvenir Book of Hand Finishes Pochoir - Frescos and Tile Works. 1891. A souvenir album of Pompeii, featuring 15 hand finished Pochoir illustrations and one water color paintings of the frescos or tiling found in the ruins of Pompeii. The illustrations feature a variety of Roman and Greek Mythology and culture, such as Poseidon riding in his chariot, peacocks and sea serpents. There are several geometric images in the album as well that are most likely the tile flooring found in some of the villas. One of the more interesting tile work recreations in the album is entitled "Cave Canem" which Latin for "Beware of the Dog". This particular pochoir is actually of a piece of tile work found on the floor at an entrance to a villa in Pompeii depicting an attacking large black dog. The water color is not a recreation of a fresco or tile work, but rather an illustration of the bath house in Pompeii. Both the water color and the last engraving in the album appear to have been added in at a later date due to a change in the paper. With the exemption of those to images, all have an embossed caption, "Pompeii, L. Majolino in Napori [Naples]". On the back of some of the illustrations, is a similar caption, but written in pencil with the date. Majolino was one of the first people to sell photographs of Pompeii. It is most likely these engravings were done from his photographs. The illustrations are contained in a brown leather album with gilt decorative elements on the covers, as well as gilt edged interior pages. One of the images in the book is a duplicate. Measures 12 ½” x 10". (#29012589) $2,500.
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General wear.
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49. [drawing][ watercolor][ autograph][ ink][ art][ illustration] Autograph and Sketchbook of Dorothy Borrajo, 1907-1915. England. 1907-1915. A lovely autograph and sketch book given to Dorothy Borrajo by her classmates as a souvenir when she left school in 1907. The interior cover has a pasted in list of all of Dorothy's classmates. Throughout the sketchbook there are numerous drawings and poems written by her friends from 1907 to 1915. Drawings are in pencil, ink, color pencil and watercolor. Some of the poems and drawings are quite humorous. One depicts a mother by the ocean with her two swimming daughters, glaring at a man, with the caption, "Momma disapproves of mixed bathing". 9" x 7 ½”. Well executed images reflecting all walks of life including racial stereotypes, daily life and more. To view images, please click on the following link: https://goo.gl/photos/qiR3BPRSTmFyqHvE9 (#26013104) $800.
Minor wear. Binding reinforced.
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50. [Friendship Album] Friendship Album "To Susan" with Asian and other themed Decoupage, Imagery, Watercolors, Drawings, Sentiments, Enigma, etc. UK. 1874-1854. Gilt stamp brown leather cover. The introductory page is comprised of a finely executed cut-out handcolored floral spray with a lithograph verse at center. It is titled "Album" and begins "To Poets, Painters, Enigma, and Conundrum Makers and all those who wish to shine in this Literary Society..." Includes numerous applied engraved scenes throughout. Of special note is the decoupage of cut-out Asian themed imagery throughout. Additionally there are watercolors and drawings. Many sentiments, verses, enigmas, a verse titled 'on the Death of a precious Child', 'The Slave's Dream', 'the Nightingale'. The majority of the entries are from 1847-1849. However it appears that someone added a few rather whimsical Victorian scrap embellishments c1880. Measure 9 ½” x 7 ½” (#27004531) $1500.
Covers reinforced.
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51. [Martha's Vineyard][ autograph albums][ religion][ oak bluff] 3 Autograph Albums - Campmeetings. Oak Bluff. 1874-1883. These three albums are being offered as a collection. Two of these albums are near complete, while the album with the latest dates is sparse, with only 25 of the 100 or so pages used. One album has a board cover in brown cloth, with "Autographs" gilt stamped on the cover and spine. The other two albums have leather board covers, with "Autographs" stamped in gilt, and additional gilt decorations on the cover and spine.
One of the albums was owned by Edward Roth, who spent the majority of his life practicing medicine in and around Martha's Vineyard. The majority of the autographs in this album date from 1883 when he departed to San Francisco and he is wished well on his travels across the continent. He practiced for several years in San Francisco before returning to New England, first to Yale, and then Martha's Vineyard. Along with the autographs there are several newspaper clippings for important family events, such as his marriage to Miss E. L. Beetle and the first birthday party of his son Edward Roth Jr. There are also 3 hand drawn illustrations as well. Along with the notes regarding the death of the signers, there are also a few denoting whether or not they were since married . Two of the albums are 6 ½” x 3 ½”; the third is 7" x 4 ½”.
Includes signatures from a wide variety of people, including signatures from local authors such as SC
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Wheeler, the Roth family, and crew members of the USRC Samuel Dexter, a ship famous for it's role in the rescue of the SS City of Columbus in 1884. (#27002200) $600.
Spines cracked, loose and/or separated covers; some pages loose.
The first so-called campmeeting in what became known as Wesleyan Grove was held in 1835. In subsequent years the congregations grew enormously, and many of the thousands in attendance were housed in large tents known as "society tents." A congregation from a church on the mainland would maintain its own society tent. Conditions were cramped, with men and women sleeping dormitory-style on opposite sides of a central canvas divider. All with cover wear; loose or partially detached covers. Some soiling from handling.
52. [Biedermeier card][ Kunstbillet][ Friendship Album] Sarah A. Page.Fine Friendship Album with Kunstbillet frontispiece. Berlin. Dec. 25, 1857. A 3 ¾” x 6" album. Gilt stamp front and back "Album" on front and the owner's initials "S.A.P" on the back. She received it as a Christmas present. Free end paper inscribed with her name and date and location, which is Berlin, presumably Germany, but written in an English hand. The verso has an embedded Kunstbillet or German/Austrian hand constructed and painted friendship token. A fine mesh backing with delicate gilt border design. Friendship verse at base printed in German, a pair of love birds flank a gilt footed vase with an array of hand painted and applied flowers. A stunning find in an album of this nature. There are only 10 entries but they do tell a story. The first 3 were from Berlin and written in French and dated 1957. The remaining are from the Boston MA area including Jamaica Plains, Cambridge and Roxbury. Most are by women. Additional adornments in the book include a silver lace paper wreath surrounding a signature and an applied linen label depicting a building labeled the birthplace of Shakespeare. (#28006359) $600.
Hinge reinforced.
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53. [Friendship Album][ Drawings] Friendship Album for Mabel Cavalier with sentiments and 22 plus full page drawings, watercolors and novelties. Forest Gate, London. 1930. Hard cover album with unnumbered pages with numerous sentiments and verses written in 1930. Additionally watercolors that include a woman skier, an interpretation of a worker in Hong Kong, a Harlequin holding a clown, a finely executed scene from nature, a fishing boat, a sports girl and much more. Measures 6 ¾” x 8". (#23016238) $425.
wear on cover
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54. [friendship album][ lithography][ hand colored lithography][ art][ watercolor][ pencil][ ink sketch][ music] Album with Original Art and Hand Colored Lithography, musings and verse. England. c 1830-1850s. An artist's scrap book filled with over fifty (50) pieces of original art work and hand colored lithography and other pieces. What makes this scrap book a unique find, is the consistent fine quality of the work within. Some of the hand-colored lithography is so expertly done that it becomes hard to tell whether or not it is a lithographic print. Pieces of note are: the portrait of a young girl with ringlets, and another portrait of a man in a turban. Some beautiful landscapes of farmland (rendered in pencil), an old stone bridge (watercolor), a boldly colored butterfly (color pencil) and bird (ink & color pencil), and 'A Pas de Deux' of crabs (ink). Additionally includes a pith watch paper with a thistle. A finely detailed tropical bird on a rose stem with nearby butterfly adorned with dried flora.
Along with artwork there are several original pieces of music and poetry. There are two pieces of music, a ballad and a round, along with their music score. The poems are both original pieces, and quotes from other notable poets of the day. Once such quote, written in beautiful calligraphy, is from the poem entitled "Woman" by Eaton Stannard Barrett.
"Would Woman govern tyrants? she concedes In slight concerns, and hence in weight, leads. Opposes first, to make surrender prized, And while she gives advice, appears advised"
Gilt and blind stamp leather. The pages are gilt-edged. The majority of the book has tipped in art work that has been secured to the page by glue and/or thread. Furthermore the majority of the lithographic prints within have been hand colored, but not all. Most of the artwork is unsigned, however when it is, the initials are general the same three names, E.B., E.T., and A.C. Wigan. There is reference to the Armstrong family as well. A letter is included with the note "To my sister Daisy Armstrong, from my mother Mrs. Armstrong". The bulk of the material in the album dates from the 1930s. Measures 9 ¼” x 7 ¼”. (#27000302) $675.
To view click: https://goo.gl/photos/JkMjtRZRJJU1aF6A9
Covers show some wear, and the back strip and edges are slightly damaged due to rubbing. The binding is partially few interior pages are loose and/or detached. There is some glue residue on the interior pages as well, due to the original owner pasting in prints, but nothing that affects any of the artwork.
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55. [Chester England][ Woodbine][ Manuscript][ ] Typed Autobiographical Accounting of Childhood with 11 Original Watercolors - Charles Henry Kingsley-Baille. Hamilton, Canada. 1946-1947. Housed in a contemporary box with the watercolor monogram (IC) for his sister Ivy Clifford. When opened one finds a 55 pp. typewritten autobiography of the childhood recollections of Charles Henry Kingsley-Baille. Dedicated to his wife, Ethel and his sister Ivy. Kingsley-Baille had moved to Canada as a young adult. The foreword describes the occasion for writing the memoir being the death of his wife's grandmother and the regrets of her granddaughter on not having recorded her life's recollections. Signed by the author at the end of the Foreword. Written in three parts with 11 relevant watercolors. Charles was the third son of Edmund John Baillie, a successful nurseryman, the three parts centering on the three Chester (England) houses the family lived in, all named Woodbine. The story concludes with the death of his father in 1897. Although he refers to it as an autobiography, the author remembers local characters, scenes and events as his family grew ever larger. His "father interested himself in several societies - the Chester Society of Natural Science, the Kingsley Memorial Society, the Ruskin Society, the Archaeological Society of Chester, and several others. He was most active in promoting the erection of the Grosvenor Museum in Chester, which was made possible by the generosity of the Duke of Westminster, who donated the building site, and started the fund with a cheque for £10,000". Charles also remembers an original watercolor by Ruskin given to his father by the artist which hung above his mother's desk, as well as other pictures and letters of Ruskin and "an immense brown and white decorative panel by Walter Crane". Among the other works owned was an immense picture by Dame Clara Knight and one of a Pomeranian dog "by an artist friend of father's - Arthur Boddington - a very strange man - and a confirmed agnostic.
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One of his personal accounts was cataloging approximately 8,000 volumes of his father's books. There is discussion about his father's beliefs on running a business, the landscape of the three Woodbines and the characters referenced.
It concludes on a bit of sad not with a postscript from his sister advising that the house which was sold to become a girl's school upon their mother's death had overgrown weeds where the daffodils once flourished.
The watercolors include Mike Stout, Fisherman and Wife Beater, Waverton Church from a watercolour by William Welsh, The Shocked "Pastor", Baddy, Father's Coachman, John Huxley, A view of Woodbine with Daffodil's taken from a Photograph., The Old Town Crier, La Vinia, Wardell making his bow and Old Jess (the dog) From a photograph.
Measures 7 ¼” x 4 ¼”. (#28004635) $1,000.
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The collections are in no particular order. Additional information is available on all collections.
56. NATIONAL CHILD LABOR COMMITTEE (NCLC) COLLECTION
A COLLECTION OF NATIONAL CHILD LABOR COMMITTEE (NCLC) PHOTOGRAPHS AND NARRATIVES IS BEING OFFERED JOINTLY BY:
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Vertrice Lawson, 15 years, in 4th grade. Quit last year. The lad working in hole 20 feet deep. Has rigged up a lamp at the bottom of the hole to release the “damps”. INTRODUCTION Founded in 1904, the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) set out on a mission of "promoting the rights, awareness, dignity, well-being and education of children and youth as they relate to work and working." Starting in 1908, the Committee hired Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940), first on a temporary and then on a permanent basis, to carry out investigative and photographic work for the organization. As the project grew and progress a number of other photographers or investigative photographer/journalists joined the team. Beyond studying the results, the images and narratives were used to increase awareness of the problem of child labor. In 1924, the Child Labor Amendment was passed, but never
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A numbering system was created by someone at NCLC, perhaps Hine, to assure each photograph and accompanying narrative or photo caption had a corresponding, but unique number to that photo and caption. The NCLC distributed the photographs as part of its publicity and educational efforts.
Age 15 - can't read or write; attended school only part of two terms COLLECTION The collection or archive is comprised of approximately 980 unique images or narratives including 480 photographic prints in envelopes, many with negatives included and 330 negatives, plus an addition 27 larger format photographic reprints and 140 descriptive caption cards without photographs. Additionally, there are two (2) printed Legends of Photographs relating to the Tiff mines. A majority of the photographic photos and negatives are captioned often extensive captions that describe the photo subjects, offering a detailed depiction of working and living conditions of many children--and adults--in the United States between 1936 and 1953, the majority in 1937-1938.
Previously found NCLC records were numbered from 1-5126. NCLC records found in this collection start at 5312, the last number is 9966, thus making them a unique and distinct from those previously identified. The materials in this collection are new to the market, essentially newly found history.
"What is there for a girl to do but get married" THE PHOTOGRAPHS The photographic prints found in the NCLC records are on single weight paper. Most range in size from 3.5 x 3.5 inches to 5 x 7 inches and most appear to have been developed at the locations they were taken, at local film developing locations that you would find in drug stores and the like. Identified photographs include Hine, Sidel, Ruth Scandrett and Dave Myers among others. There are 17 identified negatives as Hine specifically, however a number of others show all of the characteristics of a Hine image, including Bootblacks, Newspaper Boys and the Garment Industry.
The six-year-old often picks hops for 4 hours a day! She is one of hundreds of young children who work in the hops field -1938
THE PHOTO CAPTIONS The photo captions are both hand written and typed. When hand written usually on the reverse of the photo. When typed they are either on index cards or actually typed on the envelop housing the photo and/or negatives. The cards include some or all of the following information • Unique NCLC identifier number • Name of the individual(s) • Location, including the site e.g. mine name • Work tasks, hours and wages • Date • Age • Living situation
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• Level of education • Quotes from the individual depicted e.g. • Family history
In addition to the photo captions, this collection includes two (2) Legends of Pictures (5751-5800) and (5806-5927) taken in Tiff Mines in 1937 by G. E. Gibbons, Cincinnati.
Children too young to pick apples, carry water.
DEMOGRAPHICS Of the items in this collection approximately 75% workers, either individuals or families and 25% depicting images of facilities, locations, housing and group activities.
Distribution by Labor Force Agriculture (35%) including general field workers, pickers of hop, apples, beans, berry and tomatoes, planters of beans and corn and tobacco and hop yard workers’ Mining (25%) predominantly Tiff with some coal Industry (20%) including banana case makers, brick loaders, cannery workers, crate nailers, garment workers, highway signs and gas house workers Street (10%) including bootblacks, cub hops, distribution of fliers, newsies and magazine boys. Forestry, Local Workers (10%) including bedspread makers, hotel page, piece workers making favors, store workers, log workers, pole peelers, wood workers and store clerks.
A majority of the images are from Missouri, New Jersey, South Carolina and Colorado with representation from Connecticut, Oregon, Alabama, New York, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, California, Louisiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Washington, Maine and Texas (in descending order.
Left school after 7th grade - started digging (Tiff) at 6yr.
COLLECTION STRENGTHS
The demographics present the breadth of the problem and how it crossed industry and community, but the true significance of the collection is the story told by each image and then taking a step beyond the initial impression with information in the narrative written by the NCLC observer, be it photographer or other. The story is further developed when multiplied by all of the on photos and narratives from a
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Collectively, the material provides documentation useful for the study of many early twentieth century circumstances and developments. It is rich in content and desirable for an array of research.
To view a select group of images, click: https://photos.app.goo.gl/pYH2J5JQ2zJu98Z4A
To review as selection of Hine negatives click: https://photos.app.goo.gl/z9NgVsc8X7pLf1DJ9
(#29000301) $160,000. (term available)
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57. [Visual Culture][ Lithography Social History][ Ethnic and Cultural][ Politics][ Sports][ Ephemera] A Striking Glimpse into the Graphic Lithography of Commercial Art curated for Visual Effectiveness and Cultural influence 1840- 1920.
A collection of approximately 3600 plus lithograph illustrations collected and curated over a 25 year period by an advanced collector and baseball historian.
Wild and wonderful !
The imagery is eye catching in many ways. About two thirds of the collection is advertising graphics with the remainder being 19th and early 20th sheet music. The history of printing][ graphic arts and historically significant images were considerations when building the collection.
The advertising ephemera is 90% American with international exemplary. The 19th C sheet music is predominantly from 1859-1879 and 60% American and 30% British.
Although predominantly lithograph, there are some earlier engraved pieces included in the collection. Condition is very good to excellent.
The imagery is striking and finest to outrageous and formidable. Topic by design, 40% of the collection is comprised of the primary categories of Tobacco, Social History, Sports, Fantasy and Food and Wine. That said the materials cross many categories.
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From the 19th C sheet music category with selections such as Civil War era Home Run Quick Step or the Live Oak Polka to Barnum’s National Poultry Show Polka and The Rainbow Temperance Song, the subject matter is varied and historically notable.
Moving on to the 20th C sheet music category with such lively selections as Honka-Tonk Rag, the Alcoholic Blues, the Best I Get is much obliged to you (African American) the World Peace March (1914) or the Colored March all indicative of the time.
The remaining advertising group includes a striking 30” paper banner for the Arion Grand Masquerade Ball at Madison Square Garden (the Golden Age of New York), a blindfolded Lady Liberty holding Fairbanks, Standard Scales, a wizard on a fruit label finding a new planet while looking through a telescope (it’s an orange!), an adventurer riding a Parlour Fireworks Cracker across the sky, to a Fiery Summons (a blank illustrated broadside depicting a KKK member holding a burning cross), First Crop tobacco label depicting an African American women with a basket of cotton balanced on her head to the whimsy of an anthropomorphic cowgirl lemon promoting lemons from California – Pure Gold. A list of topics follows: Hearth & Home Patriotic Agriculture History Political Animals Holiday Poster Art Architecture Humorous Printers Carnival & Masquerade Inexplicable Printing Cityscape Japanese Romance Design Landscape Social History Entertainment Masquerade Ball Sports Ethnic Military Textile Fairs & Expositions Minstrelsy Tobacco Fantasy Native People Transportation Flora Notables Valentine Food & Wine€¦ Occupations
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WomenWomen & Romance
The imagery is on the following materials and formats. Art Lessons Crate Label Proof Label Bank Note Die Cut Penny Dreadful Banners and Canvas Die Cut Booklet Placard Baxter Print Directory Plate Postcard Belgian Door Hanger Poster Blotter Envelope Poster Sample Book Binding Flyer Print Book Plate Folder Sample Sheet Booklet Game Cards School Supplies Broadsheet Game Label Score Card Broadside Invitation Seed Packet Bucket Label Keepsake Sign Calendar Label Sign Hanger Catalog Label Proof Sheet Music Catalog Cover Label Tag Small Poster Catalog Plate Letterhead Small Poster Hanger Cigarette Wrapper Lighting Fixtures Small Poster Proof Clipper Ship Card Linen Label Ticket Coated Stock Card Memories Uncut Sheet Coated Stock Counter Men's Clothing Valentine Card Metal work Victorian Trade Cards Counter Card Metamorphic Victorian Trade Card Counter Card Proof Original Art Directory Plate Crate Label Original Art Crate
The largest piece measures 30" x 16". A database of a majority of the collection is available upon request. A collection of this magnitude must be examined to appreciate the full breadth and depth. Visual culture at it's finest. (#29000900) $350,000. (terms available)
For a sampling of images click: https://photos.app.goo.gl/hmzCKci27U19o5Ye8
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58. [Works by Children, Juvenile Newspaper, Made by Hand, Archive, Periodicals] Lorey Clifford Day (1891-1970) Exceptional archive of 45 U. S. Journal Newspapers Written by a Boy from 1899-1910 plus excerpts from grandfather's Town Journal and Sons Artwork. United States Journal Press!. Templeton/Baldwinville, MA. 1869-1946. A series of 45 newspapers written, hand printed and distributed by Lorey Clifford Day from the age of 8 to 18 years. Well executed from the start (for an eight year old) the papers included news of the family, town, world, advertising for local businesses and promotion for his printing business under many different names. He was exacting from the start with comprehensive information including volume numbers and pages, special holiday additions.
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All are manuscript. There are over 415 pages of content; a few of the journals have clips. Collateral materials includes three (3) handbills for various year's special Christmas number. At the end of 1906 in the Christmas number he announced it would be his final printing of the United States News.
A few days later he produced a Prospectus for The Onceinawhile - Something New in Papers. To be published "Once-In-a-While" during 1907. The Idea - It will have no regualr time or appearance, but will appear on Saturday Evening, "once-in-a-while"--Probably every few weeks, according to the time the publisher has to print it in. For this reason, the name ("once-in-a while) (onceinahwhile) was deemed the most suitable for it is to appear irregularly. He goes on to describe the Features Each issue will have a Colored, Illustrated Cover. Fun For Folks will be a regular feature A Special Article each issue Editorials will appear. Jimmy’s Letter, formerly of the U.S. Journal will also be found. Puzzles and Odd Bits from Everywhere or a story will always be found. There will be some poetry now and then. SPECIAL PAPERS will contain about same, only more of it. Good clear printing The prospectus closes with a personal letter, advising that when printing the LAST issue of the U.S. Journal he realized he must go on printing. So as not to tell a falsehood he reinvented the paper under a new name.
The above provides the flavor of his writing style and humor. As he ages his writing style and content improve above expectations to the point of including detailed graphs and charts. Beyong the news, there is much whimsy, attention to brain teasers and a number of rebus throughout. The journals are in "small" and "large format: large measures 8 ½” x 5 ½”. A summarization by issue can be found HERE.
Beyond this charming group of newspapers the archive also includes two (2) 13 page calendars created by his son, Richard Lorey Day (1921-2007) at the ages of 9-10 years. Also included are his over seventy (70) 2 8 ½” x 11" pencil drawings focusing on railroad travel and related activities. Additionally, when Lorey Clifford Day was 77 years of age, in 1968, he created a manuscript
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sumation of entries from his father, Gliman Lee Day's, newspaper journals 1870-1877. This too
Lastly , there are miscellaneous papers include Lorey Clifford's granddaughter's acceptance into a Press Club, and transfer paper re a donation of the original Baldwinville land to the Massachusetts state Division of Fisheries and Game and more. An extraordinary array. (#20200996) $7,500.
To view images, click: https://photos.app.goo.gl/DVJw2iQyeYno6yYn7
Smith, Day & Co. manufacturers of chairs was the family business.
Changements Inattendus, metamorphic (or protean) games are examples of early optical toys which demanded an act of interpretation, a way of looking that searched for hidden images in every day items. As part of the growing 18th Century interest in recreational science, metamorphic games also have a classical precedent , with Ovid's Metamorphosis the most famous and enduring of all the tales of transformation. "Understanding such ways of seeing - the modes of human perception - opened the way to the 'philosophical toy', devices that played with the vagaries of visual capacity and conjured images." (Quoted from Marina Warner in Eyes, Lies and Illusions, exhibition catalogue pp.113, 218-19).
59. [correspondence][ family][ frontier][ social & cultural][ advertising][ notary][ agricultural] A Collection of Over 350 Personal and Business Correspondence of Siblings Edward and Elizabeth Hughes. New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Texas. 1848-1923. correspondence, family, frontier, social & cultural, advertising, notary, agricultural
A collection over three hundred and fifty (350) pieces of mainly family correspondence belonging to
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siblings, Edward S. Hughes (1822-1889) and Elizabeth Hughes Carpenter (1826-1880) with the bulk of material from the 1860s to the 1880s. (1848-1923).
An uncommon look at life in an extended family as relayed to patriarch Edward S. Hughes and a subset to sister Elizabeth (Lizzie) Hughes Carpenter. A 20-year conversation from predominantly relatives in Upstate New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, South Dakota and Texas. The collection portrays the ups and downs of frontier life contrasted by location and that of relatively settled Upstate New York. Accompanying this fine trove is a watercolor and manuscript family tree identifying principal senior correspondents. That said many of the letters are from their offspring.
Over 350 pieces of mainly family correspondence belonging to predominantly Edward S. Hughes (1822-1889) and a sampling to his sibling Elizabeth Hughes Carpenter (1826-1880) with the bulk of material from the 1860s to the 1880s (1848-1923). Both personal and business correspondence. The Hughes extended family was rather large, and during Edward’s and Elizabeth’s lifetimes, they began to leave Upstate New York for the possibility of a better life out west. As such, there is correspondence from relatives living in Illinois, Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Texas, providing a wonderful look into frontier life, with all its highs and lows. While providing general updates on family and friends, the letters also often discuss the local landscape, architecture, politics, troubles farming (often mentioning specifics in pricing), and illnesses. Of note in this section are the letters from Edward’s nephew, John B. Bullard (1854- 1917), who was a traveling sales agent in Texas in the 1870s. John often writes describing Texas in great detail. Additionally, the letters from Edward’s sister-in-law, Helen J. Carpenter Hughes Pope (1841-1903), and her son, Frederick J. Hughes (1862-?), living in Hope, South Dakota are numerous and span almost two decades.
Complementary to the ‘frontier’ letters, the collection features numerous letters from the Hughes family members and friends who remained in New York, providing a taste of what life was like for New Yorkers as well, including the challenges faced by Edward and Elizabeth themselves. In particular are several letters from customers of Elizabeth’s, who worked as a traveling seamstress. In regards to Edward’s business correspondence, while he was mainly a farmer, he also was a notary and occasional sales agent for the odd product, mainly either farming equipment or books. (#290012567) $2800
To view the complete description for this family archive, click HERE
To view images, click: https://photos.app.goo.gl/5hJjJmyFhpA7GR3i7
60. [Artistic Expression][ Cycle of Life][ Life is Short] A Collection of 117 black and white photographic images of art work depicting a journey through life from birth to death, done by an unidentified Lithuanian artist.. . Senasis Kaunas, Lithuania. [1930]. An artfully selected grouping of black and white photographic images of works of art created by a single unidentified artist. Each is captioned in Lithuanian and depicting a life event. It begins with the “First Cry― and travels through childhood into adulthood while depicting emotions, behaviors, vices and the life cycle as seasons of the year through death. The final is in Latin “Life is Short―. It is housed in a 17― x 14―
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finely tooled and stamped album reading Senaseskaunas on the cover, the old portion of the city of Kaunas. Each of the images measures 4 ½” x 6 ½”. (#22021551) $1200.
An artfully selected grouping of black and white photographic images of works of art from a single unidentified artist. Each is captioned in Lithuanian and depicting a life event. It begins with the “First Cry” and travels through childhood into adulthood while depicting emotions, behaviors, vices and the life cycle as seasons of the year through death. The final is in Latin “Life is Short”. It is housed in a 17 ½” x 14 ½” finely tooled and stamped album reading Senaseskaunas on the cover, the old portion of the city of Kaunas. Each of the images measures 4 ½” x 6 ½”. The collection should most likely include 118 images, as one image is lacking.
The collection should most likely include 118 images, as one image is lacking.
61. [Popular Culture][ Social History][ Bridge Tallies][ Place Cards][ Gender Roles][ Work and Leisure] A Glimpse at Popular Culture as seen by The Ladies Who Lunch - Over 950 Bridge Tallies and Place Cards . 1920s-1940s. A 30 plus year collection of die-cut bridge tallies and place cards shedding light on popular culture and social norms of those with leisure time to enjoy such activities as playing bridge or attending luncheons. Predominantly in strong Art Deco influenced colors. The cards in the collection are unique within the collection meaning there is only one of each type, with the exception of a few boxed sets which were intended to have duplicate cards. Approximately two-thirds of the collection is bridge tally related. The cards are predominantly from the 1920s-1940s.
Manufacturers The predominant manufacturers are Ameri-Card, American Bridge League, American Colortype Co., Buzza, Chas S. Clark Co., Gibson, Hallmark, P. F. Volland, Rust Craft, The Henderson Line, miscellaneous others and of course some without makers. the other companies include Susie Q, ,Amst. Ptg. & Litho Co, Amsterdam NY, Norcross, The Martin-Senour Co., The Meetemall System by the Rose Company, Fran Van Vyncki (self published), The AmeTDC - Amery, WI, marked Germany, CCC, Yorkraft , U. S. Playing Card Co. 2 Unique - The Line, made by Masters, Congress Designer Series, Dennison, Buzza Cardoza, Gordon Fraser, UK, V. J. Originals, Dayton OH, Stretchum, Pat. Appl. For. , "9 Tallies, 3 Score Pads", The American Tobacco Co., Inc. New York. Whitman Publishing Co., Playemall System Rose Co 1938, The House of Colgate, The Gibson Art Co., Printed in France , Craftacres by the Buzza Co. 1924, Raphael Tuck, Made in
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Japan, W.W., Dutton, Bavaria, Hautecoeur, Paris and Whitney Made. The collection also includes hand made cards and boxed sets, as referenced above.
Categories and Social Characteristics or Similar Identifiers The collection includes the following categories and social characteristics:
Place Cards – (234) 4 Table Tally Tale-Teller with Fortune Teller Avant Garde dinner party Boxed set - 50 unused Tally Cards Bathing Beauties Boxed Set - Pirate Tallie Box Set - Dennison Boxed Set - The Butterfly Bridge Ensemble Butterflies & Birds Boxed St - Working on a Movie Card Suits Tally-Hula Caricatures with Captions Travel Bridge Every-Player-Your -Partner Children Syste Adds "PEP" Fadscinaton and Children - Hand Colored and Cut-out Enjoyment to Progressive Bridge - 3 Table Ethnic Cultural - Asian Set Ethnic Cultural - Chinese Twelve Different Volland Colonial Girl Place Ethnic Cultural - Dutch Cards - Place Cards with Charm... and Ethnic Cultural -Misc. Dignity Fans Sets - No Box - 68 (tallies or cards in sets) Fantasy: Flower People Set - Golfers Fantasy: Handmade Watercolor Women Sets - From Nature with Flower Umbrellas Sets - Women Femme Fatale with Feathers Sets - Women with Hats Flowers Tallies - 478 Handcolored Pith Paper Chinese Characters Advertising - Campbell's Soup Kids Handmade Watercolor: Miscellaneous Advertising - Lucky Strike Cigarettes Hats & Baskets with Flowers Advertising - Miscellaneous Products Holiday - Misc. Advertising Angelus-Campfire Holiday - St. Patricks Marshmallows - Stretchums Lithe Women with Dogs Animals - Dogs Night on the Town Animals - Miscellaneous, Birds & Butterflies Patriotic Baby Showers Raphael Tuck Card Shape Sports - Football Children Victorian Imagery Coquettes Wedding - Misc. Couples Whimsy Ethnicity and Culture Woman with Flowers Flowers Women with Parasols and Hats Harlequins Worldly Women Holiday - Halloween Score Pads – (55) Holiday - St. Patrick's Day Advertising - Seventeen Holiday Miscellaneous Buzza Novelties Kewpies Score Pads - Men Score Pads - Gibson Nature & Landscapes Score Pads - Miscellaneous Objects Score Pads - P. F. Volland Co. Oh Those Gibson Girls Sets - Boxed – (133 tallies or cards in sets) Old Fashion Gals
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Patriotic Wedding Silhouettes Women with Hats Sophisticated/ Worldly Women Women's Work Tallies with Applied Elements from Nature
Items of Note Among the tallies and place cards are a few groups of particular note including: An array of advertising bridge tallies for Campbell's Soup Kids, Angelus Campfire Marshmallows, White Castle Drive-in Coca-Cola and of note a collection with the collection of 74 Lucky Strike cigarette bridge. All tallies were designed to have one or more Lucky Strike cigarettes inserted through the slots to complete the scene. 34 die-cut celebrity tallies with large photographic images of the individual with caricature bodies. Each individual is identified on the reverse. Directions for assembly at base on front. 30 die-cut caricatures including card players, ethnicity and culture, women's work and occupations.
Bridge Score Pads by Buzza Novelties - A stylized Asian women on the cover of the pad with four (4) removable "hair pins" at the top which are actually the tallies. The second is a boxed score pad with a die-cut woman holding a bird
Boxed Set - Tally-Hula - Applied litho cover tourist trying to remove the Hula dancers skirt. Within the box is a 15 ½" hula dancer. The string ties of the tallies enhanced the "grass" of her skirt. The tallies when removed from the skirt align to create a silhouette image of hula dancers frolicing on the beach. Minimal wear.
Boxed Set - 4 Table Tally Tale-Taller Future Teller by Craftacres by Buzza - An 11" high die-cut 3- D fortune Teller, who can actually hold a tally (fortune included) Includes instructions and sixteen tallies with fortunes on the front and tally cards on reverse.
Place Cards - Femme Fatale with Feathers - Hand colored and decorated with applied glitter and and feathers. One scantily clad women holds a giant champagne glass with two types of feather overhead, another is bathing in a glass of champagne. The other two more reserved and elegant. Tallest 7".
Place Cards - Fantasy: Handmade Watercolor Women with Flower Umbrellas - Each unique artwork is 3 ½" and depict different women all dressed in pink and blue using a pink, mostly rose variations as umbrellas. All on light pink bases. Designed to stand on base. One base lacking. Found in box dated 1912 with "12 Pink Ball of Girl Place Cards". Minor wear. Primarily unused. (#28000911) $4,100.
To view a database with collection specifics click HERE. To view Images click: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Hy4xzhhfbMfmAop39
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62. [Social History] [Historical Memorabilia] [Menus]Social Archive of New York Society Dining Events & Menus, 1899-1930. A collection of menus and related materials for 55 dining events including associated relevant collateral materials totaling approximately 100 pieces. Who’s who of New York’s business elite from the turn of the century thought the onset of the Depression. Events held at the most prestigious organizations and establishments in New York City. A social history presented via menus, dining programs, seating arrangements, typescript of speeches and more. Includes menus created by Tiffany & Co., other fine engravings, embossings, a pictorial map and various design elements. Presumably from the personal collection of R. A. C. Smith, the recurring invitee on the invitation cards and a listed subscribing and /or committee member of many of the various host clubs. Some with hole punches. Overall condition very good or better. Some organizations of note: • Mechanic’s and Traders’ Bank • Ohio Society of New York • National Republican Club • 5th Avenue Association • Ye Old Settlers Assn • Pennsylvania Society • The Pilgrims of the United States – • Manhattan Club Objective – Anglo-American good- • Pan-American Society fellowship, and the promotion of • Friendly Society of St. Patrick friendship between the United States and Great Britain and colonies.
Some Individuals of note: • Geo. Wilson & R.A.C. Smith -- • Reunion Dinner – Law Dept. NYC – Lawyers Club Delmonicos • George McAneny honored by New • Hon. H. Warren Hubbard – Waldorf York City at Waldorf • New York Citizens Peace Banquet – • George McAneny at Waldorf Waldorf • Julius Howland Barnes – Hotel • Alfred E. Smith – Montauk Club Commodore (Brooklyn)
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• Will H. Hays – Union League Club • Holland Society of New York – • Banquet to William Pierce Frye- Waldorf Waldorf (Tiffany) • Daniel M. Brady – Hotel Commodore • John Harriss – Columbia Yacht Club • Francis M. Hugo – Commodore • NY Lumber Trade Assn – Waldorf • Julius H. Barnes – Hotel Commodore • Morgan J. O’Brien • Blind Brook Club
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Robert Alexander Conrad (R. A. C.)Smith (February 22, 1857 - July 27, 1933) was the Commissioner of Docks in New York City and a member of the Port and Terminal Committee of the Board of Estimate.[2][3][4] He was also an entrepreneur in Cuba, where he developed and operated railroads and utilities. Smith was a British- born entrepreneur and financier who became a prominent businessman in Cuba as president of the American Indies Company and then in New York. A prominent Republican. He was prominently identified with the Brooklyn Young Republican Club of Brooklyn, before he removed to New York. He then became a member of the Union League, Republican, Colonial, Lawyers’, Manhattan, New York Yacht, Atlantic Yacht, and Larchmont Yacht clubs.
64. [Genealogy][American History] Book of Origins -Genealogy of Isobel Kemp Cox – Complied by Marion Buckley Cox,Brooklyn, NY, branching back to a witness of the signing of the Magna Carta. 1930s. Bailey's (6th Ed) Photo=Ancestral Record with Supplements.
A comprehensive genealogy of the Cox Family dating all the way back to the early 1600s with some branches of the family reaching back even further. The Cox family has a rich history where they were both apart of or witness to some of the major events in American and English History. From witnessing the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215, to being one of the first settlers of New Amsterdam (modern day New York City) and Hartford, CT. The genealogy narrative indicates family participation in the Boston Tea Party and Bacon’s Rebellion in 1679. The book itself was designed by the Rev. Frederic W Bailey, and it is his sixth edition of the Photo-Ancestral Record Book. Recorded in the book are the names, location of birth, and birth and death dates for each branch of the family tree. Where the complier of this genealogy knew; added in are burial locations, when individuals immigrated to America, including the ship they traveled on, as well as notations on where
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she discovered this information. Photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings, family letters, and other ephemera adorn the pages throughout this treasure. As one continues to read through this genealogy it almost seems as though there wasn’t one important event or figure in American history that was not connected to this family.
Family Connections and Family Lore of Note: • The Temple branch of the Cox Family Tree is said to be descent from the famous Lady Godiva and the Earls of Mercia. • George Yeardley, whose ancestor witnessed the signing of the Magna Carter, was one of the first settlers in Jamestown, and three time colonial Governor of the British Colony of Virginia. His wife, Temperance Flowerdew, was one of the witness to the Last Will and Last Testament of John Rolfe’s, husband to Pocahontas. • Hamutal Hammond Welsh (1735 – 1815) “conceived a great dislike for her husband”, apparently tried to kill him several times, even burning down their barn at one point. • Captain John Clapp, who later became the Clerk of the First Provincial Assembly in New York, is said to have barely escaped being eaten by an alligator in South Carolina. • William King and his wife Dorothy came to America and settled in Salem. After converting to Quakerism, suffered persecution at the hands of the local government in the 1660s. • The family ghost story of “Aunt Swan”, Elizabeth Donnell, wife of General John Swan, who dreamt that Death himself was coming for her, and a week later mysteriously died suddenly. It is said her ghost still haunts the house she died in, and she has become known as the “Lady in White”. • Elias Nexen (1740 – 1831) was appointed first Collector of the Port of New York under the Continental Congress. • Jacob Bump served with General James Wolfe during the French and Indian War and participated in the taking of Quebec in 1759. • John Donnell owned the “Willow Brook” house for a time in Baltimore, Maryland, which housed the famed ‘oval room’. This house was one of the first times, besides the White House, that an oval room was used in America.
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• Gustav Lurman, who served in the 1st Maryland Cavalry, CSA, during the Civil War was saved by “Aunt Charlotte”, an African American woman who hid him when he crossed the northern lines while on duty. • Enos Bronson, or “Uncle Enos” was an editor for the Federalist Gazette of the United States, and supposedly took over Benjamin Franklin’s printing press. (#25020104) $1,200.00
63. [Ambassador][Denmark][legal][ Utah Territory][ real estate][Panama][war claims][Railroad Development] [ St. Louis & Kansas City Railway and the Indianapolis][ Western Railway Company] [ King Christian IX Of Denmark] [Danish royal family] The personnel and business archives of John Ewing Risley (1840 – 1912) a prominent New York lawyer, businessman, and real estate mogul, comprised of over 2300 letters and documents. A brief summary of each section follows. For the complete description click HERE. Spreadsheets detailing the specifics on the collection are available upon request.
AMBASSADOR In 1893, was appoint by President Grover Cleveland to the post of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Denmark. He served in this post until he was recalled by President William McKinley in 1897. During his tenue in Denmark, Risley would become a highly sought-after guest and was popular even amongst the common people of Denmark. This collection has been divided into four categories: Social, Official Business of the Legation, Financials, and Miscellaneous. The collection has an approximate total of 690 pieces, and has been organized either alphabetically or chronologically depending on the category. The dates of the collection range from 1893 to 1898. Additionally, there is an Excel database of the individuals/groups within the collection.
RAILROADS A collection of 450 plus letters and documents relating to the railway business dealing and investments of New York lawyer John Ewing Risley. Although born in 1840 in Indiana and attending Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Ind. his law practice operated mostly out of New York City. Along with his investments in a variety of railways out west, Risley was known for a variety of high profile legal cases and as Ambassador to Denmark from 1840 – 1897. Risley’s railway dealings showcase what was one of the most was a turbulent time for railway companies, with enterprises both being founded and falling into bankruptcy with remarkable frequency. By the mid-1890s approximately one fourth of railroads in the US had failed. This represented well over 40,000 miles of track. These failures were often the result of railroad overbuilding and shaky railroad financing. While this collection includes a variety material from several railways that Risley invested in, the bulk of the material deals with two railway routes: the Cleveland, St. Louis & Kansas City Railway and the Indianapolis, Decatur, and Western Railway Company. The two railways Risley and his partners invested in, would eventually fail, mainly due to a variety of legal battles. A synopsis of the events of each railway during the time Risley owned them is provided further on in this description. The collection dates from 1870 to 1904, with the bulk of the material from 1889 to 1893. While the majority of the collection is correspondence (letters and
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telegrams), there is also an assortment of legal agreements and ephemera. In total, the collection has over 250 letters, 65 telegrams, 100 legal documents, 40 pieces of ephemera (misc. envelopes, notes, name cards, etc.), and 2 notebooks. Additionally, there is an excel database available listing the various individuals, railways, and companies associated with this collection. The materials within this collection highlight an important time in US history, and showcases the various back dealing, competition, and political vying that went on as railroad companies rose as fast as they fell. As noted above each section is accompanied by a database. The database in this section includes particulars on the Railroads, Individuals, the Mortgage companies, Construction companies and the Courts involved in the transactions. The railroads include Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad Co., Central Missouri Railroad, Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway Co., Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis Railway Co., Cincinnati, Indianapolis, & Western Railway Co., Cleveland, St Louis and Kansas City Railway Co., Cleveland, St Louis, & Kansas City Railroad, Indianapolis and Wabash Railway Co., Indianapolis, Decatur, and Western Railway Co., Indianapolis, Decatur, Springfield Railway Co., Indianapolis, Quincy, and Missouri River Railway, Missouri Midland Railway Co., St. Louis & Kansas City Short Line, St. Louis Alton, and Kansas City Railway Co. and St. Louis and Chicago Railway Co.
LAW PRACTICE A collection with approximately 1,190 pieces relating to the personal life and law practice of John Ewing Risley (1840 – 1912). Born in Indiana, completed his schooling and passed his bar in 1860 in Terre Haute before then moved to New York in 1864. The majority of this collection stems from after he moved to New York. Risley was involved in several prominent legal cases, mainly stemming from various war claims. He was also involved in real estate, owning several investment properties and also acting as a banker providing mortgage loans to individuals. He also invested heavily into a variety of different business, such as a timber company in Panama, and mines out west. On a personal level, he was very interest in the genealogy of Risley family and was able to trace back his linage to 1275. This collection dates from 1857 to 1914, and has been organized into five sections: Business, Legal, Family, Real Estate and Miscellaneous. Unless otherwise stated the materials, themselves have been arranged first by category, then chronologically. Additionally, there is an Excel database of the individuals and companies Risley was involved with. (#22000100) $5,500.
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64. [correspondence][ family relationships][ women's history][ farm][ WWII][ WWII][ depression][ Missouri][ Chicago][ new York][ Cherryplain][ Blair][ Hockaday][ Henrotin][ Price] Emily Hockaday Blair Henrotin et al A Collection of Correspondence of Four Generations of Women in the Hockaday, Price, Blair, and Henrotin Family, Approximately 550 Pieces. . Missouri, Illinois, & New York. 185 9 - 1962. A collection of correspondence from four different well-known and prominent families in the 19th and 20th centuries as they intermarried through four generations. The collection, in total, has approximately four hundred and forty (440) pieces, with the bulk of the material consisting of around three hundred and seventy-five (375) letters dating between 1870 - 1962. Over one third of the correspondence focuses on the relationships between the women in the families, often the mother-daughter, sister-sister, aunt-niece, cousin-cousin relationships. The four families are the Hockaday, Price, Blair, and Henrotin. The Hockaday family was a pioneering Missouri family, and was very prominent in Callaway County, where they were especially active in local politics. The Prices were also a pioneering Missouri family, who were often active in local politics. In particular Robert Beverly Price (1832-1924) who was a well-known banker and gentleman farmer, was greatly involved in the financial success of his alma mater, the University of Missouri. Several of the family members attended this University over the years. The Blairs were one of the most powerful political families of the 19th century advising several U.S. Presidents across the party lines including Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren and Abraham Lincoln. One member of the family even ran as the Vice Presidential candidate for Horatio Seymour's on the Democratic Party losing presidential ticket in 1868. The Henrotin was a prominent Chicago family, of which various family members were known for their active involvement in the suffragette movement, founding the Chicago Stock Exchange, and serving as Consuls to Belgium and Turkey. The letters deal the relationships between the women as they age they age from young children, to mothers, to widows. They discuss family news, their health, gossip, current events, their frequent trips to see other family members and month long trips to Europe. They often send each other parcels, full of gifts, such as dress, coats, gloves, (some made from seal skin), and preserved food, such as jam and pickles. In addition to the strong maternal relationships represented in the correspondence, there a strong bond between Elizabeth Hockaday and her niece, Emily Hockaday Blair Henrotin (1883-1965) as Emily would stay for long stretches of time with her Aunt when ever her parents would travel. It could be said based on the number and
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content of their letters that Emily felt a stronger maternal bond to her Aunt than her mother. Emily Hockaday Blair Henrotin appears to have been the family historian and the one collecting the family's letters. As such a large part of her personal correspondence with her husband, Edward "Ted" Henrotin, son, Preston Blair Henrotin, and her, mostly female, friends make up approximately one third of the correspondence in the collection. The majority of the letters from her husband take place during their courtship, while they were separated due having to take care of ailing parents in separate locations between 1906-1908. At times Edward "Ted" Henrotin would write daily to Emily. The remaining portion of the collection, approximately sixty-five (65) pieces mainly deal with the Edward and Emily's life at their house and farm called Road's End, located in Cherryplain, NY or are various pieces of ephemera relating to the greater family. There are genealogy records and family anecdotes, a printed map of Road's End, photographs, newspaper clippings, visiting cards, wedding invitations, legal documents relating to wills, Preston Blair Henrotin's school and medical reports (including a course catalogue) and miscellaneous envelopes. The photographs, totally about twenty (20) are black and white photographs, the majority of which appear to be portraits and candid shots of the Henrotin's at Road's End. The collection itself has been organized into three categories: correspondence, photographs and ephemera (including materials relating to Road's End). Within the category of correspondence the letters have been organized into groups by who the letter is addressed to. Each of these sub set categories have been arranged chronologically with undated letters placed in back. The majority of the letters have corresponding envelopes, however there are several envelopes with no corresponding letter. These envelopes have been added to the total count in the ephemera section. Below are excerpts from the correspondence:
"Mrs. Hockaday presented your case to me as best she could bit to obtain a definite account of your symptoms, I will be under the necessity of asking you some questions. Does the blood alluded to appear bright and fresh or dark? And do you discover it in large or small quantities - only a drop or two or several drops with each voidance? [sic]" - June 26, 1876, to Evaline "Eva" Hockaday Price from her nephew, Euken
"Poor John, my heart reaches out to him with all a mothers love and anxiety, he looked very feeble when he left home. Dr. W & Kerr performed an operation on him for piles [hemorrhoids], he had been passing blood in considerable quantities and they took off a tumor [hemorrhoid] half finger in length which caused him to lay in bed several days, he got out of bed and started on his campaign.... I hope to live to hear that Barclay has had all the died cut off his detestable back. I firmly believe Cittendue [?] and his men are at the bottom of it all. John was awfully crushed under the malicious slander." - April 13, 1880 to Evaline Hockaday Price from her mother, Emily Mills Hockaday regarding Eva's brother John, who was Attorney General of Missouri, and campaigning for reelection when D. Robert Barclay started making accusations in the press.
"I received the birthday presents together with your very kind letter on Saturday, my 78th birthday, your letter brought tears in large drops, so many kind wishes and expressions was all duly appreciated.... as we grow old we feel that a little attention and remembrance is very grateful, more so than in younger days where we had a strong arm to lean upon. Widow has always been a name of sorrow." July 9th, 1883, to Evaline "Eva" Hockaday Price from her mother, Emily Mills Hockaday
"My darling little girl, your beautiful letter came a day or two ago and I think I never saw my name
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look so well as it did on the back of it, written by your dear little hand. You will soon write better than Aunt Liz does... I am most crazy to see you and hear you say your letters to spell, I guess you will be reading very soon, you must write to me very often, for I can read every word you write." - February 13, 1888, to Emily Hockaday Blair Henrotin from Aunt Elizabeth (sometimes referred Aunt L, Liz, Lizzie, or Lizbeth)
"Your big doll sits quietly in the parlor and your Rosefelt doll is in the middle of the bed in your Mudgie's room. [Illegible name] Blair with one last night, I made one read to her, it reminds me of you just a little bit. She cannot fill your place.... I am very lonely without you. No one to sit around with me and talk to me." - May 29, 1893, to Emily Hockaday Blair Henrotin from Aunt Elizabeth
"For it sounds as though you thought we had neglected you, which we are all far from feeling like doing, and I farther than anybody. I thought when you came here I would go at once to see you, but we kept hearing how weak and nervous you were, and the great necessity of keeping you quiet, and free from all excitement and the annoyance of company - and whilst I knew I would neither excite or annoy you, still knew that my being there would bring company to the house. The family would have come and of course would have to see you. To avoid all that thought I had better wait till you were well. I had felt so miserable over not going to you in the fall when you lay there a month with no one to stay with you when I could so easily have gone had I known you were even in bed." - February 24, 1898, To Evaline "Eva" Hockaday Price from her sister, Elizabeth.
"[It's] the most interesting and the hardest work imaginable. Last fall it was feeding the soldiers as they sailed, usually at four in the morning at Hoboken, NY! Which meant my getting up at two. Since November it has been meeting the steamers at seven or light. It takes one to two hours, half hour exercise, one hour to get breakfast and dress, half hour in subway, so a 7 o'clock call means up at five. We do this four days a week on a moving schedule. Lucy Taggert (from Indianapolis, lives with Florence) and I are together in this. There is no telling how long one is headed- sometimes home for lunch and back in the afternoon or no lunch and dismissed at four, or, as one day two weeks ago we were there at nine AM and worked till 11 PM. That was wonderful, it was part of the 27th. We gave them a full meal, fed 36 hundred men in 45 minutes. Such a sight to remember! We had four lines of food (about forty women), the boys marched off the ferry boat four abreast, band playing, cheering crowds outside the gates. This was at Weekhawkin, they had docked there during the day from the big boats and were then on their way to camps. We gave them coffee, a big canteen cup full, big cream buns with raising which they adore.... [letter continues on for several pages describing the meal and items given to the soldiers, and what the soldiers said to them]". - circa December 1919, to Emily Hockaday Blair Henrotin from Evalyn (friend)
"I have been hoping for a letter from you telling me what you think of Blair? I do hope he is behaving well, and not tiring you out with his noise and disorder! Our house here seems so quiet with away, and stays so straight that I hardly recognize it... I am glad that he is having this first visit with you and Grandfather, that he will always remember. I have such happy recollections of the long visits I used to make you when I was a little girl, and how you used to read to me, etc. That I want want Blair to grow up with the same remembrances." - November 29, 1921 To Aunt "Lizabeth" from Emily Hockaday Blair Henrotin
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"E. H. B. - this is very confidential, but isn't it funny how some families are money makers and some just aren't - Now the Mulford and the Henrotin just are and I'm hoping you can manger to bring up Blair to be a Blair." April 1, 1922 to Emily Hockaday Blair Henrotin from Mrs. Frank Burroughs Mulford (friend)
"The depression has hit me pretty hard, like it has everybody else, and my investments have suffered considerably. While the greater part of them is in frozen assets, which are frozen so stiff that you could not dislodge them with a pickax. My Cherryplain [New York] property ranks first amongst these frozen assets and I am very anxious to dispose of some at a almost any price as I really need the money." - March 2, 1932 to Edward "Ted" Henrotin and his wife, Emily, Hockaday Blair Henrotin from Uncle Maurice
"I am working at the Embassy in London on British matters. We are prepared for the invasion by the Nazis and I have been wondering if things get too terrific with bombs etc, whether you would be willing to have Sylvia, Robbie and I come see you at Cherryplain [New York] until the war is over." - July 2 1940, to Emily Hockaday Blair Henrotin from Jones Page Blair
"You see I have the advantage on you as my so call 'dog' is part tiger, part jackal, and just a touch of Burma Rat. Not much dog to him and he's really rough. He can properly even beat you at climbing trees.... he just laughed, walked out the door and and came back dragging a baby elephant to show me how tough he really is.... news from the front has been good the last few days, We can only think of and thank the boys who have given their blood and their lives to make the news sound good and pray and hope that this mass slaughter will come to an end soon. With the fall of Rangoon, the battle for Burma is close to an end. Germany should be completely defeated by the time you receive this. The cost has been heavy." - May 4, 1945, To Auntie 'S' from Homer who was serving in the Army Medical Corps in Burma.
"Your box has arrived in perfect condition. I can't tell you how delighted I am with all the contents. You really are too generous and I do appreciate all the lovely things you have sent... the nylons are very nice. I don't get them here and have only got a pair Helen sent me from S. Africa... what a good cook you are, it is a delicious cake and the cans you have sent are all the things we like best and so is the soap. I think it is so clever of you to know what we need most. Rice is a treat after so many years without any.... we had [my husbands] brother over here for last week and he took us out on Sunday, a lovely fine day in our car for a a run. On our way home we were run into by another car. Fortunately only our car was damaged. The other car turned over and four people and two children crawled out without a scratch! There are some very bad drivers about. The shock was bad for George and he had to be revived on the roadside. However he seems none the worse now.... We heard from John who had been on leave up country visiting some army friends in Malay [Malaysia], he says the banditry is far worse than here. He had to be provided with an escort to get Kuala Lumpur and they say it may go on for another two years." - February 25, 1949 to Emily Hockaday Blair Henrotin from Adile M. Gahain (friend). (#28015700) $1,750.
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Emily Mills was born on July 7, 1805 to John Mills (1780-1865) and Lucy Mills (1783-1867) in Kentucky, She married Judge Irvine Otey Hockaday (197-1864), on May 3, 1821. They had several children together: Lucy M
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Hockday VanMeter (1823-1849), Amelia Hockaday Stephens (1827-1904), Margaret Hockday McGirk (1829-1905), Elizabeth Hockday (1833-1907), and Evaline June Hockday (1833-1922). She died on May 12, 1890. Her daughter Evaline "Eva" married Robert Beverly Price (1832-1924) in 1860. She had one daughter, Florence Augustus Price (1861-1935), and several step children: Edwin Moss Price 1857-1920) and Emma Price Willis (1858-1942). Eva died on June 22, 1922. Florence Price "Mudgie" married Francis "Farver" Preston Blair (1856-1914) in 1882, and had one child, a daughter, Emily Hockaday Blair (1883-1965). While Florence and Francis traveled, their daughter was cared for either by her grandmother, Eva, or her maternal great aunt, Elizabeth "Liz or Lizzy" Hockaday. Emily often refers to her mother, Florence, as mudgie in her letters. Florence herself died in 1935. Emily would marry Edward "Ted" Clement Henrotin (1874-1945) in 1911 and have one child together Preston Blair Henrotin (1918-1976). Emily died in 1965.
65. [Aesop's Fables][ Fairbank Canning Co.][ advertising] A collection of 14 different 'Aesop's Fables revised and Improved by the Fairbank Canning Co. aka 'fractured fables'. c1885. A grouping of 14 different advertising trade cards with the caption "Aesop's Fables - revised and improved by the Fairbank (meat) Canning Co. Chicago. Each an adaptation on a real fable e.g. THE BOY AND HIS UNCLE - A good Boy went to visit his Uncle who was a very nice man. Finally the Boy began to steal, and his Uncle beat him for it, until at last the Boy confessed that he was so fond of our meats, and thereafter had no trouble with the boy. Moral: If you don't want your boys to steal, give them plenty of our meats... Each with the same sort of twisted logic. The reverse of the cards is primarily blank; a few with promotions for grocers. (#27005565) $225.
moderate wear; few with trimmed edges.
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66. [Social History][ Invitations] 17 Invites to Social Events in Cayuga County NY. Andrus, McChain & Son, Democrat print, Oliphant etc. Cayuga County locations. 1845-1870. An array of invites to social events including five (5) from the 1840s, two (2) from the 1850s, nine (9) from the from the 1860 and one from 1870. They include invitations to Bachelor Festival, Christmas Ball, Cotillion Party, Fourth of July, Harvest Dance, Harvest Festival, Leap Year, Leap Year Party, New Year's Party, Oyster Supper and Social Party, Private Party, Semi-Monthly Hop and Social Dances. The events were held in the towns of Fleming, Kelloggsville, Moravia, Niles, Noravia, Preble, Scott, and Sempronius, all in the state of New York. They were held at these eleven (11) establishments Abel Heald House, Charles Heald, D. J. Van Auken, Assembly Room, Frestival Hall, Hall of Geo. Haynes, Heald's Hall, Heald's Hotel, Lake House Hall, Mrs. Harrop's House, Pressey's New Hall and S. Lockwood House They are printed in two formats - plain paper or coated stock cards approximately the size of a 2 ¼” x 3 ½” business card. The larger format paper cards are in 6 ½” x 4" full sheets or half sheet. The sheets are printed in black and white and are mostly without ornament with the exception of patriotic eagles with shields and a fourth of July event printed in red, white and blue. The coated stock business card size cards include decorative borders, wood cuts, embossed or scalloped edges, one with a red ribbon attached and printed in black, red or blue ink. One of particular note was is a verse on a Leap Year invite:
Come all ye gents, attend this call And plight yourself, for "Leap Year Ball" The Ladies too, will ask,you'll see But their attendant you must be"...
This ball also had a committee of 66 women. Mostly not addressed, however Charles R. Howland's name appears on a couple of occasions. He was a prominent business man and hotel owner. (#28015552) $650.
Condition varies. All found in the same location
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Many of these communities were formed in the 1830s and early 1840s, yet their social lives were well organized.
67. [american civil war][ business history][ correspondence][ shipping][ merchant][ trade][ new york][ new orleans][ tariff] George Clement Lord. A Collection of 21 Letters belonging the the Lord's Family Shipping Company. Kennebunk, ME and Boston, MA. 1836-1861. A collection of twenty- one (21) letters belonging to the Lord Family of Kennebunk, ME, mostly regarding their shipping company, which was also based in Boston, MA. The letters date from 1836 to 1861, and are mostly addressed to George C. Lord. Though a few of the letters are from employees or customers of the company the majority are from family members involved in the business. These members (and their relationship to George) are: his father, Captain George Lord, his brothers Edward W Lord and Charles Edward Lord, and later, his son, Charles E. Lord. A variety of shipping business subjects are covered in the letters, such as the types of cargo and their value (some goods mentioned are cotton, tallow, logwood, salt, railway supplies, and coal), several legal cases for the settlement of claims due to cargo loss, the sale of ships, insurance policies on the ships and cargo, various ship Captains employed by them, ship routes, and the various political policies that effect the shipping business such as the Letters of Marque issued by Confederate President Jefferson Davis that effectively sanctioned piracy as legal. Some of the ships mentioned in the letters are: "International', 'Josephine', 'G. W. Brown', 'Rigulator', 'Crimea', 'Golden Eagle', 'Hayes', 'Royal', and 'York'. The names of the ships owned by the company often reflect the names of family members or past favored employees. Also discussed are various family matters, such as relatives' health or present life. One letter from a customer discusses the transport of 'fleshpots of Egypt', which could alternatively mean either actual pots of meat or prostitutes. While in the end the author does seem to be referring to actual meat, the terminology he uses prior to that is more than slightly ambiguous. The last two letters in the collection are from 1861, on the eve of the American Civil War and discusses the author's, Charles E. Lord, displeasure at the hypocrisy of the North who no longer want a war when it hits them in their pocket books, as well as the effect the war is having on the shipping business. Four of the letters come with corresponding envelopes, however the majority of the letters were folded paper with stampless post. The collection is arranged chronologically, one letter is missing a date. Below are some excerpts from the letters:
"Thirdly your sympathy and sorrow expressed for my having had to pay twice the 3/9 to the port to look after the fleshpots of Egypt I thank you for. But surely you who no doubt go nightly and perhaps daily down into
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that very Montezuma [?]of Egypt enjoying and all the luxuries of that balmy, soft, and delicious land - ought not to chasten a poor old fellow who can no longer journey there and can only now enjoy the remembrance of the part by scenting fleshpots of that magical country in the shape of a thigh of pork." - Daniel Nason to George C. Lord, December 2, 1847
"Please ask father to write us how much insurance they will want on the Wm Brown, we will cancel present policies and take out new ones for the voyage. Present policies expire Dec 1st - should think $36000 on the ship and either 10 or 15000 on charter out. They must bear in mind that the commission on the homeward charter are to be paid lost or not safe - say $1500(sic)- perhaps $12000 on charter would be enough. No news here. we notice the Henry Mann [?] seen Aug 31 - Lat. 28 South of the Island of Madagascar, then out 70 days - at that rate she would not be in Roterdam before Christmas - but we hope to hear of her at Falmouth by the steamer due tomorrow morning." - George C Lord to his brother Edward W. Lord, September 1, 1852.
"In regards to business affairs I have nothing, I am sorry to say, very interesting or cheering to relate. The 'International' is in Dock discharging- has her between docks/decks? now about clear. While she was laying in the river they were obliged to keep one pump going most of the time to keep her free of water and when at sea in rough weather both, but since she has been in Dock, she leaks but very little - say one to two inches per hour.... Political affairs in the United States seem to have assumed a more peaceful aspect and yet as to the future we are as much in the dark as ever. I am sorry to see that the passage of the Tariff Bill has caused a great change in the minds of the people here - their sympathies seem to have made a complete change from the North to the South. It is very easy to see how deep seated their philanthropy is for the poor downtrodden slave when their own interests are at all encroached upon. I think the change in the Tariff just at this time was a very unwise thing with the North and one which will fail to have its desired effect. It will operate against the commercial interests of the North and be of no benefit to the manufacturing interest. Foreign merchandise with fine it way into the country through the Southern ports and Canada without paying the high duty and that the whole object of the tariff will be frustrated [?] . Therefore in my opinion, if the new administration wish to save their 'credit and bacon', they had better abandon the Tariff scheme at once and look to some other source of revenue." - Charles E. Lord to his father, George C. Lord, April 2, 1861
"The truly deplorable state of the anarchy which our one peaceful and happy country is now in makes all news coming from there of thrilling interest, though saddening to the hear to contemplate. It is comforting to now that the people of the North are so united and that party lines are so completely obliterated. If war must come I hope the President will bring all the resources of the country into the field and make on bold strike at the Rebels. It is too late now for any half way measures. they have desperate men to deal with and desperate measures must be used to put them down or the country is lost and ruined further... The underwriters at large are now asking from 1% to 10 % additional premium on cargo in American ships, depending upon their position or account of the Letters of Marque issued by Jeff Davis. " - Charles E. Lord to his father, George C. Lord, May 4, , 1861 (#20128001) $1500.
General wear. One letter has a piece missing and penciling on it.
George Clement Lord was born about 1823 in Kennebunk, Maine to Captain George Lord (1791-1861) and Olive Jefferds (1793-1879). He had five siblings: Hannah Elizabeth Lord (1817-1833), Lucy Hayes Lord (1818-1833), Olive Jeffords Lord (1821-1821-1829), Charles Howard Lord (1825-1892) and Edward W. Lord (1830-1903). He married his cousin, Marion Ruthven Watterson (1823-1910) in 1866. They had four children together: Robert Waterson Lord
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(1847-1908), Marion Ruthven Lord (1849-1910), Caroline Lucy Lord (1852-1859), and Charles Edward Lord (1858- 1941). George Lord does on February 23, 1893.
His son, Charles. is also involved in the shipping business. Charles marries Effie Marion Rogers (1860-?) in 1855 and they have three children together: George C. Lord (18990-?), Marian Watterston Lord (1892-?), and Charles R. Lord (1893-?). He dies on August 1, 1941. He most likely died in August 1978.
68. [ literature][ children's books][ stationary][ anthropomorphic][ anthropomorphism][ printer's proofs] The Pictorial Archives of W Straker Ltd, London,with over 1000 Printing Proofs, c1920- 1940. W Straker Ltd. London. c1920-1940 . W. Straker Ltd is as printing and stationary company that was founded in 1863 and is still in business todayThis album, or guard book, is a collection of over 1000 printer’s proofs in black and white and monochrome. Some of the illustrations in this album were done by E. H. Shephard, Mabel Lucie Attwell, Stanley L Wood, M. D. Hardy, Agnes Richardson Savage, Sylvia I Venus, Ernest Aris, E. M. Ingall, Harry B Neilson, Joan Hoyle, Montague B Black, L R Brightwell and others.Most of the proofs have a number written on them in red ink, mostly corresponding to an inventory number. This album serves as an invaluable look at British children's book illustration during this period. Such a complete printer archive is extremely rare. The large album has black leather covers and a W. Straker LTD book plate on the front interior cover. 17 ½” x 12 ½”. (#27000505) $6,500.
To view images click on: https://goo.gl/photos/EELQsLL1efoq2w1s9
The company produced plates for many British children's books during the 1920s and 1930s.
Covers show some edge wear due to rubbing. Wear to tissue interleaves. Minor stain and glue marks. Printer's marks. Some paper clip rust. Overall this is in very good condition.
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69. [Language of Flowers][ Flavoring Extracts][ Patent Medicine][ Floral Handbook][ Ladies Calendar][ Social History][ Popular Culture] A collection of 16 plus Burnett's Floral Handbooks. Joseph Burnett & Co. Boston, MA. 1861-1881. A collection of 16 Burnett's Floral Handbooks and a single-fold card spanning 20 years. The first is from 1861 and is a two in one booklet. The Burnett's section features information on Burnett's Cocaine for the Hair in Cocoa-nut Oil, Jonas Whitcomb's Remedy for Asthma, Standard Flavoring Extracts including Lemon, Vanilla, Rose, Almond, Nectarine, Celery, Orange, Peach, Nutmeg, Cinnamon, Cloves and Ginger followed by numerous testimonials. This fills the first 12 pp of the book. The second half is reverse and is titled "Cupid's Advice for Packer's Tar Soap. There is no reference to the Language of Flowers. The next booklet from 1866 has the changed sustaining format of the Ladies Calendar, including a yearly calendar, Language of Flowers & Illustrations of flowers with interpretations of their language. Eventually they also included Language of Precious Stones. Format changed to 32 pp. 4 5/8" x 3". An insert page reads "It is hoped the accompanying Floral Hand-book (revised and improved) will prove an acceptable visitor. The "Language of Flowers" is the most complete and reliable ever published, and together with the Provers, Aphorism, Poetical Gems &c, will afford instruction and pastime for dull hours. Our object, as will be seen, is to bring to you notice our several Standard Preparations for the Toilet, &c., which are now favorably known throughout the country. Joseph Burnett & Co. Each subsequent addition was updated with additional products and current testimonials. The cover illustrations depict the romanticism of the Victorian era through the mid- 1870s when they begin reflecting the influences of popular culture. 1878 cover features the Japonesque influence. In 1879 a single fold card features Egyptian Revival while subsequent handbooks feature travel to exotic lands. Finally, a Spanish language edition that appears to be from the late 1870s-early 1880s covers influenced by the Aesthetic Art Movement. Years include 1861,1866, 1869, 1870, 1872, 1875, 1876, 1876(2), 1877,1878, 1878(2), 1878(3) 1879, 1880,1881, 1881(2) and two undated. (#27005532) $550.
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70. [Advertising][ Promotion of Children][ Women's Work][ Advertising Trade Cards]. Victorian Advertising - "So Easy a Child Can Do It". Twenty-five (25) advertising trade cards flyers and pamphlets with illustrations of children easily and efficiently using a product to accomplish a task. The majority are focused on women's work . They include:
• Nine (9) food related cards of children preparing foods for Atmore's Mince Meat, Nestle's Milk Food, Hornby's Oats, Butterine, Chicago Processing and Provisions (canned meats), Piefilene and Ta-Ka- Kake, • Six (6) for laundry and soap products including Chief Soap, New Process Soap, Buchan's Carbolic Disinfecting Soap, Ivorine, Empire Wringer and Moore's Sheet or Book Soap --individual soap sheets in a book for all kinds of hands. • Four (4) Sewing Machine cards including Howe, New Home, Leader and the Standard Sewing Machine. • Three (3) for Stoves including Glenwood & Elmwood and Richmond Stove Co. Additionally a pamphlet with little girls baking with a Garland Stove in the background and words and verse at base for a backing song. The inside pages promote the product. • Two (2) of children cooking with Granite Iron Ware pots. • A mechanical die-cut card depicting a little girl displaying the interior of a Stone White refrigerator. • One for Chase's Liquid Glue depicting children creating a scrap book. • And finally a young girl in fine attire mowing a lawn with an Excelsior Lawn Mower (for Horse or Hand Power) while the adults play badminton.
(#27100653) $325.
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71. [Patent Medicine][ Vin Mariani][ Cocaine][ Advertising Post Cards][ Artists] Vin Mariani, Cocaine & Wine, Patent Medicine - A collection of 150 post cards "L'Album Mariani" designed by famous artists. 1900-1910. A collection of post cards introduced in five series of thirty created by renown artists of the day. Of the 150 cards this offering includes 119 original unused post cards and 31 photocopies of the original cards (place holders). The images were created by the artist, usually designed after one of their original works but making the Vin Mariani the featured element. Many of the cards are captioned with reference to the product. Other artists created completely new concepts to promote the tonic. Each card measures 5 ½” x 3 ½”. As an example, the artists in the first series Paul Avril, F. Roybet, Ch, Waltner, Lévy-Dhurmer, G, Meunier, Paul Renouard, H, Berteaux, Muenier, Mucha, Hermann Paul, Eug, Murer, Lacault, Ribéra, K, Adler, Léon Glaize, Le Sidaner, Paul- Albert Laurens, Louis Noël, Ferigoule, A, Lalauze, Hagborg, Atalaya, W, Bouguereau, A, Maignan, J, Cheret, De Richemont, Bigot, Sem, Léandre and L, Vallet. (#27000716) $2600.
For complete list of artists & history click here: Mariani Artists & Timeline At age 25, in 1863, Angelo Mariani marketed a patent medicine called Vin Tonique Mariani a la Coca de Perou. Based on Bordeaux wind infused with three varietals of coca leaves in the bottle. It was immediately applauded as an ideal stomach stimulant, analgesic on the air passages and vocal chords, appetite suppressant, antidepressant and treatment against anemia. Dosed as a small glass to be taken 3 times a day, 30 minutes before meals. Each ounce contained 6 mg of cocaine. Loved by kings and queens, popes and presidents, scientists and inventors, writers and dancers and more. Testimonials filled 15 leather -bound published volumes.
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