e-list No. 61 Eclectibles Miscellany: Civil War – Death & Despair, Hair Mounting Devices, Teaching Freed Slaves & Of Course, the Children

It’s all about the Children…

Eclectibles Sheryl Jaeger & Ralph Gallo 860.872.7587

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Albums & Journals

1. [newspaper][ poetry][ original poetry][ report cards] Stutz Family, Elizabeth A. Stutz. Poetry and Recipe Album of the Stutz Family. Middletown, Ohio. c1830-1915. A family scrap album of magazine and newspaper clippings of poetry and recipes. The majority of the clippings are poetry. Each page of the scrap album has three narrow columns of clippings pasted on. The clippings date from the 1830s all the way until around 1915. A Elizabeth (Lizzie) Stutz is the only name written in the album, however as some of the clippings predate her birth, this book mostly like belonged to another family member, perhaps her mother first. In fact there is a loose draft of a letter written by an unnamed woman to her brother making reference to 'Lizzie's father'. While the majority of the album are clippings form various magazines or newspapers, Interspersed throughout are several handwritten poems, at least one of which is original poetry by Lizzie Stutz. The majority of the recipes within this album are loose pages that have been placed inside the album for safe keeping. There are a few loose short stories as well. In addition to these loose pieces of ephemera, there are several items of a more personal nature. There is a report card for Lizzie Stutz from 1875. Based on the image of the school printed on the report card, she attended Union School (sometimes referred to as South School) on Yankee Road & 4th Ave, in Middletown, OH. In addition to the school report card, there is a gathering of line paper, presumably what was once a part of a separate journal The front page of this gathering has a stylized bird drawn in ink with the words "Lizzie Stutz, Room 12, Class 9" written in-between the feathers. The first half of this gathering comprises of practice lettering, sometimes a single letter written over and over again, and sometimes a word or phrase whose spelling allows for practice of a unique combination of letters. The latter have of this gathering e-list 61 2 [email protected]

must have been completed at a different time (indeed on of the entries has the date 1879), as the subject matter is a bit more advance. There are math notes and completed algebra problems, as outline lines for several different essays, such as one on coal and Henry Clay. Another personal item in the album is a photograph, presumably of Lizzie Stutz. It is a sepia side view portrait pasted within its own decorative storage folder.

Below are a few excerpts from the poems found within the album:

"... Choose times with a lullaby flowers, And sing through the watches you keep- Be soft with your coming and going- Be soft she is falling asleep. And what would my life be without her Pray God that I never may know Dear friend as you get her about her Be low oh be low with your weeping- be low Be low oh be low with your weeping Your sobs be sorrow to her I tremble lest while she is sleeping..." - Excerpt from original poem by Elizabeth A Stutz

"This is the eldest of the seasons; he moves not like spring with gradual steps, nor grows From bud to beauty, but with all his snows, Comes down at once in hoar antiquity. Now comes the season when the humble want, And know the misery of their wretched scant; Go ye, and seek their homes who have the power, And ease the sorrows of their trying hour." - Winter

"Let's take this world as some wide scene, through which in rail but buoyant boat, With skies now rude and now serene, Together thou and I must float; Beholding oft on either shore, Bright spots where we should like to stay, But Time plies swift his flying oar, And on we speed- away, away." - Excerpt from 'The Boat of Life' by Thomas Moore

Marble covers, Measures 11" x 7 ¾". (#29015435) $325.00

Damage to covers due to rubbing and age. Front cover partially detached. Soiled and age toned. Minor discoloration to the clippings due to the glue that was used. The first page of gathering containing school essays is detached. e-list 61 3 [email protected]

Elizabeth A. Stutz was born in 1863 to George Stutz (1832-1899) and Matilda Klepinger Stutz (1834-1913) in Ohio. She had two sisters Dora Belle Stutz Redder (1861-1927) and Harriet (Hattie) A. Stutz Flory (1868-1952). She married John H Plettner (1866-1924) on October 21 1888. She died in 1918.

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2. [Methodist][ Australia][ nursing][ gender roles][ England] A Collection of 14 Letters written to Eliza Grace Jeffries predominantly from family members in Australia. Washington, DC. 1900- 1913. A collection of 14 letters, written to Eliza Grace Jeffries (1840-1917). While originally born in England, Eliza and her younger brother, Rev Peter Jeffries immigrated to America in 1899. Peter served as pastor to several congregations of the next sixteen years in the Virginia, Baltimore and Washington, DC areas. Eliza often received correspondence from her family and friends, both back in England and abroad. As Eliza was never married, she had a particularly close relationship with her nieces and nephews. The majority of the letters in the collection are from the children of her younger brother William, who had moved his family to Australia. One of her nieces there, Eleanor, becomes a nurse, and often write to Eliza about her work. Below are some brief quotes of interest from the letters:

“I am so very glad; it is so much better for girls to have employment both time and thoughts.” - March 13, 1906, from a friend in England, Margaret Williams

“We had such cool weather for Xmas but it has been hot and every dry all the week. To-day the heat is dreadful. One can feel the skin drying up on the face in the sun. I wish a good storm would come up.” – January 1, 1905, from Louise (Florence Mary Edith Louise Polglass), wife of her nephew, William

“Oh, how those pictures of the churches take me back to when I used to want you to stand with me in Church Street and watch the bronze figures strike the quarters and the hour at St. Peter’s Church… the Landing Stage I can see and remember very distinctly; how often have we gone to New Brighton for the day and wandered up the tour and caught crabs and shrimps among the rocks or got to Birkenhead and on to see my mother’s people, or up the river to Eastham to the Zoo. It all comes back to me when I think of that Landing Stage.” – January 17, 1905, from her nephew Rev. William Jeffries.

“You will see by my address that I am still at the Women’s Hospital, I finished my training about a year ago, since then I have been holding the position of Sister, first on night duty, and now on day duty. I do not intend [on] staying much longer, as the hours are to [sic] long, so will resign about March. I am then going to get my special Infectious Certificate, which will mean three more months of training.” – November 27, 1907, from her niece, Elsie (Eleanor)

“I am sorry for Mr. Binkep, his wife had a little baby about May and it seems to have turned her queer in the head. She has been up in north of Scotland since July and he has had to have a compliant nurse to take charge of the baby. Please keep this quiet as they don’t want more than can be helped to know. It is such a dreadful thing. It is making quite an old man of him.” – November 13, 1900 from her friend F. C. G.

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“This hospital is a good sized one, and does a lot of work. Dr. J. Ramsay, who is the Medical superintendent is a splendid surgeon, so that we have every opportunity of seeing and nursing some good surgical cases.” – November 3, 1909, from her niece, Elsie (Eleanor)

“Katie is now at Perth at a rather large family, she likes the people very much and is delighted with Perth (Scotland)… but she has not been very well lately. She is kept very busy altho’ [sic] there is another nurse. However delightful children are they are also very wearing and I think she begins to feel it and should not be surprised if she tries some other occupation before long.” – March 13, 1906, from a friend in England, Margaret Williams

Additionally, there are two brief notes from Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, who served as British Ambassador to the United States of America from 1903-1906. The letters while send to Eliza, she is addressed by a variety of nicknames, such as Grace or Lizzie. Furthermore, there is one postcard in the collection addressed to her brother, Rev. Peter Jeffries, from his friend that humorously starts with “Dear Blarsted Englishman!!!” The fourteen letters in this collection do come with their corresponding envelopes, however there is an additionally fourteen envelopes without letters. Most of these were sent from Australia. Lastly there is one clipping from a magazine that is an article on religion and education. (#24000100) $350.00

Eliza Grace Jeffries born in 1849 in Liverpool, England to Thomas (1796-1874) and Eliza Grace (nee Williams) Jeffries (1818–1883). She had six siblings, Thomas Albert Jeffries (1841-1858), Rev William Jeffries (1845-1921), George Frederick Jeffries (1852-1927), Jane May Jeffries (1855-?), Rev Peter Ebenezer William Jeffries (1858-1914), and Thomas Septimus Jeffries (1860-1912). The family were devout Methodists, and over the generations, several would immigrate to different countries around the world to spread the word of God. Eliza was very close with her younger brother Peter, and when he immigrated to America in 1899, she came with him. Peter served as Pastor to several Methodist Churches in America. For example, he was at times appointed pastor Trinity Methodist Church South in Staunton, VA, St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church South in Washington, DC, a Methodist Church in Warrenton, VA, another in Baltimore, MD, and lastly, before his death on November 29 1914, Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church South in Washington, DC. Eliza moved with her brother, Peter, every time he was appointed to a new church. She was an active member of each congregation Peter was head of. Eliza loved to travel, and often did so between her family and friends who lived in England and Australia. While she herself never married, she doted on her nieces and nephews, especially those of her brother William, who had moved to Australia. William had six children there, Rev William Albert Yates Jeffries (1874 – 1953) who later married Florence Mary Edith Louise Polglass (1881– 1964), Elizabeth Grace Jeffries (1880–1951), Eleanor Wibmer Jeffries (1881–1974), Mercie Wibmer Jeffries (1882– 1972), Lt. Col. Lewis Wibmer Jeffries, and Shirley Williams Jeffries (1886–1963). Eliza would pass away only a few years after her brother on July 24, 1917. Both siblings are buried in Glenwood Cemetery, in Washington, DC.

3. [civil war][ union][ union soldier][ battle][ death][ grief][ friendship] George E. Haines. Civil War Letter From George E. Haines Regarding the Death of his Friend on the Battlefield. Falmouth, VA. c1865. A single fold letter by George E. Haines, a union soldier, written in the throws of grief over the recent death of his close friend, Stephen, who he "loved like a brother". The letter is addressed to "Dear Sir", but it is clear that he is addressing a family member or close friend of Stephen, and is in fact responding to their request to tell them of his death. George starts his retelling by stating he and his company were in the middle of a retreat and he was about 20 feet in front of Stephen when he e-list 61 5 [email protected]

heard him cry out. "I looked around and Steve had both hands up to his breast and was bent over and looking at me. At that time, all of our company had gone but me and I was left all alone but I ran back the moment I saw him and caught hold of him and asked him where he was struck but he could not speak or did not know that he was stricken, for I had hardly taken hold of him before he fell. I looked in his face and spoke to him but I say that it was useless for he was to all appearances dead. I should not feel so confident but I have seen so many die on the battlefield." He continues on to describe how he had to leave Stephen behind as the enemy was close, "I hardly know how I managed to get out of it safe and I think it was a miracle that I did so. I hardly know what made me, but I wished after I joined the company that I had laid down beside Stephen and let them take me prisoner for about all my patriotism vanished." At the end of the letter, even though George is convinced that Stephen is dead, he does add a post script detailing where wounded from the battle were taken, but also adding that the dead have been buried by "either our men or the Rebels." Measures 7 ¾" x 5 ¾". (#29005500) $175.00

There is a large water stain that appears on both sides of the letter, however it does not effect readability. Age toned.

The next two items are written by the same individuals with very different subject matter and a four (4) year interval between the groups of correspondence. He appears to be an impetuous “joiner” by nature.

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4. [gold rush][ buffalo][ Indians][ native Americans][ American Indian][ mining][ Colorado gold rush][ fifty-niners][ 59ers] William Henry Mann. A Collection of Four (4) Letters from William H. Mann, about the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. Colorado. 1859. A collection of four letters detailing the journey west for William H. Mann and his hopes of hitting it rich during the Pike Peak's Gold Rush. His letters start in May 1859 and continue to mid July 1859.

The first three letters detail Mann's journey west in a wagon caravan. Mann starts his journey around Leavenworth, Kansas, and travels with a group of approximately 20 wagons. In these three letters he describes his encounters with the animals of the region - mainly the Buffalo, Native Americans, and disillusioned men making the return trip from Pike's Peak having failed to make their fortunes. In his last letter he details his various attempts to mine gold at Pike's Peak. This collection of letters, which starts out full of hope and longing for adventure, soon goes down hill as it is clear that Mann has become depressed and discouraged at his lack of fortune. The letters are either addressed to Mann's brother Samuel, or his sister and brother in law, Harriet M Chamberlin and Peter W. Chamberlin. Below are some excerpts from his letters home:

"Nearly all the way from Lawrence to Leavenworth is over the Delaware Reservation, a track of country reserved to the Delaware Indians and is of course almost entirely uninhabited by whites. There is some wild horses yet I think upon these lands but we saw none.... Report says a man came into Leavenworth the day we were there with forty thousand dollars from the mines, I do not know whether [sic] it was so or not. How I shall make it the Lord knows I may do well and I may be glad to return to my native country like the Prodigal Son." - May 15, 1859 Letter

"There is millions of buffalo within 4 miles of where I am writing, the prairies are black with them far as the eye can reach. Yesterday and the day before they would cross the road within a few rods of our wagons. They are savage looking animals and very hard to kill. Seldom that one shot brings them to the ground. You can fire into their heads as long as you please and not make them wink... have met a great many people returning from the gold mines... they tell hard stories, say Pike's Peak is a great humbug. We have seen some right from there that say a man can do first rate there if he has provisions of his own." - June 7, 1859 Letter

"Towards the night we went through their [Cheyenne Indian] camp where there was some 900 or 1000. The Chief appeared to be a clever fellow and the rest stood back when he was about. We camped near them and had to keep a close watch to prevent their stealing. We accidentally left 2 or 3 tin cups near our waggon [sic] in the reach and had them stolen. At one time there was as many as 400 about our camp. They are very filthy in their habits, some of them mostly naked, never wash or combe [sic]. I saw one old Indian picking lice out of another one's head and eating them fast as he found them. They are so low lived they don't seem like human beings.... I would not advise you or any one else to come to Pikes Peak yet, there is too much uncertainty about. If I was in Massachusetts as well off say as I was the fore part of last winter knowing what I know now I don't think I should start, Massachusetts is the place for a person to enjoy themselves or rather me for what a person gets there by industry and economy is worth vastly more to them than a few hundred acres of rich land mixed with a lifetime of ague and misery and bad society." - June 14, 1859 Letter

"Mining is far more risky here than it ever was in the California, so old Californian's inform me. The gold is found mostly in leeds or veins. Often times the have to dig for m25 to 30 feet into solid rock to find dirt that will pay... and nothing or during that time they may find where it pays largely and then it may again close on them and it often requires great labor and expense to again find the leed. Thousand will without a doubt throw away e-list 61 7 [email protected]

their summers work beside what money they spend and not get even a show." - July 17, 1859 Letter. (#29005400) $450.00

Letters are toned and soiled due to age. One letter has ink stains.

The Pike's Peak Gold Rush, often referred to as the Colorado Gold Rush, took place between July 1858 to February 1851, and occurred in the Pike's Peak Country of what was then within the western Kansas Territory and the southwestern Nebraska Territory. Eventually this area would become apart of the Colorado Territory and is today near Colorado Springs, Colorado. Approximately 100,000 people flooded the area, and were sometimes referred to as the fifty-niners, a reference both to the year gold was discovered, and the fact that the people who took part in the California Gold Rushers nearly a decade earlier were known as the forty-niners.

William Henry Mann was born on September 8, 1835 to Samuel Mann (1797-1853) and Sarah Luce (1801-1883). He had four siblings: Richard Banter Mann (1825 - 1835), Harriet Maria Mann (1826-1913), Caroline Luana Mann (1826-1850), Asaph Mann (1830-1832), and Samuel Mann Jr (1832-1917). Harriet would marry Peter W. Chamberlin (Chamberlain) (1829-?) and had one child together, Arthur H Wheeler (1858-?), who is often mentioned in William's letters home. At some point Peter must have died and Harriet remarried Frank Wheeler (1829-1905), who adopted then Arthur. They went on to have two more children. William himself would marry Susan Bancroft on March 6 1856. They had no children. William would volunteer to enlist in Company F, Massachusetts 53rd Infantry Regiment on September 15, 1862. He passed away, either through sickness, or wounds received in battle on April 23, 1863.

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5. [malaria][ New Orleans][ bashear City][ civil war][ union soldier][ death][ quinine][ Battle of Fort Bisland] William H. Mann. A Collection of 5 Civil War Letters from William H. Mann, a Union Soldier. Louisiana. 1863. The collection consists of five letters written by William H. Mann, a private in the Massachusetts 53rd Infantry Regiment. The letters cover the spread of time from his regiments departure from the North, until Mann's death in April 1863, shortly after the Battle of Fort Bisland. Mann is clearly a melancholy man, though whether this was his disposition, or an affect of his going to war is unclear. He describes, often in detail the various obstacles he faces, and laments regularly that he was stupid enough to enlist. The majority of the letters are on single fold sheets of paper, though a few have been cut in half, most likely to save on paper. Measures 8" x 5".

Mann had volunteered to enlist in September of 1862, and the first letter in the collection, dated January 24, 1863, describes when his regiment left New York to sail to New Orleans. He goes into great detail about a storm they encountered along the way. Mann's next three letters date from February to March and cover his time spend in two camps in Louisiana, Camp Mansfield and Camp Kearney. He has a miserable time of it here, describing the unfavorable living conditions, spending some time detailing the various sickness afflicting his fellow soldiers. Unfortunately, at this time Mann himself is sick. He most likely has malaria, as he speaks of an intermittent fever that would not go away, and a prescription of quinine given to him. At one point his illness becomes so debilitating he is sent to a hospital in Camp Kearney to recover. Mann's last letter takes place over the course of a week, April 11-17, as he writes a portion he day. This letter describes his journey to Brashear City, first by rail, and then marching with his Company farther north. He then describes the Battle of Fort Bisland, in which he and his company fought. The last few lines in the letter are dated April 17, Mann is clearly ill, but it is unknown if the cause is disease or a wound sustained in battle. William Mann would die a few days later on April 23, 1863. Below are some excerpts from the letters:

"The wind blew so hard that it was almost impossible to prevent being taken off of one's feet. A good many soldier s were on the deck, but had to cling to whatever they could get hold of to prevent being thrown overboard, in which case no human power could have saved. Then Tuesday night was one of awful suffering to the soldiers crowed between the decks of the Continental. Nearly all were sea sick and vomiting in a frightful manner. The vessel rolled to such a degree as to make it difficult to prevent being thrown from our bunks which being of a temporary nature threatened to come down every instant. The floor was covered thick with the bilious (sp) matter from a thousand different stomachs. Tubs and pails used by some to vomit in would slide about in the slime and filth and soon be upset upon the floor,. The air was bad, almost unendurable and to add to the despair the bunks began to give away in rapid succession, and many poor fellows soon had no place to lay their heads and were obliged to hang to anything they could lay hold of in order to stand or sit." - Jan 24, 1863 Letter

"This is a low unhealthy country, a great many soldiers have died of chronic diarrhea. One man from Co. D died today, the disease was diahea [sic] another man is dangerously sick from Co. E, the typhoid fever and diahea [sic] are the diseases. The boys are pretty well used up as a general thing. This climate does not agree with me, at least I have been quite unwell ever since I went onboard the Continental... There is but little comfort to be taken in this kind of life compared to what there is in farming. When it rains here it rains very hard. The nights are chilly and the days are comparably warm. It rained the other night before we got any boards on the bottom of our tent. It made it very uncomfortable as the ground was entirely covered with water. In our tent the water was from 1 to 5 inches deep. Some of the boys got some fencing stuff and put it down in our tent so that e-list 61 9 [email protected]

we could sit down on our knapsacks and keep more comfortable by lounging on out folded blankets." - Feb. 9, 1863 Letter

"I know the war must distress you and especially the Conscription Act, but I am in hopes Frank (brother in law) well be exempt.... My health will never answer for a soldier, if I can once get hoe, so least I shall never voluntarily enlist again and if they draft me they will have to catch me... My advice to Frank is to keep out of the army at what ever cost. It is well enough to be a little cunning. Frank is almost 35 and all men over 35 who have families are exempt - as I understand it - from conscription... in fact if I had enlisted for 3 years I should wish that I had deserted when we were at New York. The conscription law is a hard law, but the North seem bound to crush out the rebellion. But if after all this exertion they should fail how ruinous must be the consequences." - March 20, 1863 Letter

"... I think of all the pleasant winter evenings, quiet Sundays, and how much better I was cut out for a farmer, to the care of stock, than for a soldier. And I also feel thankful to a higher power that I id not enlist for a longer period than 9 months. I think what a fool I made of myself last fall by going to Petersham (MA) to drill every night. But I hop to come home a wiser and a better man. A home is a home if it is ever so humble and I advise everyone who has a home to be contented [sic]. A s a person is very labile to make their condition worse." - Feb 25, 1863 Letter

"I can make but little calculation about coming home. Life is very uncertain, but my things are settled decently. Be it either way, die or live- I look forward to another existence with pleasure at times. I shall write a few lines daily if I live... The balls and shells have been flying all the mourning. The cannonading [sic] has been heavy on both sides. We are now laying flat upon the ground and expect to go into an engagement soon by all appearances. April 14th- Yesterday we were in a battle nearly all the afternoon or I might say a very sharp skirmishing. The bullets went around us like hail and canon balls whizzed [sic] over our heads with healthy speed. We kept out of the way of them in some measure by laying in the diches [sic] and being stumps. The actin was in a large field of cane mostly which had not bee harvested the last season. The rebels had large breast works and a plenty of guns mounted... April 17- I am very sick, and considering the care I shall have, I think my case so very doubtful. I am very sick." - April 11-17, 1863 Letter. (#29005505) $475.00

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The letter dated Jan 24 appears to be missing a second page.

William Henry Mann was born on September 8, 1835 to Samuel Mann (1797-1853) and Sarah Luce (1801-1883). He had four siblings: Richard Banter Mann (1825 - 1835), Harriet Maria Mann (1826-1913), Caroline Luana Mann (1826-1850), Asaph Mann (1830-1832), and Samuel Mann Jr (1832-1917).Harriet would marry Peter W. Chamberlin (Chamberlain) (1829-?) and had one child together, Arthur H Wheeler (1858-?), who is often mentioned in William's letters home. At some point Peter must have died and Harriet remarried Frank Wheeler (1829-1905), who adopted then Arthur. They went on to have two more children. William himself would marry Susan Bancroft on March 6 1856. William would volunteer to enlist in Company F, Massachusetts 53rd Infantry Regiment on September 15, 1862. He passed away, either through sickness, or wounds received in battle on April 23, 1863.

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6. [Social History][ Popular Culture][ WW2][ SPARS][ WACS][ WAVES][ fashion][ historical fashion][ costume] Barbara Plummer & Barbara Barnett. A Collection of 28 Paper Doll Sets by the Jones Sisters. 1987-2011. This collection of 28 paper doll sets by the Jones Sisters, a pair of women, named Barbara Plummer and Barbara Barnett, who designed paper dolls, predominantly for an adult audience and to support a cause. The majority of the collection are limited edition runs that were sold at the yearly Paper Doll Convention. The collection date from 1987-2011, with the bulk of them dating from the late 1980s. What is unique about these paper dolls are the outfits, as the majority of them are constructed from wall paper. The wall paper is used as 'fabric patterns' to form the base of the design, and are flushed out with ink and color markers.

The collection has been organized into four categories: Military, Career, Fashion and Miscellaneous. Each paper doll set contains one uncut paper doll and a variety of cut (by the designer) outfit and accessories. Two of the sets have two dolls- a mother and daughter pair, and a child and doll pairing. Each set comes with a title page with the name of the doll, its series (were applicable), date (three of the dolls sets in the collection are undated) and designer.

Often times the title page would also list if any portion of the sales of the dolls were going to a charity, such the American Cancer Society, Make a Wish Foundation, Breast Cancer Research and Multiple Sclerosis. The sets are stored in a custom made wallpaper folder. Three of the paper doll sets in the collection, under the Military category, do not have the same design aesthetic and packaging. One was made in 2002, and feature uncut outfits, not made with wallpaper. The doll itself has its look based off of a real female combat pilot, and her outfits span several centuries, and comes in pairs. Each period represented include one fashion outfit and one combat or nursing outfit. The other two e-list 61 11 [email protected]

were made by Barbara Barnett in 2011 for the Paper Doll Convention in Dayton, OH. They both are Military women, (WAC: Women's Army Corp & SPAR: Semper Paraus Always Ready, the USGS Women's Reserve Force), and each set features two uncut pages of a paper doll, and her outfit/accessories. These pages are printed copies of dolls that look like they were drawn by ink and marker, without the use of wallpaper like the rest of the sets in the collection.

During the over thirty year span Barnett and Plummer worked together, they alternatively worked under the names of the Jones Sisters and Two Bs' Design. Some of the items in this collection are made solely by Barnett. A database of the dolls is available upon request. Measures (wallpaper folder) 8 ¾" x 5 ¾". (#29000828009) $650.00

The type of ink used in this sets caused some of the pages to adhere to one another, but are easily separated without and damage inflicted. Otherwise fine.

7. [cooking][ recipe][ food] Cookbook of August Schall, c1909. Potosi State Bank. Potosi, WI. 1909. A handwritten cook book, written in an accounting book provided by the Potosi State Bank in Potosi, Wisconsin. The book belonged to August Schall and it contains over thirty (30) recipes, the first of which is dated, 1909. Some of the recipes in the book include: Onion Sauté, "Baked Vermicella", Hoe Cake, "Peas au Beurre Noir", Fig Cake, Cheese Dates, Banana Pudding, Corn Bread, Tomato Bisque Soup, Apple Salad, Macaroni au Gratin, and Baked Potatoes. Leather covers. Measures 6 ¾" x 3 ½". (#29013875) $225.00

Covers show moderate damage, due to rubbing and creasing. Interior pages are soiled and toned due to age. Minor stains.

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8. [school][ text book][ vocabulary list][ women's studies] Lila Moran. School Notebook of Lila Morann, School Girl form Norwich CT. Norwich, CT. 1883-1905. A school notebook belonging to Lila Moran, a young school girl from Norwich, CT. The first few pages of the journal see Lila practicing writing the alphabet, as well as her name, location and date, September 3, 1889. The rest of the journal can be broken up into two sections. The first half of journal consists of history essays with the following titles: 'Alfred the Great and the Anglo Saxons', 'England under the Normans and the Effect of the Norman Conquest', 'England under the Plantagenets', and 'State of Society under the Houses of Lancaster and York'. Mixed in-between the history essays, are short notes. One of them even describes a ritual, that if completed will allow a girl to dream the identify of her future husband. Another note describes a different ritual that supposedly causes a girl to be married within a year. These short notes are often written in pencil, while the essays are in pen. The latter half of the journal consist of vocabulary lists (words and descriptions). While the lists are broken down by lessons, there doesn't seem to be a common theme to the words (and definitions) listed. In addition to the school work in the journal, there are two drawings. Each drawing is a side view of a woman in a fancy dress. There are also three receipts for a Samuel Moran, Lila's father. These receipts date from 1883-1905. Two are store receipts and one is from the Norwich Saving Society. Marbleized covers, and interior pages are lined with red edging. Measures 8 ¼ " x 6 ¼". (#29012700) $150.00

Covers have moderate wear, due to rubbing and age. Original owner has drawn in black corners on the front cover, as well as writing her name in the center. Binding is loose but intact. Interior pages are have red edging, and some pages are loose or detached.

Lila Moran (Morann) was born in c1872 in Connecticut to Samuel (c1847-?) and Eliza (c1848-?) Moran. She had a brother, William (c1870-?), and a sister Prudence Jane (c1868-?).

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9. [Entertainment][ Women's Work][ Quartette] Photograph - Ariel Quartette. Holland (photographer). Boston, MA. 1880s. A 9 ¾" x 13 ¼" photograph on card on a slightly larger mount captioned "Ariel Quartette". Depicts the four singer in a parlor scene, perhaps the studio, presumably in performance attire as each of their light colored dresses is adorned with floral garlands. A guitar for accompaniment. Reverse is blank. (#21028321) $125.00

Moderate wear. Scuffs and light fading.

A vocal quartette originally organized in Cortland, NY in 1886 by Miss Fannie E. Holt, building the vocal group to be sustainable for some 15 years or more. The quartette consisted of Miss Jennie Lind Lewis, first soprano; Miss Louise G. Webber, second soprano; Miss Fannie E. Holt; first alto and Miss Emma V. Foster; second alto (information attained from an article in the Cortland Standard, January 16, 1894.

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10. [Hair][ Victorian Fashion][ Hair Mounting Device] The Fin de Siecle Hair-Mounting-Device to create the most fashionable late Victorian hair styles. The Parisian Comb Company. New York, NY. c1899. A 14" x 10 ½" two-sided circular for The Fin de Siecle Hair-Mounting Device- Shellene and Tortoisene Combs. Depicts various hair styles created using these combs. It boasts "The Reigning Sensation among the elite at the fashionable European Capitals - It prevents loss of hair - and is manufactured out of "Incombustible Material". Images of the comb border the page. The reverse depicts additional styles and promotion of the product. (#29001885) $85.00

Letter folds. fold separation and loss of paper on margins.

11. [teacher][ freed slaves][ African American][ Mount Holyoke][ Mount Holyoke Female Seminary][ Mount Holyoke College][ Monson Academy][ Wilbraham and Monson Academy][ American Missionary Association][ racism][ reconstruction era][ music][ piano] Lucy Jane Beebe French A Collection of 3 Journals of Lucy Jane Beebe, a teacher of Freed Slaves in Mississippi. Massachusetts and Columbus, MS. 1859-1872. The collection consists of three (3) journals written by Lucy Jane Beebe over the course of her education at Monson Academy, and later Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. Additionally the third journal covers the year she taught former slaves in Columbus, MS after the Civil War.

The first journal dates from 1859-1862, and starts during her time at Monson Academy, a co- educational boarding school, located in Monson, MA (this school would later merge with another and become known as Wilbraham and Monson Academy and is still in operation today but now located in Wilbraham, MA). The journal's first entry is dated October 3, 1859 and speaks of her resolve to keep a daily journal to record her life at Monson Academy. Unfortunately she doesn't keep the promise for long, lapsing in her record after almost two months. She picks up again in the e-list 61 15 [email protected]

summer of 1861 for about a month before dropping off again. These entries record her daily activities, such as classes and social interactions with her friends, family members, and fellow students. One humorous entry tells the story of the evening when Lucy and two of her female friends attempting to spy on (and nearly getting caught) two boys bathing in the downstairs parlor of the boarding house Lucy lived in. The rest of the journal is filled with notes and compositions, mainly summaries of different periods of history such as "Roman Christianity During the Early Years of the Commonwealth" and "Conquest of Britain by Romans." Towards the end of the journal Lucy has graduated Monson Academy and started at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Holyoke, MA. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary between 1861-1867. The school is one of the 'Seven Sisters' and is now know as Mount Holyoke College. In this journal she records the syllabus and notes for "Bible Class - Junior Class", a course she took during 1862-1863 school year. This journal ends with several poems and songs she copied down, such as "Happy Be Thy Dreams", a ballad, meant to song while accompanied by piano, by John Rogers Thomas.

The second journal dates from 1867, during Lucy's last year at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. This journal is filled with copied poems and songs. Some of these poems/songs do relate back to her last year at school, such as the "Valedictory Poem" (given by G. Peckhany in the South Music Room on May 1st, 1867) and the "Class Day Song '67".

The last journal is from 1869 when Lucy had moved to Columbus, MS to teach freed slaves with the American Missionary Association. The most intriguing part of this journal is not from Lucy herself, but rather portions of the diary of Lucilla S. Dickinson nee Cary (1814-1904), a fellow teacher, that Lucy copied down. Referred to as Mrs. Dickinson in the journal, Lucilla was from Beliot, WI (born in NJ), and had previously taught freed slaves in Glaveston and Hempstead, TX, before arriving in Columbus about a year before Beebe. Dickinson's entries chronicles the daily dangers both the young African American students and their (mostly white) teachers faced in those early years of the Reconstruction Era. However, besides recording the incidents of danger and racism, is a record of the triumphs, and sometimes humorous events of the school, its teachers, and young pupils. Dickinson's entries start in April of 1869 (recorded by Beebe in November of 1869) with what was no doubt meant to be a humorous retelling of a story of a courtship between a black man and woman, but really underlines the horrors of slavery. While discussing their personal history on the way to the court house to be married the man and woman find out they are actually mother and son, separated long ago when their former master sold the man as an infant. Several other entries discuss the hardships faced by the students and teachers, for example when a poisonous snake was thrown into the only water hole the school had access to. Dickinson even quoted an article in one of her entries that helps to illustrate the anger the South had towards the North shortly after the war, a man said "[from] his pulpit not long since that when God created Man he did no know such a race as the Yankee would spring up or he would have made hell deeper and hotter." Another entry details the hunger these young African American students felt for knowledge and the pressure they were under to learn. When Mr. Bishop (often referred to in Dickinson's entries is a Mr. B, who most likely is Joseph N. Bishop, who worked, mostly likely as a superintendent in in Freed People Schools, between 1867- 1875) expelled a young black boy for fighting he returned the next day "begging pitifully, said his mother had worked hard at washing to get a little money to send him to school (40 miles) that he didn't want to go home." These entries copied from Dickinson's journal are 15 pages in length. The rest of the journal are mostly songs, though some poems, and/or articles Beebe has copied down. e-list 61 16 [email protected]

Some titles of these entries are "Pass Under the Rod", "Leaf by Leaf", and "The Yellow Rose of Texas". While some of these entries were recorded the year Beebe spent teaching in Mississippi, the journal does continue till 1872, when she is back in Massachusetts. There is approximately 20 blank pages in the middle of the journal, the rest is filled out.

The covers of each of the three journals are marbleized, two are quarter bound (leather back strips) journals and one of these two journals have marbleized edges on the interior pages. The last journal is half bound (leather back strip and corners) and its interior pages have red edging. All of the journals are mostly or completely filled. Measures 8 ¼" x 7" (largest); 7 ½" x 6" (smallest). (#29015445) $600.00

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All three journals have wear on the marbleize covers as well as the cover edges, most likely due to rubbing. All interior pages are soiled and age toned. The half bound journal has damage to the back strip- it is mostly missing. As such the binding of the journal is loose, and one folio of interior pages is detached.

Lucy Jane Beebe was born April 7, 1844 to Marcus Beebe (1812-1891) and Maria Allen Walker Beebe (1817-1908) in Wilbraham, MA. She had five siblings: Emma Olivia Beebe (1834-1857), Junius Beebe (1837-1914), Susan Sylenda Beebe Burleigh (1847-1923), Mary Sophia Beebe Holmes (1850-1904), and Marcus Stewart Beebe (1858-1937). Lucy attended Monson Academy in Monson, MA (now known as Wilbraham and Monson Academy in Wilbraham, MA) and later Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now know as Mount Holyoke College) in Holyoke, MA. Having receiving her teaching degree from Mount Holyoke, she taught freed slaves for the American Missionary Association in Columbus, MS in 1869-70. Afterwards taught in the north for a few years before she married Zenas Aaron (sometimes spelled Aann) French (1847-1922) on May 15, 1878 in Holbrook, MA. They had one daughter together, Linda May French (1881-1972). Lucy died on in 1920.

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12. [poetry][ friendship][ Charlestown Female Seminary][ religion][ hand colored][ women's history] Friendship Album of Typhosa Lakin, A Massachusetts School Girl, 1832-1844. E. Hunt. Middletown, CT. c1830. A friendship album belonging to Tryphosa Lakin Duncan, a young girl from Paxton, MA. The albums dates from 1832-1844, with the majority of the entries from 1834-1835. Each entry features a poem, though sometimes only an excerpt from it, and the author's signature. Additionally, most of the time the date and location of the entry is provided as well. The majority if not all of the entries are from other young women, with a large selection of them also signing, 'Charlestown Female Seminary', a school for young woman located in Charlestown, a neighborhood of Boston, MA. There are approximately thirty (30) entries in this album, and the majority of the poems featured within them deal with themes of religion, and woman's life, whether that be dealing with her piety or love or future husband. Additionally the journal contains six (6) hand colored engravings, the first of which has the name "C. Wells, New York" under it. The first engraving is small, a features a young woman seated at a window staring at the outdoors, and serves as a title page, with "The Album" placed above the engraving along with some decorative filigree. Opposite this title page there is a pasted in insert, that states "Tryphosa Larkin, Paxton, MA" in a decorative font surrounded by a wreath of red roses and green foliage. Below are a few excepts from the poetry found in this journal:

"... Oh! sweet when on the bended knee, Her thoughts, her spirit, mounts above In pious deep-felt ecstasy, To realms of everlasting love." - Excerpt from 'Female Piety'

"Forget them not! though now their name be but a mournful sound, Though by the hearth its utterance claim A stillness round:

Though for their sake this earth no more As it hath been, may be, And shadows, never mark'd before, Brood o'ver each tree..." - Excerpt from 'Memory of the Dead

The album is half bound (leather back strip and corners), with blue marbleized covers and a gilded decorative border along the leather pieces. Measures 8 ¼" x 6 ½". (#29015735) $325.00

The back strip of the journal is mostly missing, as the binding of the item is damaged. Both covers are fully detached as well as each gatherings, but they are intact. Covers are damaged due to rubbing, interior pages are soiled and toned.

This school is often confused with Mount Benedict Academy, as Charlestown housed two female seminaries, a rarity at the time. Unfortunately Mt Benedict Academy was burned down by an anti-Catholic mob in 1834.

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Tryphosa Lakin was born on July 15, 1811 to Nathaniel Lakin (1774-1861) and Hannah Lakin nee Shipley (1751- 1826) in Paxton, MA. She married Charles Duncan (1811-1892) on May 11, 1836 in Paxton, MA. They had four children together, Harlan Page Duncan (1837-?), Ellen Tryphosa Duncan Sprague (1840-1924), Charles Henry Duncan (1842-1842), and Emma Francis Duncan Bates (1845-1929). Tryphosa died on December 31, 1876.

13. [shipping][ boats][ classifications][ shipbuilding][ ship registers] Rules for Building and Classification; Record of American and Foreign Shipping. American Shipmasters' Association. New York. 1877. 48 pp. Textured paper wrappers. Gilt stamp. This book details the instructions for how to survey and classify a ship according to the rules provided by the American Shipmasters' Association. The book starts with a list of resolutions and recommendations of the NY Board of Underwriters in conjunction with a list of prominent merchants that support these new regulations for the building and classifications of American shipping vessels. Each vessel must be survey and classified by an approved agent/surveyor (list provided), and a sample certificate is provided. The book continues on to detail how future construction of shipping vessels, either wood or iron, can meet these rules. There are a few blank pages at then end of the book, on one of these pages is an incomplete letter dated February 16, 1878 to a 'dear Frank'. The letter is written by an unknown individual updating Frank on the comings and goings of their friends and family. It is clear by the letter, and the talk of storms at sea, that Frank is a sailor of some kind. The front cover features a gilded stamp design of en eagle holding an anchor on a rock with a ship a full sail in the background. Surrounding this design is a decorative border of rope with an anchor in each corner. Measures 8 ¾" x 7 ½". (#29013360) $225.00

Light damage to covers. Some fading. Back cover has minor separation of the cover from its end papers. Minor soiling and age toning. e-list 61 19 [email protected]

Humorous Serial Publication

14. [Paris][ humor][ the smile] A Collection of 30 Issues of Le Sourire, A Paris Journal. Paris, France. 1900-1913. A collection of thirty (30) issues of "Le Sourire", a French illustrated humorist serial publication under the direction of Maurice Mery and Alphonse Allais. It was a weekly publication, normally issued on Saturdays. Le Sourire, meaning the Smile, was launched in 1889 and ran continuously till 1939, with the exception a few brief years where publication ceased due to World War I. The serial was intended to compete with a similar journal known as Le Rire (The Laugh). Each issue features a color illustration on the front and back cover, while several black and white illustrations, ranging in size from small vignettes to full page works. Additionally there are short stories, articles, and advertisements (all in French). The magazines provided a great resource for both artistic and political Parisian culture at the time. The bulk of collection (22 issues) are from 1900-1901, however there are issues as late as 1913. The numbering of each issue was originally numbered consecutively, even as years past. At some point, they switched over to restarting the numbering at the beginning of each year, while including the year in publication. The issues within the collection are as follows: 1900 (12 issues): 38,39,41,44,45,46,50,51,52,53,57,59 1901 (11 issues): 63,66,73,74,75,81,88,91,96,97,98 1902 (2 issues): 116,147 e-list 61 20 [email protected]

1904 (1 issue): 224 1905 (1 issue): 304 1911 (1 issue): 13 Annee # 27 1913 (1 issue): 15 Annee # 27 Special Edition, No Date: A Travelers Les Ages

Measure 12 ½" x 9 ½". (#22018505) $250.00

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The journal's pages are fragile and brittle, as well as age toned and soiled. The edges of the pages are sometimes torn. Two editions have tears on the cover. The journals have staple binding, the majority of which is damaged, and therefore pages are loose or detached on most of the editions. With the exception of one edition (#304), all them appear to be complete. #304, id missing at least the back cover, but as the pages are unnumbered, it might be missing more.

Social History

15. [valentine][ writer][ love][ courtship][ poetry] People's Valentine Writer. T. W. Strong. New York. 1850. 34 pp, with printer wrappers. The small writer houses acrostic poems meant for valentines, the majority of which are organized by name, both male and female. The rest of the poems do not follow the format of acrostic poems, but still deal with the theme of love and valentines. Below are a few of the poems found within the writer.

"Each flower speaks, each bud portrays [sic], Lovely girl, thy form and face! Leaf and tendril thus entwin'd Ellen, quite convince my mind. Next thy beauty ranks thy grace!" - Ellen, page 5 e-list 61 21 [email protected]

"John! some say you grow a fool, Others think you wit intense: Hourly experience proves, Never you as yet had sense." - John, page 18

"All that love can hate -- is thine! I shudder when I see thee smile, Aversion and contempt are mine, and loathing thee -- thou torturest all the while" - Emma to her Tormentor, page 19

The front cover features a decorative border that inside of it depicts a man sitting at a desk, writing, with cupid perched on the edge of the top of his chair. The back cover depicts the same decorative border with a woman standing next to a wooden barrel, dress in what appears to be a toga. Written on the barrel, is the name of the engraver, T. W. Strong. OCLC 2 (July 2019). Measures 4 ¼" x 2 ¾". (#29004435) $150.00

Minor staining (small spots) on the back cover. Interior pages are age toned and soiled. Minor foxing. Front interior cover has penciling.

16. [religion][ Christ][ shakers][ theology][ revelation][ church] Henry B. Bear. Scientific Demonstration of Theology, Prophecy and Revelation! Preston, OH. 1900. 56 pgs., brown wrappers. Henry B. Bear was a Millerite - a person who believed in William Miller's teachings that Second Advent of Christ was coming in 1843-1844. Bear became disenchanted with Millers teachers and eventually joined the Ohio Shaker Community. He published this book to spread his knowledge that he "arrived at after half a century of meditation, research and study of the scriptures." The book is divided up into the following sections: 'The Subject of Good and Evil', 'The Remission of Sins, What Does it Affect?', 'Heaven, What is It?', 'Hell, What is It?', 'Baptism: Is Water Baptism Essential to Salvation?', 'The Prophecies of Daniel and St. John Demonstrated', 'Daniel's Interpretation of the Image', 'Dedication and Release', 'Revelation of the Godhead', 'Revelation of the Christhead', 'Advent of Jesus Christ', and 'The Female in the Christhead'. Staple binding. Measures 7" x 4 ¾" (#29013675) $350.00

Staples are rusted and has caused minor stains.

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17. [Rhythm is Movement][ Mental and Physical Improvement][ Spirituality] Florence Fleming Noyes. 2 Circulars - The Noyes School of Rhythm for Children - Summer Camp. Cobalt, CT. 1927. The first single-fold brochure has an image from a photograph of the gateway to the camp. In its fifteenth season. It asks these questions:

Have you thought what kind of a summer you would like your children to have? Would it be something like this?

Followed by these and many more:

• That they be outdoors most of the day, in the meadow of an old Connecticut farm that slopes to a lake with wooded hills beyond? • That they start the day with a Rhythm class in a big, open Barn overlooking the sparkling lake below? • That they spend quiet, cool hours in an old shed, with clay, paint or dyes, which take on new meaning after Rhythm work? • That they find evenings and rainy days perhaps the best of all, when they gather around big logs crackling and blazing in the fireplace in the Barn?

This is followed by comments from pleased parents at summers end., A second image of children in gossamer white gowns playing in a field. A pictorial map and basic info about the separate camps for e-list 61 23 [email protected]

Women and Girls and Men and Boys. The second is eight fold out pages with extensive information on the camp, testimonials, order of the day pricing, pictorial maps, peaceful images from photographs and gossamer gowned women "in a masque". Pages are 8 ½" x 5". (#29016525) $150.00

Created by Florence Fleming Noyes in the early 1900’s, Noyes Rhythm is a movement system that brings ease and strength to your body, while opening you up to great creativity in art and life. Many people, all ages, dancers and non- dancers, have come to Noyes Rhythm to relieve stiffness, tiredness, and loss of inspiration.

The work combines a system of physical techniques and improvisatory explorations, encouraging subtle internal awareness, all supported by live music. The techniques build core strength, release unwanted tension, and encourage coordination, alignment and balance.

Our movement always reflects the elements of nature. It is an organic approach that asks us to feel the breath of the forest, the ripples of the water, the rolling gait of the bear. We can get beyond our physical limitations and move together in universal rhythms.

The Noyes system also affects our whole selves by inviting us “shed what we don’t need and find fresh resources for our spirit.” Combining the grace and spontaneity of childhood with the clarity and discipline of maturity, Noyes Rhythm work connects us to the same strength that flows through all living things.

A religious service mainly of song and often of a joyous informal nature. The school is still in existence.

18. [Praise Meeting][ Lyman Viaduct][ Religion] Lg Format Song Sheet - Praise Meeting at the Lyman Viaduct. Sunday School Committee of the Baptist State Convention. Colchester, CT. August 1, 1877. e-list 61 24 [email protected]

A 14 ¾" x 9 5/8" song sheet and announcement for the meeting to be held at the Lyman Viaduct and assessable by rail via all stations on the Boston & New York Air Line, the New London Northern, and Connecticut Valley Railroads Dr. E. J. Walker of New Haven - Conductor; and Mrs. C. J. Post of Middletown - Organist. Printed verse includes songs such as Jesus Sought Me, Jesus' Loves Me, Oh, Where are the Reapers, Sweet By-and-By, Only an Armour-Bearer and many others. The reverse is blank. (#29001784) $85.00

Letter folds. Light edge separations.

The Lyman Viaduct is a buried railroad trestle built over Dickinson Creek in Colchester, Connecticut in 1873. Along with the nearby Rapallo Viaduct, it is one of the few surviving wrought iron railroad trestles from the first generation of such structures

Praise meeting - a religious service mainly of song and often of a joyous informal nature.

Social Welfare 19. [Social Security][ Social Welfare][ Old-Age and Survivors Insurance] Brochure introducing Old-age and Survivors Insurance - Social Security - Monthly Benefits Begin in 1940. US Government Printing Office. 1939. 8 pp pamphlet with an image from a photograph of gently "puffing his chest". The content describes the monthly old-age and survivor's insurance benefits beginning January 1, 1940. It describes how to qualify - retire from work, or made at least $50 in each of 6 calendar quarters since 1936. It further explains that wages you earned after 65 years would count towards benefits and how the program worked for surviving spouses and children. Monthly benefits were based on previous earnings. Measures 7" x 4". (#29001869) $100.00

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Letter folds.

It’s all about the Children

Materials in this section will always be about the children…

20. [measurements][ weight][ math][ teaching][ primer][ textbook] Daniel C. Underhill. Tables of Arithmetic Made Easy. Mahlon Day. New York. 1828. 23 pages, printed wrappers. A short primer on arithmetic, featuring information, often in the form of tables, on the following topics: Roman Numerals, Numeration Table, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, English Money, Troy Weight, Apothecaries Weight, Avoirdupois Weight, Cloth Measure, Long Measure, Liquid Measure, Dry Measure, Time, Motion, Book Measure, Land or Square Measure, Solid or Cubic Measure, Promiscuous Weights, Coins of Use, and an Explanation of [Mathematic] Characters. The front covers has an engraving of two young boys walking in the countryside holding book sacks. The back cover features a list of other 'School Books' sold by Mahlon Day. Third stereotype, from the improved fifth edition. Measures 4 ¼" x 3 ½". (#28009262) $50.00

Back cover detached. Minor soiling and age toning. Minor foxing.

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21. [religion][ Sunday school][ primer][ bible stories][ poems] A Bound Collection of 1879 Picture Lesson Paper, A Sunday School Publication. Nelson & Phillips. New York. 1879. A bound collection of Picture Lesson Papers from 1879. Each issue has 4 pages, and was meant to help teach children during Sunday School. Each issue has a small lesson story with a corresponding black and white engraving, as well as a poem or song, and additional questions the teacher can ask in a review session. All issues in 1879 are Volume 10 of the publication, the bound collection contains the issue numbers: 2-4,6-8,10-15,17-23,27-30,32,35-40, 45-46, 48, which date from January 12, 1879 to December 28, 1879. Inscribed on the front endpapers is "Willie Mitchell, Detroit, MI, 1879". Marble covers, measures 7 ½" x 5 ½". (#29012560) $75.00

Covers have damage due to rubbing, particularly on the leather back strip where the top layer has been rubbed away. Interior pages are age toned and soiled.

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World Tolerance

22. [World Friendship][ World Tolerance][ Early Learning] (Asama, Kimiko) Tadpole From "Tadpole". Lucy W. Titcomb. East Northfield, MA. 1937. 38pp. Illustrated wraps. An image from a photograph of the young authoress holding a doll. Her introduction is To Dear Children (in America) that concludes with a verse "Nations are Friends". Contents includes: Why Am I Tadpole? A Flower- Magician Mr Spider Rip Van Winkle in Japan Master Momotaro - a four act play What is in the moon Kintaro at Mt. Ashigara A Tongue-Cut Sparrow A Robe of Feathers. Line drawn full page and in-text illustrations throughout. Measures 9" x 6". OCLC - 0 (July 2019) (#29016235) $200.00

Light cover wear.

Foreword by the publisher, a former professor of "Tadpole" advising that she was particularly interested in promoting World Friendship. As an adult she gathered the best-loved Japanese legends and fairy stories and told them in her own words for American children. She indicates that although written for children its a must read for anyone interested in "Inter-Relations".

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Paper Dolls

23. [Paper Dolls][ Peter Thomson][ Pretend Play] Daisy Deane, No. 2. Peter G. Thomson. Cincinnati, OH. c1885. A 6 ¾" two-sided paper doll with four (4) two-sided costumes, hats lacking, with original envelope. Complete with exception of hats. The facial features of the cover illustration are inconsistent with the face/character of the doll, even though it's the intended doll. (#290008225) $125.00

Separation with repair at base of doll. Moderate envelope wear with intact tears.

Styled after McLoughlin Bros. paper dolls, however the printing quality is inferior to McLoughlin. A primary reason for their publishing business being shortlived. Interesting design.

The last four (4) items are reflections of popular culture of the day when in 1863 McLoughlin Bros. first produced paper dolls of the popular P.T. attraction and exploitation of the dwarfs called Miss Minnie Warren, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thumb and . These dolls continued to be published by the firm in different sizes and formats through the 1870s.

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24. [P. T. Barnum][ Human Exploitation][ Side Show][ Paper Dolls][ Dwarfism] Miss Minnie Warren. McLoughlin Bros., 30 Beekman. New York, NY. c1863. A 4 ¼" two sided paper doll, her four (4) two- sided costumes, one hat and two variants of the costumes in different colors. Also includes original 8" x 4 ¾" envelope. The interior of the envelope included directions for making and an illustration of what would have been a "normal size" chair for scale. A solemn appearing young woman. (#290008221) $150.00

Paper lose on envelope margin with intact tear. Dolls and costumes overall fine.

The smallest of the Barnum dwarfs, standing only 2/3 the height of her sister "" or Mrs. Tom Thumb.

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25. [P. T. Barnum][ Human Exploitation][ Side Show][ Paper Dolls][ Dwarfism] Mrs. Tom Thumb. McLoughlin Bros., 30 Beekman. New York, NY. c1863. A 4 ¾" two sided paper doll, her five (5) two- sided costumes, one uncut hat. Also includes original 8" x 4 ¾" envelope. The interior of the envelope included directions for making and an illustration of what would have been a "normal size" chair for scale. (#290008222) $175.00

Light cover wear.

Her stage name was "Lavinia Warren" before she married Tom Thumb

26. [P. T. Barnum][ Human Exploitation][ Side Show][ Paper Dolls][ Dwarfism] Commodore Nutt. McLoughlin Bros., 30 Beekman. New York, NY. c1863. A 4 ¾" two-sided paper doll with eight (8) two-sided costumes, two (2) hats and one hat as part of the costume. Also includes original 8" x 4 ¾" envelope. The interior of the envelope included directions for making and an illustration of what would have been a "normal size" chair for scale. (#290008223) $200.00

Minimal wear.

Commodore Nutt was 29" tall and jointed the dwarf group in 1861 at the age of 18 years. His original name was George Washington Morrison Nutt.

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27. [P. T. Barnum][ Human Exploitation][ Side Show][ Paper Dolls][ Dwarfism] . McLoughlin Bros., 30 Beekman. New York, NY. c1863. A 5 ½" two-sided paper doll with four (4) two-sided costumes and three (3) hats, rumored to be identical to those outfits he wore while performing for P. T. Barnum. Also includes original 8" x 4 ¾" envelope. The interior of the envelope included directions for making and an illustration of what would have been a "normal size" chair for scale. (#290008224) $175.00

Minimal wear.

Born on January 4, 1838 at Bridgeport, CT, his height reached only 40" at maturity. His marriage to Mercy Lavinia Warren Bumpus took place in Grace Church, New York, on February 10, 1863. Exploited by P.T. Barnum,, the little General was first exhibited to the public at the age of six years at a starting wage of #3.00 per week plus room and board, and traveling expenses. From this small beginning Tom Thumb ran his holdings into the millions during his career (Those Fascinating Paper Dolls. Howard).

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