New York Int’l Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 Eclectibles Booth B19
Collections & Archives Albums, Journals & Commonplace Books
Eclectibles Sheryl Jaeger & Ralph Gallo 860.872.7587 [email protected] www.eclectibles.com
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The collections are in no particular order. Additional information is available on all collections.
58. NATIONAL CHILD LABOR COMMITTEE (NCLC) COLLECTION
A COLLECTION OF NATIONAL CHILD LABOR COMMITTEE (NCLC) PHOTOGRAPHS AND NARRATIVES IS BEING OFFERED JOINTLY BY:
Eclectibles House of Mirth Photos Sheryl Jaeger Stacy Waldman 47 Lakeview Heights 22 Cottage Street Tolland, CT 06084 Easthampton, MA 01027 [email protected] [email protected]
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
New York Book Fair 2019 3 [email protected] 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 ratified. The amendment is still-pending today. The National Child Labor Committee continued its work into the 1990s.
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 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
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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
New York Book Fair 2019 5 [email protected] 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 particular location. As an example, this collection is particularly strong in material on the Tiff mines. Much can be learned about conditions at the Paw Paw Patch or Possum Trot Hollow mines in Missouri in researching these materials.
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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) $190,000. (term available)
New York Book Fair 2019 8 [email protected] 59. [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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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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New York Book Fair 2019 12 [email protected] 60. [Optical Transformation][ Overlay][ Made by Hand][ Watercolor][Original Art] Exceptional Metamorphosis Overlays of a Man and Women with 97 Overlays - Clothes Make the Man. Netherlands. 1808. The entire content is original art. Comprised of 3" x 2 ¼” portrait cards of a nude woman and man in an undershirt. The women has forty-six (46) cut-paper watercolor overlays and the man has fifty-one (51) cut-paper watercolor overlays. In all ninety-seven (97) different possible portraits, spanning professions, fashions and extraordinary hairstyle One of the female overlays (no.10) is dated 1808. Each with a half-length or head and shoulder drawings with cut-outs to expose the face of the portrait. Some with more intricate cuts to provide accessories for the costume or change the character of the face. Somewhat unusual is the fact that the set represents both female and male faces in two separate base portraits. Housed in a paper covered pressed board box with a separation at center. The box most likely is not contemporary to the piece and added at some time in the 19th century. Each is numbered. Exceptional. (#280007914) $14,500. For additional images click: https://photos.app.goo.gl/zWJoySHtyRp3Y8b36
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1. [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. 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.
New York Book Fair 2019 14 [email protected] 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 1/2" x 5 1/2". 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 1/2" 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 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).
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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 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) Card Suits Avant Garde dinner party Caricatures with Captions Bathing Beauties Children Box Set - Dennison Children - Hand Colored and Cut-out Butterflies & Birds Ethnic Cultural - Asian
New York Book Fair 2019 16 [email protected] Ethnic Cultural - Chinese Set Ethnic Cultural - Dutch Twelve Different Volland Colonial Girl Place Ethnic Cultural -Misc. Cards - Place Cards with Charm... and Fans Dignity Fantasy: Flower People Sets - No Box - 68 (tallies or cards in sets) Fantasy: Handmade Watercolor Women Set - Golfers with Flower Umbrellas Sets - From Nature Femme Fatale with Feathers Sets - Women Flowers Sets - Women with Hats Handcolored Pith Paper Chinese Characters Tallies - 478 Handmade Watercolor: Miscellaneous Advertising - Campbell's Soup Kids Hats & Baskets with Flowers Advertising - Lucky Strike Cigarettes Holiday - Misc. Advertising - Miscellaneous Products Holiday - St. Patricks Advertising Angelus-Campfire Lithe Women with Dogs Marshmallows - Stretchums Night on the Town Animals - Dogs Patriotic Animals - Miscellaneous, Birds & Butterflies Raphael Tuck Baby Showers Sports - Football Card Shape Victorian Imagery Children Wedding - Misc. Coquettes Whimsy Couples Woman with Flowers Ethnicity and Culture Women with Parasols and Hats Flowers Worldly Women Harlequins Score Pads – (55) Holiday - Halloween Advertising - Seventeen Holiday - St. Patrick's Day Buzza Novelties Holiday Miscellaneous Score Pads - Kewpies Score Pads - Gibson Men Score Pads - Miscellaneous Nature & Landscapes Score Pads - P. F. Volland Co. Objects Sets - Boxed – (133 tallies or cards in sets) Oh Those Gibson Girls 4 Table Tally Tale-Teller with Fortune Teller Old Fashion Gals Boxed set - 50 unused Tally Cards Patriotic Boxed Set - Pirate Tallie Silhouettes Boxed Set - The Butterfly Bridge Ensemble Sophisticated/ Worldly Women Boxed St - Working on a Movie Tallies with Applied Elements from Nature Tally-Hula Wedding Travel Bridge Every-Player-Your -Partner Women with Hats Syste Adds "PEP" Fadscinaton and Women's Work Enjoyment to Progressive Bridge - 3 Table 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
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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
62. [Gender Roles] [Visual Culture] [Women’s History] [Women’s Work] A Collection of over 260 Greeting Cards depicting Gender Roles Differentiation 1930s-1980s We are presenting a collection of novelty greeting cards accumulated by an advanced collector over a period of thirty-plus years. This collection includes over 260 cards and was extracted from a much larger collection and includes only those depicting clear gender roles California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 18 differentiation. Although presented in a light-hearted manner the imagery and sentiments project the prevailing attitudes during that time period. They include greeting cards for all occasions. Additionally some of the cards depict anthropomorphic characters. This collection has a variety of design elements and styles such as pop-up and fold-outs. The majority are single-fold cards, with some exceptions. Most measure approximately 5” x 6”. Some with signatures and sentiments. Condition is overall very good. Some with scrapbook residue attached. a. Couple Behaviors – Approximately 77 cards depicting couples in various situations. Predominantly male dominated, however often reflecting on the wisdom of a wife. The “How Marriage Works” category includes booklet greeting cards with what one should expect his or her role to be in the marriage. • Catering To • Ogling • Children in Adult Situations • Romanticism • How Marriage Works • What Couples Do • Look Who’s Driving • Occupations
b. Female Roles – With about 103 cards depicting females, with few exceptions’ females are presented as gentle and sweet, nurturers and fashion conscious, this even includes the grouping titled “Coquettes”, even as it ups the sex appeal of its depictions. Animals in Female Roles • Coquettes • Sweet as Can Be • Hats & Flowers • Tender Moments • Girls at Play • Girls & Dolls • Pretend Play-Just like Mom • Women being Women • Studious
c. Male Roles – Approximately 62 cards depicting males with an emphasis on being active and involved in outdoor activities, occupations and sports.
• Cowboys • Manly Men • Occupations • Transportation and Aviation • Sports • Their Softer Side • What Dads Do • What Little Boys Do Outdoors
Role Reversals – This group only includes four (4) cards and depicts a girl aviator, girls setting up the Christmas Tree, a boy doing housework, and a man in an apron. omen’s Work - This group includes 19 cards depicting what is perceived to be women’s work. A majority of the cards depict household chores and surprisingly there were no cards with a teacher depicted. Additionally, the card ‘Days of the Week’ depicts a little girl doing household choirs as pretend play for each day of the week. • Housework • Cooking & Baking • Occupations Outside the Home
To link to images, click: https://photos.app.goo.gl/E4F876MmjPdbet2g7 (#26015790) $2,500.
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63. [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:
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 20 • Geo. Wilson & R.A.C. Smith -- • Alfred E. Smith – Montauk Club Lawyers Club (Brooklyn) • George McAneny honored by New • Will H. Hays – Union League Club York City at Waldorf • Banquet to William Pierce Frye- • George McAneny at Waldorf Waldorf (Tiffany) • Julius Howland Barnes – Hotel • John Harriss – Columbia Yacht Club Commodore • NY Lumber Trade Assn – Waldorf • Reunion Dinner – Law Dept. NYC – • Morgan J. O’Brien Delmonicos • Holland Society of New York – • Hon. H. Warren Hubbard – Waldorf Waldorf • New York Citizens Peace Banquet – • Daniel M. Brady – Hotel Commodore Waldorf • Francis M. Hugo – Commodore • Julius H. Barnes – Hotel Commodore • 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
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 21 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 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”.
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 22 • 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. • 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
65. [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
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 23 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 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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66. [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
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 25 said based on the number and 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
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 26 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
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 27 "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.
General wear to materials.
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
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 28 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.
67. [The Youth's Companion][ periodicals][ juvenile books] A collection of 18 advertising trade cards promoting educational and entertaining publications for children including periodicals and books. . Multiple locations. 1880s. A collection of 18 different advertising trade cards for The Youth's Companion, We Keep "Wide Awake", Eclectic Penmanship, Harper's Young People plus books by Historical Publishing Co., Estes & Lauriat, Lee and Shepard and Sunshine Publishing Co. The final card is for the Patent Adjustable Book-Cover. The focus of the advertising is to parents. The focus is education and entertainment. Approximately half of the cards are for The Youth's Companion with elaborate chromolithograph printing including two 3 fold concertina style cards promoting the annual volumes.
The announcement for 1883 includes a list of illustrated stories, illustrated travel and adventure, special articles, Reminiscences and Anecdotes, Household Decoration and Amusements and The Help Series.
The 1886 announcement includes serial stories, natural history and adventure, special articles, sketches and practical articles.
Other cards display eye- catching imagery and proverbs. (#26024435) $425.
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68. [Advertising Trade Card][ Publishing][ Promotion] 29 Advertising Trade Cards Promoting Books, Magazines and Newspapers. . . . The collection includes 14 cards relating to newspapers. They include the Grit, Gleason's Pictorial, Patriot, New York Weekly, The Nightly Moon, New York Observer, The Congressionalist, Newton Republican and a set of 6 album cards with large format newspapers in the background with familiar patriotic figures representative of the country the newspaper represents. They include a winged Uncle Sam reading the New York Times, Liberty reading La France and a Beefeater reading The Standard.
The 7 magazine cards include Demorest, Godey's Ladys Book, Farm & Fireside, Punch (Aesthetic Movement influence) and 2 miniature magazines - Life (1883)and the Saturday Evening Post (1911).
The final group of 7 cards promoting books and book sellers include 4 for Estes & Lauriat - ZigZag Journeys in Europe, Classic Lands, the Orient and the Knockabout Club in the Woods. Also includes the People's Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge, Frederick Keppy publisher of scientific book and specimen pages from The Beacon Light, Lyon & Healy, Chicago.
Several with information on the publication. (#26024436) $600.
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69. [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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70. [natural disasters][ WWI][ the great war][ WWII][ war relief funds][ benefit literature][ famine][ Armenian Genocide][ propaganda][ WW1][ WW2][ charity][ nazi party][ Bella C. Landauer] Collection of International Children's Relief Memorabilia. 1905-1945. A collection of 25 items dealing with ephemera from children relief funds meant to benefit the international community. The funds were set up in response to natural disasters, refuge crises or war relief efforts. The collection dates from 1905 to 1945 with the bulk of the materials made for various relief efforts during the First World War. The collection has been divided up into three categories: Natural Disaster Relief Funds, Relief Funds in Response to World War I & II, and Miscellaneous. Below is a brief the items within the collection:
Natural Disaster Relief Funds: Japan's Awful Famine (1906) In 1906 Japan experienced a famine in their Northern Provences due to a failure with their rice crops. With millions of lives at risk, the Japan Famine Relief Work was set up to funnel aid. This 16 page booklet is meant to illustrate the plight of Japanese citizens to Americans with stories from different villages emphasizing the deplorable conditions. Black and white photographs are featured throughout the booklet that depict Japan in the years before the famine. Each photograph is accompanied by a caption, such as "Happy Japanese children before the famine came." The photographs provide a stark contrast to the text of the booklet. Measures 6 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Il Giornalino Della Domenica (June 1906) This Italian Magazine, roughly translated to 'Sunday's Newspaper', was printed in response to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on April 5th, 1906, and was sold to raise funds for the families of teachers and school children affected by the eruption. The cover features a boldly colored illustration of the volcano erupting with two young boys looking on. The magazine is full of short stories, poems, and black and white illustrations. The back cover is a cartoon strip featuring several mice playing with a ball. In Italian. Measures 11 1/4" x 7 3/4".
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Relief Funds in Response to World War I & II: Madame Paderewski's Polish Puppets (Oct 1915) Two newspaper articles which detail the sale of Madame Paderewski's Polish Puppets, otherwise known as the "Dolls from the Saddest Land". Included is also a newspaper photograph of three of the dolls sold: Stas the Tinsmith, his wife Pala and son Jasio. They were rag dolls made by Polish refugees in Paris, and were sold to help fund the Polish relief effort in WWI. Their main goal was to help buy milk for Polish babies as supposedly there were no cows left in Poland. Madame Paderewski, the Baroness de Rosen, brought the dolls over from Paris in 1915, and used both her and her husband's notoriety to help promote the sale. She was married to Ignacy Jan Paderewski, a Polish pianist and composer, politician and spokesman for Polish independence, who would later become the Polish Prime Minister after the war in 1919. These are items were once a part of a scrap book, and have been pasted onto a large card stock page. Measures 14" x 11 3/4".
Journee Nationale Des Orphelins de la Guerre Tags (Nov 1916) On November 1st and 2nd 1916, France held The National Day of the Orphans meant to help raise money and supplies needed for those orphaned by war. In support of this, donors were given tags to show that they contributed. There are six tags in this collection. The first one is in the shape of a shield with a picture of a mother wearing a helmet holding a child. The second is a circular tag, with the coat of arms of Paris in gold. The third tag takes the form of the statue depicted on it, which is of a woman with two children beside her. The next two tags are similar to the third tag, but have been embossed with a depiction of a similar statue. No color remains on these two tags, but one can make out the raise indentation of the statue. The last tag is circular and features the Gallic rooster, the unofficial national symbol of France, with blue, white, and red stripes in the background. All but one of the tags still have ribbons attached to them, and four of the six tags have printed backs that state "Journee Nationale Des Orphelins de la Guerre, 1916".
Henri, War Dog by Edwin M Post Jr (1916)
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 33 Originally printed in the New York Times Magazine, the little book tells the fictional story of the toy dog during his trip throughout the French country side and how he saved his master's car from being seized by the French Army in the first days of WWI. The cover depicts the stuff animal itself, a white dog, with an eye patch, red cap, and a blue and white polka dotty scarf. Behind the dog are the stripes of the French Flag. The book was printed to benefit the Soldier's War Relief Fund. Measures 6 1/2 x 4 3/4"
Dessins d'un Neutre (c.1917) A book of tear away postcards illustrated by the famous cartoonist Louis Raemaekers. During WWI, his work was often used a propaganda material and was mostly anti-German, though it also often critiqued American's neutrality and urged the United States to intervene in the war. There are 19 postcards in the book (two of which have detached), and it appears that they were sold as a part of a set of postcard books, as the cards featured in this book are numbered 23-42. This book was sold to benefit the orphans, mainly French orphans, of the war. The cartoons illustrate various events such as the Massacre in Aerschot and the victims of the Lusitania. Measures 6 1/4" x 3 1/4".
An Appeal for France (c. 1918) A two-sided flyer from the National Allied Relief Committee making a public appeal for funds to help the French Refugees. The front side has a picture of a family sleeping in a barn. The back of flyer continues to expound on the great need for help. Measures 11" x 8 1/4"
Dispensaire Des Petits Poulbots (c 1918) An invitation to an event held to raise funds to help ‘Poulbots’ the nickname for the poor children found on the streets of Montmartre, France, after the First World War. This invitation was for the ‘Godmother’ Madam Bella C. Landauer who was a notable collector of ephemera, sheet music, and manufacturing trade cards. His card has an embossed seal of the charity on left top corner and a black line drawing of a young girl holding a doll on the other top corner. Measures 4 ¼” x 3”.
American Memorial Hospital (May 1922) The American Fund for the French Wounded started in 1915 in response to WWI. After the war, the fund continued to help out the French people and by 1922 had raised enough money to start the construction of the American Memorial Hospital in Reims, France, which was to be used for the care of French children. It was dedicated to the American soldiers who died in France during the First World War. This 16-page booklet was created to showcase the placement of the cornerstone for the hospital and promote the continue need for funds to both finish the construction and continual operation of the hospital itself. Inside the booklet is a black and white photo of the three women who had helped to raise the funds, Miss Bangs, Mrs. Tyson and Miss Vial, and US Ambassador Herrick who was honored during the ceremony. The cover is a colorful illustration of a woman holding a baby up in the air, displaying him to a far-off Statue of Liberty. Measures 9" x 6".
Kämpft Gegen die Not Schützt Mutter und Kind (1935) This item is a pin that was given out as a ‘thank you’ gift for donating to the charity drive hosted by the Winterhilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes [Winter Relief of the German People], or as it is more commonly known by in its abbreviated form Winterhilfswerk or WHW. While the WHW was originally associated with the Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt [National Socialist People’s
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 34 Welfare Organization] it soon became the unofficial charity of the Nazi Party. Large donations to the WHW were a means to establish oneself as a loyal supporter of the Nazi Party without the actual commitment of joining it. The charity drives would run from 1933–1945 during the months of October through March, and was designed to provide food, clothing, coal, and other items to less fortunate Germans during the inclement months. The WHW often hosted weekly charity drives with different pins given out as gratitude gifts for each drive. As the pins were to be worn to show support, this system of every changing pins was done specifically as a mean of identifying those who were not donating on a regular basis. The pin in this collection is a white, trapezoidal, molded plastic stickpin, circa the 1935 Winter Campaign. The central design has a raised image of a woman sitting in a chair and rocking a baby in a cradle with raised German text at the bottom. The text states “Kämpft Gegen die Not Schützt Mutter und Kind”, which roughly translates to “Fight against poverty, protect mother and child.” The reverse side has a long sharp pin attached to the center by metal disc. The number thirteen (13) is impressed in the lower right center back. Measures 1” x 1” (the stickpin needle itself is 1 ½”)
Royal Dolls Aid Refugees (Oct 1940) The exhibit of The Princess Dolls, France and Marianne, in Canada, was to help support British Refugees during the WWII. The dolls were made by French artists, and had been given to the Princess Elizabeth and Margaret when their parents, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, made a state visit France in 1938. There are two items under this section, the exhibition pamphlet and a newspaper clipping advertising it. The pamphlet was originally a part of a scrap book, and has been pasted down to a large card stock page. There are actually two pamphlets, in order to show the front and back of the page. Measures 4" x 3 3/4" (Newspaper Clipping), 6 1/2" x 6 1/4" (Exhibition Pamphlet), and 11" x 8 1/2" (Card stock page).
Cinderella Stamps (circa 1915-1945) A set of 7 different Cinderella stamps from WWI and WWII. A Cinderella Stamp includes all manner of adhesive printings, but mainly is meant to resemble a postage stamp. However they are never issued for postal purposes but normally as a means of raising funds or awareness for a certain issue. Included in this section are: A set of two stamps depicting a child on her knees pleading was printed by the Central Committee for relief of distress in Germany and Austria after WWI. A set of four stamps in red and blue was printed by the National Aid Society to help those 'burdened by war' in 1916. A 2" x 1 1/2" inch stamp emblazoned with the slogan "Help Greece Now!", and features a mother and child surrounded by Greek ruins, was meant to help with the massive famine Greek citizens endured during their occupation by Germany forces in WWII. The last four sets of stamps lack enough information to pin down which war they were printed for. A set of five stamps with a bushel of wheat in the center of a circle with the words "American War Relief" surrounding it. Another set of five stamps depicting a mother holding her child in a yellow picture frame with the words "War Relief" on it. A single stamp depicting the Virgin Mary holding a baby Jesus on a donkey with the phrase "In the Name of These Refugees, Aid All Refugees." Lastly, an orange stamp featuring a woman surround by five children and five miniature cityscape scenes, with the words "Deutche Reichsfechtfchute" which roughly translates to Germany Army.
Miscellaneous:
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 35 Neat East Relief (Dec 1927) John S. Fisher, the then Governor of Pennsylvania, wrote a letter encouraging his fellow statesmen to donate to the Near East Fund and was meant to draw on the Christmas Season's goodwill. The Near East Relief Fund was started in response to the Armenian Genocide which was carried out during and after World War I. By the late 1920s the fund was still continuing to solicit money in order to support the orphaned children of the genocide. The letter is printed on the fund's stationary and features the seal of the charity. The seal depicts a woman in a white dress cradling a child wrapped in the American flag. Along with the letter is donation envelope and a pamphlet entitled "Questionnaire" meant to address any questions one might have about the necessity of continued support. This relief fund is still at work today and is now known as the Near East Foundation. Measures 10 3/4" x 8 1/4" (Letter), 8 1/2" x 3 1/2" (folded pamphlet) (#27100102) $850.
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71. [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 1/4" x 3 1/2" business card. The larger format paper cards are in 6
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 36 1/2" 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
Many of these communities were formed in the 1830s and early 1840s, yet their social lives were well organized.
72. [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,
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 37 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 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
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 38 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 (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.
73. [ literature][ children's books][ stationary][ anthropomorphic][ anthropomorphism][ printer's proofs] The Pictorial Archives of W Straker Ltd, London,with over 1000 Printing Proofs,
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 39 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 1/2" x 12 1/2". (#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.
74. [adult][ metamorphic trade cards] A collection of 12 metamorphic advertising trade cards promoting the use of Tobacco. 1880s. A group of 12 metamorphic advertising trade cards each depicting an unpleasant situation, when the card is opened flat the scene changes to a happily ever after situation, all as a result of using tobacco. Provided an effective means of advertising the technique was used by Wilson & McCallay's, Jackson's Best, Duke of Durham, Railroad Mills Snuff, Piper Heidsieck, Allen's Jewel, Bagley's, Dime Durham and Pogue's Sitting Bull. The use of tobacco was behind increased wealth, well-being, taming 'savage' native Americans, curing stomach disorders and heart burn and improving home life. Two of the cards are a slightly different format; one a small child so eager to get to the tobacco she falls off a piano stool and with sliced pages
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 40 showing influencers like George Washington, Bismarck and Ben Butler all promoting the product. Various publishers. (#25007653) $325.
75. [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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76. [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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77. [Advertising Promoting Children][ Metamorphic Cards]. Metamorphic Trade Cards Promoting Products for Children. A grouping of five (5) metamorphic trade cards that depict before and afters of awkward children turning bright attractive and well behaved children -- just by using a product. Products include Patent Tray for Children, Children's Patent Elastic Knee Protector, Solar Shoes, Davidson Brothers (Mens and Boys Clothing) and E. G. Burrows (Youths, Boys and Children's Fine Clothing). Each measures 3" x 5" when open flat. (#27100654) $245.
78. [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
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 43 of the cards are captioned with reference to the product. Other artists created completely new concepts to promote the tonic. Each card measures 5 1/2" x 3 1/2". 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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New York Int’l Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 Eclectibles
Booth B19
Part 3 – Albums, Journals & Commonplace Books
Eclectibles Sheryl Jaeger & Ralph Gallo 860.872.7587
[email protected] www.eclectibles.com
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79. [Commonplace Book][ Pictures Tell a Story][ Commentary][ Poetry][ Made by Hand] Fred Sharp. A Commonplace Book with 87 Plus Commentary Watercolors and Original Verse & Articles. Bedford, England. 1935-1936. An exceptional album and clever anthology of watercolor and pen and ink works created by Fred Sharp of Bedford England. The album begins with a manuscript Index identifying each of the pages. Each page (recto) has a full page watercolor The pages are numbered on the recto 1-101. Fourteen (14) pages are intentionally blank. Occasion relevant newspaper or magazine clippings, original verse by Fred Sharp or notation on verso. Some are full page drawings while others are manuscript text/verse with border decoration. Includes philosophic thoughts, whimsy, irony and satire.
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 46 Sampling of Subjects include: Lloyd George (David Lloyd George) p.3 John Howard, Prison reformer p.6 Homer p.7 4000 ways of spelling the name Shakespeare p.9 Answered E. W. Wilcox p.10 Palindromes p.17 Astronomical p.20 Somebody said it first and here’s who p. 22 Abandon Hope - The Flexibility Sentence p.23 Where's George "Gone to the Hole in the Wall" p.27 Here with a loaf of bread -A tongue-in-cheek drawing of a hobo and a cow with Omar Khayyam’s Here, with a loaf of bread, beneath the bough, A flask of wine” p.29 Beer is Best p. 30 Charles Dickens (Boz) p.32 The Raven p. 34 Fools Rush in where Angels fear to Tread (Can I get you a towel Mr.) p.38 Robert Burns p.39 In a monastery garden p.40 An autograph from Mr Bransby Williams, actor and music-hall performer, p.41 (recto) Solitude (side by side verse by Eddie De Lange & Irving Mills and another by the author) p.64 Trees p. 67 A Time There Was p.77 Procrastination is the Thief of Time p. 78 Cryptogram on a wife her home and her mother p. 80 Small area of missing surface paper. p. 82 Great Stuff this Book p. 88 My Library p. 90 Two pages of two letter abbreviations p 97 (including verso) One of my Ancestors (a Goose) p.98 Good Night Everybody - Fred Sharp. July 16, 1936 p. 101
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 47 Each illustration is well executed with thoughtful consideration to content prior to the execution. This random selection is not in any way considered the best or better works, just a sampling. Album measures 11" x 7 ½ ". (#28015338) $7,000. To view images, click: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ezhZSamd1vXZTyfQ7
Page 60 is detached but present; otherwise fine.
Damage to covers due to rubbing as well as the top of the back strip. Interior pages have minor toning and soiling due to age.
80. [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
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 48 • The Big • The Sand Pile • The Real Drawing Book • At the Shoe Y.M.C.A. by Carol Store • In the Good(?) Binkett • Making a Old Summer • The color Snowman Time Family • Saturday • “Paradise” • A Mistake for • A Stormy • The Dress Peggy Night in Boats • Home by • Winter • Bible School Patty Shossy • Safety First • Mother’s • When • Christmas Eve Little Helper Mother’s • Gas & Rubber • The Private Away by Saver Playground Carol Binkett • Ghost Street • Piano Lessons • Ain’t it a • Christmas • At the Lake Grand and Morning • Ice Skating at Glorious • Getting the the Winter Feeling; When Christmas Carnaval your class Tree • Playing bought a • Ha Ha Afreed Telephone present for a of a Mouse • How to Start girl that was • Sking the Day sick • Winter Fun Wrong • It pays to • Christmas • Don’t be too mind your Morning Snooty (or the mother (and • Playing Story of father) “Cowboys” at Hortence E. • Roller Skates My House Pinner) • The Green • Going • The Rummage Eyed Monster Shopping Sale – Alias • Cow in the • Mama’s Curio Jealousy Road Cabnet • Kiddies’ Day • Forbidden • “House • The ‘Duwk” • A Baloon Ride Cleaners” • Planting • Yes – • “Artists at Gardens Different Heart” • It Pays to Kinds of • The Mind Your Licking - No Gymmasium Mother (no. 2) • Going Out • The Mystery • Playing War of Spooky • Playing House Hollow • When Sis’s • It Pays to • Playing in the Boyfriend Mind Your Attic came to Call Mother • Hallowe’ening • Two are better • The Party • Saturday and than one (or • A Boat Ride the Rich Girl are they?) • Don’t Jump • Late (Coming • Down Where Rope too Home Late) they are Much • Spring Feaver Building
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 49 • The Store • In the Attic • The Barn
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) $2,800.00
81. [prison, prisoner, court, legal, record, business records, crime, incarceration, Court of Common Pleas of Providence County, gaol book] George E. Webster. Rhode Island State Prison Register or 'Gaol Book' of Inmate Incarceration and Release Recorded by the Clerk of the Rhode Island Court of Common Pleas of Providence County. Cranston, RI. 1888-1905. This Prison Register,
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 50 sometimes called a Gaol Book (Gaol is the old French word for jail), contains the inmate incarceration and release records for the Rhode Island State Prison in Cranston, RI, dating from 1888-1905. The intake records end in 1895, however the releases records continue until 1905. The book starts with an index of alphabetical tabs that list each inmate and their inmate number. The ledger starts on inmate 1382 and ends on inmate 1844. Repeat offenders have multiple inmate numbers listed. This ledger was clearly apart of set, some repeat offenders have inmate numbers less than 1382 and greater than 1844. After this index, a page number is printed only on the top of the left page, and the opposite (right page) is not counted in the page count. Each prisoner record contains the persons name, inmate number, alias, age, address (sometimes only the town is listed), career, education level, description (hair and eye color, foot size, marks, height, and weight), family status (single, wife and/or children), date of incarceration, crime, and sentence. At times the sentence length and crime have been underlined in red. On the page opposite of this record is the information on their sentence which generally includes such information as: if they were released early, had more time imposed, transfer records or had to pay a fine upon release. Rarely, there is additional information, such as if the inmate died while incarcerated, attempted an escape, was granted a new trial or was pardoned by the governor. Most if not all of the entries are made by George E. Webster, who was a clerk in the Court of Common Pleas of Providence County (later renamed the Common Pleas Division of the Supreme Court). Below are two of the records in the ledger.
"Thomas W. D. Waite was this day committed to the Rhode Island State Prison on sentence by the Rhode Island Court of Common Pleas Prov. Co. for the term of Eighteen (18) calendar months from and after the 13th day of Dec. AD 1888. He having been found guilty of an Assault with a Dangerous Weapon as per Wittnesis [sic] signed by George E. Webster, Clerk, and left with the Warden. Age 46, E. Greenwich, RI, Long shoreman. Read but not write. Married and six children. Negro. Hair Blk. Eyes Blk. Foot 107/8 in. Height 5 feet 6 3/4 in. Weight 175 lbs. Marks, cut on left side of head. Dog bite under left eye, cut second finger left hand. Wife Lucy E. Wait [sic], E. Greenwich, R.I.... November 2nd, 1890. 42 dats deducted. Released Saturday PM Nov 1, 1890 on recommendation of Board of State C & P" - Thomas W. D. Waite, pg 3
"Chadour Chugsian of Prov. was this day committed to the R.I. State Prison on sentence by the Supreme Court Common Pleas Division. Prov. County for the term of fifteen (15) years of hard labor. He having been found guilty of Manslaughter, as per Wittiness signed by George E. Webster, Clerk and left with the Warden. Age 27. Armenian. Father & Mother Armenian. Tapper in Bolt [sic] shop and Carpenter. Married, 1 child. Can read not write. Complexion dark and Hair Black. Eyes Black. Foot 9 3/4 in. Height 5 ft. 1 in. Weight 118. Marks - Scar of ??? on right cheek bone. Burn under right ear near jaw. Burn on Right Eye. India Ink marks inside both forearms. Address Minister H. Sargarvakia [sic], 422 Fountain St. Prov R. I. .... October 28th 1895 Transfered [sic] to Insane Asylum. Nov 22 1904, Returned from State Hospital. Nov 22, 1904., Pardoned by the Governor." - Chadour Chusian, Inmate No. 1772, Pg. 221
262 numbered pages (does not include index or unnumbered pages). Completely filled. Stock Marbleized covers. Index in front. Measures 13" x 8 1/4". (#29021572) $1800.
Back strip lacking. Binding damaged. Covers are edge chipping
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 51 George Eldridge Webster was born on July 16, 1843 to Clement Webster (1817-1864) and Catherine Packer Littlefield (1817-1857) in Lowell, MA. He had one brother, Benjamin F. Webster (1840-1861). He married Mary Josephine Gale (1845-1924) on February 8, 1864 and had two children, Grace Gale Webster Baker (1868-1926) and Edith H. Webster (1874-1876). He moved to Washington, DC in 1864 and becoming first the private secretary to Senator William Sprague, and then clerk to the Senate Committee on Manufactures. Afterwards he served as clerk in a variety of government offices. While living in Washington DC, he studied law and graduated with honors from Columbia Law College. He moved to Rhode Island in 1871, and in 1875 became the clerk for the Court of Common Pleas of Providence County (later renamed the Common Pleas Division of the Supreme Court). He held this position until his death on February 24, 1904.
82. [friendship album, poems] Sena Ann Enos Maxson. Friendship Album of Sena Ann Enos Maxson - Friendship, Loss and Lover. DeRuyter, NY. 1834-1849. The friendship album belongs to a young woman named Sena Ann Enos who was living in DeRuyter, New York. The majority of the album entries date from 1834-1837, when Sena would have been between 16 and 19. The authors of the entries appear to have been her friends and classmates also from DeRuyter or near by towns. The entries themselves appear to be mostly poetry, a combination of excerpts or entire poems, mostly dealing with the subjects of friendship, loss, and love. It is possible that some of these poems are original. In the late 1839, Sena herself wrote a dedication page for the album, which appears to have been the latest entry in the album. In addition to the poetry, there are three (3) quarter page hand drawn floral arrays. These were done in a high gloss paint/watercolor, as one of them was clearly smudged before it had the chance to dry. Since the flowers appear to have been done by the same hand or at least in an extremely similar style and materials, they were most likely done by Sena herself. Below are some excerpts of some of the entries in the album.
"Ye who inserts your maxims here, Shun what is van or insincere, "Affections glowing fingers Preserve the mental figure pure May press the hand of love For flattery wounds and none can cure." While cold deception lingers - Unsigned. Upon the lips that move.
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 52 The hopes that rise in pleasure- From our waking thoughts away." The smiles that bid them stay - - Arza Coon Will pass like dreamy treasure,
"Remember this and keep in mind A faithful friend is hard to find But when you have found one just and true Change not the old one for a new.... Farewell young friend whom I esteem And hope again to see But should this prove a fancied Dream Will though remember me?" - G. W. Daclou, Manlius [NY], written Feb. 13, 1837
Marble cover. Three-quarter binding. Gilt steamp floral accents edge of quarter binding. Interior pages are a variety of colors. Mostly filled out. Interfoliata: Two pages, circa 1849. They appear to be short essays by D. D. Wells, one on justice and the other on time. They might be copies of sermons . Measures 7 1/4" x 4 3/4". (#20202174) $325.
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General wear. Rubbing. Improper reinforcement causing some tears.
Sena Ann Enos was born on February 17, 1818 to Benjamin Enos (1787-1868) and Sarah Doty (1788-1884) in DeRuyter. She married Charles Henry Maxson on September 24, 1839. Together they had four children, two of which died an infancy, an unnamed infant son (1846-1846) and Enos C. Maxson (1848-1849), and two sons who survived until maturity: Charles Benjamin Maxson (1850-1939) and Henry Rev. Doty Maxson (1852-1891). Sena and her husband, Charles spend most of their life together in DeRutyer, NY, until 1899, when, while both in their eighties they moved to live with their son surviving in Westerly, RI. Sena died four years after her husband at the age of eighty-nine.
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83. [friendship album, drawing, humor, watercolor] Joshua M. Bragg. Autographs, A Friendship Album Of Joshua M. Bragg. Boston, MA. 1875-1887. A wonderfully unique friendship album belonging to Joshua M. Bragg, of Boston, MA. While the autograph album lacks the more traditional flowery poetry and verse most often found in such albums of the times, it comes with numerous original drawings and several pages of hand drawn visiting cards for Bragg's friends and family to fill in. The entries in the album date from 1875-1887, and while most of the entries in the album are from Boston, MA, some of the other locations are: Brooklyn, NY, Chicago, IL, Cleveland, OH, and Washington, DC. Persons of note who signed the album are Joshua's father, William W. Bragg Jr in September 1879 and his cousin, Joshua Merrill Jr in December 1882.
There are twelve (12) original drawings in the journal done in pencil, ink, and paint. While the majority of the drawings are of nature such as flowers, some of the drawings are quite humorous. Of note is a tiny watercolor done on the corner of the page showing what appears to be four boys dressed up in pixie costumes, one as an officer, another as a jester and two dressed as bugs. Another great illustration is that of a full page pencil drawing of a lakeside with three people in a row boat.
Perhaps the most intricate drawing was done by Fred A. Roumage in 1882 and 1885. It covers two pages, the first of which is a mismatch of images: a man shrugging his shoulders holding a pocket watch, a soldier holding a sign, a pea pod, a glass filled with a dark liquid with a straw in it, and a crest with four sections containing tennis rackets, money bags, geese, and a hard hat with a horse head on the top of the crest. The opposite page features a single scene of a bedroom. The bed, a chair and the wash stand with two pitchers on it can be seen in the room, along with several art works on the wall. In the center of the scene is a man who looks like he is attacking a woman. At the base of the scene is the caption "This scene above is not so tragic as one might suppose. It merely represents My. Smythe helping the lovely Mrs. Smythe to diver herself of her new jersey." A small gem photograph of a young man is affixed to the top of the page, presumably this is the artist, Fred or the album owner Joshua.
The other prominent feature of this friendship album are the ten pages of drawn in visiting cards. The majority of these pages have three or so of the cards drawn in. The cards are then filled in with a name, date, and location. Generally each of the groupings on a page are related, either several members of the same family or a club. Two of the pages have numerous drawn in cards, twenty- five (25) in total, all filled in. On the top of the page is written "Dingmon's Ferry". Another grouping is two pages labeled "Company C, 1st Corps of Cadets, M.V.M.", however instead of drawing in cards, lines have been drawn in at an angle on the page for people to fill in. Unfortunately only four lines have been used. Another page has nice drawn in cards with individuals from 'White Lake'. There is a wonderful ink drawing of several messily stacked books and magazines in the center as well.
The majority of the 'standard' entries in this album consist of the name, date, and location of the individual. A few do contain verses or phrases. A few have been quoted below.
"Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 54 thing to say the exact truth, even about you rown immediate feelings - much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth." - Felix Holt, Mansion House, White Lake, July 23rd, 1885 (The quote is attributed to George Elliot)
"When on this page you chance to look, just think of me and close the book." - Bonnie E. Wright
"Not like the rose may our friendship wither, But like the Evergreen last forever." - Eva Sewell Walker, New York, October 7, 1879
Mostly filled in. Pasted in applique of a robin on one page. Measures 7 1/2" x 5". (#29015213) $275.
Covers partially detached from text block. Some interior pages are loose. General wear and toning.
Joshua Merrill Bragg was born on March 7, 1865 to William Wilder Bragg, Jr (1837-1886) and Eleanor M. M. Grigg (1836-1914) in Massachusetts. He married Annie Holden Fiske (1869-1917) on April 30, 1899. He died on February 11, 1936.
84. [hunting, gunning journal, animals, fishing] Alpheus G. Rogers. A "Gunning Journal" belonging to Alpheus G. Rogers Describing His Prolific Hunting Hobby. Portland, ME. 1876-1892. A "Gunning Journal", otherwise known as a hunter's diary that belonged to Alpheus G. Rogers, who was a financier from Portland, ME. Over 100 leaves with content on both sides. The journal spans over fifteen years, 1876-1892, and records his shooting of birds and fishing in New England, mostly Maine and New Hampshire. At the end of each year Rogers adds the total number of birds and fish he has caught, keeping a running tally. This is the second of such journal that he kept, as the running totals date back to 1864. In each entry he records where he is, the weather, if he went hunting with a friend, and what he caught/shot. At times there are other details, such as notes about his hunting dogs, past seasons, advice from other fellow hunters/fishermen, and hunting
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 55 hotspots. Rogers details out the exact numbers and type of the birds/fish he got at the end of each day, and totals at the end of the year. For fish, he mostly catches trout, but sometimes various types of bass or salmon. He shoots a variety of different types of birds, such as: woodcocks, partridges, black ducks, rails, hawks, owls, sand pipers, plovers, and Teals (most likely ducks with teal feathers). Some hunting days and years are better than others, and it is clear that he doesn't care about over fishing. In one day alone he caught over 300 trout (on July 4, 1877) and yet on the next day he only caught 6. In 1878 he caught a total of 2230 trout (11,903 trout to date), but only 673 the next year. The last "to date" totals (starting from 1864) in the journal is from the end of 1891 (though the journal continues to September of 1892). The to date total, counting 27 years of fishing for trout is 19,386, that is approximately two fish per day for 27 years! As for birds, the to date total in 1891 is 4666, which is approximately three birds per week for 27 years! On the end papers in the back of the journal, Rogers has written some general hunting notes, such as the gun powder he uses is F9, and Weston Wildfowl rifle No. 2 is his gun of choice. There are additional short recipes for a black fly mixture. Below are some excerpts from the journal:
"One the upper waters of the Wild Cat. in Jackson. Saw a Patridge & owl. Filled a No 5 Fish Basket full. Got through fishing at 6 PM, commenced at 8:15 AM. The largest catch yet. 333 trout." - July 4, 1877
"At the cemetery with "Scott" who would make a good dog with work but at present does not amount to much. Two birds started out at gun shot. Shoe some of the little birds today. Very cold since 25, 30 degrees. 2 woodcock." - October 26, 1877
"Bessie, the dog, is nearly 11 years old & has shown the age, with her hurt very much,.. and will not do for another season. 3 Woodcock." - October 28, 1884.
"Birds have been perhaps as plenty as years ago, but very many more after them. Not many birds shot in Mass. but quite large numbers in New Hampshire, probably around Rochester & Wolfeboro, NH. Large numbers said to have been shot at Wiscasset, ME. And Thompson says fine Coven [sic] from Waldoboro up to Wiscasset! Saw two Robins Sunday Nov. 23rd on the Cape also Rose in bloom on West St. City. Woodcock shot, the 15th, which is the latest we have heard this season. First snow Sunday 23 Nov. but only lasted truly minutes but sunned hard." - November 23, 1890
Some of the locations mentioned in the journal are: Ellis River, Cape Elizabeth, Beaver Brook, Moosehead Lake, Little Saco River, Goreham, ME, and Goodrich Falls, NH. Measures 7" x 4 1/2". (#29001222) $425.
Rubbing, cover closure flap is detached. Damage to back strip. General ware. Some interior pages are loose.
Alpheus G. Rogers was born April 29, 1843 in Louisiana to Charles Barlett Rogers II (1787-1879) and Caroline Gore (1796-1863). He had two siblings, an older half brother, Charles Bartlett Rogers III (1827-1904) and a sister Ellen Rogers Little (1831-1868). His family lived in Maine both before and after his birth, so it is unclear why he was born in Louisiana. He married Anna Scott Fernald (1844-1907) on April 27, 1865. They had one child together, a son, James Alpheus Rogers (1871-1872), who died within the first year. After the death of his first wife, Anna, on September 11,
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 56 1907, he met and married Loraina Rand (1849-1924) on June 26, 1909. Alpheus was involved in finance and eventually would become Treasurer of Portland Savings Bank in 1877, a position he would hold until his death on June 14, 1913. .
85. [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),
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 57 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 And oh! too soon they'll bear thee on Beams from thy laughing eye, To moulder in the tomb Account the precious hours of time Then grasp them, vast eternity And seize them as they fly Alone can fully tell They'll change thy raven locks to snow The value of thy fleeting youth And fade thy cheek of bloom Oh then improve 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 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
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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 3/4" x 6 1/4". (#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 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.
86. [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
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 59 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." - 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 1/2" Large Notebook: Black decorative paper over boards. Red fore edge.. One fourth filled. Measures 8 1/2" x 6 3/4". (#29021415) $500.
General wear and toning. The smaller of the two notebooks has semi detached covers.
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87. [friendship album, poetry, sea, woman's history, marriage] Ann B. Thompson Fisher. Friendship Album of Ann B. Thompson - Focus on A Woman's Place or Worth and Life at Sea. Nantucket, MA. 1842-1845. A friendship album belonging to Ann B. Thompson Fisher (1822-1910). Ann lived on the coastal town of Nantucket in Massachusetts, and the album spans 1842-1845. Embellished script inscribed with her name, Ann B. Thomspon and presentation information. Below she later pens Now Mrs. Fisher. These years were especially important to her, as she married her husband, Cyrus B. Fisher (1822-1864), a mariner, on December 8,1844, and the entries as such reflect Ann's name change. The entries in the book are mostly poetry, some of which are rather lengthy. While the majority of the poems feature the similar tone of friendship, farewell, and memories of time together, there are several that also deal with a woman's place or worth. Especially in relation to that of her parents or husband. Additionally, there are several poems relating to ships or life on or by the sea, which given both her husband's profession and her location, makes sense. A few of the entries have decorative elements, such as flowers drawn on them, as well as one small drawing that might have been made shortly after her wedding which features two hearts above a banner with accent leaves that states" "Mrs. Ann Fisher". Another entry has a pressed dried four leaf clover with it. Below are some f the entries found with in the album:
"Hard is the fate of all woman kind, When the prospect is darkest Always dijected [sic] and always confined, The cloud is withdrawn; Controlled by there [sic] parrents [sic] until The shadows that blacken they are married wives, The earth and the sky, And a slave to their husbands the rest of their Speak to the strong-hearted, lives." Salvation is night." - J. A. S. April 9, 1844 - P E. Gavin, August 30th, 1846, First Stanza of "Be Not Discouraged" by Daniel "Be never discouraged - C. Colesworthy Look up and loon on;
California Antiquarian Book Fair 2020 [email protected] 61 "Oh keep these pages pure and white, And leaves no memory and no trace behind." unless the glow of truth be there; - A. M. C. (Poem by Uriah H Judah, Let no rude hand presume to write entitled "Woman" Or stain with flattery leaves so fair; These lines so highly prized by thee, "Yes, the Year is growing old, Because 'tis friendship gems them o'ver And his eye is pale and bleared! In future years more dear will be Death, with frosty hand and cold, When those who penned them are no more." Plucks the old man by the beard, - Edward Sutton, Edgartown, Feb 22, 1845 Sorely, Soley! The leaves are falling, falling, "Warriors and statesmen have their meed of Solemnly and slow; praise Caw! Caw! the rooks are calling, And what they do or suffer men record, It is a sound of woe, But the long sacrifice of woman's days A sound of woe! Passes without a thought without a word The year Eighteen Hundred and And many a holy struggle for the sake Forty two with its bursting scenes of duties sternly faithfully fulfilled With its hopes and fear with its For which the anxious mind must watch and good and evil has passed away." wake - W. H. C. (A combination of a famous And the strong feelings of the heart be stilled Longfellow poem entitled "Midnight mass for Goes by the unheeded as the summer wind the Dying Year", and an original poem)
The covers are made from light brown leather and feature gilt filigree as floral borders. Approximately half filled. Measures 7 1/2" x 6". (#20202427) $525.
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General wear. Rubbing. Some remnants of what appears to have been torn out pages of engravings.
Ann B. Thompson was born on April 15, 1822 to Isaac Thompson (1778-1866) and Deidamia Elliott (1790-1865) in Nantucket, MA. She had several siblings: James Thompson (1812-1831), Bethiah W. Thompson (1814-?), Mary Thompson Fisher (1815-?), Eliza Thompson Bailey/Bayley (1818-1883) William Bartlett Thompson (1820-1886), Charlotte M. Thompson Gibbs (1824-1900), Adaline R. Thompson Clark (1826-1904), Isaac C. Thompson (1829-?), George H. Thompson (1832-1861) and Sally Thompson Richmond (1809-?). She married Capt. Cyrus Fisher (1822- 1864), a mariner, on December 8, 1844. They had two children together: Mary Cannon Fisher (1845-?) and Charles H. Fisher (1854-?). Ann died on June 18, 1910.
88. [hand stenciled wallpaper cover, railroad, Niagara falls, west] Diary of A Journey Out West, with an Unexpected Delay at Niagara Falls. Ryegate, VT & Illinois. 1855. Housed in a hand stenciled wallpaper cover book A diary of an unidentified woman from Ryegate, VT as she journeyed west with her two elderly parents. The author is most likely in her mid twenties to early thirties, as she has a sister, Mary, who turned thirty-one that summer and a mother who turned sixty-five shortly before they leave to go out west. The diary starts in June of 1855, several months before the author begins her trip, and tells of her daily life and interactions with friends and neighbors. As she gets closer to her departure date, the journal fills up with goodbyes from friends and family. In early October there is an auction where her and her parents sell off most of their property and belongings. On October 29, she begins her journey by rail to Chicago. In a small town of Pekin, NY,
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near Niagara, NY, her father falls off of the railway car in his sleep. Miraculously, he survives, and while he recovers, the author is able to tour Niagara Falls, both from the American side and the Canadian side as well as the Suspension Bridge . Eventually they continue on their journey and arrive Chicago, IL. At this point they purchased tickets on the "City Bell", a steamboat, and continued on their journey. The entries stop abruptly there. Also written in the journal is what appears to be an unfinished essay on the foundation of good writing.
Below are some excerpts from the journal:
"Left Wells River at 11 PM, have bade adieu to many dear friends, love ones. I may meet some more in this world. Arrived at White River Junction a few moments to 12, bought a cup of tea, paid $73,47 for tickets to Chicago, had my baggage checked to Burlington... This is a wild mountainous town [Roxbury, VT], the hills rise height white with snow. Have passed a log hut, remarked to Mrs. D. that it looked like home. Am now sitting beside a n-- dressed tip top with his long shawl thrown across his shoulders. Northfield [Vermont] is a beautiful village had to change cars, lost 'my darkie'. The sun is declining behind the western hills. Aunt Betsy says it is the last Vermont sunset that she will ever witness."
"Troy [NY] is a splendid city, the houses are nearly all brick and stone, delightful view up to Hudson as we passed west Troy. Saw several canal boats, Coohoes [sic] on the Mowhawk [sic] is a large manufacturing place. Passed a field of Brown Corn, a new sight for me. Changed cars. We Just get comfortably seated when we must jump. For the last few miles we have been passing the banks of the Mowhawk [sic]. Well might the Indians be proud of the fair stream, for how gracefully would an Indian bark glide o'ver thy peaceful bosom. Here on thy lovely banks would I pitch my tent and roam no more. I am surprised at the number of canal boars passing and repassing. Mother stands the journey far beyond my expectations."
"Pekin [NY}. Father stepped out of the car unperceived by me. I could not see him in the car and fearful that he might be left I started in pursuit of him just as I reached the end of the Car, I met a gentleman who informed me that Father was standing beside the Car when another train came along and had it not been for two men who pulled him in the Car would have passed over him. As he was in the next car I quietly waited. The Car would stop again and then go after him. They stopped a moment before passing over the Suspension Bridge. I instantly started and found to my utter grief that he was not to be found. Also that an old man had fallen off some miles back. The Cars had passed over the Bridge. Something must be done. We must stop. I cannot describe my feelings at that moment. There alone among strangers far from home with a feeble mother, expecting to see the mangled lifeless corpse of my dear father with no friends to help, (the friends that we had journeyed thus far with passed on and left us to the mercy of strangers)... The conductor was very kind, he ordered our baggage to be stopped and told us we must return to the other side and he would dispatch four men with a hand car to find him. He told us that it was scarcely possible that he could be alive as the cars were going at the rate of 50 miles per hour when he fell off. Words cannot describe our feelings as we sat alone at that midnight hour, waiting for the return of the car. Far from home among strangers expecting every moment to see the mangled corpse of my Father. A hope filled my heart that he might be alive, as son as the car arrived a gentleman opened the door and said come. How joyfully that wold fell upon my listening ear. I knew he was safe and although delirious and badly bruised not a bone was broken. Medical aid was procured and everything was done for his comfort."
"Mr. R__ called this afternoon to have me visit the Falls. Took the 1:30 train and rode up to the Falls, crossed over to Goat Island. While crossing had a fine view of the rapids, this island is life in its natural state. I
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noticed several kind of Cedar also the Cowcumber [sic, Magnolia] tree bearing pods resembling a small cowcumber [sic]. We came to the Cave of the Winds. We entered a Tower and descended a winding staircase of 328 steps. Far above us were rocks towering about our heads. Several pieces had scaled off and were lying in our path, we walked some distance, but finding the path so steep and slippery we were obliged to retrace our steps. A few moments walk brought us to another flight of steps that lead to the American Falls. I stood on the very brink and gazed far down upon the boiling surf below. The trees are covered with names.... placing my name among thousands of others we descended. We received a good sprinkling form the Spray before we could get beyond its reach."
Interfoliata includes a printed map of Manchester, NH, a single page with a poem and a draft of a letter describing the author's father's accident to a friend, and a single fold page with two original poems on it. The first of the poems is about a girl named 'Fanny' who died, and the second appears to be to a woman named 'Mary' who was just married. The poems are signed 'Agnes'. It does appear to be the same handwriting as found within the journal, and the journal's author does mention a sister named Mary, so it is possible that the author's name is Agnes. Further complicating the matters of identifying the author, written on the inside cover of the journal is "Sarah A. B. Tufts, Dudley, MA". Unfortunately the Sarah's life story does not match up with the one described in the journal. First of all both of her parents died in the 1830s, and she spend most, if not all of her life in Massachusetts. She married in Henry Steward Wheaton (1819-1862) in 1843, later divorcing him sometime in 1853, before marrying Hon. Francis Henshaw Dewey (1821-1887) in the same year. As such, at the time of the journal, 1855, Sarah had not gone by the last name of 'Tufts' in over a decade. Sarah was involved with the Norwich Female Seminary in Norwich, VT, the late 1840s, while her first husband was President of Norwich University from January 1848 to August 1849. It is possible she donated or left some of her possessions to the Norwich Female Seminary, and that is how the journal ended up in the hands of an unknown female in Ryegate, Vermont. The journal itself is has a hand stenciled wall paper cover. The stenciling is of leaves and berries done in green and white. A full transcript of the journal and partially essay has been completed. Measures 9 ½” x 7 ½”. (#20203489) $650.
General wear.
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89. [Peter & Polly, Love and Friendship, Album, Remembrance, Made by Hand] Charming Hand Made Album - The Courtship of Ruth and Jacob from Preschool to Old Age. c1905. A charming 11 leaf covers included album with ribbon tie. Hand penned in white ink on black paper enhanced with relevant magazine cut-outs. A life long love story beginning as pre-schoolers they played every day. Grew older as friends and while Jacob was at college they wrote each other every day. Their friendship continued to grow; sometimes with misunderstandings, but they dreamt of each other at all times. Cupid interferes, and--they announce the engagement, wed, honeymoon, have a family and grow old together. The last page concludes with ... "A thousand memories replace The beauties of thy prime Tho' from thine eyes of softest blue, Some light has passed away Love still looks forth as warm and true, As on our bridal day. I hear they voice, and though in part, 'tis fainter in I need it not, for still they heart is speaking to mind".
Measures 8" x 10". (#20202112) $125.
Moderate wear.
90. [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
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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 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".
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91. [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 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
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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.
Charles A Hannaford painted right up to his death on 8th August 1972 age 85, the year this book was created.
92. [ledger][ accounting book][ business history][ copy book] James Chancy. Merchant Accounting Book of James Chancy, Grocer. E. G. Hoose. Salem, MA. 1820-1823. James Chancy was a grocer in Salem who used this copy book to keep an accounting of his customer's purchases between 1820- 1823. For each entry Chancy lists the name of the customer, under which lists the date and items purchased. Sometimes it also records when he was paid, normally in cash. Sometimes the pages have been crossed out with an X, the reason for this is unknown, but perhaps it meant the account was closed.
The front cover has two woodcut engravings. The first is a ship with clouds. The second is an intricate decorative device surround the bookplate. - The back cover has a multiplication and numeration table on it. As well as a list of the days in a week, and months in year. Additionally is the saying:
"All you that in fair writing would excel, How much you write, regard not, but how well.
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Bear your pen lightly, keep a steady hand, And that's the way fair writing to command."
Brown covers, 46 pages. Printed by E. G. Hoose. Half-filled. No OCLC, Feb 2019. Measures 7 1/2" x 6 1/4". (#28016158) $200.
Front covers are moderately soiled. Edges are frayed, and there is moderate damage to the back strip. Interior pages are soiled and toned due to age. Minor water stains. Ink on some pages is faded.
93. [copy book][ penmanship][ composition notebook][ morality][ education] George J. Becker. A Pair of Copybooks belonging to Susan Y. Shoemaker, circa 1850. Uriah Hunt & Son. Philadelphia, PA. 1842. A pair of copybooks originally belonging to a young girl named Susan Shoemaker who most likely lived in or around Philadelphia, PA (Walnut Grove) in the 1850s. The titles of the copybooks are: 'The American System of Penmanship in Three Parts: Ten Numbers, No. 9' (OCLC 4, Dec 2019) published by Uriah Hunt & Son in Philadelphia, PA in 1842, with the penmanship system itself by George J. Becker and 'Leary's Cheap Book Store Copybook' (OCLC 0, Dec 2019) published by Leary's Cheap Book Store in Philadelphia, PA, with no date. Each page of both books features a new sentence, the majority of which are quite lengthy and have a moral undertone. Some of the phrases are: "The activity of genius is unlimited and the measure of its effects depends entirely upon a steady exertion of its powers", "Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason; for that shows more desire than judgment", "A man can hardly do a greater service to his neighbor than
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to instruct and encourage him in the performance of his duties" and "Sins are like circles in the water, when a stone is thrown into it, one produces another. When anger was in Cain's heart, murder was not far off. P. Henry." The front cover of "The American System of Penmanship" features an engraving of man and a woman seated opposite at a table, writing with a quill. The back of the book features instructions on penmanship and a description of the series. Dark brown wrappers. String binding. Measure 8 1/4" x 6 1/2" The front cover of 'Leary's Cheap Book Store Copybook' features an engraving of the street front and store where the notebook was sold - Leary's Cheap Book Store, No. 158 North Second Street. Beneath the engraving is printed "Where are kept constantly on hand, and for sale, over 100,000 volumes of New, Old, and Scarce Books in every Department of Literature, wholesale and retail. All the latest Editions of School Books. Latin, Greek, French, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, and German Books." Additionally there is a decorative floral border. The back cover of the notebook is information on books sold by the author James Brown who wrote several books on grammar and the English language, that were printed by Leary's Cheap Book Store. The interior cover page has an engraving of the capital building. Tan wrappers. String binding. Measures 7 3/4" x 6 1/4". (#29001250) $225.
General wear.
94. [copy book][ penmanship][ composition notebook][ morality][ education] The Common School Writing Book, a Copy Book belonging to Adeline Pazius, circa 1857. The Cheap School Book and Stationary Store of James m. Alden. Auburn, NY. A copy book belonging to a young twelve year old girl by the name of Adeline Pazius in 1857. Adeline, according to census records, was working as a domestic even at the young age of ten in Mentz, NY for the Mills family. This book features a variety of short phrases that Adeline copied to improve her penmanship. Often times she could only fit a portion of the sentence on each page, so while the first sentence at the top of the page is the whole thought, subsequent lines are only partial copies. Some of the phrases used were: "Choose for your companions a man of good morals" and "Great men are the representation of their country". The front cover of the book features an engraving of a classroom filled with boys, five of which are standing in front of the teacher's desk reading from their books. The back cover features information on the 'Cheap School Book and Stationary Store'. There is a decorative border on both the front and back covers. The inside front cover has the beginnings of an unfinished and unknown recipe.
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Orange wrappers The back cover advertises other products by James Alden. . String binding. OCLC 0 (Dec 2019) Measures 8" x 6 1/2". (#29001329) $110.
General wear.
95. [copy book][ penmanship][ composition notebook][ morality][ education] A Copybook Belonging to Caroline Hildsette, circa 1853. John W. Flagg. Bennington, NH. 1853. A copy book made and sold by "John W. Flagg" in Bennington, NH. The front cover states that "J.W.F. continues to manufacture all kinds of Writing, Printing, and Sand Paper, and keeps constantly on hand a general assortment of Blank and School Books." The copy book itself Caroline Hildsette, a young girl who on each page copies a short sentence repeatedly to practice her penmanship. Some of the sentences she uses are "He who acts the clown becomes the clown", and "Clean neat and free from every blot this book." The front cover has an engraving of two hunters getting chased by wolves in a forest. The back cover has a multiplication chart. Both the front and back covers also feature a decorative border. Brown wrappers string binding. OCLC 9 (Dec 2019) Measures 8 1/4" x 6 1/2". (#29001392) $100.
General wear.
96. [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.
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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. 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 1/2 x 6 3/4". (#26018571) $125.
General wear.
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97. [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 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 1/4" x 6 3/4"
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 1/4" 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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98. [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 3/4". (#29001144) $150.
General wear.
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99. [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.
100. [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.
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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 single work. The cards,verses and decoration are an interesting study in social history and visual culture Album measures 14 1/2" x 11 1/4". (#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.
101. [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
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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 1/4" x 4 1/2" 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.
102. [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 1/2". (#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
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Chemistry; An Interesting Review of Their Combination for War". He also patented electrically conductive flexible cable.
Cover wear.
103. [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 1/2" 8". Housed in a school composition book. c 1910s. (#26005126) $600.
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104. [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
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1930s. Measures 9 1/4" x 7 1/4". (#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.
105. [Ledger][ Work and Leisure] Work Ledger of Charles Gable, Farm Laborer. Brower, Hayes & Co. (Philadelphia). Lehigh PA. 1851-1852. A 10-leaf copy book written front and back. Inscribed inside cover "Charles Gable in Lehigh Township Northampton County state of Pennsylvania in North America in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, April 21, 1850." What follows is an accounting of his work ledger including the employer, the day, amount of time the activity and his pay in cents. Work included planting, hawling, mowing grass, hawling dung, thrashing, etc. and concluding with carpenter work. for the final few months through April 1852. The wood cut on the front cover depicts a lamp lighter. The back cover promotes Brower, Hayes & Co., Booksellers and Stationers. Measures 7 3/4" x 6". (#28010956) $125.
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106. [poetry][ poems][ verse][ commonplace book][ newspaper clippings.] Clara D Nelson. Commonplace Book of Clara D. Nelson featuring Poetry and Verse. Sutton, New Hampshire. c1873. The book is full of poems that were copied down by Clara. Some of the poems included are The Golden Side by Mary Ann Kidder, Six Little Feet on the Tender, Drifting Apart, [Rev. Henry Brown and the] The Old Old Home, Watching and Waiting [for me] by Marianne Farningham, Peace by J. G. Whittier. Additionally, there are 13 poems on newspaper, eight of which have been pasted together. Lastly their is a piece of paper with what appears to be a shopping list on it.
"There is many a rest in the road of life, If only we would stop to take it; And many a tone from the better land, If the querulous heart world make it! To the sunny soul, that is full of hope, And whose beautiful trust ne'er faieth [sp], The grass is green and the flowers bright, Though the wintry storm prevaileth..." - The Golden Side by Mary Ann Kidder
Cloth over Board covers, 16 leaves. Red tape binding. Half filled out. Measures 8" x 7". (#28016105) $115.
Covers have various water stains and toning. Interior pages are soiled and toned. The first two leaves are faded and extremely hard to read. The newspaper clippings are toned and relatively fragile. Manuscript lettering is faint on first four pages.
Clara Danforth Sargent Nelson was born on September 26 1845 to Daniel Davis Sargent (1816 - 1887) and Mary W Chase (1822 -1920). in Hopkinton, NH. She was married on November 17, 1868 to Harris Burpee Nelson (1843 -1928). She had three children George E Nelson (1870 - 1900), Eugeen L Nelson
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(1871 - 1955), and Carl Harris Nelson (1874 - 1971). Both her and her husband were farmers in New Hampshire. She died on March 15, 1932 in Sutton, NH of influenza.
107. [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 1/4" x 6 3/4". (#28016155) $250.
Penciling on front cover. Minor toning and soiling on interior pages due to age.
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108. [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 3/4". (#28016156) $275.
Excellent condition.
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109. [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 1/2". (#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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110. [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 1/2". (#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.
111. [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 1/2" x 8 1/2". (#29001100) $350.
Interior pages are toned due to age, otherwise fine.
112. [writing][ penmanship][ script][ school][ education][ poetry][ poem][ verse] William Brown. William Brown's School Writing Book. Newburyport, MA. 1799-1800. This book was used by William Brown of Newburyport, MA to practice is penmanship. While the quality of his script is
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always outstanding, as the notebook progress, William's script gets smaller and smaller. He practices his writing by repeatedly writing short phrases over and over again, or by copying down entire poems or short passages from political reports. Some of the phrases he uses are "You'll soon improve, if learning you love" and "Riches are but uncertain". Some of the poems he copies are rather well known, such as a section from The Vicissitudes of Life, A Canterbury Tale, or the below excerpt from Alexander Pope's Essay on Man:
"Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all, Wants frailties, passions, closer still ally The common interest, or endear the tie."
Along with practicing his script William often writes his numbers as well. In addition, on the bottom of each page his signs his name. He does this in a variety of different ways, often but not always including the town (Newburyport) and the year. Some of these signatures are embellished with with flourishes. On one of the last pages, is written Welsh's School. This is most likely in reference to Schoolmaster Michael Welsh, who ran not only a grammar school for the town of Newburyport in the late 1700s but also his own private school. It is unclear which school of his is referenced in this note.
The notebook is contained in a unattached piece of craft paper, of which has a note pinned onto it. The note says "School Writing Book, 1799. Loan by Mrs. Thos J Allen."
Stitched binding. 24 pages. Measures 8 1/2" x 7". (#29003100) $375.
The unattached paper cover partially separated at the fold, and the edges are frayed and torn. The stitched binding of the book itself is damaged and not all the pages are attached. The pages themselves show minor toning and soiling due to age.
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113. [world's fair][ Chicago world's fair][ world's columbian exposition][ lawyer][ courtroom][ bar exam][ commonplace][ daily life][ runaway][ ] John Robins Sharpless Sr. Diary of John R. Sharpless, Lawyer from Pennsylvania, includes trip to World's Fair. Catawissa, PA. 1893. An 1893 pocket diary for John R. Sharpless, a twenty-two-year-old man who was studying to become a lawyer. While doing so he was working for William H Rhawn, a prominent attorney from Sharpless' hometown of Catawissa, PA. Sharpless writes short, detailed, entries on a daily basis, until he stops abruptly on October 29. Each entry includes the weather, both temperature and description, as well as a list of everything he had done that day. The majority of Sharpless' life at that point revolved around the law, either in the form of various cases he was working on for his boss, Rhawn, or studying for the bar exam. Additionally, a large portion of the diary is dedicated to his courtship of Lois Gearhart, the woman who, a few short years later, would become his wife. Other topics include various social activities with his friends and family, such as card games, billiard games, sleigh rides, or fishing trips (he was avid angler). Two events of note take place during this year, the first of which is his trip to the Chicago World's Fair (aka World's Columbian Exposition) with a group of his friends, including Lois Gearhart. There they spend over a week in late July visiting the fair grounds and the various attractions. The second event takes place on April 24 when his boss' 13-year-old son, Harry Rhawn, runs away. What follows over the next month and a half are various trips both he and his boss take in an effort to find the young boy. The Rhawn family took out various adverts in newspapers, even going as far at to send the boy's description to the Chicago PD, fearing he was trying to make it to the World's Fair. The boy was eventually found in Erie, PA, almost 300 miles from his hometown, and John was sent to retrieve him. Below are some quotes from Sharpless' entries.
"8, cloudy. Worked hard in morn in office. Learned that I could not be admitted in February, Good sleighing... new resolution to study like the devil." - January 15
"33, clear. Nice day. Worked at office in morn. At Bloom (PA), with Steve Blady to identify burglars in afternoon in jail house. At home in evening." - January 30
"28, clear, cold and windy. Streets and roads like glass. All covered with ice. Everybody falling... Burglar case called. At Danville for two hours in afternoon. Spent time with Lois Gerhart." - February 7
"48, clear. At Bloom in morning doing lots of business. Rhawn finished argument in Pevagh case. I hustled Blackstone until supper time... Examined for admission to the bar, at the 11 train with examiners. Harry Rhawn left town." - April 24
"54, cloudy. Eventful day. I got up early as W. H. Rhawn sent for me. He went to Phila to see if Harry was killed. I was admitted to bar in morn. Did all of Rhawn's business. World's Fair opens. [Joseph Smith] Harris takes charge of P & R RR [Philadelphia and Reading Railroad] - raining hard in eve, umbrella fixer beats me [in] billiards." - May 1
"Redder case at Catawissa settled. Lois and I at [Chicago World's] Fair Grounds. Went to Midway Plaisance, saw about everything. Spent some time at the Penna [Pennsylvania] Building. Lois home. I saw T. Thomas [Theodore Thomas] orchestra. Lois & I to see Buffalo Bill." - July 27
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"55, cloudy. Home and put on fishing clothes. Rhawn, Gilbert, and I fishing in canal. Caught 72 bass." - October 19
Brown leather covers, with two pockets on the front. Standard Diary No. 67. Informational pages in front, such has units of measurement, list of holidays, and city population. Pages have gilt fore edge. There is an pocket folder attached to the interior back cover, as well as a slot for a pencil. Measures 6" x 3 1/4". (#29000100) $275.
Minor wear to covers, mostly due to rubbing. Interior pages show minor soiling and toning due to age, otherwise fine.
John Robins Sharpless Sr, was born on September 20, 1871 to Ambrose Harder Sharpless (1843-1919) and Mary Brobst Sharpless nee Robins (1848-1922) in Catawissa, PA. He graduated from Catawissa High School and attended Lafayette College in Easton, PA where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. While studying law he worked for William H Rhawn (1856-1919), a distinguished lawyer from his hometown. On December 16, 1893 he was admitted to the bar in the PA countries of Columbia and Luzerne, and soon moved to Hazleton, PA. There he opened up is own law practice and he remained in the area for the rest of his life. He married Lois Martin Gearhart on December 1 1896 in Danville, PA and together they had two children, Jean Sharpless Garriss (1899-1994) and John Robins Sharplesss Jr (1904- 1980). He died on Jan 9, 1953 in Hazleton, PA after a short illness.
114. [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 home, His flowers upon my window pane! To the empty folds below. All night he must have been at work From the pastures high Such wondrous patterns to attain." Of the leaf-filled sky, -- Excerpt from the Frost King 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 1/2" x 7 1/2". (#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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115. [newspaper][ poetry][ original poetry][ report cards][ w] 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 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
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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- "This is the eldest of the seasons; he Be soft with your coming and going- moves not like spring with gradual steps, nor Be soft she is falling asleep. grows And what would my life be without her From bud to beauty, but with all his snows, Pray God that I never may know Comes down at once in hoar antiquity. Dear friend as you get her about her Now comes the season when the humble want, Be low oh be low with your weeping- be low And know the misery of their wretched scant; Be low oh be low with your weeping Go ye, and seek their homes who have the Your sobs be sorrow to her power, I tremble lest while she is sleeping..." And ease the sorrows of their trying hour." - Excerpt from original poem by Elizabeth - Winter A Stutz "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 3/4" (#29015435) $325.
Damage to covers due to rubbing and age. Front cover partially detached. Soiled and toned due to age. Minor discoloration to the clippings due to the glue that was used. The first page of gathering containing school essays is detached.
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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116. [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 1/2". (#29008878) $550.
Covers show minor wear. Minor toning and soiling to interior pages.
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117. [France][ Germany][ Belgium][ Holland][ motorcycle][ Harley Davidson][ us army][ wwii][ camp pine][ fort knox][ army technician fifth grade][ tank][ ] Cpl Jerome B. Donaldson A Collection of Materials Relating to Corporal Jerome B. Donaldson's WWII Military Service with Manuscript Manual on Harley-Davidson Military Motorcycles. . Various Locations. 1942-1945. A collection of materials relating to the World War II military service of Corporal Jerome "Jerry" B. Donaldson, who was a US Army Technician Fifth Grade. He enlisted on July 17, 1942 and served until the end of war, officially being discharge on September 27, 1945. He served in the European Theater, and as an Army Technician often repaired and/or salvage cars, tanks and motorcycles as his regiment followed behind the main battles.
Of particular note - While taking the Motorcycle Mechanic course Jerry kept a small detailed small, 6-ring, black leather cover, 45 leaves with information on both sides. The notebook of everything he was learning about the Harley Davidson Military Motorcycles, followed by information on the Indian including how to disassembly and reassembly the engines and its various components, as well as hand drawn diagrams of the engines and various electrical systems. It includes details on every aspect of motorcycle maintenance and repair including information the Indian Blackout Switch H. D. Type, Fuel Systems, Indian Wheels, Indian Motorcycles, Oiling System, At the end of this notebook, Jerry kept a record of his service in the Army from when he enlisted on July 17, 1942, to May 24, 1943. This record includes the various stateside camps he was stationed at and the education he received at each one. Measures 5 1/4" x 3 1/2".
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A large portion of this collection is the photo album which features over a hundred and fifty (150) black and white photographs of Jerry during his enlistment, some of which have captions written on the back by Jerry. The photographs cover from his time training at various camps, such as Pine Camp in New York, and Fort Knox in Kentucky, to his time in Europe in France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany. Each section of the album is identified; many of the individual photos are ID'd on the reverse. There are some photographs of Jerry and his wife, Anne, both before and after their wedding day, as well as images of his fellow service members and their significant others. While at the various training camps there are a few photographs of African Americans as well as the WAACs (Woman's Auxiliary Army Corps, later Women's Army Corps, WAC). Jerry refers to the WAACs as "Holabird Babies", which is in reference to the WAACs who were stationed at or receiving training at the Holabird Ordnance and Motor Transport School in Maryland.
Several photos of tanks, motorcycle brigades, G.I.s mugging and posing often with sites of interest in background. There are a few images with scenes from a cemetery, a rescue of a wounded soldier and much more.
The album also contains twenty-two negatives of the photographs. Additional there are over sixty (60) pieces of ephemera in the scrap album, the majority of which are photo post cards from the various locations in Europe that Jerry was stationed. The rest of the ephemera is various newspaper clippings of which Jerry is the subject (including the post the listing of his draft), stamps, and several used envelopes. The majority of the photographs and postcards are attached using photo-corners, while the rest of the ephemera is either loose or pasted in. The album itself has a stamped decorative black cover with string binding. Measures 14" x 11" (album), photographs: 6" x 3 1/2" (largest), 3 1/2" x 2 1/2" (smallest).
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There are also a variety of other items included in this collection, such as: Five (5) letters, all but one of which is from Jerry to his wife. These letters often describe wartime souvenirs that he has sent home to his wife, such as a German Officer's small revolver and compass, and a speedometer that Jerry took from a German Focke Wulf Flight Plane. The last letter was F. C. Lucas, who was the Commanding Officer of Jerry unit. It is a summarization letter Lucas sent to the family members on the one year anniversary of Jerry's regiment arriving at a British port, describing the events of the past year. Measures 10 1/2" x 8" (largest), 5 3/4" x 4" (smallest). Additionally there are two (2) telegrams sent by Jerry to his then girlfriend before the shipped out in 1943. Measures 8 1/4" x 6". The collection includes two (2) course completion letters and their corresponding certificates for the courses entitled 'Automobile Electric Technician' and 'Motorcycle (Rating: Mechanic, 138)'. Measures 10" x 8" (largest), 8" x 6" (smallest). Also, in the collection are five (5) army patches. The first patch is the Private First Class Insignia Rank patch, which most likely was one of the first patches Jerry received as he eventually rose to the rank of Corporal. is an enlisted man's overseas service patch, Next is the Army Armored Division should sleeve patch, which is a triangle patch with tank, gun, and red lightning bolt at the center. Traditionally, there is also a number at the top, which denotes which numbered division the individual is in, but this patch does not. Two of the batches are a matching set (one was to be worn on each arm), of a black patch with two upside down gold 'V's and the letter "T" which denoted the US Army rank of Technician Fifth Grade or T/5 for short. A T/5 service member would be addressed as a Corporal. Lastly is the enlisted man's overseas service patch, sometimes called 'hashmarks'. It is a green felt patch with gold bars. Each bar denotes six months of services in an overseas location. With four bars, this indicates two years of overseas service. Measures 4" x 3" (largest). 2" x 1 1/2” (smallest). Lastly the collection includes a large map entitled "Operations of First United Sates Army in Europe, June 6, 1944 to May 9, 1945", which depicts the various military operations in the European Theater. There are some descriptions of various important battles and events, such as the ST. Lo Breakthrough and the Normandy Assault (D-Day). There border depicts the various insignias of the different corps and regiments involved as well as their military leader. Measures 19 1/2" x 19 ½”. (#29020790) $1,000.
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General wear to the photo album, including edge chipping on the pages as well as evidence of some missing photographs. Small Notebook has paper stuck to the covers. The map has crease mark. The patches are frayed on the edges.
Jerome "Jerry" Burney Donaldson was born on August 17, 1921 to to Louis Donaldson (1900-1962) and Vera Mae Donaldson (1905-?) in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He enlisted in the army on July 17, 1942, and served until his discharge on September 27, 1945. He married Anne Carow Donaldson (1923-?), around 1943 before shipping out over seas. They had four children, Judy Anne Evans (1944-?), Janet Donaldson Ablauf, Jill Donaldson, and Robert Donaldson. When Jerry returned home from the war, he worked as a millwright in the photo products division of E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. He died on January 29, 1988.
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118. [friendship album][ correspondence][ friendship][ poetry] Autographs, a Friendship Album Belonging to William Loeb. Lancaster, PA. 1873-1879. A friendship album belonging to William "Willie" Loeb, a Jewish boy from Lancaster, PA. The album is over 2/3 filled with signatures and short poems written by his friends and family members. The entries date from 1873-1879, with the majority of the entries dating form 1873-1875, and located in Pennsylvania. One of the more unique entries, is a drawing of an envelope, with accurately drawn stamp and postal mark. The address, and presumably the artist, is Al M. Henlein, Philadelphia, PA. The return address says" Return to "Billy Loeb, if called for in 10 days." This is one of the few uses of the nickname "Billy" as normally "Willie" is used in the album. Below are some excerpts from the album.
"He's had misfortune great and small! "Stop young man as you pass by, But aye a soul above them all! As you are now so once was I, He'll be a credit to us yet, As I am now so you must be, We'll all be proud of Willie." Prepair [sic] for death and follow me." - Your Cousin Joe Loeb (1848-1926) - Geo. W. Brown, Sept 11, 1878
"You ask me, wondering why I sing end papers. A pen and ink design with tall And why my lips in laughter part; grass and floral garland with name at center. The ripples of my mirth all spring An applied Victorian Scrap and embossed From the deep sorrow of my hear." Dresden half moon scrap x 2. Two entries - Leah, no date are in German. Measures 8" x 5 1/2". (#29015271) $275. Brown leather stamped covers with gilt flora design. The front cover has a gilt stamp of Rubbing damage to cover edges and William's name. The back cover has the back strip. Minor damage to binding, as same design. Interior pages are gilt edge. such some interior pages are loose. There are two pasted in printed drawings of General toning and soiling. There are women at the front of the book. Decorative
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cut marks around Loeb's name on the 1925), and had one child Stanley M. Loeb cover. (1886-?). He died on May 5, 1924 and is buried a the Sons of David and Israel William Loeb was born on August 20, 1857 Cemetery in Providence, RI. in South Carolina to Jacob Loeb (1818-1900) and Theresa Cohen (1826-1879). He had nine siblings: Fannie Loeb Jessel (1853- "If I should write a sober word 1937), Rosabella Loeb Bachenheimer(1855- You might not care to read it, 1923), Lena Loeb Hirsh (1859-1932), Julia But all the same as life wears one Loeb (1860-?), Amelia Loeb Rothschild You probably will need it. (1861-1892), Bertha Loeb Krotosky (1868- 1892), Clara Loeb (1868-1868), and I will not give you words of mine, Franklin Sigismund Loeb (1873-1949). His Because I know of better, family moved to Lancaster, PA around To hide them in your heart of hearts, 1870. He married Emma Krotosky (1864- The spirit and the letter.
Trust in the Lord, with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. Prov. 3,5" - Aunt Mary Y. Upham, Aug 15th 1891, Rutland, MA, "You many open this someday when your Mother is away and you need some good advise, open then and read it twice." (#29001578) $300.
119. [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
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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 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.
120. [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-
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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 1/2" x 8 1/4". (#29014910) $275.
General wear. Pages are brittle from age. Most pages are loose or detached from string binding.
A creative and well-constructed composition
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.
121. [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
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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 1/4" x 6 1/4". (#28004101) $800.
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Cover and edge wear due to rubbingSome soiling due to use and transfer from pencils.
122. [Travelogue][ Women's Work][ Entertainment] 2 Journals of sisters Harriet (Hattie) and Anna Hotchkin; members of young sister entertainers - Bell Ringing, Singing, etc. 1883. Two (2) composition books chronicling the travels and work assignments of two of the four Hotchkin's sisters during 1883. Destinations included numerous locations in Pennsylvania, select appearances in Colorado, West Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC. It annotates where and when they
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performed, most frequently in churches of various denominations. Hattie, in particular describes sights along the way and cultural activities. Several pages were dedicated to observations at the National Museum which she referred to as the "Annex of the Smithsonian".
Tucked into the pages are bits of identified dried ferns and flowers. One with a tag attached "picked on the roadside between Cresson springs and nunnery" signed HATTIE.
Hattie completed both sides of the entire journal, while Anna completed approximately half of the journal and at one point wrote "We did not visit any places of interest".
As evidence of their ongoing travels, the composition books used in these recordings were from a bookseller in Connellsville, PA. Each measure 8" x 7". (#29013362) $750.
Heavy wear; many pages are detached but present. The content appears complete.
Hotchkin Sisters Concert Co. and Bell Ringers: Towards the end of the 19th century, circa 1880-1898, the sisters Eliza, Anna, Julia and Harriet (Hattie) Hotchkin, formed a highly talented and successful group of musicians. An 1896-1897 newspaper promotional program billed them as, "among the FIRST in their inimitable instrumental, vocal and Bell Ringing Entertainments". Travelling up and down the Eastern half of the United States, even as far north as Toronto, Canada to Maryland in the south, the Hotchkin Sisters performed in Presbyterian, Methodist, Congregationalist, Reform, Episcopal and Baptist churches. Renowned for their performances with Staff Bells, Swiss Bells and Russian Sleigh Bells, they were also accomplished on at least nine other instruments.
Apart from churches, the highly talented sisters also performed for schools and organizations, sometimes as a quartet and sometimes as a trio. While it is not certain if all four sisters were in the band, or even a part of the band at the same time, it is known that other women musicians performed with them as well. It appears that Anna and Hattie were the most talented of the four girls. The youngest daughter Hattie was such an accomplished violinist that she gained a reputation "as the second Camilla Urso", a renowned female violinist of the late 19th century.
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123. [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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124. [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 1/2" x 10". (#29012589) $2,500.
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General wear.
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125. [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 1/2". 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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126. [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 1/2" x 7 1/2" (#27004531) $1500.
Covers reinforced.
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127. [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 1/2" x 3 1/2"; the third is 7" x 4 1/2".
Includes signatures from a wide variety of people, including signatures from local authors such as SC 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.
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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.
128. [Biedermeier card][ Kunstbillet][ Friendship Album] Sarah A. Page.Fine Friendship Album with Kunstbillet frontispiece. Berlin. Dec. 25, 1857. A 3 3/4" 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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129. [Made by Hand][ Confession Album][ Pictures Tell the Story] Torture Book - Olla Podrida --A very unusual Confession Album told in word and picture. 1863-1870. A confession album of sorts with 44 individual responses to the following questions
Favorite Motto Hero Favorite Occupation Historical Character You Dislike Favorite Quality Favorite Poet & Prose Writer Quality You Dislike Favorite Dish Favorite Historical Character - Favorite
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The responders were extremely creative; one responded with only words beginning with the letter "Q". Others are expressed as watercolor illustrations - A Quality You Dislike depicts a 'green eyed monster' captioned Jealousy Historical Character You Dislike - Image of Blue Beard Another respondent responded with different images of birds including Robin Hood and Sir Francis Drake as Favorite Historical Character and Favorite Hero. A Favorite Dish - Fried Soles (shoe soles) The final passage in the book reads "These contributions culled from an older Book were makde during a period of 7 years 1863-1870). Measures 10 1/2" x 8 1/2". (#27004628) $2,100.
Covers detached and separated with wear. Toning and discoloration first few pages.
130. [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 3/4" x 8". (#23016238) $425.
wear on cover
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131. [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
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album dates from the 1930s. Measures 9 1/4" x 7 1/4". (#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 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.
132. [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
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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.
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 1/4" x 4 1/4". (#28004635) $1,000.
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