Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The Weatherford Printing Company, May, 1912. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 24, [1] pages. Seven inserted plates. "It was Dr. Baird, I believe, who said that a public museum should be 'a collection of labels with specimens to illustrate them.'" Issued as Educational Paper 1 by the... More about The Museum as an Educator [wrapper title and caption title

[New York: n. p., 1834]. First edition. Ticket of admission on white coated card stock, 3 x 4.13 inches, printed in black and tan ink. “In 1834 the 28-year-old star sailed for Europe, sent off by the elite of New York, who feted him as a symbol of American culture”... More about Dinner to Edwin Forrest. At the City Hotel, Friday, 25th July, 1834 . . . [caption title

Syracuse, N. Y. Crouse-Hinds, 1934. First edition. Brad-bound printed folder collecting 2 price lists and 26 technical bulletins dated 1932-1934 from the floodlight company (each generally 2-4 pages, though a 56-page Airport and Airway Lighting Equipment catalog with illustrated wrappers is bound in). Illus. Of especial interest among the sales... More about Crouse-Hinds Products: Proposal [wrapper title

[Townsend, Mass., 1913-, 1915. Original brown wrappers and brown buckram spine, lined copy book ruled to make graph paper, approx. 8.25 x 6.75 inches. 38 pages of tabulated game-by-game player statistics in pencil, three mounted carbon-copy typescripts of full-season individual and team statistics, small mounted newspaper clipping in three pieces... More about Manuscript record book of a town amateur team's individual statistics for the seasons 1913-1915

(New Haven: Press of O. A. Dorman), [1890]. First edition. Unbound card stock printed in orange, blue, and black, 6.5 x 3.75 inches, [4] pages. Played in the inaugural year of the third (and best-known) iteration of the Polo Grounds—originally known as here as Brotherhood Park because it was the... More about Original printed scorecard, completed (through 6-1/2 innings) in pencil, for the Princeton-Yale...

[N. p. n. p., ca. 1910?]. Approx. 3.5 x 5.5 inches, postally unused, divided back, no stamp box. An evocative image of the trio atop their various cycles--a man in evening dress on a unicycle, an ingenue upon a bicycle that would do credit to any contemporary fixie-hipster, and a.... More about Real photo postcard of this theatrical cycling troupe, inscribed in autograph ink on the margin...

[N. p. but Halifax? n. p., ca. 1875-1885]. Broadside, approx. 13-1/2 x 5 inches. Sir Charles Frederick Fraser (1850-1925) was a Perkins Institute-trained Nova Scotia native who led the Halifax Asylum for the blind from 1873 until 1923; his institution taught among other trades musical performance. This promotional broadside slip... More about Broadside advertisement for a concert of blind Canadian musicians, "Grand Concert,...

[N. p., ca. 1980?]. Oval color photograph, approx. 9.25 x 7.5 inches under glass in a frame of a roughly oval polished sawn section of timber. Stamped in the image with Schatzberg’s device. Who’s a good boy? The impulse toward kitsch in downstate Illinois antique shops can at times can..... More about Fine color photo portrait of a dog, displayed in its likely original tree trunk frame

(Philadelphia: A. Newman, Photographer), [ca. 1873-1875]. Image approx. 3.88 x 2.25 inhes on a slightly larger mount, photographer's printed title and imprint on the verso. A fine studio image of famed performer Eli Bowen (1844-1924) with his wife Mattie and his oldest son Frank, the family looking every inch (so... More about Original carte de visite (CDV) portrait, "Eli Bowen, Wife and Child."

(New York: Chas. Eisenmann), [ca. 1870?]. Albumen photograph measures approx. 3.5 x 2.25 inches, flowers highlighted by hand in pink ink, gilt border on a slightly larger mount. Eisenmann imprint in gilt on the verso. An attractive sideshow studio portrait of a popular Barnum attraction, sold under the Eisenmann name... More about Carte de visite (CDV) studio portrait of Hannah Perkins Battersby

Chicago: n. p., [1888]. White card stock, printed in blue ink on the recto only, 2.5 x 4.25 inches. Completed in autograph ink. A handsome design, completed in ink as a pass for “G. W. [?] Laing and Lady, Until Dec. 31, 1888,” and signed by the show’s secretary. The... More about The Merrimac and Monitor Naval Battle . . . [printed ticket or press pass

(Altoona, Pa. Mrs. Porter L. Barrington), [ca. 1930-1940]. First edition. Original printed pink wrappers, 7.25 x 5.25 inches, 48 pages. Frontis portrait. Ethel Beck Barrington (1907-1962), Altoona native and a former dancer for Shubert musicals, on the evils of the stage, backstage life, cards, etc., her conversion account here adapted... More about Life-Story of a Converted Dancer. The — Truth about The Stage [wrapper title

Boston: n. p., 1879. First edition. Single leaf, printed recto only, approx. 6.75 x 4.5 inches. An entertaining promotional circular for the popular Montreal revivalist John Currie, casting the question of Christian salvation as a competitive pedestrian event. (The "Go as you Please" men of course take the broad track... More about The Great Walk! Over 1,200,000,000 People are Engaged in it! All Boston is Walking in Earnest . ....