American Historical Ephemera & Photography

Large format albumen 7.5 x 9.5 in. (sight), building on a corner with a 1920s automobile in front. The building houses a barber, a restaurant and an F.O.E. lodge, with apartments above. Street lights appear to be electric, rather than gas. 

Large format albumen (8 x 10.5 in. on larger mount), Batavia Tires store, with two of the proprietors standing at the entrance holding white tires. Off to the left side of the image is an antique gasoline pump. Likely Batavia, New York.

Typed circular letter No. 83 and printed leaflet on stationery from the Cadillac Motor Car Company, Detroit, MI. Nov. 9, 1906. To Mr. J.M. Richardson, Lockland, Ohio. "Effective at once, all Model "H" cars [illeg.] by this company, will have the foot pedals assembled to [illeg.] independently of each other..." Attached is a sketch showing the foot pedals and adjacent mechanism, also instructions for changing the construction on cars previously shipped to have the pedals act independently of each other." Stains and insect damage to right side of letter. 

Photograph, 6.5 x 8 in. (corners have been rounded). Two men shaking hands, the one on the left is Glenn Curtiss, early aviation pioneer and founder of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. We feel like we should know the other gentleman in this grasp, but the name eludes us. Someone “out there” knows.

Photo of a man standing beside a biplane (presume Mr. Borden), with “Another Greeting / “Spirit of Christmas” / Mitchell D. Borden / FCAC.” 4.75 x 6 in.

Three small boudoir cards (5 x 8 in.), titled in the negative. The first is partially cut off in the printing process, but partially reads: “2286 Idaho ???.” A second one: "Mother Grundy: Clear Creek Canon C.C.R.R. TA. Thompson, phot.” The third: “2003. Inspiration Point Colo. Div. U.P.R.R.”

Cabinet card of a boxcar, with “Newport News and Mississippi Valley Company” on the side. Card with “Built by the Ensign Manufacturing Co., Huntington, W. Va.”

Membership Card for the National Association of Retired and Veteran Railway Employees, No 109 – Huntington, West Virginia. 1966.

[With:] Three letters from turn-of-the-century seamen, 1900-1904.-- Bill of lading for Schooner Mohican, sailing from New York to Boston. It has a lovely (though small) illustration upper left of Neptune sitting in a shell, escorted by large fish, a ship sailing by in the distance.

[Also with:] Illustrated stories, cut-outs, periodicals, an art book and more. L.H. Nelson Co. At the Pole with Cook and Peary. A Pictorial Record of the Most Important and Sensational Geographical Discovery of Recent Times. Portland, ME: L.H. Nelson Company, 1909. Obl. 4to, illustrated softcover, 32 unnumb. pp. Illustrated with photographs of the expeditions. Each page has short paragraph explaining it. For example, “Eskimos on the ‘Bradley’” notes: “The native inhabitants of Greenland without whose aid the traversing of polar regions would be practically impossible, are a peaceful people provided by Nature with sturdy bodies and stomachs inured to blubber meat, raw fish, tallow candles, and similar delicacies.” -- Two editions of “Illustrated News.” Saturday, May 14, 1853 (Vol. I, No. 20), pp. 305-320, and Saturday, August 20, 1853 (Vol. II, No. 34.), pp. 73-88. The masthead has multiple varieties of sailing vessels illustrated. -- Sarony, Napoleon. Sarony’s Living Pictures, Art Monthly, First Series. Vol. I, No. 1. New York: A.E. Chasmar & Co., Publ., Oct. 1894. 12mo, illustrated softcover, 11 reproductions of art of Sarony and others (Bouguerreau, P. Dupuis, Comerre-Paton, N. Kray, Nonnenbruch, Coomans) (Water stain upper right corner, partial split of spine) . -- Chance, Lulu Maud. Bradley’s Straight Line Picture Cut-outs. The Landing of Columbus. Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley Company. (Shrink-wrapped with instructions. Not removed from wrapper). -- The Merrymount Press, Boston. Its Aims, Work, and Equipment. 12mo, printed wraps, 20pp. With information about the history of the press, services available (eg. Proof-reading, composition), examples of clients who use their services, and examples of books printed (fine art, biography, catalogues, yearbooks, reports, literature, genealogy, history, poetry and drama, war books, series of books, and more). -- Braithwaite’s School of Art drawing Book. D. N.p., n.d. With many more loose pages tucked into back. Some pages still have their tissue guards. --Chester Academy, Chester, Vt. Catalogue of the Trustees, Instructors and Students for the Year Ending November 20, 1838. Claremont: Eagle Press. 12mo, plain paper wraps, 12pp.