American Historical Ephemera & Photography, Featuring Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana & Historical Documents

Leonard Smith's Patent Improved Ventilating Smut Machine. Troy, NY: Prescott & Wilson, [1857?]. 10 x 15 3/4 in. printed broadside on blue paper (minor toning along original folds); framed to 14 3/4 x 19 in. (not examined out of frame). Illustrated with two model numbers. Advertisements are published in several 1857 issues of the Edgefield Advertiser [Edgefield, SC].  

[With:] The Beal Prospecting Core Drill. Elyria, OH: N.p., [1890s]. 16 1/4 x 19 1/4 in. printed broadside (creasing, original folds); framed to 20 x 24 in. (not examined out of frame). Corresponding illustrated envelope, postally used, included on frame verso. Illustrated with several types of machinery. An article in the 11 August 1895 issue of the San Francisco Call reports on oil prospecting: "A Beal Prospecting Core Drill, the same as those used in sinking oil wells in the East and the only one in California, will be set up on the property." 

[Also with:] Home Comforts and Diamond Dyes. Burlington, VT: Wells & Richardson Co., n.d. Visible 9 5/8 x 13 3/4 in. color advertisement (minor toning, early soft fold); matted and framed to 15 x 19 1/4 in. (not examined out of frame).