Chicago: Valmor Products Company, Circa 1940s. Brochure measuring 5.75 x 3.75" when folded, with four panels of text and illustrations on each side. Promotional brochure and price list for a line of skin, hair and beauty care products marketed towards African Americans. In excellent condition.
Pike's Peak, Colorado: Circa 1880s. A collection of seven albumen photographs on card stock, each measuring 8 x 5", depicting scenes on and around Pike's Peak, Colorado. The images are uncredited, but each contains promotional text for Halfway House, a lodge on the mountain run by T.T. Palsgrove, which discusses.....
New York City: Books and Things Inc, [1969]. Octavo, stapled yellow printed wrappers, 42, [2] pp. Trade catalog issued by "Books and Things Inc," the Nation of Islam bookstore located at New Muhammad's Mosque No. 7 in Harlem. Malcolm X preached at the mosque until he left it for Sunni.....
[Paris, Tennessee]: [Tyson & Co], Circa 1930s to 1940s. Color printed brochure measuring 8.75 x 3.75" when folded, with three panels of text and illustrations on each side. A promotional brochure for a line of skin, beauty, and hair care products marketed to African American women. The manufacturer of this.....
New York City: Mail & Express Printing Co., Inc, 1940. 8.75 x 5.5", green printed wrappers, 213 pp. Proceedings of the Woman's Centennial Congress, a celebration of the "Women's Century" (1840 to 1940) organized by Carrie Chapman Catt. Damp staining to lower portion of pages, toning to covers, paper abrasions.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. First edition. Octavo, contemporary green cloth with gilt spine title, 212pp. A book by Mary Abigail Dodge, a prominent writer and essayist who wrote under the pseudonym Gail Hamilton. Here, Dodge weighs in on the ongoing debate over women's suffrage. Dodge believed strongly in equal.....
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1893. Octavo, xii, 194 pp, contemporary blue cloth with gilt lettering. A guide intended to "give prospective students and parents a glimpse into the private world of women's college", written when the American College Girl was fast becoming a cultural icon (Tarbox, The Clubwomen's.....
San Francisco: Bonnard & Daly, 1876. 9.25 x 6.25", light brown cloth with gilt lettering, 203 pp. Inscribed by author to front endpaper. A scarce medical treatise examining the health of women and girls in California, written by an English doctor who emigrated to that state in the 1870s. The.....
Cincinnati: Marshall W. Taylor and W. C. Echols, 1882. First Edition. 6.5 x 4.5", original green cloth with gilt cover illustration depicting "Slavery Days," "Freedom Days" and a "Freedman's School," [6], [1]-7, [1], VI, [9]-262, [2] pp, numerous musical scores. First edition of "The first collection of revival songs (now.....
Routt Co, Colorado: A.G. Wallihan, Circa 1880s. Eight albumen photographs, each measuring 8 x 5", on studio mounts, all captioned in the negative, seven with additional printed information to verso ("Wallihan's Big Game, Photographs, Taken From Live Wild Game"). One photo with additional caption to verso that reads "These pictures.....