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New York, NY: The Frasse Co.. 30 Church St, 1909. 8.7 x 15.1 cm. Small catalogue cover shows photo of Niagara Falls. Description of Niagara Falls Works. Catalogue includes razor hones, instrument hones, sharpening stones, slip stones, round combination bench stone, round edge gouge stones, combination stones, oilshere combination, aluminum oil stone boxes, quartered oak oil stone boxes,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Somerville, MA: The First National Stores, Inc, 1932. 27.7 x 44 cm. Newspaper features photo of young boy with large block of ice. ""Food Content in Ginger Ale Settled Fact:; ""The Wellesley Fudge Cake Again on Sale"". Recipes from Millbrook Testing Kitchen. Last page features special price items for week, including Finast or B&M Baked Beans, 2 tins… Saber más sobre este artículo

Akron, Ohio: The Firestone Company, 1933. 13 x 20 cm. Booklet distributed at Chicago Exposition 1933 describes building of Firestone Tires including milling, gum-dipping, calendering, ply cutting, expanding and forminbg and vulcanizing. Booklet describes exhibits at Firestone Factory. Display of Firestone products. Paper full color booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Advertising.

Pittsburgh, PA: Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co, 1907. 17.5 x 24.7 cm. Magazine features cover photo of London's Piccadilly Circus, where public toilet is now located. Editorial by Horace Barnes notes that Europe is far ahead of U.S. in providing public toilets. ""Sewage Purification and Disposal"" by J.J. Cosgrove, Principles of Sewage Purification, Part III. ""History of Sanitation"" Part III.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Detroit, MI: Chevrolet Motor Division, General Motors Corp, 1959. 23.7 x 15.6 cm. Sales brochure for the 1960 Corvair shows custom features to add, like radio and antenna, bumper guards, gasoline locking cap and back-up lamps. Gasoline heater and defroster. Brochure, color, very good. . Catalogs: Advertising.

Boston, MA: D. & L. Slade Co, ca. 1904. 8.5 x 14.5 cm. Little booklet advertises Slade's Salad Cream, made of purest and most wholesome ingredients; also Slade's Pure Nutmeg, Congress baking Powder and Slade's Pickling Spice. Booklet tells how to make salads. Another treat: Baked Beans served with Slade's Salad Cream. Many salad and sandwich recipes.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Elkhart, IN: Miles Laboratories, Inc, ca. 1930. 15.7 x 18 cm. Advertising booklet for Alka-Seltzer, Dr. Miles Liquid Nervine and Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills. Booklet provides kitchen hints, how to remove stains and spots, washday hints and general hints for housewives. Paper booklet printed in black and red; minor wear, very good. . Catalogs: Advertising.

New York, NY: Ahrens Publishing Co., Inc, 1944. 20.7 x 28.7 cm. Cover features photo of long line outside Sholl's Colonial Cafeteria in wartime Washington, badly congested with war workers. Louis P. DeGouy's Good Food Hints. ""How a Courageous and capable Restaurant Woman Survived Great Britain's Blitz"" by Annette M. Snapper. How Mme. Prunier carries on in London… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston, MA: Hewins & Hollis, 47 Temple Place, 1876. 7.6 x 13.2 cm. Advertising leaflet for H&H shirts and drawers, hosiery and gloves, neckwear and dressing gowns; includes calendar for November 1876 and price list for underwear and patent pantaloon drawers. Paper leaflet, very good. . Catalogs: Advertising.

New York, NY: H. Clay Glover Co., Inc, 1928. 12.6 x 20.2 cm. Diseases of the Dog include distemper, rabies, tuberculosis, foul breath, vomiting, constipation, round worms, rectal worms, running-barking fits, sty, ear cyst, black tongue, anemia, fleas, lice, ticks. Treatment for most diseases includes Glover's products. Photos of dog breeds including Irish Setter, Pointer, Boston Terrier, Bull… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York, NY: Tork Company, 1927. 9 x 15 cm. Use a Tork Clock for all kinds of Display Lighting and Electrical Advertising: Indoor Type ten-day clocks, 15 amp SP, 30 amp. DP. Outdoor, ten-day: 15 amp. SP and 30 amp. DP. Paper leaflet, very good. . Catalogs: Advertising.

Providence, RI: Providence Gas Company, ca. 1929. 12 x 20 cm. Advertising leaflet for modern gas cookery and gas refrigeration, illustrates three models of gas cookery, including Providence Automatic Buffet; Popular 7 cubic ft. gas refrigerator. Paper leaflet black with yellow highlights, very good. . Catalogs: Advertising.

Stamford, CT: Kilmer & Co., Inc, 1942. 14 x 20 cm. Almanac contains monthly calendars for 1943, sun and moon rise and set times, weather predictions, daily horoscopes, holiday and church days, air raid precautions, planting times, ads for Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root Diuretic for the Kidneys. Where are your kidneys? What is urine? What is the function of your… Saber más sobre este artículo

Chicago, IL: Montgomery Ward & Co, 1926. 27.5 x 21.3 cm. Full-color cover. It will pay you to buy building materials here. Latest styles in veneered Oak Front Doors, from $6.10 each. White Pine Doors. Windows--handsome Colonial Windows from $2.16 each. Complete door and window trim sets. Standard moldings and interior trim at low prices, high… Saber más sobre este artículo

Lowell, MA: Hood's Laboratories, ca. 1893. 44 x 56 cm. Four pages of testimonials of people who took Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills and purified their blood, cured constipation, enlivened numb limbs, cured running sores and dyspepsia, and much more. Mrs. Rumrill of Royalton, VT was a ""walking ghost"" with gastric dyspepsia until she took Hood's Sarsaparilla. Edward O.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Lowell, MA: Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co, 1886. 12.5 x 19 cm. Booklet provides zodiac, list of eclipses for 1887, calculations for standard time, phases of moon, sun rise and set, and important events for each day. Information on Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for terrible cough, bronchitis, laryngitis, loss of voice, quinsy. Testimonials. Ayer's Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston, MA: F.W. Prescott, Banker & Broker, 54 Devonshire St, 1889. 14 x 21 cm. The Ideal Method of Propelling Street Cars, controls the best & most improved system of propelling street cars by storage batteries. F.W. Prescott offers a limited amounbt of the Treasury Stock of the Union Electric Car Company at $15.00 per share until Monday, June… Saber más sobre este artículo

Jeddo, PA: Heaterange Corporation, 1933. 18 x 13 cm. An important invention to simplify and improve the ancient business of keeping house. Heaterange brings humidified warm air to the whole house. A turn of the knob brings new health to your home. Jeddo-Highland insures complete burning of heat from every lump of coal. Paper booklet, very good.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Boston, MA: New England Home Buyers Association, 36 Bromfield St, ca. 1905. 9 x 15 cm. Small advertising piece shows home at Wollaston Park purchased by Mr. James Thomas of Quincy, Mass. At price of $2,700.00. New England Home Buyers will furnish the MONEY WITHOUT INTEREST to buy a home for you… Pamphlet lists officers and Directors of Association:… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cincinnati, OH: Lion Buggy Co, ca. 1895. 21 x 19 cm. Incomplete booklet, but drawings are so good that it may be useful. Good drawing and details for No. 02 Three-Quarter ""True Blue"" Georgia Buggy; No. 23 Seven-Eighth Buggy; No. 24 Seven-Eighth with detail showing removable pad and patent ""lock top shifter""; No. 48 Side-Spring Buggy; No. 81 Seven-Eighth… Saber más sobre este artículo