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Box 3

 Container

Contains 9 Results:

Box 3: Ephemera acquired circa 1930s through 1940s (Acc. 2009.602), 1812-1939

 File — Box: 3
Identifier: id65027
Scope and Contents

Includes visiting cards, advertisements, postcards, religious tracts, schedules, lottery tickets and other items.

Dates: 1812-1939

Advertisements and Related Items - United States, 1876, 1884 and undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 1
Identifier: id65019
Scope and Contents Includes business cards, broadsides, price tags, price lists, newspaper advertisements, postcards, medicine advertisements and more. Some of the states included are New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania (U.S. Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, "The American Bridge Co.'s Exhibit), Washington, D.C. (Thomas W. Smith receipt with drawing of building in 1884), Ohio (Cancer Treatment by Dr. A. Williams) and other states. One undated broadside from Cincinnati, Ohio, on cotton rag, advertises,...
Dates: 1876, 1884 and undated

Business and Industry Advertisements, 1904, 1911 and undated.

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Identifier: id65014
Scope and Contents

Advertisements which include a Sears, Roebuck and Co. postcard (1911), calendar (1904), Lion Coffee, Muzzy's Corn Starch, Capadura cigar and much more.

Dates: 1904, 1911 and undated.

Lottery Tickets, 1812-1887

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 3
Identifier: id65012
Scope and Contents

Lottery tickets from St. Louis, Missouri (1817), Maryland (1812, 1851 and undated), Louisiana (1881 and 1887) and Kentucky (1879).

Dates: 1812-1887

Prices Current, 1868 and 1883

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Identifier: id65030
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents September 14, 1883 price list "Washington Price Current," J.F. Sheiry, Pr. for Biedler and Co., General Commission Merchants and a 1868 "Philadelphia Letter Sheet Price Current" for the Philadelphia stock market.

Dates: 1868 and 1883

Religious Tracts, Verses and cards, 1865 and undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Identifier: id65017
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents 10 items ranging from a sheet of pledge cards for the Anti-Tobacco Tract Depository in Fitchburg, Massachusetts (undated), picture cards, form letters, "The Lifeboat" published by the American Seamen's Friend Society (October 1865) and a printer's sheet of a broadside for "Catalogue of the Sunday-School and Family Library."

Dates: 1865 and undated

Title Pages of Books, 1620-1870

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 6
Identifier: id65013
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Title pages from 29 books. Includes page for "Plutarch I Chaeronensis Omnium" dated 1620, page for "Porcupine's Works, Vol. II, 1796 , "Annalium Tam Regum..." 1679 and others.

Dates: 1620-1870

Transport and Schedules, 1939

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7
Identifier: id65016

Visiting Cards, undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Identifier: id65015