Historical Literature and Advertising

A collection of vintage advertisements and publications, featuring illustrations, typography, and varying styles from early 20th century. Topics include reading methods and consumer products.

'No motor : no sound : no attention : no maintenance. . . Because it embodies an entirely new priniple of economical refrigeration, operating on gas or electricity and without moving parts, the electrolux has become pre-eminent for the preservation of food in the modern home. Date: 1928

Photo collection Government information service. illustration. undated

Kiirunavaara.Kiruna Many Kronology.ur Carl Sahlin Mountain History Collection.

Amusing Card Trick, Magic & Mesmer

Skvelbergs Brokology.ur Carl Sahlin mountain historical collection.

'No motor : no sound : no attention : no maintenance. . . Because it embodies an entirely new priniple of economical refrigeration, operating on gas or electricity and without moving parts, the electrolux has become pre-eminent for the preservation of food in the modern home. Date: 1928

Grenspaal between the Batavians and the Cananefaten, François Van Bleyswijck, 1734 print Grenspaal between the residential areas of the Batavians and the Cananefaten, found in Flying near Naaldwijk. At the bottom right next to the border post a bowl: foot size of three feet, Eyder twelve duymen long. At the top right marked: 1: part. Fol. 173. Leiden paper etching / engraving boundary-post, boundary-stone Naaldwijk

Advertisement appeared "the sun" and "Evening News". December 04, 1924.

Frigidaire automatic electrical refrigeration cabinet, keeps your food fresh, with ice for cooling drinks, and it cost less than a garage for your car! 1928

Clothing Book Description: Throughout the 1940s every man woman and child in Britain owned ration books of coupons that had to be used to obtain food and clothing. Clothing rationing was introduced in 1941 and lasted eight years. Fabric was needed for the war effort (to make uniforms, parachutes etc.) and so was the factory capacity. Date: World War Two clothing, secondworldwar, boardoftrade, rationing

Emergency Lighting with Automatic Two-Rate Recharge, Surrette Storage Battery Co., Inc., Jefferson Avenue, Salem, Mass. , Lighting, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Food brands for bread or flour from the First World War, Unknown

'Housekeeping aboard the liner'. The huge supply for the 'Queen Mary's' stay at port between voyages. To ensure that fresh supplies were always available, triplicate stocks of linen were ordered. One stock was carried on board, the other two were at Southampton and New York for immediate transfer to the ship on her arrival. Date: 1936

Storfors mills chronology.storforsverken.ur Carl Sahlin's mountain history collection.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Salatiga. Holidays II-2 R.V.A .. Party program. October 8, 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Salatiga

Bond 5%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% of the Polish state loan Assignation of the Polish Treasury per 100 crowns, Warsaw, 1. 11.1918 Polish treasury

'In the spring the housewife's fancy'. . . lightly turns to thought of . . . well, perhaps 'furbishing-up' expresses the mood in tune with nature's time of renewal. Here is a knid of little spring scrapbook, in which you will find something to fit one or more of your springtime urges. Date: 1945

Brochures, exhibition

All in one - cardboard

Perfect Christmas Gift! , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 9x12 Reproduction safety plate grindstone. undated

Perfect Christmas Gift! , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Advertisement for 'Frigidaire' fridges, 1936. Creator: Unknown.

Suggestion Box , Suggestion boxes. Photographs of the First Naval District

Exposure Meter, London, by Imperial Dry Plate Co. Ltd.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 16 larger double volumes instead 32 single volumes. General knowledge books with some colour illustrations. Small monthly payments. Date: 1925

Advert for the Fortis exerciser, used to strengthen arm and thigh muscles. Dated 20th century

The Newbern - Nourse Company, 116 S. Beckham Ave., Tyler, Texas , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

A photographic representation of the SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING AND DINNER held by the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOX AND BOX SHOOK MAKERS at HOTEL VICTORY, PUT-IN-BAY ISLAND, LAKE ERIE, OH, in 1900. The image is included in a folder and measures 5x6.75 inches

Beneficial Suggestion Deposit Box in Building #86, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Administrative History of the First Naval District in World War II

Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 9x12 instruction English resuscitation. undated

'You'll face the day with a smile after a good night's rest on a luxurious Vi-Spring overlay Mattress'. Sound restful sleep is the greatest of all aids to metal and bodily fitness. If your night's rest is wrong you feel wrong all day. And the right kind of rest is mainly a question of mattress. 1938

CFFP Printing Drop -Ins - All States. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

'To slumberland in happy content'. As soon as you lay your head upon the pillow and stretch your tired frame upon a 'Vi-Spring' you feel composed for sleep, for the 'Vi-Spring' mattress is the most luxurious thing ever made to sleep upon. 1931

Lewis, Vancouver Team, baseball card portrait

March 1918. G. Escolar Pharmaceutical Specialties, in Seville.

DINER held by CIE CIE TRANSATLANTIQUE at PAQUEBOT: LA CHAMPAGNE (SS;). Buttolph, Frank, 1850-1924. text. Menus. 1900. Rare Book Division

Promotional mail order brochure 'card' from 'The Key to the Sex Question' Arita Drug & Rubber Goods Co. - Export & Import - 1 Motomachi Street, City Car Stop, Kobe, Japan. Date: 1930s

Anefo photo collection. Free milk price. Advertisement with low milk price from the Grandwinkelbedrijf. September 2, 1980

'Electric Light is a modern necessity', 1920. Creator: Unknown.

Advertisement for a 'Bissel's' carpet sweeper for domestic cleaning use. 1906

Freund's weekly , Vol. 1, no. 10. text. Periodicals, Portraits. 1893-03-11. Music Division. Music, Musical instruments , Construction , Marketing, Advertising , Professions, Musicians

Tidiness Prevents Accidents. Country: England Printed By: Loxley Bros. Ltd. Contributor: Ministry of Labour and National Service; Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. 1942 - 1945. Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services. 3/9/1943-9/15/1945. World War II Foreign Posters

Advert advertising in Country Life magazine UK 1951

Advertisement, advertisement of the Hippolit Mehles company, largest armoury in Germany, revolver, 1880, Germany, Historic, digitally restored reprodu...

Anefo photo collection. Cup of English Dagblad "Daily Mirror". October 11, 1957

'Make sure you see as you should see.' Dr. Henry Lustig, Sr., Dr. Henry Lustig, Jr. , Physicians, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Border post between the bataves and the canange reports; Border pear between the batavieren and canine figures; Te Vliefere about Naaldwijk, in the year Vyftienhunden found.Borderspaal Between The Residential Areas of the Batava and the Canange Failure, Found to Flying at Naaldwijk. Bottom Right Next to the Border Post A Scaling Stick: Foot Size of Three Feet, Eyder Twelve Duymen Long. Below Labeled: 1: Part. FOL. 173.

Historical trading stamp, German, "Kaiser-Hoelzer, Union Augsburg"

Pre-War and Wartime Bags and Tubes Display

BEETLE RESINS. They bind together lots of things - for instance sawdust, fabric, wood, pigments and so on. Sometimes they make moulded articles like electric switches, sometimes they make cardboard weatherproof and tough. They may stick a Mosquito aircraft together or appear as the bond in laminated sheets. And the bind is permanent - once the operation is performed heat or damp has no effect. There's a great future for Beetle bonding - are you interested in the future Date: 1944

'It's the inside that matters most!' If you are buying mattress you will, of course, buy one of the spring-interior type to-day demanded by everybody with modern ideas of comfort. You will quite rightly give due consideration to the colour, design and quality of its cover. But do not forget that it is the inside - the unseen - that really counts, for the comfort, life and reliability of the spring centred mattress depends upon the quality, number and assemblage of its springs. 'That is w

'Cordelia for Distinctive Book Jackets', 1928. Creator: Unknown.

Poster, 'Victory Is In Your Hands!', Early 1940s, United Kingdom, by Johnson Riddle & Co. Ltd. Gift of Mr C H Andrews, 1967.

Anefo photo collection. Assignment fa. Kemperman Lichtbak Amstel. November 6, 1948

Advertisement for Kodak Camera, circa 1919

Components of "Eth.", "Corn." and "Man". Table in india ink by W. Sowerby.

Office of U.S. Treasurer, Reserve Vault Cash Room, Packages seen in picture contain over $80,000,000. Photographs of Treasury Department Personnel, Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury

'30 years supremacy in sleeping comfort'. The 'Vi-Spring' overlay mattress. Never in its years of unparalleled success has the wonderful 'Vi-Spring' mattress occupied so higgh a position in the favour of the public as it does to-day. 1935

'Good night'. A night of sound refreshing sleep and complete rest so needful to restore the energy after a tiring day. Such is your night's rest when you sleep upon a 'Vi-spring', the mattress which soon puts you into the land os slumber, your mind and body so willingly relaxing to its soft resilience. 1931

Relics of Andersonville Prison from the collection brought from there by Miss Clara Barton and Dorence Atwater, August, 1865, and photographed by Brady & Co. for the great National Fair, Washington, June, 1866.. Inscribed on back: Very Truly yours Dorence Atwater, Entered according to act of Congress by M.B. Brady & Co. in the year 1865 .. District of Columbia, Clara Barton Collection . Andersonville Prison, 1860-1870, United States, History, Civil War, 1861-1865, Prisoners, Union, Prisoners of war, Union, Georgia, Andersonville, 1860-1870, Prisons, Georgia, Andersonville, 1860-1870.

Buy a Stamp Here Today. 1942 - 1945. Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services. 3/9/1943-9/15/1945. World War II Foreign Posters

Power-saving tungsten lamp, advertisement in an illustrated German fleet calendar, published by Wilhelm Koehler Verlag, 1911, Minden, Germany, Europe

'Scientifically planned luggage'. Rev-robe - Revelation's packing discovery - works on a completely new principle. . . you don't really pack it at all! 8 to12 dresses are hung, on there hangers, straight from the wardrobe into th Rev-Rob, then folded automatically into creaseless compactness. 1939

Berkey and Gay Furniture Company - 1916 Advertisement

AM-475- 479 , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Dentyl : a pleasant and effective liquid dentifrice

You cannot know what a good road map is unless you use the Michelin Map Date: 1914

Rosoff's. 1949. Buttolph, Frank, 1850-1924. text. Menus. Rare Book Division

Anefo photo collection. Razor blades, advertising texts, Novelet. April 1, 1948

An advertisement for aerated water from the St Ronan's Well, Innerleithen. Dated 19th century

Poster, 'Jungles To-day are Gold Mines To-Morrow', 1927, United Kingdom, by Edward McKnight Kauffer, Haycock, Cadle and Graham Ltd., H.M. Stationery Office, Empire Marketing Board. Found in collection, 2012.

Poster, 'The Battle For Fuel', 1942, United Kingdom, by Stafford & Co., Ltd., Fosh & Cross Ltd., H.M. Stationery Office. Gift of Mr C H Andrews, 1967.

German trading stamp, "Graf's Suppenerzeugnisse der Diamalt AG Muenchen"

Bus tickets for public transport buses in England circa 1935

'Make sure you see as you should see.' Dr. Henry Lustig, Sr., Dr. Henry Lustig, Jr. , Physicians, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Radio Amateurs. February 20, 1948.

CAJA DE CERILLAS ABIERTA.

Hofors ironwork chronology.ur Carl Sahlin mountain historical collection.

Gold House Restaurants , Restaurants, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Advertisement for Thos. S. Dixon & Sons Low Down & Elevated Grates.

Reclame voor The Atlas Photo Company, The Atlas Photo Company, 1956 United States of America photographic support United States of America

Pocket magazine complete in each number. , Coats, Periodicals

Wanted Poster for John Dillinger, displaying his fingerprints, signature, and portrait. 1934.

'Going away at Christmas - Giving away at Christmas' Going away Then go with efficient suitcase - a Revelation! . . . You can pack it quickly, easily, and as full as you like. . . yst still there'll be plenty of room for thoses holiday 'accumulations'. It never says no! . . It adjusts itself automatically to your requirements! Date: 1938

Steinway Magazine Advertisement, circa 1916

Save scrap for victory! Save metals, save paper, save rubber, save rags circa 1941-1943.

NACA

Publicidad. Folleto de máquinas de coser Sigma. Años 1960.

Advertisement for Tums Acid Reliever. ca. 1940, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, HELLO: We believe you will agree that this $1.00 Family Package of TUMS will be a winner Order a supply today from your wholesaler. They are packed in 1/4 dozen units, $8.00 per dozen and can be included in $12.00 Deals. A demand for this Family size already exists: do not break package but sell for $1.00. Make a display on your counter and call them to the attention of your regular customers. Presto-$1.00 sales will resul

German trading stamp, "Knorr Suppen-Wuerfel, 3 Teller 10Pfg."

Poster, 'Your Sugar Ration' political posters

Rucker Radio Wholesalers , Commercial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Boric Acid Crystals from Ship's Medicine Chest, from an Aberdeen Trawler wrecked on Hoy, early 20th century

Rucker Radio Wholesalers , Commercial facilities, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Advertisement for Ferranti - an electrical manufacturer

Spine. 1910 - 1896. Chaucer, Geoffrey (d. 1400). bindings (gathered matter components), Book covers. Spencer Collection. Bookbinding

Publicidad. Baterías y pilas secas Zeiler. Alemania, año 1943.

England, Dorset, Dorchester, Dorset Museum, Historical Poster Warning of Small Pox dated 1839 in The Town of Wimborne

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