Mt. Vernon, Illinois: 1910. Album. This scrapbook measures 8” x 10.5” and contains 22 pages filled with programs, newspaper reviews, and ephemera (a season ticket, paper flag, schedules, an issue of the Chautauqua Quarterly, and one photograph) documenting a summer of Chautauqua events held on the Redpath circuit at Mt... More about CHAUTAUQUA] [EDUCATION] [ENTERTAINMENT & THEATER] [WOMEN] Scrapbook documenting the 1910...

Greenwood, [Pennsylvania]: 23 June and 18 July 1863. Unbound. Two letters (one with 6-pages and one with 4-pages) measure approximately 4.5” x 6.5”. Their envelopes are postmarked at Brookeville, Maryland; one is franked with a 3-cent Washington stamp (Scott #65), and the stamp is missing from the other. The letters... More about Two letters from a female Confederate sympathizer in Pennsylvania to her aunt in New York City

[Reading, Pennsylvania]: 1922-1929. Faux leather. This 5” x 7.5” notebook contains 120 pages chock full of manuscript production tables, sizing information, test results, assorted notes, clothing labels, elastic samples, receipts, correspondence, certifications and more. A six-page pamphlet extract with information about an automatic sewing machine is laid in. All of... More about Production manager’s notebook for Vanity Fair underwear and stockings