St. Louis, Missouri: Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company, 1898. Envelope or Cover. This “all-over” multi-color Ligget & Myers Tobacco Company cover is franked with a 2-cent Washington stamp (Scott #220) tied by a St. Louis machine cancel dated 1893. The cover features a colorful fantasy illustration of a boy fishing... More about “All-over,” multicolor illustrated advertising envelope for Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company

Boston: American Tract Society, [1860). Unbound. This all-over advertising envelope features an illustration of the Tract House at 28 Cornhill in Boston, Massachusetts. Advertising text reads, “Home Evangelization Foreign Distribution / Tracts and Books. / Tract Journals Child At Home / Missionary Colportage.” It is franked with a dull red... More about BUSINESS & LABOR] [COLPORTAGE] [PUBLISHING] [RELIGION] An advertising envelope for the...

Boston to Franconia, New Hampshire: circa 1879. Envelope or Cover. This envelope features a hand drawing of climbers ascending Mt. Lafayette. It is franked with a 1-cent ultramarine Franklin stamp (Scott #182) and a 2-cent vermillion Jackson stamp (Scott #283). It bears a circular Boston postmark with an indistinct date... More about A hand-illustrated envelope showing climbers ascending Mt. Lafayette

[Lowell, Massachusetts]: [United States Cartridge Company], 1908. Envelope or Cover. This advertising cover (AICC #G99) features a six-color illustration of two men cooking their supper at a campsite; the text reads, “US Ammunition U.S. Govt. Tests prove it true.” The envelope is franked with a 2-cent red Washington stamp (Scott..... More about Illustrated advertising cover for the United States Cartridge Company

Quincy, Illinois: Electric Wheel Company, 1908. Envelope or Cover. This illustrated advertising cover features a farm scene with two Electric Wheel wagons loaded with hay as well as an illustration of an Electric Wheel. The text reads, “Electric Wheel Co. Manufacturers Solid Metal Wheels and Farmers’ Handy Wagons.” The envelope..... More about Illustrated advertising envelope and catalog for Electric Wheel Company farm and lumber wagons

Boston: 186. This very attractive billhead is 5.5” x 8.5” and printed in black. The terrific illustration features two men in a downpour. One very unhappy man is dressed in street clothes and top-hat getting drenched by rain as the wind rips apart his umbrella. The other man remains content... More about Illustrated Billhead for Henry A. Hall India Rubber and Gutta Percha Goods with U.S. Revenue Stamp

Youngstown, Ohio: 1930. The band photograph is approximately 8” x 10”. Four other letter carrier photos (approximately 3.5” x 5”) are also included The photographs include portraits of father and son letter carriers (John and Nick Harber), the two men as tourists at the Yuma Federal Prison, and John Huber... More about Letter Carrier’s Band Photograph with Four Other Postal Photographs: National Association of...

Graz, Austria: Leopold Stocker, 1938. Card. This post card measures approximately 4” x 6” and is titled, “Mander s’ischt Zeit!" (Men it’s Time!). It features an illustration of a group fleeing from a sea of Nazi flags. It was published by Leopold Stocker of Graz, Austria in 1938. The postcard..... More about “Mander s’ischt Zeit!" (Men, It’s Time!) - National Socialist propaganda postcard...

Vienna: 1939. Card. This German propaganda postcard measures approximately 4” x 6” and features the official poster of the Great anti-Bolshevik Exhibition) that was held in Vienna in 1939. The illustration shows a skeletonized Russian soldier carrying a rifle and machine gun while advancing across a flaming globe emblazoned with... More about An official postcard from the 1939 Grosse antibolischewistische Aussellung (Great anti-Bolshevik...

New York: 1879. Unbound. This thank-you grouping consists of a Female Guardian Society advertising cover, a two-page letter written on the organization’s stationery, and a religious tract. All in very nice shape. In 1834 a group of women established the Female Moral Reform Society of New York with the goal... More about “THANK YOU” CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE AMERICAN FEMALE GUARDIAN SOCIETY AND HOME FOR THE...

Thibodeauxville: 1831. Unbound. This two-page folded letter measures 16” x 9.75” unfolded. The cover has no postmark nor rate mark, so it is likely it was carried outside of official post office channels. The letter’s paper is supple but it has developed splits along several folds, so quite fragile... More about A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE MURDER OF A LOUISIANA WATCHMAKER; Two-page folded letter sent...

New York: B. K. Bliss & Sons, 1874. Unbound. Five-piece grouping of advertising materials sent by B. K. Bliss in New York to L. W. Hamlin in Collisterville, Pennsylvania in 1874. Includes an illustrated advertising cover, a Comstock advertising brochure (Hand Cultivator and Onion Weeder, Seed Sower and Cultivator, Strawberry... More about Letterhead, brochures, and illustrated advertising envelope for B. K. Bliss Seed &...

Elkhorn, Oregon (now a dead post office): 1911 – 1920. Unbound. This lot of consists multiple items: One canceled check from the Silver King Mining Company, one application and contract to purchase Silber King Mining Company stock, two Silver King Mining Company employment agreements accepting shares of capital stock in... More about Small archive of materials related to the Silver King Mine