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. The 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...

Philadelphia: Dubois (artist) and Wollenweber (printer), 1850. Unbound. This three-page stampless cover city-view lettersheet measures 16” x 10.5”. The lithograph of Philadelphia measures 7.5” x 3”. The three pages of text are in German. Its letter is dated November 2, 1854 and bears two red circular Philadelphia postmarks, one dated... More about PHILADELPHIA CITY-VIEW LETTERSHEET SENT TO HANNOVER, GERMANY

Liverpool: George Holt & Co., 1841. Unbound. This two-page folded letter and circular measures 15.5”” x 9.5” unfolded. It is addressed to A. Richards, Esq., New York and dated 4 June 1841. The cover has a manuscript annotation that reads, “Via Boston / Steamer Columbia.” There is a “Paid at... More about Two-page folded letter with printed circular sent via the Steamer Columbia from Liverpool to New...

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 &...

[Cincinnati]: circa 1855. Unbound. One-page undated letter from Master Charles David of the Steamer Express to the Captain Benedict of the Steamboat Jane Franklin at Cincinnati, Ohio. The letter is in nice shape; the envelope has some wear and soiling. This reads in part: "We send a bill pricing cost... More about LETTER DEMANDING PAYMENT FOR DAMAGE DONE TO THE STEAMER EXPRESS BY THE STEAMBOAT JANE FRANKLIN...

Boston, [Massachusetts] to Hartford, [ Connecticut]: May 22, 1795. Unbound. This manuscript, folded-letter invoice, dated May 22 1795, measures approximately 7.5” x 11” unfolded. It is addressed to Mr. Selden Chapman, Merchant, Hartford and bears a straight-line Boston postmark dated 22/May. (See page 167, vol 1, ASCC.) It bears a.... More about Mailed invoice for shipping five hogsheads of rum delivered by the New England slave ship, Sloop...