A selection of more than forty scrapbooks, manuscripts, albums, photographs, archives, and collections. Highlights include: an early production album from Academy Award-winning animator George Pal; a collection of 1930s runway fashions from Italian photographer Eda Urbani; the original working typescript for Lester Cohen’s memoir of his time at notorious tabloid THE NEW YORK GRAPHIC; and an archive of John Cage's musical-chess work "REUNION."
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Album of storage tanks, agitators, and other liquid-related metal machinery photos compiled by the manufacturer, which — judging by the locations of most of its clients — was located somewhere in the Midwestern United States.
Original and unusually unified photograph album detailing the birth and early life of a midcentury house outside Binghamton, New York.
A petite and uncommonly ornamented vernacular album, with intricate border designs on most pages in a variety of styles, borrowing considerable Art Deco and Art Nouveau influence.
Carefully assembled and curated French wedding album likely dating from the mid 1920s, including portraits of the bride and groom, the wedding party, family and guests, with two shots of the reception.
Album of photographs chronicling the activity of the Hambros Bank after it was evacuated to an estate at the start of WWII — once owned by a Hambros employee and likely produced by them for workers.
A pair of carefully assembled albums, possibly compiled for official use, the majority of the photos in both albums recording the aftermath of a botched Allied bombardment in the Hague on March 3, 1945 that claimed the lives of 511 civilians and left over 20,000 homeless.
Draft production binder used in creation and revision of a 1929 catalogue of electric lighting fixtures and accessories, belonging to Lauritz W. Andersen, industrial designer and owner of The Waterbury Metal Wares Company.
Enigmatic and disquieting collection of six short stories and one 90-page novella, neatly and distinctively handwritten and illustrated in brown ink.
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Anonymous English translation of Deydier's work on Laotian Buddhism and local spiritual practices, based on his 18-month stay in the Mekong Valley and comparative studies of Laotian and Indian Buddhist manuscripts.
![Item #43093 ISKOLAI IVÓKUTAK [Report on "School Drinking Fountains"]. László...](https://typepunchmatrix.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/43093_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1667416192)
Cold War era proposal for school water fountain designs submitted to the Hungarian Ministry of Culture by Imparmüvészeti Vállalat, a ceramics design firm.
Vast archive of professional fashion, advertising, and editorial photographs from the late 1960s and 1970s, almost all by noted photographer Peter Levy.
Original manuscript journal containing the wildly ardent lovelorn musings of "Magie" to "Margie," written while waiting for the finalization of Margie's divorce.
Hand-accented gift scrapbook of religious iconography created and presented by Julia Morin to her brother, Reverend William Morin, upon the occasion of his ordination.
Remarkable set of original posed photographs mostly likely for a romance novel cover, sent to comics artist and CIA illustrator John Fantucchio.
An exhaustive archive of polling, public opinion, and related papers (including memos and other internal communications, research materials, and like) belonging to Fred Panzer, President Lyndon B. Johnson's chief pollster.
A typescript on the medical and surgical treatment of burns, written by Army Nurse Corps Major Martha C. Peake.
Mock-epic manuscript in six cantos, offering meticulously footnoted anonymous rhyming invective against the New Deal, the Nietszschian Superman, and the unappreciative American publishing industry.
Diary of one Lois B. Whitwell, written in the 'voice' of her daughter Maxine Alice Whitwell (then three years old), and updated near-daily through the year 1933.
A fierce (likely unpublished) diatribe against Judge Julius Hoffman, or as the "Panthers called him 'Adolph Hitler Hoffman,'" who presided over the "Chicago 8" trial of Yippies Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale — who were charged with various federal offenses in the wake of the 1968 Democratic Convention.
Original photo album of a Japanese businessman's American travels, including stops in Seattle and Chicago before a longer stay in New York, and a visit to a Japanese family in Long Island.
