Small Archive of Material for "Contacts for Survival"
Small archive representing what is perhaps the only remaining trace of a fascinating, prescient, but ultimately unrealized utopian project of the counterculture.
Small archive representing what is perhaps the only remaining trace of a fascinating, prescient, but ultimately unrealized utopian project of the counterculture.
Collection of over 100 negatives from a well-connected Beat photographer who provided author photos for over 200 dust jackets, including images of Aldous Huxley, Henry Miller, Ray Bradbury, Kenneth Patchen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip K. Dick, and Louis L'Amour.
Freshly-discovered 8mm color film footage of World War II service — quite possibly the only entirely amateur WWII color footage by an American soldier extant — shot by Montana-native Charles W. Hash of the 41st Infantry Division.
Stunning and extensive collection of original artwork, album covers, and two lengthy reference books — all describing a vast imaginary world of 20th century rock-and-roll that never existed.
Johnson's personal compendium of his own columns, articles, prefaces, poems, and letters to newspapers, all carefully cut from their original place of publication and mounted in this handsome volume.
Camp scrapbook and photo album from a Connecticut girl's summers, 1926-1930, at Camp Pinnacle: founded in Voorheesville, NY in 1898 as the "Young Women's Bible Training Movement," and advertised as the first girls-only summer camp.
Photographs of the Northwestern University medical school campus, buildings, treatment facilities, and a number of patients posed in various therapeutic positions or rehabilitative devices.
Photo album documenting several summers at Girl Scout Camp Cardinal and Camp Tall Trees in the late 1920s.
Nabisco salesman's binder, showcasing the Nabisco brand to grocery retailers.
Large archive centered around an album of resettlement, family life, and theatre performances within Latvian Displaced Persons Camps in Germany following WWII — majority of views likely of the camp at Augsburg, judging from signage and countryside terrains.
Photographs of student printers and instructors, nearly all from the New York School of Printing, most dated from the mid-1950s through the late 1960s.
Archive of selfies taken by one man next to celebrities on the street in New York during the mid 2010s (judging by the handful of captions, most dated 2014), presumably on disposable cameras.
A small collection of stationary and labels from the Old Homestead Poultry Yards in Seneca Falls, New York.
A sizable archive of over 1,150 images from the Scranton Lace Company, a major manufacturer that operated from 1890 to 2002, consisting of samples used in home decor — primarily window treatments and table linens — likely photographed for internal purposes.
Archive a student who received his BS, MA and PhD at Peabody, as well as that of his wife, who also graduated from Peabody with a BS.
A small archive of color photo prints of a group of friends attending the 1974 WURSTFEST in New Braunfels, Texas, an annual German heritage festival, held since 1963 and boasting a current attendance of over 100,000 people.
An eclectic scrapbook capturing the atmosphere and aesthetics of the post-hippie era in Southern California.
A large and diverse collection of amateur radio cards assembled by Royce A.
Three enlarged views of the interior of an in-country, Vietnam lounge for soldiers of the 287th Explosive Ordinance Detachment stationed out of Phu Bai.
A seemingly complete, 1938 membership packet of the Pittsburgh Motor Club containing maps of the environs surrounding Pittsburgh, membership materials and pamphlets with fantastic examples of period design. A scarce surviving group from the dawn of the American highway.
An unusually comprehensive collection of 17 matched in-store signage for a furrier (or possibly department store fur section), all printed text in multiple colors on a variety of colored and marbled stocks with occasional ornamentation.
Visually fascinating collection of several hundred 19th century postmarks arranged by state and assembled by an unknown hand.
First edition, inscribed by author Adriani to fellow artist and noted New Yorker and Payboy cartoonist Edwin Dedini.