Photograph Album of Japanese Domestic and Cultural Life
A handsome and rather lavish production by an unknown (but likely professional) photographer, possibly as presentation for special occasion or visit from foreign dignitary/delegation.
A handsome and rather lavish production by an unknown (but likely professional) photographer, possibly as presentation for special occasion or visit from foreign dignitary/delegation.
A pre-publication copy of Acker's own corrected typescript for the story 'New York City in 1979', which went on to win the 1979 Pushcart Prize, making it her first critically acclaimed work.
First edition, inscribed by author Adriani to fellow artist and noted New Yorker and Payboy cartoonist Edwin Dedini.
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.
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.
An apparently complete press kit from the December 2, 1964 ground-breaking for the John F.
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.
Fascinating salesman's catalogue produced by British Ford, marketing their cars to American dealerships.
Small archive representing what is perhaps the only remaining trace of a fascinating, prescient, but ultimately unrealized utopian project of the counterculture.
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.
The photographic archive of cast rehearsals and act-along performances of a ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW fan group.
The personal photo album and scrapbook of one George King, a Pasadena-based actor whose most consistent gig at the time was impersonating Mr.
A small collection of stationary and labels from the Old Homestead Poultry Yards in Seneca Falls, New York.
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.
Inspired by Walter Benjamin's classic 1931 essay "Unpacking My Library," acclaimed British artist Kitaj set out in 1969 (Benjamin's essay had been published in English for the first time just the year before) to photograph a selection of book covers from his library for a portfolio of color screen-prints entitled IN OUR TIME: Covers For A Small Library After the Life for the Most Part.
The more than three dozen authors represented (almost all in multiple images) include: Aldous Huxley, Henry Miller, Ray Bradbury, Kenneth Patchen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Louis L'Amour.
An artful set of photographs elegantly documenting (entirely from the air) a single plane flight from Seattle to Chicago.
Visually fascinating collection of several hundred 19th century postmarks arranged by state and assembled by an unknown hand.
The Melville Company of Cincinatti OH operated during the 1940s and 50s recruiting women to sell dresses and other items of apparel (children's clothes, socks, lingerie, men's shirts) to their friends and family. As the marketing materials enclosed make clear, it was pitched at housewives looking to make extra money and apparently operated much like Tupperware would a decade later.
An uncommonly well-preserved and beautiful collection of silent-era movie-house marketing slides, ca.
Continuation of title page: "In Raymond's Hotel Car 'Strattonville' July 3-14-07.
A scarce and revealing collection of more than 100 views of pre-World War II, West Coast motorcycle club culture with a clear outsider sense of identity, predating the post-war non-conformity associated with the accepted dawn of modern biker culture by more than a decade.
Photographs of the Northwestern University medical school campus, buildings, treatment facilities, and a number of patients posed in various therapeutic positions or rehabilitative devices.
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 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.