Primary Source Material - Manuscripts, Diaries, Journals

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[REPURPOSED] Book of Handwritten Farming and Health Recipes; Book written in: MARSHALL'S COMMERCIAL POCKET BOOK.
London: W. MARSHALL, c. 1910-1945. Leather_bound. 216 pages. (78 pages repurposed) 16 x 11 cm. This Pocket Book is a great example of how every day books were utilized or... (#4520)
Price: $240.00

[TOPOGRAPHY] [NEW YORK] [WATER SUPPLY] Topography account for the Commission of Additional Water Supply, City.
J. L. Davis.
New York: 1903-1904. Hardcover. 40 pages. 21 x 17 cm. This handwritten account follows J.L. Davis and the men that worked with him as they mapped out the route for... (#4522)
Price: $375.00

[MANUSCRIPT] Handwritten Cookbook.
NY/NJ area: c. 1930's. Hardcover. 39 pages. This handwritten cookbook is well loved - our author USED this book over and over. We can date the book from the use... (#4523)
Price: $125.00

[ACCOUNT BOOK] Handwritten Account Book.
Hancock, William Marion.
Wyoming, PA: 1884-1888. Hardcover. 180 pages. 32 x 20 cm. (82 pages of handwritten accounts) William Hancock was engaged in various business enterprises in the Wyoming Valley including the founder... (#4524)
Price: $75.00

[ACCOUNT BOOK] [PROSPECTING] [FARMING] Samuel D. Shirk - his book A.D. 1859 March the; Forreston.
Shirk, Samuel D.
1859-1867. Cardboard covers. Shirk, Samuel D. [ACCOUNT BOOK] [PROSPECTING] [FARMING] Samuel D. Shirk - his book A.D. 1859 March the Forreston Ogle County Ill. 1859-1867. 182 pages. 15 x 10... (#4370)
Price: $2,750.00

[REPURPOSED] [MANUSCRIPT] ASTON PLASTER MINES near DERBY.
Stevens, John Pym & Anon.
Chellaston, Derbyshire, England: 1843-1950. Hardcover. 23 x 19 cm. Interesting and unusual repurposed correspondence book originally utilized by someone from the firm The Aston Plaster Mines near Derby. Recorded in... (#4369)
Price: $225.00

[MANUSCRIPT] [DANISH] [MILITARY] 19th Century Journal - Danish/German.
Dixen, Laue Jensen.
1848-1851. Sewn binding. 16 x 11 cm. This journal belonged to Laue Jensen Dixon (once written Lauety), who was a member of the 10th Infantry Battalion from 1848 to 1851... (#3666)
Price: $525.00

[TEXAS] [SCRAP BOOK] Three Oversized Scrapbooks; Amarillo, Texas during World War II.
Floeck, Betty Ruth.
Amarillo, Texas & University Park, Texas: 1944-1950. 2 scrapbooks 37 x 31 cm. & 1 scrapbook 32 x 26 cm. As a teenager in the bustling city of Amarillo, Texas... (#4219)
Price: $325.00

[PHOTOGRAPHY] [SWIMMING] WYOMING SEMINARY SWIMMING RECORDS VOL. III.
Kingston, Pennsylvania: 1940-1942. Hardcover. A charming look at the sport of swimming in the mid-twentieth century at Wyoming Seminary, a Methodist, college-preparatory boarding school in northeastern Pennsylvania. This book of... (#4143)
Price: $125.00

[MANUSCRIPT] [TRAVEL DIARY] Journal of the Great Voyage; Assoc. Professor of Botany at Columbia.
Curtain, Carlton C. Ph.D.
1923-1924. Carlton Clarence Curtis (1864-1945) was an American Botanist who published Nature and Development of Plants, 1907. A long trip that must have been a sabbatical, Professor Carlton took a.... (#4100)
Price: $625.00

[HOMEMADE] COOKBOOKS.
Brown, Virginia Lee.
Attleboro, Massachusetts: 1950-60's. Sewn binding. 10 books of various sizes. Virginia Lee Brown (1918-1989) was a dedicated homemaker outside Boston during the mid-century. Her love of cooking is evident here... (#4253)
Price: $225.00

[COCKTAIL] [MANUSCRIPT] Tommy Gun Bartender's Notebook; Tommy Gun Bar Book.
Seattle: 2012. Spiral_bound. 14 x 11 cm. Small red "FIVE STAR" Mead lined notebook filled with cocktail recipes from the TOMMY GUN bar in Seattle. The bartender was well versed... (#3413)
Price: $85.00

[TEXTILES] My Own Kenmore Sewing Scrap Book.
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Sears, Roebuck and Co., c. 1960. Wraps. Unpaginated [20pp.] 22 x 28 cm. Sewing instructional book filled with completed assignments. Handwritten instructions along with completed pieces of work, pinned in... (#3477)
Price: $200.00

[MANUSCRIPT] Journal - 2 Volumes.
Gallant, Rosella Mae "Rose" Thomas (1856-1939).
Delaware, Ohio: 1929-1930 & 1937-1939. This particular set of journals, was, at first glance, an archetypal account of small town living in the midwest. The overlooked aspect of the detail... (#4119)
Price: $375.00

[COOKERY-MANUSCRIPT] ALICE WILLIAMS COOK BOOK; "Gilt Edge" loose leaf price book N.Y., No. 32.
Williams, Alice.
c. 1920's. Spiral_bound. Unpaginated. 19 .5 x 14 cm. Unique handmade cook book fashioned from a lined, tabbed, loose leaf binder, covered with heavy waxed wallpaper or waxed cloth. Alice... (#3424)
Price: $175.00

[PHARMACY] [MANUSCRIPT] Pharmacist Notebook.
Cobb, Fred U.
1888. Hardcover. 110 pages. 20 x 13 cm. Fred Cobb was a pharmacist who attended the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in 1887 and had part of his thesis "Proximate Analysis... (#4200)
Price: $385.00

[NEW HAMPSHIRE] [FARM] [DIARY] The Standard DAILY REMINDER.
Cambridge, MASS. THE STANDARD DIARY COMPANY, 1939. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 17 x 10 cm. A surprisingly intriguing account of life on a farm in New England in 1939. Our diarist (we... (#3606)
Price: $125.00