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McClure’s Library of Children’s Classics
The McClure Company
New York: The McClure Company, 1907.Booklet advertising the first five books in the McClure’s Library of Children’s Classics edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith. There is a detailed description of each book: Pinafore Palace, The Posy Ring, Golden Numbers, Magic Casements, and The Fairy Ring.
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Open Sesame! Varnum Electric Door Engines – for Safer Safety
Varnum Door Engine Company
Los Angeles: Varnum Door Engine Company, No date.Early 1920s catalogue for the Varnum Door Engine. Contains a short history of the Varnum door opening and closing engine, followed by details and photographs of them as installed in bank vaults and the gates of grand estates. Also included are letters of recommendation from happy customers, and a list of banks across the United States using the door engines.
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Frigidaire
Frigidaire
Dayton: Delco-Light Company, No date.Describes the benefits of the oak or white enamel Frigidaire, including the ice cube drawers in which may be made 72 ‘crystal-pure cubes of ice for table use.’ Also includes recipes for Frozen Dainties made with the Frigidaire. This copy with The Frigidaire Corporation printed through on the colophon and printed No Made and Guaranteed by Delco-Light Company, a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation.
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Frigidaire
Frigidaire
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The Luxury of the Four Stream Needle Shower
Reddan Specialty Co.
New York: Reddan Specialty Co., 1914.The benefits of the four head shower invented by Mr. A. E. Kenney are many: the year around way to start your day; send you down to your office feeling like a boy; no longer confined to the rich man’s home; the only curtainless shower; the price is low as you don’t have to tear the walls out to install; stimulates your whole system without shock to the head; no rubber cap needed to keep your hair dry and so prevents hair thinning, dandruff and catarrh; takes up no room; fits any bath tub. Unfortunately it doesn’t put out the cat or turn off the lights. This copy with the stamp of the sales Agent Wm. B. McMahon, Troy, New York, stating a free 5 day trial to the wrappers front panel.
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Antiquities of Roman London
Edward Foord
London: Proprietor of the Roman Bath, No date. -
Antiquities of Roman Britain: Guide to the Principal Roman Sites in England Outside London
Edward Foord
London: Proprietor of the Roman Bath, No date. -
Iowa Law in Regard to Registration and Regulation of Motor Vehicles (2 Volumes)
W. C. Hayward; W. S. Allen
Des Moines: Emory H. English and Robert Henderson, State Printers, 1911-1913.As enacted by the 34th General Assembly. Takes effect July 4th 1911, and as Amended by the 35th General Assembly 1913 to take effect May 1st 1913
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Addendum to the Instruction on the Use of Aerial Observation in Liaison with the Artillery
Army War College, Washington
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1918.January 19, 1917 (Modifying “Field Artillery Notes No. 1”).
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Price List of Parts for Canadian Training Airplanes
Aircraft Material and Equipment Corporation
New York: Aircraft Material and Equipment Corporation, No date.A price list for every part of an airplane, from wing panels ($88.85) down to cotter pins (1 cent). This copy with notice stamps of the United Air-craft Engineering Corporation.
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The Symbol of Service
Southern California Telephone Company
[California]: Southern California Telephone Company, No date. -
The Telephone in America
Bell Telephone System
[United States]: Bell Telephone System, 1950. -
Some Telephone Suggestions
Southern California Telephone Company
[California]: Southern California Telephone Company, No date.1930s instruction booklet for conducting polite business communication on the telephone. “To have persons habitually look forward to a pleasant experience when they deal with your business is one of the greatest assets your firm can have. There are ways by which your staff’s use of the telephone can have a big effect in creating such an attitude. ” (from wrapper) Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Dental Ceramic Technique
L. F. Megaw
Chicago: The Barkmeyer Electrical Laboratory, 1936.A Complete Treatise Illustrating Each Step on Making Porcelain Inlays, Jacket Crowns and Bridges by Modern, Simplified Methods Developed for the Dental Profession.
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Dr. French’s Modified Posteriors
Universal Dental Company
Philadelphia: Universal Dental Company, 1937.The reasons why intercusping teeth must be modified. How denture problems are solved with Dr. French’s Modified Posteriors. A simple technique for setting them up.
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America’s Most Famous Teeth
Reidar F. Sognnaes
Washington, DC: Vick Clark Cleveland, 1974.Reprinted from the Smithsonian Magazine, February 1973. “What kind of dentures did Washington wear? Wood, elephant tusks, elk’s teeth, gold?” (from p.1). Published by a denture company.
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Teatro Reale Dell’ Opera [Roma]: Il Nuovo Palcoscenico Meccanico
Casa Editrice D’arte Bestetti e Tumminelli
Milano and Roma: Casa Editrice D’arte Bestetti e Tumminelli, 1929.Royal Opera Theatre: The New Mechanical Stage. Promotional booklet after the 1926 renovations of the theatre which reopened in 1928.
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Experiments with Light: Practical Problems for Students in Science
Illuminating Engineering Society
New York: Illuminating Engineering Society, No date. -
Wines of America
Fruit Industries Ltd
[United States]: Fruit Industries Ltd, 1934.A listing of the wines available in America – what they are, what to serve them with, and how to serve them.
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Cusenier: Liqueurs de Luxe
Cusenier
New York: W. A. Taylor & Company, 1935.Promotion booklet for the House of Cusenier. Illustrated bottles of liqueurs each accompanied by a cocktail recipe opposite, together with a brief history of the firm and a list of other products.