Giveaway winner

This week's winner was Jennifer Jervis, who entered on Facebook.

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Friday Giveaway: Signed copy of my book FORGOTTEN BOOKMARKS - contest closed




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Hi Ho

Photograph, no date or writing on reverse.

Found in "A Little Gray Home in France" by Helen Davenport Gibbons. Published by The Century Co., 1919.

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Big Red

Souvenir photo booklet of Stanford University.

Found in "English Literature 1815-1832" by Ian Jack. Published by Oxford, 1963.

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Summer Nights

Ticket to the Lyric Theatre, Endicott NY, dated 1938.

Found in "Summer Bachelors" by Warner Fabian. Published by Boni and Liveright, 1926.

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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was Jasmine Hart, who entered via email.

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Friday Giveaway: Signed copy of my book HANDWRITTEN RECIPES - contest closed


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For Easter





Easter bookmark, gift inscription is dated April 6, 1944.

Found in "Dawn of the Morning" by Grace Livingston Hill. Published by Grosset and Dunlap, 1939.




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Multitasking

Receipt from J. Stuerwald, Dealer in Furniture and Undertaker, Dated March 23, 1885.

Found in "Scribner's Popular History of the United States" - no title page.

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Not Quite


Two three-leaf clovers.

Found in "Monsieur Lecoq" by Emile Gaboriau. Published by Scribner's, 1910.

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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was Ashley Aselin, who entered on Facebook.

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Friday Giveaway: Eight Vintage Whitman Books - contest closed




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ABC



Found this neat little homemade ABCs booklet in a box with some antique children's books.

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Wanted

Carte de visite photograph from the Alger studio of Tunkhannock, PA.

Found in "Wanted: A Chaperon" by Paul Leicester Ford. Published by A.L. Burt, 1902.

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Phoenix




Inscription:

This book came from the Switzerland hotel on the same day it was burned down. Burned to the ground at 2 AM in the morning of Sept. 20, 1929.

The book is "The Bondwoman" by G.U. Ellis. Published by A.L. Burt, 1927.
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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was @kaylarachelle22, who entered on Instagram.

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Friday Giveaway: 10 Vintage Books - contest closed



Contest now closed, winner will be announced shortly.

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Ahoy


Trade card advertising I.H. Leyden and Bothers, Clothing and Furnishing Goods, Syracuse NY.

Found in "The Pioneers" by James Fenimore Cooper. Published by Appleton, 1879.


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Picture Day

Photograph, no date or writing on reverse.

Found in "Divine Priorities" by H.A. Ironside. Published by Revell, 1945.

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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was Marcia Corbett, who entered here on the site.

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