Friday Giveaway: 18 Vintage Books: Contest closed

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Portrait

Stunning tintype photograph. On the back is a stamp marked "Norman Taylor = Aug 72 1866."

If you look very closely at the other stamp at the top left, it says "Aug 27 1866." The second stamp may have just been an error.

Found in "Mariages d'Aventure" by Emile Gaboriau, 1872.

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California Love

Recipe for "Mrs. Rhode's California Lemon Pie" -

4 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/8 T salt
3 Tab. water
1 lemon (juice and rind)

Cook yolks of eggs, 1/2 cup sugar, salt, lemon juice, water in double boiler until thick. Add to slightly beaten whites and other sugar. Put in a baked shell and bake in hot oven 370-400 degrees until brown.

Found in "Health and How To Get It" by Charles Lee Bryson. Published by Hamilton Beach, 1920.

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Tarbell

Handmade bookmark, illustrations on one side, "TARBELL" handwritten on the other. Laminated.

Found in "Culloden" by John Prebble. Published by Penguin, 1989.


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The Ties That Bind

Charming old photograph. I love it.
No date or writing.

Found in "The Lucky Lawrences" by Kathleen Norris. Published by Doubleday, 1930.

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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was Sean-Patrick Burke, who entered on Facebook.

Thanks to everyone who entered, see you next week!

Friday Giveaway: 17 Vintage Children's Books - contest closed

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The Honor Of Your Presence

Wedding invitation:

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Francis Shelland
request the honor of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter

Katherine Alleen
to
Mr. Allen David Backus

on Wednesday, the fifth of July
nineteen hundred and sixteen
at eight o'clock

Thirty-four Main Street
Oneonta, New York

Found in "British Poets of the Nineteenth Century" by Curtis Page. Published by Sanborn and Co., 1910.


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Rites And Ceremonies

This is... well, I have no idea what this is. I'll do my best to describe it.

It's dated 1837 at the top, on the bottom is written

??? Plaintiff (?-looks like it was edited at some point)
Spartan Lector
Infant Editor

In the middle is a folded piece of paper with a portrait of a man, hand drawn. The eyes and mouth have been cut out in a way to reveal another drawing underneath (think of how moveable books work). There's a tab at the bottom, when pulled down it reads "Before the rites and ceremonies," with the drawn face looking glum. Pull the tab up and it reads "After the rites and ceremonies," and the man's face shows a smile. I took a short video to demonstrate:




Found in "The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans: Volume One" edited by James Herring and James Longacre. Published by Monson Bancroft, 1834.

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Days Gone By

Receipt for "1 Annals of Music - $2.00" from the J.B. Lippincott Company, dated February 10th, 1897.

Found in "The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" published by Houghton Mifflin, 1891.

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