Overture, Curtains, Lights

One ticket for "Acis and Galatea" performed at the Glimmerglass Opera during their 25th season.

Found in "The Richard Trilogy" by Paul Horgan. Published by The Wesleyan University Press, 1990.

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Promissory

Handwritten promise to repay $3000, dated 1845. There's a "Paid" stamp on the front of the "check" -

Waterloo 5 Sept 1845

Thirty days after date pay to the order of W.V.J. Mercer Esq. cashier three thousand dollars

$3000 Mr. Tho P Hart New York

Tho Fatzinger

16.27

2446 Oct 5

No 156 due 4th Oct

Found in  "Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous" by T. Babington Macaulay. Published by Carey and Hart, Philadelphia, 1843.


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A Wondrous Job

Postcard, dated December 31, 1923.

Happy New Year

May the New Year bring
you so much joy
That you'll readily
admit
Whoever it was devised
this earth
Made a wondrous job
of it.

Reverse:

Wishing you a Very Happy New Year.

Vivian F. Sprague

Found in "Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates" by Mary Mapes Dodge. Published by Scribners, 1879.

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If You Want Romance

Advertisement for Palmolive soap, complete with humorous and unlikely comic.

Found in "The Bounty Trilogy" by Charles Nordhoff and James Normal Hall. Published by Little, Brown, 1962.


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Doodle

Worksheet with doodles.

Found in "The Modern Elementary School" by Wilbur H. Dutton. Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960.

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It's Silver, It's Gone

Invitation to a 25th anniversary party:

1855-1880

Twenty-Fifth Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Thurston

At Home

Monday Eve'g, December 27th, Frankfort Hill, NY, 1880

Found in "The Speaker's Ideal Entertainments; for Home, Church and School" by George M. Vickers. Published by S.I. Bell, 1892.



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Giveaway winner

Today's giveaway winner was Ginnie, who entered right here.

Ginnie, I will try and contact you, but please email me if you see this (it just makes things easier)

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Thanks to everyone for entering, think I'll have one more before the holidays.

Giveaway: Set of 20 Classics: Contest Closed

20 total volumes in matched red, green and blue bindings. From the "World's Great Classics" series published by The Colonial Press. Histories, orations, essays, political writings. All volumes published on or around 1900. Gilt top edges. Filled with illustrations.

Contest is open to everyone, as they always are.

Comment here to enter, I'll be picking a winner at random from the site, Facebook and Twitter today at 3:00 PM EST (about 5 hours from now)

Good luck!

 - coffee table in first image not included :) 

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Gathering Pebbles

Illustration, with the caption "Gathering Pebbles."  Appears to have come from a catalog or trade card, there's a bit a glue remnant on the reverse side, but no other markings.

Found in "Uncle Frank's Home Stories" published by George Routledge and Co., 1853.

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The Bradford

Postcard featuring the Bradford Hotel in Boston. No postmark or writing.

Found in "Ulysses" by James Joyce. Published by Random House, 1946.

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