Preliminary Guide to Trade Catalog Additions
Preliminary Guide to Trade Catalog Additions, ca. 1850s-1970s
Collection number: Mss 200
Department of Special CollectionsDavidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- Preliminary arrangement and description by D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- Dec. 10, 2010
- Latest revision:
- Mar. 13, 2013
- Encoded by:
- A. Demeter
- Advertising
- Agriculture
- Alarms, Locks, and Safes
- Alcohol and Tobacco
- Almanacs
- Appliances
- Architecture
- Artists' Materials and Supplies
- Arts/Artwork
- Automobiles/Automotive
- Aviation
- Banking and Investment
- Beekeeping Supplies
- Bells and Bell Foundries
- Bicycles
- Boats
- Bookbinding
- Booksellers Catalogs
- Building Materials
- Butchers' Supplies
- Carriages, Wagons, and Accessories
- Celebration Paraphernalia
- Cemeteries
- China and Pottery
- Clocks and Watches
- Clothing
- Cobbler and Shoemaking Equipment
- Collection Agencies
- Coopers' Tools
- Cosmetics
- Curios, Novelties, and Souvenirs
- Cutlery
- Dentistry
- Department Store and Mail Order Catalogs
- Drafting Supplies
- Electrical Equipment
- Electronic Equipment and Supplies
- Engineering
- Engines
- Entertainment
- Explosives
- Fabric
- Fairs and Exhibitions
- Fences
- Firearms
- Firefighting
- Foods and Food Processing
- Fraternal Organizations and Military Supplies
- Furniture
- Handling Equipment
- Hardware
- Heating and Ventilation Systems
- Heavy Equipment and Machinery
- Home Decoration
- Home Remedies and Quack Cures
- Hotel, Bar, and Restaurant Supplies
- Household Goods and Appliances
- Hypnotism
- Industrial Equipment and Factory Materials
- Insurance
- Jewelry
- Leather and Tanning Goods
- Library Supplies
- Lighting
- Lightning Rods
- Medicine and Medical Supplies
- Metals (Processed) and Metal Goods
- Metals (Raw and Unfinished)
- Metalworking Equipment
- Mills and Milling Supplies
- Mining
- Motion Pictures
- Motorcycles
- Music and Musical Instruments
- Newspapers
- Office Supplies
- Oil and Gas
- Paint
- Patents
- Photography
- Plumbing
- Politics
- Post Offices
- Premium Catalogs
- Printing and Printers' Supplies [also papermaking]
- Pumps
- Pyrography
- Radios
- Railroads and Railroad Supplies
- Real Estate
- Religious Paraphernalia
- Road Surfaces
- Rope, Cordage, and Cable
- School and School Supplies
- Scientific and Industrial Instruments and Supplies
- Seed and Nursery Catalogs
- Sewing and Needlework
- Silverware
- Societies and Associations
- Sporting Goods
- Stamp and Coin Collecting
- Statuary
- Surveying Supplies
- Taxidermy Supplies
- Telephone and Telegraph
- Television
- Textiles
- Theatre
- Toys and Games
- Transportation
- Travel and Tourism
- Undertaking Supplies
- Veterinary and Pet Supplies
- Water
- Welding and Soldering
- Wholesale Catalogs
- Windmills
- Woodworking
- Miscellany
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California Alligator Farm (Los Angeles, CA) - "We make a specialty of Alligator Bags Ornamented with Genuine Alligator Heads and Claws," n.d.
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Pohlson Galleries (Pawtucket, RI) - gifts of all sorts, including vegetable brushes, ice picks, griddle greasers, coaster sets, candle and flower holders, door stops, letter openers, toys, dolls, key holders, leather goods, and much, much more
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Wilmington Dental Manufacturing Company (Wilmington, Del.) - "Items of Interest" monthly magazine, with advertisements for anaesthetics, filling materials, clamps, schools of dentistry, 1892
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H. C. White Co. (North Bennington, VT) - "The Radioptican Picture Projector," 1912
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M. Witmark & Sons (New York City) - "A Catalog of Amateur Minstrel Material and Other Entertainments," 1933
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Firearms
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Pacific Gun Sight Co. (Palo Alto, CA) - "For Handloaders ... Pacific's Handbook and Catalog," n.d.
Williams & Powell (Liverpool, England) - makers of breech loaders, with many testimonials and price list, ca. 1876
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Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company (New Kensington, PA; Oakland, CA) - "The 'Wear-Ever' New Method of Cooking," with history of Wear-Ever utensils and recipes using the utensils, 1934
American Manufacturing Company (Waynesboro, PA) - "The American Fruit Drier," ca. 1882
Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association - trade card, n.d.
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California Fig Syrup Co. (San Francisco, CA) - "California," includes images of Santa Barbara, ca. 1907
California Fruit Growers Exchange (Los Angeles, CA) - "Sunkist Orange Recipes," 1940
California Prune & Apricot Growers Association - mainly recipes using Sunsweet prunes, apricots, and peaches, 1937
California Strawberry Containers Inc. (Los Angeles, CA) - flyer for Fresher-Paks, ca. 1960
Chase & Sanborn (Boston, MA) - illustrated catalog showing production of coffee and tea, 1889
D. Ghirardelli Co. (San Francisco, CA) - recipes using Ghirardelli's Ground Chocolate, with titles like "Macaroni Surprise" and "Topsy Turvy Dainty," [ca. early 1900s]
Dr. D. Jayne & Son (Philadelphia, PA) - "War Breads: Recipes," 1918
Gimbal Brothers (San Francisco) - candy, 1942
Italian Vineyard Co. (Los Angeles and Guasti, CA) - recipes using Guasti Pure California Cooking Wines, 1928
McArthur, Wirth & Co. (Syracuse, NY) - "Butchers' and Packers' Tools and Machinery," 1900
Mission Dry Corp. (Los Angeles, CA) - "Makes Thirst a Pleasure. Mission 1936 Dairy Beverage Prospectus," 1936
Monterey Packing Co. (Monterey, CA) - "Booth's Sardines," n.d.
Nesbitt Fruit Products, Inc.- Recipes using Nesbitt's California Orange Drink, [ca. 1940s-1950s]
Northwestern Yeast Co., (Chicago, IL) - for baking and home beverages, [ca. 1920s]
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd. (Battle Creek, MI) - 'Tid-Bits' Made with Toasties," n.d.
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B. Pasquale Co. (San Francisco)
"I.D.E.S. Spirito Santo - Flags, Badges, Regalias," ca. 1912
"U.S. Army Officers Uniforms & Equipments," 1912
W. Stokes Kirk (Los Angeles, CA) - "Army and Navy Goods & General Merchandise," 1917
Furniture
Brooks Manufacturing Co. (Saginaw, MI) - "Knock-Down Furniture Catalog No. 8," 1909
Fenton Metallic Manufacturing Co. (Jamestown, NY) - metallic vault and office furniture, ca. 1891
Paalman Furniture Co. (Grand Rapids, MI) - tea wagons, 1927
Hardware
Hawley Brothers Hardware Co. (San Francisco, CA) - hardware and agricultural implements, 1883
Lane Brothers (Poughkeepsie, NY) - mills and other hardware, [1890s]
Heating and Ventilation Systems
Asbestos Packing Co. (Boston, MA) - asbestos cement felting for covering steam boilers, pipes, etc., ca. 1880s
Hancock Inspirator Co. (Boston, MA) - pump for feeding water to steam boilers and other systems, [ca. 1900]
I. B. Davis & Son (Hartford, CT) - "Berryman Feed Water Heater and Purifier," 1894. Gift of Robert Singerman.
Majestic Electric Appliance Co. (San Francisco) - "Majestic Electric Heating," bathroom heaters, ca. 1920s
New England Engineering Co. (Boston, MA) - "The Economy and Efficiency of Heating with Exhaust or Live Steam," [ca. 1892]
Heavy Equipment and Machinery
Buffalo Forge Col, (Buffalo, NY) - forges, fans, drills, blowers, punches, bending machines, [ca. 1900]
Briscoe Manufacturing Co. (Detroit, MI) - stoves, 1904-1905
Cleveland Trencher Company (Cleveland, OH) - trenchers, 1939
Davis & Furber Machine Co. (North Andover, MA) - textile machinery, 1907
General Electric (Schenectady, NY) - general-purpose capacitor motors, 1938
Kimball Bros. Co. (Council Bluffs, IA) - Kimball Elevators, Catalogue K, 1911
Home Decoration
Armstrong Cork Co., Linoleum Division (Lancaster, PA) - flooring, 1924
Birge Tekromatic Wallpapers - portfolio, with samples, distributed by Merrick Wallpaper Paints (Oakland, CA), ca. 1920s-1930s
Jay C. Wemple Company (New York, NY) - window shades, shade cloths, and spring rollers, 1890
Miller & Rhoads (Richmond, VA) - "The Home Interior," ca. 1920
Home Remedies and Quack Cures
Additional Note
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Bernarr Macfadden (Physical Culture City, NJ) - nature's remedies to cure ailments from paralysis to tuberculosis, ca. 1906-1907
Bower's Laboratories, Inc. (Long Beach, CA) - story of Frank W. Bower and his Nomalettes treatments and Bower's Special Tablets for ailments such as constipation, depression, acne, and insomnia; numerous testimonials from Californians, [ca. 1920s]
California Fig Syrup Co. (San Francisco, CA and elsewhere) - extolling the virtues of syrup of figs as a laxative, [ca. 1900]
Chamberlain & Co. (Des Moines, IA) - remedies such as Chamberlain's Pain-Balm and St. Patrick's Pills "The Great Irish Cathartic," 1883
Chas. A. Branston Co. (Toronto and Buffalo, NY) - Branston Violet Ray High Frequency Generator, 1920
Charles Cluthe Co. (New York City) - treatises by Cluthe about ruptures (with graphic drawings) and the Cluthe Truss, ca. 1900-1914
Chattanooga Medicine Co. (Chattanooga, TN) - "Twentieth Century Song Book," with testimonials mostly from southern women and health tips promoting products such as Thedford's Black-Draught and Wine of Cardui, ca. 1903
Cheno Products (Hollywood, CA) - Cheno diet plan, with description of causes of obesity, testimonials and sample menus, promoting products such as Phytolacca Berry Juice and Cheno Combination Tablets, ca. 1934
D. Ransom, Son & Company (Buffalo, NY) - incl. Dr. A. Trask's Magnetic Ointment, Dr, Ransom's Hive Syrup and Tolu, and Professor Anderson's Dermador (to reduce inflammation), [ca. 1880s]
Dr. B. A. Smith (Erie, PA) - Vaporized Catarrh Cure and Stillingia Blood Purifier, 1884
Dr. Benedict Lust Publishing Co. (New York, NY) - "The Blood-Washing Method," by the President of The American Naturopathic Association, ca. late 1890s
Dr. Harter Medicine Co. (St. Louis, MO) - "The Sorcerer: A book of Facts & Fancies," advertising Harter's iron tonic, 1885
Dr. J. H. Dye Medical Institute (Buffalo, NY) - remedies such as Mitchella Compound (for morning sickness, miscarriages, and sterility), ca. 1890s-1900s
Dr. Miles Medical Co. (Elkhart, IN) - remedies such as Anti-Pain Pills, Nervine, Blood Purifier, and Liver Pills, ca. 1920
Dr. Shoop Family Medicine Co. (Racine, WI) - remedies such as Dr. Shoop's Restorative and Rheumatic Cure, 1900, n.d.
Dr. W. S. Rice (Adams, NY) - perfect trusses, according to a self-proclaimed specialist in the cure of ruptures, ca. 1900
Edward G. Binz (Los Angeles, CA) - manufacturing chemist of Binz' Refined Oil of Eucalyptus, with long description of the product and its many uses, for afflictions from tuberculosis to gonorrhoea, 1909
G. C. Hanford Manufacturing Co. (Syracuse, NY) - "ABC Jingles," advertising Hanford Balsam Myrrh, 1920
Great London Tea Co. (Boston, MA) - advertisements for products by numerous companies, including Burnetts' Cocoaine, "a certain and speedy cure for dandruff and other scalp diseases," 1885
H. E. Bucklen & Co. (Chicago, IL) - "Dr. King's Guide to Health Cookbook," with recipes and testimonials for products such as Bucklen's Arnica Salve, Electric Bitters, and Dr. King's New Discovery, ca. 1899
H. H. Warner Co. (Rochester NY) - remedies such as Warner's Safe Rheumatic Care and Tippecanoe: The Great Stomach Tonic, ca. 1888
H. R. Stevens (Boston, MA) - testimonials for Vegetine, a blood purifier, 1870
Hager Medical Co. (South Bend, IN) - remedies such as Hager's Dyspepsia Powders, and Oak Balm Pile Remedy, [ca. 1900]
Hamlin's Wizard Oil Co. (Chicago, IL) - testimonials and remedies such as Hamlin's Wizard Oil, Hamlins Cough Balsam, and Aunt Dinah's "Old Virginia" Herb Tea, ca. 1890s-1900
J. S. Houghton (Philadelphia, PA) - Pepsin, made from rennet, for indigestion, jaundice, liver complaint, and more, ca. 1851
John F. Henry & Co. (New York) - Henry's Household Companion, advertising products such as Henry's Carbolic Salve, Dr. Rogers' Vegetable Worm Syrup, and Durno's Catarrh snuff, 1886
Joseph Schaefer (New York) - "Wegweiser für Gesunde und Kranke," in German and English, literature and products such as Teutonic Mead, promoting health, [ca. 1900]
Magnecoil Co., Inc. (Salt Lake City, UT) - "The Philosophy of Magnecoil," 1928
Mantz Sanitarium-Dilation Treatment (n.p.) - essay on the Mantz Dilator, said to cure everything from constipation to nervous troubles, [ca. early 1900s]
Merchant's Gargling Oil Company (Lockport, NY) - calendar and medical tips, in German, with advertising for Merchant's gargling oil, for animals as well as people, 1883
Moras, E. R. (M.D.) (Highland Park, IL) - "Detoxyl Truths - Guide to Autology, Part II: To Understand Your Ailments Is to Know How to Cure Them," advertising Detoxyl Tablets, [ca. late 1800s]
New York Pharmacal Association (Yonkers, NY) - "Facetiae Medicorum: The Wit and Humor of Medicine in Prose, Poem and Picture," advertising Lactopeptine, [ca. late 1800s]
Paul von Boeckmann (New York) - nerve specialist and psycho-analyst, ca. 1924
Professor F. C. Fowler (Moodus, CT) - Dr. Rudolphe's Specific Remedy, for "Weak, Debilitated Men," exhibiting symptoms of everything from loss of memory to impotence, 1891
R. V. Wagner & Co. (Chicago, IL) - "An X-Ray Talk," extolling the virtues of the Static Cataphoresis, consisting of a cylinder of electric glass, [ca. early 1900s]
Radway & Co. (New York, NY) - R.R.R. remedies for ailments such as irritable urethra, ovarian tumors, dropsy, croup, consumption, and snake bites, accompanied by effusive testimonials, ca. 1880
Reed & Carnrick (Jersey City, NJ) - treatment of diphtheria, typhoid fever, malaria, scarlet fever, kidney disease, and pregnancy complications, using Nephritin, from the self-proclaimed "Pioneers in Glandular Therapy," 1921
Tarrant & Company (New York) - Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient, [ca. 1900]
Tyrrell's Hygienic Institute (New York, NY) - "... and exposition of Prof. Chas. A. Tyrrell's celebrated 'J. B. L. Cascade,' a device for eliminating the WASTE of the system...," with numerous testimonials, ca. 1906
W. M. Whitney & Co. (Albany, NY) - "Catalogue of Patent Medicines, Foods for Infants and Invalids, Perfumes, Fancy Soaps and Toilet Articles of Every Description," [ca. 1900]
Wells, Richardson & Co. (Burlington, VT) - Paine's Celery Compound, ca. 1894
William Franklin & Co. (New Haven, CT) - Myers' Extract of Rock Rose, for dyspepsia, scrofula, jaundice, and other afflictions, ca. 1852
World's Dispensary Medical Association (Buffalo, NY) - "The Ladies' Note-Book and Calendar," with recipes and testimonials for treatment of various diseases, using Association products such as Golden Medical Discovery and Pellets for treatment of consumption, 1881
Hotel, Bar, and Restaurant Supplies
Fox, Fultz & Co. (Boston, MA) - soda fountain equipment and supplies, 1906
Thos. Mills & Bro., Inc. (Philadelphia, PA) - ice cream, confectioners' and bakers' equipment, ca. 1900s-1910s
Household Goods and Appliances
Art Metal (Jamestown, NY) - steel kitchen cabinets, 1940
Cannon Mills, Inc. (New York, NY) - "10 Kinds of Baths and What They Can Do for You," each with their own recommended towels, 1930
Combination Ladder Co. (Providence, RI) - ladders, chairs, stage outfits, clothes dryers, sleds, rocking horses, 1900
Enterprise Manufacturing Company of Pa. (Philadelphia, PA) - irons, choppers, mills, shavers, presses, seeders, 1914
Hadden, Carll & Menough - tin ware, ca. 1850s-1860
Hill Dryer Company (Worcester, MA) - clothes dryers [umbrella style] and ash sifters, [ca. 1900]
Jennings Brothers (New York City) - "Japanese Paper Ware," incl. tubs, bowls, pitchers, pails, and pans, [ca. late 1800s]. Gift of Robert Singerman.
Metropolitan Washing Machine (Middlefield and Hartford, CT) - mainly testimonials, with engraved illustration, ca. 1858
The 1900 Washer Co. (Binghamton, NY) - "Washing a Tubful in Six Minutes," featuring the "1900 Gravity Washer," produced at the largest washing machine plant in the world, according to the manufacturer, ca. 1906
Oswego Starch Factory (Oswego, NY) - T. Kingsford & Son, Manufacturers, 1876
Penn Furniture Company (Philadelphia, PA) - Leonard Cleanable Refrigerator, 1910
Philippine Shell-Craft Company (Manila, Philippine Islands) - lampshades, 1925
Sloss & Brittain (distributors - San Francisco) - Wright's Sliver Cream, 1925
White Enamel Refrigerator Co. (Saint Paul, MN) - illustrated examples of ice boxes for the home and list of railroads that have adopted the Bohn Syphon System of Refrigeration, 1907
Industrial Equipment and Factory Materials
Chapman Double Ball-Bearing Company (New York, NY) - history and description of double ball-bearings, [1904]. Gift of Robert Singerman.
Greene, Twee & Co. (New York) - specialties for railroads, factories, mills, engineers, machinists, etc., 1891
L. P. Degen Belting Co. (San Francisco, CA - leather belts for factory equipment), ca. 1912
S. Morgan Smith Co. (York, PA) - "New Success Turbine," pamphlet and price list, 1896. Gift of Robert Singerman.
Standard Coal & Fuel Co. (Boston, MA) - "The Wonderful Coal Saver Kem-Kom," 1891
William P. Miller Company (Brooklyn, NY) - American Lubricating Compound, 1885. Gift of Robert Singerman.
Worcester Brush & Scraper Company (Worcester, MA) - flue and other brushes, brooms, and glass cutters, ca. 1925
Insurance
Springfield Fire & Marine Insurance Co. - Western Department, Chicago, 1910
Jewelry
Fuller's Findings (n.p.) - "Jewelers' Findings," 1969
S. Kind & Sons (Philadelphia, PA) - diamonds, jewelry, watches, pens, clocks, silver, 1915
Leather and Tanning Goods
Hiram H. Kelley (Boston, MA) - leather and tools, 1887
Lighting
Belson Manufacturing Company (Chicago) - theatre, display, and flood lighting, 1935
Incandescent Supply Co. (Pittsburgh, PA) - "Luminants for Residential, Commercial and Institutional Purposes," [ca. early 1900s]
Macbeth-Evans Glass Company (Pittsburgh, PA) - "Residence Lighting," with cover photo of a Pasadena residence living room, ca. 1910s-1920s
Pittsburgh Supply Co. (Pittsburgh, PA) - "Standard and Equitable Pneumatic Gas Machines," to light hotels, private residences, halls, churches, mills, and factories, 1884
R. E. Dietz Co. (New York and Chicago) - tubular, railroad, commercial and other lanterns; street lamps and oil stoves, [ca. 1880s]
Lightning Rods
Boston Lightning Rod Co. (Boston, MA) - "A Few Facts concerning Modern Lightning Conductors and the Protection They Afford," [ca. 1915]
Medicine and Medical Supplies
Additional Note
A. S. Aloe Company (St. Louis, MO) - surgical instruments, equipment, and supplies, 1930
Battle Creek Sanitarium Co. Ltd. (Battle Creek, MI) - brochure extolling the virtues of "The Health Food Idea," with descriptions and price lists for products such as granola, granuto, toasted corn flakes, [ca. 1900-1910]
Boston Optical Company - frames, lenses, and related, ca. 1900
Boyle & Company (Los Angeles, CA) - drugs and pharmaceuticals, 1944
Burdick Corporation (Milton, WI) - light therapy equipment, 1927
California Fig Syrup Co. (San Francisco, CA) - laxative, n.d.
Carl Zeiss (Jena, Germany; office in L.A.) - Zeiss Ophthalmological Instruments, ca. 1933
Chloride of Silver Dry Cell Battery Company (Baltimore, MD) - batteries, electrodes, and accessories, ca. 1901
Curtis & Spindell Co. (Lynn, MA) - "Elastic Appliances," including bandages, ca. late 1800s
Curtis & Spindell (Lynn, MA) - "Elastic Stockings," ca. late 1800s
Dr. J. W. Haines Co. (Cincinnati, OH) - "Golden Treatment for the Liquor Habit," 1929
E. R. Squibb & Sons (New York) - Trade List - Jobbers' Confidential Edition, 1929
Eastern Drug Co. (Boston) - Eastern Drug Market (serial, issued monthly), May 1920
F. A. Hardy & Company (New York) - Surgical Catalogue, 1920
George C. Frye (Portland, ME) - Bulletin of Surgical Instruments, June 1, 1913
George Morlot - "The Antrophor," for treatment of female ailments, including sexually transmitted diseases, ca. 1888
Glendale Sanitarium and Hospital (Glendale, CA) - describes the regimen promoted by the Battle Creek physiologic therapists, originated by Dr. John H. Kellogg, ca. 1910-1920
Illinois Surgical Supply Company (Chicago, IL) - physicians and hospital supplies; surgical instruments; orthopedic and surgical supplies; office furniture and equipment, ca. 1920s-1930s
J. H. Nicholson (New York, NY) - artificial ear drums, ca. 1885
Lindstrom, Smith Co. (Chicago, IL) - electric vibrators, ca. 1915
Moffat, William (New York) - Moffat's Almanac, 1859 (patent medicine almanac for Moffat's Vegetable Life Pills and Phoenix Bitters), 1858
Pharmacal Advance (New York) - journal, 1928
R. C. and C. S. Clark (Cleveland, OH) - Clark's Anti-Bilious Compound Almanac, 1877 (patent medicine), 1876
Sewell O. Barnes & Sons (Gardena, CA) - "Drug Specialties and Physicians Supplies," 1916
Wells, Rupert (M.D.) - "Radol (Wells): A Radio-Active Fluid Prepared only by Rupert Wells... and Used by Him in the Treatment of Cancer," ca. early 1900s
Metals (Processed) and Metal Goods
Aluminum Company of America (Pittsburgh, PA) - booklet, printed in aluminum ink, extolling the many uses of aluminum, 1948
Metalworking Equipment
Madison-Kipp Corporation (Madison, WI) - "Kipp Air Grinder," 1930
Linde Air Products Company (New York) - welding and cutting equipment, ca. 1934-1937
W. F. and John Barnes Company (Rockford, IL) - "Metal-Working Machinery," 1895
Westcott Chuck Company (Oneida, NY) - lathe chucks, 1904
Mills and Milling Supplies
Worden-Allen Co. (Chicago, IL) - broadside of the "Fireproof Saw Mill for the Truckee Lumber Co., Oroville, California," 1910
Mining
Golden Sheaf Mining Company (Sacramento, CA) - sales brochure for a mine at Michigan Bluff, Placer County, CA, ca. 1910
Searchlight Copper-Gold Mining Company (Los Angeles, CA) - prospectus, [ca. 1901]
Motion Pictures
Kodascope Libraries, Inc. (New York) - catalog of motion pictures, 1932
Motorcyles
Motorcycle Equipment Co. (Hammondsport, NY; Los Angeles) - motorcycle supplies, 1918
Music and Musical Instruments
Astatic Corporation (Conneaut, OH) - crystal phonograph reproducer, 1946
Carl Fischer, Inc. (New York) - "Instruments of the Modern Symphony Orchestra and Band" (including the Theremin), 1930
John F. Stratton Co. (New York) - lists of musical instruments and merchandise such as strings, reeds, frets, and mouth pieces, [ca. 1890-1910]
Kastner & Co., Ltd (London, England) - illustrated descriptions and prices for the "Autopiano" and the "Autogrand," ca. 1900-1910
King Musical Instruments - horns, baritones, tromboniums, altoniums, sousaphones, basses, ca. 1972
Melville Clark Piano Co. - Apollo piano player, ca. early 1900s
Otto Heineman Phonography Supply Col, Inc. (New York) - "Spring Motors for Talking Machines and Accessories," (2 catalogs), [ca. 1905-1915]
Otto Young & Co. (Chicago) - cameras, camera supplies, graphophones, graphophone records, and Olympia music boxes, ca. 1900
Sonora Phonograph Corporation (New York) - phonographs, ca. 1916
Tams-Witmark Music Library (New York) - catalog of royalty and non-royalty productions: standard grand and comic operas and operettas, etc., 1926
Tournaphone Music Co. (Worcester, MA) - music rolls for the Cecilia, Harmonia, and Aureophone, 1885
Office Supplies
Lamb Seal & Stencil Company - stencils, brands, seals and presses, pattern letters and figures, service badges, key tags, time stamps, signs, desk plates, markers, numbering machines, ca. 1926
Oil and Gas
A. L. Wisner & Co. - pamphlets urging investment in crude oil in California, ca. 1904
Alexandria Oil Co. (Oakland, CA) - foldout map and statement of potential for the Santa Paula District, Ventura Country, CA, 1901
Angier Chemical Co. (Boston, MA) - The Petroleum Idea (serial), 1903
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation, Pyrofax Division (New York) - pyrofax, a compressed gas derived from natural gas, for home use, 1928
Gilmore Oil Co. (Los Angeles, CA) - "Blu Green Gas: The Longest Song in the World," n.d.
Lincoln Oil Company (Oakland, CA) - prospectus and map for Kern River Oil District, north of Bakersfield, CA, ca. 1904
Powell, Stockton Investment Co., Ltd. (Culver City, CA) - prospectus, map, letter to stockholders, and other material pertaining to the Kettleman Hills oil country, 1932
Santa Fe Springs [CA] Oil Fields - maps by Laddie Boy and Are-Bee Oil, along with mounted b/w photographs of Wardman and Bell wells, ca. 1920-1929
Standard Oil of California (San Francisco, CA) - specialty oils, greases, candles, ca. 1914
Paint
Alabastine Company (Grand Rapids, MI) - "Water Color for Walls," [ca. 1920s]
Charles William Stores (New York) - "Evercote Brand Paints," with samples, 1917
Photography
American Optical Company, Instrument Division (Buffalo, NY) - Spencer MC Delineascope slide projector, ca. 1930s
Associated Photo Products Co. (New York) - Lektro movie camera, ca. late 1940s-1950s
Charles Beseler Co. (New York) - stereopticans, gas equipment, inhalers and laryngoscopes, ca. 1890
E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. - "Catalogue of Photographic Albums," ca. 1875-1880
Eastman Kodak Co. (Rochester, NY) - cameras and supplies, 1895
G. Cramer Dry Plate Works (St. Louis, MO) - formulas and directions for using dry plates, 1885
Seneca Camera Manufacturing Company (Rochester, NY) - plate film and view cameras, and accessories, 1908
T. H. McAllister (New York) - stereopticons, magic lanterns, lists of views, 1891
Premium Catalogs
Jonathan J. Bagley & Company (Detroit, MI) - items redeemable for coupons from tobacco purchases, 1912-1914
Sperry and Hutchinson Company (N.p.) - S&H Green Stamps Ideabook, 1966
Printing and Printers' Supplies
Additional Note
Autotype Co. - "Autotype: A Decorative and Education Art," 1896
Bess Machine Co. (Hamilton, OH) - paper mill specialties such as the Bess Patent Splitter, 1894. Gift of Robert Singerman.
Cincinnati Cordage and Paper Co. (Cincinnati, OH) - list of products, including poster paper, tags, toilet paper, and bags, 1897. Gift of Robert Singerman.
Ezekiel Davis (West Fitchburg, MA) - paper mill engine roll bars, bed plates, paper trimming and rag cutter knives ..., 1878. Gift of Robert Singerman.
Great Northern Paper Co. (East Millinocket, ME) - 1928 issue of The Northern. Gift of Robert Singerman.
Hollingsworth & Whitney (Boston and New York) - paper bags, other papers and paper products, [ca. 1880]. Gift of Robert Singerman.
International Paper Company (Hudson River Mill, NY) - history, [ca. mid 1950s]. Gift of Robert Singerman.
J. A. Richards Company (Kalamazoo, MI) - printing and die-making machinery, ca. 1941
J. W. Sefton Manufacturing Co. (Chicago, IL and Anderson, IN) - Catalogue No. 15: - paper goods, incl. confection and pie boxes, suit boxes, and oyster pails, [ca. late 1800s-early 1900s]. Gift of Robert Singerman.
Japan Paper Company (New York) - Kinkami papers, [ca. 1930s]
Marshall Papermaking Company (Turners Falls, MA) - price list and paper samples, n.d. Gift of Robert Singerman.
Papermakers' Barker - souvenir edition, Spring Grove, PA, Jan. 1923, with information about several paper mills. Gift of Robert Singerman.
R. R. Heywood Company (New York City) - "Fancy Lithographed, Flash and Futuristic Box Papers," 1930
S. A. Maxwell & Co. (Chicago, IL) - "Samples of Whiting Paper Company's Fine Correspondence Papers," [ca. late 1800s-early 1900s]. Gift of Robert Singerman.
Taggarts Paper Co. (Watertown, NY) - samples of poster and lining paper, [ca. late 1800s-early 1900s]. Gift of Robert Singerman.
Thomas H. McCollin & Co. (Philadelphia, PA) - "Draughtsmen's Sensitive Paper. For Making Blueprints," ca. 1890. Gift of Robert Singerman.
Westvaco - Luke Mill (Luke Mill, MD) - bicentennial edition of the Luke Mill Report, 1976. Gift of Robert Singerman.
Pumps
Woodin & Little (San Francisco, CA) - pumps, windmills, pipe, lawn mowers, brass goods and hose, ca. 1890s-1900s
Radios
Balkeit Radio (North Chicago, IL) - aka Balkite, offering high end radios, ca. early 1900s
Barawik Co. (Chicago, IL) - wholesale price guide, 1929
Burgess Battery Company (Madison, WI) - "Dry Cell 'B' Batteries for Mobile Radio Receivers," 1932
Kolster Radio Corporation (Newark, NJ) - instruction booklets, price lists, and other ephemera of San Francisco distribution agent Allan Willard, ca. 1920s
Lafayette Radio Manufacturing Company (New York) - tuners, amplifiers, intercoms, public address units, speakers, phonographs, 1936
M & H Sporting Goods Co. (Philadelphia, PA) - wholesale radio catalogue, 1931
Pooley Company (Philadelphia, PA) - radio cabinets, ca. 1928
Radio Corporation of America (New York) - Radiola 25: Super-Heterodyne radio, ca. 1925
Times Square Auto Supply Co., Inc. (New York) - "Broadcasting New Low Prices for Radio Sets and Supplies," incl. lists of broadcasting stations, ca. 1920s
Tropical Radio Telegraph System (Boston, MA) - Tropical Radio System: Marine Rates-Information, ca. early 1900s
Railroads and Railroad Supplies
General Electric Company (Schenectady, NY) - "Electric Railway Equipment," 1911
Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada (Montreal, Canada) - "Book of Instructions to Freight Agents, Clerks, Checkers, and Others...," 1881
Rock Island / Southern Pacific Lines - "Golden State Route," ca. 1927
S. H. Quint & Sons (Philadelphia, PA) - "American Baggage Check System," 1901
Southern Pacific Company - maps, including "Pacific Electric Railway System in Southern California," 1914, 1916
Real Estate
Atascadero Colony (Atascadero, CA) - Bulletin No. 6, Oct. 1914
Scientific and Industrial Instruments and Supplies
Belville, J. H. - A Complete Manual of the Thermometer (Philadelphia: McAllister & Brother, 1860)
Boston Phrenological Society - "Catalogue of Phrenological Specimens...," 1835
Cambridge Botanical Supply Co. (Cambridge, MA) - botanical supplies, 1909
Iszard-Warren Company, Inc. (Philadelphia, PA) - scientific instruments, 1909
Theo. Alteneder & Sons (Philadelphia, PA) - drawing instruments, 1908
Wm. Gaertner & Co. - high school laboratory and demonstration apparatus, 1909
Seed and Nursery Catalogs
A. H. Nichols (Santa Maria, CA) - "Gladiolus," 1936
Aggeler & Musser Seed Co. (Los Angeles, CA) - "Grow Your Own Plants from Seed," n.d.
Alberts & Merkel Bros, Inc. (Boynton Beach, FL) - Orchids, 1963
Cottage Gardens Nurseries, Inc. (Eureka, CA) - "California Grown Holland Bulbs," 1917
Dos Pueblos Orchid Company (Goleta, CA) - Orchids, [ca. 1960s]
Germain Seed Co. (Los Angeles, CA) - "20th Annual Catalogue of Sees and Plants for 1905"
Lester Rowntree & Co. (Carmel, CA) - "California Wild Flower Seeds," 1935, n.d.
Marjorie Lester Gardens (Watsonville, CA) - "Roses of Yesterday and Rare Perennials," 1955
Sewing and Needlework
Foley & Williams Manufacturing Co. (Cincinnati, OH) - sewing machines, washing machines, and organs, ca. 1904-1906
Illinois Sewing Machine Co. (Rockford, IL) - New Royal sewing machine, ca. 1900
White Sewing machine Co. (Cleveland, OH) - newsletter "The White," 1888
Societies and Associations
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Atlanta, GA) - order form for Klan regalia and supplies, ca. 1920s
Sporting Goods
A: G. Spalding & Brothers (New York, NY) - official basketball guide for women and girls, with advertisements for Spalding basketball equipment, 1934-1935
A: G. Spalding & Brothers (New York, NY) - official soccer guide for women and girls, including rules for speedball for women and field ball, 1932-1933
Alex Taylor & Co, Inc. (New York) - sporting equipment and clothing, bicycles, exercise machines, home movie equipment, guns and rifles, hockey, ski, football, baseball, basketball, golf equipment, and more, ca. early 1900s
United States Rubber Company = Keds sporting and outing shoes, 1916
Taxidermy Supplies
Frank B. Webster (Boston, MA) - supplies for naturalists, oologists, entomologists, and taxidermists, 1887
Telephone and Telegraph
American Telephone and Telegraph Company - "The Magic of Communication," 1932
American Telephone and Telegraph Company - "Telephone Typewriter Service," 1928
Postal Telegraph (n.p.) - "Suggestions for Social Messages via Postal telegraph," with numeric codes to send messages via telephone for various occasion, such as Birthdays, No. 37: "Best wishes for a happy birthday now and during many years to come"
Signalphone Manufacturing Co. (Milwaukee, WI) - phone/alarm systems for fire, police, and night watchmen, ca. 1902
Theatre
Charles Meyer (New York, NY) - "Theatrical Make-Up Book," 1916
Huiest Theatrical Scenery Co. (Troy, NY) - "Catalogue of High-Class, Elaborate, Artistic Theatrical Scenery," 1897
Will Rossiter (Chicago) - Theatrical supplies, 1907
Toys and Games
J. Weekes, Jr. & Co - toys, fancy and house furnishings, ca. 1850
John W. Graham & Co. (Spokane, WA) - "Gifts of the Year," with toys, games, dolls, stuffed animals, manicure sets, bags and briefcases, watches, drawing sets, artists' supplies, [ca. 1927]
Milton Bradley Co. (Springfield, MA) - kindergarten material; includes discussion about safety of papers containing arsenic, ca. 1890
Samuel Nafew Co. (New York, NY) - office supplies, novelties, music boxes, amusement and coin controlled machines, parlor games and toys, graphophones and phonographs, magician's goods, billiard and pool tables, ca. 1897
Transportation
California & Eastern Steamship Co. - postcards for freight service, listing Los Angeles Harbor, San Francisco, Oakland, and others as stops, n.d.
Travel and Tourism
All-Year Club (Los Angeles, CA) - tour guides for southern California, 1928, 1938
Gillespie Kingports & Beard (New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA) - travel tours, including California, 1924
Golden State Auto Tours (Los Angeles, CA) - "Sight Seeing in Southern California," 1920s
Greyhound Lines - "Bus Time Table to California," 1929
King Trailer Co. (Torrance, CA) - "The Sport King," n.d.
Pacific Electric Railway (Los Angeles) - brochures re sightseeing trolley trips in southern California, with maps of the railway's lines in the greater Los Angeles area, ca. 1910s, 1930s
Paraiso Hot Springs (Monterey, CA) - "Radio-Active Waters," ca. 1925
Potter Hotel (Santa Barbara, CA), 1915
"Santa Barbara, California," ca. late 1920s
San Francisco Convention & Tourist Bureau - "Come to San Francisco ... Bagdad of the West," ca. 1932
Santa Fe Railway - "California, the Santa Fe Way," 1931
Southern Pacific - "Home-Seekers' Excursions to California," 1901
Southern Pacific - "How Best to See the Pacific Coast," 1931
Southern Pacific - "How to See Twice as Much of America on Your Trip to California," ca. 1930s
"Trolley Trails through the West" - pamphlet by Robert W. Wilson, vol. 2: "Yakima Recollections; Seattle and Vicinity," drawing comparisons to San Francisco trolley system, 1943
Undertaking Supplies
Excelsior Coffin and Casket Works (Allegheny, PA) - burial cases and caskets, 1880
J. G. Twining & Co. (Waterbury, CT) - house furnishers and undertakers, 1897
Water
El-Azhar Spring Water Co. (Lowell, MA), ca. 1902
Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Cat. H-405-B - Water Systems for Shallow and Deep Well Service, 1934
Wyaconda Diuretic Mineral Water Co. (Chicago, IL), 1904
Woodworking
Emerson, Smith & Co. (Beaver Falls, PA) - saws, 1888
George S. Rogers & Co. (Pana, IL) - "Manual Training Supplies," 1925
Henry Disston & Sons, Inc. (Philadelphia, PA) - files, 1922
Henry Disston & Sons, Inc. (Philadelphia, PA) - saws, 1907
Stanley Tools (New Britain, CT) - rafter and framing squares, 1943
Miscellany
H. W. Johns Manufacturing Co. (New York) - asbestos materials, 1888
Burlington Basket Company (Burlington, IA) - Hawkeye Baskets, 1936
Burlington Blanket Co. (Burlington, WI) - blankets, robes, pads, 1923
Campers Supply Co., Inc. (Los Angeles, CA) - tents and other camping equipment, ca. 1900s-1920s
General Bakelite Company (New York) - information leaflet, 1910
George B. Carpenter & Co. (Chicago, IL) - camp furniture and equipment, 1908
Great Western Fixture Works (Chicago, IL) - display fixtures, 1907
Heyman-Weil Co. (San Francisco, CA) - baskets, refrigerators, hammocks, camping equipment, 1916
John Hofman Co. (Rochester, NY) - show cases and store fixtures, 1902
LeRoy Tent & Awning Company (St. Louis, MO) - tarpaulins and canvas covers, ca. 1920s-1930s
M. M. Secor Trunk Co. - trunks, bags, suitcases, 1906
Newell, Yank (San Francisco, CA) - "Lightning Paste," [1890]
North Bros. Manufacturing Co. (Philadelphia) - "Yankee Tool Book," 1918
Putnam & Company (New York) - ladders, ca. 1939
Samuel Ward Company (Boston, MA) - "Holiday Suggestions" incl. stationery, calendars, desk furnishings, travel sets, scales, and game boxes, 1905-1906
W. A. Plummer Manufacturing Co. (San Francisco, CA) - tents, canvas goods, flags, ca. 1911