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1935Circa 1930s as horses are photographed pullling farm implements. Dozens of vintage prairie agricultural informational sheets, each with its own topic, stored in an original gilt-lettered black Eaton's two-ring binder. Topics are too many to list but include: Seed Grain Testing; The value of registered seed; Reward Wheat; Fall Rye; Growing Corn on the Prairies; Root crops; Ensilage crops; Sunflowers as Ensilage; Crop Rotations; Summerfallow Substitutes; Sweet Clover; Winter Egg Production; Hogs - Goitre and Iodine; The Farm Garden; Asparagus for Every Garden; Growing Fruit on the Prairies; Weeds and Their Control; Clean up! Paint up! Plant up!; Suggested books for the home library; Swat the Fly; Practical Cookery; The School Lunch; Beekeeping Advice; Fire Prevention on the Farm; and much, much more. Pages yellowed with age. Some pages all or partially free of binding. Some contemporary handwritten notes on blank pages at back of binder. A wonderful Canadian prairie collectible packed with timeless practical advice for how to survive on the land. Book
2004iv, 132 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this informative WWII reference. Book
1960118 pages. Features: Attractive color-photo ad for the 1960 Plymouth Fury - maroon two-door in front of dam; Two-page Marlboro shows slouching golfer on bench - no wonder they adopted the Marlboro man a few years later!; Champion spark plug ad features photos of Mickey Thompson, Rodger Ward, Max Conrad and Hugh Entrop; Color ad for the 1960 Pontiac Bonneville Vista; Nice at for the 1960 Valiant (red); Two-page Chrysler ad announces their new slant 6 engine; Major coverage of Washington, D.C, with fold-out walking map; Rules for successful D.C. party crashing; Rare two-page color ad for the 1960 Chevrolet Corvair co-sponsored by General Mills cereals; Pepsi ad; School integration without turmoil - in Washington, D.C.; Sister Margaret of Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur trains girls to think; Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates is the Second Most Powerful Man in Washington; Nice Dutch Boy color ad; Vintage two-page color-photo ad for the 1960 Chevrolet Nomad Station Wagon (pinkish) parked on a city street; Every Man Can't Become President; Nice two-page color ad for the 1960 Ford Comet; The Wry World of David Brinkley; Washington's Gaslight Club; Color ad for Kraft ice cream toppings; Vintage two-page color GM ad shows white 1960 Impala convertible and red 1960 Corvair on the Seattle-Winslow ferry in Washington state's San Juan Islands; Meet the French Ambassador's Wife - Nicole Alphand; Nice bright ad for Miller High Life beer; Nice color ad for the 1960 De Soto (red) in front of ritzy southern home; Big Wheels of Washington - great photos of the capitol's power players; They're giving their emotions to science - medial research with photos of Nancy Lou Comstock; 7up ad inside back cover features color photo of the Kingston Trio being yarded onto a ship, with a large supply of soda; Back cover color-photo Chesterfield King cigarette ad says "Big Clean Taste" and shows smiling couple in a choking haze of smoke; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1977240 pages. Clean, bright and unmarked. Minimal wear. Moderate lean to spine. Excellent copy. Book
1951226 pages. Features: Mum deodorant ad shows couple on beach blanket; Listerine ad shows smooching couple; Town of the Month - Trevose, Pennsylvania (PA); Woodbury soap ad features photo of beautiful Metropolitan Opera star Jarmila Novotna with her daughter; Color-photo Ivory Snow ad; Color-photo Avon ad features Teresa Wright with her rep. Mrs. Virginia Stevens; Color Duz detergent ad; Article on arthritis; Assignment in Hollywood; Color photo of Ava Gardner in Lustre-Creme ad; Color Lady Pepperell sheets ad shows ghastly-colored bedroom with lady in pink on bed chatting on copper-colored phone; Nice color Jell-O ad; Roofs that last; Gallery of Gadgets includes knee pads and suitcase with wheels; Color ads for Heinz soups and pickes; Color Tide ad; Keep up with Medicine; The Thrifty Driver; Toni ad features photos of beautiful Eloise Sahlen, Susie Parker, and twins Ann and Roxie Schumaker; Career Girl - Kathleen Boyce of Charlotte, NC; Color Woolworth ad features nothing but dolls; Color Ivory soap ad features photo of Vera Miles; I'm a Homely Woman; The Face in the Mirror - story by Elden La Mar; The Heart Line and the Lucky Star - story by Lucia Mason; Women and the New War; Dover - story by Margaret Cousins; Mrs. Anderson's Daughter Gets Married - story by Faith Baldwin; Fashion Photos of young Constance Adams; Photos of plaid fashions for girls; 42 page article with photos of living room designs; Zozo ad features Curious George; Enrico Caruso - the world's most popular singer; When You Buy a Dog; Make Your Hair behave; Serve it Jellied; Never a better time to buy a refrigerator; Cold Drinks; Shopping for school clothes; Yankee pizza recipe; Dione Lucas photo in Cut-Rite wax paper ad; Charming color McCormick & Co. ad shows lady with her shelves of preserves; Vintage color Sundaettes ad; Campus life fashion illustrations; U.S. Savings Bonds ad features portrait of Master Sergeant Travis Watkins of Gladewater, Texas - a Medal of Honor recipient who sacrified his life in the Korean War to cover his squad after being wounded and paralyzed from the waist down; Color Coke ad on back cover shows sailor taking bottle from fridge; and much, much more. fAverage wear with some openings along spine. A worthy vintage copy of this charming issue. Magazine
1940110 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Frigidaire fridges inside front cover; This Way to Courtesy; How Much Freedom?; Make the Most of Summer vacation; You Don't Need to Nag; If the Baby's Ill; Why boarding School?; Guard Against Children's Diseases; Give Your Child a Head Start; Have You a Little Show-Off?; Family Fun; Family Fashions; Feeding the Family; One-page illustrated ad for film Edison The Man, starring Spencer Tracy; Photo-illustrated Listerine ad features Mrs. Madge Purdy Van Cott of Jersey City, NJ; Nice color-photo ad for Campbell's Tomato Juice shows lady reaching into fridge; Uncommon one-page photo ad for Clapp's Baby Foods; Certo ad features Mrs. Lucy Thomson of Peoria, IL; Cute small photo ad for Rollfast bicycles; Great color back cover ad for Shredded Ralston cereal features Dumb Dora comic; Many additional nice old ads; and more. Two small reader letters clipped from page 97, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Lots of delightful reading and recollecting here! Book
2008365 pages. Index. Select bibliography. Footnotes. Numerous reproductions of archival black and white photos. Signed by author upon title page. "Set against a background of rapid social and economic change, this work examines the years 1899 to 1929. This era saw the demise of the fur seal trade, the coming of scheduled steamships and the development of commercial whaling, logging and fishing. Zealous missionaries radically altered the lives of native people, while the upstart settlement called Tofino gradually eclipsed nearby Clayoquot as the dominant community in the area." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. An excellent copy. Book
1912235 pages. Index. Occasional black and white illustrations and line drawings. "This little book, intended primarily for Domestic Science Schools and Girls' Schools generally, provides a suggested course... for all interested in the domestic and culinary arts... contains chapters on elementary physics, chemistry and popular fallacies." - from Preface. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this information-packed work. Book
1977130 pages. Index. Archival black and white illustrations. Unmarked. Light wear. Bit of soiling to back cover. A quality copy of this wonderful historical and genealogical reference. Book
1949200 pages. Features: Easing the farmer's oldest pain - rheumatism; The Newtons of Pleasant Hill Farm - nice color photos with article about the Park and Ruth Newton family farm near St. Albans, Vermont; Housing for big litters; Less feed, more chicken; Young settlers on the plains - eager veterans have begun farming at Mirage Flats in northwestern Nebraska; What is a good Angus?; Better plant a few nut trees; Mountain school that trains leaders - School of the Ozarks; Wagon ideas to save work; The war against Aftosa; Managing farm finances; Little Johnny Appleseed - Bob Anderson of Van Buren County, Michigan; Shell agricultural laboratory near Modesto, CA; You can help with the mail; Rural art center with over 400 members at Cheltenham Township, PA; and more. Ads: Texaco ad includes Mr. James West of Pomona, CA and his innovative orchard sprayer; B.F. Goodrich ad with large photo at the John and Joseph Mueller farm northeast of Belleville, IL; G.E. radios; Oldsmobile; Kaiser cars (color); Jeep; Chevrolet cars; Gibson Model "E" tractor; New Holland hay equipment (2 pages with photo of Irvin R. Yoder, Belleville, PA); Ford truck ad features Douglas Burden and Florida's Sea World; New York Stock Exchange one-page photo ad features the Louis B. Eckelkamp family of Villa Ridge, MO; Case tractors; Hudson cars (nice 2-page color ad); Hedy Lamarr in Auto-Lite ad; Nice color-photo 1-page John Deere tractor ad; Buick (2 pgs); Ford Tractor (2 pgs); Massey-Harris tractors; Life Insurance ad features the Hinton family of East Peoria, IL, with parents Don and Pauline; Allis-Chalmers Roto-Baler; Minneapolis-Moline Model "Z" tractor; Small photo ad for Harley-Davidson with the Hydra-Glide fork; 1949 Studebaker cars (color photos); Color-photo Camel cigaratte ad on back cover says "More doctors smoke Camel than any other cigarette". Unmarked with average wear. Several middle pages loose but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
1940102 pages. Features: A Decade of Action for Children; Opening Doors for Children; When Boy Meets Girl; White House Conference on Children in a Democracy; How to Deal with Jealousy; Conquering Pneumonia; How to Nurse Your Baby; Sunshine to the Rescue; Family Fun; Family Home; Family Fashions; Feeding the Family; School Directory; Interesting one-page ad for GE sunlamps claims they will provide strong bones for babies; Nice (but soiled) color ad on back cover for Nestle's EverReady Sweet Milk Cocoa; and much more. Two small clippings from family fashions on page 33-35; Reader letters clipped from page 90. Small coupon clipped from page 94. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Lots of delightful reading and recollecting here! Book
1972228 pages including numerous black and white photographs. Published to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the settlement of the community and the sixtieth anniversary of the Kars Branch of the Women's Institute. Chapters include: The Land Settlement and Roger Stevens; Richard Garlick and the Lumbermen; The Pioneer Settlers 1820-1830; The Wharfinger and the Rideau 1830-1850; Migration and Immigration; A Rural Community; The Village of Wellington 1850-1860; Communication and Concern 1850-1860; School Days; Rafts and River Boats; Keeping the Farm. Average wear to covers. Contents clean and unmarked but for gift inscription atop decorated front flyleaf. Solid copy of this excellent and rare slice of Ontario history. Book
197084 pages. Average wear. Binding intact. From the days when black rimmed glasses were in vogue! Book
1903603 pages. Illustrated with black and white photos and diagrams. A wonderful overview of Nova Scotia over 100 years ago. The forty-one chapters include: History; Geology; County Histories; Mines; Indians; Tourism; Fisheries; Apple Culture; Agriculture; Institutions of Learning; Timber and Lumber Resources; Paper Pulp Resources; Quarries; Game Law; Birds; Manufacturing Concerns; Institutions for the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb; Governance; The Common School System. Prior owner's details neatly written atop front free endpaper otherwise unmarked. Blue cloth attractively adorned with black decoration upon front board and bright gilt lettering upon backstrip. Binding intact with minor spine slant. Moderate wear. A quality copy of this informative work. Book
197326 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Roosevelt University and its Adler & Sullivan Auditorium; Weese's Circle Campus Building; A St. Louis Prize-Winner - Parkway North Senior High School; Chicago's Disney Magnet School; Mies' Office Tries its hand at Two Inner-City High Schools - Dirk Lohan's Clemente High School and Orr High School; Harry M. Weese, FAIA, named president of Inland Architect Corporation; Passing of architect of Botho Schneider; News-brief on the compact new Rock Valley junior college facililties in Rockford, IL; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
1940134 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Maurice Maeterlinck's film "The Blue Bird" inside front cover; Being a Father is Fun; What About Social Hygiene?; Their First Jobs; What is Good Discipline?; Keep on the Safe Side; If a Baby Eats Too Fast; Children Need Happily Married Parents; Are the Programs They Like Bad for Them?; What to Do About Earache; Family Fashions; Feeding the Family; Nice one-page illustrated ad for film Young Tom Edison, starring Mickey Rooney; School Directory; Charming color Campbell's Soup ad shows young boy and girl with umbrellas coming in from the rain for lunch; Fantastic color-photo one-page ad for Pacific Mills and their "Pacific Thief of Bagdad fabrics" features young ladies in dresses; Vintage Clapp's Baby Foods ad features photo sequence of mothers with baby carriages on city sidewalk; One-page ad for Buster Brown shoes; Red Goose Shoes ad; Back cover color ad for Pillsbury's Best Flower features photos of Mrs. Joseph E. Witson of Cheviot, OH, Mrs. Charles F. Vogel of Milwaukee, Miss Edith Ellingsworth of Cambridge, MD, Mrs. Bert Morris of Seattle, and Mrs. Homer Garrigus of Rockville, IN; Many additional nice old ads; and more. Faint name atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Lots of delightful reading and recollecting here! Book
1978144 pages. Autographs and inscriptions. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1989144 pages. Moderate quantity of autographs/inscriptions to endpapers. Some rippling along upper fore-edge of many pages due to moisture. Includes colour feature of 1988 graduate Tony Wong, one of the top students in the province. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
197396 pages. Average wear. Two autographs. A sound copy. Book
198297 pages. Lots of autographs. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1984Few autographs. Light wear. Nice clean copy. Book
1985Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
198695 pages. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1987Many colour photos and autograohs. Average wear. Book
198896 pages. Many colour photos and autographs. Average wear. A sound copy. Book