Author: Mother Shipton (Ursula)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Mother Shipton's Fortune Telling Book. Containing Over 1000 Questions and Answers, Etc
Author: Mother Shipton (Ursula)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 12
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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Le Marchand's Fortune Teller
Author: Madame Le Marchand (pseud.?)Publisher:
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Category : Dreams
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Fireside Magician, Or, The Art of Natural Magic Made Easy
Author: Thomas PictonPublisher:
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Category : Magic tricks
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
How Gamblers Win
Author: Anti-abolition Tracts and Anti-Black Stereotypes
Author: John David SmithPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815309734
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Dick's Stump Speeches and Minstrel Jokes
Author: William Brisbane DickPublisher:
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Category : Dialogues
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
One Hundred Tricks with Cards
Author: Jonathan Harrington GreenPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Montgomery Ward Catalogue of 1895
Author: Montgomery Ward & Co.Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486223779
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Tea gowns, bleached damask, and yards of flannel and pillow-case lace, stereoscopes, books of gospel hymns and ballroom gems, the New Improved Singer Sewing Machine, side saddles, anti-freezing well pumps, Windsor Stoves, milk skimmers, straight-edged razors, high-button shoes, woven cane carpet beaters, spittoons, the Studebaker Road Cart, commodes and washstands, the "Fire Fly" single wheel hoe, cultivator, and plow combined, flat irons, and ice cream freezers. What man, woman, or child of the 1890s could resist these offerings of the Montgomery Ward catalogue, the one book that was read avidly, year after year, by millions of Americans on farms and in small towns across the nation? The Montgomery Ward catalogue provides one of the few irrefutably accurate pictures of what life was "really like" in the gay nineties, for it described and illustrated almost anything that anybody could possibly need or want in the way of "store-bought" goods. In fact, in that pre-department store era, it was usually the only source for such goods. Imagine if Montgomery Ward had issued an illustrated catalogue in the days of Louis XIV, or Elizabeth I, or Charlemagne: what insights would we have into the daily life of the "common folk," the farmers and shopkeeper, housewives and schoolchildren . . . what sources of information for historians and scholars, collectors and dealers, what models for artists and designers. In 1895, Montgomery Ward was the oldest, largest, and most representative mail-order house in the country. The brainchild of a former traveling salesman, it issued its first catalogue in 1872, a one-page listing of items. By 1895, the catalogue, reprinted here, had grown to 624 pages and listed some 25,000 items, almost all of them illustrated with live drawings. Montgomery Ward was by then a multi-million dollar business that profoundly affected the American economy; and since it reached the most isolated farms and backwoods cabins, its effect on American culture was almost as great. Now once again available, it is our truest, most unbiased record of the spirit of the 1890s. An introduction on the history of the Montgomery Ward Company and its catalogue has been prepared especially for this edition by Boris Emmet, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), a foremost expert on retail merchandising. His monumental work Catalogues and Counters has long been recognized as a landmark in the study of American economic history.