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Lot of 10 vintage original Whitman Authors cards from circa 1950s.

These are a cardstock thickness and measure 1 1/2 inches wide x 2 3/8 inches tall.

Published by Whitman Publishing Company.

Authors include: Sir Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry W. Longfellow, Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, and Charles Dickens.

You will receive the 10 the authors pictured,  though not necessarily the exact cards pictured.  Authors will be the same, but the design in the upper left corner and the order in which the book titles are listed, may be different.

Great for scrap booking, collage, altered art, and journaling.

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Listing is for a lot of 100 vintage sewing buttons.

Dates, size and materials vary.

You will receive a random lot of 100 buttons.

Very good condition with some having thread still attached. 

Great for scrap booking, collage, altered art, and journaling.

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Original antique advertising trade card. 

Reads:

• Merry Christmas and Happy New Year '90 and '91
• -Compliments of-
• Hoffman & Schoop, of Manning, Iowa

Shows a house scene with a fence, trees and small pond.  Tan areas on the card are glittered.

Measures 5 inches wide x 4 inches long.

Pretty colors!

Condition is fair to good with some wear to the edges, crease upper left corner, and paper loss to the lower left corner and back right corners.

Instant download. Digital 1900 Antique printable color map of Africa. Scanned at 300 dpi. 

Upon confirmation of payment you will receive an email letting you know your file is ready to download.

This file prints at 10 1/4” tall x 13 3/8” wide, but may be re-sized and printed as many times as you like. The watermark will not appear on the image you receive.

By purchasing this sheet you agree to the following terms:

You may use this sheet for art projects to sell, such as cards, gift tags, jewelry, etc, and personal projects. Please do not redistribute in original form, in digital form, or printed format or make it available for download to anyone else.

Scanned from Antique map in my personal collection. Would look great printed and used as art in a home library or man cave. Thank you!

Vintage and original 1900s Grand Island, Nebraska postcard.  Driveway to Stanley Park. Greetings from Grand Island, Nebraska. Card is used with 1907 Grand Island postmark.

Card measures 3.5 x 5.5 inches.  Condition is very good with light edge and corner wear and two very small soiled spots near bottom of card.

Vintage circa 1910s "Black & White" postcard showing the Administration Building on Campus, State Normal, Peru, Nebraska. Card no. 23932.

Card measures 5.5 x 3.5 inches and  is unused.

Condition is very good.

Antique Real Photo postcard showing a parade float.  This antique car i s hauling 5 men, one holding a pick, the others holding shovels.  Sign on the side of the car reads: Fairbury Re-Enforced Concrete Co.  U.S. flags are visible in the background. 

Bottom of the card reads: Labor Day, Fairbury Nebr. 9-4-11.

Card is unused.  AZO stamp box with all arrows pointing up.

Condition is very good with age toning on the back.

Great one of a kind early view of Fairbury!

Vintage original paper postcard showing the New Hotel Commercial at Tijuana, Mexico. Card number 165A. Shows old cars, store fronts, and pedestrians.

Published by M. Kashower of Los Angeles, California.

Card is unused. Condition is good with edge and corner wear, and a yellowed strip down the center of the back, from where it was adhered to a scrapbook page.

Vintage and original 1923 Fairbury, Nebraska High School yearbook, "The Senior X-Ray".

Includes: Senior photos, and sports team photos. Senior surnames include:

Ward, King, Frost, Vanier, Burford, Carstens, Cherry, Chorn, Clarke, Cox, Corp, Cruz, Dabner, Dawson, Distel, Eads, Evans, Ewers, Feith, Forney, Gilmore, Gobel, Gray, Greenwalt, Grissom, Halek, Hall, Hansen, Hanson, Harris, Houck, Hewitt, Holland, House, Hughes, Helvey, Hohensee, Holloway, Humberger, Jackson, Jenkins, Johnson, Knape, Leager, Lesher, McAlister, McCord, Meenan, Mendenhall, Mong, Murray, Nelson, Reid, Riley, Ritter, Schoen, Scriven, Seachord, Seemann, Shinn, Smith, Snyder, Sowers, Stepp, Stilwell, Strothman, Sturegon, Smith, Tinkham, Torrey, Walker, Walkemeyer, Weier, Wiggins, Tappan, and Zierenberg.

Softcover book measuring 7.5 inches x 11 inches with 67 pages. Lots of local advertising in the back.

Condition is very good with some soiling to covers, corner and edge tears to cover and some interior pages, also some age toning to interior pages.

E for Elephant.  Vintage original page from the circa 1926 book Tony Sarg's Alphabet. Verses by Anne Stoddard.  Published by Greenberg Inc. of New York.

Page measures 6 7/8 inches wide x 9 inches tall.

Shows an elephant, along with a small verse below.  Other circus acts are depicted in the border along the bottom and sides.

Verse reads:

This is an original page from the book, not a reproduction.  Gleaned from a book that was beyond repair.

Good condition with some soiling along the edges, small crease upper left corner, age toning, and 1 1/2 inch tear along the edge near the lower left corner.  Also has the original holes along the left edge from the string binding.

Back is blank.

Fantastic colorful illustration that would look amazing framed, or could be used in an art project. 

Shipped flat with cardboard backing in clear protective sleeve.

Antique history book. 1927 Fairbury, Nebraska City Directory. Published by Baldwin Brothers Directory Co. of Hebron, Nebraska.

Hardcover book measuring about 6 3/8 x 9.5 inches with 102 pages. Contains:

Government Directory
Resident Directory
Numerical Telephone Directory
Local Business Advertising

Book cover is in poor condition with splitting along canvas cover spine, wrinkling to canvas on boards, edge and corner wear, and some soiling to covers. Pages are all firmly intact. Pencil notations on some pages, and age toning and soiling to pages.

Great resource for the genealogist!

Vintage original Tavern Post. Volume 3 Number 1. Published by Tavern Tattlers, Santa Ana Junior College.  December 1930.

Softcover poetry book measuring 6 3/8 inches wide x 9 1/2 inches long with 63 pages.

Condition is very good with mild wear to cover.  Interior pages are very good with no marks or tears. 

Vintage original 1940s USED Wallace Brown Welcome New Baby Greeting Card. Features a sweet baby in a pair of pink booties.

Pink booties fold open.

Front of booties read: Welcome

Inside of booties read: Best Wishes to Baby and You

Card opens to a verse.

Inside reads: Someone's come to your house, Someone sweet and new, Someone who will bring you joy and make glad dreams come true, And everyone who knows you is mighty, mighty glad. For the baby wee and precious, For Mother and for Dad.

Published by Wallace / Brown Inc.  Made in U.S.A.

Card measures 4.75 inches wide x 5.75 inches tall. Condition is very good with brown spots inside of the booties and on the inside of the card.  This was caused by the original glue used to attach the booties.  There is also an ink signature inside.

No envelope.

Please check my store for more vintage and antique greeting cards. Thanks for looking!

1948 Anniversary Booklet Grace Lutheran Church Fairbury, Nebraska.

• The Anniversary Services of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church.
• Fairbury, Nebraska
• The Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Congregation 1923-1948.
• Sunday, the Fourteenth day of November, Nineteen Hundred and Forty Eight.

Softcover book measuring 9 inches x 6 inches with 10 pages.  Not all pages are shown in the listing.

Contains a brief history of the church, ministers and write up on the construction of the new church building. Photos of previous pastors also.

Condition is very good.

Vintage 1950 Scottish Rite Lincoln, Nebraska Masonic Photograph. Masters of the Royal Secret.  Thirty-Second Degree.  Ancient and Accepted Sottish Rite. Lincoln Consistory. November 17, 1950.  Enlightment Class.

Upper portion is a large black and white photo of the members.  Lower section is a numbered list of names identifying the men in the photo, numbers correspond to the numbers written on their suit shoulders.  83 members in the photo.

Photo by Townsend of Lincoln.

Large framed historical photo measuring 21 1/2 inches wide x 15 1/2 inches tall.

In the original black frame with glass insert. Paper backing with wire hanger.

Condition of picture is very good. Lighter looking areas at each side of the top of the photo are a reflection from my photography lights.

Some wear, and a tear to the paper backing.

Nice piece of Masonic history!

Vintage original 1953 Mueller Water Works Catalog W-96. Mueller Co. Main Office & Factory, Decatur, Illinois.

Hardcover book measuring 8 3/4 inches wide x 11 1/4 inches long. Approximately 150 pages.

Includes a separate net price list book that is housed in a pocket inside the front cover.  Price list book has 63 pages.

Catalog is divided into sections, which include:

• Section 1: Drilling and Tapping Machines
• Section 2: Corporation Stops
• Section 3: Goosenecks
• Section 4: Service Pipe and Service Fittings
• Section 5: Service Clamps
• Section 6: Curb Stops
• Section 7: Curb Boxes
• Section 8: Meter Setting Equipment
• Section 9: Rough Plumbing
• Section 10: Regulators, Strainers, and Relief Valves
• Section 11: Tools
• Section 12: Fire Hydrants
• Section 13: Gate Valves
• Section 14: Tapping Sleeves, Tapping Crosses, Tapping Valves and Split Repair Sleeves
• Section 15: Inserting Valves
• Section 16: Valve Boxes
• Section 17: Miscellaneous Valves and Equipment
• Section 18: Engineering Information
• Section 19: Index

Black and white illustrations and line drawings on most of the pages.

Condition is very good with some light wear to the cover.  Light foxing inside the front and back covers.  Age toning and light soiling to some of the interior pages.  No marks or tears.

Vintage 1959 calendar Top. Advertising for Hill's Garage. Jesse A. Hill proprietor.  General Repair - Cars - Tractors - Combines and Tow Service.  Phone 5-4461.  Location is not listed but it was most likely Fairbury, Nebraska.

Print is titled "Western Champs" and features a cowgirl with her horse.  Copyright A. Fox, 1959. Litho in U.S.A.

Calendar top measures 10 x 14 3/8 inches. Print measures 7 7/8 inches wide x 9 7/8 inches long. 

Condition is good with some foxing, soiling and paper loss in a spot near the bottom and one along the left edge.  Also appears to have been trimmed along the bottom edge.

Vintage 1960 print ad for Revere Ware Cookware. Shows a copper bottom frying pan. Also shows a variety of the Patriot Ware pots and pans, and more Revere Ware at the bottom. Includes a recipe for Shrimp Meuniere and Ginger Ice Cream. Reads, "Two wonderful new Revere Recipes that will make you want to see more."

Ad measures 8 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches. Condition is very good with some age toning and staple holes along left edge.

Vintage and original 1964 Frigidaire Refrigerator paper print ad from 1963 magazine. Ad shows an Aqua or Turquoise Refrigerator Imperial Nineteen Model. Also shows a bouquet of Red Roses in a vase. Reads, "Announcing the Imperial Nineteen by Frigidaire".

Ad measures 10 1/4 x 13 5/8 inches. Condition is very good with some age toning along the borders and a tiny tear along right edge border.

Would look great framed and hung as art. Vintage ads also make great Christmas or birthday gifts.