Mini-Collections of Images of Time and Space

The globe personified: the world here is presented as if a globe had walked off its library stand - with lines of longitude and latitude graticulated upon the surface. It seems appropriate that the rotundity of the globe-head faces are all smiling and, in two cases, winking. 1897 folding flyer for The World's Stirling Ranges, Sill Stove Works, Rochester NY (4 stove styles illustrated with the goatee'd smiling and winking chef delivering his "verdict.") 1908 and 1909 successive year calendars advertising Wampole's cough syrup in Spanish (a cupid spoons the preparation into the waiting rough of a grateful world.) 1909 ailing for Hascall's Carbon Paint, Cleveland OH: form letter, 8 page catalogue with paint chips, 4 page flyer (a grinning and winking world, in painter's whites, sits astride a paint can showing the trademark label, a brush and paint can in hand). 1920s folding chromolithograph card for Myers pumps, F.E. Myers & Bro. Co., Ashland OH (an enthusiastically grinning globe "takes off" his bowler hat, as does a nattily-dressed salesman his fedora). 1927 folding promotion for Brokaw imported hats, Brokaw Brothers NYC, copyright Guy W. Hodges (a faceless globe wears a Borsalino at a jaunty angle). 1939 greeting card miniature to be included with a gift subscription to Esquire magazine; design by E. Simms Campbell available as a larger print (a grinning globe is presented as the baby new year, his health checked by Esquire's signature top-hatted gentleman). 1940s birthday greeting card, by Stanley, Dayton OH. (The smiling globe is shown on a stand, reminiscent of popular desk savings banks in the shape of globes). 18 pieces of ephemera: tradecards, greeting card, brochures. $250.00