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50+ Early 1900s-60s Washington, D.C., Programs, Ads, Maps, Etc.
Lot 175. 50+ Early 1900s-60s Washington, D.C., Programs, Ads, Maps, Etc. This collection represents a broad cross-section of D.C. businesses, civic groups and government organizations. Among 20 advertising or promotional items is a circa 1930s Heywood-Wakefield Co. 64-page booklet titled In the Life of a Baby used to promote the Washington Baby Shop. The booklet is filled with wonderful illustrations of wicker baby carriages, high chairs, rockers and other items; light water stains, vg. Other ads or promotions are for C&P Telephone, Woodward & Lothrop (carpet care brochure), Rexall (Family Year Book, 30 pages of ads and humor), Royal Glue of D.C., the house where Lincoln died, International Sterling, Emerson Shoes, Peoples Life Insurance, Newall watch systems, the Santa Fe Railway, Jean’s Park Lane Beauty Shop, Alger-Bloch Forest Products (pocket lumber scale) and other. These items average vg-ex. D.C. itself if the focus of 1925 and 1936 maps (vg); a 32-page Washington ’76 brochure picturing Mayor Walter E. Washington, ex; a 1960s guide, vg, and 1999 and 2002 Washington Post special magazines. There are six government publications: 1936 D.C. Rules of the Road and 1954 Driver’s Handbook; 1941 Officers of the Army in the D.C. area; 1955 D.C. Housing Regulations; 1950 United States Civil Defense, and 1973 The Green Scene (on gardening) from the National Park Service. These publications generally are ex. Civic and business groups include: American Electric Railway Association (1915 banquet program), the Canadian Club (1938-39 program), the Masons (1940 and 1946 Lodge booklets), the Propeller Club (1949 annual meeting program) and the American Legion (1954 dinner program), vg to nm, average ex. Also: Evening Star publications, 1938 U.S. District Court rules, vg-ex, and The Star Garden Book, covers missing, pages vg-ex; a used notebook with the Capitol on the cover, g; The Washington Police and Fire Post, 1944, 26 pages, g-vg; one 1920s and five 1930s program bulletins from the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, g-vg; a 1942 two-page bulletin on Washington Cathedral, vg; a 1965 Chesapeake & Ohio Railway ticket stub, a Central High School concert program and two 1930s Peoples Life Insurance Co. policies or certificates.
Winning Bid $20.
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