Search Results: Authors starting with M from House of Mirth Photos

Circa 1950, New York City photo album measuring 8.75" x 12.5". There are approximately 130 in total including black and white gelatin sliver prints and four Kodachrome color prints which measure between 3-3/4" x 4-3/4" to 6-3/4" x 4-7/8." Photos include fashion and a beauty pageant, featuring young women dressed up and parading in their bathing suits. There is also a small group of images documenting a photography contest and the interior of a boxing gym/room interior. Inside the front cover, is a photo of a bathing beauty and a business card for Ben McGinty, "Professional Photographer." His address is in Jackson Heights, NY and he was a graduate of the New York Institute of Photography, a member of the Photographic Society of America, International Association of Glamour Photographers, member of Free Lance Photographers Guild and Universal News Photographers, Inc. Many of the photographs carry his stamp. There are two articles about models inside, one dated 1948 and the other 1951. A few pages of… Read More

Two 4.25" x 6.5" cabinet cards of Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, dated 1887. One is identified in pencil as The Huntley House, Mechanic St., Shelburne Falls, Mass and the other says Shelburne Falls Village, Mass, 1887. One is stamped "Larkin G. Mead, Sedgwick Institute, Great Barrington, Mass." Mead was a well known sculptor. The photographs are in good overall condition.

5.375" x 8.5" handwritten cookbook kept by Lillian Miller Jones of Ilion, NY. There are around 60 pages with handwritten receipts and numerous slips of paper inserted with more recipes. Many of the recipes are attributed to other people. There are recipes for ginger snaps, oil pickles, mince meat, corned beef, cough medicine, mustard pickles, carrot pudding, tomato soy, chow chow, English plum pudding, etc. The binding is loose and taped together. There will be several pages of recipes, than several blank pages and then the recipes will start again. If you are an adventurous cook, this is just the thing for you!

Handwritten diary kept by Herbert Mortimer Hyde, which was written in an 1867 diary, and keeps track of different travel from 1867-1892. It starts in 1867 with a tour in Europe, which begins with his passage on the SS Arago and lands in France. He visits other places including Geneva, Lucerne, Munich, Zurich, Baden-Baden, Antwerp, London, York, etc. The next trip starts in June, 1874, where he boards the Thuringia in Hoboken, and he sets sail for Europe again, and then in 1888, he sailed on the Servia for another trip to Europe. More trips follow up to 1892. Most days in this 1867 diary are filled out, along with newspaper clippings of different voyages, with passengers, and one account of two steamships colliding. He writes notes on some pages, and at the end of the diary there is writing in crosshatch, which can be difficult to make out. Herbert Mortimer Hyde, died in 1929 at the age of 79 at his home in New York City, and his obit appears in the New York Times. He was the son of Edwin Hyde,… Read More

7.5" x 9.75" Composition book made into an Herbarium, featuring trees and ferns from New York City. Written on the cover is "Trees - Leon Moses," and on the first page it says "Trees of New York City & Ferns of N.Y.C." A quick Google search, brings up two possible men named Leon Moses. One was born in 1913 and lived in the Bronx and the other is a more well-known Leon Nathan Moses, an Economist, who was born in New York City in 1924. The book is not dated, but appears to be from the 1930s, more or less. There are about 50 double-sided pages and most have one or more specimen pasted to the page. All are identified in ink on the page. A handful of specimens are loose from the page, otherwise this Herbarium scrapbook is in good condition.