William H. Helfand’s beautiful and captivating show at The Grolier Club makes it clear that ours is not the only generation of Americans to be preyed on, or fall for, the promise of the miracle cure. “Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera & Books,” is a fascinating whirlwind tour through medical, advertising, and popular culture history in the U.S. (& abroad, which in turn influenced developments here) seen through the prism of printed texts, illustration and ephemer...
By Abby Tallmer A key part of being a skilled and obsessional Americana collector or dealer is the ability to predict which books, texts, images and other materials of o...
By Abby Tallmer
In my experience as a librarian and as devout book and manuscript packrat, it is my observation that collectors of rare books and manuscripts often find themselves tryin...
Kansas State University Library houses a unique Rare Books Cookery Collection, which contains over 10,000 volumes on cookery. On June 11, 2002, the Rare Books Cookery Coll...
What can be more truly American than the right to free speech and a free press? At least, this is the credo that most of us grew up with. Yet in Americ...
NEW COLUMN ANNOUNCEMENT: This issue of AE Monthly inaugurates a new regular feature for us: from now on we will print reviews of recent catalogues produced by Americana dealers. This feature is ...
As the official depository for Jefferson’s papers and several of Clark’s maps, the Library of Congress is a fitting place to present an exhibit based on the Lewis and Clark e...
