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Adz Gayzette, which ran under variant titles from 1970-1972, was a free newspaper targeting the San Francisco gay community. In addition to occasional news reporting, it provided a weekly calendar of events, classifieds and personals, an advice column and more. Despite the Stonewall Riots of 1969 and the newly-emergent Gay Pride movement, one source describes […]
![Beatles map [:] John Paul George Ringo. Liverpool: City of Liverpool Public Relations Office, [1974.]](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/BRM3994-Beatles-Map-Liverpool_lowres-scaled-e1636422417701-150x150.jpg)
An extremely rare poster-size Beatles Map highlighting The Fab Four’s many connections to Liverpool and promoting that city as a tourist destination. Rendered in the graphic style of the Beatles’ animated film Yellow Submarine, this pictorial map highlights areas of Liverpool where the Fab Four were born, lived, studied and performed. It also features Penny […]
A lovely chromolithographic view of the so-called New England Fair, the exhibition building of the New England Manufacturers and Mechanics Institute. Extremely rare in any form, but particularly unusual for being a publisher’s mockup, with extensive material in manuscript. In 1881 the building was the site of the first exhibition of the Institute, which organization […]
![International Stock Food Co., INTERNATIONAL POULTRY FOOD. Minneapolis, Minn., [ca. 1900].](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/BRM3626-International-Poultry-Food_lowres-scaled-e1598457098581-150x150.jpg)
A charming chromolithographic poster promoting the virtues of International Poultry Food, an avian superfood that “makes chicks grow rapidly and prevents disease” and is “the greatest known egg producer.” The image features a content and robust hen surrounded by dozens of healthy-looking chicks and a cheerfully-packaged box of the product. International Poultry Food was a […]
A monumental and extremely rare poster for a Japanese film celebrating the War in the Pacific. This mammoth poster and map of East Asia and the Pacific was issued to promote the Italian release of the 1958 Japanese film Battaglia del Pacifico. Produced by the Shin Toho Company and directed by Toshio Shimura, the film was […]
![Lith. by W. H. Rease, N. E. Cor. 4th & Chesnut St. / Printed by Wagner & McGuigan, MITCHELL & CROASDALE Successors to G. W. Ridgway & Co. DEALERS IN SPERM, WHALE, LARD & TANNERS OIL, CANDLES, RICE &c No. 30 NTH WHARVES, ABOVE ARCH ST. PHILADELPHIA. [New York: J.H. Colton & Co.,] 1856.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/BRM3759-Mitchell-and-Croasdale-whaling-advert-1856-150x150.jpg)
A dramatic sperm whaling image, used here to advertise the wares of merchants Mitchell & Croasdale of Philadelphia. “Advertisement depicting a whale hunt after the 1835 aquatint by J. Hill from a sketch by C. B. Hulsart titled “Capturing a Sperm Whale.” Whalers in two small whaling boats attack a large sperm whale with harpoons. […]
A striking example of antique advertising with a patriotic theme, produced by a pioneer in direct-to-consumer marketing. The Schultz family of Zanesville, Ohio entered the soap business in the 1850s, when William Schultz purchased an existing soap factory. He brought his son Robert and nephew John Hoge into the business, and on his retirement in 1866 they […]
A spectacular 1930s promotional for Philips Radio featuring a pictorial map of the global shortwave radio network, with each continent crammed with imagery. The overall effect is rich, though rather crudely stereotypical—the vignettes include giraffes and spear-toting natives in Africa, igloos in Greenland, a teapot in Sri Lanka, and so on. Superimposed on the map are red […]
A very rare and unusual White Mountains view, produced for an early automobile rally. This view depicts the high peaks of the White Mountains and the surrounding region, bounded east and west by the Carter and Kinsman Ranges, and north and south by Lancaster and the Lakes Region. The scale is most curious, quite compressed […]
![Times Steam Job Office, Cincinnati Weekly Times A NATIONAL NEWSPAPER Adapted to the Wants of the People of the United States. Cincinnati: Times Company, [1873].](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/BRM3208-Cincinnati-Weekly-Times_lowres-e1547759938468-150x150.jpg)
A spectacular and unrecorded four-color broadside issued in 1873 by the Cincinnati Weekly Times, using patriotic imagery to promote its ambitions as “A National Newspaper.” The broadside touts the Times as “a national paper adapted to the wants of the people of all the United States.” It emphasizes the point with a variety of patriotic […]