[Ottawa: 1881]. Broadside, 18.5 x 6 inches. One horizontal fold. Small chip at left edge, not affecting printed area. Light tanning. A rare illustrated railroad broadside that advertises an 1881 voyage from Ottawa and several other towns in Ontario via the Canada Central Railroad to Iowa, the Dakotas, and Minnesota..... More

Spencer, Ia. Herald Printery, [1908]. [19]pp. 18mo. Original printed card wrappers, stapled. Minor wear at edges and spine. Even tanning internally. Fascinating and unrecorded pamphlet that promotes land in Cuba to the adventure seeking and investment hungry citizens of Waterloo and Spencer, Iowa, following the Spanish-American War. The lots advertised..... More

Des Moines: State Register Print, 1876. Small folding pamphlet, with [8] panels. Small separation at foot of one fold line; slight biopredation at head of two panels. Light tanning. An unusual Iowa promotional, which charts the growth of the state over the 19th century through statistics and tables of its..... More

Waterloo, Ia. [ca. 1925?]. Folding map, 11.5 x 17.5 inches, in a printed card cover, 6.25 x 4.75 inches. Light wear and soiling to covers. Map with slight separation at corner folds, lightly toned. A map of the roads in Iowa, prepared by the state Highway Commission. The map is..... More

New York: C.S. Hammond & Co., 1912. Folding map, 17 x 28 inches folded to 7.5 x 3.5 inches. Map printed in color. Original printed card covers. Slight separations along a few folds, minor wear and soiling. A handsome map of Iowa, with each county printed in color and railroads..... More

Mt. Ayr, Ia. News Job Print, 1893. Broadside, 16 x 11 inches. Previously folded, a few small chips and tears at edges. Small repair on verso. Top corner torn away, contemporary remnants of glue on verso. Broadside advertising a farm auction in rural Iowa in the late 19th century, featuring..... More

Denmark, Ia. 1856. [3]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor soiling. Letter written by emigrant Timothy Allen back to his friend, Dr. William Maynard, in the “Old America,” describing at length “the Promised Land” of Iowa. Writing in February 1856, he states that they are all well..... More

[Various locations in Iowa and Illinois]: 1858-1862. Sixty-eight pieces (33 letters and documents, 33 receipts and manifests, and 2 pieces of related ephemera). Minor soiling and wear, old fold lines. Highly legible. Small archive of material relating to the business activities of Charles H. Liscom of Clinton, Iowa, as per..... More

Cedar Rapids: 1894. Small broadsheet, 10.5 x 6.75 inches. Previously folded. Minute closed tear at top edge. Light tanning. With accompanying transmittal envelope. Ephemeral, illustrated broadsheet advertisement for two agricultural machines for sale by the Hamilton Bros. company of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the mid-1890s. The "Sweep Feed Mill" promises..... More

Boone, Ia. Standard Book and Job Office, 1876. [2],51pp. 16mo. Original printed wrappers. Spine perished, first two leaves loose at top of spine. Some light wear and soiling, marginal loss and wear to first two leaves. One page with contemporary pasteover in text. By-laws for the Freemason's lodge in Boone..... More

[Burlington, Ia. Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company, ca. 1872]. 24pp. 24mo. Original yellow printed wrappers. Light soiling and wear. Lovely little promotional work advertising lands along the Burlington Route in Nebraska and Iowa. At this time the Burlington Route ran from Burlington, Iowa, across Iowa and Nebraska to Fort..... More

Vinton, Ia. T.O. Loizeaux, Bible Truth Depot, 1878. 8pp. 16mo. Original printed wrappers, stitched. Minor wear. Slightly later ink stamp on first leaf recto. Unrecorded tract on repentance published by the Bible Truth Depot of Vinton, Iowa. The short narratives weaves various extended metaphors comparing the necessity of fruit to..... More

[Iowa: ca. 1900]. Four cyanotypes (one duplicative), 10.5 x 13.5 inches. Light wear and soiling, heavier to third image. Manuscript notation to verso of one image. Slight toning. Three large cyanotype photographs depicting a railroad trestle near Council Bluffs, Iowa, belonging to the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad. Per..... More