WORLD'S

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[Printed pamphlet.] Proceedings of a Peace Meeting held at Union League Hall, New York, December 23d, 1870, For the purpose of Free Consultation on the Subject of a Woman's Peace Congress for the World, as proposed by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe of Boston.

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[Mrs. Julia Ward Howe of Boston; World's Peace Congress, Union League Hall, New York, 1870]
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Philadelphia: John Gillam & Co., Printers, No. 608 Arch Street. 1871.
£180.00

30pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. P.3 is headed 'World's Peace Congress' and lists the organisations officers, including among the 23 Vice Presidents William Cullen Bryant and the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. An extract from a letter of endorsement by Harriet Beecher Stowe is on p.14, and John Stuart Mill is among the 'absent friends' named on p.15. Five copies on COPAC, and eight copies on OCLC WorldCat.

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[New York World's Fair 1939.] Collection mainly consisting of publicity and administrative material: press releases, information bulletins, contracts, contact lists, photographs, plans, coloured panorama, book, newspapers, pamphlets, questionnaire.

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New York World's Fair 1939 [Grover A. Whalen (1886-1962); Frank Monaghan; Bayard F. Pope]
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New York World's Fair 1939, Main Office, 24th Floor Empire State Building, 350 Fifth Avenue, New York City, N.Y. Produced between 1938 and 1940.
£3,000.00

Attended by 44 million people, the New York World's Fair was an enormous enterprise, with a vast number of exhibits and pavilions from all over the world spread out over 1216 acres of the Flushing Meadows/Corona Park district. The fair's official 'theme' was 'the demonstration of "a happier way of American living through a recognition of the interdependence of man, and the building of a better world of tomorrow with the tools of today"'.

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[Tony Sarg, 'America's Puppet Master'.] Original ink portrait of a lady, with signed inscription to the subject.

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Tony Sarg [Anthony Frederick Sarg] (1880-1942), German-American puppeteer and illustrator, called 'America's Puppet Master'
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Without date or place.
£80.00

On 14 x 9 cm piece of cream card, with 'Postkarte' printed on the other side. In very good condition, lightly aged and worn. The portrait, in black ink, is of the head and shoulders, in profile, of a middle-aged Edwardian woman, with hat and fur shawl or collar. Beneath the illustration is the inscription, tastefully lettered: 'THIS WAS ORIGINALLY MEANT FOR YOU! YOU WILL HAVE TO SIT FOR ME FOR A FEW MINUTES THEN I PROMISE TO MAKE A MORE SATISFACTORY PICTURE. | Yours most sincerely | Tony Sarg.'

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