The History of Advertorials
If you collect vintage ephemera, you are bound to find some advertorials.
History
Hector Thomas Maybank Webb
Hector Thomas Maybank Webb (1869-March 27, 1929) was a British children’s Illustrator and artist who frequently signed his work simply as “Thomas Maybank”.
Alcohol, The Enemy of Life: A Look Into 1926 Viewpoints on Alcohol During the Prohibition and Temperance Movement
Alcohol, The Enemy of life is a historic article published in a children’s encyclopedia in 1926 during the mid-point of the Prohibition.
How Our Letters Come to Us: The History of Mail and The Post Office
This article, titled “How Our Letters Come to Us” is our very first entry from Volume 8 of the 1926 Book of Knowledge Children’s Encyclopedia and gives us a fascinating look at how the postal system worked nearly 100 years ago.
The Shut-In Society / The Vermont Sunshine Society
The Shut-In Society was an organization formed in 1874 to provide correspondence and comfort for individuals at the time who were isolated from society due to a chronic illness, disability or other circumstance. As reported in The White River Valley Herald on December 8, 2005, the Shut-In Society changed its name to The Vermont Sunshine … Read more
Jennnie M. Drinkwater Conklin
Jennie M. Drinkwater Conklin (April 14, 1841 – April 28, 1900) was a writer born in Portland, Maine.
James Lane Allen
James Lane Allen, (December 21, 1849 – February 18, 1925) was born in Lexington Kentucky on December 21, 1849 before the outbreak of the Civil War. James Lane Allen often infused Kentucky culture and dialect in his writing and is often considered one of the first novelists of significance from Kentucky. Family Life He was … Read more
Author and Editor: An 1891 Op-Ed. on The Frustrations of Publishing by Ella Ricker
Author and Editor, an opinion article by Ella W. Ricker, talks about the frustrations of rejection as a writer in 1891.
Ella W. Ricker: The New England Poet The World Forgot
Whenever we studied poets from the American Realism and Modernist literature time periods in school, our attention was always focused on Walt Whitman, Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson. It’s very sad, but also very true – most of us – even those of us who LOVE poetry – never really explored poets or the many … Read more