The Archivist's Library

Orange-bordered Howard Johnson Company stock certificate for 100 shares, with a robed classical woman between white silhouettes of the Pieman with Simple Simon and the Lamplighter, and a round orange seal

Howard Johnson's 🍦 From a Quincy Soda Fountain ...

From a soda fountain in Wollaston, Massachusetts, to more than 1,000 orange-roofed restaurants and a listing on the New York Stock Exchange: the story of Howard Johnson's, its 28 flavors,...

Howard Johnson's 🍦 From a Quincy Soda Fountain ...

From a soda fountain in Wollaston, Massachusetts, to more than 1,000 orange-roofed restaurants and a listing on the New York Stock Exchange: the story of Howard Johnson's, its 28 flavors,...

Embossed Sun Maid cigar box label of W. C. Frutiger & Co., Red Lion, Pennsylvania: a woman holding an open box of cigars before palm trees and a sunset, SUN MAID in red and gold letters

Red Lion, Pennsylvania 🦁 The Nickel-Cigar Town ...

Red Lion, Pennsylvania once rolled a fifth of America's nickel cigars at kitchen tables and in four-story factories. Here's the town, its name legends, the men behind Tebson, Have A...

Red Lion, Pennsylvania 🦁 The Nickel-Cigar Town ...

Red Lion, Pennsylvania once rolled a fifth of America's nickel cigars at kitchen tables and in four-story factories. Here's the town, its name legends, the men behind Tebson, Have A...

Mayflower Brand crate label printed for the Mayflower Fruit Association of Exeter, California, picturing a three-masted sailing ship

Exeter, California 🍇 The Grape-Packing Town Beh...

How a Southern Pacific railroad town in Tulare County became one of California's great Emperor grape shipping points, and the packing houses, people and brands behind its crate labels: Mayflower,...

Exeter, California 🍇 The Grape-Packing Town Beh...

How a Southern Pacific railroad town in Tulare County became one of California's great Emperor grape shipping points, and the packing houses, people and brands behind its crate labels: Mayflower,...

Factory-sealed The Petty Girl II trading card box, 1995, with George Petty pin-up art and the 21st Century Archives logo

George Petty and the Petty Girl 🎨 From Esquire'...

🎨 How a Chicago photo retoucher's airbrushed girl on the telephone became Esquire's first pin-up, the nose art on the Memphis Belle, a Jantzen swimsuit and a Nash hood ornament,...

George Petty and the Petty Girl 🎨 From Esquire'...

🎨 How a Chicago photo retoucher's airbrushed girl on the telephone became Esquire's first pin-up, the nose art on the Memphis Belle, a Jantzen swimsuit and a Nash hood ornament,...

Engraved vignette from a 1913 New York Central Railroad bond showing an aerial view of Grand Central Terminal and midtown Manhattan, with United States of America and Series A lettering above

The New York Central Railroad 🚂 Vanderbilt's Wa...

🚂 A Commodore who wouldn't take the other road's passengers, a deal struck on J. P. Morgan's yacht, a bond due in 2361 and a Texan who took over the...

The New York Central Railroad 🚂 Vanderbilt's Wa...

🚂 A Commodore who wouldn't take the other road's passengers, a deal struck on J. P. Morgan's yacht, a bond due in 2361 and a Texan who took over the...

Red and beige Mr. Peanut plastic figural whistles side by side, each with top hat, monocle and cane, one hand on hip and legs crossed on a small base

Mr. Peanut and Planters 🥜 From a Wilkes-Barre F...

🥜 A boy who got off at the wrong station, a schoolboy's five-dollar sketch, and a Boardwalk store you could smell a block away. Here's the story of Planters and...

Mr. Peanut and Planters 🥜 From a Wilkes-Barre F...

🥜 A boy who got off at the wrong station, a schoolboy's five-dollar sketch, and a Boardwalk store you could smell a block away. Here's the story of Planters and...