Last week I scanned 3 booklets and 3 stereoviews.

First was Promote Your Home with Shrubs, Fruits and Flowers (1931) by Chase Brothers Company. Rather than being a plant catalog, it was a a nice booklet telling how your home would look better with some plants and trees on your property. Many houses at that time would plant a hedge-row out front of their homes and have a garden out back. I’ll bet that along with with this booklet that people also got a separate catalog with an order form.

Souvenir Commemorating the Semi-Centennial Anniversary of the Association of Mr. J. J. Bausch and Mr. Henry Lomb and the Founding of the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (1903) has to be one of the longest titles. It is an early history of the Bausch & Lomb Company. There is a page with small portraits of the management. They are all family of Mr. Bausch and Mr. Lomb. Also included as a supplement is the program of the 50th anniversary show given at the Lyceum Theatre on July 24, 1903. It was separate but I included both as one PDF file.

The last booklet scanned was Image; no. 64; Oct. 1958. That was a news magazine from the George Eastman House. In this issue was an article about ambrotype photos. That was a style of photos that popular in the 1850s and 1860s. There is a good explanation of ambrotypes  on Wikipedia that also has some examples. That issue also has an article on movie actors from the early 1900s.

All three of the stereoviews that I scanned have the Powers Building in them. The one above looks like it was when there was a celebration going on. There are people hanging out of windows and on all the balconies including the balconies on the tower. The distortion on the left was probably from a flag flying. You can see a bigger version on this web page.

This picture has both the Reynolds Arcade (wider building on right) and the Powers Building.

Then, this picture is of Four Corners with the Powers Building on the left. Look hard and you will see a bunch of window washers on the Powers Building.