Dartmouth Winter Carnival Ski Posters(Post)

    We just acquired an amazing collection of Dartmouth Winter Carnival Posters from the 1950s. National Geographic dubbed the Carnival the Mardi Gras of the North. The posters in the 1950s were designe ...

    Dartmouth Winter Carnival(Post)

    The “Mardi Gras of the North” is held for three days every February at Dartmouth and is a right of passage for all who attend this hallowed institution. Our interest in the winter carnival is around ...

    Dartmouth Winter Carnival – 2001 An Ice Odyssey(Post)

    Today we look back at some prior classic posters, like this 2001 gem designed by Quang V, Truong Dartmouth Class of ’01, titled 2001: an ice odyssey. The poster is a tribute to Stanley Kurbrick’s 200 ...

    Dartmouth Winter Carnival Valhalla 1975(Post)

    As winter carnival season is about to kick off, we look back at some prior classic posters, like this 1975 gem designed by George H. Selkirk III Dartmouth Class of ’77, titled Valhalla – Beyond the N ...

    Famous Illustrators - John Held, Jr. (Post)

    John Held, Jr was the preeminent artist of the Jazz Age who was widely published in the New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, Life Magazine and Vanity Fair. Held was famous for his depiction of the popular Ro ...

    William Haines Hall Art Illustrator - Designer of Stanford Football Programs(Post)

    William Haines Hall was an illustrator who lived in the Bay Area. Hall moved to San Francisco from Missouri in 1925 and enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts. He then worked as a fashion ill ...

    F. Earl Christy College Memorabilia(Post)

    F. Earl Christy was an American Artist who lived from 1882-1961. His oeuvre includes many works of art relating to early college football, with a particular emphasis on the Ivy League. His works were ...

    The Stanford Chaparral Humor Magazine - A History(Post)

    The Stanford Chaparral was founded in 1899 and is Stanford's humor magazine. The founding idea of the magazine from the website of the Chaparral, "Stanford student Bristow Adams came up ...

    Princeton is a Green Phoenix : F. Scott Fitzgerald(Post)

    F. Scott Fitzgerald is an icon of American literature. Fitzgerald attended Princeton, dropping out in 1917 to join the Army. In 1927 he wrote an essay about the University that he loved.Fitzgerald: M ...

    Stanford University Street Names(Post)

    We just acquired a lot of old Stanford street signs and became interested in the origin of many of the names. Stanford's campus took its street names from a variety of sources including early Spanish ...

    What is a College Smoker, also know as a Sophomore Smoker or Junior Smoker?(Post)

    We are always on the lookout for interesting collegiate memorabilia and recently stumbled across one that really caught our eye. It was a song book from 1913 issued for a "Reception and Smoker," to h ...

    Stanford Cal - The Game - Football(Post)

    "The Game," as the Stanford Cal football rivalry is known, was first played in 1892, seven years after Stanford was founded. Its rival was founded 24 years earlier. The teams meet every year, and alt ...

    An Illustrated History of the University of California Berkeley 1895(Post)

    We recently obtained a book published in 1895 and it gives a pictorial history of the University of California from 1868 to 1895. At the time the University of California was located only in Berkeley ...

    The Albertype Company - View Books and Postcards (Post)

    The Albertype Company was founded by Adolph Wittemann and Herman L. Wittemann in the late 1880s as a postcard and "view book" publishing company. Prior to the founding of the Albertype Company there ...

    About Collectible Ivy(Page)

    A family owned business located in Princeton Jct., New Jersey, and serving satisfied customers for over ten years, we specialize in the collectibles of long established universities and other well kn ...

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