Seven Photographs of Jazz Musicians
by [Jazz] Bradley, Jack
New York, et al., 1960. Five 8 x 10 and two 5 x 7 inch gelatin silver prints, with Bradley’s estate marks to versos. Excellent. Jack Bradley was a Cape Cod native who, after graduating from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, fell in love with Jazz after seeing Louis Armstrong perform at the Boston Armory in 1956. In 1958... Read More
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![Twelve Compositions by Maceo Jefferson [with] Photograph of the Plantation Orchestra, Featuring Jefferson [with] A Signed Note by Jefferson, c. 1964](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/034/727/1381727034.0.m.jpg)
Twelve Compositions by Maceo Jefferson [with] Photograph of the Plantation Orchestra, Featuring Jefferson [with] A Signed Note by Jefferson, c. 1964
by Jefferson, Maceo
V.p., 1960. Photograph measuring 8 x 10 inches, compositions measuring 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. Well preserved, nearly fine with some normal toning. Near Fine. Maceo Jefferson was a jazz banjoist and guitarist from South Carolina who began his career in the 1920s playing with Roscoe Lee, Lucille Hegamin and Ethel Waters and then playing in the... Read More
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Portfolio of Drawings and Memoir Documenting a Forty-Day Internment at Ellis Island While Fleeing Nazi Persecution in 1941
by [Judaica - World War Two - Immigration - Ellis Island] Rosendor, Bitia
New York City, 1941. Thirty-three sketches, mainly measuring 6 x 8 or 8 x 10 inches, affixed to black construction paper. Sketches are pen and ink or pencil, some with captions. With seventeen typed pages, mainly measuring 6 ½ x 7 inches. In an 11 x 14 ½ inch portfolio. Spine of portfolio missing, all pages separated; sketches excellent,... Read More
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![Poems of the Late Francis S. Key, Esq. [Star Spangled Banner]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/285/505/1038505285.0.m.jpg)
Poems of the Late Francis S. Key, Esq. [Star Spangled Banner]
by Key, Francis Scott [Star Spangled Banner]
Robert Carter and Brothers, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. New York, 1857. 8vo, publisher's black cloth, xii, (13)-203 pp. First edition. The first edition of the Star Spangled Banner in book form. It had been printed only as a broadside in 1814. A BAL 11093 binding B, with no sequence noted. A good plus to very good minus... Read More
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Photograph of a Group of Indigenous Subjects including Ado-Ete at Fort Sill, 1890s
by [American Indian History - Kiowa]
Fort Sill, 1890. Gelatin silver print measuring 6 ½ x 4 ¾ on larger mount. Very good contrast. Fine. An image taken by an unknown photographer of the Kiowa chief Ado-Ete, or Big Tree, at Fort Sill. The subject on the far left is identified on the verso as “Kowalty.” The men are shown in a group with... Read More
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“Lines Written in Honor of the Street Car Strikers”
by [Labor History – Unions – Transit History] O’Reilly, J.B.
Columbus, Ohio, 1890. 7 x 11 inches. Folded with tears at folds, piece missing from center bottom, not intersecting with text. Overall good.. A handbill with a poem written by J.B. O’Reilly celebrating the victory of striking streetcar workers in Columbus, Ohio in 1890. On June 3, workers formed a union and commenced a strike, demanding shorter hours... Read More
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Cabinet Card Portrait of a Group of Female Mill Workers in Nashua, N.H. c. 1880-1890
by [Labor][Women][New Hampshire]Riley, J., Photographer
Nashua: J. Riley, 1890. Albumen photograph, 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mount. A portrait of seven women holding weaving shuttles, most likely mill workers in Nashua. Two large mills, the Nashua Manufacturing Company and the Jackson Manufacturing Company, were active during this period, though we cannot confirm if this picture was taken at either. Generally well preserved... Read More
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Costa Rica, América Central 1922. Manuel Gomez Miralles Fotografo
by [Latin Americana - Photography] Miralles, Manuel Gomez
N.P., 1922. Oblong 8vo, wraps, 9 x 6 inches. Rear wrap detached, tears and chips to front wrap, fine contents, very good overall. Very Good. An uncommon first edition copy of Manuel Gomez Miralles’ photographic survey of Costa Rica. Miralles was one of Costa Rica’s most prolific photographers, operating for many decades, and this book is an early... Read More
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A Series of Nine Albumen Views of Costa Rica, c. 1895
by [Latin Americana - Photography - Costa Rica] Rudd, H.N.; Paynter Brothers
Costa Rica, 1890. Albumen photographs, 9 x 7 ½ inches on larger mounts, with credits to Rudd y Paynter and the Paynter Bros. Near Fine. H.N. Rudd and the Paynter Brothers, Richard and John, were photographers who were active in Costa Rica in the 1890s, operating out of San Jose. Five of these views show the Rudd y... Read More
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“El ciego al Teatro Ideal”: 1923 Review of Rivas’ La Mala Ley at the Ideal Theater by Salvadoran Poet Julio Enrique Ávila
by [Latin American Authors – Theater – Mexico City] Ávila, Julio Enrique
Mexico City, 1923. Double-sided 8 ½ x 11 inch sheet, handwritten with signature. Stained and slightly torn at fold. Excellent.. Julio Enrique Ávila (1892–1968) was a Salvadoran science professor, journalist, and poet. He is best known for his poetry anthology El mundo de mi jardín (1927). Offered here is a review of María Teresa Montoya in a production... Read More
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Pair of Carte-de-Visite Portraits of Peruvian Women, One Nursing a Child, c. 1870s
by [Latin Americana - Photography - Peru] Courret Hermanos, Photographers
Lima, 1870. Albumen photographs measuring 2 x 3 ½ inches on larger mounts. Some slight fading, a few spots to one image including one with loss, about very good overall. A striking pair of early carte-de-visite portraits of Peruvian women from the Courret studios at 197 Calle de la Union, one bearing the Courret Hermanos imprint and the other... Read More
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A Collection of Forty-Six Photographs of New Left Protests and Festivals, Presumably Taken by a Participant, c. late 1960s
by [Counterculture] [The New Left]
V.p., 1970. Thirty-three 11 x 14 images, thirteen 8 x 10 images. Excellent. These photographs, likely taken by a participant in the various events but probably printed in the 1970s, encapsulate many of the iconic themes of the New Left. Most of the photographs show protesters at unidentified events, though the clothing and settings are without a doubt... Read More
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![Charles-Alexandre Lesueur Artiste et Savant Francais en Amérique de 1816 a 1839. [With Additional Photographs and Typed Letter]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/065/309/1468309065.0.m.jpg)
Charles-Alexandre Lesueur Artiste et Savant Francais en Amérique de 1816 a 1839. [With Additional Photographs and Typed Letter]
by [Lesueur, Charles] Loir, Adrien
Le Havre: Museum D'Histoire Naturelle, 1920. Small 4to, red library buckram over original wraps, 108 pp. + 42 plates. With an additional three original photographs of Lesueur’s work tipped in, along with a letter, presumably written by a staff member at the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle in Le Havre which hold the works. Ex-LOC, with duplicate and deaccession marks to... Read More
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Photograph of “Female Impersonator” Julian Eltinge, Taken c. 1920
by [LGBT History – Drag Performance – Vaudeville] Eltinge, Julian; Brown, Herold
Unknown location, 1920. Approximately 10 x 13 inches. Some tears and chips at edges, very good contrast, editorial overpainting on recto, overall very good. Marks on verso reading “Julian Eltinge Hippodrome March 12”. Very good. Julian Eltinge (1881/1883–1941) was an American actor and “female impersonator”—in today’s terms, a drag performer—from Newtonville, Massachusetts. Eltinge’s drag career began at age... Read More
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Archive of Correspondence and Paperwork Related to Operation Homex, 1966–1967
by [LGBTQ+ History – Crime] Burke, William Joseph; Hammock, Elwood “Buddie” Lee; Lea, Arthur
United States, 1967. Approximately 108 items: Eighteen packets of carbon-copied documents totaling 114 pages; thirty-nine pages of handwritten notes; twenty-six letters from William Burke to Elwood Hammock; thirteen notes and letters from Elwood Hammock to Arthur Lea; fourteen packets of carbon copies of Burke's letters, totaling fifty pages; two newspaper articles about the case; and three copies and one negative... Read More
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Tratado de Amistad, Limites y Navegacion Concluido entre el Rey Nuestro Senor y los Estados Unidos de America: Firmado en San Lorenzo el Real a 27 de Octubre de 1795
by [Pinckney’s Treaty][Treaty of San Lorenzo]
Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1796. First Edition. Good. The first bilingual edition of Pinckney’s Treaty of San Lorenzo, which ended the West Florida Conflict by establishing an amicable agreement between Spain and the United States for the navigation of the Mississippi River. Thomas Pinckney signed as a representative of the United States, and Manuel de Godoy signed in the... Read More
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Collection of 1970s Photographs of the Los Angeles Fire Department, Including Early EMS
by [Los Angeles – Firefighting – EMS] Ortiz, Joe; Papaleo, Ken; Oliver, R.L.
Los Angeles, California: LAFD, LA Herald Examiner, and LA Times, 1970. Forty-nine photographs measuring 8 x 10 inches with some larger, most with photographers’ stamps verso. Most seem to have been previously affixed to a surface and torn off; some tears and residue intersect with subject. Some with water damage. Overall good plus.. A collection of forty-nine photographs... Read More
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“Southern Leaders Impeach Judge Lynch: High Lights from Report of Commission on The Study of Lynching”
by [African-Americana – American South – Lynching] Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching
Atlanta, Georgia: Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1932. Four page booklet measuring 6 x 9 inches. Some staining and slight wear, overall near fine.. A 1932 booklet summarizing the results of the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching’s findings about the crime, published by the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC). Formed in 1919, the Atlanta-based CIC involved white... Read More
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Instructions No. 10, 1850. By Command of the Postmaster General. Notice to the Public, and Instructions to all Postmasters, Sub-Postmasters and Letter Receivers. California and Oregon, Option of Transmitting Correspondence, for Through United States
by [British Postal History - California and Oregon - Gold Rush Period - Panama Route] Royal Mail
Great Britain, 1850. Broadside measuring 9 ⅞ x 15 ⅜ inches. Some chipping and wear to edge, ink number written in corner, two small section of loss due to improper mounting, very good overall. Coat of arms of the United Kingdom above printed text. Very Good. A scarce broadside relating to British postal rates across the Panama Route... Read More
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1845 Letter Discussing Maine State Politics
by [Maine – Politics] Palmer, Barnabas
Kennebunk, Maine, 1845. Two 7 ½ x 9 ¾ inch pages. Near fine.. A letter from Barnabas Palmer in Kennebunk to Charles G. Bellamy, Esquire, in Kittery. Bellamy (1811–1892/1899) was a captain in the Maine militia, a member of the Maine House of Representatives (1842–3) and State Senate (1846–7), York County Sheriff, and then Inspector of Timber at... Read More
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Logbook and Other Materials of William Higgins, Sea Captain from Bowdoinham, Maine, 1830–1898
by [Maine – Maritime History – Caribbean] Higgins, William; Burritt, Elijah H.; et al.
United States and Caribbean, 1898. Approximately twenty-nine pieces: logbook of eighty-four double-sided pages measuring 13 x 20 inches; eight letters, seventeen documents and forms, and three pieces of miscellany. Much wear and significant damage to logbook, including water damage, mildew, and tearing; log book overall fair to good minus. Other materials good to very good. Overall good.. William... Read More
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Photo Album of the Industria Lanera del Uruguay (ILDU) Factory
by [Manufacturing History – Textiles – Uruguay] Industria Lanera del Uruguay, S.A.
Montevideo, Uruguay, N.d.. Photo album with thirty-six captioned photos measuring 6 ¾ x 9 ¼ inches, mounted on heavy cardstock. Album embossed “INDUSTRIA LANERA DEL URUGUAY S.A. / ILDU / MONTEVIDEO URUGUAY”. Photos with fine contrast, two missing; slight wear to mounts and album; else Near Fine.. Industria Lanera del Uruguay is a Montevideo-based wool manufacturing company that... Read More
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PHOTOGRAPHS! Ambrotypes. L. W. F. Mark, late of Boston, has now the pleasure of informing the inhabitants of this town and vicinity, that he has taken rooms at for a few days only, for the purpose of taking Photographs, Ambrotypes, and Lettertypes
by [Photographic Literature and Ephemera] [L.W.F. Mark]
New England, 1850. First Edition. 6 1/2 x 9 inches. Fine. A charming broadside advertising the services of the itinerant photographer L.W.F. Mark of Boston and his photographic equipment. Itinerant photographers travelled through towns offering their services beginning with the invention of the daguerreotype in the late 1840s and continuing through the eras of varied photographic processes. This... Read More
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Observe Martin L. King 'Day,' Jan. 14, 1972
by [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day]; J.L.
N.P., 1972. . Poster measuring 14 x 22 inches. Some marks, a closed tear with tape repair edgewear and creasing, very good minus overall. Very Good. After John Conyers’ efforts to create a national holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. failed in congress days following his assassination, the first celebrations of Martin Luther King’s birthday began in 1969... Read More
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![Now Is The Time / If you want to buy a Suburban Home, If you want to buy a Country Home [...]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/264/157/1722157264.0.m.jpg)
Now Is The Time / If you want to buy a Suburban Home, If you want to buy a Country Home [...]
by [Maryland – Virginia – Suburbanization] Schwartz, Andrew J.; Unknown Artist
Washington, D.C.: Sheiry, 1896. Heavy cardstock measuring approximately 5 x 7 inches. Some wear and toning, with manuscript note verso; excellent.. The Washington, D.C. area experienced a rapid increase in population during and in the few decades after the Civil War, and a suburbanization boom followed. Increasing suburbanization was made possible by the expansion of transit networks, including... Read More
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