A Letter from a Collections Agent Warning of Pending Collections for Negro Bonds, 1876
by [Reconstruction - Law - Enslavement] Allison, R.E.
Lancaster, 1876. Single page measuring 9 ½ x 6 inches. Some tears at folds, near fine. Near Fine. An interesting letter deserving further study regarding the legal fallout for defaults on Negro Bonds following Emancipation, a question of significant economic impact for the finances of ex-enslavers, as a significant amount of private debt endured following Emancipation. The author,... Read More
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Eleven Photographs of Open Air Schools, Including the Phebe Anna Thorne Model School at Bryn Mawr College
by [History of Education – Women – Quakers] Brown Brothers; Illustrations Bureau; E.J. Reily
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; and others, 1910. Eleven photographs, approximately 7 x 9 ½ inch and smaller. With stamps for Brown Brothers, Illustrations Bureau, and E.J. Reily verso; most with captions verso. Most with chipping and wear at edges; overall good.. Open-air schools became popular in the United States in the early 20th century in response to public health... Read More
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Journal Kept by Christian N. Lund, Danish Immigrant and Elder in the Church of Latter Day Saints, 1910-1921
by [Religion - Church of Latter Day Saints - Immigrants] Lund, Christian N.
Mt. Pleasant, 1921. Limp leatherette journal measuring 6 ½ x 4 inches, 170 pages. Some chips to spine, fine contents. Near Fine. Christian N. Lund was born in Norway in 1846 to Mormon parents, and immigrated to the United States in 1869, first arriving in Salt Lake City and eventually settling in Mt. Pleasant, Utah. He was a... Read More
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Coming to Providence: Convent Life Exposed, Great Lectures on Romanism
by [Religion - Anti-Catholicism] Shepherd, Margaret
Providence, 1899. First Edition. 4 pages, 12 x 9 1/4 inches, on one folding sheet; thin paper, light chipping at edges. Very Good. A broadside advertising an appearance by Margaret Shepherd, a nativist speaker who passed as an ex-nun, lecturing prolifically on Catholicism and helping fuel nativist sentiment in the years following the publication of her likely fictitious... Read More
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May 22, 1881. Autograph Letter to the Board of the State Street Church, Explaining the Reasons for his Resignation, 1861
by [Religion - Social Gospel Movement] Gladden, Washington
New York, 1881. 4 pp, single 9 ½ x 7 ½ inch leaf, folded. Very Good. An important document from early in the career of Washington Gladden, a key figure in the Social Gospel and Progressive movements. He writes the board of the State Street Congregational Church, explaining the reasons for his resignation, which include the spiritual bankruptcy... Read More
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1776 Letter from One Englishman to Another, Asking for Financial Advice Given the “Fluctuating situation of Publick affairs”
by [Revolutionary War – Britain – Finance – Jamaica Coffee House] Sharpe, Nathaniel
Knaresborough, England, 1776. Single three page letter measuring 6 ¼ x 7 ¾ inches. Normal wear; Near Fine.. A letter from Nathaniel Sharpe in Knaresborough to Edmund Green, a merchant in London, addressed to Green at the Jamaica Coffee House. This café, the first of its kind in London, was established in the mid-17th century; in 17th and... Read More
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![Ramrod / 1254 Boylston Street Boston. [Poster]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/421/114/1722114421.0.m.jpg)
Ramrod / 1254 Boylston Street Boston. [Poster]
by [Art – LGBTQ+ History] REX
N.p., 1980. Poster on heavy cardstock measuring appx. 13 x 18 inches. Some light creasing, else Fine.. A poster featuring artwork by REX (c.1943–2024) for Boston’s Ramrod Bar at 1254 Boylston Street, with REX’s signature printed in the corner of the image. Ramrod opened in 1981 and closed in March of 2020. REX, whose birth name is unknown,... Read More
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1864–1871 Letters from the Young Ladies of the Prominent Rhode Island Hazard Family
by [Rhode Island – Hazard Family – Quakers] Hazard, Gertrude M.; Hazard, Anna P.; Hazard, Esther R.; et al.
Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New York, 1871. Thirty-two letters, two apparently missing final pages; with fifteen pages of incomplete letter material. Excellent to Near Fine.. Letters from some of the young ladies of the Hazard family, primarily Gertrude Minturn (1843–1877), Anna Peace (1845–1868), and Esther Robinson (1848–d.) Hazard, with some from other family and friends. The family was... Read More
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TO THE MEN OF RHODE-ISLAND! / Who love HONESTY and TRUTH
by [Rhode Island – Revolutionary War – State Debt] Richmond, John W.
Providence, Rhode Island: N.p., 1847. Broadside measuring 18 x 13 inches, folded with damage to right margin, somewhat stained with a few very small wormholes. Excellent.. TO THE MEN OF RHODE-ISLAND! Who love HONESTY and TRUTH, written in 1847 by John W. Richmond, deals with the repayment of Revolutionary War debt. In 1846, lawyer Wilkins Updike published a... Read More
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Two Letters to Brown, Benson, & Ives Concerning Madeira Imports, Other Goods, and the 1794 Embargo
by [Rhode Island – Mercantile History – 1794 Embargo – Madeira] Green, [Joseph]; Nicholas Cooke & Co
New York City, 1794. Two letters: one three-page letter measuring 7 ½ x 9 inches, folded with tear at seal, else fine; one three-page letter measuring 7 ¾ x 9 ¾ inches, folded with very small tears at some folds, else fine. Overall fine.. Brown, Benson, & Ives was a Rhode Island-based firm founded by Nicholas Brown, Jr.... Read More
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Two Postcards from a Soldier in Imperial Japan near the End of the Russo-Japanese War
by [Russo-Japanese War – Imperial Japan] Uyeda, Kyoske
Tokyo, Japan, 1905. Two postcards measuring 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches. Near Fine.. Two postcards from Kyoske Uyeda in Japan to his friend Bessie Mulkey in San Francisco, dated May and July 1905. At the time, the Russo-Japanese War, fought over the Russian and Japanese Empires’ imperial ambitions for Manchuria and Korea, was nearing its end. Uyeda... Read More
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The Saint-Memin Collection of Portraits, Consisting of Seven Hundred and Sixty Medallion Portraits; Principally of Distinguished Americans
by [Saint-Memin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de] Guignard, Philippe; Dexter, Elias
New York: Elias Dexter, 1862. Small folio, later black cloth, viii, 104 pp. Complete with sixty-three plates, as well as a photographic title page. One of 100 copies. Very Good. A very scarce and important reference on Saint-Memin, also important as one of the earliest books illustrated with unique sets of photographic prints. This copy generally well preserved,... Read More
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The Gold Fields of St. Domingo; With a Description of the Agricultural, Commercial and Other Advantages of Dominica
by [Santa Domingo] Courtney, W.S.
New York: Anson P. Norton, 1860. 12mo, wraps, 144 pp. Very Good. An uncommon pro-annexation title on the gold fields of what is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Courtney was commissioned by the editor of the New York Herald to write a pro-annexation treatise. He described the island as a virginal paradise ready for U.S. husbanding and... Read More
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Join the Freedom Ride to Boston. March Against Racism/Dec.14
by [School Integration in Massachusetts] The Ad Hoc Committee for Dec. 14
Boston: Ad Hoc Committee for December 14, 1974. Printed poster, 17 x 11 inches, folded. Somelight wear, crease to center, ownership marks to verso, very good plus condition overall. With the ownership stamp of J. Wesley Miller, with “J.W. Miller - duplicate” written in ink. Federal District Judge W. Arthur Garrity ruled in 1974 that Boston must integrate its... Read More
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![British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society For the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave-trade througout the World. [Gerrit Smith’s Copy, with ALS from John Scoble to Gerrit Smith Inviting Smith to Act as Delegate to the Convention of Abolition.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/462/716/1573716462.0.m.jpg)
British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society For the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave-trade througout the World. [Gerrit Smith’s Copy, with ALS from John Scoble to Gerrit Smith Inviting Smith to Act as Delegate to the Convention of Abolition.]
by Scoble, John; Allen, William; British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society; [Smith, Gerritt]
London: British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1842. Printed circular, 8 x 9 ⅞ inches, four pages, with autograph lettter on blank page. Tear with loss at margin of circular from original opening of the folded circular, with the remainder present under the wax seal, else fine, exceptionally well preserved. Fine. An important and very scarce circular announcing the... Read More
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Archive of Letters, with Some Photographs, of Scottish-Canadian Farmer James Macfarlane and His Nephew Dr. Alexander Macfarlane, With Much Concerning Farming in Ontario and the Founding of the University of Dundee
by [Scotland – History of Higher Education – Ontario – Farming] Macfarlane, Alexander; Macfarlane, James
Dover and Chatham, Ontario; Edinburgh and Blairgowrie, Scotland, 1903. Seventy-eight pieces: seven 2.5 x 4” photographs mounted on heavy cardstock; with seventeen letters from Alexander to James Macfarlane, fifty-two from James to Alexander Macfarlane, and two from others to Alexander Macfarlane. Fourteen from 1853–1882; eleven from 1883–1885; thirteen from 1886; twelve from 1887; thirteen from 1888; eight from 1889–1903.... Read More
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1951 FBI Poster Showing the Structure of the Communist Party USA
by [Communist Party USA – Second Red Scare] FBI Cartographic Section
Washington, D.C., 1951. 10 x 12 inch sheet. Folded; slightly crumpled towards bottom. Very good to excellent.. A 1951 poster produced by the FBI explaining the national structure of the Communist Party USA, including names and photographs of the thirteen National Committee members and their nine alternates. During this time—slightly predating the formation of COINTELPRO—Hoover’s FBI was already... Read More
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San Francisco Chinese Directory including Oakland-East Bay Section
by [Chinese-Americana – California – San Francisco] Jimmy Lum Advertising Service
San Francisco, California: Jimmy Lum Advertising Service, 1950. 107 pp directory measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches. Normal wear, with some manuscript markings on wraps; contents excellent with some markings and wear. Overall very good to excellent.. The 1950 edition of the San Francisco Chinese Directory, published by the Jimmy Lum Advertising Service. The directory contains telephone listings... Read More
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Two Press Photographs of Betty Shabazz Attending a Ceremony Commemorating the Death of Malcolm X, May 19, 1971
by Shabazz, Betty; Gorman, John
Oakland, 1971. Press photographs measuring 11 x 7 ½ inches. Some fading and foxing, editorial marks to versos, very good condition overall. Very Good. A pair of photographs taken at an event commemorating the death of Malcolm X at Oakland’s McClymends High School on May 19, 1971. The event was covered by the San Francisco Examiner, with these... Read More
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Flyer for Pearl Bailey’s USO Show with Louie Bellson
by [African-Americana – Jazz – US Military] USO; DOD Overseas Shows
Unknown location, 1950. 7 x 11 inch poster. Some small marginal tears, overall excellent.. A small poster for Pearl Bailey with the Louie Bellson Quartet, presented by the United Service Organizations and Department of Defense. Bailey (1918–1990) was a singer, dancer, and actress; she started her career performing at Black nightclubs on the east coast, and later performed... Read More
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Personal Liberty Bill. March 1859
by Smith, Gerrit
[Peterboro?], 1859. Four page bilfolium, 12 ½ x 8 inches. Fine condition. Fine. An uncommon imprint likely printed by Gerrit Smith in Peterboro, in 1859, the bulk of which reprints one of Smith’s speech from June 17, 1857 in Milwaukee. The speech mostly addresses the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Act, a piece of legislation which galvanized the... Read More
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Correspondence, Notes, and Photographs of Euro-American Settlers of South Dakota Concerning Life and Times in the Dakota Territory c. 1884 and an Incident in the Early Political History of the State of South Dakota c. 1891
by [South Dakota – Westward Expansion – American Authors – Politics] Shurtleff, Judge Edward D.; Gilchrist Wood, Frances; Robinson, Jonah LeRoy; Green, E.B.
South Dakota; Illinois; New York City; and Englewood, New Jersey, 1933. Approximately 242 pieces total. Two hardcover books, both by Frances Wood: Gospel Four Corners, inscribed by Edward Shurtleff; Turkey Red: A Novel of the Frontier, inscribed by Wood. Sixty-four 8 ½ x 11 inch typed pages; sixty-six 8 ½ x 11 inch handwritten pages; two 8 x 5... Read More
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Cowles Family Archive, with Letters Written by Leman Cowles from the Philippines During the Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection, and Various Items Kept by Cowles During His Service Including a Scarce Map of American Military Operations in the Region
by [Spanish-American War – Philippine Insurrection – Kansas – Cartography] Cowles, Leman; Sellner, Geo.; et al.
Philippines; Eldorado, Kansas; and others, 1910. Approximately 120 pieces: fifty-seven letters, forty postcards, five photographs, seventeen pieces of miscellaneous personal effects, and a map measuring 31 x 19 ¾ inches. Map attributed to Geo C. Sellner, rolled with marginal tearing, some tearing intersecting with subject; inscribed verso “L.T. Cowles. Manila, P.I. June 27 1800”; good to very good minus.... Read More
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Changing Base. Or, What Edward Rice Learnt in School
by [Sports] [Baseball] Everett, William
Boston: Lea and Shepard, 1868. First Edition. 8vo, burgundy cloth, 282 pp. First edition. With four plates. Very Good. A bright first edition copy of the second novel to ever feature baseball, and the first to use baseball in the title and design of the book. William Everett was the cousin of Edward Everett Hale and the son... Read More
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Panoramic Photograph of the 317th Engineer’s Band at Camp Sherman, Ohio, May 15, 1918
by [African-Americana - Military History - World War I] [92nd Infantry Division] Patton Studios
Ohio, 1918. Silver gelatin photograph in glass-fronted frame, image measures 24 ¼ x 6 ⅞ inches. Matted and framed, not examined out of frame. The 317th Engineer’s Band was a part of the 317th Engineer Regiment, an element of the 92nd Division, which was composed of over 15,000 African-American soldiers from across the country. The 92nd was one of... Read More
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