Signed Portrait of the Boxer Cecil Phillips
by [African-American Photographers - Athletics] Scurlock Studios
Washington or Environs, 1938. Silver gelatin print measuring 9 ⅛ x 6 ⅛ inches. Some creasing, very good. A signed photograph of the boxer Cecil Phillips - of whom we find no record besides a negative in the Smithsonian’s Scurlock collection of this image. The photograph is signed twice by Phillips, and dated april 1, 1938. The Scurlock Studio... Read More
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Cabinet Card Photograph of the Staff of the Surveyor General’s Office in South Dakota
by [Surveying Teams - Dakota - 1890s] Newcombe, C.H.
Huron, 1891. Albumen photograph measuring 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mount. Some fading, very good overall. A scarce and possibly image from the post-statehood Surveyor-General’s office. Surveying in the Dakota Territory and in the early statehood period was quite difficult due to the terrain and the abundance of privately held mining claims. This photograph shows an early... Read More
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“Rev up your modem and pick your destination”: PC Computing’s 1995 Road Map to the World Wide Web
by [Technology – Early Internet] Downs, Timothy Edward
New York: Ziff-Davis, 1995. 24 ¾ x 37 inch two-sided poster. Some slight creasing; near fine.. A 1995 “road map” of the Web, designed by technical artist and graphic designer Timothy Edward Downs for PC Computing. In 1995, the World Wide Web had only been available to the public for a handful of years – but it was... Read More
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Reminiscences of Early Days in Fort Worth
by [Texas] Terrell, Captain J.C.
Fort Worth: Texas Printing Company, 1906. First Edition. 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, 101 pp. Very Good. A scarce memoir chronicling the early days of Fort Worth. Terrell made two trips out west, the first to California. On his second trip he decided to settle and practice law in Fort Worth in the early 1850s. According to Terrell, the... Read More
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1858 Austin County Assessor and Collector’s Ledger
by [Texas – Austin County – Enslavement] Brewer, Sackfield
Austin County, Texas, 1858. Ledger measuring 7 ½ x 12 inches. Approximately forty-five pages filled out with remainder blank. Spine broken and some pages detached; pages with wear but legible; cover quite worn. Very good plus.. Austin County, Texas, was the first Anglo-American colony in Mexican Texas, founded in about 1821 by Stephen F. Austin and his “Old... Read More
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Oaths of Office and Surety Bond Documents for Five Texan Public Officials, 1864–1866
by [Texas – Reconstruction] Ellis, W.B.; Smith, R.H.; Chisholm, William; et al.
Orange County, Texas, 1866. Three double-sided sheets measuring approximately 12 x 7 ½ inches. Very delicate with some damage intersecting with text. Very good to excellent.. 1864 oaths of office for Coroner Augustus M. Rodgers and Deputy Sheriff W. D. Bryan; an 1865 oath of office and surety bond for County Clerk W.B. Ellis; and an 1866 bond... Read More
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Six Photographs of an East Asian Theater Troupe Performing Eugene O’Neill’s Before Breakfast and The Hairy Ape, Possibly at the Tsukiji Little Theater in Tokyo
by [Theater – East Asia] Unknown Photographer
Japan or China, 1930. Six photographs of approximately 4 x 5 ½ inches and smaller, captioned verso in kanji, with some translated to English, reading “Before Breakfast” and “Hairy Ape”. Fine contrast; near fine.. Six photographs of a theater troupe in either Japan or China performing Eugene O’Neill’s Before Breakfast (1916) and The Hairy Ape (1922). O’Neill was... Read More
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Portrait of a Young African-American Man With a Hat and Cane, 1860s - 1870s
by [African-Americana - Vernacular Photography - Tintypes]
American, 1860. Tintype measuring 2 ½ x 1 ½ in larger mount. Fine contrast and condition. Fine. An exceptionally exposed and preserved portrait of a young African-American man in a studio setting, taken in the 1860s or early 1870s when the arched mount seen here was in use.
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![The Theory of Relativity in Motion [Inscribed to William Duncan Macmillan]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/359/343/1449343359.0.m.jpg)
The Theory of Relativity in Motion [Inscribed to William Duncan Macmillan]
by Tolman, Richard [William Duncan MacMillan]
Berkeley: University of California, 1917. First Edition. 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, 225 pp. Some bumpting to boards and fading to title on cloth, very good plus overall. Very Good. A unique association copy of Richard Tolman’s work on relativity, published early in his career before his involvement in the technocracy movement and his later more influential Relativity, Thermodynamics,... Read More
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An Archive of Material and Correspondence from the Toscanini Estate Including a Draft of “To the People of America,” with Notes in Toscanini’s Hand
by Toscanini, Arturo; Various Composers of Note
Various Places. Most 1940s-1950s, various formats. Very Good. A wide-ranging collection of Toscanini material, found amongst his scores in the estate of his grandson Walfredo. The highlight is a late draft of his speech “To The People of America,” an important document in Italian-American history that was printed in Life Magazine during the Second World War. ... Read More
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Two Clipped Magazine Advertisements for M. Sissieretta Jones’ “Black Patti’s Troubadours”
by [African-Americana – Vaudeville – Minstrelsy] Black Patti’s Troubadours
Portland, Oregon, 1899. Two double-sided clippings measuring approximately 7 ½ x 4 ¾ inches, both put together with tape. Slightly wrinkled and toned; excellent.. Matilda Sissieretta Jones (1869–1933) was an African-American opera singer from Portsmouth, Virginia. She studied at the Providence Academy of Music and the New England Conservatory in Boston. At the start of her career, Jones... Read More
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1845 Advertisement for John Herdman’s Emigrant Passage Office, with Letter Offering Commission for Finding Clients
by [United Kingdom – Immigration – Great Famine] Herdman, John
New York City, 1845. Two printed pages measuring 9 ¾ x 11 ½ inches, one signed. Folded and slightly wrinkled, near fine.. A circular advertising passage between Great Britain and Ireland and numerous locations in the United States, from Boston to New Orleans, by a regular packet ship service managed by John Herdman and Company. The company also... Read More
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A Lengthy Letter Written to a Friend Describing a Fourth of July Spent in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1866, Describing a Parade of African-Americans Celebrating the Holiday and with Ruminations on the Author’s Love Life and Other Subjects
by [Reconstruction - South Carolina - African-American History] Author Unknown
Charleston, 1866. Autograph letter, signed by a John (last name unknown,) addressed to R.W. Grange Esquire at Racine College in Racine Wisconsin. Some tears at folds, near fine. Appx. 1,000 words. Fine. A lengthy and atmospheric rumination on a holiday spent in South Carolina by an author known only as Bob, written to a friend in Wisconsin. The... Read More
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Highway Map of Oklahoma. “The Right Way.” Complete Road Information
by [Great Depression - Automobile Travel - Oklahoma] Author Unknown
Topeka, 1930. Folded map measuring 28 x 17 inches. Some small tears at folds, very good. Very Good. A scarce depression-era map of Oklahoma, with graphic advertisements to the verso showing the range of automobile-centric establishments in the state at the time. The map shows all the automobile routes of the time, with text along the borders listing... Read More
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![Effect of Earthquake + Fire on San Francisco, Apr. 18/06. [Series of Thirty-One Original Photographs Taken by an Unknown Photographer]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/622/164/1386164622.0.m.jpg)
Effect of Earthquake + Fire on San Francisco, Apr. 18/06. [Series of Thirty-One Original Photographs Taken by an Unknown Photographer]
by [San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906] Photographer Unknown
San Francisco, 1906. Thirty-one silver gelatin prints, measuring 4 x 3 inches, with four accompanying sheets measuring 8 x 5 ½ inches identifying the images. Also included is the original envelope to an illegible recipient, or possibly crediting the images. Fading to images else about fine, very good minus overall. Many photographers, amateur and professional alike, took to the... Read More
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Signed Carte-de-Visite of Gustav Knabe, Civil War Musician and Music Professor in Tennessee, c. 1870s
by [German-American Immigrants - Musicians] Photographer Unknown
Tennessee, 1870. Carte-de-visite photograph measuring 3 ¾ x 2 ⅜ inches on larger mount. Some foxing, very good overall, signed by Knabe as “Proff Knabe” on recto. Very Good. Gustav Knabe was born in Leipzig and formally educated in music in Germany before emigrating to the United States and serving as a “principal musician” in the Company H... Read More
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Eighth Illinois Regiment Now In France
by [African-Americana – World War I – National Guard] Unknown
United States: N.p., 1917. Lithographic poster measuring 15 ½ x 11 ¼ inches. Some damage to edges including small section torn off upper right side, good condition.. A poster celebrating the Eighth Infantry Regiment, Illinois National Guard, during World War I. Text on the poster reads: “Eighth Illinois Regiment Now In France / The Regiment was mustered... Read More
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Seven Photographs of Crow including White Swan, Little Bear and One Star, c. 1900-1905
by [American Indians] [Crow] Photographer Unknown
Montana or Wyoming, 1910. Silver gelatin photographs on thick paper mounts, photographs measuring appx. 4 x 5 inches, mounts 8 x 10. Very Good. A series of photographs of Crow, taken circa 1900-1905 by an unknown photographer, possibly acquired at a Wyoming street festival. The images bear some resemblance to the work of Heyn and Rinehart, though we... Read More
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Three Views of Euro-American Settlement in Durango and Silverton, Colorado, with a Photograph of a Mining Camp, c. 1883-1884
by [American West - Colorado] Photographer Unknown
Colorado, 1884. Albumen photographs measuring 7 ½ x 4 ½ inches on larger mounts. Some chips to mounts, occasional foxing and spotting, good to very good overall with very good contrast. Good. Three early photographs of Colorado taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1880s, taken shortly after the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad made Durango and... Read More
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“LOOK! This is What You’ve Been Waitin’ For”, Dance Night Featuring The Original Eleven Clouds of Joy
by [African-Americana – Jazz – Entertainment] Unknown
Sedalia, Missouri, 1929. 11 x 18 inches, heavy cardstock. Manuscript note verso reads “Flor Alpino Vals / Vanderbeck”. Some staining and tears, mainly marginal. Overall very good to excellent.. An advertisement for a performance by the Original Eleven Clouds of Joy, likely an iteration—of which there were many—of the popular Kansas City-based swing jazz band Clouds of Joy.... Read More
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Realphoto Postcard of Four Identified African-American Officers in France During World War One
by [African-Americana - Military History - Photography] Photographer Unknown
France, 1918. Gelatin silver print measuring 5 ½ x 3 ½ inches. Printed on French carte postale paper. Fine condition. A photograph taken in France of four sergeants in the Co. B 340th Service Battalion. Three of the subjects are identified: Sgt. Eugene Brown of Youngstown, Ohio; Sgt. George Guthrie of Wichita, Kansas; and Bruce V. Brown of Springfield,... Read More
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Portrait of Alfred Jackson, c. 1890s
by [African-Americana - Tennessee] Photographer Unknown
Nashville, 1890. Albumen photograph measuring 4 ½ x 6 ½ on larger mount. Some wear to mount, excellent condition overall with excellent contrast. Very Good. Alfred Jackson lived from 1812 to 1901 at the Hermitage in Nashville, Tennessee, first as an enslaved person, and later as a tenant farmer and guide to the Hermitage after its conversion to... Read More
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Poster for the Fat Boys’ 1987 Wipeout Tour, Austin Texas
by [Concert Posters – Hip-Hop – Texas] Unknown
Austin, Texas, 1987. 14 x 22 inch poster on heavy cardstock. Some adhesive residue, some slight marginal folding, excellent contrast, very good plus.. In 1987, Brooklyn-based hip-hop group The Fat Boys released their fourth studio album, Crushin’, which featured a hit version of the Surfaris’ “Wipeout”, recorded with the Beach Boys. This poster is from their 1987 tour,... Read More
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Quarter-Plate Tintype of Two Union Soldiers
by [Civil War - Photography] Photographer Unknown
American, 1860. Tintype measuring 3 ½ x 2 ½ inches in oval case, lacking front panel. A fine example. Fine. A particularly striking portrait of two Union soldiers seated together. Their resemblance suggests that they might be brothers.
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Pair of Ninth-Plate Tintype Portraits of Men Including a Union Soldier in a Union Case
by [Civil War - Photography] Photographer Unknown
American, 1860. Images measuring 1 ¾ x 1 ½ inches in union case. A fine example. Fine. A particularly striking portrait of a young Union soldier, in a union case with another young man, possibly a relative.
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