Vermont Asylum for the Insane, Founded A.D. 1834
by [Insanity] Photographer Unknown
Vermont, 1880. Albumen photograph. 15 ½ x 10 inches on a 19 x 14 inch cardstock mount. Very Good. A rare 19th century view of an insane asylum. The Vermont Asylum for the Insane, which later became the Brattleboro Retreat, was founded based on Quaker principles of moral treatment. The founder, Anna Hunt Marsh, was the first woman... Read More
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Scrapbook of Material from Our Lady of Guadalupe in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 1930s–1960s
by [Mexico – Catholicism] Unknown
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 1960. Scrapbook in album with string binding; twenty-two double-sided pages measuring 9 ¾ x 12 ¼ inches with some items not affixed. Pages delicate with marginal damage; items very good plus to excellent. Overall very good plus.. A scrapbook containing photographs, sacramental cards, programs, and clippings relating to various church functions at the Catedral de... Read More
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Letter Describing a Lonely Holiday Spent Cooking Alone, Cool Sulphurs, Arkansas, 1854
by [Women - Domestic Life - Race Relations] Author Unknown
Arkansas, 1854. Letter measuring 8 x 6 ½ inches. Some slight tears at folds, near fine. Fine. An interesting letter written by a woman to her sister after spending a holiday by herself without domestic help. The author quotes a passage from Marion Harland’s poem “”Alone,” and laments her holiday spent alone. She writes: “Mother gave the... Read More
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Puerto Rico East Island Upper Carribean [Sic] Missile Range Photographs
by [US Air Force – Puerto Rico – The Bahamas – Atlantic Missile Range] Hudson, John
Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and Turks and Caicos, 1964. Photo album containing 155 photographs, twenty-one measuring 8 x 10 inches and the remainder 3 ½ x 5 inches, most with manuscript captions verso, and twenty-six postcards, with some filled out; three newspaper clippings, and a sheet of lottery tickets. Excellent to Near Fine.. An album mainly of photographs... Read More
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Six Press Photographs of the US Forest Service’s Attempts to Fight Wildfires, Early 20th Century
by [US Forest Service – Wildfires] Gilliams Service; Brown Brothers; Duthie, G.A.
Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota; Pike National Forest, Colorado; and unknown locations, 1920. Six photos: three 4 x 6 inch, two 4 ¾ x 6 ½ inch, and one 4 x 6 ½ inch. One dated May 7, 1911. One with editorial overpainting recto. Five with typed captions affixed to bottom, one with caption printed verso. Slight damage... Read More
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Archive of Photographs Taken in Physical Culture City
by [Utopias] [Physical Culture Movement] [McFadden, Bernarr] Physical Culture City
Physical Culture City, 1905. First Edition. Physical Culture City, Spotswood, New Jersey, 1905 or later. Thirty-one images in total, varying sizes, most 3 x 5 inches or smaller. Fair to Good. Bernarr Macfadden was a proponent of Physical Culture, a movement combining exercise with nutrition and ascetic living that helped give rise to bodybuilding culture. The movement had... Read More
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1793 Letter from Rev. Isaac Robbins to His Parents Concerning Smallpox, Attacks by Indigenous Peoples, and Sin
by [Virginia – West Virginia – Religion – Indigenous- Euro-American Conflicts] Robbins, Isaac
Charlestown, Ohio County, Virginia (now Brooke County, West Virginia), 1793. Single two-page letter measuring 7 ½ x 12 ½ inches. Folded with small tears at folds, some holes intersecting with text; overall excellent.. A letter from Isaac Prince Robbins (1770–1846) in what is now West Virginia to his parents Rev. Chandler Robbins (1738–1799) and Jane Prince (1740–1800) in... Read More
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“Instructions for Using John W. Barnett’s Patent Process for Curing Leaf Tobacco.”
by [Virginia – Tobacco Industry] Barnett, John W.
Big Spring, Virginia, 1879. Handbill measuring 8 ¾ x 11 ¾ inches. Marginal damage, especially to top; marked in pencil at top left; very good.. A handbill describing a process for curing tobacco, patented in 1879 by John W. Barnett of Big Spring, a town in northern Virginia. Tobacco has long been a hugely important cash crop in... Read More
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![Collection of Letters from a Virginia Family Discussing Education, Subscriptions to “make a school in Newcastle”, and Civil War Rumors of “30000 Yankees [...] along the Coast of N. Carolina”; 1843–1893](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/050/159/1722159050.0.m.jpg)
Collection of Letters from a Virginia Family Discussing Education, Subscriptions to “make a school in Newcastle”, and Civil War Rumors of “30000 Yankees [...] along the Coast of N. Carolina”; 1843–1893
by [Virginia – Antebellum South – Education – Civil War] Minor, John; Minor, Alexander; Minor, Eliza
Virginia, Missouri, and Mississippi, 1893. Eight letters, two pages of genealogical notes, and one empty envelope. One letter missing top half of paper; generally worn with musty scent. Overall very good.. A small collection of letters between members of the Minor family of Virginia, particularly John Francis Minor (b. 1809), his daughter Eliza Frances (b. 1833), and his... Read More
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Lengthy Soldier’s Letter Written in the Aftermath of the War of 1812, Discussing Personal Expenses Incurred During the Formation of a Company During the Conflict
by [War of 1812 - Soldier’s Correspondence] Crawford, D.
Fort Richmond, 1815. Single page, bifolium, 15 x 9 ½ inches. One area of loss measuring roughly an inch square and affecting the final paragraph of the letter, else about fine. Circular New York stamp with manuscript rate at the war rate of 25 ½ cents. An uncommonly detailed letter written by a Captain D. Crawford of the 46th... Read More
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In Every Government on Earth There is Some Trace of Human Weakness
by Weege, William
Happening Press, 1967. Fine. A particularly fine example of one of several posters printed at Happening Press in Berkeley as part of William Weege’s Peace is Patriotic series. A nude is paired with a Thomas Jefferson quote and an anti-war pin.
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Charley Young. [Supplied Title]
by [Chinese-Americans - Photography - American West]
American West, 1890. Cabinet Card measuring 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mount. Identification on ink verso. Some fading, very good. Very Good. A photograph of a Chinese man on horseback in western attire, possibly taken in Oregon or California in the 1890s. A search of genealogical and newspaper records yield results for one or possibly two... Read More
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The Girl Who Dared. [1920]
by [Western Americana – Film – Women] [Sterling, Edythe] Unknown Artist
United States, 1920. Painted poster with affixed photograph, measuring 14 x 21 inches. Toned, with water damage and slight damage to edges; very good to excellent.. A painted poster advertising the 1920 film The Girl Who Dared, a Western directed by Clifford Smith and starring Edythe Sterling. The story follows Barbara Hampton, a rancher’s daughter who is elected... Read More
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Cabinet Card Portrait of a Family in St. Paul, Minnesota, with One Man Holding a Violin and Another Carrying a Revolver, 1890s
by [Western Americana - 19th Century ] Haynes, Frank Jay
St. Paul, 1889. Cabinet card portrait measuring 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mount. Fine condition with great contrast. Fine. A striking portrait of a family taken by F. Jay Haynes in his St. Paul studio, taken after 1889 when he opened it, his last studio of his career. A family sits together, one man holding a... Read More
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Four Mounted Photographs of Deadwood and Lead City, South Dakota
by [Western Americana - Photography] Locke, Henry Robinson
Deadwood: H.R. Locke, 1890. Albumen photographs measuring 9 x 7 inches on larger mounts. Very good contrast, some chips and wear to mounts. Very Good. A group of four photographs by Henry Robinson Locke, who operated a studio in Deadwood, South Dakota in the early statehood years. He photographed the Black Hills region. This collection of four photographs... Read More
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Album of 132 Photographs showing Scenery from Western American National Parks, with Many Realphoto Postcards by Noted Photographers including Blackfeet Photographs by T.J. Hileman
by [Western Americana] [National Parks] [Blackfeet] Hileman, T.J.; Haynes, Frank J.; Jacobs, Frank, et al.
Various Places, 1920. Oblong folio, cloth over cardstock, 15 x 11 inches. Photographs and realphoto postcards, most measuring around 5 x 3 1/2 inches, mounted to pages. The system of national parks was created at first in a somewhat piecemeal fashion, with the Department of the Interior holding responsibility for establishing each park individually. Chief White Calf of the... Read More
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The “Thrilling and Romantic Story” of Frederick T. Cummins, “Great White Indian Chief”
by [Wild West Performers – Iowa – Indigenous History] Hill, Richmond C.
Schenectady, New York: privately published, 1912. Single twenty-four page booklet measuring 6 ¼ x 9 ¼ inches. Cover and some pages torn at fold; some marginal damage to covers and slight wrinkling and toning to some pages; overall excellent.. A booklet telling the life story of “Colonel” Fred Cummins (1859–1932), especially his time growing up in the Council... Read More
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Ornately Prepared Album of Photographs Showing the Aftermath of a Storm in Curtiss, Wisconsin, 1905
by [Vernacular Photography - Disasters - Wisconsin]
Curtiss, 1905. Small album measuring 6 x 5 inches with seven photographs of storm damage in Curtiss, OK. One picture apparently missing, otherwise near fine. Very Good. A small album of photographs showing storm damage in the small town of Curtiss, Wisconsin, in June of 1905. The photographs are cut out in ornate patterns, which provide an odd... Read More
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Woman Suffrage Campaign Songs and Votes for Women. [Two Rare Ohio Women’s Suffrage Handbills]
by [Women’s Suffrage – Ohio] Kauffman, Eunice H.; Smith, Helen; Session, Juliette
Ohio: Mohr & Carter, Printers; and N.p., 1917. One double-sided handbill measuring approximately 6 x 6 inches with small tear to lower right corner; one single-sided folded into a packet measuring approximately 3 ½ x 4 ½ inches. Overall Near Fine.. Two handbills promoting women’s suffrage in Ohio. “Woman Suffrage Campaign Songs” contains lyrics to three songs re-written... Read More
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![Facts Worth Knowing and Isn’t It True? [Two Handbills Concerning Women’s Suffrage]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/056/572/1716572056.0.m.jpg)
Facts Worth Knowing and Isn’t It True? [Two Handbills Concerning Women’s Suffrage]
by [Women’s Suffrage – New York City] National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc
New York City: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc, 1917. Two handbills measuring 5 x 7 inches. Fine.. Two handbills printed by the New York City-based National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company. “Facts Worth Knowing” lists the differences in law between states where women did and did not have the vote, including that in two states without women’s suffrage,... Read More
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Two Carte-de-Visite Views of the Second Ladies’ Hall at Oberlin College, c. 1868
by [Women's Education - 19th Century - Oberlin College] Platt, J.C.; Platt and Hawley
Oberlin, 1868. Albumen photographs, 2 ½ x 3 ½ inches on larger mounts. Some fading to one of the photographs, other image with excellent contrast, near fine condition overall. Near Fine. An uncommon early pair of views of the Second Ladies’ Boarding House at Oberlin College in the 1860s, taken at a time when Oberlin was one of... Read More
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Group Portrait of Female Mill Workers, Lawrence, Massachusetts, c. 1880s
by [Women] [Labor] [Massachusetts] Greene, J.J.
Lawrence, 1880. Albumen photograph on card stock, 7 ¾ x 4 ½ inches. Good. Working conditions were notoriously bad in Lawrence, one of the industrial hubs of the textile industry in the late nineteenth century after the harnessing of the Merrimack River’s water power in 1845. The city was a hub of immigration - mostly Irish - and... Read More
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Portrait of Julia Marlowe. [Inscribed by Marlow to a Friend, 1940]
by [Women] [Suffrage] [Theatre] [Marlowe, Julia] Genthe, Arnold
New York: Arnold Genthe, 1920. Silver gelatin print, 6 ¾ x 9 ¼ inches on larger mount. Signed by Genthe on the mount, inscribed by Marlowe as Marlowe Sothern on the mount as follows: “To Jean: our little comrade on our walks in Beautiful Stockbridge. In remembrance also of 'Sun Yat Sen' and Choo-Chio Chow. September. 1940. Julia Marlowe... Read More
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Lengthy Letter Between Two Cousins Discussing the Cold Yankee Character and the Differences Between New England and New Jersey, as Well as Current Events, 1838
by [Women - New England - Panic of 1837] Richards, Marion
Claremont, 1838. Stampless letter with circular Claremont, New Hampshire postmark and 18 ½ cent rate. Fine condition. Fine. An entertaining letter written by Marion Richards of Claremont, New Hampshire, defending the northern way of life and describing the relative calm in New Hampshire during the Panic of 1837, which apparently had been the subject of previous correspondence between... Read More
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Intimate Letter on Sorosis Club Stationery to the Snow Family of Rockland, Maine Discussing a Memorial for the Cary Sisters, 1871
by [Women’s Movement - Sorosis] Morse, Rebecca
New York, 1871. Folded letter, fine condition. Fine. A letter written by Rebecca A. Morse, the activist and member of Sorosis, to the Snow family in Rockland, Maine, in 1871. The letter concerns a fundraising venture that is likely for the Cary sisters - Phoebe and Alice - who both died in 1871 Morse writes, “I know you... Read More
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