Canneries That Produce Deming & Gould Company’s Salmon
by [Alaska, British Columbia, Washington State - Pacific Northwest Fishing Industry - Salmon] Deming & Gould Company
Chicago: Poole Brothers, 1917. Folding map measuring 38 ½ x 26 ¾ inches. Tape repairs to verso, some tears at folds and edges, still bring and attractive, good to very good overall with excellent restoration potential. A map of the canneries in Alaska, British Columbia and Washington operated by the Deming and Gould Company, who were influential in the... Read More
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Letter Written to George Washington at Newburgh Seeking Passage for Smallpox Doctor James Latham, the Smallpox Specialist who Treated Both Armies during the American Revolution, 1782
by [American Revolution - Medicine - Smallpox] Hay, Ann Hawkes [Washington, George]
Haverstraw, 1782. Single page measuring 7 x 9 inches. Trimmed at margin with very small amount of loss to text else fine. Fine. An interesting and significant letter written by Ann Hawkes Hay to George Washington in 1782, seeking passage for a family member of the loyalist physician James Latham, a prominent doctor who treated smallpox during the... Read More
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Album of Photographs of a Couple and their German Shepherds, Enjoying Decades of Recreation in the Great Outdoors in Early 20th Century Oregon and California
by [Western Americana] [Recreation]
California and Oregon, 1954. Oblong 8vo, dyed calf album measuring 11 x 7 inches. Contains 218 photographs, most measuring 3 x 5, with some smaller. Very Good. A charming album depicting the canine-centric adventures of a couple as they fish, hike, and camp their way through some of the great Western parks, nearly always with a German Shepherd... Read More
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A Series of Twenty-Five Mounted Photographs of Travel in the Southwest and Mexico, Likely by a N.E.A. Delegate, c. 1905
by [American Travel - Western]
V.P., 1905. Twenty five silver gelatin photographs measuring 3 ⅜ square on slightly larger mounts. Slight fading to images, excellent overall. Very Good. A collection of travel photographs, most captioned, likely taken by a N.E.A. delegate on a 1905 tour of the Southwest which ended in San Antonio, and also including some photographs taken in Mexico in a... Read More
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The Great Know Nothing Song, ‘I Don’t Know.’
by [American Politics – Know-Nothing Party] Eastlack, Francis F.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: H. J. Kehr, 1850. Single sheet measuring 6 x 9 ½ inches. Marginal wear; excellent.. A broadside with the lyrics to Francis F. Eastlack’s “The Great Know Nothing Song, ‘I Don’t Know.’” The song lampooned the American Party, known as the “Know Nothing” party for its members’ practice of saying they “knew nothing” in response to... Read More
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Seven Hand-Colored Photographs of Subjects and Architecture in Jerusalem, c. 1890s-1920s
by [Americans Abroad - Jerusalem] American Colony, Jerusalem
Jerusalem, 1920. Silver gelatin photographs measuring 11 ½ x 9 ¼ inches, hand colored. Some light normal wear, near fine overall, quite attractive and suitable for framing. Fine. The American Colony in Jerusalem, started by 1881 by members of a Christian utopian society led by Anna and Horatio Spafford of Chicago, developed in the next fifty years into... Read More
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Carte-de-Visite of Three Meskwaki Subjects in Mixed Attire, c. 1860s
by [American Indian History - Meskwaki] Hudson, Joseph L.
Tama County: J.L. Hudson, 1860. Carte-de-visite photograph measuring 3 ½ x 2 ¼ inches on larger mount. Semi-legible ID on lower portion of image in pencil, some normal wear, very good overall. Very Good. An early and interesting image of Meskwaki subjects seated in a studio setting, likely taken in the 1860s or early 1870s in the CDV... Read More
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Formal Portrait Taken at the Wedding of William Jackson Callahan and Martha Taylor Callahan, at the Kwassui Girls’ School in Nagasaki, 1893
by [American Missionaries in Japan - Methodist Missionary Schools - Kwassui School] Ikuta, Photographer
Nagasaki: Ikuta, 1893. Albumen photograph measuring 5 x 3 ½ inches on a larger mount, with the imprint of Ikuta, Uwajima on mount recto. Slight fading, near fine condition. With identifying marks to verso. Near Fine. A photograph of the wedding party of the American missionary and author William Jackson Callahan and Martha Taylor Callahan, taken at the... Read More
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Collection of Thirty Original Photographs of Native American Subjects Including Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita by the Lenny and Sawyers Photographic Firm in Oklahoma Territory, c. 1890s-1900
by [American Indian History - Photography] Lenny and Sawyers, Photographers
Purcell, 1900. Unmounted gelatin silver prints and one mounted boudoir card, most images measuring 8 x 5 and 7 x 4 ½ inches. Varying levels of fading, else about fine. With gallery stamps of Fenn Gallery, Santa Fe verso. Near Fine. In the years following the Land Run of 1889, which opened land in Indian Territory to Euro-American... Read More
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Partly Printed Document Signed by Richard Gridley for a Loan of 600 Pounds to Gridley, Joseph Jackson, and Edmund Quincy, from Jonathan and John Amory, Likely for the Purchase of a Furnace, 1772
by [American Revolution - Engineers] Gridley, Richard
Boston, 1772. Single sheet measuring 12 ½ x 8 inches. Notes in margin in an early hand, fine. Richard Gridley was an artilleryman, military engineer, and entrepreneur, who had a prolific career in several conflicts including the Revolutionary War, where he served as an engineer. Offered here is a very rare document likely relating to his forges in 1772,... Read More
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A Letter Written from Augusta, Georgia, Describing the Author’s Voyage from Boston to Augusta, Georgia in 1818
by [Antebellum South – Travel Narratives] Barnard, Calvin
Augusta, Georgia, 1818. Single letter, three 9 x 16 inch pages, letters with some tape repairs and stray holes at folds, still quite legible. Very good. A letter written by Calvin Barnard to his friend Asa Holman of Bolton, Massachusetts, describing the former’s trip from Boston to Augusta, South Carolina from November 25 to January 1. Barnard first... Read More
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Glamour. [1936 Lithograph by Lydia Gibson]
by [Anti-War Art – Political Cartoons – Socialism] Gibson, Lydia
United States, 1936. Lithographic illustration measuring 12 x 13 ¾ inches. Unnumbered, titled and signed recto in pencil, matching handwriting of other known examples. Near Fine.. A lithograph by American socialist artist Lydia Gibson (1891–1964). Gibson contributed artworks to radical publications including The Masses, The Liberator, New Masses, and others. This illustration, titled Glamour, depicts two well-dressed gentlemen... Read More
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Pair of Portfolios Showing the Fine Furniture of the Henry McCleary Residence, Olympia, Washington, 1920s
by [Architecture - Washington State] [Furniture] Henry McCleary Residence, Olympia Washington; Bradford, E.R.; Munago Company
Olympia, 1925. . Limp pebbled calf portfolios measuring 12 ½ x 10 ½ inches, with 106 illustrations, nearly all photographic, of furniture. Interior fine, some wear to portfolios, overall quite well preserved. Near Fine. The Henry McCleary residence in Olympia was built in 1923, sparing no expense. The mansion still stands today on 21st Ave. and is listed... Read More
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A Pair of Photograph Albums Documenting San Francisco, Monterey, and the Surrounding Areas in the Late 1880s
by [California - Early Photography] [San Francisco and the Bay Area]
Northern California, 1880. 4to, one album in burgundy cloth, the other oblong brown pebbled cloth. Seventy-one sepia-toned and cyanotype photographs, most measuring 6 ½ x 4 ½ inches. Near fine with some light wear to albums, photographs very good or better with very good contrast, some showing a hint of fading. A very early pair of vernacular photograph albums,... Read More
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Ambrotype Folk Art Portrait of a Haitian Revolutionary Officer
by [Haitian Revolution - Folk Art]
American, 1864. First. Sixth plate ambrotype, heavily hand-painted, 2 ½ x 3 inches, cased in 4 ½ x 5 inch thermoplastic hanging frame. Very Good. The Haitian Revolution had a profound affect on attitudes toward slavery in Antebellum America, influencing black attitudes regarding Pan-Africanism and self-governance, stoking fear in southern slaveholding whites of slavery’s bloody aftermath, and fueling... Read More
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Three Letters from Frederick MacMonnies to Thomas Dewing Concerning Sculpting the Players’ Club’s Edwin Booth Monument
by [Art History – New York City – Theater] MacMonnies, Frederick
France, 1910. Three letters totaling twenty-two pages, 5 x 8 inches and smaller. Folded; some with large tears at folds though entirely legible. Overall excellent.. Frederick MacMonnies (1863–1937) was an American expatriate sculptor and painter, known in the US for works including Nathan Hale and Bacchante and Infant Faun. In 1907, New York City’s Player’s Club commissioned MacMonnies... Read More
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Small Group of Ephemera Relating to Elijah Pierce and his Mammoth Sacred Art Demonstration
by [Art - African-American] Pierce, Elijah
Columbus, 1950. Three items including: "Look. It's your chance to see the Mammoth Sacred Art Demonstration." Printed handbill, 11 x 6 inches. "Pierce's Wood Carving Exhibit: Over 1000 Carvings, Educational, Fascinating, Carved with a Pocket Knife." [2] pages, 5 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches on one folding sheet; Admission ticket to "The Mammoth Sacred Art Display" at 536 Long... Read More
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Portrait of a Young Union Army Soldier
by [Civil War – Union Army] Unknown Artist
United States, N.d.. Overpainted albumen photograph measuring approximately 6 ¾ x 8 ½ inches, mounted on heavy cardstock. Slight marginal wear; excellent to Near Fine.. An overpainted albumen photograph portrait of an unknown Union Army soldier who appears to be quite young, dressed in Union fatigues. Though boys under 18 were not supposed to be able to enlist,... Read More
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Painted Poster Advertising Psychedelic Band Locksley Hall at the Che House, Pasadena, 1971
by [Concert Posters – Psychedelia – Independent Music – California] Unknown Artist
Pasadena, California, 1971. Approximately 22 x 28 inch painting on heavy cardstock with 7 x 9 inch photograph affixed. Some spotting on a portion of the lower left; overall excellent.. Locksley Hall was a Spokane-based psychedelic rock group formed in 1967, who nearly had a record deal with Epic in 1969. The project was scrapped and was not... Read More
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Unique Bowling-Themed Wooden Scrapbook Album
by [Folk Art] Unknown Artist
United States, 1970. Wooden scrapbook album measuring 10 ½ x 13 ½ inches containing approximately fifteen photographs measuring 8 x 10 inches and smaller, with approximately ten newspaper clippings and pieces of ephemera. Near Fine. A wooden scrapbook album with a bowling ball and pin design. The contents, which document a California woman’s various ladies’ bowling teams, suggest... Read More
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An Illustrated Courtship Poem
by [History of Dating – Folk Art – Poetry] Unknown Artist
Sing Sing (Ossining), New York, unknown year. Three approximately 8 x 10 inch pages. Excellent to near fine.. An illustrated poem from an unknown sender to Miss Cornelia Marshall in Sing Sing, New York. Sing Sing was the name of Ossining—which is home to the eponymous prison—until 1901. It was named for the Sint Sinck (Wappinger) people, whose... Read More
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![Exodus Is An Illumination Theatre of Madness An Laughter Poetry and Thieves to Steal Your Soul [Flyer for a Berkeley Performance by the San Francisco Mime Troupe and Others]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/479/906/1692906479.0.m.jpg)
Exodus Is An Illumination Theatre of Madness An Laughter Poetry and Thieves to Steal Your Soul [Flyer for a Berkeley Performance by the San Francisco Mime Troupe and Others]
by [San Francisco Bay Area – Theater – Art] Unknown Artist
Berkeley, California: N.p., 1966. Attractive flyer measuring 7 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Fine.. A flyer for a 1966 music, arts, and theater night at the Blind Lemon folk club in Berkeley, California. Acts include a performance by the psychedelic rock band Notes from the Underground, films from Canyon Cinema co-founder Herb de Grass, and “visionary photography” by... Read More
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Ten Posters Advertising Nebraska Territory Bands, 1930s–1960s
by [Nebraska – Music History – Territory Bands] Multiple Artists
Nebraska and Minnesota: multiple publishers, 1960. Ten posters, mainly measuring approximately 14 x 21 ½ inches, with some smaller. Many with slight damage and wear to edges, all having been stored in tubes; bright and attractive; overall very good to excellent.. Territory bands were dance bands that toured around particular regions of the US. Usually swing or big... Read More
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Three Letters to Thomas Dewing, 1902-1910
by [Art] MacMonnies, Frederick
V.p., 1910. Ink on paper, each sheet approx. 9 x 7 in., 1-4 sheets each, variously paginated, one with orig. envelope. Celebrated American Beaux-Arts sculptor Frederick MacMonnies (1863-1937) studied with Augustus Saint-Gaudens and many of his best commissions emerged from his relationships with Saint-Gaudens and the architect Stanford White. He lived primarily in France but traveled frequently to New... Read More
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Sears Township Assessment Ledger Book, 1880
by [California – Sierra County – Mining – Chinese-Americans] Sears Township Assessor
Sears Township, California, 1880. 10 ½ x 16 inch ledger, seventy-five pages. Staining and damage to corners, not affecting legibility. Very good to excellent.. A ledger of the Sears Township assessor, documenting assessment of property values. Sears Township does not appear to exist anymore, but a November 1891 census bulletin lists a Sears Township in Sierra County, with... Read More
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