“Opportunity Knocks”: A Broadside Concerning the “Unmerger” of the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads
by [California – Railroad History – Antitrust Law] California Producers & Shippers Association
Sacramento, California, 1922. 17 ½ x 24 inches. Folded, small tears at folds, overall excellent.. In 1922, the United States Supreme Court decided United States v. Southern Pacific Company et al., declaring the Southern Pacific Company’s ownership of a controlling part—46%—of the Central Pacific Railroad’s stock in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, and requiring that this monopoly... Read More
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Collection of American Student Movement Ephemera, 1972-1974
by [Attica Brigade] [Revolutionary Student Brigade] et al.
New York, 1974. First Edition. Fifteen items, including broadsides, leaflets, and newspapers, related to the Attica Brigade and the Revolutionary Students Brigade. Near fine with minimal wear. Near Fine. [Attica Brigade] [Revolutionary Student Brigade] et al. Collection of American Student Movement Ephemera, 1972-1974. [New York, Illinois, et al.]. Various formats, as listed below. ... Read More
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1830 Letter Written from Mauritius, Describing Economic and Social Conditions on the “Ebony Isle”
by [British Empire – Mauritius – Slavery] Unknown Author
Mahébourg, Mauritius, 1830. Single unsigned fourteen-page letter measuring 8 x 12 ¾ inches. Folded with some stains and pencil marks. Overall near fine.. In 1830, Mauritius was a British colony, captured from the French in 1810 during the Napoleonic Wars. It was originally a Dutch colony, and the Dutch had introduced enslaved labor to the islands. Enslaved people... Read More
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Letter Home from an American Missionary in the Philippines, Describing the Japanese Takeover of Manila and His Subsequent Experience as a POW
by [World War II – Philippines – Jesuits – POWs] Unknown Author
Philippines, 1945. Single letter; five 8.5 x 11” pages. Pinhole at top of first page, missing final page(s), overall fine. The unknown author of this letter was an American Jesuit missionary in the Philippines, who before the war was a novice living in Novaliches, just outside Manila. He apparently had not written a significant letter home for a... Read More
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Scrapbook of an African-American Family’s 1947 Road Trip from New York Through Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula
by [African-Americana – Auto Tourism] Unknown Author
United States and Canada, 1947. Eleven double-sided scrapbook pages measuring 7 x 11 inches, containing forty-five 2 ½ x 3 ½ inch photographs, six postcards, four maps, four guides, and nine typed pages. Scrapbook pages fragile with significant marginal damage; scrapbook contents generally excellent.. A scrapbook documenting an African-American family’s road trip during July and August of 1947,... Read More
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1899 Handbill for a Concert and Cakewalk to Benefit Shippensburg, Pennsylvania’s AME Zion Church
by [African-Americana – Pennsylvania] Unknown Author
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: Columbia Printing House, 1899. Sheet measuring 6 x 9 inches. Marked verso in pencil. Marginal damage; very good plus.. Handbill advertising a “Grand Concert and Cake Walk” in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, to benefit the AME Zion Church. Newspaper articles date the event to 1899. Shippensburg is a small town in southern Pennsylvania, about thirty miles north of... Read More
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Everyone Agrees that Lynching is the Chief Crime Against the Colored Man in the United States
by [African-Americana – Hate Crimes – 1920 Presidential Election] Unknown Author
Chicago or New York, 1920. 6 x 9 inches single sided. Toning, several small stains, small fold at top left corner; near fine. An anonymous handbill decrying lynching in the United States and advertising the differences in anti-lynching policy between the Republican and Democratic parties. The header states that “Everyone agrees that lynching is the chief crime against... Read More
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Playbill for Run Little Chillun at the Mayan Theatre, Los Angeles
by [African-Americana – Theater – New Deal – Harlem Renaissance] Unknown Author
Los Angeles, California: Stationers Corporation, 1937. Double-sided sheet measuring 5 ½ x 11 ½ inches. Toned with one fold; excellent to near fine.. A playbill for the production of Hall Johnson’s "Run Little Chillun" at the Mayan Theatre in Los Angeles. Considered an important product of the Harlem Renaissance, "Run Little Chillun" premiered on Broadway in 1933. Its... Read More
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Cash Book of a Merchant Working in California, Oregon, and New Jersey, 1896
by [American West – History of Commerce] Unknown Author
Sonora and Groveland, CA; Portland, OR; and Orange, NJ, 1896. 8 ½ x 13 ½ inch cash book, thirty-two pages, with nine loose sheets. Fine. A cash book for an unnamed business selling out of California, Oregon, and New Jersey in 1896. The book records total merchandise value, cash and accounts, liabilities, individual sales, and so on. The... Read More
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Menu for May Day Dinner at Camp Hancock, 1877
by [Dakota Territory – US Army – Food History] Unknown Author
Bismarck, Dakota Territory, 1877. 4 x 8 inches. Folded, some stains and foxing, excellent.. Camp Hancock, in what is now Bismarck, North Dakota, was built in 1872 as facilities for US troops. The troops were stationed there to guard supplies, equipment, and crews as the Northern Pacific Railway was constructed through the area. In 1877, it became a... Read More
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Scrapbook Documenting an Unconventional Marketing Campaign for The Carpetbaggers (1964) at Loew’s Metropolitan Theatre in Downtown Brooklyn
by [Film – Marketing – Brooklyn] Unknown Author
Brooklyn, New York, 1964. Twenty-eight page scrapbook measuring 11 x 14 inches. Containing forty-one photographs measuring 5 x 7 inches and smaller and fifty-eight pieces of ephemera, forty-three of which are filled-in entry slips from a contest. Cover with wear and large stain, contents generally excellent; overall very good to excellent.. The Carpetbaggers is a 1964 film directed... Read More
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Die Franziskaner Missionen des Suedwestens [Franciscan Missions of the Southwest, Vol. 1]
by [American Southwest – Catholic Missionaries – Indigenous History] Multiple Authors
St. Michaels, Arizona: Anselm Weber and Berard Haile, 1913. Sixty-eight page booklet measuring 6 ¾ x 10 inches. Wear mainly to covers; excellent.. Catholic missionaries—Franciscans in particular—have been present in what is now the American Southwest since the 16th century. For most of this time, these were Spanish missionaries missioning to the Pueblo people, mainly in New Mexico;... Read More
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Wharfage Account Ledger for Humboldt Bay, Eureka, California, 1868–1873
by [California – Eureka – Humboldt County – Maritime History] Various Authors
Eureka, California, 1873. Single 5 ½ x 12 inch ledger book with five small pages of notes and one short letter. Forty-two pages of the ledger filled out with many more blank. Some damage to spine on exterior, otherwise very good to excellent.. Offered here is a wharfage fee account ledger from Eureka, California, with dates between 1868... Read More
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Collection of Letters Sent from California Prisons, 2006–2015, Including Inmates’ Art and Descriptions of the Inmate Firefighting System
by [California – Prison Art – Inmate Firefighting] Multiple Authors
California, 2015. Eighty letters, ten artworks, and two photographs. Anonymized for writers’ and their families’ privacy, with more information available on request. Overall excellent.. Offered here is a collection of letters and art sent from people incarcerated in the California State Prison system, primarily from a husband (“P.”) and wife (“A.”) to P’s mother and stepfather. ... Read More
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Collection of Esperanto Materials, Including Bulletins of the Quaker Group “The Friends’ Esperanto Society” and the Indonesian Periodical “Hinda Esperantisto”
by [Esperanto – Quakers – Indonesia] Various Authors
Austria; Java, Indonesia; London, England; and Los Angeles, California, 1947. Sixteen pieces: two “Friends’ Esperanto Society” bulletins, 8 x 12 ½ inch each; two letters, 8 ½ x 11 inch each; seven “Hinda Esperantisto” pamphlets, 5 ½ x 8 inch, four pages each; two “Declaration” forms, 4 x 6 inches; one BES pamphlet, 4 ½ x 6 inches, eight... Read More
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Collection of Letters Mainly to New Bedford, Massachusetts Whalers I.H. Bartlett & Sons, 1830s–1850s
by [Massachusetts – New Bedford – Whaling – Maritime Trade] Various Authors
Massachusetts, New York, Maine, Pennsylvania, and others, 1855. Fifty letters with four empty envelopes or covers. Forty-four letters addressed to I.H. Bartlett & Sons: two from the 1830s, eight from the 1840s, and thirty-four from the 1850s. With five letters addressed to Capt. John C. Blanchard (1838, 1839, 1844, and 1849) and one to Cumston & Hatch (N.d.). Overall... Read More
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June 30, 1789 edition of the New-York Daily Gazette, with Reports on the French Revolution and Relations with Indigenous Americans, and Including an Advertisement for the Return of Two Escaped Enslaved Men
by [New York City – French Revolution – Indigenous History – African-American History] Various Authors
New York City: J. & A. M’Lean, 1789. Four pages measuring 12 ¼ x 9 ½ inches. Marginal holes, folded with tear at central fold; else fine.. The New-York Daily Gazette was a newspaper published by J. and A. M’Lean, publishers best known for being the first to publish the collected Federalist papers in 1788. Of special interest... Read More
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“Savannas + Mountains – A 4 Months Trip of a Party of American Prospectors in the Wilds of Venezuelan Guiana”, 1897
by [Venezuela – 1890s – Gold Mining] Unknown Author
Venezuela, 1897. Ninety-five 7 x 11 inch pages. Chipping at edges and some pages torn, sometimes affecting legibility; overall very good.. In the mid-19th century, gold was discovered in recently-independent Venezuela, with significant workings in place by the late 1860s.[1] This discovery reignited the border dispute that had been simmering between Venezuela and Britain, which had acquired British... Read More
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“Sweep Republicanism out of your county and State!”, A Handbill to Encourage Virginians to Vote Democrat in the 1905 Election
by [Virginia – Politics] Unknown Author
Virginia, 1905. Single 3 ½ x 6 inch sheet. Some wrinkling and marginal damage, overall very good.. A handbill urging Virginians to vote for the Democratic candidates for governor, General Assembly, and clerk. The one other copy we find on OCLC, housed at the University of Virginia, dates the handbill to 1905. This election pitted Representative Claude A.... Read More
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A Collection of Thirteen Cabinet Cards of the Shepard Family Band. V.p., ca. 1880s-1890s
by [Music - 19th Century - New England - Family Bands - Shepard Family Band]
Mostly New England: Various Photographers, 1890. Cabinet cards measuring 6 ½ x 4 ¼ inches. Various settings, showing the band members posed with their instruments including banjos, violins, trumpets, drum, and tubas. Varying wear, but generally very good with some normal age-related fading. Very Good. Originally from Lawrenceville, New York, the Shepard Family Band toured throughout the Northeast... Read More
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Collection of Seventy-Six Checks Written to Chinese Businesses in Montana, 1870-1872
by [Chinese-American Communities - Montana - 1870s] L.H. Hershfield & Brother Bank
Montana Territory, 1872. Lot of seventy-six checks measuring 8 ½ x 4 inches, with vignette illustration of a prospector and his dog. With one additional document relating to the Hershfield account with the Bank of California. Most checks issued to “Gold Coin,” and drawn on the Bank of California in San Francisco. The checks are printed by Robert F.... Read More
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Two Photo Albums of a Young Woman’s Trip to Bermuda, 1918
by [Bermuda]
Bermuda, 1918. Oblong 8vo, wraps, with 47 original gelatin silver photographs glued to an equal number of pages in two albums, each photo with short description typed on a slip of paper affixed beneath or beside the image. Images measure 4 ¼ x 2 ⅜ inches or reverse, albums are 5 ½ x 7 inches, black paper wraps, lettered... Read More
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Personal Photograph Album of John Billings, Author of Hardtack and Coffee, Kept During the Civil War
by Billings, John [Civil War]
Massachusetts, 1860. 9 x 6 inches. Polished calf decorative covers. Nineteen pages, with 55 Carte-de-Visite portraits. Good. A carte-de-visite portrait album kept by Billings during the Civil War. Notation before index reads: “This album was sent me, at my order, from Philadelphia and was received while our army lay at Brandy Station in the winter of 1863-1864. I... Read More
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1995 Poster for Goodie Mob, Outkast, and K. Sharock at the Grady Cole Center
by [Concert Posters – Hip-Hop – North Carolina] Vin-Asia Blackstar
Charlotte, North Carolina: The Printing Specialists, 1995. 14 x 22 inch poster. Some wear, excellent contrast; overall excellent.. Poster for Goodie Mob, Outkast, and K. Sharock at the Grady Cole Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, December 1995. Outkast’s debut album Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (1994) had been certified platinum earlier that year, and Goodie Mob had just released their debut Soul... Read More
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Collection of Nineteen Photographs of Jazz Musicians in Boston’s Jazz Workshop and Lennie’s on the Turnpike in Peabody, Massachusetts c. 1969 including Miles Davis, Pharoah Sanders, Freddie Hubbard, and Others
by Bolling, Dan
Massachusetts, 1969. Silver gelatin photographs, some mounted, various sizes, most around 6x8 inches. Some wear and creases to mounts, photographs range from good to fine with fine contrast, some photos with noticeable flaws. Very good overall. Very Good. An evocative collection of photographs of several important musicians taken in Boston in 1969 by Dan Bolling, a Long Island... Read More
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