Carte-de-Visite of Pauline Cushman
by [Civil War] [Women] [Cushman, Pauline] Sutterley & Co
Virginia City: Sutterley and Co, 1867. Albumen photograph on mount, 4 x 2 ½ inches. Pauline Cushman was an actress and one of the most successful spies for the Union Army. She ingratiated herself with the Confederate army by toasting Jefferson Davis after one of her performances. She was eventually caught and sentenced to death by hanging. She was... Read More
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Letters from Rev. Josiah Selby of Ohio to His Brother William Remarking on The Know-Nothings, Rail Maulers, Wide Awakes, and the Civil War: “The Blood of the Puritan and his Western Children has Stained the Soil in Dixies Land,” Written to his Brother in California
by [Civil War – Politics] Selby, Rev. Josiah
Seneca County, Ohio, and Iowa City, Iowa, 1864. Five letters. One with water stain not affecting legibility; otherwise excellent to near fine.. Offered here are five letters, dating between 1856 and 1864, from Josiah Selby (1822–1888) to his younger brother William Selby (1826–1918) in El Dorado County, California. The letters mainly consist of fairly droll commentary on politics... Read More
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Letters Attempting to Clear the Record of a Dishonorably Discharged Civil War Veteran
by [Civil War – 1st Missouri Cavalry (Union) – Veterans' Affairs] Williams, Thomas W.
Butte, Montana, 1922. Approximately 113 pieces: fifty-one letters to Thomas Williams; thirteen to various politicians, mainly members of Congress; and twenty to Williams’ advocates, mostly from Congresspeople; fifteen miscellaneous items, including Grand Army of the Republic materials and Williams’ citizenship document; and fourteen empty envelopes. Materials date from between 1911 and 1922. Near fine with normal wear.. Thomas... Read More
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Letters from Friends to Tracy Peck, Connecticuter Living Abroad
by [Civil War – Politics – Americans Abroad] Peck, Tracy
United States, Germany, and others, 1869. Seven letters, approximately twenty-six total pages, most about 8 x 5 inches. One letter dated 1862; one dated 1863; two dated 1864; one dated 1869; two without date. Two of the letters are written in French (untranslated). Generally very good or better with one showing water damage, though legible.. Tracy Peck (1838–1921)... Read More
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Secrets of the American Bastile
by [Civil War – Prison History – Anti-Abolitionism] Winder, William H.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John Campbell, 1863. Second edition. 8vo, paper wraps, 64pp. Wraps with wear to edges, library stamps, and some manuscript notes; contents excellent to Near Fine. Overall excellent to Near Fine.. A short booklet by William H. Winder (1808–1879), son of the Brigadier General and Baltimore lawyer of the same name, concerning his 1861 arrest and imprisonment... Read More
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Poems by a Young Civilian Conservation Corps Member, Mainly about Life at The CCC’s Fort Knox Camp
by [Civilian Conservation Corps – New Deal – Fort Knox – Poetry] Morgan, Will
Fort Knox, Kentucky, 1930. One 4 x 5.5 inch notebook; approximately 150 handwritten pages, with many more blank. Light wear to binding, foxing to top page edges, else fine; near fine overall. The Civilian Conservation Corps was a New Deal work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 and provided manual labor jobs to young men hit... Read More
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Two Partially Printed Documents by the United States Office of Board of Claims Relating to the Service of Thomas Massey, An Ex-Enslaved Soldier in the 9th Regiment of the USCT, 1864
by [African-Americana - Civil War - USCT Brigades - Maryland] United States Board of Claims
Baltimore and Worcester County, 1865. Two documents affixed at top edge, measuring 9 x 6 ¾ and 14 x 8 ½ inches. Tape repairs at folds, some with heavy clear tape, else excellent, good condition overall. With the embossed stamp of the Board of Claims to first document and two revenue stamps affixed. Good. A pair of documents... Read More
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Twenty Photographs and Various Inscribed Mementos, 1927-1947
by Clara Adams [Earhart, Amelia][Aviation][Women in Aviation]
1945. Various sizes and dates. Clara Adams was a wealthy widow who took up air travel in its early days, setting records for transatlantic flights and circumnavigation as a commercial airline passenger. In doing so, she helped popularize flying as a safe and comfortable way to travel. She was friends with many famous women of aviation, including pilots Amelia... Read More
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Poster for Sam and Dave at La Chic Club in Fort Worth, 1973
by [Concert Posters – R&B – Texas] La Chic Club
Fort Worth, Texas, 1973. 18 x 23 ½ inch poster on heavy cardstock. Some creasing and wear, chip at top left corner; excellent.. A poster advertising a 1973 concert and dance with celebrated R&B act and Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Sam and Dave (Sam Moore and Dave Prater) at La Chic Club in Fort Worth, Texas.... Read More
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Poster for “Little” Stevie Wonder at the Mojo Club in Sheffield, 1967
by [Concert Posters – R&B – England] The Mojo Club
Sheffield, United Kingdom, 1967. 20 x 30 inch poster on heavy cardstock. Some staining and scuffing, pinholes and some tears at edges, fine contrast; overall excellent.. A poster advertising Stevie Wonder at Sheffield’s Mojo Club in October, 1967. Wonder would have been just seventeen at the time, though he had already dropped “Little” from his stage name. The... Read More
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Carte-de-Visite Vignette Portrait of the Anti-Slavery Author Rachel W. Moore
by [Abolition] Henszey & Co
Philadelphia: Henszey and Co, 1860. Albumen photograph measuring 3 ½ x 2 ½ inches on mount. Excellent condition with clipped corners and minimal wear. Near Fine. Rachel Wilson Moore, a Quaker from Philadelphia who had strong anti-slavery views, traveled to the Caribbean and South America in the 1860s to try to save her ailing health. She published her... Read More
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Hung Far Lo Co. / Mandarin Cafe / First-Class Chinese and American Restaurant
by [American-Chinese Food - Menus] Hung Far Lo Co
Danville, 1915. First Edition. 13 ¼ x 8 ¾ inches. Mounted to cardstock with residue and affixed articles to cardstock verso. Date stamp of “Oct 24 1915” on lower margin. Peculiar ink inscription reads “Culprints Doc, Wedge and Shorty” at margin. Very Good. An early Chinese American restaurant menu from Danville, Illinois. The business is listed in the... Read More
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Tobacco Death Bulletin
by [Anti-Tobacco Advertising] Victory Remedy Co
Dayton, 1910. Broadside on newsprint measuring 19 x 7 ½ inches. Fine condition. Fine. An unrecorded broadside advertising two products - called Victory Bullets and Victory Powders - to help stop smoking. The company, a Victory Remedy Co., of which we find several records circa 1910, guarantees the products’ success. The broadside, printed in the style of a... Read More
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Grand Masquerade: Wick House, Dec. 28., 1870
by [California] [San Francisco] Lick House; John M. Lawlor and Co
San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft and Co, 1870. Hand colored printed invitation, 4 ¾ x 7 inches, folded. Very Good. A scarce printed invitation to the Masquerade at San Francisco’s Lick House, held in 1870, and according to contemporary accounts, one of the major events of the holiday season in the city. The hotel, built on the corner of... Read More
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![Silver Mining Regions in Colorado. With Some Account of the Different Processes Now Being Introduced for Working the Gold Ores of That Territory. [Paris Universal Exposition Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/915/646/1449646915.0.m.jpg)
Silver Mining Regions in Colorado. With Some Account of the Different Processes Now Being Introduced for Working the Gold Ores of That Territory. [Paris Universal Exposition Edition]
by [Colorado] [Paris Universal Exposition of 1867] Whitney, J.P.
Boston [Paris]: J.P. Whitney, 1867. First Edition Thus. . 8vo, publisher’s green cloth, 107 pp. Some tearing and fraying to boards, particularly at head of spine, text block excellent, very good minus overall. Very Good. The scarce Paris Universal Exposition edition of J.P. Whitney’s early title on the silver mines of Colorado. Whitney, a wealthy sportsman from Boston... Read More
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GOT Brown Race Pictures [Cover Title]
by [Columbus Quarter Horse Race Track, Columbus Texas] [African-Americana]
Texas, 1970. Nineteen photographs, each measuring 8 x10 inches, in a leather album with title tooled among acanthus leaves, rear cover with the image of a Native American in headdress. Fine condition. Scarce photographic documentation of Texas Quarter Horse racing in the late 1960s, with nineteen photographs showing horses owned by C.C. or Elizabeth Brown. Most of the photographs... Read More
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![Quatrième centenaire de la découverte du Nouveau Monde (1492-1892). Rapports des Comités au Mis. De Croizier [title from spine]. [Sammelband]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/957/286/1275286957.0.m.jpg)
Quatrième centenaire de la découverte du Nouveau Monde (1492-1892). Rapports des Comités au Mis. De Croizier [title from spine]. [Sammelband]
by [Columbian Exposition] [Croizier, Marquis de]
Various Places, 1894. Sammelband of thirteen reports, each with original front wrapper or wrappers bound-in; in half-calf, with gilt titles on spine. Very Good. Includes: Guillouard, Louis. Rapport sur les travaux du comité départemental du Calvados. Caen: Ch. Valin, 1893. 19 pp., printed gray wrapper; Drouet, Paul. Souvenir du neuvième Congrès international des américanistes,... Read More
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Farmers’ Memorandum Presented By The Patapsco Guano Co., Baltimore, MD
by [Maryland – Guano Industry] The Patapsco Guano Co
Baltimore, Maryland: Jno. S. Bridges & Co., Printers, 1886. Trifold booklet measuring 3 ½ x 6 ¼ inches folded, with notebook and short almanac inside; two pages with notes. A booklet made for the Patapsco Guano Company of Baltimore, Maryland, printed in 1886. The exterior of the booklet features three attractive lithographs by A. Hoen & Co., with the... Read More
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1823 Circular from Marseille-Based Mercantile Firm Fitch Brothers & Co
by [Mercantile History – France] Fitch Brothers & Co
Marseilles, France, 1823. Single three-page printed letter. Folded; Near Fine.. Fitch Brothers & Co. was a mercantile and commission house founded in the late 1810s or early 1820s by Asa Fitch, his brother Douglas Fitch, and his nephew William D. Lee. Asa Fitch (1787–1865) had worked at the American consul in Alicante, Spain, from around 1805 to 1809,... Read More
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Fifteen Broadsides Promoting the Reelection of Franklin Roosevelt
by [Democratic Party – New Deal – 1936 Presidential Election] Democratic National Campaign Committee
New York City: Allied Printing, 1936. Fifteen sheets of colored paper measuring approximately 7 ½ x 12 inches. Some marginal damage and wrinkling; overall excellent.. In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for reelection against Kansas governor Alf Landon. The country was in the midst of the Great Depression, and during Roosevelt's first term he had enacted a number of... Read More
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Collection of Documents, Mainly Payrolls, from the Utica Mining Company, 1889–1898
by [California – Mining History – Chinese Americans] Utica Mining Company
Calaveras County, California, 1898. Seventy-two documents. Most sheets measure about 14 x 16 inches and are folded in half. Folded, some with tears and water damage; overall very good to excellent.. The Utica Mining Company was owned by mining moguls Alvinza Hayward, Charles D. Lane, and W.S. Hobart, and ran mines in Calaveras County, California. This area, located... Read More
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1953 Report on the Tokyo Keiki Seizosho Company’s Aircraft Instrument Manufacturing, with Photographs
by [Japan – Manufacturing] Tokyo Keiki Seizosho Company
Tokyo, Japan, 1953. Cardboard binder containing thirty-six 8 ¼ x 11 ½ inch sheets; sixteen pages mimeographed and twenty with photos 4 ½ x 6 ½ inches and smaller. Photos near fine with fine contrast; pages folded with some marginal damage; overall excellent.. Tokyo Keiki Seizosho was established in 1896 and manufactured measuring devices. It soon began to... Read More
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Booklet Advertising the Negro Ensemble Company’s Production of Joseph A. Walker’s The River Niger
by [African-Americana – New York City – Theatre] The Negro Ensemble Company
New York City: George Fenmore Associates, 1973. Sixteen page booklet measuring 9 x 12 inches. Some wrinkling, some marginal damage, overall excellent.. The Negro Ensemble Company was opened in 1967 by actor and playwright Douglas Turner Ward, actor and producer Robert Hooks, and producer Gerald Krone, with a grant from the Ford Foundation. It provided free theater training—both... Read More
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Shipping Manifest for the Barque Equator, Documenting Cargo on a Voyage Around Cape Horn, 1850-1851
by [California - Gold Rush Period - Mercantile History] Alsop and Company
Callao: Alsop and Company, 1850. Folded ship manifest measuring 15 ¼ x 12 ½ inches. Fine condition with slight normal wear. A very scarce Gold Rush period shipping manifest for the Barque Equator, captained by William Weir, listing the passengers and cargo for a voyage to San Francisco in December of 1850, with notations showing the vessel’s arrival in... Read More
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Lanoka Beach / 3700 Bungalow Sites, Each 25 x 100 Price from $100.00 Up
by [New Jersey – Real Estate – Recreation] Lanoka Beach Land and Development Company
Newark, New Jersey: N.p., 1920. Double-sided poster measuring 12 x 19 inches. Rolled; with some damage to edges including tear to right edge. Overall very good to excellent.. A poster advertising plots of land for sale in Lanoka Harbor (now Lacey Township), New Jersey. The poster proclaims the healthy climate and varied recreation in the area, and its... Read More
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