Collection of Photographs and Materials Relating to the Foundation Company's Operations in Tampico, Mexico, 1915-1922
by [Petroleum - Mexico] The Foundation Company
Mexico, 1922. Various sizes and formats, generally preserved in excellent condition. Near Fine. Founded in 1902, the Foundation Company was a subaqueous concrete construction firm based in New York City. According to the Smithsonian, the company was “a leader in the development of the pneumatic caisson method for the construction of foundations” — this method was used to... Read More
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Descriptive Catalogue and Price List of Photographic Apparatus Manufactured by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., Including all the Desirable Goods in the Line of Photographic Materials
by [Photographic Literature and Ephemera] E. & H.T. Anthony Company
New York: E. & H.T. Anthony Company, 1888. First Edition. Large 8vo, wraps, 115 pp. 7 x 10 ½ inches. Good. Edward Anthony and his brother Henry operated the largest photographic supply company in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Edward operated a small photography practice before converting his business to a supply house. Henry came... Read More
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Collection of Maps, Diaries, Manuscripts and Photographs Documenting the Life and Work of the Con Artist, War Correspondent and Cartographer Jack or Jacques de Beaufort aka “The Dude Reporter,” with a Focus on His Cartographic and Literary Activities in Mid-Century Los Angeles
by [Con Artists - Cartography - War Correspondence - California] De Beaufort, Jack or Jacques
Europe and California, 1950. Includes two small diaries from 1901 and 1917 with sporadic entries, a large photo album measuring 14 x 11 with appx. 400 small photographs from 1906-1909 attached to album pages, most measuring 3 x 2,, as well as a few larger format images laid in. With 100 plus pages of typed pages including retained correspondence,... Read More
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Poster for the 87 Def Jam Tour at the Oakland Coliseum
by [Concert Posters – Hip-Hop – California] Miller Genuine Draft Concerts; Graham, Bill
Oakland, California, 1987. 14 x 22 inches. Rolled (stored in a tube), otherwise fine.. Poster for the 87 Def Jam Tour date at the Oakland Coliseum with LL Cool J and Whodini headlining, and featuring influential hip hop duo Eric B. & Rakim, R&B singers New Choice, Roxanne Shante—known for the “Roxanne Wars”—and rapper Too Short.
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Poster for Run-DMC’s 1986 Raising Hell Tour at the Oakland Coliseum
by [Concert Posters - Hip-Hop – California] Graham, Bill; Hang ‘Em High Postering
Oakland, California, 1986. 18 x 25 inch poster on heavy cardstock. Fine.. Poster for Run-DMC’S Raising Hell Tour featuring Whodini, LL Cool J, and R&B group Timex Social Club. Run-DMC were touring on their third studio album, Raising Hell, which went triple platinum. Later tour dates, including New York City, Pittsburgh, and Long Beach, were disrupted by alleged... Read More
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Poster for the “Sizzling Summer” Tour at the ARCO Arena, 1990
by [Concert Posters – Hip-Hop – California] Nissan / Bay Area Productions; Graham, Bill
Sacramento, California, 1990. 22 x 28 inch poster on heavy cardstock. Fine contrast, near fine.. Poster for the “Sizzling Summer” tour featuring Public Enemy, Heavy D. and the Boyz, Digital Underground, and others. Heavy D. and Digital Underground had recently released Big Tyme and Sex Packets respectively, both of which went Platinum in the US. Public Enemy was... Read More
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Poster for the LL Cool J Nitro World Tour Date at the Pittsburgh Arena, 1989
by [Concert Posters – Hip-Hop – Pennsylvania] Rush Artist Management; G Street Express, Inc
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1989. 22 x 28 inch poster on heavy cardstock. Staining, some marginal folding, overall very good to excellent.. Poster for the Pittsburgh date of LL Cool J’s Nitro World Tour with Big Daddy Kane, Slick Rick, and De La Soul, who had just released the hugely influential 3 Feet High and Rising. Handwriting on the poster—also... Read More
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True Unity News of Resurrection City, June 16, 1968 Special Edition
by [African-Americana – Civil Rights Era – Poor People’s Campaign] Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Washington, D.C.: N.p., 1968. Two double-sided sheets (one page repeated) measuring 8 ½ x 14 inches, stapled. Folded in half with a tear to the upper right corner and some damage to bottom margin; very good to excellent.. The Poor People’s Campaign, conceived of by Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and accomplished after... Read More
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1832 Letter from a Connecticut Mother Concerning the Loss of Her Teenaged Son in a Shipwreck
by [Connecticut – Maritime History – Shipwrecks] Phelps, Ann
Stonington, Connecticut, 1832. Single three-page letter measuring 8 x 10 inches. Excellent to Near Fine.. A letter from Ann Brown Phelps (1785–1833) in Stonington, Connecticut to her sister-in-law and niece in Auburn. Phelps writes: “A mind enervated with grief & affliction for the loss of a dear and promising Son I can only attempt a feeble pourtray... Read More
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Constitutional Law: Comprising the Declaration of Independence
by [United States Constitution]
Gales and Seaton, 1820. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. Washington, 1820. 12mo, [iv], 409 pp. Contemporary paper covered boards. Expanded to include 23 states, including Alabama and North Carolina. The first edition, published a year earlier, included just 21 states. A good copy with fraying and chipping to paper at spine, foxing to contents and contemporary ownership marks to... Read More
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Autograph Letter, Signed, by James Denver as Commissioner of Indian Affairs to his Wife Louise Rombach Denver , Describing Crime on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and Referencing the Plug Uglies, 1857
by [Crime - Plug Uglies] Denver, James W.
Washington, 1857. Autograph letter measuring 8 x 5 inches bifolium, with free franked stampless cover. Fine condition. Fine. An interesting letter written by James W. Denver, written while he was serving as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, describing crime on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1857. He writes: “We have great times on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.... Read More
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“$20 Reward For the arrest of rider and delivery of 7 h. p. Regular Indian Motorcycle in good condition.”
by [Crime – Motorcycle History – California] Stockton, California Police Department; Lawson, Tom
Stockton, California, 1913. Single 6 x 9 inch sheet. Marked with blue crayon at upper left corner, otherwise near fine.. A wanted poster offering $20 for the return of a stolen Indian motorcycle. Indian motorcycles were an early American motorcycle, built by the Hendee Manufacturing Company in Springfield, Massachusetts. This particular one was a tandem model, stolen from... Read More
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Letter to John K. West, Member of the Notorious New Orleans Attorney, Discussing a Conversation with John Austin Wharton Concerning a Crime in Texas, a Hanging, and Fugitives in Jamaica, 1838
by [Crime - Texas - New Orleans] Andrews, Edmund
Republic of Texas, 1838. Stampless letter, folded, with red two-line handstamp of Steam Packet Columbia on January 16, 1838 from Brazoria Tex. to New Orleans. Fine condition. Fine. An intriguing letter written by Edmund Andrews, a judge in Brazoria, Texas, who had arrived in Stephen Austin’s colony eight years before he penned this, in 1830. The letter is... Read More
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Partial 1905 Wanted Poster for Mary S. Dean, Charged with Providing an Illegal Abortion to a Murdered Woman
by [Crime – Abortion – Boston] Boston, Massachusetts Police Department; Pierce, William H.
Boston, Massachusetts, 1905. Single 8.5 x 8.5 inch sheet, cut from a larger whole; likely missing a portion. Marks at upper left side, some folding. Otherwise excellent to near fine.. Wanted poster for Mary S. Dean, dated December 16, 1905. Three months prior, a young woman’s torso had been found in a suitcase floating in Boston Harbor. A... Read More
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Photo Album of a United Fruit Employee in Banes, Cuba, 1930s–1950s
by [Cuba – United Fruit Company] Laffie, Martin Charles; Laffie, Mathilda Baiz
Cuba and the United States, 1950. Approximately 322 photographs: 227 in album, mainly 3 x 4 ½ inches and smaller; ninety-five loose, mainly 8 x 10 inches and smaller. With three trips of negatives and forty pieces of ephemera. Excellent.. Founded in 1899, the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita) was a US American tropical produce company that came... Read More
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Fourteen Press Photographs Taken by Osvaldo Salas of Varied Scenes in New York, 1950s
by [Cuban Photographers - Salas, Osvaldo]
New York: Salas, 1960. Press photographs measuring 8 x 10 and smaller, with the Salas 319 W. 50th St. studio marks to versos. Generally near fine with editorial marks to versos.
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The Isle of Pines. [Promotional Photo Album]
by [Cuba – Isle of Pines – Imperialism] Wark, William H.
Brooklyn, New York: The Albertype Co, 1913. Photo album of twenty-five 12 ½ x 10 inch pages containing fifty 8 x 6 inch photographs, with cardstock cover. Cover and pages worn with marginal damage; pages mostly detached from string binding; photos with captions on negative; Near Fine with Fine contrast. Overall excellent to Near Fine.. After the Spanish... Read More
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Album of Photographs of a Motorcycle-Loving Couple from Los Angeles, Including Photographs of Motorcycle Touring Through the Southwest, 1937-1939
by [California] [Motorcycle Culture]
Mostly Los Angeles, 1939. Oblong quarto, containing 117 photographs. Sixty-two of the photographs involve motorcycles directly, either action shots or posed shots in attire, with many others showing scenery from motorcycle tours. Some photographs missing, those present are in excellent condition with fine contrast, very good condition overall. Very Good. A charming album documenting the lives of a... Read More
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“Judge Nanette Dembitz for Court of Appeals” Campaign Poster
by [Politics – Women – New York City] Committee for Judge Nanette Dembitz
New York City, 1972. 15 ½ x 22 ½ inches. Masking tape at top and bottom; some folding to upper left edge, some marginal chipping; fine contrast. Overall excellent.. Nanette Dembitz (1913–1989) graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan, then attended Columbia Law School where she edited the Columbia Law Review, graduating in 1938. She was unable... Read More
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Poster Invitation to a Cooper Union Alumni Event, Signed by Alum Lou Dorfsman
by [Design – Higher Education – New York City] Unknown Designer
New York City, 1968. 20 x 28 inches. Folded with some tears at folds, slightly wrinkled; inscribed “Sam – / You must come! / Send money / Lou Dorfsman”. Very good plus.. An invitation to the “Recooperation Baths”, which seems to be an annual get-together for Cooper Union alumni. Cooper Union was founded in 1859 by business magnate... Read More
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“Sugar Hill Baby”. [1937 Film Advertisement]
by [African-Americana – Film – Race Films] [Willie Bryant] Unknown Designer
United States: N.p., 1937. Flyer measuring 8 x 10 ½ inches. Folded at middle, with some wear mainly to margins, and some small repairs verso. Very good plus.. A flyer advertising the all-Black drama film Sugar Hill Baby (1937). The film, directed by Irwin Franklyn and originally titled Harlem Aristocrat, featured all local actors recruited from the readership... Read More
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A HAP-HAZARD SONG FOR THE Peo-Ple
by [Rhode Island – Legal History – Hazard Family] “Miss Terious Devil-up-ments”
Newport, Rhode Island: N.p., 1855. Broadside measuring 21 ¾ x 10 inches, folded with some damage to edges, with two holes in the center intersecting with text. Very good to excellent.. A HAP-HAZARD SONG was written around 1855 by an author using the pseudonym “Miss Terious Devil-up-ments”. It concerns the legal cases of Ives vs. Hazard and Ives... Read More
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Chiu-Yick English Chinese-English Dictionary
by [English-Chinese Dictionaries]
Hong Kong: Chiu Yick Book Store, 1890. Miniature dictionary measuring 2 ⅞ x 1 ¾ inches 606 pp plus glossaries. Lacks covers, text block very good. Fair. A very rare miniature English-Chinese Dictionary, printed in Hong Kong perhaps in the 1890s or c.1900, in the early decades of British Hong Kong. The dictionary was printed by the Chiu... Read More
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Archive of Chilean Diplomat and UN Officer Benjamin Alberto Cohen, 1948–1958
by [Diplomatic History – United Nations – Africa] Cohen, Benjamin Alberto
United States, South America, Europe, and Africa, 1972. Approximately 190 items: eighty-five typed copies of letters (not including duplicates), forty-four of which contain the original handwritten letter as well; four photographs and fourteen negatives; thirty-one telegrams; fifty copies of UN Latin American radio transcripts; and nine pieces of ephemera. Overall excellent.. Benjamin Alberto Cohen (1896–1960) was born in... Read More
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Fair Copy of a Speech by Baron de Carondelet Regarding the Maintenance of Troop Presence in Lower Louisiana, 1797
by [Diplomatic History - New Spain and the United States] De Carondelet, Francisco Luis Héctor; Pope, Piercy
New Orleans, 1797. Three pages of a bifolium, 8 x 9 ½ inches, New Orleans; May 31, 1797. Fair only, with moisture damage and some text illegible. Fair. An interesting document from the period following the Treaty of San Lorenzo and before the eventual surrender of Natchez to the Americans in 1798, in which the governor of Louisiana... Read More
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