Auger Down Books

Specializing in Graphic and archival Americana, photography, American history, with an emphasis on cultural and social history.

About

A small and highly curated shop specializing in American history through photography, archives, documents and graphics, with an emphasis on cultural and social history.

Members

Marco Panella

Box 234, Marlboro, VT 05344

(802) 251-9974

Recently Added Books

The Girl Who Dared. [1920]

by [Western Americana – Film – Women] [Sterling, Edythe] Unknown Artist

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

1858 Austin County Assessor and Collector’s Ledger

by [Texas – Austin County – Enslavement] Brewer, Sackfield

Eight Candid Photographs of Camp Life in Preparation for the Spanish-American War

by [Spanish-American War] West’s Studio and Unknown Photographer(s)

Composite Cabinet Card of Mugshots of Prisoners Executed by Electric Chair at the Ohio Penitentiary, 1897–1905

by [Ohio – Prison History - Capital Punishment] Hazlett, A. T.

Ten Posters Advertising Nebraska Territory Bands, 1930s–1960s

by [Nebraska – Music History – Territory Bands] Multiple Artists

1827 Letter to William L. Marcy Accepting a Political Appointment, Likely on the Champlain Canal

by [New York – Politics – Champlain Canal] Van Benthuysen, [William?]

1844 Letter Describing “beautiful wonderful” Kalamazoo, Michigan, the “magical village of the west”

by [Michigan – Kalamazoo] Denger, Elizabeth