United States: 191–1964. Twenty-seven letters, two typed documents (totaling four pages), six photographs, and nine pieces of ephemera including two of Haynes’ heavily stamped passports. One of the typed documents and two of the letters belong to Olyve Jeter, Haynes’ second wife. Many items affixed to loose scrapbook leaves. George.....
Los Angeles, California, and Albuquerque, New Mexico: 1927–1933. Three letters totaling seven pages and one postcard. Two letters from 1927 and one from 1928; postcard appears to be stamped 1933. Letters from friends in Los Angeles to James M. Jones, who has moved away to attend Howard University. The friends.....
Mobile, Alabama: March 1833. Single one-page letter measuring 9 x 11 inches. J. B. Toulmin is likely John Butler Toulmin (1788–1860), a merchant in Mobile, Alabama, and the son of dissenting minister Rev. Joshua Toulmin of Taunton, England. Toulmin’s brother was Harry Toulmin, a Unitarian minister and Kentucky politician. Interestingly.....
California and Oregon: c. 1887–1921. 160 total items. Description of Pacific Coast Outlaws 32pp 8vo in cloth wraps; wraps excellent with some staining; contents very good to excellent with some water damage. Thirteen copies found on OCLC. Two business cards, one with manuscript notes; 106 letters dating 1906 to 1911;.....
Sheffield, United Kingdom: 1967. 20 x 30 inch poster on heavy cardstock. 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 Mojo Club, in working-class Sheffield, was.....
Fort Worth, Texas: 1973. 18 x 23 ½ inch poster on heavy cardstock. 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. The duo.....
Richmond, Virginia: 1953. 22 x 28 inch poster on heavy cardstock. Poster for The Swallows performing at Gregory’s Ballroom in Richmond with the All Star Dance Orchestra. The Swallows were a Baltimore-based R&B and early doo-wop group and had a few Billboard R&B charting hits, including “Beside You”, mentioned on.....
Likely Chicago area: 1943–1944. Single 5 x 8 inch journal with forty-two double-sided pages filled out and many more blank. Offered here is an unusual document: a dream journal from the 1940s. Written by an anonymous woman, the journal documents dreams from January and February of 1943 and 1944. Dream.....
Maryland, California, and others: c. 1899–1920. Approximately eighty pieces: eleven packets of typed lecture notes; one 4 x 6 ½ inch notebook; twelve booklets of articles; one photo album containing forty-eight photos of 3 ½ x 3 ½ inches; three advertising booklets; seventeen pieces of medical school-related ephemera; five professional.....
Columbus, Ohio: c. 1890. 7 x 11 inches. A handbill with a poem written by J.B. O’Reilly celebrating the victory of striking streetcar workers in Columbus, Ohio in 1890. On June 3, workers formed a union and commenced a strike, demanding shorter hours and higher wages. They successfully negotiated for.....
New York: Wm. A. Pond, 1865. Folio, 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Fine condition. An unusual use of sheet music as satire, with the lithographed cover showing a fake stock certificate. The cover - engraved by Major & Knapp - advertises an ownership share in the Spondolix Petroleum company.....
South Dakota; Illinois; New York City; and Englewood, New Jersey: 1928–1933. Approximately 242 pieces total. Two hardcover books, both by Frances Wood: Gospel Four Corners, inscribed by Edward Shurtleff; Turkey Red: A Novel of the Frontier, inscribed by Wood. Sixty-four 8 ½ x 11 inch typed pages; sixty-six 8 ½.....
Orange County, Texas: 1864–1866. Three double-sided sheets measuring approximately 12 x 7 ½ inches. 1864 oaths of office for Coroner Augustus M. Rodgers and Deputy Sheriff W. D. Bryan; an 1865 oath of office and surety bond for County Clerk W.B. Ellis; and an 1866 bond for County Clerk R.H......
Chicago: J.B. Westendorf, 1877. Folio, 10 ½ x 14 inches, 6 pp.