Bakersfield: C.A. Nelson, 1890s. Silver gelatin photograph measuring 5 ½ x 3 ⅞ inches on larger mount. Heavy wear to mount, some staining to margin of photograph, wear and creases and a closed tear to mat, fair to good overall. An incredible image of a young African-American man, finely dressed.....

Richmond: N.A.A.C.P., 1957. 8vo, wraps, 30 pp. Some light wear, staple holes to edge, original owner’s address and postage mark on back cover, overall very good plus. An uncommon NAACP publication, published right after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, with a range of articles on racism and segregation.....

Washington? 1893? 4to, lithographed wraps, 40 pp. Wraps detached, contents excellent, good overall. A scarce almanac for Washington, D.C., with the first portion containing elaborately illustrated calendars for each month, with accompanying information on natural phenomena for the months including sunrise, sunsets, etc. The second part of the book contains.....

Eureka South, CA: 1866–1868. 7 ½ x 12 inch ledger book, 33pp with many more blank. Front cover near detached and back cover detached, missing spine, some staining of inside pages. Many inside pages torn out. An accounting ledger with some annual meeting notes of the American Exchequer Gold Mining.....

New York: The Resistance, 1968. Single sided flyer, 8 ½ x 11, fine condition. A flyer for a protest at the Newark Selective Service Building organized by The Resistance on May 6, 1968. The bulk of the flyer reproduces the poem “I sing of Olaf glad and big” by e.e......

Lebanon: C.E. Lewis, 1887. Albumen photographs measuring 7 ¾ x 4 ½ on larger mounts. Some marks and scuffs to mounts, some writing to versos, images with excellent contrast and some light foxing, very good overall. One of the most destructive fires in New Hampshire in the 19th century broke.....

Likely Jacksonville, Florida: c. 1900. Folded poster on newsprint, measuring 16 x 16 inches. A poster published by the C. Buckman Company advertising 50x100 lots in what is currently the Longbranch neighborhood of Jacksonville. The tract is highlighted in red on a larger map of the city. The city saw.....

VP: 1916-1917. Scrapbook measuring 15 ½ x 10 ½ inches. With forty leaves, most with newspaper clippings and varied ephemera attached. Boards detached, contents generally fine. Laid in is a blueprint map entitled Map of Part of Hidalgo County Texas Showing Line of March in my Mexican Border Service, 1916.....

New York: Firth, Pond & Co., 1851. Folio sheet music, illustrated tinted lithographic cover by Sarony & Major. 5 pp. (including cover). Approximately 13 x 10 inches. A particularly handsome illustrated edition of Stephen C. Foster’s sentimental ballad “Willie, My Brave,” featuring an elaborate tinted lithographic cover by the New.....

New York: Handy Brothers Music Co., Inc., 1951. Quarto sheet music, single folded leaf making 4 pp. Light toning to margins, else near fine. 9 x 12 inches. “Sample Copy” stamped on cover. Inscribed and signed by W. C. Handy on the front cover to Miss Sybil Gregory, dated June.....

Cobh, Ireland; New York City, Jersey City, Pennsylvania, and Niagara Falls: 1886. Single photo album of thirty-two 9 ½ x 11 inch pages, with twenty-nine photographs and four hand-drawn illustrations. Photographs range from 4 ¼ x 7 inch to 7 x 9 inch. Offered here is an album of photographs.....

Sandusky, Ohio: c. 1865. 2 ½ x 4 inch CDV. A photograph by Sandusky, Ohio-based photographer A. C. Platt showing the new Ladies Hall at Oberlin College, around 1865. Oberlin was the first college in the US to admit women, initially offering them a degree from the “Ladies Department” but.....

California, Oregon, Iowa, and New York: 1878–1889. Sixty-five items: sixty-two letters, mainly dating from 1887 (eleven letters), 1888 (nineteen letters), and 1889 (fourteen letters); and three playbills from the CMA Dramatic Club. William H. Sharp (1863–deceased) was born in Washington and lived in The Dalles, Oregon. He attended the California.....