Autograph Letter Signed Discussing a Speaking Engagement and Involvement in “Unpopular Movements,” 1855.
New Britain: 1855. Letter measuring 8 x 5 inches, folded. Fine condition.
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Pair of Ambrotypes of Mary and Moses Penrock, Members of the Kennett Square Underground Railroad Network, by Isaac Rehn, c. 1854.
Philadelphia: 1854. Ninth plate ambrotypes in a union case, measuring 2 ½ x 2 ⅛ inches (visible) in larger case. With the identification of (Isaac) Rehn, with his imprint and “Patented July 4 & 11, 1854” imprinted on the case. A fine pair. A striking pair of ambrotypes of Mary.....
Anti-Slavery Bazaar.
Boston: Anti-Slavery Bazaar, 1849. Small broadside measuring 7 ¾ x 4 ½ inches printed on green wove paper. Some creases and a small tear at margin, near fine. The American Anti-Slavery Society hosted annual bazaars, which served as fundraisers, with money going to supporting the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper. Many.....
Fifth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Cincinnati Lane Seminary : Together With the Laws of the Institution.and a Catalogue of the Officers and Students. November, 1834.
Cincinnati: Corey and Fairbank, 1834. First Edition. 47 pages, complete; 8 7/8" x 5 ⅜." Slight odor else near fine, very good minus overall. The Lane Seminary debates were perhaps the most extended and famous of many colonization versus emancipation debates that happened in the 1830s. “Founded in 1829, Lane.....
ALS by the Author and Actor Fanny Kemble to an Editor Regarding the Publication of an Article.
London, United Kingdom: likely late 1800s. Single four page letter measuring 4 ½ x 7 inches. Frances Anne “Fanny” Kemble (1809–1893) was a British actor, writer, and later abolitionist. After her initial retirement from acting, she married Pierce Mease Butler, maternal grandson of American Founding Father Pierce Butler. Butler and.....
“Garrison and His Creed (Caption Title)” [Letter to a Newspaper Editor Defending William Lloyd Garrison in Response to an Article Written by Eli Thayer]
Brooklyn: 1893. Single page. Some tears at creases, else about fine, very good overall. A letter written by Thaddeus Hyatt to the editor of the New York Tribune, in response to a letter written by Eli Thayer on William Lloyd Garrison entitled “Garrison and his Creed.” Hyatt takes issue with.....
Carte-de-Visite Vignette Portrait of the Anti-Slavery Author Rachel W. Moore.
Philadelphia: Henszey and Co., 1860s. Albumen photograph measuring 3 ½ x 2 ½ inches on mount. Excellent condition with clipped corners and minimal wear. 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.....
Right Over Wrong. Coming Right Along. Song & Chorus.
New York: Horace Waters, 1855. Sheet music measuring 10 ¾ x 14 ¼ inches, 6 pp. A scarce Hutchinson Family sheet, published in 1855, with an abolition theme. The song goes, in part: “The captive now begins to rise and burst his chains asunder, While Politicians stand aghast in.....
Emancipation Hymn. Composed and Dedicated by Permission to the Salem Union League.
Boston: Oliver Ditson and Company, 1863. First Edition. Manuel Fenellosa and his brother-in-law Manuel Emilio came to the United States from Spain in 1836 aboard the SS United States. They settled in Salem, Massachussetts, first forming a band and then a music school. They were friends of the publisher John.....
Carte-de-Visite Portrait of Wendell Phillips, c. 1871-1874.
Boston, Massachusetts: Antoine Sonrel, 121 Washington Street, 1871–1874. Albumen photograph on original mount with printed Sonrel studio backstamp. No other examples of this pose located in online institutional collections. A studio portrait of the abolitionist and reform leader Wendell Phillips (1811–1884), shown seated at a table holding a small bundle.....
Carte-de-Viste Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe, c. 1870.
New York: Howell, c. 1870. Carte de viste portrait on larger mount, with printed studio imprint “Howell, 807 & 869 B’way” on mount. 2 ½ x 4 inches. Three-quarter bust portrait of Stowe, facing slightly left, wearing a dark dress with ruffled trim and a cameo brooch at the collar;.....
Carte-de-Visite Portrait of Grace Greenwood (Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott), circa 1870.
New York City: Sarony, 680 Broadway, c. 1870. Albumen print on original mount with printed studio imprint. 2 ½ x 4 inches. Studio portrait of Grace Greenwood (1823–1904), the pen name of Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott: journalist, poet, lecturer, and one of the most widely read women writers of the.....
Cabinet Card portrait of Laura Smith Haviland.
Chicago, Illinois: C. D. Mosher, National Historical Photographer to Posterity, 125 State Street, circa 1876–1885. Albumen photograph on printed “Memorial Portrait” cabinet mount, approximately 4 ¼ x 6 ½ inches. The elaborate printed verso advertisement promotes Mosher’s ambitious Centennial-era “Memorial Portraits” project and bears contemporary manuscript identifications reading “Laura Smith.....
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