United States and Canada: July–August 1947. Eleven double-sided scrapbook pages measuring 7 x 11 inches, containing forty-five 2 ½ x 3 ½ inch photographs, six postcards, four maps, four guides, and nine typed pages. A scrapbook documenting an African-American family’s road trip during July and August of 1947, which took.....
[St. Louis, Missouri]: 1861. Handwritten letter on Western Department letterhead, 9 x 5 ½ inches bifolium. Docketed on rear “Rough sketch of letter to Maj Gen JC Fremont touching the rendition of a slave.”. In the turbulent summer and autumn of 1861, the headquarters of John C. Frémont’s Western Department.....
Memphis, Tennessee: March 18, 1865. Printed Article 95 inventory form completed in manuscript, recording the effects of Jorden Turner, Private in Captain S. A. Walker’s Company B, 63rd Regiment, United States Infantry. 8 x 10 inches. A scarce Civil War document recording the death and remaining property of Jorden Turner.....
Chicago or New York: c. 1920. 6 x 9 inches single sided. An anonymous handbill decrying lynching in the United States and advertising the differences in anti-lynching policy between the Republican and Democratic parties. The header states that “Everyone agrees that lynching is the chief crime against the colored man.....
Los Angeles, California: Stationers Corporation, 1935–1937. Double-sided sheet measuring 5 ½ x 11 ½ inches. A playbill for the production of Hall Johnson’s "Run Little Chillun" at the Mayan Theatre in Los Angeles. Considered an important product of the Harlem Renaissance, "Run Little Chillun" premiered on Broadway in 1933. Its.....
Sonora and Groveland, CA; Portland, OR; and Orange, NJ: February–October 1896. 8 ½ x 13 ½ inch cash book, thirty-two pages, with nine loose sheets. A cash book for an unnamed business selling out of California, Oregon, and New Jersey in 1896. The book records total merchandise value, cash and.....
Cannstatt, German Empire: March 1884. Single eight-page letter measuring 8 x 10 ½ inches. Quite delicate with tears at some folds, often intersecting with text. Slight odor. A letter from a man to his daughter Jennie, written from the Hotel Hermann in Cannstatt in 1884. Cannstatt was founded around 90.....
Mahébourg, Mauritius: August 1830. Single unsigned fourteen-page letter measuring 8 x 12 ¾ inches. In 1830, Mauritius was a British colony, captured from the French in 1810 during the Napoleonic Wars. It was originally a Dutch colony, and the Dutch had introduced enslaved labor to the islands. Enslaved people were.....
San Francisco, California: Henry Payot, 184 Washington Street, c. 1860–1862. Used illustrated lettersheet with original mailing envelope (Baird 317). Large lithographed panoramic view titled View of San Francisco in 1860, printed on bluish paper, measuring approximately 8.25 x 21.5 inches, published by Henry Payot, 184 Washington Street. The view occupies.....
N.p. November 27, 1862. 9 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches, 10 pp, stitched binding. During the Civil War, Northern clergy used sermons, both on holidays and regular Sunday services, to interpret the conflict for their congregations. These included several notable Thanksgiving Day sermons.[1] Thanksgiving 1862 carried particular emotional and political.....
Bismarck, Dakota Territory: May 1877. 4 x 8 inches. Camp Hancock, in what is now Bismarck, North Dakota, was built in 1872 as facilities for US troops. The troops were stationed there to guard supplies, equipment, and crews as the Northern Pacific Railway was constructed through the area. In 1877.....
United States: 1820 [copied c. 1840–1850]. Bound lined notebook measuring 8 x 10 ¼ inches. Inscribed “Stephen Decatur / U.S. Navy / 13 W. Cedar St. Boston.” on flyleaf. Eighty-nine pages filled out, totaling appx. 17,000 words. Spine missing, covers coming detached, with wear especially to corners; contents excellent to.....
Brooklyn, New York: 1964. Twenty-eight page scrapbook measuring 11 x 14 inches. Containing forty-one photographs measuring 5 x 7 inches and smaller and fifty-eight pieces of ephemera, forty-three of which are filled-in entry slips from a contest. The Carpetbaggers is a 1964 film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based on the.....
Topeka: c. 1930. Folded map measuring 28 x 17 inches. Some small tears at folds, very good. A scarce depression-era map of Oklahoma, with graphic advertisements to the verso showing the range of automobile-centric establishments in the state at the time. The map shows all the automobile routes of the.....
Albany, New York: 1848–1849. Notebook measuring 7 ¾ x 10 ½ inches. 124pp filled out, totaling appx. 49,000 words. With two loose essays, 7pp. A notebook containing transcriptions of lectures by Profs. William F. Phelps, Silas Bown, and William W. Clark of the New York State Normal School, now SUNY.....
New York and (likely) Connecticut: 1795–1809. Three letters (1795, 1795, and 1809) totalling approximately eleven pages; the larger two letters measuring approximately 7 ¾ x 12 ¼ inches and the smaller (1809) approximately 7 ¾ x 9 ½ inches. 1809 letter Near Fine; earlier letters having some damage especially at.....
Charleston: 1866. Autograph letter, signed by a John (last name unknown,) addressed to R.W. Grange Esquire at Racine College in Racine Wisconsin. Some tears at folds, near fine. Appx. 1,000 words. A lengthy and atmospheric rumination on a holiday spent in South Carolina by an author known only as Bob.....
Virginia: 1905. Single 3 ½ x 6 inch sheet. A handbill urging Virginians to vote for the Democratic candidates for governor, General Assembly, and clerk. The one other copy we find on OCLC, housed at the University of Virginia, dates the handbill to 1905. This election pitted Representative Claude A......
Arkansas: 1854. Letter measuring 8 x 6 ½ inches. Some slight tears at folds, near fine. An interesting letter written by a woman to her sister after spending a holiday by herself without domestic help. The author quotes a passage from Marion Harland’s poem “”Alone,” and laments her holiday spent.....
Philippines: likely 1945. Single letter; five 8.5 x 11” pages. The unknown author of this letter was an American Jesuit missionary in the Philippines, who before the war was a novice living in Novaliches, just outside Manila. He apparently had not written a significant letter home for a long time.....