Birmingham, Alabama: c. 1950s. Folded direct mail advertisement measuring 21 x 5 ½ inches, folded into six panels. A promotional mailer for the Booker T. Washington Business College, founded by A.G. Watson in Birmingham in 1939 in response to a shortage of typists and receptionists in his insurance and funeral.....
New York City: November 1870. Single one-page letter measuring 8 x 9 ¾ inches. A letter from Reverend Edward Parmlee Smith (1827–1876), then a field secretary of the American Missionary Association, requesting a free or half-priced Singer sewing machine for the “colored young men & women” who are “working their.....
New York City: Gotham-Attucks Music Co., c. 1908. Folio sheet music, illustrated color pictorial cover with inset photographic portrait of the Robinson Trio. 5 pp. (including cover). Approximately 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. An early sheet music publication from the African American musical Bandanna Land, the 1908 stage production.....
Holyoke and Northfield: Litho Inc. / American Youth Hostels, 1939. First Edition. Includes: Bicycle for Adventure on the Youth Hostel Trail. Holyoke, Massachusetts, c. 1939: Valley Litho Inc. Lithographed poster, 19 x 25 inches; Take to the A.Y.H. Trail. Northfield, 1939: American Youth Hostels . Lithographed poster, 17 x 22.....
New York City: Edwards Music Co. and others, 1937–1949. Ten pieces of sheet music (see full inventory below). A representative group of sheet music publications by Willie “The Lion” Smith, one of the defining architects of Harlem stride piano and a central transitional figure between ragtime-era keyboard traditions and modern.....
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New York City: Clarence Williams, 1924. Folio measuring 12 x 9 inches, 5 pp. With an attractive period style illustration by Sydney Leff, with his printed signature in the lower right corner. A very scarce surviving example of the sheet music for "Cakewalking Babies from Home", a cornerstone early jazz-blues.....
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Baton Rouge: Typographical Union Label, 1936. First Edition. Broadside, 16 ¾ x 9 ¼ inches. Some wear, a few small holes at creases, slight foxing, very good minus overall. A broadside advertising the Share Our Wealth Program, which had been championed by the late Huey Long prior to his death.....
London: British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1842. Printed circular, 8 x 9 ⅞ inches, four pages, with autograph lettter on blank page. Tear with loss at margin of circular from original opening of the folded circular, with the remainder present under the wax seal, else fine, exceptionally well preserved. An.....
[Peterboro?]: 1859. Four page bilfolium, 12 ½ x 8 inches. Fine condition. An uncommon imprint likely printed by Gerrit Smith in Peterboro, in 1859, the bulk of which reprints one of Smith’s speech from June 17, 1857 in Milwaukee. The speech mostly addresses the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Act.....
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......
United States, France, and Germany: 1870s–1940s. Approximately 469 total items. Fifty-nine pieces of loose correspondence, one with four photographs affixed. In large letter album, approximately 199 pieces of written material: 118 pieces of incoming correspondence, twenty-one drafts of outgoing correspondence, and sixty other. 139 photographs: nine cabinet cards, thirty-three smaller.....
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.....
Ohio: Mohr & Carter, Printers; and N.p., before 1917. One double-sided handbill measuring approximately 6 x 6 inches with small tear to lower right corner; one single-sided folded into a packet measuring approximately 3 ½ x 4 ½ inches. Two handbills promoting women’s suffrage in Ohio. “Woman Suffrage Campaign Songs”.....
Japan: November 1945. 8 x 10 ½ inch double-sided mimeographed sheet with damage to margins and tape at corners; very good plus. With one 3 ¾ x 3 ¼ inch photograph of an illustration; Fine. Three illustrations—two of which are for a Thanksgiving menu—by cartoonist Perring Smith of the 1689th.....