United States: 1895–1896. 182 photographs mainly measuring 3 x 4 inches with some larger, mounted on heavy cardstock in a photo album. Some with manuscript captions. Several pages of album detached; slight damage and wear to pages and damage to binding; photos excellent to Near Fine. A photo album documenting.....
Pocahantas: P.W. Poff, 1860s-1870s. Albumen carte de visite photographs measuring 3 ½ x 2 ½ inches on slightly larger mounts. Some fading to some images, one in fine condition, good to very good overall. A series of images taken by P.W. Poff, who also operated a studio at Bluefield, West.....
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.....
United States: 1924. Felt pennant measuring 15 ½ x 43 inches. Inscribed “Hilda Colthroy” on tag. A felt pennant likely from Saint Paul’s College, an HBCU in Lawrenceville, Virginia. The college was founded in 1888 as Saint Paul Normal and Industrial School by Protestant Episcopal priest James Solomon Russell. Accredited.....
Carson: 1881. Single sided receipt measuring 7 ¾ x 4 ½ inches. Near fine with a small tear to bottom of page. A receipt issued for passage from Carson to Badie, Nevada, in 1881 aboard the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, issued with a note that reads “Chinamen” in the remarks.....
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.....
Norfolk, Virginia: February 7, 1794. With Norfolk, VA straightline postmark. Folded letter measuring 8 x 12 ½ inches. During the French Revolutionary Wars, Virginia ports became important centers of Atlantic commerce linking the early American republic with Revolutionary France. French consular officials operating in cities such as Norfolk and Baltimore.....
Washington, D.C. Sheiry, c. 1896. Heavy cardstock measuring approximately 5 x 7 inches. The Washington, D.C. area experienced a rapid increase in population during and in the few decades after the Civil War, and a suburbanization boom followed. Increasing suburbanization was made possible by the expansion of transit networks, including.....
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......
Big Spring, Virginia: 1879. Handbill measuring 8 ¾ x 11 ¾ inches. A handbill describing a process for curing tobacco, patented in 1879 by John W. Barnett of Big Spring, a town in northern Virginia. Tobacco has long been a hugely important cash crop in the region; in 1860, Virginia.....
Charlestown, Ohio County, Virginia (now Brooke County, West Virginia): May 1793. Single two-page letter measuring 7 ½ x 12 ½ inches. A letter from Isaac Prince Robbins (1770–1846) in what is now West Virginia to his parents Rev. Chandler Robbins (1738–1799) and Jane Prince (1740–1800) in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Isaac Robbins.....
United States: 1890s. Notebook measuring 7 ¾ x 10 inches, blue cloth, 100pp with nine separate loose pages. Spine missing and covers detached, wear and stains to boards, fair to good. Contents generally very good with few pages detached. A scrapbook likely belonging to Mary Rieman Hack (1877–1928), a student.....