Providence, Rhode Island: H.H. Brown, 1833. Lacking wraps. [12pp] booklet measuring 5 x 8 inches. A short booklet reproducing a series of abolitionist principles attributed to the Providence Anti-Slavery Society alongside William Lloyd Garrison’s Declaration of Sentiments from the 1833 convention of the American Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia. This section.....
Tuskegee: 1949. Silver gelatin photograph measuring 8 x 10 inches, with two typed letters, signed, one from Dawson and one from Rolla Foley. Identifying marks to verso of photograph, generally fine condition. A portrait of William L. Dawson, taken by P.H. Polk, during Dawson’s tenure at the Tuskegee Institute, where.....
Vincennes, Indiana: Lost Art Society, 1932. Stapled booklet of four double-sided pages, measuring 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches. A booklet advertising a forthcoming “World Business Directory of Negroes”, which was to be put out by the “Lost Art Society”. This was the project of Earnest William Evans (1879–1948); his.....
Columbia, Missouri: W.B. Alen, 1909. Folio, 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches, 9 pp. In 1909, Blind Boone (John William Boone) was an established touring pianist and composer whose concert career had already spanned more than two decades. Blind since infancy, he had trained at the Missouri School for the.....
Chicago, Illinois: Will Rossitter, 1907. Folio, 10 ½ x 14 inches. A scarce sheet for the song “Good-Bye Lou,” performed by Sissieretta Jones as Black Patti circa 1907. By the early twentieth century Sissieretta Jones (1868–1933), widely billed as “Black Patti,” had transitioned from her earlier international career as a......
Newburgh: Abel A. Peck, 1860s. 3 ½ x 2 ¼ albumen print on larger mount. A carte-de-visite copy of a folk art painting probably painted c. 1820s-1830s. William Seymore (1786-1846) was a Methodist minister in Bellvale, New York. Edward Ruttenber and L.H. Clark, in their 1881 History of Orange County.....
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John Campbell, 1863. Second edition. 8vo, paper wraps, 64pp. Wraps with wear to edges, library stamps, and some manuscript notes; contents excellent to Near Fine. A short booklet by William H. Winder (1808–1879), son of the Brigadier General and Baltimore lawyer of the same name, concerning his 1861.....
Boston, Massachusetts: December 1905. Single 8.5 x 8.5 inch sheet, cut from a larger whole; likely missing a portion. Wanted poster for Mary S. Dean, dated December 16, 1905. Three months prior, a young woman’s torso had been found in a suitcase floating in Boston Harbor. A month later, a......
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Brooklyn, New York: The Albertype Co., 1913. Photo album of twenty-five 12 ½ x 10 inch pages containing fifty 8 x 6 inch photographs, with cardstock cover. Cover and pages worn with marginal damage; pages mostly detached from string binding; photos with captions on negative; Near Fine with Fine contrast.....
Clarke, Cobb, and Harris Counties, Georgia: 1834–1836. Three documents. One four-page document measuring 5 x 8 ¾ inches, likely previously a single sheet; water stained with some tearing at folds, very good. One double-sided document measuring 8 x 10 inches; water stained and folded with large tears at folds, possibly.....
Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and Ontario: 1885–1909. Seventy-four letters in thirty-seven envelopes, mainly dating between 1885 and 1895. With two undated and one empty envelope. Conditions vary with a few letters having damage intersecting with significant amounts of text and others Near Fine. A collection of letters mainly sent between Captain.....
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.....
Guatemala: c. 1905–1908. Forty-eight photographs measuring 3 ¼ x 4 inches, mounted on heavy cardboard measuring 4 ¾ x 5 ¾ inches. Most photographs captioned recto, mainly on negative, with some captions verso. Many stamped verso with “Photo by W. A. Kellerman”. William Ashbrook Kellerman (1850–1908) was an American botanist.....
Vandalia, Springfield, and Coles County Illinois: 1837–1854. Eight documents totaling about 75 pages, 7 ¾ x 12 ½ inches and 7 ½ x 12 inches. Generally folded with toning at folds, occasional small stains, and minor damage to margins; one with more extensive repairs made with thread; entirely legible. A.....
United States: 1966–1967. Approximately 108 items: Eighteen packets of carbon-copied documents totaling 114 pages; thirty-nine pages of handwritten notes; twenty-six letters from William Burke to Elwood Hammock; thirteen notes and letters from Elwood Hammock to Arthur Lea; fourteen packets of carbon copies of Burke’s letters, totaling fifty pages; two newspaper.....
United States and Caribbean: 1830–1898. Approximately twenty-nine pieces: logbook of eighty-four double-sided pages measuring 13 x 20 inches; eight letters, seventeen documents and forms, and three pieces of miscellany. Much wear and significant damage to logbook, including water damage, mildew, and tearing; log book overall fair to good minus. Other.....
Lynn, Massachusetts: Arthur W. Robinson, 1891. Nine of a ten-map series mostly measuring 14 ½ x 19 inches. Nine of a set of ten maps of the entire state of Massachusetts, produced in 1891 for the League of American Wheelmen. The League was founded in Rhode Island in 1880 as.....
New York: Wm. A. Pond, 1865. Folio, 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Fine condition. An unusual use of sheet music as satire, with the lithographed cover showing a fake stock certificate. The cover - engraved by Major & Knapp - advertises an ownership share in the Spondolix Petroleum company.....
Folio, 9 ½ x 13 inches, 5 pp. Margins trimmed quite tight to title, with some loss to publisher information on rear cover, small chips, else near fine, with the hand colored lithographic cover by H.C. Maguire in fine condition. An interesting piece of sheet music perhaps shedding light on.....
Malden, Massachusetts: Edward A. Bowen, 1910. Folio, wraps, 5 pp. An unrecorded sheet about two romantic youngsters by Harry Reardon, who was apparently a local composer of comic songs active in the Brockton, Massachusetts area during this period (we find a newspaper record in newspapers of a recital at the.....
Fort Defiance, New Mexico (now Arizona): October 1858. Single letter, two 8 x 10 inch pages. A letter from Captain William K. Van Bokkelen (1822–1907) at Fort Defiance to Major James Lowry Donaldson (1814–1885). Van Bokkelen, calculating the amount of bushels of corn consumed each day by the Fort’s horses.....
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.....
Whitehall, New York: April 1827. Single one-page letter measuring 8 x 9 ½ inches. A letter from [possibly William] Van Benthuysen in Whitehall, New York, to future Secretary of State William L. Marcy, then State Comptroller, accepting an appointment. The appointment is unspecified, but likely related to the Champlain Canal;.....
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.....
United States: 1876–1936. Forty-two letters with several miscellaneous documents (circulars, stock offerings, etc.). The Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) was formed in 1855 by a consolidation of several other western railroad companies. The company and its subsidiaries, known for their sleek diesel Zephyr trains, operated extensively throughout the midwest.....