Lebanon: 1861. Broadside measuring 17 ½ x 12 inches. Creases from original folds else fine, near fine overall. Newspaper about fine. A dramatic and unrecorded broadside from the first weeks of the Civil War, calling the citizens of Lebanon to a meeting at the courthouse on Saturday, April 27, 1861.....
Maryland: 1907-1919. Cloth banner measuring 32 x 50 inches, with 4 ½ inch lettering. The text reads “Eleventh Ward - J.G.L. of MD.” Back is blank. Fading to lettering, stitched at top to facilitate hanging. Very good condition overall. The Just Government League was one of several major Suffrage groups.....
Mostly Georgia and Colorado: 1945-1950? Scrapbook with thirty-seven pages containing appx. twenty ephemeral items relating to the WAC and approx 275 photographs, about 50 of which are related to her WAC service and the rest showing scenic views in Colorado and Tennessee. A generally fine group. An extremely well preserved.....
Maine and Massachusetts: 1810s-1960s. Several hundred items housed in various binders, two linear feet overall. Size and formats vary, including photographs, ephemera and publications. Generally fine condition. A broad and well preserved ephemeral record of the Getchell and Coombs families, who were active in the Boston mercantile community as printers.....
V.P. 1920s-1940s. With fifty-eight letters from Newton Baker, 1924-1937. Generally fine condition. Ellen Gowen Hood was active in the Democratic party at both the local and national levels. An obituary from the Philadelphia Daily News in 1970 described her as “one of the earliest local advocates of women in politics.”.....
Pittsburgh and Detroit: 1796-1797. Pair of receipts measuring 8 x 6 and 6 ½ x 2 ½ inches. Fine condition. In the period following the end of the Northwest Indian War, in which American Indian tribal leaders ceded the lands of Southern and Eastern Ohio to the United States government.....
Newport: 1880s. Single page with writing on both sides, signed by Howe. Fine condition. A short but interesting note from Julia Ward Howe to Albert Bagby, the Illinois-born musician who trained with Liszt in Germany and would eventually be a longtime host of “Mr. Bagby’s Musical Mornings” at the Waldorf-Astoria.....
Chiselhurst: 1968-1977. 8vo, stapled sheets, various paginations. Near fine to fine with very light normal tanning to some pages. Comprising issues 37, 43, 45, 47, 52-53, 55-58, 59-65, 68-79, 81-99, 101-112. An extensive collection of issues of the Shout fanzine, previously known as ‘Soul Music,’ covering American Soul and R&B.....
Guatemala City: 1872. Broadside measuring 17 ¼ x 13 ½ inches. Vertical fold to center, some loss and foxing to left upper portion, very good plus overall. An unrecorded broadside announcing the first celebration of the Día del Ejército de Guatemala, a holiday celebrating the defeat of the dictator Vicente.....
Mostly Indiana: 1857-1921. Fifty-Nine letters, appx. 100 pages total. Minimal wear, fine condition. The Milhous family were midwestern merchants who were active in Indiana and Ohio in the middle part of the nineteenth century. William Milhous was a Midwestern general store manager who was born in Ohio and operated stores.....
Mostly Connecticut: 1760s-1823. Twenty-six sermons, various paginations, likely bound by Burhans, with a note on front free endpaper stating: “The Following M.S.S. are a Memento of Labor - D. Burhans Property.” With “M.S.S. / Sermons” on a label at spine. Some wear to binding, contents generally fine, very good plus.....
Mostly New South Wales: 1876-1879. Appx. 190 pages, appx. 20,000 words, unpaginated. 6 x 4 inches, limp cloth binding, front hinge nearly split, writing quite legible, a handful of pages loose, good overall. Glaud Rodger, a Scottish-born emigrant who left Utah for California in the 1840s, was along with fellow.....
Mostly Atlanta: 1940s-1950s. Leatherette album measuring 12 x 9 inches. With over 225 images, most 4 ½ x 2 ¾ inches. Very well preserved and nearly complete with three empty slots, about fine overall. A compelling visual record of the childhood of Mable Williams of Atlanta, Georgia, a high school.....
American: 1860s. Tintype measuring 2 ½ x 1 ½ in larger mount. Fine contrast and condition. An exceptionally exposed and preserved portrait of a young African-American man in a studio setting, taken in the 1860s or early 1870s when the arched mount seen here was in use.
Pennsylvania and France: 1890s-1910s. Five Cabinet Card Photographs and one Mounted Photograph taken at the L. Vasseur Studio in Paris. Generally fine condition, one cabinet card with chips to mount. A small but very compelling group of images recovered from a family collection, documenting an African-American family from Pennsylvania. Five.....
Chicago: International Labor Defense, 1936. Flier measuring 8 ½ x 11 ½ inches, with ticket measuring 4 x 2 inches. Some light wear and toning, near fine. A pair of items relating to Angelo Herndon and the International Labor Defense’s efforts on behalf of the Scottsboro Boys in 1936 in.....
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.....
Utica: Saturday Globe, 1897. Handbill measuring 9 ¼ x 5 inches. Fine condition. The murder trial of Theodore Durrant, known as the ‘Demon of the Belfry,’ was covered widely throughout the United States, due in part to the disturbing nature of the crimes against the two victims, Blanche Lamont and.....
Vickburg: M.T. Frederichs, 1880s-1890s. Cabinet card photograph measuring 5 ½ x 4 on larger mount. Some light wear to mount, very good. A portrait of an African-American woman in a dress, holding a parasol and with a hat curiously perched on a prop branch nearby. We find a record of.....
Asheville: 1910-1920. Silver gelatin print measuring 8 x 10 inches. Some stains and wear, information on verso, good condition. A photograph of the staff at Asheville’s historic Grove Park Inn, taken c. 1910-1920 by the photographer Herbert W. Pelton, who operated a studio in Asheville and took many pictures around.....
Cincinnati: Ball and Thomas, 1858-1868. Four cartes de visite, one showing Ball and Thomas's studio at 120 w. 4th St. and the other three with the 30 W. 4th St. address. A group of four photographs taken at the studio of J.P. Ball in Cincinnati. One subject is identified as.....
American West: 1930s-1940s. Silver gelatin photograph measuring 3 ½ x 2 ½ inches. A well-posed and quite uncommon image of two nude men in an outdoor setting in the American West, c. 1930s-1940s.
Jerusalem: 1890s-1920s. Silver gelatin photographs measuring 11 ½ x 9 ¼ inches, hand colored. Some light normal wear, near fine overall, quite attractive and suitable for framing. The American Colony in Jerusalem, started by 1881 by members of a Christian utopian society led by Anna and Horatio Spafford of Chicago.....
Ohio: 1918. Silver gelatin photograph in glass-fronted frame, image measures 24 ¼ x 6 ⅞ inches. Matted and framed, not examined out of frame. The 317th Engineer’s Band was a part of the 317th Engineer Regiment, an element of the 92nd Division, which was composed of over 15,000 African-American soldiers.....
Rochester: 1908-1911. Broadside photographic advertisement, 8 ½ x 11 inches, folded, with text and images on each side. Some light normal wear, some contemporary notes in pencil to blank portion, very good overall. Enigmarelle, a fake automaton with a human being inside it, performed mostly at theaters in Europe and.....