![Portrait of Julia Marlowe. [Inscribed by Marlow to a Friend, 1940]. Women, Arnold Genthe,...](/pictures/thumb/List330.jpg?v=1573473239)
New York: Arnold Genthe, 1911-1920. Silver gelatin print, 6 ¾ x 9 ¼ inches on larger mount. Signed by Genthe on the mount, inscribed by Marlowe as Marlowe Sothern on the mount as follows: “To Jean: our little comrade on our walks in Beautiful Stockbridge. In remembrance also of 'Sun.....
Haverhill: 1940. First Edition. Seven journals, each approximately 70 pages, with pages measuring 4 ½ x 2 ½ inches. These journals, by an unnamed member of the Dean family of Haverhill, were assembled around 1940 from collected family and historical photographs. Taken as a whole they provide a richly detailed.....
Boston: 1930. Oblong quarto, 49 pp. With appx. 1,400 photos, most measuring less than an inch square, with roughly 175 in larger formats up to 3 ½ by 5 inches. A wonderful labor of photographic love created by an unidentified young woman with ties to the Cabot family of Beacon.....
![Proud Lady. [With Autograph Letter to the Critic Rebecca Lowrie, Signed]. Women, Neith Boyce,...](/pictures/thumb/List327.jpg?v=1573394314)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First Edition. With an autograph letter, signed, with the envelope affixed to the front pastedown. With the bookplate of John and Rebecca Lowrie on front free endpaper. Lowrie reviewed the work for the New York Post, and her review of the book affixed to.....
Los Angeles: Edward Curtis, 1919-1927. Silver Gelatin Print, 5 x 7 inches, with Curtis’s Biltmore Hotel address and Unsell’s name to verso. Signed by Curtis in ink on recto. Eve Unsell was a highly prolific scenarist who wrote for over 95 films during her active period from 1914 to 1933.....
Chicago: J.B. Westendorf, 1877. Folio, 10 ½ x 14 inches, 6 pp.
Philadelphia: Studio of Joachim Gutekunst, 1880s. Mammoth albumen print on card mount with original gilt lettered mat, 12 ¼ x 15 ¼ inches, mat measuring 20 x 23 ½ inches. Edwin Booth was a highly successful Shakespearean actor, considered by some critics to be the greatest actor of his day.....
Boston: Lea and Shepard, 1868. First Edition. 8vo, burgundy cloth, 282 pp. First edition. With four plates. A bright first edition copy of the second novel to ever feature baseball, and the first to use baseball in the title and design of the book. William Everett was the cousin of.....
Massachusetts: 1898. The 2nd Massachusetts Volunteers mustered into service in May, 1898, and within a month saw significant action in Cuba at the Battle of El Caney. They were one of three volunteer units from Massachusetts to see action on the Santiago Campaign. The regiment was inexperienced - 55% were.....
New Hampshire: 1857. Broadside advertisement, 5 ½ x 11 inches. An unusual advertisement for a penmanship instructor, a Mr. Chadbourn, announcing the opening of his academy on September 15, 1857 in Wolfborough, New Hampshire. The broadside states, “Inspired with the confidence of more than five years experience as a Teacher.....
![Souvenir: Song of Prophecy. [Illustrated Broadside]. Music, John Hutchinson, Women’s...](/pictures/thumb/List316.jpg?v=1573324883)
Chicago: 1893. Broadside, 11 ¾ x 5 ½ inches. John Hutchison, patriarch and leader of the Hutchinson Family Band, was hired by the World’s Fair Committee to perform as one of the “Wonders of America.” This broadsheet, unrecorded, is a souvenir of his performance from the fair, in which he.....
Boston: Oliver Ditson and Company, 1863. First Edition. Manuel Fenellosa and his brother-in-law Manuel Emilio came to the United States from Spain in 1836 aboard the SS United States. They settled in Salem, Massachussetts, first forming a band and then a music school. They were friends of the publisher John.....
Massachusetts: c. 1930. 8 ½ by 11 inch leatherette binder filled with correspondence. An interesting small archive of material from the semi-professional club magician George Corrigan, consisting of letters written by other magicians, most concerning the sale and trade of tricks. Corregan was the managing editor of the Sphinx, published.....
Waterbury, Connecticut: 1920-1932. Oblong quartos, 10 x 13 inches, appx. 140 pages total. A unique family record of a Connecticut middle-class military family, assembled with great effort and skill by one of its members out of cut photographs and newspaper clippings. The albums trace the family’s history through the World.....
V.p. 1960s-1970s. Thirty-three 11 x 14 images, thirteen 8 x 10 images. These photographs, likely taken by a participant in the various events but probably printed in the 1970s, encapsulate many of the iconic themes of the New Left. Most of the photographs show protesters at unidentified events, though the.....
Virginia City: Sutterley and Co., 1864-1867. Albumen photograph on mount, 4 x 2 ½ inches. Pauline Cushman was an actress and one of the most successful spies for the Union Army. She ingratiated herself with the Confederate army by toasting Jefferson Davis after one of her performances. She was eventually.....
N.p. 1863. Dark carved wood, 11 ½ x 11 ½ x 1 inches, with bone border and star inlays in corners, an inlaid tree with carved names of Civil War battles as leaves. During the Civil War, wounded or captured soldiers would often pass their time waiting to return to.....
Providence, et al. 1799-1866. Anna Almy Jenkins was the granddaughter of the abolitionist Quaker patron Moses Brown. She was active in the Religious Society of Friends in the middle of the nineteenth century, at a time when few women were involved in public religious life, though Quakers in general were.....
V.p. 1902-1910. Ink on paper, each sheet approx. 9 x 7 in., 1-4 sheets each, variously paginated, one with orig. envelope. Celebrated American Beaux-Arts sculptor Frederick MacMonnies (1863-1937) studied with Augustus Saint-Gaudens and many of his best commissions emerged from his relationships with Saint-Gaudens and the architect Stanford White. He.....
Fort Ethan Allen: 1910. Gelatin silver print mounted to board, 16 ¼ x 14 ½ inches. The 10th Cavalry was one of the original “Buffalo Soldier” regiments of the post-Civil War segregated U.S. Army, first seeing action in the Indian Wars. Their band is shown here most likely during their.....
Massachusetts: 1926. Ink on paper, 18 ½ x 23 ½ inches. Alexander Johnson, an African-American musician from New Bedford, enlisted in the army at age 16 and was believed for some time to be the first African-American musician in the Union Army. He mustered into mustered into Company "C" of.....
Boston: c. 1874. Albumen carte-de-visite photograph, 3 ¾ x 2 ¼ inches, on original mount with photographer’s mark to verso. Joshua Bowen Smith was a Boston-based abolitionist and conductor on the Underground Railroad, who also owned his own catering company. Born in Philadelphia to a British father and mother of.....
Physical Culture City: 1905. First Edition. Physical Culture City, Spotswood, New Jersey, 1905 or later. Thirty-one images in total, varying sizes, most 3 x 5 inches or smaller. Bernarr Macfadden was a proponent of Physical Culture, a movement combining exercise with nutrition and ascetic living that helped give rise to.....
V.p. 1890s. Oblong quarto, leatherette, heavy card stock album pages with photographs affixed. This album of photographs, assembled probably during the 1890s, is notable in three ways; for its extensive collection of notable cultural figures in the late nineteenth century including abolitionists, politicians, women’s suffrage advocates authors, etc; the inclusion.....
New York: RCA Corporation, 1937-1940. In the late 1930s, television was in its experimental phase and radio dominated the American media landscape. RCA and its NBC network directed experimental broadcasts from their studio in Radio City, broadcasting from a transmitter at the top of the Empire State Building. The first.....