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United States: c. 1920. Painted poster with affixed photograph, measuring 14 x 21 inches. A painted poster advertising the 1920 film The Girl Who Dared, a Western directed by Clifford Smith and starring Edythe Sterling. The story follows Barbara Hampton, a rancher’s daughter who is elected sheriff of a small.....
Virginia, Missouri, and Mississippi: 1843–1893. Eight letters, two pages of genealogical notes, and one empty envelope. One letter missing top half of paper; generally worn with musty scent. A small collection of letters between members of the Minor family of Virginia, particularly John Francis Minor (b. 1809), his daughter Eliza.....
Austin County, Texas: August 1858. Ledger measuring 7 ½ x 12 inches. Approximately forty-five pages filled out with remainder blank. Spine broken and some pages detached; pages with wear but legible; cover quite worn. Austin County, Texas, was the first Anglo-American colony in Mexican Texas, founded in about 1821 by.....
United States and the Philippines: West’s Studio and others, 1898–1900. Eight photographs mounted on heavy cardstock, measuring 5 ½ x 6 ¼ inches and smaller. Some with manuscript captions verso. A collection of eight photographs from the Spanish-American War, with seven of stateside training camp scenes and one portrait of.....
Columbus, Ohio: c. 1907. Composite photograph measuring 3 ¾ x 5 ½ inches on heavy cardstock, with text verso. Some fading and small stains with some damage to corners. A composite cabinet card photograph of inmates executed by electric chair at the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus between 1897 and 1907.....
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;.....
Nebraska and Minnesota: multiple publishers, 1930s–1960s. Ten posters, mainly measuring approximately 14 x 21 ½ inches, with some smaller. Territory bands were dance bands that toured around particular regions of the US. Usually swing or big band jazz groups, they mostly covered popular songs, playing in smaller cities and towns.....
Kalamazoo, Michigan: August 1844. Single three-page letter measuring 7 ½ x 9 ¾ inches. Folded with very small tears at folds; larger tear at seal intersecting with text. An 1844 letter from a woman who had recently moved to Kalamazoo to a friend in Urbana, Ohio. The writer describes Kalamazoo.....
New York City: 1840–1849. Eight letters. A small collection of letters to Boston-based grocers Silas Pierce & Co., sent from New York by steamboat, with notes on covers or stamps reading “Boat Mail” or “Steam Boat Mail”. Five of the letters are from Wyckoff & Scrymser, which was likely owned.....
Massachusetts, New York, Maine, Pennsylvania, and others: 1832–1855. Fifty letters with four empty envelopes or covers. Forty-four letters addressed to I.H. Bartlett & Sons: two from the 1830s, eight from the 1840s, and thirty-four from the 1850s. With five letters addressed to Capt. John C. Blanchard (1838, 1839, 1844, and.....
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.....
Los Angeles, California: LAFD, LA Herald Examiner, and LA Times, c. 1970s. Forty-nine photographs measuring 8 x 10 inches with some larger, most with photographers’ stamps verso. Most seem to have been previously affixed to a surface and torn off; some tears and residue intersect with subject. Some with water.....
Brooklyn, New York: 1964. Twenty-eight page scrapbook measuring 11 x 14 inches. Containing forty-one photographs measuring 5 x 7 inches and smaller and fifty-eight pieces of ephemera, forty-three of which are filled-in entry slips from a contest. The Carpetbaggers is a 1964 film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based on the.....
West Rupert, Vermont: N.p., c. 1850. Broadside measuring 8 ½ x 15 inches affixed to sheet measuring 10 x 15 inches. A broadside depicting a sign language alphabet invented by Charles Parker, Sr. (1827–1912). This broadside is affixed to a page from an accounting ledger. Parker, a graduate of the.....
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.....
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1904. Seventy-four page booklet measuring 4 ½ x 5 ¼ inches. Damage to wraps with one detached; inside with manuscript (Chinese) markings. A guide compiled by immigration officer John Endicott Gardner for converting between the Gregorian and traditional Chinese calendars for Gregorian years 1849 to.....
San Francisco, California: Jimmy Lum Advertising Service, 1950. 107 pp directory measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches. Normal wear, with some manuscript markings on wraps; contents excellent with some markings and wear. The 1950 edition of the San Francisco Chinese Directory, published by the Jimmy Lum Advertising Service. The directory.....
Trail, British Columbia: Hall Printing Co., 1947. Broadside measuring approximately 19 x 19 inches. The Doukhobors are a Spiritual Christian group that originated in the Russian Empire around the late eighteenth century. Persecuted for their pacifism and rejection of the Orthodox Church, the Doukhobors were first removed to present-day Ukraine.....
Likely Ventura, California: c. 1900s. Photograph measuring 3 ½ x 11 ½ inches, on heavy cardstock. With manuscript verso. Photograph somewhat faded with large wrinkle on left side, with some damage to mount. A panoramic photograph of an oil field appearing to be from around the turn of the century.....
New York City: Brown Brothers, c. 1910s. Photograph measuring 5 x 7 ¼ inches, with manuscript caption and Brown Brothers stamps verso. A photo of a nighttime scene in San Francisco’s Chinatown, the oldest and largest in the US; the caption identifies the location as Dupont Street (now Grant Avenue).....
California and Oregon: c. 1887–1921. 160 total items. Description of Pacific Coast Outlaws 32pp 8vo in cloth wraps; wraps excellent with some staining; contents very good to excellent with some water damage. Thirteen copies found on OCLC. Two business cards, one with manuscript notes; 106 letters dating 1906 to 1911;.....
Likely Plumas County, California: January 1860. Single four-page letter measuring 7 ½ x 9 ½ inches. A letter from “Charly” to his wife or fiance, written in January of 1860 from “Ganser [possibly sic] Valley”, likely in Plumas County, California. Located in the Sierra Nevada, Plumas County contained a number.....
Panama, New Grenada: July 1849. Single four-page letter measuring 7 ½ x 10 inches. Folded with some small tears; some text missing at seal. A letter from W. J. Pearson to his cousin Jane Eliza Caldwell, written from Panama in 1849 as Pearson traveled to California. Pearson first describes the.....
Brooklyn, New York: May 1849. Single four-page letter measuring 7 ¼ x 9 ¾ inches. A letter from William Berry in Brooklyn to his brother James Berry in Adrian, Michigan, written in May of 1849. He opens with some comments about the California gold rush: “I have recovered from.....
S.I. Department of Public Works, Division of Land Settlement, 1921. Large broadsheet; 19 ½ x 16 ¾; pp. [2]; illustrated with photographs, drawings, and a large map; a few penciled-in, manuscript notes (possibly originally belonging to a potential settler); some age-toning along fold lines; edges a bit unevenly trimmed; in.....