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Warren: 1912. Handbill measuring 10 ¼ x 6 ½ inches. Some tanning and faint crease marks from fold, near fine. The Ohio Woman Suffrage Association, founded in Cincinnati in 1869, was one of the earliest state-level suffrage organizations. It was active for several decades. Like the NAWSA, the group defined.....
Oregon? 1922-1923. Silver gelatin photograph mounted to cardstock measuring 6 ¼ by 4 ⅞ inches. Press marks verso. Some wear, very good overall. An image of the women’s rights activist and author Ruth Hale, likely taken at one of her well-publicized trips to the Pendleton Round-Up in Oregon in 1922.....
New York: 1918. Twenty-two photographs measuring 6 ½ x 4 ½ to 8 ½ x 6 ½. Editorial marks verso, generally fine contrast and condition. A collection of twenty-two photographs and accompanying scraps of the September 8, 1918 Grit article documenting the Vassar Farm Unit - also known as the.....
Huron: 1891? Albumen photograph measuring 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mount. Some fading, very good overall. A scarce and possibly image from the post-statehood Surveyor-General’s office. Surveying in the Dakota Territory and in the early statehood period was quite difficult due to the terrain and the abundance of.....
Mexico, California, the Philippines, et al. 1880s-1940s. First Edition. Appx. 750-800 unique items, most multiple page correspondence, generally fine condition. Three linear feet. From the estate of Micaela Martinez Du Casse. The Mexican-American artist Xavier Martinez and his extended family and social circle, which included his estranged wife Elsie Martinez.....
Colorado: 1887. First Edition. Albums in three-quarters roan with cloth sides, measuring 9 ¾ x 12 ½ inches. Some binding wear, one volume with the front board detached, internally generally clean, images generally fine with excellent contrast. Presentation copy from Chapin to the alpinist Charles E. Fay, with a a......
Danville: c. 1915. First Edition. 13 ¼ x 8 ¾ inches. Mounted to cardstock with residue and affixed articles to cardstock verso. Date stamp of “Oct 24 1915” on lower margin. Peculiar ink inscription reads “Culprints Doc, Wedge and Shorty” at margin. An early Chinese American restaurant menu from Danville.....
Alaska: 1897-1901. Oblong folio, 12 ½ x 9 inches. Twelve leaves with 89 photographs rebound in modern cloth. Binding in fine condition, photographs generally excellent, some leaves with clear tape repairs. A well preserved album of photographs showing mining operations in the Golovin Bay region, about fifty to seventy-five miles.....
Tuskegee: 1930s. Pair of silver gelatin prints measuring 9 ½ x 7 ⅞ and 7 x 5 inches. Residue to versos from removal from scrapbook, tear and crease to larger image, very good contrast. A pair of photographs from the prolific photographer Prentice H. Polk of a band led by.....
Holly Springs: 1944. First Edition. 8vo, wraps, 20 pp. Wraps detached at spine and with some tears, stain to front wrap and some ink residue, good condition. A privately printed collection of poems by Richard Pitts, who at the time was a student at Rust College in Holly Springs. According.....
Tuskegee: 1914. Oblong 8vo, decorative pebbled cloth over thin boards, 8 x 5 inches. With fourteen pages of inscriptions from fellow classmates. Some pages detached, wear and toning, good condition. An interesting book of dedicatory verse to a student in the Tuskegee Institute class of 1915, from his classmates, all.....
Providence? 1883? First Edition. Albumen photograph measuring 5 ¾ x 4 ½ inches on larger mount. Some light wear, near fine. Sarah James Eddy, the abolitionist and social reformer from Providence, Rhode Island, painted the only known portrait of Frederick Douglass for which he sat in 1883. She painted two.....
New Britain: 1855. Letter measuring 8 x 5 inches, folded. Fine condition.
[Offered in Partnership with Kate Mitas, Bookseller] V.P. 1933-1935 and 1943. Five holograph diaries, each wrapped in brown paper with the title written on the front wrapper. First two diaries 7 x 5 inches, third diary 8-1/4 x 6-3/4 inches, fourth and fifth diaries 10-1/2 x 8- 1/4 inches. 190pp.....
Fishkill? 1776. Single sheet measuring 8 x 9 ½ inches. Mounted at margin, fine condition. A letter written by Henry Wisner as Chairman of the New York Provincial Congress's Committee of Safety in 1776 concerning the wintering of two of the first vessels to be be built by the newly.....
V.P. 1930s-1940s. Various pieces of incoming correspondence and ephemera from the Coquettes, with additional photographs including an album documenting her time with the bands. With thirty-three letters pertaining to her music career and thirty or so letters from her family from the 1930. Generally fine condition. Emma Helkema, originally of.....
Arkansas: 1854. Letter measuring 8 x 6 ½ inches. Some slight tears at folds, near fine. An interesting letter written by a woman to her sister after spending a holiday by herself without domestic help. The author quotes a passage from Marion Harland’s poem “”Alone,” and laments her holiday spent.....
Mt. Pleasant: 1910-1921. Limp leatherette journal measuring 6 ½ x 4 inches, 170 pages. Some chips to spine, fine contents. Christian N. Lund was born in Norway in 1846 to Mormon parents, and immigrated to the United States in 1869, first arriving in Salt Lake City and eventually settling in.....
Charleston: 1866. Autograph letter, signed by a John (last name unknown,) addressed to R.W. Grange Esquire at Racine College in Racine Wisconsin. Some tears at folds, near fine. Appx. 1,000 words. A lengthy and atmospheric rumination on a holiday spent in South Carolina by an author known only as Bob.....
Mostly California: 1956-1972. Letters with original envelopes retained, fine condition, with a few ephemeral items from Lehmann’s career collected by Mahler included. Forty-five letters total, with two additional telegraphs and three signed photographs and several copies of a color photograph of the pair together on stage, appx. fifteen are short.....
N.P. 1922. Oblong 8vo, wraps, 9 x 6 inches. Rear wrap detached, tears and chips to front wrap, fine contents, very good overall. An uncommon first edition copy of Manuel Gomez Miralles’ photographic survey of Costa Rica. Miralles was one of Costa Rica’s most prolific photographers, operating for many decades.....
Boston: 1851. Autograph letter signed by Whipple and addressed to Oakes at her Brooklyn address. Fine condition. 9 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches bifolium. An interesting letter written by critic Edwin Percy Whipple to Elizabeth Oakes Smith, encouraging her to publish in Graham Magazine. He then offers sympathies on a......
Philadelphia: 1876. Autograph letter signed by Cooke. Fine condition. An interesting and candid letter written by Jay Cooke to [Edwin M.] Lewis, the trustee in charge of Cooke’s assets following the dissolution of his company in 1873 and the ensuing financial panic. The letter specifically concerns shares of the Western.....
N.P. Treasury Department, 1793. Partially printed document signed by Hamilton and finished in another hand. Fine condition. With the original receipt from Ben Boomfield Autographs, sold in 1954 to the previous owner. Among Hamilton’s many signal achievements as the first Secretary of the Treasury under the new Constitution was his.....
Washington: 1857. Autograph letter measuring 8 x 5 inches bifolium, with free franked stampless cover. Fine condition. An interesting letter written by James W. Denver, written while he was serving as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, describing crime on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1857. He writes: “We have great.....