New York City: Underwood & Underwood, May 22 and June 5, 1916. May 22 photograph by G. V. Buck, measuring 9 ⅞ x 7 ⅝ inches. Numbered on negative, with caption, Underwood & Underwood and Central Press Ass’n stamps, manuscript, and later sticker verso. Slightly buckled at lower margin; excellent.....
Camp near Richmond, Virginia: June 25, 1862. Letter from Henry Burton to his wife. 4 ¼ x 7 inches. Bifolium with three of four pages with text, some tape residue and folds. A short but evocative Civil War letter written from Union lines near Richmond on June 25, 1862, just.....
N.p. Central Press Association and International News Photos, February 5, 1945. Photograph measuring 9 ¾ x 7 ¼ inches. With manuscript on negative; caption, Central Press Association and International News Photos stamps, manuscript, and later sticker verso. Japan invaded the Philippines in early December 1941, defeating the islands and the.....
New York City: International News Photos, April 7, 1941. Photograph measuring 11 x 7 inches. With caption, manuscript, and International News Photos, date, and keyword stamps verso. The American Peace Mobilization (APM) was created in 1940 at a Chicago meeting of the Committee to Defend America by Keeping Out of.....
New York City: Underwood & Underwood and Central Press Association, November 24, 1916. Photograph measuring 6 x 8 ¼ inches. Numbered on negative, with caption, Underwood & Underwood and Central Press Ass’n stamps, manuscript, and later sticker verso. A 1916 portrait of artist and philanthropist Winifred Holt returning to the.....
United States: n.d., likely 1870s–1880s. Tintype photograph measuring 2 ½ x 4 inches. Studio portrait of a young woman seated in a checked dress, with a pair of scissors suspended from or resting against the front of her skirt. A nineteenth-century tintype portrait of a young woman posed with scissors.....
Oak Harbor, Ohio: 1908. Real photo postcard measuring approximately 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches. Photograph shows a group of women and children gathered around a quilt frame inside a church or meeting room, with a finished or partially finished quilt visible in the foreground. Manuscript caption in left margin.....
Wolfboro, New Hampshire: September 11–12, 1843. Stampless folded letter, 4pp measuring 8 ¼ x 10 ¼ inches, to Mrs. H. A. Keyes, Beirut, Syria, care of Rev. R. Anderson, D.D., Missionary Rooms, Boston, and J. Lyman, London. Manuscript Wolfboro postmark, September 13, and “Paid 12½.” With two disinfectant slits. Manuscript.....
N.p. 1920s or 1930s. 12mo, 23pp in paper wraps. The revised thirteenth edition of nurse, sex educator, and birth control activist Margaret Sanger’s Family Limitation. The booklet, which discusses methods of contraception, was originally written in 1914 while Sanger was awaiting trial for violating the anti-obscenity Comstock Act with her.....
Texas, Illinois, and California: 1950–1954. Spiral bound photo album measuring 9 ½ x 11 inches, containing 139 affixed and 15 loose photographs generally 3 x 5 with some larger and a few smaller. Affixed photos captioned on pages. Album cover detached; pages delicate with some damage and chipping to edges.....
Plainfield, New Jersey: 1863–1868. Notebook measuring 6 ½ x 8 ¼ inches, with about 80 pp having text. Cover with wear especially to spine; very good. Contents generally excellent with about two pages too faded to read and some parts of pages cut out. A notebook belonging to Opheleton Seminary.....
New York City: ACME Newspictures, March 11, 1934. Photograph measuring 8 ⅛ x 6 ¼ inches. With caption, date stamp, manuscript, and later sticker verso. A press photo of the cabin at Matchless Mine in Leadville, Colorado, where the body of Baby Doe Tabor was found. Tabor had lived destitute.....
England: c. 1880s. Carte de visite measuring 2 ⅝ x 4 inches. With later manuscript pencil markings on the verso. A few spots on the photograph, with some wear to mount. A carte de visite portrait of activist and theosophist Annie Besant (1847–1933), taken by the German portrait photographer Hayman.....
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Record-Herald, November 3, 1912. 20 pp magazine measuring 10 ½ x 14 ½ inches. The November 3, 1912, supplement to the Sunday Record-Herald newspaper, published in Chicago. Unrelated to the contents of the magazine, the cover features a full color illustration of a young woman with a......
Chicago, Illinois: Will Rossiter, 1912. 16 pp songbook measuring 10 x 13 ½ inches, in paper wraps. Wraps worn especially at edges, with wrinkling and several large folds; very good minus. Contents toned with some wrinkling, folds, and spots of rubbing, with one larger tear; very good minus. A novelty.....
New York City: ACME Newspictures and Illustrated Daily News, October 13, 1932. Photograph measuring 6 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches. With caption, ACME, N.E.A. and. A photo of a pipe of the controversial Los Angeles Aqueduct identified as the “Grapevine siphon,” located about 50 miles north of Mojave, California. A......
New York City: Associated Press Newsfeatures, August 23, 1967. Photograph measuring 8 ¾ x 7 inches. With caption, date stamp, manuscript, and later sticker verso. An aerial view of an empty Dos Amigos Pumping Plant, outside of Los Banos in Central California. The plant was constructed as part of the.....
New York City: ACME Newspictures, June 13, 1935. Photograph measuring 8 ¾ x 6 ⅝ inches. With caption, ACME and N.E.A. stamps, manuscript, and later sticker verso. A 1935 press photo showing an aerial view at night of the Wheeler Dam under construction. The dam was built between 1933 and.....
San Francisco, California: United Press Photo, August 26, 1954. Photograph measuring 8 ⅗ x 4 ½ inches. With typed caption, date stamp, manuscript, and later sticker verso. An artist’s rendering of a proposed monorail terminal in San Francisco. The caption on the verso states that “Plans for the 117-car line.....
New York City: Keystone View Co., Inc., c. 1920s. Photo measuring 5 ⅞ x 7 ¾ inches. With caption, Keystone stamp, manuscript, and later sticker verso. A portrait of Hadji Gulamu Rasul, around the 1920s. Rasul was the son of Filipino statesman Abd ul-Bagui Butu Rasul, and some sources state.....
Lima, LaGrange County, Indiana: February 29, 1848. Autograph letter signed “D. C. Meeker,” to Rev. Charles Hall, Secretary of the American Home Missionary Society, New York City. 3 pp., on a folded 8 x 10 inch sheet. A letter from Rev. D. C. Meeker, a Presbyterian home missionary in northern.....
New York City: Ziff-Davis, 1994. Double-sided poster measuring 36 ½ x 24 ½ inches. A 1994 “road map” of the Internet, designed by technical artist and graphic designer Timothy Edward Downs for PC Computing. Inspired by subway maps and packaged for PC Computing readers like a AAA road map, Downs’.....
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New York City: The Masses Publishing Co., October 1917. 42 pp magazine measuring appx. 8 ½ x 11 inches, in paper wraps. Wraps worn and previously folded vertically, with wrinkling and discoloration, and I.W.W.’s Detroit headquarters stamp recto; good. Contents also with vertical fold, toned, excellent. With broadside “President Wilson’s.....
Chicago, Illinois: Charles H. Kerr & Company, c. 1910–1914. Printed postcard measuring 5 ½ x 3 ½ inches. Worn especially at corners, with a few very small stains, and unrelated manuscript on the verso. A printed postcard with a photograph of and quote from Fred Warren (b. 1872), dated to.....
Lawrence, Kansas Territory: November 24, [1850s]. Autograph letter signed “O. S. Hemps[?],” addressed to Mr. Harvey Safford. Two pages measuring 5x 8 inches. With envelope postmarked “LAWRENCE K.T.” Letter folded with some discoloration along folds, with small chip at top left margin. An excellent Free-State Kansas letter written from Lawrence.....