NP: Blind Boone Concert Company, 1880s-1910. Concert ticket measuring 4 ¼ x 1 ¼ inches. Small chip to corner else fine. A concert ticket, stamped “Complimentary,” for the Blind Boone Concert Co. We are unsure exactly the date of the concert, as Boone performed under this company name into the.....
France: c. 1914-1918. Gelatin silver print measuring 5 ½ x 3 ½ inches. Printed on French carte postale paper. Fine condition. A photograph taken in France of four sergeants in the Co. B 340th Service Battalion. Three of the subjects are identified: Sgt. Eugene Brown of Youngstown, Ohio; Sgt. George.....
Washington or Environs: 1938. Silver gelatin print measuring 9 ⅛ x 6 ⅛ inches. Some creasing, very good. A signed photograph of the boxer Cecil Phillips - of whom we find no record besides a negative in the Smithsonian’s Scurlock collection of this image. The photograph is signed twice by.....
NP: 1888 [but 1860]. Handwritten letter on 9 x 6 inch sheets, 27 pp. Near fine with slightest foxing. Following the October 1859 Harpers Ferry Raid, led by abolitionist John Brown, Brown and six co-conspirators were captured and executed by hanging that following spring. Among these six was Aaron Dwight.....
Chicago: Rand, McNally and Co., 1876-1882. Lithographic broadside illustration printed in color measuring 11 x 5 ¾ inches. Closed tear to margin, paper reinforcement to corners verso, very good condition, quite bright and attractive. An attractive advertisement for the Chicago and North-Western’s routes to San Francisco, printed during the tenure.....
Deadwood: H.R. Locke, 1880s-1890s. Albumen photographs measuring 9 x 7 inches on larger mounts. Very good contrast, some chips and wear to mounts. A group of four photographs by Henry Robinson Locke, who operated a studio in Deadwood, South Dakota in the early statehood years. He photographed the Black Hills.....
VP: 1939. Scrapbook measuring 10 x 13 inches. Twenty three leaves, some detached, good overall with fine contents. A visually engaging and interesting scrapbook documenting a trip by a man from Honolulu named Albert Tyau to purchase a Plymouth Deluxe 4-Door Touring Sedan at the Chrysler factory in Detroit in.....
New York: 1940s. Eighty-five pages, including sixty loose pages and a partial draft of Guthrie’s Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People, totaling twenty-five pages. With one handwritten page. One page - a typewritten copy of “The Ballad of Harry Bridges” - with a handwritten note by Guthrie to Ambellan.....
Quincy: 1883. 8 x 6 inches. Twenty page letter by an unknown author written to his mother. Some tears, quite legible, very good overall. [Warning - this description contains violent content and racist language] A long, highly unusual and and descriptive letter written by an employee of a......
Vera Cruz: 1847. Folded letter to Wheeling, Virginia with learly struck two-line datestamp with "Paid 10" manuscript rate and blue "Steam" handstamp of New Orleans on 1847, with an unusual “Steam” marking applied in New Orleans. Fine condition. A descriptive and interesting letter from Captain George W. Clutter of Wheeling.....
Camp Low: 1865. Original partially printed document, 26cm x 77cm. Printed on both sides of the sheet, completed in manuscript. Darkening at folds from old tape repairs; partial splits to folds and extremities; complete and quite Good. Docketed verso, signed in ink by Lieutenant M[organ?] Owen. Lists twelve enlisted soldiers.....
Hattiesburg: Earl M. Finch, 1944. Sheet music measuring 12 x 9 inches, 4 pp. Signature of a Nabuko Hayashida on front cover. Slight tears at fold, some toning, two small pinholes, very good overall, quite attractive. In Hawaii in May 1942, a battalion of Nisei volunteers was assembled for service.....
New York: 1863. Document measuring 9 ¾ x 8 inches, folded. Signed by George Opdyke and others. Very Good with some splitting at folds else fine. In July 1863, the Civil War draft in New York City led to protests, escalating into widespread riots by July 14th. The Irish-born Colonel.....
Maryland: 1787. One Volume. “Arithmetic Book.” Brewer, Joseph (Newton). [Maryland]: June 17, 1786 - (April 21,1789, or after). Folio, half calf bdg, contemporary or old boards; scuffed and chipped and bumped, later rebacking. 80 folio sheets (of which 15 blank) with seated Brittania watermarks. 135 pages mss text in brown.....
Topeka: c. 1930. Folded map measuring 28 x 17 inches. Some small tears at folds, very good. A scarce depression-era map of Oklahoma, with graphic advertisements to the verso showing the range of automobile-centric establishments in the state at the time. The map shows all the automobile routes of the.....
Bath, Massachusetts: 1795. Folded circular, franked by Wolcott and addressed to William Webb, Esquire of Bath, Massachusetts [now Maine]. With the signature of George Simpson. Fine condition. An uncommon treasury circular announcing the appointment of George Simpson as cashier, following the retirement of John Kean due to illness. Simpson would.....
Europe and California: 1900-1950s. Includes two small diaries from 1901 and 1917 with sporadic entries, a large photo album measuring 14 x 11 with appx. 400 small photographs from 1906-1909 attached to album pages, most measuring 3 x 2,, as well as a few larger format images laid in. With.....
Republic of Texas: 1838. Stampless letter, folded, with red two-line handstamp of Steam Packet Columbia on January 16, 1838 from Brazoria Tex. to New Orleans. Fine condition. An intriguing letter written by Edmund Andrews, a judge in Brazoria, Texas, who had arrived in Stephen Austin’s colony eight years before he.....
Montana Territory: 1870-1872. Lot of seventy-six checks measuring 8 ½ x 4 inches, with vignette illustration of a prospector and his dog. With one additional document relating to the Hershfield account with the Bank of California. Most checks issued to “Gold Coin,” and drawn on the Bank of California in.....
San Francisco: 1858-1864. Broadside measuring 12 x 8.5. Some wear and archival tape repair to margin, fine contrast, excellent condition overall. An interesting broadside advertising the Lighte and Bradbuiry piano as well as Martin Guitars, printed for the Salvator Rosa music store at 615 Montgomery Street in San Francisco. Lighte.....
Los Angeles: La Aurora Mexicana, 1909. 8vo, wraps, 92 pp. Some chips to front wrap and first two pages, slight brittleness, very good minus overall. Ramon Verea was a writer and inventor who was best known for his invention of a mechanical calculator capable of multiplying large numbers with great.....
Callao: Alsop and Company, 1850. Folded ship manifest measuring 15 ¼ x 12 ½ inches. Fine condition with slight normal wear. A very scarce Gold Rush period shipping manifest for the Barque Equator, captained by William Weir, listing the passengers and cargo for a voyage to San Francisco in December.....
Marysville: 1850s-1860s. Marysville, 1850s-1860s, the bulk mid-1850s. A collection of documents including eleven receipts, three manuscript legal documents, four manuscript documents relating to land claims; five partially printed documents relating to land claims; two letters from the US Land Office in Marysville, 1858, regarding land claims; six billheads from Marysville.....
Great Britain: 1850. Broadside measuring 9 ⅞ x 15 ⅜ inches. Some chipping and wear to edge, ink number written in corner, two small section of loss due to improper mounting, very good overall. Coat of arms of the United Kingdom above printed text. A scarce broadside relating to British.....
American: 1900-1910s. Tintype measuring 8 x 6 inches with an African-American portrait, laminated at borders with a decorative frame with the insignia of the Prince Hall Masons. Some chips to lamination at corners, very good. An interesting portrait of an African-American man with a decorative masonic border bearing the distinctive.....