United States: c. 1920. Single 9 ¼ x 12 inch sheet. Offered here is a wanted poster for the “Flashy and dramatic” Grover Cleveland Bergdoll following his escape from a military prison in 1920. Bergdoll (1893–1966) was a wealthy Philadelphian socialite, amateur racecar driver, and Wright Brothers-trained aviator. In 1917.....
Oklahoma: 1911. Three pieces; one 6 x 12 inches, one 8 ½ x 11 inches, and one 8 ½ x 12 inches. Three pieces concerning the US government’s auction of appropriated Indigenous land in Oklahoma following the 1898 Curtis Act. The Curtis Act was an amendment to the 1887 Dawes.....
San Quentin, California: December 1938. Single 6 ½ x 8 ½ inch photograph, caption affixed verso and marked verso “CALIF - STATE - PRISON SAN QUENTIN, CALIF”. A press photograph looking into the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison, taken following the execution of Albert Kessel (1909–1938) and Robert Lee.....
United States: 1966–1967. Approximately 108 items: Eighteen packets of carbon-copied documents totaling 114 pages; thirty-nine pages of handwritten notes; twenty-six letters from William Burke to Elwood Hammock; thirteen notes and letters from Elwood Hammock to Arthur Lea; fourteen packets of carbon copies of Burke’s letters, totaling fifty pages; two newspaper.....
Clarke, Cobb, and Harris Counties, Georgia: 1834–1836. Three documents. One four-page document measuring 5 x 8 ¾ inches, likely previously a single sheet; water stained with some tearing at folds, very good. One double-sided document measuring 8 x 10 inches; water stained and folded with large tears at folds, possibly.....
Atlanta, Georgia: Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1932. Four page booklet measuring 6 x 9 inches. A 1932 booklet summarizing the results of the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching’s findings about the crime, published by the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC). Formed in 1919, the Atlanta-based CIC involved white.....
New York City: 1972. 15 ½ x 22 ½ inches. Nanette Dembitz (1913–1989) graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan, then attended Columbia Law School where she edited the Columbia Law Review, graduating in 1938. She was unable to find work in private practice because of her gender; as.....