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.....
Ohio: 1918. Silver gelatin photograph in glass-fronted frame, image measures 24 ¼ x 6 ⅞ inches. Matted and framed, not examined out of frame. The 317th Engineer’s Band was a part of the 317th Engineer Regiment, an element of the 92nd Division, which was composed of over 15,000 African-American soldiers.....
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New York City: M. Witmark & Sons, 1919. Sheet music measuring 9 ¼ x 12 ¼ inches. James Reese Europe (1881–1919) was a composer and bandleader instrumental in the transition from ragtime to jazz, whose popularity and influence is impossible to overstate. He conducted the Clef Club Orchestra in New.....
United States: N.p., c. 1917. Lithographic poster measuring 15 ½ x 11 ¼ inches. A poster celebrating the Eighth Infantry Regiment, Illinois National Guard, during World War I. Text on the poster reads: “Eighth Illinois Regiment Now In France / The Regiment was mustered in the U.S. Volunteer Service.....
Havana, Cuba: 1917. The Cuban Red Cross Society was formed in 1909 by Dr. Diego Tamayo y Figueredo. In 1917, when this photograph was taken, it was headed by Madame Mariana Seva de Menocal, wife of then-President Mario García Menocal, who was in office 1913–1921. Cuba had joined the Allies.....
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Boston, Massachusetts: Daly Music Publisher Inc., 1917. Four-page sheet music measuring 10 ½ x 13 ½ inches. Sheet music for lyricist Jack Caddigan and composer James Brennan’s 1917 novelty song “Mister Edison Is Working On It Now.” The song expresses that Americans are unworried about the new technology involved in.....
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.....
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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.....
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.....
Constantinople, New York City, and others: 1918–1922. Four letters totaling seven pages. A small collection of letters from “H.C.”, who seems to have been an American university professor in Constantinople, to his “Darling Clementine” back home. H.C. may have taught at Robert College, a Christian college founded in 1863, now.....
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.....