California or New York: Unknown year. Photograph measuring 5 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches. Brown Brothers stamps verso; marked verso “apple pickers in orchard/ German immigrants working in Calif orchards/ (Germans)/ up Ny State”. A photograph of a group of people in an apple orchard, identified verso as German immigrant.....
Alaska and Latvia: 1900-1930. Oblong folio album measuring 15 x 9 ½ inches, with 333 photographs included, including some photographic postcards. Photos generally fine, some loose in album, album very good overall with some light wear. An interesting photographic record of Latvian immigration and the period of population growth of.....
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.....
Western Pennsylvania: 1889–1908. Cloth album, 14 x 10 inches. 238 photographs on 48 pages, most approximately 3 x 4 inches, including printing-out paper prints, cyanotypes, and silver gelatin photographs. Many annotated. A few photographs lacking, with occasional cuts and minor losses to several pages; overall largely complete, the photographs generally.....
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.....
Trail, British Columbia: Hall Printing Co., 1947. Broadside measuring approximately 19 x 19 inches. The Doukhobors are a Spiritual Christian group that originated in the Russian Empire around the late eighteenth century. Persecuted for their pacifism and rejection of the Orthodox Church, the Doukhobors were first removed to present-day Ukraine.....
San Francisco, California: Jimmy Lum Advertising Service, 1950. 107 pp directory measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches. Normal wear, with some manuscript markings on wraps; contents excellent with some markings and wear. The 1950 edition of the San Francisco Chinese Directory, published by the Jimmy Lum Advertising Service. The directory.....
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1904. Seventy-four page booklet measuring 4 ½ x 5 ¼ inches. Damage to wraps with one detached; inside with manuscript (Chinese) markings. A guide compiled by immigration officer John Endicott Gardner for converting between the Gregorian and traditional Chinese calendars for Gregorian years 1849 to.....
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American West: 1880s-1890s. Cabinet Card measuring 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mount. Identification on ink verso. Some fading, very good. A photograph of a Chinese man on horseback in western attire, possibly taken in Oregon or California in the 1890s. A search of genealogical and newspaper records yield.....
New York: Fredericks’ Knickerbocker Family Portrait Gallery, n.d., likely late 1880s. Cabinet card photograph measuring approximately 4 ¼ x 6 ½ inches. Photograph shows two girls in traditional Alsatian dress standing on either side of a large embroidered banner for the Société Colmarienne of New York, with shield, crossed tools.....
Tennessee? 1870s. Carte-de-visite photograph measuring 3 ¾ x 2 ⅜ inches on larger mount. Some foxing, very good overall, signed by Knabe as “Proff Knabe” on recto. Gustav Knabe was born in Leipzig and formally educated in music in Germany before emigrating to the United States and serving as a......
New York City and Sterling, Pennsylvania: Brown Brothers, c. 1895–1912. Thirty-nine photographs measuring 8 x 10 inches and smaller. With Brown Brothers stamps verso and many with manuscript captions verso. Thirty-nine photographs, mainly of Ellis Island, with one from Partridge Island, Saint John, New Brunswick. The photographs include exterior shots.....
New York City: Brown Bros. c. 1900s. Press photo measuring 5 ½ x 6 ½ inches. Publisher’s stamps and manuscript “Ellis Island” on verso. Starting in the 1890s, restrictions on immigration began to include bars on people determined to be of lower intelligence, experiencing mental health conditions, or likely to.....
Illinois, Iowa, and Sweden: multiple studios, c. 1860s–1880s. Carte-de-visite album containing forty-five photographs, a mix of CDVs and tintypes. In the mid-19th century, social, religious, and economic conditions in Sweden led to an outpouring of immigrants to the US, with many going to the midwest. One locus of Swedish immigration.....
Philadelphia: 1860s. Album measuring 6 ¼ x 5 ¼ inches. Wear and tearing to binding, images excellent, a few empty spaces in albums though no evidence of removal such as annotations, etc., very good condition overall. With thirteen cartes-de-visite and thirty-four tintypes, most of the CDVs with identifications of Philadelphia.....
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.....
Charlestown, Massachusetts: c. 1890s. Double-sided printed cardstock measuring 5 ¾ x 3 ¼ inches. Some small stains and manuscript pencil markings. A card advertising Martin J. Roche’s Steamship Office and Catholic Book Store in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston, likely from the early 1890s. Roche was a steamship agent in.....
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: January 20, 1849. Eight page letter measuring 8 x 10 pages, appx. 1800 words. A lengthy and literary 1849 family letter from Robert Lind Philadelphia to his brother, discussing enslavement and the growing sectional crisis, California Gold Rush migration, and Presbyterian intellectual life, and including a remarkable inherited.....
San Francisco, California: c. 1915. Single photograph measuring 6 ¼ x 9 ¼ inches. Brown Brothers stamps with manuscript caption verso, with other manuscript markings. In the early 20th century, in order to appease increasing anti-Japanese sentiment in California without offending the growing world power, the US and Japan reached.....
New York City: 1941. Thirty-three sketches, mainly measuring 6 x 8 or 8 x 10 inches, affixed to black construction paper. Sketches are pen and ink or pencil, some with captions. With seventeen typed pages, mainly measuring 6 ½ x 7 inches. In an 11 x 14 ½ inch portfolio.....
Boston, Massachusetts: Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, August 1927. Four-page newspaper measuring 9 x 12 inches. Folded in quarters, delicate with some tears at folds; toned with some large stains, not affecting legibility. The August 1927 issue of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee’s Official Bulletin. The Committee was founded by personal friend Aldino.....
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.....
Mexico and California: 1920s–1940s. Photo album measuring 7 ¼ x 11 ¼ inches, containing approximately eighty-five photographs generally 4 ½ x 2 ½ inches and smaller, with three Rito Nacional Mexicano (Freemason) membership cards, one 1943 tax return, and one 1943 letter. A photo album belonging to the Sifuentes (also.....
New York and (likely) Connecticut: 1795–1809. Three letters (1795, 1795, and 1809) totalling approximately eleven pages; the larger two letters measuring approximately 7 ¾ x 12 ¼ inches and the smaller (1809) approximately 7 ¾ x 9 ½ inches. 1809 letter Near Fine; earlier letters having some damage especially at.....
Quebec City and Brockton, Canada: 1846–1847. Four letters, approximately sixteen total pages: four 8 x 12.5 inches, twelve 8 x 10 inches and smaller. Two letters dated 1846, one 1847 (missing final page(s)), and one without date (missing initial and final page(s)). Edmund John Senkler (1802–1872) was born in Norfolk.....