Washington, D.C. ca. 1930s–1940s. Silver gelatin photograph, 5 x 7 inches, showing Father Divine standing behind a desk or table, hands resting before him, in suit and striped tie. Pulled from a scrapbook, with paper remnants on verso; fine contrast and very good overall. Although this particular print is not.....
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Publishing House of the A.M.E. Church, 1894. 4to, illustrated boards, 851, [48]pp. With fourteen plates and various tables. A substantial memorial volume prepared by the Afro-American League of Tennessee in honor of James Mitchell Ashley of Ohio, edited by Benjamin W. Arnett, bishop of the A.M.E. Church, with.....
United States: 1930s–1970s. 33 items: 28 postcards and five pamphlets. A collection of postcards and pamphlets for hotels, resorts, and some planned neighborhoods around the US—mainly in New York, New Jersey, and Florida—with most advertising that they did not accept Jewish visitors. Many of the resorts’ restrictions are stated implicitly.....
Benton Harbor, MI: early 1920s. Single 3 ½ x 5 ½ inch real photo postcard, captioned “House of David Ball Players”. The Israelite House of David is a millenarian religious group, formed in 1903 by Benjamin and Mary Purnell. Its members are abstinent and vegetarian, and in its earlier days.....
New York: The America Press, 1958. 16 pp pamphlet measuring 3 ½ x 6 inches, in paper wraps. Wraps with wear to edges and some wrinkling to bottom right corner; very good plus. Contents with fold at bottom right corner; very good plus. A booklet about segregation in the Catholic.....
Rutherford, New Jersey: Garrway Co., n.d., ca. 1930s–1940s. Real photo postcard measuring approximately 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches. Photograph shows a priest celebrating Mass at an outdoor altar attached to a streamlined trailer chapel, with several women kneeling or seated before it. Captioned in the negative: “Chapel Car ‘The.....
N.p. November 27, 1862. 9 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches, 10 pp, stitched binding. During the Civil War, Northern clergy used sermons, both on holidays and regular Sunday services, to interpret the conflict for their congregations. These included several notable Thanksgiving Day sermons.[1] Thanksgiving 1862 carried particular emotional and political.....
N.p. photograph by Paul Briol, n.d., ca. 1941. Printed photographic postcard measuring approximately 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches. Image shows the Rt. Rev. Henry Wise Hobson, Bishop of Southern Ohio, standing beside an automobile pulling the “St. Paul’s Wayside Cathedral,” with caption printed below: “Trailer Cathedral of the Diocese.....
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Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1896. First Edition. 8vo, blue cloth, 495 + 416 pp. Rear hinge split to second volume, slight odor, else near fine, very good minus overall. The uncommon survey of the careers of the Hutchinson Family Singers, who spent decades committed to abolitionism and other social causes.....
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: n.d., likely 1870s–1880s. Carte de visite measuring approximately 2 ½ x 4 inches. Albumen portrait of an Indian man wearing a turban and white garment, mounted on photographer’s card. Printed verso headed “India Missionary Photographs,” advertising copies of “this and other India photographs, printed by first-class artists in.....
Elliott Mission, Choctaw Nation: April 29, 1820. Four pages bifolium, 10 x 8 inches. Stampless cover bearing the scarce “Choctaw Agency May 25” manuscript marking and “Via Philadelphia” routing notation, described in the original philatelic history sale as possibly “one of the earliest, if not the earliest, cover known from.....
Indian Territory: N.p., 1892. Folio of eleven unbound sheets (forty-four pages) measuring approximately 6 x 8 inches. Amory Nelson Chamberlin (1821–1894) was born on Brainerd Mission in what is now Chattanooga, Tennessee, the son and grandson of missionaries. Fluent in both English and Cherokee, Chamberlin worked as an interpreter and.....
New York City: c. 1862–1874. Single-sided business card measuring 3 ½ x 2 ¼ inches. A business card for publisher and bookseller John Ignatius Cullen (1834–1874). An immigrant from Britain, Cullen was then working with D. & J. Sadlier & Co. of New York City, a bookbinding and publishing house.....
Fresno, California: 1936. Approximately 7 x 30 inches. A photograph of the attendees of a yearly meeting of an affinity group for young Japanese-American Christians in California. The first YPCC retreats were held in 1920 with the help of the Japanese YMCA and YWCA, and the group continued its meetings.....
Jacksonville, Illinois: August 1842. Three packets, each 13 pp and measuring appx. 12 x 16 inches. Three manuscript poll books recording votes cast in Jacksonville, Illinois, in the August 1842 state election, preserving a detailed, name-by-name account of voting in a major Whig stronghold in antebellum Illinois. The books list.....
Springfield, Illinois: William Walter, 1841. 8vo, contemporary paper covered boards, 359, xxiv pp. With auditor and Treasurer’s reports bound at rear. Boards detached, text block excellent, good overall. During the 1840–1841 session of the Illinois General Assembly, several laws were enacted concerning Nauvoo. These included legislation incorporating the city itself.....
Dutchess County, New York: December 1755. Single sheet measuring 7 ¾ x 12 ½ inches. A letter signed by the members of the Oblong Monthly Meeting of Friends in New York to members of the Sandwich one in Massachusetts, on the occasion of the death of Nicolas Davis (1690–1755), a......
Newbury, Ohio: 1846–1850. Six letters. John Marvin Bacheldor (1826–deceased) was born in Newbury, Ohio and attended Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He would later run the Rural Home Family School for Boys in Pownal, Vermont, and then Bacheldor’s Business College in York, Pennsylvania. His parents, Sarah (1800–1876) and John Bacheldor.....
Perrysburg, Ohio: June 1840. Single three-page letter measuring 7 ½ x 12 ½ inches. Joseph Badger (1757–1846) was the first missionary to be sent to the Connecticut Western Reserve.[1] He served in the Continental Army, received a degree from Yale, and was sent to Ashtabula County by the Connecticut Missionary.....
New Orleans, Louisiana: July 1846. Single letter, three 8 x 10 inch pages. John Holt Rice (1818–1878) was the son of a Presbyterian minister and nephew of Archibald Alexander, founding professor of the Princeton Theological Seminary, from which Rice graduated in 1845. When he wrote this letter, he was working.....
Vigan, The Philippines: early 20th century. Photograph measuring 5 x 6 ¾ inches, mounted on heavy cardstock. Manuscript caption recto. A photograph of a group of young Filipino men in suits, with two white women and a child, posing in front of a building. The caption reads “Grove Methodist Dormitory.....
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: October 1789. Single three-page letter measuring 7 ¾ x 9 ¾ inches. A letter from H. Cathrall in Philadelphia to her friend Amey Thurston, dated October 20th 1789. The letter discusses her health and the health and lives of their mutual friends. She also describes her experience of.....
Providence: 1893 or 1899. First Edition. 4 pages, 12 x 9 1/4 inches, on one folding sheet; thin paper, light chipping at edges. A broadside advertising an appearance by Margaret Shepherd, a nativist speaker who passed as an ex-nun, lecturing prolifically on Catholicism and helping fuel nativist sentiment in the.....
Mt. Pleasant: 1910-1921. Limp leatherette journal measuring 6 ½ x 4 inches, 170 pages. Some chips to spine, fine contents. Christian N. Lund was born in Norway in 1846 to Mormon parents, and immigrated to the United States in 1869, first arriving in Salt Lake City and eventually settling in.....
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Chicago, Illinois: Saint Germain Press, 1938. Small folios, wraps, 5 + 6 pp. Musical scores. Light of My Heart inscribed as follows: “To Blessed Edith / These mean your / complete freedom and / victory in the light / Edna.”. Two apparently unrecorded musical scores issued by Saint Germain Press.....