Boston: Anti-Slavery Bazaar, 1849. Small broadside measuring 7 ¾ x 4 ½ inches printed on green wove paper. Some creases and a small tear at margin, near fine. The American Anti-Slavery Society hosted annual bazaars, which served as fundraisers, with money going to supporting the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper. Many.....
Massachusetts: 1880s-1890s. Albumen and Silver Gelatin Prints, 9 ¾ x 8 ¾ - 8 x 6 inches on larger mounts, three with credits to Conant, photographer, one credited to Benjamin Freeman and one uncredited. Varying wear, very good condition overall. The Isaac Royall house in Medford, which still exists as.....
London: March 26, 1779. Autograph letter signed, Joseph Green, to Boston merchant Samuel Eliot. Folded letter datelined "London, Mar. 26th 1779," with "Rec'd 22nd Decr. 1779" docket on top flap. 7 x 9 ¼ inches, 3pp. A thoughtful Revolutionary-era letter written by Joseph Green, the Boston clergyman, poet, satirist, and.....
Boston, Massachusetts: April 18, 1768. Autograph letter signed “John Lowell,” one page measuring appx. 7 x 11 ½ inches, addressed to Christopher Champlin, merchant of Newport, Rhode Island, and carried privately by Captain Elsbie. A remarkable early letter by Boston merchant and patriot John Lowell (1740–1793), a member of the.....
New England: 1960s-1970s. Two plastic albums, 10 ½ x 11 inches. A lovingly arranged and annotated product of someone’s obsession with New England’s churches. Nearly all photos 3 ½ square. A few of the churches have multiple photos. Most photos are shot from a similar three quarters frontal view, though.....
Massachusetts: 1860s. 9 x 6 inches. Polished calf decorative covers. Nineteen pages, with 55 Carte-de-Visite portraits. A carte-de-visite portrait album kept by Billings during the Civil War. Notation before index reads: “This album was sent me, at my order, from Philadelphia and was received while our army lay at Brandy.....
Massachusetts: 1969. Silver gelatin photographs, some mounted, various sizes, most around 6x8 inches. Some wear and creases to mounts, photographs range from good to fine with fine contrast, some photos with noticeable flaws. Very good overall. An evocative collection of photographs of several important musicians taken in Boston in 1969.....
N.p. 1850. Half plate daguerreotype in case, image measuring 4 7/8 x 3 1/2 inches. Some difficult-to-see scratches to the plate, the most offensive across the left eye of Burritt, excellent condition overall. A large daguerreotype of Elihu Burritt and a group of friends, taken circa 1850 during the height.....
Concord, Massachusetts: Benjamin Tolman, 1863. Printed broadside, 11 ¼ x 10 inches. A straightforward but telling piece documenting the expansion of a Massachusetts burying ground during the American Civil War, signed in type by three trustees of the North Sudbury Burying Ground. As casualties mounted and remains were returned to.....
Charlestown, Massachusetts: November 1862. Autograph letter signed, Sam A. Brown, four pages, written to his brother George, then serving in the Union Army. 3pp, 4 ½ x 7 inches. A revealing Massachusetts home front letter written on the eve of the November 1862 elections, a month after Lincoln’s Preliminary Emancipation.....
Worcester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas, May 1786. 12 pp measuring 9 ½ x 6 inches. Massachusetts printer and newspaper publisher Isaiah Thomas published The Worcester Magazine between 1786 and 1788 after suspending his weekly Massachusetts Spy in protest of a tax on newspaper advertisements enacted in Massachusetts to pay off Revolutionary.....
Boston, Massachusetts: December 1905. Single 8.5 x 8.5 inch sheet, cut from a larger whole; likely missing a portion. Wanted poster for Mary S. Dean, dated December 16, 1905. Three months prior, a young woman’s torso had been found in a suitcase floating in Boston Harbor. A month later, a......
United States: 1874. Daily journal measuring 3 x 6 ¾ inches. Seventy-four pages (double-sided) filled out with some memoranda pages at the end blank. Several pages faded, else legible; spine broken with wear to cover but contents excellent. A daily journal from 1874 belonging to Ralph C. Hill (1824–1915) of.....
Holyoke and Northfield: Litho Inc. / American Youth Hostels, 1939. First Edition. Includes: Bicycle for Adventure on the Youth Hostel Trail. Holyoke, Massachusetts, c. 1939: Valley Litho Inc. Lithographed poster, 19 x 25 inches; Take to the A.Y.H. Trail. Northfield, 1939: American Youth Hostels . Lithographed poster, 17 x 22.....
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.....
Boston, Massachusetts: W. A. Evans & Bro. [1882]. Folio, illustrated wraps. Pages detached from each other, small chip to corner, images and music fine, remains good to very good and quite attractive. A visually striking example of Oscar Wilde–related ephemera issued during the height of the writer’s American lecture tour.....
Lynn, Massachusetts: Arthur W. Robinson, 1891. Nine of a ten-map series mostly measuring 14 ½ x 19 inches. Nine of a set of ten maps of the entire state of Massachusetts, produced in 1891 for the League of American Wheelmen. The League was founded in Rhode Island in 1880 as.....
Massachusetts, New York, Maine, Pennsylvania, and others: 1832–1855. Fifty letters with four empty envelopes or covers. Forty-four letters addressed to I.H. Bartlett & Sons: two from the 1830s, eight from the 1840s, and thirty-four from the 1850s. With five letters addressed to Capt. John C. Blanchard (1838, 1839, 1844, and.....
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.....
New York City: 1840–1849. Eight letters. A small collection of letters to Boston-based grocers Silas Pierce & Co., sent from New York by steamboat, with notes on covers or stamps reading “Boat Mail” or “Steam Boat Mail”. Five of the letters are from Wyckoff & Scrymser, which was likely owned.....
Malden, Massachusetts: Edward A. Bowen, 1910. Folio, wraps, 5 pp. An unrecorded sheet about two romantic youngsters by Harry Reardon, who was apparently a local composer of comic songs active in the Brockton, Massachusetts area during this period (we find a newspaper record in newspapers of a recital at the.....
Quincy, Massachusetts: unpublished, 1926. 201 pp, cardstock wraps. Alice Brackett (White) Coolidge (1864–1927) was a Boston socialite of the prominent Richardson family; her grandfather was merchant and Massachusetts State Legislator Jeffrey Richardson. Coolidge was also the author of three children’s books: The Bunnies of Evergreen Village (1917), The Refugees in.....
Likely Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1848. Handbill measuring 5 x 4 inches. “1848” written in pencil at upper margin, fine condition. A rare Free Soil Party handbill for a local election which was likely printed in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1848. We find records of Humphreys and Churchill in Dorchester, where both of.....
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1872: Rockwell and Hollins. Printed broadside measuring 5 ¼ x 10 inches. A broadside for the Massachusetts ticket of the short-lived Liberal Republican Party, which emerged as a splinter group of the Republican Party in 1872, in opposition to the Grant administration. The Massachusetts ticket featured Alexander Bullock as the.....
Boston: Ad Hoc Committee for December 14, 1974. Printed poster, 17 x 11 inches, folded. Somelight wear, crease to center, ownership marks to verso, very good plus condition overall. With the ownership stamp of J. Wesley Miller, with “J.W. Miller - duplicate” written in ink. Federal District Judge W. Arthur.....