Autograph Letter Signed Discussing a Speaking Engagement and Involvement in “Unpopular Movements,” 1855.
New Britain: 1855. Letter measuring 8 x 5 inches, folded. Fine condition.
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Friendship Album Belonging to McKinley Stewart of the Tuskegee Institute with Inscriptions from Classmates, 1914.
Tuskegee: 1914. Oblong 8vo, decorative pebbled cloth over thin boards, 8 x 5 inches. With fourteen pages of inscriptions from fellow classmates. Some pages detached, wear and toning, good condition. An interesting book of dedicatory verse to a student in the Tuskegee Institute class of 1915, from his classmates, all.....
Excelsior. Book of Poems.
Holly Springs: 1944. First Edition. 8vo, wraps, 20 pp. Wraps detached at spine and with some tears, stain to front wrap and some ink residue, good condition. A privately printed collection of poems by Richard Pitts, who at the time was a student at Rust College in Holly Springs. According.....
Pair of Photographs of Moton’s Sharps and Flats, c. 1930s.
Tuskegee: 1930s. Pair of silver gelatin prints measuring 9 ½ x 7 ⅞ and 7 x 5 inches. Residue to versos from removal from scrapbook, tear and crease to larger image, very good contrast. A pair of photographs from the prolific photographer Prentice H. Polk of a band led by.....
Album of Photographs Showing the Pioneer Commercial Company’s Mining Operations in Ophir Creek, Near Golovin Bay, c. 1897-1901.
Alaska: 1897-1901. Oblong folio, 12 ½ x 9 inches. Twelve leaves with 89 photographs rebound in modern cloth. Binding in fine condition, photographs generally excellent, some leaves with clear tape repairs. A well preserved album of photographs showing mining operations in the Golovin Bay region, about fifty to seventy-five miles.....
Hung Far Lo Co. / Mandarin Cafe / First-Class Chinese and American Restaurant.
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.....
Cabinet Card Photograph of the Staff of the Surveyor General’s Office in South Dakota.
Huron: 1891? Albumen photograph measuring 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mount. Some fading, very good overall. A scarce and possibly image from the post-statehood Surveyor-General’s office. Surveying in the Dakota Territory and in the early statehood period was quite difficult due to the terrain and the abundance of.....
Photograph of Ruth Hale, Possibly at the Pendleton Round-Up, C. 1922-1923.
Oregon? 1922-1923. Silver gelatin photograph mounted to cardstock measuring 6 ¼ by 4 ⅞ inches. Press marks verso. Some wear, very good overall. An image of the women’s rights activist and author Ruth Hale, likely taken at one of her well-publicized trips to the Pendleton Round-Up in Oregon in 1922.....
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