Philadelphia: 1927. Handbill measuring 9 x 6 inches affixed to heavy card stock. Some wear and toning, tearing to cardstock mount at verso, quite good overall and very presentable. A handbill advertising a talk at the Thermopylae Baptist Church at 24th and Bolton St. in North Philadelphia, featuring Isadore Martin.....
New York: 1916. Small broadsheet measuring 9 ¾ x 6 ¼ inches mounted to backing paper. Chips to margins affecting text, fair condition. A program for a benefit concert for the Manassus Industrial School at the Music School Settlement in New York, featuring performances by Mabel Diggs, Consuelo Pappy, Jessie.....
Boston: 1772. Single sheet measuring 12 ½ x 8 inches. Notes in margin in an early hand, fine. Richard Gridley was an artilleryman, military engineer, and entrepreneur, who had a prolific career in several conflicts including the Revolutionary War, where he served as an engineer. Offered here is a very.....
Haverstraw: 1782. Single page measuring 7 x 9 inches. Trimmed at margin with very small amount of loss to text else fine. An interesting and significant letter written by Ann Hawkes Hay to George Washington in 1782, seeking passage for a family member of the loyalist physician James Latham, a......
Dayton: c. 1910. Broadside on newsprint measuring 19 x 7 ½ inches. Fine condition. An unrecorded broadside advertising two products - called Victory Bullets and Victory Powders - to help stop smoking. The company, a Victory Remedy Co., of which we find several records circa 1910, guarantees the products’ success.....
New Orleans: 1854. A lengthy description of life in New Orleans written by Samuel Sumner (1824-1866), the son of Michael and Mary Sumner of Newburyport, Massachusetts, describing life as an insurance salesman in New Orleans. He talks about his brother Richard (Richard Bartlet Sumner, 1816-1868). Sumner describes his life in.....
Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1808. Letterpress broadside measuring 13 x 7 ¾ inches. Some slight toning, near fine overall. A broadside announcing the candidates for the United States House of Representatives, a list which includes Noah Webster. Webster received 212 votes in the preliminary election in May, enough to get.....
Owensboro: 1841. Handwritten letter from an unknown author, with envelope addressed to Henry E. Cummins Esq. of Scott County, Missouri. Some fading and brittleness, some tears at folds, good. A letter concerning the estate of Moses Cummins, one of the early settlers of Stephen Austin’s colony, written to his son.....
Mountain Grove: 1936. Small broadside measuring 11 x 8 ½ inches. Pin holes on margins, some small marginal tears, very good minus. This anti-FDR broadside - which did little to alter the outcome of the 1936 election - underwent a handful of printings in the leadup to the 1936 election.....
Lancaster: 1876. Single page measuring 9 ½ x 6 inches. Some tears at folds, near fine. An interesting letter deserving further study regarding the legal fallout for defaults on Negro Bonds following Emancipation, a question of significant economic impact for the finances of ex-enslavers, as a significant amount of private.....
Claremont: 1838. Stampless letter with circular Claremont, New Hampshire postmark and 18 ½ cent rate. Fine condition. An entertaining letter written by Marion Richards of Claremont, New Hampshire, defending the northern way of life and describing the relative calm in New Hampshire during the Panic of 1837, which apparently had.....
New York: 1871. Folded letter, fine condition. A letter written by Rebecca A. Morse, the activist and member of Sorosis, to the Snow family in Rockland, Maine, in 1871. The letter concerns a fundraising venture that is likely for the Cary sisters - Phoebe and Alice - who both died.....