Washington or Environs: 1938. Silver gelatin print measuring 9 ⅛ x 6 ⅛ inches. Some creasing, very good. A signed photograph of the boxer Cecil Phillips - of whom we find no record besides a negative in the Smithsonian’s Scurlock collection of this image. The photograph is signed twice by.....
France: c. 1914-1918. Gelatin silver print measuring 5 ½ x 3 ½ inches. Printed on French carte postale paper. Fine condition. A photograph taken in France of four sergeants in the Co. B 340th Service Battalion. Three of the subjects are identified: Sgt. Eugene Brown of Youngstown, Ohio; Sgt. George.....
NP: 1969. Single sheet, 22 ½ by 17 ½ inches. Fine condition. A poster advertising the presidential campaign of Dick Gregory, who ran for office in 1968, garnering 45,000 votes. The poster parodies the trope of the “Wanted” poster. Gregory declared during his campaign that the United States was “worth.....
Washington? 1876. 8vo, 16 pp. Some tape repairs to margins else fine, very good condition overall. The transcript of the debates in Congress following the Hamburg Massacre, which as a seminal event in South Carolina’s history and in the use of violence as a form of voter suppression. The pamphlet.....
London? 1849-1852. Five groups of documents measuring 13 x 8 inches, various paginations (see full description below). Fine condition. A scarce set of primary source documents relating to the protection of British territory in the Caribbean, in particular along the Mosquito Coast, during the period of varied interests in the.....
New Orleans: 1797. Three pages of a bifolium, 8 x 9 ½ inches, New Orleans; May 31, 1797. Fair only, with moisture damage and some text illegible. An interesting document from the period following the Treaty of San Lorenzo and before the eventual surrender of Natchez to the Americans in.....
Baltimore: 1820. Single page letter measuring 8 x 13 ½ pages. Very good condition with some small chips at margin. A candid letter written by Hezekiah Niles discussing the Missouri compromise and a letter and the future of the union, in which he states that “The question of slavery will.....
Cincinnati: 1797. Cincinnati, 27th June, 1797. Folded stampless letter, 12 ½ x 6 ½ inches. Some tape repairs and tearing at folds, fair to good but legible. With twenty five cent manuscript rate on cover. Joseph Carpenter (1774-1814) was born in Massachusetts, and emigrated to Cincinnati in the Northwest Territory.....
VP: 1916-1917. Scrapbook measuring 15 ½ x 10 ½ inches. With forty leaves, most with newspaper clippings and varied ephemera attached. Boards detached, contents generally fine. Laid in is a blueprint map entitled Map of Part of Hidalgo County Texas Showing Line of March in my Mexican Border Service, 1916.....
New York: Wm. A. Pond, 1865. Folio, 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Fine condition. An unusual use of sheet music as satire, with the lithographed cover showing a fake stock certificate. The cover - engraved by Major & Knapp - advertises an ownership share in the Spondolix Petroleum company.....
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.....
Fort Richmond: 1815. Single page, bifolium, 15 x 9 ½ inches. One area of loss measuring roughly an inch square and affecting the final paragraph of the letter, else about fine. Circular New York stamp with manuscript rate at the war rate of 25 ½ cents. An uncommonly detailed letter.....