Boston, Massachusetts: William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp, April 1861. Single sheet letterpress broadside measuring 18 x 24 ½ inches. Offered here is a “phonographic report” (i.e., it includes the audience’s reaction) of a speech delivered by abolitionist Wendell Phillips (1811–1884) to the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society in Boston on April.....
United States: 1930s. 12 ½ x 18 ¾ sheet. A broadside soliciting advertisers for Condé Nast’s publications Vogue, Vanity Fair, House & Garden, and The American Golfer. Printed following the 1929 crash, the broadside’s tactic is to portray Condé Nast magazines’ readers as the people who stay rich, or get.....
United States: 191–1964. Twenty-seven letters, two typed documents (totaling four pages), six photographs, and nine pieces of ephemera including two of Haynes’ heavily stamped passports. One of the typed documents and two of the letters belong to Olyve Jeter, Haynes’ second wife. Many items affixed to loose scrapbook leaves. George.....
United States: March 1973. Single photograph measuring 8 x 10 inches. Manuscript captions verso reading “Florence Kennedy / (Fla) / Womens Lib” and “FLORYNCE KENNEDY / WOMEN’S RIGHTS” with stamps “PHOTO BY AKIRA SUWA” and “MAR4-1973”. Florynce Kennedy (1916–2000) was an African American activist, lecturer, and lawyer. She attended Columbia.....
United States: N.d. Thirty-one pages: three typed pages with editorial marks measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches; twenty-eight pages of handwritten notes measuring 6 ½ x 8 ½ and smaller. Content warning: This description mentions sexual assault. Alex Haley (1921–1992) was an African American author, known for his bestselling.....
Miami, Florida: Allied Printing, 1980. Single sheet measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches. A flyer for a production of Louisiana playwright, professor, and journalist Norbert Davidson Jr.’s “El Hajj Malik”: The Life and Times of Malcom X. This production, sponsored by the Florida State Conference of NAACP Branches, was put.....
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: H. J. Kehr, 1850s. Single sheet measuring 6 x 9 ½ inches. A broadside with the lyrics to Francis F. Eastlack’s “The Great Know Nothing Song, ‘I Don’t Know.’” The song lampooned the American Party, known as the “Know Nothing” party for its members’ practice of saying they.....
St. Michaels, Arizona: Anselm Weber and Berard Haile, 1913. Sixty-eight page booklet measuring 6 ¾ x 10 inches. Catholic missionaries—Franciscans in particular—have been present in what is now the American Southwest since the 16th century. For most of this time, these were Spanish missionaries missioning to the Pueblo people, mainly.....
La Habana Province, Republic of Cuba: 1906. Twenty-two photographs measuring 7 ¼ x 9 ½ inches, mounted on heavy cardstock measuring 10 x 12 inches. Photos numbered and dated on negative. In album embossed with “Havana Central Railroad Co./ Progress Photographs/ GUANAJAY”. Havana Central Railroad Company was an American company.....
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: December 1795. Two pages measuring 10 x 16 ¼ inches. A contract dated December 11th, 1795, between Philadelphia merchant John Godfried Wachsmuth and Secretary of the Treasury Oliver Wolcott Jr. in which Wachsmuth agrees to ship $113,000 worth of coffee, sugar, and cocoa to Amsterdam, for which the.....
Wilcox County, Alabama: November 1857. Two documents, totaling five double-sided pages measuring 8 x 13 inches and six double-sided pages measuring 7 ½ x 12 inches. Two legal documents from an Alabama chancery court suit brought against Susannah Nettles by her husband, James C. Nettles, concerning ownership of an enslaved.....
Guatemala: c. 1905–1908. Forty-eight photographs measuring 3 ¼ x 4 inches, mounted on heavy cardboard measuring 4 ¾ x 5 ¾ inches. Most photographs captioned recto, mainly on negative, with some captions verso. Many stamped verso with “Photo by W. A. Kellerman”. William Ashbrook Kellerman (1850–1908) was an American botanist.....
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.....
Canada, United Kingdom, and United States: c. 1902–1930s. Seven photographs, mainly measuring 5 x 7 inches, with six double-sided pages of The Century Magazine. Photos with Brown Brothers stamps and manuscript captions verso; with normal wear. Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937) was an Italian inventor and politician, mainly known for creating a......
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.....
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico: 1930s–1960s. Scrapbook in album with string binding; twenty-two double-sided pages measuring 9 ¾ x 12 ¼ inches with some items not affixed. A scrapbook containing photographs, sacramental cards, programs, and clippings relating to various church functions at the Catedral de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in Ciudad Juárez.....
Spring Lake, Michigan: 1921. Twelve 8 ½ x 11 inch pages affixed to backing sheet. Joos Verplanke (1844–1943) was born in Zeeland, The Netherlands, and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1849. They settled in Holland, Michigan, and besides his time serving in the Union Army, Verplanke.....
Solano, New Mexico: October 1908. Six page letter measuring 5 ¼ x 6 ½ inches. Envelope with many unrelated manuscript markings. A letter from Irene Upton (1888–1956) in Solano, New Mexico to her friend Carroll B. Benton in Boston. Upton was born in New Hampshire—her father was New Hampshire State.....
California, Oregon, Iowa, and New York: 1878–1889. Sixty-five items: sixty-two letters, mainly dating from 1887 (eleven letters), 1888 (nineteen letters), and 1889 (fourteen letters); and three playbills from the CMA Dramatic Club. William H. Sharp (1863–deceased) was born in Washington and lived in The Dalles, Oregon. He attended the California.....
Berkeley, California: N.p., 1966. Attractive flyer measuring 7 ½ x 10 ½ inches. A flyer for a 1966 music, arts, and theater night at the Blind Lemon folk club in Berkeley, California. Acts include a performance by the psychedelic rock band Notes from the Underground, films from Canyon Cinema co-founder.....
Constantinople, New York City, and others: 1918–1922. Four letters totaling seven pages. A small collection of letters from “H.C.”, who seems to have been an American university professor in Constantinople, to his “Darling Clementine” back home. H.C. may have taught at Robert College, a Christian college founded in 1863, now.....