Concord, New Hampshire: December 1859. Single two-page letter measuring 5 x 8 ¼ inches. A letter from Joshua Reed Giddings (1795–1864) written from Concord, New Hampshire, to A. H. Barnes, Esq., in Dover. Giddings was a prominent abolitionist, lawyer, and congressman from Ohio. He was famously censured by the House.....
United States: 1895–1896. 182 photographs mainly measuring 3 x 4 inches with some larger, mounted on heavy cardstock in a photo album. Some with manuscript captions. Several pages of album detached; slight damage and wear to pages and damage to binding; photos excellent to Near Fine. A photo album documenting.....
Washington, D.C. United Press International, September 1969. Single photograph measuring 7 x 9 inches with typed caption photographed. United Press International stamp verso. A press photograph of Representatives John Conyers and Shirley Chisholm with a caption describing their opposition to Nixon’s nomination for US Supreme Court of Clement Haynsworth. The.....
New York City: July 1964. Photograph measuring 7 ½ x 10 inches. Editorial overpainting and caption recto; stamps and newspaper clipping verso. A photograph of, left to right: March on Washington organizer Bayard Rustin; NAACP Director of Counsel Jack Greenberg; Whitney Young, Jr., of the National Urban League; James Farmer.....
Winston-Salem, North Carolina: May 1945. Four page program measuring 6 x 9 inches. A program for a dance performance at Winston-Salem Teachers College in May of 1945. Now known as Winston-Salem State University, the college is a historically Black public university and part of the University of North Carolina system.....
Chicago, Illinois: International News Photos, January 1939. Single photograph measuring 5 x 8 inches with typed caption affixed verso. A portrait of activist preacher Owen Whitfield (1891–1965), taken during the 1939 Missouri sharecropper protest. The caption reads in part: “Preacher Owen H. Whitfield, of La Forge, MO., negro preacher.....
Indian Territory, Missouri, and Kansas: Macurdy, Hoit, Dunham, Brigham, and other studios, c. 1898–1930. Fourteen cabinet cards of various sizes, measuring 7 x 8 ½ inches and smaller, and two real photo postcards. Photos with wear; generally excellent. Cards with significant wear and some missing corners; very good minus. Sixteen.....
Wichita Falls, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; and New York City: 1955–1956. Scrapbook containing approximately fifty-three photos: five measuring 8 ½ x 10 inches and smaller; two measuring 5 x 7 and smaller; and forty-six measuring 4 x 5 inches and smaller. A scrapbook assembled by Robert W. Franklin of Chicago, documenting.....
Tallahassee, Florida: September 1971. Single photograph measuring 6 ¼ x 9 inches. Manuscript caption verso reading “Joyce Warner, Tallahassee, / Miss Black America” with newspaper article affixed and stamped “SEP231971”. A press photo of Joyce Warner, who was crowned Miss Black America in 1971. The Miss Black America competition was.....
United States: Brown Brothers and Santa Fe Passenger Department, c. 1900s–1930s. Fourteen photographs, mainly 8 x 10 inches and 4 ½ x 6 ½ inches, and one 8 x 10 inch negative. Many captioned; Brown Brothers and Santa Fe Passenger Dept stamps verso. Alfalfa came to the western United States.....
Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, California, and others: McLain’s Photo Service, Bona Fide Photo Service, et al. 1950s. Eleven individual photographs with one duplicate, measuring 8 x 10 inches. Eleven photographs showing NAACP activities in and around Los Angeles in the early 1950s. Most are uncaptioned; the one captioned photograph.....
Fresno, California: Detroit Photographic Co., 1901. Single photograph measuring 7 x 8 ¾ inches. Captioned on negative with Brown Brothers and Frank A. Munsey stamps verso. A photograph of a young man standing in a grape field and holding a drying rack in Fresno, 1901. Grape farming in Fresno began.....
Los Angeles, California: June 1985. 131 photos measuring 3 ½ x 5 inches with fourteen pieces of ephemera, in a photo album. A photo album documenting West Hollywood’s 1985 Pride parade. Eighty-seven photos are of the parade and forty-four are of the photographer’s trip to Ventura with, presumably, her girlfriend.....
Los Angeles, California: Bekins Van & Storage, 1900–1910. Map measuring 15 ¼ x 13 ¼ inches. A map of Los Angeles between Aldama Street, South Indiana Street, Slauson Ave, and Arlington Street, published by Bekins Van & Storage. The map is undated, but based on the city’s population listed on.....
Calaveras County, California: 1889–1898. Seventy-two documents. Most sheets measure about 14 x 16 inches and are folded in half. The Utica Mining Company was owned by mining moguls Alvinza Hayward, Charles D. Lane, and W.S. Hobart, and ran mines in Calaveras County, California. This area, located on a portion of.....
California: Higgins & Hunt, c. 1870s. Carte de visite measuring 2 ½ x 4 inches. A portrait of a well-dressed young woman taken by Higgins & Hunt, a Californian photography studio active at least in the 1870s. No date or location information is given, but newspapers from the time indicate.....
United States: N.d. Overpainted albumen photograph measuring approximately 6 ¾ x 8 ½ inches, mounted on heavy cardstock. An overpainted albumen photograph portrait of an unknown Union Army soldier who appears to be quite young, dressed in Union fatigues. Though boys under 18 were not supposed to be able to.....
Dobbs Ferry, New York: 1905–1906. Approximately ninety-five pieces: three affixed photographs of 7 x 9 inches and smaller, eighty-one of 3 ¾ x 4 inches and smaller, and four of 1 x 1 inches and smaller; two loose 3 x 5 inch photos; two affixed printed sheets and three loose.....
Muskogee, Oklahoma: c. 1904–1918. Real photo postcard measuring 3 ¼ x 5 ½ inches. A real photo postcard depicting Japanese-American boxer Young Togo, inscribed verso: “To K. Iwana Muskogee Oklahoma / From Young Togo fighter and jiu jitsu wrestler Muskogee Okla”. Young Togo was a lightweight and sometimes featherweight or.....
New York: Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1944. Illustrated with photographs by Dorothea Lange, Clem Albers, Francis Stewart, Joe McLelland and Tom Parker. A booklet published by the Quaker anti-war group Fellowship of Reconciliation concerning the evacuation and resettlement of west-coast Japanese Americans. The booklet was written from federal prison by conscientious.....
Montevideo, Uruguay: N.d. Photo album with thirty-six captioned photos measuring 6 ¾ x 9 ¼ inches, mounted on heavy cardstock. Album embossed “INDUSTRIA LANERA DEL URUGUAY S.A. / ILDU / MONTEVIDEO URUGUAY”. Industria Lanera del Uruguay is a Montevideo-based wool manufacturing company that was founded in 1933. Offered here is.....
Baltimore, Maryland: Jno. S. Bridges & Co., Printers, 1886. Trifold booklet measuring 3 ½ x 6 ¼ inches folded, with notebook and short almanac inside; two pages with notes. A booklet made for the Patapsco Guano Company of Baltimore, Maryland, printed in 1886. The exterior of the booklet features three.....
Marseilles, France: December 1823. Single three-page printed letter. Fitch Brothers & Co. was a mercantile and commission house founded in the late 1810s or early 1820s by Asa Fitch, his brother Douglas Fitch, and his nephew William D. Lee. Asa Fitch (1787–1865) had worked at the American consul in Alicante.....
Mexico and the United States: 1940s–1950s. Scrapbook with approximately fifty-four photos: forty-four affixed measuring 5 x 7 inches and smaller; one loose measuring 5 x 7 inches; and nine loose measuring 8 ½ x 10 inches. With nineteen medium format negatives and six pieces of ephemera from Mexico and the.....
Georgetown, Colorado: Dalgleish Bros. 1889. Glass negative measuring 5 x 7 inches. Captioned on negative, both sides. (Note: the listing photograph has been inverted from the original.). A glass negative showing a prospector posing with his two donkeys on top of Grays Peak, Colorado. The captions read: “AN OLD PROSPECTOR.....