Birmingham, United Kingdom: c. 1814. Copper medal measuring 1 ½ inches in diameter. A copper medal commemorating the passage of the United Kingdom’s Slave Trade Act 1807, produced for distribution in Sierra Leone. One side depicts a European and an African man shaking hands and reads, “WE ARE ALL BRETHREN”.....
Louisiana and likely others: c. 1950s–1970s. Thirty-nine photographs: sixteen measuring 11 x 13 ½ inches, mounted on heavy cardstock; twenty-three measuring 8 x 10 inches, mounted on mats measuring 11 x 14 inches. Thirty-nine photographs, mainly showing African American college students on campus: at lectures, studying, chatting, and especially in.....
New York City: Bruno of Hollywood and other uncredited photographers, 1950s–1960s. Photo album measuring 9 ¼ x 11 ¼ inches, containing forty-seven photographs, mainly 4 x 5 inches and smaller with some 8 x 10. Most photos loosely affixed with some having detached. An album of photographs of African American.....
Washington, D.C. c. 1945–1955. Forty-five 8 x 10 inch photographs. The Phelps Vocational High School was founded in 1912 as a trade school for African American boys, located in the historically Black neighborhood of Carver Langston. In the tradition of African American industrial education, the school initially specialized in printing.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, 272 pp. Walter A. White was an activist and author who would eventually lead the NAACP beginning in 1929, the year of this book’s publication. He began his career as the assistant to James Weldon Johnson, traveling to the South to.....
France: 1910. Three letters totaling twenty-two pages, 5 x 8 inches and smaller. Folded; some with large tears at folds though entirely legible. Frederick MacMonnies (1863–1937) was an American expatriate sculptor and painter, known in the US for works including Nathan Hale and Bacchante and Infant Faun. In 1907, New.....
Greenville, Illinois: 1954. Two stapled packets of mimeographed typed pages (eighty-seven and twenty-eight pages), with one signed. An autobiography and genealogy written by Ulysses S. DeMoulin (1871–1955), founder of DeMoulin Bros., a uniform manufacturing company which now mainly supplies marching band attire. The genealogy incorrectly traces the family’s history back.....
California: 2006–2015. Eighty letters, ten artworks, and two photographs. Anonymized for writers’ and their families’ privacy, with more information available on request. Offered here is a collection of letters and art sent from people incarcerated in the California State Prison system, primarily from a husband (“P.”) and wife (“A.”) to.....
Washington, D.C. Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1974. Mailer measuring 8 x 15 ¾ inches, folded in fours. An FBI mailer soliciting information about Emily Harris and Patricia Hearst of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a left-wing militant group based in California and responsible for several killings and bank robberies between.....
Sterling, Pennsylvania: Brown Brothers, 1912. Five photographs; four measuring 8 x 10 inches and one 5 x 8 inches. Most with manuscript captions verso. Five photographs depicting Chinese farmworkers in New York around 1912. In the late 19th century, many Chinese people, facing increasing anti-Chinese hostility, left the west coast.....
Stonington, Connecticut: April 1832. Single three-page letter measuring 8 x 10 inches. A letter from Ann Brown Phelps (1785–1833) in Stonington, Connecticut to her sister-in-law and niece in Auburn. Phelps writes: “A mind enervated with grief & affliction for the loss of a dear and promising Son I can.....
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Brooklyn, New York: The Albertype Co., 1913. Photo album of twenty-five 12 ½ x 10 inch pages containing fifty 8 x 6 inch photographs, with cardstock cover. Cover and pages worn with marginal damage; pages mostly detached from string binding; photos with captions on negative; Near Fine with Fine contrast.....
Paris: S.I.P., c. 1900–1905. Silver gelatin photographs on postcard stock, measuring 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches. The cakewalk, chalkline-walk, or walkaround—a dance developed by enslaved African Americans on southern plantations—made its first public appearance at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial, where it was celebrated with the award of a cake.....
United States: likely 1960s or 1970s. Wooden scrapbook album measuring 10 ½ x 13 ½ inches containing approximately fifteen photographs measuring 8 x 10 inches and smaller, with approximately ten newspaper clippings and pieces of ephemera. A wooden scrapbook album with a bowling ball and pin design. The contents, which.....
New York City and Sterling, Pennsylvania: Brown Brothers, c. 1895–1912. Thirty-nine photographs measuring 8 x 10 inches and smaller. With Brown Brothers stamps verso and many with manuscript captions verso. Thirty-nine photographs, mainly of Ellis Island, with one from Partridge Island, Saint John, New Brunswick. The photographs include exterior shots.....
Illinois, Iowa, and Sweden: multiple studios, c. 1860s–1880s. Carte-de-visite album containing forty-five photographs, a mix of CDVs and tintypes. In the mid-19th century, social, religious, and economic conditions in Sweden led to an outpouring of immigrants to the US, with many going to the midwest. One locus of Swedish immigration.....
Wisconsin: 1898–1899. Nineteen cabinet cards on large mounts; photographs measuring 4 ½ x 6 ½ inches and mounts measuring 8 x 10 inches. Photos with some wear; mounts worn with staining and damage to corners. Manuscript captions verso. Nineteen photographs dated 1898 and 1899 depicting scenes in and around Keshena.....
Menomonie, Wisconsin: 1897–1898. Cabinet card; photo measuring 3 ¾ x 5 ½ inches on mount measuring 4 ¼ x 6 ½ inches. A photograph taken by Milton F. Swant of Menomonie, Wisconsin, showing a group of seven young ladies, at least one of whom is likely Indigenous. The photo is.....
Los Angeles, California: The Rafu Shimpo / L.A. Japanese Daily News, 1937. [appx 90], 485 pp. Limp cloth. With illustrations in color and black and white. A very scarce directory of the Japanese-American community, with a focus on Los Angeles, but also covering other areas of California including Terminal Island.....
United States and Japan: 1948–1964. Approximately 143 items: forty-two letters (twenty-five in Japanese and seventeen in English); seventy-six photographs with twelve medium-format negatives; eleven pieces of military ephemera; an inscribed handkerchief; and a lacquered wood storage box (8 x 14 x 7 inches) with family crest. Kiyoshi Tanaka (1914–2001) was.....
Likely United States: c. 1850s–1860s. Ninth plate (2 x 2 ½ inches) ambrotype in frame. A ninth plate ambrotype of a young guitarist posing with his instrument. Slight overpainting gives him a pink flush. In a gilt edge hard case.
Boston, Massachusetts: G. Schirmer, Jr., 1886. Forty page booklet measuring 4 ¼ x 6 ½ inches, in paper wraps. A biography of German pianist Anna Clark-Steiniger by English writer and cremation proponent John Storer Cobb. The biography details Steiniger’s early years as a student of Theodor Kullak and Ludwig Deppe.....
Newark, New Jersey: N.p., c. 1920s. Double-sided poster measuring 12 x 19 inches. Rolled; with some damage to edges including tear to right edge. A poster advertising plots of land for sale in Lanoka Harbor (now Lacey Township), New Jersey. The poster proclaims the healthy climate and varied recreation in.....
Lahore, Pakistan: 1960–1965. Ninety-four photographs measuring 5 x 3 ½ inches to 2 x 2 inches. Many with manuscript captions verso and some marked recto. Photos taken by Denverite Lyman R. Flook, Jr., and his family, with many captioned by his wife Dorothy, documenting their time living in Lahore from.....
United States, Norway, and Germany: 1830s–1960s. 320 items: 276 letters, thirty-eight modern photographs, five CDVs and one cabinet card; with a large amount of unsorted ephemera. Of the letters, 198 are from the nineteenth century, with most from the 1840s through 1870s; and seventy-eight are from the twentieth century, with.....