New York City: Walter Baker’s Studio. Photograph measuring 4 x 6 inches with photographer’s stamp and with pencil markings verso. Previously affixed to a mount with some black cardstock still affixed verso. Some wear mainly not intersecting with subject. Photo with fading to bottom right corner. Studio portrait of an.....

New York City: April 1958. Folded flyer measuring 7 ¾ x 5 ⅝ inches, bifolium. A membership flyer printed in April of 1958 published as part of a fundraising drive around the Little Rock Nine. The NAACP was actively fundraising in 1958 to raise money for legal costs in the.....

Annapolis, Baltimore, and Somerset County, Maryland: August 1865. Three documents. Two folded with normal wear, else Near Fine; one very delicate, torn into two pieces (formerly mended with archival tape), with some damage intersecting with text, good. Three documents certifying the death of William Cottman, a private with the 9th.....

New York City: c. 1938. Handbill measuring 5 ¾ x 9 inches. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration was established in 1933 (replaced in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration) to provide paid employment and other aid to unemployed people during the Great Depression. In 1937, the WPA laid off half.....

Washington, D.C. Shirley Chisholm for President Headquarters, 1972. 4 + 4 pp. A scarce pair of positional papers published by the Shirley Chisholm campaign, outlining her positions on foreign aid and the Middle East. During the campaign, Chisholm consistently affirmed Israel’s right to exist and defend itself, aligning with other.....

United States: 1874. Daily journal measuring 3 x 6 ¾ inches. Seventy-four pages (double-sided) filled out with some memoranda pages at the end blank. Several pages faded, else legible; spine broken with wear to cover but contents excellent. A daily journal from 1874 belonging to Ralph C. Hill (1824–1915) of.....

Likely Jacksonville, Florida: c. 1900. Folded poster on newsprint, measuring 16 x 16 inches. A poster published by the C. Buckman Company advertising 50x100 lots in what is currently the Longbranch neighborhood of Jacksonville. The tract is highlighted in red on a larger map of the city. The city saw.....

Oregon and California: Patton Bros., Edward H. Mitchell, Portland Post Card Co., and others, 1908–1940s. Seventeen real photo postcards with five completed. A collection of seventeen real photo postcards showing the Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Oregon. Chemawa, opened in 1880, was the second of its kind established after Pennsylvania’s.....

California: 1927. Photograph measuring approximately 6 ¾ x 10 inches. Unevenly trimmed top edge; some folding at lower corners; excellent contrast with extensive pencil caption verso. A portrait of the Waseda University basketball team from 1927; according to its manuscript caption the photo was taken following their defeat by the.....

Kansas and New York: 1839–1879. Approximately 460 manuscript pages, mostly drafts of outgoing letters. Book measuring 12 ¼ x 7 ¾ inches; worn, with backstrip detached but present. Many items transcribed by Taylor c. 1887 and pasted down over originals, with much adhesive bleedthrough, not affecting legibility. A few leaves.....

Reading, Vermont: 1911–1943. 156 pp, with approximately 207 poems, plus a 1934 rejection letter from Perry Mason & Co. Spine broken, cover nearly detached and pages coming detached; some toning and wear to edges of pages, with smell. A book of poems by Vermonter Mary S. Fay (likely 1875–1968). Fay’s.....

Auburn, New York: April 1832. Single four-page letter measuring 7 ¾ x 9 ¾ inches. Folded with very small tears at folds. A letter written from the Auburn Theological Seminary in 1832, from the soon-to-be Reverend Thomas Reed Rawson (1803-1877) to his soon-to-be wife Louisa W. Dawes (1810–1849). Dawes, who.....

United States, France, and Germany: 1870s–1940s. Approximately 469 total items. Fifty-nine pieces of loose correspondence, one with four photographs affixed. In large letter album, approximately 199 pieces of written material: 118 pieces of incoming correspondence, twenty-one drafts of outgoing correspondence, and sixty other. 139 photographs: nine cabinet cards, thirty-three smaller.....