Los Angeles, California: New Age Publishing Company, November 1940. Printed yellow wraps, staple-bound. Good, with moderate wear, soiling, and fading to covers, one corner of a page missing presumably from a business advertisement cut out near the time of publication. A scarce directory documenting the Central Avenue District at its.....
Mainly Asia and Oceania: 1950s. Photo album measuring 10 ½ x 14 ½ inches containing approximately 160 photographs; photos are mainly 4 x 5 inches and smaller, with several 8 x 10 inch photos. Album covers completely detached, pages with damage to edges, fair; many photographs stapled in, some with.....
San Francisco, California: Henry Payot, 184 Washington Street, c. 1860–1862. Used illustrated lettersheet with original mailing envelope (Baird 317). Large lithographed panoramic view titled View of San Francisco in 1860, printed on bluish paper, measuring approximately 8.25 x 21.5 inches, published by Henry Payot, 184 Washington Street. The view occupies.....
Canada and the United States: c. 1942–1943. Photo album measuring 11 x 14 inches containing approximately 400 original photos with an additional 24 commercially produced photos. Photos attached with corner mounts. Original photos mainly measure 3 ½ x 4 ½ inches and smaller. Album pages delicate with wear, especially to.....
Concord, Massachusetts: Benjamin Tolman, 1863. Printed broadside, 11 ¼ x 10 inches. A straightforward but telling piece documenting the expansion of a Massachusetts burying ground during the American Civil War, signed in type by three trustees of the North Sudbury Burying Ground. As casualties mounted and remains were returned to.....
[Sycamore, DeKalb County, Illinois]: April 2 and April 12, 1865. Two autograph letters, signed “Rosa,” docketed on rear likely in Everell Dutton’s hand, 4 and 5 pages, 8 x 5 inches. Two letters written in the final weeks of the Civil War by Rosina Adelpha Paine Dutton of Sycamore, Illinois.....
Oregon and Wyoming: c. 1939–1941. Seventeen photographs measuring 3 x 4 ¾ inches. A collection of photographs taken by a CCC’er, mainly appearing to be in Oregon with at least one taken in Green River, Wyoming. The camp to which the photographer belonged is not identified; however, in one photograph.....
Teller County, Colorado: c. 1895–1910. Large cyanotype photographic collage printed on cloth, approximately 20 x 20 inches. A composite cyanotype printed directly onto fabric, presenting a series of mining views from the Cripple Creek district arranged within rounded rectangular and circular panels. The individual images are captioned in the negative.....
United States: 1820 [copied c. 1840–1850]. Bound lined notebook measuring 8 x 10 ¼ inches. Inscribed “Stephen Decatur / U.S. Navy / 13 W. Cedar St. Boston.” on flyleaf. Eighty-nine pages filled out, totaling appx. 17,000 words. Spine missing, covers coming detached, with wear especially to corners; contents excellent to.....
United States: March 1796. One small slip, signed “C. Swan, PMG U.S.” with additional authorization by J. Haskell. Measuring appx. 3 ½ x 7 ½ inches. In the 1790s, ongoing conflicts between the United States and Native nations produced large numbers of captives, taken in raids and only gradually returned.....
United States: c. 1890s–1940s. Photo album measuring 7 x 10 inches containing fifty-three photographs: two tintypes (c. 1890s and 1920s), six RPPCs, and forty-five modern photographs. Photographs mainly measure 4 x 6 inches and smaller. Conditions vary; some with wrinkling and damage, especially to corners and edges; others Fine. A.....
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N.p. International News Photos, 1936. Press photograph, 8 x 10 inches, by Arthur Rothstein, distributed by International News Photos, with original caption on verso dated 1936. In the mid-1930s, prolonged drought across the Great Plains, combined with falling agricultural prices, forced thousands of farm families into foreclosure and displacement. The.....
Lafayette, Ohio: July 11, 1861. Autograph letter signed, 2 pp. Addressed to D. T. Chapin of Enfield, Connecticut. A concise but revealing early Civil War letter combining financial anxiety, agricultural reporting, and clear-eyed political commentary on slavery and the future course of the conflict. Writing amid the first months of.....
United States and England: 1968–1969. 453 letters with twenty pieces of other material. Of the letters to WBAI: Fourteen letters from 1968; 245 from January 1969; sixty-four from February 1969; five from March and April 1969; eighty-six undated. With thirty-nine sent to the FCC (these are copies sent to WBAI).....
New York City: 1874–1882. Five record books: May–Oct. 1874, 46pp, 8 x 12 ½ inches (appx. 13,000 words); Nov. 1874–Apr. 1875, 48pp, 7 ½ x 11 ¾ inches (appx. 10,000 words); Dec. 1875–Jun. 1876, 24pp, 7 ½ x 11 ¾ inches (appx. 7,000 words); Sept. 1880–Apr. 1881, 55pp, 8 x......
Boston, Massachusetts: Antoine Sonrel, 121 Washington Street, 1871–1874. Albumen photograph on original mount with printed Sonrel studio backstamp. No other examples of this pose located in online institutional collections. A studio portrait of the abolitionist and reform leader Wendell Phillips (1811–1884), shown seated at a table holding a small bundle.....
Cincinnati, Ohio: Ball & Thomas, Photographic Art Gallery, No. 30 West Fourth Street, near Walnut, circa mid-1860s. Albumen print on original mount with printed studio backmark. A striking studio portrait of an African American child, produced by the distinguished Black photographer James Presley Ball (1825–1904) or his business partner Alexander.....
New York: R. A. Lewis, 160 Chatham Street, circa late 1860s to early 1870s. Albumen print on original mount. Approximately 2½ x 4 inches. A studio portrait of Amanda Berry Smith, the formerly enslaved African-American evangelist who emerged in the late 1860s as one of the most prominent female preachers.....
Lyndon, [?]: October 31, 1865. Autograph letter signed, A. H. Rhodes, to “Charley.” Four pages measuring 5 x 8 inches. A revealing Reconstruction-era letter centered on the authority and reach of the Freedmen’s Bureau, and the contested recovery of property in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. Following a......
Union, South Carolina: September 16, 1865. One folio sheet, accomplished in ink on a printed United States form, signed by the applicant and certified before a Provost Marshal. 7 ¾ x 9 ½ inches. A scarce and telling Reconstruction-era document, recording the formal reintegration of a South Carolina slaveholder into.....
United States: 1960s–1980s. Approximately 170 pieces; see below for full inventory. An archive of material belonging to Rosemary Gaffney (?–2024). Gaffney lived in the New York City area with her partner, Joyce Vinson; the two were involved in a number of feminist activist organizations including the New York Radical Feminists.....
Boston, Massachusetts: Oliver Ditson & Co., 1856. Lithographed sheet music title page after a photograph by Turner & Cutting. Folio. An early and scarce lithographic design by Winslow Homer, executed during his apprenticeship at J. H. Bufford & Co., and among a small group of sheet music illustrations from his.....
South Carolina and others: 1850–1860. Approximately 125pp with each item usually about 1 page. A collection of mainly letters with some documents sent to the law firm Spain & Richardson of South Carolina—Albertus Chambers Spain (1821–1881), who in 1860 would sign the state’s Ordinance of Secession, and James Sanders Guignard.....
Antarctica and others: April 1956. Photo album measuring 12 ½ x 9 inches containing 171 photos, mainly 3 ½ x 3 ½ inches, with some 4 ½ x 3 ½ inches and one 8 x 10 (damaged, with a partial second copy covering most of the missing material from the.....
Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and the US: 1950–1960s. 15 ¼ x 11 inch album with attractive painted cover containing approximately 235 photos, mainly 3 ½ x 5 inches and smaller. Contents generally in excellent condition. A photo album by an unknown US Marine, containing photos from his time in Okinawa, Taiwan.....