Trade and Unrest in Revolutionary Era Latin America

Most Latin America: 1809-1838. Mostly Latin America, 1809 - 1838. Over 150 pieces, comprising over 280 pages, .5 linear feet. The Massachusetts merchant Captain Eliphalet Smith Jr. (1780-1838) was a merchant trading primarily in Latin America during the Revolutionary Period. Described by the Chilean historian Diego Barros Arana as “an.....

Mexico: Mexican National Packing Co., 1908. First Edition. Oblong folio, cloth, 12 x 7 inches. With twenty-five silver gelatin photographs affixed to album leaves, each measuring 6 ¾ x 5 inches. John Wesley De Kay was an American businessman, playwright and eccentric socialite who, using funds amassed as a teenage.....

A Nurse's Archive from the Spanish-American War

Most Cuba or Jacksonville: 1898-1900. Silver gelatin or albumen photographs, various sizes ranging from 3 x 3 to 6 x 8, most captioned to verso. With handwritten manuscript, four leaves, discussing various diseases. The Spanish-American War was the first war in which nurses formed their own dedicated units, as well.....