Mississippi: July 6, 1966. Press photo measuring 8 x 10 inches. Text verso reading “SEGREGATION / MISS.: MEMPHIS TO JACKSON MARCH” and “JUL 6 1966”. A press photo from the Mississippi end of the 1966 March Against Fear, showing a Black man, apparently injured, being carried by a group likely.....
Memphis, Tennessee: March 18, 1865. Printed Article 95 inventory form completed in manuscript, recording the effects of Jorden Turner, Private in Captain S. A. Walker’s Company B, 63rd Regiment, United States Infantry. 8 x 10 inches. A scarce Civil War document recording the death and remaining property of Jorden Turner.....
New Orleans, Louisiana: August 29, 1866. 4to, bifolium, with text to one page and docketed verso, 7 ¾ x 9 ¾ inches. A Reconstruction-era Freedmen's Bureau medical order issued in New Orleans on August 29, 1866, directly connected to the famed Rost Home Colony in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, the.....
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St. Louis, Missouri: Balmer & Weber, [1852]. Sheet music measuring 10 x 13 ½ inches, 5 pp. Sheet music for Joseph W. Postlewaite’s “St. Louis Greys Quick Step.” Postlewaite (1827–1889) was an African American composer and bandleader, with a somewhat mysterious background: apparently well-educated, he came to St. Louis in.....
London: March 26, 1779. Autograph letter signed, Joseph Green, to Boston merchant Samuel Eliot. Folded letter datelined "London, Mar. 26th 1779," with "Rec'd 22nd Decr. 1779" docket on top flap. 7 x 9 ¼ inches, 3pp. A thoughtful Revolutionary-era letter written by Joseph Green, the Boston clergyman, poet, satirist, and.....
United States: 1930s–1970s. 33 items: 28 postcards and five pamphlets. A collection of postcards and pamphlets for hotels, resorts, and some planned neighborhoods around the US—mainly in New York, New Jersey, and Florida—with most advertising that they did not accept Jewish visitors. Many of the resorts’ restrictions are stated implicitly.....
Fort Gibson, Indian Territory: July 30, 1852. Single two-page letter measuring 9 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches, postmarked Fort Gibson. Damage to upper right corner intersecting with text; repairs with archival tape; with small portion of text continued on cover missing. A letter from James Johnson at Fort Gibson to.....
New York City: Culver Pictures Inc., N.d. Photograph measuring 6 ½ x 4 ¾ inches. With Culver Pictures stamps verso, covered by several later Culver Pictures and bar code stickers. Slight damage to edges, particularly corners; spot of more significant wear at upper left edge. A photograph of what appears.....
Panama City, Panama: June 29, 1851. Single three-page letter measuring appx. 8 x 10 inches. Stampless cover marked “STEAMSHIP” and circled rate marking “40”. A letter from Henry Francis Douglass (1826–1897) while on his way to the California gold mines, sent to his wife Lydia Lillibridge (1828–1904) in Voluntown, Connecticut.....
N.p. November 27, 1862. 9 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches, 10 pp, stitched binding. During the Civil War, Northern clergy used sermons, both on holidays and regular Sunday services, to interpret the conflict for their congregations. These included several notable Thanksgiving Day sermons.[1] Thanksgiving 1862 carried particular emotional and political.....
St. Augustine, Knox County, Illinois: September 29, 1863. Autograph letter signed, A. J. Rausern, four pages, 5 x 8 inches. A forceful anti-emancipation letter sent from western Illinois during the second year of the Civil War. Written nine months after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect and only weeks after the.....
New York City: April 10 and April 18, 1865. Two autograph letters signed, "R. G. Horton," on printed letterhead of The Day-Book, 162 Nassau Street, New York, published by Van Evrie, Horton & Co. Together 3 pp, 5 x 8 inches. A pair of letters written at the offices of.....
Albuquerque, New Mexico Territory: May 31, 1861. Single three-page letter measuring 7 ¾ x 9 ¾ inches, postmarked Santa Fe N.M. A letter from Mary Frances Green (1841–1927) in Albuquerque, New Mexico Territory, to her mother Nancy Howe in North Bloomfield, Ohio. Green had come to New Mexico with her.....
Charlestown, Massachusetts: November 1862. Autograph letter signed, Sam A. Brown, four pages, written to his brother George, then serving in the Union Army. 3pp, 4 ½ x 7 inches. A revealing Massachusetts home front letter written on the eve of the November 1862 elections, a month after Lincoln’s Preliminary Emancipation.....
N.p. May 20, 1794. Folded outer letter sheet addressed in manuscript to “His Excellency G. Mathews Esq.” and endorsed “By Express.” Reverse docketed in a contemporary official hand: “Letter Capt Armstrong / 20 May 1794 / Answered 25th Inst. (see Letter Book) / Indian War.” Seal tear and expected wear.....
Norfolk, Virginia: February 7, 1794. With Norfolk, VA straightline postmark. Folded letter measuring 8 x 12 ½ inches. During the French Revolutionary Wars, Virginia ports became important centers of Atlantic commerce linking the early American republic with Revolutionary France. French consular officials operating in cities such as Norfolk and Baltimore.....
Corning, New York: March 14, 1847 and November 15, 1848. Two autograph letters signed from C. H. Berry. Each 3 pp measuring 8 x 10 inches. A pair of letters from C. H. Berry of Corning, New York, who was apparently both a schoolteacher and active in Free Soil circles.....
Albany, New York: 1848–1849. Notebook measuring 7 ¾ x 10 ½ inches. 124pp filled out, totaling appx. 49,000 words. With two loose essays, 7pp. A notebook containing transcriptions of lectures by Profs. William F. Phelps, Silas Bown, and William W. Clark of the New York State Normal School, now SUNY.....
Vandalia, Springfield, and Coles County Illinois: 1837–1854. Eight documents totaling about 75 pages, 7 ¾ x 12 ½ inches and 7 ½ x 12 inches. Generally folded with toning at folds, occasional small stains, and minor damage to margins; one with more extensive repairs made with thread; entirely legible. A.....
New York City: Brown Bros. c. 1900s. Press photo measuring 5 ½ x 6 ½ inches. Publisher’s stamps and manuscript “Ellis Island” on verso. Starting in the 1890s, restrictions on immigration began to include bars on people determined to be of lower intelligence, experiencing mental health conditions, or likely to.....
Elliott Mission, Choctaw Nation: April 29, 1820. Four pages bifolium, 10 x 8 inches. Stampless cover bearing the scarce “Choctaw Agency May 25” manuscript marking and “Via Philadelphia” routing notation, described in the original philatelic history sale as possibly “one of the earliest, if not the earliest, cover known from.....
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: January 20, 1849. Eight page letter measuring 8 x 10 pages, appx. 1800 words. A lengthy and literary 1849 family letter from Robert Lind Philadelphia to his brother, discussing enslavement and the growing sectional crisis, California Gold Rush migration, and Presbyterian intellectual life, and including a remarkable inherited.....
Ship Saluda, Bound for Monrovia: October 2, 1839, and Factory Island, Liberia: July 14, 1842. Two autograph letters signed, approximately seven manuscript pages total. 1839 letter measuring 8 x 12 ¾ inches, foxed with small tears at folds, very good; 1842 letter measuring 8 x 10 inches, tears at folds.....
Jacksonville, Illinois: August 1842. Three packets, each 13 pp and measuring appx. 12 x 16 inches. Three manuscript poll books recording votes cast in Jacksonville, Illinois, in the August 1842 state election, preserving a detailed, name-by-name account of voting in a major Whig stronghold in antebellum Illinois. The books list.....
New York City: 1795–1836. Twelve documents totaling fourteen pages. See description for full inventory. Cary Ludlow (1736–1814) was a lawyer and merchant from the prominent New York City Ludlow family. In 1768, Ludlow had bought a property at 9 State Street, on the Battery, with plans to build a mansion.....