Charming scrapbook of 37 leaves filled with colorful chromolithographic images and some decorative trade cards. It was assembled by Esther Anderson (1871-1958) between 1885 and 1890 while her family was living in Brooklyn, New York..... More
Original broadside advertising a week-long revival (October 18-23, 1959) at the Liberty Baptist Church, led by the Evangelist Reverend Clayborn Salter from nearby Freeport, Illinois. Features a half-tone portrait of the preacher, as well as..... More
New York: Charles H. Nicoll, 1893. First Edition. This early football program is notable for featuring William H. Lewis (1868-1949), the first African American to earn First Team All-America honors, who is seen here at..... More
Account book for the Baltimore dry goods store John E. Hurst and Company from 1865 to 1869 showing that credit was extended to African American customers. At this time, immediately following the Civil War and..... More
Berkeley: Tilghman Press, 1947. Wraps. Official program for the first college football bowl game featuring schools that are considered historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Wilberforce University (Ohio) defeated Prairie View A&M (Texas) 26-0 in..... More
Swan Lake Splashes [six issues]. Sumner, Missouri: 1940-41. Six mimeographed issues in either pink or blue wrappers, stapled. Two issues with two holes punched near the left edge. Minor wear and dust soiling; otherwise very..... More
Five promissory notes made by Henry Clay Jr. (1811-47), the Kentucky legislator and soldier who was the third son of the U.S. Senator Henry Clay. Four of the loans totaling $900 were advanced in June..... More
An archive of photographs, ledgers, canceled checks, legal documents and other business and personal records from a Stillwater, New York family who feuded over the disposition of a lumber and coal business at the turn..... More
Two scrapbooks containing Civil War documents and other ephemera kept by Samuel Aquilla Beddall (1845–1925), who was color bearer for the 48th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company E, and later a mining engineer for the Sheafer Estate..... More
Columbia, South Carolina: Evans and Cogswell Lithography for the Confederate States of America, March 2, 1863. Engraved and printed on thin cream stock (12” x 13 ¾”). The bond bears an engraved portrait of Robert..... More
Richmond, Virginia: B. Duncan for the Confederate States of America, October 30, 1862. Engraved and printed on thin cream stock (13 1/8” x 12 ½”). Archival tape repairs to the left corner and edge. A...... More
Long Island City, New York: The Long Island Railroad Co., 1899. A major selling point for cyclists was the number of telephone pay stations located in many of the depots of the Long Island Railroad..... More
Kent, Connecticut: The New Haven Railroad, [1959]. Broadside printed on the recto of a sheet (6 1/4" x 18”) of coated orange coated with a hole punch at the top for posting. Printed in black..... More
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Monroe, Louisiana: R.P. Webb & Company, Ltd., 1913. Double-sided sheet (8 1/2” x 11”) printed in color, accompanied by an illustrated R.P. Webb mailing envelope. These scarce ephemeral pieces recall the booming whiskey wholesale..... More
Compliments Of LOPEZ. The Great Hot Springs Remedy. Hot Springs, Arkansas: 1912. Full color pictorial folding postcard booklet compliments of the patent medicine company. Accompanied by a two-page handwritten letter from a man who visited..... More
Spokane, Washington: Inland Printing Co., 1904. Informational pamphlet prepared for distribution at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World’s Fair, in 1904. Designed for potential investors and settlers, it describes at..... More
A group of special tax stamps issued by the United States Internal Revenue office to dealers, both wholesale and retail, who sold alcohol and tobacco products. Printed by the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, every..... More
A handwritten letter, dated June 4, 1804, from Margaret Eustace to another woman concerning her troubles finding witnesses to support her in a legal matter. Eustace and her children were close to several U.S. founding..... More
A collection of 27 photographs of the funeral procession and graveside service for Franklin D. Roosevelt who died in Warm Springs, Georgia on April 12, 1945, at the age of 63 during his fourth term..... More
Small archive of genealogical material associated with Archibald Leard Taylor (1853-1946), largely compiled by his wife, Fannie Elizabeth Taylor (née Hawley, 1855-1936). An announcement in the Oakland Tribune on June 29, 1917 concerning the marriage..... More
Cincinnati, Ohio: Deutschen Pionier-Verein, 1869-70 and 1874-83. Hardcover. Octavo, 12 volumes. Text in German. Each volume contains 12 issues, which number between 32 and 48 pages on average, with several accompanied by frontispiece portraits and..... More
1948-1949. A remarkably crafted photographic album documenting the activities of a high school drum corps in Coffeyville, Kansas during the 1948-1949 school year. In addition to nearly 150 original photographs of the Tornado Drum Corps..... More
Collection of thirteen letters written by Daniel Tainter of Charlestown, Massachusetts, to his brother, Dean, between 1856 and 1858, describing his life traveling for work opportunities in Massachusetts and New York, residing at times in..... More
Holographic letter dated October 10, 1855 by Henry B. Brewster of Salem, Massachusetts, regarding a dispute over valuable property in New York City which the writer claims was taken by the city to widen Wall..... More
A collection of 190 real photo postcards, circa 1910, from Fergus Falls, Minnesota, and the nearby cities of Alexandria and Garfield. Incorporated in 1907, Fergus Falls is situated along the Otter Tail River in the..... More