Souvenir booklet issued by the Headquarters Detachment of the U.S. Army’s 14th Ordnance Battalion celebrating the bestowal of an award upon the unit for meritorious..... Read More about HQ., HQ. Det., 14th Ord. Bn. [Headquarters Detachment…14th Ordnance Battalion…for Meritorious...
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An early prototype? Large flag —almost four feet by six feet in dimensions— from the 1939–1940 New York Wold’s Fair, displaying the fair’s iconic modernist..... Read More about 1939–1940 New York World’s Fair Flag
Dime novel for boys set amidst the hustling world of Wall Street investors, confidence “tricksters,” and New York City detectives. Does the stock broker have..... Read More about The Bradys and the Broker’s Double; or, Trapping a Wall Street Trickster
Italian-American Achille Onofri, was an acrobat and contortionist who had met trapeze artist Millie Cook in Havana, married her, and then moved to Philadelphia with..... Read More about 19th Century American Prison Art, possibly of African-American Slaves or Sharecroppers, by an...
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1929 pre-Crash stock market investing tips from noted financial adviser A. Vere Shaw (1887–1970). Shaw was “...a founding member of the Investment Counsel Association of..... Read More about 10 Rules for Investors [cover title
Monograph on the role of African Americans in the Reconstruction-era of South Carolina, by a noted African American historian and academic. In 1922 Taylor [Alrutheus..... Read More about The Negro in South Carolina During the Reconstruction
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This illustrated report contains much on ironclad ships, first used in battle the year before, and on the ironclad monitor U.S.S. Roanoke, the first ship..... Read More about Ironclad Ships:] Report of the National Academy of Sciences for the Year 1863
Legal instrument of protest signed by Alexander H. Arthur, Notary Public for the Office of the Planters’ Bank of the State of Mississippi at Vicksburg..... Read More about United States of America: State of Mississippi, to wit: By This Public Instrument of Protest…
A clever bit of advertising. A.W. Cushman creates an appealing and eye-catching illustrated envelope to earn more business. The envelope’s design program is reminiscent of..... Read More about A.W. Cushman & Company, Dealers in Furniture, Bedding, Paints and Oils, Ellsworth Maine
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Trade card for Mr. A.W. Scott of Boston, spiritualist and “magnetic healer.” From his Washington Street establishment, Scott offered “Hot Salt Baths for Cure of..... Read More about A.W. Scott, Magnetic Healer and Test Medium ... Boston ... [trade card
“Colonists In Bondage tells the paradoxical story of those white men and women who endured servitude as a road to freedom. Voluntarily or involuntarily, they..... Read More about Colonists in Bondage. White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776
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Delightfully humorous program for a concert of antique music performed at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Likely getting into the spirit of the nation’s..... Read More about Philadelphia Academy of Music, 1873 Program:] Forasmuch as Dyvers Syngynge People…
Illustrated programme at the New York City Broadway Theatre 1892, an early artifact of the still-extant Actors’ Fund Benefit. The evening’s performance is thoroughly detailed..... Read More about Photographic Souvenir Programme of the Actors’ Fund Benefit at the Broadway Theatre. January...
An exceedingly rare Boston-printed 1756 act of Parliament to significantly enlarge the number of British troops in North America. This act allowed British army recruitment..... Read More about An Act for the better recruiting His Majesty’s Forces on the Continent of America; and for the...
“The octoroon despised, spurned, penned up in scornful coolness, liable to public sale and scourge—the colored woman you see yonder, kept a white man for..... Read More about New Orleans, Octoroons, Interracial Relations, Slavery:] L’Article 47, or Breaking the Ban
Just before April 12, 1884, Joseph Agate, a slightly built elderly man, bought an eighteen dollar Smith and Wesson revolver. Using an assumed name, Agate..... Read More about J. Agate, Formerly of Parsells & Agate, Gentlemen’s Outfitting Establishment and...
Olof Peter Ahlgren (1823-1906) is listed as a carpenter at the rear of 90 Front Street in Chicago in the 1876 Lakeside Annual Directory of..... Read More about 1855–1881 Manuscript Account Book owned by Swedish-American, carpenter and cabinetmaker, Olof...
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English-language tourist ephemera from 1930s Cairo, Egypt with a focus on exotic Middle-Eastern goods and all the amenities of home in a foreign city. Of..... Read More about C. 1930s Cairo, Egypt Tourist Map and Perfume Shop Ephemera
Paton’s “absorbing book presents more effectively than any other the long, strained relations with the government of South Africa and its black citizens. His subject..... Read More about Cry, the Beloved Country. (Signed by the Author
From the publisher: “For nine decades a steady stream of vehicles flowed out the doors of a small factory on the north edge of St..... Read More about From Horsecars to Steamliners. An Illustrated History of the St. Louis Car Company
A psychological and sociological study of African Americans living in St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The text discusses slavery, the “psychological environment” of..... Read More about St. Thomas Negroes — A Study of Personality and Culture. [Psychological Monographs, Vol. 55, No. 5
Work, p590. Chapters, in part, upon Negro Character, Life, and the Negro at Work; Is the Negro Rising?, Race Association; Race Separation; Lynching; Cotton; White..... Read More about The Southern South
Work, p590. Chapters, in part, upon Negro Character, Life, and the Negro at Work; Is the Negro Rising?, Race Association; Race Separation; Lynching; Cotton; White..... Read More about The Southern South
Religious diary 1877–1880, kept by Albert Young, a young man living near Liverpool, England, recording his pious thoughts, his teaching and singing lessons, his preaching..... Read More about 1877–1880 Manuscript Diary of Pious Englander Albert Young with ties to British Temperance...
Biographical sketches of African Methodist Episcopalian church elders, churches, congregations and “then, too, knowledge is given here of individuals, local preachers, class-leaders, stewards, trustees, choir..... Read More about Cyclopaedia of African Methodism
