Late Victorian-era to Edwardian-era child’s die stamped or rolled brass bracelet. The stamping depicts a panoramic scene of barnyard animals, including chickens, a cat pouncing..... Read More about Antique Brass Child’s Bracelet with Designs of House, Farmyard Animals; the Name “Nancy”...
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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
Rare c.1820s “New Edition” of this Southern woman composer’s patriotic composition dedicated to the United States Marine Corps.¹ “Lady of Charleston” Eliza Crawley Murden’s March..... Read More about March Composed & Dedicated to The United States Marine Corps, by A Lady of Charleston
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
Unrecorded sheet music composed by Alfred Iversen, Esq., (1798–1873) attorney and Georgia politician, and later ardent secessionist; dedicated to Miss Martha D. Berrien of Georgia..... Read More about When the Birds to the South, Written and Respectfully Dedicated to Miss Martha D. Berrien of...
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
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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…
Two Virginia letters taken as Civil War trophies by A.H. Mershon after the evacuations of Yorktown and Gloucester Point, just opposite on the York River..... Read More about Two Autograph Letters Signed taken as Civil War Trophies after the Evacuations of Yorktown and...
Diverse group of mid-Victorian scroll saw-related material including trade literature, marketing materials, and oversized pattern sheets for creating fretwork designs in the Queen Anne Revival..... Read More about C. 1877–1881 Scroll Saw Group: Trade Catalog, Chromolithographic Trade Cards, and Oversized...
Proceedings of a conference on race held by The Negro Christian Student Conference with representatives from over 85 HBCUs from 17 states and the District..... Read More about The New Voice in Race Adjustments. Addresses and Reports presented at The Negro Christian Student...
Late Victorian “how-to” book on how to stage, costume, and do character make-up for amateur home theatricals. The book has six chromolithographic plates demonstrating the..... Read More about De Witt’s How To Manage Amateur Theatricals. Showing the Easiest Way for Arranging Drawing Room...
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
![1833 Yonkers, New York Grocer’s Bond; Partly Printed Document]. Aaron Vark, O C. Denstone,...](/pictures/thumb/3729793_1.jpg?v=1608257644)
Yonkers, Westchester County, New York grocer’s bond issued to Aaron Vark and William Norman. The bond pertains mostly to the sale of “...strong and spiritous..... Read More about 1833 Yonkers, New York Grocer’s Bond; Partly Printed Document
“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
Monograph on Black banks from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. Includes separate chapters on banks in Virginia; the District of Columbia and Maryland; Pennsylvania; and..... Read More about The Negro as Capitalist. A Study of Banking and Business Among American Negroes
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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...
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Biography and letters of this important British geologist, perhaps best known for being a mentor of Charles Darwin. He was dismayed to have received a...... Read More about The Life and Letters of the Reverend Adam Sedgwick. [two volumes
Printed during the last year of the Civil War, rare sheet music for voice and chorus and piano of Sherman’s March to the Sea, dedicated..... Read More about Sherman’s March to the Sea. Words by Adjt. S.H.M. Byers of Iowa. Music by F.B. Plimpton. [sheet...
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“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...
