![3734380] Loockerman Street, Dover Delaware, original 1930s photograph showing Christmas lights at...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734380.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1729783889)
Nighttime Christmas view of Dover’s business district along Loockerman Street, with Wise Drugs visible on the left corner and the Atlantic & Pacific (A&P) grocery..... Read More about Loockerman Street, Dover Delaware, original 1930s photograph showing Christmas lights at night
![3735326] Saratoga, Flat Rock Spring. [caption title]. 19th c. Mineral Waters](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735326.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753205042)
In this promotional brochure, a single sheet folded once to form three pages, the Saratoga Flat Rock Spring is described as “one of the oldest..... Read More about Saratoga, Flat Rock Spring. [caption title
![3733452] Combattre Premier De La 464th Aero Squadron. Somewhere in France. Aug 7, 1918. 464th...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733452.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1708024880)
Rare. This item served as a commemorative booklet, a program for an evening of squadron entertainment, and contains a 1-page regimental history of the United..... Read More about Combattre Premier De La 464th Aero Squadron. Somewhere in France. Aug 7, 1918
![3725045] “Business is Booming in Italy, Members of a Negro Mortar Company of the 92nd Division...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3725045.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1533057246)
A compelling World War II combat photograph depicting African-American troops at the front. The images captures members of a mortar company of the 92nd Infantry..... Read More about “Business is Booming in Italy, Members of a Negro Mortar Company of the 92nd Division Praise...
![3726497] First Annual Gymkhana of the Veterans and Actives of the Ninth Company Seventh Regiment,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3726497.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1531245226)
Humorous, fun-spirited program for the First Annual Gymkhana or field day held by the Ninth Company (Company “I”) of New York’s Seventh Regiment, a National..... Read More about First Annual Gymkhana of the Veterans and Actives of the Ninth Company Seventh Regiment, N.G.N.Y....
![3731491] Perlee’s Magic, Labor-Saving, Money-Saving, Clothes-Saving, Washing Bleaching and...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731491.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706666348)
Proto-Tide laundry detergent. Magical and astonishing, Perlee’s fluid, by his account, practically washed your clothes for you. The soap wasn’t that magical —one had to..... Read More about Perlee’s Magic, Labor-Saving, Money-Saving, Clothes-Saving, Washing Bleaching and Cleansing...
![3733267] 1890 Metropolitan Cross-Town Railway Company $500 bond. President A B. Stone, Treasurer...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733267.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1708982145)
Large and graphic. A five-percent bond issued by The Metropolitan Cross-Town Railway Company of New York City. The railway opened in 1891, offering surface transportation..... Read More about 1890 Metropolitan Cross-Town Railway Company $500 bond
![3732918] Sermon Preached at the Consecration of Rev. Elisha Smith Thomas as Assistant Bishop of...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732918.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1671474205)
Presentation copy, inscribed by Whipple to Robert Charles Winthrop (1809–1894), former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, who was active in the Episcopal church..... Read More about Sermon Preached at the Consecration of Rev. Elisha Smith Thomas as Assistant Bishop of Kansas, in...
![3735395] Sorosis, Vol.1, 1901, 3rd Edition. A E. Little, Co](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735395.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1755119929)
A scarce trade catalog, not a magazine, that doubles as a piece of social history, documenting both the rise of the Sorosis Shoe Company and..... Read More about Sorosis, Vol.1, 1901, 3rd Edition
![3724971] Rules and Regulations for the Government of Employees on Sycamore Plantation. A V....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3724971.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1719850926)
Unrecorded. An extraordinary Reconstruction-era broadside printed in New Orleans documenting a system that exploited freedmen sharecroppers working on the Sycamore Plantation in Concordia Parish. This..... Read More about Rules and Regulations for the Government of Employees on Sycamore Plantation
![3726653] Boston Saxophone Orchestra. Abdon Laus, Director using Buescher True Tone Saxophones....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3726653.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706666282)
Excellent circa 1920s photograph of the Boston Symphony Orchestra advertising Buescher True Tone Saxophones: In late 1924, the first bassoonist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra..... Read More about Boston Saxophone Orchestra. Abdon Laus, Director using Buescher True Tone Saxophones
![3733314] The Lincoln Memorial Collection Relics of the War of the Rebellion. Autographs of...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733314.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1680811766)
An exceptional copy. “Description of three cases of material comprising the “Lincoln Memorial Collection” in the Grosvenor Library in Buffalo and programs and addresses of..... Read More about The Lincoln Memorial Collection Relics of the War of the Rebellion. Autographs of Soldiers and...
![3733424] Tomb of Abraham Lincoln, at Springfield, Ill. Guarded by Vet. Res. Corps 1865. [caption...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733424.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1684370211)
Unpublished and previously unknown. A rare photographic print created from a large format albumen photograph taken in 1865. The image captures Lincoln’s tomb being guarded..... Read More about Tomb of Abraham Lincoln, at Springfield, Ill. Guarded by Vet. Res. Corps 1865. [caption title
![3731295] Cancion Cruzada. Prologo de Emilio Ballagas. Acacia Hernández Jiménez,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731295.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1657382577)
A joint collection of poetry by Acacia and Aída Hernández Jiménez, with a foreword by Emilio Ballagas. OCLC returns only University of Miami and two..... Read More about Cancion Cruzada. Prologo de Emilio Ballagas
![3728915] 1886 American prison art by an Italian-American circus performer jailed for murder,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3728915.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1642470475)
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 1886 American prison art by an Italian-American circus performer jailed for murder, possibly...
![3731797] Harrisburgh Church Lottery. By Authority. [1802 Pennsylvania lottery ticket]. Adam Boyd](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731797.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1659493719)
The Harrisburg Church was organized in 1794. Worship was first held in the loft of the jailhouse, then in the local court-house. The General Assembly..... Read More about Harrisburgh Church Lottery. By Authority. [1802 Pennsylvania lottery ticket
![3734778] The Libby Prison Minstrel! ... Thursday eve’g, Dec. 24th, 1863. Programme. Adjt. R. C....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734778.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1756936637)
A circa 1890s facsimile of a rare 1863 handbill, advertising a Christmas Eve theatrical and musical performance organized by captured Union officers imprisoned at Libby..... Read More about The Libby Prison Minstrel! ... Thursday eve’g, Dec. 24th, 1863. Programme
![3731997] Kwamina. The New Musical. Afred de Liagre Jr](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731997.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1658773283)
This 54th Street Theatre Broadway flop was set in a Western African nation as it was about the gain independence from Britain. While the dances..... Read More about Kwamina. The New Musical
![3731335] Dr. Benjamin Franklin. Engraved by J. Hopwood from an original Picture in the Possession...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731335.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1642440371)
An 1801 stipple engraving of Benjamin Franklin claimed to have been made after a portrait owned by George Washington. “Hopwood worked for British magazines of..... Read More about Dr. Benjamin Franklin. Engraved by J. Hopwood from an original Picture in the Possession of the...
![3733869] Two large 19th c. photographic images showing the Battle of Stones River, i.e., the...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733869.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1707422168)
These large and oblong 19th-century albumen photographs are possibly based on prints originally made by the Cincinnati lithographers Middleton, Strobridge & Co. between 1863 and..... Read More about Two large 19th c. photographic images showing the Battle of Stones River, i.e., the Second Battle...
![3731358] Benj. Franklin. [Benjamin Franklin Portrait Engraving]. Charles Nicolas after COCHIN](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731358.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1642440370)
Stipple octagon-shaped engraving signed “N. Cochen del. F. Bolt Sc. 1822” and showing Benjamin Franklin with his iconic glasses and coon skin hat; based on..... Read More about Benj. Franklin. [Benjamin Franklin Portrait Engraving
![3731354] Benjamin Franklin, born at Boston, the 17th. Any. 1706. Engraved for the Universal...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731354.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1642440369)
A classic portrait, engraved in 1777, showing Benjamin Franklin with his iconic glasses and coon skin hat. On Charles Nicolas Cochin’s 1777 portrait, Sellers wrote..... Read More about Benjamin Franklin, born at Boston, the 17th. Any. 1706. Engraved for the Universal Magazine
![3731370] Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. F.R.S. One of the American Plenipotentiaries at the Court of...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731370.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1721772425)
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin engraved by Robert Pollard (“Pollard sculp.”). Here, the statesman is shown without his iconic glasses, but with his coon skin hat..... Read More about Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. F.R.S. One of the American Plenipotentiaries at the Court of France....
![3731330] Benjamin Franklin, Né à Boston le 17 Janvier 1706. Mort à Philadelphie le 19 Avril...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731330.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1711733832)
Rare eighteenth-century portrait of Benjamin Franklin printed, and likely drawn by, [Mademoiselle] Citoyenne F. Montalant in the French Revolution era. Montalant’s engraving was made after..... Read More about Benjamin Franklin, Né à Boston le 17 Janvier 1706. Mort à Philadelphie le 19 Avril 1790. Il...
![3731352] Benjamin Franklin. Charles Nicolas after COCHIN](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731352.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1642440368)
Engraving by Conrad Westermayr, signed “C. Westermayr f.” showing Benjamin Franklin with his iconic glasses. On Charles Nicolas Cochin’s 1777 portrait, Sellers wrote: “This was..... Read More about Benjamin Franklin
