Written less than one year before his death, ordnance and firearms industrialist Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss (1826–1885) writes to his sister—either Dothea Anna Hotchkiss (1831–1906) or..... Read More about 1884 Autograph Letter Signed by Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss, Machine Gun Inventor, Artillery...
![The Lowell Courier. [sixty-five issue from 1841; Lowell, Massachusetts tri-weekly newspaper]. D...](/pictures/thumb/3726581_1.jpg?v=1605827117)
Substantial collection of The Lowell Courier, edited by Daniel S. Richardson (1816-1890) and printed and published by Daniel H. Knowlton and Leonard Huntress (1811–1885) who..... Read More about The Lowell Courier. [sixty-five issue from 1841; Lowell, Massachusetts tri-weekly newspaper
A study of the origin, history, and accoutrements of the iconic American wagon—the Conestoga wagon. Chapter titles include “Of the Origin of the Conestoga wagon..... Read More about The Conestoga Six-Horse Bell Teams of Eastern Pennsylvania
![The Conestoga Six-Horse Bell Teams of Eastern Pennsylvania. [Second, Expanded Edition]. publisher...](/pictures/thumb/3728017.jpg?v=1592939171)
A study of the origin, history, and accoutrements of the iconic American wagon—the Conestoga wagon. Chapter titles include “Of the Origin of the Conestoga wagon..... Read More about The Conestoga Six-Horse Bell Teams of Eastern Pennsylvania. [Second, Expanded Edition
A solemn and dramatic letter written from the perspective of a son returning to the noble “ancestral halls” of his family to visit his father..... Read More about 1884 Autograph Letter Signed by the Son of Karl Oktavio, Graf zur Lippe Weißenfeld,...
Samuel Chenery Damon graduated Amherst College in 1836, then Andover Seminary, and, as he notes here in his letter, arrived in Hawaii in 1842. He..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed from Hawaiian Missionary Samuel C. Damon, publisher of The Friend, the...
![Machinal. [play typescript]. Sophie Treadwell, 1885?–1970](/pictures/thumb/3729309_1.jpg?v=1600902488)
Original typescript for an adaptation of the important 1928 expressionist play Machinal by American journalist and playwright Sophie Treadwell (1885?–1970). The play dramatizes the life..... Read More about Machinal. [play typescript
