Eight items, some identified as the output of The Hebrew Christian Mission: 1. Who is a Jew? 2. Is the Jew the Cause of Trouble..... Read More about Eight Ca. 1940s American Judaica Tracts: Who Is a Jew? Is the Jew the Cause of Trouble in the...
Unusually early, nineteenth-century manuscript cattle earmark record from Ohio. The manuscript describes and illustrates 40 earmarks, notches or slits cut into the ears of farm..... Read More about A Book of Records of the Ear Marks and Brands of Cattle &c. Belonging to the Inhabitants of...
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No copies found in OCLC, a 19th-century Manheim, Pennsylvania rarity. At hand, an ephemeral, and possibly unknown publication of the by-laws for the Pennsylvania firefighters..... Read More about By-Laws of the Star Fire Engine and Hose No. 1, of the Borough of Manheim [Pennsylvania
Diminutive tintype portrait of a man, with delicately hand-tinted cheeks and lips, mounted in a leather book-form case. The case housing the tintype is decorated..... Read More about C. Late 1850s Ninth-Plate Tintype Portrait of a Man with Hand-Tinting; mounted within a Gilt...
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Unlisted in OCLC, an apparently unrecorded pamphlet devoted to the property definitions of Christ Church Hospital in Philadelphia. “Christ Church Hospital, located at Forty-Ninth Street..... Read More about Christ Church Hospital in Philadelphia:] Brief of Title to all that certain Lot or Square of...
Mendicant pamphlet sold during the Great Depression by unemployed or disabled ex-military or naval servicemen. The text consists of humorous military and civilian anecdotes and..... Read More about Comics of War. Hello Buddy. Facts of Service. Remember the Unemployed War Veterans… [caption title
Unrecorded eighteenth century polemical broadside in the tradition satirist Ned Ward or the mock poem Hudibras. While the present broadside includes only a few lines..... Read More about Cut for Cut, the Rubber Rubb’d, Nonsense for Nonsense, or, Dicko-Don-Quacko And his Methodist...
I am uneasy in my mind continually: there seems to be in decision, a want of stern unbending integrity of purpose; and yet a desire..... Read More about Diary for 1844 kept by a Young Man in Albany and Troy, New York starting a Business and...
Scarce guidebook Apparently, quite similar to a like-titled guidebook (OCLC 14103425, [4] cc.) but this variant published to promote Gettysburg’s City Hotel, owned by John..... Read More about History of the Battle of Gettysburg. Presented, with the compliments of the City Hotel, to guests...
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Curious crudely-executed folk art, dated 1818, a German-language taufschein or baptismal certificate illuminated with ink and pencil decorations. Fitting for a baptismal wish, the manuscript..... Read More about Illuminated, German-Language Manuscript Taufschein Fraktur:] A Christian Baptismal Wish: I’ve...
An anonymous cheap throwaway filled with titillation and bawdy humor, often in the form of two single-panel captioned cartoons to a page. In one, a...... Read More about Latest Edition. Parisian Frolics. Photos. Jokes. Scenes. And How!
![The Mysterious Assassin; Or, Nick Carter’s Slender Clew [within:] Nick Carter Library. Anon](/pictures/thumb/3727910_1.jpg?v=1541452178)
Here is private detective Nick Carter irritating never-do-wells yet again, this time by foiling an assassin. The startling illustration shows Carter in disguise and his..... Read More about The Mysterious Assassin; Or, Nick Carter’s Slender Clew [within:] Nick Carter Library
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Attractive mid-19th century watercolor portrait of a woman seated at a table or writing desk and holding a letter. Her face, coiffure, and lace-trimmed, black..... Read More about Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Portrait of Woman holding a Letter
![Occupations and Trades:] Constitution and By-Laws of Philanthropic Lodge, No. 15, Independent...](/pictures/thumb/3726619_1.jpg?v=1548263354)
Ephemeral and unrecorded mid-19th century mark publication of the By-Laws and Constitution of a benevolent Pennsylvania fraternal organization. A most interesting section within is between..... Read More about Occupations and Trades:] Constitution and By-Laws of Philanthropic Lodge, No. 15, Independent...
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This rare, anonymous broadside is an attack in 1876 upon Governor Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, by excerpting from Southern newspapers from..... Read More about Paying the Southern War Claims [caption title
A variant issue from McDade 1013.¹ Sensational account of the 1872 murder in Baltimore of Winfield S. Goss by his bother-in-law, William Udderzook. Or was..... Read More about The Udderzook Mystery! Containing a Detailed and Accurate Account of the Life of the Murderer,...
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Gouache painting ca. 1898 showing Uncle Sam declaring War against Spain, i.e. The Spanish-American War. American war vessels with large gun emplacements, and tall smokestacks..... Read More about War I Say [caption title of Spanish-American War-Era Uncle Sam Painting
