Extensive, statistical study of African American school attendance, using the entire State of Delaware as the sample case. The investigation, which contrasts Black and White..... Read More about Negro School Attendance in Delaware. A Report to the State Board of Education of Delaware. Bureau...
Handwritten receipt for £5.0.10 signed by New York City carpenter Jasper Stanton for ten pounds of lime and other goods sold to John Moore “for..... Read More about New York Society Library] New York October 18, 1793. Mr. John Moore for the Libery. [manuscript...
Class photograph of then-segregated Champion Avenue Junior High School in Columbus, Ohio. Champion opened in 1909 as an all-Black elementary school. Despite protests from the..... Read More about Champion Avenue School, Class of 1847
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Trade card for “The Indian Bazaar,” souvenir merchants and dealers in Native American goods in Montreal’s Mount Royal Park. The urban park, noted for its..... Read More about Trade Card] Souvenir Spoons. Dainty Souvenirs from Mount Royal Park
Separately-issued memorial tribute to Hollis Burke Frissell (1852–1917), second principal and first Black principal of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia (now Hampton University)..... Read More about Frissell, The Builder
Stanton treats the subject of scientific racism in 19th-century America as scientists held forth the idea that separate races were actually distinct species. How this..... Read More about The Leopard’s Spots. Scientific Attitudes toward Race in America, 1815-59
One of four known copies. A rare 1759 circular encompassing the “unseemly” behaviors of mixing wine, food, and song with religious ceremony in Colonial America..... Read More about A Resolve of the Honorable His Majesty’s Council of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay,...
Scarce posthumous memoir of Wainwright A. Merrill, the first soldier to enlist from Cambridge, Massachusetts and one of the first Americans to die in the..... Read More about A College Man In Khaki
French colonial manuscript document concerning a supply expedition to New Orleans commanded by Count Louis-Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil (1691–1763). A naval lieutenant, de Vaudreuil..... Read More about 1735 Louisiana Campaign Document commending the Pilot of the “La Charente” on its voyage to...
A fun mash-up of 1950s American space exploration enthusiasm combined with that decade’s love affair of the American West in popular culture. The Cast includes..... Read More about Cowboy on the Moon. (Rodeo in Town) A Western Operetta in Two Acts for Elementary Grades. [cover...
Industrial and heavy equipment photographs in Occupied Japan. William S. Vaughan was a technical advisor to General Douglas MacArthur, then the Supreme Commander, Allied Powers..... Read More about Post-WWII Japanese Industrial and Travel Photographs kept by the Chief of Industry of the Far...
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History and a tale of mostly getting away with murder. Stoneham, Massachusetts was settled c.1645 and incorporated in 1725 after its separation from the Town..... Read More about Murder:] A Brief History of the Town of Stoneham, Mass. From Its First Settlement to the Present...
One of five known copies. Rare pamphlet written by John L. E. W. Shecut (1770-1836) the noted South Carolinian author, botanist, physician and author of..... Read More about Strictures on Certain Select passages in Doctor Adam Clarke’s Commentary, particularly on those...
An unusual 1864 Civil War map distinguishing territory controlled by the Federal Union from that remaining in possession of the Confederacy. Together, areas tinted purple..... Read More about Map of the United States, Showing the Territory in Possession of the Federal Union, January, 1864
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Based in Boise, the Morrison–Knudsen Corporation (M–K) built the Hoover Dam, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and projects for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Taken for..... Read More about C.1950s Morrison-Knudsen Corporation Dam and Tunnel Projects; Collection of 32 photographs
Helen Aldrich De Kroyft (1818-1915) became blind and widowed in mid-life. To support herself and her family, she authored, self-published, and sold by subscription, as..... Read More about The Foreshadowed Way
An unusual American binding comprised of the publisher’s Fabri-Ko-Na burlap; a material they also used for their custom curtains, draperies, seat covers, and art pillow..... Read More about The House of the Honeymoon, a Story
From the publishers: “In this volume the author studies the body of thought that developed in the Old South in defense of the institution of..... Read More about Pro-Slavery Thought in the Old South
All of these poems were written by women missionaries. (“These poems have been written by members of the West African Mission and most of them..... Read More about My Missionary Day and Other Poems
Robert Emmons Rogers, the playwright, was graduated by Harvard College and his play debuted in St. Louis and was later performed at the Greenwich Village..... Read More about Behind a Watteau Picture. A Fantasy in Verse, in One Act
Inscribed and signed by the author. From the publishers: “In this volume the author studies the body of thought that developed in the Old South..... Read More about Pro-Slavery Thought in the Old South. [Inscribed and Signed
From the library of Fletcher Green, Southern Historian. An examination of President Abraham Lincoln’s familial, marital, and sympathetic ties to the American South and Southern..... Read More about Lincoln and the South
Proof? Portrait engraving by Gustave Lévy (1819–1894), signed “Gravé par Gve. Levy” and showing Franklin thrusting his right hand into the breast of his jacket..... Read More about Franklin. [Benjamin Franklin Portrait Engraving
Open letter proof? Portrait stipple engraving by H.W. Smith possibly after that of Gustave Lévy (1819–1894) and showing Franklin thrusting his right hand into the..... Read More about Franklin. From the Painting in the Gallery of Versailles. [Benjamin Franklin Portrait Engraving
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Stipple engraved portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Lambert Antoine Claessens, signed “L.A. Claessens, sculp.” The statesman is seen with his iconic glasses and coon skin..... Read More about Benjamin Franklin. [Benjamin Franklin Portrait Engraving
