![Chicago Columbian Exposition] The Time-Saver. A Book which Names and Locates 5,000 Things 5,000...](/pictures/thumb/3729134_1.jpg?v=1578529841)
Tourist’s handy, pocket-sized guide book to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago. A “key” to the text assists fairgoers by rating individual exhibits..... Read More about Chicago Columbian Exposition] The Time-Saver. A Book which Names and Locates 5,000 Things 5,000...
From the library of J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, American historian. An examination of President Abraham Lincoln’s familial, marital, and sympathetic ties to the American..... Read More about Lincoln and the South
Revolutionary War-dated receipt issued to Andrew Betteys of Chelmsford, Massachusetts for his payment of £1, 17s, 2f. “in full for his parte toward hireing a...... Read More about C.1781–1782 Receipt for the hiring a “Contanental Solger”, i.e., Continental Soldier,...
Pair of late Victorian memorandum books for recording household purchases, issued as advertising pieces by Carey Bros. & Grevemeyer, Philadelphia bookseller’s and stationers. Annotated in..... Read More about Purchasing Memorandum. Carey Bros. & Grevemeyer ... Booksellers and Stationers, 817 Market...
Rare souvenir advertising booklet for jeweler Julius C. Walk associating his business with Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Illustrated with ten full-page, half tone illustrations..... Read More about Chicago 1893. World’s Columbian Exposition Souvenir Compliments of Julius C. Walk, Jeweler,...
![Brownsville Affair] The Black Battalion. Debate in the United States Senate…1906. Senator...](/pictures/thumb/3729116_1.jpg?v=1578529837)
Rare pamphlet transcription of debate proceedings in the U.S. Senate on the “Dismissal of Three Companies of Twenty-Fifth Infantry”—African American troops or “Buffalo Soldiers”—in the..... Read More about Brownsville Affair] The Black Battalion. Debate in the United States Senate…1906
This historical novel by Nobel and Pulitzer Prize author Toni Morrison, is set in 1920’s Harlem. The Franklin Library, 1992. Limited, Signed, First Edition. Signed..... Read More about Jazz. [Signed by the Author
Pre-Second World War survey of Black Roman Catholics in the United States. Includes some history of Black Catholics before and after emancipation, plus chapters on..... Read More about Colored Catholics in the United States. An investigation of Catholic activity in behalf of the...
Includes much information on the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts and missionary work, plus a chapter on “The Charleston Negro..... Read More about An Appraisal of the Negro In Colonial South Carolina
The fourth volume in writer, poet, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou’s autobiography, chronicling events taking place between 1957 and 1962 including her work for..... Read More about The Heart of a Woman
A non-fiction work concerning the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Easton Press, 1998. Limited Edition, Signed by the Author on the limitation page, and on..... Read More about A Night To Remember. [Signed by the Author, Limited
The first of Updike’s Rabbit novels. The Franklin Library, 1977. Signed Limited Edition. Signed by John Updike on front blank, protected by tissue guard. Illus..... Read More about Rabbit, Run. [Signed by the Author
The classic satirical war novel by Joseph Heller. The Franklin Library, 1978. Signed Limited Edition. Signed by Joseph Heller on front blank sheet. Illus. by..... Read More about Catch-22. [Signed by the Author
Revised edition of William Still’s The Underground Rail Road, first published in 1872 and here re-published by the author himself a with a new 64-page..... Read More about Still’s Underground Rail Road Records. Revised Edition. With a Life of the Author. Narrating...
![Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) Class Graduation Photograph]. Lincoln University, Pennsylvania,...](/pictures/thumb/3729051_1.jpg?v=1578540548)
Lincoln University photograph showing an unidentified class of graduates with long-time college president, Rev. Isaac Norton Rendall (1825–1912), the group seated in front of Vail..... Read More about Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) Class Graduation Photograph
Glass lantern projection slide showing two African American women working in a nursery room as childcare caretakers for white children. A handwritten caption reading “Children’s..... Read More about Glass Lantern Slide Showing African American Women Caretakers in a Day Nursery with White Children
Rare popular medical handbook of diseases and ailments, symptoms, and remedies etc. by physician and cookbook author, Dr. Henry Burchstead Skinner, M.D. Includes an appendix..... Read More about Skinner’s Original Family Doctor; showing the Causes, Symptoms and Cure of All Diseases; with...
Captain Daniel Tracy (1815-1888) was known as “The Seaman’s Friend” as he devoted his time establishing safe houses for mariners (first in New York City..... Read More about Sixteen Letters, 1865 to 1886, Incoming to Captain Daniel Tracy (1815-1888), “The Seaman’s...
![John Brown. [American Crisis Biographies]. W E. B. Du Bois](/pictures/thumb/3728323_1.jpg?v=1579546257)
A scarce W.E.B. Du Bois title, here published with the American Crisis Biographies series. “After the completion of the Philadelphia study in December 1897, Du..... Read More about John Brown. [American Crisis Biographies
During February’s Black History Month in 1984, the celebrated African-American poet Maya Angelou gave a free talk, open to the public, at West Chester University..... Read More about West Chester University Presents a Visit with Maya Angelou Author of I Know Why the Caged Bird...
![St. Lukes U.A.M.E. Church, West Chester, Pennsylvania Photograph]. Belt Studio, photographer...](/pictures/thumb/3727459_1.jpg?v=1578529828)
C.1920s photograph taken in front of St. Luke’s Union American Methodist Episcopal (U.A.M.E.) Church in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The photograph, taken by long-time West Chester..... Read More about St. Lukes U.A.M.E. Church, West Chester, Pennsylvania Photograph
![Three-Fifths of a Man. [First Edition, Inscribed and Signed]. Floyd McKissick](/pictures/thumb/3727039_1.jpg?v=1578529824)
Floyd Bixler McKissick (1922–1991), Civil Rights activist, lawyer, founder of Soul City, author; born in —and with strong roots to— North Carolina. McKissick experienced prejudice..... Read More about Three-Fifths of a Man. [First Edition, Inscribed and Signed
Three letters to Jonathan Baxter Harrison (1835–1907)—minister, abolitionist, Indian Rights agent and journalist—two years before the Massacre at Wounded Knee. Baxter published articles such as..... Read More about Three 1888 ALsS to Indian Rights Association Agent J.B. Harrison; one from the Pine Ridge Agency,...
![Carte-de-visite of a 19th Century African-American Minister, unidentified]. Unknown](/pictures/thumb/145395_1.jpg?v=1578540547)
Found among papers from upstate New York, an intriguing carte de visite photograph depicting an African-American minister. The unusual full-length portrait shows a black man..... Read More about Carte-de-visite of a 19th Century African-American Minister, unidentified
These letters —well over five-hundred in all— document the courtship and early marriage of Ellen Fritz Sahlin (1893?–after 1987) and Richard Hartshorne (1888–1975) during trying..... Read More about Archive of Judge Richard Hartshorne and his wife, Ellen Fritz (nee Sahlin) Hartshorne
