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American antiques dealer Israel Sack, Inc. was founded in Boston in 1903 as a furniture repair business. As their antiques business thrived, they started to..... Read More about Trade Catalogs:] Reproductions of Antique Fittings [and] Reproductions of Antique Fittings....
Campaign ribbon for Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland’s successful 1884 run for president of the United States. Then governor of New York, Cleveland’s campaign was almost..... Read More about 1884 Grover Cleveland U.S. Presidential Democratic Campaign Silk Ribbon
Important work about Black Americans and their role in the Union Army as soldiers, scouts, spies and propagandists, nurses, and workers in the Underground Railroad..... Read More about The Negro in the Civil War. (Signed
“This biographical study of O.O. Howard [Maj. General Oliver Otis Howard (1830–1909)] provides a new understanding of the historical relationship between black Americans and the..... Read More about Yankee Stepfather. General O.O. Howard and the Freedmen
Assessment of Abraham Lincoln’s mind on the questions of slavery and the emancipation of 3.5 million enslaved African Americans, published just over 50 years after..... Read More about President Lincoln’s Attitude toward Slavery and Emancipation. With a Review of Events Before...
Cornell University class photograph album owned by Walter Douglas Young (1870-1945) with his portrait and his classmates. Young was born in 1870 in Aurora, New..... Read More about 1880s – 1890s Cornell University Class Photo Album owned by Walter Douglas Young of Aurora, New...
Letter on banking by Philadelphia merchant Samuel C. Morton, written to attorney and Pennsylvania state representative, Richard Rundle Smith, Esq. Morton discusses a legislative bill..... Read More about 1848 Autograph Letter Signed by Samuel C. Morton, Philadelphia merchant, on banking and...
![How to Earn a Bicycle. [ca. 1897 bicycle-themed labor prospectus]. Manager W W. Thomas](/pictures/thumb/3731607_1.jpg?v=1652720764)
During the bicycle craze of the 1890s, a solicitation for canvassing agents to earn “a Wheel of all Wheels” by selling Grapeine brand cream of..... Read More about How to Earn a Bicycle. [ca. 1897 bicycle-themed labor prospectus
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During the bicycle craze of the 1890s, a solicitation for canvassing agents to “earn a wheel” by selling vanilla flavoring and roasted coffee prepared by..... Read More about How to Earn a Wheel. [ca. 1897 bicycle-themed labor prospectus
![Why Not Try Them. [advertising rebus]. Woolson Spice Company](/pictures/thumb/3731488_1.jpg?v=1652720763)
A broadside with two rebus puzzles for Lion Coffee, a popular coffee brand made by the Woolson Spice Company of Toledo, Ohio, and Kansas City..... Read More about Why Not Try Them. [advertising rebus
Gifted to Catherine “Kate” Barnett (1832–?) from her cousin, T. Newton Kurtz, a Baltimore, bookseller and stationer and occasional publisher. Kurtz selected this album right..... Read More about 1851 to 1856 Friendship Album kept by Catherine “Kate” Barnett of Boonsboro, Washington...
“Coates (1802-1886) was apprenticed to Benjamin Rush in Philadelphia and graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania. He accepted a position at..... Read More about Syllabus of a Course of Popular Lectures on Physiology, With an Outline of the Principles Which...
![Covered Bridges of Chester County, Pennsylvania. [signed & inscribed by the author]. Arthur E. James](/pictures/thumb/3731823_1.jpg?v=1648176459)
Well-illustrated survey of Chester County’s 98 covered bridges built between 1807 and 1899, of which only 17 remain. “As completely as possible this history identifies..... Read More about Covered Bridges of Chester County, Pennsylvania. [signed & inscribed by the author
Twelve incoming to Mary A. Leach from the following correspondents: Baptist clergyman Frederick B. Greul; Camilla Leach; John Mackay; Adjutant General of New York John..... Read More about Twelve letters, 1890-1894, from General John W. De Peyster, publisher H.O. Houghton, Jr., ...
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A 1940 presidential campaign poster for Wendell Willkie, the Democrat-turned-Republican activist and lawyer from Indiana. Here, American war veteran supporters of Willkie back his European..... Read More about Once I could Vote, Too! [Willkie War Veterans National Committee, WWII poster
American Red Cross Map of Paris was published for soldiers on leave in newly-liberated Paris. The map is printed on a captured and then-recycled circa..... Read More about American Red Cross Map of Paris. [Captured WWII German map of England, recycled to print a Map of...
Pocket-sized folding song sheet for soldiers at Camp Zachary Taylor near Louisville, Kentucky. The camp was in existence for three years during WWI, becoming the..... Read More about Songs of the Soldiers, Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky
Three documents pertaining to drilling, inspection, uniforms, band, and general discipline of the 1st Regiment Infantry, National Guard of Pennsylvania, known as the “Gray Reserves.”..... Read More about Three 1870-1875 Pennsylvania National Guard Documents Signed; U.S. Centennial Preparations by 1st...
Certificate of election to The Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture—the oldest agricultural society in the United States—issued to Henry Simpson as a “Resident Member.” An..... Read More about 1821 Engraved Certificate from The Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, signed by...
Undergraduate and graduate notebooks kept by Julius Wooster Eggleston (1875–1945) who graduated from Harvard and embarked on a career as a geologist. The notebooks include..... Read More about 1901 Manuscript Notebooks kept by Julius Wooster Eggleston, geologist and author, as a Harvard...
True copies of the will of Captain Ephraim Perkins (1748–1822) and the probate court document proving it, each attested to and signed by George Thacher..... Read More about 1822 Kennebunk, Maine Legal Document Proving the Last Will and Testament of Ephraim Perkins of...
Civil War-era Delaware legislative committee report investigating “actual interference by the Federal Government with the most sacred right of the people of the State, the..... Read More about Report of the Committee of the General Assembly of the State of Delaware, together with the...
From Edinburgh to New York. Document issued by King George III’s lords-in-council in Edinburgh on October 15, 1776 ordering George Dempster and Robert Baillie, “Messengers..... Read More about 1776 Scottish Legal Document curiously sent to the Editor of the New York Herald, concerning the...
Original typed manuscript, in two volumes, with modest manuscript emendations and corrections. An unpublished translation of lawyer, philosopher, educator and Puerto Rican independence advocate, Eugenio..... Read More about Constitutional Science. Being the English Version of a work entitled “Lecciones De Derecho...
Revolution by Xerox. Almost 150 issues of The Beacon edited and published by Atlin Harrigan (d.2005), OBE, the co-leader of the 1967 Anguillan Revolution. When..... Read More about 1967 to 1971 Anguillan Revolution-era Archive from Anguilla, Leeward Islands, Lesser Antilles,...
