Flake: “Contains letters describing a visit to Salt Lake City and the Mormons in 1886, p. 54–64.” Collection of 26 letters written by an observant..... Read More about 59 of ‘86. Letters Written to The Lebanon Courier, During The Summer of 1886
First three volumes, complete, of this monthly journal for amateur scientists published by the Boston Amateur Scientific Society, later the Boston Scientific Society. The contents..... Read More about The Science Observer. 1877 to 1881. Volume I–III
Told in the first-person narrative, Maggie is no Mary Magdalene, and no scarlet woman, but she is the woman with the scarlet shawl. This shawl..... Read More about My Scarlet Shawl: A Wife’s Story
Unrecorded late 18th Massachusetts handbill advertising the dentistry services of Josiah Flagg (b. 1763, Boston), the first native-born American to make dentistry his life’s work..... Read More about Doctor J. Flagg, Respectfully acquaints the ladies and Gentlemen of this town, that he continues...
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Of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Captain Bligh. From the library of Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President under President Abraham Lincoln, and his rubber stamp on..... Read More about Library of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin; Captain Bligh’s Open Boat Voyage; Benjamin Franklin]...
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German, French and English-language trade card for wine merchant and wholesaler, Otto Kühn, for his business in the Hotel Schrieder in Heidelberg, Germany. A lithographic..... Read More about Circa 1872 Lithographic Trade Card with View] Otton Kuhn…Wine-Whole-Sale. Hotel Schrieder,...
Two partly printed checks, completed in manuscript, drawn on the account of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Each is signed by two officers..... Read More about Two 1876 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Checks Signed by John Sartain, Artist and Engraver
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Real photo postcard of St. Mary’s Hospital founded in 1889 in Rochester, Minnesota by Mother Alfred Moes, with Dr. William Worrall Mayo and his two..... Read More about 1911, St. Mary’s Hospital, now the Mayo Clinic Hospital; Oblong Real Photo Postcard
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Advertising broadside for the Pennsylvania Industrial and Construction Exposition held at the Farm Show Building in the state capital. Attendees of the six-day construction trade..... Read More about 1954 Exhibit Broadside: Pennsylvania Industrial and Construction Exposition, Harrisburg, Pa
Index card-sized slip of paper autographed by Herbert Hoover, America’s 31st president. Hoover would die at The Waldorf-Astoria in 1964. New York. December 16, 1952..... Read More about Autograph of Herbert Hoover on a card from the Waldorf-Astoria, dated December 16, 1952
Unique. Hand-colored manuscript plat map for a tract of land lying between the Elk River and “the head-line of St. John’s Manor” on the Elk..... Read More about 1858 Plat Map of Land on Elk Neck, Cecil County, Maryland, Surveyed by James McCauley
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Rare cinema theater program for the 1922 silent film, When Knighthood Was in Flower, directed by Robert G. Vignola and starring Marion Davies in the..... Read More about Rare 1922 Souvenir Program for:] The Cosmopolitan Corporation presents Marion Davies in “When...
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Very rare. Genealogy of seven branches of the Tyson Family, 1683 Quaker emigrants from England via Germany to William Penn’s Province of Pennsylvania. The Tysons..... Read More about Genealogy of the Maryland Branch of the Tyson Family. [bound, printed typescript
Journal with 14 handwritten pages. Short entries on each page record mortgage bonds, capital stock, and interest payments of the Canal Railroad Company of Elmira..... Read More about 1882–1889 manuscript journal of the Canal Railroad Company of Elmira, New York
First and sole edition. Jacob Tileston Brown (1863–1947) was among the first Black American ministers to write Sunday school literature. (Houston Bryan Roberson) Pages 1–13..... Read More about Theological Kernels: A Question-Book of Bible Doctrines and Baptist Church Polity, with Scripture...
First edition of this autobiography of this Alabamian and influential Southern educator and “planter” considered the “Mother of Black Lutheranism in Central Alabama.” Young is..... Read More about Light in the Dark Belt. The Story of Rosa Young as Told by Herself
Rare circa 1870s advertising card. The firm of Roecker and Soper was made up of Albert Roecker and M.H. Soper. The duo bought, sold, and..... Read More about Roecker & Soper, Real Estate, Insurance, and General Collection Agents, Oregon, Missouri
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Single issue of the New-York Tribune giving extensive front-page coverage of the Fenian Rising in Ireland in February and March 1867, rebelling against British rule..... Read More about New York City St. Patrick’s Day Riot; Fenian Uprising of 1867 in Ireland; Black Suffrage in:]...
First edition. Collection of poems by New Jersey resident Bertha (née) Vreeland DeLazier. Most of DeLazier’s poems were written during the 1920s and 1930s. This..... Read More about Poems — by Bertha DeLazier. (Association copy
Early issue of an important political and cultural journal focused on civil rights, published from 1961 to 1985. Freedomways was founded by Louis Burnham, Edward..... Read More about Freedomways, a Quarterly Review of the Negro Freedom Movement. Vol. 2, No. 3
An unusually fine copy of Du Bois’s landmark work in which his prophecy is presented: that the problem of the 20th century is that of..... Read More about The Souls of Black Folk. Essays and Sketches. Printed music within text
File of correspondence to and from Cash Papworth Premium Company, importers, perfumers, and chemists of Syracuse, New York. The letters and related enclosures discuss the..... Read More about 1909 - 1910 Correspondence involving Cash Papworth Premium Company, Perfumers and Chemists;...
A pencil inscription reads: “My great uncle Gus Herkenham Captain on the Hudson R. [River] for over 50 years.” This is Augustus “Gus” Herkenham (1830/31-1905)..... Read More about Carte-de-visite of Hudson River Ship Captain Augustus “Gus” Herkenham
Scarce religious text printed as a memorial upon the death of Garrat Noel Bleecker (1815–1853) and written by the then-pastor of Amity Street Baptist Church..... Read More about Worship At Work. A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of the Late Garrat Noel Bleecker of New York
Well-illustrated history of the Golden Age of American carousel horses, from the 1890s to the 1920s, including both historical images and over 600 color photographs..... Read More about Painted Ponies. American Carousel Art
