A profile by a high school student body of the African-American artist Horace Pippin, local to the students school district in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The... Read More about Horace Pippin. The Artist and His Work
Scarce to commerce, a questionable history of bison in Pennsylvania; those who hunted and killed them, those who hunted buffalo in the American West. The... Read More about A Pennsylvania Bison Hunt Being the Results of an Investigation into the Causes and Period of the...
![Hoover for President. Mass Meeting… [opening lines of Pennsylvania broadside]. Herbert Hoover](/pictures/thumb/3728048_1.jpg?v=1542668616)
A rare broadside broadcasting a “Mass Meeting” to campaign for presidential candidate Herbert Hoover in the Fall of 1928. The rally took place in Clearfield..... Read More about Hoover for President. Mass Meeting… [opening lines of Pennsylvania broadside
Curiously printed, 18th-century partly-printed bond issued by High Sheriff John Potter of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. John Potter became the first sheriff of Cumberland County in... Read More about 1755 Carlisle, Cumberland County Printed and Manuscript Bond between James McCord and James...
![The Spotlight. Hotel William Penn. [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]. James W. Trullinger, Pittsburgh...](/pictures/thumb/3727224_1.jpg?v=1538000963)
C. 1950s hotel guest room guide book to Pittsburgh attractions issued by the Hotel William Penn, part of the “Statler” chain of luxury hotels. The..... Read More about The Spotlight. Hotel William Penn. [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Fine, essentially like new copy. Amply illustrated. Kennett Square, PA: KNA Press, (1982). 104pp. First edition. Limited edition of 1,000 copies. Signed by the author... Read More about The Paper Makers, Early Pennsylvanians and their Water Mills
Valuable Philadelphia Stock Exchange history. An important archive of letters and documents, most concerning railroad investments on the during the years 1866–1873, presents a significant... Read More about Archive of 53 Letters and Documents from Stock and Exchange Brokers, John E. Fox & Co. of...
A study of the origin, history, and accoutrements of the iconic American wagon—the Conestoga wagon. Chapter titles include “Of the Origin of the Conestoga wagon..... Read More about The Conestoga Six-Horse Bell Teams of Eastern Pennsylvania
A study of the origin, history, and accoutrements of the iconic American wagon—the Conestoga wagon. Chapter titles include “Of the Origin of the Conestoga wagon..... Read More about The Conestoga Six-Horse Bell Teams of Eastern Pennsylvania. [Second, Expanded Edition
Small archive of correspondence, financial documents, and papers kept by the Lancaster Bicycle Club of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. All dating from 1889, the collection covers such... Read More about 1889 Lancaster Bicycle Club of Pennsylvania, Small Archive of Printed Matter, Correspondence,...
Illustrated crop insurance broadside issued by the Lancaster County Mutual Hail Insurance Company of Lititz, Pennsylvania. The broadside is specifically aimed at tobacco farmers whose... Read More about Farmers, Look to Your Own Interest by Insuring Your Tobacco in the Lancaster County Mutual Hail...
Edited by Waring Cuney, Langston Hughes, and Bruce McM. Wright. Foreword by Dr. Horace Mann Bond. Introduction by J. Saunders Redding. One of a 1000... Read More about Lincoln University Poets
First World War home-coming celebration program for the borough of Catasauqua in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The cover depicts a triumphal arch adorned with American flags... Read More about Catasauquas’ Home-Coming Celebration for their Soldiers, Sailors and Nurses August 25 to...
![African-Americana:] Class Day ’95. Lincoln University. Lincoln University](/pictures/thumb/3726691_1.jpg?v=1534362442)
1895 Class Day program of music and oratory from Lincoln University, an historically black university in Pennsylvania founded in 1854. The day’s activities included morning... Read More about African-Americana:] Class Day ’95. Lincoln University
![Lincoln University] L.U. Class of 1909 requests your presence at their Class Day Exercises…....](/pictures/thumb/3727558_1.jpg?v=1542124819)
Illustrated 1909 graduation program from Lincoln University, the United States’ first degree-granting historically black university. The program contains the full morning, afternoon, and evening exercises... Read More about Lincoln University] L.U. Class of 1909 requests your presence at their Class Day Exercises…
Schoolboy autograph album in a gilt and blind decorated Philadelphia trade binding published by Hayes & Zell. The album was kept by Marshall B. Chambers... Read More about Autograph Album kept in 1858 by Marshall Chambers at Lancaster County Normal School in Pennsylvania
Facsimile reprints of four state or national Colored Conventions convened by African Americans in the mid-19th century. Each has a modern bibliographical note and/or historical..... Read More about Afro-American History Series, Collection 5: Convention Pamphlets [facsimile reprints of four...
Pair of 1845 autograph letters signed by Judge Morris Longstreth (1800–1855) of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Longstreth here writes about his re-nomination as associate judge to... Read More about Two 1845 Autograph Letters Signed by Judge Morris Longstreth on his Renomination for a...
![Swedish Holsteins in America from 1644 to 1892… [Inscribed by the Author]. Mrs. Anna M....](/pictures/thumb/3727992_1.jpg?v=1545247768)
Genealogy of the Swedish-American Holstein and related families descended from Matts Hollsten (1644-1708) who was born in Philadelphia two years after the second immigration of... Read More about Swedish Holsteins in America from 1644 to 1892… [Inscribed by the Author
![Three Real Photo Postcards of Lewistown, Pennsylvania, ca. 1910s.]. Nolte Photographer](/pictures/thumb/3726632_1.jpg?v=1534362431)
Three images, all lettered in the negative: An image of a civic celebration in downtown Lewistown, Pennsylvania. A large Welcome banner can be seen. Lettered..... Read More about Three Real Photo Postcards of Lewistown, Pennsylvania, ca. 1910s
The Pennsylvania Railroad is trying to drum up business in 1883 and here make their appeal to the excursion committees of churches and societies. In... Read More about Special Excursions to the Sea-Shore and Mountains. Season of 1883
![James Buchanan and His Cabinet, On The Eve of Secession. [Inscribed and signed by the author]....](/pictures/thumb/3728068_1.jpg?v=1545068129)
A privately printed history of President James Buchanan by history professor, Philip Gerald Auchampaugh of Duluth, Minnesota. [Lancaster, Pennsylvania]: Privately Printed, 1926. First Edition. 224pp... Read More about James Buchanan and His Cabinet, On The Eve of Secession. [Inscribed and signed by the author
In 1785 John Dickinson, President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania ordered John Lukens to survey 400 acres of land in Bedford County sold... Read More about Copy of 1785 John Dickinson Land Warrant Ordering a Survey in Bedford County, Pennsylvania;...
![Collection of Charles L. Blockson Black History Publishing Ephemera]. Inc Portfolio Associates,...](/pictures/thumb/3728414_1.jpg?v=1556576091)
Small group of advertising ephemera for noted African-Americana book collector and author Charles L. Blockson’s book Pennsylvania’s Black History (1975) and a copy of an..... Read More about Collection of Charles L. Blockson Black History Publishing Ephemera
With modestly decorative ornamental typography, this business or calling card documents the availability of this singing group who offered a repertoire of sacred and secular... Read More about The Prim Singers of Harrisburg, Penna. Negro Spiritualists
