Horace Pippin. The Artist and His Work.
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...
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A Pennsylvania Bison Hunt Being the Results of an Investigation into the Causes and Period of the Destruction of These Noble Beasts in The Keystone State, Obtained From Descendants of the Original Hunters. Including a Sketch of The Career of Daniel Ott, a Pennsylvanian Who has Killed Many Buffaloes in the West.
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...
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Hoover for President. Mass Meeting… [opening lines of Pennsylvania broadside]
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.....
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The Spotlight. Hotel William Penn. [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]
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.....
The Paper Makers, Early Pennsylvanians and their Water Mills.
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...
1792 Autograph Document Signed by John Churchman, Map Maker, Surveyor, Mathematician.
John Churchman (1733–1805) was a self-taught Quaker surveyor and cartographer. Here, he receives two dollars in full for the balance of his noted Variation Chart...
[Archive of 53 Letters and Documents from Stock and Exchange Brokers, John E. Fox & Co. of Philadelphia, to one investor, Henry A. Kelker, 1866 –1873; accompanying this archive is a group of 21 additional letters and documents, 1869 –1874, mostly concerning the recovery of a debt owed to Kelker].
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...
1760 ADS by John Montgomery (1727–1808): Indian Fighter, American Revolution Patriot, Continental Congressman, Dickinson College Trustee.
A small manuscript receipt in the hand of, and autographed by, John Montgomery (1727-1808). Originally from Ireland, Montgomery settled in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Dickinson College notes...
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.....
The Conestoga Six-Horse Bell Teams of Eastern Pennsylvania. [Second, Expanded Edition]
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.....
Farmers, Look to Your Own Interest by Insuring Your Tobacco in the Lancaster County Mutual Hail Insurance Company… [caption title]
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...
Lincoln University Poets.
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...
Catasauquas’ Home-Coming Celebration for their Soldiers, Sailors and Nurses August 25 to September 1 1919. Official Souvenir.
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...
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[African-Americana:] Class Day ’95. Lincoln University.
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...
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[Lincoln University] L.U. Class of 1909 requests your presence at their Class Day Exercises…
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...
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[Archive of 1943–1945 of Second World War Letters to and from Naval Lt. James H. Hardy [with:] 1946–1947 Post-War Hardy Family Correspondence].
“Thanksgiving—1943. Thankful for what? In a world at war / Where bullets whine and cannons roar, / Where the stuttering .50s of diving plane /...
Two 1845 Autograph Letters Signed by Judge Morris Longstreth on his Renomination for a Pennsylvania Judgeship, addressed to former Congressman, now Associate Judge, John Conrad Bucher.
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...
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Swedish Holsteins in America from 1644 to 1892… [Inscribed by the Author]
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...
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[Three Real Photo Postcards of Lewistown, Pennsylvania, ca. 1910s.]
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.....
Special Excursions to the Sea-Shore and Mountains. Season of 1883.
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...
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James Buchanan and His Cabinet, On The Eve of Secession. [Inscribed and signed by the author].
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...
[Collection of Charles L. Blockson Black History Publishing Ephemera].
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.....
The Prim Singers of Harrisburg, Penna. Negro Spiritualists.
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...
The Negro in Pennsylvania. A Study in Economic History. A Thesis Submitted to the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Ph.D.
Wright’s scarce 1911 doctoral thesis. The third Black American to receive a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. The present work is a thorough work.....
Note Book. Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio. Winter Session 1853 & 4. [manuscript caption title; with:] Note Book. Eclectic Medical College Philadelphia. Session 1854 & 5. Charles H. Rose. Baltimore. Md. [manuscript caption title]
Two student notebooks on eclectic medicine kept in 1853–1855 by Charles H. Rose of Maryland at the Eclectic Medical Institute in Cincinnati and the Eclectic...
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