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Bank-Robbers and the Detectives tells the true story of the robbery of the First National Bank in Somerset, Michigan. It was written by Allan Pinkerton..... Read More about Bank-Robbers and the Detectives [Autographed (?) by Robert A. Pinkerton
Advertising handbill touting the quality and health benefits of roasted coffees from the Union Coffee Co. of New York. The Coffee roasted by the PATENT..... Read More about Delicious Coffee. The Patent New Process ... The Old Way of Roasting… Try Union Coffees…
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Electrotyper’s specimen book of thousands of stock illustration cuts suitable for all manner of commercial and job printing. Illustration cuts available from The Commercial Cut..... Read More about Commercial Cut Co., Designers Illustrators Photo-Engravers…New York [cover title
Humorous, fun-spirited program for the First Annual Gymkhana or field day held by the Ninth Company (Company “I”) of New York’s Seventh Regiment, a National..... Read More about First Annual Gymkhana of the Veterans and Actives of the Ninth Company Seventh Regiment, N.G.N.Y....
Manuscript fair copy of the detective story “Pearls and Canes” by mystery writer William F. Vassall. Set in New York City, the short story recounts..... Read More about Manuscript of William F. Vassall’s 1916 New York City Mystery “Pearls and Canes,” published...
Original editorial cartoon drawing depicting the Tammany Tiger of New York City’s Democratic Party political machine. The political cartoon is signed at the lower left..... Read More about Original 1897 Tammany Tiger Political Cartoon by F.K. Houston
Delightful letter by a pre-teen boy recounting the fun he is having on a trip via New York City to visit his cousins in Connecticut..... Read More about Humorous 1907 ALS from a Boy (i.e., “Canis Aureus” a.k.a. “The Kid”) to His Parents
Autograph letter signed by author, abolitionist, and newspaper editor Theodore Dwight (1796–1866) seeking the recommendation of a clergyman for his Dwight’s American Magazine and Family..... Read More about 1849 Autograph Letter Signed by Theodore Dwight seeking recommendations for his Dwight’s...
Memorial or mourning album commemorating the life and death of German-American homeopathic physician Martin Deschere (1848–1902) of New York City. The album includes tributes and..... Read More about In Memoriam, Martin Deschere, July 21, 1902 [cover title of a manuscript memorial album for a New...
Dime novel for boys set amidst the hustling world of Wall Street investors, confidence “tricksters,” and New York City detectives. Does the stock broker have..... Read More about The Bradys and the Broker’s Double; or, Trapping a Wall Street Trickster
World War I poems by English poet Alfred Noyes, finely printed and bound, published by the Book Committee of the Art War Relief in New..... Read More about The Avenue of the Allies and Victory [Zelia Hoffman; her copy
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An early prototype? Large flag —almost four feet by six feet in dimensions— from the 1939–1940 New York Wold’s Fair, displaying the fair’s iconic modernist..... Read More about 1939–1940 New York World’s Fair Flag
Humorous group of 12 illustrated comic trade cards advertising the 1880 Fall Styles of Brooklyn, New York boot and shoe merchant, Joseph J. Byers. The..... Read More about Twelve Brooklyn, New York Comic or Ethnically-Themed Trade Cards, 1880s
Three large format photographs depicting the interior showroom and a trade show booth of New York scientific and technology publisher Spon & Chamberlain. The two..... Read More about C.1900s Three Original Photographs of Interior of New York Scientific and Engineering Publisher...
Just before April 12, 1884, Joseph Agate, a slightly built elderly man, bought an eighteen dollar Smith and Wesson revolver. Using an assumed name, Agate..... Read More about J. Agate, Formerly of Parsells & Agate, Gentlemen’s Outfitting Establishment and...
A deadly dynamite explosion and a tunnel collapse on Park Avenue during the construction of a section New York City’s subway “...impelled the property owners..... Read More about Report on an Investigation of the Tunnels of the Rapid Transit Railroad in Park Avenue, N. Y
Illustrated programme at the New York City Broadway Theatre 1892, an early artifact of the still-extant Actors’ Fund Benefit. The evening’s performance is thoroughly detailed..... Read More about Photographic Souvenir Programme of the Actors’ Fund Benefit at the Broadway Theatre. January...
