Fantastically foolish, an attempt by one man to convince the world that a child’s sex could be prognosticated using weather charts and/or by how much..... Read More about Lecture on the Cause and Control of Sex in Human Offspring by R. Clay Jackson of Redmond, Wash....
Small handbill explaining the use of a homeopathic medical instrument called a lebenswecker or “life awakener,” a skin prick device developed by Prussian wood turner..... Read More about Anweisung für Kranke unter der baunscheid’schen Behandlung. [Instruction for Patients under...
Unrecorded homeopathic medical tract—whose title roughly translates as “Rules of Conduct during a Homeopathic Treatment.” It was written by Dr. Arthur Lutze (1813–1870), an important..... Read More about Verhaltungsregeln während einer Homöopathischen Kur [Rules of Conduct during a Homeopathic...
Of Dr. J.P. Williams little is known but of Dr. A.W. Chase, i.e. Alvin Wood Chase (1817–1885) more can be said. What connects these two..... Read More about Over One Hundred & Twenty-Five Valuable Recipes, for Saloons, Inn-Keepers, Grocers,...
Monograph on the role of African Americans in the Reconstruction-era of South Carolina, by a noted African American historian and academic. In 1922 Taylor [Alrutheus... Read More about The Negro in South Carolina During the Reconstruction
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...
Coroner’s appointment autographed by Thomas Ward Veazey (1774-1842), the 24th Governor of Maryland, in office from January 1836 to January 1839. Before becoming governor, Veazey... Read More about Thomas Ward Veazey as Maryland Governor in 1836 Appoints as Medical Coroner Samuel McBride in...
Subpoena issued to over 50 members of the extended family of George Washington “...to appear at the clerk’s office of our superior court of chancery..... Read More about 1816 Virginia Legal Subpoena involving the Extended Family of George Washington in a Chancery...
![1804 Virginia Manuscript Certificate for Wolf-Scalping Bounty]. John Brown, i. e. Wanless Stephen...](/pictures/thumb/3728769_1.jpg?v=1557936757)
Bounties for wolves in Virginia began as early as 1632 when Virginia’s first government bounty was enacted at Jamestown. Wolves attacked livestock and early Virginia..... Read More about 1804 Virginia Manuscript Certificate for Wolf-Scalping Bounty
Interesting circular or broadside that announces the dissolution of the printing firm of Hosford & Ketcham and boldly announces the establishment of the firm of... Read More about Charles F. Ketcham of the Late Firm of Hosford and Ketchman, Stationer, Printer, Lithographer,...
Collected volume of poetry by writer Paul Laurence Dunbar published the year after his marriage to Alice Ruth Moore, to whom the book is dedicated... Read More about Lyrics of the Hearthside
Important history of African Americans in Virginia written by African-Americans and published under the auspices of the federal Work Projects Administration (WPA) in Virginia and sponsored by..... Read More about The Negro In Virginia. From 1619 to the Present Day
Autobiographical memoir of Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved blacksmith Isaac Jefferson (1775–1850) as recorded by author and teacher Charles Campbell. Edited and with an historical and bibliographical..... Read More about Memoirs of a Monticello Slave, as Dictated to Charles Campbell in the 1840’s by Isaac, one of...
![Radio’s Future and Yours [cover title]. Radio, Television Institute of Chicago](/pictures/thumb/3728755_1.jpg?v=1557936756)
Large and rather glamorous self-promotional item for the Radio and Television Institute of Chicago, here pitching to men looking to enter into the repair field... Read More about Radio’s Future and Yours [cover title
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
Beautifully and extensively illustrated friendship album kept by Englishwoman Florence Mary Fardon. The mostly poetical entires in the album are augmented with over 30 original... Read More about 1897–1898 Extensively Illustrated Album kept by Florence Mary Fardon
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With bold lettering, this ephemeral and off-the-cuff broadside brings a little levity during the second World War. “Who is the Most Popular Soldier at Aberdeen?”..... Read More about Aberdeen, Maryland:] “Ordnance Joe of the USO” [opening lines of broadside
![Cocktails by “Jimmy” Late of Ciro’s London. [Canadian Edition]. “Jimmy&rdquo](/pictures/thumb/3728748_1.jpg?v=1557936753)
Scarce Toronto imprint for this popular cocktails guide and published in the same year as the first American edition. OCLC and AMICUS both return no... Read More about Cocktails by “Jimmy” Late of Ciro’s London. [Canadian Edition
![Civil War Michigan:] War Song. Battle of Lavergne. one of the boys&rdquo](/pictures/thumb/3728738_1.jpg?v=1557940086)
Sub-titled: “Fought January 1st, 1863, between the Michigan, Engineers and Mechanics, under Col. Innes, and a Brigade of Cavalry and two pieces of Artillery under... Read More about Civil War Michigan:] War Song. Battle of Lavergne
![“Broadside” Billy-Boy Crime Kidnapping Sheet Music]. lyrics Samuel Bullock, music W E....](/pictures/thumb/3728737_1.jpg?v=1557936749)
Remarkable sheet music concerning the real-life kidnapping case of “Billy” Whitla—Billy-Boy the Kidnapped Child. The sheet music’s stunning cover is presented as a strange hybrid..... Read More about “Broadside” Billy-Boy Crime Kidnapping Sheet Music
![The Eastern Girls [cover title]. The Eastern-Empire Lyceum Bureau](/pictures/thumb/3728735_1.jpg?v=1557936748)
The all-woman trio The Eastern Girls was comprised of a banjoist, a mandolin player, and a soprano singer. All the women sang. Here they are... Read More about The Eastern Girls [cover title
A white couple on the speaking and Chautauqua circuits, Albert and Martha Gale, billing themselves as remarkable musicians dress up as native Americans and perform... Read More about Songs and Stories of the Red Man
Unusual 1856 autograph letter signed by New York reformer, attorney, retired jurist and avowed spiritualist John W. Edmonds (1799–1874) encouraging one J.S. Noble, Esq. to... Read More about 1856 Autograph Letter Signed Encouraging Spiritualism by New York Jurist John W. Edmonds;...
![Chicago May Her Story. [Signed by the author and her defense attorney who wrote the foreword]....](/pictures/thumb/3728723_1.jpg?v=1557940084)
Superb Association Copy. Autobiographical memoir of Irish-American woman criminal May Churchill Sharpe, born Mary Anne Duignan (1871–1929), better known as “Chicago May” or “The Queen..... Read More about Chicago May Her Story. [Signed by the author and her defense attorney who wrote the foreword
Salesman’s sample book or canvassing book showing two bookbinding styles for the Revised and Enlarged Fourth Edition of The Negro in our History by Carter..... Read More about The Negro in Our History. [Salesman’s Sample
