Slavery in Kentucky 1792-1865.
“This study is an attempt to give a connected and concise account of the institution of slavery as it existed in the State of Kentucky..... Read More about Slavery in Kentucky 1792-1865
“This study is an attempt to give a connected and concise account of the institution of slavery as it existed in the State of Kentucky..... Read More about Slavery in Kentucky 1792-1865
Complete set of five photographic reproductions from the Cartoon Printing Co. published by Chicago cartoonist John McGreer, based on Solomon Eytinge’s racist African American caricatures..... Read More about Racist Caricatures] I’m Granpa at Last, eh? [Set of five illustrated cabinet cards
A useful archive concerning 19th-century American historians assembled by Steve Schuster, a future Texas printer, publisher and author. Schuster’s focus was American historian Jared Sparks..... Read More about Scholar’s archive pertaining to Jared Sparks and other contemporary American and British...
Heavily-illustrated, a lovely collection of four manufacturer trade catalogs distributed to shoe stores by the Gerberich-Payne Shoe Company, soliciting orders. From “Little Gents’ Brown Elk..... Read More about Four 1930s trade catalogs for “America’s Most Popular Boys Shoes” made by Gerberich-Payne...
Vaudeville program for the week of September 28, 1896 at the Brooklyn Music Hall in East New York. The program included music, sketch artists Roach..... Read More about Brooklyn Music Hall, Cor. Fulton St. and Alabama Ave. [1896 Program
Program for the biographical play Robert Emmet, The Days of 1803 about that Irish patriot and rebel leader executed for leading a rebellion in Dublin..... Read More about Grand Opera House, Brooklyn. [1903 Program
A mysterious image that may depict a Florida sheriff’s posse or a hunting party of some kind. A group of stern-looking men with rifles and..... Read More about Ca. 1910s Florida photograph of armed men in front of a general store, with identifications
Photograph of the re-built city gates of St. Augustine, Florida, constructed in 1808 in the waning years of Spanish colonial rule. The gates were part..... Read More about C. 1870s photograph of the 1808 City Gate of St. Augustine, Florida
This unusual ca. 1918 photograph illustrates the home front contributions of Hernando County women to aid the war effort. The image shows an elaborate, prominently..... Read More about First World War-Era Florida women’s display at the Hernando County, Florida Courthouse
Snapshot photograph of the color guard leading a parade down St. Petersburg’s Central Avenue. The parade may have been a WWII-era bond rally or a...... Read More about Ca. 1940s St. Petersburg, Florida Military or Veterans Parade
Perspective view of the façade of the Hotel Indian River in Rockledge, Florida, a resort built in 1884–1885. The viewer sees a double verandah with..... Read More about 1891 photograph of the Hotel Indian River in Rockledge, Brevard County, Florida
View of civic growth on a tree-lined residential section of Brooksville Avenue in Brooksville, the the county seat of Hernando County, Florida. The image depicts..... Read More about Ca. 1880s–1890s photograph view of Brooksville Avenue, Brooksville, Florida
Eighteen issues from this post World War II U.S. Navy newsletter about medical, occupational, educational, and social support and training for injured sailors readjusting to..... Read More about Civil Readjustment Letter [18 issues; later, Navy Veteran
[Title continues]: Revised and republished by direction of the Philadelphia Society for the Establishment and Support of Charity Schools. To which is added, an account..... Read More about An Account of the Life and Character of Christopher Ludwick, late citizen of Philadelphia, and...
Philadelphian John Hewson (1745–1821) has been described as the first calico printer in America. He served during the Revolution and was captured near Burlington, New..... Read More about A Brief History of the Revolution, with a Sketch of the Life of Captain John Hewson: Including...
Authors in this issue are Vincent W. Byas (“Ethnologic Aspects of the Martinique Creole”); John Hope Franklin (“Slaves Virtually Free in Ante-Bellum North Carolina”); W...... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XXVIII, No. 3, July 1943
Authors include Mary McLeod Bethune (“Clarifying Our Vision with the Facts”); A.A. Taylor (“Historians of the Reconstruction”); Newbell N. Puckett (“Negro Names”); James R. Mock..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XXIII, No. 1, January 1938
Authors in this issue include Roger Wallace Shugg (“Negro Voting in the Ante-Bellum South”); J.K. Eads (“The Negro in Brazil”); Charles H. Wesley (“The Religious..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XXI, No. 4, October 1936
Authors in this issue include G. Smith Wormley (“Educators of the First Half Century of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia”); F.J. Manheim..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XVII, No. 2, April 1932
Authors in this issue are W.D. Hambly (“Racial Conflict in Africa”); Joseph H. Park (“Thomas Hughes and Slavery”); Francis B. Simkins (“The Ku Klux Klan..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XII, No. 4, October 1927
This issue mostly comprises documents, namely the conclusion to the “Correspondence of Lewis Tappan and others with the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society” (166 pages)..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Vol. XII, No. 3, July 1927
This issue mostly comprises the Introduction and the first seven chapters of A.A. Taylor’s article “The Negro in South Carolina during the Reconstruction.” In 1922..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Vol. IX, No. 3, July 1924
Authors in this issue include Fred Landon (“The Anderson Fugitive Case”); G. David Houston (“A Negro Senator” [Blanche K. Bruce]); Harry S. Blackiston (“Lincoln’s Emancipation..... Read More about The Journal of Negro History, Vol. VII, No. 3, July 1922
An unrecorded real estate and promotional map issued by the Atlantic City Estate Co., with offices in Pittsburg, Camden and Philadelphia. These maps are rare..... Read More about Rare 1904 Map of Pleasantville Terrace, Egg Harbor Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey
Revised Edition. Number 26 of 75 copies signed by the author, out of a whole edition of 85 copies. London: Turret Books, MCMXCII [1992]. [8]..... Read More about Kings. An Account of Books One and Two of Homer’s Iliad. [Limited signed edition