![3734074] Blank check from Alfred A. Duckett, poet, journalist and speechwriter for Dr. Martin...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734074.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742851309)
Blank check from Alfred A. Duckett, the poet, journalist and speechwriter who helped craft Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, and..... Read More about Blank check from Alfred A. Duckett, poet, journalist and speechwriter for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
![3734461] Washington Theological Repertory. Conducted by clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734461.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1736269119)
A rare collection of ten original issues of the Washington Theological Repertory (1819–1820), a journal featuring articles on missionary work, African colonization, and other significant..... Read More about Washington Theological Repertory. Conducted by clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church
![3733450] Morrison’s Stranger’s Guide for Washington City, Illustrated with Wood and Steel...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733450.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1751675602)
This Reconstruction Era edition of Morrison’s Stranger’s Guide for Washington City (1868) is quite scarce to commerce. A handsome copy, the large map of the..... Read More about Morrison’s Stranger’s Guide for Washington City, Illustrated with Wood and Steel Engravings
![3730964] Harpers Ferry West Virginia Military Parade Photograph, c. 1909–1914. Unk](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730964.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1630529161)
Excellent photograph, with rich tonal contrast, of a military parade formation in front of the Hotel Conner in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Soldiers gather under..... Read More about Harpers Ferry West Virginia Military Parade Photograph, c. 1909–1914
![3730331] Speech of Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, on the Subject of Abolition Petitions. Delivered in the...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730331.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1635270926)
Senator and slaveholder Henry Clay of Kentucky discusses slavery in the the District of Columbia, the impediments to the immediate abolition of slavery, and the..... Read More about Speech of Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, on the Subject of Abolition Petitions. Delivered in the Senate...
![3730229] Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. A Lecture delivered in the Methodist Protestant...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730229.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1613666354)
Romantic antebellum homage to Georgetown; its history told in flowery prose by local native and Presbyterian pastor Thomas Bloomer Balch (1793-1878). Georgetown’s sibling rivalry with..... Read More about Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C. A Lecture delivered in the Methodist Protestant Church,...
![3729968] By Latimer & Cleary, Auctioneers. Catalogue Sale of Superb Parlor and Chamber...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729968.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1707431522)
Unrecorded auction catalogue held by Washington D.C. auctioneers Latimer & Cleary for Emmanuel Henri Victurnien, Marquis de Noailles (1830–1909), a French diplomat, historian, and literary..... Read More about By Latimer & Cleary, Auctioneers. Catalogue Sale of Superb Parlor and Chamber Furniture ......
![3729748] Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the District of Columbia, adverse To any legislation...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729748.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1607361681)
Memorial supporting the rights of slaveholders by 220 citizens of Washington, D.C. who “...do not desire the enactment of any law for the extinction of..... Read More about Memorial of a Number of Citizens of the District of Columbia, adverse To any legislation on the...
![3729747] Memorial of The Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729747.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1607361682)
Memorial of Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and Civilization of Africa here joining with the national American Colonization Society to promote..... Read More about Memorial of The Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and Civilization of...
![3729728] Speech of Horace Mann, of Massachusetts in the House of Representatives, Feb 28, 1849,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729728.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1620790152)
“Opposes bill proposing abolition, not of slavery, but of the slave trade, in the District of Columbia; ‘slavery ought not to exist in fact and..... Read More about Speech of Horace Mann, of Massachusetts in the House of Representatives, Feb 28, 1849, on Slavery...
![3728641] The Secret City. A History Of Race Relations In The Nation’s Capital. Constance...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3728641.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1592927639)
A comprehensive study of the history of race and relations in Washington, D.C. “Mrs. Green has here recorded the ups and downs of the relations..... Read More about The Secret City. A History Of Race Relations In The Nation’s Capital
![3726447] 1841 District of Columbia Legal Manuscript re: a Converted Double Barreled Fowling Gun....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3726447.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1653767426)
An odd case, Thomas Turner vs. John Peabody, where the latter man accuses the former of “unlawfully converted for his own use three certain double..... Read More about 1841 District of Columbia Legal Manuscript re: a Converted Double Barreled Fowling Gun
![3725724] Autograph Letter Signed by Walter Wellman, Pioneer American Aviator. Walter Wellman](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3725724.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1530631311)
In this good content letter pioneer aviator Walter Wellman (1858–1934) writes in his position as a news journalist for the American Press Association (Associated Press..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed by Walter Wellman, Pioneer American Aviator
