Unusually early, nineteenth-century manuscript cattle earmark record from Ohio. The manuscript describes and illustrates 40 earmarks, notches or slits cut into the ears of farm... Read More about A Book of Records of the Ear Marks and Brands of Cattle &c. Belonging to the Inhabitants of...
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1870 broadside or handbill issued by the Ohio Colonization Society promoting colonization of African-Americans in Liberia. Opening lines, thus: “The most remarkable revival of religion... Read More about The Macedonian Call. Haste to the Rescue! [Liberia, Africa Colonization Schemes
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1870s broadside issued by the Ohio Colonization Society promoting colonization of African Americans in Liberia. The society was formed in 1827 to encourage black Ohioans... Read More about A Two Thousand Fold Agency. [Liberia, Africa Colonization Schemes
1870 broadsheet issued by the Ohio Colonization Society defending the colonization of African-Americans in Liberia and writing passionately of those “...having been torn from their... Read More about Ohio Colonization Society. Letter from the Secretary of the Ohio Colonization Society. [Liberia,...
Autograph Letter by Major Ebenezer Baldwin Andrews (1821–1880) of the 36th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Andrews discusses the defeat of Confederate forces under General Henry... Read More about 1862 Civil War Letter by Major Ebenezer Baldwin Andrews, 36th Ohio Infantry, with Battle Content...
Native of Toledo, Ohio, F.J. Scott was the son of wealthy Jesup W. Scott who donated funds to establish in Toledo, Ohio the Toledo Manual..... Read More about The Future Palaces of America
Brief letter from George Lyman of Wadsworth, Ohio seeking summer employment as a subscription agent for a family newspaper: If you think proper to appoint... Read More about 1850 Autograph Letter Signed by George Lyman of Wadsworth, Ohio, seeking to be Newspaper...
[i.e., House of Representatives, 38th Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 15.]. CWB I, p10: “McClellan’s official report, containing much information on the initial organization..... Read More about Letter of the Secretary of War, Transmitting Report on the Organizations of the Army of the...
Compilation of trade catalogs, price lists, and brochures from 1921 to 1925 for commercial lighting hardware made by the Ivanhoe-Regent Works of General Electric Company... Read More about Ivanhoe Catalogs of Metal Reflectors and Illuminating Glassware for Industrial, Commercial and...
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The Wild West has come to Dayton, Ohio! Trick riding, bull dogging, death dragging, buffalos, and trained horses. Professor Jesse Beery and his Beery Exhibitions... Read More about Twelve Beery Western Show Exhibition Real Photo Post Cards
Before there were mass-market movies about competing cheerleader squadrons in California comprised primarily of young screaming women, there were the “Cheer Boys.” (You can look..... Read More about College Yell March Two-Step. Dedicated to all Colleges
Colonel, justice of the peace, and pioneer; publication of Barker’s manuscript. With extensive footnotes. Indexed. Marietta, Ohio: Marietta College, 1958. 96pp. First edition, thus. Dark..... Read More about Joseph Barker, Recollections of the First Settlement of Ohio. [Inscribed and Signed by the Editor
Partly printed certificate conveying the recipe and the right to manufacture “Sun-Light Oil,” a non-explosive kerosene substitute for lamp fuel. Or so was the claim..... Read More about Family Right for the Sun-Light Oil
C.1890s Cattle and other livestock fence trade catalog issued by Neuhauser Bros., Lancaster County, Pennsylvania farm machinery and hardware merchants. The Neuhausers entered fence business..... Read More about Annual Catalogue of Neuhauser Bros. Jobbers of The Jones Locked Wire Fence, Stock Proof Lock....
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... Read More about Note Book. Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio. Winter Session 1853 & 4. [manuscript...
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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
Two affecting letters touching on slavery, separation between men of common English ancestry, and loss and suffering. Both letters addressed to Ohio physician, Dr. Robert... Read More about 1851 and 1861 St. Helena Island Autograph Letters Signed to Dr. Robert Stephenson, Summerfield, Ohio
The private United States Secret Service Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio was the publisher of the American Criminal Gazetteer. The circular, here offered, outlines the Rules... Read More about United States Secret Service Company. Three 1877 Ephemeral Items for Membership and Rules and...
Over fifty pages, a manuscript on musical composition and performance delivered as an address before an 1844 convention of church choirs held in Summit County... Read More about “An Address on Music. Delivered before a convention of the church choirs of Summit Co. Ohio,...
