![[1764 Autograph Document Signed for Surgeon’s Necessaries by Captain Archibald Kennedy, Royal Navy; During the Stamp Act Crisis: Kennedy in charge of protecting the Tax Stamps in New York City]. Archd. Kennedy, Captain Archibald Kennedy.](/pictures/thumb/145381_1.jpg?v=1534362277)
During the 1765 Stamp Act taxation crisis, Captain Archibald Kennedy (bef. 1736–1794), commander of the frigate HMS Coventry, was stationed in New York Harbor; his... Read More
![[1801 Autograph Document Signed by Alexander Lindsay, Earl of Balcarres, Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica, Revolutionary War Officer, and Duelist of Benedict Arnold]. Balcarres, 6th Earl of Balcarres Alexander Lindsay, 1752–1825, Aleyne Hampden Pye.](/images/noimage-req.png)
The Earl of Balcarres and Benedict Arnold Alexander Lindsay (1752–1825) was the 6th Earl of Balcarres, British army officer, veteran of the American Revolutionary War... Read More
Beale’s preliminary report upon his arrival in California after a 48-day journey to explore a suitable route for wagons from Fort Defiance, New Mexico to... Read More
![[C.1880s Albumen Photograph of Cadets at Cayuga Lake Military Academy, Aurora, New York]. Cayuga Lake Military Academy, Walter Douglas Young; 1870–?](/pictures/thumb/3726652_1.jpg?v=1534362434)
Photograph of a group of military cadets in uniform at Cayuga Lake Military Academy in Aurora, New York. A drum head or shield in the... Read More
U.S. Army Chief Engineer Col. Charles Gratiot here writes to Major General Alexander Macomb, Commanding General of the Unite States Army concerning the officer in... Read More
True copy of a U.S. Treasury Auditor’s report concerning Quartermaster Corps expenses in the Department of North Carolina. The report, called a “Statement of Differences,”... Read More
Pair of World War II U. S. Army Air Forces Technical Training Command class books from the Chicago School of Aircraft Instruments Training Detachment. These... Read More
Profusely illustrated with half-tones from original photographs. Both authors were born into American slavery. Daniel Webster Davis (1862–1913), Richmond, Virginia teacher, poet, lecturer, pastor. “In... Read More
Unusual small format sheet music celebrating African-American soldiers fighting in France in the First World War. With lyrics in both English and French, the song... Read More
![[1904 Autograph Letter Signed by Henry E. Tremain, Georgian Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient for Battle of Resaca, Georgia]. Henry E. Tremain.](/pictures/thumb/3726386_1.jpg?v=1534362364)
Henry E. Tremain was awarded a Medal of Honor for heroism at the Battle of Resaca, Georgia on May 15, 1864. Through error, two brigades... Read More
![Public Sale! ... There will be sold in the City of Jackson, Miss. ...May 16, 1874, the following articles of Condemned Quartermaster’s Stores… [opening line of broadside]. Lieutenant 16th Infantry I. O. Shelby.](/pictures/thumb/3726336_1.jpg?v=1534362355)
1874 advertising broadside for a United States Army quartermaster’s sale in Reconstruction-era Mississippi, apparently unrecorded. The sale of camp stores and garrison equipage was held... Read More
First World War home-coming celebration program for the borough of Catasauqua in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The cover depicts a triumphal arch adorned with American flags... Read More
Near fifty (mostly) diplomatic and military calling cards kept by Lt. Col. William R. Livermore and his wife during a diplomatic posting in Stockholm and... Read More
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
![[Japanese Atrocities and U.S. Military Training in Pre-World War II China: Two 1941 ALsS by a U.S. Marine in Shanghai]. Pfc. J. E. Dupont Jr., Mrs. R. H. Chadwick, Rosa Supple Chadwick, William S. Chadwick.](/pictures/thumb/3726418_1.jpg?v=1534362375)
Two letters from a U.S. Marine of the Asiatic Station, Shanghai, China describing Japanese atrocities and U.S. military preparations in China on the eve of... Read More
The Buckshot War was short and sudden. It was 1838, election season, and many seats were being fiercely contested. Factions in the Pennsylvania House of... Read More
Irish-American Robert Patterson (1792–1881) fought in the Mexican-American War and the Civil War. Defeating Stonewall Jackson early in the war, he was later blamed for... Read More
Unrecorded 1896 program for New York’s Seventh Regiment’s annual annual athletic games competition held at the regiment’s Park Avenue armory. The illustrated program comprises a.... Read More
![[18th Century Manuscript Accounts, possibly for Outfitting a Military or Surveying Expedition]. Unk.](/pictures/thumb/3726443_1.jpg?v=1535405588)
A manuscript showing purchases in excess of £2700 that suggest either a military expedition or an impending exploration, perhaps for surveying, of some kind in... Read More
![Business is Booming in Italy, Members of a Negro Mortar Company of the 92nd Division Praise the Lord [lines from captioned press photo]. Wide World Photo; Office of War Information.](/pictures/thumb/3725045_1.jpg?v=1534362299)
Combat press photograph of African-American troops in Italy during World War II. The action photo shows members of a mortar company of the African-American 92nd... Read More
![[1899 Black Baltimore Printer’s Military Discharge from a Philadelphia “Colored” Militia Unit]. Will T. Johnson; c.1868–?](/pictures/thumb/3726413_1.jpg?v=1536618657)
Military discharge document for Private Will T. Johnson of Philadelphia’s “Gray Invincibles,” an African American infantry militia unit of the Pennsylvania National Guard. Baltimore-native Johnson... Read More
