![[1939–1940 New York World’s Fair Flag]. 1939–1940 New York World's Fair.](/pictures/thumb/3724983_1.jpg?v=1534362296)
[1939–1940 New York World’s Fair Flag].
An early prototype? Large flag —almost four feet by six feet in dimensions— from the 1939–1940 New York Wold’s Fair, displaying the fair’s iconic modernist..... Read More
New York City
The Bradys and the Broker’s Double; or, Trapping a Wall Street Trickster.
Dime novel for boys set amidst the hustling world of Wall Street investors, confidence “tricksters,” and New York City detectives. Does the stock broker have..... Read More
Photographic Souvenir Programme of the Actors’ Fund Benefit at the Broadway Theatre. January 19th, 1892.
Illustrated programme at the New York City Broadway Theatre 1892, an early artifact of the still-extant Actors’ Fund Benefit. The evening’s performance is thoroughly detailed..... Read More
![J. Agate, Formerly of Parsells & Agate, Gentlemen’s Outfitting Establishment and Manufactory… [opening lines of broadside]. Joseph Agate.](/pictures/thumb/146324_1.jpg?v=1534362285)
J. Agate, Formerly of Parsells & Agate, Gentlemen’s Outfitting Establishment and Manufactory… [opening lines of broadside].
Just before April 12, 1884, Joseph Agate, a slightly built elderly man, bought an eighteen dollar Smith and Wesson revolver. Using an assumed name, Agate... Read More
![Bank-Robbers and the Detectives [Autographed by Robert A. Pinkerton]. Allan Pinkerton, 1819–1884, 1848–1907, 1832–1900, Robert Allan Pinkerton, Francis “Frank” Horatio Stott.](/images/noimage-req.png)
Bank-Robbers and the Detectives [Autographed by Robert A. Pinkerton].
Bank-Robbers and the Detectives tells the true story of the robbery of the First National Bank in Somerset, Michigan. It was written by Allan Pinkerton... Read More
Bucholz and the Detectives [Autographed by Robert A. Pinkerton].
Bucholz and the Detectives is a novelized account of the murder of German immigrant John Henry Schulte. It was written by Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884), noted... Read More
![[Needlework Stamping Patterns plus Circular issued by August Bernard of New York City, successor to Leon Cendrier, Designer, Manufacturer & Importer of Perforated French Stamping Patterns]. August Bernard, Leon Cendrier, Mrs. T. G. Farnham.](/pictures/thumb/3727676_1.jpg?v=1536790445)
[Needlework Stamping Patterns plus Circular issued by August Bernard of New York City, successor to Leon Cendrier, Designer, Manufacturer & Importer of Perforated French Stamping Patterns].
Late Victorian portfolio of 83 French-styled stamping patterns or stencils used to facilitate the decoration of textiles with braiding, appliqué, and embroidery. The patterns were... Read More
1850 Autograph Letter Signed by Benjamin Douglass Silliman, New York Attorney and Politician.
Letter from New York City attorney and politician Benjamin Douglass Silliman (1805–1901) to Nathaniel Goodwin, Esq. Silliman thanks Goodwin, a fellow lawyer, for his suggestions... Read More
College Shopper and Smacker. Spring–1926.
Curious, rare, unrecorded. A cook book/shopping directory hybrid aimed at college women in the Boston–New York corridor. The cooking recipes, mostly for candies and desserts..... Read More
Twelve Brooklyn, New York Comic or Ethnically-Themed Trade Cards, 1880s.
Humorous group of 12 illustrated comic trade cards advertising the 1880 Fall Styles of Brooklyn, New York boot and shoe merchant, Joseph J. Byers. The... Read More
![Lottie, the Poor Sales-Lady; or, Death before Dishonor. A Novel Founded Upon the Great Play of the Same Name. [within:] Play Book Series. Charles E. Blaney, 1866–1944.](/pictures/thumb/3728226_1.jpg?v=1545247772)
Lottie, the Poor Sales-Lady; or, Death before Dishonor. A Novel Founded Upon the Great Play of the Same Name. [within:] Play Book Series.
Women’s pulp fiction novel based on Charles E. Blaney’s play Lottie, the Poor Sales-Lady; or, Death before Dishonor. The melodrama concerns a young single woman..... Read More
[C. 1869, Two Student Medical Notebooks kept by E. B. Murtha at New York’s College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia) recording Medical Lectures by Professors Theodore Gaillard Thomas and Alonzo Clark].
In the last 13 years of his life, Dr. Eugene B. Murtha (1845–1886) was a sanitation inspector for the Health Department of the City of... Read More
Original 1897 Tammany Tiger Political Cartoon by F.K. Houston.
Original editorial cartoon drawing depicting the Tammany Tiger of New York City’s Democratic Party political machine. The political cartoon is signed at the lower left..... Read More
Manners for the Metropolis. An Entrance Key to the Fantastic Life of The 400.
Etiquette book for social arrivistes about to join the fashionable New York Society of “The 400”—the best of the best families. The book was written..... Read More
![A New Map of the City of New York Comprising all the late Improvements, Compiled and Corrected from Authentic Documents. Designed to Accompany the Description of New York… [cartouche title]. James Hardie.](/pictures/thumb/145974_1.jpg?v=1534362282)
A New Map of the City of New York Comprising all the late Improvements, Compiled and Corrected from Authentic Documents. Designed to Accompany the Description of New York… [cartouche title].
Illustrated and engraved, a scarce New York City map issued to accompany The Description of New York by James Hardie, published in 1827. Because this... Read More
The Cotillion or One Good Bull is Half the Herd.
Novel of an upwardly mobile black woman who wants her daughter to move up into New York’s café society. Inscribed by the author: “For the..... Read More
![[Women Sculptors & Race] Malvina Hoffman. N. A. Malvina Hoffman, 1885–1966.](/pictures/thumb/3726735_1.jpg?v=1540246014)
[Women Sculptors & Race] Malvina Hoffman.
Invitation to the January 30, 1934 sculpture exhibition “The Races of Man” by Malvina Hoffman held at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York... Read More
In Memoriam, Martin Deschere, July 21, 1902 [cover title of a manuscript memorial album for a New York Homeopathic Physician].
Memorial or mourning album commemorating the life and death of German-American homeopathic physician Martin Deschere (1848–1902) of New York City. The album includes tributes and... Read More
Half a Man. The Status of the Negro in New York.
Civil rights reformer, Mary White Ovington, caucasian, was a founder of the N.A.A.C.P. “Ovington began in 1904 a study of black Manhattan. Focusing particularly on..... Read More
![Harrison & Morton Club of the Bar of New York. [cover title]. Members of the Bar of the City of New York, Benjamin Harrison, Levi P. Morton.](/pictures/thumb/3726475_1.jpg?v=1536186548)
Harrison & Morton Club of the Bar of New York. [cover title]
Manuscript membership book of The Harrison and Morton Club of the Bar of New York. The book includes the handwritten club “Constitution” and the membership..... Read More
Dining for Moderns with Menus and Recipes—The Why and When of Wining.
Recipes and menu suggestions from the Woman’s Exchange Restaurant, founded in New York City in 1919. The restaurant was an outgrowth of the Woman’s Exchange..... Read More
First Annual Gymkhana of the Veterans and Actives of the Ninth Company Seventh Regiment, N.G.N.Y. Saturday, September 14th 1907.
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
The Avenue of the Allies and Victory [Zelia Hoffman; her copy].
World War I poems by English poet Alfred Noyes, finely printed and bound, published by the Book Committee of the Art War Relief in New... Read More
![Down These Mean Streets. A Stunning Autobiography of Corruption and Innocence. [Signed Copy]. Piri Thomas.](/pictures/thumb/3727385_1.jpg?v=1538433154)
Down These Mean Streets. A Stunning Autobiography of Corruption and Innocence. [Signed Copy]
Signed by the author, his first book. This copy owned by a Freedom Summer volunteer and Civil Rights protestor. Story of a young Puerto Rican... Read More