[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
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
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
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
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 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 is a novelized account of the murder of German immigrant John Henry Schulte. It was written by Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884), noted... Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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