![1939–1940 New York World’s Fair Flag]. 1939–1940 New York World's Fair](/pictures/thumb/3724983_1.jpg?v=1534362296)
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 about 1939–1940 New York World’s Fair Flag
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 about The Bradys and the Broker’s Double; or, Trapping a Wall Street Trickster
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 about Photographic Souvenir Programme of the Actors’ Fund Benefit at the Broadway Theatre. January...
From the dust jacket: “In July 1863 New York City experienced widespread rioting unparalleled in the history of the nation. Here for the first time... Read More about The Armies Of The Streets. The New York City Draft Riots of 1863
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 about J. Agate, Formerly of Parsells & Agate, Gentlemen’s Outfitting Establishment and...
Reviews from the jacket: “...an excellent job of not only telling what happened, but even more important, why things happened as they did…Race Riot presents..... Read More about Race Riot
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 about Bank-Robbers 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 about Bucholz and the Detectives [Autographed by Robert A. Pinkerton
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 about Needlework Stamping Patterns plus Circular issued by August Bernard of New York City, successor...
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 about College Shopper and Smacker. Spring–1926
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 about Twelve Brooklyn, New York Comic or Ethnically-Themed Trade Cards, 1880s
Interesting circular or broadside that announces the dissolution of the printing firm of Hosford & Ketcham and boldly announces the establishment of the firm of... Read More about Charles F. Ketcham of the Late Firm of Hosford and Ketchman, Stationer, Printer, Lithographer,...
Rare contemporary political cartoon depicting the dramatic discovery in October 1846 of George Kirk, an escaped slave from Savannah, Georgia. Kirk had been the subject... Read More about Arrest of the Slave George Kirk
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 about Original 1897 Tammany Tiger Political Cartoon by F.K. Houston
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 about Manners for the Metropolis. An Entrance Key to the Fantastic Life of The 400
Unrecorded hand-colored illustrated broadside—large—advertising the humorous short story “Shorty and the Count” first published in 1878 in the 19th century juvenile dime novel series The..... Read More about Shorty and the Count: or the Two Great Unmashed. Commences this week in the Boss Boys’ Paper of...
Guide book to the 1939 New York World’s Fair transportation exhibit Futurama, sponsored by General Motors. Designed by Norman Bel Geddes, the exhibit and ride..... Read More about Futurama
Unrecorded c.1887 large-format, illustrated circus songster published in New York City by Henry J. Wehman, “Publisher of Penny Ballads, Song Sheets, Song Books, German Songs..... Read More about Clown’s Giant Circus Songster. Extra Edition. [opening lines of broadside/propsectus
One year after the 1967 publication of William Styron’s controversial novel of an 1831 slave rebellion, Confessions of Nat Turner, a lecture by the Marxist... Read More about Herbert Aptheker ... Speaking On… Styron’s “Confessions of Nat Turner” Myth or Reality?...
Single issue of the underground New York City newspaper, The East Village Other, featuring the headline article “Black Power in the Ghetto: two flags, a...... Read More about Ishmael Reed’s “Black Power in the Ghetto: two flags, a stepladder, and a megaphone”...
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 about A New Map of the City of New York Comprising all the late Improvements, Compiled and Corrected...
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 about The Cotillion or One Good Bull is Half the Herd
![Women Sculptors & Race] Malvina Hoffman. N. A. Malvina Hoffman, 1885–1966](/pictures/thumb/3726735_1.jpg?v=1540246014)
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 about Women Sculptors & Race] Malvina Hoffman
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 about In Memoriam, Martin Deschere, July 21, 1902 [cover title of a manuscript memorial album for a New...
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 about Half a Man. The Status of the Negro in New York
