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[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.....
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.....
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.....
The Armies Of The Streets. The New York City Draft Riots of 1863.
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...
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...
Race Riot.
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.....
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...
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...
[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...
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.....
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...
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.....
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.....
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.....
Shorty and the Count: or the Two Great Unmashed. Commences this week in the Boss Boys’ Paper of the World, the Boys of New York. [illustrated, hand-colored broadside]
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.....
Futurama.
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.....
Herbert Aptheker ... Speaking On… Styron’s “Confessions of Nat Turner” Myth or Reality? And Black Militancy in U.S. History [broadside].
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...
Ishmael Reed’s “Black Power in the Ghetto: two flags, a stepladder, and a megaphone” [within The East Village Other].
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......
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...
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.....
![[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...
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...
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.....
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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.....
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.....