Historical and thematic study of African American newspaper publishing with an emphasis on civil rights and issues of race. Discusses such newspapers as Samuel Cornish’s..... Read More about The Negro Press in the United States
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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
Publisher’s album of color illustrated dust jacket samples issued by Philadelphia publisher, John C. Winston and Company. The c.1947–1954 album likely served as a visual..... Read More about C.1947–1954 Philadelphia Publisher John C. Winston Co. Dust Jacket Album or Salesperson’s Dummy
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Salesman’s sample book or canvassing book showing two bookbinding styles for the Revised and Enlarged Fourth Edition of The Negro in our History by Carter..... Read More about The Negro in Our History. [Salesman’s Sample
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Small group of advertising ephemera for noted African-Americana book collector and author Charles L. Blockson’s book Pennsylvania’s Black History (1975) and a copy of an..... Read More about Collection of Charles L. Blockson Black History Publishing Ephemera
In 1809, The American Prose Miscellany, was published by Johnson, Conrad, and Carey in Philadelphia. In the same year, under the same imprint, The American... Read More about The American Prose Miscellany. Original and Selected
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Advance copy of a controversial novel of British colonial rule in Egypt by the incredibly popular and successful English novelist, Hall Caine (1853–1931). The public... Read More about The White Prophet. [Advance Copy for First American Edition
Salesman’s sample book, dummy, or canvassing book heavily illustrated with 64 halftones for a memorial biography of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley: Our Martyred President…Memorial..... Read More about Our Martyred President…Memorial Life of William McKinley… [Salesman’s Sample Book
Salesman’s sample book or canvassing book with 12 steel engravings for a popular, illustrated Bible reference book, Great Men of God. Biographies of Patriarchs, Prophets..... Read More about Great Men of God. Biographies of Patriarchs, Prophets, Kings and Apostles… [Salesman’s Sample...
Salesman’s sample book, dummy, or canvassing book heavily illustrated with 33 color and numerous other halftones for a livestock and veterinary text aimed at farmers..... Read More about Live Stock, a Complete Compendium for the American Farmer and Stock Owner… [Salesman’s Sample...
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Compilation by a Detroit medical publisher, Dr. C. Henri Leonard, of medical codes of ethics for the American Medical Association, the American Institute of Homœpathy..... Read More about Patent Medicine:] The Codes of Medical Ethics…and Advertiser
In 1865, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts exhibited American expatriate painter Benjamin West’s monumental oil on canvas Christ Rejected (1814).¹ Taking advantage of its..... Read More about John Sartain:] Description of West’s Great Picture, Christ Rejected, Now on Exhibition at the...
A collection of ten handwritten and one typed letter and five autographed postcards from various nobility; all written to Sir Algernon Edward Aspinall, Secretary of... Read More about ALsS and Autographed Postcards to Sir Algernon Edward Aspinall, Secretary of the West India...
Interesting letter on the publication of magazine articles by attorney-turned-journalist and popular writer, John Paul Bocock (1856–1903). A Virginian from a leading family, Bocock earned... Read More about C.1902 ALS by Virginian John Paul Bocock, Attorney, Poet, and Journalist
Autograph letter signed by Alvan S. Southworth, travel writer, journalist, and former secretary of the American Geographical Society, to Philadelphia printers and publishers Sherman &... Read More about 1884 Autograph Letter Signed by Alvan S. Southworth, former Secretary to the American...
Brief letter from George Lyman of Wadsworth, Ohio seeking summer employment as a subscription agent for a family newspaper: If you think proper to appoint... Read More about 1850 Autograph Letter Signed by George Lyman of Wadsworth, Ohio, seeking to be Newspaper...
Raconteur, Orator, Author American soldier and diplomat Horace Porter distinguished himself as a Civil War officer, secretary to General, later U.S. President Grant, and ambassador..... Read More about Three Autograph Letters Signed by Horace Porter, Ulysses S. Grant’s Secretary and Staff...
1812 Autograph letter signed by English publisher and author William Stevenson (c.1750–1821). Writing to Davidson Turner Esq. in Yarmouth, Stevenson discusses allowances or discounts upon... Read More about 1812 Autograph Letter Signed by William Stevenson (c.1750–1821), Publisher and Author
Salesman’s sample book or canvassing book for a popular, illustrated topical history of the United States, Footprints of Four Centuries, The Story of the American..... Read More about Salesman’s Sample Book:] Footprints of Four Centuries, The Story of the American People
Three large format photographs depicting the interior showroom and a trade show booth of New York scientific and technology publisher Spon & Chamberlain. The two... Read More about C.1900s Three Original Photographs of Interior of New York Scientific and Engineering Publisher...
