![Invisible Empire. The Story Of The Ku Klux Klan, 1866-1871. [Inscribed and Signed by Author]....](/images/noimage-req.png)
Invisible Empire. The Story Of The Ku Klux Klan, 1866-1871. [Inscribed and Signed by Author]
A history of the Ku Klux Klan presented in narrative form by Tennessee author, Stanley F. Horn. Starting in 1866, Horn describes its birth in...
Americana
Our catch-all category for all things about how we came to become Americans, what our fore-fathers did when they got here, and the lives lived by future generations of Americans.
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Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings. [Signed Limited Edition]
Compilation of letters and speeches sent or delivered by Abraham Lincoln during his political life beginning with an 1832 political announcement to the citizens of...
Our Martyred President…Memorial Life of William McKinley… [Salesman’s Sample Book].
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.....
The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire [and] San Francisco’s Great Disaster [and] San Francisco’s Horror of Earthquake and Fire [Salesman’s Sample Books].
Appealing assembly of three salesman’s sample, dummy, or canvassing books all focusing on San Francisco’s disastrous 1906 earthquake and fire. The three titles—The San Francisco.....
The Exiles Of Florida; or, the Crimes committed by Our Government against the Maroons, who fled from South Carolina and other Slave States, seeking Protection under Spanish Laws.
Field: ““This treatise, written by the celebrated advocate of the abolition of slavery, is a glowing arraignment of the government of the United States for.....
Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long.
[Title continues:] From the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other Gentlemen of the Expedition Party Compiled by Edwin James, Botanist and Geologist...
Hamilton’s Itinerarium. Being a Narrative of a Journey from Annapolis, Maryland, Through Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts & New Hampshire, from May to September, 1744. [S. Weir Mitchell’s Copy]
A handsome edition of Hamilton’s 1744 journey narrative, and with scenes from his travels, illustrated in facsimile with leaves from his journal. DAB: “His report.....
Delaware’s Forgotten River. The Story of the Christina.
“In his newest book, Delaware’s Forgotten River, C. A. Weslager lauds the little streams of America, which he claims exerted a greater influence than better.....
![The English on the Delaware 1610–1682. [Signed by the Author]. C A. Weslager.](/pictures/thumb/3727134_1.jpg?v=1534362477)
The English on the Delaware 1610–1682. [Signed by the Author]
“This volume brings into full perspective the sequence of historic events in the Delaware Valley, and shows how King James’s buffer zone had far-reaching influence.....
![The Nanticoke Indians Past and Present. [Signed by the Author]. C A. Weslager.](/pictures/thumb/3727131_1.jpg?v=1534362476)
The Nanticoke Indians Past and Present. [Signed by the Author]
The history of the Nanticoke Indians from the 19th century to modern times with scholarly insight into their interactions with non-indigenous populations throughout the centuries...
From Horsecars to Steamliners. An Illustrated History of the St. Louis Car Company.
From the publisher: “For nine decades a steady stream of vehicles flowed out the doors of a small factory on the north edge of St.....
The Penitentiary Movement in Delaware 1776 to 1829.
The beginnings of Delaware penology; the establishment of penal institutions, agitation for prison reform, the evolution of jails, methods of punishment and more. A granular...
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Aloha Hawaii. [Hawaii Postal Envelope with Panoramic and Other Views from Photographs]
A tourist item, functioning as both a means to communicate, and mail a brief message from Hawaii (in this case in 1909), and as a....
The Oregon Trail Memorial Association, Inc.
OCLC records a fair amount of material from this historical preservationist society, but this modest item appears unlisted. The text, in small type, lists the...
![Gen. U.S. Grant and Family at Mt. McGregor, [Saratoga Springs] N.Y. June 19, 1885 [Cabinet...](/pictures/thumb/3726739_1.jpg?v=1534362453)
Gen. U.S. Grant and Family at Mt. McGregor, [Saratoga Springs] N.Y. June 19, 1885 [Cabinet Photograph].
Taken less then a month before Grant’s death, this cabinet card shows former president Ulysses S. Grant, seated on porch at center. he is surrounded.....
Great Western Route. 1859. Boston & Worcester & Western Rail Road Line.
The Boston & Worcester Rail Road Line was the first passenger train in New England, offering full service in 1835. Here, in 1859, on this...
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[Abraham Lincoln] “A Crime Without a Name.” April 14, 1865.
Undoubtedly composed and printed within days of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, this sorrowful tribute takes its name from the April 15, 1865 newspaper headline...
[John Sartain:] Description of West’s Great Picture, Christ Rejected, Now on Exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts…
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.....
Burning of the Steamship “Golden Gate” July 27, 1862. On her Voyage from San Francisco having on board 1,400,000 in treasure, 242 Passengers and a Crew of 95 persons of whom only about 100 are known to have been saved.
On July 27, 1862, during the American Civil War and enroute to Panama, passengers slumbered aboard the Pacific Pacific mail steamship S.S. “Golden Gate” when.....
Loss of the U.S.M. Steam Ship Arctic, Off Cape Race Wednesday September 27, 1854…
A re-imagination of an 1854 maritime disaster by lithographer N. Currier of New York: The paddle steamer SS Arctic, owned by the Collins Line of...
![[C.1880s Albumen Photograph of Cadets at Cayuga Lake Military Academy, Aurora, New York]. Cayuga...](/pictures/thumb/3726652_1.jpg?v=1534362434)
[C.1880s Albumen Photograph of Cadets at Cayuga Lake Military Academy, Aurora, New York].
Photograph of a group of military cadets in uniform at Cayuga Lake Military Academy in Aurora, New York. A drum head or shield in the...
[Photograph of Native American and Osage Chief Bacon Rind, i.e, Wah-she-hah or “Star-That-Travels”.]
Snapshot photograph of Native American Bacon Rind (c.1860–1932), Osage tribal leader and keeper of traditional customs and costume. The photo depicts Bacon Rind in native.....
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[Three Real Photo Postcards of Lewistown, Pennsylvania, ca. 1910s.]
Three images, all lettered in the negative: An image of a civic celebration in downtown Lewistown, Pennsylvania. A large Welcome banner can be seen. Lettered.....
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[Americans at Guantanamo:] The Radio Restaurant Rodrigo Rey Doce Propietor [sic] ... Welcome V.S. [sic] Navy ... Good Home Cooking…
An unusual imprint, and an unusual broadside, which serves as both menu and advertisement for Rodrigo Rey Doce’s restaurant, named “The Radio” and offering “Good.....
![[Occupations and Trades:] Constitution and By-Laws of Philanthropic Lodge, No. 15, Independent...](/pictures/thumb/3726619_1.jpg?v=1548263354)
[Occupations and Trades:] Constitution and By-Laws of Philanthropic Lodge, No. 15, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Pennsylvania.
Ephemeral and unrecorded mid-19th century mark publication of the By-Laws and Constitution of a benevolent Pennsylvania fraternal organization. A most interesting section within is between.....