The Church and Tobacco.
Uncommon title with the goal of stamping out tobacco use by explaining its deleterious effects on health (“poison of nerve cells” being but one) as..... Read More about The Church and Tobacco
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An Appeal to Tax-Payers, In Opposition to the Existing Law for the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors.
Scarce Philadelphia temperance tract railing against the traffickers of alcohol. Mullen connects alcoholism to sufferers of mental illness as well as highlighting an increase of..... Read More about An Appeal to Tax-Payers, In Opposition to the Existing Law for the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors
From Newgate to Dannemora. The Rise of the Penitentiary in New York, 1796-1848.
Important study of prison reformers and prison history within the State of New York. An excellent resource. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1965). First edition. Illustrated..... Read More about From Newgate to Dannemora. The Rise of the Penitentiary in New York, 1796-1848
William Lloyd Garrison: The Abolitionist.
Biography of this famed Massachusetts abolitionist written by Archibald Grimké, civil rights leader, high-level officer in the NAACP, and a noted lawyer. The son of..... Read More about William Lloyd Garrison: The Abolitionist
[Sixteen Letters, 1865 to 1886, Incoming to Captain Daniel Tracy (1815-1888), “The Seaman’s Friend”].
Captain Daniel Tracy (1815-1888) was known as “The Seaman’s Friend” as he devoted his time establishing safe houses for mariners (first in New York City..... Read More about Sixteen Letters, 1865 to 1886, Incoming to Captain Daniel Tracy (1815-1888), “The Seaman’s...
“The Eight Hour Movement,” an Address by Wendell Phillips, Tremont Temple. Dec 21, 1865 [manuscript caption title].
Manuscript copy of a major address on labor and capital by Wendell Phillips, celebrated American abolitionist, orator, and reformer. Phillips’ December 1865 address, “The Eight..... Read More about “The Eight Hour Movement,” an Address by Wendell Phillips, Tremont Temple. Dec 21, 1865...
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The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison [6 volume set complete].
Collected letters of newspaper editor, reformer, and key American abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison from 1822, at age 17, to his death in 1879. “[M]ost historians..... Read More about The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison [6 volume set complete
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[Thoreau & the Transcendentalists:] Concord Free Public Library. Paintings and Statuary. Paintings.
Ephemeral 4-page catalog of paintings, sculptures, etchings, and photographs in the Concord Free Public Library in Concord, Massachusetts. Portraits and busts of Transcendentalists Henry David..... Read More about Thoreau & the Transcendentalists:] Concord Free Public Library. Paintings and Statuary....
William Wells Brown: Author & Reformer.
First edition of this first biography of William Wells Brown, “Kentucky-born slave who became a self-educated writer and advocate of abolition, temperance, and international peace.”..... Read More about William Wells Brown: Author & Reformer
There Was Once a Slave ... The Heroic Story of Frederick Douglass.
Winner of the Julian Messner Award for the “Best Book Combatting Intolerance in America.” An interpretation of the life story of Frederick Douglass “—a man..... Read More about There Was Once a Slave ... The Heroic Story of Frederick Douglass
The Mind of Frederick Douglass.
From the publishers: “Frederick Douglass was unquestionably the foremost Black American in the nineteenth century. The extraordinary life of this former slave turned abolitionist orator..... Read More about The Mind of Frederick Douglass
1917 ALS with Bitter Condemnation of Pennsylvania Notables including Scott Nearing, Radical Economist, Pacifist and Socialist.
Naming names. From a hotel in California, “Harrison” writes to his friend “Bertram” complaining about a crowd of Pennsylvania lawyers and influential men. Mentioned here..... Read More about 1917 ALS with Bitter Condemnation of Pennsylvania Notables including Scott Nearing, Radical...
1849 Autograph Letter Signed by Theodore Dwight seeking recommendations for his Dwight’s American Magazine.
Autograph letter signed by author, abolitionist, and newspaper editor Theodore Dwight (1796–1866) seeking the recommendation of a clergyman for his Dwight’s American Magazine and Family..... Read More about 1849 Autograph Letter Signed by Theodore Dwight seeking recommendations for his Dwight’s...
1831 Autograph Letter Signed by Roberts Vaux, Pennsylvania Abolitionist, Reformer of Education and Prisons, and Jurist.
Letter from Philadelphia reformer Roberts Vaux (1786–1836) touching on two concerns: education and temperance. Vaux writes briefly here “to the President, and Members, of the..... Read More about 1831 Autograph Letter Signed by Roberts Vaux, Pennsylvania Abolitionist, Reformer of Education...
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[Women’s Association for the Poor and the Sick] Siebenter Bericht über die Leistungen des weiblichen Vereins für Armen und Krankenpflege…
This pamphlet on nursing and charity work by German philanthropist and social reformer Amalie Sieveking (1794–1859) reports on the activities of the Weiblichen Vereins für..... Read More about Women’s Association for the Poor and the Sick] Siebenter Bericht über die Leistungen des...
W. C. T. U. Entertainment on Saturday Ev’g, April 9, ‘87 to be Held at Massasoit Hall, Strasburg… [opening lines of broadsheet].
There is an old saying that you’ll catch more flies with teaspoon of honey than with a barrel of vinegar. But, what if you are..... Read More about W. C. T. U. Entertainment on Saturday Ev’g, April 9, ‘87 to be Held at Massasoit Hall,...
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