Italian-American Achille Onofri, was an acrobat and contortionist who had met trapeze artist Millie Cook in Havana, married her, and then moved to Philadelphia with..... Read More about 19th Century American Prison Art, possibly of African-American Slaves or Sharecroppers, by an...
Angelina W. Grimké (1880–1958) was an African-American female poet and reclusive celibate lesbian who was born into the noted biracial Grimké family, with its strong..... Read More about Rachel. A Play in Three Acts
Extraordinary, complex American millenarian spiritual folk art drawing embodying the Adventist religious beliefs of William Miller (1782–1849) and his followers and illustrating the claim of..... Read More about I wish you would tell me Sir what you do mean By drawing this figure that looks like a chain...
An unusual promotional piece for recent emigrants to America advertising an agricultural mecca. The town of Britania was to be located in a large tract..... Read More about The British Settlement in Pennsylvania
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Map of of the town of Chautauqua, New York, situated on Chautauqua Lake in western New York State. The town was the location of the..... Read More about Chautauqua. [map, pre-1896
From the Dedication, in part: “To My Wife, Alyse. This is the book you help me to do,—the one that the white publishers would not..... Read More about Harriet Tubman
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1920 Laboratory note by Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph, concerning moulds for his company’s proprietary “Edison Disc Phonograph” records. Here in his own hand..... Read More about Important Thomas Alva Edison Manuscript Laboratory Note
After both women painters graduated from Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, Zulma Steele and Edna M. Walker removed in 1903 to Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead’s Bydcliffe Colony in..... Read More about Eighteen Stencils with Two Signed Drawings attributed to Edna M. Walker, Byrdcliffe Colony Artisan
These letters —well over five-hundred in all— document the courtship and early marriage of Ellen Fritz Sahlin (1893?–after 1987) and Richard Hartshorne (1888–1975) during trying..... Read More about Archive of Judge Richard Hartshorne and his wife, Ellen Fritz (nee Sahlin) Hartshorne
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The slow march to the Stamp Act of 1765. Two-part letter from Rhode Island colonial agent Joseph Sherwood (c1708–1773) in London to Rhode Island Governor..... Read More about 1764 LS from Joseph Sherwood to Governor of Rhode Island Plantation Colony Stephen Hopkins
C.1892 French chromolithographic poster for Le Pays de l’Or [The Golden or Promised Land], a comic operetta and spectacle set in America including the Western..... Read More about Le Pays de L’Or. Pièce à Grand Spectacle en 3 actes et 14 tableaux
Archive of illustrated African-language grammar textbooks and African-language missionary religious periodicals, photographs, and related ephemera documenting an evangelical and linguistic outreach to the Senufo people..... Read More about 1960s–1970s Archive of Missionary Linguistic activities in Côte d’Ivoire, i.e., The Ivory Coast
Bookbinding salesman’s memorandum book kept by Oscar Schnabel, Manager and later President of the National Library Bindery Co. of Indianapolis, a conglomerate with six binderies..... Read More about 1925–1931 Bookbinding Sales Manager’s Memorandum Book for the National Library Bindery Co....
Separate atlas volume to accompany Zebulon M. Pike’s Account of the Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi… which documented the first government exploration of..... Read More about An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi, and through the Western Parts of...
“Stand by the Law!” One of four rare broadsides issued in 1863. This broadside is a dramatic plea for Democratic laboring men to support the..... Read More about To the Laboring Men of New York
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Colorful American advertising display banner announcing a public demonstration of E. L. Snyder’s oil watercolors and stencils. Edith L. Snyder of Johnstown, Pennsylvania held the..... Read More about Women Entrepreneurs, Edith L. Snyder:] Demonstration Here. April. 13–14. With E. L. Snyder’s...
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Original typescript for an adaptation of the important 1928 expressionist play Machinal by American journalist and playwright Sophie Treadwell (1885?–1970). The play dramatizes the life..... Read More about Machinal. [illustrated play typescript
C. 1920s Second Polish Republic photograph album prepared by the Workers’ Society of Friends of Children in Warsaw. It is presented to the Workers’ Society..... Read More about Pierwszemu Oddziatowi Robotniczego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Dzieci w dalekiej Ameryce w mieście...
Rare broadside advertising this African-American albino quartet, shown performing in a minstrel array, playing the bones, the fiddle, the banjo and the tambourine. The quartet..... Read More about The Four Snow-White Albino Boys. Born of Negro Parents! As they appear in their unrivaled musical...
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Clyde “Slim” Williams, “International Trail Blazer” made his fame hitching his team of sled dogs to a wheeled chariot and then traveling from Alaska to..... Read More about Alaska Our Last Frontier by “Slim” Williams [cover title
