Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera and so on: Selections from our inventory that we either find interesting, unusual, amusing or significant.
Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera and so on: Selections from our inventory that we either find interesting, unusual, amusing or significant.
An unusual 1864 Civil War map distinguishing territory controlled by the Federal Union from that remaining in possession of the Confederacy. Together, areas tinted purple..... Read More about Map of the United States, Showing the Territory in Possession of the Federal Union, January, 1864
Scarce. Autobiography of Lewis Garnett Jordan (1853–1939) which describes his life of enslavement before the War and just after. Born in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Jordan’s..... Read More about On Two Hemispheres: Bits from the Life Story of Lewis G. Jordan, as Told by Himself
![Labor Strikes against Black Americans] Notice to all employees of Philadelphia Transportation...](/pictures/thumb/3730793_1.jpg?v=1647918301)
Unrecorded World War II military directive issued to employees of the Philadelphia Transportation Company on strike in protest against Black employees taking on non-menial jobs..... Read More about Labor Strikes against Black Americans] Notice to all employees of Philadelphia Transportation...
One of four known copies. A rare 1759 circular encompassing the “unseemly” behaviors of mixing wine, food, and song with religious ceremony in Colonial America..... Read More about A Resolve of the Honorable His Majesty’s Council of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay,...
Octavo edition of the Second Federal Census, a foundational building block in the maintenance and coordination of Federal powers. The American population in 1800 was..... Read More about Return of the Whole Number of Persons within the Several Districts of the United States:...
