A scarce account in verse of the sinking of the Titanic, composed by a woman and published seven months after the disaster. While the Titanic was officially a ship in the British White Star Line, the company was a subsidiary of the American-owned International Mercantile Marine Co., controlled by titan.....
A brilliantly colored and richly detailed case map of Ulster County, New York by John Homer French, the compilation of which was part of the foreground to the publication of his landmark map, The State of New York from New and Original Surveys, which appeared a year later. The map.....
A pamphlet comprising a series of articles on “the Negro and War” that C. L. R. James originally published in the Socialist Appeal (a newspaper published by American Trotskyists from 1935 to 1941). These writings were informed by James’s 1939 conversations with Leon Trotsky in Mexico. C. L. R. James.....
A group of three circulars (and original envelope) issued by a patent medicine company that manufactured a pain killer advertised as a “no quack nostrum,” these examples sent to a minister in Maine. Based in Pittsburgh, Robert Monroe Kennedy invented and patented as early as 1869 the product advertised here.....
A letter detailing preparations for the upcoming Kansas City Sanitary Fair—auxiliary to the grand Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair held in St. Louis—as well as the author’s recent dental treatments. The author of this letter opens by detailing the severe toothache that has incapacitated her for the past month:For the last.....