A handsomely illustrated painting and art supply catalog including products such as China palettes, Tin boxes, Easels, Bronze powders, Putty knives, Vellum cloth, German drawing papers, Chinese Water Closet Paper, Sketch books, Camel’s Hair Mottlers, Badger Hair Blenders, and Red Sable Lettering Pencils. The numerous brushes offered include French Bristle.....
A land promotion broadside advertising transportation via the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway to the company’s land grant and elsewhere. Promising the “shortest and quickest route” to points in Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, this broadside publishes the “liberal rates and allowance of baggage for Seekers of land.....
An unusual indenture binding a young German immigrant woman to the chief warden of the New Orleans city jail, where she was employed for her “understanding of the household business.” This remarkable indenture specifies the financial arrangement and terms of employment for one Annah David of Anspach, Germany—aged twenty-three and.....
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Two remarkable photos—one of an “Indian Wedding”—documenting the communal bond between Menominee people and local white folks at the St. Joseph of the Lake Church, located on the Menominee Reservation, in northeastern Wisconsin. The St. Joseph of the Lake Church was established by Roman Catholic missionaries who settled in.....
An inscribed photo of Mary McLeod Bethune shown standing outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington D. C. Celebrated African-American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955) was fondly known during her day as “The First Lady of The Struggle.” This image was taken of Bethune.....
The official account of the trial of the Jefferson Borden mutineers, held in the Circuit Court of the United States, District of Massachusetts. In the spring of 1875, the vessel Jefferson Borden—built on the Kennebunk River in Maine—departed from New Orleans and was making way for London under the.....
A delightful Utica milliner’s broadside featuring illustrations of a top hat flanked by a bear and a beaver below smaller illustrations of umbrellas, muffs, and caps. Judging from records in the AAS catalog, Roberts & Sherman were active mainly from 1847 to 1850. CONDITION: Upper corners trimmed with slight loss.....
A rare lithograph honoring John Mitchell—here dubbed “The Miner’s Champion”—who served as the President of the United Mine Workers of America from 1898–1908, with vignettes of coal mining scenes, including depictions of child labor. This print consists of a central portrait of John Mitchell set against a background of.....
A scarce Klondike guidebook published in London at the height of the gold rush. This book was issued by the British Columbia Development Association, Ltd. in response to a deluge of applications for particulars concerning the new gold fields on the Yukon River and how to reach them. Among the.....
A souvenir program for La Fiesta de Los Angeles, a celebration of the history of California, which took place between 10 April and 13 April 1894 in downtown Los Angeles. Includes an account of the grand carnival, with its origins and purpose, as well as an historical sketch of Southern.....
First and only edition of this songster for Lincoln's second campaign, with a portrait on the cover depicting a beardless Lincoln, in spite of the fact that Lincoln had a beard at the time. Included here are eleven campaign songs, among them Shout Aloud For Lincoln, Hurrah! For Lincoln.....
A scarce and appealing map of Lake Hopatcong showing the various developments that sprang up around this vacation destination for New York city-dwellers. Depicting the lake lying along the border between Morris and Sussex Counties, this detailed and multi-colored map indicates along a forty-five mile shoreline hotels, steamboat landings.....
A rare and early map of the city of Pierre, published eight years after it was founded, and one year before it became the capital of the newly formed state of South Dakota. Founded in 1880, during the Great Dakota Boom of 1878-1887, Pierre began as a ferry landing.....
An unrecorded real estate promotion map for the town of Sedalia, Missouri and vicinity, located at the junction of the Missouri Pacific R.R. and the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway, and situated roughly half way between St. Louis and Kansas City. This attractive map depicts Sedalia highlighted in several.....
A rare, early, and large map of the first railroad across Missouri, intended to promote the lands granted by the U. S. government to fund its construction. Likely published while the railroad was under construction, this map depicts the Hannibal & St. Joseph in its entirety, extending across the.....
An apparently unrecorded map of the Solomon, Santa Cruz and New Hebrides Islands, which constituted the “field” of the Melanesian Mission spearheaded by English Bishop John Patteson, who met his end in the region at the hands of native people. This map encompasses three clusters of islands in the.....
Apparently unrecorded Great Depression era sheet music related to the establishment of Social Security. This rousing social activist song includes such lyrics as: “Millions of patriots march along - Tramp, tramp - Swinging along to a vict’ry song - It’s a fight for the right - For Americans never fail.....
The tale of the utterly innocent third daughter of a poor clergyman, sent to London to support herself as a Milliner’s Girl, illustrated with an appealing hand-colored frontispiece. Miss Bilson travels with many misgivings, receiving advice and protection from a fellow coach traveler. In London, dubious characters attracted by the.....
A fine album documenting a visit by company officials or investors to the Murray Mogridge Mine in Maisonville Township, Ontario, Canada, a site consisting of gold-bearing quartz veins. Prior to 1914, the Dane Copper Mining Company drilled a fifty foot shaft on the site, ultimately abandoning operations. From 1917 to.....
An engraved invitation to Lincoln's second inaugural ball, filled out with the name of Mrs. Hugh McCulloch, the wife of Lincoln’s Comptroller of Currency (and later Secretary of the Treasury), accompanied by the original envelope addressed to Hugh McCulloch. Portraits of Lincoln and Andrew Johnson appear above a list.....
A bilingual map of the city of Shanghai, printed in Japanese and English, showing the heart of the city, bissected by the Whangpoo (Huangpu) River. Many wharves, streets and green spaces are identified in English, while many other features are in Japanese only, including the keys on the bottom.....
A promotional brochure for the rejuvenated Palm Beaches, “moulded for posterity and bulwarked against adversity… preparing for a season greater than ever before -- when mass and class alike will visit the area.” The climate, clubs, churches, chain stores, transportation, recreation, price of foodstuffs, etc. are described. “Florida has no.....
An railway brochure and map issued in the midst of the Great Dakota Boom. A folding brochure with 8 panels of promotional text and 5 panels of railroad time tables advertising not only its “Low Rates to Settlers and Land Hunters” but also that it “Runs More Through Trains from.....
A short manuscript paper by an anonymous author on the question "Has temporal Death Promoted the Temporal happiness of mankind since the fall of Adam?" given before the Friendly Debating Society of East Haddam, CT. It seems that the affirmative was the only side to present, and the group voted.....
A group of albums and loose photos compiled by a psychiatric nurse who worked at the second government-run psychiatric hospital in Maryland. Only the second of its kind in Maryland, Springfield Hospital Center was established in 1896 and relieved its overflowing predecessor, the Spring Grove Hospital Center. Its grounds had.....