A lively and diverse album documenting Jewish-American life in New York before and in the early years of World War II. This album richly captures more than a decade of life for the “Kaplan Klan,” a Brooklyn-based Jewish family, from the 1920s into the early ‘40s. The captions are.....
A scarce albertype view book for the “Queen City of the Southwest,” featuring Denison’s banks, churches, schools, train-yards and bridges, exposition building, internal and external views of businesses, residences, and cotton mills. The final plate reproduces bird’s eye views published in 1886 and 1873. Located in Northeastern Grayson County, adjacent.....
This appealing and apparently unrecorded broadside advertises hiking excursions up Mt. Tamalpais, some 22 miles north of San Francisco in Marin County, California. “Personally conducted” by one Dawson Mayer, these excursions accommodated up to 60 people and cost $2.50, including a luncheon at the Tavern of Tamalpais. Offered between May.....
A scarce prospectus for new homes in Florida, with eight house elevations and eight “ground” or floor plans. All cottages are described as lathed and plastered, include verandas, and range in price from $570 to $1000, “Costs all Complete.” Prospective buyers are advised: “Don’t live another winter in this cold.....
A captivating and very rare satire of the presidential campaign of 1844, employing the popular metaphor of “Up Salt River” to denote political peril or defeat. Whig nominee Henry Clay and his running mate Theodore Frelinghuysen, in their boat Tariff, lead the other candidates in the race up Salt River.....
An account of the infamous Northampton heist; the robbers' treatment of their captives; how they escaped; the losses endured by the bank, etc., complete with a floor plan of the house of the cashier Whittelsey, who was held captive. Dubbed the "greatest burglary on record," on the morning of.....
Two daybooks recording transactions and accounts kept by an unidentified Hartford piano company that sold Steinway & Sons pianos and offered numerous piano services. The company serviced a wide range of clients in the Hartford area and vicinity—including churches, a Women’s Christian Association, wealthy individuals, banks, a hospital for the.....
An appeal to the public for funds to establish a reform school for African-American boys in Maryland in the wake of emancipation, conceived as an alternative to the deplorable and corrupting circumstances of prison, with a view to creating a better educated and more productive labor force. As observed.....
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.....
A scarce volume of World War II anti-Japanese propaganda with a dramatic cover illustration depicting a Japanese soldier poised to butt stroke a fallen Caucasian lady, while another soldier looks on. Text on the inside of the front cover suggests that the author of this work was a Danish-American journalist.....
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.....
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A delightful Depression-era board game in the form of a treasure hunt map promoting the Little Orphan Annie radio show and the flavored milk supplement Ovaltine. This fantasy map depicts nine islands, various lands and rocks, vessels, hazards, and a multi-colored course snaking across the map. The players (between.....
A handsome chromolithograph issued by the Taunton Locomotive Manufacturing Company of Taunton, Mass. in the heyday of locomotive builders’ advertising prints. The engine featured here, the New England, is shown with its tender on railroad tracks in what appears to be an imaginary landscape combining a valley in the.....
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.....