SOLDIERS’ ISSUE OF “THE CRISIS”

This “Soldiers Number” of The Crisis, published just a few months before the end of first world war, contains the first publication of Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.’s “A Sonnet to Negro Soliders.” Printed above DuBois’s editorial is a letter addressed to him by Secretary of War Newton T. Baker commending.....

AFRICAN-AMERICAN TROOPS
FROM TENNESSEE COMMANDED BY OHIOANS

A rare regimental history of the exploits of an African-American Civil War unit, composed largely of freedmen from Tennessee and commanded by officers mainly from Ohio. Initially, the name of the regiment was the First Tennessee Infantry (African Descent), but was changed to the 59th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry.....

POSTER FOR AN OHIO CONVENTION
THAT LED TO THE FORMATION OF THE COALITION
OF BLACK TRADE UNIONISTS IN 1973

An unrecorded poster promoting a convention held by African American workers in Cincinnati, Ohio that led to the establishment of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists. The motto of this poster—“take every struggle at the point of production to the community, take every struggle in the community to the point.....

NAVAL DRY DOCK PROPOSAL
WITH A LARGE FOLDING LITHOGRAPH

A scarce proposal for a new dry dock system, illustrated with a large and impressive lithograph, based on a drawing by Paul Hodge and entitled Proposed Plan of a Sectional Floating Dry Dock and Permanent Stone Basin, Connected With Bed and Sliding Way. The lithograph depicts a three-masted ship in.....

“FAST EAGLE” OF SOUTH DAKOTA,
A WILD WEST TOURING COLLECTOR
OF NATIVE AMERICAN ART AND ARTIFACTS

A rare image of collector and lecturer G. G. Inman who toured the U.S. exhibiting his collection of Native American art and artifacts. Born in Illinois, G. G. Inman (1865–?) moved with his father to Indian Territory south of Fort Dodge, Kansas in 1880, and appears to have lived most.....

DECOSTA’S RAMBLES IN MOUNT DESERT, WITH FRONTISPIECE PHOTO

First edition of DeCosta’s second book on Mount Desert Island, illustrated with an original frontispiece photograph of Eagle Cliff and Eagle Lake. Includes fifteen chapters with such titles as “Bird’s-Eye Views,” “Mount Desert,” “Somes’ Sound,” “Among the Mountains,” “Beach Rambles,” “Frenchman’s Bay,” etc. Copies of this book have been noted.....

CAPTIVATING VIEWS OF 18TH CENTURY VIENNA

An unusually handsome, wide-margined copy of this marvelous collection of views of early eighteenth-century Vienna. The series begins with a beautifully designed allegorical plate consisting of a panoramic view of the city in the form of a relief panel on a monument surmounted by an eagle, with two figures.....

A HANDSOME CHART OF PENOBSCOT BAY, MAINE, FROM THE ATLANTIC NEPTUNE

A rare chart depicting the Penobscot Bay region of Maine, from the most celebrated maritime atlas of the eighteenth century, The Atlantic Neptune. CONDITION: Good, trimmed close at top and bottom, with loss of a portion of neat line at top and all of neat line at bottom, lower portions.....

RARE UNCUT SHEET OF TURNPIKE TICKETS
ENGRAVED BY AMOS DOOLITTLE

A rare uncut sheet of four different passes for the Hartford & New Haven Turnpike in Connecticut, engraved by Amos Doolittle and illustrated with charming vignettes of various forms of transportation. During the 1790s many banks were formed throughout Connecticut and the nation. Sensing an opportunity in this trend, Doolittle.....

W.E.B. DU BOIS SPEAKS IN LONDON

An unrecorded notice advertising a speech delivered by W.E.B. Du Bois at the City Liberal Club (later National Liberal Club) in London in advance of the first Universal Races Congress of 1911. The Congress met the following month at the University of London and featured many prominent humanists from numerous.....

SPIRIT LAKE MASSACRE RELIEF EXPEDITION

A rare discharge certificate relating to the aftermath of the Spirit Lake Massacre which saw a frontier volunteer party undertake a treacherous winter expedition to pursue the hostile Sioux, guard against further attacks upon settlers, bury the dead, and attempt to recover four female hostages seized by the Indians...

A SATIRE ON THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW

A scarce and vivid lithograph illustrating the tensions surrounding the passage of the fugitive slave law. The Library of Congress provides an excellent description of this evocative print: “A satire on the antagonism between Northern abolitionists on the one hand, and Secretary of State Daniel Webster and other supporters of.....

A “POET-PROSPECTOR” ANNOUNCES
“A NEW MONTE CRISTO”

A promotional broadside centering on “poet-prospector” Clarence E. Eddy’s evocative narrative of his discovery of a new mine in central Idaho, which he now announces to the public. Featured at the top is “one of the few pictures thus far taken at the new Monte Cristo mine” in Custer County.....