![Item #5610 111 Days to San Francisco! Merchants’ Express Line of Clipper Ships[.] None But...](/pictures/thumb/5610_1.jpg?v=1631721732)
A scarce clipper ship card card advertising the Talisman of the Cooley packet ship line, illustrated with a vivid image of Columbia printed in red and blue along the left side. Cooley boasts of a 111 day voyage to San Francisco, a guarantee of “prompt dispatch,” and the announcement that.....
An evocative photo album documenting the lives of African Americans during the Vietnam War, recording the camp-life of soldiers (with additional photos taken stateside), as well as their embrace of the Black Power movement and culture. Compiled by a presently unidentified participant in the war, this album includes many candid.....
![Item #5846 Agreement between Jewett & Groves. Jan[uar][y 12 1795](/pictures/thumb/5846_1.jpg?v=1603319463)
A rare eighteenth century Maine shipbuilding-related contract. This memorandum records an agreement made on 12 January 1795 by and between Freeborn Groves and Stephen Jewett (ca. 1727–1803) in Pittston, Maine. Detailing the specifications of the vessel to be built, the agreement reads as follows: The said Stephen Jewett doth.....
A civil rights movement era guide to Black history monuments published on the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1963. Described and pictured in this work are sites and monuments located in fifteen states. Some of the more prominent sites include the Harpers Ferry National Monument in West Virginia, Frederick.....
An early 19th century pyrotechnical manual, comprising ingredients, recipes, and construction details. With a delightful hand-colored frontispiece depicting all manner of fireworks entertaining observers. OCLC records just five holdings of the Derby edition, as well as holdings for two London editions published in 1825 and 1835. CONDITION: Good, frontispiece recently.....
A rare ballad or poem celebrating the American victory over the British at the Battle of Lake Erie (or the Battle of Put-in-Bay) on 10 September 1813 and the heroes of that victory, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and Jesse D. Elliott. The first lines read: “Ye tars of Columbia give.....
A scarce bird’s-eye view of Bennington, Vermont by the prolific view-maker L. R. Burleigh, likely published around the time of the dedication ceremony for the Bennington Battle Monument, the tallest structure in Vermont. Based on Burleigh’s larger view of Bennington published in 1887, this view shows the town situated on.....
![Item #6881 [Births and Baptism] Geburts- und Tauf-Zeugniss](/pictures/thumb/6881_1.jpg?v=1630775179)
A delightful Pennsylvania-German birth and baptism certificate featuring a hand-colored “typotecture” border incorporating elements of the fraktur tradition. This broadside records the birth, on 29 June 1859, of one Allen Albert, the son of one David Bemer and his wife Maria (née Miller). The text is enclosed within an.....
An unrecorded publisher’s broadside promoting a work on the Civil War chronicling the personal experience of the Union soldier, including anecdotes, songs, ballads, and humorous incidents of the war. Advertised here as including over 500 pages and more than 100 illustrations of Union and Confederate officers as well as scenes.....
An informative and attractive album depicting life—theatrical life in particular—at this now defunct women’s college on the Hudson River in the early twentieth century. Originally established as Mrs. Dow’s School in 1903 at Briarcliff Lodge, a premier resort hotel in the Hudson Valley, in the late 1910s the institution.....
A scarce cabinet card photo of Jefferson Shields, a camp slave during the Civil War who later gained fame by claiming to have been Stonewall Jackson’s personal cook, and whose prominent attendance at Civil War reunions helped establish the myth of “Black Confederates.” Jefferson Shields (1829–1918) was born into slavery.....
One of the more impressive American trade catalogs of the nineteenth century. Most of the catalogs published by Mott between 1873 and 1905 are described in Romaine, who states that the company "issued many of the finest pictorial catalogs of ornamental ironwork." The variety of fountains, urns and other iron.....
A rare silk broadside announcing the celebration of the U. S. Centennial aboard the excursion steamer “Plymouth Rock,” in Shanghai, China. The day long program included a “Salute of One Hundred Guns at Sunrise,” a “national Salute at 12 Meridian,” a reading of the Declaration of Independence by O. B......
An attractive timetable for the “Maple Leaf Route” of the Chicago Great Western Railway. Includes schedules, rates, and general information, as well as a large map illustrating the Route through Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and Kansas, with a green maple leaf printed over the area of service. The map shows.....
An impressive brochure and itinerary for Southern Railway System tour of the Battle of Chickamauga battlefield with five routes noted through Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia to Chattanooga. Includes detailed accounts of various aspects of the battle (corresponding to segments of the tour); nine monuments are pictured; also entrances to the.....
A scarce view book of copper-mining boomtowns Clifton and Morenci, with images of smelters, offices, railways, and hillside and roadside residences of the Shannon, Arizona, and Detroit copper companies; also public buildings such as the Morenci Club, Morenci Hotel, South Clifton High School, and Detroit Copper Mining Store. Estimated.....
Published on the occasion of the American Railway Master Mechanics Association’s Third Annual Convention, this beautifully produced souvenir volume contains the various announcements, programs, invitations, menus, etc. printed for distribution to members. All were printed by Philadelphia lithographer Jacob Haehnlen, whose imprint appears at the bottom of each, and the.....
A Confederate almanac by noted southern printer Sigmund Goetzel, evidently acquired during the Civil War by Union soldier James Eldridge. Containing the astronomical matter typical of almanacs, this War-time publication includes a table of the moon’s phases for the cities of Richmond, Raleigh, Charleston and Mobile with a middle column.....
An extensive and richly illustrated promotional account of Cripple Creek and Colorado Springs, with much on mining operations, and featuring several maps. A large folding map at the front shows the gold fields; another map shows the wagon road and railroad ties of the District, and another the Economic Geology.....
This attractive folding brochure features evocative illustrations of the Historic Deadwood Days of ‘76 festival, including “Sioux Indian Battles and War Dances Every Day,” a covered wagon train, Paris Williams,”the most ensational Woman Rodeo Performer in America.” One image shows President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge taken into the Sioux Tribe.....
A Florida photo album depicting in part the peak of Daytona Beach's automobile racing and the dawn of a new American obsession. This album, evidently documenting a group—possibly family—outing to the Daytona Beach auto races, testifies to the growing popularity among everyday people of automobile racing and speed records in.....
First edition of this rare first Confederate Kentucky imprint and the earliest published record of the so-called Russellville Convention. At the beginning of the Civil War Lincoln is reputed to have said, "I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky." The state of Lincoln's birth.....
A very appealing advertising broadside issued by a Kalamazoo, Michigan iron manufacturer. Wiliam S. Lawrence and Dr. L. C. Chapin established the Kalamazoo Iron Works in 1848 and built steam engines, diamond iron plows, mill machinery, cultivators, and other tools and machines. Pictured in the center of this handsome broadside.....
A large and handsome carriage-road map representing the extensive network of roads in the city of Hartford, Connecticut and the surrounding area, published during the peak of the carriage era. This highly detailed map shows cities, towns, roads, mills, factories, dwellings and their owner’s names, railroads, rivers, lakes, etc......
A fine brassfounder’s trade catalogue illustrating over 600 objects on eighty-one plates (twelve folding), each numbered and (most) priced in manuscript, dating around 1811 as one leaf has a dated watermark (most likely from a Birmingham manufacturer)—this copy turned up in Spain, where it appears to have been kept for.....