First and only edition of this Black Hills rarity, a document which signaled the taming of one of the wildest towns in the West. Herein the new city government is empowered to curtail just about every activity that made the town famous. Included are provisions to prevent horse-racing as...
An appealing and apparently unrecorded anti-slavery bazaar leaflet urging abolitionists to continue the struggle for “freedom’s sacred cause.” Hosted annually by the American Anti-Slavery Society, anti-slavery bazaars were major fundraising events for the Society. Often spearheaded by women, members sold abolitionist paraphernalia, ephemera, household items, and publications—with much of.....
An archive assembled contemporaneously by a Berkeley undergraduate, comprising sixty-seven individual pieces of printed ephemera, including broadsides, handbills, pamphlet publications and periodicals. Formats and printing processes vary widely, from tabloids to miniature handbills, and from mimeograph to professional offset printing (including a few manuscript items). Additionally, there are thirty contemporary...
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...
The Barnum and Bailey program for the season of 1912, with a total of 16 fantastic acts, including: “The Spectacle of Cleopatra”; “Three Royal Riding Acts” (including “Dainty and dexterous displays of principal bareback equitation by the charming exemplar of grace and agility, Miss Victoria Davenport”); “A Complete Number of.....
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.....
First edition. One of the most sought after miniature books, published by leading American printer and Grolier Club founder Theodore De Vinne. Includes a preface by De Vinne on the history of miniature books. REFERENCES: Welsh 2304; Bradbury p. 216; Bromer & Edison, pp. 46-47, citing the second edition...
An 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 extensive timetable for “America’s Most Popular Railroad,” connecting Chicago to St. Louis and Kansas City, with extended connections to San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle. A full sheet railway map appears on the verso, depicting the entire United States, Southern Canada and northern Mexico. The Chicago & Alton line.....
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.....
Illustrated brochure for the Cody Road into Yellowstone via the Burlington Route of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy lines. “Have you ever heard of the Cody Road into Yellowstone Park?” This brochure is happy to educate. Text and photographs “Along the Road” offer something of a guided tour of.....
A fine trade catalogue of the Collins Plow Company of Quincy, Illinois, consisting entirely of original photographs, featuring their notable line of Eli baling presses, among other agricultural machines and tools. William Collins and John W. Brown established the Collins Plow Co. between 1880 and 1882, which soon became...
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.....
A comprehensive, attractively illustrated look at the transportation provided by the Boston and Bangor, [Maine] Steamship Co. in 1882. Steamers traveled daily to Bangor via Rockland, Camden, Belfast, Searsport, Bucksport and Winterport, with a rail connection to Moosehead Lake, and steamer connections to Mount Desert, Bar Harbor, and beyond. The...
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...
A manuscript draft for a speech by an anonymous orator given before the Soldiers’ Aid Association in Danby, New York during the Civil War, appealing to female relief workers to continue their crucial support of the Union Army. In both the North and South during the War, Ladies’ Aid.....
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An interesting medical manuscript compiled by an anonymous doctor aboard the Baltimore-built privateer Mammoth during the War of 1812, recording illnesses suffered by the crew, the treatments administered, progress of the patients, etc. The schooner Mammoth, commanded by Capt. Jonathan Rowland, served in the War of 1812 from 1814...
A handsome summer-of-1880 schedule for travel via rail and steamship from Boston to Mt Desert Island, Maine and beyond. For $10.00, one could travel in the “most comfortable and the quickest” manner by rail to Portland and thence by steamer to Bar Harbor, or entirely aboard a steamer for $8.00...
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.....
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...
A rare catalog of erotic cabinet cards cloaked in the guise of art, offered by the Soule Photograph Company of Boston, illustrated with 306 photographs of mostly academic paintings of female nudes. An image affixed to the inside of the front cover shows the average size of a Soule cabinet...
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.....