A scarce collection of political songs promoting the 1872 Republican Party ticket. Set to tunes of then-popular songs such as “Yankee Doodle” and others, these songs variously touch upon Grant and Wilson’s campaign (“O, General Grant’s the Man,” “Grant’s What’s the Matter,” “Grant, Wilson, and Success”), race-relations (“The Klu-Klux Ghost,”.....
A pamphlet promoting the developing town of Broken Bow, Nebraska including a large map, produced two years after the railroad arrived in the area. Platted in 1882, Broken Bow in Custer County, Nebraska allegedly took its name from the suggestion of a settler who found a broken bow in the.....
A rare inscribed prospectus for Captain Jack Crawford’s second book. Among the representative contents included are such poems as “The Heroes Departed,” “The Mountain Boy’s Letter,” “Mother’s Prayers,” and “Hood’s Children.” Also included are “pen portraits” of Crawford, composed by a retired Cavalry officer and an editor of a New.....
A scarce pamphlet offering practical advice on uterine and vaginal disorders, and promoting Davis’s Vaginal Syringes and Wafer Pour Les Femmes. Orin Davis M.D. (1823–1911) was a pathbreaking medical reformer who organized the very first class of female medical students in Rochester, New York, which included his wife. In 1854.....
A guidebook detailing four routes to Maine’s Mount Katahdin, inscribed by the author, and accompanied by one of the first published maps of the mountain. This pamphlet, an offprint from the Appalachian Mountain Club’s biannual journal Appalachia (vol. II, no. 4), identifies and describes four routes to Maine’s highest mountain.....
First edition of this bicentennial history of East Hampton, written primarily as a “tribute to the character of our Puritan Ancestors” with the intention of correcting “some unfavorable impressions in reference to the so often scouted East End.” One chapter focuses on the Montauk people, and pages 52–72 contain genealogical.....
A report on the geology of Louisiana by the “American Father of Soil Science.” Conducted under the auspices of the New Orleans Academy of Science, the findings published in this pamphlet are the result of an expedition carried out by Eugene W. Hilgard (1833–1916), the preeminent expert on the soils.....
A pamphlet advocating for the enlistment of African-Americans in the Union army during the Civil War, citing historical precedent and addressing the bias against their service. This pamphlet opens urgently with the following pronouncement: “We are in the midst of a great war for the existence of free institutions.....
An appealing pamphlet picturing and detailing Southwest Louisiana for the prospective settler and capitalist. The text offers a full description of Southwest Louisiana along the line of the Southern Pacific Railroad, where some 10,000 Northerners have located homes. Covered here is the production of sugar; fruit growing (several letters concerning.....
Second edition of Rockafield’s popular compilation of materials related to the “Manheim Tragedy,” a brutal double rape and murder committed in Manheim, Pennsylvania, by two men: one described as a “negro,” the other as a “mulatto speaking the German language.” The pair confessed to beating, “having to do with,” and.....
An unrecorded promotional booklet for the town of Cocoa, Florida, located along the east coast’s Indian River. Compiled by the Cocoa Board of Trade, this appealing promotional begins with a geographical and historical sketch of the city of Cocoa, which is popularly known as the “Gem City of the.....
An interesting pamphlet promoting land along the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad, including former Indian reservation lands, with an appealing map of the rail line and its spurs. The text begins with a message to the public advertising the Elkhorn Valley Route on the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad, the.....
An unusually attractive, extensively illustrated pamphlet describing the various sites and destinations accessible via the Union Pacific Railway in the 1880s. Following an overview of the railroad and its main line, the text offers descriptions of Denver, Clear Creek Canyon, Platte Canyon, Gunnison, Colorado parks, Salt Lake City and vicinity.....