A highly partisan account, including eyewitness descriptions, of the infamous Astor Place Riot—a deadly display of nativist sentiment, sparked by a rivalry between a beloved American thespian, Edwin Forrest, and his British rival, William Macready. Edwin Forrest was born in Philadelphia in 1806, and made his theatrical debut at the.....
Volume 2, No. 1 in this influential series of almanacs containing a variety of tall tales in backwoods dialect, illustrated with wood engravings. This is the fifth Crockett Almanac published in Nashville. The contents include An Unexpected Ride on the Horns of an Elk, Col. Crockett’s Adventure With a Grizzly.....
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 fascinating pamphlet issued during the 1864 presidential campaign, printing an address by the Chairman of the National Democratic Committee protesting violations of civil liberties under Union/Republican military rule amid the ongoing Civil War, along with a searing speech by Abraham Oakey Hall taking President Lincoln to task for his.....
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 promotional brochure with a map serving as a guide to Alabama for prospective home-seekers in the early twentieth century. Picturing a “Typical Alabama Home” on the front panel, this pamphlet hails the state as one of the foremost in the Union in natural resources and thrift, inviting home seekers.....
A promotional pamphlet with a large folding map of lands boasting “the finest body of iron ore in Virginia,” and proposing a railroad through timber-rich and arable territory. The map depicts and advertises the lands of the Douthat Survey, lying between the Allegheny Mountains and the Cowpasture River in western.....
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. No.....
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.....
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.....
A promotional pamphlet for 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 interesting pamphlet on the global importance and possible means of uplifting the New Bedford sailors both morally and physically by “the first citizen of Rhode Island.” This lecture was delivered by Baptist Minister and Brown University president Francis Wayland to the New Bedford Port Society for the Moral Improvement.....