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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.....
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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.....
A scarce print published at the height of the California gold rush showing the social and racial diversity of the mining scene, this example with especially well-preserved color. This scarce print depicts a lively gold mining scene along the Sacramento River. In the foreground a diverse mix of men in.....
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 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.....
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 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 scarce supplement to An Empire Illustrated, a special issue of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, intended at last in part to promote real estate investment in Texas. This supplement consists mainly of an article entitled “The Lone Star State”—a narrative of a two months’ trip through Texas taken by.....
This appealing and apparently unrecorded broadside advertises hiking excursions up Mt. Tamalpais, some 22 miles north of San Francisco in Marin County, California. “Personally conducted” by one Dawson Mayer, these excursions accommodated up to 60 people and cost $2.50, including a luncheon at the Tavern of Tamalpais. Offered between May.....
An engaging promotional brochure for the brand new town of Chula Vista, with a map of the San Diego Bay region. This very engaging brochure promotes the land, climate, crops, and cost of living in the San Diego Bay area and, particularly, the San Diego Land & Town Company’s newly-built.....
An attractive booklet advertising the “homes and scenes” of the town of Hemet in California’s San Jacinto Valley, with a folding plat map of the company’s lands. The town was developed during the first major Southern California land boom in 1887 by W. F. Whittier and E. L. Mayberry, who.....
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 in.....
A souvenir program for La Fiesta de Los Angeles, a celebration of the history of California, which took place between 10 April and 13 April 1894 in downtown Los Angeles. Includes an account of the grand carnival, with its origins and purpose, as well as an historical sketch of Southern.....
Apparently unrecorded Great Depression era sheet music related to the establishment of Social Security. This rousing social activist song includes such lyrics as: “Millions of patriots march along - Tramp, tramp - Swinging along to a vict’ry song - It’s a fight for the right - For Americans never fail.....
A rare and visually captivating ballooning broadside, advertising an early flight by “America’s first aeronaut,” carried out just a year after his first ascent in the United States. Charles Ferson Durant (1805–1873) was an eighteen-year-old New Yorker on July 9, 1824 when he witnessed French aeronaut Eugene Robertson make a......
An engraved invitation to Lincoln's second inaugural ball, filled out with the name of Mrs. Hugh McCulloch, the wife of Lincoln’s Comptroller of Currency (and later Secretary of the Treasury), accompanied by the original envelope addressed to Hugh McCulloch. Portraits of Lincoln and Andrew Johnson appear above a list of.....
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 scarce pamphlet promoting Block Island as a summer resort destination. Block Island, Rhode Island—located just fifteen miles south of mainland Rhode Island—was dubbed during its heyday “the Bermuda of the North.” “There has ever been a peculiar charm about the islands of the sea,” so begins the text which.....
A promotional brochure for the rejuvenated Palm Beaches, “moulded for posterity and bulwarked against adversity… preparing for a season greater than ever before -- when mass and class alike will visit the area.” The climate, clubs, churches, chain stores, transportation, recreation, price of foodstuffs, etc. are described. “Florida has no.....
A spectacular oversize broadside on linen printed in three colors and multiple typefaces, advertising an agricultural fair in Dedham, Mass. in September of 1861. While the main event for the Dedhamites and others in the region would have been the horses and exhibitions of horsemanship advertised here, today it is.....
An illustrated broadside employing various racist tropes to explain local Republican election losses in Philadelphia in 1867, here characterized as the death of the "Great Negro Party." The broadside consists of a series of captioned wood-engravings, including the head of an African American man above a coffin accompanied by the.....
A scarce “official souvenir program” for an African American exhibition basketball team whose repertoire included trick-shots and trick-dribbling, imitations, “comedy at its finest,” “classy ball handling,” and more. This work opens with a word from the team’s owners, addressed to the basketball team’s many fans throughout America and Canada. Introducing.....