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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.....
A scarce broadside published during the 1864 presidential campaign, satirizing President Lincoln and articulating various Democratic criticisms. Dramatizing the question of whether the country ought to switch presidents during the War, these verses begin with Columbia bursting in on “lank Abraam” who is “lolling in his library chair.” Columbia asks.....
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.....
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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 ornamental.....
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 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.....
An extraordinary collection of illustrated envelope covers produced during the Civil War, featuring a cornucopia of themes relating to the war and its effect on everyday life, as mounted and bound by an early twentieth century collector. These envelopes feature a remarkably wide range of subjects: American flags; eagles; military.....
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.....
Volume 2, No. 2 in this celebrated series of almanacs, containing a variety of tall tales in backwoods dialect, illustrated with wood engravings. The contents include The Heroine of Kaintuck; Col. Crockett and the Bear and the Swallows; Gum Swamp Breeding; A Goose Pulling; Severe Courtship; The Way They Travel.....
An unrecorded publisher’s handbill advertising an 1860 campaign biography of Abraham Lincoln and his running mate Hannibal Hamlin. This prospectus suggests that an unprecedented demand for Joseph H. Barrett’s book on Lincoln and Hamlin, Life of Abraham Lincoln… (1860), has prevented the publishers from announcing the day of the work’s.....
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.....
Program for Marian Anderson’s pathbreaking 1939 performance at the Lincoln Memorial, a landmark event that threw American segregation into sharp relief and inaugurated the Lincoln Memorial as a symbolic venue for Civil Rights. When the Daughters of the American Revolution barred Marian Anderson, already an internationally-acclaimed singer, from performing at.....
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.....
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.....
Printed over a century after the north and south parishes of Andover split in 1708, this broadside announces the auction of the South Parish Society’s meeting house. Church records reveal that, beginning in 1845, “Various attempts” had been made “to remove, reconstruct the old, as also to build a new.....
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 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.....
A scarce booklet describing the practical work and “wonderful” conversions of the “most famous gospel rescue mission in the country.” This booklet provides information about the Bowery Mission’s history, major figures, success stories, and of course functions—feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, and providing community, religious education, entertainment, and employment.....