![Item #5610 111 Days to San Francisco! Merchants’ Express Line of Clipper Ships[.] None But...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5610_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1631721653)
A scarce clipper ship 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 the.....
A rare 1806 Pro-Federalist broadside mocking printer James Cheetham and New York Democrat-Republicans. In this lyric broadside, New York Federalists deride fractious author and printer James Cheetham after learning he had farmed out printing work, then charged the state government at a 300+ percent markup as the way to “Cheat’em!”.....
A revealing gathering of receipts, payroll sheets, vouchers, and other documents spanning four years of operation at Fort St. Philip—a location of immense strategic importance to New Orleans—and including a large payroll sheet listing the names, terms of service, and compensation for over thirty enslaved laborers, as well as the.....
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.....
A rare broadside printed for distribution at the 4th of July gathering of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Abington, Massachusetts in 1848, an event attended by some 3000 to 5000 (according to The Liberator) and featuring a number of prominent abolitionists, including William Wells Brown and William Lloyd Garrison. This.....
A rare and urgent set of resolutions issued by the citizens of Troy, New York in opposition to James Madison’s embargo on trade with Great Britain, requested by the President on April 1, 1812. These resolutions were pronounced by the citizens of Troy just a month after that and directly.....
An apparently unrecorded Reconstruction-era campaign broadside urging New Jersey voters to cast their ballots against African American suffrage. Warning that “Every vote for the Republican Ticket is a vote in favor of Negro Suffrage,” that is, “of Congress compelling us to let the Negro Vote,” this broadside announces that “Every.....
This richly printed cigar advertisement was produced during the height of cigar production in Key West, a hub of the industry, by the New York lithographic firm of George Schlegel. A second-generation lithographer, Schlegel specialized in cigar box labels and advertising posters for the tobacco, liquor, and toiletry industries. The.....
![Item #6881 [Births and Baptism] Geburts und Tauf Zeugniss](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6881_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1630775111)
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.....
A broadsheet issued by the California campaign office of Democratic presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy shortly before the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., featuring endorsements by some twenty prominent Black Californians. At the top of this campaign handbill is a portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at the March.....
An apparently unrecorded broadside printing of a fearmongering letter written from the storied Nitta Yuma plantation just a few months before the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, defending slavery, the Southern spirit, and all Southern states from hostile takeover by a “black avalanche.” Citing economic and population statistics—both Black and.....
A scarce broadside advertising a performance by a noted American humorist and author, “Mr. Burnett…the only living man that can, at the same time, laugh on one side of his face, and cry upon the other!” Mr. Alfred (so-called Alf) Burnett was known as a “fine elocutionist” whose “changes of.....
Includes a “History of the Clydesdale horse” by James M. Hyatt and a descriptive list of various stallions and mares.
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.....
An rare broadside extra of the Sacramento Daily Union—the oldest daily newspaper west of the Mississippi—detailing a gang murder, with the confessions and last words of the perpetrators and an account of the execution; this example unique in bearing an autograph letter, signed, by a Yuba County gold miner on.....
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.....
An original memorial fan, apparently manufactured soon after Martin Luther King’s assassination and advertising an African American-owned mortuary in San Diego. A photographic image of Dr. King appears on one side of the fan, below which he is described as “Minister - Civil Rights Leader - Nobel Prize Winner.” The.....
An apparently unrecorded illustrated broadside advertising a performance of the globe-trotting Knoxville College Quartet early in the blockbusting “race record” era. The historically-Black Knoxville College was founded a decade after the Civil War by the United Presbyterian Church “to provide the most thorough literary, classical and scientific training, together with.....
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.....
An apparently unrecorded broadsheet picturing and describing the 1971 Anti-STRESS rally in Detroit and promoting membership in the Black Workers Congress. The rally took place on September 23rd, 1971: “THOUSANDS of Black workers, students, housewives turned out…to protest the outrageous slaughter of Black people occurring in plants, prisons, and our.....
A rare broadside announcing an upcoming “Horribles” Parade—a little-known but distinctly American celebration of parody and silliness originating in the early nineteenth century and still enjoyed in some New England communities today—with a reference to African American suffrage. “Horribles” Parades, also called “Antique and Horribles” Parades, emerged in the early.....
![Item #9778 [Frederick Douglass and Helen Pitts Douglass.] Sulfur Bitters, the Great Blood Purifier](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9778_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1755626638)
One of the more notorious images in the iconography of Frederick Douglass, being a racist satire used for advertising purposes on the rear wrapper of a booklet issued by a manufacturer of “sulfur bitters.” Douglass and his white wife, Helen Pitts Douglass, are shown just outside a pharmacy where a......
![Item #10172 Given Away Toy Samples of Swasey Stoneware[.] Finest Stoneware in the World](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10172_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779183125)
An apparently unrecorded broadside advertising “toy samples” by a prolific Maine stoneware manufactory, illustrated with an original photograph of a little girl posing with a miniature teapot with Swasey Stioneware’s characteristic brown-glazed top and cream-colored bottom. Text on either side of the photograph announces Swasey wares to be “tough as.....
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.....