![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......
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.....
An apparently unrecorded 1893 edition of this amply illustrated guide to Virginia Beach’s Princess Anne Hotel and vicinity. It includes several train itineraries, descriptions of the resort, and brief notes on the various amusements of its surroundings. The hotel accommodated four hundred guests, boasted electric lights and bells, and a......
Essays included in this volume are “Bobby Seale, the Black Panthers and Us White People”; “I Must Begin with an Explanation of my Presense [sic] in the United States” (better known as Genet’s May Day Speech, delivered before a crowd of some 25,000 people demonstrating in support of the Black.....
The scarce printing of this speech by an important Illinois woman suffrage organizer, made at a longstanding Republican club in downtown Chicago following the passage in Illinois of (albeit limited) voting rights for women. Grace Wilbur Trout was born in Iowa in 1864, and moved to the Oak Park neighborhood.....
A scarce guide to the leisure destinations in the Boston Harbor region, including a map of the routes and a brief history of steamer travel between Boston and Hingham. “Fortunate, indeed, it is” for the poor and laboring classes of the Boston area that “there is an Elysium, and that.....
A rare and richly illustrated promotional booklet covering the thriving communities in St. Francis and Bird City, Kansas and touting the opportunities awaiting prospective settlers. It begins with an overview of Cheyenne County and its history, covering the County’s natural resources, land, industries, water supply, the “underflow” watering the western.....