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We know it’s a lot to swallow in one gulp, but in this catalog, we’ve included almost 100 listings of mostly older items. All of them have been reduced in price, some by as much as 80%. The sale ends on December 15, 2024 so if you’d like to take advantage of some of these discounts, you’ll need to order before then.

Although most items are first-person, original-source Americana such as documents, correspondence, journals, photograph albums, and scrapbooks, you'll also find ephemera and postal history.

View PDF Catalog 23-6 (Holiday Clearance Sale)

This catalog contains 32 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana including archives, documents, ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and postal history related to African-Americana, American Life and Culture, Business, Californiana, Medicine, Military and War, Politics, Slavery, Transportation, Virginiana, Women & Girls, and more.

These items will be on display at the Rare Books & Manuscripts Showcase to be held at Indiana University in late June. While you may purchase any of them now, they will not be shipped until the first week of July 2023.

View PDF Catalog 23-3 (June 2023)

This catalog contains 31 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana including archives, documents, ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and postal history related to African-Americana, the American Civil War, Art Nouveau, Canals, Carnival Rides ,the Cherokee, Disasters, Education, Fashion, 4-H Clubs, Impeachment, Insanity, Irish Independence, Little Big Horn & the Great Sioux War, Maps, Medicine & Nursing, Museology, Politics, Post WWII China, Postal History. Race, Railroads, Reconstruction, Religion, Replevin, Slavery, Steamboats, Thoroughbreds, Vaudeville, Westward Expansion, Women & Girls, World War Two, and more.

View PDF Catalog 23-2 (April 2023)

Catalog 23-1 (January 2023) contains 45 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana including archives, documents, ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and postal history related to the American Civil War, the Atomic Bomb, British rule in Florida, Dutch New York, the Early Fur Trade, Enslaved Workers and Slave Trading, Franklin's Pennsylvania Hospital, Missionaries, the Old China Trade, the Revolutionary War, Spanish Louisiana, Westward Expansion, the child prodigy artist Lilly Martin, and more.

View PDF Catalog 23-1 (January 2023)

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We always have an inventory of unique Paper Americana on hand; that is, we keep a selection of personal narratives such as diaries, work journals, photograph albums, correspondence collections, scrapbooks, and similar items that shed light on some aspect of North American life, history, culture, or society.

Although not all is included in our website database, we also have a nice selection of Postal History. To view the covers that we have available online (the tip of iceberg, as they say), click on the Philately link to the left or enter the word "philately" in the search box above.

We hope you'll take some time to look around our website or, better yet, visit us at one of our shows. We take our better items to several book fairs and stamp shows each year, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic area, however we do travel as far south as Florida, as far north as Michigan and Massachusetts, and as far west as California.