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This catalog contains 32 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana including documents, ephemera, correspondence, pamphlets, and postal history related to Abolition, Alaska, Autoharps, Beekeeping, Broadway, Canals, Cholera, China Missionaries, Cough Drops, the Civil War, Education, Embezzlement, Executions, Finance, Hurricanes, Immigration, International Trade, Lead Poisoning, Libraries, Mail Fraud, the Pacific Squadron, Pacificism, Penmanship, Politics, Ragtime, Railroads, Reconstruction, Seafaring, Veterinary School, World War II, and more.

View PDF Catalog 25-7 (November 2025)

This catalog contains 20 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana including documents, ephemera, correspondence, pamphlets, and postal history related to Abolition, African-Americana, Arabian Horses, Barbary Pirates, Business, Civil War, Food, Haitian Intervention, Holocaust, Indian Wars, Humour, Immigration, Mail Fumigation, Maple Sugar, Maritime, Mercenaries in Africa, Murder, Politics, Religion, Romance, Slavery, Trading Posts, Voter Fraud, War of 1812, Western Expansion, World War I, Women, and more.

View PDF Catalog 25-6 (September 2025)

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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. We also have nice selections of Ephemera and Postal History that we offer at book fairs and stamp/paper shows, and sometimes list on eBay.

We hope you'll take some time to look around our website or, better yet, visit us at one of our shows. We set up at about eight each year, mostly in the Mid-Atlantic area; however, we occasionally travel as far south as Florida, as far north as Michigan and Massachusetts, and as far west as California.

We also publish the Charles A. Fricke Award-winning regular column, "The Ephemera Corner," in La Posta: The Journal of American Postal History. (Please ask if you'd like to see more recent articles.)