Catalogs

Catalog 24-3 (March 2024)

Catalog 24-3 (March 2024)

This catalog contains 29 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana including documents, ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and postal history related to Abolition, African-Americana, Black Codes, Black Hawk War, Boxer Rebellion, Civil War, Colonial America, Express Companies, Florida, Gold Rush, Guano, Folk Art, Missionaries, Popular Music, Riverboats, Westward Expansion, Women, the World Wars, and more.

Catalog 24-2 (February 2024)

Catalog 24-2 (February 2024)

This catalog contains 25 items all related to the suppression of contagious disease in the United States through quarantine, disinfection, and fumigation.

Catalog 24-1 (January 24)

Catalog 24-1 (January 24)

This catalog contains 32 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana including documents, ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and postal history related to the Civil War, Colonial Florida, the Gold Rush, the IWW, Liberia, Lincoln, the Old China Trade, Privateering, the Sino-Japanese War, Steamboats, the War of 1812, Western Expansion, World Wars One & Two, Whaling, Yangtze River Campaign, and more.

Catalog 23-5 (October 2023)

Catalog 23-5 (October 2023)

This catalog contains 25 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana including documents, ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and postal history related to African-Americana, the American Civil War, American Merchants and Missionaries China, Early Florida, Education, Impeachment,  Medicine, Mining, Politics, and much more.

Catalog 23-4 (August 2023)

Catalog 23-4 (August 2023)

This catalog contains 45 items, primarily first-person, original source Americana including archives, documents, ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and postal history as well as a nice selection of ephemera.

Catalog 23-3 (June 2023)

Catalog 23-3 (June 2023)

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.