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Postally used envelope sent from the Baltimore Association for the Moral & Educational Improvement of the Colored People to an African-American woman who had established a school in Royal Oak, Maryland

Baltimore: 1868. Unbound. This envelope measures 5.5” x 3”. It bears a hand-stamped corner card from the “Baltimore Association for the Moral & Educational Improvement of the Colored People,” and is addressed to Miss Rebecca Primus at Royal Oak, Maryland. It is franked with 3-cent Washington stamp (Scott #65) that... More

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AN ADVENTUROUS WOMAN’S TRAVEL LETTER RECOUNTING A HAZARDOUS JOURNEY BY STAGE AND RAILROAD TO THE ONTARIO FEMALE SEMINARY DURING A HORRENDOUS WINTER STORM franked with A VERY FINE 1847 U.S. TEN-CENT WASHINGTON STAMP; Four-page folded letter from Abby Wells sent from Canandaigua, New York to her parents in Deerfield, New Hampshire

Canandaigua, New York: 1849. Unbound. This four-page folded letter measures 15” x 9.5” and has a red Canandaigua postmark dated January 10. It is franked with a nicely centered, very fine black 10-cent Washington stamp (Scott #2) tied with a red grid cancel. Complete but fragile as some folds have... More

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Two letters from a female Confederate sympathizer in Pennsylvania to her aunt in New York City

Greenwood, [Pennsylvania]: 23 June and 18 July 1863. Unbound. Two letters (one with 6-pages and one with 4-pages) measure approximately 4.5” x 6.5”. Their envelopes are postmarked at Brookeville, Maryland; one is franked with a 3-cent Washington stamp (Scott #65), and the stamp is missing from the other. The letters... More

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ASSURANCE THAT THE FEES INCURRED AT THE BETHLEHEM FEMALE SEMINARY BY AN ORPHANED FLORIDA GIRL WOULD BE PAID IN FULL ONCE HER BENEFACTOR RECEIVED PAYMENT FOR SLAVES SHE HAD LEASED TO A NEARBY FARMER ; Four-page folded letter from Isabelle Gibbs to the Reverend Charles F. Seidel

St. Augustine, Florida: 1828. Unbound. This four-page, stampless folded letter measures 15.5” x 9.75” unfolded. It is dated June 18, 1828 and addressed to the Reverend Charles F. Seidel at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The cover has scarce oval “St Augustine / E. Flo.” postmark in red dated June 19 and a.... More

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Small archive of photographs and ephemera kept by an adventuresome YWCA missionary in China relating to her efforts to improve the lives of girls and women and combat British imperialism

Hsi Chi Men, China: 1925-1926. Unbound. The archive consists of 11 captioned photos, a 14-page letter, a bilingual brochure for a Camp for Chinese Girls and Women, and a 17.5” x 22” anti-imperialist broadsheet. Some soiling, ink bleed, beginning splits, and minor insect predation. As noted in a Kingston, New... More

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Production manager’s notebook for Vanity Fair underwear and stockings

[Reading, Pennsylvania]: 1922-1929. Faux leather. This 5” x 7.5” notebook contains 120 pages chock full of manuscript production tables, sizing information, test results, assorted notes, clothing labels, elastic samples, receipts, correspondence, certifications and more. A six-page pamphlet extract with information about an automatic sewing machine is laid in. All of... More

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Journal-scrapbook-photograph album kept by a wealthy woman documenting her automobile travels throughout New England

New England: 1920-1928. Album. This 11” x 12.5” album contains 143 pages filled with about 450 journal entries, photographs, clippings, postcards, brochures, and other ephemera. The items are all glued to the album pages or tipped into the binding. Everything is in nice shape; the gutter of the album is... More

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25-year memory-commonplace book probably kept by the matriarch of Lowell, Massachusetts family

Lowell, Massachusetts: 1871-1895. Notebook. The journal measures 6.75” x 8.25”. Approximately 300 pages filled with manuscript entries. About ten newspaper clippings laid-in or affixed inside the covers. The pages are in nice shape and the binding is holding although a few signatures are beginning to separate. The spine covering has... More

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