Vicinity of Chattanooga: 1863. Envelope or Cover. This four-page letter is datelined “In the ‘Trenches’ near Chattanooga Town, Sept 25/63”. A 3-cent rose Washington stamp (Scott #65) is tied to the envelope with a target cancel. The envelope bears a double-circle Nashville postmark dated October 1, 1863. Both are in..... More
New York: C. Magnus, [1865]. Envelope or Cover. Large octagonal die-cut sheet that measures about 10¾” x 10¾” when opened. Printed on both sides with 14 birds-eye views of American cities, accompanied by one view of a building from each (Albany, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Louisville, Milwaukee, New York..... More
Camp on the Meadows on the Bank of Pamunkey Creek, Virginia: May 14, 1862. Envelope or Cover. This exceptional four-page letter is accompanied by its original mailing envelope, franked with a three-cent Washington stamp (Scott #65) and postmarked at Old Point Comfort on 15 May 1862. Chip at top of..... More
Rooms of the Christian Commission, Culpeper, Virginia: February [1864]. Unbound. Eight-page letter. Undated, but written while the Union Army was in winter quarters at Culpeper following General Meade’s Bristoe Campaign that drove General Lee’s army south over the Rapidan River from their Rappahannock Station bridgehead. In nice shape. A transcript..... More
New Brunswick, N. Jersey: May 29th, 1864. Unbound. This four-page between sisters consolidates information received from their brother and a friend who were serving aboard Union steamships transporting fresh troops and wounded soldiers along the Rappahannock River following the Battle of the Wilderness at Spotsylvania, Virginia as General Grant continued..... More
Washington, DC: 1917-1918. Album. This diary measures 3¾“ x 6” is completely filled with entries (some with small drawings) made between 30 Aug 1917 and 12 May 1918, except for five pages in the rear, three of which document a problem she had with a supervisor and two listing Christmas..... More
Fort Rice, Dakota Territory: 21 August 1864. Envelope or Cover. This two-page letter is dated “Fort Reice / August 21st” and addressed to “Hon Dana [King] / Nash[ua, New Hampshire]. The cover is annotated “6th Iowa Cav. / J. King” and “Overland Route”. It also bears a previously unrecorded straight-line..... More
Camp Cuba Libre (Jacksonville, Florida) to Toledo, Iowa: 1898. Envelope or Cover. A four-page letter on attractive patriotic stationery featuring crossed U.S. and Cuban flags under a legend that reads, “Camp Cuba Libre.” Its accompanying patriotic envelope features an unusual variation of the crossed flags design with a red, white..... More
New Brunswick, New Jersey: [1891]. Envelope or Cover. This grouping consists of a four-page brochure, a sample of Lintine, a sample of Johnson’s Rubber Adhesive Plaster, and their original mailing envelope that features a “red cross” logo corner card. The envelope is franked with 1-cent blue Franklin stamp (Scott #219..... More
Various location in Mexico: 1916. Envelope or Cover. Although two previous U.S. experimental airmail flights occurred in 1911, it wasn’t until 1916 during the Pancho Villa Punitive Expedition that the first real U. S. airmail service was begun by the Army’s 1st Aero Squadron and its eight JN-3 Curtis-Jenny aircraft..... More
Austin, Texas: Fifth Military District, 1870. Envelope or Cover. This four-page letter is datelined “Mankato May 24th/59”. It is enclosed in its original mailing envelope and is postmarked with a scarce, but blurred, strike of circular “PAID” Mankato handstamp; see ASCC, p. 188. The letter is in nice shape, the..... More
New York: Wm C. Bryant & Co., 1869. Unbound. Complete with all 31 pages. Never bound. Cleveland Hisotry Center blindstamp. No deaccession markings, but correspondence from the reference supervisors states the pamphlet was deaccessioned. Supple with some light toning; vertical crease. Small (1") quarter-circle dampstain in lower left corner. See..... More
[Ligon’s Tobacco Warehouse Prison, Richmond}: November 17, 1861. Envelope or Cover. The cover (no content) is free-franked “Alfred Ely”, a Congressman from New York and postmarked with Washington D.C. Nov. 17, 1861 circular date stamp. It is addressed to General Wm E. Lathrop, a Brigadier General in the..... More
