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A YOUNG MAN REQUESTS A JOB AS A MISSIONARY COLPORTEUR BECAUSE HIS PARENTS CAN NO LONGER SUPPORT HIM – Letter from a 20-year old school teacher to the “Board of Commissioners for Home Missions” requesting employment because his parents can no longer provide for his support.

Theodore W. Robbins

Montgomery, New York: 1847. Envelope or Cover. This two-page letter is enclosed in a stampless folded cover. The letter is datelined “Montgomery March 23d 1847. The envelope bears a circled “5” rate handstamp in red and red circular “Montcomery / N.Y.” postmark with the “N” reversed. (See p 251, volume..... More

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“GREAT AMERICAN MASTODON . . . NO ANIMAL LIVING APPROACHES THIS IN SIZE.” Large broadside advertising the discovery and display of the “Great American Mastodon” skeleton that turned the religious and scientific worlds on their heads.

Discovered by Nathaniel Brewster at Newburgh, New York

Exhibited at Harford and New Haven, Connecticut: 1846. Unbound. This famous broadside measures 18” x 25.5” and is in exceptionally nice shape with some insignificant toning. The text reads in part “GREAT AMERICAN MASTODON!! . . . / The SKELETON of this gigantic animal was discovered in the month of..... More

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FOLLOWING AN UNSUCCESSFUL REVIVAL, A DISHEARTENED MISSIONARY PREACHER LAMENTS, “AFTER I LEFT THERE I WEPT OVER THE LOSS OF SUCH AN OPPORTUNITY OF WINNING SOULS TO CHRIST; Letter from a Presbyterian minister in the heart of Wisconsin’s lead-mining district to the secretary of the American Home Missionary Society

A. D. Loughlin

Mineral Point, Wisconsin to New York City: 1850. Envelope or Cover. This three-page stampless folded letter measures 16” x 10” unfolded. It is datelined “Wyoming Valley Iowa County April 1st 1850” and bears an “X” rate handstamp and circular “Mineral Point / Wis.T.” postmark dated April 2, both in blue..... More

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Cabinet card photograph album documenting prominent United Brethren missionaries serving in Sierra Leone and Japan including two views of the mission and local converts at Rotofunk Station shortly before its staff and converts were massacred by Mende tribesman and the entire station razed to the ground

Probably compiled by John Keller or his wife

Sierra Leone, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois: 1888-1897. Album. This album measures 11½" x 9" with 36 pages containing 66 cabinet photographs in page-inserts. Most of the photographs have ink captions on either the front or back. The album is padded in red velvet and has a decorative metal clasp. Everything..... More

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Envelope sent to Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner in care of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Europe from his son, Rabbi Barnett Brinker at the Hebrew Union College in Ohio

Cincinnati, Ohio: 1947. Envelope or Cover. The elder Rabbi Brickner, the long-serving rabbi of Anshe Chesed Congregation in Cleveland was a well-known educator, orator and Zionist leader. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, often simply referred to as the Joint, was initially founded in 1914 to provide assistance to Jews..... More

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Letter from a student at Wesleyan University to a friend attending Charlotte Academy describing admission requirements and encouraging him to attend Wesleyan the following term

A. Merwin

Middletown, Connecticut: 1852. Envelope or Cover. Four-page letter with its mailing envelope. The cover bears a circular Middletown, Con. Postmark with black “PAID” and circled “3” handstamps; three cents being the cost to mail a prepaid letter up to 3,000 miles. Both are in nice shape. In this..... More

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A YOUNG MAN REQUESTS A JOB AS A MISSIONARY COLPORTEUR BECAUSE HIS PARENTS CAN NO LONGER SUPPORT HIM – Letter from a 20-year old school teacher to the “Board of Commissioners for Home Missions” requesting employment because his parents can no longer provide for his support.

“GREAT AMERICAN MASTODON . . . NO ANIMAL LIVING APPROACHES THIS IN SIZE.” Large broadside advertising the discovery and display of the “Great American Mastodon” skeleton that turned the religious and scientific worlds on their heads.

Envelope sent to Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner in care of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Europe from his son, Rabbi Barnett Brinker at the Hebrew Union College in Ohio

Letter from a student at Wesleyan University to a friend attending Charlotte Academy describing admission requirements and encouraging him to attend Wesleyan the following term

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