U.S. Army Rhodes General Convalescent Hospital at Utica, New York: 1945. This large 12” x 14” album contains 38 pages filled with text and photographs. Ten pages contain Bourgeois’s densely filled, pencil-written memoir-journal describing in detail his combat and prisoner experience Europe during World War Two. Three pages contain military-related..... More about World War II American prisoner of war’s handwritten memoir-journal and photograph album

Paris: 1918. Letter. This letter from Richard S. Rightes, a civilian employee of the YMCA, is dated 25 Aug 1918 and its envelope has an indistinct postmark. It is franked with a U.S. 3 cent stamp and is addressed to Topeka, Kansas. It bears a Paris return address of 12... More about Civilian Mail from the YMCA Headquarters in Paris during World War One

Leeds: Published by Edwd Bianes (Edward Baines), Aug 5, 1816. Unbound. Approximately 16.5” x 10.25” including margins. A very nice folding map with a strong, clear image. Trimmed along the upper neatline. Lightly toned save for along the publisher’s fold where binding tab was glued to the reverse. There is... More about United States of America, Exhibiting the Seat of War on the Canadian Frontier from 1812 to 1815...

New York: 1814. Letter. This important three-page folio-sized manuscript letter reports on the American actions at the Siege of Fort Erie during September of 1814 including a detailed description of the sorties attacking British artillery batteries and the death of General Daniel Davis, the leader of the New York Militia... More about War of 1812 American Militia Letter - The Siege of Fort Erie

1944-1945. Envelope only, no letter. The envelope was addressed to Private First Class Walter Mikucki at the Osaka Yodogawa Bunsho POW Camp in Japan. It has a typed “Prisoner of War Postage Free” free frank in the upper right corner and has received a Chicago “War Savings machine postmark dated..... More about Returned mail sent to a World War II Marine who was captured on Corregidor and died in a Japanese...

Washington, DC: 1861-1863. Unbound. Six letters to family members at home, four from 1861 and two from 1863. One of the letters has its original envelope. All of the letters are complete except one that is missing its final page. The handwriting is legible. Three of the letters are written... More about Collection of six Civil War letters from a soldier who served from April of 1861 until he was...

Greenpoint (Brooklyn), New York: 1861. This 3-page letter and endorsement measure approximately 8” x 9”. It was apparently delivered by courier between Rowland’s Continental Iron Works and the Providence Tool and Armory Company, which employed both Borden and Andrews, as there are no postal markings. The letter has two horizontal..... More about Correspondence between Thomas F. Rowland, Colonel William Borden, and J.B. Andrews regarding the...

Siberia: Circa 1919. Album. This album contains 127 photographs and 28 mostly real photo postcards (RPPC). Various photographic and photomechanical processes including silver gelatin, collotype, carbon, half-tone, etc. All but two of the photos and eight of the postcards relate to the U.S. Army’s participation in the occupation of Siberia... More about Photograph album documenting the American participation in the Allied Intervention in Russia...

Vittel, France: 1917. Envelope or Cover. This envelope is addressed to East Orange, New Jersey and franked with a manuscript “soldiers letter” annotation in the upper right corner. It bears both blue French “Hopital Complementaire (Supplementary Hosptial) No 10 bis” and purple A.E.F. “Passed as Censored No. 24" handstamps. A...... More about Early World War One American Expeditionary Force (A.E.F.) mail sent while during a reconnaissance...

Mostly Los Angeles County: 1918-1919. Album. This 72-page 9” x 8” album contains approximately 200 photographs ranging in size from 3” x 2” to 5” x 7”. The cover of the suede album features a photograph of a small sailboat. The glue-mounted photos are in nice shape; a few have... More about Photograph album documenting life in the Los Angeles area

Various locations: mostly 1865. Unbound. Nine letters written to Stephen H. Gregory, a member of D Company, 39th New York Volunteer Infantry. Eight were written during April and May of 1865 while Gregory was recovering from wounds at the Homewood Hospital in Washington D. C. The ninth letter is pre-war... More about SMALL ARCHIVE OF CIVIL WAR LETTERS WRITTEN TO A WOUNDED MEMBER OF THE 39TH NEW YORK VOLUNTEER...

Edmeston, [New York]: 1 May and 27 September 1863. Unbound. Two letters: one two-page letter and one four-page letter. Both have mailing and storage folds. Clean and legible. Centerfold of one has a split mended with what appears to be archival repair tape. Both letters were written by Waterman Burlingham... More about Letters to a Civil War deserter who escaped to Canada

Corpus Christi, Texas to Knightstown, Indiana: 1865. Unbound. Exceptionally scarce, poignant, and historically significant Civil War letter from a well-educated African-American siblings who served in the U. S. Colored Troops informing family at home that he was ministering to a brother who was about to die from scurvy. William Trail... More about Exceptionally scarce, poignant, and historically significant Civil War letter from a...