Otto von Bismarck - CDV
Boston: J. W. Black & Co. Carte De Visite. Photographer's mark on the reverse reads "J. W. Black. / Photographer / 173 Washington St. Boston." More
History
Beautiful Civil War patriotic, fund-raising, souvenir of the Great North Western Sanitary Fair: The Union Rose: East and West
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
Bird’s eye views of Alexandria, Virginia on Union Civil War patriotic envelopes.
New York: Chas. Magnus, circa 1862-1863. Envelope or Cover. Four unused illustrated patriotic covers published by Charles Magnus during the Civil War. Two of the illustrations are in color and two are in b/w. All of the envelopes are in nice shape; light soiling with some old mounting ghosts on..... More
Magnus Song Sheet Booklet: Six Military and Patriotic Illustrated Songs. Elaborately Colored. In a novel form. Series No. 1
New York: Charles Magnus (Branch Office, Washington D.C, circa 1863. Unbound. Song sheet titles included in Magnus multi-color illustrated “Series No. 1.” song sheet booklets vary. This one contains: Taking Up Quarters, The Prisoner’s Hope (Tramp, Tramp, Tramp), While there’s Life there’s Hope... More
A flirty letter from a volunteer hospital corps soldier using patriotic stationery to a young woman back home in Iowa
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
"‘QUITE A JAP” - Photo-Journal documenting an American teacher’s employment in Japan and the destruction caused by the Great Kanto Earthquake
Tokyo, Himeiji Middle School: 1923-1925. Album. This album measures approximately 11” x 8” and has 24 leaves filled with over 160 photographs and real photo postcards. Most of the photos measure range in size between 6” x 4” and 1” x 1.25”. All are glued to the pages which also..... More
Photograph album documenting the family life of a Yekkish man including his immigration into the United States as anti-Semitism reached a crescendo in Nazi Germany
Germany, Trieste, Cuba, and the United States: 1904-1954. Album. This 11” x 7” leatherette album contains 64 photographs and about a dozen pieces of ephemera. Most items are captioned in either English or German. The photos range in size from 1” x 2.5” to 5.5” x 3”. Everything is glued..... More
Memory book assembled by one of the first U.S. YMCA workers to deploy during World War One who later received a commission in the Army and after the Armistice served as a missionary in North Dakota.
United Kingdom, France, North Dakota, and Massachusetts: 1917-1958. Album. This scrapbook measures 12” x 12.5” and contains 37 pages with about 90 documents, vouchers, photographs, watercolors, patches, letters, newspaper clippings, and other ephemeral pieces. The album and most of the contents are in very nice shape; some of the newspaper..... More
Baden-Powell March
London: The London Musical Publishing Stores, [1900]. Wraps. This piece of sheet music measures approximately 10.75” x 14”. Complete with 8 pages including the cover which is illustrated with a half-tone photograph of Lord Baden-Powell in his military uniform. The title is surmounted by a tribute that reads, “Dedicated to..... More
Archive recounting the actions of a heroic young soldier including a gruesome description of hand-to-hand combat in the most important turning-point battles of World War One
Marne River and the Argonne Forest: 1918. Unbound. An amazing first-hand account by one soldier of heroism and bloody hand-to-hand fighting at the Marne River and in the Argonne Forest, two battles that turned the course of World War One. This grouping consists of two combat letters, a French Croix..... More
Canoeing and Camping (No. 60R in Spalding’s Red Cover Series of Athletic Handbooks)
New York: American Sports Publishing Company, 1915. Approximately 5” x 6.5”. Original publisher’s pictorial wrapper. Owned by Captain Oliver H. Dockery of the U. S. Army 15th Infantry Regiment in Tientsin, China. Complete. 118 pages of text and photographs including a portrait frontispiece; 20-page advertising section in the rear. Sound..... More
CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPHS OF SITTING BULL, FENNO, AND DINERO BOY; Four cabinet card photographs of Native Americans, including Sitting Bull, sold by the western photographer, D. [David] Rodocker
Winfield, Kansas: D. Rodocker, circa 1890. Card. All four photographs are mounted on cabinet cards reading “D. Rodocker, Winfield, Kansas.” Subjects in three of the four photographs are identified within the print. All have some soiling; one has a horizontal crease. One of the cards shows Louis Fenno, the..... More
Attacks of Fort Washington by His Majesty s Forces under the Command of Gen.l Sir Willm Howe K:B. 16 Nov.r 1776
New York: For D.T. Valentine’s Manual for 1861 by Geo Haywood, 1861. Disbound. The hand-colored, lithographed map image measures 22” x 16.5” and has a 7/8” margin at top, a 5/8” margin on the right and bottom, and a 1/8” margin along most of the left edge where it had..... More
“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.
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
I'm Off to Charleston
[Philadelphia]: T. M. Scroggy, 1855. _. Broadside. Songsheet lyrics for a popular minstrel song originally published as sheet music several years earlier. 6" x 8". African-American dialect.Light wear and marginal toning. Very faint vetical crease. Five stanzas recounting a slave's surreptitious trip to Charleston to visit a woman while his..... More
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[TURNED MAIL FROM A PROMINENT VIRGINIA FAMILY EARLY IN THE CIVIL WAR]; Envelope that was mailed twice, the first time using U.S. postage, the second with a Confederate stamp
Richmond, Virginia to Whittle’s Mills, Virginia, then Whittle’s Mills to Charlottesville, Virginia: April 1861. Envelope or Cover. This 3-cent U.S. stamped envelope (Scott #U10) was sent from Richmond to Dr. Conway Whittle at Whittle’s Mills and bears a Richmond postmark dated 28 April 1861. Whittle turned it inside-out, franked it..... More
Letter from an American in Liverpool describing his efforts to prevent an Englishman from stealing credit for inventing a longitude measuring device based on a theory by a prominent Georgia physician, Doctor Joel Abbott
Liverpool: 1818. Envelope or Cover. This two-page letter was sent from Liverpool to New York on 30 July 1818. After delivery to a ship’s agent, it was dispatched on the second voyage the Black Ball Line ship, the Amity, which departed Liverpool on 2 August and arrived at New York..... More
Letter from a Superintendent of Repair on the Erie Canal to the Deputy Comptroller of New York reporting the monthly salaries of the five locktenders under his supervision
Port Byron, New York: 1839. Envelope or Cover. This one-page stampless letter measures 7.75” x 12.75” unfolded. It is dated April 25th, 1819 and signed by E. A. King. The front of the cover bears circular Port Byron postmark and a manuscript “18½”, the charge for sending a letter a...... More
The Non-Slaveholder, Volumes 1 and 2 bound together
Philadelphia: George W. Taylor, 1853-1854. Half leather. Philadelphia: George W. Taylor, 1853-1854. Half leather. 24 monthly issues bound together. Complete; each volume contains 104 text pages. Half-leather with marbled boards; 6.75" x 10.25". Sound binding. Clean pages with light intermittent foxing. Old pencil annotation at top of the first title..... More
Official copy of a telegram from Secretary of War E. M. Stanton providing guidance regarding “the Jackson case" in which a plantation owner had been arrested for the murder of a freedman
Vicksburg, Mississippi By Telegraph from Washington, D.C. 1865. Unbound. This one-page official copy of a telegram sent by Secretary Stanton to General Slocum is dated “Vicksburg Miss Aug 1st 1865”. It is in nice shape; transcript included. In it, Stanton first clarifies General Slocum’s chain of command; he..... More
[A WIFE SENDS MAIL TO HER CIVILAN HUSBAND WHO AFTER BEING SHOT IN THE BACK AND PARALYZED DURING THE INVASION OF GUAM WAS IMPRISONED IN A JAPANESE POW CAMP]; Mail sent to Mr. Frank Perry at a Japanese prison camp by his wife in San Francisco
San Francisco to Shikoku Island, Japan via New York City: 1945. Envelope or Cover. This legal-size envelope is addressed to “Frank Perry, American Civilian Internee Held by Japan / in Zentsuzi War Prison Camp / Zentsuzi, Skikoku Island, Japan / Via: New York, N.Y.” The return address on reverse is..... More
Autograph Signed Letter to Lord Cormer - Headquarters, British Army of Occupation in Egypt
Alexandria, Egypt: Letter, 1892. Letter. Letter from General F. Walker to the British Consul-General in Egypt (Lord Cromer, Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer) regarding the construction of buildings for the garrison at Ramleh. At the time F. Walker was the Commanding General of the British Army in Egypt following..... More
Commercial letter from London to the United States discussing the prospect of continuing the War of 1812 - Delivered by the American privateer, Brutus, just as the British were imposing a blockade on American harbors
London to New York and Boston: 1813. Unbound. This two-page stampless folded letter measures 15.75” by 10” unfolded. It is datelined “duplicate London 30th January 1813.” The letter was forwarded to New York after originally having been addressed to Boston. It bears a straight-line “SHIP” handstamp and two receiving postmarks..... More
WESTERN TRADE TOKEN COLLECTION WITH ADDITIONAL EXONUMIA. . . . Good for a loaf of bread, a game of pool, half-pint of cream, or a roll in the hay
Most from Nevada mining towns: Most from 1900-1910. Collection of forty-eight western tokens other exonumia composed mostly of merchant "good for" tokens, several Pony Express commemorative ‘so-called-dollars’, a tool-check, and a ‘dog house’ license. These were issued at various locales, mostly in Nevada with a couple from California. The tokens..... More
A WOMAN'S EXPERIENCE DURING THE LIBERATION OF MANILLA DURING WORLD WAR II - “PRACTICALLY ALL OUR NEIGHBORS AND THE CHILDREN’S PLAYMATES HAVE BEEN MURDERED BY THESE DASTARDLY JAPS.”; File copy of a letter describing a woman’s horrifying but tenacious effort to save herself and her children from massacre by Japanese soldiers as American forces liberated Manila during World War Two
Manilla, Philippines: Santo Thomas Internment Camp: February 16, 1945. Unbound. This onion-skin file copy of a letter measures 8.5” x 11”. It was written by “Walter” (who identifies himself as an employee of Trans World Airlines) immediately after his liberation from the Saint Thomas Internment Camp run by the Japanese..... More