Unlisted. Unbound. Nice cdv of Confederate General Braxton Bragg. Identified in pencil on front of the card under the photograph. In the uniform of a US general officer. Bragg was a principal Confederate commander in the Western theater and later the military advisor to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. More about Confederate General Braxton Bragg - Carte de Visite
E. & H.T. Anthony. Unbound. Nice cdv of General Thomas Leonidas Crittenden. Crittenden was a border state general from Kentucky who remained loyal to the Union. Following the Battle of Shiloh, he was promoted to Major General and served as one of General Rosencran's principal lieutenants at Tullahoma and Chickamauga..... More about General Thomas Leonidas Crittenden - Carte De Visite
London: Remington and Co, 1886. Hardcover. Approximately 6” x 9”. Complete: Vol. 1 with 244 pages. Vol. 2 with 260 pages; map and 20-page catalog in rear. Original brown diapered cloth with black decoration and gilt lettering. Very good. Sound binding; front hinges of both volumes beginning to crack. Vol... More about Souvenirs of Military Life in Algeria (2 volumes
Boston: J. W. Black & Co. Carte De Visite. Photographer's mark on the reverse reads "Black / 163 Washington St. / Boston." Upper left corner is slightly trimmed. There is a narrow strip of light toning at the top of the reverse of the card. The Reverend Hall was one... More about Christopher Newman Hall - 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 about Otto von Bismarck - CDV
[Washington, DC]: United States Office of War Information, [1942]. Pamphlet. This 10” x 13” pamphlet contains 72 unnumbered pages encouraging African-Americans to support the U.S. effort in World War Two. Complete, but as usually found, it is quite worn as it was printed on cheap acidic paper. There is extensive... More about Negroes and the War
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 about Bird’s eye views of Alexandria, Virginia on Union Civil War patriotic envelopes
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, The Soldier’s Dream/The Soldier’s Team, Parody of..... More about Magnus Song Sheet Booklet: Six Military and Patriotic Illustrated Songs. Elaborately Colored. ...
New York: Chas. Magnus, circa 1862-1863. Envelope or Cover. This colorful unused Civil War patriotic cover is titled “Maj. Gen. Peck’s Headquarters at Suffolk, Va. 1. And the 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry Camp (Col Spears.) There are two illustrations on this envelope. The lower illustration shows Peck’s headquarters complex. The upper..... More about Patriotic cover with a color illustration of "Maj. Gen. Peck’s Headquarters at Suffolk,...
France: Circa 1918-1920. Album. This 7” x 9” journal contains about 300 captioned photos of varying sizes plus about 25 handwritten pages documenting the 413th Telegraph Battalion’s wartime service. About 15 images are of family at home. A post-war letter and calling card are laid-in. There are three sketches: two... More about Extensive photographic record of one of the first U.S. telegraph battalions to deploy to France...
United States, at sea, France, England, and Scotland: 1927. Album. This official scrapbook album, titled “Travel-Log of the Second A. E. F.: My Trip to France, 1927,” measures 11” x 7” and contains 160 pages filled with about 250 captioned b/w photographs (most approximately 4.5” x 3.75”), a like number... More about Memory book kept by a World War One veteran documenting “The Second A. E. F. 1927,” the...
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 about Photograph album documenting the family life of a Jewish man including his immigration into the...
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 about Memory book assembled by one of the first U.S. YMCA workers to deploy during World War One who...
USAHS Louis A. Milne and Hawaii: 1945. Album. This comb-bound album measures 12” x 9” and contains approximately 225 images and several additional pieces of ephemera. About 170 of the images are vernacular photographs; the remainder are a mix of postcards, professional photographs, and half-tone prints. Most of the snap-shots... More about Photograph album documenting service on the World War II Hospital Ship, USAHS Louis A. Milne
New York: Wm A. Pond, 1865. Unbound. 6 pages including the cover. Light wear and toning; two small ghosts at top margin of cover. On April 15, 1865, after President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, his body was carried by an honor guard to the White House. There... More about Funeral March Dedicated to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln . . . Played at the Obsequies of the...
Boston, [Massachusetts] to Hartford, [ Connecticut]: May 22, 1795. Unbound. This manuscript, folded-letter invoice, dated May 22 1795, measures approximately 7.5” x 11” unfolded. It is addressed to Mr. Selden Chapman, Merchant, Hartford and bears a straight-line Boston postmark dated 22/May. (See page 167, vol 1, ASCC.) It bears a.... More about Mailed invoice for shipping five hogsheads of rum delivered by the New England slave ship, Sloop...
Marne River and the Argonne Forest: 1918. Unbound. This grouping consists of two combat letters, a French Croix de Guerre, and one newspaper clipping. The earliest letter, dated July 25, consists of four pages and is enclosed in an envelope postmarked with an indistinct flag cancelation from APO 2 (Paris)... More about Small archive regarding a heroic young 3rd Infantry Division soldier including a gruesome...
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 about Canoeing and Camping (No. 60R in Spalding’s Red Cover Series of Athletic Handbooks
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 about Attacks of Fort Washington by His Majesty s Forces under the Command of Gen.l Sir Willm How K:B. ...
Moscow: Planeta, 1974. First Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo. Complete. 133 pages with list of illustrations in rear. B/w photographic illustrations throughout. Sound binding. Clean pages. Light wear to cover. This is a memorial poem and photographic tribute to Che Guevara, the Marxist revolutionary, guerilla leader, counter-culture hero, and co-founder of... More about Ruki Gevary - Las Manos de Guevara (The Hands of Guevara
[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 about I'm Off to Charleston
Chicago: circa 1865. Unbound. This postally used cover promotes Artificial Leg Depots operated by Dr. Robert Bly in conjunction with the U.S. Government. It includes an illustration of the Bly artificial leg. The envelope bears an undated circular Chicago postmark and is franked with a 3-cent Washington stamp canceled by... More about Postally used envelope promoting Civil War Artificial Leg Depots established by Dr. Douglas Bly...
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 about Letter from an American in Liverpool describing his efforts to prevent an Englishman from...
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 page. Light dampstain to the first six... More about The Non-Slaveholder, Volumes 1 and 2 bound together
Vicksburg, Mississippi By Telegraph from Washington, D.C. 1865. Unbound. This one-page official copy of a telegram sent by Secretary Stanton to General Stanton 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 about Official copy of a telegram from Secretary of War E. M. Stanton providing guidance regarding...
