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Item #009667 FOLLOWING AN UNSUCCESSFUL REVIVAL, A DISHEARTENED MISSIONARY PREACHER LAMENTS,...

FOLLOWING AN UNSUCCESSFUL REVIVAL, A DISHEARTENED MISSIONARY PREACHER LAMENTS, “AFTER I LEFT THERE I WEPtT 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

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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Item #008712 Photograph album documenting six years in the life of an itinerate west coast...

Photograph album documenting six years in the life of an itinerate west coast laborer, whaler, and general seaman.

Oregon, at sea, and in many ports of call: 1919-1926. Album. The album measures 15.5" x 9" and contains 100 pages with over 300 photographs (mostly 3" x 5"), several pieces of personal ephemera, about 15 newspaper or periodical clippings, and 46 different beer bottle labels. The photos are arranged..... More

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Item #009775 “KANSAS / THE BEST PART OF THE WEST TO BUY A GRAIN FARM . . . STOCK FARM . . ....

“KANSAS / THE BEST PART OF THE WEST TO BUY A GRAIN FARM . . . STOCK FARM . . . SHEEP RANCH . . . OPEN A STORE, OR TO PRACTICE A PROFESSION.” The Immigrants’ Guide to the Most Fertile Lands of Kansas. . ..

Kansas City, Mo. Land & Immigration Office of the Kansas Division (formerly Kansas Pacific Railway) Union Pacific Railway Company, circa 1880. Unbound. This 6-panel brochure measures approximately 7.5” x 10.25” unfolded. It was published by the “Land & Immigration Office of the Kansas Division (formerly Kansas Pacific Railway) Union Pacific..... More

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Item #009846 1861 - Anti-secessionist screed sent from San Francisco by a colporteur, John...

1861 - Anti-secessionist screed sent from San Francisco by a colporteur, John “Johnnie” Ware, enclosed in its original rare ‘internal’ Pony Express envelope

San Francisco: June 12, 1861. Envelope or Cover. California politics had long been dominated by pro-slavery Democrats until the presidential campaign of 1860 when their party split into two factions, one led by Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas and the other by Vice-President John C. Breckinridge. This schism allowed the..... More

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Item #009829 “Night and day I have been employed trying to secure the Land of the companies...

“Night and day I have been employed trying to secure the Land of the companies from being washed away and our mill from being destroyed.” Letter from the general who went to work for a Colorado mining company to support his family after being scapegoated and cashiered from the Army following the Union defeat at Second Bull Run

Envelope or Cover. This four-page letter, dated June 14th 1864, was written by former Major General Fitz-John Porter to his wife. The original mailing envelope is franked with a 3-cent stamp (Scott #65) and bears a scarce Black Hawk Point, Colorado (Territory) postmark dated June 15, 1864. Both are in..... More

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Item #009737 The Big-Eared People of Dondun, Pigmies, Giant Storks, Giant Ants, and Monkeymen of...

The Big-Eared People of Dondun, Pigmies, Giant Storks, Giant Ants, and Monkeymen of the Indian Subcontinent from "Cosmographia, das ist: Beschreibung der gantzen Welt."

Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1578. Disbound. This disbound leaf from Munsters Cosmographia measures 8" x 13.5". It contains six woodcuts showing unusual men and animals from the Indian subcontinent. The leaf is in nice shape with some marginal toning. One woodcut shows a pigmy conversing with a man from Dondun where..... More

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Item #009859 1860 - Congressional pamphlet detailing the expedition to find a shortcut between...

1860 - Congressional pamphlet detailing the expedition to find a shortcut between the Great Salt Lake and the Oregon Trail

Washington DC: U.S. Senate, 1860. Disbound. 36th Congress, 1st Session. Senate. Ex. Doc., No. 34. Report of the Secretary of War communicating In compliance with a resolution of the Senate, the report of Captain H. D. Wallen of his expedition in 1859, from Dalles City to Great Salt Lake, and..... More

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