Folly Island: 1864. Unbound. This four-page letter was sent by Private Atwell B. Leavenworth of the 57th New York Infantry to his father. It is dated “Folly Island July 13. 64”. The letter is in nice shape with splits beginning at the ends of its mailing folds. Transcript included. In... More about Union soldier’s detailed Civil War letter describing combat during the Battle of Bloody Bridge...

U.S. Army Transport ship USAT General W. M. Black: [1948]. Unbound. This original line and wash watercolor measures 14.25” x 12.25”. It is titled “Voyage No 5 Bremerhaven, Germany – Valparaiso, Chile” and the name of the ship, General W. M. Black, is prominently shown in the colorful drawing along..... More about Original comic watercolor documenting life aboard a post-World War II U.S. Army ship transporting...

Edisto Island, [South Carolina]: 1862. Unbound. This four-page letter, datelined “Edisto Island May 10th 1862,” was sent by a trooper in the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry stationed in South Carolina to a family member at home in Brighton, Massachusetts. Its envelope is franked with a 3-cent Washington stamp (Scott #65) that... More about A letter from a Union soldier from Massachusetts stationed at one of the main colonies of escaped...

Cincinnati: 1810. Unbound. This stampless one-page folded letter measures 15.5” x 12.5” unfolded. It was sent from Sedam’s farm near Bold Face Creek about three miles west of Cincinnati and is dated November 11, 1810. The cover is addressed to McHenry at Baltimore, Maryland. It has a manuscript Cincinnati postmark... More about PLEA FROM A HERO OF THE NORTHWEST INDIAN WARS TO RECEIVE HIS ARMY PENSION; Folded-letter from...

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

Primarily Washington, DC: mostly circa 1949. Loose-leaf binder. The archive is contained in an 11”x11.75”x3” Kempco file box. Its principal component is a two-volume, unpublished manuscript in two binders, each measuring 9”x11”. Together they contain approximately 100 pages of manuscript text, eight pages of hand-colored charts, one card..... More about An archive related to the legendary dean of American heraldry and the founder of the U.S....

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...

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: 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

San Antonio, TX: Naylor Publishing, 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Variant binding without "July, 1932" of verso of title page. Tan suede-covered boards. B&w photos throughout. Fold-out plate of letter photographs. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages with some very faint marginal toning. Pressed-out corner crease and minor... More about Texas Camel Tales: Incidents Growing Up Around an Attempt By the War Department of the United...

Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1861. Unlisted. Sheet Music. Complete. 6 pages including cover. Cover features a large portrait of Major Robert Anderson, the Commander of Fort Sumter. Clean with only light wear. Once bound. Slight tobacco odor. An early Civil War patriotic march published shortly after the attack on Fort Sumter. More about Major Anderson's Grand March [Sheet Music

[Dugny, France]: 1917. Unbound. Two letters sent on consecutive days by Wiswall to his family in Wellesley, Massachusetts. The first is to Urswall’s brother and was written on a 5.25” x 7” soldier’s mailing sheet. It is franked with a blue 25-centime Sower stamp (Scott #168) and bears a circular..... More about Correspondence from a volunteer serving with an American Field Service in France that supported...

Vladivostok: 1919. Unbound. This two-page letter, dated 26 July 1919, on YMCA stationery was written by Irving A. Dexter, a musician in the 31st Infantry Regiment’s band, to his mother in Rhode Island. The unfranked letter bears a small Siberia “1” duplex postmark dated 28 July 1919 and a type... More about 31st Infantry Regiment musician’s letter from Siberia during the Allied intervention in the...