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1806 Revolutionary War Generals Ohio Northwest Territory Land Rush Letters
$2,000.00
Remarkable primary source material between the American Revolution and War of 1812 settling Western Reserve / Ohio borders amongst the Connecticut Land Co speculators and the nascent American government. Communications seem to concern the...
1900s African American Sharecroppers Marriage License Applications
$1,000.00
Sent on behalf of largely African American / Mississippi Delta sharecroppers working for cotton plantation owners or lumber mills, (11) requests dating between 1908 and 1927. The personal relationship to the farmhands by the...
1900s Photographer Artist Rejection Letter Archive
$500.00
Dating between 1900 and 1906 with two references to the engine in Niagara Falls (power station?) Sent from The Metropolitan Magazine, Wide World Magazine (London), The New York Times and Nature (London) and George...
1900s Women's Reproductive Health Medical Tools Salesman Letter
$600.00
Traveling salesman / business man writing to another offering a share in an upstart company and corresponding territory in which to sell, even written on hotel stationery as so many such propositions are. However, the product...
1910s Antoinism Religious Cult Belgian Coal Miner Press Photos
$500.00
Antoine, Mdm Antoine (The Good Mother) & two 'adepts' curing children reverse. Healing image shows a poignant young girl doubly exposed.
(4) photographs each measure 4.75 x 6.5" w/ early NYC press markings.
1920s Draftswoman Calligraphy Mottos + Signs Folk Art Book
$600.00
It is clear that had J. Lindsay Davis not been a women in the 1920s, she might have had a bang up career as a sign painter or draftsman. The book begins with an...
1930s Integrated Factory Employees Engineers Passport Photo Archive
$1,200.00
Westinghouse Air Brake Company (WABCO) was an early titan in the fields of electricity and transportation, by this time with projects all over the world. Presumably shot by the Westinghouse commercial / factory photographer...
1930s Lesbian Nudes Sex Worker History Discovery Photo
$2,000.00
Believed European (between World Wars), eyes on the photographer and breasts carefully positioned for the camera. Likely women hired at a brothel to pose - cheap backdrop, work shoes and dirty feet betray the...
1930s Movie Projectionists Labor Union Strike Letter & Cards
$500.00
The International Association of Theatre and Stage Employees (IATSE) and the Interstate Projectionist Union picketing Keith’s Theatre, the Little Hippodrome and New Academy Theatre in the months following the AFL / NRA newly passed labor...
1940s Hollywood Actor Manuscript 45+ Letters Archive Male Affection WWII
$2,500.00
(45) hand written and occasionally typed letters and (2) telegrams sent from Bob Stack to a close friend in Pittsburgh PA. Hall appears to have worked (or run) a defunct newspaper in Pittsburgh with ties...
1940s Masters Thesis 19thc American Political Cartoons Handmade Book
$600.00
A Study of the Outstanding American Political Cartoons of the Seventies and Eighties…A Masters Thesis at Temple University, June 1949. Considering the political cartoons of the late 19thc to just after the close of...
19thc Brewery Delivery Horse Stables Veterinarian Archive
$800.00
Dr. Charles Faivre, born in France (and trained on foreign service in Africa), working in Philadelphia. Appears to be the stable department archive of the Bergner & Engels Brewing Co, at the time one of...