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(14) 1930s/40s Greenwood Mississippi Voting Poll Tax Receipts
$500.00
Paid by Yarbrough B. Allen (most often Y.B. Allen) and his wife Wahweece Allen (Veva Wahweece Gayden) at a rate of two dollars each per election. (14) receipts begin in 1939 and end in 1948. ...
(PR) 19thc Victorian Child & Black Rag Doll CDV Studio Photos
$1,200.00
Strong images that have remarkably survived together. One, a very purposeful view with the doll and the companion image captures how familiar and loved the object was to this child. Signed J.H. Lamson...
1749 Colonial Blacksmith Prince George Frederick Maryland Will & Testament
$750.00
To all Christian people to whome these presants shall come; I Nehemiah Ogden of Monocose* and Frederick’s County in the provence of Maryland Blacksmith : Know ye that I Nehemiah Ogden for and in Consideration...
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...
1860s New York American Indian Village Archeology Dig Letter
$500.00
Dated St. Pumpkin’s Day 1868 from Newark Valley New York from noted genealogist D. Williams Patterson to an early Wilkes Barre PA founder Stephen Jenkins. Interviewing elder locals and trying to piece together Indian...
1890s British India Fashion Studio Photo Painted
$600.00
The height of British Victorian society photographed in the Indian colony. Signed G. W. Lawrie (Lucknow - Northern India). Exquisite detail and colors, particularly in the textiles. ___ Board measures 12...
1890s Child Nurse Roosevelt Hospital NYC Portrait Photo
$300.00
Outstanding caregiver portrait, barefoot girl with doll held by Julia Bowne of Roosevelt Hospital who shows in the Children’s Ward by the mid 1890s. Beautiful condition image with wear to card stock, mount measures 5.5...
1890s Compelling Woman Itinerant Portrait Photo Signed Virginia
$275.00
Fine dress and corsage or purse stand in stark contrast to her empty countenance. Posed against a house on stilts, this may well be the first photograph of her life. Pale blue mount measures 5.5...
1890s Hyden Kentucky Appalachian Coal & Timber Town Glass Slides (4)
$600.00
Titled 3 Generations Mountain Faces (1901), Bridge (1896), Girl Schoolers (1900) and From Hills to South (1895). Established on the Eastern Coal Region and heavy timber, the earliest of these image is only thirteen years...
1890s Infant w/ Black & White Dolls NY Studio Cabinet Photo
$800.00
Remarkably straight forward, the dolls are both quite pricey toys (European - perhaps French / German) and photographed prominently. This is a statement made by socially progressive parents, the child’s face is joyous and it’s...
1890s Integrated Los Angeles California School Calisthenics Class Photo
$600.00
Striking composition. Integrated Caucasian, African American, Native American and Mexican children in various states of dress (and enthusiasm) outside a well appointed school house. Signed Wesner / 120 N. Spring St. Los Angeles California. ...
1890s Integrated Native American Frontier Family Cabinet Photo
$750.00
Striking incongruity amongst her pioneer guardians, the young woman in high Victorian fashion entirely pulling focus. She is stoic and exquisitely beautiful, likely from the Chickasaw tribe. Signed Jenkins Studio in Ardmore / Indian (Oklahoma)...