Document & Historic Reference
1911 Convict Labor Greenwood MS Prison Farm Reports
$750.00
Rare insight. (42) Prisoners on hand. The majority are presumed African American / Black as specific notations are made for white prisoners. One man even listed as White and Used for Guard. Details...
1920s Child’s School Work Mussolini Italy Propaganda
$500.00
Simultaneously sweet and unsettling. Child’s handwriting and folky pencil drawings (IL BOVINE!) boast on the superiority of Italy’s soil and the new economic plans for farmers under Benito Mussolini. The Battle for Grain campaign...
1893 Inquest & Burial of Victim Itta Bena Manuscript Documents
$750.00
Julius Williams, most often referred to as dead body in a field was decided to have died from unknown causes by this jury. Included is the cost sheet for the inquest along with the making of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
19thc New York Crematory & Mausoleum Funerary Sales Lit
$1,000.00
Mt Olivet Fresh Pond Crematory & Columbarium (Mausoleum) / United States Cremation Company Ltd spanning 1896-1900 including progressive environmentalist arguments against chemical and decomposition seepage into public drinking water. ___ Includes: (3) Bound Pamphlets: Modern...
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 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...