Document & Historic Reference
1900s Cherokee Nation Oklahoma Dawes Rolls Attorney Correspondence
$600.00
Attorneys for the Cherokee Nation Before the United States Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes // Cherokee Enrollment Division letterhead; W.W. Hastings Attorney and J.C. Starr Secretary. From the office in Tahlequah Indian Territory 7/9 1903...
1930s Wood Furniture Inlay American Cabinetmaker Salesman Samples
$300.00
NYC Constantine & Son. Scarce, early reference. (3) boards measure 4 x 11” w/ edge chips and heavy foxing. Soft horizontal crease across one card. I can find no reference to these...
19thc British Colonial African Tiger Trapping Drawings
$500.00
Poachers or animal exporters? A portly businessman and a sailor (appears British Colonial) bait a tiger with human feast and trap it under a wood barrel in a series of vignettes. Sad tale but lovely...
1930s Jim Crow Richmond VA Prisoner Murder Confession Document
$1,000.00
First hand account of an African American man’s double murder conviction after attempting to break up a fight as security in a juke joint turned gambling hall outside of Richmond VA. A lengthy account...
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...
1910s African American National Baptist Missionary Handbill
$275.00
Rev. R.A. Jackson : Returned Missionary from Africa under Foreign Mission Board, National Baptist Convention. Only reference available online is a mention of Jackson establishing a ministry in Cape Town in an 1898 publication that...
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...
WWI Animal Drawings after Jean de la Fontaine Fables (4)
$800.00
Signed H.B. Steinberg and titled La Genesse La Chevre et la Brebes / The Heifer, Goat & Sheep Le Singe Et Le Dauphin / The Monkey and the Dolphin Le Lion S'en...
1959/60 Cuban Revolution Castro Propaganda Photos & Postcard
$2,000.00
1. Holy Mother in the Mountains / July 26th Armband Photo Montage. (Measures 4 x 6", surface scratches and minor foxing right edge). Signed St. Naranjo. 2. Raul / Field GRANMA Yacht (Also 4...
1910s WWI Era Italy Prosthetic Limb Factory & Amputee Portrait Photos
$750.00
Individual work stations and lathes stacked with blanks; one man shapes a wooden leg at center. Includes before & after photographs of a beneficiary. Measure 5 x 7” and 2.5 x 4.5”. ...
Mid Century Religious Outsider Visionary Art Drawing Archive
$3,000.00
Reminiscent of Darger’s Vivian Girls had they grown up to be JFK era society women. This appears to be the personal expression of an Eastern Pennsylvania socialite, with significant themes of societal pressures, introspective moods...
1932 Depression Era Labor Protest Cox Army Jobless Party Broadside
$750.00
In January of 1932 Father James Renshaw Cox, a Roman Catholic priest with humble Pittsburgh beginnings, led a march of 250,000 unemployed Pennsylvanians to Washington DC. When President Hoover launched an investigation into exactly how...