Albums & Journals
correspondence, deathbed, morality, death, goodbye
Alexandria, NJ: 1900. In 1900 Annie Pegg wrote a letter to her husband and two children Sarah and James on her supposed deathbed (she would actually live until 1914 and have another child, Elizabeth). It is unknown if she was actually severely ill or just over dramatic, however the letter.....
Price: $50.00
Original Art, Comic Art
United Kingdom: c1860s. The tone is set for this album containing 59 pen and ink and/or watercolor drawings by the verbiage on the image on the inside cover of a scroll with a whimsical lad at top reads: In Truth it is not every Book, That's suited to the Mind.....
Price: $750.00
sermon, quote, religion, robert e. lee,
New York: The Washington Life Ins. Co., 1893. A tiny pocket journal, written by an unknown individual whose entries mostly consists of quotes from sermons delivered by Reverend Moses Drury Hoge (often referred to in the journal as Dr. Hoge). Along with the quotes, are the writer's thoughts on these.....
Price: $175.00
traveling salesman, hotel, correspondence
Bushton, KA: 6-Dec-09. A six page letter written by a traveling salesman named Augustus, who is delayed in the small town of Bushton, KS, which is located north west of Wichita, KS. He is writing to his sister, Mrs. Emma J. Newton, who lives in Kansas City, Missouri. It appears.....
Price: $150.00
Social History, Works by Children
A collection of letters written by three (3) siblings from an affluent family. Most include the postally used envelopes. The father of the children was George P. Howlett, an attorney. The children’s grandfather was William Rudd of Albany NY, a train. The letters are newsy with information about family outings.....
Price: $400.00
Watercolor, Made by Hand, Genealogy
Wroxham,Norfolk, England: 1972. A large format album reconstructed album illustrated and narrated by Charles Arthur Hannaford. The majority of the content, excluding the narration was created by his father in law and reflected the life of Frank Albert Allchin and his wife Emily Cooper, between the years 1879 and 1929.....
Price: $2,600.00
education, Italy, England, Ethiopia, scrap book
New Haven: 1936. Created by Chester Katzman, an eleven year old boy from New Haven, CT, this scrap book was a school assignment to record an imaginary European tour taken by the student. The book includes various short essays on what was seen, the history and agriculture of the countries.....
Price: $200.00
medicine, notes, skeletal system, anatomy, foot, leg, bones, drawings
March 1888. A wonderfully detailed notebook which features notes on the skeletal system of the leg and foot, including all of their bones, cartilages, and ligaments that support and give shape to the body structures. The notes are legible, though not easily understood, unless one is familiar with the skeletal.....
Price: $150.00
legal, correspondence, Lincoln country, government
Lincoln County, ME: Lincoln County Court of Maine, 1828-1853. A collection of seventeen (17) legal summons to the Constables of various towns in Lincoln County, Maine. The summons date from April 1828 to July 1853 and were sent by the Clerk of the Court for Lincoln County, ME, which during.....
Price: $350.00
correspondence, political, Whig party, Pennsylvania, James Cooper, John A. McGinley, John H. McClellan
Gettysburg, PA: 1843-1848. Two letters written to a John A. McGinley, Esq. of Adams County, PA and short announcement. The first letter, August 20, 1843, is from John H. McClellan, a prominent business man of Gettysburg, PA, who had been appointed treasurer of Adams County in 1840 to serve out.....
Price: $150.00
unpublished children's book, countess karolyi, cahterine karolyi, hungarian author
A 48 page corrected typescript of a book titled “JINX” along with 6 original hand-painted illustrations done b the author herself, the Countess Catherine Karolyi (1898-1985). Laid in a homemade green paper binder with a piece of tan burlap affixed to the front. A watercolor illustration by Karolyi is present.....
Price: $950.00
bathhouse, medicine, business history, correspondence, Sanitarium, homeopathic
Lowell, MA: September 26, 1849. Stampless post. A letter between two doctors, Dr. Bulter Wilmarth and Dr. John Hero that discussing the various patients at a local sanitarium in Lowell, MA, that Wilmarth is treating. There is also some talk about the possibility of the pair working together, either at.....
Price: $225.00
correspondence, medicine, Mississippi river, horse
Poplar, Mississippi: April 7, 1890. A two page letter from Howard G. Thornton, a physician and surgeon located in Poplar, MS. He is writing his younger brother, Ed, who lives in Commerce, TX, with their parents. Thornton describes a busy winter in Mississippi, with lots of sickness, and a rainy.....
Price: $75.00
Architecture, Domestic, correspondence, 1st edition
Boston: James R Osgood and Company, 1874. 314 page book, with gilt stamped covers, 1st edition. The book compiles forty-three (43) letters between an architect and his friends. These letters "are composed of hints and suggestions relating to to building of homes... [and] aim to give practical information to those.....
Price: $65.00
pocket diary, daily life, women's history, journal, social & cultural
Oneida Castle, New York: 1868. A pocket diary belonging to E. M. Cole, an unidentified woman living in Oneida Castle, NY. The diary starts of with several printed pages of general information, such as the calendar for the year, including phases of the moon, church holidays, postal money orders, and.....
Price: $175.00
Penmanship, Calligraphic Drawing
Concord, New Hampshire: National School of Business, c1900. Printed advertisement for E.L. Glick's National School of Business, with a striking visual: an engraved reproduction of a calligraphic drawing of a horse, made almost entirely of flourishes. Aside from being the proprietor of one of the most successful business schools of.....
Price: $275.00
Textiles, American Fashion, Women's Work, Immigrants
United States: 1930s. Manuscript lesson plan book with fabric samples and buttons belonging to Elizabeth Zak, a student of a textile course. Divided into several "contracts" (i.e. classes) over five weeks, the course taught students to recognize materials, judge their quality and best uses, and understand their care. Zak's notes.....
Price: $650.00
correspondence, women's history, medical, mumps, typhoid fever, dysentery, infant mortality, religion, daily life, Sons of Temperance
Ireland Depot, Holyoke, MA: 1847-1857. A collection of eleven (11) letters belonging to the Emerson Family of Holyoke, MA. The majority of the letters are send to Ireland Depot, which was the name of the town's post office from the mid 1840s to mid 1850s. The letters date from 1847.....
Price: $325.00
Arts and Culture, Scrapbooking, Connecticut College, Performing Arts, Concerts and Plays
New London, Connecticut: c.1925-1937. An expansive scrapbook of over 200 individual pieces of ephemera collected by Ethel Cook (c.1908-2006) while she was a student in New London, Connecticut, in the late 1920s. Types of ephemera include periodical clippings, hotel stationary, printed programs and playbills, club meeting ephemera, song sheets, correspondence.....
Price: $550.00
Arion Society, German-American, Beringer Wine, Botanical Specimens
United States: 1868-1882. Eight (8) leaves from the travel and botanical specimen album of German immigrant Frederick Beringer who, along with his brother Jacob, founded the Beringer Wine dynasty in the Napa Valley in 1875. The pages of this album date between 1868 and 1882, and contain a multiplicity of.....
Price: $600.00
President William McKinley, assassination, government, club, correspondence, drawing, capital dome, works by children
Chicago, IL: Washington Locating Club, [September 6-15, 1901]. A manuscript letter sent to President William McKinley by a children's club wishing him health and recovery after the assassination attempt on his life on September 6, 1901. The club was the "Washington Locating Club", which was located in Chicago. The children.....
Price: $95.00
Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Autodidacts, Classism, Flappers
Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1922. First edition of a pocket-sized booklet of mispronunciations, misnomers, and vulgarisms to avoid in the English language. The author's personal views often permeate the entries to great comedic effect, such as in the entry for "flapper": "A very immoral young girl in her early teens".....
Price: $150.00
merchant, commission merchant, business, goods, flour, wood
New York: 1859. A letter written by Frank Hiram Crosby, most likely a commission merchant, in New York. It is unclear who he is writing to, but in the letter he discusses the price of flour he purchased, three to five cents per pound, and the sale of wood. He.....
Price: $125.00
civil war, union, union soldier, battle, death, grief, frienship
Falmouth, VA: c1865. 5 1/2" x 7 1/2" manuscript license to preach. At a meeting of the association of Tolland County convened at Tolland Dec. 28, 1835, the bearer, John Haven, a member of the Theological Institute of Connecticut was examined as to his doctrinal & experimental knowledge of the.....
Price: $175.00