[African Americana] Our Colored Heroes Lithograph. E.G. Renesch: Chicago, 1918. Measures 14.5 x 11.5 inches. Title and copyright in lower margin. This lithograph was produced to commemorate the actions of two African American soldiers, Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts, who were cited for bravery and presented with the Croix de.....
[African Americana]. Civil War Outdoor tintype of a uniformed African American man with white men also in uniform. Civil war or reconstruction 19th century Era. Measures 2.25 x 3.25 inches. Image shows an outdoor gathering, possibly a militia encampment as the men are in military dress. An African American man.....
[AFRICAN AMERICANA] -- [CIVIL WAR]. A group of 4 Civil War era pamphlets related to slavery and secession, comprising: Dickinson, Daniel S., Hon. The Union: An Address. New York: James G. Gregory, 1861. Pamphlet with printed paper wraps, 24pp. Delivered before the Literary Societies of Amherst college, July 10th, 1861.....
[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. Archive of 10 items,mostly original silver gelatin press photographs of high profile African Americans, including civil rights attorney Arthur Shores, Stevie Wonder, and Jesse Jackson. The photos are from UPI. Includes 7 x 9 in. silver gelatin photograph of Arthur Shores with note stating his home was bombed.....
New Constitution for the State of Illinois. Presented by Hawley & Grant... Springfield, IL: Hawley & Grant, [1870]. Octavo, approximately 5.5" x 8.5" inches. Printed blue wrappers. 32 pages. Rare. By the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, it was clear that the Illinois constitution of 1848 had been.....
[Americana]. All Impressments Unlawful and Inadmissible. Boston: Published and Sold by William Pelham, [c. 1808]. A Contemporary Response to the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair. 12 pp. Octavo, 9-1/4" x 5-3/4" inches. Stab-stitched pamphlet in self wrappers, untrimmed edges. One of two issues, both printed c. 1808. This pamphlet addresses the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair.....
[Black Panther], [Civil Rights] May Day Protest Poster from the Black Panthers New Haven Chapter, one of the most successful Black Panthers branches, featuring the music of Santana. "May 1 Rally, Music, People". Photocopied poster. New Haven, 1 May [1970]. Measures 16 1/4 x 11 inches. A poster for an.....
Beadle's Pocket Library with story of Calamity Jane. 1885. Measures 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 31 pages. Paper wrappers with front image of Calamity Jane, reigns in her hands and a rifle slung across her back, hair blowing behind her. Cover text reads "Deadwood Dick on Deck Or, Calamity Jane, The.....
[Girls’ Education] Original cross-stitch alphabet sampler from two 8-year old girls. 1814. In frame: 15.5 x 20.5”. Alphabet cross-stitched in capital and lower case letters. Vowels, numbers 0-9, and floral designs in backstitch. Girls’ names Verna L Haywood and Elizabeth Hope stitched below along with "at best 1814", “Age eight.....
[Legal Dispute] [Government] California Claims. In Senate of the United States. February 23,1848. 30th Congress, 1st Session [Senate] Rep. Com., No. 75. Washington, D.C., 1848. First edition. 83 pages. Disbound. 6.5 x 9 in. “Half a million dollars would pay all the just claims of California”. Mr. Cass made the.....
[African-Americana] Jones, Charles C. Negro Myths from the Georgia Coast. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888. First Edition. Ex libris. 7" x 4.75" inches. Written in the Gullah dialect of the region, which was especially prominent in this time. The myths tend to be fables with a......
Albumen photograph on black card mount showing Native American woman holding small child. Photo measures 6 x 7.5 inches with card measuring 7.5 x 9 inches. Native American woman with thick striped blanket wrapped around her shoulders and the child in her arms poses on a rocky hillside, trees visible.....
[Native Americans] Report on Treaty with Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior. 40th Congress, 2nd. Session. [Washington] House of Representatives: March 6, 1868. “Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and Ordered to be printed.” 5.5” x 9.5” inches, 28 pages. Looseleaf, with no evidence.....
[Native American] [Americana]. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for The Year 1884. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884. In paper wrappers. 9” x 6” inches. 55 pages. This report from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs captures the population management methods used by.....
[REVOLUTIONARY WAR]. December 1774 Gentleman's Magazine reports on the developing Revolutionary War, including articles on "Plan of A Union Between Great Britain and the Colonies", "The King's Speech to the New Parliament", "Protest against the Lord's Address", "Letters From the Massachusetts Assembly to Lord Dartmouth", "Proceedings in the Province of.....
Archive of 6 photo-postcards with of the American West. Early 1900s. black and white photo Postcards show a range of western towns in Iowa, New Mexico, and South Dakota. 5 x 3.5 inches. Images show a mix of horse drawn carriages and early automobiles in main streets of western towns.....
(Women). Photo Album: Three Sisters. Midwest, 1918-1927. Oblong octavo. Covers are brown cloth boards held by ties. Oblong octavo, 11” x 7” inches. Title “Photographs” in gilt. 230 snapshots in a variety of sizes, most 3.5” x 4.5” inches, but also 2.25” x 3.5”, 1.5” x 2.25”, and 7” x......
Extensive archive of over 200 handwritten correspondence, including 188 handwritten letters and 24 postcards totaling over 500 pages. Written by a Missouri man named Waldon to his sweetheart Julia in Chicago. Dated from 1911-1919, the letters tell their love story to the backdrop of World War I the Spanish Flu.....