Octavio I. Romano and Quinto Sol Publications periodical archive from 1967 to 1974, documenting the development of El Grito from an interdisciplinary journal of Mexican American intellectual and literary work into a publishing program explicitly organized around Chicano poetry, drama, history, social science, and cultural criticism. Beginning with Volume I......
1863 $5 Confederate States Currency. This Confederate States currency is dated April 16, 1863, and is hand signed. The obverse states, "The Confederate States of America will pay to bearer Five Dollars - Richmond." Thin paper. In very good condition.
Ruscelli, Girolamo. Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola, 1561, engraved map presenting one of the earliest modern cartographic depictions of the Arabian Peninsula during the Renaissance expansion of geographic knowledge. Ruscelli, an Italian humanist and cartographer active in Venice, produced this map as part of the sixteenth century revival and reinterpretation of.....
Sanson, Nicolas. America Settentrional, circa 1690, is an Italian edition of Sanson’s influential seventeenth-century mapping of North America and preserves one of the most enduring cartographic misconceptions of the early modern Atlantic world: California shown as an island. The map supports research into European geographic knowledge, the circulation of French.....
American Education Society. Sixteenth Annual Report of the Directors of the American Education Society, 1832, records the finances, administration, and ministerial training work of an organization founded to assist “indigent but pious” young men preparing for the Protestant ministry. Issued during the expansion of evangelical benevolent societies in the antebellum.....
Dana, Charles A. (ed.). December 18, 1887 issue of the New York Sun containing an extensively illustrated account of notable plays from the recently concluded baseball season, documenting how late nineteenth-century newspapers transformed athletic action into popular narrative and visual entertainment. Published while professional baseball was developing established leagues, longer.....
Underwood & Underwood. Merry Gliders, Central Park, N.Y., 1889, records winter recreation in New York City’s Central Park during the late nineteenth century. The stereoview shows skaters gathered on the park’s ice, preserving a view of the public use of Central Park for seasonal recreation more than three decades after.....
Catholic Girls’ School, Ugbrooke. Regulations for the Catholic Girls’ School, at Ugbrook, 1841, a formal rule book documenting the provision and governance of Catholic education for girls from working and dependent families associated with the Ugbrooke estate in Devon. Founded in 1824 by Lady Clifford, the school was principally financed.....
Remarkable late 19th-century Albumen photograph depicting a large, racially integrated music ensemble and social gathering posed outside a clapboard-sided rural building, likely a church or schoolhouse in the American South or border states. Cabinet card photograph. Albumen print mounted on heavy cardstock. Circa 1880s–1890s. Measures 8.5" x 6.5". The group.....
Pierce, Henry M. Address to the Second Graduating Class of the Rutgers Female College, 1868, was delivered to the second graduating class after the institution received a new charter authorizing it to confer collegiate degrees upon women. Founded in 1839 as Rutgers Female Institute, the New York school became Rutgers.....
Preston, John Howard. Autograph letter to his daughter Sarah, November 29, 1823, records a father’s detailed expectations for his daughter’s education, including independent composition, disciplined study, reading comprehension, and instruction under a female tutor. Addressing Sarah as “My dear child,” Preston praises a letter she had sent to her brother.....
A richly detailed 1915 yearbook from Evansville High School in Indiana, offering a compelling visual and textual record of Midwestern educational life during the Progressive Era. The book captures a moment of regional pride and post-Reconstruction civic identity through its extensive documentation of student life, athletics, faculty, and community ties.....
[Nurses] [Photo Album]. This photo album which dates back to the 1920s depicts a crew of young women both studying and working as nurses in Chester, Pennsylvania. Archive of 40 silver gelatin photographs ranging in size from large format photos of 5" x 8" to 2.75" x 3.75". Album is.....
Western travel photo archive depicting Shanghai, Chefoo, Beijing, and northern Chinese landscapes, 1930 to 1938, recording the routes, attractions, and social encounters available to foreign travelers during the final decade before the Second Sino Japanese War transformed movement through coastal and northern China. The photographs move between the commercial modernity.....
[LGBTQ+][Lesbian] Lesbian couples vernacular photographs with owner inscriptions confirming queer relationship, ca. 1946 to 1950, document intimate same sex relationships between women during a period in the United States when homosexuality remained criminalized, socially stigmatized, and rarely recorded in explicit visual form. The photographs provide direct evidence of lesbian partnership.....
American cross dressing performance photo archive depicting cisgender men modeling women’s bathing suits, skirts, jewelry, and accessories before a mixed audience, circa 1950s, when gender nonconformity remained vulnerable to public condemnation, employment discrimination, police surveillance, and prosecution under local masquerade and public decency laws. The photographs record gender play within.....
American Scenery: President’s House, Washington, The White House, circa 1900, documents the executive residence as both a functioning seat of government and a nationally recognizable destination during the expansion of mass-produced photographic tourism. Stereoviews brought paired photographic images of prominent buildings, landscapes, and public events into homes, schools, and libraries.....
[19th c. Women Education] Handwritten letter to 2 women teachers from former instructor. December 22, 1893. 2 pages with original mailing envelope. 9.5 x 5.75 inches. On Western Theological Seminary letterhead, with fine engraving of the school building on both sheets. To “Miss Ellsworth and Miss Gore” from L.M......
Tuckerman, H. P. Poetry and prayer journal, 1820–1830, documents early nineteenth-century manuscript album culture within Anglo-American Protestant communities, with particular attention to women’s devotional writing, moral instruction, and shared literary practices. The volume supports research into gendered authorship, religious education, and the circulation of poetic and didactic texts in the.....
19th Century engraving of the Court of the Kaaba in Mecca. Image measures 5x7.5" on a 7x10.5". The engraving depicts a sweeping view of Mecca with the cityscape in the background. In the foreground are the thousands of pilgrims gathered to worship near the Kaaba, which stands in the center.....
[19th c. Women Education] Handwritten letter from the superintendent of the Young Ladies’ Athenaeum in Jacksonville, IL. June 24, 1879. On official letterhead for the school with a large engraving of campus buildings. 2 pages. 10 x 8 inches. Superintendent of the school William Sander, writes to recommend a graduate.....
Sargeson, L. manuscript composition book, 1875, documents a young woman’s literary and moral education through the nineteenth-century classroom practice of copying poetry, essays, and prose by hand. Signed “Miss L. Sargeson” and dated “9-6-75,” the notebook records how female students were trained in handwriting, spelling, grammar, literary memory, elocution, and.....
Graduation portrait photographs, circa late nineteenth century, document an African American young woman posed with white classmates in formal studio images marking educational achievement. The pair provides direct visual evidence of Black participation in diploma ceremonies during a period when African American access to advanced schooling remained uneven and often.....
Early photographs of African Americans produced during the decades following emancipation provide important visual documentation of Black life during the Reconstruction and early Jim Crow eras. Portrait photographs and vernacular images from the late nineteenth century capture African Americans navigating newly won freedoms while confronting the economic and social constraints.....
American Colony Photo Department. Two views of Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives, circa 1898 to the early twentieth century, document the city and surrounding cultivated landscape during the late Ottoman era. Photographed before extensive twentieth-century urban expansion transformed the slopes east of the Old City, the images preserve olive.....
