[Transgender and Cross-Dressing][LGBTQ] D’Eon de Beaumont, Charlotte Geneviève. Autograph Note Signed, 8 March 1795, written and signed by one of the earliest recorded transgender women in Europe. The letter dates to D'Eon's time in England, after her diplomatic career, military service, and public gender transition made her one of the.....
[Transgender and Cross-Dressing][LGBTQ] D’Eon de Beaumont, Charlotte Geneviève. Autograph Letter Signed, 11 July 1796, written and signed by one of the earliest recorded transgender women in Europe in her feminine title, offering direct manuscript evidence of her self-identification as a woman with the female title and pronouns “La chevaliere d’Eon”.....
[Iran] [Art] Qajar School Lovers in Embrace gouache painting on paper, nineteenth century, represents the courtly aesthetic, erotic refinement, and dynastic visual language that defined Persian painting under Qajar rule. The composition situates a princely male figure and his adorned companion in intimate embrace, reinforcing themes of aristocratic leisure, romanticized.....
[Mexico] [New Spain] Apodaca, Juan Ruiz de. Official proclamation dated July 5, 1821 announcing his resignation as Viceroy of New Spain during the final months of the Mexican War of Independence. Issued during a political crisis following the Plan of Iguala earlier that year, the document records the transfer of.....
[Women History][Women in Military] [Joan of Arc] Archive of 115 French postcards, ca. 1890–1930, documents the visual construction of Joan of Arc as armored military leader and nationalist symbol during the decades surrounding the Franco-Prussian War, the Third Republic, and the First World War. , documenting the military image and.....
[Spanish American War] [Philippine American War] Photo album compiled by Lewis M. Hesseldahl of Company C, 1st Colorado U.S. Volunteers, a soldier assembled visual and documentary record of the Manila campaign and early American occupation that materially documents the transition from the Spanish American War to the Philippine American War.....
[Science and Medicine][Nobel Prize] Cori, Carl Ferdinand. Large correspondence archive preserving over three decades of transatlantic scientific exchange between a family central to twentieth-century biomedical research. Encompassing the career of Carl F. Cori, recipient of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for elucidating the enzymatic pathway of glycogen.....
[Cross-Dressing][Women Military] Joan of Arc engraving archive depicting the French military leader and martyr Jeanne d’Arc in iconic images of battle, persecution, and faith, ca. 1770-1850s. The prints focus on Joan’s leadership during the Hundred Years’ War and on the gender-bending aspects of her identity and dress that contributed to.....
Large missionary lantern slide archive documenting Protestant evangelical activity and African village life in West Africa during the early twentieth century, most plausibly within the Upper Guinea Coast region encompassing present day Sierra Leone or Liberia. The photographs record interactions between European or American missionaries and local communities during a......
African American sailors aboard the USS Leyte (CV-32) photo album, compiled circa 1950–1951, documents daily life, labor, and camaraderie among Black enlisted men serving during the opening phase of the Korean War and in the early implementation of military desegregation under Harry S. Truman’s Executive Order 9981. Created while the.....
U.S. Navy photo archive documenting the Mexican Patrol mission of USS Rainier, a Pacific Fleet auxiliary schooner,during World War I. This archive documents U.S. naval personnel moved between shipboard duty, shore stations, and regional exploration in Mexican and California waters. Taken by Lieutenant junior grade Dr. Louis Henry Clerf, the.....
[Cross dressing] [Japan] [Kabuki] Japanese Kabuki onnagata portrait archive documenting male actors specializing in female roles, a codified theatrical practice central to Kabuki performance history since the early Edo period. Gender play in Kabuki was not only an aesthetic convention but also a cultural commentary as onnagata roles shaped ideals.....
[Mexico] [Photography] Vernacular photograph album documenting daily life, labor, and civic culture in Mexico and California, 1906–1908, with substantial visual material from the late Porfirian era preceding the Mexican Revolution. The album records markets, religious architecture, rural labor, and public spectacle across central Mexico, alongside views of communities in the.....
An early Zionist cigarette card photo album during the British Mandate period documenting Jewish paramilitary forces, settlement defense, athletics, and infrastructure development in Mandatory Palestine, likely produced in the 1930s-1940s as an educational and propaganda tool. The images illustrate the development of defense forces, collective agricultural settlements, and youth training.....
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Saadi.” July 1864. Published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1864, this essay reflects Emerson’s long engagement with Persian literature and the moral philosophy of Saadi of Shiraz. Written during the Civil War, the essay situates Persian ethical reflection within Emerson’s broader transcendentalist inquiry, asserting cross-cultural continuities in.....
U.S. Military Life in Occupied Japan photo album documenting the experiences of United States Army soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Brigade during the early years of the Allied occupation of Japan following World War II between 1945 and 1947. The photographs record military training, base life, infrastructure, and interactions between.....
El Eternauta featured in three Hora Cero Suplemento Semanal issues, placing them within the original weekly Frontera run that first introduced Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López’s landmark Argentine science fiction narrative. Hora Cero Suplemento Semanal. Buenos Aires: Editorial Frontera, 1958 to 1959. Three oblong octavo weekly comics in.....
[Slavery] [Cuba] Spanish colonial slave sale manuscript recording the transfer of thirty-eight enslaved individuals in Cuba in 1875, materializing the sheer scale and organization of enslaved labor within the island’s plantation economy during the final decade before abolition. The document enumerates a large group of enslaved people, including multiple family.....
The Officer’s Manual in the Field; or, a Series of Military Plans, Representing the Principal Operations of a Campaign, 1798 rare First English edition presenting late eighteenth century European military strategy through illustrated tactical instruction at the outset of the Napoleonic era. Translated from German under the patronage of the.....
[Comics][Political Activism][Latin America] Archive of four issues of Argentine anti-authoritarian sci-fi comic El Eternauta by Héctor Germán Oesterheld, printed in Hora Cero anthologies, 1957-58. El Eternauta is a foundational work of Latin American science fiction created by writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld and artist Francisco Solano López. The story begins in.....
[Japan Occupation][WWII] Primary-source photo album of United States military governance during the occupation of Japan, with particular emphasis on the enforcement of legal authority and the administration of war crimes proceedings under Allied control. Centered on the career of General Charles Sabin Ferrin in his capacity as Provost Marshal of.....
[Mediterranean][Military] Justinus, Marcus Junianus. Historiae Philippicae. The 1539 Latin edition preserving the principal surviving account of the lost universal history of Trogus Pompeius, one of the most important pre-Christian narratives of Macedonian rule. Composed originally as an abridgment of Trogus’s forty-four-book history written under Augustus, Justinus’s text passes on essential.....
[Spanish-American War] [Military] [Cuba] United States volunteer cavalry photo archive of soldiers in the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, widely known as Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, during and immediately after the Spanish American War, ca. 1898-1900. The photographs record the daily life, training routines, and informal social culture of American.....
[Travel and Maps][Military][Greece] Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria. Seventeenth century first edition history chronicling the Venetian reconquest of the Peloponnese during the Sixth Turkish–Venetian War, a contemporary Catholic and Venetian account of Ottoman–European military conflict in the eastern Mediterranean. Issued amid the campaigns of 1684–1687, when the Republic of Venice seized control.....
[WAC][Korean War] Women’s Army Corps photo album, compiled by Sgt. Elizabeth Adamek of Cairnbrook, PA ca. early to mid 1950s, extensively recording enlisted women in post-1948 U.S. Army administrative operations at Camp Zama, Japan during the Korean War period. Elizabeth Adamek, later Elizabeth Adamek Pierce (1932–2016), served approximately twenty years.....
