Walker is the first woman in the U.S. to practice as a surgeon and remains the only woman to receive a Congressional Medal of Honor. Very scarce and important autograph letter signed, 1 page. 1895. 3.75" x 5.25". In pencil, she writes: “Yours in every noble cause -- Mary E......
Lincoln, Abraham. Alexander Gardner. [Photograph]: Abraham Lincoln at Antietam Battlefield, 1862. Mounted albumen. The albumen itself measures 9" x 6.5" and is affixed to the original mount, trimmed to an overall size of 9.375" x 6.75". Good clarity. Sunning resulting from prior matting and framing. Photograph shows Abraham Lincoln at.....
[Emancipation Proclamation]. New York Times. Vol. XII, No. 3519. Saturday, January 3, 1863. Four sheets, eight pages. 21 x 15 ½”. Printed on page 5. On January 1, 1863, as the US was entering its third year of bloody civil war, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing “all.....
Proclamation of Emancipation Broadside. Davenport, Iowa: Designed by W.H. Pratt and lithographed by A. Hageboeck, 1865. Broadside. 15" x 12" inches. A calligraphic portrait memorial of Lincoln, using shading to form his likeness with the text of his Emancipation Proclamation. "Designed and written by W.H. Pratt and printed in Iowa.....
Hand-colored albumen photograph representing an allegorical carte-de-visite of Emancipation. 1863. Published by "John Sowle, 14 Summer St., Boston." Illustration by George Gardner Fish. 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches on photographer's mount. Lady Liberty brandishes the Emancipation Proclamation, while two scantily clad enslaved people wrap her in the American flag.....
Sherman, John. Speech by Hon. John Sherman of Ohio on Emancipation as a Compensation for Military Service Rendered by Slaves, Delivered in the Senate of the United States. McGill and Witherow: Washington D.C, February 2, 1864. 16 pages. 5.5" x 9.5" inches. John Sherman was an antislavery senator, Secretary of.....
WILDER, Burt G. The Brain of the American Negro. New York: National Negro Committee, 1909. Octavo, original printed wrapper, numerous illustrations. 66, 222-225 pages as issued. An offprint from the rare first Proceedings of the National Negro Conference which included important work by W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida Wells-Barnett. Burt.....
[Civil War] Hand-colored albumen photograph of a vivandiere. This is a scarce large image in an antique oval frame measuring 11.5 x 13.5 inches. Studio portrait of a young lady wearing a red, white, and blue vivandiere's costume with patriotic crown, one hand holding an American flag. Vivandiere were woman.....
LINCOLN, Abraham. The Lincoln And Douglas Debates. A Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858, in Illinois. Published by Columbus Follett, Foster and Company, 1860. First edition, third issue as identified by a number 2 on page 13, and publishers.....
Abraham Lincoln. "The Gettysburg Address” contained in “Report of the Select Committee Relative to the Soldiers' National Cemetery, Together with the Accompanying Documents, as reported to the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, March 31, 1864." Harrisburg: Singerly & Myers, State Printers, 1864. Lincoln’s famous speech was originally.....
Howe, Julia Ward. Autograph quote signed. Influential women’s suffragist, abolitionist, and poet Julia Ward Howe handwrites this verse of kindness from one of her poems. She writes, “then spoke the angel of mothers / To me, in gentle tone: / “Be kind to the children of others, / and thus.....
Grant, Lewis. Future Union General & Metal of Honor Winner Lewis A. Grant asked that his Promotion to Brigadier General of Volunteers be made final. War date Autograph Letter Signed. 4 pages entirely on his hand, November 23, 1863. After having performed beyond his rank for over 17 months in.....
Whitney, Asa. A Project for a Railroad to the Pacific. New York: George W. Wood, 1849. First edition. Octavo. :Lbrary stamp to bottom of title page. Comes with reports of committees of Congress, resolutions of state legislatures, etc. This pamphlet lays out Asa Whitney's visionary project to unite the east.....
Education Archive of 4 historical pieces documenting education from the mid-1800s to the turn of the century. Includes 2 course catalogs, 1 alumni reunion anniversary program, and 1 handwritten Chemistry lab notebook from the academic year 1904-1905 that is entirely filled with 220 handwritten pages of notes, observations, and drawings.....
Tintype of African American woman wearing a beautiful pleated Victorian dress. 19th century. the woman in the picture is posed standing, this was often difficult and uncommon as tintypes typically took about 15-20 seconds for the exposure to get enough light which could often result in blurring if the subject.....
Early complete printing of the Emancipation Proclamation in a Issue of Maine Farmer newspaper dated 8 January 1863. Measures 26 x 19.5 inches. 4 pages. Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, Here only a week after the event, Printed on the paper's second page amid other.....
Howard, Colonel Percy. The Barbarities of the Rebels as Shown in Their Cruelty to the Federal Wounded and Prisoners; In Their Outrages Upon Union Men; In the Murder of Negroes, and in Their Unmanly Conduct Throughout the Rebellion. First edition. Providence, R.I: Privately printed, 1863. 8vo. 40 pages. Original front.....
18th U.S. President and premier Union General of the Civil War. U.S. Grant ferrotype token for the 1868 Presidential Election. Approximately 1 inch (25MM) round brass frame consisting of three concentric rims: inner one plain; central one a rope twist-like design; outer one plain. Edge plain also. Ferrotype in center.....
Carte de visite of four gentlemen in an outdoor camp scene. ID on verso on Brady paper mount “Brady's Album Gallery No. 444 --- GROUP -PRINCES’ SERVANTS. ” In very good condition. Matthew Brady image number 444.
19th Century Stereoview card bearing a double 6" x 3" photograph showing the rocks of Devil's Den at Gettysburg with soldiers with rifles in the image. Verso identifies the scene as: "Dead at Little Round Top, position of Berdan's Sharpshooters". Published by W. H. Tipton, Gettysburg on yellow mount from.....
Shipherd, Jacob R. History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue. Introduction by Prof. Henry E. Peck, and Hon. Ralph Plumb. Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1859. First edition. Original paper wrappers. 9.25" x 5.75" inches. Modern paper ex libris pasted down to interior of wrapper. The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue was a principal.....
CDV. The Dictator was one of the busiest post-war ships on the coastal run from Charleston to Florida from 1865 to 1878; W. Hammant, Jacksonville, is noted on verso as photographer of the Dictator. In excellent condition.
Friendship album with 48 handwritten entries and signatures from friends to a young lady traveling between Michigan, New York, and Massachusetts in 1850-1865. Album notably includes 6 lockets of hair from dear friends and other pieces of natural ephemera such as feathers and press plants. “Sacred Album.” New York: J.C......
Tintype Photograph of African American man wearing pinstripe pants and cap. Late 1800s. Measures at 1 1/2" x 2 14". The emancipation of slaves and the 13th amendment in 1865 coincided with tintypes' popularity. This image portrays the recently found freedom of African Americans in the post-Civil War era, and.....
Original 19th century Ambrotype photograph of Horse & Carriage. Circa 1850-1859. A quarter plate about 3" x 4." This is an outdoor image of a family seated in a carriage and 2 large horses. A man with a cowboy hat is standing in front of the horses and holding the.....