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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Important and rare Civil Rights document from the original files of the SCLC, the Civil Rights organization King founded after the Montgomery Bus Boycotts. First Edition. Dated October 30, 1967, the day of King’s return to Birmingham, the locus of one of his most triumphant.....
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Crisis in America’s Cities; An Analysis of Social Disorder and a Plan of Action Against Poverty, Discrimination and Racism in Urban ” First Edition unpublished mimeograph draft. 5 pages plus cover. King’s nationwide call to action against urban poverty, the most ambitious Civil Rights Campaign.....
ANTHONY, Susan B. Autograph Letter Signed. 1 page, dated August 1902. On National American Woman Suffrage Association Letterhead. Anthony writes in her hand with visible excitement about “what the Philadelphians are doing” to promote women’s suffrage. In addition to bringing in “600 members to her club,” they have also established.....
DOUGLASS, Frederick. Frederick Douglass. CDV of Frederick Douglass by J.W. Hurn: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. No date. Very rare original CDV photo of Douglass, Clipped corners of mat. The Library of Congress has no catalog data on this portrait and assigns no date to it. David W. Blight, ed., Narrative of the Life.....
Archive of 8 certificates belonging and awarded to Helen Keller for her service including one certificate awarded to her teacher and lifelong companion, Anne Sullivan. The dates of the documents are 1936 to 1948. After illness in early childhood left her blind and deaf, Keller spent her adult life as.....
KELLER, HELEN American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. Exceptional Large colored photograph signed with a quotation in her hand. [N.p.: n.d]. Colored photograph depicting an older Keller in cap and gown, inscribed with a quotation on the.....
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. Solzhenitsyn’s Uncorrected Proof of The Gulag Archipelago. New York, 1974, 640 separate unbound and folded one sided sheets, as issued, each sheet has 2 pages on a 6.5” x 22” sheet with large blank bottom margin. A massive work that detailed the machinations of the Soviet police state.....
Robert Altman & Ring Lardner Jr. Original script of the film dubbed “perfect for the times [...] the cacophony of American culture brilliantly reproduced onscreen.” January 1969. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, bradbound in printed studio wrappers. Original owner’s name on upper wrapper. Wrappers show a faint damp discoloration from the spine.....
John Tyndall. Tyndall published a complete work on the greenhouse effect in 1872, a century before the climate crisis became a rallying point for both the scientific community and the world at large. Autograph Letter Signed to poet Matthew Arnold. Two pages, 5.25" x 8.25" inches. Dated July 19th 1872.....
Carrie Chapman Catt. Leader in women's rights, protégé of Susan B. Anthony, and founder of the International Women's Suffrage Alliance (IWSA), which continues today to advocate on behalf of women's and girls' rights worldwide. 1 page Autograph Letter Signed on International Woman Suffrage Alliance letterhead circa 1906. Catt founded the.....
An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties, and Literature of Negroes. H. Gregoire. Thomas Kirk: Brooklyn, 1810. Measures 6 x 9 inches. 253 pages. Original marbled boards. Henri Jean-Baptiste Gregoire was a French Catholic priest and the Constitutional bishop of Blois, a revolutionary leader who was an ardent abolitionist.....
Langston Hughes. African American Novelist. Early signed portrait of Langston Hughes at the age of 30, a year after winning the Harmon Gold Medal for his first novel Not Without Laughter. Gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 inches, James L. Allen, photographer. New York, 10 November 1931. Photographer's embossed stamp.....
32nd President typed letter signed on White House letterhead, Washington, January 4, 1937, to Nevada Governor Richman Kirman. As the United States industrialized, factory and mine owners hired children for a variety of tasks, as they were especially useful in fixing machinery and navigating the small areas that fully grown.....
[Contraception] Compilation of all 24 Birth Control Review issues from 1926 and 1927 bound together. 342 pages total. 11.75" x 9" inches. Original covers. Scarce. The Birth Control Review was a crucial communication tool used by Margaret Sanger, a leading activist for women's reproductive rights and the founder of Planned.....
Original Vintage Woman Suffrage Ladies' pocket watch with NY suffrage “VOTE FOR WOMEN” face, circa. 1910. The timepiece face also features a yellow rose in center and the phrase “VOTE FOR WOMEN” is replacing the 12 numbers typically on a clock face around the watch face. The yellow rose became.....
Women's Suffrage Party original slogan buttons. Iconic pins of the United States Women's Suffrage Party, or WSP, headed by Carrie Chapman Catt. Trio of extremely rare 1" oval button pins in excellent condition, in the bright yellow, purple, and green associated with the suffrage movement in the US and the.....
Large black and white photo of suffragists protesting outside the White House. 1917. Measures 38" x 10" inches. Image is sharp and clear, its details precise. 106 subjects pose in long rows, the White House visible on one side and road on the other. Dressed in coats with dropped waists.....
Small archive of two pamphlets with transcripts of speeches concerning anti-lynching legislation. THURMOND, J. Strom. President Truman's So-Called Civil Rights Program. Columbia, SC: [Columbia Democratic Party], 1948. BYRNES, James F. Inaugural Address of the Honorable James F. Byrnes as Governor of South Carolina. Columbia, SC: N.p., 1951. At the time.....
Extensive archive from Methodist minister and revivalist preacher Irving R. Lovejoy from 1880-1888. This archive of 334 handwritten pages by the Reverend includes 20 handwritten and handbound sermons totaling 219 pages. Also includes an additional 115 pages of handwritten notes (mostly related to sermons and religions), letters and personal documents.....
Langston Hughes. Signed contract authorizing use of Hughes' autobiography I Wonder As I Wander. New York, 1957. Measures 14" x 8.5". 2 pages. Contract between Hughes and Jacobo Huchnik for the publication and distribution of the book's Spanish-language translation. I Wonder As I Wander was published in 1934, twenty three.....
"Illustrations of Political Economy, No. III: Brooke and Brooke Farm." Boston: Leonard Bowles, 1832. First American Edition. Quarto with cover in good condition. Interior pages with visible thumbing to edges and age related toning throughout. Occasionally staining, but overall text is unaffected. Part 3 of Martineau's 9 part series on.....
Extensive archive from Methodist minister and revivalist preacher Irving R. Lovejoy from 1860-1888. This archive of over 250 handwritten pages includes 19 handwritten and hand bound sermons, most tied with blue string, totaling 247 pages on subjects ranging from Judgment day to building fraternity between Methodist ministries, and 237 pages.....
Photo album with including ten original images from a suffrage parade held in Mount Vernon, New York in 1913. Black leather album measuring 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 190 images total measuring between 3 x 2 and 4 x 4 inches. Album appears to have been assembled by Anna Uebel based.....
Pearl Buck archive of 3 items, a TLS and two typescripts. Pearl S. Buck was the first American female Nobel laureate, and used her work to advocate for child refugees and women. TLS 1 page 1957. The letter is signed in full by Buck. She states she is sending an.....
American activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, was made famous by Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life,In 1904, at the age of 24, Keller graduated as a member of Phi.....