This archive follows John Briscoe Wright, an African American Navy soldier and swing jazz drummer from Chicago, in his journey through the U.S. Military during the historic integration of African Americans into military service. 230 photos in two albums and a panorama photo with signed names and addresses on verso.....
American author. Signed book: A Farewell to Arms. Later printing. NY: Modern Library, 1932. Hardcover, 4.5" x 6.5" inches, 355 pages. Signed and inscribed on the dedication page, “To Helen Mauldin, with very best wishes, Ernest Hemingway.” A Farewell to Arms was Hemingway's semi-autobiographical first-person account of American Frederic Henry.....
[World War II] U.S. Navy. Navy Original Cable Dispatch declaring "GERMANY HAS DECLARED WAR ON THE UNITED STATES......." U.S.S. Biscayne heading, The cable was sent from the Secretary of Navy ("SECNAV"). 8" x 6.5" inches. Dated "11 Dec 1941". Two punch holes along top edge. In near-fine condition. On December.....
Synopsis: Archive of 25 pieces celebrating the rise of nursing as the first medical profession for women. The first trained nurses entered the field in the 1860s, and their knowledge of antisepsis and hygiene immediately reduced fatalities in hospitals and on the Civil War battlefronts. Amidst their life-saving duties, these.....
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.....
19th century Hand colored Japanese woodblock print on thick tea paper. Measures about 11.5" x 9". and depicts two Japanese samurais. A Japanese woman wearing a colorful kimono in the foreground, and a samurai fighting with a bamboo stick and his katana still sheathed in the background. Kendo is a......
Important Anti-Nazi Document Exposing Atrocities in 1936, Issued by Editorial Board of the Committee on Justice for Victims of Nazism. "Facts on Nazi Germany". Number Three, October 15, 1936. 63 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The document has some marginalia and some underlined portions in pencil. 11 mimeograph pages, 8.5.....
Large Archive including a photo album with 154 black and white silver gelatin photos, and 66 letters and postcards, several official Navy documents commending the subject, Mrs. Dorothy Scholten (nee McCarthy), for her service in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) unit and granting her honorable discharge, and.....
Archive of 32 photos of women in the military. C. 1940s-1950s. Silver gelatin photos with 2 in color. Measurements range from 5 x 4 to 4 x 3.5 inches. 14 of the photographs are from the Marine Corps with captions and text "Marine Corps Photo" printed beneath the images. Photos.....
Antique original pencil drawing of Joan of Arc being visited by St. Michael the Archangel. 9” x 6.5” inches.. Artist unknown. Text on the drawing states “Va Va Fille De Dieu Delivre La France.” Michael invokes Joan to “Delivre La France”, translating to liberate France. Joan is depicted as a......
Book of Japanese woodblock prints showing samurai in battle and other scenes. 1852. Measures 5 x 7 inches. Bound in soft brown leather wrappers with red string binding. 50 pages. Book includes pages of characters in column form but is predominately woodblock illustrations. The woodblocks are meticulously illustrated scenes depicting.....
Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands. German Social Democratic Party Newsletter: London,1939-1946. Consist of 34 original war date issues of the Anti Hitler and Anti Nazi mimeographed newsletter, Beneath the text title of each issue reads, "This news-letter is published for the information of Social Democratic refugees from Germany who are opposing dictatorship.....
Original item from W.W.II Reuters Correspondent David Brown who was attached to Third Fleet Landing Force- Japan. Archive of two items. Not dated but circa August 1945 as it related to the occupation of Tokyo, Declaring the end of the war, 7 pages. Titled "Memorandum To Correspondents- Third Fleet Landing.....
Description Geographique et Historique de la Moree Reconquise par les Venetiens. Vicenzo Maria Coronelli. Chez Claude Barbin: Paris, 1686-1687. First French edition. Small octavo, two volumes in one. 295 pages. 58 double-page copperplate engravings including a map of the Peloponnese. First French edition of the important contemporary account by Coronelli.....
[Military] [African American] [World War II]. Roll of Honor, World's Great War for Freedom. Woodmere, NY: George J. Mayer, circa 1945. Chicago, Ill: Morris Solmon, 1944. Ensley, Ala: P.T.C Kemp Cook, November 1942. 7th Regiment Aviation Squad. All measure 19.5" x 15.5". Some edge wear; not examined out of period.....
Martin Luther King, Jr. Speeches by The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. About the War in Vietnam. New York: Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, 1968. A collection of three speeches from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered from April 1967 to February 1968 regarding America’s role in the.....
Utagawa, Kuniyoshi. Three woodblock prints by Kuniyoshi forming a scene where famed warrior Tomoe Gozen is on horseback in full armor and with katana and wakizashi swords. The prints measure 14" x 9.5." Gozen is accompanied by a band of samurais who are on foot. Gozen is carrying supplies on.....
Archive of 17 silver gelatin photos depicting women's military forces from around the world between 1930's-1950's. Measurements range from 2.25" x 3.25" to 8" x 10.75" each. Many include hand written notes en verso. Photographs depict a variety of female soldiers ranging from grouping in marching formation, portraits, press phorographs.....
Archive of Fifteen original WWII photographs of Iwo Jima Reconaissance Missions for the US Military. Date July 4, 1944. Images mounted on paper with typed descriptions, set includes Photo No. II - XVI (missing photo I). Photos measure 5 x 7” to 6 x 7”, all mounted onto 8 x......
Archive of 64 black and white silver gelatin photo archive of post WWI American soldiers in France and one German calendar dating "December and November 1919" inscribed with personal handwriting of American names and addresses. Most photos measure 2.5" x 3". Stored in unoriginal album with protective plastic inserts. The.....
Archive of photographs of US soldiers in action from World War One, produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps. 76 black and white photos, each measure 8.5" x 6.5." The Photographic Section of the Signal Corps was established in June 1917, and it was responsible for the U.S. Army’s official.....
This WWII archive consists of a large USS WASP scrapbook of about 70 original documents and 22 original photos, as well as a WWII Scrapbook consisting of more than one hundred pages of clippings from newspapers such as Time, Life, and many others The USS WASP scrapbook measures 14" x......
Collection on militant Jewish activism during World War II. All in good to very good condition. Includes a recruiting pamphlet for the Jewish Brigade, a photograph showing the Jewish Brigade in military uniform, including both men and women, and a pamphlet in polish on the Warsaw Uprising from 1944: Jewish.....
Wallenberg, Raoul. Rare Wallenberg Swiss Embassy Protective Document. Single page typed document on letterhead of the Swiss Embassy, Department for Foreign Interests, 8" x 11.5". Represents a piece of official documentation which was from a larger group of Wallenberg Schutz-Pass protective documents. Dated "October 23, 1944" with the official red.....
GARRELS, Robert Ernest. Manual of Instructions of operation the ballasting control system: Tank Landing Craft, LSD 1-8 (Formerly APM 1-8); Marked "Restricted" on cover. Manual of instructions...; Ballasting: valve operating procedure & [carbony copy of TLS fro mRobert Tate] to Moore Dry Dock Company, Oakland Branch, San Francisco & Oakland.....