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Archive of handwritten correspondences of Chevalier d'Eon. Chevalier d'Eon lived openly as a man and as a woman in France and England at different stages of life. Two of the 4 handwritten documents are in d'Eon's own hand, and the other two are letters addressed to her as "La Madame.....
Archive of 7th US Colored Troops includes 9 partly-printed documents including manuscript signatures. The 7th US Colored Troops was an African American regiment formed in 1863 in Baltimore, Maryland and mustered out of service in 1866. The 7th took part at the Appomattox Campaign March 27 – April 9. Hatcher's.....
African American Navy soldier and swing jazz drummer from Chicago, John Briscoe Wrightin photo Albums, follow 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. Many photos.....
Extensive US Marine Corps album identified to African American Corporal Charles H. Fowler, 52nd Defense Battalion, USMC, who trained at Montford Point, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Red limp cloth album with acrylic boards, approx. 12 3/4 x 8 3/8 in. Containing 40+ documents and other imprints including certificates, registration/identification cards.....
African American Military. Charles Young. America's first Black colonel and third Black graduate of West Point. Autograph Letter Signed as "Charlie" and signed Photograph. The letter is on the letterhead of the "American Legation, Office of the Military Attaché," to William "Billie" King of Arch Street, Philadelphia. 2 pages on.....
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.....
[ First African American troops in the CIVIL WAR]. WILSON, James (b. ca 1845). Partly printed volunteer enlistment document, 1st Kansas Colored Infantry, later 79th USCT. Fort Smith, AR, November 25th 1863. 7 3/4" x 10 5/8" in. partly printed document , docketed on verso. This partly printed form, printed.....
Large African American archive of documents, photographs, and ephemera identified to the Williams Family of Birmingham, Alabama, including Tuskegee Institute pennants and 50 other documentation. Over 50 items spanning ca 1930s-1980s (bulk 1930s-1950s), associated with George Harold Williams, Willough Mae Horton Williams, and their son Carmin Depriest Williams. Majority of.....
[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.....
Civil War tintype of an African American cavalryman, likely taken in the field. 2 5/8 x 3 1/8 in. Circa 1864-5. Seated subject wears a kepi with indecipherable device and infantry jacket with sleeve embroidery. Among the US Colored Troops, cavalrymen were especially rare with just two regiments, the 9th.....
U.S. Colored Troops Archive. After the US War Dept. issued General Order 143, allowing Black men to enlist in the Civil War, an estimated 185,000 free and enslaved African American soldiers joined the service. This greatly expanded the military's size and quieted discourse voiced by white soldiers that were angry.....
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.....
A pair of partly-printed documents related to the service discharge, and payment of Private Thomas Williams, WIA (wounded in action), Company E, 15th Regiment, United States Colored Troops - Nashville, TN, 17 July 1865. The 15th United States Colored Infantry Regiment was an African American infantry regiment which actively served.....
[African American- CIVIL WAR.] John G. Foster. Order from the Department of the South for a draft for "all able-bodied colored men." General Orders No. 119. Hilton Head, SC, 16 August 1863. 2 pages, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches, signed in type by Foster as Major General, and also.....
Japanese-American soldier's photo album from W.W.II. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, requiring that anyone of Japanese descent be sent to internment camps. Anti-Japanese sentiment proliferated throughout the United States, and Japanese-Americans were barred from enlisting in the US military for fear of.....
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......
The Story of the 442nd Combat Team Composed of 442nd Infantry Regiment, 522nd Filed Artillery Battalion, 232nd Combat Engineer Company. 1945, Italy. "Eduacation Section, MTOUSA, 1945." Original blue wrappers, stapled. 43 pages and folding map. The first published history of Nisei troops in World War II, issued by the famed.....
[US Colored Troops] As recorded here, and confirmed by HDS and other military records, This former slave enlisted in July 1863 at Milliken's Bend, Louisiana as a private and was mustered into Company B of the 49th USCT. The 49th USCT fought at the battle of Milliken's bend just before.....
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.....
Photo album published in 1939 from Eretz, Israel, by “The Palestine Cigarette Co, LTD”. Consists of 216 photographs from the archive of the Jewish National Fund and the National Zionist Archive, depicting Jewish defense forces, building activities, and more. Album measures 13” x 9” and photos are around 5” x......
Electronic Data-Processing Systems 1946-1956 : A report to the Department of the Army Prepared for Frankford Arsenal. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Remington Rand Univac November 1956. First Edition. [4],13, [1-blank] pages, 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Printed blue/green wrappers, stapled. Rusty staples replaced, with archival tissue paper reinforcement in those areas. Significant.....
[African American Troops] Reading: New York Gallery, c. 1880. Cabinet card Photograph measuring 4 x 2 ½ inches on larger mount. An unusual cabinet card showing civil war veterans together toasting, with an African-American former military man in the foreground wearing medals on his jacket likely collected at Grand Army.....
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.....
Partly printed railroad pass for Benjamin Scott on his way to enlist with a "Col[ored] Reg[iment]. Columbus, OH, 10 August 1863. Visible 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. - completed in manuscript for "Ben. Scott + one other" for a rail journey on the C+M Rail Road from Youngstown to.....