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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.....
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.....
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.....
[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.....
Archive of 326 silver gelatin photos of a Chinese American family in various parts of Northern California dated between 1915-1926. The photos are affixed to thin tan paper album pages. Some photos are loose. Images are crisp and clear. Photos measure between 1.75" x 2" to 4" x 6" pasted.....
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.....
Archive of over 250 letters and paper materials concerning an interracial marriage. 1940s-50s. In addition to 130 handwritten letters, archive includes 30 typed letters and 115 pieces of paper ephemera including identification cards, handwritten poetry and illustrations by the child who was born from the union, drawn for his mother.....
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.....
Phillis Wheatley. The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature For the Year 1772. Sixth edition. J. Dodsley: London, 1800. Rebound in black boards with gold gilt text on spine. Measures 6 x 8.5 inches. 255 pages. An anthology of major works from the year 1772.....
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.....
Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon. French film archive of 5 items including 1959 press documents and movie promotion material with an original press photo from the film. This very early and serious attempt at portraying a complex transgender hero didn't fare well at the box office partially because the subject.....
MOTT, Abigail et al. Narratives of Colored Americans. New York: William Wood, 1877. 276pp. Publisher's rose cloth covers. Early edition. At the time of this description, we found only one copy of this edition on OCLC, and one copy of the 1875 first edition. Biographies of Phyllis Wheatley, Benjamin Banneker.....
Photo archive from a cross-dressing drag show celebration featuring drag kings & drag queens on a runway stage. 37 vintage color photos measuring 3.5" x 3.5". Many of the performers are wearing beautifully eccentric and elaborate dresses & costumes; some have extravagant headdresses, sequins, scantily-clad & revealing costumes, feather boas.....
Archive of 10 illustrated Newspapers related to the Dreyfus Affair. December 1894-October 1899. French and Italian. Measure 18 x 12.5 inches. The archive includes 8 issues from French newspaper Le Petit Journal, 1 issue from French newspaper La Depeche, and 1 issue from Italian newspaper, La Tribuna Illustrata. Alfred Dreyfus.....
[African American Troops]. An archive of 20 photographs and a letter recommending promotion of African American Sergeant Howard L. Cooper. 20 color photographs mostly featuring American soldiers in Vietnam, many in uniform, Includes 15 Kodak snapshots, each 5 x 3 1/2" or smaller, featuring Sergeant Cooper and fellow soldiers, most.....
Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon. Original 1959 French-Italian film based on the story of 18th century transgender icon, From 1777, d'Éon claimed to be anatomically a woman, and dressed as such. According to Wikipedia, there are only two earlier movies created with transgender themes, however, this movie would be the.....
Court documents from Kentucky highlighted by a writ of execution against William I. Thompson for "gambling with [a] negro." Taylor County, Kentucky. 15 March 1856. 1p, 7 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (dampstaining causing some fading to ink, scattered marks, creasing at folds). The Commonwealth of Kentucky directs the Sheriff.....
Early 1972 transgender film I Want What I Want original large movie poster. Measuring 41"x 27". Originally based on the 1966 novel of the same name, and heralds it's fame for being the very first novel to realistically depict an emerging minority. It was written a year before Christine Jorgensen.....
(African American EDUCATION] A very small school started in 1865 with a straightforward mission: to provide an education to formerly enslaved men and women. For 25 years Storer College was the only school in West Virginia where any person of color could get an education beyond the primary level. Storer.....
Archive of 6 items and documents pertaining to female aircraft worker, Ruth Burns, who worked as a power shear operator at one of the leading suppliers of military aircraft, Douglas Aircraft during WWII. This archive consists of two pamphlets, one is a job instruction manual by Douglas Aircraft titled Hints.....
Dawson, William. First African American to chair a congressional committee - Dawson was a lawyer and politician who served in the Chicago, IL US House of Representatives for nearly 3 decades. Dawson was deployed during WWI in the segregated 366th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army from 1917-1919, this.....
[African American EDUCATION] Storer College is one of the most seminal institutions for the secondary education of freed African Americans located in Harpers Ferry, which Frederick Douglass described as the town where the 'end of American slavery began." Starting in 1865, it was the birthplace of the NAACP, and one.....
[Joan Of Arc.] SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. Saint Joan Of Arc. London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1936. Signed by the author, Signed First edition, signed limited issue, signed by the author and not for sale; the signed limited issue, comprising only 120 copies in total. Sackville-West who was Virginia Woolf's lover, and the inspiration for.....