Three Early Posters Relating to the American Youth Hostel Movement, c. 1939
by [Hosteling Movement - Massachusetts] [Bicycle Culture in America] [Poster Design - Women] Smith, Isabel Bacheler
Holyoke and Northfield: Litho Inc. / American Youth Hostels, 1939. First Edition. Includes: Bicycle for Adventure on the Youth Hostel Trail. Holyoke, Massachusetts, c. 1939: Valley Litho Inc. Lithographed poster, 19 x 25 inches; Take to the A.Y.H. Trail. Northfield, 1939: American Youth Hostels . Lithographed poster, 17 x 22 inches; Hostellers Know...Northfield, 1939: American Youth Hostels Inc. Lithographed poster, 17 x 22 inches. All are signed “Isabel” in images. Excellent condition overall, with some toning small chips and... Read More
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Portrait of a Young Woman of Color in California, c. 1870s
by [California – Portraiture] Higgins & Hunt
California: Higgins & Hunt, 1870. Carte de visite measuring 2 ½ x 4 inches. Fine.. A portrait of a well-dressed young woman taken by Higgins & Hunt, a Californian photography studio active at least in the 1870s. No date or location information is given, but newspapers from the time indicate that Higgins & Hunt were based in San Francisco and worked briefly in Fresno in 1877.
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![Story of the Hutchinsons (Tribe of Jesse) [Two Volumes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/711/701/1573701711.0.l.jpg)
Story of the Hutchinsons (Tribe of Jesse) [Two Volumes]
by Hutchinson, John Wallace
Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1896. First Edition. 8vo, blue cloth, 495 + 416 pp. Rear hinge split to second volume, slight odor, else near fine, very good minus overall. The uncommon survey of the careers of the Hutchinson Family Singers, who spent decades committed to abolitionism and other social causes while performing throughout New England and beyond. Frederick Douglass writes the introduction. The author was the thirteenth son of Jesse Hutchinson and Mary Hastings Leavitt. The volumes provide an... Read More
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Laws of the State of Illinois Passed by the Twelfth General Assembly, at Their Session, Began and Held at Springfield, on the Seventh of December, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty
by [Mormonism – Illinois] Legislature of Illinois
Springfield, Illinois: William Walter, 1841. 8vo, contemporary paper covered boards, 359, xxiv pp. With auditor and Treasurer’s reports bound at rear. Boards detached, text block excellent, good overall. Good.. During the 1840–1841 session of the Illinois General Assembly, several laws were enacted concerning Nauvoo. These included legislation incorporating the city itself (pp. 52–57), establishing the Nauvoo House Association (pp. 131–132), incorporating the Nauvoo Agricultural and Manufacturing Association (pp. 139–145), and appointing a notary public for the city (p.... Read More
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Tassels on the Boots. From Elise Holt’s Celebrated Songs
by [Music – Lithography – Nineteenth-Century Theatre – Male Impersonation]
Boston: Koppitz, Prüfer & Co., 30 West St., cor. Mason Street; New York: Wm. A. Pond & Co, 1869. Folio, lithographed cover with hand-coloring. Stitching removed at margins suggesting this was bound in a larger volume, else about fine. Signed by Holt next to the illustration. Near Fine.. A finely executed example of post–Civil War American sheet music lithography depicting stage performer Elise Holt in masculine costume, top hat, and cigar, in a style typical of Boston commercial... Read More
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![The Shorter Catechism With Proof Texts. Compiled, And Translated By, Rev. A. N. Chamberlin. [Proof Sheets]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/827/902/1692902827.0.l.jpg)
The Shorter Catechism With Proof Texts. Compiled, And Translated By, Rev. A. N. Chamberlin. [Proof Sheets]
by [Indigenous History – Christian Missionaries – Cherokee Language] Chamberlin, Amory Nelson
Indian Territory: N.p., 1892. Folio of eleven unbound sheets (forty-four pages) measuring approximately 6 x 8 inches. Marginal damage and fading to text; excellent.. Amory Nelson Chamberlin (1821–1894) was born on Brainerd Mission in what is now Chattanooga, Tennessee, the son and grandson of missionaries. Fluent in both English and Cherokee, Chamberlin worked as an interpreter and served under General Stand Watie in the Confederate States Army.[1] After the war, Chamberlin established the Pheasant Hill Mission near Vinita,... Read More
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Portrait of a Mixed-Race Group of Women in Menomonie, Late 1890s
by [Indigenous History – Wisconsin] Swant, Milton F.
Menomonie, Wisconsin, 1898. Cabinet card; photo measuring 3 ¾ x 5 ½ inches on mount measuring 4 ¼ x 6 ½ inches. Near Fine.. A photograph taken by Milton F. Swant of Menomonie, Wisconsin, showing a group of seven young ladies, at least one of whom is likely Indigenous. The photo is undated, but Swant was active in Menomonie between 1897 and 1898.
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Forty-Nine Photographs of the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Most Identified
by [Spanish-American War] [Massachusetts] Second Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
Massachusetts, 1898. The 2nd Massachusetts Volunteers mustered into service in May, 1898, and within a month saw significant action in Cuba at the Battle of El Caney. They were one of three volunteer units from Massachusetts to see action on the Santiago Campaign. The regiment was inexperienced - 55% were untrained recruits. The lack of experience, combined with their rifles giving off a very visible black smoke, led to a heavy casualties in the Battle of El Caney. After... Read More
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Wanted By FBI / Emily Montague Harris; Wanted By FBI / Patricia Campbell Hearst
by [California – Symbionese Liberation Army – Patty Hearst] Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D.C.: Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1974. Mailer measuring 8 x 15 ¾ inches, folded in fours. Yellow tape to seal; else Fine.. An FBI mailer soliciting information about Emily Harris and Patricia Hearst of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a left-wing militant group based in California and responsible for several killings and bank robberies between 1973 and 1975. Hearst, the granddaughter of publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst, had been kidnapped by the SLA in February of 1974;... Read More
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Independence Day in Dublin Town. Emma Carus’ Great Irish Song Hit
by [Irish-American Performance – Vaudeville] Harty, Bob; Breuer, Ernest
New York / Chicago / London: M. Witmark & Sons, 1910. Folio sheet music, 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Color pictorial cover. Light wear and minor creasing to edges; very good overall.. A lively Irish-themed novelty song promoted as “Emma Carus’ Great Irish Song Hit,” issued by the major popular music publisher M. Witmark & Sons. The cover illustration shows Carus dancing before a marching crowd carrying a banner reading “Home Rule,” evoking the Irish nationalist movement,... Read More
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Document Noting the Capture of Patrick Keegan and Patrick O’Brien for the Murder of Colonel Henry F. O’Brien who Was Murdered in the New York Race Riots, and the Payment of a Reward for the Capture, Signed by New York City Mayor George Opdyke and Others
by [Irish-Americana - New York Race Riots] [O’Brien, Colonel Henry] Opdyke, George, et al.
New York, 1863. Document measuring 9 ¾ x 8 inches, folded. Signed by George Opdyke and others. Very Good with some splitting at folds else fine. Very Good. In July 1863, the Civil War draft in New York City led to protests, escalating into widespread riots by July 14th. The Irish-born Colonel Henry O’Brien, who had been put in charge of recruiting for the New York 11th Infantry, would die gruesomely in the riots, highlighting the class elements... Read More
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![The Wearing of the Green, As Sung by J. E. McDonough in “Arrah Na Pogue.” / The Wearing of the Green, As Sung by H. T. Glenney as “Shaun the Post” in “Arrah Na Pogue.” [Two Pieces]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/991/309/1738309991.0.l.jpg)
The Wearing of the Green, As Sung by J. E. McDonough in “Arrah Na Pogue.” / The Wearing of the Green, As Sung by H. T. Glenney as “Shaun the Post” in “Arrah Na Pogue.” [Two Pieces]
by [Irish-Americana – Lithography – Sheet Music] Boucicault, Dion
Philadelphia: Chas. W. Trumpler, 1865. 5 pp, good condition / New York: H.B,. Dodworth/T. Birch and Son, 1865, 5 pp, good. Two folio sheet music pieces with hand-colored pictorial covers, 13x10 and 14x11 inches. General age toning and scattered spotting, one with a small tack hole at upper margin; good overall.. A pair of Chicago-issued theatrical song sheets connected with Dion Boucicault’s popular Irish melodrama Arrah-na-Pogue (first produced 1864), one of the most frequently staged Irish plays in... Read More
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Photograph Album with Forty-Seven Tintype and Carte-de-Visite Photographs of the Mulligans, an Irish-American Family in Philadelphia, 1860s
by [Irish-American Immigration - Pennsylvania] Mulligan, Kate
Philadelphia, 1860. Album measuring 6 ¼ x 5 ¼ inches. Wear and tearing to binding, images excellent, a few empty spaces in albums though no evidence of removal such as annotations, etc., very good condition overall. With thirteen cartes-de-visite and thirty-four tintypes, most of the CDVs with identifications of Philadelphia photographers to verso and one image showing the Gurney and Son studio at 707 Broadway. Very Good. A compelling album of images of Irish-American immigrants in Philadelphia in... Read More
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Souvenir Photograph of Six Young African-American Men and Women at the “Zombie Cafe” on Coney Island, c. 1950s
by [African-Americana – Social Life – Coney Island]
Coney Island, 1950. 5 x 7 inch gelatin silver photograph. Excellent contrast with light surface wear at margins.. The group stands behind and beside a mock bar counter bearing painted signage reading “Souvenir from Coney Island” and “The Lost Week-End.” Behind them appears a backdrop sign for the “Zombie Café – Drinks on the house.” The picture is notable for the group of African Americans in it, in an era when de facto segregation kept Coney Island mainly... Read More
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Outcasts! The Story of America’s Treatment of Her Japanese-American Minority
by [Japanese-Americana – Internment] Foote, Caleb; Lange, Dorothea
New York: Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1944. Illustrated with photographs by Dorothea Lange, Clem Albers, Francis Stewart, Joe McLelland and Tom Parker. Near Fine.. A booklet published by the Quaker anti-war group Fellowship of Reconciliation concerning the evacuation and resettlement of west-coast Japanese Americans. The booklet was written from federal prison by conscientious objector Caleb Foote, who would later become a leading scholar of criminal justice reform; with a foreword by prominent anti-internment activist Galen Fisher. Fisher describes its... Read More
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‘Go For Broke’ / 442nd Combat Team Song
by [Japanese-Americana - World War Two - 442nd Infantry Regiment] Hamada, Harry
Hattiesburg: Earl M. Finch, 1944. Sheet music measuring 12 x 9 inches, 4 pp. Signature of a Nabuko Hayashida on front cover. Slight tears at fold, some toning, two small pinholes, very good overall, quite attractive. Very Good. In Hawaii in May 1942, a battalion of Nisei volunteers was assembled for service in World War Two, despite earlier failures of efforts to recruit Japanese-Americans due to the Army’s labeling of Nisei recruits as 4-C enemy aliens. Designated as... Read More
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Collection of Captain Kiyoshi Tanaka, US Military Intelligence Officer Stationed in Japan and Korea
by [Japanese-Americana – US Military – California] Tanaka, Kiyoshi; Tanaka, Kameno; Morimoto, Henry; et al.
United States and Japan, 1964. Approximately 143 items: forty-two letters (twenty-five in Japanese and seventeen in English); seventy-six photographs with twelve medium-format negatives; eleven pieces of military ephemera; an inscribed handkerchief; and a lacquered wood storage box (8 x 14 x 7 inches) with family crest. Letters and ephemera Near Fine, photographs curled, else excellent; overall excellent to Near Fine.. Kiyoshi Tanaka (1914–2001) was born in Sacramento to parents who immigrated from Japan early in the century. In... Read More
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Seven Photographs of Jazz Musicians
by [Jazz] Bradley, Jack
New York, et al., 1960. Five 8 x 10 and two 5 x 7 inch gelatin silver prints, with Bradley’s estate marks to versos. Excellent. Jack Bradley was a Cape Cod native who, after graduating from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, fell in love with Jazz after seeing Louis Armstrong perform at the Boston Armory in 1956. In 1958 he moved to New York from Cape Cod and began dating Jeann Failows, a member of Louis Armstrong’s inner circle.... Read More
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![Twelve Compositions by Maceo Jefferson [with] Photograph of the Plantation Orchestra, Featuring Jefferson [with] A Signed Note by Jefferson, c. 1964](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/034/727/1381727034.0.l.jpg)
Twelve Compositions by Maceo Jefferson [with] Photograph of the Plantation Orchestra, Featuring Jefferson [with] A Signed Note by Jefferson, c. 1964
by Jefferson, Maceo
V.p., 1960. Photograph measuring 8 x 10 inches, compositions measuring 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. Well preserved, nearly fine with some normal toning. Near Fine. Maceo Jefferson was a jazz banjoist and guitarist from South Carolina who began his career in the 1920s playing with Roscoe Lee, Lucille Hegamin and Ethel Waters and then playing in the Plantation Orchestra, which played in Lew Leslie’s Blackbirds Review, touring in Europe and recording in England. Jefferson married a French... Read More
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Portfolio of Drawings and Memoir Documenting a Forty-Day Internment at Ellis Island While Fleeing Nazi Persecution in 1941
by [Judaica - World War Two - Immigration - Ellis Island] Rosendor, Bitia
New York City, 1941. Thirty-three sketches, mainly measuring 6 x 8 or 8 x 10 inches, affixed to black construction paper. Sketches are pen and ink or pencil, some with captions. With seventeen typed pages, mainly measuring 6 ½ x 7 inches. In an 11 x 14 ½ inch portfolio. Spine of portfolio missing, all pages separated; sketches excellent, construction paper with much marginal chipping; typed pages with adhesive verso else excellent. Overall very good to excellent.. Bitia... Read More
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![Poems of the Late Francis S. Key, Esq. [Star Spangled Banner]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/285/505/1038505285.0.l.jpg)
Poems of the Late Francis S. Key, Esq. [Star Spangled Banner]
by Key, Francis Scott [Star Spangled Banner]
Robert Carter and Brothers, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. New York, 1857. 8vo, publisher's black cloth, xii, (13)-203 pp. First edition. The first edition of the Star Spangled Banner in book form. It had been printed only as a broadside in 1814. A BAL 11093 binding B, with no sequence noted. A good plus to very good minus copy with excellent contents. Lean to spine, chipping to cloth at head and heel of spine, contemporary ownership signature to... Read More
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Photograph of a Group of Indigenous Subjects including Ado-Ete at Fort Sill, 1890s
by [American Indian History - Kiowa]
Fort Sill, 1890. Gelatin silver print measuring 6 ½ x 4 ¾ on larger mount. Very good contrast. Fine. An image taken by an unknown photographer of the Kiowa chief Ado-Ete, or Big Tree, at Fort Sill. The subject on the far left is identified on the verso as “Kowalty.” The men are shown in a group with other indigenous subjects, likely mostly Kiowa, at Fort Sill. Ado-Ete was at this point working on the reservation as a... Read More
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“Lines Written in Honor of the Street Car Strikers”
by [Labor History – Unions – Transit History] O’Reilly, J.B.
Columbus, Ohio, 1890. 7 x 11 inches. Folded with tears at folds, piece missing from center bottom, not intersecting with text. Overall good.. A handbill with a poem written by J.B. O’Reilly celebrating the victory of striking streetcar workers in Columbus, Ohio in 1890. On June 3, workers formed a union and commenced a strike, demanding shorter hours and higher wages. They successfully negotiated for both of these demands, bringing their workdays down from sixteen hours to a... Read More
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Cabinet Card Portrait of a Group of Female Mill Workers in Nashua, N.H. c. 1880-1890
by [Labor][Women][New Hampshire]Riley, J., Photographer
Nashua: J. Riley, 1890. Albumen photograph, 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mount. A portrait of seven women holding weaving shuttles, most likely mill workers in Nashua. Two large mills, the Nashua Manufacturing Company and the Jackson Manufacturing Company, were active during this period, though we cannot confirm if this picture was taken at either. Generally well preserved with some wear and what looks like a fingerprint on the head of the subject in the upper right of... Read More
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A Series of Nine Albumen Views of Costa Rica, c. 1895
by [Latin Americana - Photography - Costa Rica] Rudd, H.N.; Paynter Brothers
Costa Rica, 1890. Albumen photographs, 9 x 7 ½ inches on larger mounts, with credits to Rudd y Paynter and the Paynter Bros. Near Fine. H.N. Rudd and the Paynter Brothers, Richard and John, were photographers who were active in Costa Rica in the 1890s, operating out of San Jose. Five of these views show the Rudd y Paynter mark on versos, with their address at the Parque Central in San Jose. The Paynters were from the United... Read More
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