Jonathan Trumbull Jr. Signed Militia Appointment Documenting Connecticut's Military Chain of Command, 1799
by Jonathan Trumbull
1799. Trumbull, Jonathan, Jr. military commission for Abel Rossetter, dated October 12, 1799, documents Connecticut's post-Revolution militia system through a gubernatorial appointment issued during Trumbull's tenure as governor. The document supports research into early federal military preparedness, state command structures, and the continuing role of the militia in the generation after independence. Signed by Jonathan Trumbull Jr., who had served as George Washington's aide-de-camp during the Revolution and became governor of Connecticut in 1797, the commission shows how state... Read More
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Official Donald J Trump 2017 Presidential Inauguration Invitation Silver Ticket with Map on the Back
by Donald Trump
2017. Donald J. Trump, Presidential Official Donald Trump 2017 Inauguration Invitation Silver Ticket Stub W Map Back. Authentic Donald Trump Congressional Presidential Inaugural Invitation Silver Ticket 6"X 8". An Official Donald J. Trump Jan. 20, 2017 Inauguration Invitation. Includes a red presidential eagle seal and Gilt borders. The Invitation has a map of inauguration on the back. New Mint Condition.
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Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung 1949 Press Photo
by Mao Tse-tung
1949. [China] Mao Tse-tung .Press Photo Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung in various occasions in China. 1949 Press Photo Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung in various occasions in China. This is an original press photo. Caption on lower margin reads: The French national radio speculated Tuesday that Mao Tse-tung may have died or is gravely ill. He is pictured above on various occasions in the past, from left: greeting an Indian delegation in Peking in 1954; in Moscow in 1950; a... Read More
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Early Firsthand Account of Japanese-American Military Service, Wear It Proudly Published Wartime Letters Written by a Japanese-American Medic in WWII, First Edition, 1947
by William Shinji Tsuchida
1947. [Japanese American] [WWII] Tsuchida, William Shinji. Wear It Proudly. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1947. First edition. Original blue cloth binding with gilt spine lettering, in publisher's red dust jacket with image of a handwritten letter on cover. Wear It Proudly is a collection of wartime letters written by William Shinji Tsuchida, a Japanese American medic in the U.S. Army's 71st Infantry Division. Compiled and published by the University of California Press at... Read More
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Women Suffrage by Constitutional Amendment First Edition Signed
by Henry St. George Tucker
1916. Tucker, Henry St. George. Women Suffrage by Constitutional Amendment. First Edition Signed and Inscribed. New Haven: Yale, 1916. First Edition. Small 8vo, pp. viii, 204. Inscribed by the author, a very nice copy. Kruchmar 2068. (40111) These lectures were delivered in the William L. Storrs Lecture Series before the Law School at Yale University. Tucker [1853-1932] was a Congressman from Virginia. He argues that a Constitutional amendment providing for women's suffrage would violate the division between state and... Read More
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China "Dare to Teach" 1960s Mao Zedong Poster
by Mao Tse Tung
Chinese Communist propaganda poster of Mao Tse Tung with the slogan "Dare to Teach". Measures 30" x 21". Printed in China with text in Mandarin. An image of Mao in his characteristic military suit and cap with a red star. Mao has a lit cigar, smiling approvingly upon a large crowd of workers, soldiers, and students who are marching ahead with large revolutionary banners. Posters such as this one were printed during the Cultural Revolution to give an artistic... Read More
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History of Climate Science John Tyndall Autograph Letter Signed on Glaciers and Heat Research Written During Greenhouse Investigations 19 July 1872
by John Tyndall
1872. Tyndall, John. Autograph Letter Signed, 19 July 1872, written in the year he published major work on atmospheric heat absorption that established the physical basis of what is now termed the greenhouse effect. Addressed to poet Matthew Arnold, the letter situates Tyndall within the intellectual networks of Victorian Britain at a moment when his experimental investigations into radiant heat and atmospheric gases were reshaping scientific understanding of climate. "Firstly," he writes, "I promised to send you for a... Read More
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UCSB Student Activist Newspaper "El Gaucho" Archive Covering Leftist Activism, Anti-Vietnam Protests, and the Bill Allen Controversy, 1969
by El Gaucho; UCSB
1969. [Student Activism][Anti-Vietnam] El Gaucho, the University of California, Santa Barbara student newspaper, reporting on the November 15 Vietnam Moratorium, the anthropology department fight over Professor Bill Allen, and disputes over Black Studies and student power. Five issues dated November 10 to December 2, 1969, with front-page headlines including "Student groups call for unity," "Moratorium mobilizes to San Francisco," "Students demand public hearing," "Reform workshops created," "Moratorium activities finalized," "No funds for IFC, asks for Allen open hearing," and... Read More
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UCSD Student Activist Newspaper "Indicator" Archive Covering Eldridge Cleaver, Repression in Mexico City, Anti-Vietnam Protests, and Black Studies, 1968
by Indicator; UCSD
1968. [Student Activism][New Left] Indicator, three 1968 issues covering campus politics, the Vietnam War, the Mexico City student killings, and the curricular fight over Black Studies. The October 23, November 6, and November 20, 1968 issues lead with headlines including "BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL," "Liberalism is a Casualty of the War," and "Regents to Meet Here," while interior pages name Ronald Reagan, Eldridge Cleaver, George Wallace, Tran Van Dinh, and the UC Regents, making the paper a direct record of... Read More
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The First Girl's School in Uganda, African Early 1900s Lantern Slide
by The First Girl school in Uganda
1904. Africa Women Education. Original glass lantern slide. Size 3.25" x 4". Shows African girls class with two Caucasian female teachers in a classroom with a blackboard on an easel, and two maps hanging on the wall with a clock, as well as a globe on a cabinet. The children are various grade school ages. Half sit on the floor with open books, and half sit on a bench at a table with open books. All are African and... Read More
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Underground Hacker Publications at the End of the Analog Era: Documenting the Shift to the Commercial Internet, Eight Issues of "Blacklisted! 411," 1995-1998
by Underground Hacker; Blacklisted! 411
1995. Blacklisted! 411 archive of eight periodicals produced as part of a countercultural shared conviction that the telecommunications and computing systems proliferating through the 1990s should be understood by their users rather than treated as closed corporate property. The West Coast publication discusses phone phreaking (manipulating the telephone network), bulletin-board networks, and the broader hacker underground. Its editorial remit was the internal workings of contemporary systems such as telephone and cellular networks, bulletin-board services, consumer electronics, radio and scanner... Read More
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LGBTQ+ Representation in European Cinema, Mädchen in Uniform Lobby Card and Postcard Archive, 1958
by Christa Winsloe Mädchen In Uniform
1958. Schneider, Romy (subject). Mädchen in Uniform photograph archive, 1958, documents early cinematic representation of same-sex desire in European film, focusing on one of the first narrative works to depict lesbian relationships within an institutional setting. The material provides primary visual evidence of how female intimacy, authority, and repression were portrayed on screen, supporting research into LGBTQ+ film history, censorship, and postwar European cultural production. Mädchen in Uniform (Girls in Uniform). Directed by Géza von Radványi. France / West... Read More
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LGBTQ Cinema History Early Lesbian Representation in Mädchen in Uniform Documented Through Photographs and German Film Ephemera
by LGBT History Mädchen in Uniform
1931. Winsloe, Christa. Mädchen in Uniform (1931) stands among the earliest narrative films to portray romantic attachment between women and remains a foundational work in the history of LGBTQ cinema. Written by Christa Winsloe and directed by Leontine Sagan with production support from Carl Froelich, the German film centers on a girls' boarding school where emotional bonds between students and a female teacher challenge the rigid discipline of the institution. Actress Hertha Thiele played the central student role, and... Read More
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1895 Military Equipment and Uniform Catalog, Documenting U.S. Army Uniform Styles of the 19th Century
by Military Equipment and Uniform
1895. [Military][Americana] Military Equipments and Uniforms catalogue from 1895, presents an illustrated commercial record of American military dress and ceremonial regalia during the late nineteenth century when militia culture, fraternal organizations, and civic pageantry formed a visible part of urban public life. Issued in San Francisco by one of the leading West Coast manufacturers of military and society goods, the catalogue documents the equipment and decorative elements associated with officers' uniforms, militia dress, and ceremonial attire shortly after the... Read More
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GPU News Magazine Archive, "the most important gay and lesbian rights organization in Milwaukee during the 1970s
by Gay People's Union
1979. [LGBTQ] GPU News Magazine Archive of four issues. Milwaukee: Gay People's Union. This archive includes: Oct 1979 (Vol. 9, No. 1), Dec. 1979 (Vol. 9, No. 3), Sept 1980 (Vol. 9, No.1 2),Oct. 1980 (Vol. 10, No. 1). Measures 8.5" x 11" inches. Each magazine 40-50 pages including covers. Semi-slick magazine in stapled black and white pictorial wrappers. GPU news featured photos, ads, features, news, art, updates on local activities, discussions of the Gay Liberation Movement, and literary... Read More
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Prohibition & Temperance Archive Documenting Religion and Politics Shaping Alcohol Regulation in the United States, 1886-1945
by Woman's Christian Temperance Union
1886. Archive of Prohibition, temperance movement and alcohol regulation ephemera chronicling the political organizing, religious campaigns, and moral debates over alcohol consumption in the United States from the 1890s through the 1940s. Produced by temperance organizations, political advocates, physicians, government bodies, and reformers, the materials trace the public discourse surrounding alcohol from moral reform activism in the 1880s and 1890s to the political mobilization that culminated in the Eighteenth Amendment and Volstead Act, and finally to the regulatory systems... Read More
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African American Military History Segregated U.S. Army Training Battalion Portraits Fort Knox 1947
by Segregated Black Military Unit
1947. Unidentified photographer, composite portrait photographs of segregated African American troops at Fort Knox, Kentucky, 1947, document the structure and personnel of Black training units in the final year before the formal desegregation of the United States Armed Forces, providing visual evidence of racial segregation within military organization and hierarchy. The material captures two distinct groupings within the 79th Training Battalion, 22nd Regiment, preserving the arrangement of enlisted men and commanding officers within segregated platoon and company formations. These... Read More
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Early Female Law Students Class Photo, Boston University, 1913
by Boston University
1913. [Women's Education] [Law] [Boston University] Boston University School of Law, Class of 1913 photograph featuring six early women law graduates. Imperial sized photo measures 17" x 19". Photo shows ninety-two individual oval portraits arranged around a central block of five faculty members. Titled in manuscript: "Boston University, School of Law, 1913." Photographer's mark in lower right corner: J.A. Gammons. The women are featured in the lower central portion of the image, each in formal dress, with hair pinned... Read More
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Howard University Graduation Photograph Archive with Identified Students and African American Greek Letter Affiliations, 1929
by Howard University
1929. [African American Education] [Women's Education] Howard University graduates, 1929, photo archive documenting African American higher education at one of the central institutions established to provide educate for African Americans after the Civil War, during a period when access to advanced schooling remained sharply restricted by segregation, unequal funding, and exclusion from most white universities. By 1929, Howard had developed into a national center for training Black teachers, professionals, and civic leaders, drawing students from across the United States... Read More
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African American Medical History Howard University Nursing Students and Freedmen's Hospital Training Photographs 1920s to 1930s
by Howard University
1920. Photographs of African American nursing students at Howard University and Freedmen's Hospital dated to the 1920s and 1930s document the training of Black medical personnel within one of the few institutional pathways available during segregation. Produced in the context of Jim Crow restrictions that excluded African Americans from most hospitals and professional networks, these images identify Black women and men in uniformed medical roles and record the development of professional identity within historically Black educational institutions. The archive... Read More
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African American Higher Education Lincoln University Fraternity and Sorority Event Photograph Showing Student Life and Greek Letter Culture 1920s to 1930s
by Lincoln University
1920. Lincoln University fraternity and sorority event photograph. circa late 1920s to early 1930s. This photograph documents African American student social and organizational life at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, during segregation, recording a formal gathering associated with a Greek letter society identified in the image as "Delta Alpha Phi." The image provides primary visual evidence of early Black collegiate organizations and ceremonial culture, capturing students assembled in formal attire within a decorated interior space that emphasizes collective... Read More
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Princeton Alumni Weekly Special Report on Coeducation Debate and Institutional Transition, 1968
by Princeton University
1968. Princeton Alumni Weekly special report, The Education of Women at Princeton, 1968, documents the institutional decision-making process through which Princeton University moved toward undergraduate coeducation and records the formal evaluation of admitting women at a moment of national transformation in higher education. Issued under authorization of the university's president and trustees, the report establishes a primary record of administrative, cultural, and pedagogical arguments surrounding gender integration, including comparative analysis with peer institutions and internal dissent. The inclusion of... Read More
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Alabama HBCU Tuskegee University Felt Pennant
by HBCU Tuskegee University
[African American Education] Tuskegee University felt pennant. Measuring 28' in length. Tuskegee Institute, now known as Tuskegee University, is a private historically Black University, founded by notable Black educator, Booker T. Washington in Alabama. Washington gradually attracted notable scholars to Tuskegee, including the botanist George Washington Carver, would become President of the institute. Yellow felt pennant with bold red lettering, displaying "Tuskegee" , and a red "Property of Black America" seal with a "Black power" fist it the center... Read More
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African American Education History Lewis B Moore Howard University Correspondence on Teacher Placement and War Era Service 1916 to 1923
by HBCU; Howard University
1916. Moore, Lewis B. correspondence, 1916 to 1923, documents the role of a leading African American educator in shaping professional pathways for Black teachers within segregated educational systems and wartime conditions. Lewis Baxter Moore, founding dean of the Teachers' College at Howard University and among the earliest African Americans to earn a PhD in the United States, appears here in direct correspondence advocating for his former student Anna Jean Snowden's placement at Tuskegee Institute. The letters situate Moore within... Read More
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HBCU Lincoln University & Segregated Swimming Pool Photo Album, Partially Identified, Pennsylvania 1950s
by HBCU; Lincoln University
1950. Social and athletic life of partially identified Black male college students at one of the oldest historically black universities, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1854 in Pennsylvania, Lincoln University became an important center for Black intellectual development, producing generations of educators, clergy, political leaders, and professionals during the era of segregation in American higher education. Album includes 48 black and white photographs bound in wooden covers titled "Snap Shots" in black script, featuring a painted Western rider... Read More
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