Items for sale by members

10 Percent: vol. 3, #012, Jan/Feb 1995; Binary Believers

by Hart, Saras, editor, Tom Reilly, Karen Wickre, David Brock, Glenn Close, Elaine Holliman, et al.

San Francisco : Browning Grace Communications , 1995

100 Boots

by ANTIN, Eleanor

1971

150 Years of North American Railroads

by Fitzsimons, Bernard

Secaucus : Chartwell , 1982

1791 - An article regarding harpoon whale guns from "Papers in Mechanicks" describing a list of rewards proffered to expert harpoon-gunners for their achievements in 1790 and, most importantly, to Charles Moore, the inventor of an improved harpoon-gun that made those achievements possible

1802 - Illustrated shipping document exporting a shipment of rum and brown sugar to Europe commissioned by one of the wealthiest participants in the Triangle Trade

by Moses Brown

Newburyport, Massachusetts 1802

1834 – A Consular certificate certifying the exchange rate of U. S. dollars at the port of La Guayra as part of a coffee sale

by J S McKaighen

La Guayra, [Venezuela] 1834

1837 – A letter from the first Collector of Tolls for the Erie Canal reporting its poor state of repair, navigational issues, and other significant problems

Geneva, New York 1837

1842 United States Mail Coach. Way Bill From Keene to Groton and Boston

by [United States Mail] [Transportation]

n.p. : United States Mail Coach , 1842

1852 - Letter from a foreman reporting the status of laying track for the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad with a crew of "men not worth a damn.

by E. F. Judkins

Loudonville [Ohio] 1852

1854 – A newly arrived young railroad engineer hired by Chile sends a letter home to his mother raving about life in Santiago

by David W. Cunnningham

1864 - Manuscript invoice to the largest shipbuilder in New England from the largest rope maker in the world totaling $1,120 (over $21,600 in today's money)

Plymouth, Massachusetts 1864

1867-1874 - Three letters from one of the worst (or unluckiest) sea captains who later established one of the most popular and long-lived ship chandleries on Martha's Vineyard

by Edward "Santa" St. Croix Oliver

Various 1874

1870 – A historically important postally-used envelope sent from Fort Yuma, California to Aubunn, California, in the heart of what had formerly been California’s richest gold-mining country

1870s – Two attractive stock certificates issued by the Memphis City Rail Road, a horse-drawn trolly company

1873 – Broadsheet showing the routes of the Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway one side and advertising a bond sale to fund the purchase of steel track rails

New York : Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway Company , 1876

1876 - A Death Certificate for an immigrant who died at New York's Ward Island Quarantine Hospital from Mania a Potu, Erysipulas, and Acute Cerebral Meningitis

Emigrant Landing Depot, Castle Garden New York City : Commissioners of Emigration of the State of New York , 1876

1885 – Broadside advertising sleighs along with a handbill advertising harnesses enclosed in a postally used envelope that features an all-over illustration of the factory that made them

Burlington, New Jersey : J. H. Birch , 1885

1892 - A report by the port physician in Philadelphia describing the Cholera danger posed by steerage passengers from Europe arriving at that city

by E. O. Shakespeare

Washington DC : U. S. Senate , 1892

1904 Handbook of Gasoline Automobiles

by PURDY, Ken

New York : Chelsea , 1969

1910 - Four-panel illustrated advertising folder for wooden boats from the Dunphy Boat Manufacturing Company

Eau Claire, Wisconsin 1910