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1832 CHEROKEE COUNTY LAND LOTTERY DEED HISTORIC DOCUMENT WHICH LED TO THE TRAIL OF TEARS
CONFEDERATE LETTER FROM RICHMOND THE DAY OF THE CHARGE OF COLD HARBOR"… SAID HE'D BEEN IN A GREAT MANY FIGHTS BUT NEVER SAW SO MANY KILED AND WOUNDED IN SO SHORT A TIME…"
RARE ADOLPH SUTRO ALS
BENJAMIN SILLIMAN MAKES A CHECK PAYABLE TO THE MAN WHO MADE ONE OF THE FIRST DAGUERREOTYPE CAMERAS IN AMERICA
1727 HASSANAMISCO INDIANS DOCUMENT FOR BUILDING A PLACE OF MEETING HOUSE FORPUBLIC WORSHIP, A MINISTER & SCHOOLMASTER
SCARCE CONFEDERATE GENERAL MARSHALL ORDERS TROOP MOVEMENTS
SIMON LAKE DRAWS A DESIGN FOR THE "HUB OF THE METROPOLIS PARK AT BATTERY PARK"
HENRY CABOT LODGE ON THE HAUNTING ADAMS MEMORIAL: "Mr. St. Gaudens told me that the intent of the statue was to represent Peace, Rest and Knowledge."
"DO YOU SUPPOSE YOU WILL TRY ME ONCE MORE…?" JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR ALS
ELBRIDGE GERRY TRANSCRIBES JAMES LOVELL'S LETTER "…I WILL ENDEAVOR TO GET SOME DECENCY FOR GENERAL W(ASHINGTON). IF IT IS ONLY PLUMP DENIAL OF JUSTICE…"
FRANKLIN PIERCE'S SECRETARY OF STATE MARCY COUNSELS MR AMES, THE HOUSE MESSENGER / PAGE: "Our intercourse has been pleasant to me"
WENDELL PHILLIPS ALS: THE MOST DRAMATIC ORATOR IN THE AMERICAN ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT
RINGLING BROTHERS CONTRACT FOR A BALLET PERFORMER "Male companions…strictly prohibited”
A RUBY AMBROTYPE OF PORTRAIT OF JOEL BARLOW
CIVIL WAR: FROM THE BOSTON JOURNAL ON ILLUSTRATED ENVELOPE "I learned from Margaret last night that you have joined the army…"
1872 ALS on CIVIL UNREST IN NEW ORLEANS: "Armed police and US Troops are stattioned in various portions of the City, which has a Warlike appearance..."
SUPERB 1833 WHALING LETTER: "…the whale hit with his flukes and Cut her in tew(sic) about midship…"
"...for the purpose of acting as a special expert in the control of mumps among Alaska natives"
1787 JOHN HANCOCK APPOINTS A LIEUTENANT
KING GEORGE III WRITES TO AN INDIAN PRINCE, THE NABOB OF ARCOT -- SEEDS OF BRITISH IMPERIALISM IN INDIA
SIGNIFICANT ALEXANDER HAMILTON ALS EAGERLY SEEKING INFORMATION ON AVAILABLE ARMS FOR CAVALRY IN PREPARATION FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE WHISKEY REBELLION
AUCTION ENDS DECEMBER 16, 2006
EARLY DESCRIPTION OF HELENA MONTANA 1866: " IT IS LESS THAN A YEAR SINCE THIS PLACE STARTED, AND IT NOW BOASTS OF ITS HOTELS, THEATRE A LARGE NUMBER OF STORES...BUT THE MOST NUMEROUS ARE ITS GAMBLING AND DRINKING SALOONS...THERE ARE ALSO QUITE A NUMBER OF DANCE HOUSES OR HURDY GURDIE..."
JOSHUA MORSE 1778 ALS: "My Love to all Flesh Except the Damd Indians =================I Cant Love them I Sware (sic)"
Many Lots of Revolutionary War Newspapers
1745 LETTER OF IMPRESSMENT "To Help Protect the Eastern Frontier."
FANTASTIC YALE 1887 YEARBOOK WITH LARGE FORMAT SPORTS IMAGESCREW, AN OUTDOOR BASEBALL GAME AND A TEAM BASEBALL PHOTOGRAPH WITH THE LEGENDARY AMOS ALONZO STAGG
RARE ANDREW JACKSON POLITICAL BROADSIDE
GEORGETOWN RAILROAD COMPANY 1878, Texas. Stock certificate
WILLIAM MASON - Inventor & Locomotive manufacturer on beautifully engraved Locomotive letterhead - 1856
YITZHAK RABIN AND DICK CHENEY - SIGNED PHOTO
A RARE RELIC FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S FIRST ATTEMPT AT NATIONAL OFFICE
AN HISTORIC ACCOUNT LOG DETAILING GENERAL PHILIP SCHUYLER'S PAYMENTS WHILE PREPARING TO INVADE CANADA AND SECURING FORT TICONDEROGA AFTER HER CAPTURE IN 1775.
TELETYPE UPI NEWS BULLETINS OF THE JFK ASSASSINATION --The Original Teletype printout of one of the most momentous day’s in American History. (Appr.) 100 ft. of original news copy from that day.
Civil War Letter: HARRISON LANDING, VA, 1862 DURING THE SEVEN DAYS BATTLE: "…such slaughter as I saw then I hope never to see again where the dead and dying with the wounded covered the ground in places three or four deep…"
AUTOGRAPH PHOTO SIGNED OF THE FAMOUS MUSHER WITH BALTO THE DOG IN THE GREAT ALASKAN SERUM RUN TO SAVE THE TERRITORY FROM DOOM.
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