A Fine Selection of Manuscripts and Documents - Session 2

(PRESIDENTIAL ALMOST-RANS): Lot of four signed photos (two of each signer), all 8" x 10" color, showing Presidential almosts COLIN POWELL ...

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN: (1860-1925) American lawyer and politician, Secretary of State, and the chief prosecutor who dueled with Clarence Darrow in th

GEORGE BANCROFT: (1800 - 1891) American historian, Secretary of the Navy, and founder of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. Rare S.P., a ca

ROBERT F. KENNEDY: (1925 - 1968) American politician who successfully managed his brother John's presidential campaign and was later appointed A...

MONTGOMERY BLAIR: (1813 - 1883) American politician who defended Dred Scott before the Supreme Court, later served as Lincoln's Postmaster Gener...

LOUIS D. BRANDEIS: (1856 - 1941) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, remembered for his powerful devotion to the freedom of speech. Bold, full sig

JOHN C. CALHOUN: (1782 - 1850) Vice President of the United States and an ardent supporter of slavery and the Southern cause in Senate debates. D.S. a

THOMAS C. CLARK: (1899 - 1977) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Attorney General under Truman. Nice oversize I.S.P. 11" x 14" sepia...

HENRY CLAY: (1777 - 1852) American politician, the "Great Pacificator" who supported the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 wh...

(HENRY CLAY): A fine Brady CDV, probably taken from an earlier daguerreotype, of the great statesman Henry Clay posing with his wife taken in their la