Collectibles, Original Historical Documents +

Mrs. Herbert Hoover. T.L.S., Washington, Feb. 26, 1923, while Hoover was Secretary of Commerce. To "Miss Lane." "...I should be delig...

Frances F. Cleveland. Wife of Pres. Grover Cleveland. A.L.S., Feb. 23 (1891), 2 pp., to Mr. Barrett. "...We are looking forward most eagerly to...

Mrs. Gerald Ford. On White House letterhead, Dec. 7, 1976, following the election. "We are both extremely grateful for the experiences of the f...

Mamie Doud Eisenhower. Interesting collection of five items: 1) A.L.S., 1951, 4 pp., on letterhead of Villa St. Pierre, France, thanking Mr. Blackwell

What would Christmas be.... A.L.S. of Bess W. Truman, on engraved personal stationery, Independence, Mo., n.d. but envelope (also in her bold hand) po

Collection of First Ladies. Interesting group of eight items: 1) White House cards, imprinted "At Home" of Mrs. Harding and Mrs. Truman. 2...

Edith Kermit Roosevelt. Splendid A.L.S. as First Lady, on silver-engraved White House social stationery, Oct. 26, n.y., 3 full pp., to Mrs. [Henry Fai

With Mourning Border. Envelope front in hand of "Lucretia R. Garfield / Free / Ladies / Guilford House / Western Reserve University / Cleveland...

Helen H. Taft. Stiff engraved card inscribed, "Sincerely yours, Helen H. Taft, Washington, D.C." "2215 Wyoming Avenue" engraved ...

On First Day Cover. Bess Truman on steel-engraved F.D.C. for 5 "General Federation of Women's Clubs," postmarked Sept. 12, 1966. With ...

Mrs. Millard Fillmore. Very scarce signature of Pres. Fillmore's second wife, nee Caroline Carmichael McIntosh of Albany, on upper portion of co...

(Mrs. Woodrow Wilson). Thick card steel-engraved in formal script, presumed 1924, "Mrs. Woodrow Wilson desires to express her deep appreciation...

Barbara Bush. T.L.S. on letterhead, "The Vice President's House, Washington, D.C.," Mar. 26, 1981, 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 . "Dear Mayor......

The King Family. Archive of King family photographs, keepsakes and personal memorabilia from the homes of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mother Alber...

Antebellum Missouri. 1852 slave document, a listing for administration of estate of Thomas H. Lewis, Cape Girardeau County. $1,646.40 received for hir

Slave Inventory. Of A.G. Sledge, Alabama, 1862, penned on verso of printed page of Joint Resolutions of General Assembly of Alabama relating to a Conf

Fugitive Slaves. Scarce pamphlet, A Defence for Fugitive Slaves, "against the Acts of Congress of Feb. 12, 1793, and Sept. 18, 1850." By L...

Sugar and Slaves. Very rare colonial pamphlet on the slave trade: Considerations on the Present Peace, As far as it is relative to the Colonies, and t

Slave Poster. "$50 Reward...Ranaway from the subscriber, on Saturday the 28th [1852]...A Negro man named Jim, about 5 feet 6 inches high, brigh...

...To Be Treated Humanly. Manuscript note for "hire of negro man Morris for the year 1843, the said negro is to have the usual summer and winte...

Woman of Color. Antebellum inventory of about seventy items, 3 pp., including a Negro "woman of color" named Diane, and a Negro man by the...

Plantations in Jamaica. In an intricate agreement, this oversize indenture from the reign of George II awards sugar plantations with "all the n...

A Free Yellow Boy Sold as a Slave. Georgia, 1819, legal document, partly printed, 7 1/2 x 1 2. Fining James Wofford and David Smith $150 for attemptin

Underground Railroad. Document, Georgia, 1820, requiring posting of $200 bond to prevent enticing his slave Elijah from running away from his master,

Protection of a Slave. Underground Railroad-related legal document, levying a $200 fine on three defendants "for harboring" a runaway slav...

Young Black Woman. Ambrotype. In ornately trimmed dress, stylish coiffure. 2 x 2 1/2 , gold metal mat. Cover of case detached, a few minor blemishes i

One Negro girl.... Court appraisal of Absalam Huff's property: "One sorrel rifle $60, one brown mare $25, one Negro girl $283, cash $43.67....

I cannot help treating them kind.... A.L.S. of W. Parker, Hope Territory, to brother in Franklin, Tenn., 1855, 1 p. "...I am very glad Mr. Rice...

Rare Black Playbill. "Dred - Founded on the celebrated novel by Mrs. H(arriet) B(eecher) Stowe, dramatized expressly for the Boston Museum.&quo...

Anti-Black Sentiment. Lengthy letter, Allegany County, Md., Sept. 4, 1839, 3 1/2 pp., 8 x 10, integral address-leaf with Frostburg c.d.s., to Danville

Old Man Marsh. A.L.S. of slaveowner L.J. Mallard, to James Le Conte, Macon, Ga., Feb. 26, 1861. "I have concluded to take Old Man Marsh. You wi...

Negro Girl named Milly. Manuscript receipt, Dec. 13, 1856, 7 x 8. "Received of Eliza F. McNeil & William H. Hicks, administrators of John M...

Ku Klux Klan. Unusual assemblage of KKK stationery and documents, apparently Maine, c. 1929: Two blank pages of "Kligrapp's Cash Book,"...

Nazi Gunner's Notebook. Highly unusual item: a bound notebook of a German gunner, including hand drawings of planes and ships. 6 1/2 x 8 3/4 , a...

Hitler is the Last Hope of those Who Have Nothing. Official NSDAP electioneering broadside, Mar. 1, 1932, Hitler vs. Hindenburg. Printed both sides, 9

March Ahead for your Nation. Rare broadside issued following von Hindenburg's death to prepare the German people for Aug. 19, 1934 plebiscite to...

Nazi Pennants. Two different, each with black swastika on white circle, red ground, with cord at one edge: 1) 7 1/2 x 1 7 1/2 , salesman's sampl...

Nazi Medley. Group of sixteen different, authentic pieces: five campaign ribbons; five metal badges, about 1 1/2 " diameter, one with ribbon; t...

Final Solution. August 1940 Directive for troops down to company level, printed both sides, 8 x 11 1/2 sheet, replete with anti-Semitic "guidel...

Artifacts of the Horror. Two items: Authentic section of barbed wire from Theresienstadt, the "model" concentration camp and gateway to he...

Anti-Semitism. Very rare broadside extolling "racial purity" books by Dr. Robert Korber, issued by Vienna University, 1939. Korber's v...

From Hamburg to Vienna. Scarce broadside, 1938, black type on tan paper, 8 1/2 x 1 1 3/4 , to German people, preceding vote for "Anschluss with...

Diamonds are not Forever. Oversize, elaborate deluxe Nazi publication, Die Kunst im Deutschen Reich, Oct. 1942, "6 Jahrgang [year of publicatio...

Nazi Culture. Another issue of Die Kunst im Deutschen Reich, June 1942. (26) pp. Photographic studies of NSDAP building in Berlin, with architectural

Felix Rosenblueth. A.L.S. twice - with his original name and new one, Pinchas Rosen. Signer of Israel's Declaration of Independence, and Israel&...

Voyage of the Damned. The title ascribed to the St. Louis, the German ship forced to return to Europe in 1939. About 900 Jewish refugees were passenge

Nazi Postcard Collection. Splendid collection of seventeen different Nazi era postcards, all slightly oversize, with imprinted postage, many with Hitl

Concentration Camp Money. Engraved currency, "Theresienstadt, am 1 Janner 1943," 20 Kronen, Star of David and likeness of Moses holding ta...

Anti-Hitler Broadside. 1932, colored cartoon entitled, "Political Cabaret in Pictures." Featuring 8 comic panes, attacking Hitler's st...

Anti-British Poster. German verbal attack on Churchill and his maritime blockade policy, causing them "to suffer hunger and distress." Ove...