Collectibles and Original Historical Documents

Maxwell Anderson. American playwright of "What Price Glory," "Saturday's Children," "Elizabeth the Queen." Origina...

Robert E. Sherwood. American playwright; won Pulitzer Prize for "Abe Lincoln in Illinois"; speechwriter for F.D.R. T.L.S. to Theatre Guild...

Elmer Rice. Pulitzer Prize-winner for play "Street Scene," 1929; dramatist of many popular plays of the era. T.L.S., 1949, to Theatre Guil...

Sidney Howard. Dramatist of the stage and screen. Contract between Howard and Theatre Guild, 1927, concerning rights to his play "Ned McCobb...

Sir Terence Ruttigan. British playwright and screenwriter, said to have been the highest paid playwright. Signature page (p. 2) of contract, 1948, set

Radio Mirror. Group of 20 issues, 193950. Illustrated articles on the popular stars of the era: Orson Welles (his "War of the Worlds" prog...

Assorted Radio Magazines, 194350. A dozen issues, each with a radio star on cover: 1) Radio Row, 1942, two with Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Rudy Vallee

TV Radio Mirror. Magazine progressing in its coverage from radio to television. Group of 27 issues, 1951-73, about 94 pp. ea. 1950's (6), 1960&#...

That's Entertainment. Group of publications of entertainment interest, 1928-77: 1) 5-cent Liberty Magazine, four issues, with Shirley Temple, Gr...

Fanny Brice. Comedienne of 1920's and 1930's, star of Broadway and radio. Vintage signed photo, sepia, in profile. 8 x 10. Inscribed in a di...

Sarah Bernhardt. French actress, known as "the Divine Sarah," whose career lasted half a century. A.L.S., 3 -1/2 x 4, neatly matted with v...

On the Air. Fascinating book from the golden age of radio, How to Speak and Write for Radio: A Manual of Broadcasting Technique, by Alice Keith. 1944.

Aiding to brake the bonds of oppression.... Important A.L.S., 4 pp., from black abolitionist Charles Henry Langston (grandfather of poet and aut

Old Alice. Tintype of a slave, fashionably dressed. Old paper on back identifies her as "Old Alice," maid to I.W. Morgainis for many years...

There are so many slaves.... Letter on slavery, from a Northern woman schoolteacher at Greensborough, Georgia, 1835, to her sister in Clinton, N.Y., 3

Freedmen's Bureau. A.D.S. of Surgeon J.W. Lawton of U.S. Volunteers, on printed letterhead of Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, ...

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Mother Records his Birth, Marriage and Death. A remarkable item: the personal bible of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s M...

Slaves for the Union Army. Orders, Jackson, Tenn., Sept. 5, 1862, partly printed, H.Q., 1st Div. "...James W. Glass has furnished...Special Ord...

The death of Patience, a Negro woman. Legal document, 1839, Lawrence County, Alabama, summoning "a respectable freeholder" to appear befor...

Blanche K. Bruce. First black Senator, and first Senator of slave descent (his mother was a slave in Virginia). Deed, 1890, recorded and signed by Bru