Collectibles and Original Historical Documents

New York City Slave Document. 1755, signed by William Kempe, Attorney General for the Crown in New York State. Jenny, a slave owned by Judith Van Horn

Slave prices in Memphis are high.... Letter, 1855, from Thomas Homer to brother in Little Reed, S.C., 2 pp., with envelope. Writes of yellow fever in

For a Negro Boy about five years old. Named Warrick. Slave bill of sale, 1829. John Terry paid $150 to Andrew Berry for "said Negro to be sound...

Hanging of a Negro Woman. Letter, Richmond, Va., 1852, 2 pp., from one cousin to another. "There is to be a Negro woman hung in this city on th...

Kentucky Bill of Sale. For a five-year-old boy named Charles, "slave for life," 1832, for $135, paid by George Steele of Davidson County. ...

Blanche K. Bruce. First slave to become a member of U.S. Senate, serving from 1875 to 1881, from Mississippi. Appointed Register of the Treasury by Pr

Ishmael Keith. African-American, connected with Wilberforce College (now University) in Ohio. A.L.S., Cin(cinnati), Dec. 12, 1846, 11/2 pp., to Willia

Unusual Bill of Sale. For "a certain mulatto boy, Thomas...19 years," for $800, 1842, "a slave for life...healthy in body and mind......

Thurgood Marshall. Appointed by Pres. Johnson to Supreme Court 1967, after a distinguished career with the NAACP and court system. Signature on First

Sale of a Slave. During period of Sherman's March to the Sea. Bill of sale dated Apr. 7, 1864, for $300, "in full payment for a Negro Girl ...

School Integration during Reconstruction. Letter from L.L. Cross, New Orleans, Sept. 29, 1877, 1 p., to his sister, regarding Louisiana Agricultural a

Harper's Weekly. Group of ten prints, 1870s-1880s, all full page, 12 x 16, showing: Working with tobacco; "Grand Walking Match"; carni...

1843, from Burnsville, Ala. Letter from Cloe McCalley to cousin Martha Lanford in Huntsville, Ala., 11/2 pp., with news from home. "...We have ...

Bankruptcy and Slaves. Letter from Brandon, Miss., Apr. 20, 1843, 31/2 pp., integral address-leaf with circular Brandon postmark, manuscript "1...

Runaway Slave Document. To C. Hubberts, Jailer, to office of Miner's Recorder, May 12, 1837, $7.25 for fourteen insertions of "Reeves, a ru...

Please to pay to Negro Boy Granderson.... "The amount due for hauling...." Written and signed by Francis S. Manning, Mar. 8, 1839, Love Sp...

Black Slaves in South America, 1805-1812. Group of seven documents (six partly printed, one manuscript) in Spanish, detailing sale in the seaport city

Barbra Streisand. Singer, actress, director, and one of the top entertainers of the twentieth century. A rare in-person signature with inscription, ...

Songs my Mother Never Taught Me. Book of about fifty songs by John Jacob Niles, American folk singer, and Douglas Moore, composer (opera "Devil...

Dracula's Author. As Manager for actor Sir Henry Irving: Interesting pair of A.Ls.S., 1890s, from newspaperman W.E. Bruant to a theatregoer. On ...