Collectibles and Original Historical Documents

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 ...