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RR Auction's July Fine Autograph and Artifact sale boasts a wealth of remarkable historic material from the 18th century to the present day: significant letters by Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Paul Cezanne, and Marilyn Monroe; incredible signed photographs of Ernest Hemingway and the Apollo 11 crew; rare mid-century Academy Awards; and marvelous music autographs including the Beatles, the Eagles, Bob Dylan, and Led Zeppelin. To celebrate the Fourth of July, we also have an offering of autographs from patriot luminaries like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, and Thomas Paine. RR Auction is a globally recognized and trusted auction house specializing in historical autographs and artifacts. Join us as we make history selling history in July 2022.
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
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Barack Obama Signed Mock Impeachment Resolution51 - Barack Obama Signed Mock Impeachment Resolution
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Felt tip signature, "Barack Obama," on a 5.5 x 8 page, on which the first page of the House Resolution impeaching President Donald Trump h...
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Barack Obama Signed Book52 - Barack Obama Signed Book
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Signed book: The Audacity of Hope. Later printing. NY: Crown Publishers, 2006. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 375 pages. Signed on the title p
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Barack Obama Signed Book53 - Barack Obama Signed Book
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Signed book: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. First edition. NY: Random House, 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 403
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Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen Signed Book54 - Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen Signed Book
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Signed book: Renegades: Born in the USA. Deluxe first edition. NY: Crown Publishing, 2021. Hardcover with slipcase, 9.5 x 11.5, 303 pages. Signed prom
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Franklin Pierce Signature55 - Franklin Pierce Signature
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Ink signature, "Very respectfully yr. friend & Servt. Franklin Pierce," on an off-white lightly-lined sheet. Matted with an engraved p...
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Nancy Reagan Signed Book56 - Nancy Reagan Signed Book
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Signed book: My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan. Limited first edition, numbered 263/300. NY: Random House, 1989. Clothbound hardcover with slipcase
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Eleanor Roosevelt (9) Typed Letters Signed57 - Eleanor Roosevelt (9) Typed Letters Signed
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Nine TLSs by Eleanor Roosevelt, each one page, ranging in size from 6 x 7 to 6 x 9.25, dated from 1934 to 1959. All to Mr. and Mrs. Adolph, with seven
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William H. Taft Signed White House Card as President58 - William H. Taft Signed White House Card as President
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White House card, 4 x 2.5, signed neatly in fountain pen as president, "Sincerely yours, Wm. H. Taft, Dec. 4, 1912." Attractively matted a...
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William H. Taft Document Signed as President59 - William H. Taft Document Signed as President
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Partly-printed DS as president, signed “Wm. H. Taft,” one page, 13.75 x 19.75, May 13, 1909. President Taft appoints John William Ke
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Bess Truman Signed Photograph60 - Bess Truman Signed Photograph
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Matte-finish 3.5 x 5 head-and-shoulders photo of the first lady, signed in the lower border in black felt tip, "Bess W. Truman." In very f...
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Harry S. Truman Typed Letter Signed61 - Harry S. Truman Typed Letter Signed
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TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, May 25, 1954. Letter to Judge Oscar C. Dancy, in full: “I certainly did appreciate your good
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Donald Trump Signed Photograph62 - Donald Trump Signed Photograph
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Color glossy 8 x 10 photo of Donald Trump in formalwear, signed in blue felt tip. In very fine condition.
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George Washington (3) Handwritten Words63 - George Washington (3) Handwritten Words
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Three words penned in George Washington's hand, "six pounds currency," on an irregularly trimmed 4.75 x 2.5 slip cut from a partly-pri...
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Woodrow Wilson Document Signed as President64 - Woodrow Wilson Document Signed as President
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Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 23 x 19, March 8, 1919. President Wilson appoints Jay C. Huston of California as "Interpreter to the ...
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Samuel Adams Document Signed65 - Samuel Adams Document Signed
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Partly-printed DS, signed “S. Adams,” one page, 7.25 x 7, no date. As Governor of Massachusetts, Adams instructs State Treasurer Tho
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American Archives: Peter Force Print of the 'Continental Congress Agreement of Secrecy of November 966 - American Archives: Peter Force Print of the 'Continental Congress Agreement of Secrecy of November 9
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Rare book: American Archives: Fourth Series, Vol. III. Washington: Published by M. St. Clair Clarke and Peter Force, 1840. Hardcover, 9.5 x 14.25, hig
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Francis Hopkinson Document Signed67 - Francis Hopkinson Document Signed
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Signer of the Declaration of Independence from New Jersey (1737–1791) who is also known as the designer of the first official American flag.
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Benjamin Franklin Document Signed68 - Benjamin Franklin Document Signed
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Partly-printed vellum DS, signed “B. Franklin,” one page, 16 x 13.75, May 30, 1786. As president of Pennsylvania's Supreme Executive
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Edward Rutledge Autograph Letter Signed69 - Edward Rutledge Autograph Letter Signed
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American politician from South Carolina who was the youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence (1749–1800). ALS, one page, 7 x 4.5, D
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Clarence Darrow Typed Letter Signed70 - Clarence Darrow Typed Letter Signed
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TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, June 24, 1935. Letter to Philip Leibsohn. In part: "Some time ago I wrote to you, but have not received a replyR...
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William Paterson Autograph Letter Signed71 - William Paterson Autograph Letter Signed
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New Jersey statesman and a signer of the United States Constitution (1745–1806) who was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Cou
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Mohandas Gandhi Hand-Corrected Manuscript72 - Mohandas Gandhi Hand-Corrected Manuscript
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Partial hand-corrected manuscript by Mohandas Gandhi, one page, 6.25 x 8.25, on the reverse of a letter written in an unknown hand on Brij Bhushan Lal
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Raoul Wallenberg Document Signed73 - Raoul Wallenberg Document Signed
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DS in German and Hungarian, quickly signed by Wallenberg with an ink scribble (as he commonly did on documents of this type), one page, 8.25 x 13.25,
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Louis Brandeis Signed Photograph74 - Louis Brandeis Signed Photograph
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Vintage glossy 6.5 x 9.25 Clinedinst photo of Brandeis in his judicial robe, affixed to its original 11 x 13 photographer's mount, signed and in...
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Burger Court Signed Photograph75 - Burger Court Signed Photograph
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Official matte-finish 16.5 x 11.75 photo of the Burger Court by the Ackad studio of Washington, D.C., signed in the lower border in various ink types
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Burger Court Signed Photograph76 - Burger Court Signed Photograph
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Official glossy 9.5 x 7 photo of the Burger Court affixed to its original 13.5 x 11.25 mount, signed on the mount in ink and felt tip by all nine Supr
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Felix Frankfurter Signed Photograph77 - Felix Frankfurter Signed Photograph
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Vintage matte-finish 10 x 13.5 Hessler Supreme Court portrait of Frankfurter, signed and inscribed in the lower border in fountain pen, "To my ...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Signed Photograph78 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Signed Photograph
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Vintage matte-finish 6 x 9 Harris and Ewing photo of Holmes seated in his judicial robe, signed on the original 9.75 x 13.75 studio mat in black ink,
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Warren Court Signed Photograph79 - Warren Court Signed Photograph
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Official matte-finish 16.5 x 11.75 photo of the Warren Court by the Ackad studio of Washington, D.C, signed in the lower border in various ink types b
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Warren Court Signed Photograph80 - Warren Court Signed Photograph
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Official matte-finish 16.75 x 12 Ackad Studio photo of the Warren Court, signed in the lower border in ink by all nine Supreme Court justices: Earl Wa
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Howard Hughes Typed Letter Signed81 - Howard Hughes Typed Letter Signed
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TLS, one page, 5.25 x 8, April 14, 1949. Letter to Colonel R. C. Kuldell, in full: "I have your letter of Mar. 28, 1949. I do not concur with s...
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John D. Rockefeller Typed Letter Signed82 - John D. Rockefeller Typed Letter Signed
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TLS, signed prominently as "John D. Rockefeller," one page, 5.75 x 7.75, personal letterhead, July 8, 1922. Letter to Mr. and Mrs. N. W. D...
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Henri Becquerel Autograph Letter Signed83 - Henri Becquerel Autograph Letter Signed
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French physicist (1852–1908) whose experiments with uranium salts led to the discovery of spontaneous radioactivity; for this breakthrough he
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Alexander Graham Bell's Personally-Owned Book84 - Alexander Graham Bell's Personally-Owned Book
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Rare book from the personal library of Alexander Graham Bell: The Making of Species by Douglas Dewar and Frank Finn. London: John Lane, 1909. Hardcove
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Georg Cantor Autograph Letter Signed85 - Georg Cantor Autograph Letter Signed
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German mathematician (1845-1918) who created set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics. Cantor established the importance of on
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Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed86 - Albert Einstein Autograph Letter Signed
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ALS in German, signed “A. E.,” one page, 5.5 x 8.5, no date. Handwritten letter to Mr. Reiche, possibly the German physicist Fritz R
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Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed87 - Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed
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TLS in French, signed “A. Einstein,” one page, 8.25 x 11, November 5, 1919. Letter to Professor Jean Baptiste Perrin, who would go o
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Harvey Cushing Typed Letter Signed88 - Harvey Cushing Typed Letter Signed
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Surgeon (1869–1939) who pioneered many modern neurosurgical techniques and investigated the functions of the pituitary gland. TLS, one page,
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Cyrus W. Field: Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Relic by Tiffany's89 - Cyrus W. Field: Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Relic by Tiffany's
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Segment of the first transatlantic telegraph cable from 1858, measuring 4" long, made into a souvenir and sold by Tiffany & Co. The cable i...
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Joseph Guillotin Document Signed90 - Joseph Guillotin Document Signed
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French physician and politician (1738–1814) whose name became synonymous with the 'humane' instrument of execution whose use he propos...
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William Jackson Hooker Signed Photograph91 - William Jackson Hooker Signed Photograph
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English systematic botanist and organizer, and botanical illustrator (1785–1865) who held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow U
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Sebastian Kneipp Signed Photograph92 - Sebastian Kneipp Signed Photograph
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Bavarian priest (1821-1897) who pioneered naturopathic medicine, particularly a form of hydrotherapy known as the Kneipp cure. Choice 4.25 x 6.5 cabin
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Gregor Mendel Autograph Document Signed93 - Gregor Mendel Autograph Document Signed
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Rare autograph DS in German, signed "Gregor Mendel," one page, 8.25 x 13.5, September 1, 1876. Untranslated document concerning a financia...
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George Ord Autograph Letter Signed94 - George Ord Autograph Letter Signed
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American zoologist (1781–1866) who specialized in North American ornithology and mammology, remembered for challenging the works of John Jame
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Louis Pasteur Autograph Letter Signed95 - Louis Pasteur Autograph Letter Signed
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ALS in French, signed “L. Pasteur,” one page both sides, 5.25 x 8.25, October 30, 1888. Handwritten letter to a friend with importan
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Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman Signed Photograph96 - Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman Signed Photograph
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Indian physicist (1888-1970) whose work in the field of light scattering earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics. Rare vintage matte-finish 3.75 x
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Rudolf Virchow Autograph Letter Signed97 - Rudolf Virchow Autograph Letter Signed
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German doctor and politician (1821–1902), dubbed the 'Father of Pathology,' who founded the field of social medicine. ALS in German, o...
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Nikola Tesla Autograph Letter Signed98 - Nikola Tesla Autograph Letter Signed
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ALS signed “N. Tesla,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5.25 x 6.75, personal monogram letterhead, June 14, 1899. Handwritten let
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Alfred Wallace Autograph Letter Signed99 - Alfred Wallace Autograph Letter Signed
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British naturalist, explorer, and biologist (1823–1913) best known for proposing a theory of natural selection which prompted Charles Darwin
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Martin Buber (8) Handwritten Letters in Hebrew100 - Martin Buber (8) Handwritten Letters in Hebrew
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German Jewish philosopher and writer (1878–1965) who evolved a philosophy inspired by the study of Hasidism. Collection of eight handwritten
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