Historical Documents

NIKITA KRUSCHEV (1894-1971) Premier of the Soviet Union. LS, as Chief of the Ukranian Council of Ministers, 1p, Nov 23, 1947, 4to, to Chief of Oblispo

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Premier of the Soviet Union, the man who brought his country out from behind the Iron Curtain. SP, color, 10"X8", the fa...

KONSTANTIN CHERNENKO (1911-85) Soviet leader; General Secretary of the Communist Party and Chairman of Presidium of Supreme Soviet (1984). Signed holi

GEYDAR ALIEU President of Azerbaijan; the former Chief of the KGB in that country when it was in the Soviet Union. Signed May Day greeting card, 1975,

ANDREI GROMYKO (1909-89) Soviet Union statesman; Foreign Minister (1957-85); President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1985-88). TLS, "...

ANDREI VISHINSKY (1883-1954) Soviet diplomat and politician; gained international reputation as Chief Prosecutor for Joseph Stalin during the purges o

VYACHESLAV M MOLOTOV (1890-1986) Soviet Statesman; Foreign Minister under Joseph Stalin, who negotiated the historic German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

ALEKSEY KOSYGIN (1904-80) Premier of the Soviet Union (1964-80). TLS, as Chief of Counsel of Ministry, 1p, 1946, 8vo. Requesting equipment like cranes

ROZALIYA ZEMLYACHKA (1876-1947) Soviet politician; Vice Chairman of the Council of People's Commissar of the U.S.S.R. (1939-43), making her seco...

NIKOLAY SHVERNIK (1888-1970) Soviet politician; head of Soviet trade unions (1930-44); Chairman of Presidium of Supreme Soviet (1946-54). TLS, 1p, 194

LEONID BREZHNEV (1906-82) Soviet political leader; Chairman of Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1960-64), engineering the ouster of Nikita Kruschev; 1

NIKOLAY BULGANIN (1895-1975) Soviet politician; Premier of Soviet Union (1955-58), who was demoted for opposition to Khrushchev. DS, as Vice President

VATSLAV VOROVSKY Russian Communist leader; U.S.S.R. Ambassador to Scandinavian countries; killed in Switzerland (1923). TLS, as Ambassador to Italy, 1

LAVRENTY P BERIA (1899-1953) Soviet Union politician; the dreaded head of Joseph Stalin's security agency, the NKVD, who oversaw the Great Purge...

GEORGI CHICHERIN (1872-1936) Soviet diplomat of noble birth; succeeded Trotsky as Foreign Commissar. DS, 1p, 1925, 4to, re an International Convention

MIKHAIL FRUNZE (1885-1925) Russian Soviet army commander; took part in Bolshevik revolution; People's Commissar for War; considered one of the f...

(Soviet NKVD) NIKOLAI ZAKHAROV, Soviet Major General; head of the Gulags. TLS, 1p, 1944, oblong 4to, re special equipment for metallurgical work. File

(Soviet KGB) YURI ANDROPOV (1914-84), Soviet Union Politician; appointed head of the KGB (1967); General Secretary of the Communist Party (1982). DS,

DMITRY YAZOV Soviet Defense Minister; actively involved in the coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev. His personal diary, compiled during the last da

(Lenin) GLEB KRZHIZHANOVSKY (1872-1959), Bolshevik revolutionary leader; friend of Lenin. A book about his life, in Russian. Signed and inscribed on f

EDWARD SHEVARDNADZE Soviet politician; head of the KGB; now of the Georgian Republic. His book on political thought, 1991, in Russian, soft covers. Ni

MOTHER TERESA (1911-1997) Roman Catholic missionary in India. SP, b/w, 8"X10", half length pose. Signed at bottom margin, "God bless ...

KATHERINE LEE BATES (1859-1929) American educator & author; wrote "America The Beautiful." AQS, all four stanzas of her famous poem, 1...

BRIGHAM YOUNG (1801-77) American Mormon leader; first Governor of Utah & founder of Salt Lake City. DS, 1p, Jan 20, 1849, 4"X2", emerg...

PAUL VI (1897-78) Roman Catholic Pope (1963-78). Christmas card, with image of the Holy Family. He pens an ADS, as Vatican Secretary of State, January

ROBERT BADEN-POWELL (1857-1941) British General and founder of the Boy Scout movement (1908). Signature, clipped from a letter. VG. $100-150

(Autograph Collection) Collection of over 125 signatures, mounted into a Waterman Autograph Album, 28pp, 8vo, collected by Sounia Noveck, Atlantic Cit

(Autograph Collection) Collection of over 80 signatures, mounted into a Waterman Autograph Album, 28pp, 8vo, collected by Isadore Noveck, Atlantic Cit

GEORGE RIPLEY (1820-80) Unitarian clergyman, reformer and philospher. He was an associate of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amos Bronson Alcott, Theodore Parker

JOHN STUART MILL (1806-73) English philospher & economist; chief exponent of utilitarian philosophy. Bold signature, "J S Mill", clipp...

SAMUEL GOMPERS (1850-1924) Labor leader; organized the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Signed and inscribed photogravure, b/w, image size 6"...

JOHN SPARGO (1876-1966) American socialist and reformer. AQS, 1p, nd, 8vo, Hotel Gibson letterhead,Cincinnati, from "Socialism and Motherhood&q...

JOHN SPARGO AQS, 1p, Nov 25, 1928, 8vo, interesting content. "Russia is still an American problem - and America will yet see Russia great and g...

NORMAN THOMAS (1884-1968) American Socialist; helped found ACLU; 5 time Socialist candidate for President of U.S. TLS, 2pp, Mar 25, 1940, 4to, persona

MALCOLM X (1925-65) African American leader; became a Black Muslim minister in 1952, preached racial separation; by 1964 he had changed his position o

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR (1929-68) Assassinated Civil Rights Leader. Signature, "Best Wishes, Martin Luther King." Nicely matted with a vinta...

ROSA PARKS Civil Rights activist. DS, her personal check, Jan 22, 1999, drawn on First Independence National Bank, Detroit. Completed in her hand to...

CARLO GAMBINO (1902-76) American Mafia kingpin; boss of New York's most powerful crime family. A power in Brooklyn, he rose through the revamped...

LYLE MENENDEZ Infamous murderer of his own parents. On Aug 20, 1989, Lyle, with his younger brother Erik, brutally shot their mother and father in the

ROBERT STROUD (1890-1963) American ornithologist, called the "Bird Man of Alcatraz"; imprisoned for murdering a man in Juneau, Alaska (190...

LYLE MENENDEZ DS, his personal check, Dec 21, 1989, drawn on United Jersey Bank, Princeton, NJ, completed in his hand for $190.00 to Tarbell Realtors,

(Wells Fargo) HENRY WELLS (1805-78) & WILLIAM G FARGO (1818-81), organizers of Wells, Fargo & Co and the American Express Co. DS, 1p, Jan 2,...

WILLIAM G FARGO Partly printed DS, signed "Wm G Fargo", 1p, June 18, 1869, oblong folio, stock certificate for 100 shares in the "Ame...

(Wells Fargo) Original reward poster, 9"X12", 1876. Reads in part, "$800 REWARD! In addition to the $300 offered by the Sheriff of th...

HOWARD HUGHES (1905-76) American industrialist. DS, "Howard R Hughes Pres", 17 separate pages, July 12, 1932, legal folio, agreement betwe...

ANDREW CARNEGIE (1835-1919) American industrialist. His book, "James Watt", Doubleday, Page & Co, New York, 1905, 1st Edition, 241pp. ...

DANIEL DREW (1797-1879) American capitalist. His greatest business battle was the "Erie War" with Cornelius Vanderbilt (1866-68), which he...

CYRUS W FIELD (1819-92) American financier; promoter of the First Atlantic Cable. LS, 2pp, Feb 25, 1880, 8vo, London, declining an invitation. VG. $10

JACOB H SCHIFF (1847-1920) German/American financier and philanthropist; partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co. He was benefactor of several Jewish seminar...

WILLIAM WALDORF ASTOR (1848-1919) American financier, great grandson of John Jacob Astor. He moved to England, 1890, becoming a British subject, 1899,