Historical Documents

SAMUEL F B MORSE (1791-1872) American inventor of the telegraph. ADS, "Saml F B Morse", 1p, May 10, 1843, 8"X2 1/2", receipt for...

THOMAS A EDISON (1847-1931) American inventor. ISP, "Thos A Edison", b/w, image size 7"X9", seated pose. Signed and inscribed at...

THOMAS A EDISON Book, "The Boy's Life of Edison", by William H. Meadowcroft, Harper & Brothers, 1921, 367 pages. Signed on the fro...

THOMAS A EDISON Boldly signed card. Mounted. VG. $300-400

HUDSON MAXIM (1853-1927) Inventor of smokeless gunpowder. SP, b/w, image size 6 1/2"X9", seated pose, Marceau mount, New York. VG. Mounted...

JOHN L BAIRD (1888-1946) Scottish inventor; produced first television picture of a moving object (1926). TLS, signed "J L Baird", Mar 11, ...

GEORGE M PULLMAN (1831-1897) American inventor; designed the "Pullman" Railroad car, and other railroad-related items. Signature, "Ge...

CHARLES DARWIN (1809-82) English naturalist. Postcard ANS, "C Darwin", Dec 1 (1875), postmarked Beckenham, to Lawson Tait, interesting con...

JOHN BURROUGHS (1837-1921) American naturalist & author; friend of Walt Whitman (from 1863), whom he honored in his first book "Notes on Wa...

JOHN BURROUGHS ALS, 1p, May 5, 1904, 8vo, West Point, NY, to Edwin Porter. "...I shall not be able to write the review of Mr Smith's book &...