Nine Centuries Of Historical Documents

Of Tenn. Confederate Gen. In his hand, "Major & A.Q.M., Dibrell's Brig. Cavalry, Forrest's Corps." Lacking in Shaw, and added ...

Of Pa. Union Gen. First discharged in Apr. 1861, his unit found itself marching home to Pennsylvania on the very same morning that the rest of the Arm

Of Ky. Union Maj. Gen. Prof. of philosophy at West Point, engineer, Pres. of Rock Island and Peoria R.R., bankrupted when Southern bonds defaulted at

Of Mass. Union Maj., 4th and 22nd Mass. Vol. Infantries. "Fraternally Yours...." Edge toning, else very fine. With modern copy of photogra...

Of Mass. Union Gen. Controversial occupier of Baltimore, then New Orleans, Butler "showed a genius for arousing adverse criticism at home and e...

Of N.Y. Union Gen. Composer of "Taps." Wounded at Gaines' Mill, for which awarded the Medal of Honor decades later, in 1892. Butterfie...

Few modern American genres evoke the instant associations of the Big Band era and the Jazz Age. From Basie to Ellington, Goodman to Miller, and the sc

Four 1940s Victor Red Seal Classical record store advertising posters. 15 x 20 each. Showing Lauritz Melchior, Yehudi Menuhin, Gladys Swarthout, and L

Sprawling signature of I(rving) Berlin, in pencil, on square yellow album leaf, 4 x 4, called by Gershwin "the greatest songwriter that has eve...

Supremely rare newspaper of major importance, New York Weekly News, Nov. 28, 1863, 13 1/4 x 20 1/4, 8 pp. On p. 6, nearly two full columns headed &q...

Autograph album compiled early 1863, with magnificent, uncommonly large "Yours truly, A. Lincoln" centered on the first leaf after gilded ...

Flamboyant signature with paraph of Belva A. Lockwood, the first woman admitted to practice before U.S. Supreme Court, in 1879, and leader in the suff

Dramatic group relating to McKinley's assassination: Same-day "Memorial Meeting - A Tribute to Hon. William McKinley...," Aryan Societ...

Attractive partly printed D.S. by "His Excellency Caleb Strong, Gov. and Commander in Chief of the Commonwealth of Mass.," a much-underrat...

T.L.S. of Herbert Hoover, The Waldorf Astoria, N.Y., Dec. 31, 1942, 7 1/4 x 10 1/2. To Grace Cornwall, Chicago. "Thank you for your letter and ...

T.L.S. of Patricia Nixon, on White House letterhead, blue on ivory. June 23, 1971. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4. To Dennis Warren, Sacramento. "Both of us dee...

A.N.S. of Francis F. Cleveland on her cambric-embossed ivory notepaper, engraved in gold "F.F.C." "Sunday Afternoon," n.y., 3 3/...

A.L.S. of Edith Kermit Roosevelt, Paris, "Wed., Sept. 'no day], 1904," 5 1/4 x 8 1/2. To Mr. Bryan. "We came home last night, my ...

T.L.S. of Eleanor Roosevelt, interestingly on "White House, Washington" stationery, but while away. Steel-engraved in gold on eggshell whi...

Lengthy A.L.S. of Mamie Eisenhower, signed with initials "M.D.E.," mentioning "the General" twice. On lettersheet of The Gunter,...