Nine Centuries Of Historical Documents

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Original Historical Documents, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Autographs, Letters, Newspapers, Photographs, Ephemera, Coins, Postal History, and more. 20 Subjects include: Americana, Aviation, Black History, Colonial, Revolutionary War, Civil War, Jazz, Maps & Atlases, Medieval & Religion, Naval & Military, Numismatics, Old Letters, Presidents & Politics, Transportation, World Wars I & II ... and more.
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"Oh! ny name is Darkey Sam...."1008 - "Oh! ny name is Darkey Sam...."
Cohasco, Inc.
Civil War period pro-abolition songsheet, "The Contraband's Adventures," printed by Charles Magnus. Judged pre-Emancipation Proclamati...
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Start Price : 45.00 | Estimate : 90.00 - 120.00
 
 
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Lament of a Southern Black on "Bobolition."1009 - Lament of a Southern Black on "Bobolition."
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Civil War period songsheet intended for the Northerner craving peace but not necessarily abolition. "Young Eph's Lament," combination ...
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Start Price : 40.00 | Estimate : 80.00 - 110.00
 
 
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Satirizing Blacks' Tools as Contraband of War.1010 - Satirizing Blacks' Tools as Contraband of War.
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Unusual pair of Union patriotics, postally unused, with same multi-color artwork and fine text - but different titles and subtitles. One entitled &q...
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Start Price : 45.00 | Estimate : 90.00 - 120.00
 
 
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"Prince Sauce-pan."1011 - "Prince Sauce-pan."
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Satirical Union patriotic, with full-height pseudo-ambrotype of a plump black soldier, with epaulettes, sword dragging on the ground, "C.S.A.&q...
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Start Price : 25.00 | Estimate : 50.00 - 70.00
 
 
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A Cry for Freedom.1012 - A Cry for Freedom.
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Union patriotic cover, postally unused, with blistering cameo-like anti-slavery woodcut of kneeling slave, in chains, being whipped by his master in t
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Start Price : 22.00 | Estimate : 45.00 - 65.00
 
 
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Guaranteeing the Eyesight of a Teenage Slave.1013 - Guaranteeing the Eyesight of a Teenage Slave.
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Manuscript bill of sale for $550 for "Negro Girl Edny, aged about Sixteen Years, the sight and title of Said girl I warrant and defend against ...
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Start Price : 70.00 | Estimate : 140.00 - 180.00
 
 
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Rare Volume of Black Poet.1014 - Rare Volume of Black Poet.
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Advance copy of Survival, by Herbert Simmons, twentieth-century black poet and one of the earliest black genre crime writers. Self-published by his Wa
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Start Price : 75.00 | Estimate : 150.00 - 225.00
 
 
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"Mother of the Modern Civil Rights Movement."1015 - "Mother of the Modern Civil Rights Movement."
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Printed "Biographical Sketch" of Rosa Parks, boldly signed in blue at top. 8 1/2 x 11, on cream linen. Possibly prepared by Rosa and Raymo...
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Estimate : 140.00 - 180.00
Sold to CMB for (80.00 + 16.40BP) = 96.40
 
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The Revered - and Forgotten - Protectors of Rights of Newly-Freed Black Plantation Workers.1016 - The Revered - and Forgotten - Protectors of Rights of Newly-Freed Black Plantation Workers.
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Printed Circular No. 4, Headquarters, Beaufort, N.C., Apr. 1, 1864, issued by Brig. Gen. and Military Gov. R(ufus) Saxton. The personal copy of his ai
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Start Price : 150.00 | Estimate : 300.00 - 400.00
 
 
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"The problem of the Negro."1017 - "The problem of the Negro."
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Printed playbill for small-town screening of D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation," Gardner (probably Mass.) Theatre, Apr. 3-5, 1916...
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Start Price : 45.00 | Estimate : 90.00 - 120.00
 
 
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