Nine Centuries Of Historical Documents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Original Historical Documents, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Autographs, Letters, Newspapers, Photographs, Ephemera, Coins, Postal History, and more. 20 Subjects include: Americana, Aviation,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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Civil War Black Caricatures in Postwar Pulp Amusement.1018 - Civil War Black Caricatures in Postwar Pulp Amusement.
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Satirical Black humor set in Civil War, Fred Douglas and his Mule; A Story of the War, by Bricktop, published by M.J. Ivers & Co., N.Y., 1888, 5...
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"The signal for the uprising of the Southern States."1019 - "The signal for the uprising of the Southern States."
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"Soldiers & Sailors Almanac for 1869, and History of the Late Rebellion from 1860 to 1865," Soldiers' & Sailors' Publishin...
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"To divide the negroes...."1020 - "To divide the negroes...."
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Manuscript document dated midpoint between the Emancipation Proclamation and fall of the South. Alabama, Feb. 13, 1864, 6 x 7 1/4, on Confederate-grey
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Sold to brsko for (100.00 + 20.50BP) = 120.50
 
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Colored Infantry to a Freedmens Bureau Outpost in Arkansas.1021 - Colored Infantry to a Freedmens Bureau Outpost in Arkansas.
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Scarce, somewhat crudely printed Special Orders, Head-Quarters, District West Tenn., Memphis, Aug. 1, 1865, 7 x 8 3/4. Listing men relieved from duty
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"Bobb a slave" Jailed for 244 Days.1022 - "Bobb a slave" Jailed for 244 Days.
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Highly unusual manuscript document, Cahaba (Ala.), May 17, 1854, 7 x 8. Bill for keeping "Bobb a slave...244 Days in Jail at 30C/ pr. Day...Con...
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Big Charlotte and Little Charlotte - for hire.1023 - Big Charlotte and Little Charlotte - for hire.
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Manuscript "Account of the hire of the negroes for the year 1837, belonging to Jas. C. Irving'?], dec(ease)d...," listing ten slaves a...
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Disapproved for Freedmens Hospital!1024 - Disapproved for Freedmens Hospital!
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A.L.S. of Asst. Surg(eon) W.H. Miles, 63rd U.S. Colored Infantry, Freedmens Hospital, Home Farm, La., Mar. 1, 1865, 7 1/2 x 9 3/4. To Lt. Col. A.L. Mi
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"The Pinetown Darky Debating Society."1025 - "The Pinetown Darky Debating Society."
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Pulp book of popular literature of the Gilded Age, including black, German-, and Irish-American parodies - and Shakespearean excerpts! Dick's Re...
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Congo Chocolate Cards.1026 - Congo Chocolate Cards.
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Scarce group of 11 different color candy cards, "Notre Congo / Onze Kongo," issued c. 1948 by Jacques Superchocolat, text on verso in Fren...
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"Their Voodoism and magic charms...."1027 - "Their Voodoism and magic charms...."
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Two interesting pamphlets: "Slave-Conversion in South Carolina, 1830-1860," by Susan Markey Fickling, issued as a "Bulletin of the Un...
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