RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

Civil War-dated ALS, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, January 8, 1865. Letter to General Benjamin F. Butler, about a surgeon, "a Nativ...

ALS signed “Your Affectionate Unworthy Father, John Brown,” one page, 8 x 12.5, July 27, 1853. Written from Akron, Ohio, a letter to

Three items associated with the Voting Rights Act of 1965: a 10-page official publication entitled "Public Law 89-110, 89th Congress, S. 1564, ...

ALS signed “Fred'k Douglass,” one page, 5 x 8, March 31, 1877. Letter to attorney and pioneering civil rights activist Albion Tourge

TLS, one page, 5.75 x 8.25, personal letterhead, November 3, 1979. Letter to Livros de Brasil, publishers of a Portuguese translation of The Diary of

Two original issues of Time Magazine featuring Mohandas Gandhi on the cover: an issue of Time from January 5, 1931 (Vol. XVII, No. 1), 8.5 x 11.5, 48

DS, signed “J.E.H.,” four pages, 8 x 7, December 13, 1951. Official United States Government office memorandum from FBI Director J.

DS, signed “J.E.H.,” five pages, 8 x 10.5, January 8, 1952. Official United States Government office memorandum from FBI Director J.

TLS signed “Martin,” two pages, 7 x 10.5, personal letterhead, December 20, 1960. Letter to entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr., in full: "

TLS signed “Malcolm X,” four pages, 8.5 x 11, March 25, 1959. Letter to his prophet and teacher Elijah Muhammad, touching on deeply

Exceedingly rare Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) membership card issued to Earl Grant, 4 x 2.25, dated June 1964, signed below in ballpoint

Three publications about Malcolm X: an issue of Ebony magazine from June 1969 with a cover story on "The Legacy of My Husband Malcolm X" b...

Extremely rare original program from the funeral of Malcolm X on February 27, 1965, twelve pages, 5 x 7.5, with the front cover reading: "In Me...

Complete issue of the New York Times 'Late City Edition' from Monday, February 22, 1965, 15.5 x 23, 42 pages, with the banner headline: &quo...

Excessively rare first issue of the newspaper Mr. Muhammad Speaks (Volume 1, Number 1, May 1960), founded by Malcolm X for The Nation of Islam, 16 pag

Highly desirable TLS as president signed “N. Mandela,” one page, 8.25 x 11.75, Office of the President letterhead, November 29, 1997

Impressive official South African Post Office stamp booklet entitled "The many faces of Nelson Mandela," 7.25 x 3.75, signed on the front ...

Commemorative cover, 7.5 x 4, with an attractive cachet honoring the presidential inauguration of Mandela on May 10, 1994, signed in black felt tip,...

Exceptional glossy 16.5 x 12 photo of Nelson Mandela posing in his Robben Island jail cell, affixed to its original cardstock mount, signed on the mou

Title page removed from an Abacus edition of Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, 5 x 7.75, signed and inscribed in black felt t

Uncommon color 6.75 x 12 ballot for the 1994 Republic of South Africa general elections, signed in the upper border in black felt tip, "N. Mand...

Color glossy 10 x 7.25 photo of Nelson and Winnie Mandela standing side-by-side with raised fists, not long after the former's release from pris...

Important Civil Rights legal complaint submitted by Thurgood Marshall and Robert Lee Carter, 19 mimeographed pages, 8.5 x 14, New York, [1955]. Compla

Iconic original 14 x 22 poster for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) featuring an image taken by photographer Danny Lyon, with &q...

Two original magazines covering the tragic story of the Emmett Till lynching: an issue of Look from January 24, 1956, 10.5 x 13.25, 104 pages, with a

DS in German and Hungarian, quickly signed by Wallenberg with an ink scribble (as he commonly did on documents of this type), one page, 8.25 x 13.25,

ALS, one page, 7.5 x 11.5, February 23, 1820. Letter to General John Coffee, in part: "I have recd a letter from Mr. James Jackson advising me ...

Lengthy ALS, twelve pages, 5.25 x 8.25, September 8 and 11, 1858. Written from Geneva, Switzerland, a letter to his former private White House secreta

Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 8 x 10, April 8, 1861. President Lincoln directs the Secretary of State to "affix the Seal of the Uni...

Civil War-dated partly printed DS as president, one page, 17.75 x 12, January 22, 1862. President Lincoln appoints Robert H. Pruyn of New York to be...

Copper-plated bust of Abraham Lincoln in profile mounted on a wooden 8 x 11 frame, with label on the reverse: "From The Lincoln Home, Springfie...

Scarce lithographic broadside of the Emancipation Proclamation, 19 x 25.5, with "The original entirely designed and executed with a Pen by Gilm...

Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 8.5 x 11, June 23, 1868. In full: "I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of State to affix the ...

Huge original 15 x 17.75 albumen portrait of Ulysses S. Grant in uniform taken by Frederick Gutekunst of Philadelphia after Lincoln's assassinat...

Partly-printed DS as president, signed “U. S. Grant,” one page, 7.5 x 9, November 12, 1874. President Grant directs the Secretary of

Ink signature, "U. S. Grant,” on an off-white 2.25 x .75 slip. Matted and framed with an engraved portrait bearing a facsimile signature ...

ALS, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 4 x 6, Sagamore Hill letterhead, November 9, 1898. Letter concerning a photograph, written the day after he ha

ALS as president signed “F. D. R.,” one page, 7 x 9, White House letterhead, [September 9, 1938]. Letter to "Uncle Fred," his ...

Impressive 10.5 x 13.5 print of a sketched portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt done by Russian-American artist Jacob H. Perskie for the 1932 preside

DS, eight pages, 9.75 x 16 (with signed page trimmed to 9.75 x 7), January 19, 1931. As governor of New York, Roosevelt submits to the state legislatu

Typed biographical chronology of Franklin D. Roosevelt's life, totaling more than 425 pages, from the papers of documentary filmmaker Pare Loren...

TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, June 9, 1971. Letter to Winston Dabney, Chairman of the Los Alamos Veterans Reunion Committee, in Los

TLS, one page, 7 x 8.75, White House letterhead, May 12, 1945. Letter to Martin A. Lewis, in full, “Your kind message regarding my Proclamati

ALS, one page, 6.25 x 8, United States Senate letterhead, November 25, 1944. Letter to "Miss Taggart," in full: "Thanks very, very mu...

Scarce authentically signed and postally used free-franked mailing envelope, 6.25 x 4.25, addressed in type to the Hon. and Mrs. David Edelstein in Ne

TLS as president, one page, 8 x 10.5, White House letterhead, October 30, 1947. Letter to Budget Bureau director James Webb. In full: "The Acti...

Hand-corrected partial draft of Dwight D. Eisenhower's last speech from his 1956 re-election campaign, two pages, 8 x 10.5, boasting nearly 50 w...

ALS signed twice, “Jacqueline Kennedy, Mrs. John F. Kennedy,” one page, 6.5 x 8.5, personal letterhead, February 1, 1960. Letter to

ALS signed “Jackie,” one page both sides, 4.5 x 3.5, White House stationery card, no date. Letter to "Bob," Robert McNamara, P...

Amazing collection of five original vintage circa 1945 glossy candid photos, 3.5 x 5.25 and 5.25 x 3.5, portraying the 16-year-old Jacqueline Bouvier