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PaineWebber Founder Signed
Lake Copper Company Stock Certificate
WILLIAM PAINE,
Partially Printed Document Signed as company president. 100,000 shares of Lake Copper Company, Certificate #28509, March 10, 1922.
Item #23086, $1,250
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Women’s Suffrage Poster - Final Stretch to Ratify 19th Amendment
[WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE],
Women’s Suffrage Poster, ca. 1920, Chicago, IL. 1 p., 14 x 22⅛ in.
This poster declared, “If You Want Women to Vote in 1920 Cast Your ($.10 1.00 10.00) Ballot Now.” This poster likely urged supporters of the National Woman’s Party to donate a dime, dollar or ten dollars to support their efforts to gain passage of the 19th Amendment before the November 1920 presidential and congressional elections.
Item #25694, $3,500
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A. A. Milne Pens a Cryptic Golf Invitation to his Close Friend Vincent Seligman
A. A. MILNE,
Autograph Letter Signed “Blue”, to Vincent Seligman, c. 1920s-1930s, Chelsea, London, England. 1 p., 5½ x 7½ in.
Item #25338, $550
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Julia Ward Howe Biography, with Autograph Manuscript on Suffrage
JULIA WARD HOWE,
Autograph Manuscript, n.d. [ca. 1882], tipped into Laura E. Richards and Maude Howe Elliott, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, 2 vols. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. First edition. Two volumes in original cloth-backed boards and the scarce dustwrappers and original slipcase. Copy #438 of 450 copies of the Large-Paper Edition. [x],392,[2]; [x],434,[2] pp.,
1/1/1915.
“I believe in suffrage…. I believe in the great awakening by the womanly soul a conscience which will rise up like a flood, & sweep away the petty & effete prejudices....”
This biography of Julia Ward Howe by two of her daughters, assisted by a third, is illustrated with plates and portraits, including a facsimile manuscript of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” It won the 1917 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Special edition, including a page handwritten by Howe on women’s suffrage. Howe refers to her first interest in suffrage “about fourteen years ago.” She helped found the New England Woman Suffrage Association in 1868, so we date it as ca. 1892, 14 years later. But she might consider her interest in suffrage to have started a bit earlier, right around the end of the Civil War.
Item #26018, $3,500
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President Theodore Roosevelt Responds to Praise from U.S. Steel President About Annual Message
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
Typed Letter Signed, to Elbert Henry Gary, December 6, 1907, Washington, D.C. On “The White House” letterhead. 1 p., 7-1/8 x 8-7/8 in.
“I particularly value your letter.”
Item #26174.07, $450
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President Theodore Roosevelt Responds to Praise from U.S. Steel President
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
Typed Letter Signed, to Elbert Henry Gary, July 1, 1907, Oyster Bay, New York. On “The White House” letterhead. 1 p., 7-1/8 x 8-7/8 in.
“I believe, and certainly sincerely hope, that your position about me is correct.”
Item #26174.06, $575
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President Theodore Roosevelt Tries to Enjoy Summer Vacation Without Interruptions
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
Typed Letter Signed, to Elbert Henry Gary, June 27, 1907, Oyster Bay, New York. With nine words of interlineation by Roosevelt. On “The White House” letterhead. 1 p., 7-1/8 x 8-7/8 in.
“I am trying to keep down the number of my visitors, and every visitor who comes here means just so much advertising for other people to come, and the result is that my holiday is all broken up.”
Item #26174.05, $600
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President Theodore Roosevelt Praises Secretary of State Root’s Speech Condemning Hearst in New York
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
Typed Letter Signed, to Elbert Henry Gary, November 5, 1906, Washington, D.C. On “The White House” letterhead. 1 p., 7 1/8 x 8-7/8 in.
“What a corker Root is, isn’t he?”
Item #26174.04, $1,250
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President Theodore Roosevelt Responds to Praise of His Georgetown Commencement Speech
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
Typed Letter Signed, to Elbert Henry Gary, June 27, 1906, Washington, D.C. On “The White House” letterhead. 1 p., 7-1/8 x 8-7/8 in.
“According to my lights I endeavor to live up to what I there said, and all I hope is that I have been measurably successful!”
Item #26174.03, $750
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President Theodore Roosevelt’s Controversial Views on America’s Wealth Gap and the Idea of a Death Tax
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
Typed Letter Signed, to Elbert Henry Gary, April 26, 1906, Washington, D.C. On “The White House” letterhead. 2 pp., 7-1/8 x 8-7/8 in.
Discussing His “Muck-rake” Speech, Roosevelt Goes Toe-to-Toe with the Head of the ‘Steel Trust’ over the Idea of a Death Tax for America’s Wealthiest. He Takes Aim at Powerful Monopolies and the Largest Fortunes, while Condemning the Radical “socialists of the bomb-throwing persuasion.”
“I utterly and radically disagree with you in what you say about large fortunes. I wish it were in my power to devise some scheme to make it increasingly difficult to heap them up beyond a certain amount.”
Item #26174.02, $8,000
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President Theodore Roosevelt Agrees to Write His Famous Speech Attacking Journalistic Muck-Raking as an Enemy of Real Reform
Theodore Roosevelt,
Typed Letter Signed as President, to Elbert Henry Gary, the chairman of the board and president of U.S. Steel (the first billion dollar corporation), March 20, 1906, Washington, D.C. On “The White House” letterhead. 2 pp., 6-7/8 x 8-3/4 in.
“I will go to the limit in enforcing the law against the wealthiest man or the wealthiest corporation if I think he or it has done wrong; but my whole soul revolts at a campaign of foul slander waged against men, … because they have succeeded in business....”
Item #26174.01, $7,500
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Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Doll
[THEODORE ROOSEVELT],
Rough Rider Doll, ca. 1900. Made of felt, brass, leather and linen. The face appears to be hand-painted. The head and body are filled with straw or wood shavings. 10 in.
Item #24200, $1,100
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Susan B. Anthony Plaster Relief Medallion Copyrighted by Her Sister
SUSAN B. ANTHONY,
Plaster Bas-Relief Medallion by [Sidney H. Morse], June 1897. 7¾ in. round. 3 x 2 in. brass plate on verso with inscription, “Copyright, June 1897, By Mary S Anthony / Endorsed by the Political Equality Club of Rochester, N.Y.”
Item #26052, $3,500
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The Building Blocks of Albert Einstein’s Creative Mind
[ALBERT EINSTEIN],
Ephemera. Set of Anker-Steinbaukasten children’s building blocks by F. Ad. Richter & Cie., Rudolstadt, [Germany], c.1880s. Approximately 160 composite quartz sand, chalk, and linseed oil blocks in red, limestone and slate gray, in various sizes and shapes, together with three or more sets of building plans, all contained in two wooden boxes with printed Anker-Steinbaukasten labels.
A unique and important artifact of his childhood.
Item #24284, $180,000
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Bartholdi Signed Note, on His Calling Card, Fundraising for the Statue of Liberty
STATUE OF LIBERTY,
Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi. Autograph Note Signed, on his calling card, c. 1878. With Marquis de Rochambeau, Autograph Note Signed, on his calling card, and a calling card for Count Sérurier, during fundraising effort to present Liberty Enlightening the World to the United States. 3 items. 3¾ x 2¼ in.
Item #24842, $1,800
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Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull
[JOHN TRUMBULL],
Engraved print by Waterman Lilly Ormsby, after an 1823 engraving by Asher B. Durand of John Trumbull’s famous painting of 1819. Brooklyn, NY: Cole & Co., the first edition of this print was in 1876. The plates survive and this is likely a modern strike, with modern coloring. Framed to 42½ x 33¼ in.
Item #23073, $1,250
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Bartholdi Plans for Statue of Liberty Right Arm and Torch Exhibit at 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition
FREDERIC-AUGUSTE BARTHOLDI,
Autograph Letter Signed, in French, recipient unknown, June 8, 1876, Philadelphia. On “International Expositions, Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, Superior Commission of International Expositions, General Station, Hotel de Cluny, Rue du Sommerard, Paris” letterhead. 2 pp., 5⅛ x 8⅛ in.
Complete Translation
Dear Mademoiselle,
It will give me great pleasure to see my work figured in the respected publication of Mr. Harper. I am thinking of returning to New York on Monday and I will have the pleasure of bringing you, in person, the block and the notes that you asked for.
Would you be so kind to thank Mr. Harper for <2> his appreciation of my work and yourself accept the expression of my most devoted feelings of friendship.
Bartholdi
Philadelphia 8 June 1876
Item #24887, $2,500
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The Statue of Liberty
[HARPER’S WEEKLY],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, November 27, 1875. 16 pp., complete, disbound.
Item #H-11-27-1875, $295
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Seesaw - Gloucester, MA - Drawn by Winslow Homer
[HARPER’S WEEKLY],
Newspaper. Harper’s Weekly, September 12, 1874.
Item #H-9-12-1874, $295
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A Ruff-Necked Hummingbird by Audubon
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON,
Print. Ruff-Necked Hummingbird, [1871].
Best known for his seminal Birds of America, Audubon’s prints are among the world’s most recognized images.
Item #22114.02, $1,750
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