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Other African American History Offerings

• Cinque, Leader of the Amistad Revolt Autograph at an Abolitionist Fundraiser in Philadelphia
• New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves – 1794 Land Deed from John Jay’s Brother for First African Free School in New York City
• Abraham Lincoln Introduces Ulysses S. Grant’s Superintendent of Freed Slaves to the American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission

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• Announcing Frederick Douglass’ Vermont Fair Speech on the Assassination of Lincoln
• Frederick Douglass Recruiting African American Soldiers
• Former President and Future Confederate Supporter John Tyler Forcefully Defends the Fugitive Slave Act and the “Southern Cause,” Attacks the NY Press, and Plays up His Own Service in the War of 1812
• Frederick Douglass Rejects Colonization in Rare Issue of His Abolitionist Newspaper, The North Star
• The Amistad: an Arresting Engraving of the Revolt
• Benjamin Franklin Calls For Abolition of Slavery, Washington Addresses the Dutch Reformed Church on Religious Freedom, Thanksgiving Thoughts, Hamilton’s Plans, and More
• Frederick Douglass’ Incredible Speech to Free Soil Party Convention on the Fugitive Slave Law
• His Grandmother-in-Law Can’t Spare a “Stacker” for John Augustine Washington III – Letter Delivered by Freed Washington Family Slave West Ford Includes List of Mount Vernon Slaves
• Jackie Robinson says a talk radio host “needs to do a lot of soul searching.”
• Powerful Anti-Slavery Argument Likely by John Laurens
• “George Washington” - Keith Carter Photograph
• Rare Jim Crow Broadside from Father of American Minstrelsy
• [Thomas Jefferson]. 1807 Acts of Congress, Including Law Abolishing Slave Trade, the Insurrection Act, and Lewis & Clark Content. First Edition.
• 1778 Muster List, Including Rejected African American Recruit
• “Anti-Texas” Opposes Annexation as a Slave State, Signed in type by Leading Abolitionists of Mass.
• Arthur Ashe’s United Negro College Fund Benefit Silver Bowl Trophy
• “Black bellied Yankees” at The Battle of Fort Blakely
• Rare New York Senate Print of Proposed State Law to Combat the Dred Scott Decision
• Saving Free-Born African American from Life of Slavery
• An Overseer is Guilty of Murdering His Slave
  by “Stocks, Starvation and Lashes.”
• Amistad Slave Revolt Supreme Court Opinion, in Washington, D.C. Newspaper
• Dewey Attacks FDR’s Running Mate Harry Truman for Alleged Ku Klux Klan Ties
• William Monroe Trotter - the first African American to earn a Phi Beta Kappa key at Harvard - pushes a petition calling for mercy for still imprisoned soldiers of the 24th US Colored Infantry
• Prosecuting 1794 Slave Trade Act Violation, Washington’s First U.S. Attorney for New York Seeks Aid from Pennsylvania Counterpart
• Slavery Divides New York Legislature in 1844
• A Copperhead Newspaper Prints, Then Criticizes,
  the Emancipation Proclamation
• Boston Anti-Slavery Broadside “Call for a Convention”—Launching the Republican Party in Massachusetts
• Founding Address of National Republican Party to Combat the “Aggressions and Usurpations of the Slave Power…. Declaration of the Principles and Purposes”
• New Hampshire Ridicules South Carolina’s Attempts
  to Game the System After Rejecting the 14th Amendment
• Oval Salt Print of Famed Abolitionist John Brown
• Quaker Farmer Writes to Congressman Morgan to Condemn Stephen Douglas’ Nebraska Bill Allowing Slavery in New Territories
• Stirring Pamphlet Defense of Abner Kneeland in His Massachusetts Trials for Blasphemy
• Gerald Ford Defends His Early Commitment to Civil Rights
• Amistad Slave Revolt Supreme Court Decision Announced
• Boston Congregational Society Sermons
• Discontent with Gilded Age Presidential Politics
  and the Influence of “the negro vote”
• The Success of Black Troops At Petersburg, Virginia, Under Butler
• “The Slave Sale, or Come Who Bids?” Abolitionist Sheet Music
• Swedish immigrant uses racist “Pickaninny” imagery on a hand-painted envelope
• James Milton Turner – the First African American U.S. Diplomat – Writes from Canary Islands About No Quarantine
• “Black Republican” Salt River Ticket
• Elmer W. Henderson – Who Defeated Railroad Dining Car Segregation – Congratulates African American Inventor for American Institute of Chemists Award
• Peter Cooper’s Letter to Lincoln Regarding Emancipation
• Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper with United States Colored Troop (USCT) Images
• 1966 Civil Rights Charge of Discrimination Form
• Alex Haley Signed Check
• Union League of Philadelphia Supports Lincoln on Emancipation, African-American Troops in 1864
• “Teens interview Martin Luther King”
• Martin Luther King’s Famous “I Have a Dream” Speech—Advance Text Given to the Press at the 1963 March on Washington

Other Finance, Stocks, and Bonds Offerings

• John Brown cashes $50 to check slavery in Kansas
• Hamilton Addresses Overdue Invalid Pensions in Massachusetts
• Maryland Claims Stock in the Bank of England

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• Congress Authorizes a Mint, and President Washington Proclaims the Location of the Permanent Seat of Government
• Documenting Declaration of Independence Signer
  Robert Morris’s Financial Troubles
• Robert Morris Promissory Note,
  Used As Evidence In His Bankruptcy Trial
• J. P. Morgan Signs Dividend Declaration Twice, for His Father and for First President of Union Pacific Railroad
• John Marshall’s Supreme Court Decides Osborn et al. v. The Bank of the United States, landmark 11^th Amendment Case
• A Mining Engineer’s Journal Recounting His Role in Nome, Alaska Gold Rush
• Alexander Stephens, Future Confederate Vice President,
  Rants Against Congress Refunding Andrew Jackson’s
  War of 1812 Fine
• PaineWebber Founder Signed
  Lake Copper Company Stock Certificate
• Lake Torpedo Boat Company Preferred Stock
• Benjamin Butler Signed Stock Certificate
• The Depression Causes Community Funds to Struggle to Meet Increased
• Henry Du Pont Signed Stock Certificate
• An Act to Incorporate the Ohio Insurance Company
• William K. And Harold Vanderbilt Signed
  World War I Veterans Bonus New York State Bond
• Alex Haley Signed Check

Other Great Gifts Offerings

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms Speech – Inscribed and Signed by FDR – in the “Missy” LeHand Archive
• The Building Blocks of Albert Einstein’s Creative Mind
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt Congratulates Aviation Pioneer Amelia Earhart on Hawaii-to-California Flight

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• Albert Einstein by Marc Mellon
• Earliest Known Printing of “Tikvatenu” [Our Hope – the origin of “Hatikvah”] Inscribed by Author Naftali Herz Imber to Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the “revivalist of the Hebrew language”
• Alexander Hamilton’s Initial Steps to Create a National Banking System
• Star Chart Flown on Historic Apollo 11 Mission, Inscribed and Signed by Buzz Aldrin
• Winston Churchill by Marc Mellon
• Incredible Andrew Jackson Letter to His Wife Rachel, Reacting to the Burning of Washington, D.C., Believing it Will Usher in a Patriotic National Response
• Rare Important Declaration of Independence Linen Handkerchief
• June 1776 Charles Thomson Signed Continental Congress Resolution Defining Treason
• Georgia O’Keeffe’s Folding Safari Chair (or “Bunch of Sticks” She Used for Painting in the Desert) and Archive of 18 Autograph and Typed Letters Signed by O’Keeffe to Artist Marilyn Thuma
• A Stone/Force Printing of the Declaration of Independence
• Thomas Jefferson Transmits the First Patent Act to Governor of New York George Clinton, Who Later Replaced Aaron Burr as Jefferson’s Vice President
• Thomas Jefferson Signed Act of Congress Extending Temporary Post Office
• Unique Inscribed Set of John Marshall’s Life of George Washington, With Joseph Story Letter to the Daughter of the Late Associate Justice Henry Brockholst Livingston, Conveying Marshall’s Thanks and Noting That He Will Be Sending to Her These Very Books
• Alexander Hamilton Signed Registration for Schooner Robert of Baltimore
• Harry S. Truman on His 1948 Proclamation Recognizing Israel
• Alexander Hamilton, Preparing to Report to Congress on Public Credit, Establishes U.S. Treasury Department’s Forms & Procedures
• Steamboat Inventor Robert Fulton and Six Other Commissioners Ask the Governor of Georgia to Support Federal Funding of the Erie Canal
• Amelia Earhart and Richard E. Byrd—Aviation Pioneers in Signed Group Photo
• Aviation Pioneer Amelia Earhart Returns from European Tour with Publisher Husband
• Major General Alexander Hamilton Sends Message to Father of American Viticulture During Quasi-War with France
• Period Oil Portrait of William H. Seward Wonderfully Executed
• Original 1789 First Inaugural Button: “Memorable Era / March the Fourth 1789”
• Hamilton Addresses Overdue Invalid Pensions in Massachusetts
• Masonic Documents: James P. Kimball archive of master Mason, geologist, and Director of the United States Mint - with superb engravings
• Brooklyn Ferry in 1666 - British Royal Governor Confirms Dutch Owners Land Grant for the Brooklyn End of the Ferry
• Theodore Roosevelt’s Views on America’s Wealth Gap and Death Tax
• David Ben-Gurion ALS—Preventing a War between the Religious and the Secular in Early Israel
• Debating the Bill of Rights Amendments in 1789
• President Theodore Roosevelt Agrees to Write His Famous Speech Attacking Journalistic Muck-Raking as an Enemy of Real Reform
• The Gettysburg Address – New York Semi-Weekly Tribune First Day of Printing
• 1915 Women’s Suffrage Poster
• Jackie Robinson says a talk radio host “needs to do a lot of soul searching.”
• Whig Presidential Nominee William Henry Harrison to Daniel Webster
• Eisenhower Signed D-Day Message to Allied Expeditionary Force
• 1607 Cornelis van Wytfliet’s Norvmbega et Virginia
• “George Washington” - Keith Carter Photograph
• In Benjamin Franklin’s Paper, Colonel George Washington Reports as Positively as Possible on the Surrender of Fort Necessity, Which Sparked the French and Indian War
• Large 1801 Folio Engraving of Thomas Jefferson as New President
• Women’s Suffrage Pledge Cards and Pins
• Turtle Bay Lease for Use by the Royal Navy, 1741
• Sterling Silver Sinseollo Dish,
  Presented to General Matthew Ridgway
  by the Korean Minister of Defense
• 1778 Muster List, Including Rejected African American Recruit
• Nine Months of a Hawaiian Missionary Newspaper, With the First Report of King Kamehameha III’s Death and Perry’s Mission to Japan
• Golda Meir Stresses the Need to Settle New Immigrants
• Prang & Co. Broadside with Maps of Early Civil War Hotspots
• Rare 1870 Yale University Summer Boat Races Broadside
• Susan B. Anthony Plaster Relief Medallion Copyrighted by Her Sister
• Arthur Ashe’s United Negro College Fund Benefit Silver Bowl Trophy
• “John Bull and the Baltimoreans” Lampooning British Defeat at Fort McHenry in Baltimore Following their Earlier Success at Alexandria
• Honoring Washington and Quoting His Farewell Address (Drafted by Hamilton)
• Bartholdi Plans for Statue of Liberty Right Arm and Torch Exhibit at 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition
• Bronze Bas Relief Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt: “Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport the world affords”
• First Published Map with Dallas, Texas, from Antebellum Travel Guidebook
• Inventor Thomas A. Edison Responds to His Son’s Note About a Speaking Request
• Madison’s Optimistic First Message to Congress: A Prelude to the War of 1812
• Harry Hines Woodring Political Archives and Related Material
• Eleanor Roosevelt Asks Pennsylvania Educator to Serve as Chair of Local Women’s Crusade
• Bartholdi Signed Note, on His Calling Card, Fundraising for the Statue of Liberty
• Lincoln Portrait by Currier & Ives
• A Ruff-Necked Hummingbird by Audubon
• Ben-Gurion Calls for a Jerusalem Home for the Bible Society: “every spiritual idea, for it to exist and exert influence, needs a physical structure, too, a central home…”
• The Congressional War on Kansas over Slavery
  and Statehood – 1854 – 1858
• The Gettysburg Address
• Masonic Apron, Neck Sash & Medal of U.S. Mint - California Gold Refiner James Booth, with a Lithograph of Him
• N.Y. “Sons of Freedom” Pull Down Statue of King George III
• Harvard’s 1791 Graduating Students and Theses, Dedicated to Governor John Hancock and Lieutenant Governor Samuel Adams
• Pennsylvania Deputy Governor Urges General Assembly to Resist French Expansion in North America in Early Stages of the French and Indian War
• New York Times Carriers’ Address Reviews the Year 1863 in Bad Verse, Including Freeing of Russia’s Serfs, and the Battle of Gettysburg
• A Rousing Call to Freedom from England That Points to the Later Declaration of Independence
• Eleanor Roosevelt Thanks Former State Senator for Article to Assist Women in Monitoring Polling Places
• Hillary Clinton Thanks Doctor for Policy Change to Allow Fathers to Be in Delivery Room for Caesarean Sections
• John Marshall’s “Life of George Washington”
  and Companion Atlas with Hand-colored Maps
• Oval Salt Print of Famed Abolitionist John Brown
• PaineWebber Founder Signed
  Lake Copper Company Stock Certificate
• Rich 1845 Letter on the State of American Art to Hudson River Artist Jasper Cropsey
• Gerald Ford Defends His Early Commitment to Civil Rights
• Picasso Anti-War Image Used to Promote Vietnam War Protest
• Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Doll
• Future Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo: “I am alone in the world now.”
• General Schofield’s Personal Gettysburg Official Records
• Hoover Tells a Key Aide that Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Occupies FBI in New York
• Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper’s Signed “Bioscience Data Plan” for Conducting Vital Biomedical Research on the Impact of Space Flight on the Human Body
• A. A. Milne Pens a Cryptic Golf Invitation to his Close Friend Vincent Seligman
• James Milton Turner – the First African American U.S. Diplomat – Writes from Canary Islands About No Quarantine
• Ohio Reformers Use Rhode Island’s Dorr Rebellion
  to Justify Their Own Behavior
• 1790 Massachusetts Newspaper Discussing Nantucket Whalers
• Elmer W. Henderson – Who Defeated Railroad Dining Car Segregation – Congratulates African American Inventor for American Institute of Chemists Award
• Mark Hopkins, Famed Educator and the Longest Serving President of Williams College, Preparing to Lecture at the Smithsonian Institute
• A Harlequin Duck by Audubon
• Alex Haley Signed Check
• New England Factory Life
• Rebel Deserters Coming within the Union Lines
• A Swamp Sparrow by Audubon
• Advertisement for Temperance Restaurant in New York City
• Seesaw - Gloucester, MA - Drawn by Winslow Homer
• The Statue of Liberty
• A Common Crossbill by Audubon
• A Song Finch by Audubon
• Christmas Presents
• Edwin M. Stanton Portrait, Based on a Photograph by Matthew Brady
• The Army of the Potomac Arriving at Yorktown from Williamsburg
• The Border Ruffian Code in Kansas
• “Teens interview Martin Luther King”
• Freedom and Public Faith. Speech of William H. Seward, on the Abrogation of the Missouri Compromise, in the Kansas and Nebraska Bills
• (On Hold) The U.S. Constitution – Very Rare Printing on the Second Day of Publication
• Martin Luther King’s Famous “I Have a Dream” Speech—Advance Text Given to the Press at the 1963 March on Washington