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A Huge Print of the Great Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON,
Photograph. Mammoth Plate Albumen print, approximately 15 x 19 in. Mounted on original light card board approximately 19 x 24 in. Board worn, some cracks not touching print; minor staining in image area. “William Lloyd Garrison” printed on mount inder image. c. 1870s
An image of an older Garrison, as he appeared after his life’s work of abolition had been successfully completed.
Item #22464, $2,000
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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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A Harlequin Duck by Audubon
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON,
Print. Harlequin Duck, [1871]. 14 x 12 in. framed.
Best known for his seminal Birds of America, Audubon’s prints are among the world’s most recognized images.
Item #22114.03, $350
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Discontent with Gilded Age Presidential Politics
and the Influence of “the negro vote”
WILLIAM BEACH LAWRENCE,
Autograph Letter Signed, to Henry Anthony. Newport [R.I.], November 25, 1872. 4 pp.
A detailed, despairing letter on campaign politics after the reelection of Ulysses S. Grant. Lawrence observes the humiliating defeat of Democrats and “Liberal Republicans” – who united behind Horace Greeley because of corruption in the Grant administration – in the Election of 1872. Lawrence laments the elevation of personality over merit and virtue in elections, an observation which resonates today. He also expresses concern about how newly enfranchised African Americans tended to vote. “The negroes are naturally disposed to support those who are in power & whom they invest with superior dignity, on account of the possession of power. …the extraordinary denouement of the Cincinnati Convention has placed in bold relief the mode most unsatisfactory to an intelligent people, by which party conventions are constituted & which are readily made, the instruments of the vilest partisan combinations, carried on by men without character & without principle.”
Item #20020, $950
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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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Advertisement for Temperance Restaurant in New York City
[TEMPERANCE],
Advertising card for “McElree’s Temperance Restaurant & Lunch Room” The other side promotes “McElree’s Centennial Mead” for 5¢ per glass, claiming that it is “Healthful and Cooling” and “pleases ALL NATIONALITIES and tastes,” ca. 1876, New York. 2 pp., 5 x 1¼ in.
Item #26460.02, $300
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“Let Us Have Faith that Right Makes Might…”
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN]. SCHUYLER COLFAX,
Autograph Quote Signed, from Lincoln’s Cooper Institute speech given on February 27, 1860. Sept 10, 1877.
Schuyler Colfax, U.S. representative from Indiana and vice president under Ulysses S. Grant, pens a famous quote from Lincoln’s Cooper Institute speech.
Item #23916, ON HOLD
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Civil War Hero David Dixon Porter
Expresses Support for the Chinese in a Time of Hostility
DAVID DIXON PORTER,
Autograph Letter Signed, to “Reverend Dr. Newman.” Washington, D.C., March 14, 1879. 3 pp., 5 x 8 in.
“As you and I have both expressed friendly sentiments towards the citizens of the Flowery Kingdom, we may hope to be in high favor should we live till that time.”
Item #22730, $950
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Secretary of State Evarts Accepts Invitation to Protestant Episcopal Convention: “The Bishops I think should be au gratin and the laymen chilled”
WILLIAM M. EVARTS,
Autograph Letter Signed, to William A. Seaver, Washington, DC, October 15, 1880. 2 pp., 4⅞ x 8 in.
Item #24958, $450
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Sherman’s “Insanity” For Saying 200,000 Men Would be Needed to Fight the Civil War
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN,
Autograph Letter Signed, to E.V. Smalley. St. Louis, Missouri, November 13, 1883. 3 pp., 5 x 8 in. On Sherman’s imprinted stationery. With an endorsement initialed by Smalley requesting the change be made if possible.
After having recently stepped down as Commanding General of the Army, Sherman reviews a biographical article. While explaining the story of his being labeled insane in 1861 for believing that 200,000 Union troops would be needed, he asks that Secretary of War Simon Cameron’s name be left out. Smalley published his article in the Century Magazine, January 1884.
Item #23562.07, $3,800
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A Map of the Baruch College Area of New York City
ALEXANDER STEWART WEBB,
Autograph Letter Signed “Webb,” as President of City College of New York, to General F.A. Walker. New York, N.Y. March 20, 1888. 3 pp., 8⅜ x 13 in. With holograph map.
Stewart sending thanks, urging General Walker to visit.
Item #22259, $1,250
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16 x 20 Inch Photograph of St. Augustine, Florida, African American Cart Driver
[FLORIDA],
George Barker, Albumen Print of African American cart driver at City Gate, St. Augustine, Florida, ca. 1889. On original mount, with photographer’s Niagara Falls backstamp. 1 p., 16 x 20 in.
Canadian photographer George Barker was one of the first professional photographers to visit Florida. In the late 1880s, he documented the landscapes and people of northern and central Florida. Barker took this large-format photograph of an African American cartman at the city gate of St. Augustine.
Item #24249, $1,000
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin Advertised by Local Maine Drama Club
[HARRIET BEECHER STOWE],
Broadside. Uncle Tom’s Cabin playbill. Announcing performance by the Prospect Harbor, Maine, Dramatic Club, managed by E.W. Cleaves. Ca. 1890s. 1 p., 15⅜ x 27⅜ in.
Item #24716, $1,800
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Benjamin Butler Signed Stock Certificate
[BENJAMIN BUTLER],
Stock certificate of fifteen shares of the Georgia Investment and Development Co. signed by Benjamin Butler as President. March 14, 1891.
Item #23084, $1,000
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Civil War Veteran School Board Chair Cautions Teacher to Discipline Carefully
[EDUCATION]. GEORGE N. SHEPARD,
Autograph Letter Signed, as Chairman of the School Board, to Mary D. Webster, October 5, 1891, West Epping, New Hampshire. 2 pp. and envelope.
“...neither have the right to inflict punishment or impose restrictions that will maim, or injure the health of, the children. As to the particular case under consideration, I cannot believe that you are unduly severe or that your restrictions and exactions will hurt a robust, stubborn pupil.”
Item #25493, $390
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Henry Du Pont Signed Stock Certificate
[HENRY DU PONT],
Printed Document Signed (“H. du Pont”). January 22, 1897. 1p. oblong quarto.
Item #20061, $500
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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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Rear Admiral Schley on his Recent Victory over
the Spanish Fleet in the Battle of Santiago Bay
WINFIELD SCOTT SCHLEY,
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs. L. B. Shriver. San Juan, P.R., October 21, 1898. 1 p., 8 x 10½ in. On “Headquarters Army of the Commission of the United States of America for Porto Rico” stationery.
“If it has been the means of bringing peace then my sacrifice to that end would not have been too great.”
Item #21615, $1,500
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Carrie Chapman Catt Signed 1899 Receipt to Fellow Suffragette Harriet Taylor Upton
CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT,
Autograph Document Signed. Check. New York, N.Y., December 31, 1899. 1 p.
Item #21678.22, $375
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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, $1,898
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