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Previous|1|Next Lot #3 Letter from a Baptist white woman shocked by an account of a Black church service Heading(African American, 1858)HeadlineBlack church service disgusts white BaptistsDate Published1858 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #4 Letter written by a young Illinois woman who had gone South to teach in Louisiana Heading(African American, 1860)HeadlineSecret Abolitionist in Secessionist LouisianaDate Published1860 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$562.50StatusSold Lot #5 Letter by a paper mill worker in 1861 Heading(African American, 1861)AuthorAdgate, Edwin HawleyHeadlineNorthern worker lauds slavery in early 1861Date Published1861 View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Lot #6 Our Missionary Picture Heading(African American, 1861)AuthorDurbin, John PriceHeadlineRare statement of racist “Colonization”PublisherMissionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal ChurchDate Published1861 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #8 The New South Heading(African American, 1863)AuthorSears, Joseph H., publisherHeadlineImportant news for ex-slaves of Union-occupied Port RoyalDate Published1863 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #9 Letter from a Williams College student to his father with impassioned argument against slavery Heading(African American, 1863)AuthorThomas, William RussellHeadlineDenuciation of slavery and CopperheadismDate Published1863 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #10 Indenture signed by Frederick Douglass as Recorder Heading(African American, 1885)HeadlineIndenture signed by Frederick Douglass 1885ProvenanceThe Jim Hier CollectionPublisherThe Real Estate Title Ins. Co.Date Published1885 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #11 Duplicate Copy of the Souvenir from the Afro-American League of Tennessee to Hon. James M. Ashley of Ohio Heading(African American, 1894)AuthorArnett, Benjamin W., editorHeadlineAfro American League Souvenir signed by J.M. AshleyPublisherPublishing House of the A.M.E. ChurchDate Published1894 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #12 The Southern Negro – His Recent Erotic Tendencies – the Causes – Suggestion as to Prevention Heading(African American, 1900)AuthorBaker, Dr. S.C.HeadlineRacist medical diatribe about would-be Black rapistsDate Published1900 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #13 Negro Baptism in Fox river at foot of Lake St., Elgin, Ill., about 1900 Heading(African American, 1900)HeadlineBlack baptism in Fox River, IL, c.1900PublisherChicago Historical SocietyDate Published1900, printed later View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #14 A Crusade of Brotherhood, History of the American Missionary Association Heading(African American, 1909)AuthorBeard, Augustus FieldHeadlineFirst Abolitionist missionaries to aid ex-slavesPublisherPilgrim PressDate Published1909 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #16 Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil Heading(African American, 1920)AuthorDuBois, W.E.B.HeadlineW.E.B. Du Bois's Darkwater, First EditionPublisherHarcourt, Brace and HoweDate Published1920 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #17 Proceedings of First Session of the Montana State Federation of Negro Women's Clubs... Heading(African American, 1922)AuthorArnold, Angie Mills, editorHeadlineMeetings of Montana Negro Women's Clubs, 1921-22PublisherMontana State Federation of Negro Women's ClubsDate Published1922 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #18 Four imprints on Negro Housing, racial housing segregation and discrimination Heading(African American, 1927-1951)AuthorWever, Robert C.; Charles S. Johnson, et al.Headline1st Black in a Presidential CabinetDate Published1927-1951 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #19 Two volumes of Who's Who in Colored America Heading(African American, 1928-1932)Headline2 vols. Who's Who in Colored AmericaPublisherWho's Who in Colored America Corp.Date Published1928-1932 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #20 A Survey of the Negro Boy in Nashville, Tennessee Heading(African American, 1932)HeadlineUnique Depression-era study of Black Tennessee youthPublisherAssociation PressDate Published1932 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #21 Connie's Hot Chocolates of 1937 Heading(African American, 1937)HeadlineConnie's Hot Chocolates 1937 posterDate Published1937 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Lot #22 Four titles regarding Civil Rights Heading(African American, 1994-2017)Headline4 volumes on American Civil RightsDate Published1994-2017 View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Lot #24 Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age Heading(Alcoholics Anonymous)AuthorWilson, BillHeadlineA.A. book signed Bill Wilson to John FrankenheimerPublisherAlcoholics Anonymous Publishing, Inc.Date Published[1957] View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$3,125StatusSold Lot #37 United States and Cuba, Eight Years of Change and Travel Heading(Anti-Slavery - Cuba)AuthorTaylor, John GlanvilleHeadlineAdventurous Englishman sees Cuban slaveryPublisherBentleyDate Published1851 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #41 Apollo 8: Voyage to the Moon Heading(Astronauts)HeadlineApollo 8 magazine signed by first 3 men to moonPublisherNew York Times and Cowles CommunicationsDate Published1969 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Lot #42 First On the Moon: A Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. Heading(Astronauts)AuthorArmstrong, Neil; Michael Collins; Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.HeadlineSigned by Apollo 11 crew, inscribed by ArmstrongPublisherLittle, Brown and CompanyDate Published1970 View details Estimate$5,000 - $8,000Sold for$4,062.50StatusSold Lot #49 Letters from five Episcopal Bishops in the United States to Anne Mackenzie, British writer and sometime missionary in Africa Heading(Bishops - United States)HeadlineBritish writer collects U.S. Bishop's autographsDate Published1867 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #50 The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians AuthorBonner, T.D.HeadlineLife of James P. Beckwourth First EditionProvenanceRon Lerch CollectionPublisherHarper & BrothersDate Published1856 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #52 Heavy-Weight Champions: Graphic Description of Every Heavy-Weight Championship Contest from Sullivan and Corbett to Jeffries and Johnson.... Heading(Boxing)AuthorNaughton, W.W.HeadlinePrimer for the Fight of the Century, 1910ProvenanceRon Lerch CollectionPublisherJohn Kitchen, Jr. Co.Date Published1910 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$750StatusSold Lot #54 Memoria sobre a Fundação e Estado Actual da Fazenda Nova Louzã Heading(Brazil)AuthorCarvalho Monte-Negro, João Elisário deHeadlineBrazilian farm without slaves, 1870PublisherTypographia--ConstitucionalDate Published1870 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #105 Death certificate for a Chinese rebel slave who apparently had been freed Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineRebel Chinese slave dies in Cuban hospitalDate Published1875 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$200StatusSold Lot #106 Manifest listing Chinese laborers bound for Havana + 2 death certificates Heading(Cuba - Chinese)Headline557 Chinese laborers bound for Cuba, 1867Date Published1867 & 1870-73 View details Estimate$1,500 - $2,500Sold for$937.50StatusSold Lot #107 Manuscript document (Expediante) reporting the investigation into the deaths of 25 laborers bound from Macau to Port Mariel, Cuba, and listing the locations at sea of their deaths Heading(Cuba - Chinese)HeadlineDeaths of Cuba-bound Chinese coolies chartedDate Published1868 View details Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Sold for$1,250StatusSold Lot #110 Contract for an emancipated female slave in Cuba to work in the copper mines Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineFreed female slave hired for Cuban copper minesDate Published1863 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$1,187.50StatusSold Lot #111 Labor contract for an emancipated African slave Heading(Cuba - Slavery)HeadlineLabor contract for freed Cuban slave 1871Date Published1871 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #112 Manuscript listing of 80 slaves sold by one individual to another Heading(Cuba – Slavery)Headline80 slaves sold in Cuba, 1868Date Published1868 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #145 Old Chinatown: A Book of Pictures by Arnold Genthe AuthorGenthe, Arnold and Will IrwinHeadlineGenthe's pre-quake photographs of ChinatownProvenanceRon Lerch CollectionPublisherMitchell KennerleyDate Published1913 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #160 Letter from J. Edgar Hoover to a Harvard professor transmitting a report on progress made by graduates of the FBI National Police Academy AuthorHoover, J. EdgarHeadlineJ. Edgar Hoover letter on Police AcademyDate Published1936 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #189 Manuscript medical and surgical notebook Heading(Medical)AuthorAdams, Dr. HiramHeadlineNY Doctor’s manuscript medical notebookDate Publishedc.1845 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #194 Manuscript in diary format, with diseases, maladies and traumatic injuries listed alphabetically with treatments Heading(Mexico - Manuscript medical dictionary)HeadlineManuscript Mexican medical dictionary 1894Date Published[1894] View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Lot #204 Payroll sheet for the Virginia & Truckee Railroad Heading(Nevada)HeadlinePayroll for Virginia & Truckee R.R. 1877Date Published1877 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #209 Archive of letters and postcards, most sent to Wm. E. Brown, some to his brother Geo. W. Brown or other family members, primarily relating to the Opera House they operated in Purcell, Indian Territory/Oklahoma Heading(Oklahoma)HeadlineArchive on Indian Territory Opera HouseDate Published1886-1927 View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Lot #218 The Facts of Reconstruction Heading(Reconstruction)AuthorLynch, John R.HeadlineJohn Lynch's defence of Reconstruction policiesPublisherNeale Publishing CompanyDate Published1913 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Lot #237 Sutro Tunnel. [To accompany bill H.R. no. 1153] [with] collection of Adolph Sutro and Sutro Baths ephemera. Heading(Sutro Tunnel)HeadlineCollection of Sutro books, photos, and ephemeraPublisherPress of San Francisco Photo-Engraving Co.Date Published1895; 1890's View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #247 Letter by Christian Socialist Minister to a prospective resident in his first Co-operative Heading(Utopian colony)AuthorLittlefield, George ElmerHeadlineGuru of Santa Barbara Socialist communePublisherAriel /The Co-Operative Fellowship and Ariel PressDate Published1906 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #259 Unopened envelope sent, too late, to a U.S. Paratrooper who was killed in France a day after D-Day Heading(World War II - D-Day)HeadlineLetter sent to dead D-Day paratrooperDate Published1944 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #260 Diary kept by a WAC who served in North Africa and Italy during the Second World War, rising to the rank of Sergeant Heading(World War II - Women's Army Corps diary)AuthorLis, Frances M.HeadlineDiary of WAC in North African & Italy, 1944Date Published1943-1944 View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$500StatusSold Lot #261 Archive of original carbon typescript submissions by war correspondents during the first 6 months of the U.S. involvement in World War II in the Pacific, starting with the attack on Pearl Harbor Heading(World War II)HeadlineReports from WWII Pacific Theatre 1941-2Date Published1941-1942 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Lot #264 Autograph Letter Signed by a Boston merchant to the leading British wine-sellers of Madeira, months after revolutionary France declared war on England and Spain, with President Washington formally proclaiming strict American neutrality Heading(1789) (George Washington)AuthorVaughan, CharlesHeadlineWashington neutral in European warDate Published1793 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #269 Autograph Letter Signed about President James Monroe and the impending election of Monroe's successor Heading(1817)AuthorBradley, William C.HeadlineMonroe remembers Ethan AllenDate Published1824 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #276 Document signed by Governor Rutherford B. Hayes Heading(1877)AuthorHayes, Rutherford B.HeadlineSigned by U.S. President Rutherford B. HayesDate Published1875 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Lot #279 Typed letter signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower as President Heading(1953)AuthorEisenhower, Dwight D.HeadlineTyped letter signed by President EisenhowerDate Published1956 View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Lot #280 John F. Kennedy Inauguration photograph Heading(1961)AuthorKennedy, John F.HeadlineSigned by 8 attendants of the InaugurationPublisher[Tim Curtin]Date Published[1961] View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$375StatusSold Lot #281 Two photographs signed and inscribed by Richard Nixon Heading(1969)AuthorNixon, RichardHeadlineOld and Young Nixon photos both signedDate Publishedc.1960-1975 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$250StatusSold Lot #282 Typed letter signed by Richard Nixon Heading(1969)AuthorNixon, RichardHeadlineTLS from Richard Nixon on China, 1979Date Published1979 View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Lot #286 Letter from Howell Cobb, written as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, to the director of the Mint at San Francisco AuthorCobb, HowellHeadlineFuture rebel leader writes as U.S. Treasury SecretaryDate Published1859 View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Lot #288 Supreme Court portrait signed by all nine judges Heading(U.S. Supreme Court)HeadlineBurger Court photo signed by all nine justicesDate Publishedc. 1983 View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$812.50StatusSold Lot #336 Document issued by Juan Suárez de Carvajal, Bishop of Lugo, of the King's Council, ordering that all the Mercury from the Almadén mines be sent to the Indies to be used in the extraction of silver from ore AuthorSuárez de Carvajal, JuanHeadlineMercury for the silver mines of Potosi, 1559Date Published1559 View details Estimate$600 - $900Sold for$687.50StatusSold Lot #338 Original travel diary kept by an American woman on a trip to Europe and the Middle East Heading(Travel Diary)HeadlineTravel diary to Europe & Middle East 1925Date Published1925-1926 View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next