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CIVIL WAR ERA & WASHINGTON TERRITORY WOMEN'S MS

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64385 [COMMONPLACE AUTOGRAPH BOOK -- WASHINGTON TERRITORY WOMAN].[JONES HAWTHORNE [HATHORNE], Mary].
The gem album: [a charming Civil War Era and later Washington Territorial autograph souvenir album compiled by a young New England woman from Maine, and later Seattle pioneer, as well as wife to, Willard Campbell Hawthorne, early Seattle builder, and City Councilor to the nascent frontier settlement].
$650

Illustrated artist’s notebook with fashion

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Kinney, Troy
Artist’s Note Book, Original sketches by the artist
$625

1840s Whitney Family

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Asa, William & Eliza Whitney
Three letters, Philadelphia & Washington DC, RR and women's education
$175

Seal Skins & Oil 1822

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Asa Lee
Letter from Stonington, Connecticut, to his brother Gideon Lee in New York, Wishing to transfer his assets to avoid a law suit over valuable seal skins
$350

1849 California Goldrush letter

J R Atwood
October 1849 letter with vivid detailed descriptions of life and place
$1,300

Bill Everson self-corrected Oyez title River-Root

William Everson
River-Root, A Syzygy ............, accompanied by galley's with manuscript corrections by Everson.
$250

Assignment of Points Earned for Various Animals

Allen, Earl H.
[Hunting][South Dakota] Brush Center Gun Club Minutes, Spink County, South Dakota circa 1905-1915
$95 $100 or less

1755 New York Sheriffs writ

Clear Everitt High Sheriff
a legal document from 1755
$200

Freedmen’s association letter

Freedman’s association agent letter black troops and camps mentioned
$425

Goldrush diaries Americans 1897 Venezuela Guyana

20000 Word description of adventures in pursuit of gold in the wilds of South America
$2,250

Much Manuscript Material

Arthur Machen
Collection of 51 Envelopes and Wrappers Hand Addressed to Fytton Armstrong [John Gawsworth]
$500
1850s Counterfeit Bank Note Currency Detector Numismatic Mailers
$1,000
1890s Native & Asian American Integrated Western Couple Photo
$1,600
1900s Black Sharecroppers Marriage License Applications
$1,000
1919 - 1921 WWI Polish Bolshevik War WAF Press Photo Archive (100+)
$9,500
1910s Steel Mill Black Boxing Exhibition PGH Trolley Park Panorama Photo
$2,500
c.1900 Patent Medicine Advertising Pamphlet Afro American Almanac
$2,000
WWI Army Horse Farm Goshen New York Italian Remount Photo Archive (42)
$2,000
1890s Limerick Co. Irish American Immigration Family Photo Album
$800

1845 Wedding Gifts

Frederick William Lord
Letter to his adopted daughter after her marriage, with additions from a cousin
$85 $100 or less

Literary Woman on Literary Women

Laura L. Hinkley
Louis and Fanny: The Stevensons [Carbon Typescript with Correspondence]
$850

Rare Civil War Letter from a Black Veteran

Parnell Miles
Letter to Col. Hiram Scofield from a Private in his 47th United States Colored Infantry Regiment
$2,000

8 Navy Man's ALS from China, Japan, Panama 1903-09

Ray Beckwith
Group of Eight (8) Manuscript Letters (31 pages) Written by a U.S. Navy Serviceman from China & Japan in 1903 and Panama in 1908-09, Mentioning Life in the Navy; Observations of the Three Countries; and Attempting to Live a Christian Life Among Ill-Behaved Shipmates
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WW2 Solders' Letters Written to an OR Woman

Sgt. Robert Beare & Others
Collection of 51 Letters Addressed to a Portland, OR Woman, circa 1940-1948, Mostly from Servicemen During WW II, Many of the Letters are from One Soldier with the 358th Air Service Group in the Mariana Islands Describing Events, Islanders, Weather, Movies, and Other Entertainment
$200

Navy Sailor's Military Career Archive, 1917-1947

Phillip Wallace Stinchfield
Archive, Including Photographs, Relating to the U.S. Navy Service Career of Phillip Wallace Stinchfield Between 1917-1947, Includes over 1400 Photos, Mostly in Photo Albums, Plus Original Documents and Service Records, Ephemera, & Copies of Correspondence
$600

T.L.s. to her Nephew and Biographer, Quentin Bell

Woolf, Virginia
Typed Letter signed to her nephew, Quentin Bell.
$4,500

Masonic Vintage Initiation Documents

F & A M , Vintage Masonic Application Forms
$20 $100 or less

1777 Express Rider

Josiah Brinsmaid & Brig. General Silliman
Signed receipt for ride to Danbury, before Tryon's raid
$750

Incl. letter with drawing from Akira to 'Chris'

Edward Greey (book), Akira (manuscript and letter)
THE BEAR-WORSHIPPERS OF YEZO: And the Island of Karafuto [Saghalin] or The Adventures of the Jewett Family and Their Friend Oto Nambo + Manuscript version of similar story., 1883 book + letter + photos + a manuscript translation/version of THE BEARS IN MT. NAMTOKO, by Kenji Miyazawa, by a Japanese writer/teacher as a birthday gift to a friend.
$425