Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC

1772 – A New England colonial manuscript “Advertisement” offering a ten-dollar reward for the capture and return of a runaway slave from New Milford, Connecticut, List price has been discounted for this show.

Colonial Runaway Slave Advertisement

Gideon Treat

$4250

Battle of New Orleans Cavalry Report

Major Thomas Hind

1815 – Morning Report for a Cavalry Squadron at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812, List price has been discounted for this show.

$1000

St. Louis Land Agents Help Find a Relative

Aaron T. Crane and Abraham Beck

1819 – Reply by two early St. Louis land agents to a man in Ohio searching for a relative who had gone west, List price has been discounted for this show.

$750

Lead Miner's Letter from Galena, Illinois

Joseph Mace

1829 – Letter from an early lead miner encouraging friends to join him in Galena, Illinois via St. Louis where he could receive assistance from the not-yet-famous gunsmiths, Jacob and Samuel Hawkens, List price has been discounted for this show.

To William Shepard Wetmore

Old China Trade Correspondence

1832-1837 – Four letters to William Shepard Wetmore concerning his business operations in South America, China, and New York, List price has been discounted for this show.

$1250

U.S Consular Certificate from La Guayra

J. S. McKaighen

1834 – A Consular certificate certifying the exchange rate of U. S. dollars at the port of La Guayra as part of a coffee sale, List price has been discounted for this show.

$120

Report on the Erie Canal

John Staats

1837 – A letter from the first Collector of Tolls for the Erie Canal reporting its poor state of repair, navigational issues, and other significant problems, List price has been discounted for this show.

$120

Wisconsin Territorial Economy

Eph Perkins

1837 – Letter from an interstate exporter to his partner in New York discussing the status of their shipments to the recently established Wisconsin Territory, List price has been discounted for this show.

1840 – A political letter describing America’s first major nation-wide campaign rally, held in Erie, Pennsylvania for William Henry Harrison, the Whig candidate for president in the 1840 election, List price has been discounted for this show.

America's First Political Campaign Rally

B. F. Fuller

$800

Philadelphia High Society

Lydia Leming Smith

1847 – Letter from a Philadelphia socialite discussing balls, a visit with Henry Clay, concerts, Parisian fashion, the new custom of using envelopes to mail letters, and a catastrophic shipwreck, List price has been discounted for this show.

1851 – A puzzling consular certificate from Singapore regarding four sailors from the Ship Minstrel that was signed by a prominent British national as the “Acting U. S. Consul”, List price has been discounted for this show.

U.S. Consular Document from Singapore

Edward Boustead

$250

Satirical Salt River Ticket

Probably the Democratic Party

1856 – A terrific ‘Salt River Ticket’ ridiculing the supporters of John C. Fremont and Millard Fillmore after their candidates' defeat in the 1856 presidential election, List price has been discounted for this show.

$675

New York to San Francisco Travel Letter

William Wallace Hanscom

1857 – Young man's letter describing his voyage from New York to San Francisco,which included crossing the Isthmus via the Panama Railroad to join his father, a construction supervisor at Vallejo, List price has been discounted for this show.

$450

A Militia Unit Enters the Confederate Army

"Willie"

1861 – An early soldier’s letter describing the bittersweet march through his hometown as his unit left to muster into service and the inedibility of bread provided by the camp kitchen, List price has been discounted for this show.

1861 – An exceptionally detailed letter from a Confederate soldier regarding the defeat of the Union Army at the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run), List price has been discounted for this show.

Union Defeat at First Manassas (Bull Run)

John Owen Lashley

$1500

Civil War Kanawah Campaign Letter

S. B. Robinson

1862 – A Union soldier’s letter describing the short and important, but little-remembered, Confederate Kanawha Valley campaign that drove the Northern Army out of western Virginia and into Ohio, List price has been discounted for this show.

1863 – Letter from a New York soldier reporting that he had spent two weeks destroying Virginia railroad tracks and relating a ‘friendly-fire’ incident caused by drunken officers, List price has been discounted for this show.

Two Weeks Destroying Southern Railroads

A. [Aaron] Crouch

1864 – Letter from a Union sergeant on the battle lines near Petersburg describing mortar bombardments how Northern and Southern troops would call cease-fires so they could have friendly conversations, List price has been discounted for this show.

Battle Line Conversations between Enemies

Sergeant Aaron Crouch

Circa 1864– Multi-Color Charles Magnus Bird's-Eye Map Lettersheet with an illustration of the U.S. Capitol and the Washington Monument, List price has been discounted for this show.

Multi-Color Map Lettersheet

Charles Magnus

Various Printing Companies

U.S. Printing Company Stock Certificates

1864-1906 – Collection of five scarce stock certificates relating to the U.S. printing industry, List price has been discounted for this show.

$750

CDV - Jefferson Davis Captured in Drag

Francis / Hacker

1865 – A carte-de-visite (cdv) photo of a realistic drawing of the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis by the 4th Michigan Cavalry while trying to escape Richmond in women’s clothing, List price has been discounted for this show.

1865 – Letter from a Union soldier to the wife of a friend informing her of the circumstances of her husband’s death, List price has been discounted for this show.

Civil War Next-of-Kin Letter

Joel F. Crocke

Check from a Famous Montana Mining Bank

1869 – Check drawn on the “Banking House of L. H. Hershfield & Bro” of Helena, Montana that was printed on revenue-stamped paper, List price has been discounted for this show.

Lewis Hershfield

Unidentified Photographer

Chang & Eng, the famed Siamese Twins

1869 – A carte-de-visite (cdv) photograph of Chang and Eng Bunker, the famous cojoined “Siamese Twins” and two of their sons

1870 – A historically important postally-used envelope sent from Fort Yuma, California to Auburn, California, in the heart of what had formerly been California’s richest gold-mining country, List price has been discounted for this show.

Fort Yuma, Califonia Mail

Unidentified Sender

$450

Streecar Company Stock Certificates

Memphis City Rail Road Company

1870s – Two attractive stock certificates issued by the Memphis City Rail Road, a horse-drawn trolley company, List price has been discounted for this show.

$325

Humorous Chicago Fire Insurance Poem

C. C. Hine

1872 – An insurance advertising pamphlet featuring an illustrated, humorous retelling of legend of Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, List price has been discounted for this show.

Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway

Map Broadsheet Adverting Railroad Bonds

1873 – Broadsheet showing the routes of the Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway on one side and advertising a bond sale to fund the purchase of steel track rails, List price has been discounted for this show.

1880 – The country’s largest railroad supply manufacturer branches out to produce torches for political parades, List price has been discounted for this show.

Torches for Political Parades

Adams & Westlake Mfg Co.

$200

Patent Medicine Advertising Broadside

Circa 1870 – Broadside advertising patent medicine cure for all diseases of the chest, lungs, and liver, List price has been discounted for this show.

Dr. Ira Hatch

1885 – Broadside advertising sleighs, along with a handbill advertising harnesses, enclosed in a postally used envelope that features an all-over illustration of the factory that made them, List price has been discounted for this show.

Broadside Advertising Sleighs

J. H. Birch

$125

An Edison Executive's Correspondene Archive

John I. Beggs

1896 – An archive of letters from an Edison Company executive to his daughter who was touring France and Italy to learn French and Italian and receive treatment for her chronic rheumatism, List price has been discounted for this show.

$550

Wanted Poster - Mail Train Robbery

C. B. Anderson and M. J. Forman

1911 – Reward poster for the capture of two men who “held up and robbed” the registered mail carried by a Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway train, List price has been discounted for this show.

Sara Gwendolen Foulke Andrews

Amateur Teddy Roosevelt Campaign Poem

1912 – An amateur paean to Teddy Roosevelt written by a celebrated pioneer female biologist, List price has been discounted for this show.

1915 – Ticket to the execution of an African-American man in Grayson County, Texas, List price has been discounted for this show.

Ticket to a Hanging

Sheriff Lee Simmons

$700

Mexican Punitive Expedition Scrapbook

George E. Westman

1916-1918 – Scrapbook and panoramic unit photo kept by a trooper in the 13th Cavalry after it repulsed Pancho Villa’s murderous surprise attack on Coumbus, New Mexico in the middle of the night, List price has been discounted for this show.

$2100

Herbert Hoover Saves Starving Austrians

American Relief Administration

1920 – Two printed postcard requests from Austria asking American relatives to purchase and send Food Drafts to be exchanged for rations at the American Relief Warehouse in Vienna, List price has been discounted for this show.

$270

First China Clipper flight from Shanghai

1937 – Letter sent on the first flight of clipper mail service from Shanghai to Hong Kong then onto the United States carried by the airway’s more famous China Clipper, List price has been discounted for this show.

"Eleanor"

$90

Admiral William D. Leahy Correspondence

Admiral William D. Leahy

1943-1945 – Collection of letters documenting the assistance provided by Admiral William D. Leahy, “the second most powerful man in the world,” to boost the career of a long-time journalist friend, List price has been discounted for this show.

$1250

Humorous Hand-Illustrated Correspondence

W. G. Williams

1951 – Three hand-illustrated humorous orders submitted by W. G. Williams of San Francisco to Stanely D. Harris, a prominent stamp dealer who operated out of New York and Vermont

Disinfecting Tuberculosis Patient Letters

1955 – Letter from the Pennsylvania Department regarding the unnecessity of disinfecting mail originating at a Tuberculosis Sanitorium, List price has been discounted for this show.

Dr. R. H. McCutcheum

Pop-Up Senate Campaign Ad