20th Century Manuscripts

1950s ORIGINAL TYPED MANUSCRIPT BY A MEXICO CITY COLLEGE STUDENT AND ONE DAY AUTHOR WITH WORLD FAMOUS SWEDISH EXPLORER TITLED 'WANDERING DOWN THE BALSAS RIVER, MEXICO'

1945 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF ONE AMERICAN SOLDIER'S LAST YEAR IN SERVICE TO HIS COUNTRY IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC

1952 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND PHOTO JOURNAL OF A YOUNG FRENCH CANADIAN SKI JUMPER'S TRIP REPRESENTING HIS COUNTRY AT THE OSLO WINTER OLYMPICS

1948 - 1949 ORIGINAL FASCINATING MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A CREW MEMBER OF THE FALKLAND ISLAND BASE CAMPS WORKING TO HELP SUPPLY AND RESEARCH THE ANTARCTIC REGION INCLUDING A TYPESCRIPT PROPOSAL FOR A SLEDGE JOURNEY TO SNOW HILL ISLAND

1947 ORIGINAL POST WORLD WAR II MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A CHARMING AND BRILLIANT BROOKLYN NEW YORK TEENAGE JEWISH GIRL

1945 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT WORLD WAR II DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY USAF LIEUTENANT PASSING THE LAST FEW MONTHS OF THE WAR ON EMERGENCY LEAVE BUT STILL ACTIVE IN THE WAR THROUGH HIS WRITINGS

1947 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN ILL MAN FIGHTING A TERRIBLE DIVORCE AND CHILD CUSTODY CASE SEEKING HIS DAUGHTER WHO HAS BEEN HIDDEN SOMEWHERE IN ALABAMA OR FLORIDA

1945 - 1946 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A BERLIN POLICEMAN'S WIFE DETAILING DAY TO DAY THE FINAL MONTHS AND IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH OF THE BATTLE FOR BERLIN AND THE RUSSIAN ONSLAUGHT

1946 - 1951 ORIGINAL PAIR [2] OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A WEST TEXAS BORDER PATROL AGENT

1950s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ARCHIVE OF CHINESE DOCUMENTS DETAILING ONE TEACHER'S CONTRIBUTION TO CHINESE POLICY AND THEN HIS REQUIRED CONFESSION AND APOLOGY ALL HIGHLIGHTING THE SCHIZOPHRENIC NATURE OF MID 20TH CENTURY CHINESE POLICY AND POLITICS

1952 ORIGINAL AMERICAN HISTORY SCHOOL PROJECT SCRAPBOOK DETAILING THE EISENHOWER STEVENSON 1952 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

1945 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM AND MANUSCRIPT MEMORY BOOK HANDWRITTEN BY ONE YOUNG WOMAN'S REICHSARBEITSDIENST - RAD - REICH WORKERS SERVICE SISTERS ON HER DEPARTURE

1952 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DAY BOOK DIARY OF ONE CANADIAN SOLDIER'S WORK LAYING MINEFIELDS, BUILDING RAFTS AND DODGING MORTARS WITH THE FAMED VANDOOS IN KOREA

1944 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT WORLD WAR II HOMEFRONT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN EXPRESSIVE WILKES-BARRE PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN

1956 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN INDUSTRIOUS TORONTO ONTARIO OIL INDUSTRY SALES REP

1952 ARCHIVE OF ORIGINAL COLOR STEREOVIEW POSITIVES OF THE REMARKABLE AND STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL MARILYN MONROE DURING A BROADCAST OF EDGAR BERGEN AND CHARLIE MCCARTHY'S RADIO SHOW

1945-1949 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT 5 YR DIARY OF A CHARMING 12 YR OLD CHILD WHO TURNS INTO A GRANDMA'S LIQUOR STEALING TEENAGER

1953 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTER BY NOTED AUSTRALIAN DIPLOMAT, POLITICIAN AND JURIST

1950s - 1980s ARCHIVE OF PHOTOGRAPHS, EPHEMERA AND CORRESPONDENCE TO AND FROM AN AMERICAN HERO, HEAD OF THE AMERICAN LEGION AND GOODWILL AMBASSADOR FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

1950 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL AND DIARY OF A FAMED MYCOLOGIST, BOTANIST AND BIOLOGIST WORKING IN KENYA AFRICA

1951 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF THE KOREAN CONFLICT AND A MISERABLE SICKLY DISSATISFIED CAPTAIN OF THE US ARMY 51st BATTALION OUT OF FORT ORD

1950 SCRAPBOOK OF SODALIST TRAVEL TO VISIT THE POPE BY THE FAMED ST. LOUIS MISSOURI TRAVEL WRITER

1950s ARCHIVE LOT OF NINE [9] HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARIES OF A FAMED ST. LOUIS MISSOURI TRAVEL WRITER

1944 ORIGINAL ROYALMONT NOTEPAD FILLED WITH THE THOUGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS OF A SAILOR FROM OHIO DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR II ABOARD THE USS MONTICELLO AND LATER THE USS WEST POINT

1941-1942 Original Handwritten Diary Recording the Life of a Rural Michigan Woman in Her 60s As the United States Joins the Second World War

1942-1943 Diary of a Young New Orleans Shopgirl Focused on Her Love Life and Social Status Over the Realities of Life in War Time America

1940s Royal Artillery British Major's Pocket Notebook Kept While Serving on the Allied Commission for Austria after the Fall of Hitler's Germany

1941-1947 Unique Handwritten Manuscript Diary of a Single Mother in New England during WWII, Waging Legal Battle for Support Payments

1941-1951 Archive Lot of Deeply Personal Original Handwritten Diaries that Provide a Detailed Account of One Woman’s Life in Middle-Class America During and After World War II

1941 - 1945 ORIGINAL GROUP OF FOUR [4] WORLD WAR II ERA MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A HARDWORKING UPSTATE NEW YORK WOMAN RICHLY DETAILING A FULL FAMILY FARMING LIFE STEPS FROM THE SOUTH SHORE OF LAKE ONTARIO

1941 VERY CHARMING ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY MULTIPLE MEMBERS OF ONE CALIFORNIA FAMILY WELCOMING ADORED BABY MIKE IN HIS FIRST YEAR OF LIFE

1942 ORIGINAL, HISTORIC MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND PHOTO ALBUM DETAILING THE BEGINNING OF PAN AMERICAN AIRLINES CRITICAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE WAR EFFORT HAND WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY AN ERUDITE AND KEEN EYED AVIATION MACHINIST'S MATE

1940 SUPER, ORIGINAL PRE-STATE OF ISRAEL DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG IMMIGRANT GIRL DETAILING A FULL AND COMPLETE LIFE IN THE HOLY LAND WHILE THE DARK, DESTRUCTIVE BACK DROP OF WWII LOOMS

1940s ORIGINAL GROUP OF WWII ERA LETTERS OF LOVE AND YEARNING AND A COMPETITIVE SUITOR HANDWRITTEN BY A HARD WORKING STAFF SERGEANT OF THE QUARTERMASTER CORPS

1940s ORIGINAL, SIGNIFICANT BRITISH WWII AIR SEARCH AND RESCUE MANUSCRIPT DIARIES [6] TITLED 'THE FORTUNES AND MISFORTUNES OF No. 284 SQUADRON' HANDWRITTEN BY AN ENGLISH PILOT

1943 - 1944 ORIGINAL, SIGNIFICANT U.S. NAVY ARMED GUARD MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF WORLD WAR II SERVICE, ALLIED COOPERATION AND ONE OF THE TOUGHEST, MOST GRINDING JOBS IN THE WARTIME NAVY BY A US NAVAL RESERVE LIEUTENANT

1940s SUPER, FASCINATING PRE INDEPENDENT STATE OF ISRAEL BRITISH LEGAL VOLUME PROVIDING SIGNIFICANT INSIGHT INTO THE BRITISH IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ENGLISH LEGAL SYSTEM REPLACING THE ELABORATE NOW DEFUNCT OTTOMAN EMPIRE'S LEGAL SYSTEM

1940s SUPER GROUP OF ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENTS, LETTERS AND EPHEMERA RELATING TO THE HIGH CRIMES AND TREASON OF THE NOTORIOUS PROPAGANDA TOOL OF THE ITALIAN DICTATORSHIP 'AXIS SALLY'

1943 + 1944 CHARMING PAIR OF ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG KEXBROUGH, SOUTH YORKSHIRE LAD COMING OF AGE WHILE THE WAR BRINGS DEPRIVATIONS AND SACRIFICE THROUGHOUT ENGLAND

1942 ORIGINAL WARTIME DIARY OF CLARENCE ENGEBRETSEN, WHO SERVED THE COUNTRY AS A TECHNICIAN OF THE 301ST ORDNANCE REGIMENT IN NORTH AFRICA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR ACCOMPANIED BY 3 POSTCARDS WITH VIEWS OF ORAN