20th Century Manuscripts

Ships of the Royal Navies

ORIGINAL AND HANDWRITTEN DRAMA-FILLED DIARY OF A PRIVATE IN THE ‘BATTLE OF HURTGEN FOREST’, THE LONGEST SINGLE BATTLE IN U.S. HISTORY AND ONE OF THE BLOODIEST BATTLES IN WORLD WAR TWO

FASCINATING AND INTRICATELY DETAILED ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A YOUNG INFANTRYMAN, ENDURING INTENSE TRAINING AND WORKING HIS WAY UP THE RANKS IN THE AMERICAN HOMEFRONT AT THE VERY END OF WORLD WAR ONE

c1960s LARGE ARCHIVE OF ORIGINAL TYPED AND HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT PAGES ALONGSIDE THE ORIGINAL RESEARCH THAT INSPIRED THEM BY ONE OF ENGLANDS MOST NOTED AND CONTROVERSIAL JOURNALIST, ANTHROPOLOGIST AND AUTHOR

Sensational 1895-1903 Original Handwritten Diary Collection Rich with Detail about Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Years At Groton School from the Perspective of His Closest Friend

c1900s ARCHIVE OF HANDWRITTEN CORRESPONDENCE DETAILING A PENNSYLVANIA MAN'S WAR EXPERIENCES IN SOUTH AFRICA'S BOER WAR AND WORLD WAR I

C1900s ORIGINAL GROUP of 15 HANDWRITTEN SPANISH-LANGUAGE MANUSCRIPTS of "THE PROCLAMATION of LIBERTY and the UNPARDONABLE SIN" by a REBEL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST THEOLOGIAN and PREACHER

C1900s SUPER, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT HOMAGE and DETAILED COMPILATION of ESSAYS, REVIEWS, PLAYBILLS, EXTRACTS and NEWSPAPER ARTICLES about the 18TH CENTURY PLAYWRIGHT and ACTOR DAVID GARRICK

c1904 THREE (3) ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN FIELD BOOKS OF THE EXTENSIVE, DETAILED AND PLANNED WORK REQUIRED TO REBUILD THE TOWN OF ABERDEEN, WASHINGTON AFTER IT HAD BURNT TO THE GROUND A YEAR EARLIER

c1905 - 1906 CHARMING ARCHIVE OF ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTERS FROM NOTED AMERICAN NOVELIST TO HIS DEAR FRIEND AND THE ONE DAY WIFE OF DIPLOMAT AND INDUSTRIALIST FAY INGALLS

c1905 SUPERB, EXHAUSTIVE, ORIGINAL FOUR [4] VOLUME SET OF MANUSCRIPT BOOKS FILLED WITH SHIP'S LORE, SAILOR'S LINGO AND ALL MANNER OF SAILING WISDOM GARNERED FROM OVER 400 YEARS OF BRITISH NAVY EXPERIENCE

c1910 - 1920 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF EARLY POLICE WORK BEING A HANDWRITTEN MUG SHOT NOTEBOOK FILLED WITH MURDERERS, ARMED ROBBERS, KIDNAPPERS AND ESCAPED FELONS AND MUCH MORE

c1910 - 1920s ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN AND HAND DRAWN GERMAN ENGINEERING NOTEBOOK, CONTAINING DETAILED INFORMATION ON A HUGE AMOUNT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TOPICS AND REPLETE WITH DOZENS OF EXPERTLY HAND DRAWN DIAGRAMS, FIGURES, AND CHARTS

c1915 ORIGINAL GROUP OF DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THE MILITARY SERVICE OF A LANCE CORPORAL IN THE 5TH BATTALION OF THE CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE 2ND BRIGADE A.K.A "TUXFORD'S DANDIES", WHO WAS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED, AND SPENT OVER A YEAR AT...

c1915 ORIGINAL WWI BRITISH ROYAL NAVY DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A DEDICATED VOLUNTEER RESERVE SIGNALMAN

c1915 SUPER SCRAPBOOK AND RELIC OF EARLY 2OTH CENTURY WAR MACHINES: ONE MAN'S HOMAGE TO THE MARRIAGE OF COMBUSTIBLE ENGINES AND WORLD WAR I MACHINE WARFARE INCLUDING A 4 MONTH DIARY OF A FAMOUS MOTORCYCLE RACER AND DESPATCH RIDER

c1917 ORIGINAL WORLD WAR I NOTEBOOK DETAILING THE NEVER ENDING WORK OF A SHIP'S ENGINEER

c1920s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK OF ANATOMY NOTES HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG WOMAN STUDYING AT THE MIAMI UNIVERSITY AT OXFORD OHIO

c1930-40s ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT 'JUNGVOLK DIARY' FILLED WITH HITLER'S NAZI VERSION OF PRE-HISTORY AND THE BIRTH OF THE ARYAN RACE

c1930s ARCHIVE OF HANDWRITTEN AND TYPED MANUSCRIPT SPEECHES OF RENOWNED QUAKER PHYSICIAN AND CHILDREN RIGHTS ACTIVIST

c1930s FASCINATING, ORIGINAL EXHAUSTIVE HANDWRITTEN BOOK ON THE STUDIES OF AN AMERICAN OPHTHALMOLOGY STUDENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, LEARNING FROM SOME OF THE GREATEST MEDICAL MINDS OF THE 20th CENTURY

c1930s ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN YOUNG GIRL'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BOOK OF POETRY, ESSAYS, STORIES AND A LITTLE ARITHMETIC

c1935 - 1950s ORIGINAL GROUP OF 120+ MANUSCRIPT LETTERS AND EPHEMERA OF A BALTIMORE MAN OF MANY PARTS: HUSBAND, FATHER, STEAMSHIP DECK ENGINEER, SEAMAN'S UNION REPRESENTATIVE, SHIP BOARD NEGOTIATOR AND LABOR ACTIVIST

c1940 ANNOTATED COPY OF 'ORACLES OF NOSTRADAMUS' WITH HANDWRITTEN AND TYPED NOTES BY FAMED OCCULTIST AND SPIRITUALIST AND DISCIPLE OF THE ENIGMATIC PRINCE RAKOCKZY, COMTE DE ST. GERMAIN

c1940 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK DETAILING EXTENSIVE NOTES TAKEN ON THE GEOLOGY OF NEW YORK CITY AND THE PALISADES, COMPLETE WITH EXTENSIVE DRAWINGS, DIAGRAMS, FIGURES AND DOZENS OF PHOTOGRAPHS

c1947 PHOTOGRAPHIC AND TYPESCRIPT JOURNAL OF A MARINE FROM TENNESSEE - SUPER RELIC OF WWII BY A CHARMING NEAR POETIC SURVIVOR OF GUADALCANAL

c1946 ORIGINAL RETROSPECTIVE MANUSCRIPT DIARY DETAILING A NOTED AUTHOR'S CHILDHOOD AND THEN HIS PART IN THE BATTLE FOR VIMY RIDGE

c1950s ORIGINAL, CHARMING BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR OF SIR WILFRED GRENFELL AND HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR

c1950s ORIGINAL HAND DRAWN ART WITH HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT NOTE ON THE REVERSE

c1960s - 1970s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT 3 PAGE MEMOIR HANDWRITTEN BY AN OUTSIDE CONTRACTOR WHO DOES A SHORT, SIGNIFICANT STINT HELPING BUILD HOWARD HUGHES' AVIATION DREAM THE SPRUCE GOOSE

c1970s - 1980s ARCHIVE OF EPHEMERA RELATIVE TO THE HISTORY, BIBLIOGRAPHY AND TOURNAMENT STATISTICS RECORDED AND KEPT BY A NEAR OBSESSIVE FAN AND PLAYER

c1970s ARCHIVE OF TYPED LETTERS SIGNED, EPHEMERA AND GREETINGS FROM FAMED GERMAN PHILOSOPHER TO FAMED RABBI AND GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST FREDERICK SOLOMON

c1970s ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF THREE [3] MANUSCRIPT HANDWRITTEN BOOKS PROVIDING UNIQUE CULTURAL INSIGHT TO THE PEOPLE'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION

c1970s ORIGINAL CHINESE MANUSCRIPT HOMEWORK BOOK SHOWING ONE STUDENT'S EFFORTS TO LEARN ENGLISH GIVING INSIGHT INTO MAO'S EDUCATIONAL AGENDA

c1990s ORIGINAL TYPED MANUSCRIPT BIOGRAPHY AND ANALYSIS OF HORROR AUTHOR SHIRLEY JACKSON BY CRITIC, NOVELIST AND EXPERT OF THE HORROR GENRE S.T. JOSHI

c1990s ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OUTLINE BY NOTED AFRICAN AMERICAN ART HISTORIAN AND CURATOR

CIRCA 1905 PHOTO ALBUM SHOWING YALE UNIVERSITY'S ELITE AT PLAY AND STUDY

CIRCA 1920s SET OF FOUR (4) POSTCARDS: SCARCER CARTES POSTALE HONORING EDITH CAVELL - BRITISH NURSE MURDERED BY THE GERMANS IN BELGIUM AUGUST 1915

Early 1900s Original Scrapbook Compiled by a Young Man Who Would Become One of Americas Leading Theologians

EARLY 1900s PERSONAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF IDEAS, QUOTES AND STORIES HANDWRITTEN BY NOTED AUTHOR, PLAYWRIGHT AND ESSAYIST