20th Century Manuscripts

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

EARLY 20TH CENTURY RELIC OF A TOWN AND FAMILY BEING A SCRAPBOOK OF NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, LETTERS, AND DRAWINGS PERTAINING TO THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE GILBERT FAMILY IN CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA

Evocative 1940s Archive of Letters and Ephemera from a Member of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada During World War II

Exceptional 1943-1945 Original Handwritten Autograph Book Compiled by a Canadian World War II Soldier in the Italian Campaign As the Allies Advanced North

Scott Meredith, Pioneering Literary Agent's Biography, "Writing to Sell," Heavily Annotated by an Aspiring Writer, Plus Autographed Letter from Meredith

c. 1930s HANDWRITTEN AND TYPESCRIPT ARCHIVE OF CORRESPONDENCE, APPLICATIONS, LOAN DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY [UDC] SOUTH CAROLINA CHAPTER

BOSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT, 1903, Manuscript Daily Log

20th Century Book of Sauces

AUTOGRAPHED ARTICLE BY RENATO DULBECCO NOBEL PRIZE WINNING AMERICAN VIROLOGIST THE SALK INSTITUTE

AUTOGRAPH LETTER/POSTCARD SIGNED BY CHARLES DOLLFUS DISCUSSING PREPARATIONS FOR FLIGHT

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY CHARLES DOLLFUS: French Aeronaut, Balloonist, Historian. VERY WARM RESPONSE TO AN AUTOGRAPH REQUEST.

ARCHIVE OF TWELVE [12] ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTERS TO AND FROM JOHN BRUEN, GRANDSON OF AN ESCAPED SLAVE, AND HONORED CHRONICLER OF THE STRUGGLE FOR BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS IN 1960s AMERICA.

ARCHIVE OF FOUR (4) HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARIES OF A KANSAS WOMAN

ARCHIVE OF COLLECTED RESEARCH PAPERS AND CORRESPONDENCE MATERIALS OF AUTHOR LESLIE DAIKEN RESEARCHING HIS BOOK - CHILDREN'S TOYS AROUND THE WORLD