Ephemera

1839 Original, Likely Unpublished Manuscript Poem on the Death of a Young Person by Christian Writer Caroline Fry aka Caroline Wilson

1837 Signed Envelope Front of General Lord Charles Henry Somerset Manners

1823 Envelope Cover Bearing the Signature of William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam

1681 LAND GRANT TO NOTED SCOTTISH JURIST, AUTHOR AND PROMINENT POLITICAL SCOTSMAN JAMES DALRYMPLE, 1st VISCOUNT OF STAIR

1940 Remarkable World War 2 Original Hutchinson Internment Artist’s Camp (P Camp) “The Camp” Newsletter No. 5

1777-1778 French Witness Statement Regarding a Case Investigation Under Old French Law

Sensational Archive of Original Art, Storyboards, Cels, Photos and Ephemera from Iconic Disney, MGM and Hanna-Barbera Animator and Producer, Preston E. Blair

1820 Manuscript Receipt Signed by German Slave Trader Dr. Daniel Botefeur for Payment of Goods by Dr. William Frost in Havana, Cuba

c1904 ARCHIVE OF HAND DRAWN WATER-COLOR ART WITH HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT NOTES BY FAMED TRAVEL AUTHOR AND ARTIST OF INCA RUINS AND PERUVIAN VIEWS

1760 Early Printing of James Lovell’s Funeral Oration for Harvard’s Henry Flynt, Read at Holden Chapel

1919 Public Health Vaccination Certificate During Mandatory Student Smallpox Vaccine Effort

1929-1934 Archive of a Depression-Era Beat Cop’s Log Books and Ephemera Documenting His Patrols of Downtown Boston

1887-1908 Archive of Business Ephemera and Letter of a Successful Scranton, Pennsylvania Builder and Contractor

1940 Highly Relatable Letter from a Friend Who Just Could Not Make it to the Hospital for a Visit and Feels Just Terrible

1901 Fascinating Human Resources Job Offer Letter to a Salesman from the Company’s Owner

1885 Successful Victor, New York Entrepreneur’s Manuscript Letter Filled with Urgent Business Matters

1893 Handwritten Transcription of Thomas Hood’s Romantic “Sonnet For the 14th of February”

1915 Business Ephemera Archive Exploring the Process of Opening a Business in Copartnership in Scranton, Pennsylvania

1928 - 1929 UNIQUE AND FASCINATING TRAVEL SCRAPBOOK AND JOURNAL OF A YOUNG MAN WITH A KEEN ARTISTIC EYE AS HE TRAVELS AROUND THE WORLD PHOTOGRAPHING HIS TRAVELS AND COLLECTING ENGROSSING POSTCARDS AND COMPELLING EPHEMERA

1940s ORIGINAL GROUP OF DIARIES [2] AND EPHEMERA RELATING TO A NAVY SERVICEMAN SERVING IN THE PACIFIC THEATER REPAIRING SHIPS

1931 - 1940 ORIGINAL PAIR OF FIVE YEAR MANUSCRIPT DIARIES AND EPHEMERA HANDWRITTEN BY A CHICAGO TEENAGER DETAILING A DECADE OF DEVELOPMENT FROM YOUTH TO HARD CHARGING JOURNALIST AS SHE PLUNGES INTO SIMMERING PRE WAR EUROPE

1940s ORIGINAL GROUP OF PERSONAL ITEMS OF BLACK AMERICAN GUNNER AND RADIO OPERATOR WITH THE 477TH BOMBARDMENT GROUP

1929 ORIGINAL BRITISH ARMY OFFICER MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND EPHEMERA HANDWRITTEN BY THE NEWLY INSTALLED COMMANDER OF THE HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY IN INDIA

1936 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT HOMAGE TO GERMAN PATRIOTISM, HEROIC SONGS AND BATTLES LONG FORGOTTEN BY A BELIEVED BELGIAN SERVING IN THE GERMAN ARMY TITLED 'FAHRT: LIEDER UND BILDER'

1939 - 1959 ARCHIVE OF ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN LETTERS, PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA OF THIS NOTED CHICAGO ILLUSTRATOR AND ARTIST

1933 - 1944 ORIGINAL ARCHIVE OF PERSONAL LETTERS BY ONE NOTED ARTIST TO HIS BROTHER ARTIST IN THE 'ABBEY DE CRETEIL' GROUP

1935 ORIGINAL BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 'ROUND THE WORLD' TOUR BOOK WITH HANDWRITTEN ENTRIES THROUGHOUT BY THE FAMED PHYSICIAN-DETECTIVE AND FATHER OF MODERN FORENSIC SCIENCE

1965 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER SIGNED [ALS] HANDWRITTEN BY VIETNAM COMBATANT AND DEDICATED FATHER

1936 - 1940 MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF ONE ALLENTOWN TEENAGER'S PERSONAL HISTORY OF ENLISTMENT THROUGH HIS HONORABLE DISCHARGE - INCLUDES HIS PRIZED AUTOGRAPHS OF WORLD SERIES NEW YORK YANKEES HEFFNER AND RUFFING

1937 SIGNED WHO'S WHO OF AMERICA PRE PUBLICATION PROOF SHEET FOR FAMED VOLCANOLOGIST WITH 'TART' COMMENT

1734 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT: CONTRACT TO BORROW MONEY FROM A JEWISH MONEYLENDER

HANDWRITTEN FRENCH MANUSCRIPT PRECIS DOCUMENT REVIEWING OR WRITING UPON THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. From the estate of the world renowned bibliophile and antiquary, Sir Thomas Phillipps.

1944-1945 New Hampshire US Naval Officer’s Letters Home, Discussing Army Academics and Comparing German, Italian and British Submarines

1944-1946 Archive of Insightful, Detailed Letters from a Young Army Man Serving in the Pacific Theater in a Time of Rampant Racism and Political Upheaval

1922 - 1923 LARGE ARCHIVE OF HANDWRITTEN COURTSHIP AND LOVE LETTERS BY A STUDENT, NOT SUPRISINGLY, OF CHEMISTRY

1922 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY RELATING THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY AND DIFFICULT LIFE OF ILLNESS AND HER COURAGE TO FACE IT

1924 NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL GRANDMASTERS CHESS TOURNAMENT SCRAPBOOK INCLUDING HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT SCORING NOTES

1897 - 1910 ORIGINAL MODEST ARCHIVE OF CORRESPONDENCE AND EPHEMERA TO AND FROM THE HOWLE FAMILY OF WETUMPKA AND ECLECTIC ALABAMA

1909 - 1920s ORIGINAL MASSIVE ARCHIVE OF PRIMARY, HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, DOCUMENTS AND EPHEMERA BY NOTED GEOLOGIST, GEOGRAPHER AND EXPLORER OF ARGENTINA AND THE SOUTH AMERICAN CONTINENT

1919 SUPERB, SIGNIFICANT ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HAND WRITTEN BY A YOUNG JEWISH LEGION MEMBER, LIKELY FROM HOLLAND, DETAILING THE ASPIRATIONS AND FRUSTRATIONS OF A ZIONIST ASSIGNED TO ONE OF THE MOST UNSETTLED AND CONFLICTED POST WWI AREAS ON EARTH