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A Letter to American Teachers of History. Henry Adams.

A Letter to American Teachers of History.

Washington: [Privately printed at the Press of J. H. Furst Co., Baltimore.], 1910. First edition. Signed by Adams at the end of the introductory letter, as it seems that most copies were. Adams, historian and a direct descendant of John Quincy Adams, published and disseminated widely this present work. It is... Read More

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Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern and Biblical History. Synchronized by Sebastian C. Adams. Salem Oregon. Sebastian Adams.

Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern and Biblical History. Synchronized by Sebastian C. Adams. Salem Oregon.

Cincinnati, Ohio: Strobridge & Co, 1871. First edition. "In 1871, his Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern and Biblical History was published by Strobridge & Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, the premier publisher of American commercial art. The technique of chromolithography offered the emerging middle class affordable color reproductions and, in this case, made lessons of history... Read More

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Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on the Cession of Russian America to the United States. Alaska, Charles Sumner.

First Map of the Alaska Purchase

Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on the Cession of Russian America to the United States.

Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1867. First edition. First Map of the Alaska Purchase. Sumner gives an account of the history of the Alaskan Territory, just recently purchased by Secretary of State William Seward from Russia for $7.2 million. Sumner was a strong exponent of the purchase, and... Read More

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[Photographs of Alaska]. Alaska.

[Photographs of Alaska].

[Alaska]: c. 1905. A collection of photos including images of the U.S. Revenue Cutter (USRC) Manning and her crew. Designed as a cruising cutter for the Revenue Cutter Service, the Manning was commissioned on 8 January, 1898. After service with the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War, the Manning returned... Read More

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The Crib 1912. Arizona.

The Crib 1912.

[ El Rancho Bonito, Arizona: Evans School], 1912. Miscellany of poetry and photographs of school life. Among the 17 students of the Evans School at El Rancho Burrito in this year were Louis Gordon Hamersley, Archibald Bullock Roosevelt, and Thomas Archer Morgan. Read More

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Archive of 13 Autograph Letters Signed ("Gertrude Atherton" or "G.A."), to Harper Brother’s editor James MacArthur, Gertrude Atherton.

Archive of 13 Autograph Letters Signed ("Gertrude Atherton" or "G.A."), to Harper Brother’s editor James MacArthur,

London, Munich, New York, and Mt. Tamalpais [CA]: 1905-1907. An archive of letters from Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948) to James MacArthur of Harper Brothers, publisher of Atherton’s Rulers of Kings (1904); The Travelling Thirds (1905); The Bell in the Fog (1905); Ancestors (1907); and California: An Intimate History (1914). The letters... Read More

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Two Typed Letters of Agreement, signed, to Twentieth-Century Fox, confirming two amendments regarding the starting date of a previously signed contact from July 3, 1939. Gene Autry.

The Singing Cowboy Signs with 20th-Century Fox

Two Typed Letters of Agreement, signed, to Twentieth-Century Fox, confirming two amendments regarding the starting date of a previously signed...

Los Angeles: July 15 & November 17, 1939. The Singing Cowboy Signs with 20th-Century Fox. Following this agreement — due, it is said, to the intervention of 20th-Century Fox star Jane Withers — Western box-office star Gene Autry signed with the Hollywood giant, and made his first movie with them... Read More

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