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Album of 50 carte de visite of actresses, opera singers, and performers in America and Europe at...

New York actresses of the Civil War era

Album of 50 carte de visite of actresses, opera singers, and performers in America and Europe at the time of...

Paris & New York: ca.1865. New York actresses of the Civil War era. An outstanding photograph album of female performers in New York and Europe during the Civil War, from the library of Henry Rutgers Prime (1813-1886), resident of Huntington, Long Island and "Parisian Dealer" (per 1860 census). Half of..... Read More about Album of 50 carte de visite of actresses, opera singers, and performers in America and Europe at...

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An album of Civil War Patriotic Pictorial Covers with pro-Union designs and slogans

Pro-Union Covers in Contemporary Album

An album of Civil War Patriotic Pictorial Covers with pro-Union designs and slogans.

vp: Most ca. 1861-1864. Pro-Union Covers in Contemporary Album. An album of nearly 100, unadressed pro-Union pictorial envelopes assembled during the war and housed in a contemporary album made for the purpose. The illustrations on the envelopes are done in the style of caricature, and bear an array of pro-Union..... Read More about An album of Civil War Patriotic Pictorial Covers with pro-Union designs and slogans

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Speech of Hon. M.R.H. Garnett of Virginia on the State of the Union Delivered in the House of...

Speech of Hon. M.R.H. Garnett of Virginia on the State of the Union Delivered in the House of Representatives, January...

Washington: M'Gill & Withrow, 1861. Concerning what Garnett considered the disastrous economic and political consequences of the emancipation of slaves: "...the destruction of southern wealth and industry will be almost complete...You may substitue the slavery of the law...but you will get not half work; and in destroying the personal and..... Read More about Speech of Hon. M.R.H. Garnett of Virginia on the State of the Union Delivered in the House of...

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Archive of partly-printed documents, most signed by Barnard, relating to Corps of Engineer...

Archive of partly-printed documents, most signed by Barnard, relating to Corps of Engineer construction at Fort Tompkins and Fort Wadsworth...

Staten Island: 1866. Includes pay rolls, appropriations, returns of revenue taxes, accounts of dispursements, etc., most signed by Barnard. Barnard graduated from West Point in 1833 at the top of his class, embarking on a 48-year career in the Corps of Engineers. After service in the Mexican War, Barnard oversaw..... Read More about Archive of partly-printed documents, most signed by Barnard, relating to Corps of Engineer...

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The Lugo Case, A Personal Experience. [With]: Capture Of The Ironclad, "Indianola." Joseph...

The Lugo Case, A Personal Experience. [With]: Capture Of The Ironclad, "Indianola."

New Orleans: Searcy & Pfaff, 1926. Brent was a lawyer and politician in California before becoming a Confederate Brigadier General. In this volume, which was published as two works together, he recounts the details of a murder case he tried in early Los Angeles in the 1850s, and the capture..... Read More about The Lugo Case, A Personal Experience. [With]: Capture Of The Ironclad, "Indianola."

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5 Autograph Letters, Signed. to various recipients. Some interesting thoughts on our Civil War....

ON CIVIL WAR

5 Autograph Letters, Signed. to various recipients. Some interesting thoughts on our Civil War.

Rochdale: 1858-1866. ON CIVIL WAR. John Bright was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, a Quaker orator who battled the Corn Laws, and a promoter of free-trade policies. He says in one letter, dated January 11, 1865: "I take a special interest in the United States because they seem to..... Read More about 5 Autograph Letters, Signed. to various recipients. Some interesting thoughts on our Civil War

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Album of 120 photographs of the aftermath of the Charleston earthquake of 1886. Charleston...

Album of 120 photographs of the aftermath of the Charleston earthquake of 1886.

Charleston, South Carolina: [c. 31 August 1886]. An album of 120 vintage albumen photographs showing the devastation to the city of Charleston, South Carolina, following the earthquake of August 31, 1886. Estimated to have reached a magnitude of between 6.6 and 7.3 on the Richter scale, the earthquake left 60..... Read More about Album of 120 photographs of the aftermath of the Charleston earthquake of 1886

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“The Famous War Engine 'General' of the Western & Atlantic R.R. Now on Permanent Exhibition in...

Superb Civil War Railroad Chromolithograph

“The Famous War Engine 'General' of the Western & Atlantic R.R. Now on Permanent Exhibition in Union Depot, Chattanooga, Tenn.”...

n.p: Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, n.d. Superb Civil War Railroad Chromolithograph. An absolutely brilliant chromolithograph, printed on heavy coated stock, its clarity of detail putting most examples of this medium to shame. Caption states: “The 'General' was captured at Big Shanty (now Kennesaw), Ga. April 12, 1862, by..... Read More about “The Famous War Engine 'General' of the Western & Atlantic R.R. Now on Permanent Exhibition...

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Jay Cooke, Financier of the Civil War. Civil War Finance, Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer

Jay Cooke, Financier of the Civil War.

Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, 1907. First Edition. A detailed biography of the colorful financier (1821-1905), whose firm marketed the huge Civil War loans of the Federal Government; whose marketing of its bonds enabled the Northern Pacific Railroad to expand to the Dakotas; and whose firm's eventual closing precipitated the Panic..... Read More about Jay Cooke, Financier of the Civil War

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Phelps and Watson's Historical Military Map of the Border and Southern States. Civil War Map

Rare and Fragile Civil War Map

Phelps and Watson's Historical Military Map of the Border and Southern States.

New York: Phelps & Watson, Publishers, 16 Beekman St, 1864. Rare and Fragile Civil War Map. Fragile and very scarce map from the Civil War, this copy being issued after May, 1864, as the final entry on the accompanying booklet listing skirmishes concludes with 'spotsylvania, Pa." The map itself locates..... Read More about Phelps and Watson's Historical Military Map of the Border and Southern States

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