Boston. 1814. viii,31pp. Dbd. Some light foxing and tanning. Overall very good. This pamphlet relates to a controversy that ensued over the schoolbook abridgment of Adams' A SUMMARY HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND (1799), which Jedediah Morse had anticipated by producing his own school history. Adams, whose eyesight was failing, felt.....
Boston. 1814. viii,31; 4; 42pp. Gathered signatures, stitched. Lacks wrappers. Leaves a bit tanned. Pinhole to lower margin barely affecting a few letters. Else very good. An interesting set of tracts relating to a controversy that ensued over the schoolbook abridgment of Adams's A SUMMARY HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND (1799).....
Dedham, Ma. Printed for the Author, by H. Mann and J.H. Adams, 1799. 513,[3]pp. Antique-style calf, spine tooled in gilt, gilt leather labels. Titlepage, subscriber's leaf, and two contents leaves worn at the foredge, with small tears. Even tanning. Good plus. Hannah Adams is considered probably the first professional female.....
![AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM JOHN ADAMS TO MERCY OTIS WARREN]. John Adams](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM42352.jpg?v=1593711632)
Quincy [Ma.]. Nov. 24, 1813. [2]pp. Quarto. Old fold lines. A few small spots of foxing, faint stain from wax seal. Very good. In a folio-sized half morocco and cloth clamshell box, leather labels. A warm letter from former President John Adams to his dear friend and writer, Mercy Otis.....
[Portsmouth, Va. 1945]. [4]pp., plus text on inner front wrapper and both sides of rear wrapper. Quarto. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Minor edge wear, text a bit tanned. Very good. An apparently unrecorded program of activities planned to celebrate the thirty- fifth anniversary of the founding of the Miller Day.....
![THE NEW HOME CAMPAIGN FOR THE MILLER DAY NURSERY AND HOME... [caption title]. African Americana,...](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM56329.jpg?v=1614095655)
[Portsmouth, Va. 1936]. [4]pp. on a folded quarto sheet. Illustrated. Small closed tear to in lower edge of first leaf. Some sunning to first page. Very good. An apparently unrecorded fundraising brochure for expanding the Miller Day Nursery and Home, the first day care center for children of color in.....
![COLORED BRANCH YWCA [wrapper title]. African Americana, Pennsylvania](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM55451.jpg?v=1593712044)
[N.p., but likely Philadelphia. ca. 1926]. [8]pp. Oblong 12mo. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor wear and soiling. Very good plus. A rare ephemeral calendar of events for a local "Colored Branch" of the Y.W.C.A. in or near Philadelphia for the year 1926. Events include a "Mothers' Club Supper" where Rev. Matthews.....
[Various locations in the Philippines. ca. 1945]. 138 vernacular photographs, most about 5 x 4 inches, twelve small strips containing thirty- six vernacular thumbnail photographs, forty- one professional photographs, and twenty postcards, all in mounting corners. Program for the May 1949 commencement of Hampton Institute laid into a rear pocket.....
New York. 1808. 56pp. Dbd. Faint institutional ink stamp and embossed blindstamp to titlepage, minor toning, light foxing. Overall, very good. A curious and rare account of the trial of Alexander Whistelo, a black man accused of leaving Lucy Williams, a mulatto, with child. A controversy ensued as sundry doctors.....
![CITY OF NEW YORK HARLEM HOSPITAL H.H.S.N. 1959 [cover title]. African-American Nursing](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM55457.jpg?v=1593712045)
[New York. 1959]. 64pp. Quarto. Red textured cloth over padded boards, front cover decoratively stamped in gilt. Minor edge wear. Occasional ink notations by original owner, otherwise clean internally. Very good. Yearbook commemorating the graduation year for the Harlem Hospital School of Nursing's Class of 1959. This copy was owned.....
![PROFECTUS 1956 [cover title]. African-American Nursing](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM55456.jpg?v=1593712045)
[New York. 1956]. 80pp. Quarto. Contemporary black cloth over padded boards, front cover decoratively-tooled and titled in gilt. Minor edge wear and rubbing. Contemporary ink ownership signature of "Joan Ryan '59'" on verso of front free endpaper (likely a future graduate of the same nursing program). Internally clean. Very good.....
![LARGE CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPH OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN AND FOUR WHITE CHILDREN]....](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM52746.jpg?v=1593711852)
Washington, D.C. ca. 1891. Albumen card-mounted photograph, image approximately 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches. Light wear to card. Faint line of older adhesive substance in center of photograph. Minor wear and fading. About very good. A large photograph of a well-dressed African-American woman posing with four white children. The.....
[Various places in Vietnam. ca. 1968-1972]. 145 photographs (all but thirteen in color), most approximately 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. Majority of photographs mounted on black paper stock with non-archival adhesive tape, some photos retain remnants of tape at corners. Some images a bit faded, but generally in very.....
Talladega, Al. French, [ca. 1905]. Silver gelatin photograph, 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches, on 10 x 12-inch mount. Moderate chipping to mount, small chip at upper right corner re-attached with tape on verso, tiny tear to photograph at upper right corner. Overall very good condition. A scarce image of.....
Montgomery, Al. Richards Film Service, Inc., 1918. Panoramic photograph, 16 x 48 1/4 inches. Black and white unmounted photograph, captioned in the negative. Minor fading, tears at middle of right and left edges due to tight rolling of photo (image not affected), a few chips and minor creasing at bottom.....
[Alaska, California, and Washington, D.C. 1913-1915]. 157 mounted silver gelatin photographs, including only a handful of professional photographs or real photo postcards, most about 3 x 5 inches, many captioned in white ink. Oblong quarto. Contemporary brown leather photograph album. Edges of front cover and spine ends chipped, moderate rubbing.....
[Various locations in Alaska, Yukon Territory, and British Columbia, including Fairbanks, Dawson City, and Victoria. Before 1905]. 138 mounted silver gelatin or sepia photographs, about 2 x 2 inches to 4 x 4 inches, with a handful captioned in pencil, and ten clippings of published photographs. Oblong octavo. Contemporary black.....
Boston & Cleveland: Damrell, Moore, G. Coolidge and John P. Jewett, [ 1856]. 128pp. including four full-page woodengraved illustrations with green-tinted backgrounds plus twenty pages of advertisements, primarily illustrated, before and after the text. 16mo. Original red publisher's cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, a.e.g. Spine worn at top and.....
![AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM BENEDICT ARNOLD TO MRS. HENRY KNOX]. Benedict Arnold](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM42359.jpg?v=1593711632)
Watertown. March 4, 1777. [1]p. plus integral address leaf. Folio. Small loss in margin from wax seal, repaired. Minor soiling. Silked. Very good. In a blue half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt. An anxious letter written by a smitten Benedict Arnold to Boston society matron Lucy Flucker Knox.....
Cedar Rapids, Ia. 1941. 58pp. Portrait. Original paper boards, printed paper label to front board. Near fine, in original (chipped) glassine wrapper. Extracts from the Kansas journal of Miriam Davis Colt. Privately printed for the friends of the Torch Press.
Dedham, Ma. H. & W.H. Mann, [ 1829]. 36pp. Early 20th-century buckram, gilt leather labels. Front hinge detached, cloth somewhat dust soiled, labels slightly chipped. Institutional blind and ink stamps, ownership inscription; blind stamps on subsequent two leaves. Light tanning, an occasional fox marks, final leaves with small patches of.....
Chayanta, Bolivia. 1834. 9pp. Quarto. Stitched sheets. Light creases and scattered soiling. Very good. Funeral sermon for Señora Magdalena Sotomayor, whom the text refers to as an illustrious woman of the town. The first page of the oration features an elaborate manuscript frame around the text.
Boston. 1794. [388],244,[4]pp. 12mo. Contemporary red morocco, gilt. Hinges worn, some wear to boards and spine. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on titlepage and several internal leaves. Some light soiling and wear, heavier to front few leaves. Good plus. The Book of Common Prayer for the Episcopal Church, printed by Manning &.....
Boston: James Walden, 1821. 108pp. with folding woodcut frontispiece and full-page woodcut illustration. 12mo. Contemporary half leather and marbled boards. Extremities worn, some loss to paper on front board. Contemporary ownership inscription on front fly leaf and titlepage, light staining on endpapers. Very good. An unusual American edition, with the.....
Sedalia, N.C. Published by the Author, 1940. xii,109,[2]pp. Original black cloth backstrip and red textured paper wrappers decoratively stamped in silver. Minor wear. Clean internally. Very good overall. An attractive copy of the first edition of this scarce etiquette book written by African- American author and educator, Charlotte Hawkins Brown.....
