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Archive of 1960s-1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women's Film, Performance, and Health

[Second-wave Feminism - LGBTQ+ History - New York City - Film] Various Authors

$12,500

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Large Archive of Letters Sent to WBAI and the FCC Following the Controversy over Several Broadcasts Concerning Tensions between the Black and Jewish Communities, Including the Infamous Student Poem Read on Julius Lester's Show

[New York City - Black History - Racial and Ethnic Prejudice - Radio] [Julius Lester] Various Authors

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Archive of 1960s-1980s Second-wave Feminist Material Mainly from New York City Activist Groups Belonging to an Employee of Mother Courage, the First Feminist Restaurant, with Material on Women's Film, Performance, and Health

Large Archive of Letters Sent to WBAI and the FCC Following the Controversy over Several Broadcasts Concerning Tensions between the Black and Jewish Communities, Including the Infamous Student Poem Read on Julius Lester's Show

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1857 Letter from Edward Wilmot Blyden Concerning An Apology for the African Race, Alexander Crummell, and a Proposed History of Liberia: " if I cannot do much for my race, I will write, and write and write...

The Island Is in Great Distress": An American Merchant at Cap-Français Reports the Opening Months of the Haitian Revolution

Carte-de-Visite Portrait of Amanda Berry Smith

Carte-de-Visite Portrait of a Seated African American Child, c. 1860s

Collection of American Sheet Music Relating to Women's Rights and Woman Suffrage, 1838-1925

Letter from One of the Earliest Female Missionaries at Elliott Mission in the Choctaw Nation, Written Shortly After Her Arrival in "this land of moral darkness," Describing Frontier Mission Life, Homesickness, and Early Protestant Missionary Activity in Mississippi Territory

1779 Letter of Boston Poet and Loyalist Exile Joseph Green Written from London During the Revolution: "The Door Was Then Shut, Now It Is Bolted.

Can We Not Consider Ourselves Blessed in Enduring This Baptism of Blood?": A Thanksgiving 1862 Civil War Sermon on Emancipation, Providence, and National Redemption

1851 Letter Sent from Panama City, "the wickedest place that I ever saw", En Route to San Francisco, with a Graphic Description of the Execution of Two Men for Murder: "they was each one tied to the stake while forteen native soldiers shot [them]

The Official Central Avenue District Directory: A Business and Professional Guide

The Lament of a Friend O'er the Grave of the Hero of his Country, Commodore Stephen Decatur," A Lengthy Testament to Early Republic-Era Intimacy Between Men, Written by an Unknown Friend

Manuscript Order to Relieve Surgeon William Bishop of Duty at the Rost Home Colony, Issued as Special Orders No. 18

1852 Letter from a Soldier of the 7th US Infantry, Impelled by Poverty to Enlist, Describing His Westward Journey of "700 miles on the Wild Prairie among the Indians" to His Wife and Requesting Her to "get me out of the army

Press Photo of Woman Suffrage Activist Cora Anderson Carpenter Leading a New York City Suffrage Parade in 1915

Inventory of the Personal Effects of Jorden Turner, a Black Union Private in the 63rd United States Infantry, Who Died at Freedmen's Hospital in Memphis in March 1865

Collection of Postcards from Resorts Around the US Advertising Gentiles-Only Vacation Accommodations

St. Louis Greys Quick Step". [Sheet Music]

Quadrille, De Contredanses suivi d'une Valse pour le Piano Forte. Composé & Arrangé sur des motifs de l'Opéra de Bellini La Sonnambula

Diary of a Wisconsin Soldier of the 738th Military Police Battalion, Killed in Action in the Battle of Leyte, Describing "prisoner chasing", Catching "Sly-grog" Sellers in Australia, and the Psychological Effects of Drudgery "in this land of forgotten men.

I am of [the] opinion, that there will be a secession of the Slave States from the Free States": A Savannah Cotton Merchant Predicts Disunion Amid the Furor over the "Boston N-r Stealers

1861 Letter from Mary Frances Green Lewis in Albuquerque to Her Mother, Describing Her Husband Martin Van Buren Lewis's Impatience to Go to War: "He is crazy to get back to the states where there is something to do.

Two Letters Written by R.G. Horton on the Letterhead of the Pro-Slavery New York Day-Book Written Immediately Before and After Lincoln's Assassination to Former Connecticut Governor Thomas H. Seymour: "I should have been glad to see you and learn your views on the sad condition of our country.

1862 Massachusetts Home Front Letter to a Union Soldier Opposing Governor Andrew, Charles Sumner, and the War's Association with Emancipation: "It Is Enough for the Poor Soldiers to Fight for the Country's Freedom Without Fighting for the Damned N-s.

Manuscript Provision Return for "one released Indian captive who lives with me," Signed by Army Paymaster Caleb Swan, March 1796

Recommended for Their Skill & Knowledge as Backwoodsmen & Acquaintance with Mexican Military Habits": Stephen W. Kearny Requests the Permanent Attachment of Two Former Texas Rangers as Guides During the Mexican War

Press Photo of an Injured Black Man Being Carried by Supporters in Mississippi During the 1966 March Against Fear

Abstracts of Lectures by Professors Bowens, Clark, and Phelps - 1848 & 1849", Transcribed by an Unknown Student at the New York State Normal School

State of Alabama vs Bobb a slave [supplied title]; Alabama Jail Accounting Recording 244 Days of Confinement of an Enslaved Man, with Clothing Charges and Administrative Expenses, Cahaba, Alabama

Good Bye Lou. A Gem From the Black Patti Troubadours

Almost Every Day the Slaves Are Flying to Our Lines for Protection": Partial Civil War Letter Describing Escaping Enslaved People Seeking Refuge with Union Forces and the Growing Anti-Slavery Sentiment of the Rank and File

Pair of New York Letters Including a Strong 1848 Free Soil Political Discussion Predicting Northern Political Realignment Over Slavery, Together with a Vivid 1847 Schoolmaster Letter Describing Rural Teaching and Classroom Discipline

Press Photo Showing the Administration of a Mental Examination for Immigrants at Ellis Island

Photograph of a Brass Era Car Accident on Cathedral Parkway

Photo Album Documenting Operation Deep Freeze I, the US Mission to Antarctica in Preparation for the 1957-1958 International Geophysical Year

Official Express-Carried Letter Wrapper Addressed to Georgia Governor George Mathews by the Commander of the Georgia Frontier Cavalry "Hundred Horse," Docketed in the Governor's Office as an "Indian War" Communication

1776 Copy of a 1773 Verdict Against Lydia Curtis, an Attleboro Woman Found Guilty of "Fornication with a person [...] unknown" and Having "a Bastard Child born of her body

Collection of Seven 1794-1795 Legal Documents Relating to Affluent New York City Merchant Cary Ludlow's Purchases of Lots Along State Street, with Five Later Family Legal Documents

Letter by an Illinois Democrat Denouncing the Emancipation Proclamation, Wendell Phillips, and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus: "I said fight all of you Negro loving ones, I am not of that class

Photo Album Documenting the Construction of the Alaska-Canadian Highway around Whitehorse, Yukon, Including Many Showing Its Impact on the Local Environment

View of San Francisco in 1860". [Illustrated Lettersheet with Autograph Letter]

Three Poll Books from the 1842 Illinois Election from Jacksonville, a Whig Stronghold, Showing a Decisive Loss for Thomas Ford

Studio Portrait of Clara Barton, c. Early 1900s, With Several Red Cross Accoutrements

Archive of Children's Art from Two Young Students in the Bronx, c. 1937-1945

Collection of Letters Following an English Immigrant Family from Massachusetts to Iowa, Discussing Economic Conditions, the Civil War, and Hardship on the Frontier where "a fellow cant get eny work

A Collection of Property Tax Rolls from Coles County, Illinois, Documenting the Transition of Federally Owned Land into the Taxable Economy, 1837-1854, with Several Signed by Illinois Politicians in Abraham Lincoln's Circle