American History Auction / June 24, 2009

 
Items 81 - 100 of 742
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    Lot #85
    ca 1835, 30pp. Small (12mo) hand-sewn journal, no covers, written variously in pencil and ink.

    Although the author and date of this travel journal are unidentified, a few basic facts seem cle ...
    Price Realized: $881.25 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #86
    Hildreth, Samuel P. History of an early Voyage on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, c.1842. 42pp plus 14 leaves of additional drafts and notes.

    In the mid-19th century, the physician, h ...
    Price Realized: $1,175.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #87
    1805-1860. 32 items (11 ALsS, 11 DS, 2 poems, a manuscript and printed Hildreth genealogy, and 6 miscellaneous items).

    A prominent figure in Ohio during the early Republic, Samuel P. Hildreth ...
    Price Realized: $705.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #89
    China Trade Logbook, June 24, 1809-June 8, 1810.

    In 1807, Thomas Jefferson passed an embargo on all foreign trade in the hope that it would reduce the likelihood of American involvement in th ...
    Price Realized: $0.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #90
    plus an October 1914 TLS and a signed copy of the Roycroft Dictionary. Each letter, 1p, typed on 8.5" x 11" paper, East Aurora, which is in Erie County, New York. Both addressed to Mr. C ...
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    Lot #91
    lot of 10 items, nine documents and a St. Anthony Falls Water Power Co. $1000 Mortgage Bond; 13" x 16" (sight), framed to 20.5 x 23.5"; coupons for 1860-1864, all cancelled. The documents are all date ...
    Price Realized: $881.25 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #92
    nearly 200 pages of manuscript notes from Dr. Langsdale's time at the Missouri Medical College, 1877-78. The notebook contains material from lectures, and is divided into sections, for example: Pro ...
    Price Realized: $235.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #93
    pay directives from Edward Hand as Commander of Fort Pitt to Paymaster Boynton, dated April 16, 1778, one on each side of a 3.5" x 6.25" piece of rag laid paper. One side dated 16 Apr. 1778, to Daniel ...
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    Lot #94
    first is a military document, approx. 3" x 6.5", to the treasurer of Connecticut, Wethersfield, (CT), 22 Nov. 1781. Please to give from your office the dispensation(?) notes of John Swaddle a soldi ...
    Price Realized: $293.75 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #95
    4pp, 7.25 x 10.5" "onionskin" sheets, signed Douglas MacArthur on last page and stamped in red Sep. 2 1945. MacArthur's address was delivered aboard the USS Missouri before the Ja ...
    Price Realized: $3,525.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #96
    16 July 1804. Partially printed document signed by Thomas Jefferson as President (1801-1809), James Madison as Secretary of State (President 1809-1817), and David Gelston as Collector of Customs in th ...
    Price Realized: $2,350.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #98
    written for a man who was illiterate. Rag laid paper slip 2.5 x 7.25", all in Henry's hand except the mark of the payee. Rec'd. Jan'y. 10th 1795 from P. Henry, one pound Sixteen Shillings for Taylo ...
    Price Realized: $0.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #99
    7" x 8" visible, matted and framed with an engraving of Adams. Date and place not noted. Addressed to Monsieur Genet. The note quotes an unnamed source:

    “The French Fleet, has taken m ...
    Price Realized: $5,581.25 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #100
    1p, 8" x 9.75", Portsmouth (NH), 25 Dec. 1801. Addressed to William Eustis, then member of Congress from Massachusetts (later Governor of that state), recommending Aaron Hill as Postmaster of Boston, ...
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    Lot #101
    1p, 7.5 x 7.75", New York, 19 March 1804. To William Eustis, in Washington (DC), informing him that he is enclosing letters for Mr. Gore (Christopher) to him and asking him to forward them to Gore.
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    Lot #102
    a partially printed document on vellum appointing James F. Millar First Lieutenant in the Fourteenth Regiment of Infantry, dated May 14, 1861, with strong Abraham Lincoln autograph lower right ...
    Price Realized: $4,500.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #103
    3pp, 5 x 8", Galena, IL, 22 Oct. 1868. To J[oseph] Russell Jones (1823-1909), Galena businessman (railroads), member of the Illinois Republican Committee and delegate to the Republican National Conven ...
    Price Realized: $0.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #104
    autographed on recto with a penciled note on verso, President Jas. A. Garfield, March 4, 1881, inauguration day. On July 2, he was shot by Charles Guiteau, and died two and a half months later ...
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    Lot #105
    8" x 10", B-&-W; in lower right margin: For Father Francis Benham - with best wishes, John Kennedy.
    Price Realized: $587.50 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #106
    1921-1924 (with a few later items); 33 items and scrapbook, nearly all addressed to Gertrude Gleaves Gompers, Samuel's wife and biographer.

    As a young activist in the Cigarmakers International ...
    Price Realized: $1,116.25 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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