Scarce Colton chart showing the flags of the World, featuring multiple British and American Flags.
Set of 9 lithographs drawn by John Hull and printed in Boston, setting Bret Harte's poem The Heathen Chinee, published in Boston in 1870. Originally published as Plain Language from Truthful James, the work is a narrative poem by American writer Bret...
Fine chromolithographic image combining five color printed vignettes related to American patriotism, union, and temperance. The top vignette shows two angels kneeling before a bald eagle holding a banner and two doves overhead. The second scene shows...
Graphic broadside showing anti-Chinese activist Denis Kearney behind bars, while being tormented by a group of Chinese men, following his arrest for inciting a riot. "The Chinese Must Go!" was the slogan of the Working Man's Party of California during...
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Mystery Manuscript Celestial Calculations Three manuscript celestial maps, each on a large sheet of paper, drawn by an anonymous hand. Each map is drawn on a hemispheric model and includes pencil annotations locating constellations, each of which is...
Rare advertising chromolithographic print of the White House, promoting the F.S. Chiampa & Sons of Rodi, Italy, one of a series of promotional prints published to promote the company's shipping services to America. The image provides a fine image...
Rare Mexican Version of the Game of Goose Mexican edition of the Game of Goose, published in Mexico City by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo. The gameboard shows 63 numbered spaces, or "casillas," each illustrated with people, birds, animals, and objects,...
High Society Party Supporting The Local Library -- Oroville, California Large broadside promoting a fund raiser for the benefit of the Oroville Free Reading Room, sponsored by the Young Ladies of the Bono Omnium Club. An example of an early...
Color printed invoice for Wm. H. Hoskins Co of Philadelphia. The Hoskins firm would remain in business as Stationers well into the 20th Century. At this point, the firm was advertising services as Engravers, Lithographers and Plate Printers, but also...
Satirical cartoon map, drawn by Tom Merry (William Mecham). The cartoon satirizes Liberal MP William Ewart Gladstone. Gladstone (1809-1898), served as Liberal Prime Minister four times and as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Gladstone opposed the High...
"One Of The Earliest and Most Complex Attempts" to Graph An American Presidential Election Detailed set of Political Maps, prepared to illustrate an article by T. Campbell-Copeland regarding the Presidential Election of 1888. The article title is...
Scarce Swedish chart showing the flags of the World, published in Stockholm Toward the top, the maker illustrates a number of Swedish nautical flags, with the rest of the world's flags appearing below. Another section highlights signal flags of...
Decorative certificate, apparently an award to Mr. Van Grunderbeck, for his work in decorating and illuminating a facade for the celebration in July 1890. Based upon my limited research, there was apparently an organized effort to revive this quarter...
Decorative promotional image, promoting Fogarty & Neill of Louisville, Kentucky. Other products include: Leather and Findings Harness and Saddle Leather Horse Collars Tanners and Curriers Supplies Rubber Belting, Hose Packing and Mill...
Fine theatrical promotional broadside promoting James H. Wallick's play The Cattle King. The present images shows one of the primary characters, Bob Taylor . James H. Wallick was a late 19th century actor, best known his 1882 Bandit King, an...
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Capturing the Economic Vibrance of 19th-century San Francisco's Chinatown. Large, separately-issued Chinese-language business directory and lunar calendar, published by Horn Hong & Co. in San Francisco in 1892. The sheet is divided into three...
