[St. Louis: ca. 1922]. Broadside, 11.25 x 14.25 inches. Tanned, short closed diagonal tear on right edge, left edge a bit frayed, tiny hip to top right corner, otherwise minor edge wear. Fragile, but in good condition. An unrecorded promotional broadside recruiting membership in the short-lived Paramount Progressive Order of.....
[St. Louis, Mo. 1948]. [40]pp. Original yellow wrappers printed in red and black. Some uneven sunning, a few ink notations, moderate dust-soiling and edge wear to wrappers, soft central vertical crease throughout. Minor dust-soiling to most of text, a few ink notations. The official souvenir program for the 1948 national.....
[Kansas City, Mo. 1947]. [8]pp. Quarto. Original illustrated wrappers, stapled. Wrappers and text printed in blue. Minor wear and dust-soiling, some creasing, short closed tear to front wrapper. A seemingly-unrecorded program for a performance of the Beau Brummell Minstrels in Kansas City on May 5, 1947. The program includes the.....
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St. Louis: The School Press, 1957. 180pp. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Original orange printed self wrappers, staple. Minor rubbing, soiling, and some edge wear to wrappers. Internally clean. A seemingly unrecorded photographic annual for a prominent African-American dance school in Jim Crow Missouri. The Les Pierrettes Dance School was a......
[St. Louis: 1934]. [34] leaves, illustrated with fifty-one mounted photographs (most inscribed), with 4 loose photographs laid in, plus numerous pages containing manuscript messages by fellow students, various ephemeral items pasted in throughout, and with some ephemera laid in. Original pre-printed Girl Graduate's Journal published by Reilly & Lee of.....
Columbia, Mo. [ca. 1935]. [10] leaves, illustrated with thirty-one mounted photographs. Contemporary black cloth photograph album, string tied. Minor wear to edges. Some photographs missing. A nice album. A nicely-captioned vernacular photograph album assembled by Cassie Johnson of Columbia, Missouri. Johnson and a few friends have signed the front cover.....
[Near New Madrid], Missouri: March 16, 1862. [4]pp., on patriotic stationery headed "The War for the Union" with a vignette of McClellan on horseback above his quote, "Stand by me, and I'll stand by you." Old folds, a few small tape repairs to folds, minor dust soiling. Overall about very.....
Kansas City: Anderson Photo Company, [ca. 1920s]. [22] leaves, illustrated with forty-four linen-backed black-and-white silver gelatin photographs, each about 7.5 x 9.75 inches, most with Anderson Photo Company credit in the negative, all in mounting corners. Oblong folio. Contemporary black cloth photograph album with blind-embossed floral designs in the corners.....
Greenville, MO: [ca. 1870s]. Small broadside, 8 x 4.25 inches. Light foxing and toning, old horizontal folds. Very good. An unrecorded promotional circular for a weekly newspaper in southeast Missouri called The Greenville Reporter. According to Rowell's American Newspaper Directory, the paper was established by Frank C. Neely & Company.....
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[N.p., but likely Brunswick, Mo: n.d., likely 1892]. 13pp. Original printed wrappers, sewn. Minor rubbing to title, minor edge wear. Small ownership label on inside front wrapper. Very good. Louis Benecke's defense against accusations involving the murder of a Missouri Bushwhacker during the Civil War. On August 8, 1864, William.....
[Missouri: April 1, 1860]. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Original mailing folds, minor toning. An informative letter written by Charles H. Cram in Missouri to a friend in New England, dated "April Fools Day 1860" in red pencil at the top of the first page. Cram mentions hoop skirts.....
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St. Genevieve County, MO: January 18, 1844. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Original folds, minor wear. Very good condition. A sobering manuscript inventory from the estate of Richard Maddin following his death in Missouri in 1843 detailing his "slaves and other personal" property. The inventory begins by listing the.....
Howard County, Mo. 1822. Three documents totaling [3]pp. folio, the two earliest documents written on each side of the same leaf, with an integral blank, and attached to the third document with sealing wax, each document docketed on verso. Some short separations along folds, minor spotting, two short tape repairs.....
[Las Rusias, Tx.]: September 16, 1874. Partially-printed document, completed in manuscript, 11 x 8.5 inches, printed docketing on verso, also completed in manuscript. Old folds, minor wear, a couple of tiny nicks to the edges. An interesting pay voucher issued to Private John Robinson upon his discharge from Company H......