Utica, Ms. 1911. 8pp., accompanied by a single-page fundraising typed letter, signed, and original transmittal envelope. Original mailing folds to pamphlet and letter, minor wear and toning. A very rare annual report from the Utica Normal & Industrial Institute of Utica, Mississippi, issued by the school's founder and principal, William.....
[N.p., probably either Mobile or Daphne, Al: 1898]. Narrow sixteenmo. Original printed wrappers on blue paper, sewn. Light wear and soiling, pencil note on front wrapper. Very good. An unrecorded and ephemeral pamphlet printing the Baldwin County Agricultural Society’s constitution (seven articles) and by-laws (eight articles), along with a list.....
Santa Rosa, CA: Graphic Concepts, 1989. Broadsheet cartoon map, 22.25 x 16.75 inches, with printed information on verso intended as a brochure but in this case unfolded. Some dampstaining along bottom portion mostly visible on verso, with old tape at each corner of verso from previous mounting, likely removed from.....
Santa Rosa, CA: Graphic Concepts, 1983. Cartoon map of California wine country, 22.25 x 17 inches, eight panel brochure on verso. Folded, minor creasing, tiny losses at cross folds. Very good condition. A rare and display-worthy map of California wine country, depicting over a hundred wineries across four different counties: Lake.....
Santa Rosa, CA: Graphic Concepts, 1985. Cartoon map of California wine country, 22.25 x 17 inches, eight panel brochure on verso. Folded, minor creasing and wear, short separations along a couple of fold lines. Good plus condition. A rare and display-worthy map of California wine country, depicting over a hundred wineries.....
Salem, Or. [ca. 1919]. [90]pp. Oblong octavo. Original illustrated tan wrappers printed in darker tan. Moderate edge wear and minor toning to wrappers. Occasional minor foxing or thumb-soiling to text. Overall very good condition. A very rare promotional pamphlet illustrating the opportunities awaiting Native American youth at the Salem Indian.....
Oklahoma: 1911. Three documents (two printed broadsides and one typed letter): 12 x 6; 11 x 8.5; and 12 x 8.5 inches. Folded, with slight scuffing to some edges; one with notes in pencil. Otherwise excellent. Three documents concerning the United States government's auction of appropriated Indigenous land in Oklahoma.....
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New York: [ca. 1940s]. Eight-panel brochure, folds out to overall size of 9 x 15 inches. Minor wear and toning. A sobering and informative informational brochure on the plight of sharecroppers and their families, issued by the National Sharecroppers Fund, Inc. (NSF) founded in the mid-1930s to provide financial assistance.....
Boston: 1937. 18pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Mild wear to wrappers. A rare pamphlet focused on the plight of sharecropping containing a "discussion of the methods suggested for the alleviation of the situation." The author, Dr. Robert C. Dexter of the American Unitarian Association, states the purpose of the work.....
Westmoreland County, PA: January 23, 1872. [2]pp. on a single folio sheet of lined paper. Old folds, minor wear and dust soiling. Very good. An unusual sharecropping agreement from Pennsylvania during the Reconstruction period, in which a farmer named Ross Wilson leases the entire farm of Col. J.B. Oliver on.....
Anderson County, S.C. February 10, 1898. Three manuscript documents, totaling [6]pp., on matching folio lined paper, with manuscript docketing. Old folds, minor fold separations to one document, overall minor wear. A trio of separate sharecropping agreements between South Carolina landowner M.J. Fleming and tenant farmers named Emery Wilson, C.C. Brown.....
Canyon City, Tx. [ca. 1907]. [32]pp. Profusely illustrated with monotone photographs. Slim quarto. Original wrappers, stapled. Minor edge wear, some darkening to edges and rear wrapper, light dust-soiling, tiny chip to lower corner of front wrapper. A rare land promotional touting the advantages of Canyon City, Texas (known now simply.....
Pleasant Hill, Tx. April 13, 1851. [2]pp., on a folio sheet. Old folds, minor wear. An informative manuscript letter from early statehood Texas, with interesting content related to personal health and a brief mention of slaves. The author, John R. Boone writes to physicians Dabbs & Rone, letting them know.....
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[Crockett, Houston County, Texas: 1874-1892]. [47]; [80]pp. of manuscript entries. Folio. Contemporary ledgers bound in marbled paper-covered boards with calf backstrips. Significant edge wear, chipping, rubbing, and scuffing to spines and boards. Numerous leaves in earlier ledger excised, some leaves partially torn away, extensive scribblings to endpapers, with a few.....
[Houston: 1913]. [3],44pp., mimeographed text, including some folding charts, printed on rectos only. Folio. Original limp maroon leather folder, string tied with leather tie. A couple of manuscript additions. A rare surviving business report for the Old River Rice Irrigation Company in Texas in the early-20th century. The audit covers.....
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St. Louis: John S. Swift Co., [1925]. 64pp. Original pictorial wrappers, string-tied. Some creasing and wear at wrapper edges. Light toning. First edition of this attractive promotional for the virtues of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, published by the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1925. Chief among the attractions are the.....
Pampa, Tx. T.D. Hobart, [ca. 1905]. 38pp. Narrow 12mo. Original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Clean and fresh. Handsome promotional work selling lands surrounding the small Texas Panhandle town of White Deer in Carson, Gray, Hutchinson, and Roberts Counties. In addition to a thorough description of the area and the lands.....
Houston: Southern Pacific Sunset Route, [ca. 1900]. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Minor toning and creasing. A simple but still interesting promotional leaflet touting the advantages of rice farming in Texas. The text was taken from the Southern Pacific Rice Book, and lists twenty-six points of advice about the.....
[N.p., likely Hansford, Tx.]: 1909. Printed broadside, 22 x 7.5 inches. Moderate even toning, a few short closed edge tears, old folds. A very rare broadside listing the "cash premiums" for various livestock, crop yields, prepared foods, and other products and services at an agricultural fair in Hansford, Texas in.....