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MARY ELLEN LAWRENCE: 1922 ORIGINAL CHARMING LETTER OF LIFE IN SMALL TOWN NEW MEXICO IN THE 1920s, REMARKING ON NATIVE AMERICANS TRADITIONS AND SPANISH COLONIALISM THOMAS TAYLOR: 1816 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTER FROM PRIVATEER THOMAS TAYLOR, SEEKING ANY INFORMATION TO BRING ABOUT THE CAPTURE OF THE MAN WHO STOLE HIS SHIP AND ROBBED HIM OF HIS TREASURE ELENA DE HILLEBRANTH: 1960s SUPER ARCHIVE OF 20 LETTERS BETWEEN FELLOW ARTISTS ELENA DE HELLEBRANTH AND HER FRIEND IRENE RICE PEREIRA, RENOWNED ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST, POET, AND PHILOSOPHER, AS THEY DISCUSS ART, LIFE AND RELIGION
STEER BROTHERS AND GENERAL MERCHANTS: 1910 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM NEWFOUNDLAND IMPORTERS THE STEER BROTHERS TO A SUPPLIER, DETAILING A BUSINESS TRANSACTION SOON TO TAKE PLACE BETWEEN THEM GEORGE H. CLARK, CIVIL ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR: 1889 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM A RECENT TRANSPLANT TO SELMA, ALABAMA, A CIVIL ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR WHO DETAILS HIS NEW LIFE IN THE DEEP SOUTH AND THE KINDNESS OF HIS NEW NEIGHBORS ISAAC G. BARNET to GARRET D. WALL: 1805 LETTER FROM A RECENTLY RELOCATED LAWYER DETAILING HIS MOVE TO OHIO AND HIS THOUGHTS ON THE SORRY STATE OF LAW IN THE NEW STATE, ALL TO GARRET WALL, WHO WOULD EVENTUALLY BECOME A NEW JERSEY STATE ATTORNEY AND UNITED STATES SENATOR
L. S. MIDDLETON: 1859 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN LETTER PRESENTING A SNAPSHOT OF LIFE IN A TOWN THAT NOW LONGER REMAINS, DESCRIBING STORIES AND OBSERVATIONS FROM ONE SISTER STILL LIVING IN TOWN, TO HER SISTER WHO HAS LEFT LIKE SO MANY OTHERS UNKNOWN: 1860 FASCINATING, SIGNIFICANT ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT DETAILING THE TENSE AND FRAUGHT MOOD ONLY TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE 1860 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION THAT WOULD BE THE CATALYST FOR THE BLOODIEST WAR IN AMERICAN HISTORY MOSES and ELIZABETH STARR: 1797 TWO [2] ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN LETTERS FROM LOVING PARENTS WHO HAVE JUST RELOCATED TO WEST VIRGINIA, TO THEIR DAUGHTER FROM WHOM THEY HAVE NOT HEARD FROM IN NUMEROUS YEARS
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE SCHOOL TEACHER: 1940 - 1941 ORIGINAL JOURNAL AND LOGBOOK HANDWRITTEN BY A PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER DETAILING HER EFFORTS TO KEEP THE CHILDREN SAFE AND IN SCHOOL DURING THE GERMAN AIR RAIDS THAT TERRORIZED ENGLAND CYRUS E. JOY, Midshipman: 1837 - 1840 EXTRAORDINARY ORIGINAL PRIVATE JOURNAL HANDWRITTEN BY A MIDSHIPMAN AS THE SHIP TRAVELS TO RUSSIA TO MEET THE EMPEROR THEN MOVES ON TO SOUTH AMERICA, TASKED WITH PROTECTING AMERICAN COMMERCE AT ALL COSTS AS FLAGSHIP OF THE BRAZIL STATION JULIUS MAYR: 1867 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN GERMAN RECIPE BOOK OF 100+ RECIPES FOR SWEET CAKES, DESSERTS, AND DRINKS THAT REPRESENT AN EXCELLENT VIEW OF TASTES IN AUSTRIA DURING THE REIGN OF EMPEROR FRANZ JOSEPH I
DAVID MOORE [to Mr. Firth]: 1843 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN BY A COTTON PLANTATION OWNER TO HIS FRIEND AND ACCOUNTANT DETAILING HIS PERSONAL AND FINANCIAL PROBLEMS, DESPITE A BOUNTIFUL COTTON CROP THAT YEAR ALEXANDER C. CHRISHOLY [to Allan McLean]: 1886 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT HANDWRITTEN LETTER OF A MEMBER OF THE GLENDALE RIVER INHABITANTS MISSION, AND CATHOLIC COMMUNITY ISOLATED IN THE DEEP WOODS OF CAPE BRETON ISLAND, NOVA SCOTIA WASHINGTON TEASDALE: 1860 - 1865 THREE [3] ORIGINAL LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY NOTED ENGLISH ENGINEER, SCIENTIST, AND PIONEERING PHOTOGRAPHER AS HE TRAVELS AROUND INDIA WORKING FOR THE MONUMENTAL PROJECT CONNECTING BOMBAY TO OTHER EAST INDIAN CITIES
AXEL FREDERIC CRONSTEDT [translated by GUSTAV VON ENGESTROM]: 1788 An Essay Towards A System of Mineralogy, Translated From The Original Swedish, 2nd Edition, Printed for Charles Dilly WITH HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT NOTES SIDNEY BERNSTEIN [of the 602 AAA GUN BATTALION]: 1945 UNIQUE AND ORIGINAL TYPED SOLDIER’S NEWSLETTER “COME-BACK DIARY”, DETAILING THE FINAL MONTHS OF THE WAR, COMPOSED BY SID BERNSTEIN, THE FAMOUS MUSIC PROMOTER WHO WOULD INTRODUCE THE BEATLES TO AMERICA UNIDENTIFIED: 1928 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH OF A CHINESE FAMILY LIVING IN MANCHURIA, SHORTLY BEFORE JAPAN INVADED AND DECLARED IT A PUPPET STATE
EDWIN GILBERT: EARLY 20TH CENTURY RELIC OF A TOWN AND FAMILY BEING A SCRAPBOOK OF NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, LETTERS, AND DRAWINGS PERTAINING TO THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE GILBERT FAMILY IN CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA K.N. (Kirkland Newton) COWING: 1858 - 1861 EXTRAORDINARY ARCHIVE OF 30+ ORIGINAL LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG, INQUISITIVE MAN DETAILING THE FRAUGHT AND TENSE PRE CIVIL WAR ERA AND HIS EVENTUAL ENLISTMENT WITH THE UNION ARMY TO FIGHT AGAINST THE CONFEDERACY DR. HUGH R. GREEN: 1860s ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL COVERING TWO DIFFERENT TIMES IN A VIRGINIA MAN’S LIFE, FIRST AS A STUDENT OF THE CLASSICAL SCHOLAR BASIL GILDERSLEEVE, THEN AS A PHYSICIAN MAKING HOUSE CALLS TO PATIENTS IN NEED
UNIDENTIFIED CREWMAN: 1945-1946 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AND LOGBOOK OF THE FIRST VOYAGES OF THE U.S.S GENERAL H.F. HODGES, AS IT BRINGS TROOPS BACK TO AMERICA, FROM MANY DISPARATE PARTS OF THE WORLD RAVAGED BY THE WORLD WAR CHARLES O'KEEFE and R.E. CLABBY: 1911 - 1916 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT HANDWRITTEN LOGBOOK KEPT BY THREE SUCCESSIVE FOREST RANGERS AS THEY KEPT TABS ON THE CLAIMS OF THE MANY HOMESTEADERS WHO POPULATED THE WILDERNESS OF THE BOISE NATIONAL FOREST Captain J.F.A.E. VAN KEMPEN: 1895 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN JOURNAL: “METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE DUTCH STEAMER JAVA” AS IT GOES FROM AMSTERDAM TO THE DUTCH WEST INDIES AND BACK
R.G. HURLBUT (?): 1889 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK HANDWRITTEN BY A STUDENT OF RENOWNED CHEMIST CHARLES AVERY DOREMUS, A PIONEER OF VICTORIAN ERA CHEMICAL AND TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCE M. WHITE [nurse of THOMAS FREDERICK WATKINS]: 1907 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A NURSE AS SHE DOCUMENTS THE HORRIBLE SICKNESS OF A CHILD AFFLICTED WITH WHOOPING COUGH, THE TREATMENTS TO MAKE HIM WELL, AND HIS EVENTUAL RETURN TO HEALTH AND HAPPINESS UNIDENTIFIED ENGINEER: LATE 19th CENTURY ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK FILLED WITH CHARTS, TABLES, FORMULAE, AND NOTES RELATING TO THE SCIENCE AND APPLICATION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING FOR A SPECTACULAR RANGE OF AREAS AND TOPICS
MARIA A. TUTTLE: 1856 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG WOMAN MATURING, GROWING, AND FACING THE ALL-TOO-COMMON DIFFICULTIES OF YOUTH: MEAN BOYS, HURTFUL GOSSIP, AND DIFFICULT FAMILY WILL H. PAYNE: 1908 ORIGINAL PAIR [2] OF EXTENSIVE AND EXTRAORDINARY LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY AN ENGLISHMAN TRAVELLING FROM NEW JERSEY TO SAN FRANCISCO AND DISCUSSING THE TRAGIC DEVASTATION AND DESTRUCTION OF THE BAY CITY FROM THE ALL TOO RECENT EARTHQUAKE HUGH OTTO WILLIAMS: 1941 - 1942 EXCEPTIONAL RELIC OF WORLD WAR TWO FLIGHT AND PILOT TRAINING BEING AN ORIGINAL DIARY OF A YOUNG CADET AS HE MAKES HIS WAY WITH TREMENDOUS DETERMINATION TO BECOME AN INSTRUCTOR HIMSELF, ONLY NINE MONTHS AFTER HIS OWN INSTRUCTION
CYRENA COLES: 1942 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF YOUNG, LOVING, AND DEVOTED HOUSEWIFE AND MOTHER IN NEW YORK, AS THE WAR BEGINS TO AFFECT THE DAILY LIVES OF THOSE ON THE HOMEFRONT J. W. RIDGEWAY: 1945 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG SOLDIER ENDURING GRUELING BASIC TRAINING TO BECOME PART OF THE NAVAL CONSTRUCTION FORCE OF THE U.S. NAVY, THE WORLD FAMOUS 'SEABEES' MRS. CARRIE CECILIA COLE FRYE: 1864 - 1939 FASCINATING AND UNIQUE HANDWRITTEN RETROSPECTIVE JOURNAL AND DIARY DOCUMENTING ALMOST THE ENTIRETY OF ONE WOMAN’S LIFE, FROM BIRTH TO SHORTLY BEFORE HER DEATH, THROUGH TWO WORLD WARS, THE GREAT DEPRESSION, GREAT HAPPINESS AND TERRIBLE TRAGEDY
KATHERINE H. KENDRICK, Secretary: 1912 - 1920 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT SCRAPBOOK OF PRINTED, TYPED AND HANDWRITTEN PAGES, DETAILING THE BEGINNINGS OF A SCHOOL ORCHESTRA COMPOSED OF MEMBERS FROM A MAINE SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN OF TROUBLED FAMILIES ANNE PATEAT: 1937 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A WHIP SMART YOUNG WOMAN, STUDYING ENGLISH AT A WOMEN'S ONLY COLLEGE, PARTICIPATING IN ITS TIME HONORED TRADITIONS, AND TRAVELLING THROUGH THE GRAND CITIES OF PRE-WAR EUROPE ROLAND W. MYERS: 1948 - 1949 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DIARY BY AN ATTENTIVE BUT HOMESICK UNITED STATES AIR FORCE PILOT, BROUGHT OVER TO JAPAN TO ASSIST IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE POST-WORLD WAR TWO AMERICAN OCCUPATION OF
_____ GOODWIN: 1937 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A FRUSTRATED AND DEPRESSED TEENAGE GIRL, DISCOVERING HER SEXUALITY AS SHE FALLS IN LOVE WITH HER FEMALE TEACHER, AND ACTS OUT IN STRANGE AND UNPREDICTABLE WAYS S. ELIZABETH BIGELOW, Secretary of the WINTERGREEN CLUB: 1898 - 1911 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL DETAILING MEETING MINUTES, EVENTS AND DISCUSSIONS OF THE WINTERGREEN CLUB, A PROMINENT ORGANIZATION ADVOCATING FOR THE RIGHT OF WOMEN TO VOTE IN THE UNITED STATES HELEN BROOKE HERFORD: 1905 MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A YOUNG WOMAN LIVING A FUN, SOCIAL, AND LIBERAL TEENAGE SCHOOLING LIFE, HANDWRITTEN BY THE FUTURE FOUNDER OF THE BRITISH UNITARIAN WOMEN’S LEAGUE
NED WRENSHALL [to his brother]: 1858 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT HANDWRITTEN LETTER DETAILING A WILD, EXCITING, AND ULTIMATELY FARCICAL DUEL BETWEEN TWO DRUNK MEN, ONE WHO WANTS TO DUEL TO THE DEATH, AND THE OTHER WHO WANTS TO PLAY A DIRTY TRICK B. C. NIELSEN: 1880s “REPORT UPON THE MANUFACTURE OF GUN COTTON” A DETAILED DESCRIPTION, FROM PLANT TO WEAPON, WITH EXCELLENT, DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF 19th CENTURY MACHINERY, PROCESSES AND MILITARY SCIENCE UNIDENTIFIED: 1936 - 1937 HANDWRITTEN ORIGINAL DIARY OF TWO LONG CAR TRIPS TAKEN IN GREAT DEPRESSION AMERICA, THROUGH SMALL TOWNS, BIG CITIES AND NATIONAL PARKS, A RELIC OF CAR TRAVEL BEFORE THE EISENHOWER INTERSTATE SYSTEM
WILLIAM F. WILL: 1915 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG MAN WORKING HIS FIRST JOB AS A FOREST RANGER WITH DUTIES THAT INCLUDE DRAWING MAPS, SURVEYING HOMESTEADS, AND FIGHTING RAGING FOREST FIRES AND ANTAGONISTIC RANCHERS JOHN D. INGRAHAM, JR: 1863 + 1873 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LOGBOOK OF ONE MAN’S LIFE ABOARD TWO DIFFERENT NEW ENGLAND SCHOONERS, THE ‘FREDERICK HALL’ AND THE ‘HENRIETTA’ WITH DETAILED ENTRIES OF CARGO LISTS, SHIPPING COSTS, AND DAILY ONBOARD OBSERVATIONS UNIDENTIFIED RADIO OPERATOR: 1952 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN ACCOUNT OF A SAILOR ON THE USS ‘NOA’ (DD-841) AS IT SAILED FROM AMERICA TO UNDERTAKE A WHIRLWIND TOUR OF VARIOUS EUROPEAN PORTS, EXERCISING DRILLS AND PROTECTING AMERICAN INTERESTS
LINDA M. GOUDEAU: 1974 - 1979 ORIGINAL UNIQUE DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG FEMALE CRIMINAL, DETAILING THE HARDSHIPS, ROMANCES, AND UNCERTAINTIES OF PRISON, AND THE STRANGENESS OF ADJUSTING BACK TO LIFE AFTER JAIL KELSICK WOOD: 1828 - 1835 SUPERB, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNALS [3] AND RELICS OF GEORGIAN ERA ART, SHIP BUILDING AND MARINE COMMERCE DELIGHTFULLY ILLUSTRATED BY A MASTER DESIGNER OF FIGUREHEADS AND SHIPS RUTH BOGARDUS: 1937 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY THE DAUGHTER OF A PROMINENT SOCIOLOGIST, AS SHE ATTENDS SCHOOL, FALLS FOR BOY AFTER BOY, AND LIVES A LIFE FULL OF DRAMA AND EXCITEMENT IN PRE WW2 AMERICA
J. PONTHAULT: 1739 HUGE TOME OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE: AN 800+ PAGE COMPREHENSIVE HANDWRITTEN NOTEBOOK COMPILING AN IMMENSE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION RELATED TO THE LATEST THEORIES OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION - PHYSICS, MATHEMATICS, ANATOMY, ASTRONOMY AND SO MUCH MORE [to EDITH HOWSER CHASE: 1874-1887 LARGE ARCHIVE OF COLORFUL AND DETAILED HANDWRITTEN PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE AND EPHEMERA OF A YOUNG WOMAN COMING OF AGE IN RURAL NEW YORK IN THE LAST QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY THOMAS FLORIAN CURRIER: 1860s - 1870s PAIR (2) OF ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN BOOKS FROM THE LIFE OF A VIRULENT ABOLITIONIST AND LOYAL MEMBER OF LINCOLN’S REPUBLICAN PARTY INCLUDING A DIARY OF ESSAYS, ARTICLES AND PERSONAL TRAVEL THAT SHOW AN ASTUTE UNDERSTANDING OF POST WAR ERA
T. HARDJONO: 1970 - 1972 ORIGINAL VIETNAMESE LANGUAGE DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A SOLDIER FOR THE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM, FIGHTING ALONGSIDE AMERICANS AGAINST THE COMMUNIST THREAT ETHAN A. HITCHCOCK [to HERBERT H.D. PEIRCE]: 1899 ORIGINAL TYPED LETTER SENT BY THE U.S. SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR ETHAN A. HITCHCOCK TO THE SECRETARY OF THE U.S. EMBASSY IN RUSSIA, DISCUSSING THE UPCOMING 1900 PARIS WORLD’S FAIR AND U.S.-RUSSIA RELATIONS [to MARJORIE ELMS]: 1928 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN PARODY POEM OF ‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS,’ POKING GENTLE FUN AT PROHIBITION AND THE CULTURE OF THE ROARING TWENTIES WHILE STILL BEING QUITE WHOLESOME AT HEART
CAPTAIN ANGUS RICHARDS: 1901 - 1902 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN LOG BOOK OF THE MANY TRIPS OF THE SCHOONER ‘KIPLING’ FROM NOVA SCOTIA TO BRAZIL AND THE CARIBBEAN PROVIDING AN EXCELLENT LOOK AT EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN SAILING COMMERCE J. J. WOODWARD: 1881-1883 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LOG BOOK AND JOURNAL OF THE USS QUINNEBAUG HANDWRITTEN BY ITS NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR, AS IT TRAVELS TO EUROPE TO PROTECT AMERICAN INTERESTS, INCLUDING PARTICIPATING IN THE BOMBARDMENT OF ALEXANDRIA FREDERICA De LAGUNA and MARY JANE LENZ (nee DOWNS): 1954 ORIGINAL AND FASCINATING TYPESCRIPT OF TWO JOURNALS AS THEY TRAVEL TO RURAL ALASKA TO STUDY THE INDIGENOUS YAKUTAT TLINGIT, FROM TWO ANTHROPOLOGISTS, ONE WHO IS A NEW GRADUATE STUDENT AND THE OTHER ESTABLISHED AND VERY FAMOUS IN THE FIELD
CAPTAIN CHARLES EDWIN GOOD: LATE 1880s, EARLY 1890s ORIGINAL SCRAPBOOK OF OVER 400 ILLUSTRATIONS, CUT OUTS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS, ALL PERTAINING TO THE AUTHOR’S DEEP AND WILDLY PASSIONATE ‘MARRIAGE’ TO ALL ‘THINGS PERTAINING TO THE OCEAN’ BEN D. BEELEY: 1899 - 1900 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY BY A MISSIONARY TRAVELLING FROM LONDON TO BORNEO TO BRING CHRISTIANITY TO THE NATIVES FACING STRIFE AND DIFFICULTY THROUGHOUT UNIDENTIFIED: 1837 ORIGINAL TRAVEL DIARY OF A MAN’S 3 MONTH TRIP FROM NEW JERSEY TO ILLINOIS, ON HORSEBACK, COACH AND FOOT, AND COMING BACK BY RIVER STEAMERS ON THE ILLINOIS AND OHIO RIVERS
HENRY SNEVELY (or SNAVELY): 1802 - 1803 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF MATHEMATICS, GEOMETRY, TRIGONOMETRY AND MORE, GEARED TOWARDS THE IRISH IMMIGRANTS NEW TO THE SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA TOWNSHIP UNIDENTIFIED: 2002 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN JOURNAL OF AN ANGRY, PASSIONATE MAN RAILING AGAINST HIS 1ST WIFE, HIS FAILED RELATIONSHIPS, AND HIS MISERABLE LIFE IN LONG DIARY ENTRIES AND ORIGINAL POETRY THOMAS LUNT: LATE 1700s/EARLY 1800s ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN BOOK OF MATHEMATICS RELATED TO NAVIGATIONAL AND SAILING SCIENCE, BY THE MASTER OF A SHIP GOING BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA
[student of] PROFESSOR SANDERSON: LATE 1700s/EARLY 1800s 500+ TOME OF VAST SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE RELATED TO AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF INFORMATION ON THE NATURAL, PHYSICAL AND ASTRONOMICAL SCIENCES L. E. H. LLEWELLYN: 1899 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT PILOTAGE AND NAVIGATION TRAINING BOOK HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG MIDSHIPMAN WHO WOULD ONE DAY BECOME THE FIRST DIRECTOR OF UNEXPLODED BOMBS DEPARTMENT DURING THE LONDON BLITZ JONATHAN IRELAND JR [to TABITHA ROBBINS, JOSIAH BUMSTEAD, ETC.): 1787 - 1790 ORIGINAL EXCEPTIONAL MANUSCRIPT CORRESPONDENCE BOOK KEPT BY A SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS BLACKSMITH OF THE LETTERS SENT BACK AND FORTH TO HIS FRIENDS DEEP IN THE THROES OF CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM
PROCTOR MINSTREL CAST & COMMITTEE: 1946 ORIGINAL PHOTO ALBUM OF 30+ PHOTOGRAPHS DEPICTING THE LEAD UP AND PERFORMANCE OF A RACIST BLACKFACE MINSTREL SHOW PUT ON BY THE ALL WHITE EMPLOYEES OF PHILADELPHIA’S PROCTOR & SCHWARTZ COMPANY H. W. ARMSTRONG: 1882 - 1883: 18 ORIGINAL HAND DRAWN AND BEAUTIFUL NAUTICAL CHARTS INTENDED TO TEACH THE SCIENCE OF NAVIGATION TO A YOUNG CADET AT THE BRITANNIA ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE IN DARTMOUTH, ENGLAND ALBERT DURAND: 1893 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF FRENCH FIN-DE-SIÈCLE REGIMENT BUGLE SONGS FROM A BUGLE PLAYER STATIONED IN THE INDRE-ET-LOIRE DÉPARTEMENT
UNKNOWN: 1939 + 1948 MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A POST OFFICE WORKER IN SYRACUSE, NEW YORK ATTENDING MEETINGS, COMMITTEES, AND GOING ABOUT HIS NORMAL BUSINESS OF MAKING SURE THE MAIL IS DELIVERED EVERY DAY C. COTTON: 1822 ORIGINAL PRINTED NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL ALMANAC WITH OVER 45 PAGES OF HANDWRITTEN ENTRIES FROM AN ALBANY MAN DETAILING HIS LIFE AND TIMES AS A LANDLORD AND CHURCH GOER J.M. (or GEORGE) WEATHER and SAMUEL BENN: c1904 THREE (3) ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN FIELD BOOKS OF THE EXTENSIVE, DETAILED AND PLANNED WORK REQUIRED TO REBUILD THE TOWN OF ABERDEEN, WASHINGTON AFTER IT HAD BURNT TO THE GROUND A YEAR EARLIER
MARY ELIZABETH DONOVAN: 1928 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY A LOVELY, FAMILY ORIENTED WOMAN IN DELAWARE, SPENDING EACH DAY THANKFUL FOR THE GIFT OF FRIENDS, FAMILY, AND HER DOTING BOYFRIEND UNIDENTIFIED: c1910 - 1920s ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN AND HAND DRAWN GERMAN ENGINEERING NOTEBOOK, CONTAINING DETAILED INFORMATION ON A HUGE AMOUNT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TOPICS AND REPLETE WITH DOZENS OF EXPERTLY HAND DRAWN DIAGRAMS, FIGURES, AND CHARTS 2nd LIEUTENANT MARTIN M. GROSS: 1945 ORIGINAL TYPESCRIPT REPORT OF RECONSTRUCTION OF THE MANILA HARBOR AFTER ITS DEVASTATING IN WORLD WAR II, WRITTEN BY A LIEUTENANT IN THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS AND CONTAINING HIS HAND DRAWN DIAGRAMS
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