Framed collection of Carrie (or Carry) Amelia Nation – Prohibition era items, including autographed postcard. 1st-3rd items: Black and white photograph of Nation with studio marks for White, N.Y., lower left, flanked by two brass with mother of pearl miniature hatchet shaped pins attached to the mat, stamped "Carry A Nation" on handle. 4th item: […]

Civil Rights Era card stock sign or placard, "HONOR KING – END RACISM" – carried in Memphis, Tennessee April 8, 1968, four days following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., during a memorial march led by King's widow and children. Printed by Allied Printing of Memphis. Retains neck cord. 21 1/2" x 14". […]

Four (4) Woodrow Wilson TLS, including three (3) as a Professor at Princeton University and one (1) as Governor of New Jersey, dated 1900-1912. 1st item: TLS. One page typed letter. From Professor Woodrow Wilson, Princeton, New Jersey, to Lewis M. Coleman, Chattanooga, TN, dated October 31, 1900. Wilson writes "My dear Louis, You may […]

Judge George T. Washington archive of political letters and ephemera, 27 items total, including letters from Truman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Warren Burger, and more. George Thomas Washington (1908-1971) was an American jurist who served as judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1949 to 1965. 1st item: TLS. One page typed […]

Archive of nineteen (19) documents related to William Gibbs McAdoo (1863-1941), 46th United States Secretary of the Treasury and United States Senator from California. 1st-16th item: Sixteen (16) TLS from William Gibbs McAdoo, dated 1911-1918. Many of the letters pertain to Woodrow Wilson's 1912 and 1916 presidential campaigns. Four letters on Secretary of the Treasury […]

Seven (7) Woodrow Wilson TLS, written as the 28th President of the United States of America, dated 1913-1917. 1st item: TLS. One page typed bifolium. From President Woodrow Wilson, The White House, Washington, D.C., to Hon. Lewis M. Coleman, United States District Attorney, Chattanooga, TN, dated August 4, 1913. The letter reads "My dear Coleman: […]

Archive of fourteen (14) President Woodrow Wilson era items. 1st item: President Woodrow Wilson and Attorney General James Clark McReynolds (1862-1946) signed appointment, dating July 10, 1913, naming Lewis M. Coleman of Tennessee "Attorney of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Tennessee…for the term of four years…". 16" H x 19 […]

Twelve (12) military related items, 19th c., including commission, photographs, and buckle. 1st item: Spanish-American War military appointment commission document signed by both President William McKinley and Secretary of War Russell A. Alger in black ink, dated June 15, 1898, conferring the rank of First Lieutenant, Sixth Regiment Volunteer Infantry to Elisha Eldridge Wright. 19 […]

Three (3) Tennessee Centennial memorabilia items. 1st item: Silhouette depicting President William McKinley with the captions "Exposition Souvenir — Nashville Centennial Tennessee" and "taken from life June 12, 1897", above and below the image. Signed "Baj B." lower right. Housed under glass in a black painted frame with gilt wood rabbet edge. Sight – 5 […]

"A New Map of of Mississippi with its Roads and Distances" engraved by H. N. Burroughs, published by Samuel A. Mitchell, Philadelphia, 1846. From the "Tourist Pocket Map" series by Samuel A. Mitchell. Copper plate engraving with hand coloring of Mississippi depicting towns and roads, county lines, names of counties, rivers, mountains, and railroads. Title […]