Memory book consisting mostly of valentines cards, one valentine reading "Equal franchise, votes for women" and also some decorative trade calender pages. Note on inside reads "I made this while I was in brace for broken neck and injured back".Cards in overall good condition, in black scrapbook with general wear. Cards and pages from both […]

Ray Gamble Scrap book collection pertaining to Washington state and the Northwestern US. Includes early commercial fishing postcards, Washington state and Northwestern Indian postcards, San Francisco earthquake postcards andother miscellaneous turn of the 20th century cards. Scrapbook is comprised of 84 pages holding two postcards each with only one page empty. 166 postcards total. Cards […]

Nash Buckingham 1917 one page T.L.S. on the Buckingham family Sporting Goods store letterhead Memphis. Celebrated Tn. author, sports writer, and early football pioneer at the University of Tennessee. Nash is helping settle a MemphisCountry Club membership issue for the estate of his mentor JWS Rhea founder of Memphis University School. In this letter Buckingham […]

Photographic print of the faculty and 1898 graduating class of the University of Tennessee (at Nashville) Medical Department. Faculty members pictured include Dean Paul F. Eve and J. Berrien Lindsley. 38 students from Tennessee, Kentucky,Alabama, Texas, and Mississippi are also pictured, along with a photo of the school building. Signed lower left "Calvert Bros. & […]

Lot of three early Tennessee documents. 1ST ITEM: Document dated 1796, ordering the sheriff of Knox County to summon a witness in a case between Joseph Lea and David Robertson, signed Charles McClung. Some toning despecially at fold lines,otherwise excellent condition. 6 1/2" x 8". 2nd and 3RD ITEMs: 1839 Gibson County court settlement orders […]

Lot of 3 menus from U.S. WWII ships, including Christmas and Thanksgiving Day 1940, U.S.S. Arizona. 1ST ITEM: U.S.S. Arizona Thanksgiving Day 1940 folding menu with printed turkey design on exterior, listing ships officers and the day'smenu on the interior. Excellent condition. 6 1/2" x 5 1/8" folded. 2ND ITEM: U.S.S. Arizona Christmas Day 1940 […]

Lot of documents relating to Albert B. Holland (1881-1970), a blacksmith by trade who served as a Kentucky state representative in the early 1900s. Includes a 1926 letter to Holland from a former slave, Tiney Derritt, writing to Holland about his relatives that she knew when she worked for his family. "I don't know my […]

Lot of 5 historic documents. 1st item – 1865 document commissioning judges in Sullivan Co., signed by Governor W. G. (William G. "Parson") Brownlow. When the Civil War ended, Brownlow (a slaveholder but also a Unionist) replaced AndrewJohnson as the governor of Tennessee. He was re-elected to that position in 1867 — an election in […]

Eight Kentucky Maps dated 1913: The Kentucky Geological Survey (J.B. Hoeing, State Geologist, Geology by A.M. Miller), by L.M. Sellier. Scale 1"=1 mile. Includes the Upper Big Sandy Valley (sheets 1, 2 and 4); Georgetown Quadrangle; Pond & Blackberry Creeks (small tear at center fold line); Upper Licking Valley; A Portion of Rowan County; and […]

Lot of 4 19th century railroad documents. 1ST ITEM: 1841 Railroad receipt from the Hiwassee Rail Road Co. for part pay on 5 shares of Capital Stock in RR Co. Recd. of C. Taliaferro. Signed by RR agent Jas. Pearson. Earliest attempt to bring RR into E. Tenn. VG.cond., folds. Size, appr. 3 x 7". […]