JACOB LAWRENCE (AMERICAN, 1917-2000)8" x 10" Still life drawing with personalized letter, 1982. Ink and colored pencil on paper, signed by the artist with wife in signature "Jacob and Gwen Lawrence", accompanied...
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Fourteen-Piece Group of Desk Items,first quarter 20th century, consisting of a good ten-piece Silver Crest Arts and Crafts silver-mounted patinated bronze desk set, comprised of four blotter ends, a rocker...
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FRED DENNETT ARCHIVE, INC. TIN INGOTIngotand archive originally belonging to Fred Dennett, 32nd Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1908-1913. 1st item: South Dakota tin ingot stamped "Nigger Hill", with Stephen...
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JEFFERSON DAVIS LETTER TO J.B. LINDSLEY,REF. MCGAVOCKJefferson Davis letter to Nashville author, doctor, minister and educator Dr. John Berrien Lindsley with good retrospective content regarding the American Civil...
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DAVID LEVINE W/C COASTAL LANDSCAPE WITHFIGURES, BATHER...David Levine (American/New York, 1926-2009) watercolor on paper painting titled "Bathers at Compo Beach" depicting figures along a shoreline walking towards...
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TWO LETTERS PENNED AS THE AMERICAN CIVILWAR SEEMED INEVITABLE Both by Sam Nesmith to "Brother Robert," the first, 4to (9 in.), 4pp., Charlestown, (MA or NH), May 29, 1860, contains a self-composed "campaign song"...
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THOMAS EDISON SIGNED ELECTRIC LIGHTCOMPANY LETTER United States,1884Letter penned to Charles L. Clarke, the first president of the Edison Electric company, by Samuel Insull, an American business magnate and...
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Five Richard Kidder Meade, Jr. ConfederateCivil War Letters, Civil War Era Photographs, Paintings, Meade Family Archive Virginia, 1861-1862: letter from Fort Sumter, March 21, 1861, to sister Julia Meade (1830-1906),...
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Clara Barton ALsS Lot of 2 ALsS from ClaraBarton (1821-1912) teacher nurse and humanitarian who founded the American Red Cross in 1881. ALS from Clara 4pp Washington D.C. Feb. 23 1874. Addressed to Samuel R. Barton...
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Sander, Sailor's Work Coconut ShellBox both 19th century: bowl-shaped sander on bun base with star-pattern shaker holes, fruitwood (?), wooden bung, possibly American, 2-7/8 in., very good condition, paint...
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POW Letter From Andersonville with Archive(24)war-date Union soldier's letters by Private Simeon B. Merrill Co. G 5th Michigan Infantry to his wife Julia in Fowlerville Michigan. The 33 year-old Merrill enlisted the day...
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