A collection of mimeographed short erotic fiction published by Esoterica Press (probably Tijuana, Mexico or Baja, California). Rare. No copies in commerce or auction records, with Yale only holding some issues. More
Sponsored by Program in African American Culture and Ethnic Imagery Project of the Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Black Film Institute of the University of the District of Columbia, and Black Film Review. Wednesday-Saturday, February 1-4, 1995. National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Exhibition Catalogue..... More
Photojournalist Cornell Capa (brother to the famous WWII photographer Robert Capa) founded New York’s International Center of Photography in 1972. In 1946, he was working as a staff photographer for Life, and over the following eight years he worked on approximately 300 assignments for the magazine. Capa said that his aim..... More
Keene, New Hampshire: Ralph Page. 17 non-consecutive issues include Volume 2 Numbers 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 and Volume 3 Numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. 36-40 pp. per issue. Stapled illustrated wraps (one issue intact without staples, another with two hole punches)..... More
70 pieces total, including certificates of title, bankruptcy notices, typed and handwritten letters, many signed, from numerous law offices in Rhode Island (John Mahoney, Esq. is prevalent), New York, and Connecticut, deeds, writs, trustee’s bonds, bond applications, an affidavit for a search warrant, postmarked postcards, and business cards. Highlights include..... More
An uncommon image of Johnson at his training camp preparing for his rematch with Fireman Jim Flynn (Johnson had defeated him in 1908; Flynn would later score a knockout against Jack Dempsey). The rematch took place on July 4, 1912 in East Las Vegas (the only fight in Johnson’s career..... More
1920s oblong 12” x 7.5” stringbound photo album, with brown snakeskin patterned covers and “Photographs” embossed on front cover. 62 black paper leaves, with 451 pasted photographs, with mostly every page with captions in white. Photos are from 1924-1929 and range from 2.25” x 3.25” to 3.5” x 5.5”. A...... More
1930s oblong 14” x 11” stringbound photo album, with decorative patterned green boards and “Photographs” embossed on front cover. 2.5” x 3.5” to 4.75” x 6.75”. 30 black paper leaves, 19 blank, containing 173 corner-mounted photographs on rectos and versos. The album belonged to one Robert (Bob) Nicholas and his..... More
Wyoming State Highway Department, Cheyenne. Julius Muller, Cartographer. 29” x 20”; 5” x 10” folded. Soiling at edges and folds. Details road types of the state highway system, connecting roads, Indian reservations, national parks and monuments, national forests, military reservations, game refuges, air routes, and historic trails (including the original..... More
“When I bestride him, I soar. I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes” Shakespeare, King Henry V 64 black and white gelatin silver photographs (9 duplicates), all approximately 8”..... More
Two charming songstress booklets, c. 1940, which provide snippets of lyrics to thirteen songs (ragtime and musicals), most written between 1890-1920, including “The Bowery,” “Oh! You Beautiful Doll,” “I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now,” “Who Threw the Overalls?” “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” and “Little Annie Rooney.” Each..... More
Oblong (8.25” x 6”) string-tied photo album with “Souvenir of Baltimore, MD” embossed on front cover, with image of Native American in headdress. 14 leaves, with only four used. 19 photographs corner mounted, various sizes (mainly 3.5” x 2.5” or smaller), with descriptions written in white on each page. Also..... More
135 total pages of typed television scripts and typed and handwritten inter-office correspondence and notes for Greyhound from Chicago advertising company Beaumont and Hohman, Inc. from 1952-1953. Specific TV and radio spots for Memphis, TN, Milwaukee, WI, Minneapolis, MN. Many scripts with handwritten revisions and notes, some bound with paper..... More
Folio, approximately 12” x 14.5”. Powder blue pictorial front cover detached but present. Overall VG or better. Contents point to 1964-1965. 54 pp. Magazine and newspaper articles and images affixed to pages (mostly pasted or glued), both rectos and versos, with a few loose 16 Magazine (January 1965) articles laid..... More
Tri-fold, 3.5” x 7.5”, Near Fine. Souvenir of the 1962 Freedom Bond Drive. In Spring 1962, the Treasury Department conducted the first nationwide Savings Bond campaign since the Korean War. McDonnell Aircraft Corporation and General Motors co-sponsored the exhibition tour of the Project Mercury spacecraft. Includes image of the Mercury..... More
Kodachrome color slides housed in metal Smith-Victor storage case with clasp and taped, handwritten labels. Most slides numbered (although not consecutive), with dates stamped May-July of 1964. Great shots of commercial filming, crew with cameras and equipment, actors, nature, and, of course, beer. Locations (written on most slides in ink)..... More
Trifold illustrated camp brochure, an application form, signed cover letter from camp registrar, original mailing envelope addressed to a Philadelphia man, and an unstamped return envelope. All materials VG+ Winterset Farm was a men’s summer camp located in rural Ontario. Materials highlight the sauna, cabin boys, pool attendants, and masseur..... More
[Christmas Around the World, c. 1970] A set of 10 Christmas cards each featuring a Santa figure from around the world. Each card measures approximately 5.5” x 7” with color image gracing front and a description on the inside flap. Includes: Bonhomme Noel (France), Dedo Koleda (Bulgaria), Christmann (Germany), Balthazar..... More
9.5” x 11.5” red cloth boards, ringbound, with “Photo Album” on front. Soiling and minor scuffing. 9 leaves. Contents (some loose, others under protective plastic sheets) include: six 8” x 10” black and white photographs of group shots of post office personnel, including two labled “Oklahoma Postal Training Operations (Norman..... More
Commercial brown cloth photo album containing 196 images (3.5” x 3.5”, many six to a page, all behind plastic) of a 1970s trip through South Africa, Swaziland, and, given some clues in images, what seems to be Nigeria and Ghana as well. Certainly after 1971, as there is an image..... More
Both pictorials were published in Sacramento, CA, by Cimini Graphics. The 1979 edition is comb-bound, with 106 pp. Pictorial cover, overall VG+ (staining to cover, with pen notation “Oct. 1-6, 1979” written vertically). In addition to photos of activities (exhibit hall, clubs, tours, show competition, and field events), there are..... More
August 16-17 at San Jose State University Student Union. 8.5” x 14” photomechanically reproduced. VG overall (shows signs of having been affixed to bulletin board, wear and creasing/wrinkling). Special Guest Buster Crabbe, who played Tarzan, Buck Rogers, and Flash Gordon in the 1930s-1950s; he died in 1983. Other guests include Alex..... More
Illustrated floral design with some light wear to covers. 21 leaves, all but three filled with 86 (mostly) black and white photographs of various sizes, affixed to pages (recto and verso), plus two additional loose photos laid in. The album covers the years 1980-1986 and is split into two distinct..... More
Harry Shepherd was the first African American Photographer in St. Paul, MN. Both have July 1892 notations in pencil on verso. On verso of the child’s card is a decorative printed advertisement “Harry Shepherd, 418 & 420 Wabasha St. St. Paul. Large Work a Specialty. Negatives Preserved.” At the bottom..... More
1970-1971. 16 pp. each, 8.5” x 5.25” landscape layout. VG+ in stapled pictorial wraps. According to an article in https://laist.com, Ah Men was “the first gay retail business in West Hollywood designed for rich men. The upscale clothing spot, which opened around the early 1960s, largely defined popular gay men’s..... More