Various

A Collection of Manuscripts, Related to Education in the 18th- and 19th- Centuries

Various, Various, 1790. Twenty-three letters, receipts, bills, partially printed documents, etc. related to children and adolescents and their education in the late 18th- and 19th- centuries. Generally, in very good condition - with occasional spots, smudges, and nicks to edges and one with discreet repairs to verso. An interesting and varied collection, spanning from 1790 to 1881, it allowed a glimpse into people's desire to educate the young and the expenses said education would incur, as well as the disparaging differences in the pay scale for male and female teachers in Victorian America. The earliest two items were handwritten receipts from 1790 and 1791. The first was from the Town of Newbury Port (i.e. Newburyport) to one Daniel Horton for various goods, including cords of wood for North, South, and Middle Schools. Known for its long history of educating its kids, from its creation in 1764, the town would support several small schools, most of which would operate in three-month intervals, with the teachers travelling from one to another, so all the children would get a chance. The second one was from Lemuel Fowler to Amos Whitmore - for the schooling of the former's son. A long, personal letter from 1799 by one Daniel Beckley of Sharon, Connecticut discussed various aspects of education and stated, several times, that he was in the "school business." An interesting grouping of letters from the 1860s, each signed by members of various school committees, attested to the fact that teachers at the time often rotated through different schools each term - in this case, one Almira A. Bancroft in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts. Each letter stated she had been examined, certified, and allowed to work as a teacher in various school districts of the town between 1861 and 1868. One of the most poignant of the documents was a large sheet, printed with 34 different columns and partially filled in manuscript - an exhaustive school report for the town of Cornish, New Hampshire. Apart from filling the number of students in each district, the number of teachers, the estimated value of school supplies, the lengths of terms, the textbooks recommended by the School Committee, etc. it also noted the wages of each male and female educator..and in every instance, the men's salaries were two to three times higher than those of the women. An 1827, lengthy, handwritten document by one David Curtiss of Wolcott, New York to Eldad Alcox bound Curtiss' son to Alcox, until the boy reached 17 years of age. The latter was to obey and to learn manners, morals, and agriculture. Alcox was to "send him to school; at least he is to be sent to school in the winter.." The most curious item and the only entirely printed one in the collection - a beautiful, die-cut, ruled pamphlet - announced the founding of Law's Mathematical and Classical School for both boys and girls, on the grounds of the Old United Presbyterian Church of East Salem, New York. It explained the goals, the management, the tuition fees, etc. Research has failed to find a record of the school having ever been in operation. Very good .

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Buchzahl: 003510

Katalog: Americana

Sonstige Stichworte: Americana

Various

National Defense Meeting. Princess Cantacuzene Speransky, Guest Speaker

Hanover, PA, American Legion, 1933. Pamphlet, dated Friday, March 3, 1933; 9 x 6 1/4; pp. [4]; illustrated with a portrait; very light wear and age-toning; in very good to near fine condition. A program for a national defence meeting, it listed the activities for the evening, including a concert, opening remarks, etc. and featured Princess Cantacuzene Speransky as the meeting's guest speaker. Julia Dent Cantacuzene Speransky-Grant (1876 - 1975) was an author, historian, wife of Russian General Prince Mikhail Cantacuzene, and grandchild of President Ulysses S. Grant. She would write several first-person accounts of the Russian reality before and during the Revolution, as well as numerous articles for the New York Times, Saturday Evening Post, and others. Very good .

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Katalog: Americana

Sonstige Stichworte: Russian-Americana

Various

National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser, Vol. IX, No. 1358

Washington City, Samuel Harrison Smith, 1809. Issue no. 1358, June 23, 1809; 20 x 12 3/4; pp. [4]; illustrated with two small, engraved vignettes and a table; deckled edges; period signature to upper margin of pp. 1; the two leaves separating - not affecting readability; old creases with small punctures at intersecting lines; a small rubbed spot to pp. 2, obscuring a few words; overall in good to very good condition. An early issue of the self-proclaimed "first paper printed in Washington," the tri-weekly, pro-Jefferson, pro-Republican periodical was also the first newspaper in Washington to provide detailed reports of proceedings of the Congress. A large part of the current issue was dedicated to a "Debate on Fortifications" and "Domestic Manufactures." It appeared various resolutions to appropriate sums, varying from one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to one million dollars - for the fortification of the ports and harbors of the Untied States - had been carried since 1806, with the current one being a motion to "strike out the words 'seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars,' with a view to insert a smaller sum.." The debate on US manufactures would, undoubtedly, lead to the passing of the Tariff Act of 1816, the first of its kind and designed to encourage domestic manufacturing. Good .

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Buchzahl: 003038

Katalog: Americana

Sonstige Stichworte: Americana

Various

A Small Collection of Broadsides, Related to Auction Bancruptcy Sales

Albemarle County, VA, Various, 1914. Five broadsides, 1914 - 1935; various sizes, approx. 14 3/4 x 9 and smaller; four of them in very good or better condition - with small closed cuts to top and right edges edge; one in fair condition - very brittle, with chipping and loss of paper to edges; overall very good. An interesting view of Virginia history and of people's financial struggles from 1914 through the Great Depression, the broadsides announced "Trustee's" and "Bancrupt's" sales at public auctions, describing the circumstances leading to the sales (defaulting on payments) and the assets to be sold. Perhaps, the saddest of all would be the sale of valuable property of one Robert H. Bryan, bancrupt, owner of Bryan Printing Company in Charlottesville. Items to be sold included printing presses, thousands of envelopes, furniture, and so on. The other sales would alternately offer farming equipment, horses, and suburban residences and land. Very good .

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Buchzahl: 003412

Katalog: Americana

Sonstige Stichworte: Americana

Various

A Small Collection of Material, Related to Major General John Stark

Various, various, 1900. A scrapbook of articles and newspaper clippings, two postcards, a real-photo postcard, a Stark House Dedication program, and a tintype photograph, 1800s - early 1900s; scrapbook - loose leaves, pp. 42 - a bit brittle, with small chips to edges and occasional closed split to old fold lines; newsprint with general age-toning and yellowing; miniature photograph in an ornate, card stock frame, with manuscript notes; postcards with small residual glue spots to verso and manuscript captions; overall in very good condition. With newspaper clippings, including series, going back to the 1860s, the collection documented the life and achievements of Major General John Stark (1728 - 1822), who served during the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War and was known as the "Hero of Bennington," as well as snippets from the lives of his family and descendents. He would successfully command his men through numerous major battles, including the Siege of Boston, and the battles of Trenton and Princeton. He would pass away at the age of 94 as the last surviving Revolutionary War general. The postcards showed different views of General Stark's house and his birthplace home and the photograph was that of his daughter Emily Stark. Very good .

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Buchzahl: 003633

Katalog: Americana

Sonstige Stichworte: Americana

Various

A Small Collection of Material, Related to the Simmons Family of Inventors in Vermont

Various, By the authors, 1820. Five manuscript letters, 1820s - 1830s; various formats; all of them with residue from red wax seals; one a bit brittle, with closed cuts along fold lines; overall in very good condition. Personal correspondence of Abigail Simmons, nee Wills, both before and after her marriage to George W. Simmons (1803 - 1863). Starting with the latter, the family would be renowned for several generations of inventors of commercial and household tinware items and heating equipment, including street and coach lamps, stove dampers, pumps, coffee pots, pipe collars, etc. Very good .

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Buchzahl: 003654

Katalog: Americana

Sonstige Stichworte: Americana

Various

Two Documents, Related to Founder of Colorado Springs William Jackson Palmer

Washington, DC / Denver City, s. n. Two printed documents, partially filled in manuscript; 10 x 16; illustrated with vignettes in upper left corners; embossed seals to recto; handwritten title and notes to verso; old crease lines and minor spotting to margins; in very good condition. William Jackson Palmer (1836 - 1909) was a Civil War veteran, engineer, philanthropist, businessman, railroad surveyor and magnate, founder of present-day Colorado Springs, and funder of Colorado College. He also funded hospitals, schools, libraries, road construction, and parks in Denver, Manitou Springs, and Colorado Springs. The two current deeds granted tracts of land to Palmer in Denver by the State of North Carolina, under the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862. He would later donate the land, (unconfirmed officially), but most probably the one, where Highland Park would eventually be build. Very good .

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Buchzahl: 003286

Katalog: Americana

Sonstige Stichworte: Americana, Western Americana

Various

William Matthew Marine Manuscript Material

Various, By the authors, 1844. Twenty-five manuscripts, 1844 - 1885; various sizes and formats; occasional ink smudging and a few spots; overall in very good condition. William Matthew Marine (1843 - 1904) was a prominent Baltimore lawyer, author, politician and Ulysses S. Grant electoral candidate, and in his later life - the collector of the Port of Baltimore. The documents, spanning more than 40 years, were mostly payment receipts for purchases and services and itemized lists. Presumably, the earliest papers belonged to his grandfather of the same name - Matthew Marine (1777-1854). Very good .

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Buchzahl: 003658

Katalog: Americana

Sonstige Stichworte: Americana

Wallace, William

Two Manuscripts Related to Mary Todd Lincoln's Nephews Robert Todd and William L. Todd (the Designer of the California State Flag)

Manuscript, 1814. Hardcover. Two manuscripts and a newspaper article attached to each other at their upper margins. unfolded approx. 8 x 20; 3 fold lines across; few spots of foxing to the article only; small nicks to bottom of manuscripts; very good or better. The newspaper cutout, titled "Notice," reads that Robert Todd Sr. - Mary Todd Lincoln's grand-uncle - has been entitled to 2 tracts of land in the Virginia Military District for being a veteran in the American Revolutionary War. He dies and the land is entered in the name of Robert Woodson (another Revolutionary War veteran). For the years 1800-1809, the land is broken into small pieces and sold to various people in order to have taxes covered. The article continues on to notify the various owners that the sons of Robert Todd - William L. Todd (the designer the original Bear Flag of California) and his brother Robert Todd Jr. are contesting the sale of the land and are appearing in court to try for the redemption of said land. Dated December 2, 1813. The article has been cut from either 'The Fredonian' or 'The Supporter' at Chillicothe, Ohio (presumed either/or from the context of the hand-written pages). The two manuscripts are notarized documents certifying that the above mentioned "Notice" has appeared in 'The Fredonian' and 'The Supporter' for six consecutive weeks each. The first script reads that John Bailhache (later good friend of President Lincoln) in his function as an editor of The Fredonian has come in front of the Justice of the Peace to certify the publishing of the "Notice." The second one is almost identical but with the editor of 'The Supporter' as a witness. Both documents are signed William Wallace, whom though we have not been able to explicitly confirm, might have been the father of William Wallace Jr. - Mary Todd's brother-in-law and the Lincoln's family doctor. Ill.: 0. Very good 2.

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Buchzahl: 000826

Katalog: Americana

Sonstige Stichworte: California-Vbf, Americana, Lincoln 0

Wayland, Francis

Notes on the Principles and Practices of Baptist Churches [William Wirt Winchester's Copy]

New York / Boston /Chicago, Sheldon, Blakeman & Co.; Gould & Lincoln; S. C. Griggs & Co. 1857. First Edition. First edition; 7 3/4 x 5 1/2; pp. [7], vi-xii, [1], 14-336, [2]; brown, embossed cloth over boards; gilt title to spine; small rubbed spots to tips of spine and corners; foxing mostly to first and last few leaves, with occasional spotting to margins; period bookshop label to back board verso (Weishampel's Bookstore and Circulating Library, which operated in Baltimore in the mid-19th century and also published popular music); very good condition. With William Wirt Winchester's bookplate to front board verso, his signature in brown ink across the title page, and a penciled-in, gift inscription to him from his aunt, on the second free leaf. Francis Wayland (1796 - 1865) was an economist, President of Brown University, a prison reform activist, a noted member of the American Antiquarian Society, a vocal proponent for the establishment of libraries, and a Baptist minister. His current work expanded on a series of articles, which had appeared in "The Examiner," with the intention of presenting a popular view of the distinctive belief of the Baptist Church. William Wirt Winchester (1837 - 1881) was the Tresurer of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company and the son of its founder, Oliver Fisher Winchester. Ownership of the business was passed to William at his father's death in 1880, but the former passed away himself, from tuberculosis, only a year later, at the age of 43. William's widow, Sarah Winchester (1839 - 1922) inherited her husband's fortune and 50% holding in the company, making her one of the richest women in the world at that time. Devastated by the passing of her husband and the death of her infant daughter, Sarah moved to San Jose, California and in 1884 commissioned the erection of the Winchester Mystery House (now a historical landmark and museum), the construction of which continued - chaotically, continuously, and without official architectural plans - for 38 years, until Sarah's death. She believed she was cursed and haunted by the spirits of people, who had been shot by the Winchester rifles, and by adding to her house doors that opened into unexisting rooms, stairs that led nowhere, and windows that looked into interior spaces, she tried to appease, on the one hand, and to confuse and trick, on the other hand, the ghosts. Very good .

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Buchzahl: 002654

Katalog: Americana

Sonstige Stichworte: Boston-Vbf, Baptism, Winchester Company

Wells Fargo & Co.

Wells Fargo & Co. Express Shipment Labels

S. l. (San Francisco [?]), Wells Fargo & Co. Express, 1905. Two adhesive shipment labels, n. d. (ca 1905); 2 x 4; off-white stock, printed in black; very minor wear - in near fine or better condition. Uncommon, and even more so unused, the label was intended to be used to "Collect Lot Shipment On ____ Pieces, Billed Via ______" with separate lines for "Way-bill No. _______" and "Date." It also stated: "When parts of this shipment are on separate Way-bills, agent at desitnation will adjust charges to proper ammount on the number of pieces rec'd. Near fine .

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Buchzahl: 002807

Katalog: Americana

Sonstige Stichworte: Wells Fargo

Wolcott, Samuel

A Sermon, Delivered Before His Excellency George S. Boutwell, Governor, His Honor Henry W. Cushman, Lieutenant-Governor, the Honorable Council, and the Legislature of Massachusetts, at the Annual Election, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 1853

Boston, White & Potter, Printers to the State, 1853. First Edition. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [7], 6-37; plain blue wraps with a small manuscript note to upper margin; closed cut to tail of spine and a thin strip of glue residue to title page; small puncture through back wrap and last few leaves; in good to very good condition. Samuel Wolcott (1813 - 1886) was a missionary, author of hymns, orator, and Congregationalist minister. .

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Buchzahl: 003501

Katalog: Americana

Sonstige Stichworte: Americana

Woodbury, Levi; et al

Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate, in Relation to the Execution of the "Act Granting Land to Certain Exiles from Poland

S. l. (Washington, DC), Blair & Rives, Printers, 1839. First Edition. First edition; 8 3/4 x 5 1/2; pp. [1], 2-20; self-wraps, removed; minor age-toning and spotting to margins; in very good or better condition. In 1834, 235 exiled Polish revolutionaries petitioned the US Congress for a grant of land, for the purpose of establishing a colony on the American frontier. The Government was sympathetic to the struggles of the Poles against Russia's tyranny in the Polish Revolution of 1830 and did grant the land, in Northern Illinois, although to call it a "grant" would have been generous, as it was more of a preemption right to purchase the land, after occupying it and cultivating it for ten years. Matters woulld get worse, when the land chosen by the Polish agent had already been occupied by native squatters. Support and sympathy for the Poles would war back and forth with anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic sentiments for the next few years and extensive debates would be held as to who was best suited to settled the land. Ultimately, Congress would side with the squatters, allowing them to purchase the land and nullifying the Polish grant in 1842. The current document was part of the ongoing battle. Very good .

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Buchzahl: 003727

Katalog: Polish-Americana

Sonstige Stichworte: Polish-Americana