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American Statesmen
 Bacon, Robert (Photograph) $110
Secretary of State for last 38 days of Theodore Roosevelt’s term, inscribed to US Steel’s Judge Gary
 Benton, Thomas Hart (Letter) $375
Senator Benton attributes his successes to his handwriting, praising those who write well!
 Blaine, James G. (Letter) $115
Blaine 1865 ALS to Internal Revenue Commissioner on passage of appropriation bill
 Blair, Montgomery (Letter) $450
1872 ALS of the jurist, a founder of the Republican Party, Lincoln’s Postmaster General
 Boutwell, George S. (Letter) $40
Former Treasury Secretary Boutwell notes his term in President Grant’s Cabinet
 Bricker, John (Photograph) $30
1944 VP candidate on GOP ticket with Dewey
 Bricker, John W. (First Day Cover) $25
1950 First Day Cover signed by the 1944 GOP Vice Presidential candidate
 Brownlow, William G. (Letter) $450
1863 ALS from “The Fighting Parson”, itching to return to East Tennessee and the newspaper business
 Bryan, William Jennings (Letter) $275 Special Offer: $225
Secretary Bryan declares intention to nominate US Minister to Salvador as State Dept. Chief of Division of Latin American Affairs

a reduction in the commoner's scope!
 Calhoun, John C. (Letter) $350
1818 LS as Secretary of War to Quartermaster General Jesup
 Calhoun, John C. (ON HOLD) (Letter) $450
Senator Calhoun investigates cultivating Cuban tobacco
 Chandler, Zachariah (Letter) $70
1876 LS of Michigan Radical Republican leader in Senate as Grant’s Interior Secretary
 Clark, Champ (Photograph) $50
Signed photograph likely while Speaker of the House
 Clifford, Clark M. (Photograph) $40
Washington “supelawyer”, presidential advisor, LBJ Defense Secretary
 Clinton, DeWitt (Letter) $225
1827 ALS as Governor, seeks information before issuing a pardon to an inmate in the nation’s 1st juvenile reformatory
 Davis, Jefferson (Letter) $1250
Near mint 1856 LS as Secretary of War to Rep. Justin S. Morrill
 Davis, Jefferson (Signature) $595
Frameable signature of the ConfederateStates of America’s only President
 Debs, Eugene V. (Letters) $495
1918 letter referring to a biography + 1912 “fan letter” from brother Theodore to socialist cartoonist Art Young
 Dow, Neal S. (Letter) $185
1887 ALS from the “Father of Prohibition”, Civil War general, 1880 presidential candidate
 Dulles, Allen W. (Letter) $175
1959 TLS as CIA Director, appreciates “kind thoughts” of his brother
 Dulles, John Foster (Letter) $135
Secretary Dulles thanks Amb. Grew for 1932 Lausanne Conference article for Department of State “Bulletin”
 Eaton, John H. (Letter) $225
1830 financial ALS while Secretary of War and Jackson protégé
 English, William H. (Signed Card) $50
1880 Democratic VP candidate with Hancock
 Evarts, William M. (Letter) $85
Wall Street lawyer Evarts aids a fellow attorney
 Everett, Edward (Letter) $125
1844 ALS while Minister to Great Britain to scholar-author Charles Astor Bristed, praising his essays
 Everett, Edward (Letter) $110
1842 ALS as Minister to Great Britain
 Fairbanks, Charles W. (Signed Portrait) $195
Steel engraved portrait signed by Theodore Roosevelt’s VP, Charles Hughes’ 1916 running mate
 Fessenden, William Pitt (Letter) $195
Powerful Maine Senator, succeeded Chase as Lincoln’s Treasury Secretary
 Garland, Augustus H. (Letter) $85
1st Arkansas presidential Cabinet member, US & CSA Senator
 Gerard, James W. (Letter) $35
Noted diplomat, popular Ambassador to Germany before US entry into WW I
 Graham, William A. (Letter) $150
1851 LS as Fillmore’s Navy Secretary, 1852 Whig VP candidate with Winfield Scott
 House, Col. Edward M. (Letter) $95
Col. House to US Minister to Poland, seeking help for two Jewish women
 Hughes, Charles Evans (Photograph) $225
Signed Harris & Ewing official photo as Chief Justice
 Hughes, Charles Evans (Photograph) $175
Signed Harris & Ewing photo while Secretary of State
 Hunter, Robert M. T. (Letter) $225
Postwar ALS of the Virginia, US and CSA statesman, youngest ever House Speaker, pictured on CSA $10 bill
 Huntington, Samuel (Document) $595
1772 DS as New London County, Connecticut Justice of the Peace, summons “in His Majesty’s name”
 Johnson, Reverdy (Letter) $125
Maryland lawyer, US Senator & Attorney General, represented Dred Scott’s Owner and Mary Surratt
 Kellogg, Frank B. (Letter) $135
Nobel Laureate and Ex- Secretary of State asks Japan Ambassador Grew for help with Japanese silk shirt order!
 Kemp, Jack (Photograph) $30
Professional football player, Congressman, Presidential Cabinet member, 1996 GOP VP candidate
 Kendall, Amos (Letter & Free Frank) $125
1830 LS of Jackson “kitchen cabinet” advisor as 4th Auditor of the Treasury
 Kennedy Sr., Joseph P. (Letter) $375
Early ALS mentioning father-in-law “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald and seeking a favor for a favor
 Kissinger, Henry A. (Letter) $50
Friendly 1990 letter to Nancy Reagan’s “other man”
 LaFollette, Robert M. (Photograph) $195
Great 1924 photo of the Progressive Party presidential candidate
 Livingston, Edward (Signature) $40
1832 signature clipped from DS as Jackson’s Secretary of State
 Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot (Letter) $65
Lodge seeks support in his 1936 campaign for GOP nomination for Massachusetts Senator
 Lodge Sr., Henry Cabot (Letter) $45
Senator Lodge sends an autograph
 Logan, John A. (Signature) $80
Illinois politician, Civil War Medal of Honor, 1884 VP candidate with Blaine
 Manning, Daniel (Letter) $45
1873 ALS of future Cleveland Treasury Secretary as newspaper editor to Democratic Party historian, interesting NY political content
 Marcy, William L. (Free Frank) $50
Influential early-mid 19th century statesman, coined phrase “spoils system” for political patronage)
 Marshall, George C. (Letter) $350
Secretary of State Marshall thanks Ambassador Grew for representing him at Josephus Daniels’ funeral
 Marshall, George C. (Letter) $350
Secretary of State Marshall thanks Amb. Grew for British author’s “take” on 19th century Austrian diplomat Prince Metternich
 Marshall, George C. (Letter) $295
General of the Army Marshall declines Amb. Grew’s invitation to Washington National Monumnemt Society luncheon
 Marshall, John (Letter) $3750
Principal founder of the American system of constitutional law
 Mason, James M. (Letter) $250
1860 ALS to President Buchanan from the Virginia Senator, wrote 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, CSA diplomat seized with Slidell in 1861 “Trent” Affair
 McCarthy, Joseph R. (Signed Portrait) $150
Inscribed & signed portrait of the 1950’s Senate demagogue
 McLane, Louis (Letter) $95
1833 LS as Jackson’s Treasury Secretary
 McNutt, Paul V. (Letter) $30
Served Indiana, American Legion and Philippines, WW II Federal Security Administrator
 Meigs Jr., Return J. & Johnson, Richard Mentor (Check) $225
1819 check in hand of future VP Richard Mentor Johnson, signed by Meigs while Postmaster General
 Mifflin, Thomas (Document) $595
Promissory note dated 3-½ weeks before opening of the Federal Constitutional Convention
 Miller, William E. (Photograph) $125
Signed color photograph of Goldwater’s 1964 GOP VP running mate
 Morrow, Dwight W. (Photograph) $110
Businessman, lawyer, diplomat, US Senator, father-in-law of Charles Lindbergh
 Morton, Rogers C. B. (Photograph) $50
Signed & inscribed color photo likely while Ford Interior Secretary
 Moultrie, William (ON HOLD) (Letter) $1150
South Carolina soldier-statesman calls for tougher slave patrol laws
 Norris, George W. (Photograph) $65
Father of TVA & 20th Amendment
 Parker, John M. (Note) $35
Progressive Party 1916 vice presidential candidate, Louisiana governor
 Perot, H. Ross, & Stockdale, James B. (First Day Cover) $75
Patriotic FDC signed By 1992 Reform Party Presidential & VP candidates
 Pickering, Timothy (Document) $495
Quarter Master General Pickering's 1783 receipt for funds for forage signed also by William Hull, vilified in War of 1812
 Pickering, Timothy (letter) $625
1795 ALS as Secretary of War to Superintendent of Military Stores Hodgdon on improper Mud Island Fort return
 Pinkney, William (Signature) $95
Statesman-diplomat, 7th US Attorney General (Madison)
 Powell, Colin L. (Letter) $115
1996 religious-content ALS on 4-star letterhead as General (Retired)
 Proctor, Redfield (Letter) $50
1891 TLS as Harrison’s Secretary of War
 Randolph, Edmund (ANS) $395
The 1st US Attorney General, 2nd Secretary of State, 7th Virginia Governor checks his bank balance
 Reid, Whitelaw (Letter) $45
1879 ALS as New York Tribune editor
 Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Document) $115
1963 message as New York Governor on opening of Newburgh-Beacon Bridge
 Sherman, John (Check) $90
1872 Jay Cooke & Co. Bankers check while Ohio Senator
 Sherman, John (Photograph) $175
Post-1881 signed cabinet photograph
 Smith, Al (Letter) $75
Al Smith thanks Swift meatpacking heiress for a Christmas "kind remembrance" (Bacardi rum!)
 Smith, Al (Letter) $65
"The Happy Warrior" hopes for a visit with a 21-year-old Chicago socialite/ heiress
 Spencer, John C. (Letter) $125
1833 ALS from the future (Tyler) Secretary of War to the former Secretary of War (J. Q. Adams)
 Spencer, John C. (Letter) $75
1848 ALS to celebrated collector Rev. Wm. B. Sprague, sends autograph of Stephen Decatur
 Stevens, Thaddeus (Letter) $115
Lawyer Stevens 1852 ALS on a legal matter while Member of Congress
 Stimson, Henry L. (Letter) $125
Secretary of State Stimson to send signed photo to Ambassador Grew in Istanbul
 Stoddert, Benjamin (Letter) $295
Banker, first Navy Secretary, purchased land to create the District of Columbia for the federal government
 Taney, Roger B. (Letter) $275
1834 ALS 3 weeks after leaving Treasury Department
 Thurmond, J. Strom (Photograph) $55
1948 “Dixiecrat” presidential candidate, served South Carolina in Senate for 47 years
 Tilden, Samuel J. (Letter) $225
1873 ALS from “loser” of the closest US presidential election -- until 2000!
 Tompkins, Daniel D. (Letter) $275
1815 ALS as New York Governor to General Peter B. Porter seeking appointment advice
 Vandenberg, Arthur H. (Letter) $35
Senator Vandenberg to Amb. Grew on HR 199, the “Judd Bill”, on immigration and naturalization
 Welles, Gideon (Document) $195
1841 ADS as Hartford, Connecticut Postmaster
 Welles, Sumner (Letter) $45
FDR’s 1937-43 Under Secretary of State, to his successor, Joseph Grew
 Wolcott Jr., Oliver (Letter) $175
1784 DS as Connecticut Pay Table member reminding Town of Glastonbury to file accounts for reimbursement by the United States

Americana
 Bache, Alexander D. (Letter) $250
1838 ALS to trustee Joseph Hopkinson raising problems with Stephen Girard’s will to further aims of Girard College
 Bartholdi, Frederic Auguste (Signature) $335
French sculptor, creator of The Statue of Liberty
 Barton, Clara (Letter) $595
Barton thanks her “comrade friends” for expressions of support while ill
 Clarkson, Matthew (Letter) $350
1793 ALS to state Comptroller General John Nicholson from the Philadelphia mayor, a hero of the 1793 yellow fever epidemic a few months after
 Clayton, Powell (Letter) $65
1889 TLS from Union general, 1st Republican (“carpetbag”) Arkansas governor
 Farmer, Fannie M. (Signature) $250
American 19th century culinary expert, her cookbook still in print 100+ yearslLater
 Genet, Edmond-Charles (Document) $250
Citizen Genet:: corrosive French diplomat turned American citizen
 Hall, A. Oakley & Connolly, Richard B. (Check) $50
1871 check signed by "Tweed Ring" members, NYC Mayor Hall & City Comptroller Connolly
 Harrod, James (Document) $1750
1785 legal document signed by the frontiersman who built the first settlement in Kentucky
 Hiss, Alger (FDC) $195
Controversial alleged Communist spy, his 1950 case launched cCareers of Nixon & McCarthy
 Hoban, James (Document) $850
Rare 1824 DS of Irish-born architect of The White House as Distrrict of Columbia Justice of the Peace
 Leary, Dr. Timothy (Document) $295
1960’s US counterculture icon, famed for promoting benefits of LSD: “turn on, tune in, drop out”
 Marshall, James W. (Signed Souvenir Card) $3950
Very rare souvenir card signed by the discoverer of gold in California!
 McCarthy, Joseph R. (Signed Portrait) $150
Inscribed & signed portrait of the 1950’s Senate demagogue
 Ogden Aaron (Document) $495
The provisional US Army stands down in 1800 as the threat of war with France ends
 Phillips, Wendell (Letter) $95
The ardent abolitionist grants an autograph to an admirer
 Phillips, Wendell (AQS) $135
Ca. 1864 quotation in the famed reformer-abolitionist’s hand
 Reeves, David Wallis (Letter) $95
ALS of the prominent 19th Century bandmaster & march composer on his pictorial letterehad
 Smith, Samuel F. (AQS) $750
Signed handwritten beginning of first stanza ("My country-'tis' of thee...of thee I sing") of national hymn “America”
 Volstead, Andrew J. (Letter) $110
1903 ALS from "father" of 1919 Prohibition Act to enforce 18th Amendment
 Webster, Noah (Signature) $195
American lexicographer, education pioneer, his textbooks taught 5 generations of American children to spell & read
 Whalen, Grover (First Day Cover) $25
Signed New York Golden Jubilee FDC by head of the 1939-40 NY World's Fair
 Wilmot, David (Letter) $125
Authored 1846 Wilmot Proviso to ban slavery from territory acquired from Mexico
 Yorty, Sam (Letter) $50
Mayor Yorty defends the LAPD & Chief Parker 2 weeks after the August 1965 Watts Riots

Americana-California
 Mooney, Tom (Photograph) $325
Great signed photo of the labor activist marching on Market Street on release from San Quentin
 Otis, Harrison Gray (Document) $75
Influential conservative 2nd publisher of the Los Angeles Times, instrumental in city’s growth
 Sloat, John D. (Autograph Endorsement Signed) $225
Raised flag over Monterey July 7, 1846, proclaiming California as part of the United States
 Stanford, Leland (Document) $695
1887 DS as Central Pacific Railroad President, deeding acreage in Nevada County, California
 Sutro, Adolph (Check) $75
“The King of the Comstock”, noted for Sutro Tunnel & Sutro Baths, San Francisco mayor 1894-96

Americana-Hawaii
 Emma, Queen Consort of Hawaii (ON HOLD) (Signature) $350
Signature of Hawaii’s Queen 1856-63

Americana-New York/New York City
 Clinton, DeWitt (Letter) $225
1827 ALS as Governor, seeks information before issuing a pardon to an inmate in the nation’s 1st juvenile reformatory
 Clinton, George (Document) $395
1800 ADS of New York’s 1st state governor, Jefferson & Madison’s VP
 Duffy, Father Francis P. (Photograph) $195
New York Catholic priest, most decorated chaplain in US Army history, served with “Fighting 69th” in France in WW I
 Ely Jr., Smith (Letter) $30
1877 LS as Mayor of New York
 Lehman, Herbert (Letter) $30
Honest Governor Lehman returns hotel key, asks for his telephone bill!
 Low, Seth (Letter) $45
1st President of Columbia University, reformist 2nd Mayor of New York City
 Opdyke, George (Letter) $75
1862 LS from New York City’s Civil War Mayor
 Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Document) $115
1963 message as New York Governor on opening of Newburgh-Beacon Bridge
 Thompson, Smith; Kent, James; Spencer, Ambrose; Van Ness, Wm. W. (Document) $175
1809 New York State Supreme Court opinion on reasonable compensation for Court reporter
 Tompkins, Daniel D. (Letter) $275
1815 ALS as New York Governor to General Peter B. Porter seeking appointment advice
 Wood, Fernando (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $30
Colorful “Copperhead” Civil War mayor of New York City

Americana-Texas
 Ferguson, Miriam A. "Ma" (Signed Card) $65
Controversial 1st Texas woman governor, 2nd female US governor
 Worth, William J. (Letter) $350
Namesake of Fort Worth, Texas & Lake Worth, Florida, prosecuted 2nd Seminole War, Mexican-American War hero

Americana-Washington, D.C. Area
 Corcoran, William W. (Letter) $110
Early ALS from prominent Washington DC banker, philanthropist, and art collector
 Hoban, James (Document) $850
Rare 1824 DS of Irish-born architect of The White House as Distrrict of Columbia Justice of the Peace
 Thornton, William (Document) $295
Designed US Capitol, 1st Architect of the Capitol, 1st Patent Office Superintendent

Art & Architecture
 Bartholdi, Frederic Auguste (Signature) $335
French sculptor, creator of The Statue of Liberty
 Blake, Bud (Original sketch) $75
Signed original sketch of comic strip characters "Tiger" and "Stripe"
 Botero Angulo, Fernando (Signed Postcard Reproduction) $50
Signed color postcard reproduction of one of his “full-figured” paintings
 Caniff, Milt (Letter) $75
Caniff is pleased "Steve Canyon" panel on soil stablization was used by the "Chemical and Engineering News"
 Catlin, George (ON HOLD) (Signature) $750
Artist, author & traveler, noted for Old West Native American portraits & scenes
 Christy, Howard Chandler (Photograph) $225
Signed 1929 photograph of the eminent artist & illustrator
 Corbett, Harvey Wiley (Autograph Statement Signed) $295
Lovely handwritten statement on the importance of architecture and architects in society
 Dalí, Salvador (Signed Print) $495
“Adult” print signed by the controversial, flamboyant Spanish Catalan Surrealist
 Fox, Fontaine (Signed Sketch) $175
Signed original sketch of Toonerville Trolley's "Aunt Eppie Hogg"
 French, Daniel Chester (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $125
Eminent American sculptor, created seated Lincoln statue for Lincoln Memorial
 Gibson, Charles Dana (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $75
American graphic artist, famed for the “Gibson Girl” and Gibson Martini!
 Guisewite, Cathy (Original Sketch) $50 Special Offer: $40
Original signed “Cathy” sketch

"Cathy" never could resist a sale - should you?
 Hassam, Childe (Signature) $135
Frameable signature of the leading American Impressionist painter
 Hastings, Thomas D. (Letter) $150
Architect who transformed St. Augustine, Florida, designed New York Public Library & Arlington Cemetery’s Memorial Ampitheater
 Hoban, James (Document) $850
Rare 1824 DS of Irish-born architect of The White House as Distrrict of Columbia Justice of the Peace
 Hurd, Peter (Letter) $150
Handwritten letter (ALS) from the student of Howard Pyle and son-in-law of N. C. Wyeth
 Johnson, Philip (Photograph) $135
Highly influential 20th century American architect
 Karsh, Yousuf (First Day Cover) $85
One of the worlds’s greatest portrait photographers
 Lawrence, Jacob (Signed Postcard Reproduction) $135
Color postcard reproduction signed by one of the best artistic portrayers of the African-American experience
 Loewy, Raymond (Photograph) $250
Great 20th century industrial designer, created Shell & Exxon logos, Studebaker Avanti, Lucky Strike package, etc.
 Luhan, Mabel Dodge (Signature) $150
Rare autograph of the wealthy patron associated with the Taos Art Colony; author
 Morris, Benjamin Wister (Letter) $150
Prominent NYC architect, designed interiors for ocean liner “Queen Mary”, NYC skyscrapers
 Olmsted, Frederick Law (Letter) $650
The "father of American landscape architecture" eulogizes Henry Ward Beecher
 Remington, Frederic (Framed Letter) $1750 Special Offer: $1500
Handsomely framed letter from Frederic Remington to Hearst political cartoonist Homer Davenport, shortly before Remington is off to Cuba

A sculpted reduction especially drawn for you!
 Rockwell, Norman (Signed Print) $475
Signed large print of “Jockey Weighing In”
 Rudolph, Paul M. (FDC) $40
“Sarasota School” architect noted for cubist building designs
 Segal, George (First Day Cover) $30
“Pop Art” sculptor noted for casting life-size figures and hosting original “happenings”
 Sloan, John (Signed Envelope) $185
Eminent American realist artist, member of “The Eight” and “Ashcan School”
 Stone, Edward Durrell (Photograph) $225
Exponent of International Style of architecture
 Thornton, William (Document) $295
Designed US Capitol, 1st Architect of the Capitol, 1st Patent Office Superintendent
 Van Vechten, Carl (Letter) $115
American writer and photographer, patron of “the Harlem Renaissance”
 Walker, Mort (original sketch) $75
Signed original sketch of Beetle Bailey

Aviation & Space
 Allen, Joseph P. (Photograph) $35
Scientist-astronaut, flew on STS5 & STS51-A space shuttle missions
 Armstrong, Neil (Photograph) $2500
Rare inscribed signed NASA color photo in spacesuit, moon in background
 Balchen, Bernt (Photograph) $95
First to pilot aircraft over both South (1929) & North (1949) Poles
 Boyd, J. Erroll (FDC) $125
"The Canadian Lindbergh", 1st Canadian & 2nd British citizen to fly the Atlantic
 Brand, Vance D. (Photograph) $35
Flew on Apollo-Soyuz mission, commanded 3 space shuttle flights
 Brereton, Lewis H. (Letter) $195
One of first US military aviation commanders, served in nearly all theaters in WW II
 Carpenter, M. Scott (Photograph) $75
Color photograph suiting up for "Aurora 7" launch
 Chamberlin, Clarence D. (Photograph) $225
Paris studio photo signed by 2nd man to fly transatlantic nonstop, 1st with passenger
 Collins, Michael (Signed NASA Brochure) $450 Special Offer: $395
NASA Apollo 11 Mission Report signed by command module pilot Collins

Save a little space for this in your collection!
 Conrad Jr., Charles "Pete" (Photograph) $125
Deceased Gemini, Apollo moonwalker, Skylab astronaut
 Conrad, Charles "Pete" (Photograph) $150
Gemini, Apollo (moonwalker), Skylab programs astronaut, killed in 1999 accident
 Cooper, Gordon (Photograph) $225
Original Mercury 7 astronaut, flew 1963 “Faith 7” & 1965 Gemini 5 missions
 Coppens De Houthulst, Willy (Photograph) $60
Leading Belgian WW I ace, top “balloon buster”
 Corrigan, Douglas "Wrong Way" (signature) $85
Folk hero for “mistakenly” flying New York-Ireland solo 1938
 Crippen, Robert L. (Photograph) $75
NASA astronaut, flew 4 Space Shuttle missions, 3 as commander
 Doolittle, James H. (Photograph) $125
Aviation pioneer, led 1942 air raid on Tokyo
 Dunbar, Bonnie (FDC) $25
Signed 1980 FDC honoring pioneer aviatrix Blanche Stuart Scott
 Eaker, Ira C. (Letter) $95
Uncommon ALS of deputy USAAF commander, led bomber command in Europe
 Faget, Maxime A. (Photograph) $95
Aerospace engineer, original member of NASA’s Space Task Group, designed Mercury space capsule
 Foss, Joe (First Day Cover) $60
WW II Marine Corps ace, Medal of Honor recipient, So. Dakota statesman, television personality, NRA president
 Goebel, Col. Arthur C. (Photograph) $150
Impressive signed photo of Hollywood stunt pilot, won 1927 Dole Oakland-Honolulu race, 1928 nonstop transcontinental Air Derby, etc.
 Grahame-White, Claude (Signed Card) $65
1915 autograph of pioneer British aviator-teacher-airplane manufacturer
 Grissom, Virgil I. "Gus" (Photograph) $895
2nd American in space, killed in Apollo 1 tragedy
 Hartsfield, Hank (Signature) $25
In-person astronaut signature, adds Space Shuttle flights
 Irwin, James B. (Photograph) $295
Early NASA portrait of future moonwalker with lunar module model
 Johnson (Mollison), Amy (Signature) $195
Record-setting British aviatrix of 30’s, killed at age 38!
 Johnson, C. L. "Kelly" (Photograph) $125
Eminent Lockheed engineer, designed Constellation, P-38 fighter, P-80 (1st US operational jet fighter), F-104 Starfighter, U-2, SR-71 Blackbird, etc.
 Kenney, George C. (Letter) $165
1948 ALS as 1st SAC commander, led MacArthur’s air war in SW Pacific in WW II
 Khrunov, Yevgeni V. (FDC) $50
Original USSR cosmonaut, 1st to transfer from one manned spacecraft to another in Space
 Leonov, Alexei & Belyaev, Pavel (Photograph) $395
Photo of 1st space walk signed by Voskhod II crewmates
 Lousma, Jack & Fullerton, C. Gordon (Signed Launch Cover) $85
Signed 1982 3rd Columbia Space Shuttle flight launch cover
 McAuliffe, S. Christa (Signature) $900
1st non-astronaut to be sent to space, killed in 1986 explosion of Shuttle "Challenger"
 McDivitt, James A. (Letter) $75
1970 TLS of Gemini & Apollo astronaut as NASA Apollo program manager
 McNair, Ronald E. (Photograph) $350
2nd African-American in space, killed in 1986 “Challenger” disaster
 Morrow, Dwight W. (Photograph) $110
Businessman, lawyer, diplomat, US Senator, father-in-law of Charles Lindbergh
 Nebel, Rudolf (Signed Photograph & Quotation) $75
Early German rocketry & space flight advocate
 Nobile, Unberto (Signed card) $110
Italian airship designer-pilot, North Pole explorer
 Onizuka, Ellison S. (Cover) $250
Space Shuttle astronaut killed in 1986 "Challenger" disaster!
 Osher, Ernest (Letter) $35
WW II P-38 ace in European Theater of Operations
 Paulhan, Louis (Photograph) $175
French pioneer "early bird" pilot, flew world’s 1st seaplane, set many early aviation records
 Resnik, Judith A. (Photograph) $295
1st Jewish astronaut, 2nd US woman in space, killed in 1986 “Challenger” disaster
 Rickenbacker, Eddie (Letter) $195
“Captain Eddie” runs his “ship”!
 Rosendahl, Charles E. (Photograph) $175
US Navy airship advocate, commanded “Los Angeles” & “Akron”, Lakehurst CO 1934-38
 Rutan, Dick & Yeager, Jeana (Signatures) $75
Flew 1986 1st nonstop, non-refueled around-the-world flight
 Santos-Dumont, Alberto (Signature) $225
1928 signature of the Brazilian-born airship & airplane pioneer
 Schirra, Wally (Photograph) $175
Original US astronaut, flew on Mercury, Gemini & Apollo program missions
 Schweickart, Russell L. "Rusty" (Photograph) $95
Emmy Award-winning Apollo 9 astronaut
 See Jr., Elliot M. (Photograph) $350
Member of 2nd US astronaut group, scheduled Gemini 9 command pilot, killed in 1966 accident
 Shepard, Alan B. (Photograph) $295
Vintage NASA Mercury-era signed color portrait of 1st American in space
 Spaatz, Carl (Letter) $225
ALS as 1st US Air Force Chief of Staff
 Stewart, Homer J. (Photograph) $90
US rocket pioneer, helped develop Explorer I, 1st US satellite launched Jan. 1958
 Wilkins, Sir George Hubert (Photograph) $85
Australian Arctic-Antarctic explorer, attempted 1st submarine polar expedition
 Worden, Alfred M. "Al" (Photograph) $75
NASA astronaut, Apollo 15 command module pilot
 Yeliseyev, Alexei S. (Photograph) $50
Soviet cosmonaut, flew on three 1969 Soyuz missions

Black (African-American) Leaders
 Ali, Muhammad (AQS & Sketch) $350
Signed 1991 hand-drawn sketch & spiritual quotation by “The Greatest”
 Anderson, Marian (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $150
1944 autograph sentiment signed by the famed contralto
 Arroyo, Martina (Photograph) $30
One of the first African-American opera stars
 Bruce, Blanche Kelso (ON HOLD) (Document) $195
1st African-American elected to a full US Senate term
 Bumbry, Grace (Photograph) $30
Pioneer African-American mezzo & high soprano opera singer
 Davis, Angela Y. (AQS) $150
1960’s political activist, Black Panther associate, 1980 & 1984 Communist Party VP candidate
 Dunham, Katherine (Photograph) $125
Vintage signed photo of the "Matriarch & Queen Mother of Black Dance"
 Ellington, Edward "Duke" (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $175
Autograph Sentiment Signed at 1947 University of Minnesota Senior Prom
 Haley, Alex (Photograph) $125
Journalist, authored popular, successful, controversial “Roots” 1976
 Hayes, Roland (Signed Portrait) $125
African-American lyric tenor, 1st Black male concert artist to receive international acclaim
 King Sr., Martin L. (First Day Cover) $95
“Daddy King”, Atlanta minister & NAACP leader, early social justice advocate, lost wife & son to gun violence
 King, Coretta Scott (Letter) $195
1969 TLS to a teacher, sending thanks for picture made by his pupils
 Lawrence, Jacob (Signed Postcard Reproduction) $135
Color postcard reproduction signed by one of the best artistic portrayers of the African-American experience
 McNair, Ronald E. (Photograph) $350
2nd African-American in space, killed in 1986 “Challenger” disaster
 Mercer, Mabel (Signed Sheet Music) $150
Sheet music signed by the great cabaret singer
 Mitchell, Leona (Photograph) $25
Renowned African-American lyric-spinto soprano
 Sims, Naomi (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $25
1st African-American supermodel, businesswoman, author
 Waller, Thomas "Fats" (Document) $395
1936 receipt signed by the popular songwriter, master of the stride piano
 Weaver, Robert C. (First Day Cover) $40
1st HUD Secretary & 1st African-American Cabinet member
 Wilkins, Roy (Signed Portrait) $115
Led NAACP in 1960's struggle for African-American civil rights

Business & Finance
 Altman, Benjamin (Check) $125 Special Offer: $110
Check signed by the founder of B. Altman & Co. department stores, notable philanthropist

A "B. Altman" bargain!
 Angell, Sir (Ralph) Norman (Letter) $75
English 1933 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, believed European economic integration would make militarism obsolete
 Astor, William Waldorf, 2nd Viscount (Letter) $110
Astor thanks his sister for a souvenir riding crop for rambling at Cliveden
 Bacon, Robert (Photograph) $110
Secretary of State for last 38 days of Theodore Roosevelt’s term, inscribed to US Steel’s Judge Gary
 Baruch, Bernard M. (Letter) $225
The Bible is the one book he would choose to have if he could only choose one!
 Belmont Jr., August (Letter) $175
Financier & sportsman, horse racing’s Belmont Stakes & Belmont Park named for him
 Bennett Jr., James Gordon (Letter) $195
Newspaper publisher, sent Stanley to find Livingstone, established trophies in yacht, aviation & auto racing
 Bessemer, Sir Henry (Letter) $225
English inventor best known for revolutionizing steel manufacture
 Biddle, Nicholas (Letter) $295
ALS written shortly after opening state-chartered The Bank of the United States in Pennsylvania
 Biddle, Nicholas (Letter) $325
1835 ALS while controversial President of the doomed 2nd Bank of the United States
 Brandeis, Louis D. (Letter) $495
Justice Brandeis cites a pioneer company’s attempt at workplace democracy
 Claflin, Tennessee C. (Signature) $450
“Tennie C.”, colorful & controversial women’s rights advocate
 Corcoran, William W. (Letter) $110
Early ALS from prominent Washington DC banker, philanthropist, and art collector
 Dunlop, John Boyd (Signature) $175
Scottish-born inventor of the pneumatic tire, a founder of the tire company bearing his name
 Duryea, Charles E. (Signature) $125
Automobile pioneer, developed 1st gasoline-powered commercial auto in 1893
 Eastman, George ( Letter) $1450 Special Offer: $1350
Great 1913 motion picture camera-related content TLS

Point your Kodak and save some $!
 Eaton, Cyrus S. (letter) $60
Cleveland investment banker, opponent of the Cold War, dubbed “the Kremlin's favorite capitalist"
 Field, Cyrus W. (Letter) $125
Developer of the Atlantic Cable and New York City’s Elevated “subway"
 Fisk Jr., James (Signed Card) $1500
Rare autograph of the financial buccaneer, Jay Gould associate in Erie Railroad takeover, murdered at 37
 Ford, Edsel (Letter) $575 Special Offer: $525
2nd president of Ford Motor Company comes to the aid of a troubled Yale Law student

A Ford in your future?
 Fox, William (Letter) $650
Pioneer motion picture executive, founder of Fox film & theater empire, namesake of today’s Fox TV network
 Frisch, Ragnar & Tinbergen, Jan (First Day Cover) $40
Recipients of first Nobel Prize for Economic Science in 1969
 Gannett, Frank E. (Photograph) $110
Media mogul, founded Gannett Corporation
 Hammer, Armand (Photograph) $175
Oil tycoon noted for close Cold War USSR ties, art collector & philanthropist
 Hunt, H. L. (ON HOLD) (Letter) $175
The arch-conservative Texas oil billionaire encourages writing letters to newspaper editors
 Insull, Samuel (Signed Card) $125
Chicago financier, created largest public utility holding company, collapsed in Depression
 Kahn, Otto W. (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $60
Banker, philanthropist, patron of the arts
 Kennedy Sr., Joseph P. (Letter) $375
Early ALS mentioning father-in-law “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald and seeking a favor for a favor
 Kettering, Charles F. (Photograph) $150
GM research VP, invented electric automobile starter, ignition & lighting, leaded gasoline, freon, auto paint, etc.
 Knox, John Jay (Letter) $65
1875 LS as Comptroller of the Treasury to Attorney General Pierrepont
 Kress, Samuel H. (Letter) $250
Businessman-philanthropist acknowledges 1938 election as Warm Springs Foundation Trustee
 Lasky Sr., Jesse L. (Photograph) $225
Pioneer movie mogul, co-founder of Paramount Pictures, produced Hollywood’s 1st feature film 1914
 Lewisohn, Adolph (Letter) $75
Philanthropist-financier Lewisohn gives season pass to Lewisohn Stadium Concerts to Rabbi Stephen S. Wise & wife
 Luce, Henry R. (Letter) $195
ALS from the communications empire founder to the wife of Yale’s president
 McCormick, Col. Robert R. (Photograph) $75
Ultra-conservative editor-publisher of the Chicago Tribune 1914-55
 Morgan Sr., J. Pierpont (Signature) $295
Frameable signature of perhaps the most dominant American financier & banker of his time
 Oppenheimer, Sir Ernest (Signature) $350
Created modern diamond industry, controlled largest cartel, promoted diamond engagement ring custom
 Otis, Harrison Gray (Document) $75
Influential conservative 2nd publisher of the Los Angeles Times, instrumental in city’s growth
 Paley, William S. (Letter) $75
Founder of CBS Radio & Television networks
 Phipps Jr., Henry (Photograph) $395
Partner of Andrew Carnegie, early Florida real estate investor, notable philanthropist
 Putnam, George H. (Letter) $75
Notable publisher, President of G. P. Putnam’s Sons for 52 years
 Redfield, William C. (Letter) $30
Banker & 1st Secretary of Commerce thanks another banker for a family kindness
 Reith, John Charles W., 1st Baron Reith of Stonehaven (Letter) $110
“Father” of the British Broadcasting Company (BBC), Member of Churchill’s War Cabinet
 Ringling, John (Document) $250
Signed 1926 season pass for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows
 Rockefeller Sr., John D. (Letter) $1100
Rockefeller appreciates message of sympathy on the 1915 death of his wife
 Ross, Nellie Tayloe (Photograph) $110
1st woman elected state governor, 1st woman Director of US Mint
 Ryan, Thomas Fortune (Letter) $225
New York City trolley mogul, American Tobacco Company co-founder, funded Catholic churches & schools
 Sarnoff, David (Letter) $395
Creator of the 1st radio network (NBC) to Ambassador Grew
 Sinclair, Harry F. (Signed Card) $150
Founded Sinclair Oil Company 1916, convicted in “Teapot Dome” scandal
 Sloan Jr., Alfred P. (Photograph) $150
Led General Motors 1923-56 to be world’s #1 business enterprise, notable philanthropist
 Spinner, Francis E. (Letter) $195
Treasurer Spinner cannot secure former House colleague’s appointment to commission investigating Freedmen’s Savings Bank
 Stanford, Leland (Document) $695
1887 DS as Central Pacific Railroad President, deeding acreage in Nevada County, California
 Stoddert, Benjamin (Letter) $295
Banker, first Navy Secretary, purchased land to create the District of Columbia for the federal government
 Sutro, Adolph (Check) $75
“The King of the Comstock”, noted for Sutro Tunnel & Sutro Baths, San Francisco mayor 1894-96
 Tabor, Horace A. W. (Signature) $350
Signature of “The Silver King”, likely while Colorado US Senator for 2 months
 Tobin, James (First Day Cover) $25
American Keynesian economist, awarded 1981 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
 Vanderbilt II, Cornelius; Depew, Chauncey M.; Clark, Charles P. (Document) $250
1895 four railroad New York land indenture agreement signed by 3 industry titans
 Vassar, Matthew (Signature) $195
English-born Poughkeepsie, NY brewer, founded Vassar College 1861
 Walker, Francis Amasa (Photograph) $95
Eminent 19th century statistician & economist, led MIT 1881-97
 Wanamaker, John (Letter) $75
1890 TLS as Postmaster General from the creator of the retail “money-back guarantee”
 Whitney, Harry Payne (Document) $225 Special Offer: $175
Stock transfer document signed by the financier-polo player-horse breeder & racer

For the polo player & horse aficionado!
 Wilson, Charles E. (TIME Portrait) $50
Signed TIME portrait of “Engine Charlie” while GM President
 Wolcott Jr., Oliver (Letter) $175
1784 DS as Connecticut Pay Table member reminding Town of Glastonbury to file accounts for reimbursement by the United States
 Zukor, Adolph (Photograph) $250
Pioneer film mogul, founder of Paramount Pictures, a creator of Hollywood as film center

Cabinet Members
 Adams III, Charles Francis (Photograph) $75
Hoover’s Navy Secretary, notable yachtsman
 Armstrong Jr., John (Document) $195
Soldier-statesman, Secretary of War 1813-14, forced to resign after burning of Washington
 Bacon, Robert (Photograph) $110
Secretary of State for last 38 days of Theodore Roosevelt’s term, inscribed to US Steel’s Judge Gary
 Barbour, James (Letter) $175
J. Q. Adams’ Secretary of War conditionally appoints a West Point cadet from New Jersey
 Blair, Montgomery (Letter) $450
1872 ALS of the jurist, a founder of the Republican Party, Lincoln’s Postmaster General
 Boutwell, George S. (Letter) $40
Former Treasury Secretary Boutwell notes his term in President Grant’s Cabinet
 Bryan, William Jennings (Letter) $275 Special Offer: $225
Secretary Bryan declares intention to nominate US Minister to Salvador as State Dept. Chief of Division of Latin American Affairs

a reduction in the commoner's scope!
 Calhoun, John C. (Letter) $350
1818 LS as Secretary of War to Quartermaster General Jesup
 Chandler, Zachariah (Letter) $70
1876 LS of Michigan Radical Republican leader in Senate as Grant’s Interior Secretary
 Clark, Tom C. (Photograph) $95
Nicely Inscribed 1945 Photo as Attorney General
 Clifford, Clark M. (Photograph) $40
Washington “supelawyer”, presidential advisor, LBJ Defense Secretary
 Cortelyou, George B. (Letter) $75
Treasury Secretary Cortelyou 1908 TLS to the President of the National Academy of Sciences
 Daniels, Josephus (Letter) $35
1920 TLS as President Wilson’s Navy Secretary
 Davis, Jefferson (Letter) $1250
Near mint 1856 LS as Secretary of War to Rep. Justin S. Morrill
 Denby, Edwin (Photograph) $50
"Teapot Dome" scandal dupe?
 Dickerson, Mahlon (Letter) $90
Written within a week of his appointment as Secretary of the Navy by President Jackson
 Dickerson, Mahlon (Letter) $95
1837 LS as Navy Secretary on discharge of a “colored lad”, a minor
 Dulles, John Foster (Letter) $135
Secretary Dulles thanks Amb. Grew for 1932 Lausanne Conference article for Department of State “Bulletin”
 Eaton, John H. (Letter) $225
1830 financial ALS while Secretary of War and Jackson protégé
 Fessenden, William Pitt (Letter) $195
Powerful Maine Senator, succeeded Chase as Lincoln’s Treasury Secretary
 Forrestal, James (Letter) $125
Last Cabinet level Secretary of the Navy - first Secretary of Defense
 Garland, Augustus H. (Letter) $85
1st Arkansas presidential Cabinet member, US & CSA Senator
 Graham, William A. (Letter) $150
1851 LS as Fillmore’s Navy Secretary, 1852 Whig VP candidate with Winfield Scott
 Hardin, Clifford M. (Letter) $30
Nixon Agriculture Secretary Hardin to Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans
 Harlan, James (Document) $85
1866 DS as Andrew Johnson’s Interior Secretary
 Hufstedler, Shirley M. (Signature) $25
1980 in-person signature while Carter's Secretary of Education
 Hughes, Charles Evans (Photograph) $175
Signed Harris & Ewing photo while Secretary of State
 Ickes, Harold (Letter) $90
TLS as FDR’s Interior Secretary for one week, to prominent Philadelphia philatelist
 Ickes, Harold (Photograph) $75
Signed photo of FDR’s & Truman’s Interior Secretary
 Ickes, Harold L. (Letter) $75
Designation of Public Works Administration’s Community Chest Divisional Chairman
 Johnson, Reverdy (Letter) $125
Maryland lawyer, US Senator & Attorney General, represented Dred Scott’s Owner and Mary Surratt
 Kellogg, Frank B. (Letter) $135
Nobel Laureate and Ex- Secretary of State asks Japan Ambassador Grew for help with Japanese silk shirt order!
 Kemp, Jack (Photograph) $30
Professional football player, Congressman, Presidential Cabinet member, 1996 GOP VP candidate
 Kendall, Amos (Letter & Free Frank) $125
1830 LS of Jackson “kitchen cabinet” advisor as 4th Auditor of the Treasury
 Kissinger, Henry A. (Letter) $50
Friendly 1990 letter to Nancy Reagan’s “other man”
 Lamont, Daniel S. (Letter) $75
1895 ALS as President Cleveland’s Secretary of War
 Lane, Franklin K. (Letter) $50
1914 DS as Wilson’s Interior Secretary, presided over creation of National Park Service
 Lansing, Robert (Letter) $150
Secretary Lansing appreciates a reference for a candidate for the Diplomatic Service
 Livingston, Edward (Signature) $40
1832 signature clipped from DS as Jackson’s Secretary of State
 MacVeagh, Wayne (Letter) $110
Uncommon 1881 LS as Garfield’s Attorney General
 Manning, Daniel (Letter) $45
1873 ALS of future Cleveland Treasury Secretary as newspaper editor to Democratic Party historian, interesting NY political content
 Marcy, William L. (Free Frank) $50
Influential early-mid 19th century statesman, coined phrase “spoils system” for political patronage)
 Marshall, George C. (Letter) $350
Secretary of State Marshall thanks Ambassador Grew for representing him at Josephus Daniels’ funeral
 Marshall, George C. (Letter) $350
Secretary of State Marshall thanks Amb. Grew for British author’s “take” on 19th century Austrian diplomat Prince Metternich
 Marshall, John (Letter) $3750
Principal founder of the American system of constitutional law
 Marshall, Ray (Signature) $25
1978 in-person signature while Secretary of Labor
 McCrary, George (Letter) $60
1877 LS as Secretary, declines historian’s request to search War Department archives
 McLane, Louis (Letter) $95
1833 LS as Jackson’s Treasury Secretary
 Meigs Jr., Return J. & Johnson, Richard Mentor (Check) $225
1819 check in hand of future VP Richard Mentor Johnson, signed by Meigs while Postmaster General
 Miller, William H. H. (Letter) $75
1891 TLS from President Harrison’s Attorney General on pension fraud prosecution
 Morton, Julius Sterling (Letter) $50
TLS while Secretary of Agriculture on “Plant Trees” letterhead
 Morton, Rogers C. B. (Photograph) $50
Signed & inscribed color photo likely while Ford Interior Secretary
 Palmer, A. Mitchell (Letter) $95
Wilson’s Attorney General, enforced Prohibition, directed “Palmer raids” against “Reds” & anarchists
 Pickering, Timothy (letter) $625
1795 ALS as Secretary of War to Superintendent of Military Stores Hodgdon on improper Mud Island Fort return
 Pinkney, William (Signature) $95
Statesman-diplomat, 7th US Attorney General (Madison)
 Proctor, Redfield (Letter) $50
1891 TLS as Harrison’s Secretary of War
 Randolph, Edmund (ANS) $395
The 1st US Attorney General, 2nd Secretary of State, 7th Virginia Governor checks his bank balance
 Redfield, William C. (Letter) $30
Banker & 1st Secretary of Commerce thanks another banker for a family kindness
 Roper, Daniel C. (Letter) $60
An invitation from FDR’s Secretary of Commerce to an August watermelon party!
 Sherman, John (Check) $90
1872 Jay Cooke & Co. Bankers check while Ohio Senator
 Sherman, John (Photograph) $175
Post-1881 signed cabinet photograph
 Spencer, John C. (Letter) $125
1833 ALS from the future (Tyler) Secretary of War to the former Secretary of War (J. Q. Adams)
 Spencer, John C. (Letter) $75
1848 ALS to celebrated collector Rev. Wm. B. Sprague, sends autograph of Stephen Decatur
 Stimson, Henry L. (Letter) $125
Secretary of State Stimson to send signed photo to Ambassador Grew in Istanbul
 Stoddert, Benjamin (Letter) $295
Banker, first Navy Secretary, purchased land to create the District of Columbia for the federal government
 Stuart, Alexander H. H. (Letter) $90
1852 LS as Fillmore’s Interior Secretary, to Rep S. G. Haven, President’s ex-law partner & friend
 Taney, Roger B. (Letter) $275
1834 ALS 3 weeks after leaving Treasury Department
 Toucey, Isaac (ON HOLD) (Letter) $85
ALS likely while Buchanan’s Navy Secretary
 Van Buren, Martin (Document) $525
1829 DS as Jackson’s Secretary of State, copyright for a French grammar textbook
 Wanamaker, John (Letter) $75
1890 TLS as Postmaster General from the creator of the retail “money-back guarantee”
 Weaver, Robert C. (First Day Cover) $40
1st HUD Secretary & 1st African-American Cabinet member
 Welles, Gideon (Document) $195
1841 ADS as Hartford, Connecticut Postmaster
 Wilson, Charles E. (TIME Portrait) $50
Signed TIME portrait of “Engine Charlie” while GM President
 Wilson, James (Document) $25
1897 DS as Agriculture Secretary, longest-serving presidential Cabinet member
 Wolcott Jr., Oliver (Letter) $175
1784 DS as Connecticut Pay Table member reminding Town of Glastonbury to file accounts for reimbursement by the United States

Circus
 Barnum, P. T. (Letter) $550
Frameable 1861 ALS from the father of “The Greatest Show on Earth”
 Bunker, Chang & Eng (ANS) $475
The original “Siamese Twins”
 Gebel-Williams, Gunther (First Day Cover) $25
Greatest animal trainer of all time, Ringling star 1969-90
 Leach, Bobby (Photograph) $75
English-born circus stuntman, 2nd person (1st man) to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel
 Ringling, Albert, Charles & Henry (Checks) $395
Three different Ringling Brothers checks signed by 3 of the 5 circus-founding family
 Ringling, John (Document) $250
Signed 1926 season pass for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows
 Thumb, General Tom (Charles S. Stratton) (ON HOLD) (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $395
Sideshow star employed by P. T. Barnum, at death stood 3-¼ feet tall & weighed 71 lbs.

Colonial Americana
 Francis, Tench (Document) $125
Prominent colonial Philadelphia lawyer, a founding trustee of what became the University of Pennsylvania
 Hoar, George F. (Letter) $25
Senator Hoar refers a woman author to MIT President Walker for assistance
 Huntington, Samuel (Document) $595
1772 DS as New London County, Connecticut Justice of the Peace, summons “in His Majesty’s name”
 McKean, Thomas (Document) $595
1779 MsDS as Pennsylvania’s Chief Justice

Congress of the US
 Bankhead, William B. (Photograph) $95
Photo while Speaker inscribed to FDR law partner Basil O’Connor
 Barkley, Alben W. (Letter) $95
Senate Majority Leader Barkley assists a collector seeking an FDR autograph
 Benton, Thomas Hart (Letter) $375
Senator Benton attributes his successes to his handwriting, praising those who write well!
 Blaine, James G. (Letter) $115
Blaine 1865 ALS to Internal Revenue Commissioner on passage of appropriation bill
 Boutwell, George S. (Letter) $40
Former Treasury Secretary Boutwell notes his term in President Grant’s Cabinet
 Bricker, John (Photograph) $30
1944 VP candidate on GOP ticket with Dewey
 Bruce, Blanche Kelso (ON HOLD) (Document) $195
1st African-American elected to a full US Senate term
 Burnside, Ambrose E. (Signature) $150
Led Army of the Potomac 1862-1863, signature while new Rhode Island Senator
 Calhoun, John C. (Letter) $350
1818 LS as Secretary of War to Quartermaster General Jesup
 Calhoun, John C. (ON HOLD) (Letter) $450
Senator Calhoun investigates cultivating Cuban tobacco
 Clark, Champ (Photograph) $50
Signed photograph likely while Speaker of the House
 English, William H. (Signed Card) $50
1880 Democratic VP candidate with Hancock
 Felton, Rebecca Latimer (Signature) $50
1st woman to serve in the US Senate, oldest “freshman” and shortest tenure ever (1 day); last former slaveholder Senator
 Fenton, Reuben E. (Letter) $75
1859 ALS of Whig NY Rep. Fenton, reporting on the future of a bill
 Gillett, Frederick H. (Photograph) $75
1922 photograph signed while Speaker of the House
 Harlan, James (Document) $85
1866 DS as Andrew Johnson’s Interior Secretary
 Hindman Jr., Thomas C., et al. (Letter) $950
18 Congressmen (3 future CSA generals) endorse a pick for Arkansas District US Attorney
 Hunter, Robert M. T. (Letter) $225
Postwar ALS of the Virginia, US and CSA statesman, youngest ever House Speaker, pictured on CSA $10 bill
 Kennedy, Edward M. "Ted" (Signature) $50
Kennedy declines to attend July 3 golf club luncheon
 Lodge Sr., Henry Cabot (Letter) $45
Senator Lodge sends an autograph
 Mann, James R. (Photograph) $50
Progressive Republican, best known as author of anti-prostitution “Mann Act” of 1910
 Marcy, William L. (Free Frank) $50
Influential early-mid 19th century statesman, coined phrase “spoils system” for political patronage)
 Martin Jr., Joseph W. (Signed Portrait) $40
Signed portrait while Speaker of the House
 Mason, James M. (Letter) $235
Virginia Senator, author of 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, CSA diplomat seized with Slidell in 1861 “Trent” Affair
 Mason, James M. (Letter) $250
1860 ALS to President Buchanan from the Virginia Senator, wrote 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, CSA diplomat seized with Slidell in 1861 “Trent” Affair
 McCarthy, Joseph R. (Signed Portrait) $150
Inscribed & signed portrait of the 1950’s Senate demagogue
 Morrow, Dwight W. (Photograph) $110
Businessman, lawyer, diplomat, US Senator, father-in-law of Charles Lindbergh
 Norris, George W. (Photograph) $65
Father of TVA & 20th Amendment
 Orr, James L. (Document) $90
The Speaker summons a witness to appear at 1859 Select House Committee inquiry into charges against Navy Department and Navy Yard officers
 Randall, Samuel J. (Signature) $30
Signature of the powerful Speaker of the House on the next-to-last day of the 44th Congress
 Sherman, John (Check) $90
1872 Jay Cooke & Co. Bankers check while Ohio Senator
 Smith, Marcus Aurelius ("Mark") (Letter) $40
Tombstone prosecutor, one of Arizona’s first two US Senators
 Smith, Margaret Chase (Letter) $35
1967 letter of advice to a constituent seeking a US Capitol job
 Stevens, Thaddeus (Letter) $115
Lawyer Stevens 1852 ALS on a legal matter while Member of Congress
 Tabor, Horace A. W. (Signature) $350
Signature of “The Silver King”, likely while Colorado US Senator for 2 months
 Thurmond, J. Strom (Photograph) $55
1948 “Dixiecrat” presidential candidate, served South Carolina in Senate for 47 years
 Vance, Zebulon B. (Letter) $150
Civil War Governor of North Carolina noted for guarding its interests & welfare
 Vandenberg, Arthur H. (Letter) $35
Senator Vandenberg to Amb. Grew on HR 199, the “Judd Bill”, on immigration and naturalization
 Volstead, Andrew J. (Letter) $110
1903 ALS from "father" of 1919 Prohibition Act to enforce 18th Amendment
 Walthall, Edward C. (Document) $175
Mississippi CSA Major General, post-War US Senator
 Washburn, Henry D. (Letter) $150
Future Yellowstone explorer leads regiments out of Missouri as acting Brigadier General
 Wilmot, David (Letter) $125
Authored 1846 Wilmot Proviso to ban slavery from territory acquired from Mexico

Educators
 Bache, Alexander D. (Letter) $250
1838 ALS to trustee Joseph Hopkinson raising problems with Stephen Girard’s will to further aims of Girard College
 Bush, Vannevar (Signature) $110
Led WW II Office of Scientific Research & Development, created 1st analog computer
 Compton, Karl T. (Signature) $40
Member of National Defense Research Committee, MIT President, defended WW II A-Bomb use
 Du Ponceau, Peter (Letter) $450
1831 ALS from French-born ethnologist & linguist, student of Native American languages
 Hoar, George F. (Letter) $25
Senator Hoar refers a woman author to MIT President Walker for assistance
 Howe, Samuel G. (Letter) $195
Noted teacher of the blind seeks ½-price railroad pass for a blind girl
 Low, Seth (Letter) $45
1st President of Columbia University, reformist 2nd Mayor of New York City
 Maclaurin, Richard C. ("Maclaurin of Tech") (Letter) $40
1916 TLS from the dynamic president of MIT to President Howe of Case School of Applied Science
 Mason, Max (Signature) $35
Mathematician-physicist-educator-inventor, directed construction of Palomar Observatory
 Mills, Susan L. (Letter) $125
Founder of Mills College, 1st women’s college in the far western United States
 Vassar, Matthew (Signature) $195
English-born Poughkeepsie, NY brewer, founded Vassar College 1861
 Veblen, Oswald (Signature) $50
Mathematician, an organizer of Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, oversaw creation of ENIAC, 1st electronic digital computer
 Walker, Francis Amasa (Photograph) $95
Eminent 19th century statistician & economist, led MIT 1881-97
 Webster, Noah (Signature) $195
American lexicographer, education pioneer, his textbooks taught 5 generations of American children to spell & read

Espionage
 Dulles, Allen W. (Letter) $175
1959 TLS as CIA Director, appreciates “kind thoughts” of his brother
 Hiss, Alger (FDC) $195
Controversial alleged Communist spy, his 1950 case launched cCareers of Nixon & McCarthy
 Smith, Walter Bedell (ON HOLD) (Letter) $225
1946 TLS as Ambassador to USSR, as Ike’s Chief of Staff handled arrangements for German surrender; 4th CIA Director

Explorers & Adventurers
 Balchen, Bernt (Photograph) $95
First to pilot aircraft over both South (1929) & North (1949) Poles
 Barrow, Sir John (Free Franked Panel) $195
A Cape, Town, Point, Strait and Duck named for him!
 Beebe, C. William (Photograph) $75
Scientist & explorer, made record 1934 bathyscape descent
 Blondin, Jean-Francois (Document) $250
Season pass from French tight-rope walker-acrobat noted for crossings of Niagara Falls
 Brodie, Steve (Signed Card) $115
Colorful Brooklyn bookmaker, claimed to have survived 1886 Brooklyn Bridge jump
 Byrd, Richard E. (Letter) $250
Byrd thanks Boy Scouts Chief Executive for expression of confidence 2 weeks before start of 1st Antarctic Expedition
 Du Chaillu, Paul B. (AQS) $125
Traveler-explorer-author, confirmed existence of African gorillas and pygmy peoples, Scandanavia prehistory scholar
 Freuchen, Peter (Photograph) $110
Uncommon signed photo of the Danish Greenland explorer, traveler and author
 Fuchs, Sir Vivian (Photograph) $75
First to cross the Antarctic via the South Pole
 Gibbons, Floyd (Signature) $25
Noted war correspondent & radio news commentator at the Salt Lake City Tabernacle
 Grosvenor, Gilbert H. (Letter) $175
“Father of photojournalism”, edited National Geographic Magazine 1899-1954, Society President 1920-54
 Halliburton, Richard (Signature) $95
1929 card signed by the world traveller, real-life adventurer , and author
 Hedin, Sven (Signed Portrait) $110
Swedish Central Asian explorer, geographer, topographer & author
 Hillary, Sir Edmund (Signature) $115
Conquerer of Mount Everest 1953
 Holmes, William H. (Letter) $50
Eminent US anthropologist, archaeologist, geologist & Smithsonian museum director
 Leach, Bobby (Photograph) $75
English-born circus stuntman, 2nd person (1st man) to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel
 Nobile, Unberto (Signed card) $110
Italian airship designer-pilot, North Pole explorer
 Peary, Robert E. (Letter) $350
Admiral Peary sends a collector a souvenir crystal from his North Pole expedition 17 months earlier
 Wallace, Alfred Russel (Document (Partial)) $225
Independently originated a theory of natural selection, published 1858 jointly with Darwin’s
 Washburn, Henry D. (Letter) $150
Future Yellowstone explorer leads regiments out of Missouri as acting Brigadier General
 Wilkins, Sir George Hubert (Photograph) $85
Australian Arctic-Antarctic explorer, attempted 1st submarine polar expedition

First Ladies of the US
 Bush, Barbara (Letter) $125
Uncommon TLS as First Lady
 Carter, Rosalynn (Signed Inaugural Cover) $75
Signed White House envelope with 1977 Inauguration Day postmark
 Cleveland, Frances F. (letter) $225
First Lady Frances Cleveland 1897 ALS to sensationalist preacher Dewitt Talmadge
 Cleveland, Frances Folsom (Signed Executive Mansion Card) $110
Signed Executive Mansion Card
 Cleveland, Frances Folsom (Photograph) $195
1894 cabinet photo signed while First Lady
 Eisenhower, Mamie D. (Letter) $135
Mamie hopes to visit Abilene and Eisenhower Library, praised by grandson David
 Eisenhower, Mamie Doud (Photograph) $85
Signed photograph of the popular First Lady
 Garfield, Lucretia R. (Check) $395
Signed bank check written a year after President Garfield’s death
 Harding, Florence Kling (Letter) $425
The First Lady to an inspirational severely wounded WW I veteran who would die 4 days later!
 Harding, Florence Kling (ON HOLD) (Signed Card) $225
Signed card with gilt presidential seal
 Johnson, Lady Bird (Photograph) $110
Lovely 1964 portrait while First Lady
 Kennedy, Jacqueline (Letter) $695
The First Lady-to-be sends thanks for a book 2 weeks after her son’s birth
 Kennedy, Jacqueline (Letter) $750
1968 TLS to a JFK friend & supporter thanking him for copy of his article, “The Seated Statue of Lincoln”
 Kennedy, Jacqueline (Letter) $795
Sept. 1968 TLS to JFK friend & supporter thanking him for copy of his book, “The Seated Lincoln”
 Nixon, Pat (FDC) $150
Signed 1948 Women’s Centennial of Progress stamp cacheted First Day Cover
 Nixon, Pat (Photograph) $225
The Nixons arm-in-arm at daughter Tricia’s 1971 White House wedding
 Reagan, Nancy (Photograph) $75
Signed photograph with husband Ronald Reagan
 Roosevelt, Edith Kermit (Letter) $295
The ever-maternal First Lady prepares to present daughter Ethel to society
 Taft, Helen H. (Free Franked Envelope) $135
Free-franked, hand-addressed envelope postmarked 1939
 Taft, Helen Herron (Letter) $395
Scarce White House letter from First Lady Helen H. Taft
 Truman, Bess W. (Photograph) $95
Small signed photo of the very private First Lady
 Wilson, Edith B. (Signature) $60
Nice signed engraved "Mrs. Woodrow Wilson" calling card

Framers of the US Constitution
 Mifflin, Thomas (Document) $595
Promissory note dated 3-½ weeks before opening of the Federal Constitutional Convention
 Morris, Robert (Document) $795
1795 $3,000 3-year promissory note to his partner - also later jailed for debt

Inventors
 Alexanderson, Ernest F. W. (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $85
Swedish-American engineer, developed Alexanderson alternator to make voice radio broadcasts possible, contributed to television development
 Bessemer, Sir Henry (Letter) $225
English inventor best known for revolutionizing steel manufacture
 Black, Alexander (Letter) $125 Special Offer: $110
Inventor of the “picture play”, made President Grover Cleveland a “film star”!

A nice gift for the film industry "buff"!
 Claude, Georges (ANS) $150
French chemist, invented neon lighting, developed liquid chlorine for WW I poison gas, WW II collaborator
 Coolidge, William D. (Signature) $75
Inventor of the “Coolidge Tube”, made medical x-rays safe and convenient
 DeForest, Lee (Letter) $525 Special Offer: $475
“The Father of Radio” salutes radio’s “unbelievable progress”!

Find a discount on your radio dial!
 Dunlop, John Boyd (Signature) $175
Scottish-born inventor of the pneumatic tire, a founder of the tire company bearing his name
 Duryea, Charles E. (Signature) $125
Automobile pioneer, developed 1st gasoline-powered commercial auto in 1893
 Eastman, George ( Letter) $1450 Special Offer: $1350
Great 1913 motion picture camera-related content TLS

Point your Kodak and save some $!
 Goldmark, Peter C. (Photograph) $125
Developed color television, 33-1/3 LP record, electronic videotape recording, etc.
 Hammond Jr., John Hays (Signature) $50
“The Father of Radio Control”
 Higinbotham, William A. (Signed Typescript) $150
Created the first computer game, a precursor to “Pong”, in 1958!
 Kettering, Charles F. (Photograph) $150
GM research VP, invented electric automobile starter, ignition & lighting, leaded gasoline, freon, auto paint, etc.
 Maxim, Hudson (Signature) $150
Inventor of smokeless gunpowder
 Maxim, Hudson (Photograph) $175
Signed photograph of the inventor of smokeless gunpowder
 Zuse, Konrad (Photograph) $350
German engineer, created 1st program-controlled computer (1941), 1st algorithmic programming language (1944-45)

Journalism
 Bennett Jr., James Gordon (Letter) $195
Newspaper publisher, sent Stanley to find Livingstone, established trophies in yacht, aviation & auto racing
 Bly, Nellie (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $395
Pioneer woman journalist, noted for 1890 record 72-day trip around the world & exposé of NYC women’s lunatic asylum
 Dana, Charles A. (Letter) $75
Dana of “The Sun” regrets he cannot accept J. P. Morgan & Committee’s invitation to attend Chamber of Commerce annual banquet
 Eastman, Max (Letter) $75
Good content letter from American leftist editor, sharply repudiated socialism & communism
 Gannett, Frank E. (Photograph) $110
Media mogul, founded Gannett Corporation
 Gibbons, Floyd (Signature) $25
Noted war correspondent & radio news commentator at the Salt Lake City Tabernacle
 Grosvenor, Gilbert H. (Letter) $175
“Father of photojournalism”, edited National Geographic Magazine 1899-1954, Society President 1920-54
 Guest, Edgar A. (Letter) $35
Michigan’s popular “People’s Poet” declines a public appearance
 Luce, Henry R. (Letter) $195
ALS from the communications empire founder to the wife of Yale’s president
 Manning, Daniel (Letter) $45
1873 ALS of future Cleveland Treasury Secretary as newspaper editor to Democratic Party historian, interesting NY political content
 McCormick, Col. Robert R. (Photograph) $75
Ultra-conservative editor-publisher of the Chicago Tribune 1914-55
 Mencken, H. L. (Signed Envelope) $110
1946 envelope signed by the “Sage of Baltimore”
 Otis, Harrison Gray (Document) $75
Influential conservative 2nd publisher of the Los Angeles Times, instrumental in city’s growth
 Paley, William S. (Letter) $75
Founder of CBS Radio & Television networks
 Reid, Whitelaw (Letter) $45
1879 ALS as New York Tribune editor
 Reith, John Charles W., 1st Baron Reith of Stonehaven (Letter) $110
“Father” of the British Broadcasting Company (BBC), Member of Churchill’s War Cabinet
 Thompson, Dorothy (Photograph) $75
“The First Lady of American Journalism"
 Watterson, Henry (Letter) $30
Influential Kentucky editor, 1918 Pulitzer Prize recipient for editorials

Labor Leaders
 Chavez, Cesar E. (Letter) $195
1960’s iconic migrant farm worker labor organizer, reformer
 Curtis, Benjamin R. (Letter) $350
Former Justice Curtis offers a colleague his views on which Justice should hear a client’s case
 Gompers, Samuel (Document) $235
Gompers & two others certified as AFL delegates to 1919 International Federation of Trade Unions Conference in Amxsterdam
 Mooney, Tom (Photograph) $325
Great signed photo of the labor activist marching on Market Street on release from San Quentin
 Reuther, walter (Photograph) $95
Progressive United Auto Workers President 1946-70, CIO President 1952-55

Law & US Supreme Court
 Blair, Montgomery (Letter) $450
1872 ALS of the jurist, a founder of the Republican Party, Lincoln’s Postmaster General
 Brandeis, Louis D. (Letter) $495
Justice Brandeis cites a pioneer company’s attempt at workplace democracy
 Brandeis, Louis D. (Signature) $250
Frameable autograph album page signed by Court’s 1st Jewish Justice
 Brewer, David J. (Letter) $225
Humourous 1891 TLS on Court letterhead returning a corrected transcript of an extemporaneous speech
 Brown, Henry B. (Letter) $250
Justice Brown hails address by Connecticut jurist & Yale Law professor Simeon Baldwin
 Burger, Warren E. (Photograph) $165
Signed official portrait as Chief Justice
 Campbell, John A. (Signature) $425
Scarce signature as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S.
 Campbell, John A. (AES) $495
1864 endorsement as Confederate Assistant Secretary of War
 Campbell, John A. (Letter) $1500
1865 letter of reference for his jailer from imprisoned former Justice & CSA official
 Choate, Joseph H. (Letter) $75
Renowned attorney Choate nominates a lawyer for membership in the New York Bar Association
 Clark, Tom C. (Photograph) $95
Nicely Inscribed 1945 Photo as Attorney General
 Clifford, Clark M. (Photograph) $40
Washington “supelawyer”, presidential advisor, LBJ Defense Secretary
 Clifford, Nathan (Letter) $395
Brief letter of reference for his son from Justice Clifford
 Cranch, William (ANS) $395
2nd Supreme Court Reporter, administered oaths of office to Presidents Tyler & Fillmore while District of Columbia Chief Judge
 Ellsworth, Oliver (Document) $395
Lengthy 1784 ADS as Associate Justice of Connecticut, summons for the Sheriff of New Haven County
 Ellsworth, Oliver (Document) $495
Scarce 1797 MsDS while Chief Justice, paying $1,000 to Connecticut Federalist Senator Goodrich
 Evarts, William M. (Letter) $85
Wall Street lawyer Evarts aids a fellow attorney
 Fuller, Melville W. (Letter) $295
The Chief Justice salutes “The Lovers Year Book” and its creator
 Fuller, Melville W. (Photograph) $335
Uncommon signed cabinet photograph of the Chief Justice
 Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell (Letter) $650
Massachusetts Chief Justice Holmes presents a social dilemma
 Hoover, J. Edgar (ANS) $75
FBI Director Hoover 1943 inscription to eminent newsman Walter Winchell
 Hughes, Charles Evans (Photograph) $225
Signed Harris & Ewing official photo as Chief Justice
 Hughes, Charles Evans (Photograph) $175
Signed Harris & Ewing photo while Secretary of State
 Jackson, Robert H. (Letter) $225
Justice Jackson issues an invitation to lunch with US & Canadian lawyers & judges
 Johnson, Reverdy (Letter) $125
Maryland lawyer, US Senator & Attorney General, represented Dred Scott’s Owner and Mary Surratt
 Kenyon, Dorothy (Letter) $40
Controversial feminist lawyer-jurist-diplomat
 Marshall, John (Letter) $3750
Principal founder of the American system of constitutional law
 Matthews, Stanley (Letter) $395
Justice Matthews declines to attend reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland
 McKenna, Joseph (Letter) $175
Uncommon ALS while Associate Justice
 McLean, John (Letter) $395
Justice McLean, Cincinnati landlord, remits rents
 McLean, John (Letter) $495
Justice McLean 1838 ALS to his wife on the rigors of circuit riding
 McReynolds, James C. (Letter) $115
One of FDR-era Court’s staunch conservative “Four Horsemen”
 Miller, William H. H. (Letter) $75
1891 TLS from President Harrison’s Attorney General on pension fraud prosecution
 Nelson, Samuel (Letter) $335
Justice Nelson declines a Congressional banquet invitation to celebrate Washington’s birthday
 Peckham, Rufus W. (Signature) $90
Signature As Associate Justice
 Pitney, Mahlon (Letter) $225
The new Justice responds to letter of congratulations on his appointment
 Reed, Stanley F. (SCOTUS card) $45
Signed engraved Supreme Court notecard
 Rehnquist, William H. (Signed Card) $125
Signed engraved Court notecard
 Stewart, Potter (Letter) $125
“Centrist” on Warren and Burger Courts
 Stone, Harlan F. (Letter) $250
Chief Justice Stone thanks Ambasssador Grew for a humorous poem
 Stone, Harlan F. (Photograph) $275
Signed Harris & Ewing official portrait dated while Associate Justice
 Story, Joseph (Letter) $495
Justice Story seeks London address of a prominent English actor
 Supreme Court of the United States 1968-1969 (First Day Cover) $1495
1968 Oliver W. Holmes Jr. stamp FDC signed by the 9 members of the last “Warren Court”
 Supreme Court of the United States 1949-53 (Photograph) $2995
Large signed official Bachrach photo of the 1949-53 Vinson Court
 Supreme Court of the United States 1975-81 (Signed Booklet Insert) $850
Court visitors booklet signed by each Justice by his portrait & bio on inside pages
 Supreme Court of the United States 1975-81 (Photograph) $2250
Signed color informal photo of the Court featured on January 1977 Smithsonian Magazine cover
 Sutherland, George (Signature) $45
One of the New Deal Court’s conservative “Four Horsemen”
 Taft, William H. (Letter) $495
A tip of the hat and a thank you to an old soldier from Yale Law Professor Taft
 Taft, William H. (Letter) $325
The Chief Justice assists old acquaintances with Century Club recommendation
 Taney, Roger B. (Letter) $275
1834 ALS 3 weeks after leaving Treasury Department
 Thomas, Henry A. "Heck" (Document) $495
One of “The Three Guardsmen” who brought law & order to Indian/Oklahoma Territory
 Thompson, Smith (Document) $125
1812 financial ADS while New York State Supreme Court Justice
 Thompson, Smith; Kent, James; Spencer, Ambrose; Van Ness, Wm. W. (Document) $175
1809 New York State Supreme Court opinion on reasonable compensation for Court reporter
 Todd, Thomas (Document) $2250
1812 60-day promissory note signed while Associate Justice
 Waite, Morrison R. (Letter) $225
1874 ALS written 2 weeks after Senate confirmation as 7th US Chief Justice
 Waite, Morrison R. (Photograph) $250
Cabinet photo of the 7th US Chief Justice, nicely inscribed & signed on verso
 Warren, Earl (Letter) $250
The Chief Justice sends an autograph at a Congressman’s behest
 Washington, Bushrod (Letter) $1395
Justice Washington seeks a Senator’s aid for Philadelphia architect Samuel Blodgett’s desperate widow
 Welty, Eudora (Photograph) $110
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of short stories, novellas and novels on the American South
 White, Edward D. (Signature) $225
Card signed while Chief Justice, 1st Associate Justice elevated to Chief Justice
 White, Edward D. (Letter) $295
Justice White Seeks Treasury Department Tour for a Friend
 Willebrandt, Mabel Walker (Letter) $75
“Prohibition Portia”, one of the most prominent women lawyers of the 20's - 40's, sends thanks for copies of New Deal legislation
 Williams, Edward Bennett (First Day Cover) $30
Washington lawyer /insider, owned Baltimore Orioles & Washington Redskins
 Wilson, James (Document) $1495
1795 MsDS while Associate Justice, hiring real estate agents

Literature
 Addison, Joseph (ANS) $325
English author, co-founded “The Spectator” 1712, authored popular, influential “Cato, a Tragedy” 1713
 Alger Jr., Horatio (Autograph sentiment signed) $195
Children’s fiction author of hugely popular “rags to riches” stories
 Anderson, Maxwell (Document) $195 Special Offer: $175
1945 license for radio broadcast of his play "Elizabeth the Queen"

A price break in honor of a wonderful writer!
 Angell, Sir (Ralph) Norman (Letter) $75
English 1933 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, believed European economic integration would make militarism obsolete
 Benchley, Robert (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $90
Humorist, a founder of the Algonquin Round Table
 Bryant, William Cullen (Autograph Quotation Signed) $125
1861 AQS from the popular and influential 19th century American poet & editor
 Burgess, Thornton W. (AQS) $225
Children's author Thornton Burgess AQS from “Peter Rabbitt”
 Capote, Truman (Photograph) $275
Signed photo from 1973 “Sonny & Cher” TV show appearance
 Charteris, Leslie (Photograph) $75
Chinese-English author, creator of Simon Templar, “The Saint”
 Cheever, John (ON HOLD) (Photograph) $95
“The Chekhov of the Suburbs”, popular US novelist & short story writer
 Claudel, Paul (Photograph) $295
Signed photo of the deeply spiritual French poet, dramatist & diplomat
 Clemens, Samuel L. ("Mark Twain") (Check) $2250 Special Offer: $2100
1900 personal check from America’s best-known writer & humorist !

"Check" out Mark Twain!
 Cooper, James Fenimore (Check) $275
Signed 1842 Otsego County Bank check
 Coward, Sir Noel (Letter) $325
1933 TLS to friend, writer-historian Philip Guedalla
 Cronin, A(rchibald). J(oseph). (Document) $40
New York bank signature card signed by the popular Scottish physician-novelist
 DeQuincy, Thomas (Autographed Note Signed) $250
ANS (possibly from ALS to Wordsworth) from author of “Confessions of An English Opium Eater” .
 Douglas, Lloyd C. (Photograph) $60
American minister, authored popular novels “Magnificent Obsession”, “The Robe”, “The Big Fisherman”, successful films
 Du Chaillu, Paul B. (AQS) $125
Traveler-explorer-author, confirmed existence of African gorillas and pygmy peoples, Scandanavia prehistory scholar
 Du Ponceau, Peter (Letter) $450
1831 ALS from French-born ethnologist & linguist, student of Native American languages
 Eastman, Max (Letter) $75
Good content letter from American leftist editor, sharply repudiated socialism & communism
 Eberhart, Mignon G. (First Day Cover) $25
Edith Wharton stamp First Day Cover signed by “America's Agatha Christie”
 Eliot, George (Signature) $250
One of Victorian England's greatest novelists, one of world's foremost women writers
 Eliot, T. S. (Letter) $550
T. S. Eliot changes his London law firm
 Farmer, Fannie M. (Signature) $250
American 19th century culinary expert, her cookbook still in print 100+ yearslLater
 Fast, Howard (Photograph) $40
Jailed & blacklisted Communist, best known for novels “Citizen Tom Paine” & “Spartacus”
 Gardner, Erle Stanley (Photograph) $150
Creator of the great fictional crime-solving lawyer, Perry Mason
 Grass, Gunter (Photograph) $115
1999 German Nobel Laureate best known for 1959 “The Tin Drum”
 Guest, Edgar A. (Letter) $35
Michigan’s popular “People’s Poet” declines a public appearance
 Gurney, A. R. (Letter) $50
Author-playwright Gurney encourages another author-playwright on his plot
 Guthrie Jr., A. B. (Photograph) $90
Pulitzer Prize-winning Western novelist, wrote Oscar-nominated script for 1953 film “Shane”
 Hale, Edward Everett (ANS) $75 Special Offer: $60
Clergyman, US Senate chaplain, author of “The Man Without a Country”

A "hale" and hearty discount!
 Hale, Sarah J. (Letter) $350
Women’s & children’s author & editor, wrote “Mary Had a Little Lamb”
 Haley, Alex (Photograph) $125
Journalist, authored popular, successful, controversial “Roots” 1976
 Halliburton, Richard (Signature) $95
1929 card signed by the world traveller, real-life adventurer , and author
 Hobson, Laura Z. (First Day Cover) $35
Controversial Jewish feminist, author of 1947 “Gentlemen’s Agreement”
 Holland, Josiah G. (Signature) $40
Editor, novelist & poet, authored Christmas hymn "There’s a Song in the Air"
 Holmes Sr., Oliver Wendell (Letter) $185
Brief 1861 ALS sending his autograph
 Holmes Sr., Oliver Wendell (Signed Card) $90
1878 signature on frameable card
 Howard, Sidney Coe (Document) $350 Special Offer: $295
1928 contract for South African rights to one of his plays from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, & “Gone With the Wind” Oscar-winning screenplay writer

Get it before it is "Gone With The Wind"!
 Howells, William Dean (Signature) $85
“The Dean of American Letters”
 Isherwood, Christopher (Photograph) $175
English-born US novelist, his book “Berlin Stories” and play “I Am a Camera” the inspiration for “Cabaret”
 Koestler, Arthur (Photograph) $375
Hungarian-English-Jewish author, best known for 1941 “Darkness at Noon”
 London, Jack (Letter) $1150
London refers a fellow Socialist editor to his rather capitalist European agent
 Lowell, James Russell (Photograph) $350
Uncommon 1861 signed photograph of the popular New England writer, diplomat
 Luhan, Mabel Dodge (Signature) $150
Rare autograph of the wealthy patron associated with the Taos Art Colony; author
 Malraux, Andre (First Day Cover) $110
1964 US JFK Memorial stamp First Day Cover signed by the eminent French author & statesman
 Marsh, Dame Ngaio (First Day Cover) $50
New Zealand-born author, One of 4 original “Queens of Crime”
 Maurois, André (Photograph) $150
Handsome signed photograph of the eminent French author
 Mencken, H. L. (Signed Envelope) $110
1946 envelope signed by the “Sage of Baltimore”
 Miles, Josephine (Signed typescript) $30
Signed typescript of “Lucifer Alone” by the eminent Berkeley poet & critic
 Mitchell, Silas Weir (ANS) $125
Prominent Philadelphia neurologist & notable historical novelist
 Nichols, Anne (Photograph) $75
Producer-playwright of mid- 1920’s smash hit play “Abie’s Irish Rose”
 Odets, Clifford (Note) $95
1941 ANS of noted playwright and Hollywood screenwriter
 Oe, Kenzaburo (Signature) $75
Japanese novelist, awarded 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature
 Payne, John Howard (ANS) $250
Wrote “Home! Sweet Home!”, favorite song of Civil War soldiers and Abraham Lincoln
 Perelman, S. J. (Letter) $225
1962 TLS referring to his play “The Beauty Part”, soon to be an unfortunate flop
 Putnam, George H. (Letter) $75
Notable publisher, President of G. P. Putnam’s Sons for 52 years
 Rand, Ayn (FDC) $595
Rare First Day Cover signed by the novelist and creator of philosophy of “Objectivism”
 Riley, James Whitcomb (Photograph) $495
Large photograph inscribed in 1897 to fellow humorist Robert J. Burdette
 Rinehart, Mary Roberts (Photograph) $95
Lovely portrait signed by “The American Agatha Christie”
 Sagan, Françoise (Signature) $75
Rebellious, influential French writer, achieved fame at 18 with her 1st novel, "Bonjour Tristesse"
 Sandburg, Carl (Signed Note) $150
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Lincoln, poet of America’s common people
 Sherwood, Robert Emmet (Document) $225
1933 DS from Pulitzer Prize-Winning playwright, & Oscar-winning screenplay writer for British rights to his play "Reunion in Vienna"
 Sholokov, Mikhail A. (First Day Cover) $250
1973 US Willa Cather stamp FDC signed by 1965 Russian Nobel laureate
 Sigourney, Lydia H. (AQS) $150
The popular American poet misquotes English poet Edward Young
 Sinclair, Upton (Photograph) $195
Uncommon signed photo of the “muckraking” novelist, authoed "The Jungle" 1906
 Singer, Isaac Bashevis (Letter) $295
1978 ALS from 1978 Nobel laureate, leading figure in Yiddish literary movement
 Smith, Samuel F. (AQS) $750
Signed handwritten beginning of first stanza ("My country-'tis' of thee...of thee I sing") of national hymn “America”
 Spender, Stephen (Letter) $150
English writer, noted for themes of social injustice and class struggle
 Steinbeck, John (FDC) $595
Great literary association - Steinbeck signs1940 Samuel L. Clemens stamp First Day Cover
 Stockton, Frank R. (Signed Printed Story) $150
Signed four-page printed story from limited edition 1893 First Book of the Authors Club, “Liber Scriptorum”
 Thompson, Ruth Plumly (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $295
Continued popular “Oz” series for children after death of L. Frank Baum
 Travers, P. L. (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $75
1983 autograph sentiment signed from the creator of “Mary Poppins”
 Van Dine, S. S. (Photograph) $175
Small signed photo of creator of fictional detective Philo Vance
 Van Vechten, Carl (Letter) $115
American writer and photographer, patron of “the Harlem Renaissance”
 Webster, Noah (Signature) $195
American lexicographer, education pioneer, his textbooks taught 5 generations of American children to spell & read
 Willard, Emma (Letter) $495
Uncommon ALS of the author and women's rights advocate, founder of the first women’s school of higher education
 Williams, William Carlos (Signed Typescript) $595
Signed typescript of his 1930 ”Poem (As the Cat)”
 Wren, P(ercival). C(hristopher). (Photograph & ANS) $110
British adventure fiction writer, best known for 1924 “Beau Geste” & sequels
 Zangwill, Israel (Letter) $85
English Jewish writer, coined term “melting pot” to describe America’s absorption of immigrants

Magic
 Blackstone Sr., Harry (Photograph) $225
Wonderful photo of the famed magician-illusionist creating “shaddow rabbit”
 Dunninger, Joseph (Photograph) $225
Signed 1915 photo of “The Amazing Dunninger” in handcuffs & chained arms
 Henning, Doug (Photograph) $175
Colorful 70’s – 80’s magician-showman
 Herrmann, Alexander (Signature) $225
“Herrmann The Great”, one of most popular magicians-showmen of 2nd half of 19th century

Mayors & Governors
 Barbour, James (Letter) $175
J. Q. Adams’ Secretary of War conditionally appoints a West Point cadet from New Jersey
 Bricker, John (Photograph) $30
1944 VP candidate on GOP ticket with Dewey
 Brownlow, William G. (Letter) $450
1863 ALS from “The Fighting Parson”, itching to return to East Tennessee and the newspaper business
 Clayton, Powell (Letter) $65
1889 TLS from Union general, 1st Republican (“carpetbag”) Arkansas governor
 Clinton, DeWitt (Letter) $225
1827 ALS as Governor, seeks information before issuing a pardon to an inmate in the nation’s 1st juvenile reformatory
 Foss, Joe (First Day Cover) $60
WW II Marine Corps ace, Medal of Honor recipient, So. Dakota statesman, television personality, NRA president
 Lehman, Herbert (Letter) $30
Honest Governor Lehman returns hotel key, asks for his telephone bill!
 Low, Seth (Letter) $45
1st President of Columbia University, reformist 2nd Mayor of New York City
 McNutt, Paul V. (Letter) $30
Served Indiana, American Legion and Philippines, WW II Federal Security Administrator
 Moultrie, William (Document) $750
1787 ADS, pay receipt while South Carolina’s governor
 Opdyke, George (Letter) $75
1862 LS from New York City’s Civil War Mayor
 Pinchot, Gifford (Photograph) $75
1st Chief of US Forest Service 1905-10, advocated conservation thru planned use and renewal
 Randolph, Edmund (ANS) $395
The 1st US Attorney General, 2nd Secretary of State, 7th Virginia Governor checks his bank balance
 Ross, Nellie Tayloe (Photograph) $110
1st woman elected state governor, 1st woman Director of US Mint
 Thurmond, J. Strom (Photograph) $55
1948 “Dixiecrat” presidential candidate, served South Carolina in Senate for 47 years
 Vance, Zebulon B. (Letter) $150
Civil War Governor of North Carolina noted for guarding its interests & welfare
 Yorty, Sam (Letter) $50
Mayor Yorty defends the LAPD & Chief Parker 2 weeks after the August 1965 Watts Riots

Military-American Revolution
 Clinton, George (Document) $395
1800 ADS of New York’s 1st state governor, Jefferson & Madison’s VP
 Clinton, James (Letter) $495
1789 ALS to his nephew, New York State’s Surveyor General, likely exchanging his veteran’s land grant
 DeLancey Jr., Oliver (Letter) $275
Succeded Major Andre as Clinton’s spymaster, Adjutant General of British Army in North America 1781-83
 Hull, William (Document) $375
Served notably in Revolutionary War, Governor of Michigan Territory, surrendered Detroit to British in 1814 without a fight, death sentence stayed by Madison
 Moultrie, William (Document) $750
1787 ADS, pay receipt while South Carolina’s governor
 Moultrie, William (ON HOLD) (Letter) $1150
South Carolina soldier-statesman calls for tougher slave patrol laws
 North, Frederick Lord, 2nd Earl of Guilford (Document) $175
America’s last Prime Minister, 1st PM anywhere forced from office by “no confidence” vote
 Phillips, William (Letter) $395
Commanded artillery in Canada in American Revolution, captured at Saratoga 1777, exchanged for Benjamin Lincoln 1780, died 1781 and buried in Virginia
 Pickering, Timothy (Document) $495
Quarter Master General Pickering's 1783 receipt for funds for forage signed also by William Hull, vilified in War of 1812
 Schuyler, Philip (Letter) $550
1796 handwritten letter to the younger brother of one of his former staff officers

Military-Civil War
 Brownell, Francis E. (Signature) $350
Rare signature of “Ellsworth’s Avenger”, Medal of Honor recipient
 Brownlow, William G. (Letter) $450
1863 ALS from “The Fighting Parson”, itching to return to East Tennessee and the newspaper business
 Burnside, Ambrose E. (Signature) $150
Led Army of the Potomac 1862-1863, signature while new Rhode Island Senator
 Campbell, John A. (AES) $495
1864 endorsement as Confederate Assistant Secretary of War
 Campbell, John A. (Letter) $1500
1865 letter of reference for his jailer from imprisoned former Justice & CSA official
 Capers, Ellison (Document) $150
So. Carolina CSA general, post-War Episcopal bishop
 Clayton, Powell (Letter) $65
1889 TLS from Union general, 1st Republican (“carpetbag”) Arkansas governor
 Custer, George Armstrong (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $4750
Matted & framed early signature of the controversial 7th Cavalry commander
 Dahlgren, John A. (Autographed Note Signed) $250
Likely War-time note to Navy Secretary Gideon Welles from John A. Dahlgren
 Davis, Jefferson (Letter) $1250
Near mint 1856 LS as Secretary of War to Rep. Justin S. Morrill
 Davis, Jefferson (Signature) $595
Frameable signature of the ConfederateStates of America’s only President
 Dow, Neal S. (Letter) $185
1887 ALS from the “Father of Prohibition”, Civil War general, 1880 presidential candidate
 Gordon, John B. (Document) $225
Georgia Governor & US Senator, CSA Major General, 1st UCV commander-in-chief, alleged Georgia KKK leader
 Gordon, John B. (Letter) $275
1896 TLS as Georgia Senator (Ex-CSA Major General, alleged Georgia KKK Leader) assists a “col’d” woman
 Hardee, William J. (ON HOLD) (Document) $325
1864 endorsement as CSA Lieutenant General
 Hindman Jr., Thomas C., et al. (Letter) $950
18 Congressmen (3 future CSA generals) endorse a pick for Arkansas District US Attorney
 Howard, Oliver O. (Letter) $145
Undated LS as Major General, mentions Western Theater comrades Opdycke & Wilson
 Hunter, Robert M. T. (Letter) $225
Postwar ALS of the Virginia, US and CSA statesman, youngest ever House Speaker, pictured on CSA $10 bill
 Logan, John A. (Signature) $80
Illinois politician, Civil War Medal of Honor, 1884 VP candidate with Blaine
 Mahone, William (Letter) $295
CSA Major General, hero of The Crater, 1883 ALS as US Senator seeking federal job for a constituent
 Mason, James M. (Letter) $235
Virginia Senator, author of 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, CSA diplomat seized with Slidell in 1861 “Trent” Affair
 Mason, James M. (Letter) $250
1860 ALS to President Buchanan from the Virginia Senator, wrote 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, CSA diplomat seized with Slidell in 1861 “Trent” Affair
 Mitchel, Ormsby M. (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $150
Distinguished astronomer, as US Major General ordered 1862 “Great Locomotive Chase” raid
 Pettus, Edmund W. (Document) $195
Alabama Confederate general & US Senator, “Bloody Sunday” Selma bridge named for him
 Scott, Winfield (Letter) $450
“Old Fuss and Feathers” offers a staff position to a West Point graduate, son of a friend (relative?)
 Sherman, William Tecumseh (Signature) $395
Signed card as General, successor to Grant as US Army commander
 Vance, Zebulon B. (Letter) $150
Civil War Governor of North Carolina noted for guarding its interests & welfare
 Walker, Francis Amasa (Photograph) $95
Eminent 19th century statistician & economist, led MIT 1881-97
 Walthall, Edward C. (Document) $175
Mississippi CSA Major General, post-War US Senator
 Washburn, Henry D. (Letter) $150
Future Yellowstone explorer leads regiments out of Missouri as acting Brigadier General
 Wool, John S. (Signature) $80
Oldest officer (77) in active command in either army during the Civil War

Military-Cold War
 Clay, Lucius D. (Letter) $225
Very Good Content ALS month before Berlin Blockade onset, on US objectives in Germany & Europe
 Kenney, George C. (Letter) $165
1948 ALS as 1st SAC commander, led MacArthur’s air war in SW Pacific in WW II
 Smith, Walter Bedell (ON HOLD) (Letter) $225
1946 TLS as Ambassador to USSR, as Ike’s Chief of Staff handled arrangements for German surrender; 4th CIA Director

Military-Great Britain
 DeLancey Jr., Oliver (Letter) $275
Succeded Major Andre as Clinton’s spymaster, Adjutant General of British Army in North America 1781-83
 Dundonald, Douglas MacKinnon Baillie Hamilton Cochrane, 12th Earl (Letter) $40
Last British officer to command Canadian military forces
 Graham, Thomas, 1st Baron Lynedoch (Letter) $295 Special Offer: $250
British espionage activites against the French Army in Italy!

Reduced price for a letter by a fascinating figure in British military history!
 Jervis, Sir John, 1st Earl St. Vincent (Letter) $235
Distinguished late 18th- early 19th century English naval commander
 Phillips, William (Letter) $395
Commanded artillery in Canada in American Revolution, captured at Saratoga 1777, exchanged for Benjamin Lincoln 1780, died 1781 and buried in Virginia
 Smuts, Jan Christian (Signed Portrait) $175
South African statesman, only person to sign peace treaties ending WW I & II
 Swinton, Ernest D. (Signature) $95
British officer credited with coining term "no man's land" and influencing invention of the tank, trained first tank units, wrote first tactical instructions for armored warfare
 Wilson, Field Marshal Henry M. (Signed Card) $90
1946 card signed by “Jumbo” Wilson, senior WW II British General in Middle East & Mediterranean

Military-Indian Wars
 Custer, George Armstrong (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $4750
Matted & framed early signature of the controversial 7th Cavalry commander
 Harrison, William Henry (Document) $1495
1794 ADS as aide-de-camp to General “Mad” Anthony Wayne issuing rations to Chikasaw Indian allies
 Reno, Marcus A. (Signature) $895
Highest ranking officer under Custer at Little Bighorn debacle
 Sherman, William Tecumseh (Signature) $395
Signed card as General, successor to Grant as US Army commander

Military-Korean War
 Gabreski, Francis "Gabby" (Signature) $50
One of 7 American aces in two wars, top US fighter ace against Luftwaffe
 Hershey, Lewis B. (Letter) $150
Controversial Selective Serivce System Director 1941-1970, spanned WW II thu Vietnam drafts
 MacArthur, Douglas (Photograph) $595
Signed left profile photo in trademark cap, ascot and holding his corncob pipe
 Nam Il (Photograph) $750
Rare photograph signed by leader of North Korean’s delegation negotiating end to Korean War
 Shepherd Jr., Lemuel C. (Photograph) $150
War-time photo signed while commanding 6th Marines in 1945 Okinawa campaign
 Wedemeyer, Albert Coady (Letter) $75
1951 Letter as 6th Army Commander

Military-Mexican-American War
 Scott, Winfield (Letter) $450
“Old Fuss and Feathers” offers a staff position to a West Point graduate, son of a friend (relative?)
 Sloat, John D. (Autograph Endorsement Signed) $225
Raised flag over Monterey July 7, 1846, proclaiming California as part of the United States
 Taylor, Zachary (ON HOLD) (Letter) $3375
Eyeing the 1848 Whig nomination, Zach Taylor agrees to sit for a “daguerreotype likeness”
 Wool, John S. (Signature) $80
Oldest officer (77) in active command in either army during the Civil War
 Worth, William J. (Letter) $350
Namesake of Fort Worth, Texas & Lake Worth, Florida, prosecuted 2nd Seminole War, Mexican-American War hero

Military-Miscellaneous
 Bomford, George (Letter) $275
“Father of the US Army Ordnance Corps”
 Chaffee, Adna R. (Document) $125
Document signed as Chief of Staff to US Military Governor of Cuba, General Leonard Wood
 Ogden Aaron (Document) $495
The provisional US Army stands down in 1800 as the threat of war with France ends
 Powell, Colin L. (Letter) $115
1996 religious-content ALS on 4-star letterhead as General (Retired)
 Snow, William J. (Letter) $85
1926 ALS while (1st) US Army Chief of Field Artillery, “Father” of Fort Bragg
 Worth, William J. (Letter) $350
Namesake of Fort Worth, Texas & Lake Worth, Florida, prosecuted 2nd Seminole War, Mexican-American War hero
 Wright, Adm. Jerauld (Letter) $85
NATO Atlantic Commander invites Ambassador Grew to North Atlantic Council luncheon

Military-Napoleonic Wars
 Bernadotte, Jean-Baptiste-Jules (Signature) $195
Napoleon’s Marshal, King of Sweden & Norway
 Clarke, Henri-Jacques-Guillaume, Duc de Feltre (Letter) $285
1811 LS as Napoleon's Minister of War
 Graham, Thomas, 1st Baron Lynedoch (Letter) $295 Special Offer: $250
British espionage activites against the French Army in Italy!

Reduced price for a letter by a fascinating figure in British military history!
 Jervis, Sir John, 1st Earl St. Vincent (Letter) $235
Distinguished late 18th- early 19th century English naval commander
 Metternich, Klemens Wenzel, Prinz von (Franked Envelope) $195
Austrian statesman, one of Europe’s greatest 19th century diplomats
 Moncey, Bon-Adrien Jeannot de, duc de Conegliano (Letter) $395
1795 ALS From Spain to General Suchet's division adjutant
 Saint-Hilaire, Louis Vincent Le Blond de (Letter) $395
Likely to have been named one of Napoleon’s Marshals had he not died of wounds in 1809

Military-Spanish-American War
 Chaffee, Adna R. (Document) $125
Document signed as Chief of Staff to US Military Governor of Cuba, General Leonard Wood

Military-US Navy
 Dahlgren, John A. (Autographed Note Signed) $250
Likely War-time note to Navy Secretary Gideon Welles from John A. Dahlgren
 Graham, William A. (Letter) $150
1851 LS as Fillmore’s Navy Secretary, 1852 Whig VP candidate with Winfield Scott
 Halsey, William F. "Bull" (Letter) $350
1953 ALS declining to accept photographs
 Kinkaid, Thomas C. (Letter) $150
Led allied naval forces & US 7th Fleet in SW Pacific, supported Solomons, Aleutians, New Guinea, Borneo & Philippine campaigns
 Nimitz, Chester W. (Letter) $495
1946 TLS as Chief of Naval Operations – with two additional signatures!
 Sloat, John D. (Autograph Endorsement Signed) $225
Raised flag over Monterey July 7, 1846, proclaiming California as part of the United States
 Stark, Harold R. "Betty" (Letter) $175
Post-War ALS from Commander of US Naval Forces in Europe, oversaw Navy’s role at Normandy D-Day landings
 Wright, Adm. Jerauld (Letter) $85
NATO Atlantic Commander invites Ambassador Grew to North Atlantic Council luncheon

Military-Vietnam War
 Hershey, Lewis B. (Letter) $150
Controversial Selective Serivce System Director 1941-1970, spanned WW II thu Vietnam drafts

Military-War of 1812
 Armstrong Jr., John (Document) $195
Soldier-statesman, Secretary of War 1813-14, forced to resign after burning of Washington
 Hull, William (Document) $375
Served notably in Revolutionary War, Governor of Michigan Territory, surrendered Detroit to British in 1814 without a fight, death sentence stayed by Madison
 Scott, Winfield (Letter) $450
“Old Fuss and Feathers” offers a staff position to a West Point graduate, son of a friend (relative?)
 Wool, John S. (Signature) $80
Oldest officer (77) in active command in either army during the Civil War

Military-World War I
 Bernstorff, Graf Johann Heinrich von (Photograph) $125
German Ambassador to US & Mexico 1908-17, aided intelligence & sabotage efforts in US & Canada 1914-17
 Brereton, Lewis H. (Letter) $195
One of first US military aviation commanders, served in nearly all theaters in WW II
 Coppens De Houthulst, Willy (Photograph) $60
Leading Belgian WW I ace, top “balloon buster”
 Ludendorff, Erich (Photograph) $295
Pencil signed 1928 German postcard photograph
 Orlando, Vittorio E. (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $225
WW I Italian PM 1917-19, one of the “Big Four”, led Italy’s delegation to Paris Peace Conference
 Snow, William J. (Letter) $85
1926 ALS while (1st) US Army Chief of Field Artillery, “Father” of Fort Bragg
 Swinton, Ernest D. (Signature) $95
British officer credited with coining term "no man's land" and influencing invention of the tank, trained first tank units, wrote first tactical instructions for armored warfare

Military-World War II
 Balchen, Bernt (Photograph) $95
First to pilot aircraft over both South (1929) & North (1949) Poles
 Blum, Léon (Signed Card) $75
1st Jewish, 1st Socialist Prime Minister (3 times), tried for treason by Vichy govermnent, held in Nazi concentration camps
 Bradley, Omar N. (Letter) $195
The Army Chief of Staff dines with Texas Governor Jester
 Brereton, Lewis H. (Letter) $195
One of first US military aviation commanders, served in nearly all theaters in WW II
 Clark, Mark W. (Letter) $195
Good content 1946 TLS while Military Governor of Austria saluting “The home front”
 Clay, Lucius D. (Letter) $225
Very Good Content ALS month before Berlin Blockade onset, on US objectives in Germany & Europe
 Collins, Harry J. (Signed Envelope) $60
Led “Rainbow” Divison in Europe, liberated Dachau, post-War Military Governor of W. Austria
 Devers, Jacob L. (Letter) $175
Commanded US Army Forces in Europe before Eisenhower, led 6th Army Group from Alsace to Austria
 Doolittle, James H. (Photograph) $125
Aviation pioneer, led 1942 air raid on Tokyo
 Eaker, Ira C. (Letter) $95
Uncommon ALS of deputy USAAF commander, led bomber command in Europe
 Eberbach, Heinrich (Photograph) $150
Led German Panzer Group West in No. France July 1944, relieved for failing to halt Allied advance
 Eichelberger, Robert L. (Letter) $150
Led 8th Army in SW Pacific at New Guinea, Philippines, & Occupation of Japan
 Ferebee, Thomas (Photograph) $95
Bombardier on 1945 "Enola Gay" Hiroshima atomic bomb mission
 Foss, Joe (First Day Cover) $60
WW II Marine Corps ace, Medal of Honor recipient, So. Dakota statesman, television personality, NRA president
 Gabreski, Francis "Gabby" (Signature) $50
One of 7 American aces in two wars, top US fighter ace against Luftwaffe
 Gavin, James M. (Photograph) $115
Signed photo of the famed 82nd Airborne commander while Ambassador to France
 Gericke, Walther (Photograph) $135
German paratroop officer, captured Italian Army headquarters in September 1943 “Operation Student”
 Gerow, Leonard T. (Letter) $175
Led V Corps, largest troop unit in Europe, first corps commander ashore on D-Day
 Gillem, Jr., Alvan C. (Letter) $85
Commanded XIII Corps of 9th Army in Allied 21st Army Group in Europe, led post-War “Gillem Board” effort to integrate Army
 Halsey, William F. "Bull" (Letter) $350
1953 ALS declining to accept photographs
 Hershey, Lewis B. (Letter) $150
Controversial Selective Serivce System Director 1941-1970, spanned WW II thu Vietnam drafts
 Hodges, Courtney H. (Photograph) $150
Bradley’s Deputy at Normandy, his First Army first to reach Paris and link with Russians in Germany; at surrender of Germany & Japan
 Kemnade, Friedrich (Photograph) $110
Much-decorated German naval officer, top E-boat commander
 Kenney, George C. (Letter) $165
1948 ALS as 1st SAC commander, led MacArthur’s air war in SW Pacific in WW II
 Kinkaid, Thomas C. (Letter) $150
Led allied naval forces & US 7th Fleet in SW Pacific, supported Solomons, Aleutians, New Guinea, Borneo & Philippine campaigns
 Krueger, Walter (letter) $195
German-born linguist-scholar-historian, commanded 6th Army in Pacific, 1st to rise to general from private!
 MacArthur, Douglas (Cover) $450
Signed August 19, 1945 WW II patriotic cover on Japanese surrender
 MacArthur, Douglas (Photograph) $595
Signed left profile photo in trademark cap, ascot and holding his corncob pipe
 Marshall, George C. (Letter) $350
Secretary of State Marshall thanks Ambassador Grew for representing him at Josephus Daniels’ funeral
 Marshall, George C. (Letter) $295
General of the Army Marshall declines Amb. Grew’s invitation to Washington National Monumnemt Society luncheon
 Mountbatten of Burma, Lord Louis (Letter) $235
Lord Mountbatten seeks commercial sponsorship for US television showing of his film biography
 Nimitz, Chester W. (Letter) $495
1946 TLS as Chief of Naval Operations – with two additional signatures!
 Osher, Ernest (Letter) $35
WW II P-38 ace in European Theater of Operations
 Patch, Alexander M. (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $150
Led Americal Division at Guadalcanal and 7th Army in So. France & Germany; died 1945
 Phillipson, Irving J. (Letter) $95
The Home Front: Irving Berlin’s “This Is the Army” comes to San Francisco
 Richardson, Robert C. (Signed Cover) $45
Commanding General of US Army Forces in Pacific
 Rommel, Erwin (Letter) $2250
1938 ALS from Colonel Rommel to a friend, also recently promoted
 Ruge, Friedrich (Letter) $110
Senior GermanNavy officer in command of minesweepers, Naval Advisor to Rommel before and after D-Day
 Shepherd Jr., Lemuel C. (Photograph) $150
War-time photo signed while commanding 6th Marines in 1945 Okinawa campaign
 Simpson, William H. (Signed Portrait) $115
Led US Ninth Army in Europe 1944-45, 1st to cross Elbe River
 Smith, Walter Bedell (ON HOLD) (Letter) $225
1946 TLS as Ambassador to USSR, as Ike’s Chief of Staff handled arrangements for German surrender; 4th CIA Director
 Somervell, Brehon (Letter) $195
The General who built the Pentagon, led US Army Service Forces 1942-45, in charge of logisitics
 Spaatz, Carl (Letter) $225
ALS as 1st US Air Force Chief of Staff
 Stark, Harold R. "Betty" (Letter) $175
Post-War ALS from Commander of US Naval Forces in Europe, oversaw Navy’s role at Normandy D-Day landings
 Taylor, Maxwell D. (Letter) $90
General Taylor agrees to chat with founder of “Meet The Press”
 Vandegrift, Alexander A. (Letter) $225
1946 letter as US Marine Corps Commandant
 Waesche, Adm. Russell R. (Letter) $125
WW II Coast Guard Commandant, service’s first Admiral!
 Wainwright IV, Jonathan M. (ON HOLD) (Letter) $295
TLS of the Medal of Honor recipient 6 months after his release from Japanese POW camp
 Wedemeyer, Albert Coady (Letter) $75
1951 Letter as 6th Army Commander
 Wenck, Walther (Photograph) $125
Youngest German general, in battle for Berlin saved 250,000 refugees and 9th Army survivors from the Russians
 Wiese, Friedrich (Photograph) $110
Commanded German Army defense of Southern France August 1944
 Wilson, Field Marshal Henry M. (Signed Card) $90
1946 card signed by “Jumbo” Wilson, senior WW II British General in Middle East & Mediterranean
 Wright, Adm. Jerauld (Letter) $85
NATO Atlantic Commander invites Ambassador Grew to North Atlantic Council luncheon

Miscellaneous
 Angell, Sir (Ralph) Norman (Letter) $75
English 1933 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, believed European economic integration would make militarism obsolete
 Farmer, Fannie M. (Signature) $250
American 19th century culinary expert, her cookbook still in print 100+ yearslLater
 Genet, Edmond-Charles (Document) $250
Citizen Genet:: corrosive French diplomat turned American citizen
 Hall, A. Oakley & Connolly, Richard B. (Check) $50
1871 check signed by "Tweed Ring" members, NYC Mayor Hall & City Comptroller Connolly
 Leary, Dr. Timothy (Document) $295
1960’s US counterculture icon, famed for promoting benefits of LSD: “turn on, tune in, drop out”
 Whalen, Grover (First Day Cover) $25
Signed New York Golden Jubilee FDC by head of the 1939-40 NY World's Fair

Music-Ballet & Dance
 Baryshnikov, Mikhail (Photograph) $110
One of greatest 20th century ballet dancers
 Dunham, Katherine (Photograph) $125
Vintage signed photo of the "Matriarch & Queen Mother of Black Dance"
 Joffrey, Robert (Photograph) $75
Signed 1979 photo of the founder-director of the renowned Joffrey Ballet
 Pavlova, Anna (Signature) $325
Signed autograph album page of the great Russian ballerina with image for framing

Music-Composers
 Argento, Dominick (photograph) $75
Signed photograph of the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera composer
 Bock, Jerry (AMQS) $250
AMQS from “Sunrise, Sunset” from “Fiddler on the Roof”
 Copland, Aaron (Photograph) $225
Photo signed by one of America’s foremost 20th century composers
 Corigliano, John (photograph) $60
Color photograph of the contemporary American composer signed by him
 Coward, Sir Noel (Letter) $325
1933 TLS to friend, writer-historian Philip Guedalla
 D'Indy, Vincent (AMQS) $275
AMQS from an unidentified work by the controversial French composer-music teacher
 Druckman, Jacob (AMQS) $225
AMQS from “Windows”, his 1972 Pulitzer Prize-winning composition
 Ellington, Edward "Duke" (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $175
Autograph Sentiment Signed at 1947 University of Minnesota Senior Prom
 Fields, Dorothy (Signature) $40
Broadway-Hollywood librettist & lyricist, won 1936 Oscar, 5 Tony Awards
 Floyd, Carlisle (Photograph) $65
Signed photograph of one of America’s foremost contemporary opera composers & librettists
 Gershwin, George (Check) $1495
1935 personal check, year “Porgy and Bess” premiéred
 Glass, Philip (Signed Mini-Poster) $85
Signed mini-poster for CD signing appearance
 Glazunov, Alexander K. (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $235
1929 autograph sentiment signed by the Russian Late Romantic composer & conductor
 Gretchaninoff, Alexander (AMQS) $495
1944 AMQS by the distinguished Russian composer, protégé of Rimsky-Korsakov
 Grofé, Ferd (Letter) $195
Composed “Grand Canyon Suite”, arranged Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” for Paul Whiteman
 Harbach, Otto A. (Signature) $75
Broadway playwright, composer, lyricist-librettist
 Harnick, Sheldon (Letter) $75
Broadway lyricist, famed for “Fiddler on the Roof”, etc., with Jerry Bock
 Hovhaness, Alan (Letter) $295
Prolific 20th century Armenian-American composer of 67+ symphonies
 Kahn, Gus (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $50
Popular Broadway & Hollywood composer
 Lehár, Franz (Photograph) $225
Hungarian composer best known for operettas Inc. "The Merry Widow”
 MacDowell, Edward A. (Signed Card) $175
19th century romantic pianist & composer, one of 1st 7 members of The American Academy of Arts & Letters
 Mancini, Henry (Photograph) $65
One of Hollywood’s greatest composers, received 4 Oscars & 20 Grammys
 Menotti, Gian Carlo (Signature) $115
Pulitzer Prize-winning Italian-American opera composer
 Orff, Carl (Photograph) $165
Signed photo of the composer of “Carmina Burana”
 Payne, John Howard (ANS) $250
Wrote “Home! Sweet Home!”, favorite song of Civil War soldiers and Abraham Lincoln
 Rodgers, Richard (ANS) $125
1962 ANS by one of Broadway’s greatest composers
 Schuman, William (First Day Cover) $50
American classical composer, awarded 1st Pulitzer Prize for Music (1943)
 Smith, Samuel F. (AQS) $750
Signed handwritten beginning of first stanza ("My country-'tis' of thee...of thee I sing") of national hymn “America”
 Sondheim, Stephen (Letter) $125
One of Broadway’s great composers & lyricists
 Walton Sir William (Signed Card) $125
Card signed by the eminent British 20th century composer
 Zimbalist, Efrem (AMQS) $225
AMQS from his composition that premiered 7 months later!

Music-Conductors
 Campanini, Cleofonte (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $95
Eminent Italian-American opera conductor
 Glazunov, Alexander K. (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $235
1929 autograph sentiment signed by the Russian Late Romantic composer & conductor
 Masur, Kurt (Photograph) $40
Signed photograph of the distinguished German conductor
 Menuhin, Yehudi (Letter) $90
Optimistic as to the success of a French documentary about him, Menuhin consoles the producer
 Nikisch, Arthur (Photograph) $175
Lovely inscribed & signed cabinet photograph by Carl Beliach of Leipzig
 Reeves, David Wallis (Letter) $95
ALS of the prominent 19th Century bandmaster & march composer on his pictorial letterehad
 Voorhees, Donald (Photograph) $20
Emmy-nominated “Bell Telephone Hour” radio & television program conductor for 28 years

Music-Instrumentalists
 Gould, Glenn (Signature) $795 Special Offer: $750
Rare in-person signature of the brilliant and eccentric Canadian piano virtuoso

Hit the keyboard and save!
 Heifetz, Jascha (Signature) $195
Lithuanian-Jewish-born prodigy, one of the great violinists of the 20th Century
 MacDowell, Edward A. (Signed Card) $175
19th century romantic pianist & composer, one of 1st 7 members of The American Academy of Arts & Letters
 Menuhin, Yehudi (Christmas Card) $110
1955 Christmas card from one of the great violinists of the 20th Century!
 Menuhin, Yehudi (Letter) $90
Optimistic as to the success of a French documentary about him, Menuhin consoles the producer
 Rosenthal, Moriz (Signature) $70
“The Little Giant of the Piano”
 Spalding, Albert (Letter) $60
Foremost 20th century American violinist, son of sporting goods manufacturer and Baseball Hall of Famer
 Zimbalist, Efrem (AMQS) $225
AMQS from his composition that premiered 7 months later!

Music-Jazz & Big Band
 Ellington, Edward "Duke" (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $175
Autograph Sentiment Signed at 1947 University of Minnesota Senior Prom
 Gillespie, Dizzy (Photograph) $175
Classic portrait of the jazz-bebop trumpet legend playing his horn
 Gillespie, Dizzy (Photograph) $150
Influential trumpet virtuoso, major figure in development of bebop & modern jazz
 Krupa, Gene (Signature) $150
One of the greatest 20th Century drummers & big band performers
 Mercer, Mabel (Signed Sheet Music) $150
Sheet music signed by the great cabaret singer
 Vaughn, Sarah (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $115
1949 sentiment signed by “The Divine One”
 Waller, Thomas "Fats" (Document) $395
1936 receipt signed by the popular songwriter, master of the stride piano

Music-Opera
 Alvary, Lorenzo (Photograph) $45
Portrait in costume from Orff’s “Die Kluge”
 Anderson, Marian (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $150
1944 autograph sentiment signed by the famed contralto
 Arroyo, Martina (Photograph) $30
One of the first African-American opera stars
 Bumbry, Grace (Photograph) $30
Pioneer African-American mezzo & high soprano opera singer
 Campanini, Cleofonte (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $95
Eminent Italian-American opera conductor
 Caruso, Enrico (Signed Sketch) $1100
1915 signed self-portrait pen & ink sketch
 Christoff, Boris and Gobbi, Tito (Signatures) $95
Signed 1958 Royal Festival Hall benefit concert program
 Mitchell, Leona (Photograph) $25
Renowned African-American lyric-spinto soprano
 Pavarotti, Luciano (Photograph) $85
Signed & inscribed early color photo
 Peerce, Jan (Photograph) $40
Popular Jewish-American opera, concert & recording star
 Pinza, Ezio (Signed Program) $75
Italian basso, opera and Broadway star, notable for “South Pacific”
 Sutherland, Dame Joan (Photograph) $75
“La Stupenda”, Australia’s great dramatic coloratura soprano in “La Sonnambula”
 Talley, Marion (Photograph) $45
1935 signed & inscribed Clarence Bull glamour matte finish photo
 Voigt, Deborah (Photograph) $25
American dramatic soprano noted fchiefly or Strauss & Wagner repertoire

Music-Popular, Rock, R&B
 Downey Sr., Morton (Photograph) $30
Vintage matte-finish sepia portrait of "The Irish Nightingale", star of stage, screen, radio & TV
 Fields, Dorothy (Signature) $40
Broadway-Hollywood librettist & lyricist, won 1936 Oscar, 5 Tony Awards
 Haley, Bill (Signature) $225
Pioneer rock and roll performer, his recording, "Rock Around the Clock", launched a musical revolution
 Harbach, Otto A. (Signature) $75
Broadway playwright, composer, lyricist-librettist
 Harnick, Sheldon (Letter) $75
Broadway lyricist, famed for “Fiddler on the Roof”, etc., with Jerry Bock
 Kahn, Gus (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $50
Popular Broadway & Hollywood composer
 Kingston Trio, The (Photograph) $175
The original, influential, popular, and successful folk music group of “Tom Dooley” fame
 Mercer, Johnny (Autograph Note Signed) $115
Frameable ANS of the popular Oscar-winning lyricist
 Mercer, Mabel (Signed Sheet Music) $150
Sheet music signed by the great cabaret singer

Presidents of the US
 Adams, John Quincy (Letter) $1695
1839 ALS while Massachusetts Member of Congress assisting a constituent
 Arthur, Chester A. (Letter) $750
1866 ALS as New York City lawyer
 Arthur, Chester A. (Letter) $1250
Rare ALS while Vice President!
 Arthur, Chester A. (Letter) $750
1862 letter as New York State Quartermaster General
 Buchanan, James (Letter) $1100
1847 ALS while Secretary of State regarding a (commercial) agency
 Buchanan, James (Document) $895
Buchanan Authorizes Secretary of State to affix US seal for accreditation of Minister to Guatemala
 Buchanan, James (Letter & Free Frank) $950
Senator Buchanan approves a recommendation for a presidential appointee
 Bush, George H. W. (Letter) $175
TLS as VP 5 days after renomination, to composer of “Hail to The Redskins” on Governor Milliken and campaigning in Michigan
 Bush, George H. W. (Letter) $175
TLS as VP to a good friend (composed “Hail to The Redskins”), glad he met son Jeb in Miami
 Carter, Jimmy (Letter) $595
Carter to advice columnist "Ann Landers " days before his nomination for President
 Carter, Jimmy (Letter) $450
The President salutes Ralph Yarborough on election as Texas Carter-Mondale delegate to 1980 Democratic convention
 Carter, Jimmy (Letter) $195
The former President sends Philadelphia minister 50th wedding anniversary wishes
 Carter, Jimmy (In Person Signed Brochure) $110
Presidential Campaign brochure signed in person during 1976 Democratic Convention
 Cleveland, Grover S. (Letter) $450
1884 Democratic presidential nominee sends thanks for a campaign song
 Coolidge, Calvin (Letter) $395
1925 White House TLS, moving letter of sympathy to the widow of a friend
 Coolidge, Calvin (Letter) $295
Lawyer Coolidge reports to his client
 Coolidge, Calvin (Letter) $295
Vice President Coolidge to prominent Boston banker, looks forward to seeing Massachusetts friends
 Coolidge, Calvin (Photograph) $425
1923 Garo Studio portrait inscribed to controversial Massachusetts jurist
 Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Letter) $425
The former President to his ex-National Security Assistant, promoter of the National Security Council
 Fillmore, Millard (Letter) $950
Ex-President Fillmore, en route to London, to former law partner& confidant Solomon Haven
 Fillmore, Millard (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $425
Frameable 1861 autograph sentiment signed
 Fillmore, Millard (Letter) $1100
New York Congressman Fillmore keeps up with his Buffalo law business!
 Ford, Gerald R. (Letter) $875
Rare Ford ALS, thanks a good friend for Christmas gift
 Garfield, James A. (Letter) $995
Presidential candidate Garfield to actor Lawrence Barrett, hailing GOP Ohio & Indiana gubernatorial victories
 Garfield, James A. (Letter) $895
Garfield 1878 letter of introduction for a former Hiram College colleague
 Garfield, James A. (Letter) $775
Ohio Rep. James A. Garfield 1875 ALS to Ohio Senator John Sherman
 Harding, Warren G. (Letter) $1395
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 Harrison, William Henry (Document) $1495
1794 ADS as aide-de-camp to General “Mad” Anthony Wayne issuing rations to Chikasaw Indian allies
 Hoover, Herbert (Letter) $495
President Hoover in re-election campaign, salutes US Building and Loan movement and Federal Home Loan Bank Board
 Hoover, Herbert (Letter) $450
President Hoover contemplates federal governmental reorganization
 Hoover, Herbert (Letter) $195
Former President Hoover praises Building and Loan League official
 Hoover, Herbert (Letter) $225
Hoover sends former FDR pollster advance copy of an Anti-New Deal article
 Hoover, Herbert C. (Letter) $195
The former President declines Florida college visit & honor
 Hoover, Herbert C. (Letter) $2750
Scarce ALS, 1925 letter of sympathy as Secretary of Commerce
 Jackson, Andrew (Document) $2750
President Jackson’s draft of a diplomatic nomination
 Johnson, Andrew (Document) $1450
"Lame duck" President Andrew Johnson stymied by the Senate on appointment of a US Marshal
 Johnson, Lyndon B. (Letter) $250
Ex-President Johnson on his “pleasant” present and “fascinating and challenging” future
 Johnson, Lyndon B. (Letter) $795
President Johnson to the “patron saint of Texas liberals” , Senator Ralph Yarborough
 Kennedy, John F. (Letter) $2150
Senator-elect Kennedy thanks a newspaperman-friend for campaign assistance, 16 words in JFK’s hand
 Lincoln, Abraham (Document) $5500
Lincoln-Chase 1863 Maryland Internal Revenue Collector appointment
 McKinley, William (Letter) $795
1896 LS as President-elect, congratulating New York State’s Lieutenant Governor-elect
 McKinley, William (Document) $625
Signed 1901 postmaster's appointment as President
 Nixon, Richard M. (Letter) $395
VP (and soon-to-be 1960 GOP nominee) Nixon sends thanks for miniature Viennese elephant orchestra gift (!)
 Nixon, Richard M. (Letter) $525
1971 White House letter to aviator-inventor Bill Lear
 Pierce, Franklin (Signature) $450
Frameable signature of the 14th US President
 Pierce, Franklin (Letter) $1500
ALS while Democratic presidential nominee
 Reagan, Ronald (Photograph) $495
President Reagan hand-inscribes a photo for an old Iowa friend
 Reagan, Ronald (Photograph) $495
Official White House photograph of President Reagan with (and inscribed to) White House correspondent Naomi Nover
 Ronald Reagan 1981 Presidential Inauguration (Unsigned Presidential Inaugural Memorabilia) $20
Unsigned 1981 Engraved Reagan-Bush Commemorative Inaugural Invitation
 Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Photograph) $1495
ISP while President to key Texas Democrat
 Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Letter) $495
The President thanks a friend for a gift for his library
 Roosevelt, Franklin D. (ON HOLD) (Letter) $1350
Two weeks after 1936 re-election, FDR asks Ambassador Grew to assist a cousin visiting Japan
 Roosevelt, Theodore (Photograph) $1895
Handsome Harris & Ewing 1907 bust photo signed two weeks after leaving office, inscribed to Mass. Congressman's widow
 Taft, William H. (Letter) $495
A tip of the hat and a thank you to an old soldier from Yale Law Professor Taft
 Taft, William H. (Letter) $325
The Chief Justice assists old acquaintances with Century Club recommendation
 Taylor, Zachary (ON HOLD) (Letter) $3375
Eyeing the 1848 Whig nomination, Zach Taylor agrees to sit for a “daguerreotype likeness”
 Truman, Harry S (Letter) $325
The former President complies (twice) with an autograph request
 Truman, Harry S (Letter) $350
Truman declines soldier’s request owing to “tremendous” post-White House demand for photographs
 Van Buren, Martin (Letter) $1250
Martin Van Buren 1831 ALS to Navy Secretary Woodbury assisting a West Point cadet get a Marine Corps appointment
 Van Buren, Martin (Document) $525
1829 DS as Jackson’s Secretary of State, copyright for a French grammar textbook
 Wilson, Woodrow (Letter) $550
President Wilson supports Red Cross benefit as Europe is engulfed in war

Reformers
 Anthony, Susan B. (Letter) $2250
Excellent letter conveying a sentiment from the tireless advocate of women’s right to vote
 Booth, Florence E. (Letter) $95
Pioneered Salvation Army programs for destitute women, pioneered anti-prostitution campaign
 Chavez, Cesar E. (Letter) $195
1960’s iconic migrant farm worker labor organizer, reformer
 Claflin, Tennessee C. (Signature) $450
“Tennie C.”, colorful & controversial women’s rights advocate
 Coxey Sr., Jacob S. (Portait & ANS) $150
Led “Coxey’s Army” in two protest marches of unemployed on Washington, twice ran for President
 Davis, Angela Y. (AQS) $150
1960’s political activist, Black Panther associate, 1980 & 1984 Communist Party VP candidate
 Dow, Neal S. (Letter) $185
1887 ALS from the “Father of Prohibition”, Civil War general, 1880 presidential candidate
 Hill, Sir Rowland (ON HOLD) (Letter) $495
British reformer, originated modern postal system & the postage stamp
 Howe, Samuel G. (Letter) $195
Noted teacher of the blind seeks ½-price railroad pass for a blind girl
 Jarvis, Anna M. (Letter) $295
1938 TLS from the founder of America’s Mother’s Day holiday
 Kenyon, Dorothy (Letter) $40
Controversial feminist lawyer-jurist-diplomat
 Livermore, Mary A. (Signed Card) $75
“The Queen of the Platform”, abolitionist, woman suffrage & education, temperance advocate
 Nader, Ralph (First Day Cover) $110
Influential consumer advocate, 3-time US presidential candidate
 Parker, Theodore (Letter) $175
Reformer minister Parker agrees to preach, perhaps on events in Kansas
 Phillips, Wendell (Letter) $95
The ardent abolitionist grants an autograph to an admirer
 Phillips, Wendell (AQS) $135
Ca. 1864 quotation in the famed reformer-abolitionist’s hand
 Pinchot, Gifford (Photograph) $75
1st Chief of US Forest Service 1905-10, advocated conservation thru planned use and renewal
 Rabin, Yitzhak (Photograph) $175
Signed photo of the assassinated soldier-statesman inscribed as General
 Welch Jr., Robert H. W. (Signed Program) $115
Ultra-conservative ideologue, founded John Birch Society 1958 to promote theory that Communists controlled US society

Religion & Judaica
 Altman, Benjamin (Check) $125 Special Offer: $110
Check signed by the founder of B. Altman & Co. department stores, notable philanthropist

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 Baruch, Bernard M. (Letter) $225
The Bible is the one book he would choose to have if he could only choose one!
 Beecher, Henry Ward (Signature) $75
Signature of the prominent preacher – before his “fall”!
 Blum, Léon (Signed Card) $75
1st Jewish, 1st Socialist Prime Minister (3 times), tried for treason by Vichy govermnent, held in Nazi concentration camps
 Booth, Florence E. (Letter) $95
Pioneered Salvation Army programs for destitute women, pioneered anti-prostitution campaign
 Brandeis, Louis D. (Letter) $495
Justice Brandeis cites a pioneer company’s attempt at workplace democracy
 Brandeis, Louis D. (Signature) $250
Frameable autograph album page signed by Court’s 1st Jewish Justice
 Brooks, Phillips (Signed Note) $125
Notable Boston Episcopal minister, wrote Christmas hymn “O Little Town of Bethlehem”
 Capers, Ellison (Document) $150
So. Carolina CSA general, post-War Episcopal bishop
 Collins, Harry J. (Signed Envelope) $60
Led “Rainbow” Divison in Europe, liberated Dachau, post-War Military Governor of W. Austria
 Douglas, Lloyd C. (Photograph) $60
American minister, authored popular novels “Magnificent Obsession”, “The Robe”, “The Big Fisherman”, successful films
 Duffy, Father Francis P. (Photograph) $195
New York Catholic priest, most decorated chaplain in US Army history, served with “Fighting 69th” in France in WW I
 Elath, Eliahu (FDC) $40
Israel’s 1st Ambassador to the US and to Great Britain
 Fast, Howard (Photograph) $40
Jailed & blacklisted Communist, best known for novels “Citizen Tom Paine” & “Spartacus”
 Fox, William (Letter) $650
Pioneer motion picture executive, founder of Fox film & theater empire, namesake of today’s Fox TV network
 Freud, Sigmund (Letter) $4250 Special Offer: $3995
1931 letter from Dr. Freud , unable to grant an interview to a medical student as he is reconvalescing (from his recurring jaw cancer)

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 Gershwin, George (Check) $1495
1935 personal check, year “Porgy and Bess” premiéred
 Gompers, Samuel (Document) $235
Gompers & two others certified as AFL delegates to 1919 International Federation of Trade Unions Conference in Amxsterdam
 Hale, Edward Everett (ANS) $75 Special Offer: $60
Clergyman, US Senate chaplain, author of “The Man Without a Country”

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 Harman, Avraham (First Day Cover) $30
Renowned Israeli Diplomat, Ambassador to US 1959-68
 Heifetz, Jascha (Signature) $195
Lithuanian-Jewish-born prodigy, one of the great violinists of the 20th Century
 Hobson, Laura Z. (First Day Cover) $35
Controversial Jewish feminist, author of 1947 “Gentlemen’s Agreement”
 House, Col. Edward M. (Letter) $95
Col. House to US Minister to Poland, seeking help for two Jewish women
 Jabotinsky, Ze'ev (Letter) $895
Zionist leader, writer, orator, journalist, and soldier, founded Zionist Revisionist Movement
 Kahn, Otto W. (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $60
Banker, philanthropist, patron of the arts
 Kenny, Sister Elizabeth (Signed Envelope) $125
Australian nursing sister, pioneered treatment for infantile paralysis
 King Sr., Martin L. (First Day Cover) $95
“Daddy King”, Atlanta minister & NAACP leader, early social justice advocate, lost wife & son to gun violence
 Kreisky, Bruno (Photograph) $35
Jewish Socialist Chancellor of Austria 1970-1983
 Lasky Sr., Jesse L. (Photograph) $225
Pioneer movie mogul, co-founder of Paramount Pictures, produced Hollywood’s 1st feature film 1914
 Lehman, Herbert (Letter) $30
Honest Governor Lehman returns hotel key, asks for his telephone bill!
 Lewisohn, Adolph (Letter) $75
Philanthropist-financier Lewisohn gives season pass to Lewisohn Stadium Concerts to Rabbi Stephen S. Wise & wife
 Menuhin, Yehudi (Letter) $90
Optimistic as to the success of a French documentary about him, Menuhin consoles the producer
 Mindszenty, Jozsef Cardinal (Photograph) $110
Imprisoned & exiled anti-Communist Hungarian prelate
 Oppenheimer, Sir Ernest (Signature) $350
Created modern diamond industry, controlled largest cartel, promoted diamond engagement ring custom
 Parker, Theodore (Letter) $175
Reformer minister Parker agrees to preach, perhaps on events in Kansas
 Peerce, Jan (Photograph) $40
Popular Jewish-American opera, concert & recording star
 Pike, James A. (Letter) $75
Controversial liberal Episcopal bishop, died in Judean desert
 Resnik, Judith A. (Photograph) $295
1st Jewish astronaut, 2nd US woman in space, killed in 1986 “Challenger” disaster
 Samuel, Herbert, 1st Viscount (Letter) $135
1st Jew to govern land of Israel in 2,000 years, 1st practicing Jew to lead major British party
 Sankey, Ira D. (AQS) $95
1894 AQS, Biblical citation
 Sapir, Pinhas (FDC) $45
Father of the Israeli economy, managed from a black notebook
 Schick, Béla (Photograph) $175
Hungarian-American Jewish pediatrician, discovered test to determine susceptibiltiy to dipthereia
 Seton, Saint Elizabeth Ann (Framed Document) $9995
Exceedingly scarce document signed by the first American-born saint, framed with certified First Class relic
 Singer, Isaac Bashevis (Letter) $295
1978 ALS from 1978 Nobel laureate, leading figure in Yiddish literary movement
 Spurgeon, Charles H. (Letter) $775
Britain’s “Prince of Preachers” sends a blessing to the son of an American friend
 Sutro, Adolph (Check) $75
“The King of the Comstock”, noted for Sutro Tunnel & Sutro Baths, San Francisco mayor 1894-96
 Waksman, Selman A. (Photograph) $175
1952 Nobel laureate, coined term “antibiotics”, discovered streptomycin, neomycin, and others
 Waksman, Selman A. (Letter) $225
Discovered streptomycin, neomycin, and others, coined term “antibiotics”; 1952 Nobel laureate
 Wiesenthal, Simon (ON HOLD) (Letter) $125
1975 TLS from the celebrated Nazi hunter
 Zangwill, Israel (Letter) $85
English Jewish writer, coined term “melting pot” to describe America’s absorption of immigrants
 Zukor, Adolph (Photograph) $250
Pioneer film mogul, founder of Paramount Pictures, a creator of Hollywood as film center

Science & Medicine
 Abbot, Charles Greeley (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $50
Notable astrophysicist, astronomer, Smithsonian Secretary 1928-44
 Adrian, Sir Edgar D. (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $175
English physiologist, co-recipient of 1932 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology for studies of brain and nerve electrical activity
 Aebersold, Paul C. (Photograph) $50
“Mister Isotope”, nuclear physicist at Los Alamos June 1945, proponent of peaceful uses of atomic energy
 Aitken, Robert G. (Signature) $75
American astronomer, Lick Observatory director 1930-35, expert on double stars
 Alexanderson, Ernest F. W. (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $85
Swedish-American engineer, developed Alexanderson alternator to make voice radio broadcasts possible, contributed to television development
 Apgar, Virginia (Letter) $295
Neonatology & teratology pioneer, developed “Apgar Test” to assess health of newborn babies
 Bache, Alexander D. (Letter) $250
1838 ALS to trustee Joseph Hopkinson raising problems with Stephen Girard’s will to further aims of Girard College
 Barton, Clara (Letter) $595
Barton thanks her “comrade friends” for expressions of support while ill
 Beebe, C. William (Photograph) $75
Scientist & explorer, made record 1934 bathyscape descent
 Blackett, Patrick M. S. (Signature) $95
British physicist, 1948 Nobel laureate, a discoverer of the positron, helped develop cloud chamber
 Bloch, Felix (Signature) $75
Co-recipient of 1952 physics Nobel Prize for research leading to development of the MRI
 Blumberg, Baruch S. (Signed Magazine) $30
1976 Nobel Medicine co-laureate, identified Hepatitis B virus, developed diagnostic test & vaccine
 Born, Max (Signature) $175
German physicist, awarded 1954 Nobel Prize with Bethe for 1926 statistical description of Schrödinger’s wave functions
 Brown, Herbert C. (Letter) $95
1978 TLS on marking 40th anniversary of the discovery for which he would receive the 1979 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
 Brown-Séguard, Charles-Édouard (Signature) $225
Pioneer neurologist & physiologist, “father of endocrinology”
 Bush, Vannevar (Signature) $110
Led WW II Office of Scientific Research & Development, created 1st analog computer
 Claude, Georges (ANS) $150
French chemist, invented neon lighting, developed liquid chlorine for WW I poison gas, WW II collaborator
 Cockcroft, Sir John D. (Signature) $95
British physicist, developed atom-splitting particle accelerator, shared 1951 Nobel Prize
 Compton, Karl T. (Signature) $40
Member of National Defense Research Committee, MIT President, defended WW II A-Bomb use
 Cooley, DeBakey, Kantrowitz, Lillehei, Grondin, & 9 Others (First Day Cover) $195
1976 US First Day Cover signed by 14 pioneer cardiothoracic physicians/surgeons
 Coolidge, William D. (Signature) $75
Inventor of the “Coolidge Tube”, made medical x-rays safe and convenient
 Coué, Emil (AQS) $650
French psychotherapist, developed system based on autosuggestion
 Cronin, A(rchibald). J(oseph). (Document) $40
New York bank signature card signed by the popular Scottish physician-novelist
 Dale, Sir Henry H. (Signature) $175
English physiologist, discovered acetylcholine, co-recipient of 1936 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology
 Davisson, Clinton J. (Signature) $95
Bell Laboratoriess physicist, co-discovered diffraction of electrons by crystals, 1937 Nobel physics co-laureate
 DeBakey, Michael (Letter) $50
Dr. DeBakey pleased to be in collection of “Outstanding Scientists of Today”
 DeBakey, Michael (Photograph) $35
Signed photo of the eminent cardiovascular surgeon
 Djerassi, Carl (Letter) $40
"The Father of the Birth Control Pill” pushes for a rmagazine review of a new edition to one of his books
 Espy, James Pollard (Letter) $175
1837 ALS from “The Storm King”, pioneer US meteorologist, 1st federal government scientific weather forecaster
 Faget, Maxime A. (Photograph) $95
Aerospace engineer, original member of NASA’s Space Task Group, designed Mercury space capsule
 Franck, James (Signature) $175
German-American physicist noted for work on nuclear spectroscopy, co-recipient of 1925 Nobel Prize for research on effects when electrons collide with atoms
 Freud, Anna (Letter) $350
Daughter of Sigmund Freud, co-founder of psychoanalytic child psychology
 Freud, Sigmund (Letter) $4250 Special Offer: $3995
1931 letter from Dr. Freud , unable to grant an interview to a medical student as he is reconvalescing (from his recurring jaw cancer)

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 Funk, Casimir (Photograph) $135
Polish-Jewish biochemist, first to formulate concept of “vitamins” 1912
 Galton, Sir Francis (Note) $195
1888 ANS from the founder of fingerprint identification and the science of "eugenics"
 Haeckel, Ernst (Signed Portrait) $295
Biologist, 1st German advocate of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
 Harvard College Medical School 1865 diploma signed by O. W. Holmes & 9 other prominent faculty members (Document) $495
Holmes Sr., O. W.; Clarke, Edward H.; Shattuck, Georrge Cheyme; Bigelow, Henry J.; Ellis, Calvin; Storer, David Humphreys; Jackson, John Barnard Swett; Bowditch, Henry Ingersoll; Bacon, John; Hill, Thomas
 Hertz, Gustav L. (Signature) $195
German physicist, with Franck received 1925 Nobel Prize for research on ionization potentials of atoms by electron bombardment
 Hess, Victor Franz (ANS) $295
Pioneer investigator of cosmic rays, co-recipient of 1936 Nobel Prize for physics
 Higinbotham, William A. (Signed Typescript) $150
Created the first computer game, a precursor to “Pong”, in 1958!
 Hoffmann, Roald (Letter) $35
Brief transmittal letter from the soon-to-be 1981 Nobel chemistry co-laureate
 Holmes Sr., Oliver Wendell (Signed Card) $90
1878 signature on frameable card
 Holmes, William H. (Letter) $50
Eminent US anthropologist, archaeologist, geologist & Smithsonian museum director
 Hopkins, Sir Frederick G. (Autograph Quotation Signed) $150
1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering importance of vitamins
 Huxley, Thomas H. (Photograph) $350
Signed photograph of “Darwin’s bulldog”, famed English biologist and advocate of evolution
 James, William (Letter) $395
Brief 1896 ALS of pioneer American psychologist & philosopher
 Jenner, Sir William, 1st Baronet (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $110
English patholgist, discovered distinction between typhus & typhoid, physician to Queen Victoria & Prince of Wales
 Joliot-Curie, Irene (Letter) $595
French physicist, daughter of Pierre & Marie Curie, shared 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband
 Kenny, Sister Elizabeth (Signed Envelope) $125
Australian nursing sister, pioneered treatment for infantile paralysis
 Latham, John (Letter) $95
1822 ALS while King George IV’s “Physician Extraordinary”, wrote on rheumatism, gout & diabetes
 Leary, Dr. Timothy (Document) $295
1960’s US counterculture icon, famed for promoting benefits of LSD: “turn on, tune in, drop out”
 Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron (Franked Envelope) $275
“Father of Modern Antisepsis”, promoted idea of sterile surgeries
 Loewi, Otto (Signature) $175
German-American pharmacologist, co-recipient of 1936 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology for research on chemical transmission of nerve impulses
 Mason, Max (Signature) $35
Mathematician-physicist-educator-inventor, directed construction of Palomar Observatory
 Mayo, Charles H. & William J. (Signed Cards) $250
Cards signed by the physician founders of the world famous Mayo Clinic
 Menninger, Dr. Karl A. (Signature) $50
Pioneer American psychiatrist & prominent author in the field
 Millikan, Robert A. (Signature) $75
1926 in–person signature of the 1923 Nobel Physics laureate
 Mitchel, Ormsby M. (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $150
Distinguished astronomer, as US Major General ordered 1862 “Great Locomotive Chase” raid
 Mitchell, Maria (Letter) $225
2nd woman to discover a comet, 1st Vassar College faculty appointee, lunar crater named for her
 Mitchell, Silas Weir (ANS) $125
Prominent Philadelphia neurologist & notable historical novelist
 Nobel Prize-Chemistry: Seaborg, Glenn T.; Urey, Harold C.; Pauling, Linus; Todd, Alexander R., 1st Baron; Sanger, Frederick; Calvin, Melvin; Perutz, Max; Herzberg, Gerhard; Anfinsen, Christian B.; Cornforth, Sir John W. (First Day Cover) $250
1976 US 13c chemistry stamp FDC signed by 10 Nobel Prize laureates for chemistry
 Nobel Prize-Chemistry: Urey, Harold C.; Karrer. Paul; Robinson, Sir Robert; Martin, Archer J. P.; Sanger, Frederick; Norrish, Ronald G. W.; Barton, Derek H. R.; Leloir, Luis; Herzberg, Gerhard; Anfinsen, Christian B.; Frisch, Ernst Otto (FDC) $250
1963 US National Academy of Science Centennial stamp FDC signed by 11 Nobel Prize laureates for chemistry
 Ochoa, Severo & Carmen (Signatures) $30
1967 US JFK aerogramme signed by 1959 Nobel laureate for synthesis of RNA & wife
 Perrine, Charles Dillon (Typed Sentiment Signed) $75
American-Argentine astronomer, discovered two of Jupiter’s moons, etc.
 Perutz, Max F. (Letter) $80
British 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry co-laureate for studies of globular protein structures
 Purcell, Edward M. (Signature) $75
Co-recipient of 1952 physics Nobel Prize for research leading to development of the MRI
 Ramsay, Sir William (AQS) $250
Brief AQS from British 1904 Nobel Prize-winning chemist
 Richet, Charles R. (Letter) $150
French 1913 Nobel laureate for physiology or medicine for work on anaphylaxis
 Robbins, Frederick C. (Signatures) $30
1967 US JFK aerogramme signed by 1954 Nobel Prize co-laureate & wife
 Roux, Emile (Letter) $295
French physician, collaborator with Pasteur, discovered first anti-diptheria serum
 Salk, Jonas E. (Photograph) $150
Developed 1st successful anti-polio vaccine
 Salk, Jonas E. (ON HOLD) (Letter) $295
Excellent content 1955 letter from the developer of the 1st successful anti-polio vaccine
 Schaefer, Vincent J. (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $40
General Electric chemist, developed artificial snow and cloud-seeding to produce rain
 Schick, Béla (Photograph) $175
Hungarian-American Jewish pediatrician, discovered test to determine susceptibiltiy to dipthereia
 Schweitzer, Dr. Albert (Document) $550
Dr. Schweitzer vouches for payment of his Chief of Medical Services tax payments while she is on leave
 Seaborg, Glenn (Photograph) $110
Co-discoverer of plutonium, shared 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 See, Thomas Jefferson Jackson (T. J. J.) (Signature) $40
Controversial American astronomer,attacked Einstein’s theory of relativity, favored own theories ignored by his colleagues
 Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott (ANS) $175
English physiologist, co-recipient of 1932 Nobel Prize for studies of nervous system
 Silliman, Benjamin (Photograph) $150
Prominent chemist & Yale educator, 1st to distill petroleum
 Steinmetz, Charles Proteus (Letter) $495
General Electric’s 1st “wizard”, his inventions helped usher the American electrical era
 Stewart, Homer J. (Photograph) $90
US rocket pioneer, helped develop Explorer I, 1st US satellite launched Jan. 1958
 Struve, Otto (Signature) $50
Prominent Russian-American astronomer, encouraged first search for extraterrestial intelligence
 Tatum, Edward L. (First Day Cover) $30
1967 US JFK stamp FDC signed by 1958 Nobel Prize co-laureate & wife
 Tishler, Max (Letter) $75
Led mass production of penicillin in WW II and developed large-scale postwar vaccines and drugs
 Todd, Sir Alexander R., 1st Baron (Letter) $65
Scottish biochemist, received 1957 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for research on nucleosides
 Veblen, Oswald (Signature) $50
Mathematician, an organizer of Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, oversaw creation of ENIAC, 1st electronic digital computer
 Waksman, Selman A. (Photograph) $175
1952 Nobel laureate, coined term “antibiotics”, discovered streptomycin, neomycin, and others
 Waksman, Selman A. (Letter) $225
Discovered streptomycin, neomycin, and others, coined term “antibiotics”; 1952 Nobel laureate
 Wallace, Alfred Russel (Document (Partial)) $225
Independently originated a theory of natural selection, published 1858 jointly with Darwin’s
 Walton, Ernest Thompson Sinton (Signature) $95
Irish Physicist, Shared 1951 Nobel Prize for development of atom-splitting particle accelerator
 Warburg, Otto (Signature) $175
German biochemist, 1931 Nobel laureate in medicine or physiology for respiratory research
 Waterhouse, Benjamin (Signature) $450
Introduced Jenner’s smallpox vaccinations in the US, tested on his own children
 Yukawa, Hideki (Signature) $95
Japanese physicist, postulated existence of the meson 1935, 1949 Nobel laureate
 Zewail, Ahmed H. (Letter) $65
Pioneer in femtochemistry, 1999 Nobel chemistry laureate
 Zuse, Konrad (Photograph) $350
German engineer, created 1st program-controlled computer (1941), 1st algorithmic programming language (1944-45)

Signers of the Declaration of Independence
 Ellery, William (Document) $595
1768 ADS certifyling waiter’s attendance at court to the Colony’s Treasurer
 Huntington, Samuel (Document) $595
1772 DS as New London County, Connecticut Justice of the Peace, summons “in His Majesty’s name”
 McKean, Thomas (Document) $595
1779 MsDS as Pennsylvania’s Chief Justice
 Morris, Robert (Document) $795
1795 $3,000 3-year promissory note to his partner - also later jailed for debt
 Penn, John (Document) $4750
1785 ADS, subpoena filed as plaintiff’s attorney in action for debt
 Walton, George (Document) $1100
1783 DS as Georgia Chief Justice allowing law suit in case involving a slave boy, Tom
 Wilson, James (Document) $1495
1795 MsDS while Associate Justice, hiring real estate agents

Sports - Miscellaney
 Belmont Jr., August (Letter) $175
Financier & sportsman, horse racing’s Belmont Stakes & Belmont Park named for him
 Whitney, Harry Payne (Document) $225 Special Offer: $175
Stock transfer document signed by the financier-polo player-horse breeder & racer

For the polo player & horse aficionado!

Sports-Baseball
 Barrow, Edward G. (Check) $225
Hall of Fame New York Yankee executive, oversaw team’s 1920‘s–mid 40’s success
 Rickey, W. Branch (Photograph) $750
Hall of Fame baseball executive best known for racially integrating baseball by signing Jackie Robinson
 Williams, Edward Bennett (First Day Cover) $30
Washington lawyer /insider, owned Baltimore Orioles & Washington Redskins

Sports-Basketball
 Naismith, James A. (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $995
Autograph Sentiment Signed on autograph album page in 1939 by inventor of basketball

Sports-Boxing
 Ali, Muhammad (AQS & Sketch) $350
Signed 1991 hand-drawn sketch & spiritual quotation by “The Greatest”

Sports-Football
 Kemp, Jack (Photograph) $30
Professional football player, Congressman, Presidential Cabinet member, 1996 GOP VP candidate
 Williams, Edward Bennett (First Day Cover) $30
Washington lawyer /insider, owned Baltimore Orioles & Washington Redskins

Stage & Screen
 Anderson, Maxwell (Document) $195 Special Offer: $175
1945 license for radio broadcast of his play "Elizabeth the Queen"

A price break in honor of a wonderful writer!
 Arliss, George (Original Signed Sketch) $125
Original pencil sketch signed by artist and also by the 3rd Best Actor Oscar winner
 Benchley, Robert (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $90
Humorist, a founder of the Algonquin Round Table
 Bergman, Ingrid (Signed Program) $175
In-person signature on 1972 Wilmington theater program
 Black, Alexander (Letter) $125 Special Offer: $110
Inventor of the “picture play”, made President Grover Cleveland a “film star”!

A nice gift for the film industry "buff"!
 Brynner, Yul (Photograph) $150
Signed photograph as Prince Bounine in "Anastasia"
 Coward, Sir Noel (Letter) $325
1933 TLS to friend, writer-historian Philip Guedalla
 Crawford, Joan (Letter) $110
Crawford expresses reserved interest in doing a "legitimate production" (a play)
 Crawford, Joan (Photograph) $235
1950's matte finish photo portrait inscribed & signed
 Downey Sr., Morton (Photograph) $30
Vintage matte-finish sepia portrait of "The Irish Nightingale", star of stage, screen, radio & TV
 Dunham, Katherine (Photograph) $125
Vintage signed photo of the "Matriarch & Queen Mother of Black Dance"
 Fields, Dorothy (Signature) $40
Broadway-Hollywood librettist & lyricist, won 1936 Oscar, 5 Tony Awards
 Fox, William (Letter) $650
Pioneer motion picture executive, founder of Fox film & theater empire, namesake of today’s Fox TV network
 Grable, Betty (Photograph) $295
Vintage photo inscribed & signed by the dancer-singer-actress, #1 WW II “pin-up girl”
 Grahame, Margot (Photograph) $40
Britain’s answer to Jean Harlow!
 Henning, Doug (Photograph) $175
Colorful 70’s – 80’s magician-showman
 Hepburn, Katharine (Letter) $275
1981 TLS from the AFI-ranked greatest US film actress
 Howard, Sidney Coe (Document) $350 Special Offer: $295
1928 contract for South African rights to one of his plays from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, & “Gone With the Wind” Oscar-winning screenplay writer

Get it before it is "Gone With The Wind"!
 Lasky Sr., Jesse L. (Photograph) $225
Pioneer movie mogul, co-founder of Paramount Pictures, produced Hollywood’s 1st feature film 1914
 Mercer, Johnny (Autograph Note Signed) $115
Frameable ANS of the popular Oscar-winning lyricist
 Mirren, Dame Helen (Signed Small Poster) $95
Color National Theatre poster signed by one of only 3 actresses to win an Oscar, Emmy & Golden Globe the same year
 Nichols, Anne (Photograph) $75
Producer-playwright of mid- 1920’s smash hit play “Abie’s Irish Rose”
 Odets, Clifford (Note) $95
1941 ANS of noted playwright and Hollywood screenwriter
 Paley, William S. (Letter) $75
Founder of CBS Radio & Television networks
 Phillipson, Irving J. (Letter) $95
The Home Front: Irving Berlin’s “This Is the Army” comes to San Francisco
 Pidgeon, Walter (Photograph) $110
Handsome signed vintage matte finish MGM portrait
 Prince, Harold ("Hal") (Photograph) $35
Multi-Tony Award-winning Broadway musical producer & director
 Reeve, Christopher (Photograph) $295
Signed & inscribed color photograph as “Superman”
 Rodgers, Richard (ANS) $125
1962 ANS by one of Broadway’s greatest composers
 Russell, Harold (Check) $30
Only actor to win 2 Oscars for one role, activist in fight for employment rights for people with disabilities
 Sherwood, Robert Emmet (Document) $225
1933 DS from Pulitzer Prize-Winning playwright, & Oscar-winning screenplay writer for British rights to his play "Reunion in Vienna"
 Sterling, Jan (Photograph) $50
Signed original still portrait from "1984"
 Talley, Marion (Photograph) $45
1935 signed & inscribed Clarence Bull glamour matte finish photo
 Warren, William (Autog. Sentiment Signed) $85
19th century American actor noted for playing English gentlemen roles for 50 years
 Weaver, Dennis (Photograph) $50
Signed NBC “McCloud” publicity photo
 Zukor, Adolph (Photograph) $250
Pioneer film mogul, founder of Paramount Pictures, a creator of Hollywood as film center

Vice Presidents of the US
 Agnew, Spiro T. (Photograph) $125
Inscribed & signed photo of the future disgraced “Veep”
 Arthur, Chester A. (Letter) $1250
Rare ALS while Vice President!
 Barkley, Alben W. (Letter) $95
Senate Majority Leader Barkley assists a collector seeking an FDR autograph
 Bush, George H. W. (Letter) $175
TLS as VP 5 days after renomination, to composer of “Hail to The Redskins” on Governor Milliken and campaigning in Michigan
 Bush, George H. W. (Letter) $175
TLS as VP to a good friend (composed “Hail to The Redskins”), glad he met son Jeb in Miami
 Calhoun, John C. (ON HOLD) (Letter) $450
Senator Calhoun investigates cultivating Cuban tobacco
 Clinton, George (Document) $395
1800 ADS of New York’s 1st state governor, Jefferson & Madison’s VP
 Coolidge, Calvin (Letter) $295
Vice President Coolidge to prominent Boston banker, looks forward to seeing Massachusetts friends
 Fairbanks, Charles W. (Signed Portrait) $195
Steel engraved portrait signed by Theodore Roosevelt’s VP, Charles Hughes’ 1916 running mate
 Hamlin, Hannibal (Letter) $495
April 1861 ALS while VP, recommends gunpowder manufacturer to War Department
 Hendricks, Thomas A. (Check) $175
1872 bank check completed in the future VP’s hand
 Johnson, Richard Mentor (Check) $250
Check handwritten a year & a day before his election as VP by the Senate
 Marshall, Thomas R. (Signed Card) $85
Frameable card signed by Wilson’s Vice President
 Marshall, Thomas R. (Photograph) $225
Signed Clinedinst photo likely while Wilson’s VP
 Meigs Jr., Return J. & Johnson, Richard Mentor (Check) $225
1819 check in hand of future VP Richard Mentor Johnson, signed by Meigs while Postmaster General
 Nixon, Richard M. (Letter) $395
VP (and soon-to-be 1960 GOP nominee) Nixon sends thanks for miniature Viennese elephant orchestra gift (!)
 Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Document) $115
1963 message as New York Governor on opening of Newburgh-Beacon Bridge
 Tompkins, Daniel D. (Letter) $275
1815 ALS as New York Governor to General Peter B. Porter seeking appointment advice

Western Americana
 Smith, Marcus Aurelius ("Mark") (Letter) $40
Tombstone prosecutor, one of Arizona’s first two US Senators
 Tabor, Horace A. W. (Signature) $350
Signature of “The Silver King”, likely while Colorado US Senator for 2 months
 Thomas, Henry A. "Heck" (Document) $495
One of “The Three Guardsmen” who brought law & order to Indian/Oklahoma Territory

Women
 Anthony, Susan B. (Letter) $2250
Excellent letter conveying a sentiment from the tireless advocate of women’s right to vote
 Apgar, Virginia (Letter) $295
Neonatology & teratology pioneer, developed “Apgar Test” to assess health of newborn babies
 Barton, Clara (Letter) $595
Barton thanks her “comrade friends” for expressions of support while ill
 Blackwell, Alice Stone (Letter) $225
Daughter of Lucy Stone, women’s and human rights advocate, edited “Woman’s Journal” 1893-1918
 Bloomer, Amelia J. (ON HOLD) (Signed Card) $295
Women's rights-temperance advocate, 1st to operate news vehicle for women, her name linked with clothing reform style
 Bly, Nellie (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $395
Pioneer woman journalist, noted for 1890 record 72-day trip around the world & exposé of NYC women’s lunatic asylum
 Booth, Florence E. (Letter) $95
Pioneered Salvation Army programs for destitute women, pioneered anti-prostitution campaign
 Claflin, Tennessee C. (Signature) $450
“Tennie C.”, colorful & controversial women’s rights advocate
 Davis, Angela Y. (AQS) $150
1960’s political activist, Black Panther associate, 1980 & 1984 Communist Party VP candidate
 Eliot, George (Signature) $250
One of Victorian England's greatest novelists, one of world's foremost women writers
 Felton, Rebecca Latimer (Signature) $50
1st woman to serve in the US Senate, oldest “freshman” and shortest tenure ever (1 day); last former slaveholder Senator
 Ferguson, Miriam A. "Ma" (Signed Card) $65
Controversial 1st Texas woman governor, 2nd female US governor
 Freud, Anna (Letter) $350
Daughter of Sigmund Freud, co-founder of psychoanalytic child psychology
 Hale, Sarah J. (Letter) $350
Women’s & children’s author & editor, wrote “Mary Had a Little Lamb”
 Jarvis, Anna M. (Letter) $295
1938 TLS from the founder of America’s Mother’s Day holiday
 Johnson (Mollison), Amy (Signature) $195
Record-setting British aviatrix of 30’s, killed at age 38!
 Joliot-Curie, Irene (Letter) $595
French physicist, daughter of Pierre & Marie Curie, shared 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband
 Kenny, Sister Elizabeth (Signed Envelope) $125
Australian nursing sister, pioneered treatment for infantile paralysis
 Kenyon, Dorothy (Letter) $40
Controversial feminist lawyer-jurist-diplomat
 Livermore, Mary A. (Signed Card) $75
“The Queen of the Platform”, abolitionist, woman suffrage & education, temperance advocate
 Luhan, Mabel Dodge (Signature) $150
Rare autograph of the wealthy patron associated with the Taos Art Colony; author
 Marlborough, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of (Signature) $250
One of most influential women in English history, ancestor of Winston Churchill & Diana, Princess of Wales
 McAuliffe, S. Christa (Signature) $900
1st non-astronaut to be sent to space, killed in 1986 explosion of Shuttle "Challenger"
 Miles, Josephine (Signed typescript) $30
Signed typescript of “Lucifer Alone” by the eminent Berkeley poet & critic
 Mills, Susan L. (Letter) $125
Founder of Mills College, 1st women’s college in the far western United States
 Mitchell, Maria (Letter) $225
2nd woman to discover a comet, 1st Vassar College faculty appointee, lunar crater named for her
 Nichols, Anne (Photograph) $75
Producer-playwright of mid- 1920’s smash hit play “Abie’s Irish Rose”
 Ross, Nellie Tayloe (Photograph) $110
1st woman elected state governor, 1st woman Director of US Mint
 Sigourney, Lydia H. (AQS) $150
The popular American poet misquotes English poet Edward Young
 Sims, Naomi (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $25
1st African-American supermodel, businesswoman, author
 Smith, Margaret Chase (Letter) $35
1967 letter of advice to a constituent seeking a US Capitol job
 Thompson, Dorothy (Photograph) $75
“The First Lady of American Journalism"
 Willard, Emma (Letter) $495
Uncommon ALS of the author and women's rights advocate, founder of the first women’s school of higher education
 Willebrandt, Mabel Walker (Letter) $75
“Prohibition Portia”, one of the most prominent women lawyers of the 20's - 40's, sends thanks for copies of New Deal legislation

World Leaders
 Astor, William Waldorf, 2nd Viscount (Letter) $110
Astor thanks his sister for a souvenir riding crop for rambling at Cliveden
 Avila Camacho, Manuel (Signature) $50
Mexico's World War II Head of State
 Baldwin, Stanley (Signed Card) $80
3-time Prime Minister, secured peaceful abdication of Edward VII
 Bernadotte, Jean-Baptiste-Jules (Signature) $195
Napoleon’s Marshal, King of Sweden & Norway
 Bernstorff, Graf Johann Heinrich von (Photograph) $125
German Ambassador to US & Mexico 1908-17, aided intelligence & sabotage efforts in US & Canada 1914-17
 Bidault, Georges-Augustin (Photograph) $50
WW II Resistance leader, PM 3 times, led OAS terrorists opposed to Algerian independence, exiled
 Blum, Léon (Signed Card) $75
1st Jewish, 1st Socialist Prime Minister (3 times), tried for treason by Vichy govermnent, held in Nazi concentration camps
 Brandt, Willi (Commemorative Envelope) $35
Berlin Mayor, West German Chancellor, 1971 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
 Carol II (Signature) $125
1941 signature of Romania’s exiled King Carol II, ruled 1930-40
 Chamberlain, Neville (Letter) $595
Chancellor Chamberlain to 1931 Nobel Peace laureate Butler, lack of demand prohibits reprint of 1887-88 Royal Commission on Gold & Silver Report
 Churchill, Sir Winston (Letter) $2495
A year before returning to power, Tory leader Churchill thanks a Conservative colleague and inquires of his health
 Churchill, Sir Winston S. (Letter) $2495
Leader of the Opposition Churchill invites Parliamentary colleague to luncheon 2 days after the 1948 US presidential election
 Derby, 15th Earl (Letter) $75
Lord Derby arranges payments on a donation to a school of science
 Edward VII (Photograph) $595
Signed carte-de-visite photo while Prince of Wales
 Elath, Eliahu (FDC) $40
Israel’s 1st Ambassador to the US and to Great Britain
 Erhard, Ludwig (FDC) $50
1959 US Ernst Reuter-Champion of Liberty stamp FDC signed by 2nd Chancellor of West Germany
 Fawzi, Mahmoud (First Day Cover) $30
Egyptian diplomat & statesman from Farouk to Sadat
 Figueres Ferrer, José (First Day Cover) $30
3-time democratic reformer President of Costa Rica
 Gandhi, Rajiv (First Day Cover) $195
9th PM of India 1984-89, succeeded mother Indira, like her, also assassinated
 Garcia, Carlos (First Day Cover) $40
8th President of The Philippines on US first day cover honoring his predecessor
 Grenville, William, Lord (Letter) $150
PM, abolished British slave trade 1806, unsuccessfully sought Catholic emancipation
 Harman, Avraham (First Day Cover) $30
Renowned Israeli Diplomat, Ambassador to US 1959-68
 Hussein I of Jordan (Photograph) $125
Photograph Signed by Jordan’s King in 1972
 Jinnah, Mohammad Ali (Signature) $1250
Very rare signature of the “Father of Pakistan”
 Kadar, Janos (Photograph) $75
Hungarian Communist leader 1956-88, supported USSR invasion after 1956 revolt
 Kekkonen, Urho (First Day Cover) $75
Signed 1965 US Winston Churchill stamp First Day Cover while President of Finland
 King, Wm. L. Mackenzie (ON HOLD) (Photograph) $125
1948 signed photo of Canada’s longest-serving Prime Minister
 Kreisky, Bruno (Photograph) $35
Jewish Socialist Chancellor of Austria 1970-1983
 Liverpool, Lord (Robt. Banks Jenkinson) (Letter) $175
ALS while British PM, Fought Napoleon & United States in 1812
 Lyons, Richard P. M., 1st Viscount (ANS) $40
Eminent British envoy to the US during the Civil War
 Macapagal, Diosdado (First Day Cover) $40
Philippine JFK memorial stamp FDC signed by 9th president (father of current president!)
 Magloire, Paul A. (Photograph) $40
Signed portrait of Haitian Head of State 1950-56
 Marcos, Ferdinand (Photograph) $40
Signed photo of Philippine dictator, overthrown & exiled to Hawaii 1986
 Marlborough, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of (Signature) $250
One of most influential women in English history, ancestor of Winston Churchill & Diana, Princess of Wales
 Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (William Lanb) (Free Frank) $95
Free franked adress leaf while PM and mentor to young Queen Victoria - Melbourne, Australia named for him!
 Metternich, Klemens Wenzel, Prinz von (Franked Envelope) $195
Austrian statesman, one of Europe’s greatest 19th century diplomats
 Mountbatten of Burma, Lord Louis (Letter) $235
Lord Mountbatten seeks commercial sponsorship for US television showing of his film biography
 Nam Il (Photograph) $750
Rare photograph signed by leader of North Korean’s delegation negotiating end to Korean War
 Nehru, Jawaharlal (Matted Signature) $135
1958 signature while PM matted with Karsh portrait
 North, Frederick Lord, 2nd Earl of Guilford (Document) $175
America’s last Prime Minister, 1st PM anywhere forced from office by “no confidence” vote
 Olmert, Ehud (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $135
In-Person Autograph sentiment signed by Israel’s Prime Minister while Mayor of Jerusalem
 Orlando, Vittorio E. (Autograph Sentiment Signed) $225
WW I Italian PM 1917-19, one of the “Big Four”, led Italy’s delegation to Paris Peace Conference
 Phouma, Souvanna (Photograph) $50
Headed neutralist Laotian governments between 1951 and 1975
 Pitt, William ("The Younger") (Signature) $125
At 24, Britain's youngest, and one of Its greatest, Prime Ministers
 Poincaré, Raymond (Signed Calling Card) $40
Visiting card signed by the WW I French president & statesman
 Portland, 3rd Duke (Wm. Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, Marquess of Titchfield) (Letter) $250
Duke of Portland’s butcher wishes to serve Duke of Clarence, future King William IV
 Rabin, Yitzhak (Photograph) $175
Signed photo of the assassinated soldier-statesman inscribed as General
 Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli (Signed Cover) $50
Signed JFK assassination 5th anniversary cover
 Reuter, Ernst (Letter) $150
West Berlin Mayor Reuter thanks Ambassador Grew for his memoir
 Rhee, Syngman (Signature) $115
Autocratic 1st President of South Korea
 Russell, Lord John (Letter) $80
Russell accepts a photograph of a statuette of Lord Palmerston
 Samuel, Herbert, 1st Viscount (Letter) $135
1st Jew to govern land of Israel in 2,000 years, 1st practicing Jew to lead major British party
 Sapir, Pinhas (FDC) $45
Father of the Israeli economy, managed from a black notebook
 Shamir, Yitzhak (Photograph) $65
7th Prime Minister of Israel
 Shazar, Zalman (Photograph) $75
Member of 1st Israeli Cabinet, 3rd President of Israel 1963-73
 Simeon II, Tsar of Bulgaria (Photograph) $95
Signed photo in formal attire while exiled in Spain
 Smuts, Jan Christian (Signed Portrait) $175
South African statesman, only person to sign peace treaties ending WW I & II
 Spaak, Paul-Henri (First Day Cover) $25
Belgian, United Nations & NATO statesman
 Tildy, Zoltán (Signed Card) $125
Post-War provisional PM of Hungary, President before Communist takeover, Vice PM in Coalition Government crushed in 1956 Revolution aftermath
 Umberto II (Photograph) $65
Signed photograph of the exiled last King of Italy
 Urguplu, Ali Suat Hayri (Photograph) $35
Signed photo while 9-month Turkish "caretaker" PM in 1965
 Walesa, Lech (Photograph) $110
Polish trade unionist, led “Solidarity”, 1983 Nobel Peace laureate, President 1990-95


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