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Other African American History Offerings

• Frederick Douglass Celebrates His Return to America a Free Man, and Reunion with His Family, While Telling of His Treatment During the Voyage
• Cinque, Leader of the Amistad Revolt Autograph at an Abolitionist Fundraiser in Philadelphia
• Abraham Lincoln Signed Check to “William Johnson (Colored)”—Who Accompanied the President to Antietam and Gettysburg

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• New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves – 1794 Land Deed from John Jay’s Brother for First African Free School in New York City
• Very Early State Department Printing of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and William Seward’s Cover Letter, Sent to American Minister in Argentina
• Abraham Lincoln Introduces Ulysses S. Grant’s Superintendent of Freed Slaves to the American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission
• President Kennedy Sends a Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute to Civil Rights Leader A. Philip Randolph
• Former President and Future Confederate Supporter John Tyler Forcefully Defends the Fugitive Slave Act and the “Southern Cause,” Attacks the NY Press, and Plays up His Own Service in the War of 1812
• Selma, Alabama Hotel Albert Archive, Including Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Freedom Day” Registration Filled Out Moments Before He was Violently Assaulted
• Georgia Constitution of 1798 Prohibits Both the Importation of Slaves and Emancipation by Legislation
• Lyndon B. Johnson Signing Pen for Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Booker T. Washington Writes Brief Notes for Speeches
• President Grant Preliminary Order Seeking to End Ku Klux Klan Violence in South Carolina
• The Dreadful Dred Scott Decision, First Edition with Added Illustrations
• Jackie Robinson says a talk radio host “needs to do a lot of soul searching.”
• Powerful Anti-Slavery Argument Likely by John Laurens
• “George Washington” - Keith Carter Photograph
• 1778 Muster List, Including Rejected African American Recruit
• Bold Cartoon on Fugitive Slave Law
• Rare Jim Crow Broadside from Father of American Minstrelsy
• [Thomas Jefferson]. 1807 Acts of Congress, Including Law Abolishing Slave Trade, the Insurrection Act, and Lewis & Clark Content. First Edition.
• His Grandmother-in-Law Can’t Spare a “Stacker” for John Augustine Washington III – Letter Delivered by Freed Washington Family Slave West Ford Includes List of Mount Vernon Slaves
• Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail in Liberation Magazine
• Arthur Ashe’s United Negro College Fund Benefit Silver Bowl Trophy
• “Black bellied Yankees” at The Battle of Fort Blakely
• Rare New York Senate Print of Proposed State Law to Combat the Dred Scott Decision
• William Monroe Trotter - the first African American to earn a Phi Beta Kappa key at Harvard - pushes a petition calling for mercy for still imprisoned soldiers of the 24th US Colored Infantry
• Congressmen Who Signed Thirteenth Amendment Abolishing Slavery
• Dewey Attacks FDR’s Running Mate Harry Truman for Alleged Ku Klux Klan Ties
• John Brown’s “Fort” as Tourist Attraction
• Slavery Divides New York Legislature in 1844
• A Copperhead Newspaper Prints, Then Criticizes,
  the Emancipation Proclamation
• New Hampshire Ridicules South Carolina’s Attempts
  to Game the System After Rejecting the 14th Amendment
• Quaker Farmer Writes to Congressman Morgan to Condemn Stephen Douglas’ Nebraska Bill Allowing Slavery in New Territories
• Senator Sprague of Rhode Island Writes About Fascinating Debates in Congress Involving Freedom for the Families of African American Recruits and the Limits of Free Speech in the Senate
• Stirring Pamphlet Defense of Abner Kneeland in His Massachusetts Trials for Blasphemy
• “Genealogy of Thos Moseley’s Family” Lists Births of Fourteen Enslaved People in Virginia and Kentucky
• Gerald Ford Defends His Early Commitment to Civil Rights
• 16 x 20 Inch Photograph of St. Augustine, Florida, African American Cart Driver
• Discontent with Gilded Age Presidential Politics
  and the Influence of “the negro vote”
• The Success of Black Troops At Petersburg, Virginia, Under Butler
• “The Slave Sale, or Come Who Bids?” Abolitionist Sheet Music
• Swedish immigrant uses racist “Pickaninny” imagery on a hand-painted envelope
• “Black Republican” Salt River Ticket
• Elmer W. Henderson – Who Defeated Railroad Dining Car Segregation – Congratulates African American Inventor for American Institute of Chemists Award
• Peter Cooper’s Letter to Lincoln Regarding Emancipation
• 1966 Civil Rights Charge of Discrimination Form

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• John Brown cashes $50 to check slavery in Kansas
• Steamboat Inventor Robert Fulton and Six Other Commissioners Ask the Governor of Georgia to Support Federal Funding of the Erie Canal
• Hamilton LS on Declaration-Signer Philip Livingston's Estate, Ten Years After His Death

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• A Week After Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK Asks Treasury Secretary Dillon About the Possibility of a Run on Gold if the Crisis Had Lasted Longer or Involved a Total Blockade
• Congress Authorizes a Mint, and President Washington Proclaims the Location of the Permanent Seat of Government
• President Washington Approves Establishment of Mint and Issues First Veto
• Documenting Declaration of Independence Signer
  Robert Morris’s Financial Troubles
• Robert Morris Promissory Note,
  Used As Evidence In His Bankruptcy Trial
• “An Act to Incorporate the Subscribers to the Bank of the United States”
• John Marshall’s Supreme Court Decides Osborn et al. v. The Bank of the United States, landmark 11^th Amendment Case
• A Mining Engineer’s Journal Recounting His Role in Nome, Alaska Gold Rush
• Alexander Stephens, Future Confederate Vice President,
  Rants Against Congress Refunding Andrew Jackson’s
  War of 1812 Fine
• Lake Torpedo Boat Company Preferred Stock
• Benjamin Butler Signed Stock Certificate
• The Depression Causes Community Funds to Struggle to Meet Increased
• Henry Du Pont Signed Stock Certificate
• An Act to Incorporate the Ohio Insurance Company
• William K. And Harold Vanderbilt Signed
  World War I Veterans Bonus New York State Bond

Other Great Gifts Offerings

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms Speech – Inscribed and Signed by FDR – in the “Missy” LeHand Archive
• Thomas Jefferson Signed Act of Congress Authorizing Copper Coinage (the First Legal Tender Produced by U.S. Government)
• The Building Blocks of Albert Einstein’s Creative Mind

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• Abraham Lincoln Signed Check to “William Johnson (Colored)”—Who Accompanied the President to Antietam and Gettysburg
• FDR’s First Inaugural Address in the Midst of the Great Depression
• Albert Einstein by Marc Mellon
• President Harry S. Truman Signs Potsdam Declaration Demanding Japanese Surrender for Himself, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek
• Alexander Hamilton’s Initial Steps to Create a National Banking System
• Earliest Known Printing of “Tikvatenu” [Our Hope – the origin of “Hatikvah”] Inscribed by Author Naftali Herz Imber to Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the “revivalist of the Hebrew language”
• Winston Churchill by Marc Mellon
• George F. Root’s Autograph Sheet Music for “The Battle-Cry of Freedom!”
• President Kennedy Sends a Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute to Civil Rights Leader A. Philip Randolph
• Continental Congress Declares Independence – on July 2, 1776
• For Washington, Hamilton Confirms Receipt of Hessian Troop Movement Intelligence
• Thomas Jefferson Transmits the First Patent Act to Governor of New York George Clinton, Who Later Replaced Aaron Burr as Jefferson’s Vice President
• The Only Known Document in Hamilton’s Hand on a Legal Case Involving James Reynolds
• Rare Important Declaration of Independence Linen Handkerchief
• Unique Inscribed Set of John Marshall’s Life of George Washington, With Joseph Story Letter to the Daughter of the Late Associate Justice Henry Brockholst Livingston, Conveying Marshall’s Thanks and Noting That He Will Be Sending to Her These Very Books
• President Woodrow Wilson Asks Congress for a Declaration of War
• President Wilson Urges Americans to Support the “Stricken Jewish People” of Europe During World War I
• Alexander Hamilton Writes to His Beloved Wife, Eliza, About the Deteriorating Health of Her Younger Sister, Peggy
• Civil War “The Union Forever” Flag Made by Philadelphia Sailmaker, ca. 1861
• Hamilton LS to Bank of New York Advising That Collectors Will No Longer Receive Its Notes
• Alexander Hamilton Signed Registration for Schooner Robert of Baltimore
• Hamilton Serves as Surety for Loan to Fellow Attorney and Second in His Duel with Burr
• Lyndon B. Johnson Signing Pen for Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Early Printing of the U.S. Constitution, in American Museum—One of the First Two Magazine Printings of the Constitution
• George Washington’s Famous Letter to American Roman Catholics: A Message of Thankfulness, Patriotism, and Inclusiveness
• Thomas Jefferson Pays Import Duty on Famous Louis Chantrot Obelisk Clock
• George Washington: Rare 1777 Revolutionary War Hand Colored Engraving
• Major General Alexander Hamilton Message to Father of American Viticulture During Quasi-War with France
• Theodore Roosevelt, Furious with Cuba's "Pointless" 1906 Revolution
• Harry S. Truman on His 1948 Proclamation Recognizing Israel
• A Week After Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK Asks Treasury Secretary Dillon About the Possibility of a Run on Gold if the Crisis Had Lasted Longer or Involved a Total Blockade
• Two months Before Declaring Israel’s Independence, Ben-Gurion Counters American Backpedaling and Pushes to Start the Temporary Government
• Amelia Earhart and Richard E. Byrd—Aviation Pioneers in Signed Group Photo
• Aviation Pioneer Amelia Earhart Returns from European Tour with Publisher Husband
• Masonic Documents: James P. Kimball archive of master Mason, geologist, and Director of the United States Mint - with superb engravings
• Brown University Holds First Commencement in 1769 - as Rhode Island College
• FDR’s Personal Copy of 1934 Textile Industry Crisis Board Report Countersigned by Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins, the First Woman Presidential Cabinet Member
• J.E.B. Stuart Writes to Legendary Confederate Spy Laura Ratcliffe
• David Ben-Gurion ALS—Preventing a War between the Religious and the Secular in Early Israel
• Debating the Bill of Rights Amendments in 1789
• The Gettysburg Address – New York Semi-Weekly Tribune First Day of Printing
• The Second Naturalization Act - Establishing Laws for Citizenship
• President John Quincy Adams’ Remarks & Toast Commemorating William Penn’s Landing
• Connecticut Governor’s Proclamation Calling for a Day of Thanksgiving to Commemorate the Defeat of the French in Canada, and the Taking of Quebec
• Vibrant Print of Fifteenth Amendment Celebrations
• President Jefferson Sends, Rather than Delivers, His First State of the Union
• 1915 Women’s Suffrage Poster
• Jackie Robinson says a talk radio host “needs to do a lot of soul searching.”
• Whig Presidential Nominee William Henry Harrison to Daniel Webster
• “George Washington” - Keith Carter Photograph
• 1778 Muster List, Including Rejected African American Recruit
• Large 1801 Folio Engraving of Thomas Jefferson as New President
• Nine Months of a Hawaiian Missionary Newspaper, With the First Report of King Kamehameha III’s Death and Perry’s Mission to Japan
• Ben-Gurion to Moshe Sharett on Sharett’s Resignation as Foreign Minister
• Acquittal of Printer John Peter Zenger in Colonial New York Establishes Foundation for American Freedom of the Press
• Prang & Co. Broadside with Maps of Early Civil War Hotspots
• President Theodore Roosevelt Questions Coal Monopolies and Contradictions in Report from Interstate Commerce Chairman
• Rare 1870 Yale University Summer Boat Races Broadside
• Susan B. Anthony Plaster Relief Medallion Copyrighted by Her Sister
• Arthur Ashe’s United Negro College Fund Benefit Silver Bowl Trophy
• Golda Meir Stresses the Need to Settle New Immigrants
• “John Bull and the Baltimoreans” Lampooning British Defeat at Fort McHenry in Baltimore Following their Earlier Success at Alexandria
• President Washington Approves Establishment of Mint and Issues First Veto
• Ben-Gurion Attempts to Convince the Israeli Government to Attack Jordan, After Jordan Violated the Cease-fire Ending the Six Day War
• Boston Newspaper Publishes Former Governor Hutchinson’s Letters
• Inventor Thomas A. Edison Responds to His Son’s Note About a Speaking Request
• Golda Meir Invites an American Semiconductor Pioneer to an Israeli Economic Conference
• Madison’s Optimistic First Message to Congress: A Prelude to the War of 1812
• Adams Defends U.S. Constitution, First French Edition
• Bronze Bas Relief Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt: “Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport the world affords”
• Early Printing of a Bill to Establish the Treasury Department
• FDR Signed Engraving of White House Bound in The Democratic Book 1936
• Harry Hines Woodring Political Archives and Related Material
• Congressmen Who Signed Thirteenth Amendment Abolishing Slavery
• Anticipating Prohibition Repeal
• Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Doll
• Eleanor Roosevelt Asks Pennsylvania Educator to Serve as Chair of Local Women’s Crusade
• Ben-Gurion Calls for a Jerusalem Home for the Bible Society: “every spiritual idea, for it to exist and exert influence, needs a physical structure, too, a central home…”
• Lucy Stone Thanks Suffragist Who Later Led Effort for Women’s Suffrage in Hawaii for Donation
• A Ruff-Necked Hummingbird by Audubon
• Masonic Apron, Neck Sash & Medal of U.S. Mint - California Gold Refiner James Booth, with a Lithograph of Him
• Calvin Coolidge Appoints Trustee of the National Training School for Girls
• Harvard’s 1791 Graduating Students and Theses, Dedicated to Governor John Hancock and Lieutenant Governor Samuel Adams
• Honoring Washington and Quoting His Farewell Address (Drafted by Hamilton)
• Pennsylvania Deputy Governor Urges General Assembly to Resist French Expansion in North America in Early Stages of the French and Indian War
• Lucy Stone Promotes Bazaar to Suffragist Who Later Led Effort for Women’s Suffrage in Hawaii
• New York Times Carriers’ Address Reviews the Year 1863 in Bad Verse, Including Freeing of Russia’s Serfs, and the Battle of Gettysburg
• Eleanor Roosevelt Thanks Former State Senator for Article to Assist Women in Monitoring Polling Places
• Hillary Clinton Thanks Doctor for Policy Change to Allow Fathers to Be in Delivery Room for Caesarean Sections
• John Marshall’s “Life of George Washington”
  and Companion Atlas with Hand-colored Maps
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt Thanks for a “Heartening” Telegram Received September 27, While FDR was Trying to Prevent Hitler from Starting War
• Rich 1845 Letter on the State of American Art to Hudson River Artist Jasper Cropsey
• Senator Sprague of Rhode Island Writes About Fascinating Debates in Congress Involving Freedom for the Families of African American Recruits and the Limits of Free Speech in the Senate
• Gerald Ford Defends His Early Commitment to Civil Rights
• Picasso Anti-War Image Used to Promote Vietnam War Protest
• 16 x 20 Inch Photograph of St. Augustine, Florida, African American Cart Driver
• Future Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo: “I am alone in the world now.”
• Anthony C. McAuliffe Writes Amidst Tests of Atomic Bombs at Bikini Atoll in 1946
• Hoover Tells a Key Aide that Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Occupies FBI in New York
• Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper’s Signed “Bioscience Data Plan” for Conducting Vital Biomedical Research on the Impact of Space Flight on the Human Body
• Ohio Reformers Use Rhode Island’s Dorr Rebellion
  to Justify Their Own Behavior
• 1790 Massachusetts Newspaper Discussing Nantucket Whalers
• Elmer W. Henderson – Who Defeated Railroad Dining Car Segregation – Congratulates African American Inventor for American Institute of Chemists Award
• Mark Hopkins, Famed Educator and the Longest Serving President of Williams College, Preparing to Lecture at the Smithsonian Institute
• Future Hero of Little Round Top Advises a Friend on Getting a Leave of Absence
• A Harlequin Duck by Audubon
• New England Factory Life
• Rebel Deserters Coming within the Union Lines
• Advertisement for Temperance Restaurant in New York City
• Seesaw - Gloucester, MA - Drawn by Winslow Homer
• The Statue of Liberty
• Christmas Presents
• Edwin M. Stanton Portrait, Based on a Photograph by Matthew Brady
• The Army of the Potomac Arriving at Yorktown from Williamsburg
• (On Hold) The U.S. Constitution – Very Rare Printing on the Second Day of Publication