Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. An extensively illustrated account of the legal background for the Japanese internment along with an account of the military's considerable efforts to relocate more than 100,000 persons of Japanese descent from the West Coast of the United States during the first.....
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Eureka, CA: (n.d. but ca. 1925?). Eleanor, a teacher, writes to Harry, a friend or possibly a relative. She writes about planned trips to San Francisco for shopping and about her parents. Then she starts complaining about Eureka: "Eureka is on the fritz. The lumber industry is nil & Humboldt.....
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Fort Steilacoom, WA: Pacifist Information Center, 1944. An issue of a periodical published by men in the Civilian Public Service (CPS), the work camp program for conscientious objectors during the Second World War. This journal was put out by the Pacifist Information Center at CPS 51 in Fort Steilacoom, which.....
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![The Little Sod Shanty on the Claim [Cabinet Card]. J. N. Templeman, Jasper Newton](/pictures/thumb/306905.jpg?v=1598906139)
Miller, Dakota [now South Dakota]: J. N. Templeton, (ca. 1885). A nice image of a sod house on the Dakota prairie with its likely inhabitants, a white woman standing at the door, with a white man sitting on a barrel against the house holding two young children. This is a......
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![CDV of Viola Myers, Bearded Woman, with Her Husband Amos]. James Mahon, photographer](/pictures/thumb/306901.jpg?v=1598906136)
Columbia, TN: James Mahon, (ca. 1880). Viola E. Myers (6 June 1854 to 24 April 1931) was born in Wilcox, Pennsylvania and in the 1870s and 1880s was the best-known bearded woman in the US. In 1883, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch declared Madame Meyers (as she was also known) "the.....
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![Mrs. Woodhull (Broker) [CDV]. Victoria Woodhull](/pictures/thumb/306900.jpg?v=1598906135)
(1870s). Ephemera. A circa 1870s carte-de-visite photograph (CDV) of the first woman to run for President in the US. 2-7/16 by 4-1/16 inches. Thick mount; rounded corners. This CDV shows Victoria Woodhull in profile from the waist up wearing a ruffled gown and a matching cap. The verso of the photograph.....
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Philadelphia: T. S. Manning, Printer [for the Philadelphia Bar], 1830. First Edition. Pamphlet. A eulogy for Judge Bushrod Washington (1762–1829), who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1798 until his death. His uncle was George Washington, and Bushrod inherited Mount Vernon and the rest of President.....
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Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1832. First Edition. Pamphlet. A speech on commercial debts and the American bankruptcy laws. Hopkinson begins with the observation that merchants are the United States' ambassadors to the world: "The American merchant then should never forget, that he holds the character of his country, as well.....
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[Philadelphia?]: (n.p.), [1829?]. First Edition. An appeal for religious faith over theology. "I have all my life avoided all knotty and disputed points of religion. I argue with nobody about the trinity or the unity of the Godhead; the mysteries of free knowledge and free will; or the profound doctrine of.....
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Portsmouth, [NH]: Printed by Charles Turell, 1814. A speech given at the start of Webster's second year in the House as a representative of New Hampshire. He opposes a plan to pay a bounty to men enlisting in the army and to those who convince people to join. His argument.....
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![March on Washington Funds Solicitation]. Martha Elwell](/pictures/thumb/306800.jpg?v=1598906105)
Portland, OR: Highland Congregational Church, 1963. Ephemera. A letter to members of the Highland Congregational Church in Portland, Oregon, soliciting funds to send a delegation to the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. Elwell, the chair of the church committee.....
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New York: Waldon Press, 1961. First Edition. A biography of Abraham Lincoln written in Albanian. The author (1904–1989) was an Albanian Sufi Muslim journalist who emigrated to the US after World War Two. He worked for the Albanian section of the Voice of America and in retirement wrote several books.....
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Austin: Austin Printing Company, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. An anecdotal history of Travis, Bastrop, Hays, Burnet, and Williamson counties. 235 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Inscribed by the author.
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Eureka, CA: Daily Humboldt Standard, 1890. First Edition. 226 pages. 8-1/2 by 11-1/4 inches. The most detailed 19th century directory of Humboldt County, a remote region in far northwest California that at the time was only reachable by ship. This is also one of the only Western directories compiled and published.....
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Philadelphia: R. Folwell for Benjamin Franklin Bache, [1797]. First Edition. The foundational work proposing the Universal Basic Income, the precursor to the US Social Security program and the current proposals and experiments to guarantee people a basic stipend for living. iv, 5–32 pages. On the title page, Paine lays out.....
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(n.d. but ca. 1900). A compelling but unidentified vintage cabinet card of two women wearing elaborate striped dresses, fringed hats and cross necklaces while holding playing cards. Just visible at their feet are the bases of stands used by the photographer to hold them in place during the long exposure.....
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Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1934. First Edition. Testimony before Congress on the possible effects of taking the US off the gold standard, which happened a few weeks later. Scarce. The witness was John Janney, Chairman of the Executive Board of the American Society of Practical Economists, who spoke.....
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Los Angeles: 1853–1854. Various sizes, most roughly 7-1/2 by 25 inches; on blue paper, folded and docketed. The documents offer a glimpse into the lives of four Mexican Americans living in southern California shortly after it became part of the United States.: 1) Preemption claim of Gerónimo Ybarra, dated December 29, 1853.....
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Santa Fe, NM: (the author), 1947. First Edition. A pamphlet, in Spanish, in support of the New Mexico penitentes, a group of lay Catholics who practice self-flagellation during pilgrimage walks. Trujillo offers an explanation of the practice, defines terms, and gives a history of the group in New Mexico. Uncommon.....
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Las Vegas, NM: Editorial Telaraña, 1980. First edition. A collection of 15 essays written by Arthur Campa, a leading Southwestern folklorist, for the 400th anniversary of the Coronado expedition to New Mexico. These essays were commissioned by the Spanish-language newspaper El Nuevo Mexicano and ran during 1939. This is their.....
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Santa Fe: Historical Society of New Mexico, 1911. First edition. Pamphlet. This pamphlet explores the influence of indigenous languages and English on the Spanish spoken in New Mexico and Colorado, as well as the impact of Spanish on the English spoken in the same region. The paper concludes with a......
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![Report of the Governor of New Mexico]. Miguel A. Otero](/pictures/thumb/306012.jpg?v=1597107796)
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903. First edition. A detailed survey of the conditions in the Territory of New Mexico, with an overview of the counties and towns (308 pages); industrial development; the doings of federal officials in the territory; and reports of territorial officials. Otero, in office as the territorial governor.....
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San Francisco de California: The History Company, 1891. First Edition. A very scarce and little-known San Francisco Spanish imprint. This is the first of four beginning readers for Spanish-speakers, illustrated with engravings likely made for other publications. Trigo's text, which relies on rhyme and repetitive sounds, name-checks many Spanish-speaking countries.....
Price: $125
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1897. A detailed survey of the conditions in the Territory of New Mexico, with department-by-department reports from the various government offices, with the most space devoted to mining. Otero, in office as the territorial governor for nine years, remains the longest-serving Latinx governor in US history. He.....
Price: $75
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904. A detailed survey of the conditions in the Territory of New Mexico, with department-by-department reports from the various government offices, with the most space devoted to mining. Otero, in office as the territorial governor for nine years, remains the longest-serving Latinx governor in US history. He.....
Price: $75
