American History

Unique Antique Quilt with 168 Ink signatures of Presidents, Civil War Officers and Generals, Politicians, Authors, Suffragists, Scientists, etc.

Franklin Pierce Autograph Letter on Abolition and “Negro Mania,” Six Weeks after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

American Supreme Court Justice to his Recently Arrived Cousin from War-Torn Austria

John Burroughs Photographed Outside of his Cabin “Slabsides”

Union General Benjamin Butler Telegraphs General Winfield Scott about his Unauthorized March into Baltimore

Typed Letter Signed as President: “We secured a major victory for the American people”

Autograph Letter about Being Refunded for his Investments in Cotton and Lands in the Western United States

Signed Manuscript Giving Official Notice of the United States Entering the Credit Markets

Excellent and Rare Autograph Letter Signed on Financial Matters by the “Merchant Prince” of Wall Street and Co-founder of Phelps, Dodge & Co

Six Pages of One of Eisenhower’s Last Speeches Drafted Before Election Day 1956, Given at Pittsburgh’s Hunt Armory

Rare Early Letter by the President of Harvard about a Bequest

Scarce Autograph Letter Signed by 19th-Century New York City Real Estate Developer about Charity for “Old Merchants”