Search Results: History from Henry Berry, books/ephemera

[YALE MEMORABILIA, CIVIL WAR GRADUATES] CLASS OF 1862 YALE - PORTRAITS AND SKETCHES, published De Vinne Press, 1899, limited edition 200 copies (stated in front), dark blue cloth cover with gilded lettering, 7-1/2" x 11", xii, 267 pp., frontispiece photograph The Old Brick Row and Fence, illustration President Theodore D. Woolsey on reverse of title page, portrait illustrations of professors Porter, Thacher, and Dwight on a front page, photographs of Second Division [18]62 [class group] and Thulia Crew, [18]62 [scull/team rowing boat] on a front page, 2 photographs of most class members, one of respective individual when he was in the class at a young age and the other later in life in the 1890s when the book except for ones who have died, some of these in military service in the Civil War, which is mentioned, biographical information on page facing the photographs is detailed and frequently colorful in relating various professions, businesses, travels, and accomplishments of the period, and in many… Read More

[1942 DEAR ADOLF, 5 (of 6) RADIO SCRIPTS; STEPHEN VINCENT; COUNCIL FOR DEMOCRACY] STEPHEN VINCENT BENET, 5 (of 6) 1942 RADIO SCRIPTS FOR THE PROGRAM / SERIES "DEAR ADOLF", series of six radio letters written each week by Stephen Vincent Benet based upon actual letters written to Hitler by representative Americans and delivered over the National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with the Council for Democracy — (1) Letter from a farmer, June 21, 1942, featuring Raymond Massey, (2) Letter from a business man, June 28, 1942, Melvyn Douglas, (3) Letter from a working man, July 5, 1942, James Cagney, (4) Letter from a housewife and mother, July 12, 1942, Helen Hayes, [MISSING: Letter from An American soldier, July 26, 1942], (5) Letter from a foreign born American, August 2, 1942, Joseph Schildkraut…original ribbon typescript/probably teletype, 8-1/2" x 14"/legal size with bottom 3" folded, single space, variously 4 or 5 pages , in upper right corner of first page of each stamp "COPYRIGHT 1942… Read More

[1944 NAZI / GERMAN HOLOCAUST FINAL SOLUTION LEBENSBORN DOCUMENT TRANSLATED; HIMMLER, KALTENBRUNNER] TRANSLATION OF A NAZI SS DOCUMENT FOR EVIDENCE IN THE NUREMBERG TRIALS, original ribbon/presumably teletype copy, 3 pages stapled at upper left corner, single-spaced, 8-1/2" x 14"/legal size, at top above dashed line TRANSLATION: [heading of document as translated] CHIEF OF THE SECURITY POLICE AND THE SECURITY SERVICE, Berlin, SW 11, 14 April 1944, to the Reichsfuehrer SS [Heinrich Himmler], Subject: Placement of families of German origin in protective custody of home schools…In reference to: attached order of the Reichsfuehrer SS' Record number 47/46/43g…[3-page typescript English translated copy of the original order in German ending with typescript "Signature: KALTENBRUNNER] in part, "The enclosed order of the Reichsfuehrer SS was presented to the Commandant of the Security Police and the Security Service at Lublin together with the report dated 6.4.43. The parents were not to be taken into… Read More

[1940 BLITZKRIEG ARTILLERY PLAN Weidinger in German typed manuscript 8 pp original] "Gedanken über Feuerleitung stärkerer Artillerie" ["Thoughts on stronger artillery fire control line"] by the WWII German officer Colonel Wilhelm Weidinger (see Notes). The date "Februar 1940" is written in pencil at the upper right-hand corner of the first page indicating the essay was written about three months before the Nazi Blitzkrieg beginning in May 1940. On page 3, Weidinger writes, "[I]t is safe to assume that the struggle in the West [blitzkrieg invasion of Belgium, etc., opening in May 1940] will not take place as it did in Poland [invasion, September 1939]". In a few places are marginal pencil notes by the officer Walter Limberger (see Notes) Weidinger presumably gave his essay to when the met when both working at Wa Pruf 8, a WWII German research and development center for weapons and operations (see Notes)…the essay concerns organization of artillery fire to maximum effectiveness and how to achieve… Read More

[SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM 1920s; LENIN, TROTSKY, GORKY, JOHN REED, etc.; PERIODICAL] THE LIBERATOR – A Journal of Revolutionary Progress, Vol. 3, No. 11 (Serial No. 32), November, 1920, Editors: Max Eastman [and others]; with a full-page photograph of John Reed with caption "John Reed - Died at his revolutionary post, October 17, 1920" across from small masthead noting Reed as a "foreign correspondent" and cover art by Lydia Gibson; other content includes a photograph captioned "Lenin laying the cornerstone of a memorial to Karl Marx (Moscow)"; "In Praise of Lenin" by Maxim Gorky with an illustration and a photograph of Lenin; interview with photographs with unnamed individual titled "Back Home in Russia"; captions of some of the 12 photographs are "Communists volunteering for service on the Polish front (Petrograd)", "Trotsky conferring with General Vatzetzis at the front", "Poor old Alexander [statue of Russian czar] topples", "Soviet Labor Registration Office - members of the bourgeoisie applying for… Read More

ORIGINAL DOCUMENT OF COMMENDATION FROM THE 3rd/THIRD EVACUATION HOSPITAL FOR THE SEVERELY WOUNDED by the South-Western Regional Zemstvo Committee, 4th gymnasium [district] Vasilkovskaya (Kyiv), 8-1/2" x 14" with 3 horizontal and one vertical fold as found (fragile at folds), printed text and handwriting making up nearly all of the document in Ukraine or Russia Cyrillic, at bottom left stamp of circular Russian Red Cross seal in (faded) red with cross in the middle surrounded by text in Cyrillic and to the right of this also in (faded) red stamp in Cyrillic "senior doctor" hand-signed by a doctor to the right, printed text in upper left corner identifies the document (translating into English using Google translate), handwriting in Cyrillic by unidentified individual indecipherable without knowledge of Cyrillic, but seller has been told by someone who knows the language that the document is a commendation to an individual (presumably a nurse) who worked at the hospital during WWI, the 1915 date of the… Read More

[1781 ROYAL COAT OF ARMS ORDER GARTER ENGRAVING G. TERRY] ORIGINAL ENGRAVING BRINGING TOGETHER THE BRITISH ROYAL COAT OF ARMS AND MOTTO OF THE ORDER OF THE GARTER, Published As the Acts Directs, October 5, 1781, by G. Terry, 54 Pater-noster Row [London], engraving (cut from larger sheet of old paper), 7-1/4" high x 8-1/2" across, British Royal Coat of Arms in the center with Order of the Garter motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense" running around it, to the left lion with crown, to the right unicorn, underneath this image is "Dieu et Mon Droit" (motto of the British monarch), reverse blank, parts of edges uneven from clipping from larger sheet, small parts of left end of scroll the lion is standing on are missing with loss at lower left corner, 1781 engraving authenticated by seller with lifetime guarantee; CONDITION: old paper supple, not brittle, light normal age-toning. keywords: heraldry, British royalty, coat of arms, engraving, English crown.

[SOVIET UNION/RUSSIA PROPAGANDA POSTERS; REPRODUCTIONS PORTFOLIO] SOVIET RUSSIA PROPAGANDA POSTERS 20 in portfolio Moscow 1967, UNFORGETTABLE DAYS OF HISTORY [loose English translation from title in Cyrillic on portfolio front] Sovetskii Khudozhnik [Soviet Artist], Moscow, 1967, A portfolio of 20 copies of Soviet Union/Russia/Communist propaganda posters titled (rough translation from Russian] "Unforgettable/Memorable Days of History], most were published by various Soviet Union artists in 1919 and 1920, the early years of the Russian Communist Revolution, on the back of each is the name and dates of the artist, the title, and the year, posters are numbered 1 to 20 except for a number 14 but duplicate of number 16 for 20 posters in all, posters are in color except for a couple presumably in black-and-white in original, on 13-1/2" high x 10-1/2" wide sheets of heavy paper with margins of varying width, some posters have borders and some do not, in the line below the publisher line of Sovetskii… Read More

The Story of the Stamford Hospital 1896-1971, Seventy-five Years of Service, with more than 100 photographs, by Marie Updegraff, published by Stamford Hospital, 1971, illustrated hardcover, no jacket as issued, 7-1/2" x 10-1/2", 97 pages, black-and-white photographs; CONDITION: near fine, touches of edgewear to cover, minimal normal wear, hinges firm, text block tight, exceptionally well-preserved copy.

[HASEGAWA WORKS CHEMICAL COMPANY LABORATORY; FOUNDER'S 1916 LETTER TO GEORGE KUNZ SEEKING INVESTMENT; WITH HIS 4-PAGE ESSAY ON BUSINESS CONDITIONS AND AMBITIONS IN JAPAN AND HIS NEWLY-FOUNDED COMPANY] HASEGAWA WORKS, Tokyo, Tetsutaro Hasegawa, 1916 signed letter from Tokyo to George. F. Kunz in New York concerning investment in Hasegawa's newly founded business with a 4-1/4 page double-space essay/prospectus going into such subjects as Japanese nationalism, Japanese industrialization, trading relations with European countries, particularly Germany reflecting Japan's later military alliance with Germany, and Hasegawa's chemical laboratory he founded as one of three types of Japanese chemical laboratories. In general Hasegawa's essay which is like introductory section of a business prospectus (his purpose for writing it was to attract investment in his chemical laboratory) reflects the growing Japanese nationalism of the early decades of the 20th century leading to World War II in the Pacific region,… Read More

[1950 UNITED NATIONS ORIGINAL RADIO SCRIPTS ON ATOMIC ENERGY WITH SOME EINSTEIN CONTENT / HANDWRITTEN PRODUCER/DIRECTOR GERALD KEAN EDITING AND TIMING NOTES] THREE VERSIONS: THE YEAR OF DECISION [Atomic Energy Show] written by Mavor Moore, starring John Garfield, United Nations Radio in association with the Mutual Network, Sunday, June 18, 1950, (:00-10:00 PM EDST (Final pre-broadcast script), Director…Mavor Moore, Producer…Gerald Kean…Composer-Conductor…Louis Applebaum, in upper right corner in aqua ink "Kean work copy" [Gerald Kean, producer/director, see notes], going into aspects of nuclear energy both good and bad variously with remarks by Robert Oppenheimer, UN Secretary General Trygve Lie, president Truman, Bernard Baruch, disarmament expert Otto Frey, and other notables besides Einstein…THREE VERSIONS OF THE SCRIPT: (1) original ribbon copy of radio program script with copious director Gerald Kean's editing and timing notes, about 45 pages including a couple of identified inserts (e.… Read More