Search Results: Social History from Henry Berry, books/ephemera

[1853 LETTER DE LA RUE, LONDON FIRM, TO ITALIAN SCULPTOR GIOVANNI BATTISTA CEVASCO, NEW YORK TO GENOA, ITALY] "All Egregio Scultore, Giovanni Battista Cevasco, Genova" New York, 29th Oct. 1853 embossed circular crest with wording "De la Rue London" in upper left corner of first page, 1-page handwritten letter/ALS, in Italian, first page of sheet folded for four pages, 4-1/4" x 6-1/2"/about 100 words, handwritten text in Italian, signed "Pinolto Valerios", a De la Rue representative in the U. S. as indicated by other letters this one was among (see Provenance below)…Valerios writes that Signor Pearson is carrying this letter as an introduction to Cevasco, traveling to Italy in the hope of improving his health in the warm climate, and out of friendship with Cevasco, Valerois requests that he look after Pearson to make his stay comfortable and salutary…Gaston Pearson is from a leading Washington, D. C. area family, such introductions for travelers by hand-carried letters and requests for hospitality… Read More

[1853 MISS PRINCE'S ACADEMY OF DANCING, LONDON, LETTER FROM NEW YORK FREIND] 1853 LETTER TO "MISS PRINCE" IN LONDON FROM "YOUR FRIEND, ELIZABETH S. CHARLES" [?, name unclear from handwriting], dated New York, Oct. 29th / 53 [1853], one sheet of paper folded to 4" x 6-1/2" with two horizontal folds for mailing in small envelope addressed to "Miss Prince, 48 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London" in lower left corner "Mr. Gaston Pearson", 3-1/2 pages/about 225 words, Miss Prince's friend in New York City writes about her few visits with a mutual acquaintance, thanks Miss Prince for the "nice biscuits you have sent me", but writes mainly to introduce Gaston Pearson who "leaves today [for London] for his health", letter reads in part, "[His] stay in London will be very short…as he hastens on to a warmer climate…I am anxious that he be with you [to stay in Miss Prince's comfortable home, and to be with someone who will care for him if he gets ill]…I am glad you decided not to go to Sidney…should… Read More

[1977 CLASSIC COMICS SERIES PROMOTIONAL BROCHURE; BILL BLACKBEARD SERIES EDITOR] CLASSIC AMERICAN COMIC STRIPS, Series I, 22 Volumes, Bill Blackbeard, Series Editor, published by Hyperion Press, 1977, first edition, softcover/paper wraps, 20 page promotional brochure including covers, red shadings color illustration or strip from most of the classic comics listed in this sales brochure, among the classic comic strip for publication are Skippy, Barney Google, Thimble Theater, Happy Hooligan, Windsor McCay's Dream Days /// CONDITION: softcover/paper wraps in near fine condition, a few touches of edgewear, light-brownish patch in upper right corner of back cover (looks like light coffee or tea stain) keywords: popular culture

[1943 CBS FORECAST RADIO PROGRAM SCRIPT; BLACK AMERICANA/PAUL ROBESON; MEDIA HISTORY; SOCIAL HISTORY/WWII] COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM – FORECAST, Monday, August 25, 1943, 9:00 - 9:30 PM EDST, FINAL, original ribbon typed script double-spaced, 29 pages 8-1/2" x 11" held by rusted paperclip at upper left corner; the introduction to the program reads in part, "The Columbia Broadcasting System brings you the tenth and eleventh [tenth episode only follows] in a series of twelve proposed new radio programs…These broadcasts are radio 'first nights' — dress rehearsals…of shows ear-marked 'For Future Reference'…Forecast Number ten, from New York: 'Three Wishes', an unusual variety show with Alan Lunt and Lynn Fontaine…Paul Robeson…Moss Hart…master of ceremonies…Carl Van Doren…" followed by more than 20 pages of sections of representative dialogue and performances of Forecast Number ten; Robeson's limited appearance is on page 16 (words of the song he performs are not given), reading in… Read More

[EARLY 1900s FATHER TO SON LETTERS DISCUSSING MINING STOCKS AND OTHER INVESTMENT AND BUSINESS MATTERS; GILDED AGE] THREE LETTERS FROM JOSEPH SHATTUCK of Lawrence, Massachusetts to "My Dear Son" (unnamed) mostly discussing mining stocks and others and also the son's new position as "treasurer of a Savings Bank," and words of advice, handwritten 6 pages total over 4 lined sheets, 5-3/4" x 9" with Lawrence as location with dates 1905, 1906, 1910…samplings of the three letters are: (1) one page dated Oct. 20th 1905, "the position you have now is one the equal of which there are very few in the state and probably not one filled by one of your age...very liberal salary [the Trustees] are paying..."; (2) 3 pages dated January 16, 1906, "I have a feeling that American Telephone stock will sell higher before the year is ended...my income was over 36M ($36,000) last year...I suppose the Rogers crowd control [shares of a certain mining company, Henry H. Rogers was a Gilded Age financier/investor collaborating… Read More

[ORDER OF THE COSTUMES, SUPPLIES CATALOG; MASONS MASONRY MASONIC] EASTERN STAR CATALOGUE NO.61 [cover title] / COSTUMES AND SUPPLIES FOR THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR, Catalog No. 61, Manufactured Ihling Bros. Everard Co., Kalamazoo, Michigan, undated/ca. 1900, company published trade catalog, paper wraps in homemade covering of clear plastic front and blue heavy paper spine and back with three staples at binding, color front cover illustration of an Arab/Middle East caravan riding camels heading toward a cross in the night sky filled with stars, 7-1/4"x 10-1/2", 64 pp., frontispiece color lithograph of Inhling Brothers Everard Co. manufacturing plant with motto "We Never Disappoint" at bottom, fold-out pages for "Jewels - Set of Seventeen Pieces with Hangars," pages 5-39 are costumes for women of the Order of the Eastern Star (a Masonic-related organization open to men and women) worn by women models, multiple illustrations or photographs on the other pages, index, order forms tipped in; CONDITION:… Read More

[BLACKFACE MAN AND WOMAN VAUDEVILLE TEAM, ca. 1900 ORIGINAL HANDBILL] LEE MACK AND SISKIE RELGIER, with photos of each in blackface, the woman Siskie wearing a large hat, ca. 1900, original vaudeville performers handbill, with Lee Mack and Siskie Relgier on one side with side-by-side photos of each in regular dress for performances and beside this in blackface with comical attire, 3" high x 8" across on disbound scrapbook page also with a small handbill for Elmer Walters, clipped notice for play "Born in the Blood", and faded photo of a woman performer looking like Siskie Relgier, on reverse side is a second handbill "Mack and Relgeir presenting their Comedy sketch, entitled 'Little Willie and the Girl with the Dreamy Eyes' ", 4-3/4" high x 10-3/4" across with a photo of each (no blackface) ///// CONDITION: well-preserved, general light normal wear including light brown age-spotting at right side of page with performers in blackface.

[1933 PLATINUM PHOTOGRAPH OTTO KAHN WITH BLACKSTONE STUDIOS SIGNATURE] BLACKSTONE STUDIOS, NY, PLATINUM PRINT/PHOTOGRAPH of the famed financier Otto Kahn, pencil signed "Blackstone, NY", in pencil at lower left corner, "April 1933" in pencil at lower right, number "47" in pencil below this, 10-1/2" high x 8" across to the plate marks on 13-1/2" x 10-1/2" cotton rag photographic paper…limited edition photograph, possibly one-of-a-kind or only known copy that was part of a photo album of more than 40 similar high-quality portrait photographs of Kahn taken and signed by leading photography studios of the period in New York City and elsewhere around the US. between the mid 1920s and 1933, the year before Kahn died…the album was overseen by Kahn's wife Addie…the photographs were not intended for public distribution, and no duplicates of any have been found in online research…considering Kahn's support of the arts and his great wealth, he presumably commissioned the high-quality platinum and… Read More

[1933ca. PLATINUM-PALLADIUM PHOTOGRAPH OTTO KAHN WITH BLANK & STOLLER STUDIOS SIGNATURE], BLANK & STOLLER, NY, PLATINUM-PALLADIUM PRINT/PHOTOGRAPH of the famed financier Otto Kahn, pencil signed "Blank + Stoller, NY", in pencil at lower left corner, number "47" in pencil below this, 10-1/4" high x 7-3/4" across to the plate marks on 13-1/2" x 10-1/2" cotton rag photographic paper…limited edition photograph, possibly one-of-a-kind or only known copy that was part of a photo album of more than 25 similar high-quality portrait photographs of Kahn taken and signed by leading photography studios in New York City and elsewhere around the US. between the mid 1920s and 1933, the year before Kahn died…the album was overseen by Kahn's wife Addie…the photographs were not intended for public distribution, and no duplicates of any have been found in online research…considering Kahn's support of the arts and his great wealth, he presumably commissioned the high-quality platinum and palladium photographs as… Read More

[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

SPORTS – Heroics and Hysterics by John R. Tunis, Illustrated by Johan Bull, published by John Day, 1928, first edition/first printing, "First published, October, 1928" (stated), light blue cloth hardcover with black lettering/no jacket, 5-1/2" x 8", x+293 pages, vignettes/small illustrations at the heads of chapters and ends of some chapters; CONDITION: very good-plus, line of light rippling of cloth on back cover, hinges firm, text block tight, overall well-preserved copy with light normal wear.

[1955 WATER TROUGHS FOR HORSES IN ARGENTINA LETTER EVA PERON SOCIETY] LETTER, TYPED ORIGINAL RIBBON DATED MARCH 7, 1955, 1 PAGE, 8-3/4" X 13-1/2" with folds as mailed, to a woman in Waterside, England, from Asociacion Popular Protectora de Animales y Asilo Social 'Eva Peron', Rosario de Santa Fe, Argentina, hand-signed by Amanda Quiroga, Secretary and Dr.Vincente J. Morra, President of the Institution and of the 'Eva Peron' Social Home, "[W]e must thank you for your kind offer of drinking=troughs for horses [in Argentina]"…continues with acceptance of funds through British bank, cost of a trough, efforts to get the Argentine government to provide troughs, one-of-a-kind-item authenticated by seller with lifetime guarantee; CONDITION: well-preserved, very good-plus or better, folds as mailed.

[MIDWEST IOWA GENEALOGY REGIONAL HISTORY MEMOIR, MANUSCRIPT] WHERE THE TALL CORN GROWS - REMEMBRANCES OF GROWING UP IN DES MOINES, IOWA, by Evelyn Miller Bruder, published by author, undated but 1980s date of writing determined from dates in the manuscript, 108-page typed manuscript/not original typing but run off on teleprinter double-spaced on one side of 8-1/2" x 11" pages in green spring binder with gilded title on front, author Evelyn Miller Bruder "was born on October 17, 1909 in a little wooden house on the corner of West 5th Street and Laurel Avenue" with the address 1121 West 5th Street, Des Moines, Iowa…when she was 13 with the family's upward mobility, "she moved to 1304 West 11th Street, between Mary and Carpenter Avenues…she writes this memoir to finally fulfill a promise she has made to her two daughters "to write of my memories growing up in Des Moines" when she is 74 years old living in Lido Beach, Long Island /// CONDITION: well-preserved with minimal wear.