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1899144972London: Mitchell and Hughes 1899. Rare first and sole edition evidently produced in a very small number of copies; volume III in the series of three books on the Carr family complete in itself preceded by The History of the Family of Carr of Dunston Hill 1893 and of Hetton Ford Castle and St. Helen's Auckland 1894. This although unmarked as such is a familial copy. A handsomely produced family history overseen by Ralph Edward Carr 1833-1892 colonel of the Worcestershire Regiment from 1877 to 1881. This branch of the Carr family prominent in the north east of England were based at Hebburn Hall also known as Ellison Hall situated near a bend of the River Tyne east of Newcastle. An online search of institutional copies finds just 13 locations 6 in the UK the remainder in the US. Quarto. Chromolithograph frontispiece with tissue guard 12 plates and 11 letterpress pedigrees some folding title page printed in red and black. Original maroon morocco-grain cloth designed in emulation of a half morocco binding smooth spine divided by black and gilt bans sides and corners trimmed in the same manner front cover with large gilt stamp of the standard of Sir John Carre taken from plate at p. 104 black coated endpapers. Short closed-tear a head of spine extremities just a little rubbed lower corners bumped a few old marks to covers binding a little shaken dribbled staining to recto of frontispiece not affecting verso nor image manuscript not in the margi at p. 79 yet this remains a very good copy bright and clean. hardcover
187012808New York: Matthews 1870. Unique. Hardcover. Very good. Oblong duodecimo embossed brown cloth gilt. Unpaginated. Professionally rebacked;. Commercially produced album to be sold to individuals to house a collection. Minnie O'Shea Fortescue was the mistress of Robert B. Roosevelt TR's notorious uncle. He later married her. Minnie has collected approx. 350 monograms from family members government officials other dignitaries and friends. TR is of course represented. Minnie's B. Roosevelt's ownership signature in ink is on the front free fly leaf. Matthews hardcover
18512111902160201412Kawauchiya Shinjiro 1851. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 5 Kawauchiya Shinjiro paperback
19682091502135708667Hara shobo 1968. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Hara shobo paperback
1876000835ST. JOHNSBURY VERMONT VT. Good. 1876. On offer is an archive of handwritten manuscript letters that belonged to Helen Wood of St. Johnsbury Vermont. The letters which date circa 1876 - 1888 interestingly are both to and from Helen. In all there are 15 letters and 7 of those still have their envelopes. Then there are 9 empty covers. These letters will be of particular interest to historians of the era as the correspondents were detailed in their writings. One letter written to Helen by a friend living in Brooklyn New York dated 1887 relates over 4 pages a fascinating account of the way Brooklyn is changing especially 5th avenue. Here are some snippets: "N.H. College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts Letterhead Hanover N.H. March 7th 1886 Dear Sister I received a letter from you last Tuesday. I do not feel much older than I did last year. We had some rough weather here a little less than a week ago and since Harvey was away I was very busy keeping Culver Hall and myself warm. It was so cold here in my room that both radiators were frozen up a large part of the time. It was pretty cold boarding myself those days or in fact doing anything. It is quite comfortable now however and my ink etc. is thawed out .Sincerely Yours George P. Wood." "St. Johsbury Vt. March 20th 1886 Dear Folks It is almost eight o'clock and I am just up. My sleep was disturbed in the night and I woke up about four and heard a queer kind of noise under my window. It sounded some like some one crying fire then like two or three men fighting and then I happened to remember that the freshman class from Hanover had their class supper at one at one of the Hotels last night. It must have been lots of fun to run round this building in a snowstorm at that time of day. After they got round they sang two or three songs gave two or three war whoops and tore themselves away. Judging from their songs they hated to leave us Love to all Mary K.Wood." "New York May 11th 1887 Dear Helen Many thanks for your good letter and the beautiful collection of early flowers from the Old Lebanon Hills. They reached here safely though somewhat wilted from the close confinement and the loss of their pure mountain air. They embellished the mantle piece of the dining room for several days. While we all took several refreshing whiffs as we passed by If you were to take a ride down 5th avenue you would not know the place. On the East Side there is but 1 block but what is either filled up or has been commenced upon. Even the old Polhemus Mansion cor. 5th Ave. and Carrol St. on that high bluff has been torn down and the Hill graded down and now covered with brick buildings mostly flats 4 stories high with stores underneath. Flat old Mansions on 1st & _______streets with all those beautiful shade trees in front have fallen victim to the march of improvement. The old house has been moved down to 3rd Ave. and converted into a Tenement House. "How art thou Fallen" The entire block is either covered with dwellings mostly 2 story and basements or cellars .South of 7th St. every vacant lot is being filled up. Across the street from us they are putting up 6.3. stores and basement houses. Above 6th Ave. below the Episcopal Church there are 5 more going up. So it is all about us 5th 6th 7th & 8th Aves .Saw the account of your disastrous fire in the evening papers with more particulars this morning. What a severe blow to the village and to so many people that have lost their homes with the savings of years. It will be long years before the place will recover from it's loss if ever your friend E. Eldridge 356 7th St. So. Brooklyn." VG.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY AMERICANA antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito Papel HISTORY VERMONT GENEALOGY PRE SUFFRAGE WOMEN'S STUDIES SOCIAL STUDIES ; Signed by Autograph . unknown
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18780001257COLERAINE MASSACHUSETTS MASS MA. Very Good. 1878. On offer is an original manuscript diary handwritten by a young woman who with her pencil and her words paints a picture of toil and hardship. Dated Coleraine in Franklin County Massachusetts near Greenfield and Deerfield River which are frequently mentioned collectors and researchers of the area will delight in the specific and detailed genealogical information as our author does a superb job in her entries. A casual reading suggests this woman is married to the 27 year old Charlie and they are part of the Miner 'clan' with mention of many many Miners in their daily life. A washerwoman for the most part everyday she says whose sheets whose pillowcase whose other articles are washed along with her own family's duties food preparation travels to church visitors who frequently stay over and other domestic chores the reader will wonder at her strength and her grit. Throughout the 5 x 4.5 inch 'chunk' of what was obviously a larger note pad roughly cut in half she writes clearly in tight script a gem of Massachusetts Americana. She mentions many dozens of names including: Uncle Wash Frankie Jerre N. and D. Brown Elder Whittaker Miss Rug Willie Richardson Baldwin Miner his singing school Carrie and Marilla Shearer Payson Flagg Charlie Miner. Sam Miner 'his whole conversation show him to be a true Christian whom it always gives me pleasure to find' Ed Coombs Atta Barber Clarence Brigham Charlie Denison. Besides the work the family information and local news and events she will make a particular entry as with Sam Miner and sometimes incredibly personal intimate revelations when tragedy strikes: Timmie died this forenoon about nine. G___G___G___ How grievous this affair I am very sorrowful today for one more grief is fresh and will leave its mark on my mind through all time '. 'I washed for us. Mr. M. and D.B. came. I did not shed tears til evening. Memories are so unpleasant when they are of suffering.'; 'perhaps my self reproach is unjust that I know it was'. Cover is absent but text block is clean and overall VG.; English; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; MASSACHUSETTS COLERAINE FARMING WASHERWOMAN LABOR STUDIES PRE SUFFRAGE GENDER STUDIES WOMEN'S STUDIES antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento Manuscrito HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY GENEALOGY . unknown
30815<p>19 letters 39 pages plus 10 manuscripts totaling 76 pages as well as related ephemeral material.</p><p>The collection consists of the following items:</p><p>19 letters 39 pp. dated 4 September 1809 to 11 December 1821; 8 letters are not dated but are from the same period early 19th century as the rest of the letters in the collection which includes:</p><p>- John Casey to Joshua Casey Ferrisburgh 1809.</p><p>- Charles Smith to Edward Casey 1815.</p><p>- Beloved Mother to Beloved Friend and Respected Husband Lanesborough 1816.</p><p>- Alexander Ely to Eli Garlish dated Pittsfield 1816.</p><p>- Edward Casey to Mary Casey New York 1816.</p><p>- J. Bissup to Edward Casey Pittsfield 1817.</p><p>- to Edward Casey Mr. Stanneys 1817.</p><p>- Gideon Norton to Edward & Mary Casey Pittsfield 1817.</p><p>- Lucy Norton to Edward & Mary Casey Lanesborough 1818.</p><p>- Sally Norton to Mary N. Casey Lanesborough 1819.</p><p>- Edward Casey to Pittsfield 1821.</p><p>- Remaining letters are not dated they were written by: J and A. Casey to C. and M. Casey; Sally Norton to Mary Casey; to Edward Casey; Eliza Phelps to Edward Casey; others incomplete.</p><p> 10 manuscript papers totaling 77 pages dated 12 April 1806 to 1 May 1829 as follows:</p><p>- 44-page manuscript dated 12 Apr 1806 to 26 July 1807 which is a religious reflective diary of sorts by an unknown author but the author does tell us he was 18 years old on 12 April 1806 giving the author a birth year of 1788 which suggests Joshua Casey Mary Norton Casey as prospective authors.</p><p>- 16-page manuscript dated 1 May 1829 "Town Clerk's Office Whiting VT" distribution of estate of Ezra Allen Esq.</p><p>- 2-page manuscript dated 1 October 1818 estate distribution of Charles Norton Lanesborough Massachusetts.</p><p>- 1-page manuscript dated 10 February 1818 for 25 acres in Whiting Vermont for the poor.</p><p>- 1-page manuscript not dated includes 3 epitaphs for gravestones of Timothy S. Norton Daniel C. Norton and Charles Norton.</p><p>- 1-page manuscript dated January 1813 concerns part of a quarry being sold by J. Elijah Phelps of Lanesboro to Edward Casey also of Lanesboro.</p><p>- 12 pages of miscellaneous manuscript writings some with religious content.</p><p>15 manuscript ephemeral items including receipts invoices memoranda notes etc. dated 26 February 1810 to 23 February 1817.</p><p> Some of the manuscript material and correspondence in the collection consists of correspondence between family members and friends. Much of the material has highly religious content which specifically references and deals with the Second Great Awakening a period of strong religious revival that took place in America during the first several decades of the 19th Century. </p><p> While it occurred in all parts of the United States the Second Great Awakening was especially strong in the Northeast and the Midwest. This religious awakening was unique in that it moved beyond the educated elite of New England to those who were less wealthy and less educated. The center of revivalism was the so-called Burned-over district in western New York the region produced dozens of new denominations communal societies and reform. The correspondents in this collection lived in towns in Massachusetts and Vermont that straddled the border of New York State. Closely related to the Second Great Awakening were other reform movements such as Temperance which is touched on in one letter.</p><p><b>Sample Quotes:</b></p><p><i>"Pittsfield Augt 29 1816</i></p><p><i>Mr. Eli Garlish</i></p><p><i>Sir</i></p><p><i>Mr. Casey informs me that you refuse to let him quarry on your land either as agent for Elisha Ely or myself. That you are abusive & threaten to use all legal & illegal methods in your power to prevent his working the Quarry.</i></p><p><i>A man possessing a Lordship of six or eight hundred acres of land ought in order to command respect to be a gentleman. At least he ought to be above pocketing $500 for a lease of part of his estate and then refuse the lease the right of occupying the premises agreeable to the tenor of the lease. And he further ought to be ashamed of pocketing a large sum for work done on the quarry & then in the face of & contrary to the tenor of his own instrument appropriate the Quarry to his own use and when called on for a settlement break out into a passion – go to a tavern quarrel with the hostler & swear that he 'will whip Ely like an honest man' – Believe me Mr. Garlish a man possessing a Lordship ought to hold such conduct in the utmost abhorrence for if such abuses were tolerated in the community the vilest wretch would have the same right to fall on & give you a bruising that you would have to assault another man – be assured that I lay no claims to the character of a bully or blackguard neither am I to be intimidated.</i></p><p><i>Get yourself cool my good friend. Lay your hand upon your heart call on your conscience follow the dictates of your better judgement & my head for it you will at once see the folly of your present proceedings and the necessity of a speedy adjustment with Casey who has full powers to act for Elisha Ely and also a settlement with me for you may rest assured that you are entangled in a web of your own manufacture & unless by honorable means you extricate yourself it will eventually prove very detrimental to your interest. I am &c. Alexander Ely"</i></p><p><i>"Lanesborough Jan the 11 1818</i></p><p><i>Dear Brother & Sister</i></p><p><i>I have been informed this evening that Mr. Stone is in the neighborhood tho it a late hour I will not fail of writing a few lines to inform you of the health of our friends. Father Norton's family are much as they were when brother left here except Sally who for five days was very feeble and I think rather lower that when you left here since that time she has been on the gaining hand but is not able to sit up much now. Isaac Smith fails very fast and today I have been informed that his mouth is very sore.</i></p><p><i>It has been a xxxxxx time amongst professors of Religion this fall and fore part of winter but for a few days past I am informed their attention has been called conferences have been very full and some that have been very careless and stupid are now enquiring to know what shall I do to be saved. Otis Smith came forward in conference a few evenings ago and made a very humble acknowledgement for his treatment of professors and asked their forgiveness and is wondering if Christians saw such a beauty in the character of xxxxxxx he now discovers why they never told him and I hope that he will be a bold soldier of the cross as was Paul the persecutor. And my dear Sister while I am informing you of the prosperity of Zion in Lanesborough me thinks I hear you anxiously enquiring after the little branch of Zion in Pittsfield it has been a dark and trying day amongst us in general since you left as but some seem to be more engaged of late and feel as tho God was about to visit us by his spirit. Today I have been to meeting and five of the sisters spoke and some if I am a judge really possessed the spirit of the meek and lowly Jesus. It reminded me of the milk's kin carrying the ark to its place. Affectionately yours Lucy Norton"</i></p><p><i>"Thursday April 3</i></p><p><i>Dear Sister</i></p><p><i>With acclamations of joy and songs of praise I would inform you the Lord is in this place and I think we may adopt the language of the Prophet great is the Holy one of Israel in the midst of thee. Mr. Ebenezer Squire came here yesterday to inform us they had such a meeting to Mr. L. Clarkes the night before as had not been in town for twenty years about forty or fifty people were assembled and no appearance of an idle spectator some were speaking forth the wonders of redeeming love others inquiring to know what they should do to be save not scarcely one but what had some thing to say. They have meetings every evening and Mr. S says there is not a family on the street but what there is more or less awakened in it this awaking has not appeared very visible until about a fortnight or three weeks and now Sister I suppose you may well think that by this time I am ready to ask the question why I should be confined when the day has come that I have so many years prayed for desired to have and at times believed would come yet I think I am truly say I rejoice in the government of that God that orders my trials and changes in life and believe will be my object of love and adoration in a boundless eternity.</i></p><p><i>Saturday April 5 Doctor Roberts came here yesterday to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord he said from Mr. Collins down to Pittsfield line there is fifteen or twenty hopefully converted within a week. The Doct. observed it and the Lord's doings and marvelous in his eyes and so marvelous that he scarcely could believe when he sees amongst those that have attend a hope Mr. Morrell Squire Rust Long and Betsey Smith Otis' wife and some three of Mr. L. Clarkes children Sully Squire in our neighborhood.</i></p><p><i>Sister you will at once discover from my different dates it is some time since I began to write and from my many pieces I know not when or where to stop I think I am some better but not able to be about</i></p><p><i>Adieu my much love Sister Sally Norton"</i></p><p><i>"Having had it on my mind time after time to sit down the texts of scripture which I have preached from it had my mind to set down the following which I began in the 18 years of my age the 12th day of April 1806.</i></p><p><i>I at this time attempt to set down some of my life passing through God's grace it may be for the honor of his cause and praying if it should ever fall into the hands of those that know not God they would consider as no man knows the things of a man but by the spirit of a man so no man knows the things of God but by the spirit of God and feeling myself a dying creature and believing when I quit this earthly tabernacle I shall praise God in nobler strains than here we can conceive of. I wish to do this is the fear of God hoping that it might be the means of doing good to his cause. I hope that I shall strive to not build up pride and paint it over to such the natural ear. But wishing to do it not knowing but it might fall into the hands of tempted lambs of Christ which are in the same way that God by his almighty grace has commanded me to go…"</i></p>
30571<p>Collection of 123 letters 437 manuscript and typed pages 95 retained mailing envelopes dated 1881-1980 the bulk dating from 1920-1949; also includes over 100 pieces of related ephemera pertaining to the family including photographs postcards telegrams family genealogy vital records greeting cards etc.</p><p><b> Maud Bauer Miller 1863-1942 and Family</b></p><p>Maud M. Bauer was born on 15 September 1863 in Alfred Center New York. She was the daughter of Thomas Dodson Bauer and his wife Hannah S. Sherman. Bauer and his wife were professors at Alfred University at the time of their daughter Maud's birth. Maud's mother Hannah was born 9 December 1828 and married Maud's father on 25 December 1860 in New Albany Indiana. Hannah died 17 June 1910 in Somerville Massachusetts. She had been a teacher and knew seven languages. Hannah was the daughter of Samuel Sherman and Malinda Stanton; Samuel Sherman was the son of Peleg Sherman and Hannah Willett; Hannah Willett was the daughter of Samuel Willett 1751-1843 and Elizabeth Andreas; Samuel Willett served in the American Revolution as a private in Capt. Jone's Company Col. Taylor's Regiment. Documents in this collection show Maud and others in the Miller family sought induction into the Daughters of the American Revolution or other lineage societies.</p><p>Maud M. Bauer moved with her parents to Newark Ohio where she attended the Old Central High School from which she graduated in 1879. She taught her first school at Loyd's on the Jacksontown Pike and later was a teacher at the Perryton School Ohio here she met her future husband Lebbeus D. Miller they were married on 23 March 1882 at the Pilgrim Congregational Church Newark Ohio by the Rev. E.J. Jones. </p><p>Maud worked as a stenographer at a utility company. She was also active in the Women's Christian Temperance Union and took her oath from temperance reformer and women's suffragist Francis Willard 1839-1898 the national president of the WCTU and its founder.</p><p>Lebbeus Dunn Miller was born 11 May 1858 in Perryton Ohio. He was the youngest son of Joseph Miller and Elizabeth Custer 1812-1888. His grandfather was supposed to have been one Robert Miller of Pennsylvania who served in the War of 1812. The Oakland artist-poet Joaquin Miller also claimed to have a grandfather named Robert Miller from Pennsylvania who served in the War of 1812. Maud's family believed they may have been related to Joaquin Miller but it has not been proven. A pamphlet in the collection about Joaquin Miller's estate "The Heights" in Oakland has manuscript annotations and notes by Maud Bauer Miller detailing the estates history and Joaquin Miller's life. The pamphlet was given to Maud by Juanita Miller Joaquin Miller's daughter. Lebbeus Miller Maud's husband was the great-great grandson of Sarah Ball Custer the sister of President George Washington's wife Martha Ball Washington. There is only one letter in this collection by Lebbeus Miller. The collection mainly revolves around Maud Bauer Miller and her children and their correspondence with each other.</p><p>Maud and Lebbeus Miller had at least nine children: Walter Miller 1883- died young; Frank Stanton Miller 1884-1935; Amie Glen Miller 1886-1958 who married a Mr. Phillips; Sherman Miller died in infancy; Floyd Rudolph Miller 1889-1940 there are a couple of photos of him in the collection; Lorena Eleanor Miller 1893-1960 resided at St. Louisville Ohio she married a Mr. Tiebout; Carl Frederick Miller 1896-1967 resided at Frazeysburg Ohio and married a woman named Agnes and they had a daughter Kathleen. There are a number of letters in this collection by Carl Frederick Miller and his wife Agnes as well as letters of Lorena Miller and Frank Stanton Miller.</p><p>Another of Lebbeus and Maud's daughters was Cecelia Esther Miller 1899-1978 she was born in Perry Township Licking Co. Ohio. She attended Perry Township High School graduating in 1916 and moved to Oakland California with her mother in 1921 where she met and married Jesse "Jack" Howard Cole. Cole was born 9 March 1900 in Buncombe Co. North Carolina and married Cecelia in Oakland on 8 November 1926. Jack Cole died on 5 January 1961 in Oakland. He served in WWI enlisting in 1916 and was discharged in 1919 as a corporal with the 115th Machine Gun Battalion. He saw action in WWI with the AEF in occupation Ypres Salient Belgium Veormeze Le-Mont Kemmel engagement; Bellicourt-Nauroy; Premont-Vasch Andigny Engagement; Selfe River; and remained in Germany for occupation purposes. There are a number of letters in this collection by and to Cecelia Miller and her husband Jack Cole.</p><p>Maud and Lebbeus' youngest daughter was Evelyn Elizabeth Miller. She was born 2 February 1905 in Perry Township Licking Co. Ohio and died in 1974. She also moved to Oakland California with her mother Maud and sister Cecelia. Evelyn graduated from the Oakland Technical High School in June 1923 and went to work for Western Power Company in Oakland California as a stenographer and later was promoted secretary to the Division Electric Superintendent. She was married at the age of 22 in Oakland on 31 November 1927 to Justin Francis Greene. He was born 30 Oct 1900 Johnson Co. Texas and died 10 August 1961 in San Francisco. He was the son of Arthur Percival Greene born Texas and Laura Richardson born Oklahoma of Johnson Co. Texas. Greene later moved to Oakland California. Greene was a veteran of WWI and WWII. He enlisted in U.S. Navy for WWI 1918-1921 and Marine Crops in WWII 1942-1946 and wound up in the Quartermaster's Department in San Diego California. After the war he worked for the accounting department of P.G. & E. Pacific Gas & Electric he had previously worked for Western Power Company which is where he met his wife Evelyn Miller. Great Western Power merged with P.G. & E. There are a good many letters in this collection by and to Evelyn Miller and her husband Justin Greene.</p><p>Maud Bauer Miller had a brother Ralph Sherman Bauer 1867-1941. He was the proprietor of "The R.S. Bauer Company: Stationers Engravers & Printers" of Lynn Massachusetts. He later became mayor of Lynn. He married Fannie Miller daughter of John Miller shipbuilder of Chicago Illinois. They had one son Paul Sherman Bauer who married Kathrine Williams daughter of Judge Guy R. Williams of Havana Illinois. Paul Sherman Bauer attended Phillips Andover then Harvard Engineering School. There are letters in this collection by Ralph Sherman Bauer 5 and his son Paul S. Bauer 1.</p><p>Maud also had a sister Hulda Sherman Bauer 1870- who married a Mr.Emmel/Emmal of Glenwood New Jersey and a second sister Marie Sherman Bauer 1873-1948 who married Francis A. Neff Jr. of Salem Massachusetts. There is one letter in this collection by Hulda Sherman Bauer.</p><p>Lebbeus Miller died 24 September 1913 and after some time Maud moved to Oakland California in 1921 where she died 11 June 1942.</p><p><b>Description and Inventory of Collection:</b></p><p> <b>Correspondence: </b></p><p>The letters in this collection are written by and to various members of Maud Bauer Miller's family including Maud Bauer Miller her husband Lebbeus Miller and their children and children's spouses as well as her grandchildren including: </p><p>Evelyn Miller and Justin Greene her husband; Cecelia Miller and her husband Jesse Jack Cole; Carl Miller and his wife Agnes Lorena Miller as well as Maud Bauer Miller's brother Rudolph Ralph Sherman Bauer and her sister Hulda Bauer. Other relatives are Paul S. Bauer Fred Emma Sherman and Maud's grandchildren Dorothy and Frances Miller.</p><p>The bulk of the letters were written by Cecelia Miller Cole 23 and Carl Miller and his wife Agnes 30 and Evelyne Miller Greene and her husband Justin 17 the bulk of these letters were written to Maud Bauer Miller 56. The collection includes letters by Evelyn Miller Greene and her husband Justin 49 as well as Cecelia Miller Cole and her husband 7. There are also letters written by Maud Bauer Miller 8 Ralph Sherman Bauer 5 Frank Miller 3 Dorothy and Frances Miller 2 Paul S. Bauer 1 and other relatives friends business associates; as well as other letters received by Ralph S. Bauer Hannah Sherman Bauer Lebbeus Miller Esther Miller Lorena Miller etc.</p><p>An inventory of the letters and the years they were written follows: </p><p>7 letters 33 manuscript pp. dated from 1881-1918 of these 7 early letters 5 were written by Maud Bauer Miller to her brother Ralph S. Bauer 2 her husband Lebbeus Miller 2 and her mother Hannah Sherman Bauer 1.</p><p>There are 36 letters 134 manuscript and typed pages dated 1920-1929 9 of which are typed. There are 39 letters 119 manuscript and typed pages dated 1931-1939 18 letters are typed. The 75 letters in these two groups contain letters between the Miller family members and represent a good bulk of the collection. The letters written in the 1930s provide a look at conditions in the Great Depression with people out of work work hard to find and the struggles of people to survive even when employed.</p><p>The collection includes 19 letters 82 manuscript and typed pages dated 1941-1949 2 letters are typed. These letters from the 1940s contain letters by Justin Greene husband of Evelyn Miller Maud's daughter when he was in military service during World War II. There is also much correspondence during this period between Maud's daughters' families the Greene and Cole families who were living in Newark Ohio Cole family and Oakland California Greene family and includes descriptions of travel vacation etc. and correspondence between the family members spouses etc.</p><p>The 1960s are represented by 13 letters 39 manuscript and typed pages dated 1960-1967 and finally there are 9 letters 30 manuscript pages dated from 1974-1980 with all of which are hand written. The 1960s features correspondence between the family of Carl and Agnes Miller and Evelyne and Justin Greene.</p><p><b>Ephemera:</b></p><p>15 miscellaneous pieces of ephemera includes receipts typed and manuscript verse military papers pamphlets including: "<i>White's Biography Brochures: Ralph Sherman Bauer</i>" 1927 and "<i>About 'The Heights' at Oakland California</i>" by Juanita Miller given by Juanita Miller to Maud Bauer Miller 1921 it is annotated with manuscript notes by Maud to her children concerning Joaquin Miller the western artist and poet with whom they may have been related to however given the vagaries of Joaquin Miller's life and genealogy it is unclear.</p><p>58 typed pp. of genealogical notes on the Miller/Bauer/Sherman families some copies of others.</p><p>17 newspaper clippings mostly dealing with family such as death notices news etc.</p><p>19 various vital records births deaths marriages etc. for Miller/Bauer/Sherman families various dates.</p><p>2 telegrams dated 1949 </p><p>4 black and white photographs 3 dated 1921-1922 one not dated various sizes 3 photos labeled other not 2 photos of Floyd R. Miller 1 of Evelyn Anna and their mother in San Francisco California.</p><p>3 postcards dated 1936 to Mr. and Mrs. Justin Greene from Agnes other.</p><p>4 invitations/cards date c1892-1926</p><p>58 greeting cards to and from Bauer/Sherman/Miller families mostly not dated.</p><p>13 used envelopes likely could be matched to letters in collection.</p><p><b>Examples of Correspondence:</b></p><p><i>"Perryton Ohio Sept 29th 1884</i></p><p><i>Dear Rudolph</i></p><p><i>I rec'd your postal in due time and hasten to reply to it. You must excuse my silence I have hardly found time to sleep this summer. On the 19th of this month we had a hard earthquake shock it shook our house badly knocking down pictures it was accompanied by a loud rumbling report. On last Saturday the 27th inst. we were visited by a terrific cyclone it lasted not over five minutes that is the worst of it; but during that time it did a great deal of damage. I had noticed in the afternoon that a storm was gathering and about half past five I went to the other end of town on an errand thinking that I could return before the rain. I did not stay much over a minute at the house and when I came out I noticed a strange cloud in the north west it had grown very dark the sky seemed almost black save this one cloud which was of a luminous gray color. It was cone shaped like this drawing of a cyclone shape and was moving at a fearful rate not more than 15 feet above the ground that is its lower edge it came rolling and tumbling sweeping everything before it. I ran for dear life to get home for I thought that we were all to be killed and I wanted to be with Leb and Baby but I could not outrun the storm it was on me before I knew it. The street was thickly lined with shade trees all the way until within a short distance from our house; when I reached this cleared space I could hear the trees crashing behind me; and a gust from another direction was blowing against me. My breath gave out before I reached home and I had to turn in at Mr. Beabout's next door. I got inside the gate just as Mr. Berry's house across the street went crashing down. Our barn and Mrs. Bland's stable are flat on the ground. Mr. Berry's house is demolished a dozen or more barns sheep houses houses &c. are ruined right in town; the Disciple Church is pronounced unsafe in an apple orchard back of us but 2 or 3 trees are left. Our old shop had a large portion of its roof rafters and all taken. Some of the weatherboarding is blown off of our house. But I don't think of that I am glad that none of us were killed…We send love to all. Write soon Maud"</i></p><p><i>"Perryton Ohio Sept 2 1900</i></p><p><i>Dear Mamma</i></p><p><i>I received your very welcome letter as I would have rec'd one from the dead. I have written to all of the folks in rotation and have heard from not one letter until receiving your postal. How is Hulda's health this summer I did hope that I would be able to come "East." This summer but that ever-ready question of finance bobbed up and stopped me. I hope that I will be able to come home before I get so old that I can't travel. We are straining every nerve to get a good stock of goods in our store; we have 5 times as much as when you were here. Frank goes to Newark tomorrow to work in the glass-house if he likes it he will stay about 3 mos. and then go to school. We could not spare Floyd for this reason and then I do not think that you ought to keep house. You would have to have some one to prepare and make you eat your meals at the proper time; you cannot stand the same system of recuperation that you did twenty years ago. Floyd is only a child and has a healthy boy's appetite I doubt if you could cook enough in one day to last him a day.</i></p><p><i>We do not intend to stay here all our lives when we have a good chance to sell out we will do so. Now Mamma don't live by yourself. I expect that you have as nearly a perfect home with the girls as you will ever have on earth. "Such polite well-bred children no smoking no drinking no hard or sordid work." No tired out cross worked down women. I know of few such homes. I am always glad to have you with me why not come here To be sure there is nothing inviting in my surroundings but I would give you filial respect. I wish that you would send me one of your dictionaries the next time Rudo sends me anything. Do you think that Frank could find employment with his uncle He is a careful & trusty clerk; his whole trend is to become a businessman he does not care for the professions. I think that Floyd will make a professional man he is just about lazy enough…</i></p><p><i>We have a large filtered cistern just adjoining the back porch and a double floored porch over it 12 x 14 ft. I have had a great quantity of water all summer enough for every purpose & for Mrs. McCann's use to as long as she lived there. The old Dr. died the last of July and she broke up housekeeping right away. She is going to New York about the first of Oct. to spend the winter with her daughter Addie a Bellevue nurse. Dr. Cullison has been on a 'tear' nearly all summer. He uses opium & drinks hard with it and every so often he goes 'stark staring mad.' Drunk I call it for that is what it is.</i></p><p><i>Mr. Blount's son Scott who left his wife & ran off with $200 of his firm's money has married again down in Tenn. His wife got a divorce…We all send love & kisses to you all…Lovingly Maud"</i></p><p><i>"170 St. Botolph St. Boston Mass.</i></p><p><i>My dear Sister & Brother</i></p><p><i>I received your welcomed letter at the hospital sometime ago and was so glad to hear from you personally although I hear indirectly thru Mamma about you & Jack and I am glad to hear that you are both well and seem to be so happy.</i></p><p><i>I am out of the hospital but unable to go to work at present but I will have to do something as soon as I can get hold of a line which is very hard right now and get to work or go on the street as I am only getting $5 a week from the Welfare and I can't eat and pay room rent on that so you see how I am situated so that's the reason.</i></p><p><i>I expect you will think I have one hell of a nerve but dear sister I am going to ask you to advance the money and pay this quarterly ins premium again for me which I shall absolutely refund you in six or eight weeks unless something drastic happens to me and unless this is paid at once I will hose it altogether which I do not want to unless absolutely have to. I know there is not much left of it but there is enough to bury me with should any thing happen and at present that is all I have left to do this job should I pass out.</i></p><p><i>I have borrowed on it now all that it is possible for me to borrow but as I say it will leave me enough for a half decent burial in case anything should happen. Hoping you will attend to his at once for me and I will surely repay you thanking you both and hoping this will find you both in best of health love & best wishes to you both your loving brother Frank"</i></p><p><i>"R.S. Bauer Company Lynn Massachusetts Stationers Engravers Printers August 17 1923</i></p><p><i><br /> Dear Sister:</i></p><p><i>I was very glad indeed to hear from you under date of August 10th and to know that your family were getting along so splendidly. The thing now for you to do is to show a little mercy to yourself. The children have all now received from you everything that a Mother could give and many things more than a Mother generally gives and it seems to me that what little time is allotted to you should be taken in as much comfort as possible. Both you and I are growing old this earth and with that in sight I think it is the duty of both of us to let up on ourselves and serve the rest of our time as easily as possible.</i></p><p><i>You know I am not much of a letter writer. I don't believe Fannie ever got six letters from me in the thirty years we have been married but that should not make any difference between us.</i></p><p><i>I do not know anything about the Neff family except that I suppose they are alive and well as they never visit us. The only time I ever see them is when I go over to Salem and force myself into their presence.</i></p><p><i>Huldah is not very well although she keeps happy and busy with her grandchildren. We expect her to spend Sunday after next with us at the little farm we own in Amesbury where we spend the summer time. It is a twenty-one-acre place on the border of a Lake. We have six acres in garden and raise almost everything the household needs up there including a little 'hell.'</i></p><p><i>It seems to me that Warren Harding died in order to tie the American people closer together and bring out the universal spirit of reverence for men who have served the Nation which spirit was rapidly disappearing in all directions. You probably know that all progress the World has ever made has been the result of some shock. It seems that people no matter how civilized or well educated or Christianized they may be respond always nobly to the 'gospel of the shock' and are not so early in responding to any other gospel.</i></p><p><i>Calvin Coolidge has visited us at our summer home with his wife and two children and I have a personal acquaintance with him. He will make a great President. There is no doubt about it as he has all the qualities of World Leadership without any of the personal magnetism or 'bull' that men in public life general possess. His heart and head are 100% all right and his capacity is marvelous.</i></p><p><i><br />With best wishes to you and the children from all of us Rudo"</i></p><p><i>"Frazeysburg Ohio Nov 4th 1923</i></p><p><i>Dear Mothers & Slats</i></p><p><i>You want to call in the neighbors doctors & friends as your son has a pen in his hand…</i></p><p><i>I have been busy this summer and fall lots of work. I have been away from home most of the summer started in the first of April and came home to stay two wks ago and have been gone five days of that time. I had to cut the gang that I have been working all summer back to fifteen men was working between 34 & 40. The oil business sure is on the bum here. I wish you would have them to strike dry holes out there as the Cal. oil can be sent to the eastern refineries for less money than the oil here. We have lots of work but are doing just what we can with the men we have…</i></p><p><i>Mother you were asking about the house & Keylor's. Kelyor's moved out the first of Oct. and I haven't any renter now. I have the house up for sale and I think mother that the way things are and the location that if you can get $600.00 out of your home you had better let it go and I will say if the house belonged to me that if I could get $500 I would sell because the house will have to be painted in the Spring & I am afraid it will have to be roofed. If you will leave it to me to make the deal and use my own judgement I may be able to sell. I told you what I would take if it were mine. If you think this not enough let me know. Houses are renting in Perrytown for $3.50 & $4.00 per month so you will have an idea what things are like over there. I don't know whether Agnes told you that I lowered the rent in Apr. for Kelyor I cut it back to $6.00 and that was about a $1.50 more than any other house was renting for and this is not hearsay but personal inquiry. Please consider these things and let me know where I stand…</i></p><p><i>How is the K.K.K. in Cal It is getting to be pretty strong around here. They held a big conclave at Zanesville last night I went down to get me some new harness and saw the parade…</i></p><p><i><br />I will close with lots of love…Carl Agnes & Kathleen…"</i></p><p><i>"Kansas City Mo. June 6 1927</i></p><p><i>Dear Mama & Evelyn:</i></p><p><i>I never have heard from you since you went to Russian River therefore I am wondering how your trip panned out.</i></p><p><i>I didn't write you the day I should because I did some very special work for two attorneys from Washington D.C. three & a half days last week & as it was rush work I was kept on the jump. They have a big case to try in Federal Court today & for two or three days so my work is thru. However in those 3 ½ days I made $25.00 but had to rent a typewriter to take home to do the work on so I got it for a month & it was $4.00 but yet that was pretty good pay I'll say and they were so pleased & appreciative of my work.</i></p><p><i>I do hope I get steady work soon but the weather is so bad – it is raining today again and these Missourians are sure afraid to start anything in the rain. Also the flood has caused a great depression in work. However we will persevere I guess and we will get settled someday…</i></p><p><i>Let us hear from you soon just a note…We both are fine. Jack's Colonel had to take an 18-day sick leave due to the accident he had three weeks ago so Jack is left alone with all the medical units to care for so I fear he is going to be very busy. Lots of love to you both Cecelia & Jack…"</i></p><p><i>"9 Sunnyside St. Jamaica Plain Oct 23 1931</i></p><p><i>Dear Grandma</i></p><p><i>We received your letter and was glad to hear from you. We are glad to hear that you have been able to take a vacation. Yes I am working in the same place and Frances is working for the Fire Underwriters. She works in the office. We are sorry that our father has had such bad luck but it seems that every time he goes to the Hospital that his women always leave him because he doesn't have any money to give them. If he had been living a good Christian life he wouldn't have all this trouble now.</i></p><p><i><br />Naturally we should be loyal to our Mother for all the care she gave us when my father was so mean to her. She brought us up to be what we are now and we should really be a credit to her. We are sorry to hear that Uncle Floyd is having a hard time with his business. It is terrible here in Boston. So many are out of work. Most of us are just lucky enough to keep our jobs. I hope that things will be easier for everybody soon. We are having such changeable weather lately. So many people have got colds. Well we hope you are in the best of health and wish the others the same with love and regards to the rest your granddaughters Dorothy & Frances."</i></p><p><i>"</i><i>Frazeysburg – O 4/10 1932</i></p><p><i>Dear Mother & All</i></p><p><i>…I have been very busy for the past three weeks and have quite a bit of work a head of me. How is business out there Things are getting worse here every day. I am still holding my job but don't know for how long. I have orders to cut off four of my men the 15th of April. The oil business in Ohio is shot for a long while cannot compete with the Western fields. I hope that Evelyn & Justin can still keep their positions. Tiebout has been working most of the time since the first of the year. So we have not seen or heard much of them. We have had sickness most of the winter. I started the ball rolling when I had the flu. I lost 4 days work the first time I have been off for six years of course I was paid but I hate to have my record broken…</i></p><p><i>Our company has been taking over some production that the Lenard Oil & Gas Co has had connected and has made a lot of extra work for me. I just finished a new gathering system & built a pumping station over back of Staddens Bridge. I am just starting a new gathering system u at Perryton my old home town on brother Joseph Chaney farm. So you see with having to entertain Joseph & look after my work I will be very busy. I hope that Floyd & Anna can come out of this slump with flying colors. Tell them just to take it easy and just make a living and be satisfied there isn't any use of them trying to build up a big fortune just for their kids to fight over. If they can't make anything they needn't to worry for they have lots of company. I have the same size pay check coming in every 2 wks and haven't saved anything for 2 yrs but greens are coming on now so I guess we will have something to eat.</i></p><p><i>…With lots of love from the whole family to Mother Slats & Justin Your scribbling son & all Carl Agnes Kathleen & Pee Wee"</i></p><p><i>"March 10 1933</i></p><p><i>My dear folks all:</i></p><p><i>I received your nice letter the other day and one hasn't much to write about or think of now except the national situation but somehow and someway I am sure that none of us will go hungry. Don't you worry about us back here and we are not going to worry about you folks but just rust in things coming back within a short time. Rome wasn't built in a day and the President has to have time to put into effect a new <u>deal </u>and a new policy. Now don't laugh for it is really a serious situation. But let's give him a chance to do right and perhaps if they make him a King or Mussolini or something he can do something and the Lord above knows that our Congress will never get us anywhere so give the President free reins and his chance to do something. I am for you Franklin if you make a go of it and will even vote for your reelection if you bring this country out of it but I fear he cannot stand the strain and will not be with us that many years longer.</i></p><p><i>Poor Jack is dumbfounded being a Southerner by birth and just having recently returned from the South where his folks sort of rechristened him a Democrat and made him believe that Roosevelt was our Savior etc. all this after I had Jack made a pretty good Republican for the past six years all my work wasted in vain after his Mother and Sisters etc. told him Roosevelt was great. He doesn't know what to think and of course cannot get to me to talk personally but just has to write his ideas etc. after the banks closed but he is trying to cheer me up and yet deep down in his heart he says that what I told him last summer would happen if Hoover was not re-elected if just about all coming true right the first ten days of the Democratic administration. However Jacks says he is a good sport and if Roosevelt saves the country and brings us out of this without suffering too much and makes things better I must become a Democrat but if Roosevelt fails and has to call on Republicans etc. to help him out of this crisis then Jack is never to speak to another Democrat ha!</i></p><p><i>Anyways folks here is what all of us connected with our organization have figured out. If you are paid 20% cash and rest checks do not spend on cent of the cash but hide it some safe place and pass every payroll check immediately on to the grocer baker candlestick maker etc. Don't hold a check a minute. Now Evelyn and Justin I am not sure whether our mortgage read that you had to pay gold tender or not but be most certain that you get a separate receipt for every cent you pay on your mortgage and hold on to those receipts. Don't let any ifs or ands get into the receipt either. Either they take your checks or they don't and get your receipt to these checks. If you get paid in small denomination checks buy so you may get back a little silver and then use another check for the next purchase etc. until you get every check out of your hands. Even buy your next winter coats underwear shoes new tires and everything possible that you can get them to take the checks that is payroll checks for and get yourself all fixed up. Buy all the groceries possible with such checks and store them away. Things in cans and that will keep. The theory is if worse comes to worse have some things on hand to eat and have those checks in some other fellows' hand and then your employer is responsible for the payroll checks or Roosevelt is or anyone but you.</i></p><p><i>Do the same way with the new money they issue and don't hold on to it but buy with it for all you can and pay on your mortgage with it if they will take it pay your insurance taxes etc. but do not hoard it for when the new money is finally called in unless a precedent is set it will be discounted and the ones holding it will get about 35 c on the dollar for all they have in their possession. However some new laws or other may off set these prophesies but pay for everything with those checks and save every cent of currency you get quarters halves etc. And don't keep from buying things you need because next year things will be so high you will not be able to buy them so fix up the car the house lay in grocers and get yourselves underwear coats suits dresses etc. to do for another year if you can possible do so with this new money you might be paid with.</i></p><p><i>However it usually takes all we make to live on as a rule but at that we are passing it on and will not be caught with it on hand. Mother has a hobby about holding onto checks and that is why I warned you about returning my little Kansas City checks immediately and not hold on to them for I was afraid this would be coming. I had no idea that Mother was holding onto any other checks or would have warned her also. We weren't the only ones; millions and millions are in the same boat and if only we all eat that is the main thing.</i></p><p><i>Now don't worry about us back here because we aren't going to worry about you. We know we all are pulling together and don't' knock the President for heaven's sake. That will ruin the country if we do and don't help him during this crisis now that it is on.</i></p><p><i>Do you all notice that Herbert Hoover is remaining in the East Wonder who is insisting that he remain there There is much hopes here that he is being asked by Wall Street or other financiers to remain near until this passes over and that is why he did not go on to California with Mrs. Hoover. He may have to save us yet.</i></p><p><i>All love to each of you and the best of luck Your devoted children Cecelia & Jack…"</i></p><p><i>"December 9 1933 321 West 29th Street New York City N.Y.</i></p><p><i>Dear Maud:</i></p><p><i>Isn't it about time I answered your letter of November sixteenth I think so – we were glad to hear from you and to receive your tin-type. There is not the faintest doubt that 'Tommie' was your Father is there You look just like the photo that his final widow sent us you also look well and very alert don't' look seventy.</i></p><p><i>I am glad that you can get a 'kick' out of prohibition and attending conventions yes I remember your snatching the man's whiskey bottle and how gentlemanly he offered you a drink.</i></p><p><i>I am glad that you are able to help the ministers even if it was only six cents rather a low price for a poem and music too. I do believe in helping others; even ministers they are the poorest paid swindlers there are and lots of them are self-hypnotized and believe their own patter. I am glad that you are feeling better in your ribs and should now if you could only use Christian Science you would know that you were not hurt and were in error when you thought you were. Sounds 'dippy' but there are lots of lunatics at large…</i></p><p><i>Will finally returned John's capital but the hard times set in before he was able to make any interest for them and I guess now we are going to arrive in H--- poor we will not be camels…</i></p><p><i>Will walks the streets and avenues continuously looking for a job but so far all that he has accomplished is leaving his name and address at various shops and factories this certainly is 'The Land of the Spree and the Home of the Knaves.' One has to be a bootlegger kidnapper or some other kind of crook to make money these times; and we are too old to learn crook ways…</i></p><p><i>Rude writes he is having his troubles trying to get any work out of the negroes and he says the English bosses are about as lazy as the coons. He seems to find the climate all right so far but the place is called 'the white man's grave yard.'</i></p><p><i>Glad that Frank still has a little work Victor is still looking for a job our kind of work seems to be like 'the dodo' – extinct.</i></p><p><i><br />Rude's address is Tarkwa Gold Coast Colony West Africa. Elsie just arrived there when he sent his last letter she said she had a wonderful trip ever since she left Peru enjoyed every minute of it. She had three days in London and flew over the city for a half hour to see it all at once…</i></p><p><i>It is mean of you to remind me that Christmas is nearly here. Christmas without money is fake. You know that Hannah always said 'it was a Catholic celebration gotten up by the priests to get the harvest money away from the people that Christ was born in July.' You can't prove it by me I wasn't present at the Virgin's lying-in.</i></p><p><i><br />Give our love to all of your family and don't forget yourself….yours Hulda"</i></p>
1979153187Studio City CA: Country Celebration Productions 1979. Revised First Draft script for the 1979 television special which originally aired in 1979 on CBS. Working copy belonging to crew member Selig "Pinky" Frank with his manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Bound in before the script are several production documents many with Frank's manuscript ink and pencil annotations including several shooting schedules cast and crew lists and contact information and a brief performance rundown. <br /> <br /> An hourlong country music special hosted by Kris Kristofferson held in memory of folk music legend Maybelle Carter who sang with her sister-in-law Sara Carter and Sara's husband A.P. Carter as The Carter Family. All three were born and raised in southwest Virginia and were the first vocal group to become country music stars. Maybelle Carter's distinctive method of playing guitar known as the "Carter Scratch" became a hallmark of the group's style and was widely copied in later roots gospel bluegrass and country music. <br /> <br /> Housed in a brown titled three-ring binder noted as MASTER with the name of Selig Frank on the bottom right corner. Yellow titled wrappers. Title page present noted as REVISED FIRST DRAFT dated 6/27/79. 91 leaves with last page of text numbered 77. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between 6/28/79 and 7/11/79. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine. Country Celebration Productions unknown
1910192351910. Sills family photograph album circa 1910s to 1990s documents multigenerational African American life in Woodbridge Connecticut with sustained evidence of military service family continuity and community formation across the twentieth century. The earliest image a World War I era postcard portrait of William Sills in uniform establishes a lineage of military participation that continues through subsequent generations represented in later photographs associated with World War II and the Vietnam era. The album situates the family within both local and national contexts combining domestic life education and service with evidence of interracial social connections visible in mid-century group gatherings and extended family relationships.<br /> <br /> Photo album containing 228 photographs. Woodbridge Connecticut and related locations circa 1910s to 1990s. Images are primarily black and white silver gelatin prints ranging in size from approximately 2 x 2 inches to 7 x 5 inches. The album includes early military portraiture mid-century family scenes outdoor gatherings and later school photographs of younger generations. Several images depict multiracial group settings particularly in mid-twentieth-century outdoor environments. The album also contains newspaper clippings including a notice of Lorraine Sills completing a trained attendant caregiver course in March 1950 within a multiracial class and a clipping referencing Joseph Sills Jr. a Marine promoted to sergeant and stationed at the U.S. Naval Submarine Base in Groton. Original green boards with photographs mounted across multiple pages.<br /> <br /> The album provides a longitudinal record of African American family life across major twentieth-century developments including military mobilization suburbanization and expanding educational and professional opportunities. The presence of multiple generations in uniform aligns with broader patterns of African American military participation while the inclusion of clippings and school imagery documents pathways of advancement and community engagement. The visual and documentary material together offer evidence of both continuity and change within a single family over several decades including moments of interracial interaction that reflect evolving social dynamics in mid-century America. Album with chipping to pages and loose leaves; photographs generally sharp and well preserved; overall good condition. unknown
1950222411950. Chinese American Chinese American family photo album mid-20th century recording the Chinese American diaspora in California and Oragon during the decades following the repeal of Chinese exclusion laws and the expansion of immigration policy in the United States. The album captures a period of social mobility among Chinese Americans in the Pacific Northwest where earlier populations had been reduced by exclusionary legislation and racial violence. <br /> The album contains over 130 black-and-white and color photographs mounted in a floral-patterned spiral-bound album with striped paper pages. Images include formal studio portraits candid domestic scenes weddings graduations and multi-generational group gatherings. Several images show architecture and flora consistent with southern California and several images including a graduation photo appear to show UCLA A color photograph depicts family members posed before a "Mt. Hood National Forest" sign situating part of the album in Oregon while other images show suburban homes and midcentury American automobiles consistent with West Coast settings. Early black-and-white photographs include studio portraits of elders in traditional Chinese attire alongside family groupings while later images document weddings incorporating both Chinese and Western dress banquet hall celebrations and children in academic regalia posed at university campuses. The progression of imagery reflects shifts in dress setting and social positioning across generations.<br /> <br /> This album records Chinese American life during a time of broad transformation of U.S. immigration and civil rights policy following the 1943 repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act which enabled renewed migration and family reunification. The presence of higher education imagery suburban domestic settings and hybrid ceremonial practices demonstrates participation in postwar American middle-class life while maintaining cultural continuity. Vernacular photographic archives are not often preserved with this level of cohesion and chronological depth. Photographs retain strong contrast and color; mounts secure; album intact with minor surface wear. Overall very good condition. A cohesive and substantive visual record of Chinese American family and community life on the West Coast. unknown
19642091202133201949world book office 1964. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 16 books in total world book office paperback
19432080502106917283Not Available 1943. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1920418737Connecticut / New Jersey / New York 1920. Softcover. Near Fine. Oblong quarto measuring 10" x 7". Stapled grey paper wrappers. Contains 80 black and white gelatin silver cyanotype or sepia toned photographs measuring between 1†x 1†and 5†x 4†with captions. Some chips with edgewear thus a very good album with near fine lightly sunned photographs.<br /> <br /> A family photo album from 1906 through to the mid-1920s from various places in Connecticut. The album is a gift to Mr. and Mrs. Chas B. Watrous from Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Bassett with the date Feb 25 1908 and “Congratulations†written on the front. The photographs mostly focus on the children of Charles and Annie Watrous. They have three children Ruth Miriam and Herbert but Ruth has the most pictures with little captions under each one such as “Be jabbers†“I’m mad†and “Goo bye!†Ruth is seen in photos from almost every year between 1906 and 1920 in the album while her brother Herbert has a much smaller amount of photos. Miriam is only seen in one picture but this is probably due to the fact that she passed away at the age of three. There are also pictures of the extended family one of which shows all the women wearing large and extravagant hats and other shows the women in the family all playing croquet. <br /> <br /> The family moves a couple times to different places in Connecticut such as Thomaston and Plymouth in Litchfield and Niantic in East Lyme. Several pictures are captioned with the locations and dates of when the Watrous family settled into their new homes. The album also includes pictures from Johnson’s mountains in New Jersey and East River in New York and pictures at the beach. They also show images of the home being built when they moved to Niantic. Each shot shows the house in various stages of construction.<br /> <br /> An attractive collection of family photographs from the early 1900s through to the 1920s. unknown
0329A892512Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Norwood MA: Privately Printed Plimpton Press 1932. Hardcover no dust jacket as issued A family history illustrated with photographs drawings and various maps etc. RARE. Very good overall condition with minor toning. No markings etc. NOT EX-LIBRARY. B hardcover
1930228351930. African American family photo album documents military service educational attainment and middle-class life in Los Angeles from the 1940s through the 1960s a period shaped by wartime participation postwar migration and the expansion of Black urban communities in the American West. Centered on members including Herman a World War II serviceman and Willie Williams a veteran recognized with a federal memorial certificate the album traces intergenerational experiences of service and civic engagement. The inclusion of Adelaide Williams associated with multiple surnames and documented through teaching and domestic training certifications reflects women's roles in professionalization and community labor. The archive supports research in African American history military service migration and the development of Black middle-class identity in mid-20th century Los Angeles.<br /> <br /> Photo album containing 133 black-and-white photographs and 208 color photographs housed in a brown and silver vinyl album measuring approximately 10 x 12 inches with images ranging from approximately 2 x 3 to 8 x 10 inches mounted under plastic sleeves. The photographs depict domestic interiors posed family portraits porch scenes and social gatherings alongside military imagery and veteran affiliations including VFW and American Legion materials. Educational documentation includes a Teacher's Certificate an Austin Public Schools Certificate of Attainment and numerous school portraits and classroom scenes from the 1950s and 1960s. Group images include youth sports teams Boy Scouts women's auxiliaries and organized community activities. Additional images show flower-arranging instruction identified as Ikenobo Flower School automobiles and suburban homes. A signed large-format photograph of the vocal group The Trends reflects connections to mid-century Black performance culture.<br /> <br /> The album spans decades of transformation in Los Angeles where African American families established communities despite restrictive housing practices and segregation in employment and education. Military service during and after World War II intersected with broader demands for civil rights while education and homeownership became central pathways to stability and advancement. The materials document both private family life and participation in civic cultural and institutional networks that shaped Black urban experience in California. Adhesive staining present around some images with minor corner and edge wear; photographs largely remain clear and well-preserved; overall very good condition. A substantial longitudinal archive of African American family life illustrating military service education and community formation in mid-century Los Angeles. unknown
1930215101930. African American family photograph album 1930s Mt. Hope Missouri documents the daily life social relationships and labor conditions of a Black family during the Great Depression and provides direct evidence of both domestic life and employment structures in a rural Midwestern setting. Centered on the Berry family including Helen Berry and Eugene Berry the album records family gatherings leisure and personal identity alongside evidence of domestic service work within a white household. The inclusion of obituary clippings for Eugene Berry who died at age 22 situates the album within a specific family history marked by early loss while the broader content supports research into African American social life rural communities and labor patterns during the 1930s.<br /> <br /> Approximately 66 photographs mounted in a bound album measuring approximately 7 x 11 inches with images generally around 3.5 x 2.5 inches and accompanied by period captions. Numerous images depict Helen Berry in informal settings including one captioned "Girls like to play ball" showing her holding a baseball bat another reading "Just now looking fine" posed on steps and a photograph labeled "Helen at her friend house Mable Washington" showing her seated on the hood of an automobile. Eugene Berry appears in several photographs alongside family and friends. Two clipped obituaries for Eugene Berry are mounted within the album listing Helen Berry among survivors. Additional photographs include portraits of extended family members and community figures including a middle aged man identified visually by attire such as a taxi driver's cap. Approximately eleven photographs near the rear depict a white family identified as the Sanders including images of their home and children accompanied by an inscription reading "I work for Sanders back in 30" indicating employment as a caretaker.<br /> <br /> Compiled during the Great Depression this album documents the intersection of African American family life and domestic labor particularly the role of Black women working within white households while maintaining their own familial and social networks. The juxtaposition of intimate family scenes with photographs of the Sanders household provides evidence of employment relationships that were common for African American women during this period when domestic service constituted a major sector of Black labor. At the same time the album preserves expressions of leisure identity and community within the Berry family offering a layered record of resilience and daily life in a rural environment. Binding shows wear with some page loosening photographs exhibit minor fading and light discoloration captions occasionally faint; overall condition very good. unknown
1939216991939. African American Photography New York City Thompson Juanita. Photograph archive 1939 to 1966 documents African American middle class life in Jamaica Queens and records domestic recreational and formal social environments within Black communities in mid twentieth century New York. The archive establishes a sustained visual record of family networks leisure institutions and organized social events including evidence of participation in historically Black spaces such as summer camps and formal gatherings associated with upwardly mobile Black communities. The material supports research into African American social life outside the framework of labor and protest emphasizing community formation intergenerational networks and the development of Black middle class identity in urban settings.<br /> <br /> Jamaica Queens New York and North Brookfield Massachusetts circa 1939 to 1966. Archive of 161 photographs including 151 black and white images and 10 color photographs most measuring approximately 3.5 x 3.5 inches and 3.25 x 3.25 inches respectively with date stamps and manuscript inscriptions identifying subjects and locations. A significant grouping documents a February 1958 formal event in a ballroom setting where African American attendees in evening dress are served by white staff with participants including Juanita Thompson and her husband William Gillespie alongside other couples and a uniformed Army corporal. Earlier photographs depict Thompson's attendance at Camp Atwater a longstanding Black operated summer camp drawing participants from across the eastern United States. Additional images record family gatherings portraits with newborn children and outdoor scenes including an older man identified within Thompson's family circle near a country residence. The photographs collectively document both private and communal settings across multiple decades.<br /> <br /> The archive situates African American life within the context of expanding middle class institutions during and after the Great Migration when neighborhoods such as Jamaica Queens supported stable family networks professional advancement and organized social culture. The presence of formal events recreational spaces and multigenerational gatherings demonstrates the infrastructure of Black community life in northern cities during a period often defined in scholarship by segregation and inequality. By documenting spaces of leisure celebration and family continuity the photographs provide a counterpoint to narratives focused exclusively on struggle emphasizing lived experience within established community frameworks. Minor curling and light handling wear to some prints; images remain sharp and intact. Overall very good condition. A substantial visual record of African American social life mobility and community identity in mid twentieth century New York. unknown
1930196621930. Vernacular family photograph album from Trinidad and Tobago circa 1930s-1940s documents Black middle-class life in the late colonial Caribbean through domestic portraiture institutional affiliation and social ritual prior to national independence in 1962. The album centers a single extended family and records weddings childhood education and professional identity situating its subjects within a local Black community rather than the more commonly preserved outsider or tourist view of the region. Visual evidence of occupational roles including nursing policing military service and religious vocation places the family within the institutional structures of colonial society while formal dress and studio portrait conventions indicate participation in aspirational and respectability-driven forms of self-representation. The presence of a pre-independence naval uniform and Trinidadian police attire situates the material within British colonial administrative and military frameworks.<br /> <br /> Trinidad and Tobago circa 1930s-1940s with one later addition from the 1970s. Photograph album containing 58 silver gelatin prints primarily black and white mounted across album pages along with one loose color photograph. Images include studio portraits and informal scenes depicting weddings infants school-age children and group gatherings. Several photographs show men in period suits characteristic of the 1930s-1940s while others depict women and girls in religious dress posed beside a statue of Joseph and Jesus. Group portraits include eight Black nurses posed outside a Trinidad hospital and a family New Year gathering. Additional scenes include Quayside dock in Tobago and a woman posed before a twin-propeller aircraft. One male family member appears in a white naval uniform associated with pre-independence service another in Trinidadian police uniform and one female subject is documented as a nun. The loose later photograph shows an elderly woman likely a subject from earlier images with a child extending the family narrative into a post-independence generation.<br /> <br /> Produced during the final decades of British colonial rule this album aligns with a period in which photography functioned as both a record of social belonging and a tool of self-fashioning within Caribbean Black communities. Studio portraiture and formal group images reflect established visual conventions that emphasized respectability profession and family continuity while candid and location-based images document mobility infrastructure and daily life in Trinidad and Tobago. The survival of a locally produced family album from this period contributes to a limited visual record of intra-community life in the pre-independence Caribbean offering insight into generational continuity across the transition from colonial governance to nationhood. Front cover detached but present; pages and photographs well preserved with minor handling wear; overall very good condition. unknown
21908Mostly first half of the 19th Century. With the archive is "The Letchworth Family in England and America" compiled by Edward Hance Letchworth. Published at Buffalo New York in 1940 8vooriginal cloth 144-pages. The frontispiece of this volume depicts a Friends' Meeting in Grace Church St. London. Thomas Letchworth 1738-1784 the Quaker preacher is shown standing on his right is his father Robert 1694-1782 also a preacher and the ancestor of both the English and American lines and John Letchworth the first American emigrant.The archive comprises approx. 150 MS pieces Letchworth letters & other letters Rich Monk of Bristol a number of letters 1829 Anne Noke Gove Blake & others trade bills e.g. Thomas Hawthorne & Co Curriers & Leather Cutters in Fish Row 1815 the Bull Inn Streatly "3 dinners 7/6 Beer 1/3" 1816 and a group directed to Mrs Blake from Geo. Hetherington Linen Draper Hosier & Haberdasher 1815. Most of these MS pieces are of the first half of the19th Century. There are a few earlier and later including 4 to Mrs Dymond from Woburn Abbey or 15 Belgrave Sq 1894/5 one signed by the Duke of Bedford. Also a 53-page MS "Memoirs of the Early Life of Thomas Edward Letchworth by His Mother" covering the years 1906-1943. Also a MS memoir "Our little Story. Recollections of a Painter of Small Renown" on 232-pages. just signed "Letchworth" on verso of last page.Also the very large approx 5 x 5 feet "Pedigree of the Pilkington Family copied by J.L" on stout paper folded holed on some folds. Also an album of news cuttings relating to the 1927 Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race; J. L. Letchworth being the Captain of the Christ's College Boat Club. This with 14 Metcalfe or Smith's Race Cards loosely inserted. And other pieces.Together with a large number c.180 of family photographs carte de visite cabinet & other. Some with the sitter identified. Our photograph show only a small group. Weight approx. 10 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested. Mostly first half of the 19th Century. hardcover
191049372n.p. n.d. 1910. The 14 photographs in this album were undoubtedly produced by a professional photographer using a large format camera. The pictures are well composed sharply focused and unusual in their scale. They picture a family in leisure-time activities such as hunting gathering leaves and observing caged rabbits. Especially noteworthy is their time at a lake cabin and visiting Twin Cities sites. The cabin is a fine Victorian piece of gingerbread with a wrap-around porch ideal for napping and reading. The wife/mother is seen holding a copy of the periodical American Motherhood which was published 1903-1919 making it possible to date these images around 1910. The family includes twin boys one of whom is seen in the same picture reading a copy of the children's magazine Buster Brown. What appears to be a stuffed squirrel appears in three of the images. The album contains 14 beautifully toned photographs including one in which the oldest child assists a workman possibly making maple syrup. Seven loose prints accompany the album one duplicate. Among these are three pictures made at Fort Snelling and Minnehaha Falls suggesting that the family either lived in the Twin Cities or visited there. While the identity of the photographer is unknown there is a clue to the heritage of the subjects. Laid into the album is a newspaper clipping about one Marvin Hughitt 1837-1928 upon his retirement from the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad in 1925. It is possible that the family in these photographs were descendants of Mr. Hughitt with the mother or father a likely grandchild. This is an unusually nice album of family photographs. unknown
193822520London: Kosmos Press Bureau etc 1938/1952. Good. b&w photos 11 original official press photos of the historic visit to Paris of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in July 1938; all photos eventive; all with descriptive text typewritten on butter-paper 3 on thin brown paper tags adhered to rear stamps of relevant press bureau Kosmos Press Sport and General Press Agency Fox Photos Planet News Ltd - all London text typewritten direct to rear of each photo stating 'Royal Visit To France July 1938' 3 photos with handwritten pencil notation stating dimensions etc 2 with contemporary pink printed Block Order tags stating date serial number title size and 'sent to process' and 'required by' details all inscribed in pencil; photos show a military review with numerous tanks in procession at Versailles the King's tribute to the French Unknown Soldier at the Arc d' Triomphe the Queen's visit to the British Hospital at Levallois The Royal Couple at a reception in Hotel de Ville the Queen in crinoline gown at Versailles luncheon the King signing the Golden book at the Arc d' Triomphe an aerial shot of the Royal Couple's motorcar along the royal route surrounded by armed guards on horseback French schoolchildren in national costume waving Union Jacks the Queen chatting with a guest at the garden party at Bagatelle The Royal Couple leaving the Dover Railway Station to embark on the Admiralty yacht and the King greeting General Billotte on horseback; finally one later photo of King George VI lying in state in closed coffin in Westminster Hall guarded by the King's Bodyguard 11/2/52; this collection of photos provides a unique record of an event of capital importance the Royal Visit of July 1938 being set against the background of Hitler's expansionist intentions towards Czechoslovakia a French ally and imminent war in Europe - the visit was thus designed despite stated British policy of appeasement to strengthen military relations between Britain and France and to contrast democracy against dictatorship Sir Eric Phipps the British Ambassador to France stating thus ""Externally it seems clear that the visit would produce a most healthy effect upon Hitler Mussolini and Co."" quoted from Martyn Cornick 'War Culture and the British Royal Visit to Paris July 1938'; it was the Royal Couple's first overseas trip; George VI had become a reluctant King after the abdication of his brother Edward VIII to marry Wallis Simpson his treatment for a chronic speech impediment being later dramatised in the movie 'The King's Speech'; the visit to Paris had been postponed to July after the death of Queen Elizabeth's mother Lady Strathmore and as the Queen could not appear in Black mourning in Paris fashion designer Norman Hartnell created an all-white trousseau examples of which can be seen in three of the photos here; after the King's death Queen Elizabeth became known as 'Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother' to avoid confusion with Elizabeth II; as The Duke and Duchess of York the couple officially opened Parliament House in Canberra in 1927; 7 of the photos with white borders the remainder cropped; all photos rubbed to a certain extent some with foxing and mild creases borders mildly curled one photo with loss top lh corner photo of King lying in state heavily ragged to lower egde. Kosmos Press Bureau etc
3733792<p>Massachusetts possibly Boston or Winchester ca. late 18th to early 19th c. 14 x 10 inches. Watercolor ink pencil gouache highlights on a sheet of laid and watermarked 18th c. paper that is soiled and has an early large in-painted repair on wove paper affixed to its lower left corner. jncbc367323</p> <p>Watercolor arms were produced by a number of New England painters but the most prolific of the post-Revolutionary heraldic artists was John Coles Sr. 1749-1809 and his son John Coles Jr. 1778–1854 who studied with Frothingham under Gilber Stuart. The Senior Coles first appears in the Boston directories in 1796 as a “Heraldry Painter†but he was also a printer and publisher of engravings. From 1806-1807 he was located at 61 Newberry Street. Coles Jr. began his career in 1803. Nina Fletcher Little; American Antiquarian Society</p> <p>The present coat-of-arms was accomplished for the Nickersons of Massachusetts:</p> <p>"“The first of this family to come to America was William Nickerson whom it is believed was a descendant of William Nickerson Lord Bishop of Derry Ireland whose coat-of-arms hanging in the hall of of the home of Captain Phineas Adams Nickerson in Winchester Massachusetts is: Azure two bars ermine in chief three suns and is attested as followings: This writing was found on the back of the original picture in Boston 1802 Possibly the present object but this writing now effaced or erased. From the beginning of the settlement of this family in this country the members thereof have figured prominently in its commerce and trade during the colonial period and they also asserted their patriotism during the struggle for independence….â€"</p> <p>Phineas Nickerson 1733–1812 a descendant of William Nickerson served in the American Revolution as “corporal in Captain Elijah Smalley’s company Major Zenas Winslow’s regiment and as a Minuteman on alarm at Bedford and Falmouth September 1778.†</p> <p>Phineas or his father John Nickerson 1702–1794 might have enlisted the Coles who sometimes painted as itinerants to produce this watercolor.</p> <p>Ref. Cutter and Adams Genealogical and Personal Memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts New York 1910 II: 737–740. See Falk.</p> unknown
1950233631950. Postwar African American military family photo album documenting the institutional pathways through which a black Los Angeles family pursued stability and advancement in the 1950s-60s. Images primarily center on a young black female graduate seen throughout the album emphasizing academic success within an era where segregation and de-emphasis of female education persisted. The album also focuses on her immediate and distant family members in and outside of their homes including infant aged children to men in service uniform and elders. In postwar Los Angeles where Black families built opportunity within the constraints of segregated housing uneven schooling and limited access to many institutions albums like this marked the concrete sites of advancement that could be claimed and transmitted within the family.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 151 black and white and color photographs various sizes Los Angeles California circa 1950s-60s. Mounted across album pages are nursery and bedroom scenes with babies posed on beds beside stuffed animals porch and yard portraits in front of modest but well-kept houses street-facing views with parked midcentury automobiles and repeated family groupings that move between immediate relatives children elders and friends. Several pages center on a young woman in a white graduation gown and cap shown in front of houses near a large automobile and in a courtyard commencement setting with arcaded architecture clustered graduates and stage views that suggest a Southern California school or college campus without yielding a secure identification. Other sequences extend the family story through a formal military portrait of a young Black serviceman informal views of him indoors and outdoors classroom scenes beneath a wall crucifix with a nun at the front of the room holiday interiors with a Christmas tree and several small inscriptions including the recurring name Charlotte and a studio notation reading "Christy Shepherd / Hollywood." Color prints dated April 1968 introduce later scenes of children playing in a fenced yard confirming the album's long family span and its continued concentration in residential Los Angeles.<br /> <br /> The album shows how Black families in Los Angeles built a life prior to the Civil Rights movement through the institutions that could carry them forward. Schooling appears as a family event as the young woman is surrounded by relatives houses yards and cars that mark the material terms of postwar striving in black Los Angeles. Military service enters the album as another path into adulthood and standing while women hold the family record together across graduation scenes childrearing visits and gatherings. Album leaves show age wear and toning some toning throughout and one small portrait at upper right is torn at the edge; overall in very good condition. This album acts as a decade long record of how one Black family in Los Angeles turned aspiration into structure and memory into proof. unknown
