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188643657New York 1886. Each one page. 1 vols. 4to letter from Harry on his Studio stationery; 8vo 12mo. Tipped and mounted to larger sheet of stiff blue paper. Each one page. 1 vols. 4to letter from Harry on his Studio stationery; 8vo 12mo. A very interesting letter from Harry Beard regarding his distinguished family of artists and illustrators in response to his election as honorary member of the Northwestern Literary & Historical Society:<br /> <br /> " . There are so many of our family all artists in New York some of whom devote their talents almost exclusively to Natural History Subjects. James H. - my father an animal painter James C. and Daniel C. my brothers the former has illustrated several articles on natural history in the Harpers and Century Magazines and the latter both writes and illustrates the same subjects that I really hesitate in taking to myself the great honor you would confer for fear of appropriating what may have been intended for another . "<br /> <br /> A brief letter to "Dear Bro Shermain " inviting him to a meeting of the "S.S. Teachers of Williamsburg;" finally there is a charming signed sketch by Frank Beard of a boy and a girl smiling cheek to cheek with the autograph sentiment penned below by Beard: "If we were all innocent all would be glad - Frank Beard. unknown
1839101827<p>Different papers different sizes but all from the Engelmann family archives.</p><p>Includes:</p><p>1839. One plate for the year sheet size 31 x 24 cm.</p><p>1840. One plate for the year sheet size 555 x 36 cm.</p><p>1841. Two plates each depicting 6 months on a sheet sheet size 32 x 49 cm.</p><p>1842. One plate for the year sheet size 49 x 325 cm.</p><p>1842. a different calendar Two plates each depicting 6 months on a sheet sheet size 32 x 49 cm.</p><p>1843. Two plates each depicting 6 months on a sheet sheet size 575 x 215 cm.</p><p>1844. Two plates each depicting 6 months on a sheet sheet size 275 x 41 cm.</p><p>1844. a different calendar Two plates each depicting 6 months on a sheet sheet size 32 x 485 cm.</p><p>1848. Two plates each depicting 6 months on a sheet sheet size 47 x 17 cm.</p><p>Fine examples of early chromolithography a technique invented in France by Godefroy Engelmann who received his patent in 1837 only three years before the present calendar was printed. The patent was given to him for printing colour lithographs from four stones using just black blue yellow and red in a version of the technique perfected by French intaglio colour printers in the eighteenth century. Engelmann who had been a leading pioneer of monochrome lithography in France was now poised for showing the way forward for commercial colour printing. The success of chromolithography depends on the immensely skilful process of separating each image into its four constituent colours. These calendars clearly show the style of this new technique.</p>
1826309183U.S. Frigate Brandywine 1826. 3 pp. 4to. Bifolium. Old folds. 3 pp. 4to. A letter from one of Washington Irving's nephews--William Iriving--to another his brother Washington named for his famous uncle. The men were sons of Irving's brother John Treat Irving. William a navy man urges his younger brother "Wash" to stay in school as a cadet. unknown
1823620465Brattleborough VT: Holbrook & Fessenden 1823. Hardcover. Very Good. Thick quarto. 683 4 family record 160 687-930pp 2. Old and New Testament each with its own title page. Full contemporary calf the spine with raised bands bordered in gilt creating six compartments the second compartment from the top with a red leather label with gilt bands along the top and bottom and "Holy Bible" in gilt at the center. Boards and spine worn front hinge cracked and separating along the bottom but remains largely sound owner name on the front pastedown small dampstain at the bottom of the tile page two holes in the fore edge of the title page rear free endpaper detached and laid in with some staining and scattered foxing throughout still overall a sound and very good copy. Contains the Apocrypha an index a table of names and "an account of the lives and martyrdom of the apostles and evangelists." Also contains the family record of the Goddard family though the name on the front pastedown is Harvey Jewell. Holbrook & Fessenden hardcover
1834017780Philadelphia and Baltimore: E.L. Carey and A. Hart and Carey Hart & Co 1834. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. A Fair copy in scuffed and worn original paper-covered boards and cloth spine lacking the spine label. Edge-wear to the spine cloth particularly at the rear fold. The paper quality varies: some pages fairly bright some lightly foxed some quite tanned but all legible. The text block binding is sound. A two-volumes-in-one printing with separate title pages and pagination at 216 and 222 pages with the publisher's catalogue bound in at the rear. A worn copy of a scarce book. <br/> <br/> E.L. Carey and A. Hart (and) Carey, Hart & Co 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
1820305224Edo 1820. 200 woodblock illustrations of crests some light soiling to margins. 208 pp. small oblong 8vo 110 x 155 mm. blue paper wrappers worn stitched. 200 woodblock illustrations of crests some light soiling to margins. 208 pp. small oblong 8vo 110 x 155 mm. Japanese woodcut book on the crests and symbols of the Samurai families.<br /> <br /> WITH: <br /> A series of 99 small manuscript information cards on for ceremonial use for Samurai families denoting their crests and banners pen ink and colors. First half of 19th century each card 70 x 55 mm some affected by worm tracks. unknown
183097163New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union 1830 / New York: New-York Protestant Episcopal Press 1831. 1830 & 1831. 1830 & 1831. Good. - 32mo 5-3/4 inches high by 3-5/8 inches wide. Burgundy calf backed marbled boards with calf corners titled and ruled in gilt on the spine. The covers are scuffed and stained with wear to the joints and head and tail of the spine. 224 pages in all illustrated with a pictorial vignette title page and 3 full-page frontispiece engravings preceding the subsequent title pages. There is evidence of early worming along the front hinge. An early owner's inscription dated 1833 is penned on the front endpaper. There is some minor foxing and soiling throughout with a tiny piece out from the bottom corner of one of the title pages. Good. <p>The four books consist of:<p>1. "The M'Ellen Family: A History. In Four Letters From a Missionary. Fourth Edition. Stereotyped by Jas. Conner New York". New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union 1830. 36 pages with a title vignette.<p>2. "Memory's Tribute or Things Profitable For Reflection. First Series. The Baptism. By the author of 'The M'Ellen Family'." New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union 1830. Pages 1-36 illustrated with a full-page frontispiece included in the pagination.<p>3. "Memory's Tribute or Things Profitable For Reflection. First Series. A Family in Eternity. By the author of 'The M'Ellen Family'." New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union 1830. Pages 37-84 illustrated with a full-page frontispiece included in the pagination.<p>4. "The Meeting of the Travellers. By the author of 'The M'Ellen Family'." New York: New-York Protestant Episcopal Press 1831. Pages 1-104 illustrated with a full-page frontispiece included in the pagination.<p>RARE. New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union, 1830 / New York: New-York Protestant Episcopal Press, 1831. 1830 &am hardcover
1847ALEX321Stereotyped by J. Fagan for Lindsay and Blakiston Philadelphia: . 1847 222 p. 8 full page plates. Bookplate of New Horizons a gift of Rosemary Hall School June 17 1863. Early manuscript inscription of Simeon Baldwin from his father Jan. 1 1848. Manuscript ownership of Roger Sherman Baldwin 1883. Simeon Baldwin 1761-1851 was son-in-law of Roger Sherman patriot of the Revolutionary and Constitutional era and father of Roger Sherman Baldwin 1793-1863 an American politician who served as the 32nd Governor of Connecticut from 1844 to 1846 and a United States Senator from 1847 to 1851. As a lawyer R.S. was most notable for his participation in the 1841 Amistad case. Plates beginning to brown. Front hinge cracked. 180 mm. Original green cloth binding embossed in blind. Front board decorated with a scene in gilt of two of Washington's soldiers crossing the Delaware. Spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Head and tail of spine worn with slight loss. Corners worn with loss. Hardbound. Very Good. PAIMP 24. Hardcover. Very Good. (Stereotyped by J. Fagan for) Lindsay and Blakiston, Philadelphia: . hardcover
18512111902160201412Kawauchiya Shinjiro 1851. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 5 Kawauchiya Shinjiro paperback
1863218660Japan. Bunkyu 3 1863. Manuscript in black ink 32 x 46cm small area of worming at lower right of the sheet light browning and wear at lower left margin overall very good. This document certifies that a family of three comprising parents and a young boy residing in Ōmi Domain present-day Shiga Prefecture are not Christians and are affiliated with a Jōdo sect Buddhist temple the temple name is unclear. The document is dated March 1863 and bears the signature of the head priest of the temple. <br> <br>Such certificates commonly known as terauke were issued between 1671 and 1873 as part of the Tokugawa authorities' system for suppressing Christianity. They also functioned as a means of population registration linking individuals and households to Buddhist institutions for administrative and taxation purposes. . unknown
1834151220097Stereotyped and published by C. Alexander & Co 1834-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Stereotyped and published by C. Alexander & Co hardcover
18025001018Exeter 1802. Group of 20 legal documents on paper and vellum relating to a property in Exeter including as the centrepiece a vellum manuscript indenture 630 x 790 mm. with the signatures of William and Elizabeth Bligh and many other members of his family Bligh himself having signed the indenture a second time in relation to a coda to the indenture; all in fine condition with original wax and paper seals present. <p><p>A remarkable group of manuscripts regarding the ownership of a property in Exeter over a period of a century and involving William Bligh and numerous close family members. The collection includes a rare example of the signatures of both William Bligh and his wife Elizabeth on the same manuscript document together with the signatures of Bligh's nephews Thomas and Francis Godolphin Bond both of whom had long careers in the Royal Navy and the latter of whom went on Bligh's second breadfruit voyage and kept up an important and revealing correspondence with his uncle. </p> <p>The group of documents relates to a family-owned house at 13 St. Martin's Lane Exeter a narrow street between Exeter High Street and the Cathedral Yard which is incidentally also the location of the historic Ship Inn said to have been frequented by Sir Francis Drake. The earliest material present here dates from 1702 while the other manuscripts trace the later history of the property throughout the eighteenth century.</p> <p>The signatures are attached to a legal indenture which is the last in a substantial group of documents relating to this property a group which also includes a detailed abstract of ownership prepared for the Blighs and the Bonds. </p> <p>The series of manuscripts culminates in an indenture dated 27 July 1802 conveying for a fee of £50 the rights of the Bligh family to one-sixth of a dwelling in St. Martin's Lane to one William Floyde. The property was evidently owned by Bligh in conjunction with his nephews and nieces in the Bond family: Bligh's half-sister Catherine married John Bond and Bligh and his wife were very close to the whole family in particular Francis Godolphin Bond 1765-1839 a distinguished sailor and First Lieutenant under Bligh on the second breadfruit voyage on HMS Providence. Attractively the present document includes the signatures of the entire Bond family notably that of Francis Godolphin Bond but also those of his brothers and sisters: Thomas Bond Rebecca Bond Sophia Bond Samuel Hookey husband of Catharine Elizabeth Hookey née Bond and Jenny C. Bond. A coda to the indenture is a receipt for payment of fifty pounds sterling which is also witnessed by all of the key signatories meaning that William Bligh's signature is actually present here twice.</p> <p>Equally interesting is the August 1801 "Abstract of the Title of Messrs. William Bligh et al" prepared for the transaction which records their interest in the property. This abstract notes that 'William Bligh is a Captain in the Navy and lives at Durham Place Lambeth but is now on board the Irresistable in the North Sea Fleet.' Of the other signatories it is also noted that at the time Thomas Bond was serving on the Raisonable while Francis Godolphin Bond was residing in London.</p> </p> . unknown
188335413Georgia 1883. Archive. Good. Small archive of 3 handwritten condolence letters written to the Buice family in Ringgold Georgia. Also included is the month of June calendar with a note written at bottom not legible and notes written on the blank side. The calendar sheet has some light stains and edge tears. Light fading and wear to the letters. Good condition. . <br /> <br /> All three letters begin with sorrow and condolences to the Buice family after their son Albert died. Written on the back of the June calendar is the note: "Our darling Baby girl was Born June 12th 1883. Our Darling Son was drowned June 24th 1883 aged 20 years lacking one month. Sadest day of our life." <br /> <br /> The first letter from Ringgold dated June 25 1883 is 4 pages long and addressed to "Dear Friend & Bro." It is signed W. L. Laice sp. <br /> <br /> The second letter written form Augusta Georgia is dated June 29 1883 and addressed "Dear Bro & Sister Buice. It is 3 pages long and signed by Cadesman Pope. <br /> <br /> The third letter from Dadeville Alabama is dated July 2nd 1883. It is addressed to "Mrs. Buice and family." This letter is 8 pages long and makes references to LaGrange Georgia. This letter also mentions the murder of the Dr. Carter editor of the People's Advocate: "Just two weeks ago my door neighbor was shot dead in tracks uptown. He was one of the nicest men I ever knew except that he was not a Christian he was a Physician here - was with Tillie and I both when we were sick not long ago. Was so refined well educated a polished gentleman. Political disturbances was the origin of his death. He was editor of the People's Advocate published weekly at this place and had said something in the editorials that offended a young man 22 years old who walked up to him in the square and demanded a private interview which Dr. Carter refused. Told him he had no business with him which could not be transacted there. Then young Sturdivant or Sturdevant drew out his pistol and shot him through the head." The letter is signed Mrs. Dansby. <br /> <br /> An article appearing in the Hazleton Sentinel and sourced from Columbus Georgia June 18th states "Dr. John F. Carter of Dadeville Alabama was shot and killed in that place by B. B. Sturdivant son of ex-Probate Judge Sturdivant Saturday night. Carter had been making some severe strictures on Judge Sturdivant in his paper about which young Sturdevant called to see him yesterday. unknown
1840105031<p>Small family archive of letters 10 pieces in all some folio size other basic letter sheet size over 20 pages of text some docketed on reverse. Most pages are aged and browned some chips and tears a few holes at center folds a little staining but otherwise about very good. This family archive begins with a letter dated June 14 1840 and provides a glimpse of life in still early America during the pioneer period. In the first letter which is. from near Danville Missouri daughter Emily Lee and Adam Lee to father Ely Butcher in Randolph Virginia asking for money. Emily complains about poor health but tells him to consider moving out there where good land could be had. Another letter dated September 24 1840 is from Rock Island County Illinois from John H. Butcher to his father Ely in Randolph Virginia. John Butcher a farmer tells his father he is in "tolerable good health" but talks about some hard times where he lives. He comments on the rivers being very low and it appears his shipping costs were double what they should be. He stays he finds times very hard in this country harder than expected and adds he couldn't get $1000 for his home at that time. He even makes a comment about a split in government but that the Whigs may feel they won writing not totally clear on this comment. On January 2 1842 from Danville Missouri we see another letter from Emily Lee to her father Ely Butcher in Randolph Virginia. This letter has a sad tone as Emily complains she hasn't gotten a letter from her father in almost two years despite writing to him a few times. She says she feels neglected by her father and brothers and times are very hard. She mentions store credit is not available and they lost a horse. According to Emily her in-laws are no help and she has eight children to take care of. She tells her father she will see him in the spring and she expects him to do something about her situation. Seems like Ely's kids are often in need and asking dad for help. On August 20 1844 John Butcher In Rock Island Illinois to Ely Butcher in Beverly Randolph County Virginia appears to be visited by his sister and his brother-in-law and sister Adam Lee and Emily lee. The farm is doing well and he indicates that oat and corn prices are "tolerable" and he expects to produce 800 bushes of corn and wheat. It appears his sister wants a divorce and it also appears John asks his father to intercede with his uncle Peyton about the land he uses. He seems to be tired of being a renter. He asks his father to negotiate a deal and help him pay for it. He apologizes for the tone of the letter but sounds a little desperate. There are also what appears to be some detailed receipts for the goods of Ely Butcher the dates appear to be 1842 and 1843. In fourth receipt the date is unclear but could be as late as 1866. A final document is a marriage certificate for Hannah Hart Butcher and the date is November 22 1911.</p>
186335352Memphis: n.p. 1863. Letter. Good. Letter. Approx. 11.5" x 8.5". 2 pages written on lined paper. Folded creased with light toning. "Hutton & Co. Prs" located in small print top left corner of the front page. <br /> <br /> Soldier writes; "At Present our armies are lying still or nearly so for the weather is too hot to make any heavy movements just now but it seems that the Southern Confederacy fairly trembles to its very center and I know that many of her soldiers are satisfied to quit and would like to get out of it pretty well but like the Yankees they must stick to it until their officers become convinced of a similar fact.they must certainly see they are whipped but their pride keeps them from acknowledging it." He also writes about a man hanged back home for stealing horses. He mentions the loss of a steamboat named "Alice Dean." This steamboat operated on the Mississippi and was captured and burned by the Confederates. n.p. unknown
18712437Charterhouse School 1871. Hardcover. Very good. Dates: 1871-1877 and 1910. Small 4to. 37 ff. mostly with newspaper clippings neatly pasted in on both sides 4 ff. in manuscript "Summary of Scores" from 1871-1877 and 1910. Several leaves excised; it is possible that the present album had been re-purposed. On a few of the stubs appear fragmentary MS notations suggesting that the notebook may have once been divided alphabetically. We find on certain stubs "Ai" followed immediately by "Ao" and then several leaves later: "Her. - Hes" followed by "Io." Binding rebacked with smooth calf. In very good condition. Highly interesting homemade album of Cricket Scores available nowhere else specifically documenting the triumphs of three young members of the Blomfield family namely: E.G. Edward George C.J. Charles James and R.T. Reginald Theodore. One wonders if the present album was created in order to promote friendly competition between the brothers two of whom went to Haileybury School and one went to Charterhouse; all three went up to Oxford. There are scores and game synopsis of matches were between Haileybury Charterhouse Marylebone Cricket Club MCC Westminster Trinity College Oxon. Exeter Oxon. and more. One of the more interesting features about the album is that it provides a fascinating record of one family's love of the game:<br /> <br /> ¶ Edward George 1853-1885 entered Charterhouse School London in 1865 and transfer upon the School's removal to Godalming in 1872; in 1873 he went to Trinity College Oxon. where he earned a B.A. in 1877 and M.A. in 1879; thereafter he served as Curate of St. Mary's Portsea until 1883 and then Vicar of St. Mark's Woolston until his death in London in 1885.<br /> <br /> ¶ Charles James 1855-1928 went to Haileybury School; he underwent military training at Sandhurst and served as an army officer in India Sudan and Natal. He attained the rank of Major General before his retirement in 1917. NB: this individual is not to be confused with a noted architect of the same name b. 1862 d. 1932. <br /> <br /> ¶ Reginald Theodore 1856-1942 also went to Haileybury School; he earned his B.A. from Exeter Oxon. in 1880 and M.A. in 1884. He became an architect and was knighted in 1919. He is remembered mainly for his work designing British war memorials. <br /> <br /> ¶ The parents of the three young men were Rev. George John and his first cousin Isabella Blomfield of Bow Devonshire whose own father Charles James Blomfield was Bishop of London. <br /> <br /> ¶ At the end is a "Summary of Scores" for the years 1871-1877. Following this in a different hand is the year 1910; although the initial of the last name "Blomfield" remains the same the other initials belong to Reginald Thomas and his two sons Henry George and Austin. <br /> <br /> ¶ See Stedman Charterhouse Register 1872-1900 passim. CATALOGUER'S NOTE: We are grateful to Catherine Smith Archivist of Charterhouse School for much useful information concerning the Blomfield Family. hardcover
18404910Philadelphia: W. S. Martien 1840. First edition. bound with The Petition of Henry C. De Rham to the General Assembly of Rhode Island To Except Paul Daniel Gonsalve Grand d'Hauteville From the Operation of the Law 'To Secure the Fulfillment of Certain Contracts and for the Relief of Married Women in Certain Cases.' Together with a Remonstrance of Ellen S. d'Hauteville.Providence: Knowles & Vose 1841. First edition. <br /> <br /> bound with Review of the d'Hauteville Case: Recently Argued and Determined in the Court of General Sessions.Boston: Weeks Jordan and Co. 1841. First edition.<br /> <br /> Three volumes bound in one. Finely bound by Bradstreet's in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Samuel F. Barger to front pastedown. Measuring 225 x 135mm and collating complete including titles: 295 1 blank; 124 2 errata; 2 44. A just about Fine copy with some inoffensive pencil annotations and corrections to volume I and occasional faint foxing; overall a pleasing copy of three scarce legal works related to women's custody rights according to international and interstate law. <br /> <br /> Three scarce tracts documenting the international custody battle that became highly publicized and debated in its time. In 1837 American citizen Ellen Sears married Daniel Gonsalve d'Hauteville a member of the Swiss nobility. During their brief union Ellen survived emotional neglect and mental cruelty from her husband whose "self-image as paterfamilias conflicted with Ellen's growing sense of herself as a mother tormented by an unfeeling spouse" DiFonzo. Pregnant and unhappy she left her husband for the U.S. giving birth to her son after her arrival. Under Common law doctrine d'Hauteville demanded that his wife and child return to his household in Switzerland. "But Sears and her Philadelphia lawyers devised a strategy that would challenge the accepted legal formulation along its emerging cultural fault line.leveraging mental cruelty into an accusation that d'Hauteville had violated the standards of the changing American family" DiFonzo. This strategy combined with gains that the women's movement had made in the U.S. and Europe marital property laws within the century helped bolster her position and win her custodial rights.<br /> <br /> "The d'Hauteville case was not a single event in a courtroom but a set of multiple legal experiences that exposed timebound and timeless realities of American legal culture. The case began in an insular way as a domestic drama must with the rapid rise and equally rapid fall of the d'Hauteville marriage. But as the fight for the son Frederick displaced their marriage as the central focus of Ellen and Gonsalve's relationship the law assumed a greater and greater presence in their lives. The pair not only confronted contradictions between their own ideas about justice and the legal rules they had to learn they also experienced the transformation of their domestic tragedy into a legal event with innumberable participants from lawyers judges and legislators to courtroom spectators newspaper reporters and diarists" Grossberg. <br /> <br /> The present tracts trace d'Hauteville's initial petition for Habeas Corpus followed by his petition to be exempted from a Rhode Island law protecting the rights of mothers. The final title tracks the case's conclusion providing a review. W. S. Martien unknown
185535931Columbus Ohio: L. P. Rayl & Co 1855. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 3 64 pages 1 page explanation 63 pages of blank lined pages used for recording births deaths marriages etc. Green cloth hardcover ruled in blind with blind stamped decorations on the covers. Gilt decorations on the cover and gilt title on the spine. Cloth spine is chipped at top and worn at the bottom. Corners are edge worn. Light to moderate foxing to the end papers and text. Occasional brown spots to the blank pages. Blind embossed bookseller stamp on the right front flyleaf from Columbus Ohio. 1857 previous owner inscription in another language written on the right front flyleaf reads - Johann Charls Herpilsheimer den 13 Aprill 1856." A cut section of lined paper with old hand writing in a different language is laid inside the front cover. This copy has no family history written on the blank pages. L. P. Rayl & Co hardcover
1862BOOKS288658FR/No Dustjacket. ca. 1862. Letters. This is an unsigned letter that was found in the John J. Taylor papers and looks like his handwriting. It is addressed to the The Honorable Legislature of the State of New York . the advantages of transporting lime salt plaster coal etc. would add incalculable revenues to the Chenango Canal. We the undersigned inhabitants of Tioga County . not used and with cross outs. Pen and Ink 12" x 8" . 4to. 1 page Slight tears at former folds . unknown
189781340Troy N.Y.:: Harvey James King 1897. First edition; No. 23 of 50 copies. publisher's cloth-backed gilt lettered boards. Ink owner's name stamp on pastedown and title page; some light soiling to the boards and edges of the Addendum; tight and sound. Folio. Two original photographic illustrations. . Separate 6 pp. Addenda laid in at rear. Harvey James King, hardcover
1890List1620Mostly New England: Various Photographers 1890. Cabinet cards measuring 6 ½ x 4 ¼ inches. Various settings showing the band members posed with their instruments including banjos violins trumpets drum and tubas. Varying wear but generally very good with some normal age-related fading. Very Good. Originally from Lawrenceville New York the Shepard Family Band toured throughout the Northeast in the 1880s and 1890s eventually settling in South Royalton Vermont. All members of the family were apparently musically inclined: “In addition to Minnie mother and matriarch Mary “Minnie†Shepard and her husband patriarch James Monroe Shepard all of the children were pressed into service. Daughter Laura Belle the ‘violiniste’ was getting better all the time under the instruction of a ‘competent master.’ Her fans “will be astonished at the improvement in style tone and expression.†It was said of little Lessie that ‘Among lady cornetists she has no equal.’ The darling little son of the family Master Burtie could not help but please for he was well-known to be ‘The youngest Tuba soloist in the world; only nine years of age; scarcely larger than the instrument he plays.’ He was also a ‘clever comedian singer and character artist.†The baby little Flossie “a sweet little miss of four summers’ was said to be a “wonderful mimic and impersonator…a veritable little fairy.’ Daughters Kittie and Georgia were also part of the troupe.†- Henry Sheldon Museum. A very nice collection. Various Photographers unknown
1848List3669Boston Massachusetts: Olivery Ditson 1848. Folio 14 x 10 ½ inches 5 pp. Slight splitting to covers contents fine very good plus overall. The sheet for the anti-politician polemic “Eight Dollars a Day" which was apparently a crowd favorite at the Hutchinson Family’s performances. The song lambastes the political class and its waste insinuating among other things that the politicians were spending their bloated salary on alcohol: “A flaming speech is made by one when the call is yea or nay But all are agreed with the question comes of Eight dollars a day.†The song was written in 1848 early in the Hutchinson Family’s period moving toward social activism and four years after their most famous abolition-themed compositions.1 Judging by the twelve copies held at libraries this was probably one of the better selling titles in their repertoire from the time period. <br /> <br /> 1 Philip D. Jordan “The Hutchinson Family in the Story of American Music†Minnesota History 22 no. 2 1941: 113–32. Olivery Ditson unknown
1855List3668New York: Horace Waters 1855. Sheet music measuring 10 ¾ x 14 ¼ inches 6 pp. Foxed with wear to edges; very good to excellent. A scarce Hutchinson Family sheet published in 1855 with an abolition theme. The song goes in part:<br /> <br /> “The captive now begins to rise and burst his chains asunder While Politicians stand aghast in anxious fear and wonder. No longer shall the bondman sigh beneath the galling fetters He sees the Dan of Freedom nigh and reads the golden letters…†<br /> <br /> It also discusses alcohol within a larger theme of good triumphing over evil. The song is included in some songsters but this standalone version is quite uncommon with one copy held at Dartmouth. In 1855 the Hutchinson Family Singers continued extensive touring across the northeastern United States presenting concert programs that combined abolitionist songs temperance material and political commentary aligned with reform movements. They had embraced abolitionism as a cause about a decade earlier with a string of compositions including “Get Off the Track†and “The Bereaved Slave Mother.â€. Horace Waters unknown
188561062Salem OR: n.p. ca. 1885. One oblong albumen boudoir photo sized 7.75 x 4.75 in. mounted on 8 x 5 in. studio board manuscript annotations on verso in pencil & ink incorrect speculative dating of 1869 in quotation marks minor edgewear rubbing still VG exemplar. A splendid boudoir image capturing generations of William Campbell’s 1822-1920 family at the Salem Marion County Oregon farm sometime in the 1880’s. Bert Robert 1869-1858 and his sister May Mary 1871-1960 stayed and worked in Oregon before later moving to Portland OR. Pets were apparently important to the family as they have included 3 in their image and interestingly the photographer has also included a bowl of large ripe apples in the foreground before the group. n.p., unknown
