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This archive of some of our sold items will help you find exemplars of autographs.  We hope that you find the images useful.

Use this archive, too, for ideas for your own collection or for the wonderful gifts that historical autographs, and particularly framed items, can be.  Most of the framed pieces shown below are History In Ink framed originals.  The matted pieces have the same distinctive quality but were not framed.

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Chester A. Arthur - boldly signed Executive Mansion card - custom framed!

[Baseball] - 1935 St. Louis Cardinals - extraordinary archive of the autographs of 17 members of the Gas House Gang, including Dizzy Dean and four other Hall of Famers, with contemporary letter of provenance - framed

Alexander Graham Bell - signature

Ezra Taft Benson - typed letter signed 10-21-1955

Hugo L. Black - extra fine condition signed Supreme Court card

Hugo L. Black - Supreme Court card, boldly signed

Harry A. Blackmun - signed photograph

Harry A. Blackmun - typed letter signed 10-24-1988

Harry A. Blackmun - typed letter signed 6-11-1990

Omar N. Bradley - typed letter signed with exceptional content regarding President Harry S. Truman, 6-15-1970

Omar N. Bradley - black ink signature on slip of paper with an engraved image of the flag of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Louis D. Brandeis - autograph letter signed 7-9-1917

James Buchanan - bold free frank on letter panel addressed to a Northern abolitionist - custom framed!

Warren E. Burger - signed formal portrait photograph as Chief Justice

Warren E. Burger - inscribed, signed copy of The Constitution:  Foundation of Our Freedom

Warren E. Burger - boldly signed photograph of Burger swearing in President Ronald Reagan for his second term

Harold H. Burton - inscribed, signed formal portrait photograph by Bachrach as Supreme Court Associate Justice

George H. W. Bush - signed official White House portrait photograph - custom framed!

George H. W. Bush - inscribed, signed photograph as World War II Navy pilot

George H. W. Bush - typed letter signed 5-20-1970, with original envelope

George H. W. Bush - typed letter signed 7-27-1979

George H. W. Bush - 1981 inaugural gala invitation signed by Ronald Reagan and George Bush

George H. W. Bush - White House engraving signed by four presidents, including Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Bush

Benjamin N. Cardozo - autograph letter signed 11-3-1933, with original hand-addressed envelope bearing a second signature in the return address

Benjamin N. Cardozo - autograph note signed 10-28-1937, with original envelope

Jimmy Carter - superb content autograph note signed regarding the overthrow of the Shah of Iran - custom framed!

Jimmy Carter - signed portrait photograph - custom framed!

Jimmy Carter - typed letter signed as presidential candidate 9-4-1976

Jimmy Carter - uninscribed, signed official portrait engraving, with full signature

Jimmy Carter - very fine signed Presidential Edition of Carter’s campaign autobiography Why Not the Best?

Jimmy Carter - White House engraving signed by four presidents, including Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, George H. W. Bush, and Carter

Salmon P. Chase - autograph letter signed 11-12-1869

Winston S. Churchill - World War II Big Three signed photograph - framed

Tom C. Clark - typed letter signed, with autograph postscript, 3-8-1954

John H. Clarke - rare autograph letter signed 7-12-1917

Grover Cleveland - signed Executive Mansion card - custom framed!

Grover Cleveland - signed Executive Mansion card

Calvin Coolidge - beautiful inscribed, signed portrait photograph, unframed

Calvin Coolidge - typed letter signed, on White House stationery, 3-22-1924

Calvin Coolidge - signed engraved White House vignette

Calvin Coolidge - signed The White House card

Grace Coolidge - autograph letter signed relating to President Calvin Coolidge, with free franked integral address leaf, 4-25-1935

Calvin Coolidge - signed The White House card and signed White House vignette framed together - custom framed!

Archibald Cox - autograph letter signed by the Watergate Special Prosecutor whom President Richard Nixon fired

Margaret Truman Daniel - typed letter signed on White House stationery, relating to her concert debut, 3-24-1947

William O. Douglas - vintage signed photograph as Supreme Court Justice

William O. Douglas - typed letter signed 1-31-1949

Thomas Edison and Henry Ford - rare uninscribed photograph signed by both

Thomas Edison - bold signature - framed

King Edward VIII, The Duke of Windsor, and King George VI - signatures uncommonly signed together - framed

King Edward VIII, The Duke of Windsor - dinner program signed as Governor of the Bahamas, 1944, unframed

Dwight D. Eisenhower - inscribed signed portrait as five-star general and Army Chief of Staff - framed

Dwight D. Eisenhower - 11” x 14” uninscribed signed photograph in Victory parade, as General of the Army - framed

Dwight D. Eisenhower - inscribed, signed photograph as Commanding General of the U.S. Forces in Europe, with outstanding provenance

Dwight D. Eisenhower - rare White House typed letter signed, “Uncle Ike,” to his great niece, 5-2-1957, with artist content, unframed

Dwight D. Eisenhower - signed photograph inscribed to Elliott Roosevelt, son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Dwight D. Eisenhower - official National League baseball, signed on the sweet spot

Queen Elizabeth II - document signed the day before The Queen’s coronation

Queen Elizabeth II - pardon and discharge warrant signed 7-3-1961

King Vittorio Emanuele III - document signed, with Benito Mussolini, 2-3-1927

Benjamin F. Fairless - typed letter signed 7-19-1957

Edward H. Foley - John F. Kennedy Inaugural Chairman - typed letter signed on Inaugural Committee stationery 12-6-1960

Gerald R. Ford - excellent association first day cover honoring Chief Justice Earl Warren, signed by Ford, who notes Warren Commission and 38th President,” and dated on the anniversary of the Kennedy assassination - custom framed!

Gerald R. Ford - White House engraving signed by four presidents, including Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, and Ford

Gerald R. Ford - magnificent large format formal Oval Office portrait photograph inscribed and signed to Elliott Roosevelt, the son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Gerald R. Ford - uninscribed, signed formal Oval Office portrait photograph

Gerald R. Ford - mint condition unofficial The White House card signed and dated

Gerald R. Ford - typed letter signed 11-9-1984, mentioning later failed Supreme Court nominee Judge Robert H. Bork as the guest of honor at a “nonpartisan” public policy dinner

Henry Ford - signature - framed

Henry Ford and Clara J. Bryant Ford - signatures

Henry Ford and Thomas Edison - rare uninscribed photograph signed by both

Felix Frankfurter - typed letter signed 2-25-1939, unframed

Felix Frankfurter - typed letter signed 8-9-1956 to Elliott Roosevelt, mentioning FDR, unframed

Melville W. Fuller - autograph letter signed 9-2-1892

Melville W. Fuller - autograph letter signed to Elbridge T. Gerry, grandson of the signer of the Declaration of Independence, 8-14-1907, unframed

King George III - military appointment document signed 4-6-1797

King George III - military appointment document signed 9-24-1808

King George VI and King Edward VIII, The Duke of Windsor - signatures uncommonly signed together - framed

John H. Glenn, Jr. - inscribed, signed photograph as shuttle astronaut

Arthur J. Goldberg - inscribed signed photograph

John Hancock - beautiful document signed as Governor of Massachusetts

Florence Kling Harding - inscribed and signed White House vignette engraving

Warren G. Harding - inscribed and signed bust portrait engraving, likely signed as president

John Marshall Harlan (1899-1971) - signed Supreme Court card - custom framed!

Rutherford B. Hayes - excellent condition signed Executive Mansion card - custom framed!

Reinhard Heydrich - Heydrich’s personal copy of Nazi Führer Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf, with the bookplate from Heydrich’s library, signed by Heydrich

Reinhard Heydrich and Heinrich Himmler - important typed letter signed by Heydrich to Himmler, annotated by Himmler, reporting on the investigation of another SS officer, March 1937

Reinhard Heydrich - signed military document reassigning SS personnel 7-13-1937

Heinrich Himmler - rare and important association book, inscribed and signed in 1943 to Adolf Hitler's former bodyguard, SS brigadier general Ulrich Graf, who likely saved Hitler's life

Adolf Hitler - mint condition deckle edged postcard portrait photograph by Heinrich Hoffman

Adolf Hitler and Dr. Hans Lammers - important partially printed typed document signed appointing Hans Frank, who ultimately was executed at Nuremburg, as Reichsminister

Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, and Werner von Blomberg - very uncommon triple-signed document appointing a Luftwaffe major, 12-19-1934

Adolf Hitler and Wilhelm Keitel - World War II-dated document, 4-19-1942, by Hitler granting a reserve general the right to wear an active duty uniform, countersigned by Field Marshal Keitel

Adolf Hitler - Exceptional secret World War II-dated document promoting 19 generals shortly before the Battle of Stalingrad, countersigned by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, 2-28-1942

Adolf Hitler - rare World War II-dated typed document signed approving the marriage of a German soldier to a Dutch woman

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - autograph letter signed 7-10-1917, with original envelope

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - mint condition manuscript letter signed 4-24-1926

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - autograph sentiment signed 3-12-1928 - framed

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - autograph letter signed 3-18-1927 - custom framed!

Herbert Hoover - typed letter signed as President-Elect, 11-16-1928

J. Edgar Hoover - vintage typed letter signed on FBI letterhead 9-18-1939

J. Edgar Hoover - vintage portrait photograph, boldly inscribed and signed 8-31-1959

Harry Houdini - signature - framed

Charles Evans Hughes - magnificent signed formal portrait photograph by Harris & Ewing, with original mailing envelope providing a second autograph in the return address

Charles Evans Hughes - beautiful portrait photograph inscribed and signed just over a month after Hughes became Chief Justice, with original mailing envelope bearing second Hughes signature

Charles Evans Hughes - dated signature, exquisitely framed - custom framed!

Charles Evans Hughes - signed card

Hubert H. Humphrey - signed photograph

Andrew Johnson - Civil War-dated document signed as war Governor of Tennessee

Lady Bird Johnson - typed letter signed 1-12-1959

Lyndon B. Johnson - typed letter signed 4-12-1955

Lyndon B. Johnson - signed, uninscribed first edition copy of A Family Album

Lyndon B. Johnson - typed letter signed 4-2-1941 - custom framed!

Lyndon B. Johnson - typed letter signed 3-2-1972 with outstanding content regarding Johnson’s view of the Vietnam war - custom framed!

Estes Kefauver - wonderful 1956 presidential election content typed letter signed 11-7-1955

Estes Kefauver - 1956 presidential election content typed letter signed 11-14-1955

Wilhelm Keitel and Adolf Hitler- World War II-dated document, 4-19-1942, by Hitler granting a reserve general the right to wear an active duty uniform, countersigned by Field Marshal Keitel

Jacqueline Kennedy - uninscribed signed White House photograph - framed

John F. Kennedy - beautiful 1958 West Virginia Democratic luncheon program boldly signed beneath Kennedy's photograph

John F. Kennedy - in-person signed political dinner program, with Missouri Senator Stuart Symington - framed

John F. Kennedy - signed 1960 presidential campaign sticker - framed

Dr. Gustav Krukenberg - extremely rare postcard autograph letter signed by Krukenberg, one of the last Nazi SS defenders of Berlin, to his mother 8-31-1940

Dr. Hans Lammers and Adolf Hitler - important partially printed typed document signed appointing Hans Frank, who ultimately was executed at Nuremburg, as Reichsminister

Don Larsen - excellent condition signed photo of the Yankees pitcher throwing the final pitch of his 1956 World Series perfect game, unframed

James R. Leavelle [Kennedy Assassination- hand-completed questionnaire and superb content typed letter signed by Dallas homicide detective James R. Leavelle regarding Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, and the Kennedy assassination

James R. Leavelle [Kennedy Assassination] - photograph of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, inscribed and signed by Dallas homicide detective James R. Leavelle, who was handcuffed to Oswald

Douglas MacArthur - inscribed, signed photograph

Douglas MacArthur - uninscribed, signed photograph of MacArthur in wonderful saluting pose, matted and ready for framing

John Marshall - signature

Thurgood Marshall - engraved Supreme Court card, boldly signed

Thurgood Marshall - black ink signature - custom framed!

Thurgood Marshall - rare inscribed and signed copy of the Marshall biography Thurgood Marshall: Supreme Court Justice

John McCormack - typed letter signed 5-3-1955

William McKinley - partial grand jury indictment signed with early full signature, “William McKinley Jr.,” with paraph, November 1871, unframed

William McKinley - autograph letter signed 3-25-1875 - custom framed!

Mercury 7 Astronauts - Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, and Wally Schirra - signed photograph with John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House - framed

Frank Murphy - signed photograph

Benito Mussolini - document signed, with King Vittorio Emanuele III, 2-3-1927

Benito Mussolini - very fine condition document signed, with King Vittorio Emanuele III, 3-10-1927

Benito Mussolini - signature - matted

Chester Nimitz - signed formal portrait photograph of the World War II U.S. Fleet Admiral - framed

Richard Nixon - typed letter signed 10-22-1976 - custom framed!

Richard Nixon - uninscribed, signed black-and-white photograph, as Vice President, with President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Richard M. Nixon - vintage 1966 portrait photograph of Nixon by famed photographer Philippe Halsman, boldly inscribed and signed

Richard Nixon - inscribed, signed first edition copy of No More Vietnams

Richard Nixon - White House engraving signed by four presidents, including Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, and Nixon

Sandra Day O’Connor - superb typed letter signed referring to her position as the first female Justice and how she got there - custom framed!

George S. Patton, Jr. - signed World War II battle map - framed

John J. "Black Jack" Pershing - uninscribed signed photograph

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - typed letter signed 4-15-1980

Mahlon Pitney - autograph letter signed 7-13-1886

Mahlon Pitney - typed letter signed 7-9-1917

Sam Rayburn - typed letter signed 1-6-1961 - custom framed!

Ronald Reagan - autograph letter signed, with excellent political content, referring to Reagan’s hope to “harvest a few votes” - custom framed!

Ronald Reagan - 1981 inaugural gala invitation signed by Ronald Reagan and George Bush

Stanley Reed - signed Harris & Ewing portrait photograph in judicial robes, in original presentation folder and with accompanying secretarial transmittal letter, unframed

William H. Rehnquist - formal color portrait photograph as Chief Justice, inscribed and signed to a Supreme Court employee - framed

Matthew B. Ridgway - vintage photograph inscribed and signed as Army Chief of Staff, 12-30-1953, unframed

Will Rogers - autograph sentiment signed - framed

Ernst Röhm - signed postcard portrait

Eleanor Roosevelt - signed The White House card

Eleanor Roosevelt - beautiful inscribed, signed formal White House portrait photograph

Eleanor Roosevelt - mint condition White House letter sending condolences to the brother of a soldier killed in action 1-11-1945

Eleanor Roosevelt - typed letter signed, on White House stationery, 11-6-1936 - custom framed!

Eleanor Roosevelt - typed letter signed as a member of the United States Delegation to the United Nations, 10-31-1950, unframed

Eleanor Roosevelt - typed letter signed 7-10-1957 - custom framed!

Franklin D. Roosevelt - typed letter signed as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1-1-1914, unframed

Franklin D. Roosevelt - typed letter signed as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 7-9-1917 - custom framed!

Franklin D. Roosevelt - fantastic association autograph letter signed to his son 10-29-1925, with hand addressed envelope, unframed

Franklin D. Roosevelt - typed letter signed on White House stationery from the day of FDR’s acceptance speech at the 1936 Democratic convention, 6-27-1936

Franklin D. Roosevelt - signature, undoubtedly as President, laid down to a formal portrait of FDR

Franklin D. Roosevelt - extra fine condition World War II-dated document approving the award of the Legion of Merit to a Soviet Red Army soldier

Franklin D. Roosevelt - uninscribed, signed formal portrait - custom framed!

Franklin D. Roosevelt - signature - framed

Theodore Roosevelt - excellent condition The White House card - custom framed!

Theodore Roosevelt - near mint condition The White House card - custom framed!

Theodore Roosevelt - very fine postmaster appointment document 3-12-1907 - custom framed!

Theodore Roosevelt - typed letter signed 4-22-1910 while in Europe to receive the Nobel Peace Prize

Theodore Roosevelt - typed letter signed 11-4-1911, unframed

Theodore Roosevelt - pristine autograph letter signed, with original envelope in Roosevelt’s hand, 10-18-1915

Antonin Scalia - rare formal color portrait photograph inscribed and signed to a Supreme Court employee - framed

Antonin Scalia - rare, mint condition copy of Scalia Dissents, boldly signed

Alan B. Shepard, Jr. - vintage signature

John Paul Stevens - signed cacheted inauguration day cover honoring President Gerald R. Ford

Harlan Fiske Stone - typed letter signed 12-7-1933 - custom framed!

Harlan Fiske Stone - signed Supreme Court card

[Supreme Court] - engraved Supreme Court cards signed by all nine members of the 1939 Supreme Court of the United States, including Hughes, McReynolds, Butler, Stone, Roberts, Black, Reed, Frankfurter, and Douglas - custom framed!

George Sutherland - signed photograph

William Howard Taft - signed The White House card - framed

William Howard Taft - typed letter signed as Chief Justice 7-31-1926

William Howard Taft - magnificent signed photograph

Roger B. Taney - autograph legal document signed

Roger B. Taney - autograph letter signed as Chief Justice, 2-26-1864, referring to his fatal illness

Paul W. Tibbets - mint condition photo of Tibbets standing in front of the Enola Gay, signed with Tibbets’s position, Pilot, and dated 6 Aug. 1945

Bess Truman - mint condition The White House card signed, unframed

Harry S. Truman - signature of Truman above printed photograph of Truman holding up the Chicago Tribune with the headline DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN - custom framed!

Harry S. Truman - typed letter signed on Senate stationery - custom framed!

Harry S. Truman - rare typed letter signed referring to Jim Pendergast, head of Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine, 1-22-1941, unframed

Harry S. Truman - mint condition typed White House letter signed 3-23-1946 regarding Truman’s military service, with handwritten postscript

Harry S. Truman - official presidential photograph of Truman at his desk in the Oval Office, boldly inscribed and signed, almost certainly as President

Harry S. Truman - very fine 11" x 13½" formal portrait, Truman’s favorite of himself, inscribed and signed, almost certainly as President

Harry S. Truman - inscribed and signed first edition copy of Mr. President

Harry S. Truman - mint condition postcard showing the Truman home, possibly signed as a souvenir free frank

Harry S. Truman - inscribed, signed candid 1949 photo of Truman on the rear platform of his railroad car, unframed - custom framed!

Harry S. Truman - signed cacheted United Nations first day cover

Harry S. Truman - autograph note signed with initials

Harry S. Truman - typed letter signed 4-11-1957 with reference to 1948 election, unframed

Harry S. Truman - typed letter signed agreeing to sign his Memoirs, 5-13-1958, unframed

Harry S. Truman - typed letter signed to Olive Truman, the widow of Harry’s cousin, General Ralph E. Truman, 1-4-1963 - custom framed!

Harry S. Truman - typed letter signed to Olive Truman, the widow of Harry's cousin, General Ralph E. Truman, 12-4-1968 - custom framed!

Harry S. Truman - mint condition fountain pen signature - custom framed!

Harry S. Truman - bold mint condition fountain pen signature - custom framed!

Margaret Truman - [see Margaret Truman Daniel]

Mary Jane Truman - sister of HST - typed letter signed on White House stationery 5-16-1945

Vallee, Rudy - inscribed vintage portrait photograph

Queen Victoria - interesting legal document signed 10-15-1880

Queen Victoria - large signature - framed

Fred M. Vinson - signed check filled out in his hand

Fred M. Vinson - signed check filled out in his hand to pay a lawyer advertising bill, 1922

Fred M. Vinson - typed letter signed as Chief Justice, on the day he was sworn in, 6-24-1946

Earl Warren - envelope signed with title as Chief Justice

Earl Warren - inscribed, signed formal portrait as Chief Justice

Earl Warren - vintage signed 8" x 10" bust portrait photograph, unframed

Earl Warren - bold fountain pen signature - framed

Woodrow Wilson - signature - framed

Edward D. White - autograph letter signed 7-11-1917

King William IV - signed military appointment 5-21-1835

Edith Bolling Galt Wilson - autograph note signed on The White House card

Woodrow Wilson - signed White House vignette card

Woodrow Wilson - signed The White House card

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor - vintage 1937 signed photograph - framed

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor - signed card engraved with the Windsor cipher - framed

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor - bold signatures with handwritten titles, on crested notepaper, with original mailing envelope and printed note from the Windsors private secretary, February 1959

 

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