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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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