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Art and Entertainment
Steve Allen - autographed note signed by the famed comedian and television personality thanking a friend for complimenting his performance on The Steve Allen Show, March 1959, unframed
Al Capp - typed letter signed by the cartoonist who created L’il Abner to an editor of The Atlantic Monthly, 7-23-1959, unframed
Bing Crosby - typed letter signed, responding to a fan, 11-21-1966, unframed
Harry Hershfield - original cartoon sketches, boldly signed and inscribed
Elvis Presley - vintage, first-edition German publicity photograph from Jailhouse Rock, boldly inscribed and signed in person by The King
Basil Rathbone - autographed letter signed by the Sherlock Holmes actor returning a manuscript and sending another new work, 12-4-1955, unframed
Kate Smith - vintage typed letter signed 9-4-1934, unframed
Louis C. Tiffany - scarce typed letter signed by America’s foremost artist of the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements, 8-17-1927, unframed
Authors
Pearl S. Buck - typed letter signed, along with her publishing agent, giving instructions on handling her royalties, July 1956, unframed
Samuel L. Clemens - Mark Twain - Bold autographed sentiment with dual signatures, S. L. Clemens / Mark Twain, on an album page, unframed
Erle Stanley Gardner - typed letter signed returning an article proof to the publisher, 1-20-1958, unframed
Arthur Miller - autographed letter signed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright sending essay revisions to the editor of The Atlantic Monthly, 11-13-1955, unframed
Katherine Anne Porter - exceptional typed letter signed to her publisher sending a portion of the manuscript for her novel Ship of Fools and confiding the pressures of finances and exhaustion as she struggles to finish it, 11-13-1958, unframed
Ezra Pound - vitriolic typed letter signed to the director of the Atlantic Monthly Press seeking publication of two of his Cantos, 12-14-1957, unframed
William Saroyan - typed letter signed, with three-line holograph postscript, to editors at The Atlantic Monthly saying that there is no urgency to publish any of his work, but still submitting a short story, 1-3-1959, unframed
William Saroyan - typed letter signed, with handwritten addition, regarding his impending tax exile to Europe and his eagerness to know whether The Atlantic Monthly wanted a short story that he had submitted, 1-27-1959, unframed
Laura Ingalls Wilder - extremely rare, virtually pristine, first edition copy of Little Town on the Prairie with a tipped-in personalized poem handwritten and signed by Wilder to “Dear David” for Christmas 1941
Laura Ingalls Wilder - extremely rare, virtually pristine, first edition copy of Little Town on the Prairie with a tipped-in personalized poem handwritten and signed by Wilder to “Dear Douglas” for Christmas 1941
Laura Ingalls Wilder - extraordinary set of seven signed Little House books that belonged to neighbors of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Aviation and Space
Neil Armstrong - bold in-person signature on the blank page of an Ohio golf tournament program from 1983, unframed
Richard E. Byrd - superb typed letter signed from the famed polar explorer to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom he addresses “Dear Franklin,” reporting on his important survey of Southeastern Pacific islands for possible use for airfields in the war against Japan, 10-27-1943, with accompanying autograph note signed to FDR’s secretary Grace Tully, unframed
Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan - vintage autograph letter signed, 1-3-1939, unframed
Charles M. Duke, Jr. - rare autograph letter signed by the 10th man on the moon, 6-6-1984, unframed
John H. Glenn, Jr. - inscribed, signed photograph as Mercury astronaut
Howard Hughes - cordial typed letter signed, with full signature, to the widow of a former employee, likely relating to Hughes’ record-setting flight, 5-31-1944, unframed
Jim Irwin - excellent inscribed, signed color photograph of Irwin, the 8th man on the moon, saluting the American flag on the lunar surface
Wiley Post and Harold Gatty - photograph signed in person by both Post and Gatty just after their record setting 8-day around-the-world flight in 1931
Al Worden - inscribed, signed portrait photograph
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Orville Wright - bold black fountain pen signature on a card, perfect for framing
Baseball and Football
Albert B. "Happy" Chandler - typed letter signed 2-26-1940, unframed
Bill Veeck - typed letter signed on stationery of the St. Louis Browns 6-17-1952, unframed
Joe DiMaggio and Nolan Ryan - bold signatures of the Yankee Clipper and the strikeout king on an album page
Business
Jules S. Bache - rare typed letter signed to fellow financier S. R. Bertron, 10-24-1921, unframed
August A. Busch, Sr. - lease signed by Busch as Vice President of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association, 4-16-1900, unframed
James A. Farley - typed letter signed 3-3-1955, unframed
William Green - typed letter signed by the American Federation of Labor president, addressing a proposal for voluntary wage reduction and the union’s support of beer manufacture during Prohibition, 9-9-1931, unframed
J. P. Morgan, Jr. - manuscript note signed sending thanks for condolences on the death of his wife, 8-25-1925, unframed
Charles M. Schwab - typed letter signed to fellow Wall Street financier S. R. Bertron, 12-5-1916, unframed
Cabinet Members
Josephus Daniels - World War I-dated typed letter signed by the Navy secretary saying that President Woodrow Wilson was giving “most earnest consideration” to a “difficult and perplexing” matter, 7-18-1918, unframed
Robert F. Kennedy - uninscribed, signed copy of Just Friends and Brave Enemies, Kennedy’s account of his 1962 world goodwill tour
Elihu Root - typed letter signed by the former Secretary of State referring to “the very interesting subject of the Soviet experiment,” 5-20-1929, unframed
Cordell Hull - signature on card
Frank B. Kellogg - autograph sentiment and signature on card
Edmund Muskie - inscribed, signed 8" x 10" photograph
Colin L. Powell - signed cacheted first day cover honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Eisenhower 6¢ stamp, postmarked Washington, D.C., 8-6-1970
John Sherman - signature on card
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. - signature clipped from a letter
Henry L. Stimson - signature on card dated 3-31-1944
Civil War
Edward Carrington Cabell - autograph letter signed 1-5-1851, unframed
John A. Campbell - rare autograph endorsement signed as Confederate Assistant Secretary of War, 3-2-1863, unframed
George Armstrong Custer - rare vellum military commission appointing a sergeant in the 7th Cavalry, 2-11-1875, with accompanying archive of military and citizenship documents, unframed
Ulysses S. Grant - superb content autograph letter signed, dated 12 days before the 1868 presidential election, in which the Republican Grant addresses the Democrats’ vitriolic condemnation of Radical Reconstruction, 10-22-1868, unframed
Nathaniel Lyon - scarce, bold signature, with rank and date, of the first general killed in the Civil War, unframed
Sterling Price - court affidavit boldly signed by the future Confederate general 2-27-1841, unframed
Congress
Styles and Deloris Bridges - typed note signed and typed letter signed, unframed
Harry F. Byrd, Sr. - typed letter signed 3-6-1958, unframed
Everett McKinley Dirksen - typed letter signed 1-12-1959, unframed
Everett McKinley Dirksen - typed letter signed 4-16-1962, unframed
Sherman Minton - superb name-dropping autographed letter signed, as United States Senator, regaling a former colleague with tales of the Senate, 4-25-1939, unframed
Richard B. Russell - typed letter signed by the Georgia Democratic political powerhouse, later a member of the Warren Commission, thanking a former colleague for Christmas greetings, 1-2-1940, unframed
Margaret Chase Smith - typed letter signed 7-20-1962, unframed
John Nance Garner - typed letter signed
Indian Wars
Invention and Science
Thomas A. Edison - Edison’s own stock certificate for shares in the Edison Portland Cement Company, signed twice, once with the very scarce signature “Thomas A Edison” and once with “Thos A Edison”
Thomas A. Edison - excellent content autograph letter signed, 1-19-1923, discussing Edison’s storage battery, his most profitable product, unframed
Charles H. Mayo and William J. Mayo - pristine dual signed composite photograph of the renowned physicians, co-founders of the world-famous Mayo Clinic, unframed
William J. Mayo - book inscribed and signed by the co-founder of the Mayo Clinic
Law
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Pioneers
Politics
Bernard M. Baruch - typed letter signed by Baruch, as chairman of the War Industries Board, regarding the pending Power Bill necessary to American war production, 6-6-1918, unframed
Al Smith - typed letter signed
Reformers
Susan B. Anthony - reprint of an 1897 article from The Arena entitled “The Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future,” written and signed by the women's rights activist, unframed
Susan B. Anthony - autograph letter signed inviting students to “join in our rejoicing over the better times that are for girls & women and because of that – for boys & men also – ,” 12-25-1897, unframed
Religion
Joseph Smith III - exceedingly rare typed letter signed by the son of the founder of the Mormon Church, on First Presidency stationery, 7-1-1901, unframed
Revolutionary War
World War I
World War II
Dwight D. Eisenhower - virtually mint condition, single-signed official American League baseball signed in person for a Washington Senators pitcher before a game against the New York Yankees 9-26-1964
Dwight D. Eisenhower - excellent political content typed letter signed as presidential candidate, 8-20-1952, to maverick Oregon Senator Wayne Morse, mentioning Nixon and the “tough fight we are facing,” unframed
Dwight D. Eisenhower - typed letter signed as President-Elect 12-23-1952, referring to the “high privilege” of being President, unframed
Dwight D. Eisenhower - typed letter signed as President-Elect 1-14-1953, unframed
Dwight D. Eisenhower - rare post-presidential typed letter signed, “Uncle Ike,” to his great niece, 4-4-1956, unframed
Alfred M. Gruenther - typed letter signed 2-4-1957, unframed
Alfred M. Gruenther - typed letter signed 4-10-1957, unframed
[Nuremburg War Crimes Trials] - Robert H. Jackson - typed letter signed 9-4-1939, unframed
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