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Must-Have
Reference
Charles Hamilton’s American
Autographs -
Scarce, first edition set of the renowned autograph expert’s premier
two-volume American autograph reference set
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
Lauren Bacall - pristine 8” x 10” glossy black-and-white signed photo, unframed
Pearl Bailey - beautiful 8” x 10” glossy publicity photograph of
Bailey from the early 1970s, boldly signed, 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
Bebe
Daniels and Ben Lyon - scarce vintage photograph of the 1930s
Hollywood power couple signed by both, unframed
Harry Hershfield -
original cartoon sketches, boldly signed
and inscribed
Stan Laurel - excellent content typed letter signed by Laurel
discussing two Laurel and Hardy films, 3-30-1959, unframed
Jon Provost - very fine condition dual-signed photo of Provost as
Timmy, with his co-star, Lassie, unframed
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans -
classic signed photograph of the Western film and television icons, unframed
Authors
Roswell Field - superb
tongue-in-cheek letter by the brother of Eugene Field over his failure to
cash a 40¢ royalty check, 1-15-1900, unframed
Erle Stanley Gardner - typed letter signed returning an article
proof to the publisher, 1-20-1958, unframed
Ernest Hemingway -
Hemingway signs a photo to one of his hosts during his 1959 trip to Spain to gather
new material on bullfights, which led to his last published work before his
death, Life magazine’s “The Dangerous Summer,” 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
Upton Sinclair - typed letter signed
to his friend and critic, Melville Kress, sending a gift
for suggesting the opening chapter
of his fourth Lanny Budd novel, Wide is the Gate, 3-16-1942, unframed
Maurice Thompson -
autograph quotation signed by the 19th century poet and fiction writer, a
variation of a verse in his popular poem “A Prelude,” 10-23-1895,
unframed
Laura Ingalls Wilder and Almanzo J.
Wilder - exceptional archive of contracts and
deeds for the sale of Rocky Ridge Farm, where Laura wrote all
of the Little House books, unframed
Laura Ingalls Wilder - receipts written and signed by Laura Ingalls
Wilder for payments on the sale of the Wilders’ Rocky Ridge Farm,
unframed
Aviation and
Space
Neil Armstrong - the Holy Grail of space autographs: an
uninscribed official NASA portrait of Armstrong, signed across his white
space suit, 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 secret important
survey of Southeastern Pacific islands for possible use for airfields for
military and post-World War II use, 10-27-1943, with accompanying autograph note signed to
FDR’s secretary Grace Tully, unframed
Richard E. Byrd - inscribed, signed
photograph of Byrd at Little America, dressed in fur as he prepares to leave on
his 1929 flight to the South Pole, unframed
Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan -
boldly penned autographed letter encouraging
the efforts of one of the Corrigan Aero Clubs, 8-5-1939, unframed
Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan -
vintage autographed letter signed to the president of a Corrigan Aero Club, 1-3-1939, unframed
John Glenn - vintage signed photograph of Glenn in his silver Mercury astronaut spacesuit
with an early form of his signature, unframed
Jim Irwin -
excellent inscribed,
signed color photograph
of Irwin, the 8th man on the moon, saluting the American flag on the lunar
surface
Al Worden -
inscribed, signed portrait
photograph
Baseball and
Football
Joe DiMaggio -
beautiful signed photo of the Yankee Clipper reading the 1939
Sporting News proclamation declaring him to be “the perfect player,” framed
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
Howard Hughes, Sr. - autograph letter signed by the father of the
reclusive billionaire to the corporate secretary of his company, 3-28-1916,
unframed
Cabinet Members
James F. Byrnes - scarce signed photograph of Byrnes, President
Trumanʼs Secretary of State, as governor of South Carolina, unframed
Salmon P. Chase - Mathew Brady carte de visite of Chase likely
signed as Chief Justice of the
United States, unframed
John A. Dix - autograph letter signed by President Buchanan’s last Secretary of the Treasury,
later a
Union Civil War general, seeking to help a man find a job, 1-15-1877,
unframed
James A. Farley
- typed letter signed 3-3-1955, unframed
Judson Harmon -
autograph letter signed by Grover Cleveland’s Attorney General, who
responds to a student with interesting comments about individuality and the
inner self, 1-29-1897, unframed
Andrew W. Mellon - typed letter signed by the former Secretary of
the Treasury to a White House social secretary, 3-15-1934, unframed
Edmund Muskie - beautiful inscribed, signed 8” x 10” bust portrait
of the Secretary of State who helped to broker the end to the Iran Hostage
Crisis, unframed
Colin Powell - extra fine signed photograph of Powell as Chairman
of Joint Chiefs of Staff, unframed
Colin Powell - beautiful cacheted first day cover honoring
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, signed by Powell in black
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
Dean Rusk - the former Secretary of State writes of Ambassador
Llewellyn Thompson’s “crucial behind the scenes” role during the Cuban Missile Crisis,
11-16-1987, unframed
John Sherman - autograph letter signed by the famed Ohio Senator
and two-time presidential cabinet member sending his autograph, 1-14-1895,
unframed
Civil War
Benjamin F. Butler - bold signature of the Union Major General and
Massachusetts Republican representative, co-author of the Civil Rights Act
of 1875, unframed
Edward Carrington Cabell
- autograph letter signed by the former aide-de-camp to Confederate
General Sterling Price, 1-5-1851, unframed
Salmon P. Chase - Mathew Brady carte de visite of Chase likely
signed as Chief Justice of the United States, 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
John A. Dix - autograph letter signed by the Union Civil War
general seeking to help a man find a job, 1-15-1877, unframed
George Washington Custis Lee - signature of the Confederate major
general, son of Robert E. Lee, unframed
John A. Logan - signature of the Union Major General, who
fought at Bull Run, Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, and Atlanta and in Sherman‘s
Carolinas Campaign and
later helped to prosecute the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson,
unframed
Alexander McDowell McCook - autographed letter signed by the Union
Major General, a veteran of First Bull Run, Shiloh, Corinth, and
Chickamauga, sending thanks for a letter, 5-8-1895, unframed
Congress
Styles
and Deloris Bridges - the Senator’s
typed note signed sending thanks for concern about his wife’s
illness, and her typed letter signed sending thanks for support
during his illness, unframed
Harold H. Burton - nice inscribed, signed photograph of Burton
dated a month into his term as Senator from Ohio, unframed
Benjamin F. Butler - bold signature of the Union Major General and
Massachusetts Republican representative, co-author of the Civil Rights Act
of 1875, unframed
Harry F. Byrd, Sr. - typed letter signed, declaring
“To serve Virginia is the greatest honor
any person can have,” 3-6-1958, unframed
Everett McKinley
Dirksen - typed letter signed 1-12-1959, unframed
Everett McKinley
Dirksen - typed letter signed 4-16-1962, unframed
Hubert H. Humprey - wonderful typed letter signed in which the
Vice President seeks Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson’s views on cooperation with the Soviet Union
for “peaceful use of the seas” and congratulates him on his latest
appointment as Ambassador, 12-19-1966, unframed
Hubert H. Humphrey - typed letter signed sending greetings to
Ambassador and Mrs. Llewellyn Thompson and commenting on a Colonial Williamsburg party
for Virginia’s governor and first lady, 1-22-1970, unframed
Hubert H. Humphrey - warm typed letter signed sending well wishes
to Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson during his hospitalization, 3-5-1970, unframed
Estes Kefauver - excellent association letter by Kefauver
to the editor of The Atlantic Monthly regarding the Dixon-Yates
scandal and congressional investigative power, 8-8-1955, 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
Sherman Minton - personal autograph letter signed to then-Attorney
General Tom C. Clark from Mintonʼs
hospitalization at Walter Reed Army Medical Center following a heart attack,
thanking Clark for his Christmas remembrance, 1-3-1946, unframed
Claude Pepper - heartfelt typed letter signed sending condolences
to the son upon the death of a former Senate colleague, 10-24-1940, unframed
Sam Rayburn - excellent World War II-dated letter in which the
powerful Speaker of the House writes of the “marvelous and almost amazing”
war production, 6-7-1943, unframed
John Sherman - autograph letter signed by the famed Ohio Senator
and two-time presidential cabinet member sending his autograph, 1-14-1895,
unframed
Reed Smoot -
scarce letter by Smoot, the first Mormon and only church Apostle ever
to serve in the United States Senate, 12-22-1919, unframed
Indians and Indian Wars
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
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”
Korean War
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Law
Learned Hand - previously unoffered archive of drafts of Hand’s
remarks at the dedication of a bust of Supreme Court Justice Felix
Frankfurter at Harvard Law School, expressing Hand’s own view of the proper
role of a judge, 1960, unframed
J. Edgar Hoover - Hoover responds to
a student, sending a signed photograph and suggesting
“an
article of mine . . .
entitled ‘The Enemy’s Masterpiece of Espionage,’”
1-12-1955, unframed
J. Edgar Hoover - vintage typed
letter signed offering a lady a clerkʼs position in the FBI, 5-5-1951,
unframed
Leaders and Reformers
Henry Ward Beecher - partial autograph letter signed seeking
executive clemency for a convict, unframed
Thomas Wentworth Higginson - autograph note signed by the Northern
abolitionist, a supporter of John Brown, referring to his abolitionist
activities in Kansas before the Civil War, 4-19-1898, unframed
Julia Ward Howe - signature of the writer of The Battle Hymn
of the Republic on a small card, with a portrait suitable for framing
[Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.] -
cacheted
first day of issue cover for the 15¢ Black Heritage USA stamp
honoring Dr. King
[Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.] -
1979 Great Americans commemorative issue of the 15¢ American Black
Heritage stamp honoring Dr. King alongside a 22-karat gold replica of the
stamp, part of the Great Americans series by the Postal Commemorative
Association
John L. Lewis - on the day he publicly lambasted President
Franklin D. Roosevelt at the American Youth Congress, the powerful labor
leader declines an invitation, 2-10-1940, unframed
Frances E. Willard - autograph
quotation signed by Willard, with cover letter by Anna Adams Gordon,
the second and fourth presidents of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union,
3-21-1895, unframed
Pioneers
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 secret important
survey of Southeastern Pacific islands for possible use for airfields for
military and post-World War II use, 10-27-1943, with accompanying autograph note signed to
FDR’s secretary Grace Tully, unframed
Richard E. Byrd - inscribed, signed
photograph of Byrd at Little America, dressed in fur as he prepares to leave on
his 1929 flight to the South Pole, unframed
David E. Lilienthal - glowing, almost poetic autograph letter
signed, responding to a correspondent, by Lilienthal, first chairman of the
Tennessee Valley Authority and the Atomic Energy Commission, 9-19-1973,
unframed
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
James A. Farley
- typed letter signed 3-3-1955, unframed
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. - typed letter signed from the Harvard
historian and presidential aide seeking donation of Ambassador Llewellyn Thompsonʼs
papers to the JFK Library, 2-6-1964, unframed
Alfred E. Smith - large-format signed portrait photograph of
Smith, the first Catholic nominated for President by a major party, unframed
George
C. Wallace - extra fine condition 8” x 10” color
photograph of Wallace, inscribed and signed as Governor of Alabama, unframed
Wendell Willkie - black-and-white
portrait photograph of Willkie signed just before he left on a personal
mission to England for Franklin D. Roosevelt in January 1941, unframed
Religion
Reed Smoot -
scarce letter by Smoot, the first Mormon and only church Apostle ever
to serve in the United States Senate, 12-22-1919, unframed
Revolutionary War
1776 Connecticut Revolutionary War Pay
Warrant - in the crucial year of 1776, the Connecticut
committee authorizes payment for caring for a sick soldier in General Israel
Putnam’s regiment, unframed
Oliver Ellsworth and Jesse Root - excellent association
autograph document signed authorizing reimbursement to Root for volunteer
soldiersʼ wages two days after Gen. George Washingtonʼs surprise victory at Trenton, New
Jersey, 12-28-1776, unframed
Oliver Ellsworth - outstanding association autograph document
signed, a warrant to pay a seven-year veteran Connecticut soldier who served
in several important campaigns, including the Siege of Yorktown, 5-18-1778,
unframed
Oliver Ellsworth and Lt. David Smith - Connecticut pay
warrant with excellent Revolutionary War content referring to service at
Peekskill, New York, and signed by both Ellsworth and the soldier, 8-5-1777,
unframed
Oliver Ellsworth - Revolutionary War-dated Connecticut pay warrant
authorizing payment to a doctor for treating a sick soldier, 5-16-1777,
unframed
Signers of the
Declaration of Independence
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Spanish-American War
Leonard Wood - very scarce
handwritten letter by General Wood, who with Theodore Roosevelt formed the
“Rough Riders,” referring to the yellow fever outbreak in Cuba during the
Spanish-American war, 10-18-1899, unframed
Vice Presidents
Aaron Burr
- rare, likely unique, bill
of exchange representing financing for Burr’s alleged treasonous
scheme to sever American territory for a new country under his own rule, 9-17-1806,
unframed
Charles Curtis - in a rare handwritten letter, the future Vice
President sends his holograph and signature to a college student, 1-22-1895,
unframed
Charles G. Dawes - beautiful formal portrait of Vice President
Dawes, inscribed and signed in jet black ink, unframed
Charles W. Fairbanks - scarce
handwritten letter by Theodore Roosevelt’s Vice President commending “the Golden Rule as a rule of action,” 5-17-1898, unframed
Hubert H. Humphrey - wonderful typed letter signed in which the
Vice President seeks Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson’s views on cooperation with the Soviet Union
for “peaceful use of the seas” and congratulates him on his latest
appointment as Ambassador, 12-19-1966, unframed
Hubert H. Humphrey - typed letter signed sending greetings to
Ambassador and Mrs. Llewellyn Thompson and commenting on a Colonial Williamsburg party
for Virginiaʼs governor and first lady, 1-22-1970, unframed
Hubert H. Humphrey - warm typed letter signed sending well wishes
to Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson during his hospitalization, 3-5-1970, unframed
Vietnam War
William C. Westmoreland - outstanding signed 8” x 10” formal color
bust portrait of General Westmoreland, in his four-star uniform, unframed
World War I
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
World War II
Dwight D. Eisenhower - photo signed as President to the Ward Master at Walter Reed General Hospital following Eisenhower’s urgent abdominal surgery
in June 1956, unframed
Dwight D. Eisenhower - presidential letter by Eisenhower during his recuperation from
abdominal surgery to the Ward Master at Walter Reed General Hospital, where Eisenhower
was treated, 7-14-1956, unframed
Alfred M. Gruenther - the youngest four-star general in American
history, as Chief of Staff of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe,
signs a printed card bearing the SHAPE insignia and adds his rank and title,
March–April 1953, unframed
Alfred M.
Gruenther - chatty typed letter signed as president of the American
Red Cross, sending thanks and comments to a correspondent, 2-4-1957, unframed
Alfred
M. Gruenther - fun typed letter signed as president of the American
Red Cross, saying that he “would never presume to compete with a Virginian in
a kissing contest,” 4-10-1957, unframed
George C. Marshall -
mezmerizing signed portrait of Marshall, as a five-star general, by
famed photographer Philippe Halsman, unframed
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