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  • Catalogue of a Collection of Scarce and Rare Books, Pamphlets, Old Papers, Engravings, Colonial and Continental Bills, Also, A Few Rare Coins and Medals, and a Fine Coin Cabinet, to be Sold at Auction by Leonard & Co., Auctioneers, 49 & 50 Bromfield St., Boston, on Tuesday, December 18, 1866, at 10 o’clock A. M. …
    Boston: Printed at the Herald Job Office, 1866, octavo, 17 pages, in very good clean condition. The sale consisted of 349 lots of books pamphlets, ephemera, coins, and tokens. McKay 1178
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  • Archive of material related to Daniel Dunscomb Bradford, of New York, New York, Consul at Paris, France, and a great-grandson of William Bradford, Pennsylvania’s first printer, 1824-1838
    The archive includes: 16 letters, 45 manuscript pages, dated 1824-1838, with 11 manuscript pages of documents and papers, dated 1827-1836, plus 162 manuscript page genealogy book of the Bradford family, dated 1825; and a 76 page manuscript “Friendship Book” of Mary…
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  • Collection of Correspondence and Ephemera of the Brown Family of Madison and Schoharie Counties, New York, and Fairfax County, Virginia, including clergymen farmers, Rev. Jesse Brown and his sons, the Rev. Joseph Brown, and the Rev. Augustus Americus Brown, 1836-1908
    63 letters, 88 manuscript pages dated 6 January 1836 to 16 December 1908. Of the 63 letters, 11 are not dated and about a half a dozen letters have pieces missing, with some text lacking. A number of the letters are folding…
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  • Archive of Manuscript Diaries and Correspondence of the Miller - Bullock -Cole Families, of Royalston, Massachusetts, Denver, Colorado, and New York City including Calvin and Hugh Bullock, Pioneers in the Development of Mutual Funds, Bonds, Investments and Financial Management, 1852-1979
    Large archival collection of family papers which includes: 18 manuscript pocket diaries, 1852-1882, totaling 2,642 pages of dated entries, 92 pages of accounts, and memoranda, plus blanks. The collection also includes 2267 family letters, from later generations of the family totaling 5839…
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  • Archive of Correspondence of Burt, Hildreth and Company, manufacturers of Agricultural Machinery of Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1874-1920
    212 letters, 288 pages, 132 post cards, 49 printed and manuscript ephemeral items, including trade cards, circulars, etc., 13 snapshot photographs presumably of family members c. 1890s-1920s, plus 4 miscellaneous manuscripts, reminiscences etc., by family members c. 1890-1900. The bulk of the…
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  • C. H. Caruthers Railroad and Locomotive History Archive
    The long-lost visual archive of Charles Henry Caruthers (1847-1920), consisting of 194 of his highly detailed pen and ink and watercolor drawings of locomotives of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company drawn between 1896 and 1919; plus 4 pen and ink drawings (on versos…
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  • Autograph Letter Signed, as United States Senator from Massachusetts, Philadelphia, February 13th, 1792, to Thomas Dwight, Springfield, Massachusetts
    quarto, two pages, plus stamp less address leaf, in very good, clean, and legible condition.
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  • Autograph Letter Signed “Caroline”, Paris, June 8, 1834, to her cousin, Ellen Hemphill, c/o John Hemphill, Philadelphia.
    Quarto, 4 pages, plus stamp less address leaf, some old folds, some splits along folds and slight breaks at fold joints, else very good, and legible.
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  • Correspondence of Caroline Isabel Carter Chaney, of Leominster, Massachusetts, written to her husband, Unitarian Minister George Leonard Chaney, at Atlanta, Georgia, 1887-1891
    24 letters, 41 manuscript pp., dated 15 February 1887 to 21 December 1891, written on U.S. Letter Sheet Envelopes (self envelopes). Of the 24 letters in the collection, 13 were written in 1887; in 1888; 1 in 1889; 3 in 1890; and…
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  • Collection of Correspondence, Papers, and Ephemera, of the Edward Casey and Mary Norton Families, of Farmington, Connecticut; Lanesborough, Massachusetts; and Whiting, Vermont, 1809-1829
    19 letters, 39 pages, plus 10 manuscripts totaling 76 pages, as well as related ephemeral material. The collection consists of the following items:
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