![Item #6442 [Cabinet Card of a Handsome African-American Couple]. African Americana, Kansas](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6442.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1784653146)
Ottawa, Ks. Lynn Harris, [ca. 1890]. Cabinet card photograph. Moderate rubbing and scratching to image. Minor chips to lower corners. Light dust soiling and staining. A composed studio portrait of an African American couple, the seated man in jacket and striped tie and the standing woman in a fitted dress..... More
St. Paul, Ks. The News Printery, 1905. 17pp. Original plain orange wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and soiling, contemporary pencil notation to wrappers. Some light soiling to contents, manuscript notation at end of text. Pamphlet published by the Anti-Horse Thief Association in St. Paul, Kansas, a tiny town about a hundred..... More
Hutchinson, Ks. 1910. [20]pp. Narrow octavo. Original orange printed card covers, stapled. Some light wear and soiling, intentional holes punched in spine edge. Small ink stamp on versos of title page and final leaf. Internally clean. Short volume of poetry published in a small town in central Kansas. The author..... More
Fort Riley, Ks. Sixteenth Infantry Print, 1879. Broadsheet, printed on thin coated paper, approximately 14 x 6.5 inches, recto printed in blue ink with ornamental border enclosing the title portion and decorative ornament on other panel of recto, verso printed in black, with signature line at bottom filled in by..... More
![Item #4715 [Manuscript Pocket Diary Kept by a Young Kansas Teacher, Recording Her Daily Life]....](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB4715.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1710434048)
[Oxford, Ks.]: 1913-1914. [75]pp. Pocket diary, 5.5 x 2.5 inches. Leather covers, gilt. Minor wear, one leaf loosening, contents clean. Petite manuscript volume recording a year in the life of a young Kansas teacher. Goldie Hahn (1892-1976) was a native of Oxford, Kansas, living with her parents and brother while..... More
[Emporia, Ks. & Avalon, Mo.]: 1886-1888. [90]pp. Primarily folio, with some smaller leaves. Light soiling and wear, some edge tears and chipping. Lightly soiled and toned. Highly legible. A small archive of notes and essays written by student Emil Pelz during his time at Avalon College in Missouri and subsequently..... More
Topeka, Ks. S.G. Watkins, [ca. 1905]. 15pp. Original printed blue wrappers. Moderate soiling and wear to wrappers. A rare pamphlet designed to foster “an earnest desire to increase interest in the work and knowledge of the Order of Eastern Star." The work was published by and for the Eastern Stars..... More
Arkansas City, Ks. October, 1891. [21]-42,[2]pp. Original salmon printed wrappers. Light chipping and wear to covers, ink stamp on front cover. Text lightly chipped and tanned. Volume 1, number 2 of this magazine devoted to stamp collecting. There are numerous short articles on subjects such as historical envelopes, poetry about..... More