[Various places: 1901-1928]. Forty-nine photographs (thirty ranging in size from about 4 x 6 inches to 8 x 10 inches; nineteen real-photo postcards); as well as four typed letters signed on letterhead; four receipts of varying sizes, two with holograph text and two blank. Holograph ink captions to many photographs..... More

Alexandria, Va. [1950s]. Four programs, each a single sheet folded to make [4]pp., each printed in a different monotone color. Only two folded, minor ink notations to one example, minor even toning. A small but notable collection of advertising ephemera from the segregated Carver Theater in Alexandria, Virginia. The Carver..... More

[Ann Arbor, Mi. October 23, 1940]. [4]pp. on a single folded sheet. Light wear, several contemporary ink emendations. A rare program for a concert presented by the University Musical Society at the University of Michigan featuring famed African American contralto singer Marian Anderson. The first page prints the songs sung..... More

Sandy Creek, N.Y. 1895. Broadside, 12.25 x 5.5 inches. Uniformly tanned, old folds, moderate marginal chipping. Mounted to slightly larger cardboard backing. A seemingly-unrecorded broadside advertising a performance by an African-American singing troupe while on the road in New York. Somewhat incongruously, the Original and Famous New Orleans Jubilee Singers..... More

Chicago: J.W. Middleton & Co., 1918. Tinted lithographic certificate, 8.25 x 11 inches, completed in manuscript. Old folds, minor dust soiling. A rare surviving stock certificate for a corporation established in 1916 by Emmett J. Scott and other well-intentioned but somewhat cinematically-naive individuals who wanted to make their own silent..... More

New Haven: October 31, 1927. Photographically-iIlustrated broadside, 16 x 19 inches. Moderate edge wear, a few short, closed edge tears. An advertising broadside for the Illustrated Current News of New Haven, Connecticut, featuring the infamous Muse Brothers of Roanoke, Virginia. In the early-20th century, George and Willie Muse disappeared from..... More

Brisbane: H. Pole & Co., [1917]. Large broadside, 40 x 15 inches. Small tears and creasing at edges, a few minor losses to the sheet. Lower edge chipped with some loss to imprint, lower corner torn away affecting several lines. Handsome and striking broadside advertising a performance at the Empire..... More

Boston: 1862. Broadside, 14.25 x 6.25 inches. Slightly rumpled, light soiling. Lightly tanned. One of the earliest playbills to use John Wilkes Booth's infamous surname, advertising his appearance as Charles De Moor in Friedrich Schiller's play "The Robbers," from the third night of his first Boston engagement. Booth's performance in..... More

San Francisco: Sterett Show Printing Co., [1897]. Broadside, approximately 17.5 x 6 inches. Printed on orange paper. Two short closed tears. Scarce broadside advertisement for the magic and puppet theater of Bowman the Wizard, a performer who toured California at the turn of the 20th century. The poster promotes not..... More

[Atlanta: 1962]. Photographically-illustrated broadside, 11 x 9 inches, printed in green ink on yellow paper. Minor edge wear, old center horizontal fold, a few minor creases, mild dust-soiling. An unrecorded broadside advertising a June 6, 1962 performance by Harry Belafonte as a benefit concert for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference..... More

[N.p. ca. 1935]. Photographically illustrated film herald, 12 x 6 inches. Even toning, minor edge wear, short closed tear near top edge. A rare small broadside advertising a true crime presentation including real footage related to the shooting death of famed gangster John Dillinger. This "sensational story," most likely a...... More

[Nagoya, Japan: ca. 1950s]. Color-printed broadside, 15.25 x 21.25 inches. Text in Japanese. Minor even toning, mild dampstain to corners, old folds. A vintage paper game sheet for Japanese sugoroku (similar to the western game snakes and ladders) featuring numerous Hollywood stars of the 1950s. These include Marlon Brando, John..... More

New Orleans: W.C. Harder, Job Printer, [ca. 1885]. Small broadsheet, approximately 9 x 6 inches. Previously folded; a couple of small nicks at edges. Toned. Late 19th-century broadsheet advertisement for a sheet music salesman from San Francisco, plying his wares in New Orleans. The recto advertises love ballads and waltzes..... More