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Item #591488WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, New York, June 14, 1899
* New Richmond, Wisconsin... Herman, Nebraska...
* Tornadoes
This 4 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "ONE HUNDRED DEAD", "The Result of the Tornado at New Richmond,Wis.", "Many Received Bad Injuries",... Read full description -
Mention of "The Pretender"...
Item #591473THE EDINBURGH ADVERTISER, Edinburgh, March 9, 1784 Within this issue is a report of the death of the Count of Albany, which makes reference to The Pretender. Also included is a decorative woodcut ad for "Improved Milk of Roses". News of the day with period advertising are present throughout. Measures approximately 8 1/2 by 11 1/2... Read full description -
Item #591472THE LONDON CHRONICLE, London, December 1, 1757 Within this issue is an ad for an instrument which helps detect fraudulent/counterfeit gold, which includes a nice illustrated woodcut of the patent for the device: "Bradford Darby & Hull's - by The Kings Patent". News of the day with reports from... Read full description -
Item #591465THE SAN FRANCISCO NEWS, California, March 8, 1937 The banner headline reads: "S.F. QUIVERS IN 'QUICKIE' QUAKE" with related subheads and a front page photo. More inside. Nice to have in a San Francisco newspaper.
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Item #591462SATURDAY TIMES, New York, July 18, 1852 Page 2 has half a column headed: "Funeral of Henry Clay--His Will--His Family". Other news of the day, 4 pages, large folio size, some staining and a few mends. -
Item #591444ONCE A WEEK, New York, Sept. 8, 1894 Page 4 has a full page with 8 prints captioned: "Along Our Frontier--Scenes Among Our Mexican Citizens In Texas." which has a related article on page 15. Other prints include: "Life Savers At Rockaway..." and "On Bayou St. John, New Orleans" among others.
Sixteen page, some tears at... Read full description -
Item #591434THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 16, 1861 Among the front page first column heads are those relating to fights just prior to Bull Run: "THE GREAT REBELLION" "Another Important Victory in Western Virginia" "The Entire Army of General Garnett Routed" "Total Demoralization of the Rebel Forces" and more.
Some printing creases on... Read full description -
Item #591426WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, February 22, 1902
* Park Avenue Hotel fire
* 71st Regiment Armory
This 8 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "TWENTY DEAD", "Terrible Hotel Fire in New York"
"Park Avenue Hotel Destroyed...", "Seventy-First Regiment Armory and... Read full description -
Item #591425WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, January 6, 1902
* Roulette, Pennsylvania
* Fire disaster
This 4 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "A VILLAGE BURNED", "The Business Part Of Roulette, Pa., Destroyed", "Hotel, Stores, Telephone Exchange, Offices, Etc..." and more. This... Read full description -
Item #591408SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, New York, March 4, 1876 An inside page contains a fascinating baseball-related article, titled: "Novel Base-Ball Base" which includes beneath the base, submerged a bit into the ground, a bell which signals when a base runner has touched the base. Includes a diagram of how it works. The article notes this... Read full description -
Item #591403SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, August 25, 1888. The front page of this issue features "The New 'Times' 'Building, New York--Erection of the New Structure Prior to Removal of the Old One." There is a related article on this on an inside page. Also within the issue are: "Improved Refrigerating Machine"; "The New Rouen... Read full description -
Item #591400SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, New York, February 25, 1899 This issue contains illustrations, most of which pertain to the latest inventions of the day, with accompanying text including: "Statue of Rameses III as It Now Appears in Front of the Temple at Karnak", "Column of Taraga, Court and Colossi of the Temple of Rameses III,... Read full description -
Item #591392WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, January 8, 1902
* Negaunee, Michigan
* Ore mine disaster
This 8 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "FIFTEEN LOST IN MINE", "Terrible Disaster Reported From Michigan", "Were At Bottom Of Shaft" and more. 1st report coverage on... Read full description -
Item #591352NEBRASKA STAMP NEWS, Fremont, April, 1890 Subtitled: "A Monthly Devoted to Stamp Collecting." A very small size newspaper of 4 pages, never bound nor trimmed, measuring 4 1/2 by 7 inches. Nice condition & a vol. 1 no. 4 issue. -
Item #591349WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, October 8, 1902
* Spindletop oil field fire disaster
* Beaumont, Texas
This 8 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "ANOTHER GREAT FIRE", "Disastrous Conflagration In the Texas Oil Field", "Twelve Or More Lives Lost" and more. 1st report... Read full description -
Item #591340WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, New York, September 16, 1902
* Northfork WV West Virginia
* Algoma coal mine disaster
This 4 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "EXPLOSION IN A MINE", "Disaster and Death at North Fork, W. Va.", "Seventeen Known To be Dead"
1st report coverage on the... Read full description -
Item #591335WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, July 7, 1902
* Wellsville, New York flood
This 4 page newspaper has two column headlines on the front page: "WELLSVILLE FLOODED !", "Cloud Burst Makes Raging Rivers of the Small Streams", "MADISON STREET A WRECK" and more. This includes lengthy text.... Read full description -
Item #591333WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, June 11, 1902
* Detroit and Becker county tornado
* White Earth Indian Reservation
This 8 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "TORNADO IN THE WEST", "Great Damage Done to Farms In Two Counties", "Many Lives Are Reported... Read full description -
Item #591332WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, New York, July 15, 1902
* Marshall Pass, Colorado train robbery
* Narrow Gauge Railroad
* Wild Bunch ?
This 4 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "MASKED MEN ROB TRAIN", "At Chester, Colo., 250 Miles West of Denver", "Blew Open Two Express... Read full description -
Item #591315WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, May 19, 1902
* Goliad, Texas
* Tornado disaster
This 4 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "DEATHS FROM TORNADO", "Portion of the Town of Goliad, Texas, Swept Away", "More Than 50 People Killed", and more. See photos for 1st report coverage on the... Read full description -
Item #591314WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, May 7, 1902
* Admiral William T. Sampson's death
This 8 page newspaper has two column headlines on the front page: "HIS LIFE WORK ENDED", "Rear Admiral Sampson Passes Away In Washington" with subheads and illustration of Sampson. First report coverage on the death... Read full description -
Item #591313WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, July 26, 1902
* James Jeffries - Heavyweight boxing title
* Robert "Bob" Fitzsimmons
This 8 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "JAS. J. JEFFRIES", "California Pugilist Still Holds the Championship", "Won Fight In Eight... Read full description -
Item #591311WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, New York, July 21, 1902
* Baltimore, Maryland
* Tornado disaster
This 4 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page:
"TORNADO'S MAD WORK", "Many Deaths and Much Damage at Baltimore", "Nine Drowned In Harbor" and more. See photos for 1st report coverage on the tornado... Read full description -
Item #591306WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, New York, June 12, 1902
* Peoria, Illinois tornado
* Kingston Mines, Illinois
This 4 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "WINS SWEPT STATE", "Central Illinois Devastated by a Tornado", "Six Dead In One Little Town" and more (see... Read full description -
Item #591297SEMI-WEEKLY GAZETTE AND BULLETIN, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1897
* Arlington, Georgia
* Tornado disaster
This 8 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "A FATAL CYCLONE VISITS GEORGIA", "Eight Children Killed In A School House", "And Fifteen Others Badly... Read full description -
Item #591293THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Springfield, Massachusetts, December 2, 1947
* Johnny Lujack wins Heisman Trophy
* Notre Dame Fighting Irish - NCAA college football
This 30 page newspaper has two column headlines on page 23: "Lujack Is Top College Grid Player in Nation", "Notre Dame Quarterback Voted Winner of Annual Heisman... Read full description -
Item #591263WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, September 29, 1906
* Cuban pacification
* William H. Taft
This 8 page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page: "A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT FOR THE CUBANS" with lengthy subhead. 1st report coverage on William H. Taft becoming the provisional governor of Cuba during... Read full description -
Item #591261WELLSVILLE DAILY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, September 21, 1906
* Jellico Tennessee/Kentucky
* Dynamite explosion
This 8 page newspaper has a two column headline on the front page: "Town Wrecked By Dynamite". 1st report coverage on the explosion disaster at Jellico, Kentucky/Tennessee from a railroad car loaded with 11 tons of... Read full description -
Item #591253THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Georgia, January 3, 1913
* Dyersburg, Tennessee
* Meningitis epidemic
This 14 page newspaper has one column headings on the front page: "Town Ravaged By Meningitis", "Sixty-One Cases in Tennessee Village and thirty-Five Deaths". See photos for text here.
Other news and advertisements of the day.... Read full description -
Item #591213THE WORLD, New York City, June 27, 1930
* Southern Cross airplane flight
* Fokker F.VII trimotor monoplane
* Charles Kingsford Smith
This 28 page newspaper has a nice banner headline on the front page: "SOUTHERN CROSS SOARS OVER CITY, LANDS SAFELY AT MINEOLA FIELD" with subheads and photo of the famed airplane. 1st report coverage... Read full description -
Item #591196SAN LEANDRO REPORTER "SUPPLEMENT", Alameda County, California, Sept. 25, 1880
* Rare Old West title
A very scarce and quite small single sheet "Supplement" issue, measuring just 9 by 10 3/4 inches. This issue contains various small tidbits (see) and a few ads, one of which is a $10 Reward!" for a lost pair of... Read full description -
Item #591192SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Nov. 5, 1898 A very significant issue in the history of automobiles, as the noted reference work "Kane's Famous First Facts" records that the first automobile advertisement ever published in America is on the back page (not the very first appearance, which was in the July 30, 1898 issue).... Read full description -
Item #591190OLIVE BRANCH, Boston, Massachusetts, Sept. 10, 1853
* California gold rush
Page 2 has: "A California City Daguerreotyped in its Directory" which is an interesting, descriptive piece from the Gold Rush era, noting near the beginning: "We have received...'The Stockton Directory & Emigrant's Guide to the Southern... Read full description -
Item #591176ALLEGANY COUNTY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, June 16, 1899
* New Richmond, Wisconsin
* Tornado disaster
This 8 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "BURYING THE DEAD", "An Echo of the Tornadoes in the West", "Several Of The Injured Die" and more. Coverage on the tornado... Read full description -
Item #591174ALLEGANY COUNTY REPORTER, Wellsville, Pennsylvania, May 23, 1899
* Dawson City, Alaska
* Fire disaster - Yukon Territory
This 4 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "FIRE AT DAWSON CITY", "The Business Portion of the Town Wiped Out", "Loss Over A Million Dollars" and more. See photos for 1st report... Read full description -
Item #591172ALLEGANY COUNTY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, March 10, 1899
* Thomas Donaldson killed
* World champion high diver
This 8 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "DIVED TO HIS DEATH", "Thomas Donaldson Received Fatal Injuries", "World-Champion High Diver" and more (see photos). 1st... Read full description -
Item #591171ALLEGANY COUNTY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, February 7, 1899
* Battle of Manila, Philippines
* Philippine–American War
This 4 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "AT MANILA", "4,000 Insurgents Killed"
"HOSTILITIES BEGUN AGAIN", "Filipinos Attack the... Read full description -
Item #591170ALLEGANY COUNTY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, September 19, 1899
* Carterville IL Illinois
* Mining race war (1st report)
* Negroes lynchings
This 4 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page: "SIX NEGROES KILLED", "Shot to Death By Whites at Cartersville, Illinois", "Riots Of The Miners Resumed" and... Read full description -
Item #591168EASTON EXPRESS, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1885
* Abe Buzzard gang - outlaws
* Lancaster, Pennsylvania
The front page has one column headlines that include: "BUZZARD SURRENDERS", "Citizens Believe He is Not as Bad as He is Painted" and more. See for for text here.
Other and advertisements of the day... Read full description -
Item #591143THE CLEVELAND LEADER, Cleveland, Ohio, February 18, 1878
* The Silver Bill - dollar
* Bland-Allison Act
* United States Treasury
This 8 page newspaper has one column headings on the front page that include: "The Silver Bill Ready for the House" and "It is to be Fixed up by Caucus so it Will Pass Over a Veto".
Other news and advertisements of the... Read full description -
Item #591139THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL, April 21, 1945
* Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp
* Horrors being revealed
* World War II - Germany
This 10 page newspaper has one column headings on page 2: "Mass burial Of Fearsome Camp Victims" and "Naked Corpses Hauled in Trucks And Dumped in Pit"
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Item #591131THE NEW YORK TIMES, Aug. 30, 1933
* Early Jewish concentration camp report
* Rise of Adolph Hitler and the Third Reich
The front page, near the bottom, has a significant report headed: "Nazis Imprison Jews in Concentration Camp After French Paper Charges Abuses There" noting in part: "...The reason given is that the... Read full description -
Item #591130ALLEGANY COUNTY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, May 29, 1896
* East St. Louis tornado disaster
This 4 page newspaper has one column headlines on the front page that include: "AWFUL DISASTER", "St. Louis In the Path of a Monster Cyclone", "A Thousand People Killed" and more (see photos). 1st report... Read full description -
Item #591120THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, July 31, 1861 Among the front page one column heads on the Civil War are: "THE REBELLION" "Gen. McClellan Commanding Strict Discipline" "From Harper's Ferry" "General Banks Being Rapidly Reinforced" "From Richmond Va." "From Missouri" "Resignation of a... Read full description -
Item #591112THE NEW YORK TIMES, Feb. 7, 1865 Among the many front page one column heads on the Civil War are: "SHERMAN'S MARCH" "The Movement Upon Branchville" 'Feeble Resistance of the Enemy" "A Movement Upon Char4leston" "General Alarm of The Enemy" "The Peace Question" "All doubts of... Read full description -
Item #591111THE NEW YORK TIMES, Feb. 7, 1865
* General William T. Sherman
* Branchville SC South Carolina
* Final months of the Civil War
Among the many front page one column heads on the Civil War are: "SHERMAN'S MARCH" "The Movement Upon Branchville" 'Feeble Resistance of the Enemy" "A Movement Upon... Read full description -
Item #591108NEW YORK TIMES, February 10, 1865
* Robert E. Lee & Jefferson Davis
* Last few months of the Civil War
Among the front page one column war-related heads are; "THE PEACE CONFERENCE" "Message From Jeff. Davis to the Rebel Congress" "Report of the Rebel Commissioners" "Davis Speaks at a Public Meeting in... Read full description -
Item #591080ALLEGANY COUNTY REPORTER, Wellsville, New York, February 3, 1905
* Hornellsville, New York
* Arkport sleighing disaster
This 8 page newspaper has two column headlines on the front page that include: "HORNELLSVILLE WOMEN IN AN AWFUL ACCIDENT" and more with list of the dead and injured (see photos). 1st report coverage on the sleigh... Read full description -
Item #591077PUCK, New York, March 21, 1894
* Color political prints
Puck was America's first successful humor magazine of colorful cartoon caricatures and political satire, publishing from 1871 until 1918. It was also the first to successfully adopt full color lithography printing for a weekly publication. The color prints are very desired for their... Read full description -
Item #591076PUCK, New York, Aug. 30, 1893
* Color political prints
Puck was America's first successful humor magazine of colorful cartoon caricatures and political satire, publishing from 1871 until 1918. It was also the first to successfully adopt full color lithography printing for a weekly publication. The color prints are very desired for their... Read full description
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