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Item #690847CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, April 12, 1929
* Southern Cross (aircraft) found - rescued
* Charles Kingsford Smith & Charles Ulm
* Les Holden - Australian fighter ace
The top of page 5 has a one column heading: "SOUTHERN CROSS FOUND; REPORT CREW SAFE, WELL" with subhead. (see) Related... Read full description -
Item #690845CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, April 22, 1929
* First mid-air airplanes collision in the U.S.
* Military fighter & air liner over San Diego
The front page has a banner headline: "6 DIE IN CRASH 2,000 FEET UP" with subhead. Nice for display. Related photo and heading on the back page.
Complete with 42 pages, rag edition in great... Read full description -
Item #690842NEW YORK TIMES, Feb. 14, 1863 Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "The Mississippi Levees Cut by Our Forces", "Rebels Trying to Reopen the Mobile & Ohio Railroad", "Concentration at Vicksburg", "Troops Sent There from Virginia & Mobile", "Gen. Dix's Dept." and more.
Page 4 has: "Negro Freedom and Vagrancy" which... Read full description -
Item #690839NEW YORK TIMES, Sept. 8, 1863
* Second Battle of Charleston Harbor
* Fort Wagner - Morris Island - South Carolina
Among the front page one column heads on the Civil War are: "Operations Against Charleston" "A General Engagement Between the Iron-Clads & the Rebel Forts on the 1st" "Much Damage Done to the Forts"... Read full description -
Item #690832THE WORLD, New York, Jan. 17, 1862 (printing error in the dateline) Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "Fighting In The Southwest" "4,000 Loyal Indians Routed by the Rebels" "Arrival of Arms From Europe" "The Rebel Commissioners" "Important From Kansas - 2,000 Loyal Indians Routed... Read full description -
Item #690831THE WORLD, New York, May 9, 1862
* Battle of Williamsburg - Virginia
Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "The Rebels Cross the Chicahominy" "Details of the Williamsburg Battle" "Evacuation of Sewall's Point" "Departure of the Monitor for the Point" "From the... Read full description -
Item #690830THE WORLD, New York, Feb. 12, 1862 Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "The War In Kentucky" "Reported Evacuation of Bowling Green" "The Rebels Moving Toward Nashville" "The War in Tennessee" "Fort Donelson Surrounded" "A Battle Imminent" "Roanoke... Read full description -
Item #690828NEW YORK TIMES, March 30, 1864 Among the various front page reports on the Civil War are: "The War In The Southwest" "Forrest Advancing on Columbus, Ky.--The Movement of Troops..." "From Kentucky" "The Paducah Affair" "Naval Movements" "Sales of Plantation Lands" and more.
Eight pages, never... Read full description -
Item #690827NEW YORK TIMES, Feb. 18, 1864 Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "GEN. GRANT'S DEPARTMENT" "The Situation in East Tennessee" "Position & Strength of Longstreet's Army" "Affairs at Chattanooga" "The Disposition of Joe Johnston's Troops" "Bloody... Read full description -
Item #690825THE SPORTING NEWS, St. Louis, Dec. 7, 1955 The masthead notes: "The Baseball Paper Of The World". Inside has an article: "National League Places 7 on All-Stars" "Campy, Newk & Duke of Dodgers Against Yanks' Ford" plus there are photos of Ernie Banks, Nellie Fox, Roy Campanella,... Read full description -
Item #690821LOS ANGELES TIMES, August 1, 2014 (our only issue of this date)
* Best "Guardians of the Galaxy" advertisement
* Grand Opening Day movie premiere & review
* Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel, Zoe Saldaña
* Star-Lord, Groot, & Gamora
An issue on the premiere of the motion picture hit "Guardians of the... Read full description -
Item #690820SECTION TWO (sports) only of the Chicago Daily Tribune, Feb. 7, 1929
* Tony Canzoneri vs. Joey Sangor
* World Lightweight boxing fight
* Member of the Bonanno Crime Family
* From the city where the fight took place
The front page of this section has a nice banner headline: "CANZONERI KNOCKS OUT SANGOR IN SEVENTH" with subheads... Read full description -
Item #690817THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, California, April 30, 1903
* Frank Slide - Northwest Territories
* Massive rockslide - Turtle Mountain
* Alberta, Canada landslide disaster
The top of the front page has a one column heading: "LANDSLIDE CAUSED FRANK DISASTER" with subheads. (see) Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being... Read full description -
Item #690812LOS ANGELES EXAMINER, War Extra, June 16, 1941
* Prelude to a Pearl Harbor attack ?
* Japanese Imperial Navy fleet on the move
The front page has a nice banner headline: "JAPAN ARMADA MOVES; Huge Fleet Steams South From China" with subhead: "Major Action Predicted in Pacific Waters" (see) Was this the fleet that ultimately attacked... Read full description -
Item #690811NEW YORK TIMES, Sept. 28, 1920
* Chicago White "Black" Sox
* World Series Scandal breaks
The scandal of the 1919 "Black Sox" World Series did not break to the public until just now, covered in this newspaper with front page column heads: "NEW WITNESS TELLS OF BASEBALL PLOT"... Read full description -
Item #690810BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT, Jan. 4, 1896
* Utah statehood - joins the Union
* President Grover Cleveland proclamation
* Abandons polygamy
The front page of section two has a report of Utah joining the Union with column heads: "UTAH NOW A STATE" "President Signed the Proclamation of Admission Today", it becoming the... Read full description -
Item #690808THE HOUSTON TRI-WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, April 10, 1865
* Very rare issue from the Southwest Confederacy
* Last days of the American Civil War
Newspapers from Texas are very uncommon, particularly from before or during the Civil War period.
Here is an issue from two days after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia,... Read full description -
Item #690793NEW YORK TIMES, Jan. 19, 1864 Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "Department Of The South" "An Affair Near St. Augustine, Fla." "Capture of a Detachment of Our Troops by Rebel Cavalry" "Military & Political Situation of the Rebellion" "Views of the Situation About... Read full description -
Item #690791NEW YORK TIMES, Jan. 27, 1864 The front page includes: "From Washington" "Senator Bayard Takes the Oath of Allegiance" "The Proposed Expulsion of Senator Davis" "Proceedings of Congress" "Serious Illness of Alexander H. Stephens's..." "Advices from Richmond--Jeff. Davis' House Robbed and... Read full description -
Item #690789NEW YORK TIMES, March 25, 1864
* Red River Campaign - Louisiana
* Atchafalaya River & Alexandria
Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "REBEL ADVANCE IN TENNESSEE" "Gen. Forrest, with 7,000 Men, Moving North from Bolivar" "Federal Pickets at Union City Driven in" "THE RED RIVER... Read full description -
Item #690784DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., June 19, 1865 The front page has: "News From the Rio Grande" which has much concerning the situation in the Brownsville vicinity. Also on the ftpg: "Chief Justice Chase to the Colored School Children of New Orleans" and: "General... Read full description -
Item #690780THE FOCUS OF POLITICS, COMMERCE, AND LITERATURE, Louisville, Kentucky, March 21, 1827
* Rare & early antebellum publication
An early & uncommon title, this being the volume 1, number 18 issue.
Four pages, archivally rejoined at the spine, minor disbinding loss at the spine, various tape mends throughout (to flatten creases)... Read full description -
Item #690779DAILY DISPATCH, Richmond, Virginia, Oct. 21, 1861 Among the front page reports are those headed: "Late Northern War News" "Attack on a Baltimore Ship by a Confederate Battery--Premature Reports of a Movement of General Banks' Division--The War in Missouri--A Skirmish in Western Virginia" plus a great wealth of subheads, this report... Read full description -
Item #690778NEW-YORK TIMES, July 29, 1865
* Edmund Kirby Smith captured
* Confederate States Army general
Among the front page heads: "Capture of Kirby Smith by the Mexicans" "Four Pieces of Artillery and Nine Hundred Rifles Taken". In the report it says in part: "Major Texxier...has just arrived... bringing intelligence of the capture of Gen.... Read full description -
Item #690777COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston, Sept. 26, 1795
* President George Washington
Page 3 has a small item prefaced with: "The following is the concluding paragraph of the answer of the President of the United States to the Chairman of the Norfolk meeting against the Treaty:" and what follows is the paragraph, signed in type: G. Washington.
... Read full description -
Item #690774CONCORD DAILY MONITOR, New Hampshire, April 26, 1865 The lengthy page 2 article is headed: "The End of the War". Other page 2 items include: "Tribute to Gen. Robert E. Lee" "From Kentucky" "Attempted Suicide" of Payne, one of the Lincoln assassins; "Guerrillas Captured" "The Sherman Mystery"... Read full description -
Item #690773CONCORD DAILY MONITOR, New Hampshire, May 2, 1865 Page 2 begins with an editorial starting with: "The surrender of Johnston's army shows unmistakably that the military power of the rebellion is broken..." with much more.
Also on page 2: "Mr. Lincoln's Sadness" which has some touching comments about Lincoln by an... Read full description -
Item #690765CONCORD DAILY MONITOR, New Hampshire, April 12, 1865
* American Civil War is over speech
* Abraham Lincoln's last public speech
* Presidential proclamation 128
* Just 2 days before his assassination
This issue was printed just 2 days prior to Lincoln's assassination.
The top of page 2 has: "A Proclamation by the President" which... Read full description -
Item #690761NEW YORK TRIBUNE, March 9, 1857
* Historic Dred Scott Decision
* Famous former slave case
Page 5 has nearly 2 1/2 columns taken up with a report on the historic Dred Scott Decision, a landmark decision of the Supreme Court in which the Court held that the Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship for black... Read full description -
Item #690753NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, June 17, 1865
* Abraham Lincoln assassination trial
This issue is loaded with post Civil War reports including ftpg. column heads: "THE ASSASSINATION" " The Trial on Friday" "Hon. Ben. Wood Implicated" "The Richmond Freedmen" "Their Visit To The President"... Read full description -
Item #690745NEW YORK TRIBUNE, June 5, 1865
* re. Abraham Lincoln assassination
* Trial of the assassins - conspirators
Among the front page column heads on the trial of the Lincoln conspirators: "THE REBEL LEADERS" "Their Complicity in the Assassination" "Very Important Suppressed Testimony"... Read full description -
Item #690741CONCORD DAILY MONITOR, New Hampshire, May 19, 1865
* Abraham Lincoln assassination
* Trial of the conspirators - assassins
Page 2 begins with a nice editorial: "The Death of President Lincoln in the English Parliament".
Other notable reports within: "The Trial of the Conspirators" "Important;... Read full description -
Item #690730CONCORD DAILY MONITOR, New Hampshire, May 17, 1865
* Trial of the conspirators - assassins
* re. Abraham Lincoln's assassination
Page 2 begins with a nice editorial: "The Conspiracy Trial" which was just beginning in Washington.
Page 3 also has a full column headed: "The Assassination Trial" "Condensed Summary of... Read full description -
Item #690728CONCORD DAILY MONITOR, New Hampshire, May 9, 1865
* Dick Taylor surrenders
* Jefferson Davis on the run
* Union soldiers coming home
Inside has: "Literature of the Rebellion" "Sherman's Army At Richmond--Grand Review at Bull Run" "Surrender of Dick Taylor's Forces" "London Times on Lee's Surrender"... Read full description -
Item #690727CONCORD DAILY MONITOR, New Hampshire, April 28, 1865
* Joseph E. Johnston surrenders
* One of the last Confederate holdouts
* Civil War closing events
Inside has the historic report: "JOHNSTON And His ENTIRE ARMY SURRENDERED!" which is a brief dispatch.
Other articles within: "The President's Remains" "Apprehended... Read full description -
Item #690714CONCORD DAILY MONITOR, New Hampshire, May 4, 1865
* Abraham Lincoln home town funeral
* Jefferson Davis accomplice to murder ?
Inside has: "Proclamation By the President" "Jeff Davis Accessory to the Murder" "Heavy Rewards" "One Hundred Thousand Dollars for Davis" "More... Read full description -
Item #690707DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., May 31, 1865
* Abraham Lincoln assassination
* Trial of the assassins - traitors
All of page 1 and most of page 2 are taken up with: "THE CONSPIRACY" "Trial Of The Accused" "Saturday's Proceedings Continued" with a great... Read full description -
Item #690706DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., May 30, 1865
* Abraham Lincoln - trial of the conspirators
* Rebels pardoned by Andrew Johnson
The front page features two notable Proclamations by President Johnson. The first grants amnesty to all persons who have directly or indirectly taken part in... Read full description -
Item #690704DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., May 26, 1865
* Trial of the conspirators - assassins
* re. Abraham Lincoln's assassination
Part of page 1 and over half of page 2 are taken up with: "THE CONSPIRACY" "Trial Of The Accused" "The Proceedings On Yesterday" with a... Read full description -
Item #690703DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., May 24, 1865
* Trial of the assassins - conspirators
* re. Capture of Jefferson Davis
Page 2 has: "Trial Of The Assassins" and page 3 includes: "From Fort Monroe" "Ending Of Jeff. Davis" "Davis's Family Sent South"... Read full description -
Item #690702DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., May 23, 1865
* Abraham Lincoln assassination
* Trial of the assassins - traitors
Taking half of page 3 is: "THE CONSPIRACY" "Trial of the Accused" "The Proceedings of Yesterday" with a wealth of verbatim reporting.
The front page... Read full description -
Item #690694THE PEOPLE'S INDEPENDENT, Vallejo, California, Dec. 27, 1873
* Rare Old West publication
A quite scarce newspaper from this town in the northern portion of the San Francisco Bay. It was named after Don Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, the famed California general and statesman. He was a leading proponent of California's... Read full description -
Item #690690DAILY EVENING NEWS, Portland, Oregon, Aug. 12, 1874
* Rare publication
* Wild Old West era
An early newspaper from Portland with a wide range of news reports, various tidbits, and a wealth of ads. Page 2 has: "An Indian War" and "General Hardie on the Modoc War" among other items.
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Item #690686THE DILLON TRIBUNE, Beaverhead County, M.T. (Montana Territory), July 30, 1881
* Very rare publication
* Wild Old West era
A quite rare newspaper from the Territory of Montana, it not becoming a state until 1889. Thisis the volume 1, number 24 issue.
Dillon was founded in the Beaverhead Valley as a railroad... Read full description -
Item #690681FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Mass. March 15, 1962
* Wilt Chamberlain - Philadelphia Warriors
* Season scoring record set (last game of season)
* National Basketball Association - NBA
The sports section (page 12) has a one column heading: "Wilt Closes Season With 4029 Points" He began the game with 3,997... Read full description -
Item #690675THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 12, 1929
* Des Moines University (1865-1929)
* Baptist Church school - Iowa
* Religious riots and closure
The top of the front page has a one column heading: "DES MOINES FACULTY DISMISSED EN BLOC; RIOTS CLOSE SCHOOL" with subheads. (see) Always nice to have notable events in history reported in this World... Read full description -
Item #690674THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York, April 18, 1929
* Babe Ruth & Claire Hodgson marry (1st report)
* New York Yankees opening day (rained out)
* MLB baseball
Page 31 has one column headings that include: "BABE RUTH MARRIED AS HUNDRED LOOK ON" "Early Morning Worshipers and Handful of Youngsters See Him Wed Mrs. Hodgson" and more with... Read full description -
Item #690673BLACK HILLS DAILY TIMES, Deadwood, Dakota, July 7, 1886
* Rare publication
* Famous wild West town
* "Wild Bill" Hickok fame
This city would arguably be--along with Tombstone & Dodge City--one of the more famous of all the towns from the rough & tumble days of the Old West, and only rarely do such issues come to... Read full description -
Item #690672THE JOURNAL & COURIER, Little Falls, New York, April 20, 1865
* Abraham Lincoln assassination (1st report)
* Ford's Theater - John Wilkes Booth
Being a weekly newspaper this issue has the first report of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. All columns on all pages have wide, black mourning rules.
The front page has: "The... Read full description -
Item #690671THE INTER STATE, Gary, Dakota, Nov. 14, 1883
* Very rare publication
* Deuel County, South Dakota
A very rare railroad town, territorial newspaper from what is present-day South Dakota, six years before statehood. They refer to themselves as the "Gate City of Dakota" as it is situated at the eastern border of the Territory,... Read full description
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