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Item #685475DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Oct. 19, 1843
* Jews - Jewish - Judaica
* Population in NYC
Page 3 has: "Jews of New York" which notes: "According to the report...of the Society for Meliorating the Condition of the Jews, their number in New York...is about twelve thousand..." with further detail.
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Item #685474DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Sept. 5, 1843
* African slave trade
* Slavers - bark ship
Page 3 has: "The African Slave Trade" which notes in part: "...arrived at New York from the coast of Africa, reports that four or five slavers were brought into port...the Brazilian barque Considentia, captured on the 17th... Read full description -
Item #685468DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., July 8, 1843 The top of page 3 has an article: "Francis Scott Key" concerning a speech he gave on St. Chrysostom.
It is rare to fine reports on Francis Scott Key beyond his penning the words to the Star Spangled Banner in 1814, and his death in 1843.
Four pages, very nice... Read full description -
Item #685462THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, March 16, 1899
* Palmetto, Fulton County, Georgia
* Negroes massacre - assassinations
The top of the front page has a one column heading: "A NEGRO SLAUGHTER" with subheads. (see) Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era. Very hard to find issues... Read full description -
Item #685376THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, March 18, 1899
* Windsor Hotel (Manhattan)
* St. Patrick's Day fire disaster
The top of the front page has a one column heading: "THE DEAD AND DYING" with subheads. (see) Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era. Very hard to find issues... Read full description -
Item #685229THE DAILY UNION, Washington, D.C., May 17, 1849 Page 3 has several reports headed: "The Riots in New York", they being the Astor Place Riot, the deadliest to that date of a number of civic disturbances in New York City which pitted immigrants & nativists against each other.
Page 2 also has two detailed letters headed:... Read full description -
Item #685171NEW-YORK TIMES, Sept. 28, 1865
* Andersonville Civil War prison in Georgia
* Captain Henry Wirz trial
Front page heads at the top of the first column regarding the trial of Captain Henry Wirz, the Confederate officer in charge of the famous prisoner of war camp in Andersonville, Georgia: "Trial Of Capt. Wirz" "Difficulties and... Read full description -
Item #685166NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, Oct. 17, 1846 Page 3 has: "Illinois. The Mormon War ended" which is an interesting account taking close to a full column. It notes in part: "...Articles of capitulation...drawn up to the following effect:..." followed by the... Read full description -
Item #685134NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, Feb. 8, 1845
* Nauvoo Charter - Mormons - Mormonsim
* Illinois legislature repeals - post Joseph Smith murder
* Prelude to exodus to Salt Lake City, Utah
The bottom of the front page has a very brief item noting: "Illinois" "The Mormon charter of Nauvoo has been... Read full description -
Item #685129NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, Oct. 5, 1844
* Nauvoo Legion militia - Illinois
* Mormons - Mormonism War ?
* Governor Thomas Ford
Pages 3 and 4 has a report from Illinois: "More Trouble at Nauvoo" which noters in part: "Gov. Ford has ordered 2500 militia & volunteers into service for the... Read full description -
Item #685126NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, July 27, 1844
* Mormonism - re. Joseph Smith assassination
* Macon Bolling Allen - 1st black lawyer
Pages 4 and 5 contain a nearly full-column article on: "The Mormons" focused on driving the Mormons out of Illinois, and a... Read full description -
Item #685118NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, April 13, 1844
* Mormons - Mormonism
* Nauvoo, Illinois
An inside page has a brief item discussed in the federal Congress with a small heading: "Mormons" noting: "Mr. Semple presented a memorial from the mayor & aldermen of Nauvoo, that a separate territorial... Read full description -
Item #685098NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, July 22, 1843
* Mormons - Mormonism
* Earliest of Brigham Young
The back page has a heading: "The Mormon Prophet" which begins: "The arrest of Joe Smith it appears was in virtue of some new process from Missouri. James Reynolds proceeded to Nauvoo to arrest him, found... Read full description -
Item #685094NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, May 13, 1843
* Boston Tabernacle dedication
* William Millerites - Millerism
* Second Advent of Jesus Christ
Page 3 has over half a column on: "Trouble Among the Traders To Santa Fe" and another page has: "Texas, Question ion Annexation - The Condition of Texas".
The back... Read full description -
Item #685093NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, May 6, 1843
* Congregation Rodeph Shalom (Philadelphia)
* Jewish synagogue - Jews - Judaica
* William Millerites - Millerism
Page 5 has: "Consecration Of the Synagogue Roudafe Sholum (Followers of Peace) of Philadelphia. This is the Rodeph Shalom synagogue, one of the... Read full description -
Item #685083NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, March 18, 1843
* William Millerites - Millerism
The back page has a report headed: "Millerism" which is about the Millerites, followers of the teachings of William Miller, who in 1831 first shared publicly his belief that the Second Advent of Jesus Christ would occur in roughly the year... Read full description -
Item #685082NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, March 11, 1843
* William Millerites - Millerism
The back page has an interesting report headed: "Millerism In Philadelphia" which is about the Millerites, followers of the teachings of William Miller, who in 1831 first shared publicly his belief that the Second Advent of Jesus Christ would... Read full description -
Item #685028NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER, Baltimore, Oct. 27, 1827
* Harmony Society description
* Harmonists, Harmonites, or Rappites
Inside has a half column article headed: "The Harmonists" which notes in part that: "Their settlement is situated on the northern bank of the Ohio river...18 miles below Pittsburg...there are now in... Read full description -
Item #685023THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, Aug. 16, 1897
* Thomas Alva Edison
* Fluoroscope (Vitascope)
* X-Rays experiments
The top of page 3 has a one column heading: "MORE EDISON WONDERS" with subheads. (see) Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era. Very hard to find issues that are not totally fragile... Read full description -
Item #685017THE WORLD, New York, Nov. 30, 1860
* Pre Civil War tensions & religion
The front page has: "THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY" "Its Observance in the Metropolis" "The Clergy On The Crisis" "The Perils of the Nation from a Christian Point of View" Sermons of..." with a... Read full description -
Item #685011THE WORLD, New York, July 9, 1860 Page 3 has most of a column taken up with a report headed: "From Great Salt Lake City" which has a subhead: "Brutal Treatment of a Mormon By U. S. Soldiers" with much detail.
Page 4 has a report headed: "News Frost Pike's Peak" and page 8 has a pre-Civil War report... Read full description -
Item #685008NEW YORK HERALD, Aug. 8, 1872
* David Livingstone found
* Henry Morton Stanley
Over two-thirds of page 8 are taken up with a very detailed account of the Livingston/Stanley expedition in Africa. Since the New York Herald financed Stanley's expedition in search of Dr. Livingstone, this newspaper had terrific coverage... Read full description -
Item #685007NEW YORK HERALD, Sept. 5, 1872
* Arthur Chambers vs. Billy Edwards
* Lightweight boxing championship
Nearly half of page 4 is taken up with the notable lightweight boxing match between Arthur Chambers and Billy Edwards.
First column heads include: "THE LIGHT WEIGHTS" "The Fistic Battle... Read full description -
Item #685005THE DAILY REGISTER, New Bedford, Massachusetts, Sept. 2, 1840 Page 2 has a somewhat brief article headed: "Slavers Captured" reporting in part: "...intelligence that...the British brig of war Brisk...with 3 Portuguese bells, the Adriana, Coringa, and Montevideo as prizes, taken on the coast of Africa...engaged in the slave... Read full description -
Item #685004THE DAILY REGISTER, New Bedford, Massachusetts, Sept. 7, 1840
* Damascus Affair - blood libel
*Arab Muslim Anti semitism
* Jewish Jews - Judaica
Page 2 has an article concerning the Damascus Affair of 1840, which was the arrest of notable Jewish community members in Damascus on the accusation of murdering a Christian monk & his... Read full description -
Item #685000NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER, Baltimore, Jan. 21, 1826
* Mordecai Manuel Noah
* Jewish homeland on the Niagara River
The prime article is: "Re-assemblage of the Jews" which has a letter somewhat critical of the efforts of Mordecai Manuel Noah to create a homeland for the... Read full description -
Item #684989NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER Baltimore, April 5, 1823
* Jews and Mormons ?
An inside page has a brief report noting: "...that the society for meliorating the condition of the Jew, are now engaged in a negociation for 20,000 acres of land in the 'Genesee country' for a Jewish colony. Will the Jews work on it?"
In... Read full description -
Item #684958NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, January 24, 1862
* Fugitive slaves
* Savannah, Georgia martial law
* New Bern, North Carolina
This Genuine newspaper has a Wealth of Civil War reporting from during Abraham Lincoln's administration. Among the one column headlines on the Civil War are: "THE RETURN OF FUGITIVE SLAVES",... Read full description -
Item #684887CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE & JOURNAL, New York, July 23, 1830 Page 3 has a very curious article with a small heading: "Spontaneous Combustion of a Drunkard" with an interesting eye-witness account. Such an article certainly makes for an interesting conversation piece.
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Item #684869NEW YORK TIMES, Aug. 17, 1868
* Lynching of Samuel Bierfield
* First Jew lynched in United States
* Jews - Jewish - Judaica item
* Ku Klux Klan - KKK members
The front page has: "Murderous Outrage at Franklin, Williamson County, Tenn. - Two Men Shot Dead" which is the account of the killing of a Jewish shop... Read full description -
Item #684868DAILY MORNING CALL, San Francisco, California, Dec. 8, 1873 A bottom corner of the front page has an article; "UTAH - Railroad Rout - Disgusted Mormon Converts Returning to Europe". It notes in part: "Several parties of Mormon converts who emigrated from the old country last Summer have within the past two weeks returned... Read full description -
Item #684864THE TIMES, San Francisco, California, June 22, 1867 The top of page 3 has column heads including: "The Surratt Trial" "Santa Anna Back in Mexico" "More Indian Murders on the Plains" and more.
Four pages, very large size, never bound nor trimmed, minimal fold wear, minor fold foxing. Folder size noted is for... Read full description -
Item #684838NEVADA DAILY TRANSCRIPT, Nevada City, California, Sept. 13, 1879
* Rare Old west publication
This town (formerly known as Deer Creek Dry Diggins) was the most important mining town in California in the 1850's. It is situated close to the Nevada border a bit northwest of Lake Tahoe. The historic district today is listed on the National... Read full description -
Item #684830SAN RAFAEL HERALD, California, March 2, 1876 An uncommon title from this city in the North Bay area of San Francisco Bay.
A typical newspaper of the day with a wealth of local news and a wealth of advertisements as well. Page 3 has a lengthy report headed: "SAN QUENTIN" "Disastrous Fire at the State Prison" "The... Read full description -
Item #684821MARIN COUNTY TOCSIN, San Rafael, California, Dec. 25, 1880
* Rare old West publication
An uncommon title from the Bay Area, just north of San Francisco. A typical newspaper of the day with a variety of local, regional, and national reports, plus a great wealth of advertisements, many of which are illustrated.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed,... Read full description -
Item #684819MARYSVILLE DAILY STANDARD, California, July 27, 1872
* Rare Old West publication
In the days of the California Gold Rush, Marysville was a stopping point for riverboats from Sacramento and San Francisco that carried miners on their way to the digging grounds. A sign on the roadside as one enters Marysville carries the slogan: "Gateway to... Read full description -
Item #684810NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., June 29, 1844 Page 3 has a brief & inconspicuous report announcing that: "The President of the United States, with the lady to whom he has just been united in marriage, returned to this city on Thursday evening."
An interesting curiosity: John Tyler, who served as President from 1841-1845,... Read full description -
Item #684808NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington D.C., July 27, 1844
* Mammoth Cave National Park
* Pre Civil War tourist destination
* Edmonson County - Kentucky
A page 3 report about the "Mammoth Cave" says: "Twenty-six large avenues and a third river, larger than those previously known, have recently been discovered in the Mammoth Cave. A... Read full description -
Item #684807NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, Aug. 20, 1844 On page 3 under: "Lieut. Fremont's Expedition" is a report from the Daily Missourian about the Fremont expedition "...just returned to St. Louis."
The report provides the basic chronology of the expedition and describes the... Read full description -
Item #684787NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington D.C., Nov. 29, 1844
* John Murrell death - "land pirate"
* Mississippi River outlaw
A front page report about the "Death Of Murrell" says: "The Chattanooga Gazette of the 16th announces the death, at Pikeville, Tennessee, of the notorious ... Read full description -
Item #684753BROUGHTON'S MONTHLY PLANET READER AND ASTROLOGICAL JOURNAL, Philadelphia, Oct., Nov., Dec., 1867 A fascinating and very unusual newspaper of small-size themed on predicting what would happen in the future--great to read in hindsight.
The primary feature is the 1 1/2 page article: "the Nativity of Charles Dickens"... Read full description -
Item #684752BROUGHTON'S MONTHLY PLANET READER AND ASTROLOGICAL JOURNAL, Philadelphia, Oct., Nov., Dec., 1866
* Uncommon publication
* Astrology - Horoscope
* Napoleon III
A fascinating and very unusual newspaper of small-size themed on predicting what would happen in the future--great to read in hindsight.
The front page features a large print of:... Read full description -
Item #684751BROUGHTON'S MONTHLY PLANET READER AND ASTROLOGICAL JOURNAL, Philadelphia, July, August, September, 1866 A fascinating and very unusual newspaper of small-size themed on predicting what would happen in the future--great to read in hindsight.
Among the articles: "The Hourly Motions of the Superior Planets" "Extraordinary... Read full description -
Item #684750BROUGHTON'S MONTHLY PLANET READER AND ASTROLOGICAL JOURNAL, Philadelphia, April, May, June, 1866
* Uncommon publication
* Astrology - Horoscope
A fascinating and very unusual newspaper of small-size themed on predicting what would happen in the future--great to read in hindsight.
Among the articles: "Professor Owen on Astrology,... Read full description -
Item #684735CONCORD DAILY MONITOR, New Hampshire, April 12 and May 6, 1866
* The Dearing family murders
* "Murder by gaslight"
* Antoine Probst arrest
A pair of issues on the horrific Dearing family murder, covering the murder report and the confession of the murderer.
Page 2 of April 12 has: 'Horrid Murders" which report... Read full description -
Item #684718THE CRISIS, Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 15, 1865
* Warden Henry Wirz execution - hanging
* Andersonville Confederate Prison - Georgia
* Confederate president Jefferson Davis trial
Among the articles are: "The Latest Phase of Reconstruction" "The Trial of Jefferson Davis--The President and Chief Justice Consult About... Read full description -
Item #684696AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL, New York, Dec. 18, 1845 An early issue of the very first American periodical on railroading. The best feature of this newspaper might be the engravings of a railroad engines and coaches as well as related railroad devices & inventions, as found on pages 1, 2 & 3.
The balance of the issue is taken up with a... Read full description -
Item #684693AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL, New York, Dec. 4, 1845
* Early on the railroad industry
* Uncommon publication
An early issue of the very first American periodical on railroading. The best feature of this newspaper might be the engravings of a railroad engines and coaches as well as related railroad devices & inventions, as found on pages... Read full description -
Item #684688AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL, New York, Oct. 23, 1845
* Early on the railroad industry
* Uncommon publication
An early issue of the very first American periodical on railroading. The best feature of this newspaper might be the engravings of a railroad engines and coaches as well as related railroad devices & inventions, as found on pages... Read full description -
Item #684684AMERICAN PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL, New York, February, 1853 Phrenology is a theory stating that the personality traits of a person can be derived from the shape of the skull. Although holding no validity today, it was a popular science in the mid-19th century and this periodical focused on it.
Inside has the portraits of two notables... Read full description
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