Box 8
Contains 9 Results:
Box 8: Ephemera from the Backlog (2008.230), 1884-1988, undated
Ephemera from the backlog. Provenance is unknown for most items.
The Texas Declaration of Independence, 1943
Scope and Contents Facsimile of "The Texas Declaration of Independence" produced on the occasion of the publication of Louis Wiltz Kemp's "The Signers of The Texas Declaration of Independence" and published by the Anson Jones Press, Houston, in 1943.
Transportation Maps and Schedules - Highway and Airlines, 1926, 1935,1938, 1939, 1942, and Undated
1926 and 1935 highway maps of Virginia, 1938 and 1942 schedules for the Pennsylvania Central Airlines, undated Conoco highway map of "Delaware-Maryland-Virginia-W. Virginia," 1939 Standard Old Company (Esso) highway map of "Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware," and undated Sinclair Road Map of "Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia."
Proclamation of Public Thanksgiving by Governor Wilbur Cross of Connecticut, 1938
Ephemera from the backlog. Provenance is unknown for most items.
Newspaper Clipping about "Titles of the First Books", 1884
Scope and Contents Newspaper clipping from "The Nation" about "Titles of the First Books from the Earliest Presses established in different cities, towns and Monasteries..." by Rush C. Hawkins, New York: J. W. Bouton, London. 1884. Includes post card from J.W. Bouton to John Markhem in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Nineteenth Century Newspaper Articles, 19th Century
Scottish Widows Fund Ticket, Notepaper, Whitehead and Hoag Notepad, Virginia Lottery Tickets, 1988 and undated
Scope and Contents Scottish Widows Fund ticket "The Largest British Mutual Life Office," packet of notepaper with "The Money Bag" and drawing of two people pulling coins from a bag on the front cover and three original Virginia Lottery tickets from the first batch printed for Virginia' modern lottery (September 20, 1988).
Miscellaneous
Postage Stamps, 1890-1938
Postage stamps, many on envelopes addressed to Dr. Earl Gregg Swem, but most loose or torn from letters.