Skip to main content

Box 8

 Container

Contains 9 Results:

Box 8: Ephemera from the Backlog (2008.230), 1884-1988, undated

 File — Box: 8
Identifier: id71035
Scope and Contents

Ephemera from the backlog. Provenance is unknown for most items.

Dates: 1884-1988, undated

The Texas Declaration of Independence, 1943

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 1
Identifier: id71036
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1943

Transportation Maps and Schedules - Highway and Airlines, 1926, 1935,1938, 1939, 1942, and Undated

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 2
Identifier: id71045
Scope and Contents

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."

Dates: 1926, 1935,1938, 1939, 1942, and Undated

Proclamation of Public Thanksgiving by Governor Wilbur Cross of Connecticut, 1938

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 3
Identifier: id71046
Scope and Contents From the File:

Ephemera from the backlog. Provenance is unknown for most items.

Dates: 1938

Newspaper Clipping about "Titles of the First Books", 1884

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 4
Identifier: id71055
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1884

Nineteenth Century Newspaper Articles, 19th Century

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 5
Identifier: id71056
Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Five newspaper clippings with the following topics: 1) How a Princess behaves herself, Daniel Webster and Ancestry 2) Poetry, "Kick Him When He's Down." 3) "Strongest Man in the World" and "The Conspiracy Against the President" 4) "The Sweet Country Cousins" from the Boston Transcript and "City or Country." 5) "Reply of the Richmond Clergymen to Gov. Pierpoint's Charge of Disloyalty." The original circular quoting the governor appeared in newspapers in the North where Gov....
Dates: 19th Century

Scottish Widows Fund Ticket, Notepaper, Whitehead and Hoag Notepad, Virginia Lottery Tickets, 1988 and undated

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 6
Identifier: id71092
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1988 and undated

Miscellaneous

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 7
Identifier: id92823
Scope and Contents Flyer by Ray Brown about stamps (1956); cover to a miniature book; pamphlet entitled "The Print Collector;' Kenneth Nebenzal, Inc. in Chicago (Number Three, Spring 1969); Winter Convocation program for George Washington University at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. on February 22, 1934 (2 copies); program for "American Farewell Concert Tour of Eduard Strauss" by K. and K. Austro-Hungarian Court Ball Music Director...at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City (undated); program for "Mary...
Dates: 1884-1988, undated

Postage Stamps, 1890-1938

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 8
Identifier: id126248
Scope and Contents

Postage stamps, many on envelopes addressed to Dr. Earl Gregg Swem, but most loose or torn from letters.

Dates: 1890-1938