Announcing: Catalog #333 for August, 2023 – Rare & Early Newspapers…
Updated: 2023-07-31 17:46:21
The August catalog (#333) is now available. Shown below are links to various segments of the catalog, our currently discounted newspapers, and recent posts to the History’s Newsstand Blog. Please enjoy. CATALOG #333 – This latest offering of authentic newspapers is comprised of more than 300 new items, a selection which includes the following […]
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We all have those moments when a memory comes flooding back with all the delight or despair the original moment generated. Such was the case earlier this week as I was organizing a new our new acquisition of Harper’s Weekly Illustrated issues. After working my way through several years, I paused to sort through a […]
The post Christmas in July… first appeared on History's Newsstand Blog.
We often receive requests from our collecting friends for death announcements of the rich and famous. Searching for these provides us with a sense of nostalgia as memories flood in of summer blockbusters or oldies-but-goodies from our grandparent’s era. Today, however, I wasn’t even looking for an obituary as I paged through a LA Times […]
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Is it a car, a bike, a train, or a trike – or something else altogether? Looking back with an effort to place various inventions into current-day buckets is not always easy. However, in this case, there is one thing we know for sure: It is a velocipede: “a human-powered land vehicle with one or […]
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Question of the day… Who recognizes the following quote? “He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation […]
The post The Declaration of Independence – Jefferson’s Original Draft… first appeared on History's Newsstand Blog.
“The Semi-Weekly Argus” of Port Townsend, Washington Territory, July 7, 1873, might seem like an ordinary issue with typical content of the day. However the most intriguing aspect of the edition is not the data nor its content; it’s the paper upon which it is printed. It is yellow.On rare occasions, newspaper publishers had to […]
The post The reason I collected it: The Semi-Weekly Argus from Washington Territory… first appeared on History's Newsstand Blog.
Down the hill from my house is a backcountry lane called Freedom Road. As my 6 children were growing up, I loved telling them stories of an Underground Railroad stop in the old barn across from our house and how the escaped slaves, after a short respite from their journey, would then travel down the […]
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