Photograph, General Joseph Wheeler

Advertising Card for Fairbank Soap

Colonel 19th Alabama Infantry

United States Congressman from Alabama

This ex-Confederate General fought in the Spanish-American War as a U.S. Army General

(1836-1906) Born at Augusta, Georgia, he graduated in the West Point class of 1859. He resigned his commission in the U.S. Army on April 22, 1861, and in September was appointed colonel of the 19th Alabama Infantry, with which he fought with at Shiloh. Soon after he was transferred to the cavalry and on July 13, 1862, General Bragg...  

1918 U.S. Treasury Department Letter

On an imprinted letter sheet that was sent during World War I

With an illustrated advertisement for U.S. Liberty Government Bonds

7 x 9, typewritten letter, on an imprinted letter sheet, that is signed in ink, by the Private Secretary.

Treasury Department
Federal Farm Loan Board
Washington
April 12, 1918

Mr. Clarence J. Owens
Southern Commercial Congress
Hotel Emerson, Baltimore, Md.

My dear Mr. Owens:

Previous arrangements made by the Liberty Loan Committee will prevent Mr. Quick's...  

1897 Advertising Broadside For Carter & Lupton Books

With Christmas Message and original pencil sketches on the reverse of the broadside

5 7/8 x 9, imprint.

Our Subscription Books

Are Now Open For 1897

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Review Of Reviews. McClure's. Cosmopolitan. Ladies' Home Journal. Century. Munsey. Harper's. Scribner's. And any other...  

President Grover Cleveland, Waterbury Clock Company Adverisement

Featuring President Grover Cleveland & Mrs. President Cleveland

3 1/4 x 4 1/4, two sided advertising imprint. One side has a portrait of President Grover Cleveland with a clever advertising imprint, "Keep a Watch on the PRESIDENT! And let it be a WATERBURY. Being the head of the people he should carry the people's Time Piece." The reverse has a portrait of Mrs. Cleveland, also with a very clever advertising line, "Keep a Watch on MRS. CLEVELAND! And let it be a WATERBURY, so that the WHITE HOUSE dinners will always be "on...