Items for sale by members

10 Percent: vol. 3, #012, Jan/Feb 1995; Binary Believers

by Hart, Saras, editor, Tom Reilly, Karen Wickre, David Brock, Glenn Close, Elaine Holliman, et al.

San Francisco : Browning Grace Communications , 1995

100 Boots

by ANTIN, Eleanor

1971

1791 - An article regarding harpoon whale guns from "Papers in Mechanicks" describing a list of rewards proffered to expert harpoon-gunners for their achievements in 1790 and, most importantly, to Charles Moore, the inventor of an improved harpoon-gun that made those achievements possible

1797-1798 - Archive of documents relating to the capture of an Alexandria-based merchant ship by French privateers that was one of several such incidents that led to the Quasi-War with France

by Captain Henry Nicoll and others

The 18 Wheeler: No. 17

East Rutherford, NJ : D & W Ent , [197-]

1802 - Illustrated shipping document exporting a shipment of rum and brown sugar to Europe commissioned by one of the wealthiest participants in the Triangle Trade

by Moses Brown

Newburyport, Massachusetts 1802

1823 Letter on Development of Boilers and Engines for Early Steam Boats on the waters of Ohio and Mississippi

by Steam Boats, Invention

1830 – Ticket from the 1830 Union Canal of Pennsylvania Lottery

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1830

1852 - Letter from a foreman reporting the status of laying track for the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad with a crew of "men not worth a damn.

by E. F. Judkins

Loudonville [Ohio] 1852

1853 & 1858 - A pair of items related to the "Father of Florida Tourism," Hubbard L. Hart: one letter to Hubbard regarding the purchase of a pocket watch and one Waybill from the Florida State Line

by Hubbard L. Hart

Tampa, Florida 1858

1854 – A newly arrived young railroad engineer hired by Chile sends a letter home to his mother raving about life in Santiago

by David W. Cunnningham

1855 - An Appointment and Position Description for the Master Machinist with overall responsibility of the operation of the "Machine Shop and Motive Power" for the Norwich & Worcester Rail Road Company

by G. S. Perkins

[Norwich : Norwich & Worcestor Rail Road Company , 1855

1864 - Manuscript invoice to the largest shipbuilder in New England from the largest rope maker in the world totaling $1,120 (over $21,600 in today's money)

Plymouth, Massachusetts 1864

1867-1874 - Three letters from one of the worst (or unluckiest) sea captains who later established one of the most popular and long-lived ship chandleries on Martha's Vineyard

by Edward "Santa" St. Croix Oliver

Various 1874

1876 - A Death Certificate for an immigrant who died at New York's Ward Island Quarantine Hospital from Mania a Potu, Erysipulas, and Acute Cerebral Meningitis

Emigrant Landing Depot, Castle Garden New York City : Commissioners of Emigration of the State of New York , 1876

1877 Early Scientific Examination of the Hot Air Balloon "Aerial Navigation" Written by Charles Mansfield

by Early Hot Air Balloon, Aerial Navigation

1887 – “A Modern Pony Express” – An express label used to send to local deliveries of letters and package by mounted messenger boys throughout metropolitan Newark, N.J. to include New York City

1892 - A report by the port physician in Philadelphia describing the Cholera danger posed by steerage passengers from Europe arriving at that city

by E. O. Shakespeare

Washington DC : U. S. Senate , 1892

1904 Handbook of Gasoline Automobiles

by PURDY, Ken

New York : Chelsea , 1969

1908 - Tri-fold panorama real photograph postcard showing attendees at a Texas Waterways Convention

Corpus Christi, Texas 1908