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Featured Member
Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC
Virginia Beach, VAhttp://read-em-again.com
Unique Americana, that is, we keep a selection of personal narratives such as diaries, work journals, correspondence collections, photograph albums, scrapbooks, and similar items that shed light on some aspect of North American life, culture, or society. Additionally, we always have a nice selection of philatelic material (primarily postal history) and other paper ephemera.
Selections from Member's stock
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1837 – Letter from an interstate exporter to his partner in New York discussing the status of their exports to the recently established Wisconsin Territoryby Eph Perkins
Wisconsin Territory via Juliet [Joliet] Will Co., Illino
offered by Kurt A Sanftleben
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1861 –A rare Wells-Fargo Pony Express East-to-West frank clipped from a 10-cent stamped envelope[New York] 1861
offered by Kurt A Sanftleben
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Circa 1890 – Cigar band for a cigar sold or distributed on a Colorado Midland Railroad train
offered by Kurt A Sanftleben
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1819 – Reply by two early St. Louis land agents to a man in Ohio searching for a relative who had gone westby Aaron T. Crane and Abraham Beck
St. Louis, Missouri 1819
offered by Kurt A Sanftleben
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1896 – An archive of letters from an Edison Company executive to his daughter who was touring France and Italy to learn French and Italian and receive treatment for her chronic rheumatismby John I. Begg
Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and New York 1896
offered by Kurt A Sanftleben
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1840 – An exceptional political letter describing America’s first major nation-wide campaign rally, which was held in Erie, Pennsylvania for William Henry Harrison, the Whig candidate for president in the 1840 electionby B. F. Fuller
Madison [Ohio] 1840
offered by Kurt A Sanftleben
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