Search Results: Authors starting with R from Langdon Manor Books LLC

Washington, D.C., 1942. Very good. Group of 16 pieces of ephemera measuring between 3¼" x 5½" and 11½" x 9". Most items very good: one with a tiny tear and moderate creasing at edges, not affecting any text; a few with light edge wear and a few small soil spots; some scattered light spotting. This is a fantastic group of speeches, ephemera and campaign materials related to the first woman to be elected to national office in the United States, Jeannette Rankin. Jeannette Rankin was born in 1880 near Missoula, Montana and graduated from the University of Montana in 1902. After a brief period as a social worker in Spokane, she moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington and became involved in the women's suffrage movement. She helped organize the New York Woman Suffrage Party, served as president of the Montana Women's Suffrage Association and as field secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. In 1911, Rankin became the first woman to speak before the Montana… Read More

Salem, N. C.: O. A. Keehln, 1857. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo 6" - 7" tall; Salem, N. C. : O. A. Keehln; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co. , 1857. 6 3/8" x 4 1/8". Publisher's original brown cloth. 206 pages. A detailed history including chapters on early settlements, the Indian War, the Indian and Negro Missions and more. With the ownership inscription of Jacob Henry Smith, an important Presbyterian minister who served as a visiting chaplain to Confederate Troops in Wilmington and at Virginia. In March, 1865, his Greensboro church was used as a hospital to care for the wounded of the Battle of Bentonville. Condition: Fair: ex-library complete as issued with unmarked pages showing scattered foxing and a small loss to the upper right corner of the title page. Front board detached and most of spine perished, the front board and spine held together with a makeshift paper bookcover. Please do not hesitate to contact us for additional information and/or photos and we will respond promptly. We package… Read More

Chicago, 1979. Very good +. 166 loose black and white photographs, all measuring 8" x 10"; none are captioned. Generally very good plus or better. This is a collection of photographs by an important Black photographer, Tony Rhoden, depicting several events in the career of then-Alderman Eugene Sawyer. Sawyer was initially elected alderman of Chicago's 6th Ward in 1971 and by 1987 he was the longest serving African American alderman on the Chicago City Council. After the sudden death of Mayor Harold Washington, Sawyer ultimately became Chicago's second Black mayor after a special city council election. These photos document several events of Sawyer's work as alderman and while none are captioned, several of the events are easily identifiable based on clues within the photos. The photos are in nine distinct series, eight of which are dated. 15 photographs have a March 1, 1977 stamp and depict an event for the Sixth Ward Regular Democratic Association [SWRDA] at a cafeteria or banquet hall called… Read More

Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory: N.P., 1865. Very good. 19 7/8" x 15 ¾". Hand colored photograph with "Stonewall" written in pencil in large script on verso as well as a pasted-on sheet adhered to verso with handwritten ink inscription, "For Ollie E. Russell/Richard D. Russell/taken in Santa Fe. N. M. in 1865." Very good: lightly bowed at edges; light to moderate edge wear and dust soiling; 2" x 1.5" patch of staining, along with several smaller stains, none of which affect the subject. This is a large portrait of a Colorado frontiersman who died leading a group of homesteaders against a giant land company that attempted to evict them from the town they spent nearly 20 years building. Richard D. Russell was born in Canada in 1839, raised in Illinois, and ran away from home to California at the age of 16 where he became a rancher. He joined the First California Volunteers early in the Civil War, ultimately ending up at Fort Union in New Mexico, serving with the New Mexico Volunteers. While at Fort… Read More