Search Results: Titles starting with L from The Raab Collection

29/07/1933. Amelia Earhart Earhart was the first female aviator to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, was one of the first aviators to promote commercial air travel, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. She disappeared with navigator Fred Noonan somewhere over the Pacific Ocean in July, 1937 and has been the subject of numerous theories and conspiracies ever since. She was declared dead in 1939.A large Air Mail cover postmarked Rye, New York (her home town), July 29, 1933, with typing on the left side noting her flight from California to New Jersey, July 8, 1933, in the record time of 17 hours, 7 _ minutes, very boldly signed by Earhart over the typing, with a green 8 cent air mail stamp.

18/01/1992. Charles Schulz Peanuts is perhaps the most quintessentially American comic strip and was a mainstay in major US and foreign publications for decades.The comic strip, a high resolution reproduction, from January 18, 1992, measuring a large 20 x 7 inches, dated January 18 1992, picturing Snoopy's brother Spike making waffles, drawn by Schulz himself, with the quote, ""When I got up this morning I thought to myself 'Gee wouldn't a waffle be good?'""The strip is signed and inscribed to Leon, from whom we acquired it; his firm made waffle makers and thus inspired the comic strip. It has never been offered for sale before. The United Feature Syndicate copyright notice is shown on the left and affixed to the verso of the sheet.A very uncommon and desirable strip of Schulz, this being our first.

1915. Woodrow Wilson A 12 1/2 by 16 inch engraving of Wilson by William Barmore of New York, copyright 1915.Signed in dark pencil by the President, “Sincerely, Woodrow Wilson.” A large and dynamic image.

31/12/1820. George IV It also permits the free city of Frankfort to join the European community established by the ConventionThe Napoleonic Wars, which lasted well over two decades, completely disrupted Europe. By its close, France, led by Napoleon, had conquered (at one time or another) much of the continent, and spread its influence pervasively throughout. Virtually no aspect of life in Europe was unaffected. On March 31, 1814, the Allied forces entered Paris, compelling Napoleon to abdicate. The Treaty of Paris, signed in May of that year, ended the state of war. But this was just the start. The victorious European powers determined to reestablish, as far as possible, the order and borders in force when the wars started in 1792, and to resolve the many other problems that had arisen during revolution and war. They called the Congress of Vienna, which convened on September 27, 1814 and concluded with the Treaty of Vienna being signed on June 9, 1815.But their plans were foiled even as they were… Read More

11/04/1865. Abraham Lincoln For generations in a private collection and not known to have survivedhttps://vimeo.com/913105879?share=copy On April 9, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was paying a visit to Secretary of State William H. Seward when Secretary of War Edwin Stanton burst in with the news: Confederate General Robert E. Lee had surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army earlier that day, essentially ending the bloodiest conflict in American history.The following morning, April 10, after Stanton jolted the region awake with a 500-gun salute at dawn, the populace of Washington, D.C. took to the streets in celebration. A crowd of several thousand gathered outside the White House, clamoring for the President before he finally appeared in the second-story window to acknowledge their presence. Revealing that he planned to formally address the occasion in due time, Lincoln noted that he was particularly fond of the song ""Dixie,"" the anthem of the South, and asked the band assembled to… Read More

22/01/1948. Mahatma Gandhi This fragment states that “leaders doing the [right thing] was proving infectious”Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948. Gandhi had been an astute political campaigner who fought for and won Indian independence from British rule, and championed the rights of the Indian poor. His example of non-violent protest set the example for Martin Luther King and others, and is still revered throughout the world today.Gandhi’s biography states: “He stopped at the thresholds of the huts of the thousands of dispossessed, dressed like one of their own. He spoke to them in their own language. Here was living truth at last, and not only quotations from books, for this reason the Mahatma [Great Soul], the name given to him by the people of India, is his real name. Who else has felt like him that all Indians are his own flesh and blood? When love came to the door of India, that door was opened wide. At Gandhi's call India blossomed forth to new greatness, just as once… Read More

1830. William H. Crawford Acquired from the direct descendants of Crawford and has never been offered for sale previouslyWilliam H. Crawford was U.S. ambassador to France during the negotiations to end the War of 1812. During the those negotiations, he was responsible for superintending the American consuls in Europe and keeping them informed of developments. He was also an important negotiator from a distance. He was called home and appointed Secretary of War by President James Madison on August 1, 1815, succeeding James Monroe. Crawford served in the post about a year, and was then named Secretary of the Treasury. When Monroe entered the White House, he continued Crawford in office, and Crawford remained at Treasury until the end of Monroe’s administration.  Monroe’s term as Secretary of War was short but consequential. He presided over the military standing down after years of bitter conflict and also put reform at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point at the top of his agenda.Crawford’s… Read More

19/03/1915. Woodrow Wilson With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, American foreign policy became a struggle to remain out of the war and maintain the political and commercial rights of a neutral in the face of opposition from both belligerents. Britain used its powerful navy to establish a blockade of Germany, and the Germans in turn tried to counter-blockade Britain by using U-Boats to sink shipping bound there. By the start of 1915, it was clear that the war would in part be a battle of commerce, with neutrals such as the U.S. caught in the middle.On March 1, Britain stated that it was instituting a blockade controlling all passage to and from Germany by sea. No vessels sailing to Germany would be allowed to proceed to a German port. Moreover, any vessel sailing for a neutral European port, having aboard goods of German ownership or destination, might be seized. These actions by Britain significantly increased American concerns about interference with neutral rights.Pres. Wilson drafted… Read More

06/02/1865. Ulysses S. Grant The Confederates, Grant updates Stanton, “were leaving a part of their dead for us to bury, our losses were three officers & eighteen men killed, eleven Officers & ninety-two men wounded and twenty-two men missing.”Grant writes: “In front of one Brigade of Mott’s Div. he buried thirty-one of the enemy and counted twenty two graves besides some of which were large enough for five or six bodies each. Gen. Smythe estimates the loss of the enemy in his front at two hundred. Our captures for the day were about one hundred men, half of them taken by the Cavalry and the rest by the 5th & 2d Corps. This afternoon the 5th Corps advanced and drove the enemy back on to this Artillery, probably into his entrenchments, beyond Dabney’s Mill. The casualties for to-day I will report as soon as learned.”Unique in our experience, this being the only battle and casualty report from Grant we have ever seen.By February 1865, the stalemate around Petersburg had entered… Read More

20/11/1834. Thomas S. Jesup With the pacification of the Indian threat in Illinois, the U.S. Government ceased operations at Fort ArmstrongThomas Sidney Jesup was a United States Army officer known as the ""Father of the Modern Quartermaster Corps"". His 52-year (1808–1860) military career was one of the longest in the history of the United States Army. In 1836, while Jesup was still officially Quartermaster General, President Andrew Jackson detached him first to deal with the Creek tribe in Georgia and Alabama, and then to assume command of all U.S. troops in Florida during the Second Seminole War (1835–1842). His capture of Seminole leaders Osceola and Micanopy under a false flag of truce provoked controversy in the United States and abroad.Fort Armstrong was one of a chain of western frontier defenses which the United States erected after the War of 1812. It was located at the foot of Rock Island, in the Mississippi River near the present-day Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa. In 1832, the U.S.… Read More

30/10/1885. Louis Pasteur Edward Jenner had discovered that human beings could be protected against smallpox by inoculating them with a vaccine made from cowpox, a disease generally seen in cattle and identical to smallpox yet harmless in humans. Jenner’s discovery was based on exceptional circumstances - the existence of a disease similar to the human disease, but in animals, with a causative agent that triggers a protective response in humans.Louis Pasteur was a French chemist who is recognized as the most important figure in medical history for proving that germs cause infection and disease. He also developed pasteurization of milk and beer to kill these microorganisms, as well as vaccines against anthrax and rabies and pioneered antisepsis by doctors. His contributions are of such magnitude that he was named as #12 in the book “The 100 Most Influential Persons in History”, following the likes of Isaac Newton, John Gutenberg and Jesus.His great step forward with the first use of injection by… Read More

7/1/69. Lyndon B. Johnson “Your countrymen, your colleagues, and I are deeply in your debt for the many services you have performed...Few men in public life have been so intimately involved in the vital issues of our time.""Lewellyn E. Thompson was one of the most important American diplomats of the 20th Century.  He was the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, serving two separate tours in the administrations of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and then acting as advisor to Richard M. Nixon.  Few Ambassadors faced as many crises as Thompson did in Moscow - the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance aircraft over Russia, the great confrontation between the U.S. and Soviet Union over Berlin and the building of the Berlin Wall, very difficult summits between Soviet Premier Khruschev and Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, the August 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and tensions over the Vietnam War. But there… Read More