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Proprietor: Howard R. McManus
Address: PO Box 2682 Salem, VA 24153
Phone: (540) 375-2152


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ITEMS CURRENTLY FOR SALE AS OF 3/5/2012:



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    HISTORICAL PAPER ITEMS FOR SALE
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  1. --SLAVES LISTED IN OLD 1848 MONROE COUNTY VA WV APPRAISAL
    John Jones, pair of horse pistols, estate appraisal, African American, peculiar institution
    (1104c1t)
  2. --1865 TEXAS US ARMY "COLORED LABORER" PAY DOCUMENT
    Houston, TX, Quartermaster's Department
    (paper25)
  3. --OLD c1890s MD DENTIST / DENTAL BROADSIDE
    with great illustrations of TEETH
    "painless Dental Parlor", Baltimore, MD, Herman R. Eavey
    (111a1e)
  4. -- PEARL HARBOR & CSA GENERALS IN 1941 LETTER
    Lanier Merritt Nashville Tennessee collection of Confederate Civil War General Officer pictures vs WWII
    (101a1c)
  5. -- 1886 MUSIC DEALER ADVERTISING COVER & BROCHURE FROM HIRAM, OHIO
    D. H. Beaman.
    (1102c1l)
  6. -- 1935 GREAT DEPRESSION LETTER & COVER, DESPERATION, YMCA RELATED
    Columbia, SC, Washington DC, Telephone Operator.
    (506a1x)
  7. -- NINE OLD 1943-54 N&W RAILROAD ADVERTISING PROOFS
    World War II propaganda, Hitler, Virginia Railroads, coal.
    (107a1g)
  8. -- RARE OLD 1831 PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VA MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
    James & Hannah Burnett, Tunstall clerk of the court.
    (1006c1n)
  9. -- OLD c1885 ARMY TAILORS LETTER ABOUT WEST POINT CADETS
    Lancaster, PA, Lt. Elisha Spencer Benton.
    (307a1a)
  10. -- OLD 1827 HALIFAX COUNTY VIRGINIA TAX DOCUMENT / RECEIPT
    Crispin Dickenson.
    (507c1e)
  11. -- OLD c1870 ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY VA LETTER PLEA FOR WELFARE
    Mary T. Miller, Margaret Thompson.
    (907a1i2)
  12. -- EARLY 1933 LETTER FROM THE HERBERT HOOVER WHITE HOUSE
    Lawrence Richey.
    (208a1p)
  13. -- 157 WOLFEBORO, BROOKFIELD WAKEFIELD NH PAPERS 1791-1844
    Tibbetts family, school, public roads, surveying, taxes, etc.
    (808b1b)
  14. -- WASHINGTON E. CONNOR SIGNATURES JAY GOULD'S STOCK BROKER
    Business Financial Autograph, Union League Club, Tiffany & Co.
    (109b1f)
  15. -- NEW YORK CITY EMBEZZLER JOHN C ENO AUTOGRAPHED ASTOR BANK CHECK
    Wall Street panic.
    (109b1g)
  16. --RARE VIRGINIA WRITER ELLEN GLASGOW PHOTOS, BOOK PLATE & MEMORABILIA
    Dugald Stewart Walker, Edward Brittingham Smoot.
    (310a1g)
  17. --GEN EICHELBERGER SIGNED WWII LETTER & 8TH ARMY PATCH
    Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, Joseph Sergi, East Cambridge, MA, US EIGHTH ARMY.
    (910a1w)
  18. --1888 GILBERT & SULLIVAN OPERA LIBRETTO YEOMEN OF GUARD
    MERRYMAN AND HIS MAID, W. S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan.
    (1210a1e)
  19. --RARE 1863 CONFEDERATE VIRGINIA POLITICAL ELECTION POLLS
    Henry County, Horse Pasture store, Gen. John Imboden, J. Randolph Tucker.
    (211a1p)
  20. --100+ LETTERS FROM MARSHALL COLLEGE HUNTINGTON, WV c1910 -- EDITH AGNES JONES PAPERS
    Wolf Creek, West Virginia, Alleghany Collegiate institute, Roy Irving Haynes, Titanic, Women's Sufferage.
    (511a1e)


  21. PHOTOGRAPHIC ITEMS FOR SALE
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  22. --WOMAN'S OCCUPATIONAL DAGUERREOTYPE
    (shop)
  23. --DAGUERREOTYPES OF BROTHER & SISTER--TWINS?
    IN EXCELLENT CONDITION
    Both images sealed in near-mint Union case
    (home13)
  24. --REAL PHOTO POSTCARD OF DOLLS, CARRIAGES & 2 LITTLE GIRLS WHO DIED
    EXTREMELY POIGNANT from Edinburg, VA
    (d29x)
  25. -- TWO OLD PHOTOS OF WOMEN WORKING IN FACTORY c1900
    food processing or canning factory
    (800b1g)
  26. -- CARTOON OF PHOTOGRAPHER IN OLD 1882 PA ALMANAC
    Hostetter's Illustrated, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Astrology signs
    (c24e)
  27. -- CHILD & TOY ELEPHANT PROP "TAKEN IN THE MAMMOTH WAGON" CDV PHOTO
    Traveling Photographer
    (405a1n)
  28. -- OLD c1910 PHOTO BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS STEAM ENGINE, PENNSYLVANIA STEEL COMPANY
    (1205a1c)
  29. -- ICE CREAM & CANDY STORE FRONT IN 1890s PHOTOGRAPH
    (399d1f)
  30. -- GROUP OF OLD 1940s AFRICAN AMERICAN FOOTBALL TEAM PHOTOS
    Armstrong HS, Washington, DC, majorettes, homecoming court.
    (599a1z)
  31. -- 54TH REGIMENT BAND c1900 ROCHESTER NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPH
    Employees of the STECHER Lithographic Company.
    (1103a1q)
  32. -- OLD AFRICAN AMERICAN BASKETBALL TEAM PHOTO 1949
    Armstrong High School Washington, DC, spectators.
    (599a1z2)
  33. -- 3 OLD AMATEUR STEREO CARDS ROAD PAVING STEAMROLLER, ETC
    Boy & pony, road crew, horse drawn, flood.
    (507a1k)
  34. -- ANSON DAGUERREOTYPE OF CROSS EYED? MAN, ORIGINAL SEALS
    Broadway, New York.
    (199b1x)
  35. -- OLD HANDMADE LEATHER FOLK ART TINTYPE FRAME c1880
    (800c1o)
  36. -- OLD 1880s CABINET PHOTO OF A FIREMAN WEARING PARADE RIBBONS
    (1107a1n)
  37. -- 1932 ADVERTISING PHOTO CIRCUS ACT- TARZAN THE HUMAN APE
    E. Anderson.
    (307a1n)
  38. -- OLD WWII US AIR FORCE PHOTO OF GENERAL JOHN K CANNON
    Army Air Corps, 12th Bomber Command.
    (308a1i)
  39. -- OLD WWII US ARMY PHOTO OF GENERAL MARK W. CLARK
    Korean War.
    (308a1j)
  40. -- OLD WWII US ARMY PHOTOS OF GEN WITHERS A BURRESS & MORE
    French Army General, Lieutenant General.
    (308a1k)
  41. -- 2 OLD c1890s PASTORAL LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHS
    Sheep.
    (508a1b)
  42. -- RARE 1899 NC SENATE PHOTO COLLAGE - ONLY 1 BLACK MEMBER
    THOMAS O. FULLER, North Carolina State Senate, African American racial discrimination.
    (1008a1a)
  43. -- HISTORIC OLD 1932 BONUS ARMY CAMP PHOTOS WASHINGTON DC
    Anacostia Flats, 369th Infantry, "Harlem Hellfighters," Bonus Expeditionary Force, White House.
    (1108a1d)
  44. --GREAT OLD 1909 AFRICAN AMERICAN NURSE POSTCARD
    Boyden Adams, Tarboro, NC.
    (502a1k)
  45. --1862 CDV PHOTO OF A BLACK CHILD POSED AS "YOUNG AFRICA"
    E and H.T. Anthony.
    (310a1c)
  46. --4 OLD SPANISH AMERICAN WAR SOLDIER PHOTOS IN CUBA ++
    Light House Fort, H.O. Wickline, Regimental Photographer 3rd U.S.V. Engineers, Reconcentrados, Concentration Camp, U.S.S. Marblehead, Guantánamo Bay.
    (1210a1b)


  47. MISCELLANEOUS HISTORY ITEMS FOR SALE
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  48. --AUTHENTIC ORIGINAL 19th CENTURY HISTORICAL
    MILITARY PRINTS CURRENTLY OFFERED FOR SALE

  49. --LIST OF HISTORICAL MAPS CURRENTLY OFFERED FOR SALE

  50. --AUTHENTIC ORIGINAL 18th & 19th CENTURY CHROMOLITHOGRAPH
    BIRD PRINTS CURRENTLY OFFERED FOR SALE

  51. --NAVAL INSIGNIA ON ORIGINAL CARDBOARD c1898
    (paper8)
  52. --THREE OLD CALLIGRAPHIC ALBUM PAGES FROM 1873
    Bible, Lord's Prayer, Lockport, New York
    (1102d1b)
  53. -- N&W RR SAFETY CERTIFICATE OF MERIT-EMBOSSED
    Norfolk & Western Railway
    (c26y)
  54. -- OLD CHARCOAL FOLK ART DRAWING OF COWS, RIVER & SAWMILL
    Lynchburg, VA.
    (207a1z)
  55. -- WALLACE NUTTING MARTHA & GEORGE WASHINGTON SILHOUETTES
    Foster Bros, Boston, MA, 1912.
    (gwsilhouette)
  56. -- OLD 1952 DEMOCRAT POLITICAL CONVENTION SCORECARD
    Stevenson, Barkley, Harriman, Kefauver, Kerr, Russell, Newsweek.
    (508a1h)
  57. -- 1881 LYNCHBURG VIRGINIA NEWSPAPER
    Lynchburg Tri-Weekly Virginian.
    (1108a1t)
  58. -- 1859 RICHMOND VIRGINIA NEWSPAPER
    The Religious Herald, P. E. Gibbs.
    (1108a1u)
  59. -- 1874 RICHMOND VIRGINIA NEWSPAPER, GOOD RAG CONTENT
    The Richmond Enquirer.
    (507c1c)
  60. -- OLD WWI 1918 AEF ARMY AVIATION AERO SQUADRON NEWSLETTER
    157th Aero Squadron, American Expeditionary Force, printed "Somewhere in England".
    (309d1i)
  61. --1928 AL SMITH ENAMELED POLITICAL PINS ON ORIGINAL STORE CARDS
    Herbert Hoover, election of 1928.
    (1010a1e)
  62. --MINE TO MARKET CLASSIC HISTORY OF NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY
    Coal Transportation, N&W RWY, Joseph T. Lambie.
    (1210a1g)
  63. --1880 FOLK ART PENCIL DRAWING OF A BOY IN A HORSE STABLE
    (1210a1h)
  64. --OUT-OF-PRINT CIVIL WAR BOOK on CD ROM:
    THE BATTLE OF CLOYD'S MOUNTAIN
    The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Raid April 29 - May 19, 1864. Battle fought in Pulaski County, VA
    (cloyds)
 
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