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


My former store in downtown Roanoke was
Surrounded by stock brokers, real estate brokers & insurance brokers
hence the name "history broker"

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ITEMS CURRENTLY FOR SALE AS OF 5/8/2013:



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Glossary of photographic terms



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Essays on Daguerreotypes & Early Photography



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QUICK LINKS TO ITEMS FOR SALE:

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--Historical Maps CLICK HERE

--Old Military Prints CLICK HERE

--Miscellaneous Items CLICK HERE


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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. -- PEARL HARBOR & CSA GENERALS IN 1941 LETTER
    Lanier Merritt Nashville Tennessee collection of Confederate Civil War General Officer pictures vs WWII
    (101a1c)
  4. -- 1886 MUSIC DEALER ADVERTISING COVER & BROCHURE FROM HIRAM, OHIO
    D. H. Beaman.
    (1102c1l)
  5. -- NINE OLD 1943-54 N&W RAILROAD ADVERTISING PROOFS
    World War II propaganda, Hitler, Virginia Railroads, coal.
    (107a1g)
  6. -- RARE OLD 1831 PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VA MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
    James & Hannah Burnett, Tunstall clerk of the court.
    (1006c1n)
  7. -- OLD c1870 ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY VA LETTER PLEA FOR WELFARE
    Mary T. Miller, Margaret Thompson.
    (907a1i2)
  8. -- EARLY 1933 LETTER FROM THE HERBERT HOOVER WHITE HOUSE
    Lawrence Richey.
    (208a1p)
  9. -- 157 WOLFEBORO, BROOKFIELD WAKEFIELD NH PAPERS 1791-1844
    Tibbetts family, school, public roads, surveying, taxes, etc.
    (808b1b)
  10. -- WASHINGTON E. CONNOR SIGNATURES JAY GOULD'S STOCK BROKER
    Business Financial Autograph, Union League Club, Tiffany & Co.
    (109b1f)
  11. -- NEW YORK CITY EMBEZZLER JOHN C ENO AUTOGRAPHED ASTOR BANK CHECK
    Wall Street panic.
    (109b1g)
  12. --RARE VIRGINIA WRITER ELLEN GLASGOW PHOTOS, BOOK PLATE & MEMORABILIA
    Dugald Stewart Walker, Edward Brittingham Smoot.
    (310a1g)
  13. --GEN EICHELBERGER SIGNED WWII LETTER & 8TH ARMY PATCH
    Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, Joseph Sergi, East Cambridge, MA, US EIGHTH ARMY.
    (910a1w)
  14. --1888 GILBERT & SULLIVAN OPERA LIBRETTO YEOMEN OF GUARD
    MERRYMAN AND HIS MAID, W. S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan.
    (1210a1e)
  15. --RARE 1863 CONFEDERATE VIRGINIA POLITICAL ELECTION POLLS
    Henry County, Horse Pasture store, Gen. John Imboden, J. Randolph Tucker.
    (211a1p)
  16. --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)
  17. --SIX OLD 1870s LEXINGTON VIRGINIA CHECKS -- GENERAL R. E. LEE'S FUNERAL
    J. Preston Moore, William G. White, Joseph G. Steele, John C. Boude, John Letcher, Matthew Fontaine Maury, VMI, C. M. Koones, James D. Anderson, W. P. Hartigan, 58th Virginia Infantry Regiment.
    (513a1g)


  18. PHOTOGRAPHIC ITEMS FOR SALE
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  19. -- CARTOON OF PHOTOGRAPHER IN OLD 1882 PA ALMANAC
    Hostetter's Illustrated, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Astrology signs
    (c24e)
  20. -- OLD c1910 PHOTO BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS STEAM ENGINE, PENNSYLVANIA STEEL COMPANY
    (1205a1c)
  21. -- ICE CREAM & CANDY STORE FRONT IN 1890s PHOTOGRAPH
    (399d1f)
  22. -- OLD AFRICAN AMERICAN BASKETBALL TEAM PHOTO 1949
    Armstrong High School Washington, DC, spectators.
    (599a1z2)
  23. -- 54TH REGIMENT BAND c1900 ROCHESTER NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPH
    Employees of the STECHER Lithographic Company.
    (1103a1q)
  24. -- OLD HANDMADE LEATHER FOLK ART TINTYPE FRAME c1880
    (800c1o)
  25. -- 1932 ADVERTISING PHOTO CIRCUS ACT- TARZAN THE HUMAN APE
    E. Anderson.
    (307a1n)
  26. -- OLD WWII US ARMY PHOTO OF GENERAL MARK W. CLARK
    Korean War.
    (308a1j)
  27. -- OLD WWII US ARMY PHOTOS OF GEN WITHERS A BURRESS & MORE
    French Army General, Lieutenant General.
    (308a1k)
  28. -- 2 OLD c1890s PASTORAL LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHS
    Sheep.
    (508a1b)
  29. -- HISTORIC OLD 1932 BONUS ARMY CAMP PHOTOS WASHINGTON DC
    Anacostia Flats, 369th Infantry, "Harlem Hellfighters," Bonus Expeditionary Force, White House.
    (1108a1d)
  30. --GREAT OLD 1909 AFRICAN AMERICAN NURSE POSTCARD
    Boyden Adams, Tarboro, NC.
    (502a1k)
  31. --1862 CDV PHOTO OF A BLACK CHILD POSED AS "YOUNG AFRICA"
    E and H.T. Anthony.
    (310a1c)
  32. --MATHEW BRADY PHOTOGRAPH OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE ON BACK PORCH
    E and H.T. Anthony, Gen. Lee & staff.
    (113a1c)
  33. --A RARE CDV PHOTOGRAPH OF CONFEDERATE GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE FULL-STANDING WITH SWORD
    C. D. Fredericks & Co., Minnis & Cowell.
    (513a1a)


  34. MISCELLANEOUS HISTORY ITEMS FOR SALE
    (Click on item for full description, photo, & price):


  35. --AUTHENTIC ORIGINAL 19th CENTURY HISTORICAL
    MILITARY PRINTS CURRENTLY OFFERED FOR SALE

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

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

  38. --NAVAL INSIGNIA ON ORIGINAL CARDBOARD c1898
    (paper8)
  39. -- WALLACE NUTTING MARTHA & GEORGE WASHINGTON SILHOUETTES
    Foster Bros, Boston, MA, 1912.
    (gwsilhouette)
  40. -- OLD 1952 DEMOCRAT POLITICAL CONVENTION SCORECARD
    Stevenson, Barkley, Harriman, Kefauver, Kerr, Russell, Newsweek.
    (508a1h)
  41. -- 1881 LYNCHBURG VIRGINIA NEWSPAPER
    Lynchburg Tri-Weekly Virginian.
    (1108a1t)
  42. --1928 AL SMITH ENAMELED POLITICAL PINS ON ORIGINAL STORE CARDS
    Herbert Hoover, election of 1928.
    (1010a1e)
  43. --1880 FOLK ART PENCIL DRAWING OF A BOY IN A HORSE STABLE
    (1210a1h)
  44. --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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Glossary of photographic terms