An appealing, informative and extremely rare woodcut view of Yale, one of the earliest extant views of the institution. With provenance to one of America’s greatest collectors and one of its greatest dealers of the 20th century. The woodcut is a low-level architectural profile taken from a vantage point on New Haven Green and looks […]
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View DetailsA nearly-complete 1898 run of one of America’s “leading temperance journals” (Mott), including maps highlighting consumption in and around leading universities. Funk & Wagnalls published a weekly Temperance journal from 1884 to 1906, though under various titles and in a range of formats: For 1898 the first 50 issues were the eight-page broadsheet New York […]
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View DetailsA newspaper issued jointly by three organizations in advance of the 1970 New Haven May Day protests on the Yale campus and the surrounding neighborhoods of the city. The protest stemmed from the May 20, 1969 killing there of 19 year-old Alex Rackley by three Black Panthers, acting on the mistaken belief that he was […]
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View DetailsThis rare map of New Haven is a trove of information about the city as it was in the early 19th century. It is also a most decorative piece of early Americana, with a distinctive Federal-era aesthetic including bold engraving, architectural features depicted in profile, and flamboyant calligraphic flourishes. The map depicts a growing city […]
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View DetailsA large, displayable and extremely rare broadside promoting a June 1870 rowing contest between Harvard and Yale. The race was a prelude to that year’s installment of the Harvard Yale regatta, then and now the country’s oldest intercollegiate athletic competition. The event was held at Lake Saltonstall, a long, narrow body of water in Brandford […]
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