{"title":"America's Artifacts","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eRareified is pleased to partner with Seth Kaller to offer select guests a collection of eleven American historical manuscripts, documents, and inscribed books, spanning the first year of the Revolutionary War through the close of the twentieth century, presented together as a single body of material tracing two hundred and twenty-five years of American history in the hand of the people who made it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe earliest material dates to 1775: a passport signed by George Washington at his newly established headquarters in Cambridge, granting safe passage to a Newburyport schooner in one of the earliest surviving references to the Continental Navy, and Connecticut delegate Samuel Huntington's own working copy of the printed journal of the Second Continental Congress. A rare copy on silk of the 1818 facsimile Declaration of Independence and a September 1789 newspaper printing of the Bill of Rights, set in type two days before Congress settled on its final wording, extend the group's founding-era material into print. A signed customs document has Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, certifying duty owed on an imported cask of macaroni - an unusual survival, and among very few import records signed by a Founding Father to have reached the market.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAbraham Lincoln is represented three times, in three distinct registers: an autograph transcript of a railroad stock subscription book, filed as evidence in one of his most significant cases as a circuit attorney; a spoonerism-laden story written out for a Springfield court bailiff, regarded as the best-known example of Lincoln's private humor; and a Civil War recruiting broadsheet urging formerly enslaved men to enlist in the Union Army under the Emancipation Proclamation. Dwight D. Eisenhower's signed message to the Allied Expeditionary Force on the eve of D-Day, a first edition of \u003cem\u003eStride Toward Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e inscribed by Martin Luther King Jr. to a donor of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and Erica Jong's inscription of \u003cem\u003eWhat Do Women Want?\u003c\/em\u003e to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg round out the group.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMaterial of this range rarely reaches the market from a single source. Dealers and institutions active in this field tend to specialize by period - Revolutionary War manuscripts, Lincolniana, and civil rights–era association material typically surface separately, if at all - making a group that runs continuously from the Second Continental Congress to the modern Supreme Court an uncommon offering to assemble, let alone to acquire, as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"george-washington-passport-friends-adventure-1775","title":"George Washington Signed Passport for the Schooner \"Friends Adventure\" – 1775 Continental Navy Reference","description":"\u003cp\u003eManuscript passport signed by George Washington as Commander in Chief, granting the schooner Friends Adventure safe passage from Newburyport, Massachusetts to Philadelphia under Master John Fulford. Addressed to officers of the armed vessels \"fitted out at the Continental expence,\" it is among the earliest surviving references to the developing Continental Navy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFull transcript: \"To all Officers \u0026amp; others Comanding or belonging to the armed Vessels fitted out at the Continental expence. Let pass without interruption, from the Port of Newbury to Philadelphia, the Schooner Freinds Adventure, Whereof is Master John Fulford, being a freind to American Liberty. Cambridge, 18th November 1775. G[o] Washington. by His Excellencys Comand \/ Stephen Moylan \/ P.T.S.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWashington took command of the Continental Army on July 3, 1775, and set up headquarters at Cambridge. With Boston Harbor closed to shipping, merchants routed vessels through nearby ports; Newburyport, 35 miles north, became the army's main supply depot during the siege of Boston, which lasted until March 1776. Congress had authorized the Continental Navy just five weeks earlier, and privateering only three days before this document was signed. By war's end, American ships had taken roughly 1,500 British vessels and more than 12,000 prisoners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGEORGE WASHINGTON. Manuscript Document Signed, Passport for the Friends Adventure, November 18, 1775, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 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One of only four or five copies known on silk, the highest-priced format Tyler offered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the surge of nationalism following the War of 1812, and as the founding generation began to pass away, Americans developed a strong appetite for artifacts tied to the nation's founding. Tyler produced a decorative rendering of the Declaration's text followed by facsimile signatures, sold by advance subscription. The subscription book survives at the University of Virginia and was signed by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, John Marshall, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster, among others. Records show about 1,694 orders for paper copies at $5 each; only 40 on vellum, and just four or five on the premium silk or linen at $7.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. Copperplate printing on silk. Washington, D.C., 1818. Drawn by Benjamin Owen Tyler, engraved by Peter Maverick. 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Congress shall make no law establishing articles of faith, or a mode of worship, or prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition to the government for a redress of grievances.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe House had proposed seventeen amendments; the Senate cut the number to twelve, and the two chambers kept negotiating wording, especially for what became the First and Sixth Amendments. This September 23 issue reflects the text after the House agreed on September 21 to ten of the Senate's points, with a conference still working through the rest. The House dropped its remaining objections on September 24, the Senate concurred the next day, and the House gave final approval on the 28th, when an engrossed copy was signed, the last legislative step before the amendments went to the states.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e[BILL OF RIGHTS]. Gazette of the United States. New York: John Fenno, September 23, 1789. 4 pp. Framed. Inventory #27215.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNote: this framed copy is the same newspaper edition as another example Seth Kaller has offered separately (Inventory #27116.99); confirm framing details before publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seth Kaller, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48187924938988,"sku":"27215","price":25000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/6732\/0556\/files\/27215.99_fr.jpg?v=1787079120"},{"product_id":"eisenhower-signed-d-day-message-1944","title":"Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed D-Day Message to the Allied Expeditionary Force","description":"\u003cp\u003eEisenhower's message to the soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force, issued June 6, 1944, the day of the Normandy invasion. This example was printed and signed in 1948, removed from a limited edition of his memoir Crusade in Europe (1,426 copies).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. Signed D-Day Message to the Allied Expeditionary Force, June 6, 1944; printed and signed 1948. 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William Archibald Spooner of Oxford.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"He said he was riding bass-ackwards on a jass-ack, through a patton-cotch, on a pair of baddle-sags, stuffed full of binger-gred, when the animal steered at a scump, and the lirrup-steather broke, and throwed him in the forner of the kence and broke his pishing-fole. He said he would not have minded it much, but he fell right in a great tow-curd; in fact, he said it give him a right smart sick of fitness, he had the molera-corbus pretty bad. He said, about bray dake he come to himself, ran home, seized up a stick of wood and split the axe to make a light, rushed into the house, and found the door sick abed, and his wife standing open. But thank goodness she is getting right hat and farty again.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to C. F. Gunther of Chicago, relayed to Lincoln biographer Jesse W. Weik, Lincoln wrote this for a bailiff of the Springfield courts. First published by Emanuel Hertz in The Hidden Lincoln (1938). It passed through the Illinois State Historical Library (traded for a first edition of the Book of Mormon), Charles Hamilton Galleries, the Eberstadt collection, a 1994 Christie's sale, collector Louise Taper, and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Foundation, before selling again at Freeman's\/Hindman in May 2025. Exhibited at the Huntington Library (1993-94) and the Gerald Ford Presidential Museum (2001-02).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eABRAHAM LINCOLN. Autograph Manuscript, \"Bass-Ackwards\" story, ca. 1845-1850, Springfield, IL. 1 p., 7 x 8.5 in. Inventory #28226.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: silked; creasing from folds; small losses along folds affecting a few letters; small marginal loss in upper right corner not affecting text; scattered spotting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seth Kaller, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48187925430508,"sku":"28226","price":550000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/6732\/0556\/files\/p-2604-001-28226_p1_post_w.jpg?v=1787009406"},{"product_id":"lincoln-alton-sangamon-railroad-subscription-1851","title":"Abraham Lincoln Autograph Manuscript – His Transcript of the Alton \u0026 Sangamon Railroad Stock Subscription Book (1851)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEight-page list of stockholders, entirely in Lincoln's hand, prepared as evidence in his first significant railroad case. Lincoln's own name appears among the ninety-one subscribers, one of only two known instances of him purchasing stock, and the only surviving certificate of his known today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Alton and Sangamon Rail Road Company was chartered in 1847 to run from Alton, through New Berlin, to Springfield. When the route changed in 1850 to bypass certain landholders, shareholder James A. Barret and others refused further payments, claiming breach of contract. Lincoln was retained in 1851 to compel payment, and his transcript of the subscription book, naming Barret and setting out the shareholders' obligations, became the key evidence filed in Sangamon Circuit Court on February 22, 1851.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A. Lincoln,\" with six shares for $600, appears among the subscribers, alongside Ninian W. Edwards (Mary Todd Lincoln's brother-in-law), Lincoln's law partner John T. Stuart, and other prominent Springfield residents. The Illinois Supreme Court ruled for Lincoln and the railroad, a decision later cited in twenty-five other cases nationwide and credited with establishing that corporate charters could be altered in the public interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eABRAHAM LINCOLN. Autograph Manuscript Signed, transcript of the \"Subscription Book of the Capital Stock of the Alton and Sangamon Rail Road Company,\" incorporated February 27, 1847, transcribed early 1851, with legal docket \"Alton and Sangamon Railroad Company vs. James A. Barret.\" 8 pp., 6 5\/8 x 8 1\/4 x 1\/4 in. Sold together with Lincoln's original stock certificate for six shares. Inventory #27561.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seth Kaller, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48187925463276,"sku":"27561","price":240000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/6732\/0556\/files\/27561_p2_3.jpg?v=1787076831"},{"product_id":"freedom-to-the-slave-recruiting-broadsheet-civil-war","title":"\"Freedom to the Slave\" – Rare Civil War Broadsheet Recruiting African Americans for the Union Army","description":"\u003cp\u003eChromolithographed Civil War recruiting broadsheet: a Union soldier holds a flag with the banner \"Freedom to the Slave,\" while U.S. Colored Troops march at right and African Americans walk into a public school at left. The Union figure stands on a Confederate flag being torn by a freed slave, with broken shackles in the foreground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"All Slaves were made Freemen. By Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States... Come, then, able-bodied Colored Men, to the nearest United States Camp, and Fight for the Stars and Stripes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIssued in Philadelphia around 1863-1864 by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments, the sheet also carries the \"original version\" of the John Brown song, written by Hartford poet Henry Howard Brownell to be sung to Handel's \"Hallelujah Chorus,\" later eclipsed by Julia Ward Howe's \"Battle Hymn of the Republic.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation took effect January 1, 1863, recruiters moved quickly to enlist Black soldiers, likely distributing sheets like this one in the South among the newly freed. By war's end roughly 180,000 African American men had served in the Union Army and 19,000 in the Navy; nearly 40,000 died, most from disease. Captured Black soldiers faced re-enslavement or, as at Fort Pillow, summary execution. Segregated into regiments under white officers, they were paid less than white troops until Congress mandated equal pay, retroactively, in June 1864.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e[SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE FOR RECRUITING COLORED REGIMENTS]. Broadsheet, chromolithographed illustration on recto, lettering on verso. Philadelphia, c.1863\/1864. 8 1\/2 x 10 in. Ex: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Inventory #28351.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: upper left corner clipped in margin; verso with small tissue reinforcement and light soiling; bottom margin slightly unevenly trimmed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seth Kaller, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48187925528812,"sku":"28351","price":22500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/6732\/0556\/files\/28351_Freedom_to_the_Slave_p1.jpg?v=1787078233"},{"product_id":"mlk-stride-toward-freedom-inscribed-naacp-donor","title":"Martin Luther King Jr. Signed \u0026 Inscribed \"Stride Toward Freedom\" – to a Donor of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of King's account of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, in its original dust jacket, inscribed to philanthropist Charlotte Rosenbaum:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"To Miss Charlotte Rosenbaum: In appreciation for your genuine humanitarian concern, and your great financial and moral support in the struggle to realize the American dream, Martin Luther King, Jr.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMontgomery's segregated bus system reserved front seats for white riders and back seats for Black riders at all times, with a contested middle section between them. When Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955 for refusing to give up her seat, local NAACP leadership organized a boycott under the newly formed Montgomery Improvement Association, choosing the young pastor Martin Luther King Jr. to lead it. The 382-day boycott survived firebombings and King's own arrest, ending after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ruling that Alabama's bus segregation laws were unconstitutional.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCharlotte Rosenbaum funded mental health care and supported organizations including the ACLU and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The inscription is dated in her hand, \"11-22-61,\" on the dedication page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Signed copy of Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, first edition. New York: Harper and Row, 1958. 224 pp. Octavo, original dust jacket. Ex: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Inventory #28352.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: lightly toned at gutter; dust jacket with some minor tears and wear at upper and lower margins; minor bumps at corners.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seth Kaller, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48187925922028,"sku":"28352","price":50000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/6732\/0556\/files\/28352_MLK_002.jpg?v=1787077892"},{"product_id":"erica-jong-what-do-women-want-inscribed-rbg","title":"Erica Jong Signed \u0026 Inscribed \"What Do Women Want?\" – to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of Erica Jong's essay collection, inscribed by the author to Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her husband:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"For Ruth \u0026amp; Marty Ginsberg [sic] \/ Warmly \/ E J \/ 23 Sept 98.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe title nods to Freud's question to Marie Bonaparte about what a woman truly wants. Jong, best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying, a touchstone of second-wave feminism that sold more than 27 million copies, later called Ginsburg \"a wonderful woman\" and recalled teaching alongside her at the Salzburg Global Seminar. After Ginsburg's death, Jong's daughter Molly Jong-Fast wrote that her mother \"thought of RBG as a GOD.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRuth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020) co-founded the ACLU's Women's Rights Project in 1972, served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1980, and was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Clinton in 1993.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e[RUTH BADER GINSBURG]. Erica Jong, What Do Women Want? Bread Roses Sex Power. New York: HarperCollins, 1998. First edition, hardcover, no dust jacket. 224 pp., 6 1\/2 x 10 in. 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Huntington must have used this book to familiarize himself with the actions of the First Session after he was selected as a delegate to the Second Session, which convened just a month after the First Session adjourned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSAMUEL HUNTINGTON.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Signed Copy of Journal of the Proceedings of the Congress, Held at Philadelphia, May 10, 1775. Philadelphia: William Bradford and Thomas Bradford, 1775. 4, iv, 239 pp., 5 x 7¾ in.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Background\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Second Continental Congress convened on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, with representatives from twelve colonies; Georgia’s delegates arrived in mid-July. The Congress functioned as the de facto national government at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, raising and organizing armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and writing petitions to Great Britain and to other British colonies that might join the confederation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn July 1775, the Second Continental Congress again attempted to reach out to their fellow British subjects with an address to the inhabitants of Great Britain. Even after preparing a declaration describing why they had to take up arms, the delegates sent one last petition to the King, who refused to read this final “olive branch” petition and declared in August 1775 that the colonies were in rebellion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume, covering the period of May 10 to August 1, 1775, includes the texts of several key documents:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLetter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e·      Address\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e“To the Inhabitants of Great Britain”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(April 26, p43-46)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e·      Address “\u003cem\u003eTo the oppressed Inhabitants of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e” (May 29, p67-70)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e·      Resolutions establishing the Continental Army (June 14, p89-90)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e·      Appointment of George Washington as Commander in Chief of “\u003cem\u003eall the Continental Forces, raised or to be raised for the defence of American liberty\u003c\/em\u003e” (June 15, p92)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e·      Washington’s Speech accepting the appointment and declining pay (June 16, p93)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e·      Commission to George Washington (June 17, p97-98)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e·      Rules and regulations for government of Continental Army (June 30, p112-132)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e·      Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (July 6, p140-150)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e·      Olive Branch Petition (July 8, p151-157)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e·      Address\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e“To the Inhabitants of Great Britain”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(July 8, p157-171)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e·      Speech to the Six Nations (Mohawks, Oneidas, Tuscaroras, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas) (July 13, 179-188)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e·      Address to the Assembly of Jamaica (July 25, p201-205)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e·      Establishment of postal service with Benjamin Franklin as first postmaster general (July 26, p208-209)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e·      Address to the People of Ireland: “\u003cem\u003ethey have nothing more to expect from the same common enemy, than the humble favour of being last devoured\u003c\/em\u003e” (July 28, p213-222)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seth Kaller, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48188055716076,"sku":null,"price":88000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/6732\/0556\/files\/p-2466-001-27202.99_Dec_of_Causes_w.jpg?v=1787009168"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/6732\/0556\/collections\/230b4f76-59fa-4f21-afd7-e26c89146157.webp?v=1787010666","url":"https:\/\/rareified.com\/collections\/americas-artifacts.oembed","provider":"Rareified","version":"1.0","type":"link"}