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The baby waker, its thunder tones shall arouse the freeman card. Dated about 1861. This pro-Confederate trading card depicts an eleven-star Confederate flag waving as a cannon fires. The Confederacy used the eleven-star flag from July 2, 1861, until…

A circular letter from Secretary General William M. Ireland entitled “A Statute in regard to spurious Masons of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.” Dated after 1882. In this document, Irelands announces the enactment of a statute that warns…

Signed photograph of President Gerald R. Ford, addressed to the Caldwell Consistory, Valley of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. Signed by President Ford below photograph, on mat.

Photograph is the first official…

Remember Fort Sumter! Dated between 1861 and 1865. This Civil War envelope depicts the bombardment and destruction of Fort Sumter as an untouched American flag waves above the fort.

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A photographic postcard print of the reception room of the new Prince Hall Masonic Home of Rock Island, Illinois. Dated about 1927. This real photo postcard print or RPPC depicts reception room of the new Prince Hall Masonic Home of Rock Island,…

A photographic postcard print of the new Prince Hall Masonic Home of Rock Island, Illinois. Dated about 1927. This real photo postcard print or RPPC depicts main entrance of the new Prince Hall Masonic Home of Rock Island, Illinois, shortly after its…

A photographic postcard print of the new Prince Hall Masonic Home of Rock Island, Illinois. Dated about 1927. This real photo postcard print or RPPC depicts the reverse of the new Prince Hall Masonic Home of Rock Island, Illinois, shortly after its…

A copy of President McKinley's last public address and proclamation. Dated about 1901.

Photograph of American composer John Philip Sousa and American inventor Thomas Alva Edison. This image was published in the October 1923 issue of the magazine Etude entitled "A Momentous Musical Meeting."

Photograph of General Douglas MacArthur. Dated 1920. An autographed photograph of General Douglas MacArthur.