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America's first drag queen governor, Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury, Queen Anne's first cousin, affirms the witness to t...
07/22/2023

America's first drag queen governor, Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury, Queen Anne's first cousin, affirms the witness to the witnesses of Thomas Burroughs signing his will in 1703.

"New York the second day of September 1703 there appeared before Edward Viscount Cornbury hereto Ext Gentt & Governor in Chief of the Provinces of New York New Jersey &c John Sheppard and Bart Lewis and made oath upon the Holy Evangelist that they did see the Testator Thomas Burroughs sign seal and Publish the above written Testament as his last will and testament and at the time of its publication thereof he was of Sound and perfect memory to ye best of their knowledge & understanding and at the same time they saw William Huddleston sign ye will as a witness thereto Cornbury.”

“Jim Crow’s Trip to Downing Street” appeared in 1837, an early illustrated print reference to this infamous racial stere...
07/02/2023

“Jim Crow’s Trip to Downing Street” appeared in 1837, an early illustrated print reference to this infamous racial stereotype, masquerading here in an occasional political satire.

Etched Copper Plate. 41 cm x 51 cm. 16 ¼ in x 20 ¼ in. Horizontal image of a pair of mallard ducks, male and female, tak...
06/01/2023

Etched Copper Plate. 41 cm x 51 cm. 16 ¼ in x 20 ¼ in. Horizontal image of a pair of mallard ducks, male and female, taking flight. The plate has been used, inked, an unsigned image.

Moses Brown 1738 – 1836 was an American international shipping magnate, a pioneer of the Industrial Revolution, a design...
10/18/2022

Moses Brown 1738 – 1836 was an American international shipping magnate, a pioneer of the Industrial Revolution, a design innovator, a pacifist, an abolitionist and a founder of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, destined to become Brown University.

Looking up Nassau Street from the corner of Wall Street at the old City Post-Office in the Middle Dutch Church on Nassau...
03/03/2022

Looking up Nassau Street from the corner of Wall Street at the old City Post-Office in the Middle Dutch Church on Nassau Street (1729) in use until 1869.

Nicole Courtois got her divorce from her abusive husband in France, in 1682, where divorce didn't officially exist.
01/13/2022

Nicole Courtois got her divorce from her abusive husband in France, in 1682, where divorce didn't officially exist.

Herald Square back in the day.
12/08/2020

Herald Square back in the day.

Kamson, Ya’akov David. Hatunah ba-ya’ar / haruzim me-et Y. D. Kamson; tsiyurim me-et Elzah Vents-Vitar. Ivrit Menorah, B...
06/20/2018

Kamson, Ya’akov David. Hatunah ba-ya’ar / haruzim me-et Y. D. Kamson; tsiyurim me-et Elzah Vents-Vitar. Ivrit Menorah, Berlin-Vinah [Vienna]: [1924]. Presumed first Hebrew edition of the German children’s classic, Hochzeit im Walde, (The Wedding in the Forest) by Adolf Holst, here with a Hebrew title and Hebrew captions under the illustrations of an all-insect cast. Each page has a multi-colored illustration and rhyming captions done in Hebrew by Lithuanian poet Ya’akov David Kamson (1907 - 1980) on the recto only. 14 pages, color illustrations.

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