Catalogues

1982 KAUFMAN ASTORIA STUDIOS CUSTOM INVESTOR PORTFOLIO & ARCHIVE STILLS

1982 KAUFMAN ASTORIA STUDIOS CUSTOM INVESTOR PORTFOLIO & ARCHIVE STILLS

Produced in late 1982 and custom-stamped for presentation to investor Stephen Levy, this presentation album served as a high-level institutional prospectus during the public-private push to redevelop Queens’ historic film complex into Kaufman Astoria Studios. Assembled to highlight the facility's revival, the portfolio functions as a comprehensive architectural record and primary source visual archive, documenting 62 years of motion picture history.

FROM ULYSSES TO HORIZON PRESS — Margaret C. Anderson

FROM ULYSSES TO HORIZON PRESS — Margaret C. Anderson

THE PUBLISHER'S COPIES — WITH VIRGIL THOMSON'S CHELSEA HOTEL LETTER.
A complete three-volume set of Margaret Anderson's autobiographical trilogy from the estate of Horizon Press publisher Ben Raeburn, accompanied by an original 1983 typed letter signed by composer Virgil Thomson.

Japan Grand Tour — 1924 Photographic Album Fragment [13 Annotated Photographs]

Japan Grand Tour — 1924 Photographic Album Fragment [13 Annotated Photographs]

Original photographic record of Buddhist temples, sacred sites, and cultural landscapes in Japan, preserved with contemporary handwritten captions.

A JOURNEY THROUGH SACRED JAPAN
A Western traveler’s personal photographic record of Japan in 1924, preserving thirteen original photographs documenting Buddhist temples, religious observances, and cultural sites. Surviving from a deteriorated Japanese travel scrapbook album, the photographs retain contemporary handwritten captions identifying locations, events, and subjects encountered during the journey.

Stetson University Basketball Coaching Notebook, 1956–57 [Original Manuscript — Game Plans, Scouting Reports, Box Scores & NAIA

Stetson University Basketball Coaching Notebook, 1956–57 [Original Manuscript — Game Plans, Scouting Reports, Box Scores & NAIA

Richard Morland's working coaching notebook for the 1956–57 Stetson University men's basketball season, recording in his own hand the scouting, preparation, strategy, game results and postgame assessments that carried the Hatters from preseason practice to the NAIA National Tournament in Kansas City.

THE COLUMBIA BEFORE THE MODERN RIVER. — Photographs of Benjamin A. Gifford — 1901 - 1908

THE COLUMBIA BEFORE THE MODERN RIVER. — Photographs of Benjamin A. Gifford — 1901 - 1908

A coherent group of eighteen original photographic prints representing fifteen distinct images from Benjamin A. Gifford's numbered Columbia River series. Dating from the opening years of the twentieth century, the photographs document the river as both monumental landscape and working corridor — steamboats, Cascade Locks, fish wheels, ferries, wheat shipments, and livestock alongside Cape Horn, Memaloose Island, Mount Hood, and the Cascades. 

THE NEW DEAL ROAD TRIP: INFRASTRUCTURE, REGIONAL HERITAGE, AND COMMERCIAL TOURISM IN THE LATE 1930S & 1940S

THE NEW DEAL ROAD TRIP: INFRASTRUCTURE, REGIONAL HERITAGE, AND COMMERCIAL TOURISM IN THE LATE 1930S & 1940S

This volume provides a unified primary record documenting how late-1930s federal infrastructure and highway expansion directly fueled mid-century consumer tourism.

Compiled between 1937 and 1940, the scrapbook spans 67 populated pages (33 leaves), capturing an itinerary through the Mid-Atlantic, the South, pre-Revolutionary Cuba, and the 1940 New York World's Fair.

Pairing 30 original photographs with nearly 80 postcards and dense contemporary ephemera, it offers exceptional primary source material for research into New Deal public works, roadside commercialization, and American mobility.

ARCHIVE: Charles 'Honi' Coles & My One and Only Era New York Renaissance

ARCHIVE: Charles 'Honi' Coles & My One and Only Era New York Renaissance

As an unrecorded primary archive, the collection offers an uncommon documentary record of Coles's late career while illustrating the intersection of New York's independent publishing world and the late-twentieth-century Broadway tap revival. It provides significant research value for scholars of African American performing arts, vernacular dance, Broadway history, and twentieth-century American cultural history.

FIREFLY PRESS ARCHIVE — LETTERPRESS BROADSIDES & TYPOGRAPHIC WORKS

FIREFLY PRESS ARCHIVE — LETTERPRESS BROADSIDES & TYPOGRAPHIC WORKS

Collection Overview: John Gerhard Kristensen, Boston / Somerville, Massachusetts [1980s–2014]                                                                             

This archive comprises thirteen items produced at Firefly Press, including eleven letterpress broadsides and two closely related typographic works in offprint and pamphlet form. The material spans roughly the late 1980s through 2014 and documents Firefly Press work created for teaching visits, bibliophile societies, poetry outreach programs, typographic exhibitions, and private or printer’s-file keepsakes.

Together, the group reflects Firefly Press’s sustained engagement with classical typography, historical quotation, book arts education, and contemporary literary culture in Boston and New England.