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.

EARLY NARRATIVE OF THE SEMINOLES, OSCEOLA & THE SECOND SEMINOLE WAR

EARLY NARRATIVE OF THE SEMINOLES, OSCEOLA & THE SECOND SEMINOLE WAR

The first edition of Andrew G. Welch's account of Oceola Nikkanochee, a young Seminole captured by United States troops during the Second Seminole War and subsequently taken into Welch's care. Published in London in 1841, the narrative combines an account of the boy and his family with a history of the Seminoles, material concerning his celebrated uncle Osceola, descriptions of Native life in Florida, and the text of the Treaty of Moultrie Creek. Contemporary bibliographical records identify Welch as the otherwise unnamed ‘guardian’ of the title page.

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 BRECHT CRUSADE IN AMERICA — Eric Bentley, Bertolt Brecht & Ben Raeburn

THE BRECHT CRUSADE IN AMERICA — Eric Bentley, Bertolt Brecht & Ben Raeburn

A Publisher's Working Archive of Correspondence, Inscribed Material, Theatrical
Programs & Ephemera

Spanning the 1950s through the 1960s, the material brings together inscribed and
annotated publications, correspondence, theatrical programs, invitations, and related
ephemera from a formative period in the American reception of European modernist
theater. 

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.