Bruce Kelso (4 results)

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Magazine. First edition. Fine magazine with light signs of handling. SHIPS THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. The May 6, 2007, issue of the Sunday New York Times Magazine, a special issue titled The New Middle Ages, with: scientific researchers try to define wisdom, by Stephen S. Hall; Sara Davidson talks to scientists about how the body ages and on trying to extend our healthy life span; an essay by Bruce Stutz on taking antidepressants and then getting off them; Viacom tries television for and about 50-year-olds, by Lorne Manly; Daphne Merkin on reinventing middle age with a photo by Bill Jacobson; and feature lead photographs by Horacio Salinas. Also in this issue: a fashion pictorial photographed by Ruven Afanador with Carol Alt, Pat Cleveland, Kim Alexis, Beverly Johnson, and Dayle Haddon modeling; the conclusion of Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon; Watergate Sue, a graphic novel by Megan Kelso, chapter 5; an interview with Nora Ephron; Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt; looking at The Silver Palate Cookbook on its silver anniversary; and much more. Staple-bound magazine; 106 pages; color and b&w illustrations throughout; 9.5 x 11.5 inches.

Bruce is noted for being both the first Black American to serve a full term in the U. S. Senate and the only former slave elected to the U. S. Senate. He represented the state of Mississippi as Senator from 1875 to 1881. After the end of Reconstruction, Bruce lost his political base in Mississippi and remained in Washington, D. C., where he was appointed to other positions including recorder of deeds in the District of Columbia from 1889 to 1895. It is in that post that he signed the twenty-one documents we offer here of which nine are various typed of Deeds and twelve are "Releases." Each document is signed, "B.K. Bruce," as "Recorder." Titles and dates of the Deeds are as follows: Deed of Trust, July 1, 1890; Deed--Quit-Claim, July 31, 1890; Deed of Trust, August 13, 1890; Deed of Trust - Chattel, August 18, 1890; Deed of Trust, Oct. 4, 1890; Deed of Trust, Oct. 4, 1890; Deed, Oct. 4, 1890; Deed in Fee, Oct. 6, 1890; Deed in Trust, Oct. 6, 1890. The twelve documents titled, "Release" free the named individual from the obligations of a deed and range in date from July 31 to Oct. 6, 1890 with five being signed on Aug. 12. Condition: All the documents bear a Notary seal. Each document folded measures 3 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. All in good condition except one Release which tore at a horizontal margin fold and had been repaired with tape. Before he entered politics, Bruce studied at Oberlin College from 1866 to 1868.