Lettersheet (24 results)

Single sheet. Recto with promo verbiage extolling the Louisville attributes advantageous to business; verso with typed letter announcing "The First Fall Meeting of the Advertising Club. Monday, August 29th 1927, 12:15 P. M." Recot with 3 color images of Louisville: falls at the river, downtown, and the city's river landing [featuring 3 paddle-wheelers]. 10-3/4" x 8-3/8" 3 horizontal fold-line. Age-toning. Light edge-wear. Withal, a VG - VG+ example. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve.…

Lettersheet for this important but small railway. One side is blank and intended for a letter and the other side has a map of the routes of the Chicago Great Western Railway. The map is enclosed in a circular border and every station is placed. The route resembles a Y with the bottom being in Chicago, one arm ending in St. Paul and the other ending in Kansas City and the meeting point being in Oelwein, Iowa. The Railway called it the 'Maple Leaf Route' and claim (on the lettersheet and surrounding the map)-"Drawing Tribute from the Garden Spot of America. A study of the map will convince you that along this line are located a greater number of large cities and towns. with a greater aggregate population, than on any other Western road of equal mileage". This lettersheet bears a letter from agent Wm. Coldwell to Louis Sohn and concerns a tract of land. Expected fold-lines to fit in envelope, small section of browning but overall a very good copy.The recipient, Louis Sohns, served as a Vancouver [Washington] mayor, was elected to the territorial legislature and was a member of the constitutional convention when Washington was admitted as a state in 1889. He was an organizer of the community water system and headed the town's first bank. Sohns also was a major stockholder in the Vancouver, Kickitat and Yakima Railroad, and a director of the Michigan Mill, the town's largest industry.The Chicago Great Western Railway was a Class I railroad that linked Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha, and Kansas City. It was founded by Alpheus Beede Stickney in 1885 as a regional line between St. Paul and the Iowa state line called the Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad. Through mergers and new construction, the railroad, named Chicago Great Western after 1892, quickly became a multi-state carrier. One of the last Class I railroads to be built, it competed against several other more well-established railroads in the same territory, and developed a corporate culture of innovation and efficiency to survive.…

Lettersheet for this important but small railway. One side is blank and intended for a letter and the other side has a map of the routes of the Chicago Great Western Railway. The map is enclosed in a circular border and every station is placed. The route resembles a Y with the bottom being in Chicago, one arm ending in St. Paul and the other ending in Kansas City and the meeting point being in Oelwein, Iowa. The Railway called it the 'Maple Leaf Route' and claim (on the lettersheet and surrounding the map)-"Drawing Tribute from the Garden Spot of America. A study of the map will convince you that along this line are located a greater number of large cities and towns. with a greater aggregate population, than on any other Western road of equal mileage". This lettersheet bears a letter from agent Wm. Coldwell to Louis Sohn and concerns a tract of land. Expected fold-lines to fit in envelope, small section of browning but overall a very good copy.The recipient, Louis Sohns, served as a Vancouver [Washington] mayor, was elected to the territorial legislature and was a member of the constitutional convention when Washington was admitted as a state in 1889. He was an organizer of the community water system and headed the town's first bank. Sohns also was a major stockholder in the Vancouver, Kickitat and Yakima Railroad, and a director of the Michigan Mill, the town's largest industry.The Chicago Great Western Railway was a Class I railroad that linked Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha, and Kansas City. It was founded by Alpheus Beede Stickney in 1885 as a regional line between St. Paul and the Iowa state line called the Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad. Through mergers and new construction, the railroad, named Chicago Great Western after 1892, quickly became a multi-state carrier. One of the last Class I railroads to be built, it competed against several other more well-established railroads in the same territory, and developed a corporate culture of innovation and efficiency to survive.…

Ca 1860s (?). Milgram NY-LS_21. Bifolium, so 4 pages. Pp 2 - 4 blank. A hand-colored lithographed image [4-1/8" x 8"] of the Exchange at top. Cf. Milgram p. 69, where this lettersheet is pictured. 10-5/8" x 8-3/8" Unused. Age-toning, primarily to extremities. A VG - VG+ copy. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.…

Single sheet, folded once, to form 4 pages. Sheet recto with lithographed bird's-eye image [4-1/2" x 7-1/2"] of Toledo at top. 11-1/2" x 9-1/4" Unused. Age-toning, some minor edge-rash. A VG copy. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve Ca 1858-1860 (per the AAS record for this lettersheet).

Ca 1868. Bifolium, unused. Illustrated lined letterhead with image of two wooden buildings, possibly in Jones' Woods. At left is a small building with a German flag atop it. At right, is a two storey building with wrap-around verandas, flying the American flag. People walk along the park near the buildings. The bottom image is of people standing in front of a very long building with two small sheds in front of it. 10-5/16" x 8-7/16" A Schützenfest is a traditional festival or fair featuring a target shooting competition in the cultures of Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. At a Schützenfest, contestants compete based on their shooting abilities, for example, by shooting at a wooden representation of an eagle. The competition's winner becomes the Schützenkönig ("king of marksmen") until the following year's competition. Research shows "the 3rd New York meeting took place in 1868 between June 12th and July 6th in Jones Wood which was situated on the East River between 66th and 75th Streets." Jones's Wood became the resort of working-class New Yorkers in the 1860s and 70s, who disembarked from excursion steamers and arrived by the horsecars and then by the Second Avenue Railroad, to enjoy beer, athletics, patriotic orations and rowdy entertainments that were banned by the prim regulations of the city's new Central Park Today, the site of Jones's Wood is part of Lenox Hill, in the present-day Upper East Side of New York City [see the Wikipedia article on the Woods, it has a facsinating history]. Unused. Age-toning. Light edge-wear. A VG+ example. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.…

Single sheet, unused. Sheet recto with lithographed image [4-1/2" x 7-1/2"] of the Washington Monument at top. 11-3/4" x 9-1/4" Unused. Age-toning, some minor edge-rash. A VG copy. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve Ca 1858-1860 (per the AAS record for this lettersheet).

Single sheet, folded once vertically, to form 4 pages. Upper left side of sheet with a large image of the church at top, underneath a short history of the church, it's pastors [Ezra Gannett listed as "present pastor"] & architecture of the building. 9-3/4" x 7-5/8" The Federal Street Church (established 1729) was a congregational Unitarian church in Boston, Massachusetts. Organized in 1727, the originally Presbyterian congregation changed in 1786 to "Congregationalism", then adopted the liberal theology of its fifth Senior Minister, William Ellery Channing, (1780-1842). For most of the 18th century the church was known as the Long Lane Meeting-House. In 1788, state leaders met in the relatively spacious building to determine Massachusetts' ratification of the United States Constitution. Thereafter the church renamed itself the Federal Street Church in honor of the event.[1] In 1803, it called Channing as its minister who defined "Unitarian Christianity" and launched the Unitarian movement, making the Federal Street Church one of the first to define itself as Unitarian." [Wiki]. Unused. Hint of age-toning. Some penciled dealer notes to bottom of page 4. A VG+ coopy. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve Ca 1860s. Date from listed pastors, Gannett pastor until 1871.…

Ca 1840s. Bifolium, so 4 pages. Engraved image [3-3/4" x 6-1/4"] of the Seminary at top of p. 1. Drawn by G. N. Todd, executed by E. Hurd. 10-1/4" x 7-11/16" Auburn Theological Seminary was established in Auburn, New York, by action of the Presbyterian Synod of Geneva on 16 August 1818. It obtained a charter from the New York State legislature on 14 April 1820 as a post-baccalaureate theological seminary, and it matriculated its first students in 1821. From its inception, the seminary drew support from beyond the Presbyterian Church. Its charter stipulated that "no student of any Christian denomination shall be excluded," and the first class of eleven students represented eight denominations. The Roman Catholic bishop from Boston, Bishop Chevereux, donated books for the school's library." [Wiki] Todd, the artist, an 1842 grad of the institution. Unused, though age-toned, a bit of spotting & light extremity wear. Very Good. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.…

Ca 1858 - 1860. Bifolium, unused. Lithographed panoramic image [4-1/2" x 7-5/8"] at top of sheet, after an original sketch by William Henry Bartlett, ca 1840. 10-11/16" x 8-5/16" From an AAS record, we find: "The firm of Charles Magnus & Co. is listed at this address in New York directories from 1858 to 1860. From 1854 to 1857 and subsequently, Charles Magnus is not listed as having a company but as an individual." Unused. Age-toning. Light edge-wear & soiling. Withal, a solid VG example. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.…

Ca 1858 - 1860. Bifolium, unused. Lithographed panoramic image [4-1/2" x 8-13/16"] of Kingston Lake at top of sheet, after an original sketch by William Henry Bartlett, ca 1840. 11-1/8" x 8-1/2" From the AAS record, we find: "The firm of Charles Magnus & Co. is listed at this address in New York directories from 1858 to 1860. From 1854 to 1857 and subsequently, Charles Magnus is not listed as having a company but as an individual." Unused. Age-toning. Light edge-wear. Withal, a VG+ example. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.…

Ca 1858 - 1860. Bifolium, unused. Lithographed panoramic image [4-1/2" x 7-5/8"] at top of sheet, after an original sketch by William Henry Bartlett, ca 1840. 11-5/8" x 9-1/5" From an AAS record, we find: "The firm of Charles Magnus & Co. is listed at this address in New York directories from 1858 to 1860. From 1854 to 1857 and subsequently, Charles Magnus is not listed as having a company but as an individual." A larger version of our ID #50710. Unused. Age-toning. Light edge-wear & soiling, with a corner clip to top left. Withal, a solid VG example. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.…

Ca mid-1850s. Bifolium, unused. Lithographed color map [4-3/4" x 8"] of Albany at top of sheet. 10-5/16" x 8-7/16" From an AAS record, we find: "From 1854 to 1857 and subsequently [post-1860], Charles Magnus is not listed as having a company but as an individual." Unused. Age-toning. Light edge-wear. A VG+ example. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.…

Ca 1860s. Single sheet, unused. Lithographed image [4-1/2" x 7-1/2"] of Rochester, N.Y. with canal boats on the Erie Canal in the foreground. Under image at left: "Exec by G. G. Lange Darmstadt" 11-5/8" x 9-1/2" From the AAS record, we find: "The firm of Charles Magnus & Co. is listed at this address in New York directories from 1858 to 1860. From 1854 to 1857 and subsequently, Charles Magnus is not listed as having a company but as an individual." Unused. Age-toning. Light edge-wear. Withal, a VG+ to Nr Fine example. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.…

Ca 1858 - 1860. Single sheet, unused. Lithographed image [4-1/2" x 8-13/16"] of Louisville at top of sheet. Under image at left: "Exec by G. G. Lange Darmstadt" 11" x 8-5/8" From the AAS record, we find: "The firm of Charles Magnus & Co. is listed at this address in New York directories from 1858 to 1860. From 1854 to 1857 and subsequently, Charles Magnus is not listed as having a company but as an individual." Unused. Age-toning. Light edge-wear. Lange credit much faded. Withal, a VG+ example. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve.…

Single sheet, printed recto only. Watermarked, "HERALD BON[D]" Lithographed image of the Distillery & associated buildings, including 4 US Bonded warehouses & "Govt Office" 7-1/4" x 8-1/2" Date inferred from the watermark, cf. Watermarks and Brands Used in the American Paper Trade, L.D. Post, 1909, p. 34. Unused. Age-toning to paper. Lower left corner slightly crinkled. Overall, a VG+ example of this rare survivor. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve 1st printng (presumed), not found on OCLC. Ca 1909. …

Condition: Fine condition. A scarce early Minnesota statehood illustrated lettersheet, showing a printed view of Minneapolis and the river opposite St. Anthony. Printing had only recently taken hold in Minnesota: the territory was organized in 1849, and the first newspaper printed on Minnesota soil appeared that same year. By the late 1850s there was an active but still young territorial/state printing culture, making illustrated Minnesota imprints from the period relatively uncommon. The letter itself is a short note to a cousin: "St. Paul, Sunday, July 12th 1859 Cousin Bill, "As I have time to write a few more lines I will write them to you. Bill understand it is quite late and I shall write but little this time of any importance, hoping that you will excuse me. I will close with my love to all and your friend Hall when you see him. "Yours &c. Byron T. P.S. Send some stamps" A modest letter on an appealing and apparently scarce illustrated Minnesota lettersheet. We find no other examples besides this one in auctions or the trade. . Illustrated lettersheet captioned ?View of Minneapolis, Opposite St. Anthony, Minnesota,? with a short autograph letter signed ?Byron T.? to ?Cousin Bill.? Single leaf, 9 3/4 x 8 inches.…

Ca early 20th C. Single sheet, 8-15/16" x 5-15/16". Verso blank. Unused. Illustrated with 4 b/w half-tone images: the Tavern [captioned "Altitude 4420 Feet"] and 3 summit scenes ["The Cottages", "Inspiration Point" & "Incline Railway"]. "Ye Alpine Tavern (as it was first named), the fourth and last hotel built by Professor Lowe, welcomed over three million visitors in its forty-one years of operation. Opened in 1895, the resort was destroyed by fire in 1936." [Mt Lowe digital history site]. Hint of age-toning. Lacking tip of upper right corner. Two faint horizontal fold-lines. A VG - VG+ copy of this rare survivor. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve.…

Single sheet, unused. Sheet recto with 2 hand-colored images: the top with the U S Capitol Building, the bottom with the "Topographical Map of Virginia between Washington and Manassas Junction." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Cf Milgrim Illustrated Letter Stationery, p. 271 for image. 9-11/16" x 8" Lettersheet shows Union and Confederate positions at "Battle of Bull Run, July 21st 1861." In right margin at bottom: Guide to Mount Vernon by the Road Maker. Includes index of "U.S. encampments at Arlington Heights" Unused. Age-toning, with small spot of discoloration to verso right side center. A VG copy. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve Ca 1861 (per the OCLC record for the LOC copy). Milgrim Magn.Lg.F.LS-3A.…

Ca 1858 - 1860. Not found in Milgram. Bifolium, so 4 pp. Lithographed b/w image [4-3/8" x 7-5/16"] of St. Louis at top of sheet. 9-3/4" x 7-7/8" From the AAS record, we find: "The firm of Charles Magnus & Co. is listed at this address in New York directories from 1858 to 1860. From 1854 to 1857 and subsequently, Charles Magnus is not listed as having a company but as an individual." Unused. Age-toning. Light edge-wear. Withal, a VG+ example. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.…

Ca 1861 - 1865. Milgrim HA-LS-2. Bifolium, so 4 pages. Pp 2 - 4 blank. Sheet recto with a hand-colored image [3" x 7-7/8"] of Harrisburg at top. Cf. Milgrim, p. 39, where this lettersheet is pictured. 10-5/8" x 8-3/8" Unused. Age-toning, primarily to extremities. A VG+ copy. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.…

Ca 1858 - 1860. Milgram NY-LS-20. Single sheet, unused. Verso blank. Sheet recto with a hand-colored image [5-3/4" x 7-7/8"] at top. Image depicts of a group of firemen standing outside with their fire engine, near their fire house, which is decorated with American flags. A larger, Greek Revival style building is seen to the left. The sign above the fire house reads "Eagle Hose Co. No. 2. Organized Oct. 1831." See Milgram p. 68, where this lettersheet is pictured. 10-9/16" x 8-5/16" From the AAS record, we find Charles Magnus & Co. was at the 12 Frankfort Street location from 1858 until 1860. Unused. Age-toning, primarily to extremities. A VG+ copy. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.…

Ca 1858 - 1860. Milgram PH-LS-2. Bifolium, so 4 pp. Lithographed b/w image [4-1/2" x 7-1/4"] of Philadelphia at top of sheet. "Engd by Serz. Philada." See Milgram p. 77 for where this lettersheet is pictured. 10-1/2" x 8-5/16" From the AAS record, we find: "The firm of Charles Magnus & Co. is listed at this address in New York directories from 1858 to 1860. From 1854 to 1857 and subsequently, Charles Magnus is not listed as having a company but as an individual." Unused. Age-toning. Light edge-wear. Withal, a VG+ example. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.…

[4] pp. 4to single fold with a very attractive hand-colored street scene showing a fire company in front of the Eagle Hose Co., there is a water tank on large wheels to the firemen's left, but no horses.