[POLITICS]. A diverse group of 19th-century ephemera, incl. politics, agriculture, and commerce.

[PROHIBITION PARTY]. A group of pinbacks, photographs and ephemera, comprising: Outdoor group photograph of prohibition supporters in West Virginia. [West Virginia], ca 1912. 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. photograph on cardstock mount (minor toning). -- Studio portrait of John St. John, governor of Kansas and later 1884 Prohibition Party presidential nominee. Chicago: M. Melander & Bro., n.d. 3 7/8 x 5 7/8 in. albumen cabinet photograph on cardstock mount. -- Together, 2 photographs.
 
[With:] Coming!! John G. Woolley whose thrilling appeals for Civic Right-eousness have stirred thousands from Maine to California. N.p., [1900]. 3 7/16 x 6 in. handbill. Woolley was the Prohibition Party's presidential candidate in 1900. -- THE WHITEHEAD & HOAG COMPANY. Typed letter signed ("The Whitehead + Hoag Co.") to Mr. George E. Davis of Bristol, VA. Newark, NJ, 10 August 1900. 1 page, 4to, on illustrated Whitehead & Hoag letterhead, toned, with some offsetting. The letter concerns order details and features sample pinbacks pinned to the upper right. Includes For President John G. Woolley (22mm) and For Representative, J.R. Hosch. (32 mm). -- Wm. A. Taylor of Lansing, State Agent and Organizer, of The Prohibition Party Will Speak. [Michigan?], n.d. 5 1/2 x 13 3/16 in. broadside (toned, old creases). With meeting information in Maple City, Michigan provided in manuscript, and with "Ladies Especially Invited." -- National Prohibition News Sheet. 2 issues (incomplete run). Chicago: The Prohibition National Committee, [1908?]. Folio, 15 3/4 x 22 1/8 in., each 2 pages, 2 issues (incomplete), including: No. 8 and No. 10. (Toned). -- Together, 5 items of printed ephemera with 2 pinbacks.

[With:] [POLITICS IN AMERICA -- PROGRESSIVE PARTY]. A group of broadsides, pamphlets, tickets and other ephemera, related to the Progressive Party, including campaign material for Henry Wallace, comprising: 27 campaign pamphlets and brochures, mostly related to the Wallace campaign, many appealing directly to women and African Americans. -- 5 tickets to Henry A. Wallace campaign events. -- 8 additional items of printed ephemera, related to the Progressive Party. 

 [Also with:] Sample National and State Ballot. [Indiana], [1924]. 7 1/2 X 11 7/8 in. printed sample ballot (toned, minor chips at edges). Featuring the Republican, Democratic, Socialist Party, Prohibition, LaFollette Progressive, and the Worker's Party Ticket. 

[With:] WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799). A group of three engravings of the first president, comprising: CURRIER, Nathaniel (1813-1888), publisher. Death of Washington Dec. 14. A.D. 1799. Hand-colored engraving, 1841, image 326 x 114 mm (354 x 258 mm sheet), on wove paper, toned, dampstained. -- GOBRECHT, Christian (1785-1844), engraver. SMITH, William, publisher. after TROTT, Benjamin (ca 1770-1843), artist. George Washington. Hand-colored stipple engraving, n.d., image 153 x 183 mm (275 x 365 mm sheet), on wove paper. Baker 235a. -- after STUART, Gilbert. Untitled engraving after the Lansdowne Portrait. Hand-colored engraving, n.d., image 259 x 299 (268 x 309 mm sheet), on wove paper.

[With:] Twenty-Second Annual Festival in Commemoration of Washington's Birthday. N.p.: Com'l Adv. Press, 1860. 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. chromolithographed and gilt ticket (light staining to edge). Featuring a patriotic vignette with the designations of a pre-Civil War militia:  "74th Reg't. / 'D' Co. / 'Semper Paratus.'" -- [With:] Centennial Celebration / Inauguration of George Washington. [New York]: N.p., 1889. 6 1/16 x 4 1/16 in. invitation on blue paper (minor staining). A ticket for Section F on 25th Street at the Madison Square Grand Stand to view the Military Parade on the centennial celebration of George Washington's inauguration. -- 1776. Fourth of July, 1868. San Francisco, CA: N.p., 1868. 5 x 7 3/4 in. partly-printed handbill. Centennial organized by the Citizens of San Francisco. 

[Also with:] Duncan's Chinese Salesrooms. Second California Art Union. San Francisco: B.F. Butler, [1853]. 7 11/16 x 3 9/16 in. lithographed share note on blue paper (old creases with small losses, chips to edges). -- The Commanders in Chief.  Jugate portrait cigar label. 9 3/4 x 7 13/16 in. chromolithographed cigar label (minor wear at edges). The Commanders in Chief are depicted in uniform, their portraits surrounded by two enlisted soldiers in the field with the accouterments of war at the lower edge.  -- Form letter from The Office of National Republican Anti-Third Term Executive Committee, St. Louis, 9 April 1880, asking for support of the recipient at the Convention of Republicans, to be held on 6 May. With original addressed envelope to James M. Dickinson, Mayor of Lisbon Ohio. -- Two mimeographed letters, each dated 13 April 1880, each on Office of National Republican Anti-Third Term Executive Committee stationery, each with accompanying original envelopes to James M. Dickinson, Mayor of Lisbon Ohio. "Information received at this office leads to the belief that you approve the objects of the call herewith enclosed... " -- With two invitations to convention events. 

[With:] [RECONSTRUCTION] -- [TEXAS]. Manuscripts and publications related cotton production. Approx. 20 pages from a Texas ledger documenting, in part, cotton production at a plantation and the names of the individuals who picked it, as well as other transactions, 8 x 12 1/2 in. (disbound, several pages cut and removed, heavy wear). Ca 1873-1878. 

3pp of the ledger contain columns indicating the month, date and year (1873), followed by a column "Amt Cotton Picked" below which appears the names of individuals ("Monroe"?, "Will," "Peter," "Enoch," "Harriet," and "Jas." alongside a number. The name of the plantation on which the individuals worked as "Hands" is not clear, though it is likely these names represent formerly enslaved African Americans now working as freedmen on a Texas plantation. Additional notations in the ledger refer to "J.S. Zant's Cotton Crop of 1875." This may indicate either James Solomon Zant, Sr. (1801-1884) or James Solomon Zant, Jr. (1839-1915), former slaveholders from Texas. Other portions of the ledger seem to indicate use for accounting, indicating crops such "Oats Sold" as well as other financial transactions. A very interesting document worthy of additional research.

[With:] Letter from Stratton, Goyer & Co. Wholesale Grocers, Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants to Mr. J.A. Rogers of Brownsville, TN. 1p, 8 3/4 x 10 1/2 in. (folds, ink bleed). of Memphis, [Tennessee]. 27 December 1866. 

[Also with:] The News and Courier Prices Current. Charleston: Riordan, Dawson, & Co., 8 Janaury 1876.-- Augusta Public Produce and Cotton Exchange, No. 5 Warren Block, T.H. Brown & CO., Managers. Augusta, GA, December 22, 1881. -- Cotton Movement and Fluctuations 1875-1881. 8th Edition. New York: Latham, Alexander & Co., 1881. -- Flake's Bulletin. Vol. VII, No. 81. Galveston, Texas: 27 November 1869.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

Collection of Tom Charles Huston