![MANUSCRIPT] [WHALING] A Glimpse of An Old Industry; "FLUKES" A TALE/TAIL](/pictures/thumb/2554.jpg?v=1622759474)
c. 1920. 36 pages. 28 x 21.5 cm. Typed manuscript recalling the life of the vanishing whaling industry in New Bedford, MA. The author makes reference to his father who at one point in his career was a New Bedford master whalemen, a captain of the Bark Canton. The author..... More
![ARCHIVE] International Pastry Chef's Career Journals; 16 Volumes. Michel Egoroff](/pictures/thumb/2622.jpg?v=1626817408)
Michel Egoroff was a working chef whose long career is detailed in this comprehensive collection of handwritten journals. Egoroff worked in no less than 8 countries: France, Monaco, Italy, England, Croatia, Serbia Slovenia, and the United States. This ambitious chef specialized in patisserie and worked at upscale hotels around the..... More
![MANUSCRIPT] [HIGH SCHOOL] [DIVORCE] Gladstone Reed's Journal; March 11, 1910 - September 25,...](/pictures/thumb/2567.jpg?v=1623793095)
Cardboard covers. Unpaginated (135 pages). 20 x 12.5 cm. "Friday, March 11, 09 - No letters, Borrowed a paper at noon. There was nothing about the divorce." This is the first three sentences Gladstone Reed wrote in his journal at the age of 16 while he attended boarding school (we..... More
![WEST POINT] [BEER] Letter to Brother re: missing Beer; Wife of Civil War Brigadier General...](/pictures/thumb/2556.jpg?v=1622759418)
West Point, NY: 1846. 25.5 x 19 cm. Margaret (Stebbins) Scammon writes her brother from West Point, where her husband E. Parker Scammon is an officer with the United Army Corps of Topographic Engineers. Parker would later command the 23rd Ohio Regiment during the Civil War. Good Friday Morn. 1846 My..... More
![LEDGER] [MANUSCRIPT] Jacob Suydam His Book 1762; 10 pages laid in - family history. Jacob Suydam](/pictures/thumb/2460.jpg?v=1614272521)
Township of Flushing Queens: 1762 - 1819. Hardcover. Unpaginated [304 pp]. 32.5 x 21 cm. Autograph manuscript, ink and pencil on paper. Accounts penned on both rectos & versos. This manuscript account book records the iron trade and farm business of Jacob Suydam (c. 1730 - 1809) in the Township..... More