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Non-Sport Memorabilia
10 Lots
 Lot 141. U. of Maryland Memorabilia Collection – 75+ Items - Spanning 1895-1970s. This collection consists primarily of publications, but it also includes a pennant, and ashtray and more! The earliest publication is an 1895 Law Dept. banquet program, vg with splits along the spine, and a 1900-01 School of Medicine curriculum booklet, 34 pages, vg. Thirteen issues of the student magazine The Old Line (7 1936, 4 1937, 1 1946, 1 1948) provide delightful reading and mostly humorous cover artwork. The 1930s issues average ex, and the 1940s issues, g. Alumni magazines make up a substantial part of the collection: 16 issues of Maryland, 1946-48 and 1950, vg overall, and 1959 nm; seven issues of College Park 1990-92 and 2002 plus a supplement (Maryland) for 2002 and 2003, ex overall; 1984 Alumni with Connie Chung on cover, g-vg; 1986 Maryland Today with a feature on Jim Henson, and Terp Talk, April 2003, nm. Among the other publications are commencement programs 1922 vg, 1948 and 1976 g-vg, 1954 p-f and 1959, with announcements and related items, nm; a 1937 overview-promotional publication, 36 pages, vg; a 1999 promotional 80-page softcover publication titled A Bold New Era and marking the inauguration of Clayton Daniel Mote as the new president, nm-m; 1928, 1932 (ROTC) and 1949 dance cards, ex; seven class guides, six for Summer School, 1934-38, ex; Library Handbook or information for 1958, 1960 and 1977, vg; 1940-41 Student Faculty Directory; 1933 Extension Service “Trig and Trim Club” publication on sewing, etc., ex; and the July 1938 National Geographic Magazine with a reference to Georgetown’s theft of the Terrapin mascot, vg+. Also: a 7 ½” school pennant plus tassels, ex-m; a Class of 1956 “M Book,” nm; Fire Dept. training patches for 1939, 1940 (2) and 1955, nm-m; 1990 and 1991 homecoming event invitations (3) vg; six blotters for the campus store; two Alumni Association decals; an aperitif glass and mini-mug with the school logos, nm; a 1953 mug, nm, and an astray picturing the Glenn L. Martin Institute of Technology, vg.
Winning Bid $50.
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 Lot 172. 1897 Autobiography of Mary A. Livermore, Civil War Journalist, Suffragette. One of the fascinating forgotten names of U.S. history, Mary Ashton Rice was born in Boston in 1820. After graduating from the Female Seminary in Massachusetts, she married Rev. Daniel Livermore, a Universalist minister. During the Civil War, she served on the front lines as a nurse and worked as a correspondent for numerous publications. She was the only woman reporter at Lincoln’s inauguration. After the war, she became involved in women’s rights. She established The Agitator, which advocated voting for women. A. D. Worthington & Co. published her autobiography in 1897. Titled The Story of My Life, or The Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years, the book details her life and contains six of her lectures. It is nicely illustrated with drawings and 18 photogravure plates. Probably a former library copy. Cover is slightly loose but firmly attached. No dust jacket as published. The first 10 pages are stained. G-vg with almost all of the contents ex.
Winning Bid $10.
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 Lot 173. Colorful early 1900s Wood Box for “Havanagoods” Cigars. The inside of the box lid pictures a stork delivering a cigar produced by the Havana Importing Co. factory in Indiana. This inside label is colorful and bright with an ex+ appearance and showing some fingerprints and wear along the edges. The outside of the box is age-soiled and has four places where masking tape was applied and has not been fully removed.
Minimum Bid $15.
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 Lot 174. Early 1900s Sheet Music by Cohan, Berlin and Other Top Composers. The earliest of these songs is from 1865, and the others are marches and patriotic songs from 1900 to World War I. George M. Cohan and Irving Berlin are responsible for two songs. In 1904, Cohan composed The Yankee Doodle Boy for the production Little Johnny Jones. In 1917, Berlin wrote Let’s All Be Americans Now with Edgar Leslie and George W. Meyer. As a bonus, this group includes Berlin’s World War II Any Bonds Today? Most of the sheet music has wonderful period cover artwork. Eight pieces present Uncle Sam or WWI soldiers. This collection is not for the condition-conscious. About half of the 21 individual pieces are split apart along the spine. Edge chips are plentiful. Nevertheless, matted and framed, this sheet music would make a wonderful display. Besides Cohan and Berlin, Songwriters Hall of Fame members represented here include: Gus Kahn, composer of What Are You Going to Do to Help the Boys? who later wrote Carolina in the Morning. Below the lyrics, the sheet music contains this: “Soap is made from fat, so don’t waste soap, for Germany has got to be cleaned up.” Andrew B. Sterling, We’re Strong for You; America Here’s My Boy. Edgar Leslie, America I Love You (2); Leslie wrote Moon Over Miami. Boston mayor James M. Curley (later Mass. governor) is on one cover, and singer Murray Bennett is on the other. Ballard MacDonald, Strolling ‘Round the Camp with Mary from Atta Boy; he wrote Beautiful Ohio. Al Dubin, The Dream of a Soldier Boy: Dubin wrote I Only Have Eyes for You. Other titles are: Dead March in Saul, which carries an 1865 copyright; Wake Up, America!; L-I-B-E-R-T-Y; Young America; National Medley of Patriotic Airs; Bring Back My Daddy to Me; Peach Jam Makin’ Time: Repasz Band March, March from “Aida”; The Midnight Flyer March-Two Step by Frederick W. Hager and E. T. Paull, the “New March King,”; The Midnight Fire Alarm March & Two Step, and Napoleon’s Last Charge. There are two song portfolios, Army and Navy Song Album by W. R. Williams, which includes We Don’t Know Where We’re Going, But We’re on Our Way, and Patriotic Songs of America for School and Home, which has Woodrow Wilson on the cover. The text of Wilson’s “Proclamation of War” is reprinted inside. Twenty-three items.
Winning Bid $35.
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 Lot 175. 50+ Early 1900s-60s Washington, D.C., Programs, Ads, Maps, Etc. This collection represents a broad cross-section of D.C. businesses, civic groups and government organizations. Among 20 advertising or promotional items is a circa 1930s Heywood-Wakefield Co. 64-page booklet titled In the Life of a Baby used to promote the Washington Baby Shop. The booklet is filled with wonderful illustrations of wicker baby carriages, high chairs, rockers and other items; light water stains, vg. Other ads or promotions are for C&P Telephone, Woodward & Lothrop (carpet care brochure), Rexall (Family Year Book, 30 pages of ads and humor), Royal Glue of D.C., the house where Lincoln died, International Sterling, Emerson Shoes, Peoples Life Insurance, Newall watch systems, the Santa Fe Railway, Jean’s Park Lane Beauty Shop, Alger-Bloch Forest Products (pocket lumber scale) and other. These items average vg-ex. D.C. itself if the focus of 1925 and 1936 maps (vg); a 32-page Washington ’76 brochure picturing Mayor Walter E. Washington, ex; a 1960s guide, vg, and 1999 and 2002 Washington Post special magazines. There are six government publications: 1936 D.C. Rules of the Road and 1954 Driver’s Handbook; 1941 Officers of the Army in the D.C. area; 1955 D.C. Housing Regulations; 1950 United States Civil Defense, and 1973 The Green Scene (on gardening) from the National Park Service. These publications generally are ex. Civic and business groups include: American Electric Railway Association (1915 banquet program), the Canadian Club (1938-39 program), the Masons (1940 and 1946 Lodge booklets), the Propeller Club (1949 annual meeting program) and the American Legion (1954 dinner program), vg to nm, average ex. Also: Evening Star publications, 1938 U.S. District Court rules, vg-ex, and The Star Garden Book, covers missing, pages vg-ex; a used notebook with the Capitol on the cover, g; The Washington Police and Fire Post, 1944, 26 pages, g-vg; one 1920s and five 1930s program bulletins from the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, g-vg; a 1942 two-page bulletin on Washington Cathedral, vg; a 1965 Chesapeake & Ohio Railway ticket stub, a Central High School concert program and two 1930s Peoples Life Insurance Co. policies or certificates.
Winning Bid $20.
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 Lot 176. Collection of Unusual African American Books, Photos, Magazines and Mementos. One of the keys to this collection is Charles H. Wesley’s groundbreaking 1927 book Negro Labor in the United States 1850-1925: A Study in American Economic History. Wesley was a history professor at Howard University. Second printing, cover partially loose, owner’s name inside, g+ to vg, no dj, possibly as issued. This book is scarce and typically is offered for $50-200. The other books are: Tally’s Corner: A Study of Negro Street Corner Men by Elliot Liebow, 1967 soft-cover, vg. Little Boy Black by Alfred W. Wilkes, 1971, g-vg hardback first edition, no dj. The Guide to Black Washington by Sandra Fitzpatrick, 1990 paperback, nm. Also, Howard University yearbook, Bison, 1945, vg. Photos: Three b&w 8” x 10” 1950s-60s family photos, vg-ex; two early 1900s studio portraits of men dressed in suits, g+ to vg, and photos of Tiny Meeker, D.C. orchestra leader, on business cards, ex. Magazines: Life, Nov. 22, 1968, Frederick Douglas cover, article on black history, vg-ex. Ebony, all vg to vg+ to ex, Apr. 1969 with Ali cover, Dec. 1976 with George Foreman, Arthur Ashe and others, and May 1980 with Lena Horne. Also: Singers in the Dawn: A Brief Anthology of American Negro Poetry, Robert B. Eleazer, 1937, 24-page softcover published by the Conference on Education and Race Relations, vg. The Black Experience 1973 published by the Assoc. for the Study of Negro Life and History, all in a folder, missing one section but containing extra items, vg-ex. 1964 and 1971 Metropolitan Baptist Church programs, one vg and one p. Louisville restaurant menu, vg, and greeting cards with black caricatures, one f and one vg-ex. And: Martin Luther King Jr. charm with photo on the front and “I Have a Dream, 1929-68” on the reverse, ex.
Winning Bid $30.
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 Lot 177. 8 1930s-50s Scrapbooks, 4 with the Memories of One Woman, 1944-52. Two of these vintage scrapbooks are unused, and one has a few recipes and photos. Four are filled with mementoes from the life of a woman who attended American University and was very active in the Baptist Church from the mid-1940s to the early-1950s. These scrapbooks contain correspondence and student publications from American U., travel information, many wedding invitations and related news clippings, and some photos and postcards. Bulletins from various churches in the Washington, D.C., area abound. They provided interesting insights into the religious issues and theology of the period. The eighth scrapbook has some news clippings from the 1930s and wedding invitations and notes from the 1950s.
Winning Bid $7.
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 Lot 178. 1950s Roy Rogers Figural Plastic Cup. Produced by F&F Mold & Die Works of Dayton, OH, this cup apparently was a Quaker Oats premium. Nice vg-ex to ex example with some wear on the collar and a couple of tiny marks on Rogers’ face. His hat identifies him as “The King of the Cowboys.”
Winning Bid $25.
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