Paper, Posters, Prints, Photos & Paper Artifacts

ARTIFACT: Scarce, wonderful 1940 United States Marine Corps "China Marines" recruitment brochure. The brochure describes a short history of the China and Japan controversies, a brief look at the lifestyle and sports offerings for the Marine's...

ARTIFACT: Great 1921 United States Marine Corps Officer photo of Captain Hugh Shippey, Aide to the General. Great collar insignia and EGA. The bottom of the photo features a stamp that reads: "THOMAS W. McPHERSON PHOTOGRAPHER SAN FRANCISCO, CAL...

ARTIFACT: This is a great pre-World War I, circa 1912 - 1915, photograph of a pilot and passenger preparing to take off in a Curtiss seaplane. Glenn Curtiss was known as the American pioneer in the field of hydro-aviation and is responsible for training...

ARTIFACT: This is a great pre-World War I, circa 1912 - 1915, photograph of a woman pilot and a passenger preparing to take off in a Curtiss seaplane. Glenn Curtiss was known as the American pioneer in the field of hydro-aviation and is responsible for...

ARTIFACT: Wonderful 1927 Lindbergh Reception/Banquet Menu from the Hotel Adolphus in Dallas, Texas in September of 192The front reads: "HONORING COLONEL CHARLES A. LINDBERGH" and the pages inside include the title page, short writing selection...

ARTIFACT: Nice WWII Civil Defense card and envelope from the School of Tropical Medicine in Puerto Rico. The card shows the Civil Defense logo in the top (viewer's) left corner, the letters: "CD" centered inside a white triangle that sits...

ARTIFACT: Great WWII Pioneer Parachute Com. Boxed double deck of playing cards by Brown & Bigelow. The front of the box and cards display the company logo, a soldier/man suspended from an open parachute and beneath him reads: "PIONEER PARACHUTE...

ARTIFACT: Fabulous wartime, 2/15/1944, Pioneer Parachute Co., Inc. catalog and price list. Extremely rare and filled with scarce reference images of WWII parachute parts and rigger's tools. The front of the catalog features a company logo showing an...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare lot of seventeen candid period photographs of Luftwaffe Captain and eventual Major, Walter Nowotny. Nowotny, a native of Austria, trained during 1939 and 1940 to become a Luftwaffe fighter pilot. In 1941 he was sent to the...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare circa July 1938 photograph of a German-American Bund rally at Camp Nordland in Andover Township, New Jersey. This gathering is a celebration of the camp's one year anniversary. The photo appears to have been used in January of...

ARTIFACT: This is a commemorative postcard for a Prussian U-boat commander by Gustav Liersch & Company of Berlin. The card pictures Commander Weddigen of U-boat 29 who died in 1915, and a verse written for him. The reverse bears a stamp and postmark...

ARTIFACT: This is a very nice portrait postcard of Kronprinz Wilhelm, Crown Prince of Prussia and the German Empire. It depicts him wearing a military uniform from when he was commander of the 5th army during the first two years of World War I. The...