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Items related to the Gettysburg Address and Abraham Lincoln's final Annual Message to Congress will…
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Washington, D.C. — As the world marks the one-year anniversary of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Library of Congress has been collecting materials and documenting this time in history through a variety of initiatives.
The Library’s rapid-response collecting since the start of lockdowns and…
Leyburn, England — A rare 17th century copybook giving insight into the education of women in the era and the history of a Cork family is to be sold in Tennants Auctioneers’ Spring Sale on 19th and 20th March, with an estimate of £1,000-1,500 plus buyer’s premium. The book is part of the Selected…
New York — Swann Galleries’ winter offering of Vintage Posters saw the highest recent sell-through rate of the house’s large biannual sale in the category, “This is particularly gratifying under the circumstances in which auctions are being carried out during the COVID-19 era. The sale covered a…
York, PA – Hake’s Auctions, specialists in Americana and collectibles since 1967, set a new house record when their February 24-25 Premier Auction #231 cashed out at $2,888,163. Not only did the auction set a new monetary record for Hake’s, it also achieved new highs for sell-through rate (98%),…
New York — Fine Photographs feature at Swann Galleries on March 11 with works spanning from the late 1800s to the 2000s with exceptional images from European and American masters including works by Alfred Stieglitz, Brassaï, Dorothea Lange, and Peter Hujar.
Leyburn, England -- The Chris Casson Collection of Early 20th Century Literature will be at the heart of Tennants Auctioneers’ Books, Maps and Ephemera Sale on 10th March. The collection has a particular focus on Modernist literature, and the expatriate writers who gathered in Paris in the 1920s.…
Berkshire, England — The public will be offered an amazing opportunity to obtain a piece of important space history when Dreweatts auctioneers holds an exciting sale of Space Exploration Photography and Ephemera on March 17, 2021. This landmark sale is to include more than 600 photographs…
Los Angeles – A scarce copy of 20 Hrs. 40 Mins., one of only 150 signed by Amelia Earhart, was auctioned Thursday night for $10,938 by Nate D. Sanders Auctions.
Beloit, Wisconsin – Beloit Auction & Realty, one of the country’s most respected full-service auction companies has announced The Columbus Museum & Chicago 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition (World’s Fair) Online Auction. Honoring the legacy of Christopher Columbus, the online auction will…
Washington, D.C. — The Library of Congress has acquired more than 200 sketches of the Rodney King police brutality trials against four Los Angeles police officers in the 1990s, drawn by courtroom sketch artist Mary Chaney (1927-2005).
Rodney Glen King (1965-2012) was an unarmed African-American…
