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An 1837 English translation of Santa Anna's second-in-command's account of his conduct in the Texas…
A £250,000 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund will ensure access to a unique historic…
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The Library of Congress has acquired the complete collection of music manuscripts of jazz bandleader, arranger, pianist and composer Gil Evans.
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At Bonhams’ sale of material relating to the life of Oscar Wilde the top lot was the last photograph of the writer on his death bed on November 30 1900 by Gilbert Maurice which sold for £279,800 following an estimate of £3,000-£5,000.
Auctions
The cover of Action Comics No. 21 drawn by Joe Shuster who co-created the character Superman with Jerry Siegel leads Heritage Auctions' February 27–March 1 Comic Art sale.A Shuster-penciled Action Comics page from a few issues later, Story Page 11 from No. 24 with inking by Paul Cassidy is also…
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Items related to the Gettysburg Address and Abraham Lincoln's final Annual Message to Congress will go under the hammer at Heritage Auctions' Historical Manuscripts sale on February 26.
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A rare group of surviving documents connected to the first modern Olympic Games are being offered as part of RR Auction’s Olympics Auction closing tomorrow.The sale includes 340 lots spanning the history of the modern Olympic movement including this set of three handwritten invitation letters…
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Two original watercolour illustrations for Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book long thought lost have been rediscovered and will be offered at Roseberys next month.Extraordinarily rare, they increase the number of known surviving originals from a set of 16 to just six. London auctioneers Roseberys…
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The Raab Collection has discovered and will offer for sale for Presidents’ Day a mysterious relic of a long-lost document in the hand of George Washington containing four enigmatic words. 
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Signed in Paris by American diplomats Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe and French official Barbé-Marbois, the document acknowledges receipt of the treaty and conventions ratified by Napoleon Bonaparte and directs that the paperwork be sent to President Thomas Jefferson “without delay.”
Exhibit
Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985, on view at The J. Paul Getty Museum running February 24 through June 14 will look at the many ways photography fostered Black empowerment and propelled social change.
Book Fairs
Ticket stubs, maps, playbills, postcards, political buttons, forgotten photographs and more will return to the Ephemera Society of America's flagship Ephemera Fair.It is the largest event of its kind in the U.S., bringing more than 60 dealers and over 10,000 pieces of rare and historic printed…