Americana

Khachatur Manukyan and his team employed cutting-edge spectroscopic and imaging instruments to get a closer look than ever at the inks, paper and fibers that made Benjamin Franklin’s bills distinctive and hard to replicate.
Researchers Decipher the Secrets of Benjamin Franklin’s Paper Money
A group of University of Notre Dame researchers suggest
America in Arms
Rare Anti-British American Revolution Pamphlet Leads Americana Auction
Freeman’s July 25 Books and Manuscripts auction is led by more than a hundred Americana lots, almost 60 of which are either examples from the signers
New Lincoln letter
Newly Discovered Abraham Lincoln Civil War Letter on War Strategy
The Raab Collection announced today the discovery of an unpublished, early Civil War letter of President Abraham Lincoln. 
First broadside edition of the Declaration of Independence printed in Massachusetts
Early July 1776 Broadside of Declaration of Independence to Auction
Heritage will present the first broadside edition of the Declaration of Indepen
Joan Rivers with her joke file
National Comedy Center Acquires Joan Rivers' Handwritten Jokes and Joke File
The National Comedy Center will become the home of Joan Rivers’ career archive including a file cabinet containing more than 65,000 original
Manuscript lyrics for On the Radio
Donna Summer's Handwritten Lyrics to Auction
Christie’s will present The Collection of Donna Summer in an online sale next month, open for bidding June 15
Items from the Lisman sale
Manuscript Fragment from The Scarlet Letter Leads Nathaniel Hawthorne Auction
Christie’s will be presenting the sales of two major collections of American books and manuscripts next month, The Bruce M.
The Conjure-Man Dies: A Harlem Mystery by Rudolph Fisher, from the Oliver St. Clair Franklin collection
Bibliophile's Lifetime African-American Collection Heads to Brown University
After working with New York bookseller Scott Cranin from Ivy Ridge Books for the last two years, Philadelphian businessman, bibliophile and Honora
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
$150,000 Estimate for Rare Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass First Edition
Freeman’s June 8 auction A Fine Collection of American Literature and History is led by an exceedingly rare 1855 first edition, first issue, of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. With an estimate of $…
Autograph letter signed. April 22, 1924, Great Neck.
Newly Uncovered F. Scott Fitzgerald Letter on Faith, Family, and Women
The Raab Collection has announced the discovery of an unknown and apparently unpublished