Autograph Collection.- Americana

Miscellaneous selection of documents and letters signed by various famous (and infamous) Americans including: Cornelius Vanderbilt II (signed stock certificate in the Michigan Central Railroad Company, 1882), Anson Green Phelps (two signed documents relating to imports from Liverpool to New York, 1839), Jay Gould (signed document relating to shares in the Terminal Railroad of East St. Louis, 1887), William M. ‘Boss’ Tweed (signed document in his capacity as Deputy Street Commissioner, New York, 1866), James Bolton (letter signed on the printed stationery of The Singer Manufacturing Company, Chicago, 1872), Simeon De Witt (signed indenture in his capacity as Surveyor General of the State of New York, 1792), v.s. (7)