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  1. This museum deserves your support (or at the very least a visit)... The Merchant's House Museum in NYC http://cli.gs/DmWP1
  2. An excellent introduction to the historic maps of New York at NYPL http://cli.gs/7YPS6
  3. Cataloging away for the holidays, look for a fine selection of historical material beginning after Thanksgiving on Ebay...
  4. I've been meaning to get up to this grat map show at NYPL, has anyone else seen it yet? http://cli.gs/hYHbb
  5. Detecting the decomposition of a document or book by it's smell??? Apparently, yes... http://cli.gs/RTnzA
  6. Fine historical material closing on ebay tonight. http://bit.ly/4xIbEP
  7. Elaborate billhead from the Philadelphia firm of Samuel Wetherill, 1854... early zinc mining history http://cli.gs/WDM79
  8. Booklplates belonging to Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924) http://cli.gs/5JtJR
  9. On Ebay this week... A Circa 1810 Boston post office postage accounting form http://cli.gs/AS90X
  10. Interesting postal history concerning FDR's longtime advisor Louis Howe http://cli.gs/5RyHW
  11. Autograph document of Jasper Yeates, judge who presided over Whiskey Rebellion trials, 1794 http://cli.gs/1DSVW
  12. Signature of Argentine President Alejandro Agustín LANUSSE (1918-96) who tried to unseat Juan Perón http://cli.gs/H3vN3
  13. Autographs of French leaders including Lionel Jospin, Valery D'Estaing & Jules Simon http://cli.gs/vRRvY
  14. Autographed letter of Allan Ray Dafoe who delivered the Dionne Quintuplets in 1934 http://cli.gs/WeLma
  15. Historical ephemera incluidng an 1815 tobacco receipt from George Lorillard of New York http://cli.gs/J2T6e
  16. Fine content 1815 letter by Juan Martin de Pueyrredón (1776-1850), Argentine leader concerning his rise to power http://cli.gs/VT4EL
  17. Julian Pauncefote (1828-1902), British Ambassador to US, 1889-1902 and delegate to Suez Conference http://cli.gs/4NBqJ
  18. Wide selection of material closing on eBay this week including autographs, vintage photography and historic documents http://cli.gs/dpHsa
  19. 1803 Document Signed by Clement Biddle (1740-1814) a Quaker general in the American Revolution http://cli.gs/DBNas
  20. Offical Mid-century folding map of Oak Ridge Cemetery including the Abraham Lincoln tomb http://cli.gs/nL0LZ