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Carrie Chapman Catt Autographs

Carrie Chapman Catt (January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947) was a woman's suffrage leader. She was elected president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) twice; her first term was from 1900 to 1904 and her second term was from 1915 to 1920. Catt, born Carrie Lane in Ripon, Wisconsin, spent her childhood in Charles City, Iowa and graduated from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. She became a teacher and then superintendent of schools in Mason City, Iowa in 1883. In 1885 Catt married newspaper editor Leo Chapman, but he died in California soon after. Eventually she landed on her feet but only after some harrowing experiences in the male working world. In 1890, she married George Catt, a wealthy engineer. Their marriage allowed her to spend a good part of each year on the road campaigning for woman's suffrage, a cause she had become involved with in Iowa during the late 1880s. Catt also joined the Women's Temperance Union. Catt became a close colleague of Susan B. Anthony, who selected Catt to succeed her as head of the NAWSA. Catt led the woman suffrage movement over the next twenty years. From her first endeavors in Iowa in the 1880s to her last in Tennessee in 1920, Catt supervised dozens of campaigns, mobilized numerous volunteers (1 million by the end), and made hundreds of speeches. After the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Catt retired from NAWSA. Catt founded the League of Women Voters in 1920. Catt was also a leader of the international woman suffrage movement. She helped to found the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) in 1902, serving as its president from 1904 until 1923. The IWSA remains in existence, now as the International Alliance of Women. Catt was active in anti-war causes during the 1920s and 1930s. During this period she was frequently recognized as one of the most prominent female leaders of her time. Beginning around 1913, a conflict was in the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Catt supported those already in power. Her strategy was to support Woodrow Wilson as the country entered World War I. Alice Paul, who would later become the leader of the National Woman's Party (NWP) led a parade to protest Wilson's lack of support for the suffrage movement one day before his inauguration. In light of these differences, a split developed and the NWP was started. Catt died of a heart attack in March 1947 at age 88.

Original Carrie Chapman Catt Autographed Black and White Photo. Approx. Size 8 1/2 x 8. Written on Photo: Carrie Chapman Catt June 28, 1937. Difficult to find / Rare! Price - $ 1000.00

Original Carrie Chapman Catt Autographed Typed Letter. Letter is typed on Carrie Chapman Catt 120 Paine Avenue New Rochelle New York Letterhead. Dated June 29,1937. Addressed to: Mrs. Anna White, Presbyterian Hospital, 39th and Filbert Street, West Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Mrs. White: I am sorry you must suffer and be confined to a hospital, but the right way to look at it is that you should be thankful that there are surgeons and hospitals today to take care of you. I am an old lady myself and do not have many pictures, but I confess they look very much as I do these days. Hoping for your recovery, I am, Sincerely yours, Carrie Chapman Catt Regular Price - $ 650.00 / Sale Price - $ 495.00

Lee de Forest Autograph

Lee De Forest, (August 26, 1873 – June 30, 1961) was an American inventor with over 300 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the Audion, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak electrical signals and amplifies them. De Forest is one of the fathers of the "electronic age", as the Audion helped to usher in the widespread use of electronics. He was involved in several patent lawsuits and he spent a fortune from his inventions on the legal bills. He had four marriages and several failed companies, he was defrauded by business partners, and he was once indicted for mail fraud, but was later acquitted. He was a charter member of the Institute of Radio Engineers, one of the two predecessors of the IEEE (the other was the American Institute of Electrical Engineers). De Forest sold one of his radio manufacturing firms to RCA in 1931. In 1934, the courts sided with De Forest against Edwin Armstrong (although the technical community did not agree with the courts). De Forest won the court battle, but he lost the battle for public opinion. His peers would not take him seriously as an inventor or trust him as a colleague. [citation needed] For De Forest's initially rejected, but later adopted, movie soundtrack method, he was given an Academy Award (Oscar) in 1959/1960 for "his pioneering inventions which brought sound to the motion picture", and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. De Forest was the guest celebrity on the May 22, 1957 episode of the television show This Is Your Life, where he was introduced as the "Father Of Radio and the Grandfather of Television". De Forest received the IRE Medal of Honor in 1922, as "recognition for his invention of the three-electrode amplifier and his other contributions to radio". In 1946, he received the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers 'For the profound technical and social consequences of the grid-controlled vacuum tube which he had introduced'. An important annual medal awarded to engineers by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers is named the Lee De Forest Medal.

Original Lee de Forest Autograph, Signed on De Forest Radio Telephone & Telegraph Co. Letterhead. Cut letterhead with trimmed corners mounted on an album page (Approx. Size 8 1/2 x 7). Printed on paper: Telephone Webster 5720 Charles Gilbert, President Randell M. Keator, Secretary Cable Address. Radiotel, N.J. De Forest Radio Telephone & Telegraph Co. Central Avenue and Franklin Street Jersey City, N.J. Hand Signed: Very Sincerely Lee de Forest. Dated: December 4, 1922. Part of the Paper is discolored. Regular Price - $ 600.00 / Sale Price - $ 395.00

Florence R. Sabin Autographed Letter

Florence Rena Sabin (November 9, 1871–October 3, 1953) was an American medical scientist. She was a pioneer for women in science; she was the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to head a department at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. In her retirement years, she pursued a second career as a public health activist in Colorado, and in 1951 received a Lasker Award for this work.

Original Florence R. Sabin Autographed Letter, Signed on The Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research 66th Street and Your Avenue New York Letterhead. Approx. Size 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 - mounted on an album page. Hand Written: Dec. 9, 1933 My Dear Mr. Tricker - I am sorry that I have no photograph but I am sending my autograph - Very Sincerely Yours - Florence R. Sabin Regular Price - $ 2000.00 / Sale Price - $ 1800.00

Charles Horace Mayo Autographed Photo

Charles Horace Mayo (July 19, 1865 – May 26, 1939) was an American medical practitioner and a co-founder of the Mayo Clinic. Mayo graduated from the medical school of Northwestern University (now called the Feinberg School of Medicine) in 1888 and joined his father, William Worrall Mayo, and older brother, William James Mayo, in their medical practice in Rochester, Minnesota. In 1889, the Mayos opened the first general hospital in southeastern Minnesota and pioneered the principle of "group practice". The Mayo Clinic came to be regarded as one of the foremost medical treatment and research institutions in the world. Within Mayo's lifetime it registered one million patients. As far as he could within a general practice, Mayo specialized in surgery of the thyroid and nervous system. He was also responsible for the clinic's ophthalmic patients until 1908. In the face of his father's resistance, he and his brother insisted on sterile conditions in the operating room. He was also an early adopter of X-rays as a diagnostic tool. Mayo retired in 1928 and died in 1939 in Chicago, Illinois. He is buried near his parents and brother at Oakwood Cemetery in Rochester. His son Charles William Mayo continued his work at Mayo Clinic. The United States Postal Service printed a stamp depicting him and his brother on September 11, 1964. Original Charles Horace Mayo Autographed Photo, Approx. Size 6 x 9 1/2. Selling the Mayo Brothers Together - Regular Price $ 5000.00 / Sale Price - $ 4000.00

William James Mayo Autographed Photo

William James Mayo (June 29, 1861 – July 28, 1939) was a physician in the United States and a co-founder of the Mayo Clinic. He was born to William Worrall Mayo and his wife Louise in Le Sueur, Minnesota. The United States Postal Service printed a stamp depicting him and his brother, Charles Horace Mayo, on September 11, 1964. As a child, William and his brother Charles frequently accompanied their father as he went about his business as a pioneer physician. They began by helping out with very menial tasks, and were gradually given more responsibility. Eventually, the boys were administering anesthesia and tying off blood vessels. On a stormy night at the age of 16, Will accompanied his father to an abandoned hotel where one of the elder Mayo's patients worked as the caretaker. The patient had just died and Dr. Mayo was going to perform an autopsy. Will stood by and watched the procedure and after about an hour, it was time to go to another patient's home. Dr. Mayo asked his son to stay behind and clean up. "Sew up the incisions and then tuck the sheet around the corpse. When you finish, go right home." Will nervously began to stitch up the incisions on the body and recounted the incident many years later saying, "I'm about as proud of the fact that I walked out, instead of ran, as of anything else I ever made myself do". Mayo earned his medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1883. Afterwards he returned to Rochester to practice medicine alongside his father and his brother Charles. On August 21, 1883, a terrible tornado struck Rochester, killing 24 people and seriously injuring over 40 others. One-third of the town was destroyed, but young Dr. Will and his family escaped serious harm. The relief efforts began immediately with a temporary hospital being established at the town's dance hall. The Mayo Drs. were extensively involved in treating the injured who were brought there for help. Mother Alfred Moes and the Sisters of Saint Francis were called in to act as nurses (despite the fact they were trained as teachers and had little if any medical experience). After the crisis had subsided, Mother Alfred Moes approached William Worrall Mayo about establishing a hospital in Rochester. On September 30, 1889, the dream became reality as Saint Mary's Hospital opened its doors. Dr. W.W. Mayo (who by this time was 70 years of age) became the consulting physician and surgeon at the hospital, and his two sons began seeing patients and performing surgery with the assistance of the Sisters of Saint Francis. Mayo died in 1939 in Rochester, MN and is buried near his parents and brother at Oakwood Cemetery in Rochester. Original William James Mayo Autographed Photo, Approx. Size 6 x 9 1/2. Selling the Mayo Brothers Together - Regular Price $ 5000.00 / Sale Price - $ 4000.00

A. Atwater Kent Autograph No Trespassing Notice

Arthur Atwater Kent (1873–1949) was a thrifty New Englander born in Vermont, educated at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, who invented the closely timed ignition system, and operated the Atwater Kent radio factory in Pennsylvania (the world's largest at the time). Some key dates in his career include first manufacturing 1896, Philadelphia move 1902, ignition systems 1907, first radio instruments 1921, open set 1922, mahogany box sets 1924, metal box sets 1926, Superheterodynes 1930, closed plant 1936. Kent was always interested in automobiles and, particularly, in the means of igniting internal combustion engines. He patented the contactor, a breaker point mechanism, and the distributor to enable the use of a single coil. Income from his ignition systems enabled Kent to enter the radio business with a fully equipped manufacturing facility, a national service organization and an appealing concept, the open set. Kent brought the best minds of his time into his organization to do radio design, factory operation, marketing and product advertising. He was demanding of his people, but fair. He was also very careful of his company's reputation. His radios were of very high quality and reliability with strong customer appeal to the middle class. Kent's customers often bought another Atwater Kent radio to replace an earlier one that lacked the newer features. After entering the radio receiver market with model 1 through model 8 in 1922–23, Kent put it all together in 1923 with the Model 10. The set had two radio frequency amplifiers, a detector, and two audio frequency amplifiers, all assembled on a mahogany board but having neither panel nor enclosure. Its price was moderate, its performance was adequate, and its appeal was immediate to the listeners of the 1920s and continuing to the collectors of the 90s. The circuit of the Model 10 was continued in nearly all the Atwater Kent radio sets of the mid-1920s. It was finally displaced in 1929 by the screen grid tube in Model 55 and the superheterodyne circuit of the Model 70 series in 1930. During the 1930s Kent brought out a new cycle of about 15 radios each year. Included were consoles, compacts (table models), auto radios, direct current sets, battery sets, and radios using 32 volt power for farm and rural use where commercial power was not available. In the mid-1930s Kent recognized the changing market for radio receivers. His business was based on moderately priced consoles with an emphasis on high-quality table models. He did not enter the growing market for cheap sets and preferred to close down rather than compromise his name and reputation. In 1936 Kent closed the factory and moved to California where he spent his retirement until his illness and death in 1949. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. The AK factory did not assign model numbers to the earliest radios. The first radio to have a factory-assigned model number was the XV (15 in Roman numerals), of which no examples are known. The second was the Model 8, which appears in advertising but no examples have been found. The next was the Model 5, then the models 9, 10, and 12. These are the only factory-assigned numbers below 20 (plus the 19 which was an after-thought). Earlier sets used catalog numbers, the first four being 3925, 3945, 3955, and 3975 which have been called the models 1 through 4 in modern literature.

Original Delaware and Chester Landouners Association Private Property Trespassing Forbidden Under Penalty of the Act of April 14, 1905 P.L. 169 as amended.

Close Up View of A. Atwater Kent Autograph on the Private Property Trespassing Forbidden Notice. Regular Price - $ 2000.00 / Sale Price - $ 1800.00

Booker T. Washington Autographed Letter

Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author and leader of the African American community. He was freed from slavery as a child, gained an education, and as a young man was appointed to lead a teachers' college for black Americans. From this position of leadership he rose into a nationally prominent role as spokesman for his race. He was a pragmatist and an accommodationist, and as such won friends in high places who helped him further his agenda of education for African Americans. Lewis Adams and other organizers of a new normal school in Tuskegee, Alabama found the energetic and visionary leader they sought in 25 year-old Booker T. Washington. Upon the strong recommendation of Hampton University founder Samuel C. Armstrong, Adams and Tuskegee's governing body hired Washington, even though such positions had always been held by whites up until that time. Washington thus became the first principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. The new school opened on July 4, 1881, initially using space rented from a local church. The next year, Washington purchased a former plantation, which became the permanent site of the campus. The school later grew to become the present-day Tuskegee University. Tuskegee provided an academic education and instruction for teachers, but placed more emphasis on providing young black boys with practical skills such as carpentry and masonry. The institute illustrates Washington's aspirations for his race. His theory was, that by providing these skills, African Americans would play their part in society and this would lead to acceptance by white Americans. He believed that African Americans would eventually gain full civil rights by showing themselves to be responsible, reliable American citizens. He was head of the school until his death in 1915. By then Tuskegee's endowment had grown to over $1.5 million, compared to the initial $2,000 annual appropriation.

Original Booker T. Washington Autographed Letter, Signed on The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute For The Training Of Colored Young Men and Women Tuskegee Institute, Alabama Typed on Letter: January 8, 1915. Mr. Cleveland G. Allen, 252 West 53rd Street, New York City. Dear Mr. Allen: I have your kind letter, and also the clipping from the Indianapolis Freeman, which I had already noted. I need not tell you that I appreciate the support you continue to give me and the work I am trying to do here at Tuskegee Institute, from time to time through you News Bureau. I hope to be in position, by the time I see you again, to do something in the way of contributing toward the success of the Bureau. Yours very truly, Booker T. Washington

Close Up View of Booker T. Washington Autograph. Regular Price - $ 2400.00 / Sale Price - $ 1800.00

Joseph Leidy Autographed Letter

Joseph Leidy (September 9, 1823 – 30 April 1891) was an American paleontologist. Leidy was professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, and later was a professor of natural history at Swarthmore College. His book Extinct Fauna of Dakota and Nebraska (1869) contained many species not previously described and many previously unknown on the North American continent. Leidy named the holotype specimen of Hadrosaurus foulkii, which was recovered from the marl pits of Haddonfield, New Jersey. It was notable for being the first nearly-complete fossilized skeleton of a dinosaur ever recovered. The specimen was originally discovered by William Parker Foulke. Leidy was also a renowned parasitologist, and determined as early as 1846 that trichinosis was caused by a parasite in undercooked meat. He was also a pioneering protozoologist, publishing Fresh-water Rhizopods of North America in 1879 - a masterpiece that is still referenced today. In 1846, Leidy became the first to use a microscope to solve a murder mystery. A man accused of killing a Philadelphia farmer had blood on his clothes and hatchet. The suspect claimed the blood was from chickens he had been slaughtering. Using his microscope, Leidy found no nuclei in these erythrocytes (human erythrocytes are anucleate). Moreover, he found that if he let chick erythrocytes remain outside the body for hours, they did not lose their nuclei. Thus, he concluded that the blood stains could not have been chicken blood. The suspect subsequently confessed.

This View Shows the complete handwritten note and hand drawn illustration, both are mounted on stylish paper (approx. size 7 x 10) and mounted on an album page.

Hand drawn illustration of a snail called Glandina Truncata signed J Leidy. Approx. Size 2 1/4 x 4.

Original Joseph Leidy Autographed Note, Approx. Size 4 x 5 1/4. Hand Written Note: Philadelphia January 4, 1861 Dear Sir, The Academy would much like to posses the head of a xxxxxxx or other whale, but it already posseses the lower jaw of the former species containing all the teeth, and therefore does not need the specimen of which you speak. I am unable to read the remaining letter. It ends with the autograph of Joseph Leidy Regular Price - $ 1000.00 / Sale Price - $ 800.00 SOLD!