AUTOGRAPHS
	These Autographs were collected by my Father over his lifetime! Stowe Vintage will feature Autographs of Hollywood Stars, Political Autographs, President's Autographs, Sports Autographs, Military Autographs, Entertainment Autographs, Authors Autographs, Historical Autographs, and More! Contact us at 802-253-7000 or stowevintage@pshift.com

Debbie Reynolds Autographed Photo

Debbie Reynolds (born April 1, 1932) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress, dancer and singer. She married and divorced three times. She and first husband Eddie Fisher wed in 1955. They are the parents of Carrie Fisher and Todd Fisher. She is still making appearances in film and television, one of the few actors from MGM's "golden age of film" who was still active in filmmaking. Regular Price - $ 299.99 / Sale Price - $ 159.99

Janet Leigh Autographed Photo

Janet Leigh (July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004), born Jeanette Helen Morrison, was an American actress. Leigh's best-known role was as the morally ambiguous Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho. Years later, she wrote a book about the making of that film, in which she dispelled the urban legends which had popped up around it, notably, about the immortal "shower scene". Her performance earned her a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination. In 1975, she played a retired Hollywood song and dance star in Columbo: Forgotten Lady. Leigh appeared in two horror films with her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis, playing a major role in The Fog (1980) and making a cameo appearance in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998). Regular Price - $ 299.99 / Sale Price - $ 159.99

Nelson Eddy Autograph

Nelson Ackerman Eddy (born June 29, 1901; died March 6, 1967) was an American singer who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs. Although he was a classically trained baritone, he is best remembered for the eight films in which he costarred with soprano Jeanette MacDonald. During his 40-year career, he earned three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (one each for film, recording, and radio), left his footprints in the wet cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater, earned three Gold Records, and was invited to sing at the third inauguration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He also introduced millions of young Americans to classical music and inspired many of them to pursue a musical career.

Original Nelson Eddy Autograph signed on Cut Fly Leaf. Regular Price - $ 139.99 / Sale Price - $ 70.99

Upton Sinclair Autograph

Upton Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), was a prolific American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres and was widely considered to be one of the best investigators advocating socialist views and supporting anarchist causes, he achieved considerable popularity in the first half of the 20th century. He gained particular fame for his novel, The Jungle (1906), which dealt with conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry and caused a public uproar that partly contributed to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act in 1906.

Original Upton Sinclair Autograph signed on Cut Pale Green Paper. Regular Price - $ 299.99 / Sale Price - $ 199.99

Mickey Rooney Autograph Playbill

Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule, Jr. on September 23, 1920), is an American film actor and musician whose career began in 1922 at seventeen months and has continued through 2007. In 1944, Rooney entered military service for 21 months during World War II, during which time he was a radio personality on the American Forces Network. Rooney continues to work in film, and tours with his wife, Jan Chamberlin in a multi-media live stage production called Let's Put On a Show! Chamberlin met Mickey through his son, Mickey Jr., whom she had been dating at the time. On May 26, 2007 he was Grand Marshal at the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival. It has recently been announced that Rooney will be making his British pantomime debut, playing Baron Hardup in Cinderella, at the Sunderland Empire over the 2007 Christmas period. Original Mickey Rooney Autographed PlayBill Shubert Theatre Sugar Babies. Mickey has written: Hugs & Kisses Mickey Rooney Regular Price - $ 199.99 / Sale Price - $ 125.99

Will Durant Autographed Note

William James Durant (November 5, 1885–November 7, 1981) was an American philosopher, historian, and writer. He is best known for his authorship and co-authorship with his wife Ariel Durant of The Story of Civilization. More than twenty years after his death, Durant's quote of "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within" appeared as the opening title of Mel Gibson's film Apocalypto, comparing (in Gibson's opinion) the decline of the Mayan Empire to the United State's current political and cultural situations.

Original Will Durant Autographed Note, written on Will Durant 44 North Drive Great Neck, NY Stationary. Written: Good Wishes from Will Durant. Dated 3-11-31. Regular Price - $ 399.99 / Sale Price - $ 199.99

Cyrus W. Field Autograph

Cyrus West Field (November 30, 1819 – July 12, 1892) was an American businessman and financier who led the Atlantic Telegraph Company, the company that successfully laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858. The cable broke three weeks afterward. In 1866, Field laid a new, more durable cable which provided almost instant communication across the Atlantic. On his return to Newfoundland, he grappled the previously snapped cable, reattached it to new wire, thus allowing for a second, backup wire for communication. In December 1884, the Canadian Pacific Railway named the community of Field, British Columbia, Canada in his honor. Bad investments left Field bankrupt at the end of his life.

Original Cyrus W. Field Autograph signed on Card Stock. (Cut & taped between the Y and R in Cyrus) Written on card: Very truly your friend Cyrus W. Field. Price - $ 49.99

Booth Tarkington Autographed Fly Leaf

Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869–May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. Booth Tarkington was born in Indianapolis, the son of John S. Tarkington and Elizabeth Booth Tarkington. He was named after his maternal uncle Newton Booth, then the governor of California. He first attended Purdue University but graduated from Princeton University in 1893. While at Princeton he was editor of the Nassau Literary Magazine and formed the Princeton Triangle Club. He was also voted the most popular man in his class. When Tarkington's class graduated in 1893 he lacked sufficient credits for a degree at Princeton, where he attended classes for two years. His later achievements, however, won him an honorary A.M. in 1899 and an honorary Litt.D. in 1918. He was one of the most popular American novelists of his time, with The Two Vanrevels and Mary's Neck appearing on the annual best-seller lists nine times. Tarkington's best known work today is The Magnificent Ambersons, due in part to its famous treatment by Orson Welles in 1942 and its frequently favored listing on the Modern Library's list of top-100 novels. It was the second volume in Tarkington's Growth trilogy, which traced the growth of the United States through the decline of the once-powerful and aristocratic Amberson family dynasty, contrasted against the rise of industrial tycoons and "new money" families in the economic boom years after the Civil War leading up to World War I. Tarkington donated substantially to Purdue University and has been recognized for his philanthropy. Tarkington Hall, an all-men's residence hall at Purdue, is named in honor of him.

Original Booth Tarkington Autograph signed on Fly Leaf. Typed on Fly Leaf: Five hundred copies of the first edition of The Two Vanrevels have been specially bound with duplicate illustrations on vellum and each copy signed by the author. This is number 357. Regular Price - $ 699.99 / Sale Price - $ 400.99

Harriet Beecher Stowe Autographed Fly Leaf

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was a white American abolitionist and novelist, whose Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential, even in Britain. It made the political issues of the 1850s regarding slavery tangible to millions, energizing anti-slavery forces in the North. It angered and embittered the South. The impact is summed up in a commonly quoted statement apocryphally attributed to Abraham Lincoln when he met Stowe, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!"

Original Harriet Beecher Stowe Autograph signed on a fly leaf. Typed above Autograph: The Author's Autograph, written specially for this edition a few months before her death. Dated January 7th 1896 Regular Price - $ 4999.99 / Sale Price - $ 2275.00

P.G. Wodehouse Autographed Letter

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (October 15, 1881 – February 14, 1975) (IPA: [wʊd.haʊs]) was an English comic writer who has enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Wodehouse was an acknowledged master of English prose, admired both by contemporaries like Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by modern writers like Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens and Terry Pratchett. Sean O'Casey famously called him "English literature's performing flea", a description that Wodehouse said he believed was "meant to be complimentary", and which he used as the title of a collection of his letters to a friend, Bill Townend. Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of fifteen plays and of 250 lyrics for some thirty musical comedies. He worked with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes and frequently collaborated with Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton. He wrote the lyrics for the hit song "Bill" in Show Boat.

Original P.G. Wodehouse Autographed Letter. Written on Letter: Dated April 12, 1931 Dear Mr. Tricker, I am so sorry, I mislaid your letter and have only just found it. I am afraid I can't manage a cigar band. I haven't been smoking cigars lately. P.G. Wodehouse P.s When I last smoked cigars, they were optinos, so get one, there and call it mine by proxy. Regular Price - $ 899.99 / Sale Price - $ 699.99

Cornelia Otis Skinner Autograph

Cornelia Otis Skinner (b. May 30, 1901, Chicago, Illinois; d. July 9, 1979, New York, New York) was an American author and actress. She was the daughter of the actor Otis Skinner and his wife Maud (Durbin) Skinner. After attending Bryn Mawr College (1918-1919) and studying theatre at the Sorbonne in Paris, she began her career on the stage in 1921. She appeared in several plays before embarking on a tour of the United States from 1926 to 1929 in a one-woman performance of short character sketches she herself wrote. She wrote numerous short humorous pieces for publications like The New Yorker. These pieces were eventually compiled into a series of books, including Nuts in May, Dithers and Jitters, Excuse It Please!, and The Ape In Me, among others. With Emily Kimbrough, she wrote Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, a hilarious description of their European tour after college. Kimbrough and Skinner went to Hollywood to act as consultants on the film of the book, which resulted in We Followed our Hearts to Hollywood. In later years Skinner wrote "Madame Sarah", a biography of Sarah Bernhardt, and "Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals" about the Belle Epoque. She also appeared with Orson Welles on The Campbell Playhouse radio play of The Things We Have on May 26, 1939.

Original Cornelia Otis Skinner Autograph signed on Photo Frame Board. Written by Cornelia: To Dr. A.W. Orusteeu With very good wish Cornelia Otis Skinner Regular Price - $ 149.99 / Sale Price - $ 74.99

Frederick Cook Autograph

Frederick Albert Cook (June 10, 1865 – August 5, 1940) was an American explorer and physician, noted for his weakly-documented claim of having reached the North Pole in April, 1908, a year before Robert Peary. Cook was the surgeon on Robert Peary's 1891-92 Arctic expedition, and on the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897-99 led by Adrien de Gerlache. He contributed greatly to saving the lives of the crew when their ship was ice-bound during the winter. He also met Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, with whom he established a friendship and life-long relationship of mutual respect. In 1903 Cook led an expedition to Mount McKinley, and claimed to have made the first ascent in 1906 on his second attempt.

Original Frederick Cook Autograph, signed on Cut Paper. Regular Price - $ 625.00 / Sale Price - $ 375.00

George M. Cohan Autograph

George Michael Cohan (July 3, 1878 – November 5, 1942) was a United States entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, director, and producer of Irish descent. Known as "the man who owned Broadway" in the decade before World War I, he is considered the father of American musical comedy. Cohan was the pioneer of the musical theater libretto. He is mostly remembered for his songs, later interpolated into musicals such as Anything Goes, Guys and Dolls, and Hello Dolly! However, he invented the "book musical," becoming the first showman to bridge the gaps between drama and music, operetta and extravaganza. Cohan and his sister Josie in the 1890sMore than three decades before Agnes De Mille choreographed Oklahoma!, Cohan used dance not merely as razzle-dazzle but to advance the plot. The engaging books of his musicals supported the scores that yielded so many popular songs. As a storyteller, Cohan's main characters were "average Joes and Janes".

Original George M. Cohan Autograph, signed on Card Stock. Regular Price - $ 699.00 / Sale Price - $ 599.00

Andrew W. Mellon Autograph
	Andrew William Mellon (March 24, 1855 — August 27, 1937) was an American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February 12, 1932. He is the only Secretary of the Treasury to have served under three presidents (Harding, Coolidge and Hoover).

Original Andrew Mellon Autograph, signed on a Autograph card. Dated 1931, the card has the following: Autograph of Andrew Mellon Secretary of the Treasury. Regular Price - $ 375.00 / Sale Price - $ 220.00