Broadly focused scrapbook, 10 x 12, containing approximately 54 signed items from various 19th and 20th century notables, consisting primarily of ink signatures on individual affixed cards along with a few letters. Signers include: Helen Keller, Cyrus W. Field, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Thomas H. Huxley, Luther Burbank, Alexander Agassiz, Jonas Salk, Paul B. du Chaillu, Eddie Rickenbacker, John Glenn, Richard Byrd, Daniel Beard, Father E. J. Flanagan, and William Booth. Signed items in overall fine condition, with various scattered toning; scrapbook in very good condition, with various loose and clipped pages.
Signers include: Jane Addams, Alexander Agassiz, Sewell Avery, Robert Baden-Powell, Daniel Carter Beard, William Beebe, August Belmont, William Booth, Luther Burbank, Richard E. Byrd, John A. Choi, Jacob S. Coxey, Charles B. Davenport, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Wesley M. Dixon, Paul Du Chaillu, Hugo Eckner, Cyrus W. Field, Reverend E. J. Flanagan, Patrick J. Frawley, Elbert H. Gary, W. H. Gilder, John Glenn, George Washington Goethals, Helen Gould, Conrad N. Hilton, Burton Holmes, Thomas H. Huxley, Robert S. Ingersoll, Sam P. Jones, Helen Keller, E. C. R. lasher, John L. Lewis, Adolf Lorenz, Donald B. MacMillan, Walter P. Marshall, Hudson Maxim, Dwight L. Moody, G. Bromley Oxnam, T. H. Pearce, Auguste Piccard, Eddie Rickenbacker, Russell Sage, Jonas Salk, Ira D. Sankey, Reverend Fulton Sheen, Gerrit Smith, Charles P. Stenmetz, Reverend Nicholas Wegner, and C. H. Wilkens. RR Auction COA.
