?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Hurrah for the West (and the South)! Six Printed and Manuscript Items by Women.
Including: 1) Georgiana Fredrichs autograph transcript for a speech, circa 1914 on Woman's Club of the Exposition of Big Ideas, New Orleans letterhead, advocating for peace during the U.S. occupation of Veracruz, Mexico; 2) Annie Jackson Wixom (1846-1907), signed tax receipt, Brigham City, Utah, November 18, 1898, Wixom served as Treasurer of Brigham City and her name is printed at the top of the receipt; Wixom immigrated to the U.S. from England at the age of ten. A member of the L.D.S. Church, she came across the plains in 1866, walking most of the way. She also a member of the local woman's suffrage association; 3) Esther Mary Clark's (1876-1932) The Call of Kansas and Other Verses, Lawrence, KS: Windmill Press, 1910, 12mo, signed and inscribed by the author, 1910, with a verse of hers clipped from the newspaper and tacked inside the back board; 4) Mary Ashley Townsend's (1836-1901) The World's Cotton Centennial Exposition Poem, New Orleans: L. Graham & Son, 1885, pamphlet with wrappers printed in gold ink; 5) real photo postcard circa 1908, depicting a woman with a rifle with the handwritten message, "Hurrah for the West!" written sent from Maud in Haywards, California to Miss M. Dennett in Biddeford, Maine, 1908; [and] 6) real photo postcard showing three women in long skirts, gloves, hats, and gibson girl blouses with the handwritten inscription, "Vote for us!" (6)
