DEATH OF FDR

fdr-dies-ff.jpgFRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT SUCCUMBS TO A CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE
VICE PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN BECOMES PRESIDENT
WORLD WAR II CONTINUES UNABATED

San Francisco Chronicle, EXTRA
April 13, 1945

Huge, bold 4″ headline screams: “F.D.R. DIES!” Other headlines followed by the full report of his demise. Superb front page photograph of the four-term President, with photos of President Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt on page three with continuing details. The issue also contains the latest action reports from the fighting in Nazi Germany and in the Pacific.

Complete 18-page EXTRA edition of the Chronicle in very fine condition. This one is just begging to be framed for a wall display!

$365

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THE GREAT STOCK MARKET CRASH OF 1929

stock-market-crash-hf.jpg“BLACK TUESDAY” WIPES OUT INVESTORS

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1929

The front page banner headline says it all: “BANK AID FAILS IN STOCK DUMPING.” Secondary headline screams: “8,370,000 SHARES SOLD BY NOON AS HYSTERIA REIGNS.” The story begins: “Stocks crashed again today under another wave of panicky selling, a wave that has never before been equalled. Thousands of shares were dumped overboard in blocks and the market was completely demoralized.” This issue also publishes the losses of the largest U.S. companies like American Telephone, General Motors and others.

The most famous day in stock market history, “Black Tuesday,” took place 75 years ago on October 29th, 1929. It is often thought of as the day that sent the United States into the Great Depression. By the end of the day, some 16.4 million shares had traded, fortunes were lost, and the Roaring Twenties came to an abrupt halt. Stock prices didn’t recover to pre-1929 levels until 1954!

I rarely am able to locate even a single Stock Market Crash newspaper from 1929, so it came as a surprise when this issue found its way into our inventory. It’s the complete newspaper in very good condition with some minor chipping at the right margin affecting a few letters.  I would absolutely have this professionally framed for my office or boardroom.  It shouldn’t last long.

$2,250

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JACKIE ROBINSON BREAKS THE BASEBALL RACIAL BARRIER

jackie-robinson-photo.jpgBROOKLYN DODGERS PURCHASE THE MINOR LEAGUE STAR

The New York Times
April 11, 1947

Sports page banner headline: “DODGER’S PURCHASE ROBINSON, FIRST NEGRO IN MODERN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL.” Smaller headline reports: “International League Batting Champion Will Bid for Job in Big League Infield.” The Times issue includes the famous photograph of Jackie Robinson in a Brooklyn Dodger uniform smiling and shaking hands with Manager Clay Hopper, his minor league boss. Until Robinson was signed, blacks were relegated to the legendary Negro Leagues. This was certainly one of the most important events in African American sports history.

Here is the original and complete 46-page newspaper in outstanding condition. I would frame the historic sports page for an amazing conversational piece.  No good baseball memorabilia collection should lack this scarce paper.

$1,250

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MEN WALK ON MOON!

men-walk-on-moon-ff.jpg“THE EAGLE HAS LANDED”
Neil Armstrong and Gus Aldrin Successfully Land on the Moon’s Surface!
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

The New York Times
July 21, 1969

Here is the original and much sought-after Times issue announcing one of the most incredible feats in the history of mankind, the landing on Earth’s satellite. Huge headlines scream: “MEN WALK ON MOON.” “ASTRONAUTS LAND ON PLAIN; COLLECT ROCKS, PLANT FLAG.”  The front page contains no fewer than three very large photos showing Neil Armstrong moving away from the landing craft after taking the first step, Col. Aldrin climbing down the ladder, and both men raising the American Flag. There is page after page of reporting and photographs from the Moon including a transcript of the communications between Apollo 11 and Mission Control at Houston. It’s really hard to put this issue down for even a minute as I vividly remember the day it happened. You probably do, too!

You get the two key sections of the paper–the “A” Section and the “Special Supplement: “APOLLO 11 MAN AND THE MOON.” Condition is very fine with just a bit of browning on the centerfold. This issue can be handled easily without doing any harm.  No historical newspaper collection can be really complete without this graphic issue. We only have one in stock and expect it to sell quickly.

$180

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THE WORLD’S FIRST COMPUTER!!!

first-computer-hf.jpgTHE AMAZING “ENIAC” SOLVES MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS 1,000 TIMES FASTER THAN EVER BEFORE.
NEW COMPUTER COSTS $400,000 and WEIGHS 30 TONS! OCCUPIES A 30 X 60′ ROOM!
NEW ERA OF ELECTRONIC SPEED IS PREDICTED!

The New York Times
February 15, 1946

Beginning smack on Page One of the Times is the startling announcement of what is considered to be the world’s first computer–the amazing ENIAC! The headline reads: “ELECTRONIC COMPUTER FLASHES ANSWERS, MAY SPEED ENGINEERING.” The story, in part: “One of the war’s top secrets, an amazing machine which applies electronic speeds for the first time to mathematical tasks hitherto too difficult and cumbersome for solution, was announced here tonight by the War Department….Its inventors say it computes a mathematical problem 1,000 times faster than it has ever been done before. The machine is being used on a problem in nuclear physics.”

The history-making announcement and reporting continues on page 15 (most of the page) with actual photos of the ENIAC and its two inventors, Dr. John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, Jr. (see scans). Here are just a few of the remarkable details of the new computer in the story: “The machine, however, can do much more (than mathematics). It has the human faculty of “memory,” four kinds of it, to perform certain tasks in the proper sequence….”Watch closely, you may miss it (Dr. Arthur W. Burks of the Moore School), as a button was pressed to multiply 97,367 by itself 5,000 times. Most of the onlookers missed it–the operation took place in less than the wink of an eye….The Eniac was then told to solve a difficult problem that would have required several weeks work by a trained man. The Eniac did it in exactly fifteen seconds.”

One of the Eniac’s inventors, Mr. Eckert, prophetically “predicted an era which, with electronic speeds available, problems that have been thought impossible because they might require a lifetime will be readily resolved for man’s use….The old era is going, the new one of electronic speed is on the way….”

Offered here exclusively by The Mitchell Archives is the complete 42-page issue that has been been preserved flat in a formerly bound volume by a major institution. Very few of these issues exist, and I know of no other one available at this time. Excellent condition and perfect for anyone who really takes computers seriously. Bill Gates would almost certainly love to have this one!

$4,500

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