Uncle Sammy : march and two-step musical score
Creator: Holzmann, Abe
Date/Date Range: 1904
Language: English
Condition Notes:

Wear along spine and edges, yellowing of interior pages appropriate with age of material. Slight tears along exterior edge of inner pages.

Physical Description: 1 musical score (5 pages) ; 36 cm

Our flying ambassadors and their routes
Publisher: C. S. Hammond and Company
Date/Date Range: 1928
Language: English
Dimensions: 58 x 33 cm
Physical Description: 1 map : color ; 1 hemisphere 30 cm in diameter, on sheet 58 x 33 cm
LC Call Number: G3211.P62 1928 C2
OCLC: 1111686160
Accession Number: OML-1928-192

Desert Storm weapon profile trading cards
Publisher: America's Major Players,
Date/Date Range: 1991
Language: English
Type: Trade cards
Dimensions: 7 x 9 cm
OCLC: 1399535647
Accession Number: OML-1991-134

Tuskegee Institute postcards
Creator: Robinson, Bill, 1918-2007
Publisher: Tuskegee Institute
Date/Date Range: 1943
Language: English
Type: Postcards
Dimensions: 9 x 14 cm
Accession Number: OML-1943-175

Kommissar
Creator: Selchow & Righter
Date/Date Range: 1966
Historical Context: The Cold War was a period of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. It encompassed a nuclear arms race, psychological warfare, espionage and embargoes. Germany was divided into West and East and a wall was constructed by the East Germans to keep its citizens from escaping to the West. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 -90 brought German unification and the end of the Berlin Wall.
Type: Games
Language: English

Plates from Denis Diderot's Encyclopedie
Creator: Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784
Date/Date Range: 1772
Historical Context: Denis Diderot was a major figure in the Age of Enlightenment and was a philosopher and writer. He is best known for the encyclopedie which was the first to introduce the mechanical arts. It became controversial because of skeptical views on religion and was banned by the Catholic Church and the French government. There were many contributors and the two most famous were his friend Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire. 
Location: Paris, France
Language: French

The Graphic
Date/Date Range: May 24th, 1914 - Sep 25th, 1915
Language: English
Condition Notes:

Should be handled by reference staff. Some are fragile. 

The Sphere: A Complete War Budget.
Author: Illustrated London news
Date/Date Range: Aug 29th, 1914
Historical Context: World War I was a conflict touched off by the assassination of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife by a Serbian nationlist on June 28, 1914. Gavrilo Princip, the assassin was part of a nationalist movement to end Austro-Hungarian rule and wanted to increase Serbian power in the Balkans. Austria declared war on Serbia on July 28, 1914 with an alliance with Germany. Because of war alliances formed throughout Europe it became a global conflict. When Germany invaded Belgium in August, 1914, Great Britain declared war on Germany because it violated the Belgian sovereignity.
Language: English

Illustrated London News.
Author: Illustrated London news
Date/Date Range: Jun 20th, 1914 - Oct 14th, 1916
Historical Context: World War I was a global conflict that began in 1914 and ended in 1918. On June 28, 1914 Bosnian nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife Sophie. It was the catalyst that started the war. Territorial disputes, arm races and Germany's ambitions to grow and empire to compete with France and Great Britain were part of the cause for the war.
Language: English

Kommissar
Publisher: Selchow & Righter
Language: English
Dimensions: Box 25 x 48 cm, game board 47 x 47 cm
Physical Description:  1 game : 1 game board, 5 pawn pieces, 108 cards, 2 die, play Rubles (currency) ; box 25 x 48 cm, game board 47 x 47 cm
Historical Context: The Cold War was a political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union which lasted until the fall of the Soviet government in 1991.
LC Call Number: GV 1221 1966.S4
OCLC: 1450302954
Accession Number: OML-1966-218