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Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photo of new office in Victoria; Advances in rates; Increased Rates in Manitoba; Telephoning across the Atlantic; Exchanges ranked in order of per cent good toll calls, November 1911; Statement of development - number of phones operating in each exchange as of 1 December 1911; Cover photo of Grand Forks Switchboard; Photo montage of underground work at Victoria; Birth of the Telephone - 3 page article; Mr. F.J. MacGougan; Photo of types of protected terminals; Vancouver Switchboard photos from 1908 and 1898; Great 2-page photo of the huge 'A' switchboard at Seymour; Load Curve Graph of Seymour Office; Cut-over of Victoria Plant - new epoch in phone history of B.C.'s capital; Vancouver Island Toll Rates; Special Victoria Issue - photo montage of city and district officials; Photo of New B.C. Office; Table showing # of phones in Victoria since 1880; Photos of underground work in Victoria; May 1880 list of Victoria subscribers; 1890 list of subscribers; cable-laying scenes from last September; Nanaimo and Sidny facilities; New Gulf Cable Ordered by William Farrell in England; Miss Mina Kerr; Record work at Highland; New Plant Department Building; How a Directory is Produced; Jolly moonlight excursion to Nanaimo aboard the steamer Princess Patricia; Great photo of 5 new auto wagons of the construction department in front of the Seymour Office (horses having been recently displaced); Some Victoria cable troubles; Photo montage of the Royal visitors, the Duke of Connaught, the Duchess of Connaught, and Princess Patricia; Training school for operators; interior and exterior views of the Royal trolley coach; 3-page Kamloops feature with photos; Functionalization of Plant - reorganization of the department; laying North Vancouver Cable; Photos of large buildings under construction in the Fairmont exchange - the Lee Building, the hospital buildintgs, Steel plant in G.N.R. yards; Fairmont feature - 4 pages with photos; Instructions for Operators; North Vancouver Cable Ready; Importance of Transmission; and more. Half-leather binding. Hinges tender but intact. Backstrip very rough. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge. Mr. LaBelle's signature upon front free endpaper and his initials are penned to top edge. He is mentioned on page 8 of the July issue as being the new Plant Engineer. Binding intact. Please note: small article clipped from page 18 of the December issue. Book
1968149422N.p.: N.p. 1968. Archive of 48 vintage photographs of car accidents scenes in the Columbia County New York area from the years 1961-1965 1966 and 1968. With the stamp of Lee's Studio in Chatham NY on the verso of the majority of photographs along with occasional holograph annotations. Most photographs housed in sleeves with annotations detailing dates locations and occasionally noting whether or not the accident was fatal. <br/><br/>Also included are several accident reports prepared by Lee Studios for internal use and correspondence between Lee and law firms representing people involved in the accidents requesting copies of photographs. <br/><br/>The 1960s saw large increases in the number of vehicle fatalities as car ownership greatly increased over the previous decades and out of the six years documented in the archive 1966 and 1968 are both among the ten deadliest in US history. <br/><br/>Photographs variously sized with most being 10 x 8 inches. Generally Near Fine. Housed in a contemporary photo album and two folders. N.p. unknown books
165053957à Paris: Chez Augustin Courbé 1650. Fine. Chez Augustin Courbé à Paris 1650 17 x 24 cm relié First edition illustrated with a frontispiece by Mellan and a portrait by Champaigne engraved by Nanteuil and produced after the author's death by Martin de Pinchesne his nephew. Full grained sheep binding late 18th century. Spine with raised bands decorated in grotesque style with 2 different motifs. Pink calf title label. Joints cracked at head. Wormholes at foot. 2 corners slightly bumped. Rubbing. Some leaves uniformly browned others yellowed. Headcap clumsily restored. Yellow dampstain to lower right corner of first 30 pages. Voiture 1597-1648 was throughout his life a gallant and courtier brilliant in salons and playing games. His epistolary talent earned him the distinction of making prose fashionable in France for a long time and his poetry excels in the mannerist and precious tone even though he knows how to be trivial when necessary. He is an essential figure of the literary scene of the early 17th century a true Molière character. Voiture is above all a style not only in his letters Lettres amoureuses and his poetry but also in his prose see for example the delightful Métamorphoses. His works were in the image of the man gallant teaching beautiful language and fine manners to the habitués of the Hôtel de Rambouillet. His fame was very great during his century and he remains an emblem of the 17th century. Chez Augustin Courbé hardcover
AUTO549Paris, J. Barreau Imprimeur, 1901. Catalogue in-8 oblong 22,5x17 cm., 32 pages, 14 illustrations, dessins, schémas de pleine page in-t., broché. Couverture illustrée.
AUTO521Paris, Imprimerie Renouard, 1904. Album in-4 (22x28cm.), 93 pages, nombreuses illustrations photographiques in-t., cartonnage pleine percaline bleue.
199246069Besancon & Le Mans: Editions d’Art J.P. Barthelemy 1992. Two vols. Folio. 366 2; 382 2 pp. Over 1500 photos plates colour illustrations black & white illustrations racing posters and more. Uniformly bound in black boards silver lettering w/ d.j.s. slight shelfwear NF/NF set preserved in open-backed slipcase. First edition of this lavishly illustrated reference and history of the famed Le Mans 24-hour race graphically describing the 70 years of races involving the racing teams of Jaguar Aston Martin Ferrari Ford Porsche and Panhard from the Jazz Age until the modern era. Every race car is pictured along with the engineering team the drivers the designers the type of motor along with action photographs of the action. The authors have included details about the different track configurations the reigns of assorted teams racing memorabilia and more. The index is definitive and the work offers an incredible view of this pinnacle of automobile racing technology. Editions d’Art, J.P. Barthelemy, hardcover
CARRO9Album-catalogue 27x17 cm, 167 pages, 64 planches de carrosseries.
5841P., Draeger Frères, 1907. Luxueux catalogue in 4° relié oblong, demi-chagrin à coins de l'éditeur, 30 pp. illustrées et 5 hors textes en couleurs de René Vincent. L'un des hors texte a la marge droite un peu plus courte, défaut de l'imprimeur. Etat proche du neuf.
5842P., Draeger Frères, 1808. In 4 broché, couverture illustrées, 50 pp., 6 dessins hors texte en couleurs de René Vincent. Ptit manque en tête du dos, des rousseurs en début de volumes, sinon bon état.
1941234311941. Labor Organizing Ford River Rouge plant press photographs documenting labor conflict picketing and union organization at the largest industrial complex in the United States from the early UAW recognition battles of 1941 through the major Ford walkouts of 1949 and 1967. The River Rouge plant in Dearborn employed tens of thousands of workers and was the center of Ford's anti-union resistance during the rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations CIO. Ford Motor Company remained the last major Detroit automaker to recognize the United Auto Workers after General Motors and Chrysler signed contracts following the 1936-1937 sit-down strikes. Several scenes here connect directly to the April 1941 strike that finally forced Ford to negotiate with the UAW after years of union busting and company sanctioned violence against organizers. Later scenes document the 1949 strike involving roughly 65000 workers and the 1967 Rouge walkout documenting three decades of union activity in the American auto labor history.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 9 black-and-white press photographs silver gelatin prints ranging from 7 x 9" to 8 x 11" Dearborn and Detroit Michigan 1941-1967. Photographs show UAW members at Rouge plant gates carrying placards reading "Ford Is On Strike" while reporters and cameramen surround circular picket formations outside the factory entrances. One scene records women from the Women's Auxiliary of UAW Local 600 marching in orderly formation with American flags during an April 1941 demonstration outside the Rouge complex. Another captures a state policeman advancing with baton raised as two men recoil during violence near a plant gate; the attached caption identifies one figure as an unidentified Black man striking a UAW picket captain. Additional scenes show workers waiting in line for pay envelopes during the strike men gathered outside plant entrances under heavy guard and a largely idle assembly floor where a lone foreman sits beside silent production lines after tens of thousands of workers walked out. Typed press captions affixed to versos on image margins including references to the May 1949 strike and September 1967 Rouge picketing.<br /> <br /> The Ford strikes were some of the most consequential labor battles in twentieth-century American industry. Ford's Service Department under Harry Bennett built an extensive anti-union apparatus that used labor spies intimidation and physical violence against organizers culminating in nationally publicized confrontations such as the 1937 "Battle of the Overpass." The April 1941 strike represented the decisive collapse of Ford's resistance to industrial unionism and secured UAW recognition at the Rouge plant fundamentally changing labor relations in the American automobile industry. These scenes preserve not only the mechanics of organized strike action but also the scale of industrial labor mobilization in midcentury Detroit where mass demonstrations were central in the struggle between organized labor and corporate management. Light creasing scattered surface wear and minor handling marks consistent with newsroom use; captions and editorial markings largely intact and legible. Overall good to very good condition. unknown
1938234231938. Labor Organizing United Auto Workers and CIO labor photograph archive documenting strike action union leadership and collective bargaining negotiations during the expansion of organized labor in the American automobile industry 1938-1949. The archive traces the period immediately following the 1935 Wagner Act when unions gained federal legal protection for collective bargaining but still faced violent resistance from corporations police departments and municipal governments. Several scenes connect directly to the years surrounding the 1937 Battle of the Overpass in Dearborn when Ford security men beat UAW organizers attempting to distribute union literature outside the River Rouge complex and to the broader wave of sit-down strikes and factory shutdowns that forced General Motors Chrysler and eventually Ford into formal negotiations with the UAW. The captions identify senior labor figures including Walter Reuther R. J. Thomas George Addes and Richard T. Leonard establishing the archive as documentation not merely of rank-and-file unrest but of the institutional consolidation of the UAW-CIO into one of the most powerful industrial unions in the United States. The material also records how labor disputes extended beyond factory gates into courts city halls state legislatures and police jurisdictions revealing the political dimensions of industrial unionism during the New Deal and early Cold War years.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 12 Large silver gelatin press photographs one large panorama measuring 9.5 x 16.5 inches 11 press photos ranging from 6 x 8 inches to 8 x 10 inches primarily Detroit Dearborn South Gate and Atlantic City circa 1938-1949. A large-format scene dated 1939 records tear gas and street violence during a UAW strike at the Fisher Body plant with clouds of gas spreading across trolley tracks as helmeted police advance toward crowds of fleeing workers and spectators. Another image shows hundreds of demonstrators carrying a massive American flag through downtown Detroit toward City Hall during protests following clashes between union pickets and police at Federal Screw Works; the verso caption notes approximately forty injuries and references accusations of "police brutality" raised before city council. Additional photographs show UAW-CIO officials seated at conference tables negotiating contracts and appearing in municipal hearing rooms beneath desk microphones and courthouse lighting. Captions identify figures including Walter Reuther George Addes and R. J. Thomas while a 1940 Dearborn caption records the arrest of union leaders for distributing handbills asserting workers' rights under the National Labor Relations Act. South Gate strike scenes outside a General Motors facility show workers carrying placards demanding a thirty percent wage increase while Rev. Louis R. Loe conducts prayer services along the picket line. Convention and leadership photographs from Atlantic City and Washington document labor leaders gathered under the authority of Samuel Gompers and later CIO leadership structures linking local strike activity to national labor organization.<br /> <br /> The archive illustrates the transformation of the automobile industry from one of the nation's most violently anti-union industrial sectors into the center of postwar collective bargaining power. Ford Motor Company resisted union recognition longer than General Motors or Chrysler relying on private security forces local police cooperation labor espionage and anti-handbill ordinances to suppress organizing inside and outside its plants. Several captions directly reference these legal confrontations including arrests tied to leaflet distribution and disputes over municipal authority to restrict labor organizing in public space. By the late 1940s many of the same figures shown here were negotiating contracts that established wage standards pensions grievance procedures and health benefits that reshaped industrial employment across the United States. Creasing edge wear scattered minor losses adhesive residue and newsroom markings to versos; images remain clear and intact overall. Overall good condition. unknown
193421223981934. Colophon: Lahore: printed at the ""Civil and military Gazette"" by G. E. Tilt for the association. 1934. 8vo. Original cloth lettered in gilt and black; pp. xvi title-page and illustrated advertisements 2 sectional title on stiff yellow papers 303 ix 3 additional sectional titles and leaves of illustrated advertisement interspersed numerous folding maps to throw clear; binding with wear to extremities and restorations to spine internally very clean provenance: printed On his Majesty's Service label and name J. B. Enyon in ink on verso of front fly-leaf pencil notes on final blank.Very rare sole edition of this all-encompassing motoring guidebook for Northern India with information on distances road quality garages hotels other infrastructure and hints for sight-seeing. The fist section of the volume describes the automobile association which was founded in 1927 its organizational structure statutes eminent members rules and regulations. This is followed by a list of towns their elevation and population together with guest houses and hotels and their prices garages descriptions of hill roads all with town plans. Somewhat tautological the next section lists more hotels dak bungalows government-run guest houses petrol stations and garages registered by the Association and hospitals. This is followed by a historical section and practical hints for morists including the relevant laws.LibraryHub locates a single copy in the British Library ascribing the authorship to one H. J. Martin; no copy in WorldCat. hardcover
40034AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL - STEREOPTICON CARDS Four Men Travel New England Long Island to Mt. Washington 1911. Twenty-six stereopticon cards each 3 1/2 x 7 inches Set of stereopticon cards of a trip four men took by car from August 3 to Aug 17 1911. They started at the Delaware Water Gap in Pennsylvania and travele as far as Mt. Washington culminating in Long Island. Views show them driving camping fishing taking the ferry visiting sites etc. Each double-image stereopticon card is inscribed in ink with brief description of their travels "Delaware Water Gap. Aug. 3rd 1911" "In Camp. Lake George - Hague NY. Aug 6-8" "Early risers in the in the Winooski Wilderness. Aug 10 40 miles out from Burlington en route to Bristol" "Old Sea Dogs on Lake Champlain Aug. 8th." etc. An early example of the trials and adventures automobile travel t in the early twentieth century. unknown books
194925054Le Mans Automobile Club de l'Ouest 1949 Illustrations de Geo Ham. Le Mans Automobile Club de l'Ouest, 1949, fort volume in-4 broché, sous couverture rempliée.
1987216431987 Encre acrylique sur papier "mousmé" contrecollée sur papier, (1985), 23.8 x 30.7 cm., encadrée.
165053957Chez Augustin Courbé | à Paris 1650 | 17 x 24 cm | relié
Annuario, Ferrari 1956 agli amici e collaboratori nel mondo Scuderia Ferrari, 1956, cm 30x21, pp. 88 non num. con numerose ill. fotografiche in b/n. Brossura ed. con bella grafica a colori di copertina di Antonio de'Giusti. Condizioni di conservazione Condizioni complessivamente buone con tracce d'uso, brossura minimamente sgualcita ai margini e agli angoli, con alcune piccole leggere bruniture principalmente al lato posteriore e al dorso. Interni buoni con lievi bruniture alle prime e ultime pagine, margine interno di qualche pagina leggermente fessurato, con conseguente minimo allentamento delle cuciture di alcune pagine. Molto raro. Edizione originale. Copertina e impaginazione di Antonio de' Giusti. SC03.D18630 N F
195262418Denver CO: Ronald C. Hill Photographer ca. 1952-1961. 4to. 41 leaves unnumbered. w/ mylar sleeves holding 98 original photographs sized from 2.5 x 3.5 in. up to 5 x 7 in. 80% are larger size including 21 in Kodak Kodacolor prints remainder on glossy & matte finish black & white silver gelatin and about 80% including specific identifying manuscript notes in ink or pencil on versos including drivers race locations dates as well as frequently the camera lenses exposure and print paper used occasional over-exposure in the earliest Kodacolor Prints otherwise nearly all are quite sharp occasional rubbing thumbing still NF archive of photographs preserved in recent black cloth 3-ring binder. This well-documented archive of photos captures the thriving and fast-growing sports car racing scene in Colorado following World War II by very young Ronald Hill. The photographs here open in 1952 with photos of Dabney Collins with George Joseph’s 1952 Ferrari 340 American Spyder fitted with a Lampredi V12 at the Buckley Naval Air Station races in Aurora CO. A nicely annotated group of photos captures the racing cars of Charlie Hughes Bob Carnes and other drivers in the first Lookout Mountain Hill Climb in 1953 held up the 4.5 mile Lariat Trail from Golden CO to the top of Lookout Mountain. Young Hill notes that “Charlie really did a beautiful job of driving here -- up to his usual style. Seems unlikely that Carnes actually beat him.†Other photos capture the 1953 Buckley Naval Air Station field races where Hill remarks on the back of one photo about “John Mathewson corners vintage Maserati GP car . . . finished 3rd over-all after long duel with Allan Phipps due to carb trouble.†Many of the colour photographs capture in Kodacolor the 1959 Porsche Club Hillclimb races shot by Hill with a Leica IIIg camera and featured drivers such as Mike Collins Lucille Key just before crash and Jim Eckhorn in a modified VW Bug. Also shot by Hill were the Sept. 1959 CAMS sponsored by the SCCA Sports Car Club of America including Ray Mayer in Bill’s Corvette and Bill Kalmer in an Ace-Bristol. Several capture the racers and races at the Continental Divide Raceways in Castle Rock 30 miles south of Denver including Chuck Frederick in his Chevy-Allard J2X and Hall John Read and Hap Sharp at the CDR Driver’s School. Of special interest are a couple photos of the Bocar racing sports car in 1960 which was series of limited production 2-seater cars developed by Bob Carnes in Lakewood CO featuring beefed-up VW rear suspension and Corvette 283 V8 engine with a few sold on Triumph frames. Also included here are scarce early images of the Elva Courier Mk. II at the CDR and were only raced in the U.S. in 1960 and 1961 before forced into liquidation and same year Carroll Shelby won the USAC Road Racing Championship at CDR in his Scarab-Chevrolet later won by Ken Miles in a Porsche 718 RSK. Hill 1937-2023 was born in Illinois moved to Denver with his parents when his father became a professor at Denver University and Ron graduated from Denver U in 1959 attended Denver U Law School and served in the US Army 1962-1964 rising to Captain. He was a noted and accomplished railroad photographer favoring Leica and Hasselblad cameras who although best remembered for his Colorado Railroad photos shot automobiles automobile racing airplanes and landscapes from the 1950’s through the 2020’s eventually writing 12 books over 30 years on railroads. See: Scott Lothes Center for Railroad Photography & Art Feb. 2023. Ronald C. Hill, Photographer, hardcover
BO3Années 1958, 1961, 1965, 1967 à 1971, 1974 à 1984, 1987 à 2004.
"Catalogo, Jaguar "E" Type GT - Fixed Head Coupé, GT - Open Two Seater 1961 Adams Bros. &, Shardlow, Leicester (Inghilterra), 1961, cm 23x30,5, pp. non num. (pp. 12), con 3 belle ill. a colori fuori t. e alcune ill. in b/n, brossura ed. a colori, dorso con chiusura a spirale. Seconda di copertina con timbro del precedente rivenditore. Testo in inglese. Condizioni di conservazione Esemplare ben conservato con tracce d'uso, brossure con leggere tracce di pieghette e alcuni graffietti, brossura post. con alcune piccole bruniture. Interni buoni con qualche minima traccia di sporco all'ultima pagina. Raro catalogo originale di uno dei più, celebri e riusciti modelli di Jaguar. SC03.D15365 N "
192353494ABLeipzig und Wien, Waldheim-Eberle A.G., 1923. Querformat, ca. 31 x 39 cm. 4 Seiten, 67 Tafelbeilagen mit Illustrationen. Mappe mit aufmontiertem Deckelschild. Tafelband. [6 Warenabbildungen]
1965197181965 Gouache signée en bas à droite titrée au recto, 27 x 20,2 cm
196788032Hamburg, 1967. Papierbogen 29,7 x 21 cm. Unter Feinkarton-Passepartout.
1905187891905 Encre de Chine, mine de plomb et rehauts de blanc signée en bas, (1905), 38 x 27.5 cm.
