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187843075St. Paul: H. M. Smith & Co. Printers 1878. 1878. MINNESOTA. First edition. 8vo. Printed wrappers 88 pp. introductory many land advertisements map. Large folded map bound-in at the front and opens to 17" x 22 1/4." It is named the New Township Railroad Map Of Minnesota and is compiled from the latest authentic sources for 1878. Identified on the map are county seats towns villages post offices and stations U. S. land offices railroads completed railroads unfinished and county boundaries. The map is in fine unused condition. The booklet is touting the resources and advantages of Minnesota to entice businesses and settlers to the area. Among the advantages offered are railroad manufacturing commercial agricultural timber lands minerals etc. as business opportunities. Much information is provided regarding lands offered for sale homestead laws payment terms etc. Also provided is information on agricultural prospects for wheat potatoes oats barley rye buckwheat cattle sheep and wool etc. Small stamp of Chicago & North-Western Railway at top of front cover else a fine copy of an informative booklet. H. M. Smith & Co., Printers, 1878. unknown
19117445<p>1911 WANTED POSTER WITH 2 ORIGINAL MUG SHOTS PASTED DOWN</p><p>WESTERN AMERICANA.<strong><em> Look Out for These Men. $100 Reward for Each or $200 for</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Both. These Men are Escapes from Colorado State Penitentiary</em></strong>. Original wanted poster 12 by</p><p>9 inches with 2 original mug shots pasted down below the headline each 1¾ by 2¼ inches.</p><p>Colorado State Penitentiary Thos. J. Tynan Warden Canon City Colo. June 6 1911.</p><p>Ross Hollingworth 25 and Curtis T. Day 29 escaped while working in a surveying party.</p><p>Hollingsworth a bookkeeper was serving a 13½- to 16-year term for forgery and larceny. Day</p><p>was serving a 10- to 15-year term for rape. Hollingsworth must have been captured because in</p><p>1914 his sentence was slightly reduced "on account of his unusual and valuable service in</p><p>drawing plans." House Journal General Assembly of Colorado 1915 67. This appears to be an</p><p>unrecorded broadside. Slight folds with repair tape on verso; moderate browning; a few small</p><p>stains; light edgewear; o/w very nice. Scarce.</p> Colorado State Penitentiary
1950183270Beijing: Zhong gongye bu binggong ju baoan ke "Security Division Ministry of Heavy Industry Military Department" 1950. Classified "secret" these handbooks were issued to security personnel in a central government ministry just a few months after the founding of the People's Republic of China when Mao's government faced daily threats from a large underground network of Kuomintang spies and operatives. The materials stress the importance of counterintelligence invoking the examples of Nazi Germany and Japan and give examples of recent domestic threats to show the need for vigilance. Volume II offers guiding principles for intelligence work recording evidence and interrogating informants and suspects. 2 vols pp. 28; 16. Text mimeographed in red and blue. Mimeographed cover sheets leaves wire-stitched as issued. Vol. II with contemporary ink stamp of Huabei regional government; contemporary manuscript numerical designations and a few corrections. Fragile paper chipped and creased ink light in places but nearly all still readable recent paper repair to final leaf of Vol. II: very good. unknown
1793007662Philadelphia: Benjamin Johnson 1793. Paperback. Good. 36 p.: illustration; 17 cm. Stitched. Wrapper included in page count. Woodcut illustration of "The Anatomy of Man's Body as governed by the Twelve Constellations." "David Jenkins" written in the margin of one page. Not in Early American Imprints or Morrison's Preliminary Check List of American Almanacs. One copy in WorldCat. This appears to be the earliest of the many almanacs for which Abraham Shoemaker provided calculations. Very scarce. In Good Condition: restitched at some point; loss at edges of front wrapper; old dampstaining heaviest on back wrapper and preceding leaf; loss at lower edge of back wrapper without loss of text; minor ink marks in a few margins; corners creased. Benjamin Johnson paperback
201955811Sherman Oaks CA: Ninja Press 2019. First edition limited to 70 signed and numbered copies large 8vo 11.75" x 7.50" pp. 24; hand set Walbaum type designed by Justus Erich Walbaum circa 1803 in Germany. Baker is used for the display designed by Russell Maret in Rome in 2010 and cast in metal by Ed Rayher in 2016. The text is printed letterpress on dampened Langley handmade in 1986 at the Barcham Green Hayle Mill an English paper mill long closed. Two watermarks can be seen throughout one of which includes the date. The cover is persimmon-washed Belgian flax paper handmade at Cave Paper in Minneapolis Minnesota. The artwork consists of photographs by Carolee Campbell of selected details from the first in a series of large-scale two-fold wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec showing a flock of American White Pelicans Pelecanus erythrorhynchos taking off from the shore along Lake Pepin. The engravings are inserted into the 2015 Midnight Paper Sales publication Lac des Pleurs Report from Lake Pepin by Gaylord Schanilec. Both engravings and text were printed by Schanilec at his press in Stockholm Wisconsin. The photographs were executed in 2019 with permission especially for this edition of Departures. The photographs were printed digitally on Japanese Nyodo Kozo-shi using Epson UltraChrome K3 inks. The design presswork binding and photography are by Carolee Campbell at Ninja Press with the assistance of Farida Sunada in the bindery. Well known as a master of the wood engraving and fine press printer publishing under the imprint of Midnight Paper Sales with Departures Schanilec brings his particular poetic voice to the page in this inaugural volume of poems. <br/><br/> Ninja Press unknown books
New Turkish Original bdg. HC. In publisher special box. Atlas folio. In Turkish. 336 p., fully color ills. Tarihte Türkiye haritalari: 2000 yillik harita koleksiyonu. This work begins from the first ages, continues with maps from Islamic geographers, maps with religious motifs, maps from the age of explorations and from the Ottoman Empire, goes until the Arabic letter maps from the early years of the Turkish Republic and ends with the map of Hatay joining the Turkish Republic in 1939. It is an indispensible work that traces the evolution of cartography in these lands. The collection, enriched with maps compiled from the major museums and libraries of England, France, the Netherlands, Russia and the USA, is the largest exhibition of maps of the Turkish lands. THis book is a product of nearly 20 years of work with 265 select maps in large 50 x 70 cm pages. A very heavy volume.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original cromolithograph mounted on cloth. Folded. Some foxing and slimming on creases. Oblong double elephant folio. (97 x 107 cm). In Ottoman script. Shows the Bosphorus, Istanbul city with detailed place names. Black Sea at North, Marmara Sea at South and the Princes' Islands seen at southwest area. Mapmaker not described usual like in Turkish military maps. An extremely rare the Bosphorus map with its unusual size. Not in TBBMM library (The Grand Assembly of Turkish Republic Liibrary). Not in Military Libraries in Turkey.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Contemporary very aesthetics half-leather bdg. lettered gilt on the spine, and decorative gilt on boards. Marbled end-papers. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 315, [3] p. Exceedingly rare first edition of one of the early literary utopias in which a fictional island is the place of the novel, which is a symbol of the freedom longed for in the conjuncture of the period. The main theme is the effort to create an ideal atmosphere of love for lovers in the novel, in which factors such as social injustice and economic inequality affect the author. The novel centers on the theme of love, therefore, differs from other utopias. Yalçin was a prominent Turkish theorist, writer, and politician. He is famous for being a dissident journalist, who has been put on trial and punished due to his columns. His publications defending the idea of a homogenous nation became popular within Ittihat ve Terakki Partisi [i.e. The Party of Union and Progress]. Özege 7115. (Utopias from the Middle East 16).
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original color map. Folded. Oblong atlas folio. (50 x 60 cm). In Ottoman script. Shows Rhodes and Tilos Islands. Scale: 1/200.000. Hegira: 1332 = Gregorian: 1916. Not description on map-maker. This is one of the series of the Bonn projection maps which are the first map series in modern techniques in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. This is one of the series of the Bonn projection maps which are the first map series in modern techniques in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. In order to produce these maps covering Turkish territory, Reconnaissance Branch was incorporated into The Mapping Commission. The maps were produced in the datum based on the latitude and longitude of Ayasofya Mosque in an equal area Bonn Projection. The field works for the 123 sheets covering the country were conducted by 76 staff. The production was completed in 18 years starting from east-west. Fieldworks continued without stopping except in the years 1914 and 1920. This map series called also reconnaissance maps contributed a lot to producing 1:25.000 scale maps. A very detailed and attractive map of Rhodes Island showing its harbors and Ottoman place names.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Contemporary 1/4 black leather bdg. raised four bands to spine. Occasionally minor stains and foxing on pages extremities, restored spine, and re-backed boards. Otherwise a good copy. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script (Turkish with Arabic letters). 246 p. Exceedingly rare first edition of this first translation of Stevenson in any Turkish / Turkic language, of 'New Arabian Nights' including the short stories Stevenson's 'The Suicide Club' and 'The Rajah's Diamond'. Translated by Salime Servet Seyfi (1868-1944), who was a female author and translator who wrote books during the period of the Constitutional Monarchy (after 1908) and National Struggle for Independence (1919-1922). Having published two books, poetry and a novel, her place among the women author is notable. She among the rare women authors to contribute to war literature. She mainly wrote didactic prose and poems. Her works attract attention for they inspire readers about national conscience. Salime Servet, who wrote mainly during the years of the Balkan Wars (1911-1912), played an active role in Müdafaa-i Milliye Cemiyeti [i.e. National Resistance Community]. Furthermore, she contributed to the literature with her journal of Seyyale [i.e. Fluid]. She translated Stevenson's short stories shortly after the Balkan Wars (1911-1912). She used a gorgeous but simple language in Ottoman Turkish including Persian and Arabic words carefully selected by her in her translation. "New Arabian Nights" by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1882, is a collection of short stories previously published in magazines between 1877 and 1880. The Suicide Club is a collection of three 19th century detective fiction short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson that combine to form a single narrative. First published in the London Magazine in 1878, they were collected and republished in the first volume of the New Arabian Nights. The Rajah's Diamond is a cycle of four short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson. First published in 1878 in a serial periodical London Magazine, they were republished in the first volume of New Arabian Nights. The stories are: "Story of the Bandbox", "Story of the Young Man in Holy Orders", "Story of the House with the Green Blinds", "The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective". First Edition. Özege 9271.; OCLC 780204146.
1897010616Chicago: Illinois Central Railroad Company 1897. Handwritten. Very Good. No Binding. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 87 pages 22 manuscript 61 typed and 4 telegrams. Almost all individual correspondences signed. This collection of correspondence documents the late-nineteenth-century planning and negotiation necessary in constructing an Illinois Central Railroad Company ICRR branch line connecting Dyersburg Tennessee to the Stevens Lumber Company track at the Obion River. This project envisioned during a period of rapid railroad expansion displays the economic importance of regional development via railroads at the turn of the twentieth century. The planning of this line would ultimately contribute to the formation of the Chicago Memphis & Gulf Railroad Company in the early 20th century. This collection likely assembled and retained by David Sloan acting Chief Engineer of the ICRR includes engineering reports drafts of contracts cost estimates invoices telegrams and letters exchanged amongst railroad officials predominantly regarding the Dyersburg to Obion River switch. Main themes include route selection flood risk right-of-way acquisition grading costs and the financial feasibility of constructing thirteen miles of track through flood-prone terrain described here as being "overflowed every year." They also note the need for a wide right of way and extensive elevation measurements due to seasonal flooding along the Mississippi floodplain. The correspondence also illustrates the web of permissions agreements and financial commitments required to advance a railroad project even when constructing just thirteen miles of track. Because Stevens Lumber Company and the citizens of Dyersburg were primary financial backers their interests also heavily influenced decisions. There were also discussions about a line connecting a southern alignment along the Chester tract to the Stevens Lumber Co. track a line from Dyersburg to the "Joe Stinger place on the old channel of the Mississippi River" and a line from the Obion River to Carruthersville and Tiptonville. This project eventually evolved into a line extending from Dyersburg to Tiptonville first independently organized as the Dyersburg Northern Railroad Company and later renamed the Chicago Memphis & Gulf Railroad Company. Notable correspondents: David Sloan Chief Engineer ICRR J. P. Wallace Assistant Second Vice President A. T. Sabin Assistant Engineer T. J. Hudson Traffic Manager A. W. Sullivan General Superintendent M. Gilleas Assistant General Superintendent C. A. Wilson Chief Engineer Chicago Dyersburg & Northern Railroad and the Obion Business League. Overall condition Very Good all sheets legible. . Illinois Central Railroad Company unknown
192042154Elmira NY 1920. Volume XXXVII 31 May 1919 to Volume XXXVIII 29 May 1920. Each number is 8pp. The Editor was "Johnson." His "Associate" was "Mitchell." Occasional small tears Very Good plus. Bound in contemporary cloth with gilt-lettered title stamped on front cover.<br /> <br /> "The Summary printed and published by and for the inmates of Elmira Reformatory claims to be the oldest penal inmate publication dating from 1883" Web site NY State Ed. Dept 'New York State Reformatory Elmira N.Y. Inmate Newspaper The Summary'. It prints the spectrum of contemporary world and American news items particularly on the end of World War I its aftermath and the status of Germany. It also has a "Question Box" "Poet's Column" "Shear Smiles" "Town Topics" editorials and other material.<br /> "The purpose of THE SUMMARY is to provide a clean and truthful history of contemporary events and to faithfully reflect the best thought of the time without respect to particular parties sects or creeds. Its constant endeavor shall be to uphold the excellent to condemn the bad in all things that come within its sphere as a newspaper. In debatable topics discussed by its contributors THE SUMMARY disclaims responsibility but leaves open questions to the good sense and honest convictions of its readers. unknown
19212222112<p>Second edition. Octavo. Three page introduction by George Wharton James. Original brick red pictorial cloth. Dust jacket unclipped; small chips. Fine fresh copy. 244 pages.</p><p>Signed and inscribed by Brininstool to Robert Kerman Oct. 2 1923: "Good old pard through the High Sierras Sept 2-13 1923. and a rattling good horse chaser where ropes burst and hobbles fail. Pass the Salt."</p><p>Pictorial binding and dust jacket were designed by Hernando G. Villa 1881-1952 a Los Angeles born artist and muralist.</p><p>Brininstool made revisions to the text for this second edition and also added new material.</p> Brininstool hardcover
19212222112<p>Second edition. Octavo. Three page introduction by George Wharton James. Original brick red pictorial cloth. Dust jacket unclipped; small chips. Fine fresh copy. 244 pages.</p><p>Signed and inscribed by Brininstool to Robert Kerman Oct. 2 1923: "Good old pard through the High Sierras Sept 2-13 1923. and a rattling good horse chaser where ropes burst and hobbles fail. Pass the Salt."</p><p>Pictorial binding and dust jacket were designed by Hernando G. Villa 1881-1952 a Los Angeles born artist and muralist.</p><p>Brininstool made revisions to the text for this second edition and also added new material.</p> Brininstool hardcover books
1900031999Lebanon East Greenville and Lititz PA: P. C. Croll/H. W. Kriebel/The Pennsylvania German/Penn Germania Publishing Co. 1900. Book. Very Good. Original Wraps. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Almost complete run of the pioneering journal The Pennsylvania German uniformly bound in decorated wraps variously paginated 107 of 110 issues lacking 2.3 3.2 and 7.8 for completion. All issues complete and intact except for the following: 7.2 lacks front cover 10.2 replacement covers 10.6 lacking both covers. Most issues show modest handling/shelf wear with the inevitable spine chipping typical of this issue a few other issues with loose or detached but present covers; condition ranges Fair on issues just noted to Near Fine most at least VG many VG to Near Fine. Vols. I-VI issued quarterly 4/year Vol. VIII in 8 issues Vols. VIII-XII issued monthly 12/year Vol. XIII w/ 12 issues in 10 Vols. XIV XV each in 3 issues thus 110 issues total. Vols. XIII-XV otherwise numbered as New Series Vols. I-III. Early issues royal 8vo later issues 4to. Initiated in Jan. 1900 by Rev. Croll The Pennsylvania-German was taken over by H. W. Kriebel and issued in a slightly taller format commencing with Vol. VII in 1906 changing format again beginning with Vol. XIII New Series Vol. I. Meant to capitalize upon the wide-ranging interest in the Pennsylvania German Society annual volumes begun in 1893 The Pennsylvania-German initiated a new era in ethnic identity and offered a variety of both entertaining and scholarly articles focusing on various aspects of PA German folklife. Scarce in any form rarely offered complete. P. C. Croll/H. W. Kriebel/The Pennsylvania German/Penn Germania Publishing Co. Paperback
190312844Denver: Reed Publishing Company 1903. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. First Edition same date; 8vo green cloth no dj housed in a gilt-stamped green leather box made by Corry McSpadden; good shaken; cocked; shelfworn; boards and spine soiled and worn; spine ends and corners bumped and worn; spine ends crimped; chip to cloth on spine tail; eps and pages browned; cracked throughout; internal stitching loosening but no loose pages; signature from p147-58 very loose and protrudes from other signatures; ffep possibly missing; first blank flyleaf chipped and torn with two large sections missing as something was violently torn from it probably a bookplate; eps and pages browned with a vg box shelfwear; scrape to top edge of front panel; brown spots on bottom edge of rear panel; 191pp. Written by one of the least violent and notable members of the James and Quantrill gangs who they say was so mild-mannered that he was not arrested even when he tried to turn himself in and was never tried. <br/> <br/> Reed Publishing Company hardcover
184838814Springfield 1848. 4pp folded. Single printed page interiors blank folded and addressed for mailing in ink manuscript. Old folds for mailing. Springfield postal cancel Feb. 23 and addressed in ink to a physician in Mt. Carmel Wabash County Illinois. Light wear Very Good. <br /> <br /> The broadside is dated and signed at the end in type on February 18 1848 by the members of the State Central Committee: J.R. Diller of Sangamon; John Moore of McLean; Peter Sweat of Peoria; M. McConnel of Morgan; B.C. Webster of Sangamon; and Edward Jones of Sangamon. The Committee members recommend scheduling the State Convention on April 24 1848 for nominating an electoral ticket delegates to the National Convention and candidates for State offices. <br /> The Sangamon County members were well known to Lincoln. "Outgoing congressman Lincoln recommended to the Taylor administration 'that Abner Y. Ellis be appointed Post-Master at this place whenever there shall be a vacancy. J. R. Diller the present incumbent I can not say has failed in the proper discharge of any of the duties of the office. He however has been an active partizan in opposition to us. Located at the Seat of Government of the State he has been for part if not the whole of the time he has held the office a member of the Democratic State Central Committee'." online 'Mr. Lincoln and Friends' article on Abner Ellis. <br /> Lincoln mentions B.C. Webster in a Letter 18 May 1843 to his law partner Joshua Speed regarding collection of a debt from Webster. Lincoln and Edward Jones encountered one another during Lincoln's busy legal career.<br /> Not located on OCLC AAS Byrd Sabin as of May 2024. unknown
186036243Springfield Chicago 1860. 16pp. Caption title as issued. Disbound with some loosening paper clip shadow on first and last leaves. Printed in two columns per page. Good. <br/> <br/> This Illinois campaign document is probably the first of three printings each with similar but not identical material. Each attacks Douglas for hypocrisy on the question of Congressional power to control slavery in the Territories. Each paints him as an extreme Southern Rights partisan supporting the Dred Scott Decision and scuttling the Missouri Compromise. <br/> In his early public career Douglas had extolled the immutable nature of the 1820 Missouri Compromise and insisted that Congress had full power over the Territories. But in 1854 leading the Kansas-Nebraska Act forces and advocating Popular Sovereignty he changed horses: only a Territory's inhabitants could decide whether to bar slavery within its borders. His attempt to reconcile the Dred Scott Decision with Popular Sovereignty and his unconcern with slavery as a social and moral question are mocked and scorned. <br/>FIRST EDITION. LCP 8794. Sabin 20696n. Not in Eberstadt Decker Miles Ante-Fire Imprints. unknown books
1728002748London: J. Tonson 1728. Hardcover. Good. 12mos contemporary tree calf lacks spine labels; ex libris Sir Robert Sheffield Bart. <br/><br/>Copperplate Engravings. J. Tonson hardcover
190348654Austin: Gammel-Statesman Publishing Company 1903. 1903. TEXAS. First edition. 8vo. Inked presentation inscription on the front pastedown sheet. Original red cloth titles stamped in gilt on the spine iv 2 483 pp. plus 17 pages of advertisements dedicatory preface preface frontispiece Battle of San Jacinto from the painting by McArdle illustrated with twelve full page engravings portraits including photographic portraits of the Dallas Texas Volunteer Guard biographical information on many early state officials footnotes and contains an index for volumes I & II. Author was appointed the first State Librarian by Governor Hogg. His two year books are a wealth of documented information for the period and cover diverse topics including military statistics on the Civil War and its veterans biographies of important personages and their portraits agricultural information. The great Texas bibliographer's works are scarce. "Every bit as valuable as the early Richardson almanacs and full of articles biographies reports and statistics unavailable elsewhere." - Jenkins. Bright red cloth titles stamped in gilt on the spine spine panel resewn with original spine laid down else a solid very good tight copy. Gammel-Statesman Publishing Company, 1903. hardcover
1853008240Springfield IL: Lanphier & Walker 1853. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Early reprint edition. Octavo 8vo. 15th Session: 182 pages of text xii pages of index. 16th Session: 240 pages of text ii xxii pages of index; also printed in 1853 with no mention of reprinting. Original paper-covered boards rebacked in ordinary library cloth with minor evidence of label removal at bottom of spine. Institutional bookplate on front paste-down endpaper stamp to bottom and top of closed page edges and evidence of pocket removal on rear paste-down endpaper. "Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That the abstracts of the certificates for provisions and materials as per certificates of John B. Weber in the Nauvoo expedition under Governor Ford." Contains the "Constitution of the State of Illinois adopted by the Convention August 31 1847 Ratified by Vote of the People March 6 1848 and in Force from an After April 1 1848" printed in 1853 by the same printer as the original. Mormon. Americana. Lanphier & Walker Hardcover
1853008240Springfield IL: Lanphier & Walker 1853. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Early reprint edition. Octavo 8vo. 15th Session: 182 pages of text xii pages of index. 16th Session: 240 pages of text ii xxii pages of index; also printed in 1853 with no mention of reprinting. Original paper-covered boards rebacked in ordinary library cloth with minor evidence of label removal at bottom of spine. Institutional bookplate on front paste-down endpaper stamp to bottom and top of closed page edges and evidence of pocket removal on rear paste-down endpaper. "Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That the abstracts of the certificates for provisions and materials as per certificates of John B. Weber in the Nauvoo expedition under Governor Ford." Contains the "Constitution of the State of Illinois adopted by the Convention August 31 1847 Ratified by Vote of the People March 6 1848 and in Force from an After April 1 1848" printed in 1853 by the same printer as the original. Mormon. Americana. Lanphier & Walker Hardcover books
18251552Columbus: Geo. Nashee State Printer 1825. First Edition. Leather bound. Very good. Octavo 3-534pp. Period leather boards reinforced hinges. Previous owners signature on front end paper from the Van Matre family library. Clean text toning as expected due to age. Sabin 56898 Thompson 690. This scarce work contains the Ohio Company's purchase of the Ohio territory and the details of Connecticut Western Reserve. The book was compiled by Gustavus Swan at the direction of the Ohio Legislature. Swan was a lawyer and banker in the state of Ohio and was later appointed to fill a vacancy on the Ohio Supreme Court in 1829. Geo. Nashee, State Printer unknown books
1919165861919. Photograph album women's college student life 1919 to 1922 documents the lived experience of a young woman pursuing higher education in the years immediately following World War I when increasing numbers of women entered academic institutions and participated in structured campus life. The album centers on dormitory living peer networks and extracurricular activities providing direct evidence of how female students documented identity independence and social belonging within early twentieth-century educational environments. The material supports research into women's education student culture and the social history of American colleges in the interwar period.<br /> <br /> Album consists of 85 vernacular black and white silver gelatin photographs mounted across 23 pages with three additional loose prints primarily taken in Washington State between 1919 and 1922. Photographs range in size from approximately 2.5" x 1.5" to 5.5" x 3.5" housed in a volume measuring approximately 7" x 10.5" in original black cloth boards. Inscribed on the front pastedown: "From Papa Merrie Christmas 1921." Images depict dormitory interiors classmates and organized activities including social dances and boating excursions. Captions identify specific rooms and relationships including "Taken in my room '77' 1922" "Lookout Mt taken from my window '77'" "My old roommate of 1919 Room 44" and "Miss Fiddler Roommate 'Room 28' Summer School 1920." Additional annotations record impressions of peers including "A Good Kid" and humorous commentary such as "W.L. asleep after the dance Ha! Ha!" and "Do you think I look natural" A Harvard pennant displayed within one dormitory scene suggests aspirational or collegiate affiliation. The album also includes a photograph of a Home Economics class family scenes and several images referencing recent wartime experience including soldiers in uniform dated 1919.<br /> <br /> Created during a transitional period in American higher education the album illustrates how women students navigated expanding academic opportunities alongside established social expectations including domestic training and structured leisure. The inclusion of humor nicknames and detailed room identifications reflects the importance of spatial and social memory within collegiate life while references to wartime imagery situate the album within a generation shaped by recent global conflict. Such albums provide granular insight into daily routines interpersonal dynamics and the formation of female student identity in the early twentieth century. Minor wear to boards; photographs well-preserved with clear detail; overall in very good condition. unknown
1901001512New York: McClure Phillips & Co. 1901. Very Good condition. Tight and unmarked. Spine tanned a little but with lettering still distinct. Previous owner's name and "1902" on the front free endpaper. Original beige cloth handsomely decorated in black green and red. White's second novel published the same year as THE CLAIM JUMPERS. This is the scarce first printing with MCMI on the title page and no mention of additional printings. Merle Johnson's American First Editions Blanck 1942 p. 523. FPAA v.5 p. 355. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Original binding/No dust jacket. 8vo. viii 344pp. McClure, Phillips & Co. Hardcover
