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1935152267N.p.: N.p. 1935. Archive of 24 vernacular photographs documenting a 1935 summer road trip through the badlands of South Dakota Idaho and Wyoming. Each photograph with manuscript ink annotations identifying location to the margins and manuscript pencil annotations to the verso noting locations and dates along with the stamp of Rays photography studio in LaCrosse WI. <br /> <br /> Captured in the archive are various natural landmarks including Shoshone Canyon IXL Ranch and Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming Bald Mountain in Idaho and the Black Hills Badlands and Missouri River in South Dakota. Also included are a few photographs taken along US Route 14 one of the original US highways of 1926 an east-west route running 1398 miles. An alternately charming and chilling collection of Depression-era travel photography in the Midwest and Mountain West. <br /> <br /> 23 photographs 4.5 x 2.17 inches 1 photograph 3.5 x 2.75 inches. Generally Very Good plus some with light fading and age toning. N.p. unknown
1981144478Perth: Western Australian Museum 1981. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Perth Western Australian Museum 1981. Small quarto iv 274 pages with numerous tables maps and illustrations from photographs. Pictorial card covers slightly rubbed with a tiny crease at one corner; ownership stamp on title page; an excellent copy. Western Australian Museum paperback
188560593New York: Harper & Brothers 1885. 12mo. 312 pp. Frontisp. map. Pictorial brown publisher’s cloth gilt & black illust. of bugle and sunrise on front cover wear to fore-edges corners rubbing to spine still good copy w/ mounted albumen photo of a classroom on school steps on front pastedown sized 4 x 5 in. from the library of Florence Puher fl. 1890-1920 teacher and stenographer in Kansas City MO. First edition 2nd state of this account of General Custer and his wife during the Dakota campaigns right up till the battle at Little Big Horn. “Libbie†Custer 1842-1933 graduated valedictorian from the Young Ladies’ Seminary & Collegiate Institute in Monroe MI and soon after meeting Captain Custer and his meteoric rise to Brigidair General before Gettysburg married him Feb. 9 1864. Libbie’s charm and intelligence helped advance her husband’s career was admired by Gen. Phil Sheridan and accompanied her husband following the Civil War as he marched a cavalry division from Louisiana to Texas. After the Battle of Little Big Horn she would spend the next 57 years tirelessly writing and promoting to defend Gen. Custer’s reputation including this title and later the Following the Guidon 1890. See: Shirley Leckie Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth 1993. Harper & Brothers, hardcover
193664236Caldwell ID: The Caxton Printers Ltd. 1936. Tall 8vo. 292 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Gray publisher’s cloth black lettering on spine illustrated map endpapers slight shelfwear w/ d.j. wraparound cover art by L.D. Cram slight chipping edgewear price-clipped still NF/VG copy from the library of Jack C. Best. First edition of this firsthand account of the thrilling experiences on our Southwestern frontier of John William Poe buffalo hunter United States Marshal sheriff rancher and banker by his wife Sophie Poe. She relates John Poe’s work as detective for the Canadian River Cattlemen trailing Billy the Kid and how as deputy sheriff under Pat Garrett he witnessed the killing of Billy in Pete Maxwell’s bedroom. Sophie Poe relates much of her life on the New Mexico frontier her experiences with old Roswell and John Chisum and more. See: Herd 1813 Six-Guns 778 Dykes 234. The Caxton Printers, Ltd., hardcover
190022027Perth: Sands & McDougall 1900. Very good condition. Two lithographed beer labels one on red paper and printed in red and black the second on cream paper and printed in black and both with the brewery's logo. Bottled by H. Sherwood & Co. Esplanade Perth. 3 1/2 x 2 3/4" Sands & McDougall unknown
1889List1436St. Paul 1889. Cabinet card portrait measuring 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mount. Fine condition with great contrast. Fine. A striking portrait of a family taken by F. Jay Haynes in his St. Paul studio taken after 1889 when he opened it his last studio of his career. A family sits together one man holding a violin another with a revolver visible at his side. unknown
197962332Carmel CA: The Friends of Photography Inc. 1979. Oblong 4to. 31 1; 104 pp unpaginated. Second title in red & black 8 text photo illustrations 51 sepia-tinted photo plates. Oatmeal-coloured publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine w/ d.j. cover art photo of Columbia River gorge by Watkins slight dustsoiling very slight shelfwear NF/NF copy w/ original Friends of Photography membership application laid-in from the library of Charles H. “Brig†Belvin IV b. 1937 w/ ownership markings on ffep. First edition thus of this exceptional photographic work which reproduces all 51 of Watkins’ mammoth plate prints from the Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon presenting a unique opportunity to fully appreciate the noted photographer’s brief six month period in 1867 documenting the Gorge in his exacting 18 x 22 in. wet plate glass negative process. The Friends of Photography, Inc., hardcover
200735400Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 2007. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Very good. Folio with slip case. xviii 348 pages. Illustrated with color frontispiece color illustrations and black and white drawings. Brown leather binding with title facsimile signature and a steer head stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine. All edges gilt. Includes a one time key code to the website www dot Russellraisonne dot com. Limited numbered signed edition of 500 copies. This copy is numbered 184. Signed by the editor and 5 more of the contributors. University of Oklahoma Press unknown
191678132Denver: The Clason Map Co 1916. Includes a geographical index of towns and a table of railroad distances. The population of the state at the time was 98726 and Las Vegas was little more than a railroad division point. The raising of stock was an important industry: “Owing to the limited water supply it will never be an important agricultural state.â€<br />  <br /> 20 p. index with a folding map 17 ¾ x 22 ½â€. Original printed green paper wrappers 4†x 6 ¼â€. Some minor edgewear; otherwise very good. The Clason Map Co unknown
186579374Boston Massachusetts 1865. Engraved and printed in black on thin blue stock 7 ¾†x 6 ¾†with a green stamp this is certificate number 143 signed. Faded revenue stamp pasted on the left edge.<br /> <br /> A certificate for 100 shares in the mining company. Clear Creek owned 600 feet on the Kinney Tunnel Lode on North Creek in Black Hawk Colorado. Gold was found as high at $600 per ton and the mine also owned a mill-site on the creek at the mouth of a mine entrance a house and a 25-horse engine Hollister Ovando James: The Mines of Colorado. unknown
187579372Del Norte Colorado 1875. Engraved and printed in black on thin cream stock 11†by 8†this certificate No. 62 is for 100 shares of capital stock for $100 each. The certificate is signed and includes a blue cancellation stamp.<br /> <br /> Mining property in the San Juan Mountains region of the Colorado Territory. unknown
188579373Colorado Springs Colorado 1885. Engraved and printed in purple and green on thin cream stock 14 ¾†x 15 ½†this is bond number 4 signed. $500 10 percent bond secured by a deed of trust to the Fidelity Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Cincinnati Ohio. Includes six coupons valued at $25 each that are punched by still intact. unknown
191878138Des Moines Iowa: The Kenyon Company 1918. A color map showing all the railroads cities towns post offices rivers telegraph stations money order post offices and chief auto roads. The population of the state at the time was 799024.<br />  <br /> 18 p. with a folding map 18 ½†x 14â€. An index of Colorado with the latest census and a shipping and postal guide is printed on the verso of the map. Original printed blue paper wrappers 4 ¼†x 6 ¼â€. Near fine. The Kenyon Company unknown
188678130New York: G.W. and C.B. Colton 1886. Hand-colored pre-statehood map published only three years before the Dakota Territory was split into North and South Dakota. Depicts the various counties railroads and townships with relief indicated by hachures.<br />  <br /> The 15 ½†x 12 ½†map folds into the original burgundy cloth-covered boards 3 ¾†x 5 ¾†with gilt and blind stamping. “Compliments off Aug. T. Post Banker 25 Nassau St. New York†is stamped on the front panel. Near fine. Scarce OCLC locates only two holdings: Yale and State Historical Society of North Dakota. G.W. and C.B. Colton unknown
187564248Salem & Portland OR: E.M. Waite Book & Job Printer; Press of George H. Himes 169-177 Second Street 1875-1887. Fourteen parts in one vol. Thick 8vo. 96; 88; 65 3; 98; 95 1; 63 1; 64; 80; 90 2; 29 3; 43 1; 44; 109 1; 10 pp. Oregon Pioneer Association emblem on titles 3 collotype photo plates tables. Contemporary quarter-brown calf over black cloth rubbing edgewear scuffing rubbing & wear to fore-edges wear to corners shaken still G copy from the library of Addie Mae Wilson Brant 1898-1985 noted home cook from Yoncalla Oregon granddaughter of famed Oregon settler William Hunt Wilson 1822-1902 who drove wagons for Jesse Applegate 1811-1888 over the Oregon Trail and a staunch abolitionist who virulently opposed the anti-immigration and anti-Black laws passed in early Oregon w/ additional pencil inscription of “Uncle Jesse Applegate†on front pastedowns possibly indicating this was his copy. First editions of these thirteen early publications issued by the Oregon Pioneer Association featuring an invaluable separately printed index as well as the first local printing of Applegate’s famed “A Day with the Cow Column in 1843†which was first published in 1868 in the Overland Monthly. The account is still considered one of the best early first person accounts of pioneer families trekking across the Oregon Trail. Nesmith 1820-1885 has included his own memoir of the 1853 Rogue River War serving with General Joseph Lane and commanding forces at the pivotal 1853 engagement at Evans Creek resulting in the Table Rock Treaty. Within two years following the 1855 Lupton Massacre the Rogue River War renewed resulting in the forced removal of the Takelma Shasta and Applegate Indigenous Peoples to the Siletz Reservation. E.M. Waite, Book & Job Printer; Press of George H. Himes, 169-177 Second Street, hardcover
18957741Butte Montana: Genelli Studio N.D. Circa 1895. First Edition First Printing. Original Photograph on Mount. Original gelatin silver photograph measuring 13.25" x 10.5" mounted on its original heavy card-stock frame to an overall size of 13.75" x 10.75". An utterly charming and highly uncommon group portrait capturing ninteen young women dressed uniformly in flowing white gowns some adorned with sashes and bows. In contrast to the often rigid and sombre studio portraits typical of the period the image is remarkable for the subjects' relaxed candid and cheerful poses and expressions. Their choice of attire - resembling Victorian lingerie dresses - strongly suggests the group was gathered for a specific collective event such as a tableau vivant a theatrical production a society pageant or perhaps a graduation ceremony. Bears the stylized imprint of the prominent Western photography firm "Genelli" to the lower-left margin alongside a full studio stamp to the verso reading "Genelli 122 North Main St. Butte Montana." accompanied with a contemporary manuscript ink annotation also to the verso which suggests the era "about 1895" a location of provenance "Portage la Prairie" and a subject "Aunt Frank"'. Captured and produced by the American photography firm Genelli Studio a prestigious high-end franchise known for their artistic portraiture sophisticated lighting techniques and use of elaborate theatrical backdrops beautifully exemplified by the rich drapery and wainscoting apparent in the background of this lovely image. Exceptionally well-preserved retaining excellent clarity sharp focus and tonal range showing only but minor typical silvering to the darker areas and a few largely unobtrusive minor spots to the centre; Original mount remains sound showing some moderate edgewear slight rounding and minor delamination to the corners. Overall very good. Thoroughly lovely and charming. Rare. <br/><br/> Genelli Studio unknown
1940154291St. Croix Falls WI: N.p. 1940. Vintage string bound photograph album containing 31 black-and-white snapshot photographs including four hand-tinted in blue and yellow documenting a school costume day. Manuscript ink annotation to the inside front cover provides the date and album title: "Dress-Up-Day Pictures / April 5 1940". <br /> <br /> Many photographs with manuscript ink annotation captions to the bottom edges identifying the subjects. <br /> <br /> The outfits run the gamut: while some teens opted for simple cross-dressing costumes many were more creative dressing as cowboys hula girls hoboes married couples and the like. Notably unusual costumes include an ice box Life Magazine a beer barrel a telephone directory several rolls of Tums and a record player with a paper sign noting the record title as Rhapsody in Blue. A humorous assortment. <br /> <br /> Photographs generally 2.5 x 3.5 inches. Mounted on black cardboard album leaves rectos and versos. Near Fine. N.p. unknown
194957035Portland OR & Santa Barbara CA: E.B. Quigley 1949-1966. 1st -- 8 silver gelatin photos sized 8 x 10 in. some w/ photographer’s stamp on verso others w/ pencil and/or ink MS marking; 2nd -- 8vo. 12 pp unpaginated. illustrated self-printed softcovers pencil annotations back cover; 2 copies of 6 pp unpaginated. triptych illustrated; 4 pp unpaginated. brochure Rancheros logo by Joe de Yong on front cover creased from fold; 3rd -- 4to. 5 leaves broadsides photo illustrated 1 on stationery 1 signed by Ed Quigley; 4th -- 12mo. 4 x 5 in. 3 illustrated Christmas Cards 4 pp unpaginated. bifolium illustrated by Quigley 1 ALS on verso of front flap; 5th -- 4to. 1 leaf broadside of Quigley’s cabin in Sandy OR; 6th -- Oblong 8vo. to 4to. Approx. 100 pieces of illustrated & printed stationery invoices & envelopes on laid paper; 7th -- 4to. 8.5 x 10.25 in. 142 2 pp. Title printed in silver & black w/ colour and black & white photo illustrations & plates throughout 1 colour map text illusts. by Joe de Yong. Half-burgundy cloth over printed boards illustrated endpapers w/ d.j. wraparound cover art photo by Karl Obert 1 closed tear back cover NF/VG copy; 8th -- Small group of artifacts including 8 rawhide leather ribbons personalized to Quigley stamped w/ De Yong illust. including the Los Vigilantes badge for them to be attached to as well as personalized badge for dam dedication all from the library of Ed Quigley. This captivating archive offers a number of items documenting the storied career of noted Western artist Ed Quigley 1895-1984 including photographs catalogues broadsides and printed pieces as well as souvenirs from his participation with Los Rancheros Visitadores riding club in Santa Barbara CA. The photographs open with an image of him completing a painting of a cowboy working with mustangs in a corral with Quigley holding his palette and glimpses of Portland OR through the studio window in the background; another two show him and his smartly dressed friends during the 1930’s while he was painting for the Works Progress Administration Federal Artist’s program; and five additional photos by Santa Barbara photographer Karl Obert depict him riding with others at the Los Rancheros Visitadores in 1958. The exhibit catalogues include his June-July 1949 exhibition at the Maryhill Museum of Fine Arts which also included a number of his original woodcarvings; the 1962 Western Art Exhibits sponsored by Los Rancheros Visitadores which featured works by Quigley Charley Russell Will James Edward Borein Joe De Yong Olaf Wieghorst Frank Tenney Johnson and others; and the 1964 gallery showing of Oil Paintings and Wood Carvings at the Oregon Society of Artists Gallery in Portland OR including a photo of the artist carving sculptures. The several sales broadsides include one signed by Quigley for his bronzes with the verbiage that he had intended to cast 20 but there were only 10 and these include “Unloaded†“Indian Scout†and “Bronc Rider.â€Quigley expanded his career through the 1930’s and 1940’s by gaining inspiration from Yakama Indians in and around Toppenish while visiting horse trader Frank Green and would often return there. He writes in one of the undated Christmas cards that he had just “spent 3 interesting weeks with a couple of mustangers and the Indians on wild horse round-ups on the Yakima Reservation. Got a lot of good material and have 2 - 30†x 40†paintings finished.†The stationery included here all reproduce paintings by Quigley of mustangs on the Palouse as well as pen & ink drawing of the cabin built by the artist on Cedar Creek near Mt. Hood and Sandy Oregon. The prolific and popular Western artist focused on cowboys and Native Americans working in rugged landscapes often with pastoral themes as a native of the Pacific Northwest who also was an active member of many riding clubs including Los Rancheros Visitadores. Los Rancheros Visitadores was founded as an invitaiton-only riding club which included such members as founder Ed Borein along with Will James Joe De Yong Walt Disney Gary Cooper Montie Montana Clark Gable Philip Wrigley Charlie Russell Chuck Yeager Max Baer and Ronald Reagan. The rides usually center on the Los Prietos Ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley often include a visit to Santa Ynez Mission and for over four decades their rides participants and activities were documented by famed Santa Barbara photographer Karl Obert 1897-1976. No copies of the exhibition catalogues or broadsides are located in Worldcat; See: Phoebe Oelheim Artist Edward Quigley’s Romantic Vision of the West Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission 2002; Graham Sharkey Boots & Spurs The Capital Journal July 20 1950 p. 10. E.B. Quigley, paperback
1890List2450Deadwood: H.R. Locke 1890. Albumen photographs measuring 9 x 7 inches on larger mounts. Very good contrast some chips and wear to mounts. Very Good. A group of four photographs by Henry Robinson Locke who operated a studio in Deadwood South Dakota in the early statehood years. He photographed the Black Hills region. This collection of four photographs shows a gold mill in Deadwood a cyanide mill in Deadwood and two views of Lead City which was the home of the Homestake Mining Company during the period and continued to be a center for natural resource extraction for several decades following the initial Gold Rush period of the 1870s which brought the first wave of Euro-American settlers to the area. H.R. Locke unknown
187723994Dublin: The Central Tenants' Defense Committee 1877. First printing. Hardcover. Good overall. The trial of returned convict John Sarsfield Casey an activist defender of Irish tenant farmers who earlier in his career wrote letters to Fenian newspapers as 'The Galtee Boy' which were used in his 1865 trial to support a charge of treason and a sentence of transportation to Australia. Casey was one of the 62 Fenians transported to Western Australia. He was granted a free pardon in 1869 and returned to Dublin in 1870.<br /> <br /> The 1877 trial recorded here was brought against Casey in Ireland by the agent for a wealthy land owner Nathaniel Buckley named Patten Smith Bridge. <br /> <br /> Bridge had imposed enormous rent increases on the Galtee Mountain tenant farmers; he alleged that Casey's articles to the press about the excessive rent increases had libeled him. Huge rents increases and the inability of farmers to pay resulted in whole families being thrown out of their homes; Casey knew these facts from personal experience as some of these tenants were his relatives. The trial lasted 8 days; Bridge's claim for damages against Casey was repudiated.<br /> <br /> 8vo vii 98pp. Deaccessed by the NY Association of the Bar Library with their stamp on the title page. Tan library cloth binding with leather gilt spine label and paper label. Cloth sunned at spine leather label slightly rubbed. Printed on cheap newsprint paper Title page detached chipped at edges with early paper repair on verso; Preface pages through vi chipped along gutter but holding. OCLC: 20515747. The Central Tenants' Defense Committee hardcover
1882138714Perth: Richard Pether Government Printer 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Perth Richard Pether Government Printer 1882 and London L. Reeve & Co. 1879. Large quarto 28 pages last blank with several tables plus 2 tinted lithographs and 2 colour maps one folding 490 × 370 mm; and viii 30 pages plus 21 plates including 17 full-page uncoloured lithographs of eucalypts after drawings by R. Austen. Pebble-grain dark green cloth with a large title-label printed in gilt on black paper on the front cover; minor loss to the label removing two letters of one word; cloth a little marked with light wear to the extremities; small section 25 mm of the leading edge of the rear cover a little abraded; endpaper hinges neatly reinforced; light tidemarks to two small sections of the endpapers with a little foxing confined mainly to the inner surfaces of the free endpapers and the adjacent pages; one tear to the folding map expertly sealed; minimal loss to silverfish to the bottom margin of the small map; mild signs of age and use; a very good copy. The balance of the first title is 'with some remarks and suggestions on future conservation and management of the timber areas from various authorities. With a reprint of the regulations and laws in force for the renting or leasing of timbered lands'. <p>The introduction to the combined work compiled under the direction of Malcolm Fraser the WA Surveyor General has this to say: 'In compliance with your instructions and so far as the information and means at my command allowed I have collected in a general way such information about our timber Forests as was available to me and I have endeavoured to weave this together somewhat in a connected form. <p>By including the valuable Report on the Forest Resources of Western Australia by Baron Ferd. von Mueller it will be brought more prominently before the public than it has hitherto been. the drawings give a very fair idea of the character of the Jarrah and Karri forests'. Richard Pether, Government Printer hardcover
184218891Edinburgh 1842. Very good condition. January 8th article on George Grey's expedition to the Northwest of Western Australia. Sir George Grey 1812 - 1898 explorer governor of South Australia and governor and Premier of New Zealand lead two expeditions to northwest Australia in 1837-9. Both expeditions were extremely grueling with Grey being wounded but led to the discovery of the rivers Glenelg and Gascoyne. Grey describes threatening to shoot his aborigine tracker "Kaiber" who Grey claimed pretended to not be able to find the members of the party they had left temporarily while in search of water. Folio 6pp complete issue. The article three full columns over two pages. String bound a bit ruffled at right margin otherwise very good condition. unknown
19253241N.p. 1925. Very good plus. Eight silver gelatin photographs 5.25 x 2.75 inches all with pencil annotations on verso. Mild edge wear. An intriguing collection of eight annotated vernacular photographs picturing construction and other work taking place at an unnamed western riverside fort. The manual labor for the project was performed by incarcerated men who are sometimes pictured. The annotations on the verso of each image provide valuable information on the activities and settings in the pictures. The images themselves show the stockade adjacent to the river the prisoners' dining hall the front part of the bunkhouse and dining tent an elevated view of the stockade showing sand and cement being hauled down a nearby road three young men preparing dinner "prisoners building a concrete wall" "prisoners working on the retaining walls" and "prisoners starting a wall in the side of a very bad slide." In the latter photograph the compiler of the photographs reveals his own involvement in the activities here: "You can see me R.B.A. standing with a gun on my shoulder." An interesting group of photographs documenting the long tradition in the United States of employing prison labor to perform back-breaking manual labor. unknown
191535385Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1915. First Edition. Soft cover. Fair. Octavo. iv 194 pages. Illustrated with 24 folding map sheets photographs and figures. Brown paper covers with title on front and spine. Paper cover is chipped on the front. Paper spine mostly vanished. Covers detached. Stitching starting to come loose. Fair only. Map illustrations in very good condition. Government Printing Office unknown
189679679Denver: W.H. Jackson & Co. Photo 1896. Hand color-tinted photograph image: 9†x 3 ½†mount: 15†x 9 ¼â€.<br /> <br /> Although Leadville was one of the largest boomtowns in Colorado the mines were in decline by the 1890s and a plan to save the community in 1895 came in the form of an ice hotel and winter carnival. After months of fundraising and then building the ice palace opened on January 1 1896. It measured 450’ long by 320’ wide with five-foot thick walls. Two octagonal towers rose 90 feet at the entrance on the north where arched doorways led visitors inside. Smaller 60-foot towers flanked the sides and the south wall. Inside there was a rink that would accommodate 1000 skaters along with two ballrooms a restaurant and a 20-foot wide promenade that led people down the middle of the place.<br /> <br /> On its first day of operation 2500 visitors came by train wagon horseback and on foot to see the gigantic wonder. For nearly four glorious months visitors paid .50 cents for adults and .25 cents per child to walk past the ice sculpture of “Lady Leadville†at the entrance and into the fantasy world of their dreams. It’s estimated there were 250000 visitors.<br /> <br /> Some edgewear and staining to the mount with a small scuff to the photograph. W.H. Jackson & Co. Photo unknown
