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74081A collection of travel brochures and a map dating from the 1950s for travel in Santa Fe New Mexico. The materials were likely gathered as part of a trip to the southwestern city for the 239th Annual Fiesta de Santa Fe which was held from August 31 to September 3 1951. An official program for this event is among the materials. The Fiesta has been criticized over the years for its reenactment of the 1692 reconquest of the city by General Don Diego de Vargas 1643-1704 and glorification of the defeat of Pueblo Indians at the hands of the Spanish an event that is described in this brochure.<br/> <br/> This group includes:<br/> <br/> WELCOME! 239th Annual Fiesta de Santa Fe August 31 - September 1-2-3 1951. 24 p. booklet 8 ½" x 11" with pictorial yellow paper wrappers. Official program with fiesta history calendar of activities and local advertisements.<br/> <br/> CITY OF SANTA FE SANTA FE COUNTY NEW MEXICO. Folding map 23 ½" x 19" printed in black on light pink paper. Dated January 1 1949 and distributed by the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce. Small ink notation along the border.<br/> <br/> RELAX AND PLAY IN SANTA FE'S BRACING MOUNTAIN AIR. 12 p. booklet 8 ½" x 11" filled with sepia tone images of outdoor activities. Undated issued by the Chamber of Commerce. Vertical crease along the middle as though folded in half.<br/> <br/> LA COCINA DE SANTA FE. Menu 5 ½" x 8 ½" for the restaurant which was recommended by Duncan Hines and the A.A.A. Four panels printed in black on tan cardstock and undated.<br/> <br/> LA FONDA: The Inn at the End of the Trail in old Santa Fe New Mexico. Stapled folding brochure 4" x 9" promoting expansion of the pueblo-style hotel. 12 panels internally printed in two colors with a full color cover illustration.<br/> <br/> FRED HARVEY SOUTHWESTERN HOTELS IN NEW MEXICO ARIZONA AND RESTAURANTS IN OHIO ILLINOIS MISSOURI KANSAS NEW MEX. ARIZONA CALIFORNIA 1951. Folding brochure printed in red and black on a 24" x 9" sheet of cream stock that folds to 4" x 9" 12 panels.<br/> <br/> EL NAVAJO GALLUP NEW MEXICO: "The Heart of the Indian Empire" - A Fred Harvey Hotel. Folding brochure promoting the hotel and local Navajo Country tours. Printed in black on an 8" x 9" sheet of yellow paper that folds to 4" x 9" 4 panels.<br/> <br/> THE ALVARADO ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO: A Fred Harvey Hotel. Folding brochure advertising stays at the hotel which was named after Hernando de Alvarado commander of artillery in Coronado's expedition. Printed in black on an 8" x 9" sheet of white paper that folds to 4" x 9" 4 panels. unknown
190662652St. Louis MO: Holt St. Louis Streets Dept. 1906. Forty-four of 46 original linen-backed panoramic silver gelatin photographs comprised of 116 approx. 8 x 10 in. images divided into 2-4 panel panoramic photographs w/ captions neatly written w/in negatives at lower fore-edge annotations in red & black ink occasional pencil notes sectional numbers on versos edgewear & rubbing some lifting to fore-edges of some of the images creasing soot soiling to versos minor over-exposure to some images still a VG archive. This historic archive of panoramic photographs meticulously document the now largely disappeared and built-over River des Peres in a Ruscha-like manner and if pasted end-to-end would span nearly 100 feet. Capturing the River des Peres Valley which still meandered at the beginning of the 20th-Century along the Western boundaries of St. Louis MO and reveal a fast-growing Western city industrializing and appropriating the marshy lowlands farms and rural areas into factories breweries and railroad routes. Eleven of the images wind through Forest Park where much of the river had been channeled in 1904 through wooden sewers and culverts in order to cut down on the stench and prepare the park for the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. Holt 1866-1925 was renowned for his excessive photographic documentation leading groups of city engineers armed with large format cameras shooting on glass plate negatives recording the sprawling activities of the burgeoning St. Louis community in the Progressive Era. As evidenced by this meticulously shot archive of panoramic images Holt and his team document from the Mouth of River des Peres looking North with railroad bridge in right foreground and steamers in the river alongside the banks. The images continue along the River des Peres capturing the brewery next to the Railroad and between Broadway & Alabama Ave.; the sprawling unidentified factory on Webster; and also demarcating where the City Limits Stones were set and what numbers. A four-panel panoramic photo denotes the Saints Peter & Paul Cemetery on Gravois Avenue followed by others indicating different distances from Gravois Road bridges and houses along the road a road grading and roadbuilding team West of Gravois and then recording the rural lowland areas Southwest of Gravois and then towards Echelberger Street. About halfway through the series the images begin capturing more industrial and suburban development including the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Line Frisco RR telephone poles along Fyler Ave. Frisco RR stone station on Fyler with nearby culvert; the Hirsch Rolling Mill Co. complex with railcars labeled and carrying steel and railroad bridge in the distance. The photos show the River des Peres winding around revealing the Clifton Heights in the background; between Knox and Sulpher Ave. with Fire Engine House in the right foreground and many different railroad company cars including those for the Cotton Belt Line the Chicago Peoria & St. Louis RR the Missouri Kansas & Texas RR; and many for the Frisco RR. Several photos shot by Holt and his team May 10 1906 capture the sprawling Laclede Fire Brick Manufacturing Co. complex the Frisco RR Arch Bridge and even a Birds-Eye view. Other photos approaching Forest Park also depict the Police Headquarters Stables the Forest Park Highlands and once in the Park a group of boys playing baseball in the lower foreground. The final three-panel panoramic photo was taken looking West with Delmar Blvd. on the right and the Frisco RR trestle in the middle foreground Delmar Garden in the background and center field filled with the trestle stretching over the River des Peres. Unsurprisingly this cataloguer could find no similar partial or extant collection of images and the original negatives appear to have probably been dumped by St. Louis City Hall housecleaning around 1950 when they offloaded the thousands of photos shot by the Holt for the Street Department. The historically invaluable images were all sold at an auction comprising three 13 foot high stacks of negatives nearly all of them on glass. Purchased originally by Swekosky the collection was lent to Dick Lemen of Moline IL who cleaned printed and enlarged the photos purchased them and later donated the remnants of what he preserved to the St. Louis Mercantile Library. These photographs capture a Western waterway almost entirely displaced with nearly all of its original route completely rebuilt as it was engineered to operate as the backbone of the St. Louis sewer system and almost completely underground with just a few sections near the mouth with a channel and paved bans. In 1904 the Forest Park section was covered in a “large wooden box†to prevent visitors to the World’s Fair from breathing the unhealthy stench and after a 1915 flood backed up sewers killed 11 people in flooding and destroyed over 1000 homes chief engineer Horner was ordered to prepare a plan to completely control and build over the River des Peres. It still carries storm water and sewage in separate pipes and now that the channel has almost no direct source from the Mississippi River and all of the lowland meadows wetlands and areas that existed at the beginning of the 20th Century have been entirely paved over there largely remains no water to supply the river itself. Some of the River at the site of the former Carondelet Coke Plant has been largely remediated and a short piece connected to the Mississippi Greenway near River City Casino. See: Kelly Moffitt Salvaged Photographs from the St. Louis Street Department circa 1900-1930 Catalogued in New Book St. Louis on the Air St. Louis Public Radio Aug. 2 2017; Enter Dick Lemen Dr. William G. Swekosky The collection Grows Unwieldy Lafayette Square Archives 2020; Michael Allen The Harnessed Channel: How the River Des Peres Became a Sewer Preservation Research Office Nov. 27 2010; Chris Naffziger Reconnecting with the Roots of River des Peres in St. Louis Terrain Magazine 2022. Holt, [St. Louis Streets Dept.], unknown
191078148Highmore South Dakota: Keiser Land Company 1910. Printed by Will A. Beach in Sioux Falls using the E. Frank Peterson map of South Dakota to promote settlement in Stanley Sully Hughes Hyde and Hand Counties which are highlighted in green of course. The remaining counties and the Indian Reservations are outlined in red. Advertisements and agricultural statistics frame the map with a lengthy text on the verso describing the natural resources educational advantages and other local opportunities.<br />  <br /> Printed on both sides of a 22†x 17†sheet which folds to 3 ½†x 8 ½â€. A few minor splits and tears with some mild toning to the outer panels; else very good. Scarce OCLC locates only three holdings: Yale South Dakota and Michigan. Keiser Land Company unknown
1950123012Kalgoorlie: Back to the Goldfields Celebrations 1950. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Kalgoorlie Back to the Goldfields Celebrations 1950. Oblong octavo 180 pages with numerous illustrations and advertisements. Colour pictorial card covers a little creased and rubbed with a few tiny closed tears; a very good copy. An attractive souvenir with much of Western Australian mining interest as well as short local histories of goldfields towns such as Coolgardie Kalgoorlie Boulder Broad Arrow Norseman. Back to the Goldfields Celebrations paperback
189063750San Francisco CA: C.P. Heininger 1890. Oblong 12mo. 6 x 5 in. 18 leaves unnumbered. Albertype sepia-tinted lithographs from photographs and original drawings including double-page “Birds Eye View of Portland & Vicinity†a few folds neatly repaired minor age toning some slight edgewear minor closed tear head of spine old reinforcement on verso of spine still a VG- copy w/ publisher’s advertising label mounted on rear pastedown bookseller’s stamp for Eli Sherwin Denison General Newsagent Southern Pacific Company Portland OR. First edition of this very scarce original view book issued by one of the most dominant travel souvenir publisher’s in 19th-Century California and the West C.P. Heininger. Not only did they publish and sell view books photo albums and guidebooks but also created business cards walking canes and novelties made from Redwood and Redwood tree bark. This souvenir view book’s Birds-Eye fiew of Portland focused on the Willamette River looking South with western downtown Portland and docks on right-hand side of image while East Portland and Albina appear to the left-hand of the image capturing the railroad shops and grain elevator. Of additional interest are the included views of the North Pacific Exposition Building constructed in Goose Hollow on Burnside in 1888 serving as the venue for the annual Industrial Exposition flower shows and athletic field which later evolved into the Multnomah Stadium and was destroyed in a 1910 fire. Heininger 1857-1943 first established his souvenir lithograph printing offices sometime in 1885 and would continue selling novelties and printed view books until 1924-1927. Denison 1827-1898 was a longtime General Newsagent for the Central Pacific & Union Pacific Line and in 1869 developed his business under the Southern Pacific where he remained until the end of 1890 when he set up his own line The Laundry Farm Railroad. Worldcat locates 5 copies of the 1890 ed. Stanford Bancroft Multnomah County Lib. U of O Seattle Public. C.P. Heininger, unknown
182928055London: John Murray 1829. Paperback. Very good condition. Important early report on the Swan River Colony based on Captain Stirling's findings during his 1827 expedition and intended as a guide for prospective emigrants. The 29 page article is titled "Regulations for the Guidance of those who may Propose to embark as settlers for the New Settlement on the Western Coast of New Holland" and includes a one page woodblock map. The map "Sketch of the New Settlement on Swan River" has the text "Fine undulating grass plains thinly wooded" stretching from Mangles Bay to Port Leschenault. The WA coast is shown from above Swan River in the north around Cape Leeuwin and further to the East. Disbound from Vol XXXIX with the title page pp 315-344 with some extraneous pages. John Murray paperback
197927309<p>Western Americana . Tending the Talking Wire: A Buck Sergeant's View of Indian Country 1863-1866. Edited by William E. Unrau. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press 1979. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Hervey Johnson of Hillsboro Ohio was a private in the 11th Ohio Cavalry stationed in the mid-1860s at a string of small posts along the Sweetwater River from Independence Rock to South Pass 100 miles to the west. Their main duty was to protect the line of the transcontinental telegraph—"the line" he calls it here. Frequently the line was cut by American Indian tribesmen; often large portions of the line were carried away to make it more difficult to repair During his three years in the Army Johnson wrote about 100 letters home to his sisters and mother in Ohio. The family were Quakers so he often uses the pronouns "thee" and "thy" instead of "you" and "your." From various sources at the time he heard about the July 25 1865 battle at Platte Bridge Station. At the time he wrote this letter Johnson was stationed at a post on the Sweetwater near Independence Rock about 55 miles west of Platte Bridge which he generally refers to here as "the Bridge." </p> University of Utah Press, hardcover
1882List2451Chicago: Rand McNally and Co 1882. Lithographic broadside illustration printed in color measuring 11 x 5 ¾ inches. Closed tear to margin paper reinforcement to corners verso very good condition quite bright and attractive. Very Good. An attractive advertisement for the Chicago and North-Western’s routes to San Francisco printed during the tenure of the railroad tycoon Marvin Hughitt as General Manager a position he held from 1876 to 1880 before being named Second Vice President. The advertisement was printed by Rand McNally and Company which in its early years focused on railroad-related materials. The Omaha and California line of the Chicago and North-West Railway connected passengers from Chicago to California. Other maps printed by Rand McNally and Co. during the period illustrate the route. We find no other examples of this broadside. Rand, McNally and Co unknown
195232978Glendale CA.: The Arthur H. Clark Company 1952. First edition. With illustrations from contemporary sources these being two portraits a military scene a facsimile from Riley's journal and a fold-out map of the Santa Fe Trail. Tall 8vo in the publisher's original red cloth the spine gilt lettered. 222pp. A very fine copy but for a little cosmetic scarring to the endpaper along the front fold line otherwise pristine. FIRST EDITION OF THIS FINE ACCOUNT OF EARLY TRAVELS ON THE SANTA FE TRAIL. An often overlooked aspect of American History the trail was one of the first major route west; connecting Franklin Missouri with Santa Fe New Mexico. Beginning in 1822 the trail was used to take advantage of new trade opportunities with Mexico which had just recently won its independence from Spain. This caught unwelcome attention from the Plains Indians. By 1829 it was decided the caravans needed a military escort a decision which was extremely controversial at the time.<br> The escort consisted of four companies of the Sixth United States Infantry commanded by Captain brevet Major Bennet Riley after whom Fort Riley of Kansas is named. Major Riley had fought as a young officer in the War of 1812. While well intentioned the military escort and a number of armed clashes along its route complicated United States relations not only with the Plains Indians but also with the Republic of Texas and with Mexico.<br> This work is drawn directly from the journals of Major Riley and the reports of Lieutenant George Cooke; very early and important accounts of Americans in regions previously controlled by Spain. The Arthur H. Clark Company hardcover
1920List3343United States 1920. Painted poster with affixed photograph measuring 14 x 21 inches. Toned with water damage and slight damage to edges; very good to excellent. A painted poster advertising the 1920 film The Girl Who Dared a Western directed by Clifford Smith and starring Edythe Sterling. The story follows Barbara Hampton a rancher’s daughter who is elected sheriff of a small town and must take on the cattle rustlers who are after her father. Sterling born Edith May Kessinger 1893–1962 was a prolific actress known for working with animals; after her film career she performed riding stunts in a Wild West show. Smith 1894–1937 was similarly prolific directing more than eighty films during his career—mainly Westerns which were especially popular during the silent era. This poster is hand-painted with a photograph from the film affixed and advertises 1¢ admission which was remarkably cheap even for the time. unknown
190927730London: R. H. Porter 1909. First printing. Pamphlet. Very good condition. Four issues of this journal of ornithology. The October issue has an article by W.R. Ogilvie- Grant with field notes by G.C. Shortridge on "On a Collection of Birds from Western Australia" Pages 650 to 689 to be continued includes a fine hand colored lithograph of Sericornis Balstoni and Malurus Bernieri fairy wren. Large 8vo printed paper wrapped issues of the journal housed in a slip box. Bright clean copies with some chipping of spines and one cover. R. H. Porter unknown
1897Cat358New York: Willis Woodward & Co 1897. Folio sheet music complete. Illustrated color lithograph title page by Robert Teller. Covers detached contents complete good with lithographed cover in particularly bright and attractive condition. Sheet music issued at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush capitalizing directly on the surge of public interest following the discoveries in the Yukon in 1896–1897. The lithographed title page signed in style by Robert Teller shows a dramatic scene of prospectors working a gold deposit in the mountains with two miners in the foreground bent over a pile of freshly uncovered gold tools in hand. Theodore August Metz was a German-born musician trained on violin in Hanover who emigrated to the United States and worked various trades before establishing himself as a bandleader and composer in Chicago’s late 19th-century popular music scene. He achieved national prominence with “There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight†1896–97 a widely performed marching tune that became especially popular during the Spanish-American War and in minstrel and touring band repertories. <br /> <br /> OCLC 726910235 locating a single copy at the Levy Collection. Willis Woodward & Co unknown
19788811Santa Barbara CA: Harold G. Davidson 1978. Limited to 200 copies this copy unnumbered and unsigned. 4to 288pp. Photo frontis black and white facsimiles throughout. Bound in publisher's red leather with gilt lettering. Housed in gray marbled paper slipcase with red leather paste on with gilt lettering on front. Fine book in slipcase with some light wear. Harold G. Davidson unknown
187162250Hartford CT: Columbian Book Co. 1871. 8vo. xxi 1 23-602 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher’s ads. Steel-engraved frontisp. with numerous woodcut engravings & illustrations. Plum-coloured publisher’s cloth gilt bear stamped on front cover title lettering embossed in blind on spine minor foxing to frontisp. minor sunning & wear to spine edgewear slight uniform interior toning still a VG- copy. Second printing of this informative work gathered from the author’s first-hand interviews with early settlers and mountain men of the Pacific Northwest including Joe Meek William Henry Gray and others. Much of the work was actually written in the house of noted Oregon pioneer & author Belle W. Cooke who describes how she was “often reading the manuscript to my father and mother for comment.†Victor herself notes after publication that some of the historical facts regarding Marcus Whitman his efforts in the Oregon Country and the massacre orally related to her by Gray needed to have been checked more carefully. Victor d. 1902 was the primary author for the Bancroft histories of Oregon Washington and the Northwest Coast as well as a noted author of poetry and literature. See Powers History of Oregon Literature pp. 282 305-309 Graff 4477 1870 ed. Columbian Book Co., hardcover
195458591New York: The Westerners 45 West 57th St. 1954-1964. 48 issues in 6 volumes. Approx. 1150 pp issues & vol. runs separately paginated. including biennial indexes for each volume. With colour plates illustrated ads inserted ads photo illustrations maps issues were printed on varying grades and types of paper over this 10 year run so some are a little toned and there are a few colour-tinted publisher’s inserts. Uniformly bound in burgundy-coloured simulated calf gilt lettering & ruling on spines a couple issues w/ minor tears and wear to corners still an excellent set bound and from the library of William Henry Bishop b. 1922 w/ TLS laid-in from Peter Decker on letterhead addressed to Bishop Shelburne Hotel New York dated March 16 1954 including New York Posse Membership No. 117 on the laid-in card as well as 4 ff. mimeographed copy of The Westerners by-laws. First editions of this complete run of the first 10 years of The Westerners Brand Book quarterly which included articles and memoirs by some of the most significant Western historians of the 19th & 20th Centuries. Articles ranged in topics from the Hudson’s Bay Company fur traders to Western Knives along with outlaws gunfighters pioneering families and Western artists. A number of articles detail the lives mistreatment and condition of American Indians including those of the Umpqua Cheyenne Sioux Pawnee as well as Indian Health Service military campaigns and more. At the time of Bishop’s acceptance as a Westerners New York Posse member he was managing the Alaska Livestock & Trading Co. sheep & cattle ranch at Chernofski Harbor on Unalaska Island which encompassed 120000 acres as well as executive with Oregon Worsted Co. The Westerners were originally founded in Chicago by Leland Case Don Russell Ray Allen Billington Elmo Scott Watson and others but quickly grew to include Corrals in Denver Los Angeles Washington D.C. London and others with the groups publishing articles and reviews. The Westerners, 45 West 57th St., unknown
193325852Perth: Department of Lands and Surveys 1933. Cadastral map showing land use. Includes plan showing townsite boundary. Version dated "6.2.33". Addition of lots 185-200 on upper right to town plan printed in red. <br /> <br /> The earliest held by SLWA seems to be ca. 1950. Call Number 9024.P3G46<br /> 1 map ; 58 x 76 cm. encapsulated in plastic.<br /> <br /> Western Australia. Department of Lands and Surveys.<br /> Map Dept. of Lands & Surveys W.A. 1937.<br /> Available at 3rd Floor Map Stack Call number: 35/11/MANJ 1937 plus 1 more.<br /> Call Number <br /> 9024.M25G46<br /> Related titles <br /> Townsite maps Western Australia.<br /> Description <br /> 1 map ; 54 x 69 cm. encapsulated in plastic.<br /> Part of collection: Townsite maps Western Australia. Department of Lands and Surveys unknown
62435N.p. n.d. ca 1910s: Cosmopolitan Series. Twelve lithoprint stereoviews on cardstock each 3-1/2" x 7". Very mild edge-rubbing occasional light soil on versos; Very Good to Near Fine. <br /> <br /> A selection of Western and Native American scenes from this anonymously-published series. Though not expensively produced and though printed images halftones rather than original photos this selection is unusual for being very well-preserved. Includes scenes in New Mexico Colorado Yellowstone Park Alaska Minnesota and Arizona along with a few unlocated western views - "Camping in the Wild West;" "A Real American Cowboy;" and three Native American views including "Chippewa Squaw Making Birch Canoe" "Chief Blackhaw Squaw and Papoose;" and "Mounted Sioux Indians Western Plains." For brief reference on the series see DARRAH p.120. Cosmopolitan Series unknown
198962162El Segundo CA: Upton & Sons Publishers 1989. Tall 8vo. 347 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo and text illustrations. Light blue publisher’s cloth gilt lettering minor toning to fore-edges w/ d.j. cover art of Boone Helm grave marker & Tom Cover photo still VG/NF copy from the library of Tom Koenninger 1932-2010 former editor managing editor journalist for The Columbian newspaper and board member on the Vancouver National Historic Trust. First edition of this work tracing the life of gold miner vigilante and later Riverside CA founder and orchard grower Tom Cover. He and his partners had made the big gold strike in Virginia City Montana Territory gracked down and hung the Plummer gang including Sheriff Henry Plummer and Boone Helm witnessed the murder of John Bozeman and later settled in Los Angeles. Thrapp posits that the Helm family members finally exacted revenge upon Cover during a prospecting trip in 1884 into the Colorado Desert as he disappeared in Sept. 1884 and was never heard from again. Upton & Sons, Publishers, hardcover
189979680Denver: The Denver Litho Co 1899. Engraved and printed in black green and red on thin cream stock 14 ¾†x 15 ½†this is bond number 54 unsigned. $500 six percent bond issued by the town of Nevadaville in Gilpin County to help fund a “gravity system of water worksâ€. The total issue was $20000 and the bonds’ mature date was 10 years. Includes 30 coupons valued at $15 each.<br /> <br /> Nevadaville was founded in 1859 and is now a gold mining ghost town. It was once one of the most important mining settlements in the area and originally part of the Kansas Territory. It grew to house the miners working the Burroughs lode and the Kansas lode and the population was predominantly Irish. The Denver Litho Co unknown
1838131290London: 'Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed' 1838. Very Good. London 'Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed' 1838. Foolscap folio 21 1 docket pages with numerous tables. Uncut and sewn as issued; outer pages slightly dusty; light foxing throughout; an excellent copy. Great Britain and Ireland Parliamentary Paper Number 685 of 1838. The bulk of this important paper pages 4-19 is given over to 'Nos. 5 6 7. Copy of a Despatch from Governor Sir James Stirling bearing Date 15 October 1835 forwarding a Memorial from the Inhabitants of Western Australia; together with a Copy of the Answer which has been returned thereto'. It is somewhat more than that. Stirling's covering letter explains that 'The signatures attached to this memorial . belong to about one-third of the adult male population of the settlement and represent also about one third of its property in land and capital. The grievances under which the memorialists consider themselves and their fellow colonists to labour are five in number'. The five grievances are well-aired; all signatories are identified; there are five pages of lists of lands reserved for public purposes individuals or 'Assigned to or Reserved for Civil Naval and Military Officers from commencement of the Colony in June 1829 to 6 October 1835'. The second and third lists provide name rank or situation where applicable number of acres district assigned or reserved - and when and remarks. A sample record for an individual is that pertaining to Robert Ramsay for whom an 'uncertain' number of acres was reserved at Plantagenet on 12 April 1831: 'Master of brig "Britannia". On south shore of Princes Royal Harbour reserved 18 months to form a whaling establishment and then resumed on failure of conditions'. The last four pages in this section contain Lord Glenelg's thoughts on the matter as of 7 March 1837. The limited information relating to the fledgling colony of South Australia occupies only pages 20 and 21. Ferguson 2511. <p>Provenance: the signature 'C.A.S. Hawker' is written in pencil at the head of the first page. Charles Allan Seymour Hawker 1894-1938 politician and pastoralist: his grandfather George Charles Hawker arrived in Adelaide with his brother Charles in September 1840. They settled on land at Bungaree near Clare in December 1841; C.A.S. Hawker he was born there. He was seriously wounded on several occasions at the Western Front losing one eye and 'his legs were in surgical irons to the end of his life'. He was a minister in the Lyons Government from 1932 until he 'was killed on 25 October 1938 when the aircraft "Kyeema" crashed into Mount Dandenong in Victoria. His untimely death was sharply felt. He had been an outstanding and respected figure in the Federal parliament whom some of his own party would have supported as prime minister. John Curtin the Opposition leader believed he had been on the threshold of great achievements' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. 'Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed' unknown
182922252London: Baldwin and Cradock 1829. First edition. Hardcover. Good overall. Highly important early Western Australia content with report by Captain Stirling on his expedition to the Swan River undertaken in the year prior to the first settlement. A 7 page report from Captain Stirling's despatches describes the results of his 1827 expedition. <br /> <br /> Other topics include: The Netherlands: Progress of the Insurrection in Java; Russia: Hostilities with Persia renewed; Russia declares War against Turkey; Piracies in the West Indies; Account of Franklin's Second Journey to the shores of the Polar Sea; Present State of the Jews; Steam Boat; American Great Western Canal; and the First English Newspaper established in China.<br /> <br /> Single 8vo volume in two parts. The article appears at pp 510-517. Part I: viii 1 - 267pp 1; Part II: 545pp Index 11. Rebacked with the original leather spine laid down still quite rubbed and worn. Part of the original label loosely inserted inside paper label laid down at top of front board. Text clean and bright. Hard copy not found in Trove. Baldwin and Cradock hardcover
199359804Salem OR: Your Town Press & Edward Gray 1993. 4to. 6 222 pp. Numerous photos text illustrations maps. Embossed & decorated tan sheepskin gilt lettering on front cover & copper lettering on spine w/ brands in black on front cover F copy. First edition 1 of the 31 limited editions in special sheepskin binding but without presentation inscription or numbering of this fascinating work set in the desolate regions of Crook Deschutes Harney and Lake Counties at the end of the 19th century when Bill Brown was known as the Horse King of the Northwest. He owned the largest branded horse herds on the Pacific Coast and was caught between two factions in the Wagontire Mountain Range Feud employing at one time nearly all of the participants. Your Town Press & Edward Gray], unknown
199359803Salem OR: Your Town Press & Edward Gray 1993. 4to. 6 222 pp. Numerous photos text illustrations maps. Embossed & decorated beige cloth copper lettering on front cover & spine w/ brands on front cover F copy. First edition of this fascinating work set in the desolate regions of Crook Deschutes Harney and Lake Counties at the end of the 19th century when Bill Brown was known as the Horse King of the Northwest. He owned the largest branded horse herds on the Pacific Coast and was caught between two factions in the Wagontire Mountain Range Feud employing at one time nearly all of the participants. Your Town Press & Edward Gray], hardcover
79363Four quit-claim deeds dating from the 1880s involving women in property transfers at a time when women’s property rights were severely restricted nationwide.<br /> <br /> A deed dated September 17 1885 recorded the purchase of a lot in Aspen by Mrs. Rilla Patten who paid $150 to J.C. Dodge for lot “L†in Block 99 in the town of Aspen. The city’s population exploded from 500 to 3500 between 1883 and 1885 reflecting the rapid development driven by the silver boom.<br /> <br /> On January 5 1865 Nanum Howe Rice and Eliza A. Rice husband and wife sold a "planing mill" and all its machinery in Denver Arapahoe County Territory of Colorado for $3000 to another party. He died in 1878.<br /> <br /> The additional deeds appear to show the sale and transfer of properties within families.<br /> <br /> On July 18 1887 another deed records the sale of mining property in Clear Creek County by Catherine M. Cowles for $1000 to Frederick Nelson. According to Ancestry records Nelson married Catherine K. Cowles in 1885. Her mother Catherine M Cowles died in 1884.<br /> <br /> On December 6 1883 John Hardenburgh sold to his wife Martha B. Hardenburgh an interest in several mining claims in Pitkin County Colorado and a lot in the town of Aspen for $1000. The couple was married in 1873 and she preceded him in death.<br /> <br /> Changes in property rights laws for women paved the way for these transactions. While still a territory Colorado adopted the Married Women's Property Act in 1861 which gave married white women the right to own property otherwise given to them. Before this time under coverture an English common law system married women could not own property control their wages be part of contracts and otherwise act autonomously to their husband's authority. Further in 1872 the Colorado Territory allowed any woman while married to “execute any bond bill promissory note or other instrument in writing for the direct payment of money; and if the consideration thereof went to the benefit of her estate.â€<br /> <br /> By 1900 most states allowed married white women to own property but access to credit and mortgages without a male co-signer was a barrier for all women not addressed until the 1970s. unknown
184333589Cincinnati: E. Morgan and Company Printers 1843. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Wraps. 22 pages. Yellow covers with printed title on the front wrap. Ex-institutional copy from the Western Reserve Historical Society with an embossed stamp on the title page. "Withdrawn" written in black over the stamp. Light soiling to the covers. Some margin marks in the text. A good copy. Scarce. 3 copies located in OCLC. Despite an excellent start the Western Baptist Theological Institute proved very fragile. The institute was established to serve western Baptist both those from the north and the south. The issue of slavery however divided the western Baptists from the very founding. Reverend Patterson the institute’s president also served on the National Board of Foreign Missions. This board published a number of articles indicating that slavery should not be tolerated in the Baptist faith. This association between Patterson and abolitionism caused much concern among the institutes southern trustees and students. On May 8 1845 Baptists delegates from the southern states met in Augusta Georgia and formally established the Southern Baptist Convention. This split would have grave consequences for the Western Baptist Theological Institute.<br /> <br /> Several southern members of the board of trustees asked Dr. Patterson to publicly state his opinions on abolitionism. He refused to do so. Instead Patterson left Covington and was replaced by Dr. S.W. Lynd. In 1848 a southern member of the board introduced a resolution that spoke of slavery as divinely inspired. The resolution was defeated. The four southern board members who voted for the resolution were undaunted. These members without consent of the rest of the board lobbied for the passage of a bill at the Kentucky General Assembly in Frankfort. The bill called for the appointment of 16 new members to the Board of the Western Baptist Theological Institute. In addition all future trustees were required to be Kentucky citizens. The bill became law.<br /> <br /> The northern members of the board were stunned by this obvious attempt to take control of the institute. They were particularly angry because most of the funds that had donated to the institute were donated by northerners and because most of the students were from the north. The northern members of the board fought to strike down the new law. Eventually the Kenton Court of Appeals declared the law null and void. The abolitionist controversy and the split between factions on the board took its toll on the institute. Donations plummeted along with the student enrollment. In 1855 the board decided to close the Western Baptist Theological Institute. Both factions agreed to a sale of all the property with the proceeds being divided equally.<br /> <br /> In August 1855 the Main building of the institute was sold to W. Scott. Mr. Scott operated a small female college and preparatory school in the building for several years. During the Civil War the hospital was utilized as a convalescent hospital for wounded Union soldiers. In 1867 the building was purchased by the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis. The sisters relocated their St. Elizabeth Hospital to the site. St. Elizabeth Hospital occupied the building until 1914 when the current hospital was completed. In 1916 the main building of the Western Baptist Theological Institute was razed and Wadsworth Electric Company was built on the site. Ware Orie S. “Western Baptist Theological Institute†In the Papers of the Christopher Gist Historical Society Vol. I p. 43-49; James W.C. “A History of the Western Baptist Theological Institute†In the Collection of the KCPL; Licking Valley Register May 25 1842 p. 3 June 4 1842 p. 3 May 31 1845 August 23 1845 p. 1; Covington Journal August 24 1849 p. 3 November 22 1851 p. 2 August 12 1854 p. 2; Kentucky Post November 24 1916 p. 1. E. Morgan and Company, Printers unknown
