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19001880Various locations including the Southwest California Mexico and Colorado 1900. Very good plus. Forty silver gelatin photographs on thirty-eight leaves. Images 3 x 4 inches all but three one per page and captioned. Oblong 12mo album. Original black cloth with black paper leaves. Internally clean most images with good definition and contrast. A charming little photograph album documenting a holiday vacation across the country. The trip begins on a steamer off the Florida Coast with stops at New Orleans Arizona Texas Mexico and on to California. Images in the Southwest include Native American street vendors in Yuma adobe houses in El Paso and the prison and post office in Juarez. In California where the bulk of the images were taken the group visits Los Angeles Ocean Beach the ostrich farm at Pasadena Long Beach Catalina Island Santa Barbara San Francisco and Berkeley. From San Francisco they board a train snapping photos from the railway car. In Colorado they visit Pueblo Cripple Creek Colorado Springs Denver the Cave of Winds and Garden of the Gods -- all the usual tourist stops. The images have good contrast and the compiler has carefully labeled each image in a neat hand elevating this above standard tourist albums. An excellent example of cross-country tourist travel at the turn of the century. unknown books
1923903Yosemite 1923. Very good. 41 silver gelatin prints on 16 leaves. Black paper leaves string-tied. Captions in white ink. Closed tear to first leave minor wear else. A charming narrative album detailing a family holiday through Yosemite. Many of the photographs show sweeping scenery together with shots of the travelers themselves including two photos of the children perched on the back of Cakewalk the Donkey. Images are all captioned often providing elevation information. A final image shows two women seated at a folding table outside along with two young girls who appear to be twins and a sleeping man. The two girls are holding newspapers; one eats a sandwich and gazes at the camera. The family car is in the background. The caption reads "In Purussima Creek where the trip was planed sic and 'discussed'. June 3 1923." A lovely little souvenir album of an auto trip to Yosemite. unknown books
021955Rochester NY: Western New York Nursery Company. Very Good. Hardcover. Black staplebound cloth over thick cardstock. Boards are rubbed on edges and moderately worn. Binding is solid with slight separation at front. Interior mostly clean with soiling to edges; a few of the plates show light foxing. One plate has 1 3/4 inch closed tear. Brown endpapers. Front endpaper has an inch closed tear and 1/8 inch hole. Inside front board reminds the salesman to "Please handle Plate Book carefully and do not mark prices on the plates. " Produced by the Western New York Nursery Company and printed by Vredenburg & Company both of Rochester New York. From the University of Rochester "In the latter half of the nineteenth century Rochester New York was a leading American nursery center. Auxiliary to the nursery businesses there developed allied enterprises one of which was the production of colored fruit and flower prints designed to aid nurserymen and their travelling salesmen sell plants. This business in nurserymen's plates as these prints were also termed flourished until changes in marketing nursery products and the increasing use of colored illustrations in nursery catalogues caused its decline. By the early years of this 20th century the production and use of these plates was ending. A typical nurserymen's color plate was approximately 9 by 12 inches or the smaller "pocket size" of 6 by 9 inches which was introduced in the early 1870's. Each pictured a specimen of fruit flower shrub ornamental tree or occasionally a hardy vegetable such as rhubarb. Under the illustration would be its name perhaps a brief description of its attributes as much for the benefit of the salesman as the potential customer and the name and often city of the producer of the plate. These plates were generally printed on heavy paper stock to withstand wear." Our copy has chromolithographic plates divided into equal parts of fruits and ornamental plants. The book can be dated to no earlier than 1904 as the "Perfection Grape" won a Gold Medal at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition. An attractive salesmans fruit and plant book from the early 20th century. ; 5.5" x 8.5"; 72 pp . Western New York Nursery Company hardcover books
19333488Yosemite National Park 1933. 33 RPPC 8.5 cm x 14 cm all are very good or better with 18 having neat and dated manuscript notes describing the views. Most views have strong contrasts the cards are in nice condition with no folds or tears. Collection of views documenting someone's trip to Yosemite in 1930 September 9-11. Included are views of interiors and exteriors of the Awahnee Hotel and the Glacier Point Hotel as well as views of the park. unknown books
1836016450Boston: Dutton & Wentworth Printers 1836. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. A bound volume containing a collection of ten publications relating to the Western Rail-Road Corporation from the incorporation in 1836 to 1840. The First Annual Report from 1836 is included twice. Bound in contemporary original three quarter leather which is moderately to heavily worn with the front board nearly detached. There is minor to moderate foxing and the final half of the text is lightly stained at the top corner. The 1836-37 Reports of the Engineers is complete with two fold-out maps which were printed on very thin onion-skin paper. These two maps have been detached and are misfolded with minor tearing as well as some foxing. A ready-made collection of the founding documents of this railroad company which starts in Boston winding its way across the state where it enters New York State at West Stockbridge. Dutton & Wentworth, Printers Hardcover books
1802216710Washington D.C. 1802. First edition. 53 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Sewn uncut. Fine. First edition. 53 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Shaw and Shoemaker 3298 2 copies unknown books
1922669Various places 1922. Good plus. 181 original photographs most 3.5 x 3.5 inches some larger. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Scattered manuscript captions. Some album leaves with tape repairs but photos generally fine. An absorbing photograph album containing over 180 original images that documents a family's travels in the West over a four year period after World War I. The group travelled to a disparate set of Western destinations during this time making their way across the county by train automobile and riverboat. In 1919 they travelled through the Northern Rockies making an obligatory stop in Denver but also halting at places such as Vananda Montana now a ghost town and Lake Pend Oreille in the Northern Idaho Panhandle. During 1920 the group was in Dalhart Texas and returned to Idaho to visit Lake Coeur D'Alene and to travel along the St. Joe River. Images from 1921 and 1922 center on travel around the Spokane area where the group appears to have been from including a series of images taken at Liberty Lake. A varied and interesting album of post-World War I western travels. unknown books
19091557Various locations in the West 1909. Very good. Forty-seven leaves containing forty-one photographs 4 x 6 inches supplemented by postcards and a few newspaper clippings. Oblong octavo album. Original leather cover gilt black paper leaves. Spine perished but holding covers worn. Some leaves intentionally trimmed on fore edge. Two photos loose and laid in. Contents clean and fresh. An interesting album documenting a train trip to the Western United States taken by several businessmen from Chicago on a tour to study irrigation investments in Colorado Idaho and Wyoming. The album starts out with panels from the trip brochure pasted onto the first two leaves followed by newspaper clippings documenting the trip as well as a map of the train routes in the west and a sheet of stationery signed by all the members of the party. The trip was organized by Trowbridge & Niver a municipal bond company based in Chicago and one Denver newspaper headline notes "Half-Billion Dollars Represented in Party. Many are already backing projects here and are making trip to investigate." Each photograph is captioned with a typed label documenting stops along the route starting with Fort Morgan Colorado. There are several images of Eldorado Springs including the swimming pool and a large building whose roof says "Moving Pictures" which we presume to be an early movie theatre. There are many group shots of the "Buffalo Party" along the way all looking quite dapper in caps and touring coats out to spend their millions. One image shows the group on a tour by buggy captioned "Our party inspecting irrigated orchards at Palisade Colorado." There are three photographs of Salt Lake City followed by a series in Idaho which includes a charming photo of several women laughing captioned "Shoshone Indians at Pocatello Idaho." There is a series taken along the Snake River in Idaho and Oregon followed by several images taken in Boise. This cataloguer's favorite is a pair of photos taken at the local pool showing the men in their swimsuits: "Buffalonians in the Natatorium Boise." The final four photos depict the group at stops in Wyoming. Throughout the compiler has used postcards to set the scenery for the trip using the photographs to capture the group itself on tour. Altogether a wonderful album documenting a business trip yet assembled like a family vacation album or young woman's scrapbook. The format speaks to the novelty of such a trip even for businessmen in the early years of the 20th century. unknown books
19331962Long Beach Ca 1933. Very good plus. Forty silver gelatin photographs. Twenty-six mounted on leaves with typed captions the remainder loose but captioned in negative. Images 3.5 x 5.75 inches and 3.5 x 4.5 inches. Images crisp and clean mounting leaves a bit rumpled with light wear. Small collection of images documenting the Long Beach Earthquake of May 10 1933. The images mounted to sheets are numbered and captioned in typescript with the heading "Earthquake Damage - Long Beach and Vicinity. March 14 1933". They provide a visual survey of the damage to major sites around Los Angeles and Compton such as the Masonic Temple the Dominguez Sub-station the Security First National Bank in Compton buildings along East Compton Boulevard and several of the local schools. The loose photos all show damage in Long Beach itself including the Seaside Hospital the Catholic Church the Imperial Theatre schools and an image captioned "Feeding refugees at Lincoln Park - Long Beach Cal."<br/><br/>The Long Beach Earthquake occurred just before 6 o'clock in the morning and was a magnitude 6.4 killing more than 100 people. The epicenter was offshore south of Los Angeles with much of the damage limited to Long Beach but also spreading north into southern L.A. It is notable that many of the images here document school buildings as more than 200 schools were damaged in the event. This highlighted a need for earthquake-proof construction in school buildings where the death toll would have been much higher had the earthquake struck during school hours and the legislature passed the Field Act on April 10th as a result. An altogether interesting set of images. unknown books
196853467Los Angeles: Southern California Jewish Historical Society 1968-92. Ninety-three original issues in the original wrappers comprising an unbroken run but for a single issue from the debut issue in October 1968 to January 1992. Octavo; original printed card wrappers; most issues 96pp. Beginning with Vol. XVI the name changes to "Western States Jewish History." A few issues have old rubber-band adhesions to the covers; otherwise they are pristine most appearing unread. Missing is Vol. XX no 3 April 1989. Publisher's prospectus laid in to Vol. I no 1. <br/><br/>An attractive long run of this well-edited scholarly journal providing a rich vein of original historical research on Jewish communities west of the Missisisippi. Will occupy approximately 36" of shelf space. Southern California Jewish Historical Society unknown books
185831868Springfield IL 1858. Broadside 10-1/2" x 13-1/2". Printed in four columns. Lightly foxed old folds Very Good.<br/><br/> This evidently unrecorded broadside recounts the proceedings of a Convention. held at the State Capitol in Springfield to determine the feasibility of a regional program to advance the cultivation of sorghum or Chinese sugar cane. Notice of the Convention was reported in the Sangamo Journal / Illinois State Journal for 30 December 1857: "It is confidently believed that the Chinese Sugar Cane is well 'adapted to our soil and climate' and that it can be successfully and profitably cultivated and manufactured into molasses and sugar." <br/> The Agricultural Committee submitted information from growers and processors in Kentucky Pennsylvania Ohio and Indiana. The Mechanical Committee could not produce an acceptable proposal for a processing machine and the Convention adjourned with a recommendation that Illinois delegates gather more information for a future convention. Efforts to stimulate the growth of northern sugar cane continued through the succeeding decades.<br/>As of October 2019 not located on OCLC or the online sites of AAS NYPL Newberry Harvard Yale U MI. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker Graff. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000646No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 11 x 14"" 28 x 35 cm. lobby card USA. Lon Chaney Edith Roberts Noah Beery Dewitt Jennings Ralph Lewis Jack Mulhall dir: Irving Cummings; Western Pictures Exploitation Company. Border art and inset photos with story details enhance this card with main image of Lon Chaney Edith Roberts and Jack Mulhall. In this story Chaney plays a convict who has broken out of jail and is hiding in Chinatown. He takes on the identity of a cripple in order to track down and take revenge upon the businessman who framed him some 15 years before. When he finds him however he discovers that his daughter is in love with the man's son. Chaney's role here anticipates his work a few years later for MGM's THE BLACKBIRD. Minor crease in lower right blank border overall FINE. unknown books
183129035Nelson Ohio 1831. Broadside 7.5" x 34.5" three leaves joined end to end with wax. Manuscript petition written on unlined paper bold calligraphic heading followed by small neat handwriting. Signed by sixty-one petitioners from the Township of Nelson. A dampstain runs through the right edge of the petition light scattered foxing. Very Good. <br/><br/> This is a petition for the Court to provide the village of Garrettsville Ohio with a justice of the peace. Garrettsville was founded in 1804 by Col. John Garrett III and was officially incorporated in 1864. The citizens complain that the township of Nelson had only two justices neither of which was easily accessible to Garrettsville leaving Garrettsville "entirely destitute." The petition is followed by the signatures of sixty-one residents. The Court refused the request. <br/> Among the signers is Elisha Garrett son of Garrettsville's founder; Lyman W. Trask 1809-1863 a physician and editor of the Western Pearl a short-lived literary newspaper of the 1830s; Edwin Atwood who built the Garrettsville Grist-mill with Leman Ferry and the first church with John Garrett; and Abraham Dyson a blacksmith and War of 1812 veteran. Other names include: Willis Hall Robert H. Scott Richard A. Denison Hiram Austin Warren Waste John M. Tilden E.L. Jones Martin McClintock Samuel Fuller Ferriss Couch Henry Gillmore Mylowe Eggleston Joseph Gillmore John Zubull Anson Booth Joseph A. Chapman John Noah by his mark and many more. Brown: HISTORY OF PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO. 1885. unknown books
1954List516California and Oregon 1954. Oblong 8vo dyed calf album measuring 11 x 7 inches. Contains 218 photographs most measuring 3 x 5 with some smaller. Very Good. A charming album depicting the canine-centric adventures of a couple as they fish hike and camp their way through some of the great Western parks nearly always with a German Shepherd in tow. Several iconic landmarks are on display - El Capitan the Columbia River giant redwoods and more. The photographer had a keen eye for landscapes and the overall quality of the images and the omnipresent dogs present an infectious appreciation of nature and the outdoors.<br /> <br /> The size of the fish on display and the beauty of the surroundings show the bounty of the Western parks in the early days of automobile-era tourism. Mixed in with the shots of the outdoors is a curious series of a German shepherd in various poses at a table and several pictures of the couple at home. Presumably several dogs are shown all German Shepherds as the album spans several decades. Contents are beautifully preserved album torn at seams at the exterior and spine perished good to very good condition overall. unknown books
190533875Nevada California Colorado Arizona Montana 1905. Documents of many different sizes approx. 3-1/2" x 7" to 13" x 21". Light dust occasional scattered spotting. A few items have folds with some splits no loss. Very Good. <br/><br/> The documents concern mining companies in Nevada and California plus a few from Colorado Arizona and Montana. Several companies in the Nevada Territory and California had claims in the Comstock Lode. <br/> CALIFORNIA: <br/> 1 Certification of filing Articles of Incorporation of the Imperial Gold Mining Company of San Francisco with starting capital of $100000. Preprinted form completed in neat ink manuscript with names of officers Henry C. Blake W.F. Bogart J.B. Treadwell A.J. Shrader D.L. and signatures of Thomas Beck Secretary of State and Wm. A. Beck Deputy dated 1/9/1878 with large gilt seal measures 16" x 21"; <br/> 2 Hussy Mine Report typed dated 6/12/1880 4pp held with metal clasps at head. Describes Nevada County California mine including location tunnels gold yield and quality. This may be typed version of 11 page manuscript described at OCLC 79446888; <br/> 3 M.M. Sexton T.C. Stallo & O.M. Broms Manuscript Notice of Mining Claim for the "Rissell opposite the Store at Temperance Flat for the purpose of erecting a wheel and machinery for a Quartz Mill" signed at Millerton on 8/1/57 and docketed on verso. <br/> 4 Thomas Price's Assay Office and Chemical Laboratory Memorandum of gold bullion deposit dated 4/24/1879; <br/> 5 Chemical Laboratory Assay Offices Bullion Rooms & Ore Floors - with Thomas Price as Analytical Chemist Assayer and Bullion Melter memorandum of bullion deposit dated 7/24/1882; <br/> 6 Wells Fargo & Co.'s Express receipt dated 7/29/1880 $3900 in gold bars addressed to "W.F. & Co. San Fran. for assay;" <br/> 7 Palmer & Day's Assay Office receipt dated 3/13/1862 for 73.21 oz. of gold dust; <br/> 8 Selby Smelting & Lead Co. three memoranda of gold bullion deposit dated 5/1/1882 for 406 oz. 9/29/1890 for 7.02 oz. & 82.85 oz.; <br/> 9 Mountaineer Gold Mining Co. payment receipt dated 9/7/1868 for $125.00 to C.W. Hendel for one year service as Secretary; <br/> 10 T.P. Crandall of Crandall & McKillican Provisions Mining Supplies Etc. 8/13/1888 draft payable to Buckeye Mill Co. $147.06 with signature endorsements on verso; <br/> 11 Kellogg & Humbert's Assay Office 9/28/1858 gold bullion deposit no. 5282; <br/> 12 Rufus Butterfield San Francisco 10/26/1852 receipt for $134.63 on goods shipped from New York on "Ships 'Racer'" "Milch of the Mare" and "Gray Hound."<br/> NEVADA: <br/> 13 Gould & Curry Silver Mining Company 7 receipts for gold & silver ore dated 1863-1864 in two different styles and 2 receipts for labor payments from 1862 and 1864 $2000 for "working one " and $175 for "labor on Moor Ranch;" <br/> 14 Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co. dated June 1911 Sheet No. 6 employee nos. 201-239; <br/> 15 Manhattan Silver Mining Company of Nevada payment receipt dated 7/8/1875 in the amount of $140; <br/> 16 Van Wyck & Co. Assay Office receipt for 2229.5 ounces of bouillon dated 7/14/1864 deposited by Savage M. Co.; <br/> 17 Savage Mining Company voucher dated 2/3/1892 for $32.50 paid to Wells Fargo & Co. for expressage of 1780.5 lbs. of amalgam from Nevada Mill to U.S. Mint in Carson City; <br/> 18 Savage Gold & Silver Mining Company receipt dated 1864 for supplies bought of White's Canon Mill preprinted with both companies' names; <br/> 19 U.S. Mint at Carson City memorandum of silver and gold bullion deposit dated 11/6/1890; <br/> 20 Mexican Mill manuscript statement of F.S. Bars manufactured in payment of H & N deposit written on preprinted undated form of the U.S. Mint at Carson Cashier's Office; <br/> 21 White & Murphy Gold and Silver Mining Company receipt dated 2/28/1864 for "merchandise." <br/> MONTANA: <br/> 22 North Butte Mining Company Check to Jas. McMillen $23.50 written on First National Bank of Butte. <br/> ARIZONA: <br/> 23 Bank of Bisbee two drafts dated 7/11/1905 Nos. A7069 payable to Jose Estrada for $6.75 in Mexican Silver Dollars and A7070 payable to Pedro Rivera for $10.00 in Mexican Silver Dollars with endorsements and perforated rubber and paper stamps on verso. <br/> COLORADO: <br/> 24 The Eagle Ore Company original and carbon of receipt of 15520 pounds of gold & silver valued at $270.18.<br/> Gould & Curry Silver Mining was organized in June 1860; Manhattan Silver Mining Company of Nevada was established in 1863; and the Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co. was organized in November 1906. The U.S. Mint at Carson City was created in 1863 and operated from 1870-1885 and from 1889-1893 when its doors finally closed. It was established specifically to facilitate the minting of silver coins from silver in the Comstock Lode although it also minted some gold coins.<br/> Charles Hendel 1831-1920 came to California in 1853 and began mining for gold in Sierra County later serving as the county's surveyor as a U.S. Deputy Surveyor and as Plumas County Surveyor. He owned a large interest in the Alturas Tailing Mine and the Lucky Gold Hill Mine. Guide to the Charles William Hendel Collection 1853-1918 662-701 California State Library. unknown books
189040232n.p. 1890. Not bound. Overall quite good but some creasing tears fading a few remounted. 12 sheets. Size varies from 4 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches to 13 x 10 inches. 42 albumen and silver prints mounted on large card stock some tipped in some remounted. Images of San Francisco Yosemite Pikes Peak Grand Canyon as well as the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 some captioned in plate or in manuscript. unknown books
1955WRCAM56693Oakland Ca.: Utsumi Studio 1955. Panoramic silver gelatin photograph 8 x 30 1/4 inches. Minor edge wear a few soft creases mild surface soiling. Very good plus. An appealing panoramic photograph featuring the attendees of the 1955 conference of the Western Young Buddhist League. The photograph captures a few hundred finely- dressed Japanese-American men and women posed in a courtyard in Oakland California. Various delegates to the conference hold handwritten signs indicating their home cities and regional organizations which include Marysville Palo Alto San Mateo San Francisco Fresno Oakland Sacramento Delta Pasadena and numerous other smaller California cities and locales. There are also banners for attendees from the Stockton Chapter of the Y.B.A. the Coast District of the Young Buddhist Association and the Central California Young Buddhist Association. The elders of the organization sit in chairs in front of the young Bussei. Interestingly this photograph was taken by Oakland photographer Kinji Utsumi a photographer in the Bay Area both before and after World War II. Utsumi bought his photo studio in 1941 but was forced to close at the outset of the Japanese-American internment period. He then became one of the official photographers at the Topaz internment camp in Utah; he is mentioned in the RAMBLINGS yearbooks for Topaz High School during the internment period. After the war Utsumi returned to Franklin Street in Oakland and opened another photographic studio. A rare image of a large organization of young Japanese-American Buddhists in California in the middle of the Eisenhower years with no copies reported in OCLC. Utsumi Studio unknown books
1915901Portland 1915. Very good. Sixteen cyanotypes approximately 5 x 7 inches. Minor wear and toning at edges images generally sharp with nice contrast. Sixteen cyanotypes depicting the activities of the lumber industry in Oregon taken by an unidentified photographer. The images include scenes of the premises of the Oregon Planing Mill in Portland Globe Mills and a more rural lumber yard and timber camp in the Pacific Northwest. The Oregon Planing Mill was located at 224 2nd Street in Portland and was active in the 1910s and 1920s leading us to a date for the group of images. Two photographs are of the planing mill one showing the outside and the other the interior. Another set of images shows the exterior and interior works of the Globe Mill. Two images show tidy rows of houses which may be a logging camp or an early rural development. The remaining ten images are industrial in nature depicting large buildings and lumber yards full of cut timber planks. All the images have good contrast and are quite sharp with an eye for composition and detail. An interesting group of particularly fine cyanotypes. unknown books
1938917Various Places including Mexico Wyoming Nevada Arizona and California 1938. Very good. 296 photographs in corner mounts on fifty-five leaves. Oblong quarto. Original cloth boards string tied. Cloth worn and frayed at edges. A few leaves loose. Photos generally crisp and neat; about half with manuscript captions on leaves. A travel album of nearly 300 original images of alluring and uncommonly high quality the preponderance of which chronicle a series of road trips made by a group of young men crossing the United States and Mexico by car in 1936 and 1937. The subjects were likely students at Worcester Polytechnical Institute. Approximately 250 of the images depict their trips across North America in the midst of the Depression with locations in the east including Mt. Katahdin in Maine; Washington D.C.; Lookout Mountain Tennessee; Lake Michigan; and Niagara Falls. In the West they drove through Texas and Mexico to Mexico City. They toured the Mexican capital and also stopped in Monterrey where they saw a bullfight. After re-crossing the border at Fort Stockton they traveled through New Mexico Arizona Nevada Wyoming and California with a series of photographs depicting their experiences in Yellowstone and Yosemite. Indeed many of the photos depict their stops in national parks across the West and demonstrate an interest in the major water engineering project being undertaken at that time. The remainder of the images show the aftermath of the 1938 hurricane on Bellows Falls Vermont likely the hometown of the album's compiler and scenes on the campus of WPI. An excellent visual account of Depression-era car travel. unknown books
18881964Sioux City Ia.: James H. Hamilton 1888. Very good. Twenty stereoviews on printed mounts one duplicative. Some light soiling and wear one card lightly creased affecting image. Some slight fading to several photos. A group of twenty stereocards depicting the Corn Palace of 1888 taken by James H. Hamilton the official photographer for the Corn Palace festival that year. The Corn Palace at Sioux City was the world's first founded in conjunction with a citywide harvest festival in the fall of 1887. The festival and the palace were such a success drawing nearly 140000 visitors to Sioux City that the founders decided to repeat their efforts for a further four years. Each year the Corn Palace was rebuilt from scratch the framed timber structure coated with grain from top to bottom. The Corn Palace of 1888 drew approximately 350000 people and advertised "toilet rooms and conveniences for ladies and gentlemen".<br/><br/>James H. Hamilton worked as a photographer in Sioux City from the mid-1860s through the 1890s. He photographed many notable figures and scenes in the region including the Corn Palace serving as the event's official photographer in 1888. He also worked in partnership at different points with photographers Franklin Hoyt and John Kodylek. The views present here primarily depict the interior of the Corn Palace showcasing its various rooms which include features such as fireplaces and gas lighting. James H. Hamilton unknown books
1920List515Various Places 1920. Oblong folio cloth over cardstock 15 x 11 inches. Photographs and realphoto postcards most measuring around 5 x 3 1/2 inches mounted to pages. The system of national parks was created at first in a somewhat piecemeal fashion with the Department of the Interior holding responsibility for establishing each park individually. Chief White Calf of the Blackfeet famously negotiated the sale of the bulk of the lands that would form Glacier National Park in 1895 with the agreement being that the US Government would allow for Blackfoot hunting Chief White Calf's son Chief Two Guns White Calf would later travel to Washington in protest of the government's subsequent actions. The establishment of the National Park Service in 1916 coincided roughly with the dawn of American motor tourism. <br /> <br /> This album dates from that early period of National Park recreation and bears evidence as to the recreation that happened around the early part of the century. The album shows scenery in three national parks by noted photographers including some iconic photographs of Yellowstone by Frank J. Haynes first taken in the and several scarce images of Blackfoot attributed to the noted photographer T.J. Hileman who was the official photographer of Glacier National Park during this period. The album begins with twenty-eight photographs by Haynes who printed copies of his classic Yellowstone photographs first taken in the 1890s from his St. Paul Minnesota studio. The next group shows twenty realphoto postcards of Mt. Rainier National Wilderness Area taken by Frank Jacobs. Some images show the architecture of the lodges some of which were later designated as national landmarks due to their exemplification of National Park Service rustic-style architecture. Surrounding these images are a series of photographs presumably of the family responsible for the album showing a young family picnicking beside their automobile. This section also includes interestingly a realphoto Christmas Card from Mr. and Mrs. Mark Frederick Jukes. Jukes was a notable photographer based in Elko Nevada during this period. <br /> <br /> The next section which represents the most uncommon images in the album shows a series of images of Glacier National Park. The group includes ten realphoto postcards by or attributed to T.J. Hileman some with his copyright mark who was at that time the park's staff photographer and famously took photographs of the Blackfoot people living in the eastern portion of the park. Included are two portraits of Two Guns White Calf and a portrait of Chief Three Bears neither of which we find records of in the trade. Following the Hileman images are twenty-one images taken by Fred Kiser of Glacier National Park each measuring 3 x 3 ⅝ inches showing captioned scenes throughout Glacier National Park in Kiser's distinctive cursive writing. Kiser began photographing western mountain landscapes on his own in 1905 following the death of his brother and his photographs of Glacier and its environs were reproduced during the park's early days. Eight amateur photographs follow showing camping scenes in an unidentified Western landscape. The remainder of the album - 29 pictures - show the family at home and are most notable for a series of white children dressed up in faux- American Indian costumes. <br /> <br /> Overall a somewhat extensive and iconic representation of early automobile-age Western travel with the grand western scenery and zeitgeist of the time on full display. Images generally in fine condition with a few stray creases album with some light normal wear. <br /> <br /> Offered in partnership with James Arsenault & Company. unknown books
19321252Various locations in California 1932. Very good. 219 photographs on fifty leaves most 3 x 5 inches; plus six real photo postcards. Oblong octavo. Original black cloth string-tied. Light wear to covers. Images crisp and clear. Many images with typed captions. A wonderful photo album documenting road trips taken in the Eastern Sierra and western Nevada in the area in and around Owens Valley. The photographer and his friends explored numerous mines and mining towns in the region braving the desert in their car. The album winds from Owen's Lake to the National Soda Products Company and the Estelle Mine to the tiny town of Keeler where they celebrated Easter. They continue on to the mining camps of Panamint City and Ballarat both now ghost towns. There are photographs of the town of Lone Pine the Cerro Gordo Mine Darwin and in Nevada the towns of Lida and Goldfield. They take an extended trek through Big Pine California staying in Glacier Lodge Canyon and spend time in Onion Valley. There is also a lengthy series of photographs taken out at Lone Pine California documenting the Universal Pictures film "Oh Promise Me" with images of the actors and sets and crew. An altogether fascinating album documenting the region of the Eastern Sierra and Owens Valley. unknown books
18951422Various locations in Iowa 1895. Very good. 149 albumen photographs on twenty cardstock leaves images measuring 4 x 5 inches. Oblong quarto. Original black cloth cover gilt; leaves laid in formerly string-tied. Light wear and soiling to cloth evidence of slight dampstaining to lower edge of binding and later leaves. Internal numbering sequence indicates first sixteen images lacking. Images generally clean some minor fading; one photograph partially removed and effaced. Wonderful photo album of images documenting late-19th century Iowa assembled by an unidentified young man with a clear passion for both amateur photography and the area's rivers. Internal evidence suggests he was a student at the University of Iowa possibly pursuing a course of study in the geological sciences. Each image is numbered captioned and dated in a tidy hand usually identifying location and any interesting features. The images span a full year from April 1894 to July 1895 ending with a self portrait.<br/><br/>There are two series of eighty-three images the first sixteen of which are not present. The first of these focuses on the area around Iowa City documenting explorations along the Iowa River. Captioned images include: "21 -- Looking across Iowa River - University buildings in the distance. May 3 '94"; "25 -- Looking up Iowa River from Iowa Ave. Bridge. - Water Works in the distance. May 26 '94"; "46 -- Children at play - Iowa River. May 12 '94". There are images of a baseball game between the University and Luther College views of lime kilns and images of natural specimens. Several photographs chart the "Great Hail Storm at Iowa City" on May 5 1894 with images of golfball-size hail and the damage done to the windows of buildings around town. There are also photos of the author's roommate and some of the activities they got up to including catching snakes and hunting. The roommate Bartsch appears to have been studying natural sciences and one photograph shows him seated at his desk "Blowing Bird Eggs."<br/><br/>The second series has a manuscript title of "Oneota Expedition" and documents a trip by boat from Decorah Iowa on the Upper Iowa River and down the Mississippi as far as Muscatine several miles below Davenport. The trip began on June 18 1895 and lasted through July 26th. Scenes along the river include "6. Women wading the river - w. of Decorah June 19 '95"; "14 -- Dragging our boat in the Oneota. June 24 '95" which shows a flat-bottomed boat laden with supplies being both pushed and pulled by a man at either end; a series of views taken from Oneota Bluff near New Albin on the Minnesota border; "37 -- Winnebago Indian Camp - Iowa Slough July 6 '95"; numerous lovely images of camping along the river and river towns as seen from the water; "77 -- Beds of Montpeliar Sandstone at water's edge - Below Montpeliar Ia. - Bartsch & 'Fitz' hunting fossils. July 23 '95." An interesting album full of wonderful and meticulously documented views of the Iowa River as seen through the eyes of a 19th-century university student. unknown books
195232351Placerville 1952. 1st appearance. Custom bound in blue "marbled" cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine & front board. 1st book with abrasion to rear board. Paper yellowing as usual. Withal a VG to Nr Fine set. 16 of 18 volumes in 8 books. Most issues 16 pp. Illustrated. Small Folio. 13-3/4" x 10-1/2" <br/><br/>A wonderful resource for students of Western America- within are personal reminiscences interviews with those that lived the "West" etc. etc. hardcover books
44211<p>Japan and Western Medicine. Oranda jin Geka ryoji no zu Dutch Surgery in Nagasaki. Original pen ink and watercolor drawing on light brown-toned silk with 4 vertical lines of Japanese characters in the upper left corner. Japan: late 18th or early 19th century. 483 x 363 mm. mounted as a scroll at a modern date on light grey silk backed with paper with a half-round hanging rail with braided ribbon attached at the top and a suspension bar at the foot measuring 914 x 443 mm. overall; preserved in a custom-made wooden box. A few tiny pinholes in upper corners of image but fine with the coloring fresh and bright.</p> <p> This striking image showing an amputation carried out by a Dutch surgeon in Japan was most likely painted in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century during Japan's self-imposed period of national isolation. The hand-painted image is related but by no means identical to a Nagasaki woodblock print titled "Surgery by a Dutch Physician" one of many popular souvenir prints depicting scenes unique to Nagasaki which at the time was the sole point of contact between Japan and the outside world. See our reproduction of the print. It may be that our scroll is the original of the image; however it is also possible that both hand-painted and woodcut versions of the image were produced simultaneously.</p> <p> Western surgery came to Japan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries via the Portuguese who in 1543 became the first Europeans to make direct contact with Japan and the Dutch who became the only European nation allowed to trade with Japan after Japan's expulsion of the Portuguese in 1639. Surgeons attached to the Dutch East India Company established practices at the island of Dejima in Nagasaki Bay which led to the formation of several Japanese schools of surgery based on European methods. "This aspect of Western medicine known as K m -ry geka or ‘Surgery of the Red-Haired' has had a profound effect on the development of surgical practice in Japan" Van Gulik p. 37. Van Gulik "Dutch surgery in Japan" in Red-Hair Medicine: Dutch-Japanese Medical Relations ed. Beukers et al. pp. 37-50. </p> <p>. unknown books
