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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
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
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
1993100132985University of south carolina press 1993 410 pages 19 05x2 794x26 162cm. 1993. Cartonné jaquette. 410 pages.
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: A Bandit's Bride - Part I - Pancho Villa, the bandit-Revolutionist of Mexico, rescued the heroine of this exclusive narrative from a loveless marriage with a Mormon and married her himself - one of the most remarkable stories of love, battle and intrigue ever published; Unknown Animals of the African Wilds - J.A. Jordan describes recent finds such as the Okapi, Bongo, Giant Pig, Pygmy Elephant, the "dingonek", and the "Rhodesian Monster" - article with photos; Private McTosher Discovers London - the adventures of a Highland soldier visiting London for the first time; A Flying Man in South America - Part IV - John G. Barron took a monoplane to South America and performed flying shows for 2.5 years, often before people who had never before seen a plane; How We Salved the Vigilant - While some of the crew headed for safety aboard a Dutch liner, three remaining crewmembers managed to safely guide the Vigilant to port!; The Finding of the "Mollybaun" - the discovery of a big nugget in Coolgardie, Western Australia, leads to multiple murders; Strange Stories of the War - a selection of incidents entitled A Kite Balloon Adventure, The Lady of the Manor, Mixed Identities, The "Phantom Sniper", The Subaltern's Gun, and The Mysterious Message; On the Borders of Tibet - Part III - Reginald Farrar spent two years wandering - largely among wild lands and wilder people whose chief desire was to build the intruding foreigner up in a damp bonfire to smoulder to death - with photos; The Ring - a dramatic story of the old days in New Zealand, before white and Maori had settled down in friendship; Historic Crimes and Mysteries - The Vanished Boatswain, The Monster of Regendorf, Bavaria; Remittance Men - an account of sundry remittance men the author met during his sojourn in Africa; The Tragedy of Sanborn Harbour - wholesale murder at the cod-fishing station on remote Nagai Island, Alaska; Photo of 'two Indians squaws' casting ballots in California for the Presidential election; Photo of 'The Human Fly' scaling a tall building in Birmingham, Alabama; and more. pp. 4 [ads], [2], 194-284, 5-16 [ads]. Unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
Volume I, No. I of this publication. Contents include two long complete novels of war flying entitled "One Man's War", a tale of a Handley-Page night-bomber, and "Gas-Bag Aces", a tale of Seaplane and Blimp adventures of the Coast Defence Forces in the Great War; Terror in the Sky - A Pilotless R.A.F. Fighter crashes in the centre of New York; Murder in the Air - The Red Prop School trained the Foreign Legion of the Air; Cundall of the Camels - The remarkable life of a Camel pilot of the R.F.C. on the Western Front; Real Life Adventures - Crashing Aeroplanes for Movie Thrills and Thrills and Spills in Parachuting; and more. Interesting cover illustration depicts kilt-wearing machine-gunner. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
A most unusual and wonderful item. Appears to be a privately bound collection of early Calgary periodicals dated November 17th, 1916 through April 14th, 1920. Sturdily bound in red cloth with no external markings. Measures just over 2" thick, 11.5" high and 9" wide. Many issues included although we are not sure if a full run is contained. No table of contents or index. Contents tanned with age, otherwise sound. Captures an exceptional and vintage slice of early Calgary and Alberta history. Replete with contemporary advertisements. Book
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
192072185N.p.: N.p. ca. 1920. Original album containing 44 photographs from late 19th century to early 20th century featuring members of the Cameron family including Hubert G. or Herbert G. Todd and Albert the compiler of this album. Photos trace the Cameron's family's life from Kansas to New Mexico then to El Paso and elsewhere in the West. Notably includes ca 1870s-1880s cartes-de-visite of family members with sewn borders the highlight being a 1.25 x 2 in. portrait identified as "Judge Cameron" with a Williams & Thomson Kansas City KS backmark.Herbert left home and went west first "punching" cows and breaking horses. His first wife was "Blanch Blanche Duncan." She was Todd Cameron's mother and died young at the age of 27. Herbert's second wife was Trinidad born in Mexico in 1896. She gave birth to Albert. She died in El Paso TX of tuberculosis. Many of the photos are Todd and Albert engaged in various activities. Todd later died in WWI. Other photos are of Herbert who worked in the northwest in mines the sawmills he ran a gas station in New Mexico and was a farmer in Bastrup County TX. In 1930 the census lists his occupation as "watchman" so he appears to have picked up whatever jobs he could to support his family. The annotations on the photos also indicate that Herbert lost his right hand in an accident with mining machinery so his prospects may have been limited.Family history holds that this family was related to Hugh Cameron who became known as the "Kansas Hermit." Since Hugh does not seem to have ever married it may well be one of his brothers. According to various biographies he was the third of six boys and two girls born to Allen and Catherine Frazier Cameron in New York state. Allen was born in Scotland but it is unclear whether Catherine was also or whether she was born in New York. We have been unable to locate the information on all of the siblings but the idea that one or more of them followed Hugh to Kansas is almost a certainty. We have also been unable to find a first name on "Judge Cameron" pictured in the album - presumably one of Hugh's brothers.Hugh Cameron 1826-1908 "The Kansas Hermit" was an abolitionist Civil War officer judge and founder and resident of Lawrence KS known for his eccentric behavior. Originally from upstate New York he was teaching math in Washington DC when he was fired for espousing his "radical" anti-slavery views so he decided to walk to Kansas to settle and have his voice and vote heard during the Border War period of the 1850s. Connections from Washington secured him an appointment as a territorial judge and he used his power to counteract the "Ruffians" promoting slavery in the state. When the Civil War broke out Cameron enlisted and received a commission as a first lieutenant in Co. F 2nd Kansas Cavalry and was promoted to captain by the end of the year. He was made lieutenant colonel of the 2nd Arkansas Cavalry Union in February 1864 eventually being promoted to brevet brigadier general for meritorious service. After the war Cameron's eccentricities began to emerge. Despite his status as a former judge and military hero with connections in the federal government he began living in a hollowed out tree in Lawrence and eschewed the social norms of the time. One report holds that this was the result of being "spurned by Mary Phelps a Missouri woman." Lawrence Journal-World May 27 2001. The Kansas Hermit usually emerged for some spectacular purpose such as walking to Santa Fe NM to deliver a letter of apology to the people of the state for Kansas Sen. Edmund Ross casting the vote which prevented President Andrew Johnson from being convicted at his impeachment trial. He later said that the purpose of "burying himself in the woods" was to emulate the life of the prophets in the hope that he would receive "visions." N.p. unknown
8vo., Second Impression, with plates, and endpaper maps on blue stock; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON DEDICATION with newspaper obituary mounted on title verso. SOLD WITH A SMALL ARCHIVE OF STEPHENSON MEMORABILIA, INCLUDING 3 A.L.s, ASSOCIATED LETTERS AND COPY-LETTERS, Report & Accounts of the London Flotilla for 1972, Obituary number of the London Flotilla Bulletin (No. 2 July 1972) with cover photograph and extended obituary, and Order of Service of Thanksgiving at St. Martin-in-the-Fields 22 June 1972. Published a month after the first edition. Fascinating account and character sketch of the man who did more than any other to train the Royal Navy during the Battle of the Atlantic. Well-known BBC presenter and journalist Richard Baker, like many thousands of others, trained at Tobermory on Mull for the longest-running and hardest-fought campaign of WWII. A RARE AND RELEVANT ARCHIVAL COPY RELATING DIRECTLY TO ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INSPIRATIONAL COMMANDERS OF THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC.
1798930273<p>The Works: London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson Paternoster-Row and J. Edwards Pall-Mall. MDCCXCVIII 1798 WITH Memoires of the Last Ten Years of the Reign of George the Second: London John Murray Albemarle-Street. MDCCCXXII 1822. Over 4000 pages and 177 full-page engravings. Seven volumes uniformly bound in Contemporary Calf over marbled boards. Gold Gilt on black leather title labels. Additional spine gilt stamping with decorative blindstamp. Some rubbing to bindings wear heavier towards extremities see image. Hand Marbled endpapers hinges unobtrusively reinforced with moire brown cloth. Internally clean Unmarked. Off-setting from plates with sporadic foxing particularly to plates and adjoining leaves as per usual. Full Collation of the papers used contents and plates on request. A Very Good Antiquarian Set Indeed. First Edition. Half-Leather Marbled Boards. Very Good. Illus. by 177 Full-page Engravings Fold-outs etc. 4to - over 11½" tall. Extremely Heavy Oversized Safely Securely Packed.</p> Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson and J. Edwards hardcover
1970ZB679366Utah State University 1970-2000. Volumes 1-31 1970-2000 bound library markings else text clean and bindings tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Utah State University unknown
8vo., First Edition, with fine portrait frontispiece and 65 plates and maps (a number full-page) on 39; original red cloth, gilt back, red top (lightly faded as often), a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. One of the key military memoirs of the twentieth century, this is as much an autobiography as a soldier's account of war. Written entirely by 'Monty' himself (in pencil, as so many of his official communications were composed), this characteristically straightforward (and often politically outspoken) account covers boyhood, early service with the Warwickshires, WWII and beyond (notably, about a third of the work covers his post-war career as CIGS and after). For technical military detail we look to the author's other works; here we find the simple account of a 'soldier who kept the faith'. A great read from one of the unforgettable leaders of his times. SIGNED COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Baxter 268; Enser, p.277.
1920180564China: c.1920s. An attractive handmade gift for the tourist market the delightful papercuts depicting rural scenes and reproducing the Chinese characters for "luck" and "joy". This example contains 18 pages for inscriptions each with a papercut in the bottom corner. Landscape octavo. With 20 handmade papercuts on 10 leaves glassine guards. Original dark blue brocade with embroidered patterns blue silk xianzhuang stitching Rear cover with couple of marks toning and offsetting internally first glassine with loss at foot: near-fine. unknown
1913178292London: Thos. Cook & Son 1913. Second edition revised and updated from the first edition following the 1911 revolution. "It is seldom such momentous changes take place in a country within three years as have shaken the political industrial and civil life of China since this book was first compiled" introduction. The construction of railway lines from the late 19th century onwards afforded new opportunities for Westerners to travel in Asia. Thomas Cook established its first China office in 1911 in Shanghai to capitalize on this. Its guides were well known for their itineraries maps and ease of use. Octavo. Folding frontispiece map of railway and steam connections across East Asia folding plan of Beijing and Seoul maps and illustrations in text. Original yellow cloth covers lettered in black within black frame yellow advertising endpapers. Recent bookseller's ticket on rear free endpaper verso; ownership signatures and stamps of one Gerald A. Gill on endpapers and title page as well as his marginalia on table of contents. Cloth bright light marking and bumping maps and endpapers browned as usual: a very good copy. hardcover
19342080302106808674Seibu Sewing Girls' Association 1934. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Seibu Sewing Girls' Association paperback
2090202120400497Comes with box N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Comes with box paperback
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
182725576Brussels: P. Vandermaelen 1827. An early map of the Exmouth Western Australia area from the North West Cape to Roebuck Bay. Lithograph with original outline color 15 3/4 x 21". Scale ca. 1:1 650 000. Plate no. 44 Partie de La Nlle. Hollande in vol. 6 Oceanique of Atlas Universal de Geographie Physique Politique Statistique et Mineralogique" by P. Vandermaelen 1827. Tooley 1286; Phillips 749; Bib ID 1553060. P. Vandermaelen unknown
182725575Brussels: P. Vandermaelen 1827. Maps. Very good condition. An early map of the Broome & the Kimberly Western Australia area from P. Cantheaume to Cambridge Gulf including the Lacepede Islands. Broome is at the bottom of the Dampier Peninsula called "C. Boileau." Lithograph with original outline color 25 x 21.5". Plate no. 35 Partie de La Nlle. Hollande in vol. 6 Oceanique of Atlas Universal de Geographie Physique Politique Statistique et Mineralogique" by P. Vandermaelen 1827. Tooley 1282; Phillips 749; Bib ID 30855. P. Vandermaelen unknown
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
1978ZB393453Western Agricultural Economics Association 1978. volumes 3-5 7-8 10-11 13 15-21 1978-1996 complete volumes partly bound ex library overall good-very good PRICE IS FOR THE LOT. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Western Agricultural Economics Association unknown
18701203290287Cincinnati : Western Tract and Book Society 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Bound in contemporary black cloth. Gilt design on front cover and spine. Good binding and cover. Minimal shelfwear. Clean unmarked pages. Please feel free to view our photographs. <br><br> John Rankin February 5 1793-March 18 1886 was an American Presbyterian minister educator and abolitionist. Upon moving to Ripley Ohio in 1822 he became known as one of Ohio's first and most active conductors on the Underground Railroad. Prominent pre-Civil War abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe were influenced by Rankin's writings and work in the anti-slavery movement. When Beecher was asked after the end of the Civil War "Who abolished slavery" she answered "Reverend John Rankin and his sons did. Cincinnati : Western Tract and Book Society hardcover
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
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
