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19302033Various places 1930. Very good. Ninety-nine photographs on fifty leaves various sizes but many approximately 7 x 6 inches. Oblong octavo. Original brown covers typed paper label; black paper leaves. Covers a bit worn corners heavily so. Minor soiling to contents a few photos with some light silver mirroring. Images each with typed captions in the negative. A handsome vernacular vacation album with images taken by a skilled photographer with a keen eye for composition and lighting. Each image has a typed caption printed in the negative and most photos are one per page and quite large. The cover label indicates trips to Chicago Virginia Beach New Orleans Houston San Antonio Tucson and Phoenix over the course of three years. The album opens with several handsome panoramic shots of the Chicago skyline and Grant Park before moving on to scenes of sand dunes at Virginia Beach. The remaining forty leaves however show images of New Orleans and the Southwest all captured in artistic detail. Among the more interesting scenes are "Civil War Tenements - Church Street - New Orleans"; "At Twilight the Old Mission Concepcion San Antonio - Texas"; "U.S. Veterans Hospital - Tucson". There are many sweeping scenes of desert scenery and cactus some well-composed tourist shots in San Antonio at the zoo and Brackenridge Park and a series of three images of the Rodeo Parade in Tucson in 1930 showing the cowboys cowgirls and "Indians" marching in the parade.<br /> <br /> There are also street scenes in each city documenting the growing urban landscape and its buildings. One such shows the Alamo and is captioned "The famous Alamo and the Medical Arts Building. The old and the new - San Antonio Texas." Though the photographer is unidentified he has taken a self-portrait in Audubon Park in New Orleans which shows a middle-aged man in spectacles wearing a fedora and a plaid suit. An unusually nice vernacular photo album comprised of sharp and artistic photographs documenting scenes of tourism and travel in the late 1920s. unknown
1935738G1656London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. Fair. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. 240 pages. Thirty excellent sepia-toned photographic plates. Description of life in northern Vancouver Island by a pioneer of Kingcome Valley. Part 1 The potlatch reconstruction of a typical potlatch; part 2 Recollections of an Indian agent. Interesting large newspaper clipping from 1972 laid-in describes 'The Crime of Indian-Giving - Kwakiutl fight for return of seized potlatch riches'. Heavy fading to backstrip but lettering still clearly legible. Lower right quadrant of front board faded. Short openings to top of backstrip. Somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. Minor foxing to endpapers. Contents lightly tanned. A worthy reference copy of this informative work. Edwards & Lort 1640.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Native Peoples British Columbia Vancouver Island Alert Bay Indian Agent Government Potlatch Department of Indian Affairs Kwawkewlth Indian Agency Kwakiutl Kingcome Valley . J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. hardcover
1913213G1775Victoria: Ministry of Education Province of British Columbia 1913. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 187 pages. Index. Attractive gilt advertisement upon black front board. Few black and white illustrations. Contents secured to boards by original black cord. "Covers a three-years course in Household Science." - from Preface. Above-average but not excessive overall wear. Errata page at front and memo page at back very heavily worn. Many contemporary hand-written recipes upon nine memo pages at back. Minimal markings to contents excepting pages 114-115 upon which are handwritten contemporary prices of dozens of grocery items. A worthy copy of this wonderful and very uncommon antiquarian British Columbia household science text. Ministry of Education, Province of British Columbia Hardcover
192873aa1976British Columbia: British Columbia Telephone Company. Fair. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant traffic commercial operating accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company industry and technological news traffic levels expansion plans personnel announcements publicity and social events deaths weddings lists of exchanges and more. As such these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Hundred Thousandth phone installed - lengthy article; Essentials of good maintenance; Statement of Development - number of phones per exchange in the province; B.C. Telephone Company takes over East Kootenay System; Prompt service aids with Sidney fire; The office boys dream; Telephone assists in Vancouver Stock Exchange VSE Rush - great photo; Automatic phone system installed at Hammond; Keeping the electrons on the proper path; Photo of J.P.D. Malkin takes part in first Vancouver-London phone call; Shell Oil operator; Health Tips; Greater Vancouver can now talk to the European continent; Cable damaged by anchor; Radio interference putting music on phone lines; Production of phone directories - 4 pages with photos; Laying cable through Stanley Park; Direct Route to West Vancouver completed - 5 pages of interesting text and photos; Langley Prairie phone service restored during the fire - article with photos; Phone given as wedding gift in Vancouver; F.C. Paterson; Vancouver Power House Fire; Mr. George H. Halse becomes Chairman of the Board; Close-up photos of splicing job; Transatlantic phone service still expanding; photo of horse-drawn 'drop wagon'; Photo on Cordova St. after fire 42 years ago; There's more to installation work than just placing a telephone - 4 pages with photos and text; Good-bye to operating when Dan Cupid comes along; Sending news stories to Vancouver from California over phone wires; We are linked with 80% of the world's phones; photo of conduit laying on forty-first ave; The Monophone - advertisement; B.C. Tel. acquires government lines in the Interior; New trans-atlantic long distance mark; Photo montage of vehicles used by the Plant Department; B.C. Box Factory Fire; Baby causes problem by teething on phone cord; Chilliwack phone system now affiliated with us; Regular fire drills; Photo of Premier Tolmie participating in first call from Vancouver to Calgary - with detailed related story; The longest circuit in the system of the B.C. Telephone Company; A new radiotelephone company will be organized; New Fraser River Cable serves South Westminster Subscribers; Eleven european countries with telephone reach of Vancouver; Now installing a new type of telephone typewriter; New faster system for handling telegrams; Benefits of new telephone ownership are evident in 500-mile circle; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Significant wear to backstrip with some chips missing.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Telus History British Columbia Telephone Company Telephony Telephone Talk Internal House Magazine Periodical and technological news traffic levels expansion plans personnel announcements publicity and social events deaths weddings lists of exc . British Columbia Telephone Company hardcover
1929144c7695Toronto: The Maclean Publishing Company. Fair. 1929. First Edition. Paperback. 92 pages. A.J. Casson cover illustration depicts 'The Great Gardening Game' on a checkerboard. Contents: Colour ad for Kyanize Lustaquik Finish inside front cover; Fantastic multi-photo ad for International Harvester trucks features photos of trucks belonging to Hendrie & Co. Ltd. of Hamilton and Deskin Brothers of Montreal; Nice photo ad for Cream of Wheat; Canada's Fighting Airmen - Part 5 - Lt.-Col. Barker V.C. wins his first decoration; Racing Needs a Cleanup - Douglas Eppes argues that government control of Canadian horseracing tracks is an imperative necessity - with photos; The Red Sport Cabriolet by Martha Banning Thomas; Hon. John Babington Macaulay Baxter Premier of New Brunswick - an intimate sketch; Vanderdassen by Maurice Inskipp; The Parking Puzzle - James A. Cowan sheds a little lighht on the question of what a motorist can do with his car once he's bought it - with cartoons and photo; Private Elemental by Will R. Bird; The Centenarian by Fred Jacob; Before British Columbia Was Born - first of a series of articles narrating the romantic experiences of Jason O. Allard including super photo of downtown Nanaimo in 1858 when it was called Colvilletown plus a photo of the grounded "Beaver" the first steamship to churn the waters of the Pacific wrecked near the mouth of Vancouver Harbour; Full-page colour reproduction of "Over the Top" a WWI painting by Alfred Bastein; Kindred by Archie P. McKishnie; The Pilot by J.H. Power; Comments on the book "Memoirs of Prince Max of Baden"; Ultra-violet rays successfully used to treat King George V; Major H.O.D. Segrave relates the thrills of being the world's fastest motorist; Canadian General Electric ad for the 3897 Refrigerator; Gorgeous full-page colour ad for Packard automobiles features James Monroe; Congoleum Rugs colour ad; Brickbats and Bouquets - Letters to the Editor; Review of New York Times article by Edwin L. James which criticizes U.S. foreign policy and envisions an International Bank; Nice Plymouth car ad featuring the full-size Four-door sedan; Monroe Doctrine Explained; Nice two-colour ad by Red Indian motor oil; Full-page ad for Pepsodent; Great colour ad for Frididaire Refrigerators; Very bold Firestone Tire colour centerfold ad; Wonderful vintage ad for the Wallglow shower manufactured by Wallaceburg Brass & Iron Mfg. Co.; Full-page Chevrolet ad; Ford photo ad promotes two cars per household; Happy Valleys - The Okanagan and Annapois Valleys; Very nice colour ad for Crane plumbing fittings shows a lovely contemporary kitchen scene; Magnificent full-page pastel colour ad for Canadian Pacific boats of the high level of service offered by their network of railways steamships and hotels - includes layout of a luxury railcar with solarium observation lounge buffet etc.; Half-page Kellogg's corn flakes ad features black waiter holding breakfast tray; Gutta Percha & Rubber Limited ad for their Gum Cushioned Tires; Nice full-page ad for Willys Knight cars; Full-page Listerine ad; Great full-page colour ad celebrates 50 years of Woolworth; Lux Toilet Soap features 16 head-shot photos of lovely ladies and includes their names; As the Twig is Bent - Parents must build the characters of their children by Mabel Crews Ringland; Edith Louise Paterson - Canada's Youngest Woman Judge; Design Feature - The Breakfast Nook; Financial Article - Security Markets Reflect Acute Credit Stringency hmmm. this was months before the stock crash of October 1929; Handsmome ad for the new Nash '400' car; Colour ad for Palmolive soap inside back cover; Colour ad for Parker Duofold pens on back cover. Address label upon front cover. Crossword completed. Above-average wear to covers which are loose in one piece but present. Textblock sound. A worthy copy of this very informative and attractive issue.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's Magazine - Canada's National Magazine May 1 1929 Victoria Cross I.W. McKay Chief Factor Hudson's Bay Company The Great Gardening Game' on a checkerboard. Contents: Colour ad for Kyanize Lustaquik Finish inside front cover; Fantastic multi-pho . The Maclean Publishing Company paperback
1978325094Western Oklahoma Historical Society 1978. Hard Cover -- Very Good -- SHIPPING ONLY IN U.S. AND BY MEDIA MAIL ONLY -- Folio - over 12" - 15" Tall -- Showing lightest wear -- Pictorial cover no dust acket if issued -- 688 pages with index and photography throughout -- First Edition as no prior printing noted -- A condensed biographical sketch of approximately nine hundred families who were instrumental in settling western Oklahoma. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" Tall. Western Oklahoma Historical Society Hardcover
1950447h5804USA: Time Inc. Good. 1950. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Sensational cover photo of Jackie Robinson who in 1947 became the first Major League Baseball player to break the color barrier. Also includes article "Jackie Robinson's Double Play" which describes his starring in a new season of baseball games as well as a movie about his life complete with thirteen additional photos of Robinson his family and others. This very interesting issue also includes an article and photos of naked 'Doukhobors on the Rampage' in British Columbia a sensational two-page photo of an X-1 supersonic rocket ship just as it was released from the belly of a B-50 a lovely photo-illustrated article on Paris model Christiane Richard and an article by reformed Communist Ruth Fischer who explained that Titoism was an international revolt against Stalin. This 152 page issue is complete and unmarked with average wear and a mailing label upon its front cover. Moderate musty/old magazine scent. A sound copy of this excellent and historic issue.; Folio . Time Inc. unknown
1961201G4724Montreal: Maclean Hunter 1961. Magazine. Illus. by Brown Huntley; Norris;. Good. Paperback. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 88 pages. Features: Fantastic fold-out two-panel colour cover photo of the four Richardsons of Regina who are world curling champions; Brief article on how Nanaimo Realty paid its realtors to lose weight - and sales increased!; Nice one-page black and white Volkswagen photo ad entitled "Who backs up the Volkswagen"; Nice one-page colour photo ad for Florida orange juice shows smiling girl wearing white ear muffs; What Winter Does to Canada - and vice versa; What to wear to a Fashion Opening - photo-illustrated article; Duel in the Kitchen fiction; The Return of the Winter Carnivals; The Simple Joys of Camping in a Snowdrift; Hockey Isn't As Rough as it Used to Be - Part 1 of Jack Adams' "My 43 Years in Hockey" - photo-illustrated article with large photo of Howie Meeker pounding a limp Canadien; The Second Splendid Discovery of Spices; How to Gain Entree to the Social Pages; Canada's world champions of Curling - Ernie Richardson and the Richardsons of Regina; Population Explosion on the Ski Slopes; Skier's Dream - two-page colour-photo-illustrated brief article with two maps describe how Franz Wilhelmsen and the Garibaldi Olympic Committee seek to have the massive potential of Whistler Mountain developed for the Winter Olympics of 1968; Best and Worst Movies of 1960; Escape to the Sun - Robert Thomas Allen's road trip from California to Florida; Seagrams ad features colour painting of winter carnival by Henry Simpkins; Large colour ad for Apollo Beach waterfront real estate development near Tampa; Canadian Club colour-photo one-page ad features Walter Gonnason falling into an ice crevasse on Mount Victoria Glacier in Alberta; Why color TV isn't here yet - and when it may be; Colour-photo Coke ad on back cover features skating couple; and more. Discrete six-inch clear archival tape repair to bottom left corner of front cover otherwise unmmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Maclean Hunter Paperback
1936613h2005Vancouver B.C.: Household Service Department of the Vancouver Daily Province. Poor. 1936. First Edition. Paperback. A rare first edition example of this early Vancouver cookbook. Undated but Driver B86.1 suggests a printing date between 1935 and 1938. Subsequent revised editions were published in 1939 and 1941. "In this little booklet will be found recipes for almost every occasion. Each one has been carefully tested in The Province Modern Kitchen and if you have difficulty with any recipe a phone call or a letter to this household department of The Daily Province will bring the advice of trained home economist or dietitian to your rescue." - Introduction. 52 pages. Index. 25 x 17.7 cm. Few markings around the Lemon Cake Pudding and Butterscotch Sauce recipes on pages 25 and 26. Heavily worn with typical cookbook soiling. Middle page holding by one staple. Covers dangling from top staple. A wonderful piece of Vancouver culinary history.; Sm 4to . Household Service Department of the Vancouver Daily Province paperback
1932563H4962Chicago: M.M. Cole Publishing Co. 1932. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Sensational vintage compilation of thirty-five 1930s lumberjack songs from the Pacific Northwest. Elmore Vincent was known as "The Northwest Shanty Boy" and the front cover art features his image superimposed over a scene of tall timber being brought down by hand as chainsaws were but a dream at that time. 64 pages. Includes lyrics guitar chords and piano sheet music for these songs: A Lumber Lad's Love Ballad of the Lumberjack Billy the River Driver Canaday-I-O Come With Me In My Little Canoe Darling Janet Down in That Lonely Valley Drinking Song Fair Charlotte Grizzly Hogan Lonesome Lumberjack Lumberjack Memories Moose Meat Smart Johnny the Logger Song of the Lumberjack Strawberry Lane The Death of George Phalen The Flying Cloud The Gambling Lumberjack and the Jim Creek Girl The Good Old Times The Great Fit The Green River Girl "The Jam at Gerry's Rock" The Lakes of Pontchartrain Three Leaves of Shamrock The Little Brown Bulls The Lumberjack and the Pretty Girl The Lumberjack's Alphabet The Lumberjack's Bible The Lumberjack in Town as sung on Seattle's "Skid Road" by Syd Johnson The Sandy Stream Song The Stranger and the Maiden Fair The Two Sisters Who Feeds Us Beans and Yodeling Lumberjack. Most songs have several verses or more. Unmarked with above-average wear. Binding intact. A rare and wonderful musical memento of the glory days of Northwest lumberjacking. M.M. Cole Publishing Co. Paperback
193330863New York: Climax Publishing Corporation 1933. Mild tanning to text paper mild edge wear with tiny tears to yapp edges a fine copy. Rare. 30863. Octavo single issue cover by H. Meloy pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Third of four issues of this Clayton magazine. Historical fiction oriented magazine. Climax Publishing Corporation unknown
1920180565China: c.1920s. An attractive handmade gift for the tourist market the delightful papercuts depicting rural scenes and figures. The large example on the first page incorporates the motif "double happiness" within a setting of birds flowers and foliage. Landscape octavo. With 20 handmade papercuts some embellished with colour pieces of textile on 10 leaves glassine guards. Original black brocade boards with black and red embroidered decoration tied with black chord through three holes. Binding smart small mark on read board occasional spotting internally: near-fine. hardcover
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
1974155a5125Canada: Environment Canada. Very Good. 1974. First Edition. Paperback. 518 pages. Report of the estuary working group Department of the Environment Regional Board Pacific Region. Summarizes existing knowledge pertinent to potential ecological changes rising from estuarine modification. Contents include: Geology; Climatology Hydrology and Water Quality; Oceanography; Invertebrate Biology; Fish; Bacteria; Flora; Wildlife; Land Use; Waste Disposal and Pollution Problems; Food Chains; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Tight and square. Nice copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Fraser River Estuary Status of Environmental Knowledge to 1974 Delta estuary working group Department of the Environment Regional Board Pacific Region. Summarizes existing knowledge pertinent to potential ecological changes rising from estuarine m . Environment Canada paperback
195273aa1964British Columbia: British Columbia Telephone Company. Very Good. 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant traffic commercial operating accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company industry and technological news traffic levels expansion plans personnel announcements publicity and social events deaths weddings lists of exchanges and more. As such these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: "Our Ladies of Ladysmith" - 4 photos and text re: operators in this Vancouver Island town; Photos of equipment upgrade in Victoria; New Haney office; Emerald central office in Vancouver; W.S. Pipes Appointed General Manager; Company seeks permission to increase capital; R.S. Argue; Penny Wise; Statement of Development - # of phones operating per exchange; Company fails to earn full dividends; Two fires; Forty years in company trucks; Port Moody-Ioco cable photos; Victoria's largest phone cable; C.C.F. Hall fire; New Union Bay office; rate increase sought; new pole-setting technique with crane - photo; 4 pages of photos and captions from Courtenay; Exchange comes to Fruitvale; Post-war development program continues; Border line pole; H.W. Stevens; Kerrisdale reunion; Haney Conversion; Mission may join B.C. Tel.; Royal Visit; Prize-winning float; North West and Richmond endorse extended service; G.L. Frost; Company seeks new rates at hearing; Earl Squire; Memoriam for E.P. LaBelle "Recognized as one of the outstanding men in telephony". Mr. LaBelle retired in 1947 after spending 27 years as General Plant Manager of the company. An impressive concise bio is presented. This book bears the ink-stamped name 'E.P. LaBelle' on the top edge of the text. Presumably this book belonged to Eugene LaBelle Jr.; Vancouver City Hall joins Automatic Systems; Vancouver dial service completes move to new quarters; Haney cut to automatic; Automatic service for Yarrow; Charlie Davis helped publish every issue of Telephone Talk from inception in 1911 to the end of 1951; George McCartney - memoriam with photo; Elgin installation; New Cable for West Van; J.D. Johnston ends long service; Mission's new building; North Central Office Expansion; Square Dancing; Surrey program pushes ahead - photos; Chilliwack equipment added; Elgin automatic unit now in service; Photo of men working above Rock Creek Canyon at Bridesville; Hastings Reunion; Vancouver Toll Expansion; Powell River Photos; New automatic system for Aldergrove; New outdoor pay stations pay phones; photos of construction of B.C.'s portion of the trans-Canada telephone line; Hammond Photos; Victoria Expansion - photos and text; Abbottsford-Mission cutover; Chilliwack telephone personalities - photos; Nelson-Penticton Toll Line construction photos; our biggest cable goes underground in Vancouver - photos; J.E. Carlile retires; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight and square.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Telus History British Columbia Telephone Company Telephony Telephone Talk Internal House Magazine Periodical Our Ladies of Ladysmith" - 4 photos and text re: operators in this Vancouver Island town; Photos of equipment upgrade in Victoria; New Haney of . British Columbia Telephone Company hardcover
195873aa1961British Columbia: British Columbia Telephone Company. Very Good. 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant traffic commercial operating accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company industry and technological news traffic levels expansion plans personnel announcements publicity and social events deaths weddings lists of exchanges and more. As such these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Laying cable for the new United States - Alaska telephone link; Working around the sudden collapse of a 150-foot span of the Mission Abbotsford Bridge in 1955photos; New truck digs its own post holes in the Peace River area; Storm cripples telephone plant; Overseas Rates Cut; More Long Distance Circuits; Repeater key to Trans-Atlantic Cable; Telephone man Clifford Sherlock treads trapline on weekends; 1956 review; Recruiting Program; microwave towers to carry second Radio Telephone system - article and photo; List of Exchanges i.e. # of phones operating in each community; photo of microwave relay truck; Dog Mountain tramway completed - text and photos; Howe Sound Line Rebuild -photos with captions; Squamish Exchange - photos; Private radiotelephone system feeds sawmill operations - two pages of photos and text; Nanaimo to be SATT dialing center - article; photos of 'microwaves across the mountains; passing of Mr. R.S. Argue; Great photos of the Vedder Crossing; Ladner goes automatic; Photos of Terrace staff; 'floating phones' - nice set of photos of phones at work at sea; Training; photos from atop Promontory Mountain and Greenstone Mountain; Gordon Farrell now Board Chairman Karsh photo; Cyrus H. McLean now President photo; B.C. Microwave to open 1 July - great photos; microwave opening previewed; 1958 big year for radiotelephone - article and map; 7000 mile trade goodwill call; picture of a Moore "Formorama"; Coverage of the Ripple Rock Blase - with photo; increasew will not give required revenue; Microwave Skyway - text and photos; B.C. Centennial coverage facilities very complex; Oliver cutover; photo of men at work over the Sumas River; TOC - the Television Operating Center inside the Farrell Building in Vancouver; Lloyd Purdy and John Martin retire; Creston Cutover; Photos of the radiotelephon serving an active paving company; Meet Fred Feeney - article with photo; Ladysmith converts to Automatic - photos; Lloyd Purdy and Percy Crute retire after a combined 82 years of service; Victoria 2-5 conversion; photos of microwave sites readying for onslaught of winter; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight and square. Marbled endpapers. Name of E.P. LaBelle stamped on bottom- and fore-edges of text. Mr. Labelle was a second-generation employee off the company.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Telus History British Columbia Telephone Company Telephony Telephone Talk Internal House Magazine Periodical Laying cable for the new United States - Alaska telephone link; Working around the sudden collapse of a 150-foot span of the Mission Abbotsford . British Columbia Telephone Company hardcover
195473aa1963British Columbia: British Columbia Telephone Company. Good. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant traffic commercial operating accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company industry and technological news traffic levels expansion plans personnel announcements publicity and social events deaths weddings lists of exchanges and more. As such these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Port Alberni operator's help save infant's life photo; Abbotsford and Mission 'cut' to automatic - 8 pages of photos and text; Photo of laying cable between Mission and Abbotsford; New buildings for Richmond and Steveston; Script of two successive broadcasts by Dorwin Baird of radio station CJOR re: proposed telephone rate increases; Telephone growth sets all-time record in 1952; Interim rate increase authorized; Nice photo of North Vancouver automatic telephone being installed in preparation for cut-over; Photos of cable-laying near Lion's Gate Bridge; new buildings for Albion Belmont and Colquitz; Company earns dividends but has surplus shortage; Mr. W.S. Pipes; Gerald Clarke - Memoriam with photo; New buildings for Richmond and Steveston; Photos of expansion of Vancouver Island; Doug Beckett 19 - Big League Baseball Prospect - photo; New International Radiotelephone Link; The Telephone in our Air Defense Picture - article; farewell to Miss H.L. Montgomery; dramatic photos of conduit installation under and on Lion's Gate Bridge; Photos of Port Coquitlam progress; Cloverdale's automatic program; R.S. Argue is new traffic manager; John Dickson Johnston in memoriam with photo; Fred Buckle winds up record career; great Cloverdale office photos; Expansion photos from Kamloops Vancouver and the Fraser Valley; A.J. Jack retires after 41 years; Trail and Rossland favour 'Free Calling'; 18000 attended civil defense show; Kootenay Company joins B.C. Tel.; wonderful photo of 'sky-riders' working on lines over the Columbia River at Trail; North Van. goes automatic; Stirling Ross closes 50 year career; Nice photos of some of the company's heavy work gangs in the field; Photos of the company's war against winter; Company expansion sets new record; List of Exchanges - # of lines operating per community; Albion-Belmont Colquitz Cut-over; Radiotelephone network still expanding - article with 2 maps; Stirling Ross - in Memoriam with photo; Port Coquitlam Photos; photos of a cable repair off Mayne Island; new New West Plant Center building; Cranbrook construction - photo of breaking ground; Editor of Telephone Talk Peard Sutherland passes away - article with photo; Chilliwack joins B.C. Tel; photos of some of the equipment used to serve the British Empire Games in Vancouver; British Empire Games Transmitted in Record time - 2 page article; Inside New Westminster; Victoria Expansion Photos; A.H. Lemmon - Memoriam with photo; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight and square. Marbled endpapers. Name of company employee E.P. LaBelle stamped on top and bottom edges of text.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Telus History British Columbia Telephone Company Telephony Telephone Talk Internal House Magazine Periodical Port Alberni operator's help save infant's life photo; Abbotsford and Mission 'cut' to automatic - 8 pages of photos and text; Photo of layin . British Columbia Telephone Company hardcover
1918123H4291New York: George Newnes Limited. Good. 1918. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. 85 pages plus six pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Behind the Scenes in Russia - Part I - Robert Wilton and his adventures as a British War Correspondent on the Eastern Front with photos. Wilton's book entitled 'Russia's Agony' was first published in 1918; The Man-Eating Tigers of Rengarih; My Bear Hunt in the British Columbia Rockies - Part II by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; The Water-Wheels of Hama Syria - with photo; Beyond the Law - part V - The Dalton Gang the Condon Bank and the First National Bank at Coffeyville Kansas; Fishing as a Vocation for War Heroes by Ralph Stock; Photo of a fallen California Redwood - said to have been the largest tree in the world; In Unknown British Guiana - Part I - many nice photos; Tales of the Service - Part V - My Smuggle-Catching Adventures - by G.W. Hindmarch a retired Customs and Excise officer in the Shetland Islands; Wonders of the Silver Spruce of British Columbia - in high demand for aircraft construction; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part V - by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with excellent photos; Our Seaplane Adventure - Captain Abbott Meade and his plane go down in the Indian Ocean; Photo of large pile of licorice root at Aleppo; The Revenge that went Wrong - James Bestow and his problem with a Yaqui Indian in Mexico; The Railway Conquest of the Australian Desert - construction of the thousand-mile transcontinental railway from Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta - with many excellent photos; The "War Wolf" - Serbia's war hero Colonel Voyin A. Popovich; Whale Flesh as Human Food - informative brief article on the growth of the whale processing industry in Canada with photo; Doctoring War Horses - the personal experiences of Blue Cross worker Charles W. Forward in France and Italy. Nice ad for the Hudson Navigation Company's New York - Albany - Troy route. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Wide World Magazine September 1918 Behind the Scenes in Russia - Part I - Robert Wilton British War Correspondents Eastern Front The Man-Eating Tigers Rengarih Bear Hunting British Columbia Water-Wheels Hama Syria The Dalton Gang Condon Ba . George Newnes Limited unknown
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
19802092902137503222Yoshikawakobunkan 1980. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: B5 size Number of books: 2 sets in a box Yoshikawakobunkan paperback
140137139CORA 14/01/1994. 1. softcover. .WENN ES DUNKEL WIRD CORA paperback
191559020San Francisco CA: Pacific Coast Blue Book Publishing Co. Pacific Building Press of the Franklin Linotyping Co. 1915. Tall 8vo. 908 pp. printed on blue-tinted paper throughout. Numerous text maps several maps photo-illustrated ads illustrated ads Shell Oil Co. service station colour lithograph ads on rear endpapers. Limp publisher’s calf gilt lettering on front cover Shell gilt logo advertisement on back cover ex-lib markings on endpapers title perforated stamp on title chipping & wear to fore-edges rebacked w/ renewed lettering on spine linen tape joint repairs at gutter margins of endpapers still a good copy which was a Multnomah County Library duplicate sold through their Title Wave bookstore at some point. First edition thus of this surprisingly scarce automobile travel tour guide for California Oregon Washington and British Columbia prior to World War I. This volume edited by Beck combined the four different Automobile Club Pacific Coast Blue Books issued for California Oregon British Columbia & Washington separately 1912 with the 1915 edition including revised driving regulations specific instructions on driving the Golden Gate Presidio the Univ. of California as well as scenic drives in Oregon Washington & British Columbia. These Blue Books offered complete maps of every motor road running directions at every fork and turn with mileages points of interest ferry and steamship schedules and extensive illustrated ads for all the potential motorist’s needs such as garages service stations hotels and restaurants. Worldcat locates 2 copies UCLA U of W. Pacific Coast Blue Book Publishing Co., Pacific Building, Press of the Franklin Linotyping Co., unknown
188327755Perth: Goverment Printer 1883. Robert Fairbairn the prominent 19th century Western Australian magistrate is the appointee to whom this "Minute" is aimed. He would soon be in charge of the Kimberley district and Wrenfordsley was at the time of this writing the Acting Governor of Western Australia. Unusually this is not recorded on either Trove or the State Library of Western Australia. <br /> <br /> The "minute" advises Mr. Fairbairn on his duties which will involve ".those of the Judge the Collector of Customs and the Registrar". and he advises "the Magistrate to take his own notes of the evidence and not to trust to his clerk." It is most interesting for the directions of caution in meting out punishment to the aboriginal community. "As the dispenser of justice to an uncivilised race it is all important that he should appear to act with judicial calmness and deliberation." Settlers were to be discouraged from taking the law into their own hands. And the statues prohibiting the supply of liquor to natives were to be strictly enforced so that "in the remote and . peaceful wilds of the Kimberley country the white man's curse will long remain unknown." An early reader has commented at the top "This is good" and has also highlighted various sections of interest. <br /> <br /> At the time of this writing Wrenfordsley was Acting Governor of Western Australia however he had a long career in law as solicitor Attorney General of Jamaica Chief Justice of Western Australia and Chief Justice of Fiji. <br /> <br /> Foolscap folio 3pp black text on cream paper. At the end of page printed H.T. Wrenfordsley Administrator. 13-3-83." A notation on verso in ink "Notes of Wrenfordsley on Justice duties." Top edge ruffled small puncture top right pin mark two period folds overall very good. Goverment Printer unknown
19353380Various locations in Colorado New Mexico Arizona Wyoming and Utah 1935. Very good plus. Seventy-four leaves illustrated with 485 photographs and picture postcards between 2 x 3 inches and 4.75 x 6.75 inches occasionally annotated in manuscript in white pencil. Oblong folio. Contemporary black textured cloth string tied. Small stain near right edge of front cover. Internally very clean and well organized. A voluminous collection of photographs picturing the lives and travels of Pat and Marge Williams centered on their ranch in Colorado. The images capture the landscape and buildings on the ranch both exterior and interior as well as the livestock grain fields and more. Several photographs capture farming activities including the harvesting of the alfalfa crop and the threshing of the wheat. The album also includes photos of the area around the ranch and within Colorado in places such as North Park Estes Park Cheyenne Plains Grand Lake and Fort Collins with images of Long's Peak Mary's Lake Spanish Peaks Big Fish Lake White River Trapper's Lake and others.<br /> <br /> The album also features locations visited by the compiler in the American West and Southwest with informative photos of Taos Mountain Cimarron Canyon Kit Carson's house the pueblos and ruins in Taos and Puye House Rock Valley Bryce Canyon Zion Canyon and other sites in New Mexico Arizona Wyoming and Utah. Some of the original photographs and postcards feature Native American subjects such as Native American women in Taos "Victoriano Sisneras and Wife" in Puye and Navajo rug weavers at work in Arizona. Other interesting images depict a "Hopi Watch Tower" in the Grand Canyon the Mojave Desert "Old Fort Bridger" in Wyoming "Dinosaur tracks near Tuba City" and the Colorado River Bridge at Lee's Ferry.<br /> <br /> The final eighteen leaves encompassing about ninety-six photos and postcards mostly the latter record numerous scenes in various locations in Mexico. A far-reaching collection of vernacular images and pictorial postcards capturing numerous locations in the American West and Southwest during the mid-1930s. unknown
193719407Wilmington DE: Culture Publications Inc. 1937. Touch of wear to lower right corner reading crease at front cover/spine a fine copy. 19407. Octavo single issue cover by Ward pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Culture Publications, Inc. unknown
