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193050786New York Chicago San Francisco: Wilson-Western Sporting Goods Company 1930. First edition. 2 volumes. 8vo. The wrappers are illustrated with Rogers Hornsby in batting stance on the front cover. There are some marginal tears and general wear and soiling especially to the Made -To -Measure catalogue; else in very good condition. Housed in a custom-made clamshell box of cloth with inlays of wood and leather. These two companion catalogues illustrate off-the-rack and tailor-made uniforms in a variety of price ranges. They contain original wool flannel samples a drawing of the complete uniform full description and price. The READY-TO-WEAR catalogue is sixteen pages plus covers fully illustrated and contains thirty-two uniform samples in a variety of colors and pinstripes. The MADE-TO-MEASURE catalogue is thirteen pages plus covers contains illustrations and sixty uniform samples in a variety of colors and pinstripes. Additionally there are endorsements for mitts with photo portraits by Bill Terry and Ray Schalk. We have been unable to locate any other copies of these or other Wilson swatch book catalogues in OCLC or any other database. The library of The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown New York had heard that such catalogues were produced but had never seen one. Rare. <br/><br/> Wilson-Western Sporting Goods Company hardcover books
16753Women's Education Movement. Western Female Seminary Catalog 1868-1869. Oxford OH. Western Female Seminary was founded in 1853 as a daughter school of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley Massachusetts. Its first principal Helen Peabody and most of the early faculty had been students and teachers at Mount Holyoke. Mary Lyon Residence Hall on the Western campus is named for Mount Holyok's founder Mary Lyon. It later received a charter and became Western College an all-female institution. Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. No copy could be found among Institutional or library Collections according to OCLC Worldcat. <br/><br/>Women's Academy and Seminary Archive recording the first important movement of women into higher education in the United States seminary was synonymous with "academy" and did not have the religious connotation of today. In the 1800's the Female Academy and Seminary Movement transformed American educational norms allowing women the opportunity to receive secular non-religious college-level education. Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. Not in OCLC Worldcat. unknown books
1922WRCAM53394Denver: The Smith-Brooks Printing Co. for the Van Noy Inter-State Company 1922. 40pp. Oblong folio. Publisher's textured brown wrappers gilt titles on front cover saddle- stitched. Minor shelf wear lightly-bumped corners a few creased. Very good. A superbly-illustrated promotional viewbook highlighting majestic scenery across Colorado and Utah in the early 20th century. A great number of the substantially-sized photographs feature a group of people in an automobile travelling along the highway. Locations pictured in the book include Colorado Springs and Pike's Peak the Mount of the Holy Cross the Rapids and the Hanging Lake near Glenwood Springs Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park Toltec Gorge Bryce Canyon Mount Timpanogos the Devil's Curve Isabelle Glacier Clear Creek Canyon Sensation Point Wild Cat Point Bear Creek and others. An interesting juxtaposition of 20th-century technology encroaching on the grandeur of the American West. The Smith-Brooks Printing Co. for the Van Noy Inter-State Company unknown books
1937164909Los Angeles Calif.: Western Publishing and Novelty Company 1937. 13.5 x 20.3 cm pp. 1-32 not paginated 35 illustrations original pictorial wrappers stapled. First edition. Text on inside front cover commences: "Yosemite National Park a region replete with majestic domes titanic chasms alluring waterfalls and the earth's oldest and tallest trees ranks high among the wonders of the world." At lower right corner of rear cover: "Copyright 1937 by Curt Teich & Co. Inc. Chicago U. S. A." An album of color photographs reprinted several times. Eighteen of these photographs were published in a souvenir folder as Scenic Gems of Yosemite National Park 1937. Cover rubbed at edges a very good copy. #164909 Western Publishing and Novelty Company unknown books
