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1914List520Nome: Lomen Brothers 1914. Silver gelatin print 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Fine. Women's baseball evolved alongside men's leagues beginning in the 1860s with many teams and leagues appearing throughout the following decades often playing indoors and often unrecorded in the annals of baseball history. Women's baseball was particularly popular in Minnesota and parts of the Midwest in the early part of the twentieth century. This photograph bears evidence as to the game's migration to Alaska Territory where long winters would have been particularly conducive to an indoor league. This photograph by the Nome Alaska firm Lomen Brothers shows the champion team of the Ladies Indoor Baseball League in Nome. We find no record in contemporary newspapers or anywhere else of the league. The Nome Brothers were a well-known photographic firm who migrated from Minnesota to Alaska at the height of the Nome Gold Rush in 1903. By 1909 at the end of the gold rush the population of Nome declined substantially to 2500 from 20000 just a few years earlier. This photograph shows interesting documentation of Nome post-rush and also of the spread of women's sports through migrant populations. We find one other example in the Fred Henton collection at the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center. A fine example. Lomen Brothers unknown books
19306970Vancouver B.C.: Alaska Cruise Lines Ltd 1930. Group of nine menus each 21.5 x 14 cm. single leaf printed both sides. Illustrated with half-tones depicting scenes of Alaska. All are breakfast or lunch menus from the S.S. Aleutian. A statement at the foot of the menus states "Envelopes for mailing may be obtained at the print shop" reminding us that the menus served a purpose beyond delivering the meal's choices. It also acts as an advertising mailer for passengers to send to friends and family. And we're reminded that the menus were printed on board the steamship. Fine. Alaska Cruise Lines, Ltd unknown books
5048ALASKA. Broadside. 1pg. 10†x 12â€. 1895. Alaska. A Territory of Alaska broadside issued by Governor James Sheakley for the 1895 Thanksgiving. The Governor noted that “Our territory has been notably favored during the now-closing year the people have made rapid progress in material prosperity the population has received large additions by immigration the mining and fishing industries have been abundantly rewarded education civilization and Christian influences more widely diffused and the settlers in this new country are hopeful and contented…â€. The proclamation has an embossed seal in the lower left corner and four mailing folds; it is matted in brown. Not in OCLC. unknown books
19595842Kodiak Alaska: The Club 1959. Octavo-size 21 x 14 cm. vi 249 vi pages with unnumbered chapter heads interleaved. Photo-reproduction of manuscript. Illustrations within text throughout and on chapter heads. Index. Date of publication from external evidence. ~ Evident first edition. A community cookbook undertaken in support of the nursery operated on behalf of families stationed at the Seventeenth Naval District on Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska. With one hundred sixty attributed recipes including: Alaska Razor Clam Chowder Split Pea Soup with Herbs Custard Corn Bread Onion Shortcake Meat Loaf Spiral Apple Sauce Meat Balls Kodiak Hare Deep Dish Salmon Pie Shrimp-Stuffed Peppers Kodiak Devil Crabs Wild Rice Casserole Sweet Potato Puffs Sourdough Hotcakes Rhubarb Betty Afognak Berry Pie Sherry Pie Kris Kringle Cake Sand Tarts Salmonberry Wine. ~ Reconnaissance for an advance operations command in the Aleutians had begun in 1938 in anticipation of possible military engagement in the North Pacific and construction was underway by 1939. The Kodiak Naval Operating Base later the Seventeenth Naval District was formally established in April 1941 as were Army coastal defense forces nearby at Fort Greely both placed on alert after the attack on Pearl Harbor. After the Japanese landings at Kiska and Attu in June 1942 Kodiak's carriers and submarines played critical roles in the joint campaigns with Canada to secure them. Captain William Rhodes the author of the "Acknowledgement" that serves as preface to What's Cooking in Kodiak had been part of the original study team in 1938 thereafter had served on numerous carriers and as an air fleet commander during the War and returned to command the naval station in August 1952. His wife is the contributor of a recipe for Filipino Style Fish on page 177. The earliest date however that one of the illustrators Martha Bolling can be placed there - as the wife of a navy airman and instructor at a summer arts school - is 1955. The contributor of a recipe for Lemon Souffle on page 69 Alice Watson Estabrook would have departed Kodiak in 1959 with her husband William Sears Estabrook who served for three years as inspector general at the Kodiak base before his retirement. ~ The Seventeenth Naval District was disestablished on 30 June 1971 during an overhaul of the entire administrative system and in 1972 the site was turned over to the United States Coast Guard. Today the Naval Operating Base and Fort Greely form part of a National Historic Landmark on the National Register in recognition of the roles played by men and women stationed there during World War II. ~ White plastic comb holding blue and white covers the front panel illustrated with a fanciful kettle wearing a chef's hat; with some edge-wear and a crease to the lower front fore-corner. OCLC locates one copy; in neither Brown nor Cagle. The Club unknown books
1907WRCAM54859Racine Wi.: W.D. Harney Photogravure Co. 1907. Nine parts each bound separately and uniformly complete with titlepage in first volume. 26pp. of text printed rectos only and eighty photogravure plates. Folio. Publisher's rosewood cloth backstrip and burgundy wrappers front covers gilt. Mild fraying to spine cloth some wear mild chipping and light soiling to covers. Top corner of first few leaves of first volume creased. Internally clean. Overall very good. A substantial production providing a rich photographic tapestry of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska in the early twentieth century. Each volume contains nine photogravure plates with only eight in the eighth volume most full-page but some with more than one image per plate. Each part contains two or three text leaves printed rectos only. Altogether the work is comprised of eighty photogravure plates with tissue guards containing over 100 distinct photographic images. <br> <br> Numerous photogravures depict indigenous Eskimos and other people along with stunning views of rivers mountains mining agriculture landscapes dogsled teams totem poles ships and various aspects of life in the Pacific Northwest. Highlights include the "Largest Fir in Washington" "Bird's-Eye of Nome Alaska" "An Arctic Musher" and the "Eskimo Salmon Dance." The photogravures were taken by a number of prominent western photographers including Frank H. Nowell W.P. Romans Thomas W. Tolman Wylie T. Dennison and Asahel Curtis estranged brother of Edward S. Curtis. The gravures are printed in sepia blue or green tints and retain their clarity and power more than a century after their printing. <br> <br> "A magnificent work relating mostly to Alaska with many fine full-page tinted plates" - Decker. "Contains fine plates of scenery in Seattle and Alaska" - Soliday. DECKER 26:6. SOLIDAY I:1032. WICKERSHAM 412. W.D. Harney Photogravure Co. hardcover books
19445859Fairbanks Alaska: The Church; Printed by Tanana Publishing 1944. Ring-bound octavo-size book 23 x 15.25 cm. ii 160 ii pages. Advertisements. Table of contents. List of advertisers. Printer suggested from advertisement on page 128. ~ Evident first edition. A church cookbook with more than two hundred recipes many of them attributed. Among entries warranting notice: Black-Eyed Pea Soup Dried Pear Bread Bohemian Kolaches Norwegian Horns Okanagan Salad Raw Turnip Salad Green Rice Ring Codfish Baked with Cheese Alaskan Cranberry Pork Chops Corned Moose Meat Carrot Beef Loaf Barbecued Lima Beans Hominy Pie Raisin Tarts Pumpkin Cake Potato Cake with walnuts Swedish Pepper Cookies Apricot Mousse Cranberry Ice Salmonberry Preserve. ~ Favorite Recipes honors the fortieth anniversary of its congregation's founding for Saint Matthew's Episcopal was one of three churches organized in 1904 alongside First Presbyterian and the Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception in the wake of the great Fairbanks Gold Rush of 1902. Episcopalians claim a sort of precedence owing to reports of a service held by visitors from Circle a mining town northeast of Fairbanks in 1903 in the Fairbanks Saloon. Another assertion of priority concerns St. Matthew's Hospital - built of logs like the Church on land adjacent - which administered perhaps also as early as 1904 to prospectors and trappers old-timers and chechacos of every nationality encountered on the trails among them Canadians Finns Russians Italians Norwegians Australians and others as recorded by a witness one Deaconess Clara Carter in The Alaska Churchman no. 1 June 1906. A source of pride was a small church belfry holding a bell cast in Troy New York in 1905 and inscribed with words of the first local bishop: "O ye Frost and Cold bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him forever." Members of Saint Matthew's also started the first lending library in a room at the rear of the church initiated the first kindergarten and organized the first troop of Boy Scouts in Fairbanks. ~ Shortly after publication of Favorite Recipes in 1947 the log church burned but the altar communion rail lectern - carved from Alaskan birch - as well as the 1905 bell were saved eventually to be installed in a new woodframe structure dedicated on Christmas Eve 1948. The congregation celebrated its centenary in 2004 and flourishes still. ~ Three-hole punched and plastic-ring bound with original beige cover illustrated in a style reminiscent of Jugendstil woodcuts; lightly soiled front loosened from rings as are several leaves. Still good or a bit better. Scarce. OCLC locates two copies; in neither Brown nor Cagle. [The Church; Printed by Tanana Publishing(?)] unknown books
1976100116Fairbanks: the Grand Lodge 1976. 36p. 8.5x11 inch program book illus. with photos wraps. the Grand Lodge unknown books
1900WRCAM54627Seattle; Skagway 1900. Twelve photographs each approximately 4 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Overall very good. A collection of photographs taken by Seattle photographer Frank La Roche. La Roche 1853- 1934 a Philadelphia native transplanted to the Northwest established a photography studio in Seattle in 1889. He undertook many trips to Alaska documenting the Klondike Gold Rush at length from 1897 to 1899. This group contains images of Juneau Sitka Fort Wrangell here spelled Wrangle and Taku Glacier. Two images are of Chilkat Tlingit Indians and one photo of the Seymour Rapids in British Columbia is also included. Each is numbered and captioned in manuscript or in print within the negative. Exemplary images from this noted landscape photographer of Alaska and the West. unknown books
1985204381Anchorage: Imperial Court of Alaska 1985. Magazine. 40p 8.5x11 inches profusely illustrated with photos ads list of Imperial titles program for the event very good souvenir program in stapled white glossy pictorial wraps. Imperial Court of Alaska unknown books
1905419891905. Port-quarter image with some fading to left edge not affecting impacting image of the ship. The starboard beam image a bit yellowed with a prior owner affixing a caption label to the lower margin: "Alaskan steamer in the Inside Passage. / c. 1910 ". Port-quarter image: 4" x 5". Starboard beam: 3-3/4" x 4-3/4". Port quarter image accompanied by typed caption label: "S.S. Alza Alaskan Gold Rush Steamer. / c.1905 " <br/><br/>2 silver gelatin photographs of the single-stack Alaskan steamer SS ALZA circa 1905 - 1910 one from the port quarter; the second from the starboard beam. An on-line search for this vessel yielded zero results. unknown books
1960Embry 170631J.G. Ferguson 1960. Deluxe Edition. Ownership label some rubbing covers fine. B&W and color reproductions. Brown padded embossed and illustrated leatherette. J.G. Ferguson, 1960. Deluxe Edition. hardcover books
193630923New York: Madison & Marshall 1936. Second Printing. Octavo. Blue cloth boards; blue pictorial dust jacket by Harry Douglas; 236pp. Jacket rather cockled and slightly discolored from damp spine crown worn with kraft tape repair to verso. Good or better. Widespread attack on liberalism in American politics with special attention to FDR's New Deal Policies. Jacket illustration by Harry Douglas. Madison & Marshall unknown books
1960001692Anchorage: Cooperative Extension Service 1960. Softcover. First edition n. d. ca 1960; 8 1/4 x 5; three fold pp. 7; light wear and creasing to corners and edges; stamp of the Cooperative Extension Service to front wrap; illustrated in blue and white; very good to near fine condition. Publication No. 35 of the Cooperative Extension Service at the University of Alaska the pamphlet gives a brief history of the introduction of reindeer in Alaska and lists several recipes with its meat including Reindeer Meat Loaf Reindeer Spaghetti Sauce and Baked Stuffed Reindeer Heart. Anchorage: Cooperative Extension Service paperback books
1907WRCAM54628Juneau; White Pass 1907. Two photographs each approximately 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Slight wear at edges. Captioned in negative. Very good. Two attractive original photographs by noted Skagway photography firm Case & Draper. William Case and Horace Draper followed the excitement of the Klondike Gold Rush and went North in 1898. They stayed and worked in partnership from a studio in Skagway until 1907-1908. The first of these photos depicts three armed men on a hillside at White Pass Alaska with two large mountain goats strung up after a hunt. The second is a captivating landscape of Juneau and the Gastineau Channel with the town of Douglas in the distance. Impressive examples from these significant Alaskan photographers. unknown books
1937WRCAM54535Alaska & Canada 1937. Three albums with 601 photographs each approximately 3 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches with additional ephemera such as news clippings and a hunting license. Oblong folio. Contemporary full red morocco gilt tooled by the Harcourt Bindery. Photos mounted directly on stiff grey album leaves. Very light wear to hinges and spine ends. Contents generally fine. Very good overall. Two volumes in red cloth slipcases. A magnificent and massive collection of over 600 photographs compiled by William N. Beach famed big game hunter and author of IN THE SHADOW OF MOUNT McKINLEY. <br> <br> The first two albums here document a journey made by Beach through the Canadian Rockies in August and September 1933. The third album focuses on his excursion through Alaska in 1937. All three postdate the publication of MOUNT McKINLEY which established Beach as an important figure in the world of big game hunting. According to one of the contemporary newspaper clippings tipped into the album Beach's hunting party on his second trip documented here "was after specimens of Alaskan wild life to be placed in the Smithsonian" with W.L. Brown curator of the Institute accompanying the party. Shortly after the trip an article by Beach entitled "With Moose and Caribou in Alaska" was published in EXPLORATION AND FIELD-WORK OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION IN 1937 and featured photography from the "Alaska" album present here. <br> <br> These expertly captured images of the Denali wilderness and the Rockies offer a rare and extraordinary glimpse not only into big game hunting but also into remote and pristine landscapes of these areas in the 1930s. An outstanding and impressive group of photographs. hardcover books
189324547Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1893. xi 282 pages. Illustrated with two loosely laid-in folding maps 28" x 41 ¾" & 18" x 31 ¾" as well as 3 color chromolithographic plates and numerous black and white illustrations & charts throughout. District statistics population and resources of Alaska ethnographic geographic & cultural details with Robert P. Porter Superintendent of the report. Approx. 9 1/2" x 12" size; bound in gray marbled-paper covered boards black cloth spine with old small typed title-sticker 'Alaska' as spine title. Tips edge-wear and rubbing to the covers; small old rubber stamps rubbed away on endpaper and title page; binding loosening at front a heavy volume; plates and maps in good condition. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Government Printing Office Hardcover books
1898WRCAM41306San Francisco: San Francisco Examiner 1898. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. Front page with a chromolithographed illustration of a miner dressed in a heavy coat. Lightly tanned. Near fine. Scarce sheet music published at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska illustrated with a striking chromolithographic front sheet. This song was "written and composed for the SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER" and the copyright is in the name of William Randolph Hearst whose family knew a bit about mining. The words are by R.S. Phelps and the music is by Leo Bruck and it appeared as a supplement to the EXAMINER for Sunday February 13 1898. The lyrics begin: "Sing of gold gold gold sing of lumpy chunky gold; we are hustlin' we are pryin' we are achin' we are dyin' to get in and send a flyin' the gravel from the gold." OCLC locates copies at Yale the University of California at Berkeley UCLA and the University of Washington. OCLC 83545084 14526096 77899488. San Francisco Examiner unknown books
1959WRCAM23364N.p. 1959. Various paginations. Folding map. Tall folio. Later buckram. Original red wrappers bound in. Cancelled library stamps on titlepage. Else very good. Extensive collection of vital data on Alaskan counties place names boundaries and the like. hardcover books
1891WRCAM25688San Francisco 1891. 63pp. Illus. Original green printed wrappers detached and split at spine. Edges chipped. Internally clean and nice. Discreet cancelled library booklabel tipped inside back wrapper. Overall good. Extensive promotional work for Alaska tourism issued before the Gold Rush. Describes the resources agriculture potential and natural beauty of Alaska including salmon fisheries stock raising lands government lands etc. Descriptions of the steamships excursion routes and rates. unknown books
1898WRCAM32668Washington: United States Geological Survey 1898. 244pp. plus folding colored map. Original printed wrappers detached. Map with four neat closed tears. Text bright and clean. Very good. Report issued by the United States Geological Survey for the use of prospectors and miners including descriptions of routes to the Klondike and notes on the probable extent of gold-bearing deposits. The large folding map of Alaska is particularly fine and has some of the gold region shaded in bright yellow. WICKERSHAM 8223. United States Geological Survey unknown books
1885WRCAM18270Madison Wi 1885. 16pp. 16mo. Original printed wrappers. Very fine. Advice for the emigrant and traveller to Alaska: how to get there and what to expect; plus the Organic Act of the Territory approved in 1884. Cowles was the commissioner for Alaska at the World's Cotton Exposition in New Orleans in 1885. Not in Ricks. TOURVILLE 1101. WICKERSHAM 3911. SMITH 2025. unknown books
19441769Amchitka & Anchorage Ak 1944. Overall very good. 111 original photographs measuring from 2.5 x 3.5 to 3.5 x 5 inches. Oblong folio album string-tied; leatherette boards front embossed and color stamped. Manuscript captions on album leaves; photos in corner mounts. A bit of soiling and wear to album leaves fading to some captions and a few images. An album of over 100 striking vernacular photographs taken and compiled by Corporal Herbert Farris of Lexington Kentucky that document his World War II service with the 39th Air Depot in Alaska. The men were involved in the maintenance and repair of Army Air Force aircraft and it appears that Farris operated a refueling truck. The unit was stationed in both Anchorage and in the Aleutian Islands and the album appears to include images from both of these areas. One image depicts the "wind indicator at Amchitka" an island in the far western Aleutians home to an Army Air Force Base constructed during the war. The album also includes many other images showing a remote base with bare bones conditions likely Amchitka or a nearby island. There are photos of the "first mess hall" a tent the "second mess hall" a series of huts a "barber shop" contained in a tent a shower tent a theater quonset hut barracks control tower and wooden walkways. The album also includes many images of aircraft including P-40s B-25 bombers and C-67 transports as well as photos of the refueling truck its operation and its crew. Finally there are images of "training planes" used for practice likely in Anchorage as well as some other images that appear to have been taken in Anchorage such as river gold dredgers and more permanent-looking buildings. A fascinating visual record of this far-flung American military outpost during World War II. unknown books
18861242Unalaska 1886. Very good. 4pp. on a small bifolium. Previously folded. In a relatively neat legible script. A manuscript letter by one S.L. Beckwith describing his 1886 travels through the Aleutian Islands and the town of Unalaska addressed to a woman named Ida perhaps his sister. It reads in part: <br/><br/>"This is a poor miserable place. The AC Co. has one comfortable house outside of storehouses coal house salt house oil house and the like. The houses are all small. There is one small church denomination the Russian Greek Catholick. There is about 40 buildings in all here and about a Doz. of Berakies that is underground houses. Everything is built on the sand beach. There is plenty of codfish here also salmon salmon trout brook trout some striped fish and plenty of clams. There is no wood growing on this land."<br/><br/>He goes on to describe the steamer and trading activity in the port and also discusses his prior travels and onward journey through the Aleutian Islands. The "AC Co." mentioned is the Alaska Commercial Company which supported the seal and fur trades in Alaska during the 19th century after it was purchased by the United States. It was headquartered in San Francisco and ran operations in Unga and St. Michael as well as in Unalaska. A brief but interesting account of this Alaskan trading outpost during the 1880s. unknown books
190029340Cincinnati: The Editor Publishing Co 1900. 1st edition Graff 901; Soliday II 257; Streeter VI: 3607; Wickersham 2012. Original orange cloth with gilt stamped lettering. Binding dull with bump to board fore-edge & 1 cm ink stain to above front board title lettering. POI to ffep. PO pencil notes to rfep. Book size chart affixed to rear paste-down. Withal a VG copy of a scarce book on the subject. ix 1 123 1 pp. Illustrated with a color frontis portrait 2 inserted color plates & 10 b&w plates from photographs. Tailpieces. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/>Account of the author's trip to the Klondyke with her brother & family in January of 1898 spending the winter of 1898-1899 in West Dawson. Streeter terms her account "excellent" and specifically notes her passage over the Chilkoot Pass on March 2nd & her trip down the river from Linderman to Dawson. And while some words on gold fever will be found the author notes in her preface she intentionally dwells more on Alaska itself rather than the mines that were the initial impetus for the journey. The Editor Publishing Co hardcover books
189029341New York: Cassell Publishing Company 1890. 2nd edition cf. Soliday II 232; Wickersham 2008. INSCRIBED presentation copy. Red cloth spine with light blue cloth boards; gilt spine lettering professionally recased. TEG. A square & tight VG copy. 194 pp. Profusely illustrated with some in color. Portrait. Map. Fold-out color plate of Muir Glacier. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 6" <br/><br/> Cassell Publishing Company hardcover books
