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19542016Seward 1954. Near fine. 32pp. Original green printed wrappers stapled. An ephemeral telephone directory for the city of Seward Alaska population around 2000 people. With combined retail and personal listings the text also includes advertisements for local businesses including an Avon lady. unknown books
19502015Fairbanks: Jessen's Weekly 1950. About very good. 501271pp. Original grey printed wrappers stapled. Light vertical crease faintly dampstained. Faint dampstaining to upper corner of text otherwise clean internally. Telephone directory for Fairbanks including a residential and business section. The classified section includes numerous ads for local businesses. Jessen's Weekly unknown books
189234104Wash D.C: GPO 1892. First Edition. 72pp. Original printed wrappers. This annual report omitted by Wickersham. Much on stock raising agriculture commerce the Seal Islands Fish and fisheries the whaling fleet Native Americans etc GPO 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
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
1910100825Pamphlet 3 1/2 x 6 pictorial wrappers stapled illustrated 55 pp. Slight wear and slight bend to some pages but very good to near fine. This little guide book to Alaska contains an amazing amount of information on the vast territory and its towns and cities as well as how to travel around it. Contains a couple of small maps to help the reader get around and even includes a rail schedule too. Additionally there are a number of small black and white photos that illustrate Alaska at the turn of the last century. books
1936WRCAM30008Seattle: Alaska Homestake Gold Mining Co 1936. 8pp. plus folding map. Original printed pictorial wrappers. Both wrappers detached. Internally clean. Very good. Prospectus of this well-financed Alaskan mining company with numerous statistics regarding cost of operation and potential yield. The map perfectly traced from the original illustrates the Bluff Quartz claims region in which the company sought to operate. An interesting overview of this large-scale operation. Not in Tourville nor on OCLC. Alaska Homestake Gold Mining Co unknown books
1898300586Chicago: Poole Bros 1898. hardcover. very good. Large colored folding map laid in. 61 page pamphlet slim oblong 12mo stiff pictorial wrappers. Internally near fine covers are lightly soiled and corners and top of spine chipped. Chicago: Poole Bros. 1898. First Edition. Scarce. Very good.<br/><br/> Poole Bros unknown books
1901WRCAM54818Rampart Ak 1901. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. Each page printed in four columns. Folio. Misfolded and neatly split along the center vertical fold with resulting large margin in first leaf. Tiny closed edge tear old tideline in upper margin of first leaf evenly toned. About very good. The extremely rare extra issue of the ALASKA FORUM printed entirely as a promotional publication to attract miners to Rampart Alaska during the gold rush. The four pages of the EXTRA include various reports of the fabulous finds in the area of Rampart "on the Yukon River in American territory about mid way between St. Michaels and Dawson City or approximately one thousand miles from each." Headlines include news such as "A New Eldorado" "Richer than Ever" "Bench Diggings" and "Paystreak is Located." Additional articles concern areas overlooked in the past opportunities for quartz prospectors the need for machinery capital and summer mining "Rampart No Longer A Winter Camp Exclusively - More Summer Work Than Ever Before." <br> <br> Clearly published to promote mining and by extension economic development in Rampart and the surrounding region the column-long editorial on page 2 states: <br> <br> "It is the intention of the publishers of the ALASKA FORUM by means of this special issue to bring to the attention of people in the Eastern states the claim of Rampart City Alaska as the gold mining center of this Territory. To that end thousands of copies of the FORUM are being distributed over New England and the Eastern states. We believe and we are backing that belief with good money that the growth of this town cannot fail to be rapid once capitalists and others are led to appreciate the unrivalled advantages Rampart offers to investor and wage earner alike. With the growth of the town will come the no less certain growth of this FORUM and therein we find justification for this issue." <br> <br> While the exact number of copies printed of this EXTRA is not known we have been able to locate only two other copies of this Sept. 1 1901 special issue at the Beinecke Library and the DeGolyer Library. Printed between Sept. 27 1900 and Aug. 4 1906 few copies of any issue of ALASKA FORUM have survived. Of the ten locations listed in OCLC four libraries including all three Alaska institutions hold only microfilm sets. The University of Washington holds twenty individual issues from 1904 and 1905 NYPL has issues from 1905 Denver Public Library has a single issue from 1905 the American Antiquarian Society holds just the Sept. 25 1900 issue and the Beinecke holds an additional single issue from 1901. <br> <br> A remarkable surviving promotional publication from the Alaskan gold rush. OCLC 22038311 Alaska Forum 1900-1906 ref. unknown books
1885232938Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1885. First edition. Numerous plates including 3 color lithographs and 10 phototype plates. 695 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Three-quarters red morocco. Spine largely perished boards detached but present. Internally Fine. First edition. Numerous plates including 3 color lithographs and 10 phototype plates. 695 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Government Printing Office unknown books
19382014Ketchikan 1938. Very good plus. 56pp. Original brown printed wrappers. Minor wear. Internally clean. Telephone directory for Ketchikan Alaska located in the far southern tip of the state. At the time Ketchikan was a city of around 4000 people and the ads in the present directory display a wide array of services for the area. These include a printing company a radio station a brewery and a Piggly Wiggly. In addition to telephone listings the directory also includes information on public utility rates. An ephemeral item. unknown books
1902217555Seattle 1902. First. hardcover. good. Many photo illustrations by E. A. Hegg. 126pp. Oblong 4to original tan cloth spine rebacked in new black cloth covers soiled front flyleaf and some margins of plates lightly soiled upper right corners of plates creased inner hinge strengthened. Seattle 1902. First Edition.<br/><br/> Entire text is published photo illustrations of Alaska and the Yukon Territory. There is one folding panorama of Dawson Yukon Territory. The images are bright.<br/><br/> unknown books
5124ALAKSA ARCHIVE. Archive. 10 pieces. 1921-1922. Fort Liscum Alaska Territory. An archive of four letters signed “Alice†and written by Alice Donaldson in Alaska to her mother and aunt in Massachusetts. Donaldson her husband and their children lived on the Fort Liscum Army base from 1921 until the base’s closure in 1922. Written during the year that the Donaldsons lived on the base Alice talks about adjusting to life in Alaska and then having to move again within a year. Along with her letters are six small photographs of Alaska. a ALS. June 10 1921. Fort Liscum Alaska. “Dear Mother:- It is almost time for the brat to come back after mail for the south so I will tell you all we have been doing this week. Sunday was a wonderful day we took our lunch and walked out on the…Coming back we gathered seven kinds of wild flowers daisies buttercups violets wild sweet pea a light purple flower similar to our columbine only smaller a dark purple flower almost like our snap dragon and salmon berry blossoms. There are quantities of ferns everywhere. I have a centerpiece for my dining table made of a tin can cut down to two inches…With much love for father and yourself Aliceâ€. b ALS. June 30 1921. Fort Liscum Alaska. “Dear Mother :- If you could look in and see us I think you would say we have a very pretty and comfortable home. Out things arrived early Tuesday morning and they were all uncrated and mostly in place Tuesday night. The things which I ordered from Sears-Roebuck came at the same time…â€. c ALS. March 13 1922. Fort Liscum Alaska. “Dear Mother:- Can you image what it would be like to have a March wind blowing a gale with about three feet of loose snow on top of a crust That is what we have had for twenty-four hours sometimes we couldn’t see the nearest houses there are drifts every where the most bothersome one is in front of our dining room windows…We were all very much excited yesterday the order came confirming the rumor that Liscum is to be abandoned and asking how long it will take to get everything ready to be moved to Ft. Seward with about nine ft of snow on the ground we replied at least two months. George has asked for a Transport June tenth. As the order reads we go to Ft. Seward but George is still hoping to be brought back to the States and go to Benning. I rather dislike the idea of packing everything again in just one year!†d ALS. May 21 1922. Fort Liscum Alaska. “Dear Aunt Laura:- This is George’s birthday and we have been celebrating by having our first picnic of the season in a rocky cove down at the end of Swansport. We took frying pans and built a fire so as to cook beefsteak fry potatoes and make coffee. It certainly does taste good out of doors. In order to get to the camping place we had to walk quite a distance over…a short play in which Donald made his first appearance on the stage he did better than I expected and looked quite grown up in a long trouser suit. All the children were promoted with an average of about 90. We have all had bad colds but are feeling fine today. We were very sorry to hear that Uncle Perl has been so miserable and hope he will improve a lot and enjoy the summer he usually feels better when he can get out doors more. When I wrote you after Christmas I thought I spoke about Helen’s Sash it is perfectly stunning with her blue corduroy dress and she was so pleased with it. Much love to you both Aliceâ€. unknown books
190012740Salem MA: Newcomb and Gauss Printers 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 251 pp with frontispiece and many sketches by the author which are rather amateurish but charming. Mild marginal dampstain to the first few pages boards a bit scuffed rubbed at corners and spine ends. The author joined the Lynn Mining Company and departed from Massachusetts in November 1897 traveling via the Schooner "Abbie M. Deering" to Bahia Brazil and on to San Francisco. From there the party secured passage to Seattle and then St. Michael eventually traveling up the Yukon and Koyukuk Rivers to the Arctic Circle. Includes detailed and colorful description of the outfitting process and the vicissitudes of travel and prospecting. Wickersham 80; Tourville 4919; Graff 4712; Howes W556; Smith 11106 Arctic Bibliography 19606. Newcomb and Gauss, Printers hardcover books
1912106335<p>8vo original printed stiff paper wrappers folding map 18 1/2" x 26" 12 2 pp. Some wear to wrappers slight creasing; otherwise near fine. This is a somewhat scarce fairly early map of Alaska that includes a 12-page index of places and geological features0f the area. The map shows all the railroads cities towns post offices and lakes and rivers. The map also contains three inset maps of the Aleutian Islands Seward Peninsula Mining District and the Mt. McKinley District. The OCLC locates three copies. OCLC. </p> Rand McNally & Company, 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
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
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
1890WRCAM52358San Francisco 1890. 63pp. Illus. Tables. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor chipping and a couple of tiny repaired tears to wrappers. Very good. Scarce early promotional from the Pacific Coast Steamship Company after the first of 1887 discussing topography industry agriculture with diagrams of steamships available for passage namely deck plans of the "Queen" "City of Topeka" and "George W. Elder." An attractive engraving of the Hotel Ramona San Luis Obispo adorns the back cover. TOURVILLE 3449. unknown books
188634102Wash D.C.: McGill 1886. First edition. 13pp. Original printed wrappers very nice copy. Rare. Not in Wickersham Tourville or Ricks McGill unknown books
1867319700Washington D.C.: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office 1867. First edition. Text in two columns. 48pp. Without the folding map not issued in all copies. Stitched. First edition. Text in two columns. 48pp. Without the folding map not issued in all copies. Sumner's important speech in support of the ratification oof the treaty with Russia which ceded what would become Alaska to the U.S. Sometimes found with a large folding map by Lindenkpohl though it was not issued with the speech according to Lada-Mocarski. Howes S1134; Lada-Mocarski 159; Tourville 4391; Wickersham 4128 Printed at the Congressional Globe Office unknown 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
1899249256Washington D.C. 1899. 4 pp. 4to. Old folds else fine. 4 pp. 4to. The letter traces the diplomatic claims of Great Britain in Alaska and goes into detail about the 2 contested parts the "Portland Channel" and the parallel 50 degrees to Mt. St. Elias. <br/>He is grandfather of John Foster and Allen Dulles. He was also TR's head commissioner in the negotiations on Alaska-Canadian boundaries in 1903. unknown books
1891243722Philadelphia: John Y. Huber Company 1891. First edition. Frontispiece maps and illustrations throughout. 418 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original pictorial gray-blue cloth. Bookplate. About fine and rare thus. First edition. Frontispiece maps and illustrations throughout. 418 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bruns S80 John Y. Huber Company unknown books
189729536New York 1897. Broadsheet 9 1/2" x 12". With a small oval half-tone portrait. On recto at the bottom printed in red: 'Norton Hall Granville N.Y. Thursday Eve. Dec. 30 1897". Near Fine.<br/><br/> A rare announcement of a public entertainment-- "Not a Lecture. But a Budget of Jewels Sparkling Pathetic Humorous and Original"-- by this popular Western hero who on his first outing as a reporter in 1875 did much to promote the Black Hills Gold Rush. John W. Crawford 1847-1917 was a "poet-scout" who memorialized Custer and Wild Bill Hickok in verse. He "was one of the original discoverers of gold on French Creek in the Black Hills in 1876." After a stint with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show which he left when he accidentally shot himself in the groin blaming it on Buffalo Bill's drinking he moved to New Mexico to scout for the Army against the Apache. He "did more than any other man in the Territory in bringing before the public the immense mineral wealth of New Mexico."<br/> This broadsheet serves not only to publicize Captain Jack's Entertainment but also to promote "The Capt. Jack Crawford Alaska Prospecting and Mining Co." Testimonials to Crawford are printed here along with an invitation for the recipient to receive a Company prospectus.<br/>OCLC 778631567 2- Yale SMU as of March 2018. unknown books
