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19455579Fort Richardson Ak: March 1 1945. Very good plus. 8pp. of text folded accordion style folded out to a full-page map on verso. Light soiling and toning. A seemingly unrecorded guide and map to Fort Richardson located near Anchorage Alaska. The fort opened in 1941 as the headquarters for the United States Army in Alaska. For a brief time Fort Richardson served as a holding center for fifteen Japanese American internee families. The present guide "was prepared primarily for the information and guidance of military personnel new to Fort Richardson. It presents the rules regulations and facilities of the Post for easy reference." The facilities included officers' clubs theatres a library skating rink ski bowl and much more. A total of thirty-eight of these facilities are keyed to the map of the fort printed on the verso. When folded the pamphlet measures 6 x 4 inches and folds out to a total of 12 x 15.75 inches. We could locate no other copies of this early guide to an important American military base in Alaska during the Second World War. March 1 unknown
195056567Seattle WA: Captain Olaf H. Hansen ca. 1950. 4to. 11 leaves typescript manuscript w/ ink manuscript annotations on verso of last leaf a couple corrections. Light gray limp cover split-pin binder manuscript cover title rounded corners minor shelfwear rubbing still VG exemplar from the library of Captain Olaf Hansen 1877-1959 Danish-American sea captain from Seattle WA w/ bookplate on verso of front cover. A remarkable typescript manuscript detailing Captain Hansen’s experiences with Henry Carlton Strong 1869-1954 who not only was Ketchikan’s postmaster but also owned the Clark & Martin fish-saltery located at the mouth of Ketchikan creek. Hansen was recruited as an 18 year old to work on the steamer Alert a whiskey runner for smuggling from Port Simpson to Juneau when Alaska was still a dry Territory in order to secure the mail delivery contract. The Captain “was a part Negro and his name was Watson and was the only one available who had a second class pilot license for the Ketchikan District. . . as we had the mail contract on account of her speed.†He goes on later after picking up mail sacks that “our first stop was at Grindall where Thomlinson and Syare were located. They had a store. . . on the wall . . . I saw the lithographed map which was used in New York to make the suckers to buy stock in their mining company and it showed a fine big harbor with seven men of wars anchored in it and lots of room to spare.†Hansen jumps ship and heads back to Seattle and then down the West Coast while Strong would continue to establish and expand the Northland Steamship Company. See: Louise Brick Harrington Henry C. Strong Pioneers of Southeast Alaska Stories in the News August 10 2006. Captain Olaf H. Hansen, unknown
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
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
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
178522405London 1785. Copper engraved portrait of a polar bear on ice from the folio atlas accompanying the last voyage of Captain Cook. Very good condition extra wide margins. 9 3/4 x 8" image on paper approx 16 x 21.5 unknown
193339433Seattle: Alaska Steamship Company 1933. 1933. 10 3/4" x 7 3/4" in colorful pictorial wrappers showing a husky on the left side and a colorful totem pole on the right side of the cover panel. 40 pp. illustrations map. Romantic depiction of Sailing Sheltered Seas to the Land of the Midnight Sun. Descriptions of what the tourist can expect to see while cruising through the Inside Passage to Ketchikan Wrangell Juneau the Gastineau Channel Skagway Sitka Cordova the Columbia Glacier Valdez Seward Fairbanks etc. Much information about traveling the famous "Golden Belt Line Tour" via the Alaska Railroad. Listing of 6 cruises and tours for the summer season lasting from 11-23 days. Inside rear wrapper is a pocked containing a 22" x 32" color map of Alaska showing the various routes. Map has splitting at some folds and with 1/4" x 1/2" chip missing at one fold. Illustrations of various scenes printed in green red pink or burnt orange at bottom of every page to include illustrations of Victoria the Grenville Channel Chief Shake's House Alaska-Juneau gold mining company Lake Eyak Kennecott interiors of various cabins etc. Black and white photographs opposite each page of text to include photos of the various ships' interiors and exteriors Fairbanks Seward Child's Glacier Mount Fairweather Chilkoot Ketchikan etc. Wrappers lightly soiled with rubbing to spine light chipping to bottom edge and foxing to rear wrapper. Very good. Filled with information this is a nicely produced booklet. Alaska Steamship Company, 1933. unknown
52957P., Plon-Nourrit, 1908, in 8° relié demi-chagrin vert, dos à nerfs, couvetrure illustrée conservée, tête dorée, II-296 pages ; quelques infimes frottis.
19108119C1910. Hadley/Alaska. around 1910-1920. Three different formats. Thirteen photographs. Original photographs black-white. Mostly full-page format without a framing. With commentaries at the back sides Swedish Language. Photographs with some minor crinkles at corners and little rubbing. Partly a bit faded at the edges but mostly still with good contrasts. Paper is a bit bent. Appropriate to its age and origin still in good condition. The thirteen photographs include different views on the former copper smelting town Hadley at the Prince of Wales Island Alaska US. In Hadley once the mined copper ores have been melted and processed later the extracted copper was shipped to other places. The photographs exist in three different formats: a small one ca. 164 x 215 cm a middle size ca. 191 x 241 cm and a bigger format ca. 20 x 252 cm. The black-white photographs still own their contrast although a few of them are fading a little bit at the edges. The thirteen photographs give us very different perspectives on this historical place: smelter buildings seen from the near and distanced overviews from a ship. Detailled views on the pier with rails on a building in construction in snow on a ship at the pier and on a cleared piece of land probably for new buildings. One photograph is even showing one of the ships for travelling called "Marion". A main overview owns a small stamp and note at the front: "Alaska Smelting & Refining Co. / General View Smelter Buildings". Most of the photographs own commentaries on the back sides in swedish language. Some with two or three lines a few with ten lines of text Please see the given fotografic examples. The photographs very probably have been made by a swedish engineer working at Hadley. There has been copper mining and extracting in Sweden long before Alaska became a part of the US. One photograph shows two little girls with blond hair staying in the wood. It seems to be a family portrait maybe they have been the daughters of this swedish man. There is also an envelope newer one by Svenska Handelsbanken with the handwritten swedish title: "Fotografier fran Hadley Alaska". Very rare historical material from Alaska in the first two decades of the 20th century! unknown
19004431Leipzig, Weber, 1900. XXI, 257 S. mit zahlr. Textabb. 34 Tafeln, 4 mehrfach gefalt. Panoramen und 2 separate mehrfach gefalt. farb. Karten. 4°OLwd. (gebräunt, etw. bestoßen, stärkere Gebrssprn.).
1907GITc723Paris Plon 1907. Grand in-8 VI 435pp. Cartonnage éditeur percaline vert foncé bradel, titre doré sur le dos et le 1er plat, celui-ci orné d'une tête d'élan dorée, couverture illustrée conservée, tête dorée, non rogné. Orné de 206 gravures d'après des photographies de l'auteur dont 8 à pleine page et 32 hors texte. Bel exemplaire très frais, bien complet de toutes ses pièces.
Outer dimensions: 10.75" x 14.5". Unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
xvi, 473, 6 (ads) pages. Many black and white illustrations. Reprint of the 1886 first edition. The author's intention with this work was "to portray in word, and by brush and pencil, the life and country of Alaska as it is, so clearly and so truthfully, that the reader may draw his or her own inference, just as though he or she stood upon the ground itself." - from Introduction. Publisher's black cloth very handsomely adorned with gilt lettering and red and yellow illustration. Writing and large sticker scar inside front board. Lacking back free endpaper and map which was affixed there. Moisture stains to bottom edge of all pages - text unaffected. Hinges open. Binding open in two places. Prior owner's blind stamps. Despite these many issues, still an outwardly attractive reference copy. Arctic Bibliography 4545, Wickersham 2372. Book
xliii, 859 pages. Footnotes, references, index. Black and white diagrams and reproductions of photos. "Provides insight at a ground level of Jenness' long, tough voyage of discovery, so that anyone interested in Arctic America or Canadian studies will find this journal a rare and enriching experience. Further, for Arctic scholars, this journal presents the detailed context for those pioneer monographs that launched the career of young Jenness and led to his becoming Canada's pre-eminent anthropologist." - dust jacket. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Modest bow to front board. Possible light cigarette scent. A sound reading copy of this fascinating early Arctic diary. Book
209 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. This is a very special copy for two reasons: i. it is signed by the author upon the title page and ii. it bears the presentation bookplate (dated 1960) of the City of Prince Ruppert to Mr. Carl Halverson, "a pioneer of the City". In addition, laid in is a "Pioneers Jubilee Banquet" programme, dated Sept. 7, 1960, which includes the printed name of Mr. Halverson. Binding sound. Moderate wear to unmarked book. Several smallish tears to and chips from dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new Brodart. A wonderful Prince Ruppert momento. Book
Features: Freedom's Sting - Brown Brothers' burden - Philippine Independence (Jim Marshall); The Golden Spoon - Gold mining for live in Alaska (Corey Ford); A Little Code - Life and letters of an outfielder (Kyle Chrichton); Cross Purposes - Love will find a way (Elisabeth Sanxay Holding); All the Answers, by James Aswell; The Loudest Radical - Zioncheck makes himself audible (George Creel); The Prodical Nurse, Part II - In search of excitement (Teresa Hyde Phillips); Under Pressure, Part VIII - Blackadder's Design (George Agnew Chamberlain); Late Winner - Wilmer Allison, white hope for the Davis Cup (John R. Tunis); Texas Roundup - High, wide and handsome centennial (Owen P. White); The Human Touch - No reason why heroes shouldn't look after their own interests (James B. Connolly); The Cook Gets the Last Word - Kitchen rangers (Betty Thornley Suart); Keep up with the world - Fosterized facts (Freling Foster). Super colour centerfold featuring the Terraplane. Lovely colour Chevrolet ad inside back cover. Average wear. Address label on front cover else unmarked. A sound copy. Book
