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Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Last Fight of the Five Hundred - Part I - Events attending the siege and fall of Urfa where 500 French troops held out against the overwhelming force of Mustapha Kemal Pasha's rebel Kurds and Turks - article with photos; The World's Largest Ice Cavern - in the mountains of Tyrol in Austria - article with photos; The Three "Little People" of St. Gwendron - an odd story from the wilds of Cornwall involving the occult - article with photos; The World's Most Thrilling Sport - photo-illustrated article on the rock climbers of Tyrol; A Man's Luck - Part VII - a man tries to build an Alaska home for the girl of his dreams but keeps being jailed; The Loneliest Briton - Ernest Davies spent eight years in the Paumotus, three thousand miles from the nearest Australian or American ports; Photo of a thirty foot python; A Treasure-Hunt in the Land of Thirst - Part II - description of an exciting trip into the practically unknown region to the north of Cape Colony, sometimes called the "Mysterious Richtersveld"; Bill's First Lion - things didn't go as planned; The Man Who Fooled a Continent - "Lord Gordon Gordon" nearly brought about an international incident between Great Britain and the USA; A Film-Hunter on the Amazon - Part IV - documenting what was probably the most adventurous expedition ever undertaken in the interests of the movies; "Moonshine Valley" - account of a raid on a stronghold of moonshiners in Strawn, Texas; The Death-Trap - A Texas cowpuncher's night of horror; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 444-528, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Hunting the Opium Smugglers - Author attempts to capture Chinaman who was causing much trouble by smuggling opium into a South Sea Island; Photograph from Hong Kong of a "Punishment Chair" upon which a bound criminal sat upon eleven knives and was then carried through the streets as a lesson to others; With "Lizzie" to the Edge of Beyond - An old Ford car takes four passengers and a heavy load seven hundred miles through Central Africa; The Faithful Burglar - a story involving psychic phenomena from Ray Bell's Tie-Camp at Shabaqua, Ontario - with photo; Through Savage Europe - Part II - Richard Carline continues to describe his painting tour through Serbia, Bosnia, and Montenegro; The Devil Panther - Two British hunters pursue a feared killer panther in India; What Happened to Hubbard? - Sequel to "Where the Gold Went" in which Charles A. Siringo described how Schell and Hubbard stole a quantity of gold from the famous Treadwell Mine in Alaska - describes how Hubbard went on to success in Dawson City; Roaming the Wild South Seas - Part IV (conclusion) - Jack McLaren describes the romance and adventure of the South Sea Islands - article with photos; A Run for Money - Author attempts to smuggle a ranch payroll through a Mexican rebel zone; Photo of Filipino "Tom Thumb", Panglima Diki-Diki; The "Human Bomb" - Update on a 1913 story about Carl Warr who walked into the Los Angeles Police Headquarters with enough dynamite to blow it up; Across the Great Sahara - Part III - A journey by camel across the Sahara from bottom to top - article with many excellent photos; The Sheep-Shearer - A sailor's amusing story about a machine invented by his second engineer; At Grips With a Python - Nighmare experience for a South African farmer; The Ghost of Ardtrea - An odd story from County Tyrone, Ireland describing events in an old rectory; A Week End in Bulgaria - Quaint glimpses of Bulgarian manners and customs by traveller Ralph Michaelis. 88 pages. plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Nibbling to backstrip has left the back cover barely holding, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Story of John Jewitt - A young Englishman is taken as a slave by Maquinna, chief of the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island; The Children of the Wilderness - Part I - Juliet Bredon's photo-illustrated journey in little-known Mongolia; Winning a Wife - An incident involving an Englishman in Tirah; Down the Araguaya in a Dug-Out - Part I - The conclusion of Frederick C. Glass's adventures on a little-known Brazilian river; The Sea Devil - An extraordinary six-hour battle with a huge West Indian manta, or ray; Where the gold went - Charles Siringo describes the pursuit of two men who had robbed the famous Treadwell mine in Alaska; The Cannibal Islands - Part I - Clifford W. Collinson has spent several years in the Solomon Islands - article with photos; Three Asses in the Pyrenees (conclusion) - a couple with a donkey cart set out to explore the area without any modern luxuries; My Motor-Boat - what happend when a man tried to run a second-hand boat he purchased; How We Killed the "Rat" - a scheme to kill an intruding rat goes sadly wrong; A Woman in Unknown Albania (conclusion) - Rose Wilder Lane explores the remote northern mountains where tribal blood-feuds still flourish; A Lonely Job - a young ship's officer acts as caretaker of a vessel wrecked off the Australian coast; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
Pages 353-440, plus 24 pages of fascinating ads. Features: The House of a Hundred Rooms - Part 1 - incredible revelations of a building in Philadelphia with underground cellars and dungeons which were put to diabolical uses by Chinese Tong-men; A Village on a Mountain Top - nice photo-illustrated article on Mola, Sicily; Enrico Toti - Italy's One-Legged War Hero - how he fought and died at the Carso front; With the British Armoured Cars in Russia - Part 1 - the first authentic account of their work and adventures - photo-illustrated article; In the Grip of the Blizzard - Daring Antarctic Sledge Expedition of Sir Douglas Mawson as described by Capt. Madigan - major article with fascinating photos; My Adventures in the World War, Part 3 of E. Ashmead-Bartlett's adventures as a war correspondent; In the Land of the Lapps - Part 3 - photo-illustrated description of the life and customs of these fascinating and little-known people; The Gum Lands of New Zealand - photo-illustrated article on the Kauri gum industry of New Zealand; How We Brought the Chinese War-Workers to France - important information about the Chinese Labour Corps which assisted British armies in non-combatant duties at the Front were recruited in China and transported from their distant homes in the Far East across the seas to France, travelling via Canada; Marooned in the Arctic - E.H.L. Mitchell went to Alaska on a mining venture but was shipwrecked and marooned on a barren island for eight weeks; The Water-Gardeners of Amiens, France - wonderful photo-illustrated article; Lost in the Mine - the lamp of a boy working in a Welsh coillery went out and he lost his way - and nearly his life; Photo of the four-hundred and fifty Temples of the Law at Mandalay, in Upper Burma. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
152 pages. Large oblong book measuring 10" x 14.5". "Because war censorship forbade publicity there is a widespread lack of knowledge of the outstanding production job for the war effort done by British Columbia industry... Few British Columbians - certainly very few Eastern Canadians, United States business men or British Empire industrialists - realize the extent of the accomplishments and the facilities that are now available here for manufacturing of all kinds. This survey has been prepared to place on record the information that is felt should be known. It is in two parts: First, an illustrated news section graphically telling the story of leading manufacturing developments; second, a concise factual compilation of statistics giving complete authoritative basic data." - from title page. The section on leading manufacturers is profusely illustrated with glorious black and white photos. Companies presented include: West Coast Shipbuilders Ltd.; Western Bridge and Steel Fabricators Ltd.; Vivian Engine Works Ltd.; Vivian Diesels and Munitions Ltd.; Arrow Transfer Co. Ltd.; Canada Western Cordage Co. Ltd.; Burrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd.; Boyles Bros. Drilling Company Ltd.; Canadian Mixermobile Company; United Distillers Ltd.; The H.R. Macmillan Export Company Limited; Industrial Engineering Ltd. (power/chain saw manufacturer); British Columbia (B.C.) Packers; W.R. Carpenter (Canada) Ltd. - crushers of copra and oil seeds; Edward Lipsett Ltd - commercial fishing supplies; Vancouver Iron Works Limited; British Columbia Telephone Company The Canadian Fishing Company Ltd; British Columbia Distillery Company Limited; Hammond Furniture Company Ltd; American Can Company Limited; Empire Sheet Metal Works Ltd; Canada Chain and Forge Company; Vancouver Engineering Works Ltd; Dominion Bridge Company Limited - including a grand photo of their new Pattulo Bridge looking toward the barrens of Surrey, plus a photo of the Hotel Vancouver's underlying steel structure during construction; Smith Bros. & Wilson Ltd - General Contractors; Heaps Engineering (1940) Limited; Marwell Construction Company; Canadian Sumner Iron Works; McDonnell Metal Manufacturing; Jones Tent and Awning Limited; Leek & Company Limited; McCarter & Nairne - Architects and Structural Engineers; Stewart-Lovick Ltd - Advertising; Terminal City Iron Works; Westland Foundries; British American Paint Co. Ltd; Bloedel Stewart & Welch Ltd.; Straits Towing and Salvage Co. Ltd.; Island Tug and Barge Ltd.; Standard Oil Company of British Columbia Limited; The Vancouver Sun; The Vancouver Daily Province; A-1 Steel and Iron Foundry Ltd.; A-1 Pattern Shop & Brass Foundry Ltd; Pacific Coast Terminals Co. Ltd.; Canadian Forest Products Limited; Alaska Pine Co. Ltd; Newcastle Ship Building Co. Ltd; Bennett & White Construction Co. Ltd; Evans Coleman & Evans Ltd; Falconer Marine Industries Limited; Yarrows Ltd.; Victoria Daily Times; The Daily Colonist; The Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada Limited. Also included in this section are photo illustrated features on power generation, brewing, the pulp industry, technical education, tourism, mining, highways, mining, printing, the British Columbia Police Force, New Westminster, Victoria, and Prince Rupert. A very uncommon and informative publication which proudly and abundantly presents the bold industrial might of Canada's pacific province in the immediate aftermath of the second world war. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this important record of British Columbia's industrial history. Book
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 promoted 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 not only publicizes Captain Jack's Entertainment but also promotes "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 3- Yale SMU U AK as of February 2023. unknown
19051676Brooklyn: The Albertype Co 1905. Good. Twelve albertypes mounted on 12 leaves. Original pictorial wrappers string-tied. Wrappers chipped and worn at edges spine heavily; lightly soiled. Leaves brittle corners chipped with mounted images clean and crisp. Pictorial work with mounted images of Alaskan natives taken by the photography firm of Winter & Pond in Juneau. Lloyd Valentine Winter 1866-1945 and Edwin Percy Pond 1872-1943 arrived in Juneau in 1893 establishing a curio and photography shop there. By 1896 they were advertising a catalog of photographs for sale. They documented the local natives the Klondike Gold Rush and life in Alaska producing many popular images of the region. The company existed for over fifty years operating under original ownership until 1945 and finally closing in 1956. <br/><br/>The images here are all of local native tribes including several of the Tlingit people. The front cover image is "Eskimo Girl" and shows a young woman in a fur parka and mittens with a tattoo on her chin. Other images are: "Old Tlingit Woman"; "Native Basket Weavers"; "Old Tlingit Indian"; "Takon Indian Doctor" which shows a medicine man standing and brandishing rattles; "Old Tlingit Women"; "Schwatka a Yukon Guide"; "Chilkat Chiefs in Dancing Costume"; "Old Auk Indian"; "Potlatch Dancers" depicting a large group of dancers in native dress outside; "Auk Indian Doctor"; "Native Curio Sellers" which shows two young women wrapped in furs seated behind baskets of their wares; and "Old Eskimo Woman."<br/><br/>The Albertype Company of Brooklyn produced many such handsome viewbooks and the present work is in line with their style and quality of publication. We locate copies in OCLC at fewer than ten institutions. The Albertype Co unknown books
1945191491945. Unidentified compiler photograph album of United States Army troops stationed near Seward Alaska circa 1945 documenting military life and operations in a strategic northern deployment during the closing period of World War II. The material provides primary visual evidence of troop activity infrastructure development and social life within a remote military environment supporting research into wartime logistics soldier experience and the role of Alaska in U.S. military defense during the conflict.<br /> <br /> Photograph album containing 58 black and white silver gelatin prints most measuring approximately 3.5 x 6 inches depicting soldiers engaged in both formal and informal activities. Images include groups of men standing at attention with rifles constructing wooden buildings in rugged terrain and participating in daily routines within camp settings. A series of photographs documents a dance event for troops featuring a jazz band with music stands marked "153" alongside an emblem suggesting a possible connection to the 153rd Infantry Regiment which was stationed in Alaska during the period. Additional images show steamships including the S.S. Baranof S.S. Alaska S.S. Denali and S.S. Columbia navigating the Inside Passage and areas near Taku Glacier indicating transportation and supply routes. The album also contains a "memory leaves" section with handwritten notes and addresses from fellow servicemen reflecting interpersonal networks and efforts to maintain contact beyond deployment.<br /> <br /> 58 photographs mounted in an album with decorated leather covers featuring a hand-painted image of Alaskan sled dogs titled "The Malamute Limited." During World War II Alaska served as a critical military zone due to its geographic proximity to the Pacific theater with troop deployments focused on defense infrastructure and logistics in challenging environmental conditions. This album captures both operational and social dimensions of that presence including labor recreation and movement through the region. Light handling wear to album and photographs contents well-preserved; overall very good condition. A cohesive and detailed visual record of U.S. Army life in wartime Alaska. unknown
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
Three different formats. Nine photographs. Original photographs, black-white. Mostly full-page format, without a framing. Some with short notes at the back side (English 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 nine 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. 16,4 x 21,5 cm), a middle size (ca. 19,1 x 24,1 cm) and a bigger format (ca. 20 x 25,2 cm). The black-white photographs still own their contrast although few of them are fading a bit at the edges. The photographs are giving us different perspectives on this place: smelter buildings seen from the near and distanced overviews from a ship. One photograph is even showing a smelter building from the inside. A few others show the nature and waters around the town. We also can see the small pier where once the copper has been prepared for shipping. The main overview owns a small stamp and note at the front: "Alaska Smelting & Refining Co. / General View of Hadley Smelter". A few others own a small note on their back side (english language). A photograph showing the waterways around the town for example is titled: "'Hole in the wall' by Hadley, Alaska". Another one was titled: "View to the north from waterbank showing boilerstacks and wharfes". The photographs very probably have been made by a swedish engineer working at Hadley. Other photographs from the same collection (second offer) own a lot of swedish notes and commentaries at their back sides and contain some more private views. Very rare historical material from Alaska in the first two decades of the 20th century!
1785118723paris thou 1785 4 A Paris, Hotel de Thou, 1785, 4 volumes in-8, 512 - 512 - 592 - 584, 111 pages, contient les 2 tableaux dépliants et les appendices, sans l'atlas de planches.Demi reliure à coins, dos longs portant titres et tomaisons dorés sur pièce de cuir respectivement orangé et vert, tranches mouchetées, gardes blanches. Reliures usées mais solides (cuir épidermé, coins frottés, mors interne en partie apparent), nombreuse erreurs de pagination, sans manque, un cahier du tome I dont les pages ne sont imprimées que sur une face du feuillet (sans manque) intérieur frais, bon état général.
1943217811943. Civilian construction labor photo album documenting on the Alaska-Canada Military Highway during World War II one of the largest emergency infrastructure projects undertaken in North America during the war. The material records wartime military logistics federal civilian contracting and frontier transportation construction through photographs official permits military certifications and worker inscriptions connected to the rapid building of the ALCAN Highway in 1942-1943. Compiled by civilian laborer Paul Cecil Pemble an employee of Ferguson-Diell Construction Company the album connects private contractors federal agencies and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the construction of a strategic military supply route linking the contiguous United States to Alaska following Japan's Aleutian Islands campaign. The archive provides primary-source evidence for wartime infrastructure mobilization civilian labor under military authority and the logistical expansion of defense systems in the North American Arctic frontier.<br /> <br /> Oblong string-tied photo album in original painted suede leather covers titled Alaska - Where the North Begins with embossed and hand-colored totemic decoration. Contains approximately 66 silver gelatin photographs ranging in size from approximately 4.5 x 3.25 inches to 10 x 8 inches alongside multiple official documents licenses permits correspondence and autograph pages. Included documents identify Paul Cecil Pemble as a civilian heavy equipment operator employed on the Alaska Highway project. These include a Public Roads Administration license issued under the Federal Works Agency dated June 29 1943; a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers certification dated August 4 1943 signed by First Lieutenant Colin L. Park authorizing operation of trucks tractors and wheeled scrapers; and an Alcan Military Highway Command permit dated August 19 1943 authorizing travel on the restricted military roadway. A typed letter from Tok Junction dated October 8 1943 confirms the extension of Pemble's Selective Service deferment due to essential wartime labor. Several opening pages titled "Memory Leaves" contain approximately sixty signatures and inscriptions from fellow workers many identifying hometowns in Iowa and including humorous remarks and nicknames such as "Cook" "Butch" and "Alaska Thunderbolt." The photographs extensively document construction activity and camp life including bulldozers graders cranes timber bridge scaffolding military truck convoys wrecked vehicles stranded in ditches muddy roadbeds and large encampments of prefabricated structures. Multiple images show men constructing river crossings operating machinery and posing in work clothes beside heavy equipment. Additional photographs depict interior bunkhouses mess hall scenes with workers gathered around tables and a large group portrait of more than fifty civilian laborers posed before a treeline. Wildlife and recreation also appear throughout the album including black bears scavenging through refuse fishing scenes with large catches displayed by workers dogs resting beside snowy roads and Pemble's trailer quarters attached to the back of a truck. The final pages include panoramic camp views and directional signpost photographs listing construction companies and distances to Fairbanks Whitehorse and multiple contractor camps along the route.<br /> <br /> The album records the logistical effort required to construct the Alaska Highway across remote and environmentally severe terrain during wartime emergency conditions. Built in response to fears of Japanese expansion into Alaska and the North Pacific the highway became a critical military supply corridor linking airfields fuel depots transport infrastructure and defense installations across Alaska and western Canada. The album focuses on civilian laborers operating within military-controlled systems including contract workers represented through photographs permits deferment documents and personal inscriptions. The combination of photographs permits deferment documents and personal inscriptions records daily life labor conditions and federal wartime administration on the ALCAN project. Photographs mounted cleanly to black paper leaves with corner tabs; occasional light creasing and minor wear to several prints. Leather covers lightly rubbed but structurally sound and visually bright. Overall very good condition. A documentary archive of civilian wartime labor and military infrastructure construction during one of the most ambitious engineering projects of the Second World War. unknown
190054584Washington, Governemnt Printing Office, 1900. Large 4to. Orig. red full cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine dusty. VII,856 pp., textillustrations, 33 plates and 27 folded maps. Internally clean and fine.
190054584Washington Governemnt Printing Office 1900. Large 4to. Orig. red full cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine dusty. VII856 pp. textillustrations 33 plates and 27 folded maps. Internally clean and fine. hardcover
Features: Julius Kruttschnitt of the Harriman Lines Claims Railroads and Labor Friendly; Great Northern Finances for Fiscal Year; Steel Bridge Across Chehalis River at Aberdeen to Open 23 September; Rapid Work on Argo Terminals; Innovation of Ticket Cases - article with photo of modern ticket case; Final Bursting of Controller Bay Bubble (editorial about Alaskan nautical dangers); Business Profile of Kenneth C. Kerr, Industrial Agent of the Alaska Steamship Company (with photo); Improper Packing Causes Great Loss; Record Freight Train runs from Altoona to Enola, PA; Many Abandoned Railways in U.S.; Free Baggage Allowances in Various States and Countries; The World's Wheat Crop; Bernard N. Baker Outlines Plans of Atlantic and Pacific Transportation Co.; General H.M. Chittenden Makes Statement for Seattle Port Commission; What the (New) Port Commission May Do for Seattle; The Proposed West Point Immigration Station - article with map showing location of the proposed station and the proposed West Point Waterway Improvement as planned by Virgil Bogue; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Empress of China Crew Exonerated; Decision in Princess May Stranding; Marine Decisions; Diagrams illustrating work to soon begin on Pier 1, owned by the Northern Pacific Railway Company; Casualties to Pacific Coast Shipping; The San Pedro - New C.P.R. Steamer for Trans-Pacific Service - article with illustration; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
1782PHO-1331Paris ,Chez Pissot père et fils, Chez Laporte, (1782) 1 volume in-octavo (20 x 12,7 cm) de X-508 pp. ,Reliure plein veau marbré d'époque, dos lisse orné avec pièce de titre et tomaison, tranches rouges ,la carte et le frontispice sont manquants , défauts à la reliure .
H389Washington Government Printing Office 1900. First edition large quarto 56th Congress 1 session report 1023. Half-calf over marbled paper covered boards. 51 reports and subreports of explorations made by U.S. army between 1869 and 1899 - possibly the most comprehensive documentation on these first three decades after the purchase of Alaska by the U.S. Numerous maps photographic plates and text-illustrations. As stated in the preface: "The reports of these explorations and reconnaissances of military explorers in Alaska are here for the first time presented in connected narrative form." Not a very common item in almost pristine condition! Collation: 1 nn leaf title-page crossed-out stamp of former owner Adriance Memorial Library Poughkeepsie N.Y. April 18 1901 - verso: Joint University Libraries Nashville Tenn. table of contents pp i-vii list of all the different reports preface 1 page introduction pp 5-16 text pp 21-825 index pp 827-851 index of indian tribes pp 853-856. Many very large folding-maps numerous photographs of unique documentary value lithograph-plates text illustrations. This wealth of historic illustrative material above all the original photographic plates make this book a treasure-box for the documentation of early Alaskan scenery native groups natural habitats! An ideal sourcebook for sub-polar ethnography topography as well as geography. hardcover
512 pages. The third of seven reports which cover the survey and demarcation of the international boundary between Alaska and Canada and between the United States and Canada from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, excepting that part of the boundary through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River, which was surveyed and reported upon by the International Waterways Commission. Compiled in accordance with the provisions of Article III of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, signed at Washington, April 11, 1908. Printed on high quality coated paper. Includes four colour fold-out maps, all of which are in excellent condition. Dozens of fascinating black and white photographs. Detailed Table of Contents, List of Illustrations, and Indeces. Clean, bright and unmarked. Very light wear. Binding tight. Bright gilt lettering upon green spine. Lettering upon front board significantly faded. Top and bottom corners of the last 60 pages bear minor moisture-induced undulations. Very nice copy. Please note: Sketches of the triangulation and precise traverse were printed under separate cover which is not included. Book
1885186340Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1885. First edition of the official United States government publication documenting the American contribution to the First International Polar Year of 1882 and 1883. The expedition departed San Francisco in July 1881 and established a long-term observing station near Point Barrow which remained in operation until 1883. The report records the practical realities of Arctic fieldwork including coastal and inland travel by sledge methods of construction and survival in polar conditions and the use of permafrost for storage. It also documents notable events of the expedition among them the loss of the whaling vessel North Star to the ice. The folding map illustrates the surveyed coastline and inland routes explored during the expedition. Quarto. Colour frontispiece 2 chromolithograph plates 10 photogravure plates lithograph plate 7 wood engraved plates 5 charts folding map. Original black cloth spine lettered in gilt boards ruled in blind. Bookplate of "Karl A. Pember". Ownership inscription of "James Moffitt" in black ink to front free endpaper. Spine toned with spot of wear gilt faded a couple of corners worn faint marks to covers front joint starting but firm minor foxing. A very good copy. Arctic Bibliography 7747 and 14292 for the Narrative; Casey Wood p. 530. hardcover
19108119CHadley/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.
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
193463926Seattle WA: The Alaska Line Alaska Steamship Co. Farwest Lithograph & Printing Co. 1934. One large oblong atlas folio pictorial map sized 29.5 x 22 in. beautiful original lithograph cover very minor dustsoiling and slight creasing to fore-edges a NF copy. First edition of this splendid pictorial map featuring pictograph cartoons reminiscent of John Held’s Jazz Age artwork as well as Ruth Taylor White and her sister Della Taylor Hoss. The Alaska Line which had benefited from a near monopoly of passenger and freight service to Alaska after the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 brags about their accommodations service easy access and tours to many scenic areas in and around “America’s last frontier.†Later printings have an altered colour scheme from this one featuring Alaska in gold and the Yukon and British Columbia Canada in pink. Camy 1904-1958 was a California artist and illustrator who specialized in commercial graphic advertising for Dole Pineapple Signal Gasoline and the Alaska Line. He produced very few pictographic maps. The Alaska Line, Alaska Steamship Co., Farwest Lithograph & Printing Co., unknown
191656549Washington D.C. & Juneau A.T.: Superintendent of Documents U.S. Surveyor General’s Office 1916. Oblong Atlas Folio. 24 x 19 in. 14 colour maps 1 large folding 17.25 x 41.5 in. Printed softcovers stapled and paper reinforcement at gutter margin some minor toning & soiling to fore-edges edgewear to spine minor scuffing and a couple removed label ghosting still VG- bright copy. First edition of this remarkably scarce plat map atlas for the Matanuska coal fields and township sites surveyed by Walker & McDaniel during their surveys following those on the Kenai Peninsula. By 1912 with the act establishing Alaska as a U.S. Territory and in 1914 the authorization to construct an Alaska Railroad there became an increased need and demand for coal. The Matanuska mines located about 45 miles northeast of Anchorage first began production in 1916 and would stay in continuous production through both World War I and World War II and well into the 20th Century re-opening again in the 21st Century. Not only do these maps show available government lease sites for coal mines but also available Township sites for homesteaders as required by the original Homestead Acts of 1866 and the 1916 Act for Alaska requiring surveys and resurveys to accurately determine boundaries of unsold railroad lands and identify their boundaries. Worldcat locates 2 copies Anchorage Museum & Univ. of Calgary; See: Catalogue of the Public Documents of the Sixty-Fourth Congress Index Vol. 13 1922 p. 74; C. Albert White A History of the Rectangular Survey System 1983 p. 189. Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Surveyor General’s Office, paperback
188743533London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1887. 8vo. xiv 2 248 pp. plus 32 pp. publ. ads. Frontisp. numerous text illusts. 2 colour maps 1 large folding. Illust. gray-blue cloth illust. of scene w/ kayak & canoe on front cover gilt lettering minor bumping to couple corners foot of spine minor rubbing old shelf number at foot of spine still a VG- copy. First edition of this fascinating account by the famed Victorian big game hunter archaeologist mountaineer and explorer. Seton Karr 1859-1938 describes in the book how his party were some of the first passengers to cross Canada by the new Canadian Pacific Railway then a steamship journey north where he made an attempt to scale the 18000 ft. summit of Mount St. Elias but his climbing party was forced back at 7200 feet. Of interest are also his observations of Alaskan Native Americans including a vocabulary for Chugachmiut Indians big game hunting the Aleutian Islands the Alaskan Fur Trade and more. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, hardcover
180324404Weimar, Verlag des L. Industrie Comptoirs, 1803. 67,5 x 50,5 cm
