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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
1934320413Aboard the Hussar Washington Alaska etc. 1934. 97 pp. profusely illustrated with dozens of snapshots newspaper clippings and a map of coastal Alaska. 1 vols. 4to. Full light brown morocco gilt upper board with yachting pennant of the Yacht Hussar onlays in red blue and gold within gilt fillet border with floral corner ornaments board edges and dentelles gilt a.e.g. by James MacDonald Co. A few scuffmarks at extremities else fine. 97 pp. profusely illustrated with dozens of snapshots newspaper clippings and a map of coastal Alaska. 1 vols. 4to. "Just a shooting trip in Alaska": Signed by E.F. Hutton. Manuscript diary in a secretarial hand or perhaps by Hutton's wife Marjorie Merriwether Post but signed by each of the member of the travelling party of a 1934 cruise of Edward F. Hutton's 320-foot yacht Hussar along Alaskan coastal waters to hunt bear largely around the islands near Juneau. The party included Hutton his wife and daughter movie producer Hal Roach and wife Marguerite Ernest H. Rice and wife Miriam 'war ace' Dave McCullough and others. Roach had lived in Valdez and Fairbanks for 2 years early in his career. <br/><br/>In all besides good eating and drinking deck games and other fun on board the group saw 76 black bear and 59 brown bear on the excursion even bringing a cub on board. The trip was cut short however when McCullough was seriously wounded by one of the guides in a shooting accident. unknown books
305831Chicago Monroe Book Company 1897. Thick 8vo. Profusely illustrated; 12 maps; 36 b/w illustrations. Original tan pictorial cloth stamped in brown black and yellow rubbed; spine faded. Very good. 555 pages 5 pages of publisher's advertisements at end. No dust jacket. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. [Chicago] Monroe Book Company [1897]. 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
19582017Juneau 1958. Good. 7620pp. plus one leaf of plates. Original printed wrappers stapled. Some soiling and wear contemporary mailing labels on front cover. Some minor soiling and wear final leaf with closed tear. Telephone directory for Juneau Alaska featuring both an alphabetical and yellow pages listing. Also includes a listing for the town of Douglas located just across the Gastineau Channel from Juneau. With ads for local businesses as well as a flashy full-page ad for PanAm flights to Seattle. unknown books
19592018Juneau 1959. About very good. 7624pp. plus one leaf of plates. Original printed wrappers stapled. Some soiling and wear later paper labels on spine rear cover with closed tear. Some minor soiling and wear. Telephone directory for Juneau Alaska featuring both an alphabetical and yellow pages listing. Also includes a listing for the town of Douglas located just across the Gastineau Channel from Juneau. With ads for local businesses as well as a flashy full-page ad for PanAm flights to Seattle. unknown books
198647062Anchorage Alaska: A. T. Publishing Inc 1986. 1st Printing. Red glossy paper covers stapled. General wear to covers. Bit of age-toning to paper. Very Good. 6 55 3 pp. Illustrated by Steve Phelps. 8vo. <br/><br/> A. T. Publishing, Inc unknown books
18981143655th Cong. 2d. Sess. Washington 1898. 5 1 pp.with EIGHT OTHER BILLS ON 5975 DURING THIS SESSION through its House Passage in March 1898. Quarto bound together in new plain wrappers. Institutional stamps some blank edge chipping Good. Extending the homestead laws to Alaska and creating easements for railroads and the mode of obtaining them. unknown books
54049Seattle WA: Alaska Pacific Salmon. 12mo pp. 30. Index. Centerfold color illustration. Paper wraps. Coverand edges little spotted and worn o/w VG. Alaska Pacific Salmon 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
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
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
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
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
19525333Anchorage: Alaska Crippled Children's Association 1952. Duodecimo-size stapled booklet 13.25 x 10.5 cm. ii 1-36 ii pages. Illustrated. Table of contents. Title from cover. Publisher from page i and date of publication from page ii. ~ Second printing. Now with changes in pagination; the "Consent to Print" is on the verso of the title page and the rear contains an order form and advertisements for additional items for sale. The artwork also drawn by "R. Seetomona" depicts the same image of a young woman sitting near a stove but the stylized lettering with title letters formed from images of fish or seal drying on a line is clearer and a bit more complex the young woman's haircut is longer and parted in the middle and the pot on the stove has five heat lines instead of six. All other issues of this work we have examined have had this artwork and have been printed in black on colored wrappers. And all other issues contain an order form in various configurations as well as lists of other items for sale. ~ Eighty attributed recipes gathered from Inupiaq students participating in a school project and electing "to share the profits with the Alaska Crippled Children's Association" page ii. In some cases latitude is required to explain the lack of detail in recipes contributed by children for example: "Owl. Take feathers off from owl. Clean owl and put in cooking pot. Have lots of water in pot. Add salt to taste." But in other cases details are generously given as in the caution provided for Willow Meats with seal oil: "Never eat green stuff on willows" and in another when preparing mouseleaves Pick'Nick: "Maybe the white men don't like them." Other delicacies: Mazue Root Eskimo potato Eskimo Ice cream with reindeer tallow Baked Seal Liver Walrus Stew Oogruk i.e. bearded seal Intestine Soup and Seal Flippers. A cooperative venture between the public Day School in Shishmaref in the far north-on Sarichef Island north of the Bering Strait-and the Alaska Crippled Children's Association founded by a women's organization in Anchorage to fund orthopedic care for some twelve hundred children in Alaska then in dire need. Isabelle B. Bingham b. 1900 and her husband Herbert C. Bingham 1893-1965 were Alaska Native Service schoolteachers who taught in Shishmaref between 1948 and 1956. In 2002 fearing that life would no longer be possible on Sarichef owing to the effects of global climate change the inhabitants of Shishmaref voted in referendum to relocate. But moving a village of five hundred has proved daunting and most residents as well as the school remain on the island as of this writing. In stapled black-decorated terra cotta wrappers; upper stained at back corners chip to lower right corner; rear panel with closed tear. Good. OCLC locates numerous copies some miscredited to the teacher who penned the introductory note; a presumed second edition 1960 and third 1972 are documented; Brown 11 undated; not in Cagle. Alaska Crippled Children's Association 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
1970150683Juneau: Alaska Power Administration 1970. xiv 90 p. 8.5x11 inches three holes punched at left not affecting text disbound. Rubberstamp on cover indicates rejection as a duplicate by Harvard's Tozzer Library. "Report of a study undertaken by the U.S. Dept. of the Interior Alaska Power Administration in 1970 at the request of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. The purpose of the study was to measure the potential for new agricultural development in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough south central Alaska by determining how the basic resources of land water climate people and money could best be utilized." -OCLC. Alaska Power Administration unknown books
1903WRCAM43317Juneau 1903. 4pp. Folio. Chipped and browned at edges. Two leaves separated at fold. Good. Daily Alaskan newspaper containing news of William Sulzer's speech in support of the territory an idyllic word-portrait of prospecting and numerous advertisements. Sulzer a Democratic Congressman from New York argues that Alaska deserves to be a full-fledged territory rather than just a district owing to its beauty and vast natural resources. Sulzer would later serve as New York's governor and hold the record as the only governor of that state to be impeached; his brother Charles was an Alaskan politician. Alaska would not become a territory until 1912. 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
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
193321317Alaska: No Publisher 1933. The movie can be loosely interpreted as the history of a journey up the Alaska coastline with some land interior footage beginning in the more southern tier and ending in the bleak far northern ice lands with 'stops' along the way; the movie has a semi-professional 'feel' - for several reasons some of which are that editing between segments is smooth and uninterrupted there are occasional professional 'titles' interspersed in the film and perhaps most importantly the quality of the imagery and the 'narrative' progression of scenes speaks to a professional behind the lens; subjects are diverse: at the beginning of the film we view the vast panoramas of the Alaskan lands mountains and rivers treated to a Robert Service quote - ".there's a land where the mountains are nameless and the rivers run God knows where." with men and a lively dog standing aboard a rapidly-moving raft poling down a river - the same men seemingly very closely for comfort observe bears fishing a stream during a salmon spawn and climbing nearby trees; the men demonstrate salmon bow-fishing and bring the catch home; the camera eventually moves on to the coastal trip being on board small steamers and sailing craft; we observe the "Wrangell Branch" of the A & P Packaging Co. with cannery scenes; visiting an outpost medical clinic seemingly obstetric; on to footage of the massive caribou movements across the tundra lands and natives hunting them; Inuit trade polar bear & other skins at a 'trading post' for goods; heavy-duty tractors used on icy surfaces to transport entire houses & populations; the stamina and strength of sled-dogs pulling up what looks like a 45-degree angle hillside at speed and in deep snow; ice-chopping for massive slabs used to build a home igloo; a costume parade of little children in a town which also shows mission children and schools young men and women in activities around sturdily-constructed multi-story brick buildings probably related to missionary work in the Territory; native carvings totem poles and other crafts; ski-planes at a small wintry airport runway - identified as "Pacific-Alaska Airways"; perhaps most exciting and interesting is the film's showing of an Inuit whale-hunt the bringing in of the great creature - hauled by hand the hunters seated on the ice in rows and strongly pulling at tremendous rope hawsers - the flensing of the blubber and an extremely lively victory party afterward obvious happiness and exhilaration of the people dances and chanting of women and men after the great capture - the fun includes being tossed in the air trampoline style done standing up the local people all dressed in the available skins and hides hunted there; various little stops are made along the way by the boat as it moves up the Alaskan fiord-scape - at one point we are treated to an exhibition of the Inuit kayak with a native spinning under the cool waters in his boat; the kayaks push offshore to greet the supply ship in this case a 4-masted schooner - we see this vessel at anchor and also magnificently under full-rigged sail - and retrieve goods in their longboat; eventually the coasting brings us to a dramatic close with a sunset silhouetting the schooner with only icebergs on the horizon; there are 'human' moments as well this is not simply an amateur travelogue - young women coquette a bit for the camera town worthies and ancient native people sit in dignity graveyard views which linger over readable headstones; people at work and play with vigor and without a 'staged' feeling -cute and very strong & skilled little kids in a wood-chopping contest and more; there is approximately 1600 feet of 16mm film run time about ½ hour; we speculate this is the original or master since there are several safety film types used here: Kodak safety positive Dupont Pathe Gevaert safety film and perhaps others - seemingly a copy of the master would have been using all one film type; these sections are professionally spliced together and viewable as we have watched this production on film a desk-type film editor as well as a through a projector; occasionally and unexplainably by checking the film types at the change there is a yellowish cast to the scene which does not obscure detail and which shifts abruptly back to clear black and white footage; on an old reel; no credits are given for the photography or direction production of the film; a possible clue is offered in an accompanying item a large sepia & black chalk portrait heightened in white on Canson & Montgolfier France watermark paper of what appears to be a reverend or Protestant cleric who bears a close resemblance to one of the characters seen several times in the film and who may have been a missionary in Alaska or perhaps ended up as the recipient of this master film; pastel portrait measures approx. 18" x 22" signed lower left Melita Hofmann C. 1907-1976 a commercial artist and illustrator originally from Toledo Ohio who worked as an art director for Grosset & Dunlap and in book illustration - the portrait with some closed edge tears repaired on verso otherwise in good shape and a good likeness accomplished with skill; the film in very good condition and viewable albeit with some vinegar syndrome - usual with films this vintage - and one of the most interesting ethnographic and historical artifacts and perhaps unique that we have had in stock filmed during a time of great change for the Inuit for Alaska and its' landscape; our thanks go to Richard Hart senior in film studies at Brooklyn College for his invaluable help in reviewing the film and revealing technical aspects of the process. First Edition. Not Bound. Very Good. No Publisher Paperback books
1931313016Brockton Mass: Harold C. Keith 1931. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. Text in two columns. 28 pp. 1 vols. 10-1/4 x 7 inches. Wood grain wrappers with pictorial onlay text gathered with cord. Cover onlay creased with a few old tape ghosts ink notation to front blank Goodspeed sales receipt 1957 bookplate of Stephen Ellsworth Clow and Ruth Hazen Clow. Green half morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. Text in two columns. 28 pp. 1 vols. 10-1/4 x 7 inches. ONLY COPY. Well written and nicely illustrated privately printed account of an Alaska hunting expedition. The party of four organized by H. Wendell Endicott comprised Endicott George Perry Latham Reed and Harold C. Keith whose diary for 14 August to 7 October 1930 is printed here. Latham Reed Sr. and Gen. R. E. Wood joined the party for the first stage of the journey to Big Delta. <br/>The hunting began on 24 August when a herd of caribou passed across the road in front of their car. Mr. Collins assistant district attorney at Fairbanks" stepped out and showed us how to shoot by dropping a big caribou on the first shot."<br/><br/>Twenty-one miles up the road from Big Delta the party left Mr. Collins' car and joined their crew of 8 and 24 horses and began their trip. They hunted bear and moose and caribou and sheep near the Gerstle River and Elting Creek and Jarvis encountered heavy snow saw the northern lights and completed a large loop back to Twenty-Six Mile Cabin during their stay.<br/><br/>Endicott 1880-1954 was author of Adventures with Rod and Harpoon in the Florida Keys. Harold C. Keith Amherst class of 1908 and Endicott were both shoe manufacturers in Massachusetts. Keith was president of the George E. Keith Co. in Brockton<br/><br/>The only other copy of this book recorded is a photocopy in the Candace Waugaman Collection at the Rasmuson Library University of Alaska Fairbanks<br/><br/>RARE. Not in OCLC not in Heller Biscotti Harold C. Keith 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
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
19341007At sea 1934. Very good. Five issues of The Morning Alaskan each 4pp. Also four leaves of manuscript four mimeo news sheets two passenger lists thirteen menus and related material. Light wear and chipping to edges of newsletters and news sheets heavier to news sheets. Light wear overall. A nice archive of ephemera collected during a voyage from Seattle to Alaska aboard the S.S. Alaska. Founded in 1894 the Alaska Steamship Company ran cargo and passenger service to Alaska from Seattle through the mid-1950s at which point it became a freight-only company until its demise in 1971. The materials here likely saved from a voyage in June 1934 provide a glimpse into Alaskan cruise tourism during the height of the Great Depression. There are four daily mimeo "news sheets" titled "Sense and Nonsense" which are filled with one-liner inside jokes about the goings-on about the ship: "Mr Sullivan his own is still holding against all comers and how!!" and "Who was the boyfriend in Ketchikan Rose The flowers at least were beautiful." Additionally thirteen menus for breakfast lunch and dinner meals. The shipboard newspaper The Morning Alaskan features ads and a vignette of the ship on the first page followed by a mixture of news and tidbits from locales across the globe. One issue includes news about the dock strike in San Francisco the reappearance of a missing Japanese Vice Consul in Shanghai and sports news. It was a fairly sophisticated production presumably with the first page pre-printed and then the interior mimeographed aboard ship. The manuscript leaves contain brief notes about the voyage. Upon leaving Seattle on June 13 the author made the following notes providing an insight into the other passengers on the ship: "Six mo. truce made. First boat in 6 mo. why Eng. boats no help to Alaskans. Heavy cargo interesting loading - autos personal Bride soldiers lecturer natives Alaskans going home prospectors old men going back missionaries teachers natives contractors for school projects "nails counted." Orchestra steward. News Daily - ship personals sight seeing paper. Food number of meals & type." He notes stops at Juneau and Hawkes Inlet: "Juneau again. Hawkes Inlet at 9:30 p.m. light. Beautiful. Private homes at most canneries Gov. visiting Hawkes Inlet came on board." Though brief his notes do provide interesting details about the voyage. Notably this archive also highlights possible Chinese migration to Alaska perhaps for the cannery industry based on the passenger lists. The northbound passenger list from Seattle to Skagway on June 14 lists eighty roundtrip passengers as well as 107 passengers with destinations at various ports along the way such as Ketchikan Wrangell Petersburg Juneau and Skagway. It also lists among the passengers sixty "Orientals" and forty-six passengers traveling "Oriental Steerage." At Hawk Inlet thirty-one "Orientals" disembarked -- no white passengers -- twenty-nine of them traveling steerage. An interesting group of ephemera made even more interesting by the addition of the Asian-American component in the passenger lists. unknown books
