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19095288Various locations mostly in Cuba and Florida: March 5 to April 1 1909. About very good. 21 leaves illustrated with 235 photographs all with typed captions. Oblong folio. Contemporary full dark brown cloth brad bound. Moderate staining and coiling to covers some edge wear. Bottom corners of all leaves chipped not costing content. Occasional minor wear to photos or captions. A well-organized and meticulously-captioned vernacular photograph album with significant content on Florida and Cuba in the first decade of the 20th century. The album is organized chronologically and features a family from Ohio traveling from home by train to Florida and thence to Cuba then returning home in the spring of 1909. The first seven and the last twenty-five photographs emanate from Ohio where the journey started Tennessee and Georgia but otherwise the album features Florida and Cuba in over 200 pictures. The scenes in Florida range from Jacksonville to Key West and other points in-between featuring the state in almost 120 photos both before and after the traveling party went to Cuba. The images capture portraits of the travelers numerous homes hotels businesses and other buildings including an ostrich farm in Jacksonville numerous scenes in Ocala including one image featuring "Mary and her old colored Mammy" various churches and other scenes in Tampa residences in Key West beach scenes at Long Key various hotels and agricultural fields in Miami and various buildings in Palm Beach Ormand and St. Augustine concluding with a front view of the "Old Slave Market" in the latter city.<br /> <br /> Most notably the album includes eighty-six photographs of Cuba the nexus point for the present trip where the party arrived on March 20. The Cuba scenes mostly feature Havana with several views of "Beautiful Residences" and other buildings plus some street views and other scenes in the city. Other interesting Havana scenes picture the railroad station "The Bone Yard -- Old destroyed Catacombs" scenes in the Malecon and more. Some of the street scenes in Havana picture local residents one of "Children on the street corner" and another showing "Children scrambling for pennies" in the middle of the street. The album also contains views of the wreck of the Maine Morro Castle the interior of Fort Cabanas and more. The travelers managed to wander outside Havana for a day when they ventured to the countryside and the town of Guines on March 23. While there the compiler took photographs of countryside outside Guines a railroad car full of sugar cane thatched houses a group photograph of the students at a "Spanish School in Guines" a "Child crying in the street" a group of locals outside a cafe captioned "Strangers in a strange land.Where we tried to get something to eat" other street scenes in the town and the local jail. The last photograph of Cuba here features a "Large Sugar Mill in Providencia." The group then returned through Florida Georgia and Tennessee where they spent a day at Lookout Mountain and Orchard Knob before their final stop in Dayton Ohio. A wonderful early-20th century travel album with significant views in Florida and Cuba. March 5 to April 1 unknown
H5947Paperback. Very Good. Probably the Whitworth family but possibly the Glasglows and Dunkles -- Apollo PA appears to be the place of residence. Documents family get-togethers friends outings to Vandergrift or the Kiskiminetas River a trip to Atlantic City and the inevitable flat tire on the way there a few pictures of the Grand Canyon and a friend in Sydney Australia some of Niagara Falls and of a horse racing track and then the move in 1927 to Orlando Florida and pictures of other Florida points of interest including Hollywood and Miami. 14 x 9 inches recent sympathetic black paper covers with cloth spine contents inside generally very good well over 100 pictures. paperback
1956705210PN. New. 1956. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
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191740726Washington D.C.: Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 1917. Nautical chart printed on heavy paper stock. Uncolored with minor wear. A rare original coastal survey of the Legare Anchorage in Florida's Biscayne Bay with Elliot Key and Sands Key.<br/> <br/> Established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian scientific agency. This agency has followed its mission to survey the U.S. coastline create nautical charts of the coast and help increase maritime safety since its founding and has often played fascinating roles in significant chapters of U.S. history. It served in all theaters of the Civil War in the service of the Union Army and Navy pioneered acoustic exploration in the wake of the sinking of the Titanic and during WWI it worked to detect enemy submarines. In addition this agency worked to survey and produce detailed maps and renderings of the U.S. coast. These nautical survey maps commonly referred to as "T-sheets" provide fascinating insights into the history of the United States coastline which has and will continue to shift. These maps are the most important data source for understanding the physical and ecological characteristics of the U.S. shoreline. The present map is a highly detailed and accurate sea chart of the Biscayne Bay region and an important historical view of a developing Florida. Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey unknown
191740688Washington D.C.: Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 1917. Nautical chart printed on heavy paper stock. Colored. A rare coastal survey of the coast from Tampa to Venice including Sarasota Bradenton Longboat Key and Siesta Key.<br/> <br/> Established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian scientific agency. This agency has followed its mission to survey the U.S. coastline create nautical charts of the coast and help increase maritime safety since its founding and has often played fascinating roles in significant chapters of U.S. history. It served in all theaters of the Civil War in the service of the Union Army and Navy pioneered acoustic exploration in the wake of the sinking of the Titanic and during WWI it worked to detect enemy submarines. In addition this agency worked to survey and produce detailed maps and renderings of the U.S. coast. These nautical survey maps commonly referred to as "T-sheets" provide fascinating insights into the history of the United States coastline which has and will continue to shift. These maps are the most important data source for understanding the physical and ecological characteristics of the U.S. shoreline. The present map is a highly detailed and accurate sea chart of the coast south of Tampa and an important historical view of a developing Florida. Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey unknown
1895ZB333580Washington: 1895. 4 pp issued as 53d Congress 3d Session HED 160; one margin chipped now disbound in self wrappers complete but reading copy only. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Washington: unknown
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19351268631935. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press 1935. <br /> <br /> 4to 47 pp. Quarter black fabric orange paper boards illustration of fire helmet to upper board paper label lettered in black to backstrip. Very good copy backstrip slightly rubbed and sunned contents clean.<br /> <br /> § One of 450 copies. Printed in black and orange illustrated with portraits and facsimile letters. An account by a friend of San Francisco's most famous volunteer firewoman the mascot of the Knickerbocker Company No. 5. A true gambling smoking San Francisco eccentric of the early years a bequest she left to the city was used to build Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill. unknown
