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190840737Washington D.C.: Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 1908. Large folding nautical chart printed on heavy paper stock. Colored. A rare original coastal survey of the Gulf coasts of Florida Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana including the Keys Fort Myers Sarasota Tampa Panama City Destin Pensacola Gulf Shores Mobile Biloxi Gulfport New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta.<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 coasts Florida Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana along the Gulf of Mexico and an important historical view of the developing states. Published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey unknown
1965162963Forest Hills NY: Photo-Graphics 1965. Vintage satin finish portrait photograph of influential country blues musician Mississippi John Hurt 1965. Stamp of photographer Bernard Gotfryd on the verso along with annotations in manuscript pencil relating to same.<br /> <br /> Although Hurt's initial recordings with Okeh Records in the 1920s were commercial failures driving Hurt back into sharecropping he experienced a brief period of renewed interest in the early 1960s after his rediscovery by musicologist Dick Spottswood. He would travel and perform extensively recording for the Library of Congress in 1964 and recording four albums in as many years but would pass away in 1966 of a heart attack. Material recorded by Hurt has been covered by numerous artists including Bob Dylan Gillian Welch Beck Dave Van Ronk Taj Mahal Jerry Garcia and many others. <br /> <br /> Polish-American photographer Bernard Gotfryd worked as a staff photojournalist for "Newsweek" operating out of New York for over three decades. His photographs serve as a document of American popular culture politics and art in the 1960s and 1970s and his work is today held in the Library of Congress Brooklyn Public Library and the New York Historical Society. <br /> <br /> From the archive of the PIX Agency an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. <br /> <br /> 6.5 x 9.5 inches archivally matted in a 11 x 14 inch 8-ply white mat. About Near Fine with a small crease at the top left corner. Photo-Graphics unknown
3 vols. (328, 292, 310 p.) Hardcover Very good condition, in later maroon cloth Howes A - 352
1801WRCAM35410Washington 1801. 16pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards spine gilt. Very light foxing. Near fine. A very early work on Mississippi territorial law printed in Washington in 1801 and containing ten laws that were eventually published "by order of the House of Representatives" after some local controversy over their content. The laws from the second half of 1799 range in subject matter from distempered cattle to divorce. These were added to the twenty-five laws already passed by the territorial legislature. The House of Representatives published this volume to assist in the "enquiry into the official conduct of Winthrop Sargent governor of the Mississippi territory" p.1. Thomas Jefferson removed Sargent from office later that year. SABIN 49519. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 1515. LC MISSISSIPPI. A SESQUICENTENNIAL OF STATEHOOD 1967 60. GOODSPEED 141:351 161:683. hardcover books
1698PHO-1936Utrecht, Antoine Schouten, 1698. In-12, (35) ff. de titre, épitre, préface et table, 389 pp., veau fauve granité, armes dorées au centre des plats, dos à nerfs orné, pièce de titre maroquin rouge, tranches mouchetées (Reliure de l'époque) ; frottements, coiffes absentes avec petits manques aux caissons, coins élimés, ors du 1er plat ternis, petit manque de papier sans atteinte au texte à un feuillet (pp. 159/160). Exemplaire relié SANS les 3 figures h.-t. et la carte. Exemplaire aux armes d’Usson de Bonac
184032117New Orleans: E. Johns & Co. Stationers' Hall verso of title page: Printed by T.K. and P.G. Collins Philadelphia 1840. xii 885 pp with the half title. A very clean text with minor exceptions. Bound in worn contemporary sheep hinges starting spine chipped institutional bookplate on front pastedown institutional rubberstamp on title page. Else Very Good.<br /> <br /> The origins of the State of Mississippi are recounted in the printing of the Cession from Georgia the Act admitting Mississippi into the Union and the Act establishing its northern boundary. The complete set of laws organized by subject and the constitutions of the United States and the State of Mississippi with a detailed Slave Code and other subjects are printed. <br /> Jumonville 1156 noting that it is "not a New Orleans imprint". Sabin 33282. OCLC records mostly Kirtas Technologies reprints. E. Johns & Co. Stationers' Hall [verso of title page: Printed by T.K. and P.G. Collins, Philadelphia] unknown
184032117New Orleans: E. Johns & Co. Stationers' Hall verso of title page: Printed by T.K. and P.G. Collins Philadelphia 1840. xii 885 pp with the half title. A very clean text with minor exceptions. Bound in worn contemporary sheep hinges starting spine chipped institutional bookplate on front pastedown institutional rubberstamp on title page. Else Very Good.<br/><br/> The origins of the State of Mississippi are recounted in the printing of the Cession from Georgia the Act admitting Mississippi into the Union and the Act establishing its northern boundary. The complete set of laws organized by subject and the constitutions of the United States and the State of Mississippi with a detailed Slave Code and other subjects are printed. <br/>Jumonville 1156 noting that it is "not a New Orleans imprint". Sabin 33282. OCLC records mostly Kirtas Technologies reprints. E. Johns & Co. Stationers' Hall [verso of title page: Printed by T.K. and P.G. Collins, Philadelphia] unknown books
1782PHO-1554Moutard, Paris, 1782. 2 vol. in-8 de 432 pp. et 272 pp. illustré de 10 planches dépliantes, relié plein basane époque, dos lisse avec titre et tomaison (reliures différentes), frottements, coins et coiffes usés, bord des planches usé.
189840873N.P.: Sentinel and Gazette Steam Press 1851. 1898. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" in light peach wrappers though missing the front wrapper. 15 pp. Illustrations. Map. Although it eventually became a transcontinental railroad the railroad that became the Milwaukee Road began as the Milwaukee and Waukesha Railroad whose goal was to link the developing Lake Michigan port city of Milwaukee Wisconsin with the Mississippi River. The company incorporated in 1847 but changed its name to the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad in 1850 before construction began. A report to the Board of Directors explaining that the railroad is not completed to Waukesha as was expected and offering reasons for the delay in its completion. "Considering our small beginning only a little over one year ago - that we have relied solely on the resources of the people of Wisconsin for the means of prosecuting this enterprise - without seeking foreign aid - with only the small contributions of each of our thousand Stockholders and the credits based on the securities of our city and citizens we have in that time completed the grade of our Road for twenty and a half miles laid the Track and brought into actual use the half of that distance - and will have the whole completed and in successful operation by the middle of February next." Information on estimated and actual costs of the First Division extending the road from Milwaukee to Waukesha. It appears that actual costs far exceeded estimates "but that has been the result of peculiar circumstances under which the work has been performed and by the adoption of a rail of greater weight than that estimated." It was determined that the contractors to whom jobs had been given at lower costs were inexperienced and inefficient resulting in their work having to be re-done. Furthermore the delay was caused by some stockholders not promptly paying the small installment of only 5% every three months thus leaving a deficit. Also a bank in a marsh sunk and had to be built back up. Th cost of constructing the first twenty and 1/2 miles is only $9495 per mile. Report ends with the reassurance that the Road will be complete by February and if weather permits perhaps even earlier. 8 1/4" x 21 1/2" map of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail-Road. Map is neatly torn in half at one fold and has 1 1/2 - 2" closed tears to tops of a couple folds. Front wrapper missing along with 3" split to toe of spine and with light wear to the extremities. Sentinel and Gazette Steam Press, 1851]. unknown
187140107Jackson Miss.: Kimball Raymond & Co. State Printers 1871. Original printed pale green wrappers lightly spotted. Stitched. 67 1 blank pp. Clean text. Very Good plus. Contemporary ownership inscription in pencil "W.H. Bullard." <br /> <br /> Alcorn 1816-1894 born in Illinois Territory was Governor of Mississippi from March 1870 through November 1871. He was active in Mississippi politics from about 1845. During the Civil War he served as a Confederate. After the War as a "Scalawag" he supported the 14th Amendment and votes for freedmen. Nevertheless he clashed with his new Republican friends by opposing federal intervention against the Klan and federal laws abolishing segregation in public facilities. <br /> Alcorn addresses "what remains to be done of the work of reconstruction" thus focusing on "the restoration of our social and material ruin." With tables and data he demonstrates the disastrous economic effects of the War. But his data also give "encouragement to the practicability of educating the great body of our labor to the moral level of freedom." Marriage licenses are up; extreme "sexual license" is down. Preachers teachers schools property ownership and trades for the freedmen are all on the increase.<br /> Denouncing vigilantism he says that "A class of lawless violence the most cruel and cowardly proceeds in a few quarters in the person of the masked assassin; and so far has succeeded in evading punishment if not detection."<br /> OCLC 28758840 3- Columbia Yale LSU as of June 2024. Not at online AAS. Kimball, Raymond & Co., State Printers unknown
185737204Claiborne County MS 1857. 4to. 4 pp entirely in ink manuscript. Signed with a flourish by the Clerk Dan McDougall and the Deputy Sheriff G.R. Girault.<br /> <br /> Daniel McDougall 1813-1863 born in Schenectady migrated to Port Gibson Claiborne County. He was appointed Clerk of the Claiborne County Circuit Court in 1853 and served as such until his death. Colonel George Rogers Girault c.1815-1857 also of Port Gibson was a farmer owning 11 slaves as of 1850 and was also a County Deputy Sheriff. He died two months after this writ was issued. <br /> Stanhope Posey c.1813-1859 full name John Stanhope Posey a Wilkinson County lawyer owned 38 slaves as of the 1850 census. He was elected District Attorney of the Third District of Mississippi in 1839 and a Judge of the First Judicial District Circuit Court in 1845. We don't know who "Everett a Slave" was or what happened to him. We can guess that a jury of slaveholders was not sympathetic to him. unknown
186432582Columbia: Evans and Cogswell 1864. Stiff wraps. Good. 12mo. 278 pages. Stiff paper boards with title on the front cover. Black cloth spine. Covers are worn and discolored. It appears the covers are facsimiles. Light to moderate foxing to the contents. Pencil inscription on the right front flyleaf reads "Col. Samuel W Milton from the publishers." <br /> <br /> The author wrote this book during his recovery from wounds in battle. He dedicates this work to Jefferson Davis. Jefferson Davis thanks the author and calls him "a master of the art of war" on page 12. Confederate imprint.<br /> <br /> Parrish & Willingham 4953; Confederate Hundred 60; Sabin 44651. The previous owner served as an Assistant Adjutant General under Samuel Cooper from 1863 to the end of the war. From Find A grave dot com taken from the Biography of Eminent Men of the Carolinas: <br /> <br /> Samuel Wickiff how it is spelled in the obit Melton was born in Yorkville S. C. February 7 183 hard to read. Receiving his early education in Yorkville he graduated from the South Carolina college in the class of 1852. He edited the Chester Standard published in Chester in 1852 and 1854. Then he returned to Yorkville and established the Yorkville Examiner on January 1 1855 running it until 1858 when he sold out to Lewis M. Grist. In the meantime in 1857 he was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law with his brother C. D. Melton at Chester continuing until the war broke out. He enlisted in the Confederate army in 1861 on the staff of Gen. M L. Bonham as aid-de-camp accompanying him to Virginia remaining with him until after the first battle of Bull Run. Subsequently he went on the staff of Maj. Gen. Gustavius W. Smith commanding the Second corps he having the rank of major. He remained with Gen. Smith until February 1863 and was then assigned to duty in the office of the adjutant and inspector general of the Confederate army at Richmond where he remained until the close of the war. He was in the first battle of Bull Run in the Peninsular campaign in the battles around Richmond at Seven Pines the campaign in 1863 in North Carolina and temporarily on the staff of Gen. Beauregard at the battle of Drury's Bluff. The chief duties however from early in 1862 to the close of the war were in the adjutant general's office in Richmond. Evans and Cogswell unknown
185737204Claiborne County MS 1857. 4to. 4 pp entirely in ink manuscript. Signed with a flourish by the Clerk Dan McDougall and the Deputy Sheriff G.R. Girault.<br/><br/> Daniel McDougall 1813-1863 born in Schenectady migrated to Port Gibson Claiborne County. He was appointed Clerk of the Claiborne County Circuit Court in 1853 and served as such until his death. Colonel George Rogers Girault c.1815-1857 also of Port Gibson was a farmer owning 11 slaves as of 1850 and was also a County Deputy Sheriff. He died two months after this writ was issued. <br/> Stanhope Posey c.1813-1859 full name John Stanhope Posey a Wilkinson County lawyer owned 38 slaves as of the 1850 census. He was elected District Attorney of the Third District of Mississippi in 1839 and a Judge of the First Judicial District Circuit Court in 1845. We don't know who "Everett a Slave" was or what happened to him. We can guess that a jury of slaveholders was not sympathetic to him. unknown books
185964413Chicago IL: Press and Tribune Print 1859. First edition. 8vo. 203 51 pp. Folding plate tables. "On the question of whether the railroad bridge from Rock Island Illinois to Davenport Iowa was a hazard to the navigation of the Mississippi River" OCLC. "James Ward a St. Louis steamboat owner filed a bill praying that the bridge be declared a nuisance and ordered removed; in 1866 Congress finally passed an act requiring that the bridge be replaced by another half the cost to be paid by the United States" "The Mississippi River: St. Louis' Friend or Foe" by James Lemly Cambridge U. Press online. Drop-title: "District Court United States. Southern District of Iowa. James Ward vs. Mississippi & Missouri Railroad Company." Chicago Ante-Fire Imprints 413: "Not located title from Heartman Cat. No. 187 June 1926 No. 300." OCLC locates eight copies New York Public Yale Chicago History Museum Harvard-Baker Missouri-St. Louis Cincinnati/Hamilton County Public Library of Congress Newberry. Very good. Original printed olive wrappers some soiling lacking rear wrapper rebacked with archival paper. 10747. <br/><br/> Press and Tribune Print unknown books
19071873Southeastern Missouri 1907. About very good. Seventy-six silver gelatin photographs on twenty grey card leaves each image approximately 3.75 x 2.25 inches. Square grey cloth album string-tied. Light wear and soiling to covers. Contemporary ink inscription on front pastedown. Light foxing and soiling to leaves heaviest on first three leaves. Leaves lightly warped. Two images excised. A charming vernacular photograph album depicting life along the Mississippi River in the vicinity of the declining town of Gayoso Missouri. The caption on the front pastedown reads "These pictures made in the year of 1907 by Tom Pierce & Ed Cappoc at Goyaso Mo." Gayoso located on the banks of the Mississippi in the southeasternmost tip of the state was settled in 1799 and incorporated in 1851 as the county seat of Pemiscot County. By 1898 the movement of the river threatened to swamp the town and the county seat was moved to several miles south to Caruthersville. Though the river changed course and briefly spared Gayoso by 1900 its post office closed and today any remnants are buried deep in the silt of the Gayoso Bend Conservation Area. The present images show the town disappearing as the river eats away at large swathes of its surrounding land.<br/><br/>Several of the images depict flooding and high water -- trees standing in water men wading to cut lumber riverbank erosion and one image seems to show a collapsed pier. Other views show boats traveling up and down the Mississippi some ferrying lumber several large paddlewheelers and men poling lumber on rafts. One image shows a horse and buggy on what we presume to be the main street of Gayoso with a storefront visible behind the rig. Many of the images show the hardy folk who are still living in the remains of the dying town -- a woman and child in front of a clapboard house with a rotting porch and crumbling roof; a group of boys and three dogs all laughing in front of a building that may be the schoolhouse; one man apparently giving a haircut to his friend seated in front of some steps high water visible amongst the trees in the background; and several images which show men and boys logging and lumbering some of them standing in waist-high water while they fell doomed stands of trees. The album captures a slice of life on the Mississippi River at the turn of the century with all its attendant hardships commercial opportunities and dangers. unknown books
PHO-724sl.,sd.(Paris , Estienne Michalet , 1681) 1 volume petit in-4(250x210), reliure pleine basane marron, dos à nerfs orné avec titre, étui bordé(reliure pastiche). Fac-similé de l'édition de 1681, 45 planches cartonnées montée sur onglets, du fameux voyage du père Marquette en Amérique septentrionale avec la carte du Mississippi et la première représentation du lac Michigan , reproduction fidèle du rarissime ouvrage sur le Canada par procédé photographique. Très bel exemplaire , très bien relié et sous emboîtage, ca
181426463Mississippi Territory 1814. Broadside injunction oblong 11.5" x 7.25". Printed with names dates and details in manuscript. The signature 'Theodore Stark' appears in the left margin. Theodore Stark was a notary in the Mississippi Territory. Tanned light wear Very Good.<br /> <br /> This is a rare legal writ from the Superior Court in the early Mississippi Territory. The writ prohibits Morgan from proceeding with a suit to recover possession of a house and lot from Terrell and Isler. Judge Walter Leake from whose court the writ issued became Mississippi's U.S. Senator from 1817-20 and Governor from 1822-1825. The first settler of Mt. Salus he owned at least two dozen slaves according to census reports. <br /> Brigadier General Morgan whom the court enjoined from prosecuting the suit would command the 'Brigade of Louisiana and Mississippi Drafted Militia' during the Battle of New Orleans. His co-defendant Edward Turner a lawyer was Aide-de-Camp and private secretary to Governor Claiborne of the Mississippi Territory. <br /> Peter Isler who was in possession of the house and lot was a printer to the Mississippi Territory and later to the State. He established the Mississippi Republican newspaper in 1810. Richard Terrell of Adams County is listed in the Mississippi and Territory Census of 1816 as owning twelve slaves. unknown
181426463Mississippi Territory 1814. Broadside injunction oblong 11.5" x 7.25". Printed with names dates and details in manuscript. The signature 'Theodore Stark' appears in the left margin. Theodore Stark was a notary in the Mississippi Territory. Tanned light wear Very Good.<br/><br/> This is a rare legal writ from the Superior Court in the early Mississippi Territory. The writ prohibits Morgan from proceeding with a suit to recover possession of a house and lot from Terrell and Isler. Judge Walter Leake from whose court the writ issued became Mississippi's U.S. Senator from 1817-20 and Governor from 1822-1825. The first settler of Mt. Salus he owned at least two dozen slaves according to census reports. <br/> Brigadier General Morgan whom the court enjoined from prosecuting the suit would command the 'Brigade of Louisiana and Mississippi Drafted Militia' during the Battle of New Orleans. His co-defendant Edward Turner a lawyer was Aide-de-Camp and private secretary to Governor Claiborne of the Mississippi Territory. <br/> Peter Isler who was in possession of the house and lot was a printer to the Mississippi Territory and later to the State. He established the Mississippi Republican newspaper in 1810. Richard Terrell of Adams County is listed in the Mississippi and Territory Census of 1816 as owning twelve slaves. unknown books
183231197Franklin County MS 1832. Folio 7.75" x 12.25". 4 pp folded entirely in manuscript. The writing on either side of the first leaf is visible from the other side but everything is legible. Oneal's Complaint appears on the first two pages and on five lines of page three where it is signed by his lawyer. <br /> A nine-line summary of the case in different handwriting is also on page 3. <br /> Page 4 contains defendant's scribbled answer by his attorney R.W. Webber; an accounting of the costs incurred in the case; a notation of defendant's verdict; attorneys' signatures; and docketing information. Age toned old folds several small holes along top fold loss of a few words. Signatures of attorneys appear on final page on panel with defendant's answer. Good.<br /> <br /> John Cade 1788-1839 lived in Franklin County. The parties were probably local farmers. Richard W. Webber c.1798-1843 Cade's lawyer was born in Virginia and settled in Franklin County. A Whig and State representative he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1830. He was for a time the editor of the Jackson Independent Journal. JOURNAL OF MISSISSIPPI HISTORY Vol. 7 Page 148; and Volume 21-22 Page 34. unknown
215 p. Hardcover Ex-library, Very good condition
195212938N.p. likely Braxton MS 1952. 24pp. Profusely illustrated. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers printed in green brown and red. Minor edge wear and foxing to wrappers. Light toning to text. Very good condition. A scarce and wonderfully-informative history of the first forty years of the Piney Woods Country Life School Laurence C. Jones's school for African American youth in Braxton Mississippi. The work is amply illustrated with photographs documenting the life and people of the school since its inception in 1910 to the moment of the pamphlet's publication. There are pages devoted to celebrating notable graduates of the school the "blind and the lame orphans and half-orphans" who've attended "internationally known visitors" "present-day buildings" five pages displaying the "industry" of the school the dairy and farm the "human and material progress" of the school and more. OCLC reports just ten total copies of this vital midcentury history of a notable southern school devoted to African-American youth. unknown
18393269Natchez Ms. 1839. Very good. Broadside 13 x 15.75 inches. Printed in four columns; central vertical fold. Light wear and toning. In the present broadside the trustees of Jefferson College announce that they are once again prepared to admit students in 1839 following a reorganization and give their mission statement courses of study faculty list tuition fees and more. The school located in Washington Mississippi just north of Natchez opened in 1811 and was the first college in the Mississippi Territory. In the text of this broadside one can clearly see sentiments and dispositions that would bring the Civil War to fruition. The first two columns are chiefly dedicated to a description fo the new faculty and their skills but also new measures put in place during the reorganization of the school. In place of gymnastics a daily military drill was substituted and a military police was to be established "for the preservation of good order and regularity."<br /> <br /> The remainder of the broadside descends into sectional paranoia arguing that students must be kept close to home in order for them to maintain allegiance to Mississippi and the South: "At this very moment a formidable content has commenced between the North and the South from the possible results of which the eye of the patriot instantly revolts. It surely becomes us to preserve our children from any influence that might mislead their judgment or weaken their patriotism. To do this effectually we must keep them at home!. Send your sons to other States where they are relased from social bonds you not only cut off these powerful incentives to emulation but you do more and worse you weaken or detach the growing virtues of the heart. and you estrange them from their native land."<br /> <br /> OCLC locates only a small handful of examples. unknown
17684A-8PARIS, GANEAU (DE L'IMPRIMERIE D' HOURY), 1768. IN-8° (185x115mm), XX - 372 - 2ff., 1 CARTE DÉPLIANTE, FAUX TITRE ET TITRE TACHÉS, PIQÛRES, TRÈS CLAIRE MOUILL. MARG. AU MILIEU DE L'EXEMPLAIRE. BROCHÉ, DOS SALI. UNIQUE ÉDITION DE CET OUVRAGE BASÉ SUR CELUI DU BOTANISTE PEHR KALM POUR L'HISTOIRE NATURELLE ET SUR LE VOYAGE DE GOTTLIEB MITTELBERGER POUR LA PARTIE CONSACRÉES AU QUAKERS. ILLUSTRÉ D'UNE CARTE DÉPLIANTE. UNIQUE FRENCH EDITION OF THIS DESCRIPTION OF PENNSYLVANIA BASED ON THE WORKS OF KALM AND MITTELBERGER. ILLUSTRATED WITH 1 FOLDING MAD. SEWED (FIRST LVS STAINED, FOXING).
1853218388Japan. Circa1853. Two black and white woodblock kawarabans 18 x 24cm some light staining at margins but overall very good. A black-and-white kawaraban popular broadsheet woodblock print showing Commodore Matthew Perry's flagship the Mississippi at the time of his visit to Japan in 1853. The text accompanying the carefully depicted ship gives the dimensions of the vessel and other details including the number of crew. It then goes on to give an interesting summary of world geography explaining to readers that the world has four great oceans and six continents and that Japan is situated in the east of Asia. They are also told that America lies 5000 ri about 10500 miles to the east of Japan and that its capital is Washington. On the second sheet with an illustration of a steam ship it gives the sizes of the boat and its crew. It also refers to the speed and the distance a steam ship is able to cover and amazes with the vast distance the ship can travel. <br> <br>The kawaraban is a vivid illustration of the astonishment with which Japanese people responded to the coming of Perry and his "Black Ships" and of the curiosity about the outside world which this event generated. The Mississippi was particularly impressive because it was a steam-powered paddle ship. In this image we see not only the ship and its rigging and paddle-wheel but also the small figures of crew members including one starting to climb the mast and another apparently sounding the depth of the water. . unknown
1882JC111661882. Hardcover. Very Good. Mottled black cloth backed in ornately gilt-ruled black calf; oblong 184 x 132 mm; contains 25 pencil drawings most of them titled and dated. It includes Fort Snelling; Minnehaha Falls; Oak Drive in White Bear Lake; a boat on White Bear Lake; St. Anthony's Falls in Minneapolis; Lake Minnetonka; Wabasha St. Bridge; an Old Brewery in St. Paul; Shanty-ville; Shelter Island New York; Goat Island; plus 3 portraits a bonfire scene and other views of the upper Mississippi River Niagara Falls and St. Paul Minnesota. Boards detached and spine perished; a few leaves loose and laid-in. Skilled work most of it on one side of the leaf therefore removable and suitable for display. <br/><br/>Harley DeWitt Nichols 1859-1939 was born in Barton Wisconsin. He began his education in art as early as 11 years of age. His first job putting his talent and training to use came in the form of an apprenticeship with the Milwaukee firm Marr & Richards where he stayed for 3 years drawing and engraving on wood. The subsequent years included many moves from Milwaukee to Chicago and later to New York where he studied at ASL and was encouraged by Professor Packard to pursue a career as an illustrator at a European school. Nichols left for Munich in October 1885 to attend the Royal Academy where he studied under Heckel became a member of the American Club and socialized with Carl von Marr the clubs president. He went to London for a little while and worked as an illustrator. By 1893 hed returned to New York working mostly in advertising and illustrating for Harpers Weekly and Century magazines. He helped organize the New York Water Color Club. Nichols didnt curb his parapatetic lifestyle until he moved to Laguna Beach California in 1894. The art community in Los Angeles was in its infancy but he got a teaching job at the Echo Mountain summer school and he was inspired by the scenery of Yosemite Monterey San Juan Capistrano and other locations in southern California. He stayed in Laguna Beach until his death in 1939. hardcover
