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1844List3335Kalamazoo Michigan 1844. Single three-page letter measuring 7 ½ x 9 ¾ inches. Folded with very small tears at folds; larger tear at seal intersecting with text. Overall excellent to Near Fine. An 1844 letter from a woman who had recently moved to Kalamazoo to a friend in Urbana Ohio. The writer describes Kalamazoo:<br /> <br /> “It is nearly four months since we bade our sad adieu to Staten Island and our lovely abode & here have we been in the wilds of Michigan some two or three months we remained at Detroit two or three weeks with our youngest brother — the first of June our elder brother David removed to Kalamazoo and it is really a beautiful wonderful place; and of far greater magnitude than I had formed any conception and only ten years ago nothing but the indian war whoop was heard — now it really to a stranger presents almost as bustling an appearance as Detroit; much taste has been evinced by the founders of this magical village of the west; – they have allowed to remain unharmed the splendid forest trees and the whole town presents the aspect of a grove — it is becoming the great thoroughfare to St Josephs & Chicago & St Louis —.â€<br /> <br /> The first white settler within what is now the city of Kalamazoo Titus Bronson arrived in 1829; within ten years Kalamazoo County had several thousand residents. <br /> <br /> The writer also describes her plans for traveling to New Orleans hoping to avoid the seasickness-inducing “‘big lake’ travellingâ€. This would have been difficult as plank roads were not laid in the area until the following year and railroads would not reach Kalamazoo until 1846.<br /> <br /> Of interest to historians of white American settlement of Michigan. unknown
189919397Kalamazoo MI: The Ladies of the First Presbyterian Church Kalamazoo Mich. 1899. First edition. softcover . Poor. Thin smallish octavo a bit smaller than standard size. Green checkerboard cloth spine over thick covers.Looks to be a home repair rather than original Heavily worn on edges and corners of covers. Covers printed on the inside. Still stringbound but very loose. Separation in pages between p. 72 and 73. Some recipes have notes or changes in pencil. Edges and corners of pages show wear as well. A scarce late 19th c. Michigan charity cookbook in worn condition but complete and with original covers. includes the names of the women who shared recipes under their individual contributions. <br/><br/> The Ladies of the First Presbyterian Church, Kalamazoo, Mich. paperback
1844296809Detroit: Bagg & Harmon 1844. hardcover. good. 213 pages foxed and age browned. 8vo original grey boards re-backed with holographic spine title. Detroit: Bagg & Harmon 1844. First Edition. Good.<br/> <br/> Bagg & Harmon unknown
183978928Detroit: John Bagg 1839. hardcover. good. 3 volumes. 8vo pages age browned and foxed rebound in blue cloth. Detroit John S. Bagg 1839 1845 and 1848. Good.<br/> <br/> Includes incorporations of towns railroads and mining companies. With canals bridges and land improvements.<br/> <br/> John Bagg unknown
1844SKU1179104ABagg & Harmon 1844. Hardcover. Good. Detroit 1844; rebound in blue cloth boards; mild shelf wear; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; light notations and Previous owner's name on front end papers; new front and rear end papers; interior foxed; no interior notations; 214 pages Bagg & Harmon hardcover
1844296809Detroit: Bagg & Harmon 1844. hardcover. good. 213 pages foxed and age browned. 8vo original grey boards re-backed with holographic spine title. Detroit: Bagg & Harmon 1844. First Edition. Good.<br/><br/> Bagg & Harmon unknown books
183978928Detroit: John Bagg 1839. hardcover. good. 3 volumes. 8vo pages age browned and foxed rebound in blue cloth. Detroit John S. Bagg 1839 1845 and 1848. Good.<br/><br/> Includes incorporations of towns railroads and mining companies. With canals bridges and land improvements.<br/><br/> John Bagg unknown books
1837BL4685Detroit:: John S. Bagg state printer 1837. 1837. 8vo. 354 pp. Pages 87-88 torn at margin minor. List of laws index. Original quarter brown cloth printed paper label plain boards; joints splitting loose corners showing. Bookplate of F. Ray Risdon. Very scarce. Important official record of law and acts relating widely to politics appointments collecting of various taxes commission to establish roads act for a geological survey acts of land sales responsibilities of the State Printer – his powers and duties acts relating to certain townships of weights and measures Tecumseh etc. etc. John S. Bagg, state printer, 1837. hardcover books
189733751Ann Arbor: Glen V. Mills. The Inland Press 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. 365 pages. 2 square folding maps of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti included 15" x 15". Red cloth hardcover with black lettered advertisements stamped on the covers and spine. Red end sheets with advertisements. Faint printed ads top and bottom text edge. 6 red cloth thumb tabs included. 29 advertisements with color tipped inside the directory. 7 of the ads are full page. Most of the advertisements are illustrated. Light shelf wear to the binding. Maps are in very good condition. Scarce. Apparently the 1897 Directory is not located in OCLC. Microform copies indicated for various years 1888 to the early 1900's. Glen V. Mills. The Inland Press hardcover
1865100127University of Michigan Ann Arbor 1865. Pamphlet. Used - Very Good. Printed by Order of Congress 1865. 20 pages. 8 x 5.25" stitched. Progress of rebellion 'it becomes us to be magnanimous towards enemies doubly so towards deluded brethren of rebellious states taught they were fighting for liberty and self-government when seeking to overthrow Constitution and Government which afford equal privileges to all' Emancipation Proclamation martial law reconstruction Indian relations frontier national debt Morrill Act power and worth of institutions. VG. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor unknown
1900ZB705580Lansing 1900-1921. an uninterrupted run of the First through Twenty-Second Annual Reports illustrated original publisher's cloth very good approx. 1500 pp. library markings overall very good PRICE IS OR THE LOT:. - 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. Lansing hardcover
1874006828Lansing : W. S. George State Printers and Binders 1874 1874. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 526 pp. ; ill. ; 24 cm ; LCCN: sf 83-3063 ; LC: SB21; Dewey: 630.62774 ; OCLC: 8464264 ; Pages 1-83 have been used as a period scrapbook ! into which are pasted various poems from the 1870's-90's clipped from newspapers such as The Detroit Commercial The Detroit Post & Ledger and The Berrien County Journal April 10 1880 ; Included are A pasted illustration "St. Louis High School" poems include Eventide / Julia C. R. Dore -- Always mine -- Fatherly Advice -- If I Could Know -- In the Old Church Tower / T. B. Aldrich -- At Last / J G Whittier -- Woman Gossip -- Making the Best of It -- Bob of the Golden City / Will S. Hayes -- Beautiful Things / Ella P Allerton -- Growing Old -- The Kaiser and the Little Maid -- Reward of Endeavor / Julia Ward Howe -- We Must All Scratch / Frank S Bondy -- The Countersign / Margaret Eytinge -- Which one -- The Honest Farmer -- Our Frank / M. S. A. -- The Love of Long Ago / Ella Wheeler -- Fathers Growing Old John -- Somebody's Mother -- Comparison / Annie E Fisher -- To My Mother -- Falsely Accused -- Dear John -- Taking the End of the Seat -- It May Be Your Turn Next -- Pomp's Defense -- Cliff Roses / F. W. B. -- Little Mabel / Alice Van Orden -- The Printer's Toil / Scott -- A Pintin' To-day -- Heartless / Medora Clark -- The Dead Child and the Mocking-Bird / Paul H Hayne -- Mother's Way -- Buddha and the Hindoo Mother / Edwin Arnold -- I Have Drunk My Last Glass / Louisa S Upham -- Brevities and Oddities A Temperance Curiosity -- Of All -- Dr. Holland's Last Poem -- The Two Gates Only! -- The Country Schoolmaster -- Leap Year -- A Nibble -- A Swarm of Bees -- Do Your Best / M. Ella Cornell -- Annie and Willie's Prayer A Christmas Story / Sophia P. Snow -- How the Conductor Took the Fare -- Laugh and Grow Fat -- I am So Tired of Being Me -- A Laugh is Worth a Hundred Groans / Josephine Pollard -- A happy New Year / Spirit May -- Just Here -- Coming Home / M. T. Shelhamer -- He Loveth When He Chasteneth / Lizzie Fenner Baker -- They Shall Revive As the Corn / Annie Mills -- True Courage -- Better than Gold / Father Ryan -- Lift Up the Temperance Banner / Rev. Charles Garrett -- Little By Little / J. Albert Wilson -- No Time Like the Present / Phoebe Cary ; articles in the report include: Discussions of the Peninsula Farmers' Club--Fungus not the Cause of Disease the advantages of top grafting -- Insects injurious to strawberries / A J Cook -- Garden and Wild FLowers / Mrs. Jeremiah Brown -- New Varieties of Fruit Peaches: Hill's Chill The Barnard Honest John Keyport White Foster; Paw Paw Apple Romanite Apple / T T Lyon -- Fruit Growing at South Haven / J E Bidwell -- Fruit Culture at Grand Traverse / Stanford Howard -- Birds / L H Bailey -- The Necessity of a State Entomologist / H A Shaw -- Orchard Drainage / A T Linderman -- Of One Hundred How Many / T T Lyon James D Husted A J Cook Edward Bradfield R F Hathaway H E Bidwell -- Pear Blight / P J Berckman Josiah Hoopes -- The State Fair 1873 -- Orchards and Vineyards of Michigan / S Q Lent -- A Grand Traverse Fruit Farm / T T Lyon -- A Kent County Peach Orchard and Grapery / Albert Baxter -- Flowers at the Michigan State Fair / James Vick -- Old Mission Orchards / WHC Lyon -- Early History of Horticulture in Michigan / JC Holmes -- The Importance to the Fruit Culturist of Shelter or Protection / TT Lyon -- Western New York Horticultural Society / PC Reynolds -- Lecture on Entomology / CV Riley -- The Bird Question / Wm. LeBaron -- Agressive Parasitism of Fungi / TJ Burrill -- Peaches of the Michigan Peach Belt / AS Dyckman -- Horticulture for the People / JJ Thomas -- Insects Injurious to House Plants and Shubbery / AJ Cook -- The Apple Tree / WJ Beal -- Grape Culture / Artimus Sigler -- The Honey Locust as a Hedge Plant / JW Helme ; 14 black and white illustrations ; page 203/204 creased ; because of the scrapbooking condition is FAIR <br/> <br/> Lansing : W. S. George, State Printers and Binders, 1874 hardcover
1859WRCAM49817Detroit 1859. 56pp. Gathered signatures stitched. Faint dampstain to upper corner of first several leaves some spotting and minor foxing. Good plus. The seventh of sixty-four annual reports together with the reports of the superintendent engineer and secretary for the year of 1858. Includes many charts indicating distribution of water location and type of laid pipes placement of fire plugs street reservoirs inventory of tools and supplies comparative water purity and more. Rare with only two copies accounted for in Floyd Streeter's work on Michigan both in full runs of the reports in Michigan libraries. Not in OCLC. STREETER MICHIGAN 1032. SABIN 19792. unknown books
1855WRCAM49818Detroit 1855. 63pp. plus a folding frontispiece plan. Original printed wrappers. Front joint partially split. Dampstaining throughout minor foxing. Good. The third of sixty-four annual reports together with the reports of the superintendent engineer and secretary for the year of 1854. Includes many charts indicating distribution of water location and type of laid pipes placement of fire plugs street reservoirs inventory of tools and supplies comparative water purity and more. The folding plan shows the network of iron pipes comprising the Detroit Water Works. Rare with only two copies accounted for in Floyd Streeter's work on Michigan both in full runs of the reports in Michigan libraries. Not in OCLC. STREETER MICHIGAN 1032. SABIN 19792. unknown books
187136926Lansing: W.S. George & Co 1871. Sm 8vo pp. 98; 1 folding table 'Compliments of agent' written on upper cover extremities lightly soiled else very good in original green printed wrappers with vignette on upper cover. <br/><br/> W.S. George & Co unknown books
185137649Philadelphia Pa.: B. Mifflin Printer 1851. First edition. Removed. Removed from a larger volume lacking the wrappers mail fold otherwise good. 19 pp. 8vo. After the initial route was laid out in 1824 construction on the Illinois and Michigan Canal began in 1836 only to be suspended for several years after the Panic of 1837 which set the state of Illinois into a financial crisis. To meet the debt payments for the state in 1841 money was borrowed from the firm of Macalester & Stebbins of Philadelphia "but the State failed to meet her obligations to us; which prevented us from meeting ours to others and the consequence was that we were overwhelmed with disaster and the credit and business of the house destroyed." This appeal to the People of Illinois is for the final resolution of justice after some payments had been made.<br /> <br /> A quite detailed analysis and accounting and scarce. We could located only one other copy at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library which provides the title and printing information from the wrapper: "Appeal of Macalester and Stebbins to the people of Illinois Philadelphia June 1851".<br /> <br /> Charles Macalester II 1798–1873 was a businessman in Ohio & Philadelphia and for whom Macalester College in Minnesota is named. [B. Mifflin, Printer] unknown
1900366431900. 5-1/4" x 7-3/4". Approx. 160 pp. Autograph album with red gilt decorated covers worn boards detached but present spine missing. Pages have been removed and the remaining pages are mostly loosened. Signatures are written both directly on the book's pages and also on separate pieces of paper tipped in. Some toning and staining of the occasional page. While the binding is in in fair condition the pages that remain are Good to Very Good.<br/><br/>Autographs include in part: <br/> "Auburn Nov. 14 1860 Dear Sir I comply very cheerfully with the request contain in your courteous note and remain Respectfully your obednt servant William H. Seward" U.S. Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869 Governor of New York and U.S. Senator from New York.<br/> "Washington 11 Feb 1861 Sir I have the pleasure of complying with your request. Respectfully yours John A. Dix". Secretary of the U.S. Treasury.<br/> "Yours truly Henry W. Longfellow" Famous poet and author of "Paul Revere's Ride".<br/> "Washington Dec. 16 1860/ Mr. T.A. Ashley/ Dear Sir Your letter of Dec. 10 is recd. Respectfully Preston King." Early free soil politician.<br/> "Dear Sir Faithfully Yours Charles Sumner" Massachusetts senator and Radical Republican.<br/> "Very truly yours Schuyler Colfax member from Indiana" <br/> "Washington Feb. 25 1861 to F.A. Ashley Esq. Dear Sir Yours of the 21st received and I hereby comply with your request Respectfully yours & c. Owen Lovejoy/ F.A. Ashley Esq. Detroit Mich." U.S. Representative from Illinois conductor on the Underground Railroad brother of Elijah Lovejoy friend of Abraham Lincoln.<br/> "Washington D.C. August 24 1890 J.B.Cheadle Frankfort Indiana/ Represented the 9th Indiana District in the 50th & 51st Congresses. Elected in 1886 by 3416 majority and in 1888 by 4450 majority."<br/> "Very truly your friend W.H. Coffron North Baruch Mich. Washington D.C. 11/30/'84" with cartoon face. Michigan physician; graduate treasurer secretary and professor of Georgetown University.<br/> "With best wishes J. N. Gillette Governor of California Sept. 9th 1909". <br/> "House of Representatives Washington Feb. 21st 1861/ G.A. Ashley Esq. Detroit Mich. Sir Yours of the 19th came to hand this evening. Very respectfully your obedt. Servant Cyrus Aldrich" Minnesota;<br/> "Yours truly Jas. Harlan" Early Free Soil politician federal judge U.S. Cabinet Secretary of the Department of the Interior under President Johnson;<br/> "Mason W. Tappan Ho. Reps. Washington 2/14/1861 Sir I am making a hand somewhere; and I prefer to make it before I start to run at all" New Hampshire<br/> "I'll try it and let you know Sam Gordon Miles City Aug. 17 83" New York native later settled in Montana where he established the Yellowstone Journal.<br/> "Albany April 10 1861 Dear Sir If you think my humble name written with my own hand will add anything to the value of your collection it gives me pleasure to make this small contribution. Yours with respect Ira Harris/ To F.A. Ashley Esq." New York senator and friend of Abraham Lincoln. <br/> "My Dear Bill Yours Truly J. Guthrie Asst. U.S. Inspector Hulls San Francisco CA Eureka Ca. March 2 1905"<br/> H. Winter Davis "James R. Doolittle "Louis Kerrsft Rear Admiral U.S. Navy 2nd March 1905"; "Yours very truly/ Alex. W. Buel"Michigan; B.F. Magee M.C. Michigan; "Truly Yours John T. Shurtleff Sept. 25 1909"<br/>H.P. Baldwin'; A.A. Burnham CT; Chas. A. Mack Jr.; Kinsley S. Bingham MI; Frank Higham Detroit M.; R.E. Trowbridge MI; W.K. Sebastian AR; John A. Gilmer NC a member of the Confederate Congress; JesseD. Bright IN owned plantation in KY with slaves and was the only person from a Northern State expelled from the Senate for his Confederate sympathies; J. Morrison Harris MD; Wm. Bigler PA 12th governor of PA ; John Cochrane NY; Zachariah Chandler Michigan leading abolitionist in Congress; M.S. Latham MI; Alex. W. Buell MI; John J. Perry Oxford Maine; Kit Adams; Emerson Etheridge TN; Edgar Cowan U.S.S. PA; Jno Goode PA; Miss T.C. Ashley; Loren C. Caddell; USMP Maj. Samuel Ruggles prominent New Yorker ; W.J. Thorne M; Alfred Ely; Katie Lackey; "Eureka July 23 1908 Hit the bear hard! Charles Ausyl Clarke U.S. Navy with much affection for Mr. Bell"; "Washington City D.C. Feby. 14 1861/ I am Truly Yours J. Markley" Ohio; Milton S. Davis Lieut. U.S.S.; C. Case IN; Harry C. Frankenfield DC 11/30/84; W.B. Holland; Sedley Chaplin supt. Construction Supervising Architects Office Treasury Deptt. Sept. 21 1909: Edward J Morris PA; William Pennington NJ; Neal Delano; Miriam F. Richmond; "A of Michigan" followed by signatures of Frank Johnson Charles B. Wood Gore Porter R.E. Frazer Aaron C. Jewett George Kingsley James A. Brown Dept. of Medicine; "Edwin Z. Pritchett 1st Lieut. 1st Field Artillery June 24 1909"; Walter S. Sturgill; Edgar H. Towar Detroit; 4/30/1861; B. Stanton Ohio; J Stout Oregon; H.H. Munds 1883 Billings MT; Senator from California R.L. Edwards; R.F. Woolfield and WH. Coory Montana; and others. unknown books
19009312N.P.: Privately printed n.d. ca. 1900. 1900. 4-3/8" x 3". One side has description noted above with an illustration of a "Buchanan Wagon" image approx. 1" x 2". The reverse side is an attractive color lithograph of a hunter with knife held overhead charging a snarling bear which is standing over the hunters fallen companion. Three dogs attacking the bear add to the action. "Compliments of Rough Bros. Wagon Works. Buchanan Mich." appears in small type at upper right corner. An insignificant minor blemish on printed side not affecting text else a fine example of a "turn-of-the-century" business card with an unusually attractive color lithograph. Privately printed, n.d. [ca. 1900]. unknown
186346962New York: S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. 1863. Folio 15¼" X 12¼" image area 13 3/4" X 11 3/4". Hand colored. Very good. Light age toning and bit of soiling. Nice bright map of these side-by-side Midwest states from the 1864 edition of "Mitchell's New General Atlas Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World Plans of Cities Etc." Attractive example well colored and with sharp floral border. S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. unknown
186345849New York: S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. 1863. Folio 15¼" X 12¼" image area 13 3/4" X 11 3/4". Hand colored. Very good. Faint age toning. A bright and sharp map of these two side-by-side Midwest states from the 1864 edition of "Mitchell's New General Atlas Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World Plans of Cities Etc." A lovely example delicately colored and featuring bold decorative border. S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. unknown
187515868Lansing 1875. Caption title as issued. Printed in double columns. Stitched loose. 15pp scattered light wear. Good. On the constitutionality of railroad bonds issued by municipalities and whether federal courts in a State are bound to follow the law as interpreted by its State courts. Not in OCLC. unknown books
184018840Washington: Blair & Rives printers 1840. 8vo. 3 pp. <br><br>March 10 1840. Laid on the table and ordered to be printed." Government document: 26th Congress 1st Session. Senate. 270. Removed from a nonce volume; stitch holes in inner margin not touching text. Ink notation in blank areas of p. 1 and p. 3. Light foxing. Leaves separating. Blair & Rives, printers unknown books
183712751Washington 1837. 8vo. 3 pp. <br><br>The Michigan state Senate and House argue in favor of expunging the censure resolution against President Andrew Jackson from the Senate Journal and instruct the state's U.S. Senators to vote in favor of the move. On 28 March 1834 Clay's anti-Jackson coalition in the Senate censured Jackson for assuming power not conferred by the Constitution by moving to withdraw federal deposits from the bank dismissing the Secretary of the Treasury for not carrying out this executive decision and for refusing to hand over a paper he had read to his cabinet relating to that issue. Three years later on 16 January 1837 with the Democrats having regained power in the Senate the censure was removed from the Senate Journal with great fanfare. The removal of the censure is here characterized as "an act of justice to the venerable Chief Magistrate whose character it unjustly assails and as erasing from the permanent history of the country a stain upon its legislative character." Government document: 24th Congress 2d Session. 128. Removed from a nonce volume; leaves separating; two holes in inner margin touching just a couple of letters. Lower right corner folded. Light spotting. unknown books
184228532Philadelphia 1842. White wove paper. Fold lines; slight loss to second leaf where separated from wax seal not affecting text; minor ink smudge to first page; light soiling to last page. VG overall. Bifolium folded to make a self-composed envelope. 3 full pages of text; wax seal address with Philadelphia postmark and short notation in a different hand to verso of second leaf. 9-7/8" x 7-5/8" <br/><br/>Revealing early correspondence from the then still-young company of Baldwin & Whitney to T. W. Wells President of the Board of Internal Improvements for the Michigan Central Rail Road alluding to an ongoing payment dispute for two engines. Baldwin & Whitney an early incarnation of what would later be known as the Baldwin Locomotive Works was struggling to recover from the financial hardships of the Panic of 1837 as well as to expand to meet rapidly increasing demand; the Central Railroad too was in the midst of ongoing financial woes and transfers of ownership. The dispute seems to have been a somewhat protracted one as the letter references several prior correspondences with Mr. Wells dating back to June 14th. Although initially quite firm and apparently seeking to address specific imputations from Mr. Wells -- "we would beg leave to state that we do not pretend that there is any difficulty in arriving at a conclusion as to when the two engines alluded to should be paid for" -- the tone soon turns concilliatory admitting that there may have been some lack of clarity regarding the terms of payment thus allowing for alternate interpretations of the contract. Nevertheless the payment was obviously needed: "Our want of money is such however that we have authorized Mr. Briscoe to settle the whole account on such terms as we trust will be satisfactory to you and which under our present circumstances would be preferable to us --." One Jarvis S. Wyckoff of New York is referenced as an involved party although it is not entirely clear in what respect as well as items under the charge of Mr. Briscoe "which we trust will arrive safely and in time to answer the purpose for which they were intended." A bill for $541.50 worth of parts follows the salutation and includes "2 brauk brake Axles Larger Size 3rd claps $175 - $350 2 pair brick wheels - - - - 190 Cartage to Wharf - 1.50." In 1842 both of Matthias Baldwin's partners George Hufty and George Vail withdrew from the partnership. Asa Whitney joined soon after and the business became Baldwin & Whitney though this partnership too would be quite brief; Whitney would later become one of the biggest proponents of the Transcontinental Railroad. Although highly renowned and with no shortage of orders the company continued to struggle with finances for several years. By 1845 the company would simply be M. W. Baldwin and was so inundated with orders that they were building 20 engines per year and had backorders for at least as many. Historical Society of Pennsylvania Baldwin Locomotive Works Records The Detroit and St. Joseph Railroad was chartered in 1831 began construction in 1836 and had to be bailed out by the State of Michigan in 1837. The company was then renamed the Central Railroad of Michigan but by 1840 it too was nearly out of money. On May 25 1842 Detroit's Democratic Free Press ran an editorial by T. W. Wells "Acting Commissioner Int. Imp." rebutting charges of mismanagment of the Central Railroad and citing its many benefits for the state. The railroad would be transferred to private ownership again in 1846; the line to Chicago rather than St. Joseph was finally completed in 1852. An advertisement in Railway Locomotives and Cars Volume 10 1840 includes a blurb from Benjamin Briscoe Superintendent of Motive Power Central Michigan proclaiming his trust in what were then Baldwin Huft & Vale engines: "We have two engines manufactured by others but we can only place confidence while running in yours and I believe them superior to any manufactured in this country or in Europe." All in all an interesting documentary record of the negotiations and financial struggles that created the United States railroad system and of the early years of what would become Baldwin Locomotive Works. unknown books
187233963Boston: Avery 1872. First Edition. 12pp. Original printed wrappers Avery unknown books
