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199628019San Francisco CA: PBA / Pacific Book Auction Galleries. New. 1996. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- with a bonus offer-- . PBA / Pacific Book Auction Galleries paperback
199627979San Francisco CA: PBA / Pacific Book Auction Galleries. New. 1996. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- with a bonus offer-- . PBA / Pacific Book Auction Galleries paperback
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188249882Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1882. 1882. First edition. 9" x 6" in color pictorial wrappers printed in red blue & black with vignettes of wheat threshing cattle mining and logging on front wrapper. 82pp. plus 2 pp. publisher's ads for Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. Contents. Illustrations. Maps. Uncommon Northern Pacific Railway land promotion detailing the sites and possibilities along the Northern Pacific route at the end of the 19th century. The work details the history of the NPRR divisions branch lines development opportunities for homesteaders and businesses in Western Washington the inner-mountain West Montana Yellowstone National Park the Dakotas Minnesota and specific land grants available from the NPRR in Minnesota and the Dakotas. Large color map attached to inside rear wrapper. Map fine. Light chipping to wrapper edges and with a few small closed tears to wrapper edges along with light soiling and rubbing to spine. Very good. Rand, McNally & Company, 1882. unknown
7626San Francisco ca. 1905. 20†x 24†in original oak frame with a title plaque 25.5†x 29.5†overall. Frame manufacturer label of “Sanborn Vail & Co.†of San Francisco on verso. Stamp on verso of “Grover C. Drake District Passenger Agent 937 State Street Santa Barbara California.†CONDITION: Some very small losses at edge of image in lower left corner very good overall. <p>A large and very appealing advertising photograph of Santa Barbara Beach and vicinity issued by the Southern Pacific Railway.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>This turn of the century photo likely taken on the weekend captures the lively scene at Plaza Del Mar built in the 1890s showing men women and children sitting on benches or strolling about. Many of the women wear white dresses and hats and a few hold parasols. Several boys in bathing suits sit in the sand in the lower right foreground. Los Baños del Mar opened 1901 shown here with picnic tables on the roof appears just to the left of the crowd. At center-left a Japanese tea garden and a sign identifying it as such can be seen on the roof of a building and to its right is a storefront with a sign reading “Boulevard Card Store.†Cabrillo Boulevard with its palm tree-lined promenade stretches along the beach at center right. Hotel Potter appears in the distance on the left and foothills and mountains loom in the background.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>The phrase “Road of a Thousand Wonders†which is included in the photo’s title was used by the Southern Pacific Co. from the 1900s to at least the 1920s. One of the great American railroad systems the Southern Pacific was established by the “big four†of western railroad building: Collis Huntington Leland Stanford Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker. After completing the Central Pacific line from California to Utah in 1869 the four partners started the Southern Pacific as a branch line into southern California. It was incorporated in 1884 and the railroads making up the Central Pacific system were leased to the Southern Pacific Co. the following year. The Southern Pacific system grew to serve fifteen states in the West and Southwest with lines reaching the Pacific and Gulf coasts.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>A striking image of the Santa Barbara Beach scene produced by the Southern Pacific Railroad.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>REFERENCES: Southern Pacific Railroad at Britannica online.</p> [San Francisco?, ca. 1905.] unknown
189649745Chicago: Rand McNally & Co. 1896. 1896. RAILROAD MAP. Oblong atlas folio. 37 x 56 in. One large color lithograph map mounted on linen showing the routes of the Union Pacific and subsidiary railroads in red with red yellow & black banner style lettering at upper fore-edge Union Pacific shields with mentions of subsidiary Railways mounted to upper & lower wooden rods as issued some minor lifting & creasing from being rolled over the years minor tide mark at left fore-edge upper fore-edge minor fraying and darkening still nice complete example of this map. First Rand McNally & Co. edition thus of this uncommon First Rand McNally & Co. edition thus of this uncommon Union Pacific Railroad route map intended to be used by travel agents and passenger agents in Union Pacific stations across the West. The map demarcates the Overland Route and connections with the Oregon Short Line RR Co. Oregon RR & Navigation Co. and the Southern Pacific in bold red stretching West from Kansas City Leavenworth St. Joseph Omaha Council Bluffs Sioux City & Fort Worth. A version of this map was initially released in 1892 by Reeves with the Knight Leonard & Co. and a little larger by a couple inches as it included insets for Sandwich Islands and Alaska whereas this version focuses only on the Continental United States. Rand McNally & Co., 1896. unknown
190074021Port Townsend WA and others: N.p. ca. 1900. Original quarto album of full morocco measuring 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. There are 24 think leaves mounted on stubs with each leaf bearing four windows for photographs measuring 3 7/8 x 2 7/8 inches. Most of the leaves in the rear bear no photographs but in the front there are 64 inserted silver gelatin photographs. Of these 36 bear images of people places and activities in the Puget Sound/Port Townsend area The remainder are quotidian shots of England. A chief concern in this album is mining and likely they brought in some British miners which would explain the shots of England. No surnames are given so it is all a bit of a mystery but the pictures speak for themselves. Finding a mining album of the Northwest is a rather rare occasion.The photographs of interest are; Log Cabin; Ranch House with two women and an infant in front; the nanny appears to be a Native American; Ore Coming out of a Tunnel; Harry Smith Cabin with two gents relaxing on the front porch; Cook House a mess tent with many miners taking their meal; Bunk homes for the workers; Blacksmith shop and Ore Dump with two men pushing a cart of trailings down the hill; Swamp grass three foot high; Dumping ore from car; Road Gang at Dinner; Railroad Station near mountains; Road Makers to the Mine a posed group shot of 20 men; Sunset near Port Townsend; Mates at the Boiler Makers; A river near our mine faded. The rest are uncaptioned but we can see the same camp and people in the winter snow; 2 shots of a sailing vessel trying to come up the Columbia ; and seven photographs of Native Americans unposed. One of them seems to be wearing a mask or bag over his head. A fascinating album of a rough and tumble time in the Pacific Northwest. N.p. unknown
19006878San Francisco; Chicago: Southern Pacific Railroad; Printed by Poole Bros 1900. Duodecimo-size booklet 14.75 x 8.5 cm. 80 pages. Blue and brown ink on pink paper. Two photographic portraits Monsieur and Madame Bégué. Illustrations. List of railway agents. Title from cover. In logo at head of title: Southern Pacific Sunset Route. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A souvenir anthology of writings including sixty recipes from two landmark New Orleans restaurants offered for sale to customers traveling the Sunset Route San Francisco–New Orleans by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. A sampling: Mutton Feet à la Créole Liver à la Bégué Jambalaya of Chicken Codish with White Beans Bisque of Crayfish Creamed Cauliflower Onion Salad Eggplant with Rice and Ham Mayonaise of Celery and Shrimps Pineapple with White Wine. ~ The title displayed on the wrappers is misleading: the atmospheric essays and testimonials – arranged by a literary journalist who contributed to Southern Pacific's promotional magazine Sunset Henry Monroe Mayo 1868-1950 – reveal little regarding the eponymous originator of the recipes or the history of the cuisine that brought her fame. Only pages 47-68 contain recipes by Elizabeth née Elisabetha Kettenring Dutreuil Bégué 1831-1906 the proprietary chef of the beloved restaurant in the Vieux Carré – the second oldest such establishment in New Orleans – located on the Rue de la Levée Decatur Street after 1870 downriver from Jackson Square and across from the French Market. An immigrant from southern Germany she had opened a coffee shop with her husband Louis Dutreuil in 1863. After his death in 1875 she married again and with her second husband Hippolyte Bégué 1842-1917 reopened in the same location with the aim of serving one meal per day – a “second breakfast†beginning at 11:00 a.m. – to accommodate laborers in the meat markets and on the docks who started work at dawn. A fuller history by David Shields is available in his The Culinarians Chicago: University or Chicago Press 2017 pages 270-273. By the mid-1880s trade fairs held in the city were bringing tourists as well and Bégué’s became a destination on its own. Madame Bégué died in 1906. The restaurant continued under management of her daughter but was sold in 1914 to relatives of the family Tujague competitors since 1856 on Decatur Street a few doors away. ~ A shorter tribute with recipes pages 69-74 is accorded another restaurateur presumably Victor Béro d. 1904 an immigrant from Belgium who had presided over Victor's Restaurant since 1873. Mayo appears to confuse the "Monsieur Victor" of his time with the founder and namesake of the establishment Victor Martin 1812-1865; cf. Shields page 136 445. ~ The Sunset Route of the Southern Pacific Company was the southernmost of the transport lines to the West Coast originally contemplated by the series of Pacific Railroad Acts between 1862 and 1866. Of the resulting publicly subsidized corporate consortia that would transform western North America – known collectively as the transcontinental railroads – Southern Pacific was already a mammoth system in 1900 including smaller subsidiaries such as the Texas and New Orleans Railroad and extending across territories that would later become New Mexico and Arizona as well as northwards through Nevada Utah and much of California. The in-house Sunset magazine appears to have been printed close to headquarters in San Francisco but like many publications issued by the transportation industry Mme. Bégué and Her Recipes was printed by Poole Brothers of Chicago who advertised as "railway printers" and also produced tickets brochures and mileage tables. ~ A few pages dog-eared. Very good in publisher's red wrappers decorated in black and white with an image of Madame Chef in kitchen apron. Rare. OCLC locates thirteen copies; Uhler 28; New Orleans Culinary History Group page 13; not in Bitting Brown or Cagle. Southern Pacific Railroad]; [Printed by] Poole Bros unknown
188059310Portland OR & Seattle WA: Walter Angus MacKay Julia Rose Eder MacKay Cross & Dimmitt ca. 1880-1958. Two vols. 1st - Thick oblong 4to. 11.5 x 8.75 x 2.25 in. 128 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper. With 461 photographs sized 1.75 x 2.75 in. up to 4.5 x 5.5 in. including 2 CDV’s 1 cyanotype several albumen and range of silver gelatin snapshots on matted and glossy paper stock many w/ annotations either on verso below images or w/in the margins at lower fore-edge or in pencil some w/ white ink alongside the images. Contemporary flexible polished calf post-binder punch-sewn at gutter margin in gold silk braid RPPC of Tillamook Bay OR by Gregg mounted on front cover chipping & wear to front cover wear to corners wear & rubbing to some fore-edges occasional chipping minor closed tears still VG exemplar; 2nd vol. -- Oblong 8vo. 8 x 5.75 in. 78 pp unpaginated. on thick tan paper stock. With 101 silver gelatin photographs mounted sized from 1.75 x 2.75 in. up to 4 x 6 in. some w/ sepia effect either mounted directly on the pages or many affixed with small strips of black paper or old paper corners affixing the images to the leaves a few w/ annotations on verso or below. Contemporary flexible diced calf “Housh†photo album chipping & wear to spine wear & bumping to corners some pages reworked by compilers at some point still a G exemplar both albums’ photos with bright strong contrast. These photo albums faithfully follow the sporting and leisure activities of two gearheads from Chicago -- Walter MacKay and his brother Carrol MacKay who together with their extended families and friends drive and auto-camp across the West. The large first album opens with many photos following a trip to Yosemite National Park as well as scenes along the route and upon the return of Walter & Julia. Their follow-up automobile trip in 1928 takes them to Yellowstone National Park via Spokane Idaho and Montana with photos included of Old Faithful a photo by Haynes of the Grand Geyser as well as auto camping at “Mammoth Hot Springs.†Subsequent photos trace their travels through the Columbia River Gorge the Snake River Mount Rainier National Park Ariel Dam near Ariel WA Hoods Canal WA and Newport OR. Their speed boat launch the Carmen is featured in some photos along with several views of pumps hoisting engines giant diesel and gas engines under repair. Other trips include those to Snoqualmie Falls Trout Lake WA near Mt. Adams working a hoist at logging camp partying with friends in Renton WA and even views of Walter MacKay advertising his Automobile Repair Shop with a cover on his rear tire. Other outings include auto camping and picnicking along the Mt. Hood Loop Grant’s Park on the Clackamas River Mt. Hood the Rogue River Table Mountain and views of Grants Pass. Walter and his gearhead friends were known for their stripped-down roadster racing cars and were also early participants in the Seattle Motorcycle Club and Motorcycle races. A couple photos within the two albums show early motorcycles and even gallivanting on some stripped down chassis without engines or tires. The second album includes a series of photos featuring Walter and his car beneath a towering Cedar Stump with arch cut into the base and him holding gun as well as standing on the fenders of the car. The second also includes automobile camping photos with tent and cots folded out of the rear of the automobile driving into Vancouver B.C. as well as driving to Mount Rainier and more along the Columbia River Highway and Mount Hood. Also featured are hunting shots in Eastern Oregon construction of a summer log cabin and much more. Mackay 1883-1959 was a mechanical engineer machinist gearhead racecar builder who came West working for the railroad as a machinist before working for Paragon Co. in Seattle as parts manager. He owned and operated the MacKay Automotive Repair at 165 E. 39th in Portland OR on the SW corner of 39th Cesar Chavez and Belmont for years before working at Albina Engine & Machine Works at the end of the Great Depression. One of the photos in the 2nd album shows MacKay with his camera shooting a photo and several show Julia MacKay’s 1880-1958 sisters and family. Should be noted we unknowingly catalogued an album on Seattle Auto Racing and Motorcycle Clubs from before World War I without having had access to these unknown albums. See: The Origins and Growth of the Club Scene in Western Washington 1910-1941 Jolly Rogers Motorcycle Club Feb. 7 2009; Seattle Motorcycle Races Pantages Theater Program Early Advertising in the West 1867-1918 Univ. of Washington Spec. Collections. Walter Angus MacKay, Julia Rose Eder MacKay, Cross & Dimmitt, unknown
1874M7548Montreal: Canadian Pacific Railway 1874. Very Good; laid down on acid-free tissue paper for long-term preservation. Notes: A very important and early working map of Alberta and British Columbia depicting existing and suggested railways.<br>There is a note written in period ink in the lower margin in reference to a contemporary marking of newly suggested routes in black ink:<br><br>"Note -- The Surveys made since the publication of the Report & Maps of 1874 shew the routes colored full black line and thus broken black line to be the best lines for railway construction that have been found to this date Oct 1875. Mr. Smith".<br><br>"Mr. Smith" is believed to be Donald A. Smith a major partner in the yet-to-be incorporated Canadian Pacific Railway Company in 1881. <br><br>The routes marked out in red as printed depict potential lines crossing the Rockies to the west of Edmonton at Yellowhead Pass. Almost none of the suggested routes depicted on this map were eventually used--CPR dismissed the use of Yellowhead Pass for a pass farther south in order to discourage competition from railway lines south of the border. They chose instead Kicking Horse Pass which is depicted on this map. Size : 608x779 mm 23.94x30.67 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Category: Maps Railroad; Maps Canada West British Columbia;Maps Canada West Alberta; Canadian Pacific Railway unknown
1851PACIFICO015869Longman Brown Green and Longmans London. 1851. First edition. Octavo. Two volumes in one: pp xii 352; xii 371. Four chromolithograph plates. Original blue cloth decorated in blind lettered in gilt.On the front free endpaper are two 19th century inscriptions one of which has been crossed through. Some foxing here and there. Head and tail of spine a bit scuffed. Some wear to edges. Very good. Very scarce in the intact publishers' binding. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London. hardcover
9211196345New. Brand new and still unused unknown
190010228San Francisco; Chicago: Southern Pacific Railroad; Printed by Poole Bros 1900. Duodecimo-size booklet 14.75 x 8.5 cm. 80 pages. Blue and brown ink on pink paper. Two photographic portraits Monsieur and Madame Bégué. Illustrations. List of railway agents. Title from cover. In logo at head of title: Southern Pacific Sunset Route. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A souvenir anthology of writings including sixty recipes from two landmark New Orleans restaurants offered for sale to customers traveling the Sunset Route San Francisco–New Orleans by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. A sampling: Mutton Feet à la Créole Liver à la Bégué Jambalaya of Chicken Codish with White Beans Bisque of Crayfish Creamed Cauliflower Onion Salad Eggplant with Rice and Ham Mayonaise of Celery and Shrimps Pineapple with White Wine. ~ The title displayed on the wrappers is misleading: the atmospheric essays and testimonials – arranged by a literary journalist who contributed to Southern Pacific's promotional magazine Sunset Henry Monroe Mayo 1868-1950 – reveal little regarding the eponymous originator of the recipes or the history of the cuisine that brought her fame. Only pages 47-68 contain recipes by Elizabeth née Elisabetha Kettenring Dutreuil Bégué 1831-1906 the proprietary chef of the beloved restaurant in the Vieux Carré – the second oldest such establishment in New Orleans – located on the Rue de la Levée Decatur Street after 1870 downriver from Jackson Square and across from the French Market. An immigrant from southern Germany she had opened a coffee shop with her husband Louis Dutreuil in 1863. After his death in 1875 she married again and with her second husband Hippolyte Bégué 1842-1917 reopened in the same location with the aim of serving one meal per day – a “second breakfast†beginning at 11:00 a.m. – to accommodate laborers in the meat markets and on the docks who started work at dawn. A fuller history by David Shields is available in his The Culinarians Chicago: University or Chicago Press 2017 pages 270-273. By the mid-1880s trade fairs held in the city were bringing tourists as well and Bégué’s became a destination on its own. Madame Bégué died in 1906. The restaurant continued under management of her daughter but was sold in 1914 to relatives of the family Tujague competitors since 1856 on Decatur Street a few doors away. ~ A shorter tribute with recipes pages 69-74 is accorded another restaurateur presumably Victor Béro d. 1904 an immigrant from Belgium who had presided over Victor's Restaurant since 1873. Mayo appears to confuse the "Monsieur Victor" of his time with the founder and namesake of the establishment Victor Martin 1812-1865; cf. Shields page 136 445. ~ The Sunset Route of the Southern Pacific Company was the southernmost of the transport lines to the West Coast originally contemplated by the series of Pacific Railroad Acts between 1862 and 1866. Of the resulting publicly subsidized corporate consortia that would transform western North America – known collectively as the transcontinental railroads – Southern Pacific was already a mammoth system in 1900 including smaller subsidiaries such as the Texas and New Orleans Railroad and extending across territories that would later become New Mexico and Arizona as well as northwards through Nevada Utah and much of California. The in-house Sunset magazine appears to have been printed close to headquarters in San Francisco but like many publications issued by the transportation industry Mme. Bégué and Her Recipes was printed by Poole Brothers of Chicago who advertised as "railway printers" and also produced tickets brochures and mileage tables. ~ Internally clean and sound; in publisher's red wrappers decorated in black and white with an image of Madame Chef in kitchen apron. Wrappers with some rubbing and two small chips to the spine Near very good. Rare. OCLC locates thirteen copies; Uhler 28; New Orleans Culinary History Group page 13; not in Bitting Brown or Cagle. Southern Pacific Railroad]; [Printed by] Poole Bros unknown
1900P5495Canada: Canadian Pacific Railway c.1900. Very Good . Notes: View of Banff Springs Hotel and Bow River Valley National Park-Rocky Mountains. It is framed in its original frame. <br>The Fairmont Banff Springs formerly and commonly known as the Banff Springs Hotel is a historic hotel in western Canada located in Banff Alberta. Image Size : 404x528 mm 15.91x20.79 Inches Platemark Size : Paper Size : 550x692 mm 21.65x27.24 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Medium: Offset Lithograph Categories: Views Canada Alberta & British Columbia; Canadian Pacific Railway unknown
187044035Omaha: Land Department Union Pacific Railroad Company 1870. 1870. First edition. First edition. 8vo. 8 3/4" x 5 3/4" printed wrappers with map on back cover 44 pp. introduction illustrated maps. The rear cover features a map of portions of Idaho Utah Wyoming Colorado Dakota Nebraska Kansas Missouri and Iowa. States where land grant bonds are available from the Union Pacific Railroad Company. The frontispiece is a map of the United States that shows the Union Pacific Railroad and its connections. A third map shows counties in Nebraska in 1870 and the Union Pacific Railroad lands first 200 miles grants of 1862-64. A description of the Nebraska lands are provided county by county. The available lands are contained in alternate sections of one square mile each within a breadth of twenty miles on either side of the railroad and extend along the entire line. They extend through central Nebraska southern Wyoming and northern Colorado and Utah and include within their limits the splendid agricultural lands of the Platte Valley the great natural pastures of the Laramie Plains and the valleys of Lodge Pole Creek and Bear River and the rich iron and coal fields between the Black Hills and the Wahsatch Mountains. Description advantages water resources climate soil live stock raising farming markets timber minerals information about homesteads advantages of living in colonies etc. Both Adams' Herd and Graff list similar titles but different years and claim their listings to be "rare." A small bump to the top edges light wear to the spine ends else a near fine copy. Land Department Union Pacific Railroad Company, 1870. unknown
186854323New York: Published by the Company 1868. 1868. TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD. First edition. Pamphlet edition. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers 40 pp. frontispiece Map of the Union Pacific Rail Road and its Connections introduction illustrated frontispiece map advertisement on rear cover for "First Mortgage Bonds at 102 principal and interest payable in gold with an annual income of "between eight and nine percent." This is an investment and advertising booklet for the first transcontinental railroad in the United States which was built by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad in order to connect the Atlantic and Pacific coasts by rail for the first time. Begun in July of 1865 and built primarily by Civil War veterans the construction and completion of the Union Pacific line was one of the most significant technological and economic accomplishments of the 19th century creating the vital connection for commerce trade and travel and literally joining the eastern and western halves of the United States. Contents include the formation of the Union Pacific Railroad Company progress natural resources construction branch and connecting roads construction resources anticipated business & profits actual earnings and sale of first mortgage bonds. A list of officers of the company is provided. Top of front cover displays that this copy is mildly ex-library with stamp and number appearing at the upper right side a faint vertical fold to the center of the booklet tiny chips to bottom corner of front cover and a few preliminary pages. Overall a very good copy of an important railroad report. Published by the Company, 1868. unknown
186754322New York: Brown & Hewitt Printers 1867. 1867. TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD. First edition. Pamphlet edition. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers 24 pp. frontispiece Map of the Union Pacific Rail Road and its Connections introduction illustrated frontispiece map advertisement on rear cover for "First Mortgage Bonds at six per cent. In gold at Ninety Cents on the Dollar. Light evidence of the entire booklet having been folded vertically penciled name to top of front cover covers lightly soiled and used small closed tear to the lower margin of the front cover Overall a very good copy of an important railroad report. Brown & Hewitt, Printers, 1867. unknown
191861380Portland OR: Shope Brick Co. Columbia Commercial Studio 167 Fourth Ave. ca. 1918. Oblong 4to. 11.5 x 8.25 in. With 41 original linen-backed silver gelatin photographs sized 9.5 x 8 in. nearly all w/ neat type-written captions on versos all w/ photographer’s stamped imprint on verso. Contemporary flexible calf post-binder three nickel-plated screwposts at gutter margin rounded corners yapp edges gilt title stamped on front cover some fraying to the linen-backing at fore-edges minor edgewear some scuffing a few images w/ nearly indistinguishable perforated slices not penetrating linen still an exceptional exemplar w/ former ownership markings of Koch Schmidt on first image margin. An outstanding salesman sample photo album recording the use of Shope’s patented brick facades for homebuilding apartment buildings commercial buildings and interiors in the Pacific Northwest during World War I. The album opens with a 1914 award certificate from the Manufacturers & Land Products Show which remained on permanent exhibit at the Pacific International Exposition Building for over 10 years. This is followed by photographs shot of such buildings as the newly completed Aetna Apartments Printing Office at 21st & Sandy; the Utah-Idaho Motor Co. Maxwell dealership in Pocatello ID; the Golden Rule store in the Morris Block in Lewiston ID; the Miller Wood Fuel Co. in Portland OR with Chief Gasoline pump in front; the King Albert Apartments in Portland OR finished in 1918; together with many splendid examples of PNW Arts & Crafts homes. The featured homes include a stately residence on 49th & Belmont the Dr. Tamiesie House porch piers and tile floor in Laurelhurst now the Sisters of Social Services Home; the Nash home on Sunnyside; Armstrong residence on Council Crest; striking residences in Rose City Park Irvington and Alameda. Also featured are Craftsmen homes in Walla Walla Pocatello Corvallis Spokane and in other areas of Portland. Fourteen of the photographs depict the ornamental Arts & Crafts brick facades for fireplaces with interior shots. The main fireplace in the furnished Dr. Tamiesie home the DeKeater residence the fireplace finished in 1916 for the East Side Business Men’s Club in Portland and others. Founded originally in 1910 in the City of Portland by David Shope 1862-1948 having developed his specialized brick-making machinery for clay & concrete bricks as featured in the final photograph the company’s products quickly proved popular with Arts & Crafts architects in the Pacific Northwest. Shope used a patented process to achieve what he termed the “Red Wire Cut†and “Old Gold Rough Texture†for commercial facades and also used concrete cast stone to achieve special effects and sold his licensed machinery to contractors as well. By 1922 he heavily marketed the fact that the Shope facades were the only ones to mostly survive the 1922 Astoria fire. He also aggressively protected his patents suing competitors on a regular basis. After 1923 he sold out to the Eugene Concrete Pipe Company and returned to Lake City MN where he lived with his daughter Birdie. Gensler 1873-1968 was a German-American photographer in San Francisco CA who operated Columbia Commercial Studio from about 1915 through World War II before moving back to Alameda CA and in two of the photos he has proudly displayed his 1915 Harley-Davidson V-Twin motorcycle in the foreground. We could find no similar album or collection of photographs in any holdings for the Shope Brick Co. Shope Brick Co., [Columbia Commercial Studio, 167 Fourth Ave.], unknown
1930P2522Montreal: Canadian Pacific c. 1930. Very Good; laid down on acid-free paper for long-term preservation. Image Size : 454x301 mm 17.87x11.85 Inches Platemark Size : Paper Size : 480x328 mm 18.90x12.91 Inches Coloring: Printed in Color Medium: Lithograph Categories: Advertising; Posters; Transportation Ships;20th Century Art Art Nouveau & Deco; Canadian Pacific unknown
190254207Chicago: Published by the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company 1902. 1902. First edition thus. 14 1/4" x 10 1/4" printed newspaper 8 pp. triple column illustrated from photographs map of the "Great Rock Island Route System." This is Vol. XXII No. 1. Chicago January 1902. "The Western Trail is published by the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific R'Y - The Great Rock Island Route - as a quarterly and issued in the interests of the above named Company. Its endeavor will be to give its readers in considerable detail facts as to emigration securing homes and the industrial interests of the country traversed by THE GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE in the states of Kansas Colorado and Texas and the Indian and Oklahoma Territories and in a general way show the industrial interests in all the states traversed by this line. Copies for a year will be mailed free." ---- Quoted from The Western Trail. Features include the Seven-Six Ranch of W. D. Wagner a few miles from Dalhart Texas that shows a ranch scene with a wonderful view of a windmill in operation. Articles about towns in Indian Territory New Mexico Colorado Oklahoma and Texas with special coverage on Addington Indian Territory Cloudcroft New Mexico Santa Rosa New Mexico and Burlington Colorado the county seat of Kit Carson County. Also some information on growing crops such as rice and broom corn. All in all an interesting newspaper for its day. This item has had detailed work by a master paper conservator as it has been deacidified a few small portions have been mended with Japanese paper and any tears or paper loss have been infilled. It has been housed in a transparent polyester "Mylar" sleeve to protect against dirt and handling. A very good and serviceable copy. Published by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, 1902. unknown
188741282N. P.: Crocker & Co. 1887. 1887. RAILROAD CALIFORNIA. First edition. 6 1/4" x 13 3/4" goldenrod colored paper folds to 6 1/4" x 3 3/8" two-sided eight panel timetable with exquisite scenes a map and train schedules for the Northern California lines of the railroad. The timetable has engraved vignettes and ornate lettering by E. Schultze. This is an attractive museum quality timetable and one of the rarest and finest early Southern Pacific railroad pieces that we have handled. It's in near fine condition and 130 years old. Crocker & Co., 1887. unknown
4047San Francisco:: The Railroad A. H. Printing Co. . Cincinnati O. Illustrated with halftones; ii and 76 pp. 8vo limp tan full simulated leather title in gilt on front cover together with stamped presentation statement; spine expertly rebacked; very small piece lacking from top outer corner. Institutionally common scarce in trade. This is the original edition NOT a print-on-demand book.Philadelphia-born Hiram Sellers Kneedler 1859/60–1941 was a Newspaper editor and publisher who owned various newspapers in Iowa including the The Times in Cherokee and The Boone Republican and who wrote several travel books for the railroads. In 1913 he uprooted his family and drove them all in his 1913 Studebaker to California where he stayed for about 10 years doing various jobs including working on newspapers and becoming Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce for San Bernardino California. He then returned to Eldora Iowa and brought The Ledger. At some point he moved back to California and he died in Los Angeles in 1941.At the time Kneedler wrote this very little was known of this coastal area. It had been sparsely populated and its development stunted by the continuing unrest in Mexico. It was only after Texas came into the United States that serious efforts were made to populate this part of the country and extol its many advantages. [San Francisco:: The Railroad] A. H. Printing Co., ., Cincinnati, O.,. hardcover
1859013021San Francisco: Towne & Bacon 1859. Small faded ink stamp on front wrapper and an old ink accession number. Contained in a cloth clamshell box with a printed paper label. First Edition. Original Printed Wrappers. Very Good. Towne & Bacon Paperback
18389126Ithaca NY: Published by the Author 1838. First edition. 8vo xii 13-371pp. Folding map of Oregon Territory at front and one plate here between pgs 208 and 209. Contemporary sheep with black spine label gilt lettering. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Front pastedown stained mild to moderate foxing throughout. Map with single small tear at fold neat tape repair at edge few spots of foxing. A very good example with attractive fragile map. <br /> <br /> First edition in contemporary binding of this popular book which went through at least four editions in the 1840s and contained one of the first widely circulated maps to contain reliable information about the Oregon Territory. Parker's journal details his fur trading expedition in the Rockies in 1835 for part of which he was accompanied by Marcus Whitman. The group arrived in Walla Walla in October 1835 and returned East 2 years later via ship around Cape Horn. A cornerstone Pacific Northwest title. <br /> <br /> Howes P89. Wagner-Camp 70. Washington 89 60. Published by the Author unknown
1930P2525Montreal: Canadian Pacific c. 1930. Very Good; laid down on acid-free paper for long-term preservation. Image Size : 276x415 mm 10.87x16.34 Inches Platemark Size : Paper Size : 302x444 mm 11.89x17.48 Inches Coloring: Printed in Color Medium: Lithograph Categories: Advertising; Transportation Ships; Posters; Canadian Pacific unknown