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202 pages. A very interesting look back to the days of World War I on the home front. Topics include: Building a House a Day in Kenosha; Concrete Construction; A Portfolio of Beautiful Homes; Wall Board; Steel Square; Brick Construction for Modern Carpenters and Builders; Out of the Job; What's New; and more. Dozens of pages of marvelous contemporary advertisements including a broad assortment of cement mixers. Binding intact. Unmarked. Some chipping to periphery, sunning to spine and fly spots near spine on front cover. A wonderful snapshot of the building construction technology of almost 90 years ago. Book
218 pages. 2010 Design & Advertising Awards Annual plus winners of printing awards. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
95 pages. Includes: Lucinda Leads a Fuller Life, by R.T.; Official Correspondence, Reduction Of, by James Halliday; The Girl From Marib, by Cameron Forrest; At China's Door, by Eric Simons; The Baobab, by John Welman; Georgians in Scotland, by R.J. Eden; The Old Men, by J.A. Lyall; The Looker-on. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
96 pages. Includes: On the Alto Parana, by Gordon Meyer; Storm in a Coffee Cup, by Leslie Gardiner; Us Sinners, Now, by G. Lyden; In the Pipe Line, by G. Uloth; Travelling Hopefully, by Guy Bellairs; Aftermath of a Wedding, by Norman Hinton; Kalahari Venture, by J.B. Carson. The Looker-on. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photo inside the Nelson exchange; Satisfactory growth in past year; Four-page article with photos on prospects for the Kaslo area; 6-page article with photos on 'Modern treatment of the Insane' - the establishment of Colony Farm by the Provincial Government; Photo of enormous fallen tree near Westholme; Table ranking exchanges in order of per cent good toll calls; Statement of Development - la table listing number of phones operating per exchange as at 1 December 1913; Photo montage of three Vancouver Island telephone officials; Company has caught up with its construction work; 7-page feature on Victoria, 'The Pride of the Last West' with great photos; Photo of 'Vancouver's Newest Skyscraper' - a 15-story building under construction at the corner of Hastings and Richards; Telephone Service Excellent; 7-page article with excellent photos of the Britannia Mine; Telephone Cables Underground (in Vancouver); photo of company vehicle; Photo of Port Alberni Exchange; Large photo of the Seymour Exchange under construction (Steel frame erected); 5-page illustrated feature of Port Alberni - the magnetic city on the west coast; The giving of good telephone service; Some transmission problems of the B.C. Telephone Co.; Photo inside Port Alberni Exchange; First teleautograph west of Chicago - at the new Hotel Vancouver; 5-page feature of towns that silver put on map - New Denver, Silverton, Sandon, surrounding which is the Slocan District, in which is located the Standard Mine - photos; Recent developments in telephone transmission; April trouble record in Seymour office; Wonderful photo-montage of Vancouver's business district; First Telephone Switchboard in use in Vancouver, 1885; Before and after photos of Point Grey Road and Powell St.; View of Granville St. from the C.P.R. Depot; Photo of the almost completed Hudson's Bay store; Two great panoramic photos of the Vancouver Harbour, from the water and from the land; Photo of Hastings St. West, looking east; photo of the new Hotel Vancouver; Photo montage of some of Vancouver's fine homes; Photo of English Bay Bathing Beach; large photo of Second Beach, Stanley Park; Photo of the Interurban Depot B.C.E.R.Co.; View of Grand Forks looking west; Photo of the Granby smelter, largest in the British Empire; 5-page feature on Grand Forks; What are the duties of a Wire Chief?; Photos of the B.C. Tel. float as appeared in the Vancouver Pageant; Interior Telephone Extensions - exchanges of Kootenay, Boundary and Slocan to be connected; 1899 Vernon and Nelson Telephone Co. Ltd. phone directory; Operator School photo; Nice photo of the 6 chief operators of the Kootenay District; Where operators are trained - illustrated multi-page article; Personnel of Plant Organization; Marketing Telephone Poles - 2 page article with 2 photos; Operator's School Equipment; Cover photo of public telephone booths at the C.P.R. Depot, Vancouver; Nice photo of the Seymour general public office, Vancouver; Work of the Commercial Department - 6 pages with many photos of personnel; Printing a Telephone Directory; Getting out the Monthly Accounts - 2 photos; Telephony on the battlefield - use in the Russian-Japanese War; Photo in head office in Vancouver; Making the Telephone Valuable; photo portraits of executives William Farrell, George Halse, and o Book
Features: The Carriage Watch; George Marsh - Ohio Clockmaker; Mystery of Breguet Watch No. 3224 - secret revealed?; Early Giants - Edwin B. Burt; The Clock Repair Primer - an introduction to the mechanics of pendulum clocks and basic clock repair for the novice - part 3; Serious Fun with Time; Carson City's Tower Clock; Union Loom Works Company; Correcting Crossman; British Horology 1650-1775; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Restoration of the Woodstock Academy Tower Clock; The Clock Repair Primer - Part 5; The Forgotten Watch Company; Building an Equation Clock; Cast Clock Cases; Waltham's Up and Down Work; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: South Bend Watches; Clocks of North Italy; A Tale of Two Ohio Tower Clocks; The Clock Repair Primer - Part 6; and more. Unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: From the Pages of History; Understanding the Verge Fusee Watch; Seth Thomas/Eli Terry Inside-Outside Escapement, Offset Pendulum Pillar and Scroll Clock; and more. Unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: "Willard & Nolen" Ornamental Painters; The Verge Fusee Watch - Part II; The Chronoscope; and more. Unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Musical Clocks of Early America and Their Music; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Christopher Townsend Jr.'s Watch Paper; The Rise and Decline of Chronometer Manufacturing in Great Britain; The Noble Jerome Patent 30-Hr Brass Weight Movement and Related Movements; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: The Role of Wisconson Residents in the Early American Clock Industry; The Vienna Regulator; Illinois Watches from the Collection of Robert G. Williams; Center Pinion Arbor Replacement; Doing it the Osborn Way; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Book
30 pages. Features: Victorian Silver; Oriental Cloisonne Enamels - a Western Collection; 100 Years after The Great Boz (Charles Dickens); The London Market; New Form of Pattern Glass for Canadian Collectors - 20th Century Antiques; Louisbourg - the Gibraltar of Canada; Don't Just Stand There - a dummyboard figure; Button Collecting; The Simeon Perkins House in Nova Scotia. Unmarked with moderate wear. Address label clipped from back cover. A sound copy. Magazine
30 pages. Features: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria - Japanese Ceramics; Osborne House - Queen Victoria's seaside home on the Isle of Wight; 19th Century Doll Carriages; English Delftware - Western Canadian Collection; Daniel Fowler, R.C.A. - Canadian Water-Colourist; Early Ontario Floor Coverings; English Valentines. Some soiling to front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
30 pages. Features: British Hall-Marks, J.S. Forbes; Arts of India and Nepal; From Greenland's Icy Mountains; London Letter - V.& A. Museum Shows Hungarian Art Treasures; An Outline of French Period Furniture; Art of Furniture Design - Contemporary Craftsmen; Little Boxes, by Mary Carol Wilson; Sam Slick's House; An Ancient Egyptian Wall Painting; For Those Who Eat Cheese - Cheese Collectibles. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
30 pages. Features: Parian Statuettes; Maisons du Quebec - The Maillou Place; Burlington Glass Site; Scottish Silverware - the Royal Scottish Museum; Unusual Exhibits in a Handmade Country - there are about 400 museums and art galleries in the Netherlands; Dried Bouquets for your Antiques; Canadian (Kitchen) Woodenware; Guide to Canadian Woods - Part 1 - Hardwoods. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
30 pages. Features: Papineau House - Old Montreal Reborn; London Letter - Kremlin has largest collection of Tudor and Stuart Plate; Port Hope Pottery, by Kathleen M. Graham Stearns; Antique Safari - Maritimes Adventure, by Ann Newton; Collecting Maps, by Alexander E. Macdonald, M.D.; A Timeless Season - Roloff Beny in Canada; Musee Historique de Vaudreuil Soulanges. Bit of writing atop front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
30 pages. Features: Domestic Silver in the Seventeenth Century; Rockingham Teawares; Lithographs, by Benita Miller; Burlington Glass Site - Part 3; Theorem Painting; Early Canadian Furniture, by D. B. Webster. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
30 pages. Features: 18th Century Wedgwood - Beeson Collection, Birmingham, Alabama; Master Potters of Quebec; Victorian Jewelry; Museum of Leaterhcraft; Defining Regency; Daniel Fowler, R.C.A. 1810-1894 - Part 2 - The Artist in Canada; Bermuda's Tucker House; Rouen Museum - Early Ironwork; Bermuda Fan Collection; The Cardinal's Strainer Dish. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
30 pages. Features: Furniture of Upper Canada; Furniture of French Canada; Tibetan Jewelry; From Modesty to Mod - the ROM's Centennial exhibition of costumes worn in Canada; The Fascination of Misericords; How to Become a Collector Without Knowing It. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
30 pages. Features: Confederation Silversmiths; 300 Years of Canadian Art; Eskimo Art - A Collector's Viewpoint; Animal Menagerie of the 1700's; A Short History of Antique Miniature Furniture; An Outline of English Period Furniture - Oak, Mahogany; Contemporary French Tapestry. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
30 pages. Features: The Old Mills of Quebec; Leith Hill Place; Bateman Tea Service; Bit of writing atop front cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
30 pages. Features: The Old Mills of Quebec; Leith Hill Place; Bateman Tea Service; The Milk Glass Hen; A Home With Antiques - the Montreal home of Mrs. James Grier; Adventures in Collecting - old silver; First Sotheby Auction of new season brings record prices; The Art of Stencilling. Bit of writing atop front cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
30 pages. Features: English Chair Styles 1660-1860; Royal Worcester Flower Making; The Pre-Columbian Artifacts of Mexico; A Tribute to the Modest Collector - J.S. McLean; Silver Cream Jugs. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
