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184835414Cass County Bartow County Georgia: n.p. 1848. Letter. Good. Letter. Approx. 10" x 8". 4 pages. 2 pages of content and one page with address. Paper is folded. A couple of light red partial wax seals on the address side. Letter transcribed as best as possible:<br /> <br /> Iron Works Cass County Georgia Sept 15 1848<br /> <br /> Mr J. H. Parker<br /> <br /> Dear Sir<br /> <br /> Being absent from home when your letters arrived at the Post Office Is the cause of me not writing you sooner. The money for the machine came duly to hand I am sorry that I can not send you the castings for the machine Our Furnaces is not making good Iron And has not make any good Iron since your Order arrived from Mr Ford It requires good Iron for making the castings We will after stop our Furnances since week or two until we put in new hearth as soon as we get that done we send your castings right on I send your machine to Rail Road to day the the repeated agent said he would send it right on in a few days I hope that it reach you in due time The machine is New & it not cut so well at the start as it will when used a while I will be sirtain to send the casting as soon as their are made write to me soon as convient and to let know whether you have received the machine or not <br /> <br /> Very Respectfully Yours signed Jacob D Shoup<br /> <br /> N B<br /> <br /> The castings you spoke of for Buggs &c cant be furnished at a short notice if you will send the pattens for the same when we get our Furnance in good fix again Your J D S<br /> <br /> We will send them to Rail Road four four cents per pound that will be much better than buying them in Augusta at 18 cts per pound Ours will be as neat any you can get from Augusta J D H<br /> <br /> On the back side is the address<br /> <br /> Iron Works Ga Sept 18th <br /> <br /> Mr Isaac H Parker Newborn P O Newton Co Georgia END<br /> <br /> Georgia business man and industrialist Mark Anthony Cooper formed the Etowah Iron Works in present day Bartow County with Ironmakers Moses and Jacob Stroup in the 1840's. Etowah was located just north of Cartersville Georgia in former Cass County. The Iron Works were destroyed by the Union Army in 1864 and after the War the area remained in ruins. <br /> <br /> From from the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography 6 volumes edited by William S. Powell:<br /> <br /> "Moses Stroup the eldest son of Jacob was born in Lincoln County N.C. With little formal schooling he was brought up in the iron business. Many contemporaries considered him to be one of the "most expert furnacemen" in the South and a "remarkable genius" in the iron business as well as a good money-maker but a "poor keeper." He accompanied his father to South Carolina about 1815 and when Jacob moved to Georgia in the late 1820s Moses stayed behind. But in 1843 he joined his father at Cass County Ga. and bought him out. Moses built a rolling mill and rolled some of the first railroad iron made in Georgia some of which was used on the state-owned Western and Atlantic. In 1847 he sold the Cass County works to Mark Anthony Cooper and Company and shortly moved to Alabama where he bought ore lands from the government and began the Round Mountain Furnace in 1849". <br /> <br /> From wikipedia:<br /> <br /> Bartow County was created from the Cherokee lands of the Cherokee County territory on December 3 1832 and named Cass County after General Lewis Cass 1782–1866 Secretary of War under President Andrew Jackson Minister to France and Secretary of State under President James Buchanan3 who was instrumental in the removal of Native Americans from the area. However the county was renamed on December 6 1861 in honor of Francis S. Bartow because of Cass's support of the Union4 even though Bartow never visited in the county living 200 miles 320 km away near Savannah all of his life. Cass had supported the doctrine of popular sovereignty the right of each state to determine its own laws independently of the Federal government the platform of conservative Southerners who removed his name. The first county seat was at Cassville but after the burning of the county courthouse and the Sherman Occupation the seat moved to Cartersville where it remains. n.p. unknown
188846016N.Y.: Burgoyne Quick Printing Co. 1888. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. Removed from a larger volume rear wrapper lacking minor soiling and browning ownership stamps and page renumbering in red. 17 pp. Sm. 4to. The Iron Mountain Railroad Company of Memphis was part of Jay Gould's extensive network of Railroads later taken over by his son named in this document George Jay Gould 1864-1923 Stamped on front wrapper & first leaf: Property of White & Kemble who'd published "Atlas and Digest of Railroad Mortgages" at the turn of the 20th century. We could locate no copies of this document in OCLC nor in other online sources. Burgoyne Quick Printing Co. unknown
AQ27281s.i. London: s.n. s.d. c. 1730 3pp 1. Docket title to verso of second leaf. Disbound with slight chipping at gutter and extremities old folds slightly browned to extremities. Wax crayon numeral and ink paginations at head. A rare example of early eighteenth-century lobbying literature composed 'four years since' ironmaster and mintmaster William Wood 1671-1730 began exploiting newly developed methods of producing 'Iron with Oar and Pitcoal in Air-Furnaces' in enormous industrial works at Whitehaven apparently composed to discourage the Government from providing funds for the building of further furnaces near Chelsea high-road. In addition to decrying the quality of the iron produced and 'several notorious Frauds practised' by Wood's operation this work warned of the danger of his somewhat novel company incorporation practices and the possibility of these resulting in 'Stock-Jobbing and the Arts of raising Bubbles'. Rare; ESTC locates a single copy BL. ESTC T20614. Folio. [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1730] unknown
190546613Cincinnati OH: Iron Molders’ Journal Feb. - Dec. 1905. 5 vols. 4 79-158 4; 4 159-248 5; 4 753-824 4; 4 825-896 4; 4 897-967 5 pp. Numerous photos text illustrations illustrated ads. Blue-tinted printed & illustrated softcovers some dustsoiling edgewear some rubbing still a VG- set of these labor union journals in original condition. First editions of these exceedingly scarce original union journals from the International Molders and Foundry Workers Union of North America which was an affiliated Union with the AFL-CIO and is now part of the Glass Molders Pottery Plastics and Allied Workers International Union. Iron Molders’ Journal, paperback
190753081St. Louis: Sam'l F. Myerson Prtg. Co. n.d. ca 1907. ca 1907. 8 3/4" x 5" in colorful pictorial wrappers. 52pp. Map. Black and white illustrations throughout. Information on preparing for a trip to Mexico followed by information and photographs of what might expect to see and experience along the way from St. Louis to Mexico City. Photographs and information on Topo Chico Monterrey Saltillo Cedral Bocas San Luis Potosi Tampico Queretaro Patzcuaro Chapultepec the Viga Canal Mexico City bullfights ancient pyramids etc. A wonderful collection of photographs taken by S.W. Matteson C.W. Archer and C.B. Waite. Fold-out map 14 1/2" x 8 3/4" showing system route from St. Louis to Mexico City inside rear wrapper. Covers and title page lightly soiled. Crease at top corner of front wrapper and with 1/2" closed tear along with scuffing and rubbing to both wrappers and to spine. Very good. A very nicely produced booklet. Sam'l F. Myerson Prtg., Co., n.d. [ca 1907]. unknown
188540240N. P.: Privately printed n. d. ca 1885. 1885. First edition. 2 3/4" x 4 1/4" full color advertising card. Message reads "Home Industry." Pacific Stove & Iron Works Co. Manufacturers of the Rose Camelia and Lily Ranges With Phoenix Patent Fuel Saving Grates 939 Market Street S. F. Verso is unprinted. Fine. Privately printed, n. d. (ca 1885). unknown
18693723Galveston Tx 1869. Very good. 2pp. on a single folded folio sheet of lined paper with integral blank plus fourteen partially-printed receipts completed in manuscript. Minor dust-soiling creasing and edge wear. A post-Civil War manuscript agreement from Texas with the signatures of twenty-six investors transferring their stock in the Brazos Iron Bridge Company to John Sealy of the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company. Additionally the document is noted and signed on the verso by Sealy transferring those same shares to Thomas W. Peirce. The document is accompanied by fourteen receipts for installment payments on capital stock purchased in the Brazos Iron Bridge Company some of which relates directly to the larger transfer agreement. The Brazos Iron Bridge Company was organized in 1867. Its mission was to construct a railway bridge across the Brazos River. The bridge completed in July 1869 was purchased by the Buffalo Bayou Brazos and Colorado Railway later known as the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company. When the dust settled on the various transactions among the shareholders John Sealy owned a one-eighth interest in the railway company. Sealy moved from Pennsylvania to Galveston in 1846 and became an important early Galveston merchant real estate investor and railroad magnate. unknown
18858436New York: Agate Iron Ware Manufacturing Co.; Macgowan & Slipper Printers 30 Beekman Street 1885. Booklet stapled in wrappers 15.5 x 12 cm. 136 pages. Illustrated throughout. Title from cover. Date from page of medals received. Stated "Fourth Edition". There were at least three distinctly different works with this title issued by the corporate author: 1890 72 pages with the Lalance and Grosjean Manufacturing Co name; 1891 32 pages an almanac not a trade catalogue; and this one undated ~136 pages a trade catalogue. Promotional combined trade catalogue and cookbook for Agate Iron Ware Manufacturing Company manufacturers of kitchen ware. Illustrated descriptions of the wares typically two to a page face recipes. The recipes are decidedly Anglo-French not American and they lean towards more elegant fare. Illustrations include the Agate Iron Ware manufacturing plant on front wrapper verso an assortment of medals and awards and an image of a homemaker sitting in her kitchen surrounded by Agate Ware while consulting this cookbook. The front panel bears the printed promotional statement "Compliments of F. A. Walker & Co. Cornhill". In original chromolithograph wrappers decorated in a Japonisme-style. Small stain along bottom edge of text block bit of bumping to the corners. Wrappers worn at corners and with some wear to the bottom of the spine panel. Overall near very good. Agate Iron Ware Manufacturing Co.; Macgowan & Slipper, Printers, 30 Beekman Street unknown
32483AB1974. Scotland 1974-2002. Oblong-Folio 44 cm wide x 36 cm high. Hardcover / Original Full-Leather Folders with stong black cardboards and original tissue-guards. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. With hundreds of manuscript annotations on the photography the photography-technique film used and with extensive elaborations on each photograph in these albums. More images on request ! Album 1: Covers the years 1974 1977 and 1978. The West Highland Line is walked from Arrochar a 1977 driving and camping holiday and a 1978 seventeen day touring holiday with many nights sleeping in a car fill the leaves with c. 200 b/w original photographs. Album 2: Covers the years 1991 and 1992. It is noted that 1990 is the fourth year that returning locomotives from the Mallaig line will work south over the West Highland main line. Images of Corrour Summit Glasgow to Fort William trains and many many more bridges viaducts tunnels stations and signalling equipment fill the leaves. c.182 b/w original photographs. Album 3: Covers 1993. More colour photographs now fill the leaves and annotations cease to second half of album. c 270 b/w colour and tinted original photographs. Album 4: Covers 1999 and 2002. Many images from The Highlands Rail Festival in Sept 1999. c.250 b/w and colour original photographs. An extraordinary photographic record and passion project presented in 4 huge well-bound albums containing over 900 fine photographs taken curated and annotated by an unidentified railway enthusiast and talented photographer. The albums span 4 decades recording trips to some of the most scenic and famous rail locations in the UK. The West Highland Line is returned to again and again over the decades and our photographer captures Scotlands most dramatic landscapes and railways as the route passes on its way from Glasgow to Mallaig through sections including Corrour and Rannoch Moor. Albums and contents in fine condition. A tissue guard between every leaf protects the photographs within. A single photograph of a middle aged man among every other photograph which records a detail of the railway is the only clue to the albums previous ownership and perhaps authorship. Partial description by our colleague Dr.Christian White from Christian White Rare Books in Ilkley UK. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The West Highland Line Scottish Gaelic: Rathad Iarainn nan Eilean "Iron Road to the Isles" is a railway line linking the ports of Mallaig and Oban in the Scottish Highlands to Glasgow in Central Scotland. The line was voted the top rail journey in the world by readers of independent travel magazine Wanderlust in 2009 ahead of the notable Trans-Siberian line in Russia and the Cuzco to Machu Picchu line in Peru. The ScotRail website has since reported that the line has been voted the most scenic railway line in the world for the second year running. The West Highland Line is one of two railway lines that access the remote and mountainous west coast of Scotland the other being the Kyle of Lochalsh Line which connects Inverness with Kyle of Lochalsh. The line is the westernmost railway line in Great Britain. At least in part the West Highland Line is the same railway line as that referred to as the West Highland Railway. History: The route was built in several sections: Glasgow Queen Street to Cowlairs Junction - Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Cowlairs Junction to Bowling - Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway later absorbed into the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bowling to Dumbarton Central - Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway operated by the Caledonian Railway Dumbarton Central to Dalreoch - Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway Dalreoch to Craigendoran - Glasgow Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway Craigendoran to Fort William opened 11 August 1894 - West Highland Railway sponsored by the North British Railway Crianlarich to Oban - Callander and Oban Railway operated by the Caledonian Railway. There is an additional section from Fort William or a junction near Fort William to Mallaig built as the Mallaig Extension Railway. The West Highland Railway approved the construction of the line at their annual meeting in January 1895. The line faced potential closure as part of the Beeching cuts in 1963 and again in 1995 due to reduced revenues. Route description: Shortly after leaving Glasgow Queen Street station and beyond Queen Street Tunnel the line diverges from the main trunk route to Edinburgh Waverley and Perth at Cowlairs and follows a northwesterly course through the suburbs of Maryhill and Kelvindale. Between Westerton and Dumbarton the route is shared with the North Clyde Line to Helensburgh Central before branching northward at Craigendoran Junction towards Garelochhead the section where the West Highland Line itself is generally accepted to begin. It gives high-level views of the Gare Loch and Loch Long before emerging alongside the northwesterly shores of Loch Lomond then climbs Glen Falloch to Crianlarich. The branch to Oban diverges at Crianlarich an important Highland junction of both road and rail and runs through Glen Lochy to Dalmally and through the Pass of Brander to reach salt water at Taynuilt and Connel Ferry before a final climb over a hill to Oban. About three miles five kilometres from Crianlarich the Mallaig and Oban routes both pass through the village of Tyndrum but they are served by separate stations making it an unusually small settlement to be served by more than one railway station. After Bridge of Orchy the line to Mallaig climbs onto Rannoch Moor past the former crossing point at Gorton Crossing to Rannoch station. In winter the moor is often covered with snow and deer may be seen running from the approaching train. The station at Corrour on the moor is one of the most remote stations in Britain and is not accessible by any public road. This is the summit of the line at 1347 ft 410 m above sea level. Carrying on northwards the line descends above the shores of Loch Treig and through the narrow Monessie Gorge. The final stop before Fort William is Spean Bridge. The section between Fort William and Mallaig passes over the Glenfinnan Viaduct through Arisaig with its views of the Small Isles of Rùm Eigg Muck and Canna and the white sands of Morar before coming to Mallaig itself. With the exception of the route between Glasgow Queen Street and Helensburgh Upper and the short section between Fort William Junction and Fort William station the railway is signalled using the Radio Electronic Token Block controlled from the signal box at Banavie station. Notable railway-related features Glenfinnan Viaduct The Horse Shoe Curve between Upper Tyndrum and Bridge of Orchy The Cruach Rock snowshed between Rannoch and Corrour Glenfinnan Viaduct between Locheilside and Glenfinnan The Pass of Brander stone signals between Dalmally and Taynuilt Arisaig is the most westerly railway station in Great Britain West Highland Line in film: Train crossing bridge at Banavie The summit of the line just north of Corrour Glenfinnan Viaduct on the line between Fort William and Mallaig is a filming location for the Hogwarts Express in the Harry Potter series of films. Eddie McConnell's poetic documentary A Line for All Seasons 1970 showcases the line and its history set against the scenery of the western highlands as it changes through the seasons. Corrour features in Trainspotting 1996 directed by Danny Boyle. Source: Wikipedia hardcover
0484231383.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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19742090502113718076Not Available 1974. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
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0331742802.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1925110276London UK: British Museum 1925. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as issued. 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued. British Museum London UK 1925. 175 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Light general wear. Size: 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. History::Ancient 6700 6700 British Museum hardcover
2013x-3642358330Springer 2013. Paperback. New. 2013 edition. 284 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. Springer paperback
2013x-3642364144Springer-Verlag New York Inc 2013. Paperback. New. revised edition. 196 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.40 inches. Springer-Verlag New York Inc paperback
2010x-3642159974Springer 2010. Paperback. New. 2010 edition. 145 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.50 inches. Springer paperback
20132081502111904015Peking University Medical Press 2013. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Peking University Medical Press paperback
1963391139New York: The Spiral Press 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. Black and white illustrations. Rubbing on the edges else near fine. Interpretations in crystal of thirty-one new poems by contemporary American poets. The Spiral Press hardcover
20081235209AISI American Iron and Steel Institute 2008. paperback. Used-Like New/N/A. complete with errataClean crisp copy with no markings. AISI American Iron and Steel Institute paperback
20071235208AISI American Iron and Steel Institute 2007. paperback. Used-Like New/N/A. two volumes - includes CommentaryClean crisp copy with no markings. AISI American Iron and Steel Institute paperback
1981029549San Antonio TX: Alamo Iron Works 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 757pp.; HB burntyellow w/blk.&orange; slight rub w/lt.spotting on foredge&tanning on endpapers; cleantight pgs. "Steel - Heavy Hardware - Foundry & Fabrication - Manufacuring" illus. <br/> <br/> Alamo Iron Works hardcover
