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193013913New Jersey: Private 1930. First Edition Thus. Leather bound. Very good. Original album with photos ledgers scoring records and articles from various New Jersey Rifle Clubs of the 1930s including The Ridgewood Rifle Club The Jersey Rifle Association and The Garden State Rifle League. Folio 28pp 468pp. Three-quarter morocco four raised bands title in gilt on spine. Newspaper clippings of shooting competition records and wins affixed to leaves 28 unpaginated; 1-37pp of ledger. Hundreds of additional leaves with handwritten notes specifically records of car part sales to various New Jersey automotive garages. Additional items laid-in include an 8x10 photograph of the Ridgewood Rifle Club members three used card stock targets and a series of official reports from matches and game associations. Solid text block wear to covers and spine splitting to hinges. A unique piece of ephemera. Although the original compiler of this album is unknown certain names frequently appear throughout including Charlie Vanderbush and Bill Troeger. Private unknown
195814432San Diego CA: The Continental Dance Club ca. 1958. Wraps. Very good . 4to. Faux-leather covered plastic spiral bound album measuring approximately 10.5” x 8.75”. 7 plastic covered paper leaves with 9 black and white photographs plus various clippings business documents and scrap material loosely mounted and laid in. Covers torn at upper spine crease to front cover at upper right. Contents well preserved loose articles with moderate wear. Very good overall. <br/><br/>A compact collection of 1950s photographs and archival material relating to The Continental Dance Club located at the Lafayette Hotel 2223 El Cajon Blvd. in San Diego. Five 8” x 10” photographs of the club’s interior and exterior stamped "K. Jordan-Day" reveal fine mid-century furnishings interior design and hand-painted signage. Four 5” x 7” prints show couples dancing. Business materials include an illustrated mailing envelope blank membership forms a blank sales contract a proof sheet and two clippings of an ad which appeared in the San Diego Union Tribune and a rough draft plus finished direct mail TLS from the club’s grand opening ad campaign. The club operated on a membership model and promised professional dance instruction along with the opportunity to "mix with wonderful people who share your enthusiasm for social friendship music and dancing." American entrepreneurship meets post-war optimism. The Continental Dance Club paperback books
16"x12.5" when folded in half. Features: Farm Clubs - PEI children learn stock care under government program - article and photos; Nice full-page colour ad for Kellogg's All-Bran features attractive female model on cover of weight control menu book; Cairndania - Canadian kennels produce international champions - Cairndania Kennels and Betty Hyslop of the Brockville area - photos and story; Nice full-page colour ad for '47 Ford cars; Dean of Ottawa - Paul "Daffy" Dean is the newly appointed manager of Ottawa's Nationals in the Border Baseball League - photos and story; Red Man's Burden - the state of Canada's Native Peoples, by Chief Teddy Yellowfly; The Great Air Robbery - fiction by Peter Carter-Page; Painless Childbirth? - Major article by June McFeely examines new anesthesias; Communism over France, by Joachim Joesten; Miss Letitia's Profession - fiction by Lupton A. Wilkinson; Television - "High Costs are Keeping it a Novelty for the Social Club and Public Gathering Place" - major article by Vince Lunny... Fascinating!; Laying down the Law - fiction by Gregory Clark; Humourous Yachting Story by Ken Johnstone; Book Reviews; Judas is Harriet - fiction by Jacqueline Sirois; 20 page colour comics section; Joy in the Morning - story by P.G. Wodehouse; Wonderful large photo of 2 year-old James W. Hurston in kilt; B.C.'s depressed Whale Industry - photos and article; "Baby Farm - Adoption Racket" libel suit against The Standard fails - brought by the Ideal Maternity Home of East Chester, NS; How Hamilton, Ontario is promoting itself - story and photos; Canada's top fighter pilot ace "Buzz" Beurling can't find a flying job! - story and photo; Edgar Simons kills the wife and child of his best friend, Frederick Rupert at Pancake Bay, Ontario; California Fashions; Careers in Nursing; Sports News; Highly informative article (with photos) of what Toronto Maple Leaf players do in the summer; Pool Train - Crack Montreal-Toronto Flyer resumes pre-war schedule - super photos with text; Monsieur Verdoux - First Charlie Chaplin movie since "The Great Dictator" creates controversy among critics - many photos and write-up; Colour Chevrolet ad on back page; and more. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A great vintage copy of this feature-oriented weekly which in later years became the Weekend Magazine. Newspaper
Very Good Greek, Modern (post 1453) Original wrappers. Large 8vo. (21 x 16 cm). In Greek (Modern). 21 p. First and only edition of this exceedingly rare and one of the earliest church regulations of the Greek Orthodox community of Attalia [Antalya]. Attalia was not a large urban center or major trading hub, but neither was the Greek Community marginal, and it was well integrated into the regional economy. It was different from other areas in Asia Minor due to a combination of factors ranging between demography, geography, local Orthodox leadership, and the city's social milieu. In contrast to the West-coast cities and many villages in Asia Minor with Orthodox majorities, Attalia's population was only about one-third Orthodox. The main area of difference in Antalya was the Community leadership, which was key to the maintenance of cordial relationships between Christians and Muslims, and the secular and ecclesiastical elements of Orthodox leadership in Antalya tended to cooperate for collective benefit. Throughout this period, a local elite managed to control education and other Community institutions, perpetuating an identity that was compatible with the local Ottoman context. In this last period, the Greek Community printed several books and tractates including a brief history of Antalya and this "regulation book" in the Meli Printing House, which was the only printing house of the Greek Community in Antalya. Only one institutional copy is located in OCLC 1030075331 (Suna Kiraç Library of the Koç University).
Splendid cover illustration of planes in spotlights by W. Gord. Wallace. 40 pages. Features: Nice Fairchild ad with photos of their Wasp, 21 and 41 models; Great photo ad for Canadian Vickers Limited showing their Vedette; Canadian Pacific Express photo ad shows packages beinng loaded into plane from a truck - super vintage ad for Canada's first air express service; Photo ad for Armstrong-Siddeley's Jaguar 455 H.P. air-cooled static radial engine; Great article with five photos discusses Industrial Photography in aviation - with aerial photos of American Falls at Niagara, Industrial Hamilton, General Motors of Canada's Oshawa Plant, and Ontario Hospital at Hamilton; The National Aeronautic Association of the United States - article by Senator Hiram Bingham; Saskatoon Aero Club - article with two photos including R. Randall, C. Yule, R. Schwinghammer, Dr. L. McConnell, T. Sigsworth, J.F. Bythell, S. McClelland and R. Mayson; News from the flying clubs; Expansion announced by Canadian Vickers, Limited; Photo of the inauguration of Canadian Pacific Express bi-weekly air service; Formation of the Canadian Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company; New metal Gipsy Moth passes strict government tests - article with photos; Helioplane developed by John E. Hess of New Westminster, B.C. - article; Great full-page photo ad for the Gipsy Moth by De Havilland; Short-wave wireless transmitter devised by R.N. Johnston and Charles Ward, two young engineers of the Ontario Forestry Branch; Ad for Montreal's Continental School of Flying with photo of Capt. J.H. St. Martein; Principles of Aeroplane Construction - article; Super vintage full-page photo ad for the rotary "Snow King" plow by J.S. Innes Limited; Full-page ad for the Wright Whirlwind engine; Nice full-page ad for the Woods Manufacturing Company of Ottawa shows their flying suits; Ad for the Monocoupe inside back cover; Rambler ad on back cover promotes their all-metal lighte aeroplanes. Average wear. Binding intact. One-inch opening to top of coverfold. A sound vintage copy of this excellent early issue. Book
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1920List3307Evansville Indiana: N.p. 1920. Poster on heavy cardstock measuring 14 x 10 ¾ inches. Wrinkling and some water stains; very good plus. A poster advertising a fundraising drive to preserve Cedar Hill the home of Frederick Douglass in Washington D.C. The drive was organized by the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs an early civil rights group then headed by Sallie Wyatt Stewart 1881–1951. Stewart was an educator and activist from Evansville Illinois; she was president of the Indiana Federation of Colored Women and served on the executive board of the National Association of Colored Women among numerous other activities. The NACWC along with Douglass’ widow’s Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association completed their restoration of Cedar Hill in 1922 and owned the property until it was taken over by the National Parks Service in 1962. N.p. unknown
19928165Solar 1992 223 pages in8. 1992. Reliure editeur cartonnée. 223 pages. Ce manuel pratique de Vivien Saunders est un guide complet pour apprendre et progresser au golf. Il couvre tous les aspects du jeu : le choix et l'utilisation du matériel (des drivers aux putters) la maîtrise des techniques de base (stance grip swing) l'entraînement la stratégie en compétition et l'interprétation des règles. L'approche est adaptée au niveau du joueur plutôt qu'à la performance des champions
15565Paris, Germer Baillière (Tomes 1 à 3), puis Félix Alcan (Tomes 4 à 6), 1869-1888 ; 6 tomes in-8 (21,8 x 14 cm) ; demi-chagrin vert-empire, dos à nerfs soulignés de pointillés et filets dorés, titre et tomaison dorés (reliure de l'époque) ; VIII, 604 ; 512 ; 532 ; 502 ; 461, (1) errata ; 458, (2) pp. catalogue.
19252071<p>13-3/4 x 9 inches. Unpaginated issues approx. 300pp total. Includes a total of 27 complete issues: Vol. 1 Nos. 1-12 including two different issues of No. 10; Vol. 2 Nos. 1-12; and Vol. 3 Nos. 1-3 plus the first two leaves of No. 5. Bound in dark brown cloth with gilt lettering to front board issues mimeographed on different colored sheets mimeo illustrations throughout. Boards worn rubbed and spotted with fraying to corners; chipping to foot of endpaper and edges of Vol. 2 No. 1; newspaper clippings pasted to inside front cover and front endpaper; light soiling to endpapers; at least one leaf of Vol. 3 No. 5 roughly excised. Occasional pencil marginalia possibly in the hand of Jean Monk himself.</p><p>Bound volume of over two years of this monthly publication of the National Fellowship Club a social group for Washington's lonely hearted. Founded around 1921 as the Lonesome Club of the Wilson Normal Community Center to create social opportunities for the influx of single people over 35 to the city during WWI the group acquired Jean Monk's services as president in 1922. It briefly became the Washington Pastime Club which issued a periodical called The Lonesome Bug before being renamed the National Fellowship Club in 1924.</p><p>The club met every Thursday evening to dance and later other evenings of the week as well. Eventually the Club claimed a membership of between 3000 to 4000."There are multitudes of men and women here far from home and without friends or acquaintances" Monk is quoted as saying in the Evening Star. "This club stands ready to welcome them to invite them to spend a pleasant and profitable evening and to offer them our fellowship and assistance in meeting others who like themselves perhaps are strangers in a strange land." Evening Star Dec. 28 1924</p><p>The newspaper includes information on upcoming dances as well as a section called "Fellowship Funnies" editorials news about other social clubs illustrations of costumes for different themed dances poems short narratives and even the occasional screed by Jean Monk about patriotism the "supreme good" and other topics.</p><p>Rare. We find no record of this or <em>The Lonesome Bug</em> in OCLC or other online records.</p> Jean Monk hardcover
1920222911920. Promotional materials and photographs documenting burlesque and nightclub performance in the United States between the 1920s and 1950s record the visibility of women performers within commercial entertainment industries centered in cities such as San Francisco and Las Vegas. These materials identify venues including Chez Paree the Colony Club Queen Night Club Stardust and Sinaloa and present showgirls and dancers within staged social and promotional contexts providing evidence of women's participation in nightlife economies during a period of restrictive gender norms. The archive supports research into women's labor history performance culture and the development of American nightlife as a commercial and social institution.<br /> <br /> Archive consists of fifteen pieces including photographs printed menus advertising postcards and novelty correspondence materials ranging in size from postcard format to larger menu broadsides and mounted souvenir folders. Photographs depict performers in sequined and feathered costumes on stage and within nightclub interiors as well as patrons posed in social settings documenting both performance and audience environments. Printed materials include a die cut menu and showbill from the Colony Club advertising a "Battle of the Burlesque Queens" alongside dining service an illustrated promotional letter card for the same venue incorporating humorous and suggestive language and a stylized menu from Chez Paree featuring modernist figure drawings. Additional postcards and advertisements depict named or unnamed performers in dance poses pinup style imagery and cartoon illustrations often accompanied by venue addresses and promotional text with some designed for mailing as souvenirs or folded correspondence.<br /> <br /> These materials were produced during a period when burlesque and nightclub entertainment operated as significant sectors of urban leisure culture combining performance dining and social interaction within commercial venues. The prominence of showgirls in promotional imagery reflects both the marketing strategies of these establishments and the central role of female performers in attracting audiences and shaping nightlife identity. The archive documents the expansion of entertainment circuits linking cities such as San Francisco and Las Vegas and the integration of visual promotion into the business of performance. Minor toning and edge wear to some pieces with photographs remaining clear and printed materials legible; overall very good condition. This archive provides concentrated primary documentation of mid twentieth century burlesque culture and the commercial presentation of women in American nightlife. unknown
8vo; 1st edition. Original Publishers green cloth with gilt design. 8vo; 24 cm; 196 pages, 192 pages, 216 pages, 243 pages. Vol. 1 carries the title, The Judaeans. Each volume includes essays from the following periods: [I.] 1897-1899. -- II. 1900-1917. -- III. 1918-1926. -- IV. 1926-1932. Contents: Vol I. - This introduction to the four volume publication outlines the organization. Essays include "Anti-Zionist Meeting", By-Laws of the Society, and more. - Vol II Includes a list of meetings and papers read, constitution, list of officers, list of members Articles are "President's Address as Tenth Anniversary Meeting - 'The Aims and Ideals of The Judaeans,'" Henry M. Leipziger, "Function of Jewish Scholarship," Josph Jacobs, "The Mission of the Jewish Encyclopedia," K. Kohler, "Dr, Schechter and Jewish Scholarship in America," Emil G. Hirsch, "Rebellion Against Being a Problem," Solomon Schechter, "Jewish Immigrants and Judaism in the United States," Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, "The Jews as Elements in the Population, Past and Present," Louis Marshall, "The Jew as a Citizen," Morris Loeb, "The Congress of Berlin and the Jew," George S. Hellman, "Louis Loeb - A Tribute," Leo Mielziner, "The Jews and Economic Life: A Review of Sombart's 'Jews and Capitalism,'" Samuel Schulman, "The Jew in his Relation to the Law of the Land," Max J. Kohler, "Address at Meeting in His Honor," Israel Abrahams, "Ruppin's 'Jews of Today,'" Maurice H. Harris, "Schnitzler's 'Prof. Bernardi,'" Bernard Naumberg, "The Jew as a Citizen of England," David de Sola Pool, "The Jew as a Citizen of France," Sol M. Strook, "The Jew as a Citizen in Germany," Leon Hühner, "The Jew as a Citizen in Holland, Italy and Switzerland," Arthur K. Kuhn, "Yiddish Literature in the United States - Its Relation to the Masses," Leon S. Moisseiff, "A Quarter Centiry of the Jewish Immigrant in America," Henry Moskowitz, "The Novel, Jew," Jacob H. Hollander. - Vol III Includes "Leipziger Memorial Exercises, " Addresses by Samson Lachman, Herbert L. Bridgman, Stephen S. Wise, Joseph L. Buttenweiser, George F. Kunz, and Louis Marshall, "The Essence of Judaism, " Theodore Reinach, "Meeting in Honor of the Earl of Reading, Lord Chief Justice of England and Special British Envoy to the United States, " addresses by Samson Lachman, Julius J. Frank, Jacob H. Schiff, Abram I. Elkus, Stephen J. Wise, The Earl of Reading, "Ameircan Jewish War Relief Abroad, " Daivd M. Bressler, "Biblical Criticism and Jewish Science, " Felix Perles, "Attitude of the Last Twenty Years and Present Conditions of Jewish Learning, " Ismar Elbogen, "Leisure, " Israel Abrahams, "The Lesson from Tutankh-Amon's Tomb for the Jew, " Kaufmann Kohler, "Israel Zangwill Meeting, " Addresses by Samson Lachman, Israel Zangwill, Louis Marshall, Horace Stern, Simeon Strunsky, "The Crisis of European Civilization (Noelting and Spengler), " Ludwig Stein, "Race Theory and Anti-Semitism, " Julius Goldstein, "Immigration and Racial Discrimination, " Max J. Kohler, "The Jewish Colonization Work in Russia, " James N. Rosenberg, "The World Court and the Protection of Racial and Religious Minorities, " Addresses by Samson Lachman, Louis Marshall, Manley O. Hudson, and Arthur K. Kuhn. - Vol IV includes: Summary of the Judaean meetings, 1926-1932, constitution, board of directors, list of members Articles are "Memorial od Samson lachman," Max J. Kohler, "Louis Marshall - In Momoriam," Samson lachman, "The Jew in German Literature," Leon Huhner, 150th Anniversary of Constitutional Establishment of Religious Liberty - "New York State's First Constitution," Louis Marshall, "The 150th Anniversary of Constitutional Establishment of Religious Liberty," Irving Lehman, "American Influences on the Development of Religious Liberty in Europe," Max J. Kohler, "George F. Moore's 'Judaism,'" Samuel Schulman, "Lewis Browne's 'That Man Heine,'" Elsa H. Naumberg, "Golden and Other Ghettos in Recent Fiction," Frank I. Schechter, "The Jew in Science," Morris R. Cohen, "Jewish Winners of the Nobel Prize," Benjamin Harrow, The Lessing-Mendelssohn Bi-Centenary - "Lessing," Ernst Renan, "Mendelssohn," Stephen P. Duggan, American Jewry Fifty Years Ago and Today - "Judiasm and Elements in the Population, Then and Now," Maurice H. Harris, "The Jew in Social Life, Then and Now," Felix M. Warburg, "The Jew in Business, the Professions and Public Life, Then and Now," Marcus M. Marks, "Our Charities, Then and Now," Lee K. Frankel, "Relations of Christians and Jews, Then and Now," Frank Gavin, " The American Jewess Fifty Years Ago and Now, Rebekah Kohut - "The American Jewess in Relation to the State," Henry Moskowitz, "The Ameircan Jewess and Her Religion," David E. Goldfarb, "The American Jewess in Letters," Rebekah Kohut, "The Council of Jewish Women," Nathan Straus, Jr., Hadassah," Robert Szold, "Jewish Sacred Music, old and New," Lazare Saminsky, "The History of Liberal Judaism in England," Lily H. Montagu, "The Life and Works of Cesare Lombrosos," Signora Gina lombroso Ferrero, "The Struggle Against Disease: The Health Work of Nathan Straus and American Jewish Foundations," Louis I. Harris, "The Henry Street Settlement," Lilian D. Wald, "Lee K. Frankel: In Memoriam," Louis I. Dublin, "George Washington and the Jews," Albert Ulmann, "Recent Excavations of Jewish Interest in Palestine," Nelson Glueck. " Volume I, present here, is very seldom offered for sale. Ex-library with usual markings. Otherwise very good condition. (AMR-45-5A)
1940158584New York: The Hickory House 1940. Vintage three-color dinner menu from the renowned 52nd Street jazz club circa 1940s with a "Chef's Special" card stapled to the top outer corner of the second leaf.<br /> <br /> One of the longest running and premiere jazz clubs of "Swing Street" as 52nd Street between Fifth and Seventh Avenues was known in the 1930s through the 1950s Hickory House was opened shortly after the repeal of Prohibition in 1933 by impresario John Popkin. Featuring a huge oval music bar depicted on the cover of the menu on offer here Hickory House was both a swing venue and the spot to grab dinner and cocktails before a show. A musician's club Hickory House presented and served jazz luminaries for three decades. Among those known to perform or frequent the venue included Duke Ellington Louis Armstrong Benny Goodman Artie Shaw and Thelonious Monk among countless others many of whom were known to be found sitting in with the house band The Hickory House Trio Marian McPartland Bill Crow and Joe Morello on Sunday afternoons in the 1950s. In 1956 jazz pianist and composer Jutta Hipp released two acclaimed Blue Note albums recorded at the club "At the Hickory House Volume 1" and "At the Hickory House Volume 2." By the mid 1960s the venue was one of the last of the jazz clubs left on 52nd street and by the end of the decade closed. As noted on the back of the menu "Life! Life! From ten thirty until scrambled eggs there is always a popular swingy rhythm band to beat out tuneful and catchy syncopations in their own inimitable style."<br /> <br /> <br /> 10.75 x 14.25 inches bi-fold. Very Good plus with light soiling rubbing and edgewear overall and a faint horizontal crease. The Hickory House unknown
81167St. Louis: Ozark M.C. 1927-1942. A rich archive of original source documents for one of the earliest motorcycle clubs in the Midwest with clear precursors to the "Outlaw" clubs of the post-WW2 era. Includes minute books for the Club's primary years of activity; founding documents including draft Constitution and By-Laws; membership rolls; correspondence; printed and promotional ephemera and photographs complete inventory in note below. Condition generally Good or better with expected aging to some documents and a few in fragile condition. The archive has been removed from the decomposing ring binders in which it was originally housed and organized into manila file-folders respecting where possible the as-found order of contents. The original binders have been retained and are included with the archive. The entirety comprises sixteen file folders housed in two hinged Hollinger boxes occupying about half a linear foot.<br /> <br /> <br /> INVENTORY:<br /> <br /> BOX 1: <br /> <br /> Folder 1. By-Laws and Constitution. Ten items including five drafts in mimeograph with extensive holograph edits; one apparently final draft in typescript on lined paper; related documents including roster of charter members with addresses; suggestions for effective Presidency; directory of other regional motorcycle clubs. <br /> <br /> Folder 2. Minutes June 15 1928 - October 18th 1929. Continuous; 32 leaves used plus 12 blank<br /> <br /> Folder 3. Minutes Jan 8 1937 - December 24th 1937. 24 leaves fully used recto & verso<br /> <br /> Folder 4. Minutes Jan 7 1938 - December 30th 1938. 21 leaves fully used recto & verso<br /> <br /> Folder 5. Minutes Jan 6 1939 - March 1 1940. 26 leaves most used recto & verso plus about 20 blank leaves as found. Entry for March 1 1949 is annotated possibly at a later date: "This is last meeting." <br /> <br /> Folder 6. Membership Forms 1935 - 1939. 33 numbered completed forms plus two unnumbered completed in holograph with name date of application record of membership vote and signatures. This presumably comprises a complete list of all Club members from 1935-1939.<br /> <br /> Folder 7. Miscellaneous correpondence 1930 - 1942. Twelve pieces on various subjects including political statements apparently by Michael Verderber not related to Club activities. Envelopes laid in as found. <br /> <br /> Folder 8. Printed and promotional items. Six pieces produced by the Club and by others. <br /> <br /> Folder 9. Midwest Motorcycle Association. Two pieces documenting an attempt by Ozark M.C. members to start a rival association to the American Motorcycle Association. <br /> <br /> Folder 10. Races Meets and Competitions 1932 - 1939. Sixteen pieces including correspondence race forms sanctioning certificates and related materials relating to competitions and Club meets. <br /> <br /> Folder 11. American Motorcycle Association 1930 - 1941. Eight items including correspondence bulletins and blank forms from the American Motorcycle Association the main sanctioning body for motorcycle clubs across the U.S. <br /> <br /> Folder 12. Ephemera including event tickets pit passes business cards club receipt book for 1936. Nine unique items some present in multiples. <br /> <br /> Folder 13. Photographs. Thirty-nine vintage silver-gelatin photographs most measuring 3" x 5" or the reverse; a few smaller; also twenty-three original negatives some but not all replicating the prints above. <br /> <br /> Folder 14. Photographs. Three larger format vintage silver-gelatin photographs two measuring ca. 8" x 10"; the third 5" x 7" on card mount this image fully cracked through image at lower third; verso of board held together with masking tape. <br /> <br /> Folder 15. Michael Verderber personal. Two items relating to 1943 registration certificate for Verderber's Indian Model "4" motorcycle.<br /> <br /> Folder 16. Fragments and extraneous envelopes as found. <br /> <br /> BOX 2: Remnants of 3 original binders from which the archive was removed. <br /> <br /> -------------------------------------<br /> <br /> The original Ozark Motorcycle Club was founded in 1927 by a group of twenty St. Louis cycling enthusiasts including Mike Verderber who appears to have been the original keeper of these documents Louis Ahrens first President Fred Tremozini Vice President Hank Eiler and sixteen others. It is unclear when the group began holding formal meetings; extant minutes for this iteration of the club begin with June 15 1928 and end without warning or explanation on Oct 18 1929 leaving about twenty blank leaves in the minute book. As this last recorded meeting was held just six days before the stock market crash the cause for this cessation of club activities may be conjectured. We can find no public mention of the Club in its pre-Depression phase; the minute book included here would appear to be the only record of its existence. <br /> <br /> The Club was reconstituted on August 16 1935 in the depths of the Great Depression by Verderber and about twenty others. Included here are multiple drafts both in manuscript and mimeograph for the new Club's Constitution and By-Laws which specify that members shall be "White Male Riders and Owners of Motorcycles" emphasis in the original but "may bring their wives or such persons as they see fit to club-affairs." The earliest minutes appear to be missing but the archive's record of meetings is complete from January 1937 to March 1 1940 which appears to have been the Club's last official meeting so marked in the minute book though other evidence included in the archive suggests that the club persisted for at least a few more years perhaps more as a social group than a functioning organization. For the first two years meetings focus mostly on club events including meets tours and rallies. The availability of beer at meetings is a topic that arises with some frequency as does the matter of the American Motorcycle Association for which at least a few members express strong antipathies see our note regarding Outlaw motorcycle clubs below; at one point it appears that a club faction even attempts to launch their own regional association the Midwest Motorcycle Association to challenge the AMA's supremacy in the promotion of meets "gypsy tours" and hill climb events. Eventually the Ozark M.C. appears to have made the decision to affiliate with the A.M.A. though we mysteriouly do not find any vote for this decision in the meeting minutes just correspondence from the AMA sanctioning club events but it clearly cost the club some members: by 1938 membership had dwindled from 22 riders to no more than a dozen. In later years beginning especially around mid-1939 meetings address with increasing urgency the Club's dwindling membership and futile attempts to collect dues from the many members in arears. By early 1940 it seems the eight remaining members can agree on very little; the minutes grow sparse and by March of that year the Club appears defunct. <br /> <br /> This winding narrative is supported by the archive's many other documents including correspondence which includes several lengthy letters from club president Verderber to prominent public figures including Franklin Delano Roosevelt publicity materials and especially photographs which are remarkable: all are vernacular nearly all captioned with names and dates taken during biker events throughout the midwest evoking the rough-and-tumble nature of early cycling events and the decidedly proletarian milieu in which they took place. "Outlaw" culture was still a few years away from being fully articulated by clubs such as The Outlaws The Boozefighters The Bandidos and others; but its roots are most definitely to be found among these risk-taking beer-drinking blue-collar riders of the Great Depression.<br /> <br /> The roots of Outlaw motorcycling in America have been widely documented typically traced to the years directly after the Second World War when returnig G.I.'s out of work and deprived of the close bonds they'd formed in battle found an outlet in the rough and occasionally dangerous world of open-road cycling. "Outlaw" Clubs - those that refused to affiliate with the American Motorcycle Association a commercial trade organization founded in 1924 - developed a mostly undeserved reputation for antisocial and sometimes violent behavior cemented in the public imagination by the 1953 Marlon Brando film The Wild One and its many imitators. But as is clear from the evidence in this archive an independent and contrarian spirit prevailed even in the pre-War years and we suspect it was members of Depression-era clubs such as this one who were most active in forming the post-war Outlaw clubs. In fact Verderber in one telling line from a long letter to his girlfriend included here describes himself as an "outlaw" rider - then thinking better of it crosses the word out and replaces it with "independent." By war's end such reticence would be a thing of the past; independent bikers would begin wearing the "outlaw" label proudly and defiantly. And though the use of the term "outlaw" before the war is hardly unnown - the Outlaws M.C. of Chicago were using it as early as 1935 - documentation of these pre-War motorcycle clubs is nearly non-existent making the current archive an invaluable resource for both the study of working-class culture in the midwest and one of the earliest instantiations of a uniquely American subculture. unknown
1940169491United States: c.1940-60. A visual record of a rarely seen and poorly documented world - an accidental history An unusually extensive group of these evocative "table photographs" striking records of largely African-American audiences in the glamorous sociable and intentionally inclusive world of mid-century nightclubs. Shot by in-house photographers developed on site and sold for a dollar at the end of the evening these quick souvenirs now amount to a rare visual history of a poorly documented milieu. As Gold notes they "turn the camera round": instead of performers we see the audiences - a critical part of what Jason Moran calls the jazz "ecosystem." The collection offers a nationwide survey of venues from the extravagant to the resolutely down-home. At New York's Café Zanzibar with its spectacular floor shows and "Zanzibeauts" the audience was integrated but largely white prompting Langston Hughes's caustic observation about the seating hierarchy - an impression borne out by the image here. Detroit's Gay Bar Lounge another "black and tan" joint catered to a mostly Black clientele and offered a rougher edge: in 1947 the barkeep famously shot two stick-up artists with the.38s kept beneath the cash register. Equally compelling are the histories of Black enterprise that surface. Oakland's Athens Elks Cocktail Lounge home to Lodge 70 of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World stood at the centre of West Oakland's vibrant musical scene hosting countless jam sessions and serving as the informal checkpoint for touring African-American musicians. In Los Angeles Dootsie Williams's Dooto Music Center founded by the trumpeter-turned-entrepreneur provided one of the city's foremost Black cultural venues praised by the Los Angeles Sentinel as "the most-needed cultural and recreation center in Southern California." The photographers themselves remain surprisingly elusive though a few can be traced. In Columbus George Pierce ran a record shop and studio in Bronzeville and supplied images to the Ohio Sentinel and other regional papers; in Detroit Earl Fowler's Top Hat Photo developed into a significant presence in the Black Press with Fowler later serving as chief of the Los Angeles bureau of Now! magazine. Beyond these contexts the photographs' enduring appeal lies in the human dramas unfolding across their tabletops: the conviviality style and fleeting alliances captured in a moment of collective ease. A scene from Gamby's in Baltimore is emblematic - six convivial hat-tipping men and two young women smiling through a forest of shot glasses presided over by a portrait of Fats Waller. It is warmly enigmatic yet inviting an offhand welcome extended across time. A more detailed description and full listing is available on request. Together 66 black and white gelatin silver print photographs 62 c.127 x 178 mm; 3 approximately 178 x 254 mm around 50 are in their original plain or printed souvenir folders the balance loose. Loose photos and folders with occasional wear and mild damp-staining some annotations verso of prints and to folders prints occasionally stapled into folders overall the group remains about very good. Ronald Auther "The Oakland Larks" The Shadow Ball Express: African American Baseball Renderings and other Facts of Life online; Clora Bryant et al Central Avenue Sounds; Jazz in Los Angeles 1930s-1950s 1998; Jeff Gold Sittin' In: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s 2020; Robert Petersen "Before Motown: L.A.'s Black-owned Music Empire" PBS SoCal online. unknown
