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1969L2QDFYEGE99FPakistan 1969. An archive of 807 loose photographs 541 in colour including several duplicates some printed in a different format including 65 photos depicting falcons 3 duplicates 36 in colour and 14 photographs of camels 1 in colour. A large collection of 807 photographs providing a unique view into the private life of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan 1918-2004 ruler of Abu Dhabi and founding father of the United Arab Emirates. The photographs depict Sheikh Zayed and his family including Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan b. 1948 relatives and friends partaking in various leisure activities. Also included are some photographs of children probably including Sheikh Zayed's sons possibly Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan b. 1961. The pictures date from a significant period in the history of Abu Dhabi the years leading up to the foundation of the United Arab Emirates in 1971 and from the earliest years of the new federation.A group of pictures is possibly taken in Pakistan many depicting a large manor where a party arrives by helicopter. Sheikh Zayed enjoyed visiting the country to go horse riding and hunting with his falcons. Many photographs depict casual dinner parties gatherings and meetings in the open air. Other photographs show a large party setting off on horseback falcons cPhotograph archive of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's private life.Some photos slightly curled along the edges some slightly discoloured. Overall in very good condition. unknown
1970L7VBA667WXTVPakistan 1970. Stored in large six-leaf self-adhesive tan leather album oblong folio 43 x 34 cm. 40 photographs 29 in colour and 11 black-and-white. Various sizes 300 x 207 mm to 125 x 125 mm. Includes 51 original colour slides. A privately assembled photo album showing the ruling family of Dubai during a state visit to Pakistan apparently in the early 1970s. Pakistan was the first country to accord formal recognition to the United Arab Emirates after the state's emergence in 1971.Nearly half of the images show HH Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum 1912-90 the father of the modern Emirate of Dubai in conversation at dinners and relaxing in the garden. Other photos show his sons the crown prince and later ruler HH Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum 1943-2006 the present ruler HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The collection was assembled by Azhar Abbas Hashmi a high-ranking officer of the Pakistani UBL bank United Bank Limited founded in 1959 by Agha Hasan Abedi 1922-95 who is seen in seven photographs with HH Sheikh Rashid as well as with his two older sons. While several pictures show the members of the royal family in negotiations with the Karachi banking officials there are also fascinating images of a falconry tour to the Pakistani countryside including a fine portrait of HH Sheikh Ahmed with a falcon perched on his arm. The more than fifty original colour slides show other scenes of the same visit; only four of the images are among the prints included in the album. Some occasional creases and even the odd tear but in general finely preserved. Three photos printed by Karachi's "Eveready Studio" some inscribed in ballpoint with identification on the reverse "Mr. S. L. Anwar HH Mr. Masood Naqvi Mr. Iqbal Khateeb / Mr. Hashmi showing the prospect drawings" one in Arabic another with ownership stamp: "Azhar Abbas Hashmi Vice President Gulf Operations International Division UBL HO Karachi". An unpublished set entirely unknown and without counterparts in the online Keystone or Hulton/Getty press photo archives from the estate of Azhar Abbas Hashmi 1940-2016 Pakistani financial manager and eminent literary patron with close ties to Karachi University. Long with UBL Hashmi would serve as the bank's vice-president before founding several important cultural organisations and becoming known as a man of letters in his own right. It was because of Hashmi's close connections to the Gulf states that Abu Dhabi provided funds to build the Karachi University's faculty of Islamic studies along with Sheikh Zayed Islamic Centre and Jamiya Masjid Ibrahi. hardcover
190512728Various locations in Maryland and Delaware 1905. Autobiography: 11a341pp. typescript carbon on yellow paper marked "COPY" at head of first page. Two pages with long corrected sections stapled to original leaves occasional emendations in type. Minor edge wear. Very good. Family Bible: various paginations plus numerous plates and with seven 19th-century photographs at rear in the "Family Portraits" section. Square folio. Original black leather and gutta percha stamped in gilt and blind. Some scuffing edge wear and soiling to boards. Occasional soiling and wear internally with some portions of text and portrait pages at rear chipped and/or detached. Rear hinge separated. Good condition. An amazing collection consisting of a carbon typescript of a previously unknown and unpublished autobiography a family Bible with manuscript notations and original photographs memorializing Howard Talbot Jason and his family. The Jasons were a prominent African American family in Maryland and Delaware in the 19th and 20th centuries whose members included prominent ministers physicians and educators. Howard Talbot Jason 1867-1955 was educated at the oldest HBCU in the country Pennsylvania's Lincoln University and worked as an educator Presbyterian missionary and minister.<br /> <br /> Much more will now be known about Howard Talbot Jason due to the present typescript autobiography. From contextual clues the work was evidently transcribed by his daughter Grace Jason Perry likely from Howard's handwritten original which may still reside within the Jason family or more likely has been lost to history. Howard's autobiography begins with his birth in Easton Maryland and some background information on his slave-born father William. Sadly Howard had "no particular remembrance" of his mother who died when he was six. He then details some events of his childhood his early working life as a waiter fisherman laborer and barber his education at "a school for colored boys not far from my town of Hockessin Delaware" and Lincoln University and his time serving as a missionary in Puerto Rico where among other things he experiences "Jim Crowism". In fact Howard's autobiography is mostly concerned with his time at Lincoln and his missionary work in Puerto Rico when his account concludes unfinished and in mid-sentence on page 34. A few notes from his daughter Grace are typed out on the last page as she has "not been able to figure out just where this belongs in Dad's autobiography." The work covers Howard Talbot Jason's life from birth to about 1905 constituting roughly the first half of his life. We know of no other extant copies of this autobiography though we cannot count out the possibility that other examples may reside with Jason family descendants. In any case the emergence of this work provides a phenomenal new understanding of an important African American figure in Maryland and Delaware.<br /> <br /> The autobiography is accompanied by an informative family Bible kept by various members of the prominent Jason family namely Howard Talbot Jason. The Bible was gifted to Howard Talbot Jason in 1894 by his father William Jason evidenced by the gift inscription on the front flyleaf. Three pages between the Old and New Testaments listing details of marriages births and deaths provide critical information on the Jason family beginning with the marriage of William Jason 1831-1929 and Mary E. Wing 1839-1873 on December 16 1858. Three other marriages are recorded between 1883 and 1894. The "Births" page records the birthdays of nine members of the Jason family between 1831 and 1872. The next page records the deaths of ten Jason family members between 1866 and 1955 the latter being the death of the aforementioned Howard Talbot Jason. The Jasons lived around Easton and Trappe Maryland and later in other locations in Delaware and Pennsylvania.<br /> <br /> In addition to the life details of the various Jason family members the Bible also houses seven 19th-century photographs in the rear. This includes six CDVs and one tintype featuring five men and two women almost certainly picturing Jason family members. Most are housed securely inside oval windows but two display photographic studio information both from Philadelphia photographers. One of the photographs seems to picture William C. Jason Sr. 1859-1943. He appears to be the most notable among the family members here. William C. Jason Sr. was a barber and printer in his youth then later a Methodist minister educator and second president of Delaware's State College for Colored Students now known as Delaware State University. He is also the namesake of Jason Beach a formerly-segregated stretch of recreational shoreline for African Americans located in Trap Pond State Park outside Laurel Delaware where there is a historical marker about him.<br /> <br /> The Bible was apparently retained by a member of the family after Howard Talbot Jason who provides an additional notation in more modern blue ballpoint ink beneath the original gift inscription stating that "Howard Talbot Jason also had three brothers named William Ernest and Alonzo." This same family member also laid in a note about various siblings of Lena Bertha Wright Jason dated in 1989 a substantial collection of her personal papers reside at Harvard. Family Bibles retained by African-American families in the 19th and 20th centuries are rarely encountered in the marketplace. And though marked as a copy it is possible even likely that the typescript of Howard Talbot Jason's life is a unique survival of an as-yet-unknown African American autobiography. unknown
1962419856Frankenforst Regensburg Lindenhof Freiburg Munster Lübberstedt Germany / Rigi-Kulma Rigi-Kaltbad Switzerland 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Five albums ranging from quarto to folio photo albums measuring between 10.5†x 8†and 15†x 8â€. Tan flexible paper boards black leather boards with gilt page edges string tied red patterned cloth boards orange leather boards with gilt decorations and one foldout album with green three quarter cloth and marbled paper boards. Contains a total of 490 black and white sepia cyanotype or color photographs measuring between 2†x 1†and 10†x 7†with some captions written in German. Other ephemera includes newspaper clippings and 22 postcards. All albums have lightly bumped corners and spine ends with small tears thus very good with near fine or better photographs.<br /> <br /> An archive of a German family’s photo albums from 1913 to 1962 with each album focused on a different decade or theme. Most of the albums are focused on different parts of the family traveling to places around Germany and one album is specifically dedicated to a young woman’s equestrian tournaments.<br /> <br /> One of the albums is centered on a couple traveling in and around Germany from 1929 through 1932. Each picture is labeled with their destinations including Frankenforst Regensburg Lindenhof Freiburg Munster and among others. Included are pictures of landscapes rivers bridges parks churches and cemeteries with several pictures of the couple standing together smiling or embracing each other. A couple photographs feature a zeppelin flying above them out in the countryside. There are also pictures of the couple at the beach and in a garden with their children including a daughter named “Lore.†<br /> <br /> Another album is filled with photographs handwritten entries and newspaper clippings surrounding Uschi Schaemann and her horse Mario competing in various tournaments from 1958 through 1962. Uschi’s riding name was “Madness.†The album opens up with the date “Christmas Saturday December 24th by Mario and Uschi.†The newspaper clippings are often of Uschi riding Mario and sometimes include the place they won at the tournaments often coming in first through fifth place. Uschi’s written entries in the album are meant to be read as if Mario wrote it “Prayer of a horse! Always take care of me even if I am now more old. Give me always a clean camp and a wide box. Treat and care me well! Say a lot to me - and I will love you more and more.†She fills the first several pages with how grateful her horse is to be with her “Let me beg of you and God will be worth thee for beside me was created also and I am grateful that I could live a part of my horse life with you. And my last and only wish is that it always remains so and that I may be allowed up to my last breath with you.†<br /> <br /> Two of the older albums circa late 19th century and early 20th century show a family living in the country often visiting the beach with large wicker chairs. One of the two older albums contains more postcards from Rigi-Kulma and Rigi-Kaltbad in Switzerland with some pictures from the family’s vacation there. The pictures show the snowy landscape with large mountains and small settlements. There are also several pictures placed together to show a panoramic view of the countryside in both Germany and Switzerland. <br /> <br /> There is a foldable album cover with photographs affixed to loose thick papers inside. The album is titled “Lübberstedt†after a town located in Germany. The album contains photographs of the village featuring one of the larger homes the family lived in the forests around Lübberstedt and of certain family members wearing military uniforms from World War I. <br /> <br /> An extensive collection of photo albums with carefully taken and chosen images detailing five decades of a German family’s adventures and home life. hardcover
19301207Great Britain 1930. <p>8vo. 230 x 180 mm. 9 x 7 ¼ inches. 70 pp. poems & lyrics. Illustrated with 35 original drawings 9 of which are in full color. Album bound in red cloth spine over red boards with the drawing in black in of a Bride & Groom set within a frame of tall leafy trees. </p> <br /> <p>The opening dialogue sets the tone for the entire album the story of loving family wishing there daughter and sister a very happy wedding day. The text of "A Dialogue on an Important Subject Between Two Members of the Pryke Family" reads in part:</p> <br /> <p>Joan. Mummy what is this I hear</p> <br /> <p>M. Collie's to be married dear!</p> <br /> <p>J. Goodness gracious merry me!</p> <br /> <p> When is the Event to be</p> <br /> <p>M. On the tenth of August Joan.</p> <br /> <p> She and he will be made one</p> <br /> <p>J. What's fellow want her for</p> <br /> <p>M. To darn his socks and scrub the floor;</p> <br /> <p> And Dust the room and make the bed</p> <br /> <p> And see that his is amply fed.</p> <br /> <p>Thus the album of a loving family begins with this coming of age poem with a colored drawing on the opposite page of Mother and three sisters presenting the book set on a purple pillow being held by the youngest girl. This is followed by a series of 34 other poems all by family members celebrating Collie the family and some poems of pure whimsy and folly. Each is illustrated with a pen & ink drawing rendered in pure amateur fashion fit for the nature of the album. <br /> One of the untitled poems signed by O. P. suggests that the family relished word games. The first few lines read;</p> <br /> <p>When I was at kcowledge</p> <br /> <p>It came to my nollege</p> <br /> <p>That if could scrough</p> <br /> <p>Out the time to go threw</p> <br /> <p>With my uttermost fourse</p> <br /> <p>A Very long corce</p> <br /> <p>Of spelling . . </p> <br /> <p>The page opposite shows a table with eight books including a dictionary a speller a book with the title "How to use a Vowel" and copy of "Principles of Etymology". </p> <br /> <p>A remarkable gift from Mother and sisters to the daughter getting married.</p> . unknown
1946024513Los Angeles: 4th World Science Fiction Convention Society 1946. First Edition . Illustrated Wrappers. Near Fine. Cover By Lou Goldstone. Covers 48 Pp Of Ads And Support Statements. Promotional Fund-Raising Booklet For The Convention. At The Convention In His Keynote Speech Van Vogt Foresaw An Atomic War "Because Human Beings Have Not Yet Learned To Understand Themselves. Notice That I Did Not Say They Haven't Learned To Understand Others- It Is Themselves They Don't Understand" A Concern Which Later Led To His Work In Developing Dianetics With L Ron Hubbard His Assuming Reesponsibility For The Dianetics Organization When It Went Bankrupt In 1951 And Later To His Founding Of The International Dianetic Society. Signed By A E Van Vogt On His Centerfold; He Was Guest Of Hionor At This Convention And His Book "Slan" Was The Source Of The Informal Motto "Fans Are Slans". Van Vogt Was Awarded A Retroactive Hugo Award For This Novel In 2016. Also Signed By Dozens Of Writers Fans Publishers Agents And Members Of Lasfs Including A E Van Vogt Robert Bloch Bryce Walton Wilson "Bob" Tucker Forrest Ackerman And 3 Members Of His Family Russ Rocklynne Erle M Korshak Rick Sneary Tigrina Lou Goldstone Walt Leibscher Len Moffat Walt Daugherty Arthur Jean Cox Etc. All Signatures From 1946. With Original Envelope With Pencil Title Written By Roy A Squires. <br/> <br/> 4th World Science Fiction Convention Society unknown
19692081402109700409Osaka Buraku Liberation Institute 1969. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Osaka Buraku Liberation Institute paperback
197991557National Gallery of Art. New. 1979. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 533 pages. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer . National Gallery of Art paperback
1937226661937. Japanese-American California Japanese American family photograph archive a mid-twentieth-century record of Japanese American community life in California before and after the wartime incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry under Executive Order 9066 during the Second World War. The photographs mostly date between 1937 and 1940 with a few dated 1952 and 1953 preserving decades in the lives of one family navigating forced removal wartime confinement and postwar resettlement. Captions identify "Sayoko" "Sayo" "Miyoshi" and a young boy named "Kenny" creating a generational thread between prewar Japanese American life in California internment and re-acclimation to civilian life after World War II. One photograph bears a wartime military postal censorship stamp reading "Passed by Army Examiner" indicating that at least one image circulated through military screening systems used to monitor correspondence connected to wartime detention camps or military service.<br /> <br /> Archive of over sixty black and white snapshot and studio photographs depicting members of a Japanese American family associated with California between the late 1930s and early 1950s. The images include studio portraits graduation photographs informal domestic scenes travel photographs and family group portraits. Several photographs depict recognizable locations in San Francisco and Los Angeles and one studio portrait bears a photography studio stamp from Oakland suggesting family connections across both Northern and Southern California. A signed graduation portrait dated 1937 identifies a young woman as "Sayoko" while photographs from the early 1950s show a young boy identified as "Kenny" with inscriptions referencing "Sayo" likely the same individual seen in earlier images suggesting the transition from young adulthood to motherhood across the intervening wartime decade. Additional images depict a recurring young Japanese American man in glasses and formal attire a young woman identified as "Miyoshi" couples photographed aboard boats likely operating as local ferries and extended family gatherings in domestic and social settings. Several larger format photographs show women performing traditional Japanese dance in kimono within a landscaped Japanese garden while another image shows a man with two sons posed before a United States Air Force B-36 Peacemaker bomber placing that photograph in the postwar period. Photographs measure approximately 1 x 1 inches to 5 x 7 inches with most around 3 x 4 inches.<br /> <br /> Japanese American communities in California during the late 1930s maintained extensive family educational and social networks centered in cities such as San Francisco Oakland and Los Angeles. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 the federal government forcibly removed more than 120000 individuals of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast and confined them in inland detention centers administered by the War Relocation Authority. Personal mail entering and leaving the camps was subject to military censorship and photographs were sometimes stamped with inspection marks such as "Passed by Army Examiner." The presence of such a mark in this archive situates the photographs within the surveillance structures surrounding wartime incarceration and suggests that family communication continued through monitored correspondence. The continuity of portraits spanning youth education wartime absence and postwar family life provides a visual sequence documenting how Japanese American families maintained kinship networks and memory across the disruption of forced relocation and confinement. Minor edge wear and occasional corner creasing to several photographs; overall good to very good condition. A cohesive photographic record documenting Japanese American family continuity across one of the most consequential decades in twentieth century West Coast Asian American history. unknown
19732080302106803194Foundation West Japan Cultural Association 1973. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 7 Foundation) West Japan Cultural Association paperback
1979C91557National Gallery of Art. As New. 1979. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 533 pages. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details . National Gallery of Art paperback
1914336<p>n.p. 1914. The watercolors are in very good or better condition with some foxing to versos the majority mounted some no longer mounted after loss of adhesive most with the location identified on their mount or with place date and artist identified on the verso of the watercolor the album itself is good with tears to the album leaves in original half cloth scrapbook over textured paper-covered boards that are rubbed and worn. A splendid album containing over 100 mounted original watercolor views of various landscapes and buildings in Britain and Europe featuring locations among others of the Lake District Kent Scotland including the Highlands and Warwick Castle Lyme Regis Cornwall Switzerland Italy including Florence and others. Also includes a few watercolors of flora.<br /><br />The album contains the works of at least three members of the Copleston family of England Jane Ellen Copleston Eliza Ann Copleston and Miss May G. Copleston as well as an M.R. Hart or Harte.<br /><br />Folio.<br /><br />A fabulous collection.</p>
19742111902160300643Tozan Style Publishing Association 1974. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 6 pages Size: B5 size Number of books: 263 volumes Tozan Style Publishing Association paperback
19025176Various locations in Cuba 1902. Very good. Seventeen loose folio scrapbook leaves each with mounted correspondence or other documents; one vernacular photograph album; two scrapbooks; and a small number of loose documents and newspaper clippings as detailed below. An informative archive comprised of material from two generations of the McCook family of Ohio specifically two different military officers -- Major General Alexander McDowell McCook and his son-in-law Brigadier General Chauncey Brooke Baker 1860-1936. Baker was married to McCook's eldest daughter Lucianna "Lucy" McCook Baker who seems to have compiled the various components of the present archive which mostly documents the career of her husband Chauncey Baker. The collection includes seventeen loose folio scrapbook leaves each with mounted correspondence or other documents one photograph album two scrapbooks and a small number of loose documents and newspaper clippings.<br /> <br /> Union Army General Alexander McDowell McCook one of the "Fighting McCooks" continued his army career after the war in the regular Army. He commanded Fort Leavenworth Kansas from 1886-1890 the Department of Arizona from 1890-1893 and the Department of Colorado from 1893-1895. He was joined in each location by his daughter and son-in-law. Chauncey Brooke Baker married Lucy McCook while at Leavenworth and later served as McCook's aide-de-camp and acting engineering officer at Los Angeles and Denver Headquarters Department of Arizona and Colorado. Later promotions and the start of the Spanish-American War led Baker to Cuba in a quartermaster role. It seems his wife accompanied him there and began acquiring the images now housed in the photograph album offered here. Lucy Baker died in 1923 placing the scrapbooks completion date before that time. The material is detailed as follows:<br /> <br /> 1 Seventeen loose scrapbook leaves containing twenty-five pieces of correspondence typed documents and printed documents primarily associated with the later business dealings of Alexander M. McCook while he was stationed in Utah Colorado Kansas. This material dates mostly between 1882 and 1898. Letters are from a variety of correspondents and reflect McCook's post-war military career at frontier installations his involvement in the railroads investments and other personal matters. One of the more informative documents details the history of McCook's military service from his entry to West Point in 1847 through his appointment to the Department of Arizona in 1894. The collection also includes a handful of loose documents and letters as well as an envelope of newspaper clippings documenting McCook's later affairs. One notable item is a four-page offprint of a memorial of McCook written by Col. Horace N. Fisher and first published in the Boston Transcript on Sunday June 13 1903. General McCook had just passed away the previous day at Lucy's house in Dayton Ohio.<br /> <br /> 2 Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting Cuba Under Spanish Occupation and the United States Military Government's Occupation. Various locations in Cuba: ca. 1898-1902. 24 leaves illustrated with 303 silver gelatin photographs from 3.25 x 2.25 to 7.5 x 9 inches. Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter calf and black cloth boards. Spine perished most leaves separated from spine but held to each other by cloth gutter in a few groupings. Leaves worn silvering to some images. Inscribed on front free endpaper "Lucy McCook. Fort Leavenworth Kansas Nov 21st 1888." Lucy likely dated the album in 1888 then never used it as all of the images in the album emanate from Cuba. The photographs depict a mixture of rural and urban scenes featuring native Cubans as well as Americans Cuban and American military personnel landmarks military installations ships recreation building interiors with some images depicting the remnants of war. Notable are three large format photographs at the end of the album: a photograph of armed soldiers and a religious figure exiting a fortress-like structure with handwritten caption below "On the way to the Garote Castillo del Principe - during the Spanish occupation;" a photograph showing a large group of men assembled at tables and chairs in a gallery-style room with a handwritten caption reading "Opening of the Cuban Constitutional Convention - Havana - Nov. 5th 1900 General Leonard Wood Military Governor reading address in full uniform Temporary President on his left;" and a photograph of Havana's large cathedral with a crowd gathered captioned "Governor General Weyler entering Cathedral Havana Spanish Occupation." Captions were likely added by Lucy McCook whose husband was serving at the time as quartermaster chief quartermaster and depot quartermaster in the U.S. Army's Division and Department of Cuba. This album is the most historically-important and useful item in the present archive.<br /> <br /> 3 Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings and an Original Drawing of an American Military Officer in Indian Territory. N.p.: early 1900s. 11 leaves illustrated with newspaper clippings and one drawing. Quarto. Contemporary brown cloth elaborately tooled in black title in gilt on front cover and spine. Moderate wear rubbing and dust-soiling. Inscribed on front free endpaper "Lucy McCook Baker / Los Angeles - California / April 1892." An interesting collection of mostly newspaper clippings associated with Native American rituals related to the Moqui Indians the Army and articles on General McCook or Lieutenant Chauncey Baker. The album also includes an original pen drawing titled in manuscript "Tent of The Macauley in Camp at Guthrie I.T. 20th June 1889." The drawing features a military figure standing in a road holding a small shovel in the air in front of a sign pointing one way to Oklahoma and the other way to Ft. Leavenworth. The drawing is signed at bottom "Glück."<br /> <br /> 4 Scrapbook of Ephemeral Items Relating to the Military Careers of Alexander McDowell McCook and Chauncey Baker Plus Later Items Related to Another Member of the McCook Family. N.p.: early 1900s. 9 leaves illustrated with telegrams pamphlets invitations and other ephemeral items. Quarto. Contemporary aqua cloth with gilt titles on front cover string tied. The items primarily concern McCook's and Baker's military service including an "In Memoriam" for Alexander McDowell McCook as well as some items relating to the later military career of Alexander McCook Craigshead.<br /> <br /> A diverse collection of materials relating to the careers of two notable military men serving in the American West and in Cuba during the Spanish-American War with a wonderful vernacular photograph album documenting the latter and the whole likely retained and organized by the daughter and wife respectively of the men involved. unknown
1929WRCAM55851Mainly Virginia Alabama and Texas 1929. Approximately thirty-two letters some with original transmittal envelopes; twenty-three photographs and real photo postcards; and assorted family documents calling cards and greeting cards. Overall very good condition. Housed in a modern gray archival box. A wide-ranging collection of correspondence photographs and documents centered on the Hancock family of Virginia Alabama and Texas in the second half of the 19th century and first quarter of the 20th. The Hancock family members involved in the correspondence or pictured in the photographs in this archive include Benjamin Palmer Hancock Arthur B. Hancock Thomas Benton Hancock Jane A. Hancock Jane C. Hancock Richard J. Hancock Claudia Hancock and Harris Hancock. Richard J. Hancock Sr. was father to Richard J. Jr. Arthur B. and Harris Hancock and uncle to Benjamin Palmer Hancock. Jane C. Hancock was B.P. Hancock's daughter. Thomas Benton Hancock and Jane A. Hancock were married and Claudia Hancock was their daughter. The family though spread out over vast distances seems to have remained relatively in touch with one another. The correspondents also often write from or receive letters from different cities suggesting they moved around a bit or traveled more widely than most families at the time. <br> <br> Benjamin Palmer "B.P." Hancock 1868-1943 lived in Dallas Crockett and Corpus Christi Texas in the late 19th-century and worked for both the Mexican National Railroad and the Texas Mexican Railway. He later returned to Texas working as the Division Traffic Superintendent for the Western Union Telegraph Company in Dallas from 1913 until his retirement in 1938. He also maintained a family estate in Scotia Alabama. In one 1905 letter B.P. Hancock writes home to his wife Martha in Scotia with detailed instructions for her imminent travel to meet him in New York City. He also writes a very loving letter to his daughter Jane C. Hancock in 1913 while she was living in Winslow Arkansas. He praises Jane for "the fine little girl - almost young lady - that you are today." <br> <br> Richard J. Hancock Jr. 1873-1920 writes a long letter to B. Palmer Hancock on April 12 1890. Richard was apparently working for the Galveston Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway as he writes his four-page letter on the company's stationery and mentions hearing about a couple of colleagues "surveying a new extension for San Antonio Pacific road." Richard acknowledges that B.P. and their mother are going to Virginia to visit family and encourages B.P. to "make a good impression on all of the Hancock family." He also offers B.P. a new suit and money to look good in front of the Virginia Hancocks. Richard then reports on a recent trip "down to Rio Grande" where he "had lots of fun." <br> <br> Richard J. Hancock Sr. 1838-1912 writes three letters to his nephew B. Palmer Hancock in 1902 on "Ellerslie" stationery. Ellerslie Plantation later Ellerslie Farm near Charlottesville Virginia came into the Hancock family after Richard married Thomasia Harris whose family owned the estate. Richard J. Hancock served as a Confederate captain under Stonewall Jackson during the Civil War. His letters to Palmer are mostly concerned with family business matters especially Palmer's property in Alabama. At one point Richard consoles B.P. for his mother's ill health apparently from typhoid fever. In his third letter Richard mentions his growing aversion to the life of a farmer at Ellerslie commenting that he would "quit farming and sell out but for my son Arthur." Richard had already largely turned away from farming to breeding thoroughbred racehorses at Ellerslie and became quite famous and successful at the venture winning the 1884 Preakness Stakes with his horse Knight of Ellerslie. His son Arthur Hancock later established a breeding farm in Kentucky named Claiborne Farm and became one of the most legendary horse breeders of the 20th century. <br> <br> Thomas Benton Hancock 1834-1870 lived in Centreville Alabama; a letter to him dated 1859 from a friend at the University of Virginia implores Hancock to spend some time at the school. A slightly earlier autograph note dated 1857 from a professor at Centenary College in Jackson Louisiana grants Thomas Benton leave from the school: "Mr. Thos. B. Hancock has been a student at Centenary College La. and that he has been honorably dismissed at his own request." There is also present here an 1860 letter of recommendation from a different professor at Centenary College praising T.B.'s "scholarship prudence and gentlemanly deportment" and recommending him as a teacher. T.B. Hancock died young at the age of thirty-six in 1870 and is buried in Oakland Mississippi. <br> <br> Three letters from 1882 written to "Mrs. J.A. Hancock" in Corpus Christi Texas are particularly interesting. The recipient was most certainly Jane Alexander Hancock widow of the late Thomas Benton Hancock. The three letters all concern stories submitted by J.A. Hancock to THE YOUTH'S COMPANION a long- running children's literary periodical in Boston. One of these stories titled "Sorrel Top" is bought by the magazine in one of the present letters and Mrs. Hancock is encouraged to send more stories. "Sorrel Top" appeared in the magazine later in the year as "Mrs. Marks' 'Sorrel Top'" in the October 19 1882 issue. All three letters are signed "Perry Mason & Co." the publishers of THE YOUTH'S COMPANION. Perry Mason founded the magazine in 1827 and served as its editor until his death; Erle Stanley Gardner was fond of THE YOUTH'S COMPANION as a young reader and borrowed the editor's name for his protagonist when he began writing a series of stories and books centered on his now-famous attorney/detective. <br> <br> The photographs in the present archive are a combination of cabinet card portraits and real photo postcards. The identified portraits include three of B.P. Hancock one as a younger man in Corpus Christi another inscribed "Your Son BP Hancock Dallas Tex March 1886"; one of Harris Hancock in Overton Virginia from a Charlottesville studio; and a portrait of Mrs. J.A. Hancock inscribed "For BP Hancock age 52 years." The real photo postcards feature a handful of shots from a family picnic and a large home presumably belonging to the Hancock family. <br> <br> The assorted additional material includes J.A. Hancock's copy of a Presbyterian Church pamphlet; a 1902 trust document involving Richard Hancock B. Palmer Hancock Clavelia A. Hancock Helen J. Hancock and Thomasia O. Hancock wife of Richard J. Hancock; and other assorted documents cards and invitations. There is also a handful of material relating to H.L. Carleton of Taylor and Austin Texas. Carleton was a noted pharmacist and president of the Texas Pharmaceutical Association in the early 20th century. The connection to the Hancock family is unknown though Carleton may represent another side to the family of a Hancock decendant. <br> <br> A wide-ranging slice of Hancock family history and an archive with notable research and genealogical potential. unknown books
1940226451940. Japanese AmericanWWII Japanese American military service and postwar life photograph archive documenting Nisei participation in the United States armed forces and the reintegration of Japanese American families into public life after World War II 1940s-1960s. The photographs capture Japanese Americans in military uniform as well as family gatherings and civilian travel throughout wartime incarceration and postwar recovery and reintegration. The images document the lives of a generation of Nisei soldiers who served in units such as the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the Military Intelligence Service whose wartime service occurred while more than 120000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed and incarcerated under Executive Order 9066. The archive encapsulates the complex relationship between patriotic service and racial discrimination during WWII and the reintegration of Japanese Americans into civilian life during the mid twentieth century.<br /> <br /> Archive of 12 black and white photographs produced between the 1940s and 1960s. The images range in size from approximately 2 x 3 inches to 3.5 x 5 inches and include several photographs of Japanese American men in United States military uniform. Other photographs depict Japanese American families posed together in domestic and social settings including women dressed in fashionable postwar clothing typical of the 1950s. A small group of photographs shows Japanese American visitors standing in front of the United States Capitol building in Washington D.C. Several photographs bear numbers dates or personal names written on the verso in both Japanese and English.<br /> <br /> Japanese American military service during World War II was a central element in the broader struggle for Asian American civil rights after the war. Nisei soldiers serving in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the Military Intelligence Service played significant roles in combat operations in Europe and in intelligence translation work in the Pacific theater. At the same time their families and communities endured forced removal and incarceration under federal wartime policy. In the decades following the war Japanese American families rebuilt social networks reestablished businesses and professions and increasingly participated in civic life across the United States. Photographs documenting travel to symbolic national locations such as the United States Capitol reflect this period of renewed public presence and political engagement among Japanese Americans in the 1950s and 1960s. Minor edge wear and handling visible to several photographs with occasional annotations on the versos in Japanese and English; overall very good condition. This archive provides visual documentation of Japanese American wartime service and the reestablishment of civic identity during the postwar era. unknown
1914000625Lancaster County Pennsylvania PA Mount Joy. Very Good. 1914. First Edition. Original Cloth. Sensational archive of handwritten diaries centered around the Brubaker family of Lancaster County Pennsylvania. Twenty 20 books comprised of sixteen 16 handwritten diaries three 3 small notebooks and one 1 published book with manuscript notes. The diaries are dated 1914 1916 1917 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1923 1924 1926 1927 and 1927. On average the books are 80% full. There are four authors: J. Henry Brubaker has written 12 diaries and most certainly 2 of the 3 notebooks. His wife Anna has written one notebook in her maiden name Groff and daughters Anna Ethel 3 and Susan Violet 1. The Brubakers appear to have been prominent rural business people in the farm supply business. A huge family as evidenced by the copious genealogical notes for the Lancaster County area as the notebooks specifically and the diaries are a wealth of family names and the connections. Family names: Brubaker Stauffer Groff Buckwalter Lefever Landis Nissley Shenk Longnecker Neff Dendlinger Mtzler Hurst Erb Hostetter Shreiner Lunks Griders Linchburger Charles The authors were very kind to fully identify family and relationships. Weather economy births deaths marriages and other local events showing the homefront during and after the first World War years. Overall in very good condition though one diary has some spine damage from nibbling.; Manuscript; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF Hand Written Personal Americana Memoir Handwritten hand written autograph autographs signed letters document documents manuscript manuscripts writers writer author holograph personal Farming Pennsylvania Lancaster County Economy World War I WWI the Great War Homefront Genealogy . hardcover
193020204526c1930. Edge wear on cover; Faint coffee splash on blank front end paper. Small ink smudge margin dedication page. Creative - Charming - Skillful - Whimsical In what appears to be the grips of the Great Slump depression a family elects to give one of the daughters the gift of verse and original art as a wedding present. The introduction reads: This book so filled with folly In foolish sketch and rhyme Comes to wish our Collie Joy till the end of time. A pen and ink drawing of a bride and groom standing between two trees adorns the cover. It includes 44 pen and ink drawings some with watercolor and relevant original limericks or often rhyming verse. Each is Initialed by a family member. With one exception the writer of the verse was also the illustrator of the relevant drawing. The book begins with "A dialogue on an Important Subject between members of the Pryke family". It discusses the lack of funds in the family to purchase an appropriate wedding present for one of the daughters "Collie". Titles of the verses include The Lobster Tragedy Household Hints for the Newly-Married. -Saturday's Lunch Bunnies Little Black Sambo Grown-ups Horrors The Sweet Old Lady The Frustration of a Crime 3 pages of text and 3 illustrations Lucy Adventures of My Relatives in 3 parts Riddle-Mee- Ree Bounce Mars An Escape From Dartmoor I Wonder Aunt Fanny The Sea- Serpent the Explanation and A Moral Tale. The last is a rhyme of a young girl who disobeyed her mother and fell from a tree. It concludes with MORAL Now all you little children here Take heed of what I say Always obey your parents dear Or you'll be layed in clay. The limericks include a person from Spain an old lady from China a policeman whose feet a boy from Madrid an old lady of Slough a bold lady from Bristol a young lady of Zenda an old fellow of Louth an old dame in Peru a young man of Forquay a professor at Oxon an old person of Frith a person of London an old lady of Bucks an old man of the Hook and There once was a lady whose face Had slipped by mistake out of place She didn't know where Though she sought it with care So she filled up the gap with French lace A family of equal opportunity insulters leading to some remarkably creative illustrations. A majority of the pages in the book are used. Appears complete as written. Measures 9" x 7 1/4". <br/><br/> unknown books
199090742John Murray. New. 1990. Hardcover. 0719548543 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 202 pp. ; illustrated. Description: " Presents the first scholarly study of a family firm of decorators whose conservative historicist aesthetics dominated British interior design in the Georgian and Victorian periods their projects including the Royal Pavilion Windsor Castle and the House of Lords. Illustrated with drawings sketches and photographs the catalogue features eight essays discussing the Craces' royal commissions the Rococo Neoclassical and Oriental motifs they favored and all aspects of their work in domestic interior decoration including their use of painted ornamentation and their selection of furniture wallpaper upholstery and carpets." -- with a bonus offer-- . John Murray hardcover
199067479John Murray. New. 1990. Paperback. 0948723130 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 232 pp. With 131 ills. 31 col. . 28 x 20 cm. Description: " Presents the first scholarly study of a family firm of decorators whose conservative historicist aesthetics dominated British interior design in the Georgian and Victorian periods their projects including the Royal Pavilion Windsor Castle and the House of Lords. Illustrated with drawings sketches and photographs the catalogue features eight essays discussing the Craces' royal commissions the Rococo Neoclassical and Oriental motifs they favored and all aspects of their work in domestic interior decoration including their use of painted ornamentation and their selection of furniture wallpaper upholstery and carpets." -- with a bonus offer-- . John Murray paperback
199868955Deutscher Kunstverlag. New. 1998. Hardcover. 3422062297 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in German. 584 pp. With 434 ills. 124 col. . 29 x 22 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Deutscher Kunstverlag hardcover
198666680Arts Council. New. 1986. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 64 pp. With 28 ills. 17 col. 2 foldout. 31 x 24 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Arts Council paperback
199860675RMN. New. 1998. Paperback. 271183669X . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - Text in French. 120 pp. With 110 ills. 8 col. . 24 x 17 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . RMN paperback
199475537Kerber. New. 1994. Hardcover. 3924639337 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in German. 152 pp. With 119 ills. 13 col. . 31 x 31 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Kerber hardcover
199560542Cambridge University Press. New. 1995. Hardcover. 0521432480 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 540 pp. With 481 ills. 32 col. . 26 x 20 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Cambridge University Press hardcover
