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19773399S.l. 1977. Very good. 109 color photos tipped in or pasted into an "Aloha Hawaii" Album 280 x 200 mm: wood covers with black lacquer handpainted flowers islands a beach scene with a volcano in the distance side stitched with brown and white thread patterned endpapers. Binding and photographs in excellent condition. Added: three 8" x 10" photographs. Time capsule of a seemingly ordinary African-American family containing wonderfully BORING photos of interracial Christmas celebrations. The present photo album contains 109 color photos taken ca. 1962-1977. Remarkable are the nine photographs of black and white friends and family apparently enjoying each other's company on Christmas and New Years' Eve. Others photos include mom dad the kids / family & friends visiting / ladies posing / Christmas trees / siblings together / kids in group shots / football & High School graduation / hanging around at home / a trip to Boot Hill Cemetery Dodge City Kansas / a lazy cat and much more. Notable also is the photo of Robert Kennedy placed in the living room. The name of this family has escaped us but deserves to be rediscovered. unknown books
1939D6982New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher's natural cloth lettering stamped in blue on spine; 8vo; pp. 295. Spine tips gently rubbed; text block lightly foxed along the edges and rolled with upper board extending about 1/4" beyond lower. With the pencilled ownership signature of Ursula Hemingway Jepson on the FFEP younger sister to Ernest Hemingway. <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1969009057<p><p>This archive contains approximately 140 photographs ranging in size from 2.25" x 2.75" to 8" x 10". Most are b/w about 30 and color about 110 3.5" square or 3.5" x 5" snapshots. The others are b/w and include official "photo finish" shots and professional publicity photos. Also included is a letter with a xerographic image of another racer and his car. All are in nice shape; about a half dozen of the snapshots have faded a little and a similar number are blurred. A few of the images have notations in the margins or on their reverse. A few also have insignificant paper remnants on their reverse presumably from a scrapbook. </p><p><p>These photographs capture David's and his family's involvement in the competition process various cars travel race starts and finishes cars speeding down derby hills spectators at local events and packing the grandstands at Derby Downs celebrity involvement ceremonies and award dinners trophy presentations etc. They include:</p><p><p style="margin-left:5%; margin-right:10%;">Two color snapshots from a party showing the 1969 national champion Steve Souter of Texas and the first national champion from 1934 Robert Turner </p><p><p style="margin-left:5%; margin-right:10%;">An inscribed xerographic image of the 1970 national champion Sam Gupton and his racer sent by Gupton following the championship and complimenting Brenstuhl on his car and racing skill <br /></p><p><p style="margin-left:5%; margin-right:10%;">Parade snapshots of celebrities participating in the 1969 national championship: Joanne Worley from <i>Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In</i> John Havlicek of the Boston Celtics Hugh O'Brien from <i>Wyatt Earp</i> actor-singer Noel Harrison Lorne Greene from <i>Bonanza</i> and hometown basketball star Gus Johnson from the Baltimore Bullets. Also one photo shows Greene climbing to a seat in the grandstand. <br /></p><p><p style="margin-left:5%; margin-right:10%;">One snapshot of the 1969 America's Junior Miss the title was changed to Distinguished Young Woman in 2010 to help differentiate it from beauty pageants riding in a parade car as well as what I think may be a few more her with posing with Brenstuhl and. <br /></p><p><p style="margin-left:5%; margin-right:10%;">An 8" x 10" publicity photograph of the three participants of the 1970 celebrity race held along with the national championship: Lloyd Hughes from <i>Room 222</i> James Drury from <i>The Virginian</i> and Apollo 13 Astronaut Dick Gordon who apparently won the event since he is holding the Oil Can Trophy. </p><p><p>Based on some photo dates Brenstuhl entered Soap Box Derby competitions in 1969 and 1970 when he twice won the city championship for Lancaster which qualified him to compete in the national All-American Soap Box Derby held annually in July at Derby Downs in Akron Ohio. </p><p><p>A terrific visual record of what at the time was a major annual competition that generated considerable national interest. Two years later the Derby lost Chevrolet as its primary sponsor for being "outdated and too expensive." The following year the Derby lost its innocent charm when the national champion was disqualified after officials discovered that his engineer uncle had doctored his racer's tires with a solution to reduce rolling resistance and also installed a hidden electromagnetic device that pulled the car forward when the starting paddle receded. At the time the Akron prosecutor compared the cheating to another then-current scandal involving Marilyn Chambers "It's like discovering that your Ivory Snow girl has made a blue movie."</p><p><p>At the time of listing nothing similar is for sale in the trade and no similar archives have sold at auction per the Rare Book Hub. OCLC shows two institutions have much smaller groupings related to local races and the Akron-Summit Public Library has a 450 item collection including artifacts films documents and official photos but apparently not much in the way of vernacular photos from a competitor's viewpoint.</p> books
193864886Maine 1938. Photograph album 7 3/8 x 11 1/2 inches 44 of 48 leaves employed both sides used for either mounting photographs or describing them or both with short narratives about trips occasionally interspersed; affixed to two leaves are reproduced copies of a 1937 manuscript map executed by Erastus Haring picturing the lake hand-colored blue and identifying physical features and property owners all along its shores. The Erastus Haring family of Suffern New York vacationed at the same time at the same cabin on Sebec Lake about 40 miles northwest of Bangor for twelve summers recording their fishing adventures and other outdoor activities e.g. sailing waterboarding in the album. The majority of the photographs depict the Haring family especially sons Warren and Horace boating and catching salmon trout and bass with many "action" images and more of "stringed" fish; also captured are occasional fishing hiking or sight seeing trips to nearby spots in Maine e.g. Moosehead Lake Rangeley Lake Bar Harbor Mount Katadhin. A number of the photos focus on community life around the lake with outdoor meals neighbors in front of houses fish preparation for meals etc. The detailed captions add a great deal of context to the album; in addition to exhaustive identification of people places and dates there are manuscript full-page poems at least one attributed to Mr. Haring with content related to fishing pithy quotations related to the sport "the fellow who keeps his hook in the water catches the fish" and descriptions of the day's fishing events "with Richard it may be a long time before he catches another as large as this one". Two photographs missing two laid in loose an excellent family pictorial record of summer excursions for land-locked salmon and other species mostly on Sebec Lake northwest of Bangor. Brown faux-crocodile leather binding gilt stamped "Photographs" on upper cover tied. 11157. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1968WRCLIT41154London: Macmillan 1968. Polished buckram. Illustrations. First edition. Bit of sunning to edges else very good or better in a bit used dust jacket with light wear to the top edge and faint dampstaining to top edge mainly on the verso. Macmillan hardcover books
17415090Montreal: 3 April 1741. Reference: PENF #242. When Seigneur Dubuisson died in 1739 he was Commander in the West Major of Trois-Rivières. He had commanded the fort at Detroit from 1710 to 1715 wreaking devastation to the Fox Nation. In the late 1720s he commanded Michilmackinac and continued to confront the Fox. His daughter Louise married Tonti commander at Green Bay Wisconsin and at Fort Frontenac; his daughter Madeleine married Philippe de Joncaire the Indian agent and interpreter. The document testifies that the children received their father's furniture and effects inventoried elsewhere from la Dame de Dubuisson "with the exception of a mirror . which we have left her for her lifetime." In addition to Tonti and Joncaire the document is signed by Marianne du Dubuisson Jacques-Charles junior and by witnesses and the notary. 210 x 230 mm; two pages 22 lines of text. Barked--or rather bitten--at upper left corner. Some ink blemishes. 3 April unknown books
139561Cincinnati: The Williams Family N/D. Softcover. VG. Color-illustrated wraps with black lettering; 92 pp. with approx. 90 color images. A catalogue compiled by the Williams family of their collection begun in the 1950s centering on western art of the 1800s. Each work is thoroughly described. A lovely informative catalogue. The Williams Family paperback books
184720000175Ireland Depot Holyoke MA 1847-1857. General wear. . A collection of eleven 11 letters belonging to the Emerson Family of Holyoke MA. The majority of the letters are send to Ireland Depot which was the name of the town's post office from the mid 1840s to mid 1850s. The letters date from 1847 to 1857 with the bulk of the correspondence between 1848 to 1850 and between Lovina H. Fay Emerson 1822-1897 and her friend Catherine A. George Bates 1826-1879. Eight of the letters are folded stampless posts the other three have their corresponding envelopes. The six letters written by Catherine A. George Bates to Lovina which start in 1847 congratulating Lovina on her recent marriage to William. The letters discuss a variety of topics but the main thread is Catherine's conversion to Christianity her conversion in 1848 along with Catherine's friend Susan Pond local events updates on sickness in the area highlights being the death of Catherine's nephew due to dysentery her father's bout with typhoid fever and her own bout with the mumps and Catherine's rather unsuccessful attempt to comfort Lovina on the upcoming birth of her first child by telling her of the death of Susan Pond's newborn twin boys. There are three letters from Paesiello Emerson 1832-1927 to his sister Mary Frances Emerson 1833-1853 who are William's children from his first marriage. Paesiello had moved from the family homestead to Ashland MA for work while Mary was still living with their father and his new wife Lovina in Holyoke MA. Paesiello writes updating his sister on his life such as sleigh rides and his new membership in the local division of the Sons of Temperance while also poetically waxing about nature and the changing of seasons. The last two letters in the collection are one-offs. The first is to William Emerson the patriarch of the family about a shipment of lumber being send to him and the request for payment. Depending on the census record William is either a carpenter or farmer. The last letter is from a C. B. Angier a distant relative of Lovina her mother's maiden name is Angier and provides a short update on their life. Below are excerpts from the letters: "I think I felt the importance of religion I saw myself to be a great sinner but I did not want you to know it. I remember well one Sunday evening there was quite a number went forward for prayer. I felt as if I must go I tried to stand but Satan whispered in my ear that if I went no one would believe that I was in earnest that I could do it better where I was & I listened to him and sat still. I think now if I had broken away from him then I might have found peace. You thought I was indifferent I was miserable for I was trying to be a Christian and have no one know it." - Catherine A. George Bates to her friend Lovina H. Fay Emerson June 22 1848 "It has been quite sickly about us one little child buried today. One case in particular I must tell you a lady 35 years old on who belonged in this neighborhood & always lived with her parents who are quite aged was married & went to her home with every prospect of happiness before she had scarcely begun to enjoy it was called to die just 4 weeks from the day she was married she was buried at the same place where she stood a bride she lay a corpse." - Catherine A. George Bates to her friend Lovina H. Fay Emerson September 21 1848 "I have just finished loading the lumber for you. A part of the boards are not such as I stands sp have had you but they are at the depot. I though I would send them there are 2330 fit sic I also send more of the short timbers which you will please see that it is unloaded & kept safety. What you can not sell please send me the money for the lumber as fast as possibly convenient and greatly oblige." - H. Williams to William Emerson May 1 1849 ". I came home I found little Frank that is Brother Hiram's youngest child very sick with Dysentery. He had not been well for a week or two before he had 10 teeth besides there were his stomach teeth & two others were swollen very hard which caused his sickness. The Doctor said it was a very doubtful case. Mother & others that saw him said he could not get well. I thought perhaps he might altho I knew he was very sick. Wednesday he seemed considerably better. Thursday he was very restless. Friday everything he took he vomited. The disease had gone to his head he would throw it from one side to the other in dreadful distress through the day. Saturday his hands & feet were very cold could not warm them thought he could no live the night out but by rubbing he seemed to get a little rest. He was so thirsty could raise himself & grasp the tumbler & look so wistful as if he thought we could help him the Dr. told us he thought he would have spasms but he did not he grew weaker and weaker until about 6 o'clock Sunday night. Mother was over him & noticed a change & called to us it was but to see him gasp his last breath. He had turned his eyes towards the window and thus without a groan or struggle he fell asleep in the arms of his savior just like the going down of the sun altho set forever to this world it shall dawn in a bright & better world as I gaxed sic upon him now still in death & kissed his cold lips I said is this death As this was the first I ever witnessed. The impression I received is pleasant Oh! that I may so live that when I die it may be as well with me as I believe it is with him. the mother appears calm & resigned to this event as well as looking forward to a time not far distant when another treasure may be sent to her I shall feel very anxious to hear from you after you receive this as the critical time of which spoke is near at hand. You must keep could courage Lovina is pregnant with her first child will be born in October 1849. Friend Susan was very sick when her children were born only think she had two sons one weighted 3 1/2 the other 7 pounds. The latter was dead the little one lived two days. She was so disappointed when it died she got a long remarkably well herself & has been very well during the summer. I wish you could see her it would do you good she wished me to give you her love and good wishes. I think I have not written you since the California fever has done such destructive work carrying off its hundreds and thousands from their homes and the enjoyments of life where and for what do they thus sacrifice their lives For gold that shall perish it appears strange to me that so many are ready to leave all & go. I am thankful there has none of my relations gone as yet but numbers of friends & acquaintances have gone. Some have arrived there & others that have not been heard from. " - Catherine A. George Bates to her friend Lovina H. Fay Emerson September 23 1849 "I haven't anything to do and have not had much for two months past I have carved my earned my board and that is about all. If I don't have something to do before long I shall be sick or crazy or something else. But there are signs of business being better before a great while. I still board at Mr. Montague and I think I shall as long as they will keep me. Last Friday I took a sleigh ride about five miles with another person who I shall not name here. It being a pleasant afternoon we had a first rate time and got home at last safe and sound." - George P. Emerson to Miss Mary Emerson January 4 1850 "But spring has come and with it pretty blue birds how pretty they sing in the morning. Winter has gone and with it the cold blistering days and nights with its long evenings and cold snows. Summer will soon be here with its long hot sultry days and soon will be the days when we shall hear the distant muttering thunder and see the dark black clouds with its forked lighting. I joined the Division of Sons of Temperance four weeks ago last night and I like them very much." - George P. Emerson to Miss Mary Emerson April 2 1850 "Your letter came to hand soon after date it found me watching by the sick bed of my dear Father he was taken sick the week after I came home with Typhoid fever. he complained of his dead did not seem to know or remember anything said it did not seem like his own head. the Dr. came but not do anything for him we dismissed him & called another & one to consult & before night they bled & blistered him & give him medicine which roused him he would talk one day about everything did not know us at all the next would sleep all day so sound that we could not wake him. my health has been good except about 3 weeks I had the mumps they went to my head & I had sores in my ears it was bad but I felt so anxious about Father that I did not mind it." - - Catherine A. George Bates to her friend Lovina H. Fay Emerson July 21 1857 <br/><br/>For the entirety of her letters in these collection Catherine sometimes spelled Catarina in census records signs her name C. A. George as she does not marry a man named Lafayette Bates until 1862. William Goddard Emerson was born on January 21 1806 to Reuben Babcock 1755-1844 and Hannah Goddard 1761-1857 in Northborough MA. As William does not have the same last name as his parents he might have been adopted or for some reason changed his name later in life. William had twelve siblings. He married Susan Perkins 1804-1843 on October 13 1831 and had five children: George Paesiello Emerson 1832-1927 Mary Frances Emerson 1833-1853 Ginevra Emerson 1836-1838 Arthur Emerson 1838-1841 and Marcellus Emerson 1843-1878. After Susan died in 1843 he remarried on August 8 1847 to Lovina H. Fay 1822-1897. With his second wife Lovina he had four children: William Francis Emerson 1849-1931 Annie Elizabeth Emerson 1859-1941 Mary G. Emerson 1861-1863 and Henry Howard Emerson 1865-1943. He died on April 19 1887 of old age. hardcover books
171820000417Utica NY 1817-1832. General wear. Some separation at letter folds and along edges. A collection of six letters between the mother and children of the Angier family originally of Southborough MA. The most consistent part of the letters is opening with an apology from the children for failing to write their mother Elizabeth Angier and how this failure means that they have neglected her in some way. The letters date were generally send from upstate New York from towns near Utica NY such as Whitestone and Frankfort where several of the siblings namely Mary Elizabeth and Sabrina had relocated to. It appears as though one of the older daughters after marrying Augustus Baldwin 1794-1880 in 1815 moved to Whitestone NY to start a family. As the years continued several of Mary's siblings such as Elizabeth and Sabrina who never married moved to the area to for better marriage and job prospects. Two of the six letters are between a pair of the siblings. The letters generally consist of updates on their lives family and friends as well as numerous religious missives and some mention of their jobs mostly teaching that the sisters were engaged in. Additionally in some of the letters the siblings have written missives addressed to their siblings still living in Southborough. All of the letters are folded stampless posts. Measures 5" x 3 1/2" folded. Below are excerpts from some of the letters: "We were presented with a daughter 14th Nov but alas! She is not that joy or comfort we so much hope for we have been called to a bitter trial God in his infinite goodness has seen fit to afflict us in taking our child by death our afflictions are sent to try us and oh that they mite sic prove a blessing to us that we mite sic feel reconciled under all the alotments sic of divine providence in submission to his will and that we might in full submission say the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away and blessed be the name of the Lord." - February 2 1817 Whitestone NY from Augustus and Mary Baldwin to Mary's mother Elizabeth Angier "Aunt Haven has been sick since she returned from Boston with the nervous tooth ache. She had her tooth pulled and it broke a nerve and it had such an effect on her that it obliterated the whole of the nervous system so that she was not able to do her work for six weeks but she has got to be quite well now. Mr. Laban Nicholas wife Mr. Lees sister the one that was down when Mary went up the first time is deranged. She tries every way to kill herself. She once took her husbands razor and attempted to cut throat but was caught before she had completed the fatal deed. Twice her husband has found her with a rope around her neck and once got to her only soon enough to catch her in his arms as she leap sic from the scaffold one half minute longer and she would have been an eternity." - June 13 1818 Whitestone NY from Eliza Angier to her mother Elizabeth Angier. "I hope that he who has upheld you thus far in life will still hold you in the hollow of his hand lest at any time your feet should stray from the path of virtue and rectitude. And may he find your heart fast to him that when in health you may be an able to render to him according to his benefit. I am rejoiced to hear that there is any attention to the one thing needful with you. Oh that there may be many praying souls in that place and may we realize that we have an interest in your prayers. It would give a pang to any Christian to realize the state of this church and society. Religion is trampled upon like hearts cast before swine. we have reason to fear that wrath of an offended God is kindled against us and that he will come upon us with great judgment if we continue in this stupid state. Afflictions in themselves are courteous and I am not as an able to bear them as anyone. Yet they are sent for our good to restore are wandering feet. I would choose to be afflicted rather than remain in this Im feeling state. More the treacherous calm I dread then tempest bursting over my head. - August 3 1825 Frankfort NY Eliza Angier Warriner to her siblings Roland Angier and his wife Mary Marsh 1803-1866 "Eliza has become the mother of twins both daughters one we call Cordelia Eliza the other Frances Beattie they were born 20 April the life of the mother was disposed for sometime. We had two of the best nurses one was Sabrina besides all the assistance that I could render. Eliza is now so that she is just about taking care of the babes but not able to do much she is afflicted with the canker in her throat and stomach which keeps her and the babes in continual afflictions." - June 25 1830 Frankfort Alford and Eliza Angier Warriner to Eliza's mother Elizabeth Angier "The anniversary of my birthday which is tomorrow reminds me of my obligations to you the kindest and best of mothers who under God have been instrumental in preserving my life that I am so far from you as not to visit you often when I think that six years have rolled away since I saw you I am really astonished! And now that I have left my brothers and sisters is misterous sic To myself but for not writing to you I can offer no reasonable excuse I must played guilty this pleasant evening the moon with her bright Waze conveys my thoughts to my native home . I find many pleasant people here but in my dreams I visit Southborough inhabitants could I but you know where my mother is and what her enjoyment is in the decline of life it would relieve my anxiety. we had a very pleasant journey here we started from Utica July 30 in a canal boat in the front cabin 13 and number moving at the rate of 5 miles an hour able to read right net and sell. Mr. Simmons spent his time writing and reading his sermons which was very interesting to us when we got to Troy Thursday we had to lay up a few hours on account of the water for a kind a machine called the mud turtle which was scraping the mud from the river before we could cross the way to Albany then went on board a steamboat to New York saw a great many of the works of nature and a part then a coach convey the family to the New York shore then in a steamboat to Newark." - October 3 1832 Newark NJ Sabrina Angier to her mother Elizabeth Angier To view images click: https://photos.app.goo.gl/8yiDE57vHQQXnc7R7 <br/><br/>Elizabeth Newton was born on April 30 1763 to Solomon Newton 1734-1830 and Elizabeth Howe 1733-1818 in Southborough MA. She had eight siblings: Catherine Newton Ball 1759-1834 Lucreita Newton 1761-1813 Larkin Newton 1765-1788 Dolly Newton 1767-1855 Jeremiah Newton 1769-1837 Willard Newton 1771-863 Anna Newton Sherman 1773-1863. She married Charles Angier 1752-1816 on December 23 1784 in Southborough MA and had eleven children together: Betsy Angier 1785-1793 Anna Agier Fay 1787-1861 Converse Angier 1789- Mary Angier Baldwin 1791-1875 Roland Angier 1793-1872 Austin As the letters date from after the death of their father Charles Angier in 1816 even though the letters are to their mother Elizabeth they are addressed to her son Roland Angier whom she was living with at the time. Angier 1795-1865 Elizabeth "Eliza" Angier Warrienr 1795-1882 Lydia Angier 1800-1820 Sabrina 1802- and Charles Angier 1806-1881. She died on February 11 1845 in Southborough MA of lung fever. unknown books
177820000275Amity & Woodbridge CT 1778-1848. General wear. Letter folds some separation at folds. . A collection of approximately thirty-eight 38 pieces of ephemera relating to the Clark family of Amity CT. The the bulk of materials dating from the 1790s to the 1810s. The majority of the collection focuses on the patriarch of the family Lazarus Clark 1795-1818 following his death the remaining materials relate to his sons Jeremiah Andrew and William or one of his grandsons Alinzaor Jeremiah's son.The collection mostly consists of Receipts and payment intent - fourteen 14 in number which were short financial agreements between Lazarus and other gentlemen in which he agreed to pay with ""lawful money"" the debt he owed. Several make reference to a time frame in which he had to pay back the debt such as sixty days or one year at which times there is also reference to paying an interest on the debt. It appears as though once Lazarus would pay of the amount owed he would either rip off or cut out his name from the note so that the note was no longer valid. There are a few notes of this nature between his sons and/or grandsons and their debtors. Measures 6 1/2"" x 3 3/4"" sample. Itemized Invoices for goods and servic -There are approximately a dozen detailed bills belonging to Lazarus in which individual items itemized out varying in length from a few items to to the majority with full page itemizations over 40 itemes Some examples of the items and amounts purchased are: quart lisbon wine silk & thread for Patty Lazarus' daughter 5 yards linen and half a pound of sushen tea. There are some indications in the Woodbridge town history that Lazarus' house was a tavern at on. Woodbridge Citizen Ledger- 42 page booklet bound by thread which appears to be missing its wrappers if not a page or two. Names of Woodbridge's citizens listed alphabetically with some sort of unidentified adjacent checkmarks. It appears that it might have something to do with the town's taxes as on the back of the book is written ""It was voted by the inhabitants of the town of Woodbridge at their meeting in December 18 1786 and for a period thereafter rate to be paid the First of April next."" There are short notes beside some of the names indicating if the amount was paid though sometimes these notes state that it was paid by a different individual than the one named. Measures 6 1/4"" x 3 1/4"". There several loose papers filled out in a similar manner one of the smallest of which does say ""Amity Bill 1795"". On one of these pieces it appears as though the amount owed was divided up between ten men. Their names amount owed and the calculations done in order to figure out the amount owed by each individual are recorded. Another item is a letter dated August 19th 1805 from David Brown of Derby. The letter concerns a tippet that Mrs. Hotchkiss took and destroyed and Brown appears to have been writing Lazarus in the hopes that he would help to resolve the matter before Brown would be forced to ""putting of it in suit without any further delay."" This letter supports along with the possible tax records that Lazarus held some sort of important position within the town however the exact position is never specified either within the items in collection or the research done on Lazarus himself. The collection also contains a second booklet with four pages of content including a similar list of names plus six pges of genealogical records such as marriage birth and death dates. The remainder is blank.The last three pieces of ephemera in the collection are relating to the sale or transfer of land in the area however only one of which names a Clark within the text. In that document it relates the sale of Dible Farm to a William Clark in 1828. Of the two land agreements not naming a Clark one is the deed to the piece of property called Green Farms in Fairfield CT and the other is a copy of the land deed for a property belonging to a Joseph Syler. There is even a short note on the back of this copy which states ""Fees for Searching records & Copy $ 0=25 sic"". Measures 12"" x 7 3/4"" sample. One piece has a small note on the back along with these practice signatures which has the appearance of a short diary entry discussing the day's weather before it ends abruptly. To view the collection please click on the following link: https://photos.app.goo.gl/2FDfC2yTTX6c2Fyd8 Lazarus Clark was among one of the first settlers of the town of Amity in Connecticut and he even swore an oath of fidelity to this end in 1784 along with all the other citizens of the town. The town of Amity is no longer in existence today however it was located in what is now part of Bethany Orange and New Haven with the majority of it located in Woodbridge CT. In fact the house Lazarus Clark built for his family in 1795 which still stands today is in Woodbridge CT. Due to Lazarus' being a part of the founding settlers of the town he was one of its prominent citizens and there are indications in the town records that he was a Deacon at the local parish. Lazarus Clark was born on December 23 1745 in Milford CT to David Clark 1713-1800 and Hannah Peck 1716-1815. He married Dennis/Denise Bradley 1753-1802 in 1771. They had seven children: Lazarus Clark Jr. 1773-1806 Dr. Jeremiah C. Clark Dennis Clark Carrington 1780-1847 Oliver R. Clark 1780-1847 Patty Clark Riggs 1785- Andrew Clark 1789-1865 William Clark 1895-1862 and David William Clark 1829-1889. Lazarus and his family were some of the first official settlers of the town of Amity later Woodbridge CT. After his first wife died he married Hannah Baldwin Clark 1747-1823. He died on August 19 1818 at the age of 72 in Woodbridge CT. unknown books
184039541Petersburgh Rensselaer County 1840. 1/4 page and 1 page. 1 vols. 7 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches; 4to. Creases some light spotting and soiling else very good 16. 1/4 page and 1 page. 1 vols. 7 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches; 4to. Bail Bonds. WILLIAM W. REYNOLDS and THOMAS REYNOLDS came from Westerly Rhode Island to Petersburgh in 1780. THOMAS REYNOLDS became a a successful merchant and the father of GIDEON REYNOLDS. GIDEON REYNOLDS 1813-96 was a member of the N.Y. State Assembly in 1839 Sherriff of Rensselaer County 1843-46 Member of Congress 1847-51 was a delegate at the first Republican National Convention at Philadelphia in 1856 and a member of the Republican State Central Commiittee. He was appointed by Lincoln as Internal Revenue Collector of the 15th District of New York and in 1867 he became a Democrat.¶ Stephen Potter was one of the early settlers of Petersburgh as was Stephen Card probably the father of saidWilliam. Petersburgh formerly "Rensselaer Mills" was created from Stephentown in 1791. Many of the first settlers were Dutch who came over in about 1750 as tenants under Van Rensselaer. unknown books
199628422New York: David Rockefeller Family 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Gift note in separate card from David Rockefeller to original recipient laid in. 165 pp. 4to. Light scuffing to dust jacket now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards. Clean and crisp within. David Rockefeller Family hardcover books
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
188643657New York 1886. Each one page. 1 vols. 4to letter from Harry on his Studio stationery; 8vo 12mo. Tipped and mounted to larger sheet of stiff blue paper. Each one page. 1 vols. 4to letter from Harry on his Studio stationery; 8vo 12mo. "There are so many of our family all artists in New York . " A very interesting letter from Harry Beard regarding his distinguished family of artists and illustrators in response to his election as honorary member of the Northwestern Literary & Historical Society:<br/><br/>" . There are so many of our family all artists in New York some of whom devote their talents almost exclusively to Natural History Subjects. James H. - my father an animal painter James C. and Daniel C. my brothers the former has illustrated several articles on natural history in the Harpers and Century Magazines and the latter both writes and illustrates the same subjects that I really hesitate in taking to myself the great honor you would confer for fear of appropriating what may have been intended for another . "<br/><br/>A brief letter to "Dear Bro Shermain " inviting him to a meeting of the "S.S. Teachers of Williamsburg;" finally there is a charming signed sketch by Frank Beard of a boy and a girl smiling cheek to cheek with the autograph sentiment penned below by Beard: "If we were all innocent all would be glad - Frank Beard. unknown books
195422079Long Island New York: Not Published 1954. Three typed articles including: "Wayside" 1 page concerning this house ".most probably constructed for one of Captain John Underhill's children."; "Mattinecock Farm" 1 page concerning the Underhill-Prior family ownership and heritage of the property; "The Underhill Burying Ground" 2 pages concerning Captain John Underhill his ancestry the contribution of Myron Taylor to the maintenance of the UBG Inc. and genealogical information; all three articles typed on cream color paper stock each with the manuscript addition of the date June 11 1954; and each noting that Weekes was the author and also giving some sources for the material; some edgewear to paper old fold lines; in very good condition; interesting Underhill family material. . First Edition. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books
1990228904Los Angeles: Family Council on Drug Awareness 1990. 6-panel brochure folded to 3.75x8.5 inches photocopied on blue paper stock very good condition. The FCDA was "founded in 1989 to develop and present reliable factual information about drugs and drug policy." Sample question: "Q. Is Marijuana Addictive A. No it is not. . On a relative scale marijuana is less habit forming than either sugar or chocolate but more so than anchovies." Part of a broader effort to re-legalize cannibis. Family Council on Drug Awareness unknown books
1799009635This one-page stampless folded letter measures approximately 12" x 7.5". It is datelined "Boston Feby March 6. 1799." It bears a straight-line "Boston" handstamp circled "7 / MR" Boston postmark and a manuscript "10" rate mark. Small sealing wax tear from when the letter was opened. In nice shape. A transcript will be provided. <br /><br />In this letter Abbot describes Dr. John Warren's surgery to remove a precancerous tumor from his daughter. The letter reads in part: <br /><p><p style="margin-left:5%; margin-right:10%;">"My dear brother & Sister Betty . . . you will leap for joy when I inform you that this moment Dr. Warren has closed the operation upon Phebe's unfortunate swelling. The time of her suffering was as follows. 9 min'ts in cutting 14 in taking up the blood vessels & 22 in Sponging airing & dressing the wound. Her conduct her fortitude & composure were astonishing & unequaled says the Doctr. It proves to have been a serious tumor wh would certainly have become a cancer. Every thing is well & promising. She Stays here at Cap Weld's 4 or 5 days when the Dr. Supposes she can safely be removed to Andover.". </p><p><p>Dr. John Warren was an American patriot and a surgeon in the Continental Army. His brother Joseph was a leader of the Sons of Liberty and is most famous for having recruited Paul Revere and William Dawes to spread the alarm when British troops departed Boston for Concord and Lexington. He was killed during the Battle of Bunker Hill and John was bayoneted by a British soldier when he attempted to retrieve Joseph's remains. After John recovered he served in army hospitals at Concord and Long Island and fought in the Battles of Trenton and Princeton. After the war he became a very successful Boston surgeon and performed the first abdominal operation in the United States. He founded Harvard Medical School in 1782. See "Warren John" in <i>American Medical Biographie</i>s online and entries including "John Warren" in Garrison's <i>History of Medicine</i>. </p><p>Warren performed a similar operation a mastectomy on President John Adams's daughter in 1812 and a letter describing it in the same manner was written by Adams to Dr. Benjamin Rush. <br /><br />While the location of Phebe's precancerous growth is not identified Abbot's elated letter nonetheless describes an early successful tumor removal by Warren and is a firsthand testament to the doctor's skill as well as to Phebe's fortitude while calmly suffering through such a serious and painful 45-minute operation without the benefit of anesthesia. <br /><br />Online genealogical records suggest that Phebe was born in 1799 if so she would have been about 11 years old at the time of the operation. <br /><br /> Adams's letter describing Warren's surgery sold in 1984 for the equivalent of $20000 in today's money. Granted Abbot's Revolutionary War service as a Major does not carry the same cachet as Adams's service as President however his letter describes a similar perilous surgery performed by Warren twelve years earlier. <br /><br /> Exceptionally scarce. At the time of this listing nothing similar is for sale in the trade and no similar descriptions of Warren's surgeries are held by institutions per OCLC. As previously noted there is one similar letter the Adams letter describing an operation by Warren.</p> books
