‎Alaska‎

‎Alaska‎

‎A Handbook of Vacation Trips in Alaska and the Yukon on the White Pass and Yukon Route‎

‎np 1952. Illustrated. 55 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. Illustrated. 55 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. <br/><br/> unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 243048

‎ALASKA‎

‎A Handbook of Vacation Trips in Alaska and the Yukon the White Pass and Yukon Route‎

‎n.p. White pass and Yukon Railway 1937. 1937. Oblong small 8vo. Three maps; b/w illustrations. 56 pages. Original pictorial wrappers. Very good. Soft cover. [n.p.] White pass and Yukon Railway [1937]. paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 220690

‎Alaska‎

‎A HISTORY OF THE WRONGS OF ALASKA. AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE AND PRESS OF AMERICA. PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE ANTI-MONOPOLY ASSOCIATION OF THE PACIFIC COAST‎

‎San Francisco 1875. 43pp. Original front wrapper bound into later half morocco. Very good. A propagandistic appeal by the unsuccessful bidders for a fur seal contract for the repeal of the so-called monopoly of the Alaska Commercial Company. Claims to present only the "facts" and calls on the people and press of America to petition Congress for the repeal the government granted to the Company for a monopoly in the fur seal trade. Includes a brief historical sketch of Alaska focusing on how her natural riches came into the hands of a few money-hungry robber barons and paints a dismal picture of the "serfdom" of the civilized natives on the fur seal islands of St. George and St. Paul. TOURVILLE 269. RICKS p.26. WICKERSHAM 1793. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCAM18480

‎ALASKA‎

‎ALASKA - THE LAND OF YESTERDAY. TODAY AND TOMORROW‎

‎Tacoma: U.S. Department of the Interior The Alaska Railroad 1938. 1938. First edition. 4-1/4" x 6-3/4." 24pp. including pictorial gold wrappers with photographs of a totem pole and "The Alaska Railroad Skirts Bartlett Glacier" on the front wrapper and a scenic view of Mt. McKinley on the rear wrapper with a colorful totem pole on each side of the page. Numerous black and white photographs to include Summer Midnight Sun on the Yukon Winter Noonday Sun at Nome Fairbanks the University of Alaska which is the Northernmost University in the world Seward Mt. McKinley Kenai Lake Mt. Russell Mt. Foraker et. al. Also included is a Passenger Train Schedule for The Alaska Railroad homeseekers information temperatures in many cities telegraph and cable service newspapers schools et. al. Two blue black and white maps in the center of the brochure. The first map is 8-1/4" x 11" and is entitled "U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR - THE ALASKA RAILROAD - SCENIC ROUTE TO MT. MCKINLEY NATIONAL PARK AND INTERIOR ALASKA." Shows the Seattle And Nome Route the Alaska Railroad routes the Arctic Circle Arctic Ocean Pacific Ocean Bering Sea Gulf of Alaska lakes rivers forts cities Mt. McKinley National Park Rocky Mountains British Columbia Siberia Mackenzie et. al. The second map is 8-1/4" x 4" and zooms in on the area of the first map that shows the Alaska Railroad traveling from Seward to Fairbanks aviation fields Prince William Sound coal fields Cook Inlet Gulf of Alaska Anchorage Mt. McKinley Fairbanks Nenana the Yukon River the Tanana River et. al. Descriptions of the breathtaking scenes on the all-rail trip from Seward to Fairbanks; Mt. McKinley National Park; the "Golden Belt Line Tour"-an all-American Route through interior Alaska; the Yukon River circle tour; the "Loop" Anchorage and Matanuska Valley and railroad side-trips; hunting fishing; Alaska's resources; et. al. Light wear to the extremities 1" crease to lower front fore-edge light vertical crease to front and rear wrapper else a nice copy full of interesting information. U.S. Department of the Interior, The Alaska Railroad, 1938. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 38963

‎Alaska‎

‎ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC‎

‎Anchorage Alaska: Alaska Geographic Society 1976. Hardcover. b&w photos. 168 pp.Oblong 4toVol 3 No 4; sl wear & creasing to covers good <br/><br/>Quarterly publication. This issue contains 'The Silver Years of the Alaska Canned Salmon Industry'. Alaska Geographic Society hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 9900009640

‎ALASKA‎

‎Alaska Panorama. Cover title; Alaska Panorama. Our Northwest Rampart On Land Sea and From The Air.‎

‎Kodiak AK.: Calaskanac Publications. 1948. BOOKLET of over 100 full page green and white and brown and white photo illustrations 112 pp 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches pictorial stiff card wrappers with metal spiral binding. Near fine condition. Includes images of railroads mountains "Eskimos" churches fishing numerous bird's eye views etc. . Calaskanac Publications. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 34014

‎ALASKA‎

‎Alaska: Land of Gold and Glacier‎

‎Chicago: Poole Bros 1898. hardcover. very good. Large colored folding map laid in. 61 page pamphlet slim oblong 12mo stiff pictorial wrappers. Internally near fine covers are lightly soiled and corners and top of spine chipped. Chicago: Poole Bros. 1898. First Edition. Scarce. Very good.<br/><br/> Poole Bros unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 300586

‎Alaska‎

‎ALASKAN BOUNDARY TRIBUNAL Proceedings of the Tribunal Convened at London Volumes I & Appendix‎

‎Wash D. C.: Gov't Printing Office 1904. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st printing. 1/2 leather & marbled boards & endpapers. 97pp 106pp 550pp. Senate Documents Vol. 15 58th Congress Second Session. A wealth of information. Library stamps on edges. Board nearly detached; just holding. Fair. Gov't Printing Office Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 1408005

‎Alaska‎

‎ALASKAN BOUNDARY TRIBUNAL: THE ARGUMENT OF THE UNITED STATES; THE CASE OF THE UNITED STATES; THE COUNTER CASE OF THE UNITED STATES. BEFORE THE TRIBUNAL CONVENED AT LONDON UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND GREAT BRITAIN CONCLUDED JANUARY 24 1903. 3 VOLUMES‎

‎Washington 1903 GPO. 3 volumes. Octavo. 204pp. appendix 17pp.; 106pp. appendix 590pp.; 92pp. appendix 290pp.; some photo illustrations indices uniformly bound in original dark brown cloth with blind stamped decoration and gilt spine lettering. No ownership markings. Good covers lightly worn lightly stained. 3 volumes. . hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : a61000

‎Alaska‎

‎Album of Aerial and Cultural Photographs‎

‎Alaska various: np nd ca. 1947. Very good. Oblong folio commercial hardcover album made by The Burkhardt Company Detroit model X 89500 13.5� x 10.75� x 2.5�. Screw binding 74 black paper pages with a single black and white gelatin print mounted recto only to each most measuring approximately 7.5" x 9� with brief typed captions mounted below. Additional print mounted to front cover; 75 photographs total. Album exterior moderately worn cloth dry and flaking. Three sections of material loss at outer edge of covers and to upper rear likely mouse-bitten similar loss to edges of final two pages not effecting photos. Two images missing captions. Photographs well preserved occasional mild wear. About very good. <br/><br/>An impressive collection of 75 well-annotated predominantly aerial photographs of pre-statehood Alaska likely compiled by a U.S. Army Officer stationed at Fort Richardson near Anchorage just after WWII. 49 images captured from aircraft of some of the most spectacular unspoiled environments anywhere. Cities settlements and geographical locations include Galena Ketchikan Port Alexander Sitka Port Althrop Skagway Juneau Fort Seward Valdez Anchorage Barrow Nome the Taku Glacier Mount McKinley Mount St. Elias and Mt. Moffet. The remaining 26 prints equally as beautiful though taken at ground level display the cultural and trade aspects present around 1947. Highlights include an Eskimo mother and daughter on Nelson Island fishing boats in Ketchikan totem poles on Wrangell Island a midnight baseball game and a full salmon scowl at a cannery in southeast Alaska. Five prints with lettering in the negative though none with clear evidence as to the purpose behind their creation. Clearly the work of a skilled photographer an immediately engaging collection of images. NOTE: High resolution scans of this complete album are available. np hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 14430

‎ALASKA‎

‎Anchorage Fur Factory.‎

‎Anchorage: Anchorage Fur Factory ca. 1960. First edition of this Alaskan trade catalog. Octavo.22 pp. advertising 151 products of which 89 are photographically illustrated. Publisher's sewn green wrappers with an illustration of a dog team on the front. Very good.The company has left behind literally no history other than vintage products that come up for sale ocassionally. Nothing in OCLC. The days of sealskin coats as a luxury are gone. Anchorage Fur Factory unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 73830

‎Alaska‎

‎C. 1933 16mm Film Regarding Alaska: Natural History Inuit Life and Customs Fishing Hunting Travel & Exploration and Missionary Activities Community History & More‎

‎Alaska: No Publisher 1933. The movie can be loosely interpreted as the history of a journey up the Alaska coastline with some land interior footage beginning in the more southern tier and ending in the bleak far northern ice lands with 'stops' along the way; the movie has a semi-professional 'feel' - for several reasons some of which are that editing between segments is smooth and uninterrupted there are occasional professional 'titles' interspersed in the film and perhaps most importantly the quality of the imagery and the 'narrative' progression of scenes speaks to a professional behind the lens; subjects are diverse: at the beginning of the film we view the vast panoramas of the Alaskan lands mountains and rivers treated to a Robert Service quote - ".there's a land where the mountains are nameless and the rivers run God knows where." with men and a lively dog standing aboard a rapidly-moving raft poling down a river - the same men seemingly very closely for comfort observe bears fishing a stream during a salmon spawn and climbing nearby trees; the men demonstrate salmon bow-fishing and bring the catch home; the camera eventually moves on to the coastal trip being on board small steamers and sailing craft; we observe the "Wrangell Branch" of the A & P Packaging Co. with cannery scenes; visiting an outpost medical clinic seemingly obstetric; on to footage of the massive caribou movements across the tundra lands and natives hunting them; Inuit trade polar bear & other skins at a 'trading post' for goods; heavy-duty tractors used on icy surfaces to transport entire houses & populations; the stamina and strength of sled-dogs pulling up what looks like a 45-degree angle hillside at speed and in deep snow; ice-chopping for massive slabs used to build a home igloo; a costume parade of little children in a town which also shows mission children and schools young men and women in activities around sturdily-constructed multi-story brick buildings probably related to missionary work in the Territory; native carvings totem poles and other crafts; ski-planes at a small wintry airport runway - identified as "Pacific-Alaska Airways"; perhaps most exciting and interesting is the film's showing of an Inuit whale-hunt the bringing in of the great creature - hauled by hand the hunters seated on the ice in rows and strongly pulling at tremendous rope hawsers - the flensing of the blubber and an extremely lively victory party afterward obvious happiness and exhilaration of the people dances and chanting of women and men after the great capture - the fun includes being tossed in the air trampoline style done standing up the local people all dressed in the available skins and hides hunted there; various little stops are made along the way by the boat as it moves up the Alaskan fiord-scape - at one point we are treated to an exhibition of the Inuit kayak with a native spinning under the cool waters in his boat; the kayaks push offshore to greet the supply ship in this case a 4-masted schooner - we see this vessel at anchor and also magnificently under full-rigged sail - and retrieve goods in their longboat; eventually the coasting brings us to a dramatic close with a sunset silhouetting the schooner with only icebergs on the horizon; there are 'human' moments as well this is not simply an amateur travelogue - young women coquette a bit for the camera town worthies and ancient native people sit in dignity graveyard views which linger over readable headstones; people at work and play with vigor and without a 'staged' feeling -cute and very strong & skilled little kids in a wood-chopping contest and more; there is approximately 1600 feet of 16mm film run time about ½ hour; we speculate this is the original or master since there are several safety film types used here: Kodak safety positive Dupont Pathe Gevaert safety film and perhaps others - seemingly a copy of the master would have been using all one film type; these sections are professionally spliced together and viewable as we have watched this production on film a desk-type film editor as well as a through a projector; occasionally and unexplainably by checking the film types at the change there is a yellowish cast to the scene which does not obscure detail and which shifts abruptly back to clear black and white footage; on an old reel; no credits are given for the photography or direction production of the film; a possible clue is offered in an accompanying item a large sepia & black chalk portrait heightened in white on Canson & Montgolfier France watermark paper of what appears to be a reverend or Protestant cleric who bears a close resemblance to one of the characters seen several times in the film and who may have been a missionary in Alaska or perhaps ended up as the recipient of this master film; pastel portrait measures approx. 18" x 22" signed lower left Melita Hofmann C. 1907-1976 a commercial artist and illustrator originally from Toledo Ohio who worked as an art director for Grosset & Dunlap and in book illustration - the portrait with some closed edge tears repaired on verso otherwise in good shape and a good likeness accomplished with skill; the film in very good condition and viewable albeit with some vinegar syndrome - usual with films this vintage - and one of the most interesting ethnographic and historical artifacts and perhaps unique that we have had in stock filmed during a time of great change for the Inuit for Alaska and its' landscape; our thanks go to Richard Hart senior in film studies at Brooklyn College for his invaluable help in reviewing the film and revealing technical aspects of the process. First Edition. Not Bound. Very Good. No Publisher Paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 21317

‎Alaska‎

‎EXTRA! ALASKA FORUM‎

‎Rampart Ak 1901. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. Each page printed in four columns. Folio. Misfolded and neatly split along the center vertical fold with resulting large margin in first leaf. Tiny closed edge tear old tideline in upper margin of first leaf evenly toned. About very good. The extremely rare extra issue of the ALASKA FORUM printed entirely as a promotional publication to attract miners to Rampart Alaska during the gold rush. The four pages of the EXTRA include various reports of the fabulous finds in the area of Rampart "on the Yukon River in American territory about mid way between St. Michaels and Dawson City or approximately one thousand miles from each." Headlines include news such as "A New Eldorado" "Richer than Ever" "Bench Diggings" and "Paystreak is Located." Additional articles concern areas overlooked in the past opportunities for quartz prospectors the need for machinery capital and summer mining "Rampart No Longer A Winter Camp Exclusively - More Summer Work Than Ever Before." Clearly published to promote mining and by extension economic development in Rampart and the surrounding region the column-long editorial on page 2 states: "It is the intention of the publishers of the ALASKA FORUM by means of this special issue to bring to the attention of people in the Eastern states the claim of Rampart City Alaska as the gold mining center of this Territory. To that end thousands of copies of the FORUM are being distributed over New England and the Eastern states. We believe and we are backing that belief with good money that the growth of this town cannot fail to be rapid once capitalists and others are led to appreciate the unrivalled advantages Rampart offers to investor and wage earner alike. With the growth of the town will come the no less certain growth of this FORUM and therein we find justification for this issue." While the exact number of copies printed of this EXTRA is not known we have been able to locate only two other copies of this Sept. 1 1901 special issue at the Beinecke Library and the DeGolyer Library. Printed between Sept. 27 1900 and Aug. 4 1906 few copies of any issue of ALASKA FORUM have survived. Of the ten locations listed in OCLC four libraries including all three Alaska institutions hold only microfilm sets. The University of Washington holds twenty individual issues from 1904 and 1905 NYPL has issues from 1905 Denver Public Library has a single issue from 1905 the American Antiquarian Society holds just the Sept. 25 1900 issue and the Beinecke holds an additional single issue from 1901. A remarkable surviving promotional publication from the Alaskan gold rush. OCLC 22038311 Alaska Forum 1900-1906 ref. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : WRCAM54818

‎Alaska‎

‎Fairbanks and Vicinity. Telephone Directory. April 1950 cover title‎

‎Fairbanks: Jessen's Weekly 1950. About very good. 501271pp. Original grey printed wrappers stapled. Light vertical crease faintly dampstained. Faint dampstaining to upper corner of text otherwise clean internally. Telephone directory for Fairbanks including a residential and business section. The classified section includes numerous ads for local businesses. Jessen's Weekly unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 2015

‎alaska‎

‎GENERAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA‎

‎Washington 1930 Department of Interior.Octavo 136pp. photo illustrations foldout map wraps. VG. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : a64686

‎Alaska‎

‎IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. JANUARY 7 1898. H.R. 5975.A BILL EXTENDING THE HOMESTEAD LAWS AND PROVIDING FOR RIGHT OF WAY FOR RAILROADS IN THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES‎

‎55th Cong. 2d. Sess. Washington 1898. 5 1 pp.with EIGHT OTHER BILLS ON 5975 DURING THIS SESSION through its House Passage in March 1898. Quarto bound together in new plain wrappers. Institutional stamps some blank edge chipping Good. Extending the homestead laws to Alaska and creating easements for railroads and the mode of obtaining them. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 11436

‎Alaska‎

‎Juneau - Douglas Telephone Directory. July 1959 cover title‎

‎Juneau 1959. About very good. 7624pp. plus one leaf of plates. Original printed wrappers stapled. Some soiling and wear later paper labels on spine rear cover with closed tear. Some minor soiling and wear. Telephone directory for Juneau Alaska featuring both an alphabetical and yellow pages listing. Also includes a listing for the town of Douglas located just across the Gastineau Channel from Juneau. With ads for local businesses as well as a flashy full-page ad for PanAm flights to Seattle. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 2018

‎ALASKA‎

‎Juneau . . . Alaska. Vacationland of America's Great Romantic Last Frontier.‎

‎Juneau Chamber of Commerce. . PAMPHLET blue black and white photo illustrations map unpaginated approx. 10 pp 9 x 8 inches pictorial wrappers. Faint dampstaining to top fore edge corner throughout otherwise very good condition. Includes information about fishing and hunting. . Juneau Chamber of Commerce. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 33676

‎ALASKA‎

‎Klondike: The Chicago Record's Book For Gold Seekers‎

‎Chicago Monroe Book Company 1897. Thick 8vo. Profusely illustrated; 12 maps; 36 b/w illustrations. Original tan pictorial cloth stamped in brown black and yellow rubbed; spine faded. Very good. 555 pages 5 pages of publisher's advertisements at end. No dust jacket. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. [Chicago] Monroe Book Company [1897]. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 305831

‎alaska‎

‎LIST OF U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGIC AND WATER - SUPPLY REPORTS AND MAPS FOR ALASKA‎

‎1987 GPO. 4to. 355pp. original printed wraps. Ink number and Depository Library stamp on front date and number stamp on contents page.VG. . paperback‎

Bookseller reference : a73615

‎alaska‎

‎OUR NORTHERN DOMAIN ALASKA PICTURESQUE HISTORIC AND COMMERCIAL‎

‎Boston 1910 Dana Estes. 4to. 237pp. photo illustrations hardcover. Good cover worn. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : a7666

‎Alaska‎

‎PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP CO. ALL ABOUT ALASKA. ISSUED.1890‎

‎San Francisco 1890. 63pp. Illus. Tables. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor chipping and a couple of tiny repaired tears to wrappers. Very good. Scarce early promotional from the Pacific Coast Steamship Company after the first of 1887 discussing topography industry agriculture with diagrams of steamships available for passage namely deck plans of the "Queen" "City of Topeka" and "George W. Elder." An attractive engraving of the Hotel Ramona San Luis Obispo adorns the back cover. TOURVILLE 3449. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCAM52358

‎ALASKA‎

‎Pocket Encyclopedia of Alaska the 49th State. Your Reminder of Westinghouse Lucy Desi Wonderama Days. Map title: Pictorial Map of Alaska The 49th State.‎

‎Copyright 1959. Pamphlet 8 1/4 x 4 inches unfolding to color pictorial map 16 3/4 x 20 inches color illustrations and text on verso. Very good clean condition. Map of Alaska with pictographs representing industry and wildlife. Includes an inset map of the Aleutian Islands. On verso "Magical Alaska The Great Land" with information on key places to visit and illustrations. . unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 46874

‎ALASKA‎

‎President Andrew Johnson’s Copy of “New-York Daily Tribune†Detailing Proposed Regulations for Alaska‎

‎<p>This copy is stamped "THE PRESIDENT" at the top of the front page indicating it belonged to President Andrew Johnson. The President would have read this copy of the act before Congress submitted it to him with some amendments on July 25. The report uses the early variant spelling of "Aliaska" for the territory and peninsula.</p> <b>ALASKA.</b>Newspaper. <i>New-York Tribune</i> July 17 1868. Featuring the terms of the "Aliaska" Bill as passed by the Senate. Copy belonging to President Andrew Johnson. New York: Horace Greeley. 8 pp. 18 x 23¾ in.<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Excerpts:</b></p><p>"<i>Be it enacted &c. That the laws of the United States relating to customs commerce and navigation be and the same are hereby extended to and over all the mainland islands and waters of the territory ceded to the United States by the Emperor of Russia.</i>" p1/c2</p><p>"<i>And be it further enacted that all the said territory with its ports harbors bays rivers and waters shall constitute a customs collection district to be called 'The District of Aliaska' for which said district a port of entry shall be established at some convenient point to be designated by the President at or near the town of Sitka or New-Archangel and a Collector of Customs shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate who shall reside at said port of entry and who shall receive an annual salary of $2500.</i>" p1/c2</p><p>"<i>That the President shall have the power to restrict and regulate or to prohibit the importation or use of firearms ammunition and distilled spirits into and within said territory.</i>" p1/c2</p><p>"<i>That until otherwise provided by law the Secretary of the Treasury with the approval of the President shall have power to prescribe such rules and regulations as he may deem proper for the preservation of fur-bearing animals from indiscriminate destruction provided that no special permits shall be granted under this act.</i>" p1/c2</p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>After suffering defeat at the hands of the British and the French in the Crimean War of 1853-1856 Russia feared losing the Alaskan territory in some future conflict. In an effort to protect Russian interests Tsar Alexander II 1818-1881 determined to sell Alaska. After offering it in 1859 to the United Kingdom Russia negotiated a sale to the United States finalized in 1867. At the time the territory primarily offered fur trading and some natural resources. Americans generally supported the purchase and believed it enhanced American interests in the Pacific though some critics labeled it "Seward's Folly" after Secretary of State William H. Seward who had negotiated the purchase for the United States. Most newspaper editors especially those in California were enthusiastic about the purchase. Notable among the critics was Horace Greeley the editor of this newspaper and a long-time opponent of Seward. The value of the new territory increased dramatically with the discovery of gold fields in 1896.</p><p>The Senate ratified the Treaty with Russia on April 9 1867 by a vote of 37 to 2. On July 14 1868 the House of Representatives passed a resolution appropriating the $7.2 million necessary to purchase Alaska less than two cents per acre and the Senate approved the resolution with amendments. The House refused the amendments and the resolution went to a committee. The House passed the resolution as revised by the conference committee on July 23 and the Senate passed it the following day.</p><p>Meanwhile on July 15 Senator Zachariah Chandler of Michigan introduced "An Act to extend the Laws of the United States relating to the Customs Commerce and Navigation over the Territory ceded to the United States by Russia to establish a Collection District therein and for other Purposes" and the Senate passed it on July 16. In the House Representative Elihu B. Washburne of Illinois proposed amendments on July 25 and the House agreed to them. The Senate disagreed with the amendments and this bill went also to a conference committee where the Senate receded from its opposition and the bill passed. President Johnson approved and signed both the joint resolution and the act on July 27 1868.</p><p>In 1870 Congress followed up its concerns about preserving fur-bearing animals expressed in this law with "An Act to prevent the Extermination of Fur-bearing Animals in Alaska" aimed directly at regulating the killing of fur-bearing seals on Saint Paul and Saint George Islands off the western coast of Alaska north of the Aleutian Islands.</p><p><b>Additional Content</b></p><p>This issue also includes the Senate confirmation of William M. Evarts 1818-1901 as Attorney General p1/c2 p5/c4; proceedings of Congress including Senate discussion of this bill p1/c3-4; a letter from a special correspondent describing Sitka Alaska p2/c2-3; an editorial nomination of Thomas A. R. Nelson of Tennessee as Secretary of State to succeed William H. Seward "<i>now that Mr. Seward has succeeded in buying Aliaska</i>" p4/c5-6; "base ball" and cricket scores p5/c5; and a report on dozens of deaths from sunstroke during two-week heat wave especially among children p8/c1-3.</p><p><b><i>New-York Tribune</i></b> 1841-1924 was established as a daily newspaper in 1841 by Horace Greeley 1811-1872. By the 1850s it reached a circulation of 200000 copies making it the largest daily newspaper in New York City at the time. Greeley also published weekly and semi-weekly issues of the <i>Tribune</i> through much of his tenure. The <i>New-York Tribune</i>became the dominant Whig and then Republican newspaper in the United States helping to shape public opinion especially as other newspapers often copied its articles and editorials. It was one of the first newspapers in the Union to send reporters and correspondents to cover the military campaigns of the Civil War. Greeley used his newspaper to support many reforms including abolitionism pacifism socialism for a time and feminism. After Greeley's failed campaign as the Liberal Republican candidate for President Whitelaw Reid 1837-1912 assumed control of the <i>Tribune</i> until his death. His son Ogden Mills Reid 1882-1947 acquired the <i>New York Herald</i> and merged the newspapers in 1924.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Typical folds and light foxing few slight tears at some of the outer margins and appears to have been bound in a book at one point or someone reinforced the outer fold.</p> books‎

Bookseller reference : 25042

‎Alaska‎

‎Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow Alaska in Reponse to the Resolution of the House of Representatives of December 11 1884‎

‎Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1885. First edition. Numerous plates including 3 color lithographs and 10 phototype plates. 695 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Three-quarters red morocco. Spine largely perished boards detached but present. Internally Fine. First edition. Numerous plates including 3 color lithographs and 10 phototype plates. 695 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Government Printing Office unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 232938