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WILLIAM C BELLER
1931 SUPER ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HAND WRITTEN BY A COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDENT ONE DAY Ph.D PIONEER AND PATENT HOLDER LINGUIST PLAYWRIGHT AND BELOVED PATRON OF THE BRONX HISTORICAL SOCIETY
NEW YORK. Fair. 1931. On offer is an interesting diary of a graduate student in the years of the Great Depression. The diary measures 8 inches by 6.25 inches. There are 365 pages and it is 100% complete. Although fully intact the cover shows obvious signs of wear and damage. The pages are intact and the handwriting is legible. This 1931 diary was authored by William C. Beller a Ph.D from Columbia University in Electrical Engineering. He studied under the well-known Dr. Michael Pupin. At some point Beller married Esther Hoffman. They lived in New York City and in 1965 gifted their historic family home the Valentine-Varian house to Bronx Historical Society. It is the second oldest house in the Bronx. William C. Beller was an accomplished microscopist and pioneering researcher in the electronics industry. Beller held key patents in electronics research development. He was a very well-educated man and his interests ranged well outside his academic field. He was proficient in Sanskrit Greek Latin French and German language and literature and wrote a poetic drama called "Theomachia" "War of the Gods". He was active from a young age in the Theosophical Society and published some articles that were of primarily philosophical nature. From context it appears that this diary was written when he was a graduate student at Columbia likely working on his doctorate. Although he never mentions classes he attends regularly and carries out mostly work in a laboratory. "Did some reading and cleaning in the morning. Also experimented with synchronous converters with a view to overcoming radio interference due to it. . Made inquiries about filter for converter and purchased one. In the evening I went with Mother to Proctor's Cinema Theatre and saw "Blue Angel" and "Royal Bed" ." Mar 5; "I spent most of the morning reading. In the afternoon went to Fulton and Courtlandt St. And bought a condenser and transformer for television experiments. ." Mar 20; "I went to university in the morning and started making cathode for another x-ray tube. Went to university in the afternoon and helped Hull pump tube which finally I sealed off. ." June 19. In addition to his work in electrical engineering Beller enjoys literature and the performing arts often taking in plays with either his mother or father. At that time after years of experimentation in a number of countries television had been invented. Philo Farnsworth is considered to have developed the first electronic television in 1927. Only 4 years later Beller was carrying out experiments to create a television as well: "I spent most of the morning setting up television apparatus
" Dec 30; "I demonstrated television ." Dec 31. This is an excellent record of the work done by a distinguished American engineer at the beginning of both an eminent career and a new age of communications. A student of the history of the early development of electrical engineering would appreciate the many details involved as he goes about his daily work in carrying out his experiments and his studies. As he lives at home with his parents a social historian would appreciate this look inside the home of a middle-class American family as they lived through the Great Depression.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF; 20TH CENTURY; 1930s; GREAT DEPRESSION; UNITED STATES; WILLIAM C BELLER; COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY; DR. MICHAEL PUPIN; VALENTINE-VARIAN HOUSE; BRONX HISTORICAL SOCIETY; THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY; PHILO FARNSWORTH; AMERICAN STUDENTS IN 1930s; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING IN 1930s; LIFESTYLE OF AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS IN 1930s; DOCTORATE STUDIES IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS; POSTGRADUATE STUDIES IN 1930s; AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS DIARY DIARIES JOURNALS PERSONAL HISTORY SOCIAL HISTORY HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0008202
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HARRY W SNYDER
1942 ORIGINAL HISTORIC MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND PHOTO ALBUM DETAILING THE BEGINNING OF PAN AMERICAN AIRLINES CRITICAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE WAR EFFORT HAND WRITTEN AND COMPILED BY AN ERUDITE AND KEEN EYED AVIATION MACHINIST'S MATE
THE HUMP TAKORADI ROUTE. Good. 1942. On offer is a sensational historically significant manuscript and photographic relic of World War II service with the unusual and unique perspective of a 'blue collar' aviation machinist's mate who was employed by one of America's most important and key strategic resources: Pan American Airlines. Harry W. Snyder Jr. was an aviation machinist's mate for Pan American Airways - Africa Ltd. He created and compiled an absolutely rare and detailed retelling of his work service travels and observations and Harry proves to be a sensational keen eyed diarist. Adding further depth is a scrapbook filled with fascinating images. Of particular interest to historians and researcher to this vastly important historical niche of strategic resource relationships during WWII will understand Pan American's key involvement creating Pan American Airways - Africa Ltd. in 1941 between. It flew materials and personnel from Miami to South America across the Atlantic to Africa where it crossed the Sahara Dessert onto the Middle East and British India where it flew over the Himalaya Mountains "The Hump" as it was called into China. Harry is in an inviable position to witness history: the diary riod when the United States was just beginning its African campaign. He begins writing in June as he leaves the states and then spends some brief time in South America. His entries begin June 24 1942 with a final entry Dec 25 1942. The diary entries mention the issues with Pan American and how the lines were often blurred between civilian and military operations. It seems the company in Africa was going to be taken over by the U.S. Army. He also mentions many plane crashes or "crack ups" as he called them some with horrible results. An entry from the diary mentions a fighter plane losing control the pilot bailed out but his parachute failed to open and he dies on impact. His plane blew up on the runway ammunition exploded into the night. This is just one of the entries there are more crashes air raids and practice drills in case the Germans bombed having to carry a gun native troops with tanks machine guns etc. Snyder also writes about life in the Africa and the West Coast city of Accra Capital city of Ghana the bars and other establishments nightclubs prostitutes native people soldiers there is so much more. In addition to the diary there is an excellent photo album depicting scenes from Accra showing life among the native people local soldiers street scenes etc. The album contains 71 photos after his service with Pan Am Harry then joined Navy and earned several medals for his service in WW II. Here are some snippets: June 30 1942 Flight to South America than Africa. Up at 4:45 am breakfast & than to the airport. Plane checked up or 2 guys took off at 7:55 Flew through storms most of the way sighted boat once during break in storms. Over Brazil & hours of nothing but jungle. Some small huts along Amazon River only signs of life. Almost dark when we landed. Just missed a crash when we had to pull up to miss a boat. Circled again and landed at 5:45 pm Raining when we landed. One mans over night hit went overboard & had to be recovered. Took bus to Grand Hotel in Belium. Pera Everyone speaks Portuguese had trouble getting dinner using Mil Res= to about 0.5 took watch tonight and girls Both rode the trolley. This is a funny place to write this because I never forget it anyway. The hotel is lousy ants & lizards all over. Lizards will crawl up and down walls. I wrote to Sally & mom to tell them about the lousy dump censors will probably cut out half of the letters. I will tell them again when I get to Africa. I want to get mosquito nets tomorrow; they will cost 100 Mal I hate to go to bed here as I am afraid of getting jiggers or something worse. There are a lot of us sailors here they told us places to go. They are all liquor dives. Went to the "Wonder Bar" Its a wonder all right that anyone can stand it. Beer women don't like either. Women will hang all over you if you don't chase them. I kept moving around until we left so that could not sit down near me. They are all filthy I cant wait to leave here. July 6 1942 Africa Assigned to " Equipment" Easy job check flares pistols rations etc. Start in at 6:30am and finish at 4:00pm landed job today and checked plane out ok'ed by Lawson. Not hard to make the "Wogs" do all the dirty work. Rumors about army taking over are still persistent and I believe this to be true. Maybe here for duration yet. I hope not. Wrote 4 letters tonight saw movie "Ice Follies 39" old but good. Saw a Bristol Bear fighter on field today it as pained black. Sweet looking plane. July 10 1942 Africa Up at 5:45 ate breakfast than to airport worked on a couple of planes that had to go out and tan took it easy. Came in for dinner and found Tommy Olsen in Rec Hall he just got in late last night. The others are still in Natal. Back to field but nothing to do took it easy all afternoon al the near quitting time got a plane to ready for morning. A native boy killed a deadly viper under the Goodman's & brought it out on the field. Very ugly looking. July 13 1942 Africa Up into work at 7:00 We started new hours today I felt lousy all day. Very weak & had a stiff neck. Only 3 ships on field for us to check so I was lucky & didn't have to work hard. There were 5 B 24's on field today but 4 flew out. Two of out ships cracked up over weekend 085 flew out on Sat cracked up at Khatouw- and another ship cracked & burned some other place. Bad weekend for P.A.A. Army took over pilots today they were made Capt's & first Louis I supposed I will find out were I stand in a couple of weeks. July 17 1942 Africa Up breakfast & airport lots of work this mourning & found out they were expecting the 40's they had both fire eng. & meat wagon ready & also asbestos suits. However the 40s didn't get here. Ate lunch & got letters from Ma. July 21 1942 Africa Up and breakfast than airport. Read notes & went to work. Lunch and than back to work a bunch of B-24's have been coming in all day. English show this afternoon. Wrote to Sally & folks. Listened to phonograph & started talking with some B-24 pilots on their way out to Cairo. Lost a couple B-24s on way one at Roberts went in ocean 2 out of eight alive. I am wondering if I'll ever get home again ever. H. Told me that if we do go home we will be marked and drafted back into service right away if the army wants us. Don't know but what should try for Specialist. But I think I 'll go home if I get a chance. Join the navy if I have no other choice but draft. July 27 1942 Africa Up breakfast field worked morning on ships going out today and tomorrow- B 24's went out today & night noon time mail in but none for me. Heard rumor that Seattle was bombed but no proof. Back to field & worked until 4:00. A lot of B-25's came in today. Collected the ck after 4:00 pm than down to Barracks & shower. Aug 1 1942 Africa I have been away over 1 month now here in Accra for almost 1 month. This place is fairly nice the food is not so bad except once in a while when we got goat or something worse. This month has been hectic in that we hear so many rumors etc. It is a fact that the army is taking over but we don't know it what capacity & what our status will be. So there's nothing do to but wait. I never knew before how much mail can mean to a person & am glad for the friends who write me. Aug 21942 Africa Up at 8:45 breakfast -my day off so I decided to go to Accra went in rented a bicycle went to lumberyard - docks - got wet riding than along breakwater saw drummers wet out to Christian log castles saw dungeons went to court building & police station than native market & than back to Accra saw a chiefs procession. Than got on bus & went back to camp. Aug 31 1942 Africa This month sure has been a trying one. First were going to severe contracts than are not than were going home & latest rumor had it that we'll stay here either in the army of the U.S. or else in civil service I guess we'll get the real lowdown eventually whew they'll really tell each if us just what we can be if we stay here or if we can ho home at all. Every day brings a new confidential story on the set up and each one as far fetched as the other. Everyone has been broke for about a week already as they are holding up our pay checks for some reason. Rumor still has it that we will get a hell of a strafing here some night. Particularly since they bombed the convoy at Lagos. Well its almost 2 months Ive been in Africa and I'm not crazy about it. The food is getting worse every day and I miss my gal. Hope for better information in the coming month. Sept 13 1942 Africa An air raid siren woke me at 5:30 up & went out to see the score. Decided it was a practice when nothing showed up than breakfast and work. At 10:00 a couple of Blenkeims Hudsons & Beam fighters staged a raid on the field. Boy what a sight. Zooming lovely above the ground & between the hangers. We all made for the bush saw 100 native troops on maneuvers all clean & on for chop no meal back to field. The whole place is crawling with native troops tanks machine guns everything. Off early so back to camp. No lights no water bad situation. Nov 8 1942 Africa Up breakfast - wash Heard the American troops landed in French Morocco. All planes are grounded expecting air raid - everyone with a gun must carry it. Cleaned & loaded guns on all planes. Installed bomb racks lunch and back to field. Rumors of all kinds from Italy to Doha etc. Went to 4;00 movie fleets in "Saw it back home with Sally chop and shower than wrote Sally. Total black out tonight keep up until we see where we stand. Funny to be here & yet not know what goes on. People at home probably all know. Bed at 11:00.' HISTORICAL NOTES: Pan American Africa: Pan American Airways-Africa Limited proved to be one of the Allies' most important strategic resources during World War Two. The company was formed in July 1941 after negotiations between the governments of the U.S. and the U.K. following earlier British overtures to Juan Trippe. By 1942 Pan Am Africa's crews and aircraft were flying from Miami down to South America across the Atlantic to Africa's West Coast across the Sahara to the Middle East on to what was British India and across the mighty Himalayan Mountains the "Hump" to western China. They carried strategic materiel and personnel and kept an absolutely vital line of communication open between global theaters of war. Each leg of that route presented challenges to both humans and machines. The route across the fabled Sahara Desert had its own particular issues: brutal heat extreme isolation primitive or non-existent infrastructure and sandstorms to name a few. The route across Central Africa had been pioneered through British civil aviation efforts starting in the 1920's but the scale was limited. With the coming of the Second World War operations and infrastructure had to increase dramatically. In some ways opening and operating those remote airfields resembled the work Pan Am had undertaken when opening the transpacific route in the mid-1930s. Aviation fuel had to be trucked in from great distances over primitive roads. Food and water were scarce. Success demanded ingenuity and an ability to take advantage of local resources. Like the opening of the "Hump" route the success of the "Takoradi Route" as it was called remains one of the truly impressive achievements of Pan American Airways' contributions to ultimate victory of the Allied cause which by the close of the war was being identified as that of the "United Nations."; Manuscript; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF; HARRY W. SNYDER HISTORY OF FLIGHT AVIATION PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS - AFRICA LTD. WWII WW2 ACCRA GHANA STRATEGIC RESOURCES AFRICAN CAMPAIGN TAKORADI ROUTE THE HUMP HIMALAYAS AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS DIARY DIARIES JOURNALS PERSONAL HISTORY SOCIAL HISTORY HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0002595
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ERIC HYDE SEXTON
1918 ORIGINAL DIARY AND NOTEBOOK OF A TEENAGE BOY IN ENGLAND ENDURING THE AWFUL WAR WITH GERMANY BUT WHO WOULD SOON ENOUGH GO ON TO PRINCETON HARVARD US MILITARY INTELLIGENCE AND FAME AS AN ARCHAEOLOGIST AND ANTIQUARIAN
New England. Good. 1918. On offer is a notebook journal of a young man who would go on to become a note antiquarian and archaeologist. This journal is a small 2-ring flip-top style binder containing 134 pages. It measures 7.5 inches by 4.75 inches and is about 95% complete. It is in good condition and the handwriting is legible. Accompanying the journal is a lovely black and white photograph taken of the author when he was an infant. Eric Hyde Lord Sexton was born in 1902 in New York City in 1902. He came from a wealthy family. He studied at Princeton University initially and then earned an MA from Harvard. Travelling to England he studied at Oxford earning a BLitt. Returning to the United States he joined the faculty of Harvard and taught archaeology. He was also a noted antiquarian and was a Fellow of the British Society of Antiquarians. He wrote several books and when he passed away in 1980 he left an unfinished book on life in Saxon England. In WWII he served in the U.S. army as an Intelligence Officer having attained the rank of Major. This journal written when he was 16 appears to be both a daily journal and a class writing exercise. Some of the entries show definite signs of having been corrected or reviewed. It covers the period from Oct. 15th 1918 until Dec 13th 1918. His entries recount daily events and are written in a very stylized manner as if writing for an older audience perhaps his teacher. The following excepts will give a flavour of this journal: "Today I persued my regular course of studies. During my free time in the afternoon I secured detention for neglecting yesterday to tell the "prefect" that I had re-swept my room. Later in the afternoon I surveyed until it was time for my English class. I was very interested in hearing the excellent answer made by our President to the German note of peace proposals. I wish the war would come to a speedy and victorious finish so that my dear father could regain some of his former health and vigor. ." Oct 13; "This day I attended school chapel as usual and posted the list of library rewards. I went after the morning service to the room of H.E. Scheidt a professor at this place where I perused a good deal of the literature pertaining to Harvard University. I found this most interesting to me and remained there till about lunch time. In the afternoon I had a period at the piano with one Mr. Schenk a Jew from the violins of the New York Symphony orchestra. ." Oct 20. What is interesting is that whoever was marking his work stroked out the word Jew with a red marking pen. None-the-less it illustrates the ongoing problem of discrimination engrained in the fabric of the United States both then and extending forward over the next century. "When I awoke this morning I heard all of the church bells ringing in town and when I got up to the buildings I found that peace had been declared. This time it is no idle rumor. The whole school attended chapel. The headmaster said we could celebrate by following our usual course of study but that in the evening we would march in town in the regular battalion formation. We were excused from classes in the afternoon. ." Nov 11. For a social historian this journal offers an excellent look into the private school life of students from well-to-do families in New England. It addresses directly and indirectly the cultural norms and values of that segment of society which was the source of many of America's future leaders and social influential members of society. His entries are lively with wry observations of school life; Manuscript; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF; 20TH CENTURY; 1910s; UNITED STATES; NEW ENGLAND; ERIC HYDE SEXTON; ARCHAEOLOGY; SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIANS FELLOWS; HARVARD UNIVERSITY; AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGISTS; BRITISH SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIANS; PRINCETON ALUMNI; ART HISTORIANS OF THE 20TH CENTURY; ANTIQUARIANS AND COLLECTORS IN 20TH CENTURY AMERICA; AMERICAN YOUTH IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY; BOARDING SCHOOL STUDENTS IN 1910S; EDUCATION IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICA; KENT SCHOOL IN CONNECTICUT; UPPER CLASS EDUCATION IN AMERICA; LIFE IN BOARDING SCHOOLS; FOUNDERS LEAGUE SCHOOLS; COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOLS IN CONNECTICUT; AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS DIARY DIARIES JOURNALS PERSONAL HISTORY SOCIAL HISTORY HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0008216
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GLADYS B HETHERINGTON [later Atwood]
1922 - 1924 ORIGINAL PAIR 2 OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A HARDWORKING RURAL MAINE WOMAN DETAILING A LIFE MORE OF THE TOILING TWENTIES NEVER MIND THE ROARING
FAIRFIELD MAINE. Good. 1922. On offer are two 2 original manuscript diaries written in the early 20th Century in the very remote and rural countryside of Maine USA. The first diary measures 6' x 3.5' the second - 7.0 x 4.25' both diaries have 365 pages 100% complete and in good condition. The diaries were hand written by Gladys B Hetherington. She was born on April 25th 1895. In 1914 she married Hurley Hetherington. That marriage would end in divorce in 1930. Subsequently she married Henry Atwood with whom she had a daughter. Maine has always been a state comprised of mostly small fishing and farming communities. The people were hard-working and independent. In 1922 when she was 27 Gladys was living on a farm with her husband Hurley. The farm was in Fairfield near Norridgewock ME and her diary is full of the daily events of life in that very small community. "Lovely warm day. Hurley went down to help Jimmie. I done usual Sat work and set two more hens. Evelyn spent the afternoon with me. We rehearsed and sang. Arthur came up with Hurley to hear records. Hurley and I have been married eight years today. We can hear the frogs tonight. ." Apr. 8 1922; "Another windy day and cold too. I cleaned the dining room and made a dust cap. Hurley went to Malbrum's Mills to help Farleys pick up potatoes. Mama and I took down to the blacksmith's shop at Black's Mills and had his shoes set over. Done some trading and came home. Evelyn came up to get a for Louise for Sunday and I copied one off for her." May 11 1922; "Dark day rained little did not have to hurry getting up. I made raisin brad cake and apple pie dressed chicken etc ." Nov 11 1922; "It was snowing when we got up and snowed until middle of P.M. a damp snow. John and Hurley took the horses over to blacksmith shop Brads A.M. and had them sharpened then they came home got their dinner and done their chores and went back down to Leo's. I have a headache as well as a sore throat. I made cookies and a mince pie." Jan 25 1924; "My 29th birthday. Mamma and I cleaned papered and moved things in her bedroom I roasted rooster for supper. Guy had a spell with his heart this morning they thought he was dead and called Dr. Smith Received birthday card from and $1.20 from Hurley" Apr 30 1924; "Hurley down to Charlies. Mamma and I done washing. I washed the floor. The meat man did not come. I cleaned out chicken coops. Mamma Addie and I went raspberrying on the hill. Put up 3 pts and started little batch of R.R. Jam. Hurley started the bossey drinking tonight. Hurley brought mowing machine up tonight. Hurley shot at a skunk" July 21 1924. The entries are focused on the immediate events and activities of their lives. There are no references to outside events reflecting very much the constant hard work that they did to maintain themselves. None-the-less there comes across a real sense of family as they work and socialized with themselves and their neighbors in this fairly harsh rural environment. A rural historian would find these diaries valuable as they paint a picture of what was involved in the continual effort to build a life in rural Maine. A researcher in women's or gender studies would see this as a very clear description of the life that many rural women led in the early 20th century.; Manuscript; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF; UNITED STATES; MAINE; NORRIDGEWOCK ME; FAIRFIELD ME; SOMERSET COUNTY ME; 20TH CENTURY; 1920s; ROARING TWENTIES; JAZZ AGE; GLADYS HETHERINGTON; HURLEY HETHERINGTON; EARLY 20TH CENTURY LIFE IN RURAL MAINE; AGRICULTURE IN NEW ENGLAND; WOMEN IN RURAL AMERICA; FARM LIFE IN THE EARLY 1920s; FARMING OPERATIONS; WOMEN ON FARMS; DIETARY PATTERNS IN 1920S NEW ENGLAND; ROLE OF FARM WOMEN IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY; ENTERTAINMENT PATTERNS IN RURAL NEW ENGLAND; AGRICULTURE IN SOMERSET COUNTY; FAIRFIELD FARMS IN 1920s; AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS DIARY DIARIES JOURNALS PERSONAL HISTORY SOCIAL HISTORY HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0008217
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GLADYS BAILEY
1941 - 1945 ORIGINAL GROUP OF FOUR 4 WORLD WAR II ERA MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A HARDWORKING UPSTATE NEW YORK WOMAN RICHLY DETAILING A FULL FAMILY FARMING LIFE STEPS FROM THE SOUTH SHORE OF LAKE ONTARIO
RED CREEK; NEW YORK. Good. 1940. On offer is an excellent collection of 4 diaries 1940 1943 1944 and 1945 and ephemera from a farm woman who lived in rural upstate New York. All diaries measure 7.5' x 5.0' each contains 183 pages and memoranda and all of them are in good condition. 1940 1944 and 1945 diaries are 100% complete 1943 diary is 50% complete. Gladys Bailey lived on a farm in upstate New York quite close to Lake Ontario. She was born on April 29th 1912. A handwritten genealogy in the ephemera indicates that she was born in 1912 maiden name Weisner and married to James Emery Bailey who came from Nelson Pennsylvania and was in the logging business. She had two children Donald and Mae. She lived on the family farm with her extended family. The diaries portray in detail the daily events and happenings on a mixed-use farm in mid-20th century: "Washed clothes and got them dry. Ironed in afternoon. Mother called Belle Robinson done chores. Had a big dish of cooked dandelions for dinner. Got a card from Arnie saying he is going to Louisiana. Set a hen on 15 eggs." Apr. 14 1941; "Mother Alice and I gathered greens - horseradish milkweed and dandelion. Alice sent for oil stove. The men planted beans. Went to Francis for fish supper. Emery took the horse over to Charlie' L. Tonight. Eddie and Carl got pigs. We got two also ." May 21 1941; "Very pleasant about 38 deg. We washed in A.M. and worked on rug in P.M. Kiddies gone to school. Men working in the woods and Emery drawing logs. Went to bed about 10 o'clock and slept good."Feb. 21 1943; "Pleasant but darn cold men ploughing clean all downstairs and Chas. room man brought 75 gal gas & 100 kerosene put 13 chicks under hen had killing frosts hardly slept at all at night Emery ploughed until 1 A.M. so long" May 18 1943; "Hear first golden robin and bobolink. Nearly all summer birds are here. We were going over to Frances but couldn't make it as men worked on cow fence until nearly noon. Let cows out first today. We were going to help Frances can greens. Mother and I cleaned and mowed lawn. Lovely day. Mother has terrible cold. Gathered dandelions to can went over to Ernest this eve" May 11 1944; "It was a nice day. Emery thrashed for Bruce;. Charlie cultivated beans in A.M. In P.M. drew wheat for . We canned 5 qts of peas ." July 26 1944; "Started sending milk to Martville boys also got some feed. Red cow came in this morn. no good I baked butter scotch cookies mother 2 cherry pie 2 apple It was a lovely sunny day. Carl made out his occupational Farm papers today" Mar 1 1945. The entries are very local. Although there is a world war raging there is no mention of it in her diaries. The entries paint a detailed and vivid picture of life on this family farm. A social historian would find it offers a goldmine of information - from daily weather to crops planted and day-to-day operations of the farm. The ephemera contains newspaper clippings cards and assorted notes. What is likely the most valuable though is a four-page handwritten genealogy of the family. What comes through is the warm relationships between the members of this family and their friends and neighbours.; Manuscript; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF; UNITED STATES: 1940s; MID-20TH CENTURY; GLADYS BAILEY; JAMES EMERY BAILEY; RED CREEK NY; WAYNE CO. NY; FARMING IN MID-20TH CENTURY AMERICA; WARTIME AMERICA; FARM WOMEN; FARM LIFE IN 1940S; UPSTATE NEW YORK; FARMING OPERATIONS; DIETARY PATTERNS IN WARTIME AMERICA ; AGRICULTURE IN UPSTATE NEW YORK IN 1940s; FAMILY FARMS IN WAYNE COUNTY NY; WOMEN STUDIES; AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS DIARY DIARIES JOURNALS PERSONAL HISTORY SOCIAL HISTORY HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 0008219
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FRANK S CUMMINGS
1910 - 1930 ORIGINAL GROUP OF 12 MANUSCRIPT DIARIES DETAILING 19 YEARS IN THE LIFE: FROM HIGH SCHOOL TO HOBOKEN AND ENGINEERING STUDENT TO ENSIGN IN THE US NAVY
LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA CA. Good. 1910. On offer is a fascinating original collection of 12 manuscript diaries spanning a 19 year period of time in early 20th Century America.1910 diary measures 5.5' x 3.5' has 52 pages plus extensive memoranda and is 90% complete; 1911 diary is 5.0' x 3.5' has 122 pages and 100% complete; 1912 - 5.0' x 3.0' has 122 pages plus extensive memoranda and 100% complete; 1916 -6.0' x 3.25' has 122 pages plus extensive memoranda and 90% complete; 1918 -5.0' x 3.0' has 122 pages plus extensive memoranda and 100% complete; ; 1919 -5.0' x 3.0' has 365 pages plus extensive memoranda and 80% complete; 1920 -6.0' x 3.0' has 365 pages plus extensive memoranda and 60% complete; 1921 - 4.5' x 2.75' has 73 pages plus memoranda and 100% complete; 1922 -4.75' x 3.25' has 183 pages plus memoranda and 75% complete; 1927 - 5.5' x 3.0' has 52 pages and 75% complete; 1928 - 6.0' x 3.5' has 183 pages and 65% complete; 1929 - 6.0' x 3.0' has 365 pages and 100% complete; all diaries are in good condition the covers of the 1910 and 1918 diaries are in fair condition. These diaries belonged to Frank S. Cummings who lived most of his life in California. Cummings was born July 24th 1894. The 1910 and 1911 diaries were written when he was in high school - ages 16 and 17. It is full of the day-to-day experiences of a high school-aged boy: "School again. Aud. Call in 5th period. Prof Galey talks to boys. But tickets at . Finish riding 300 miles on my bicycle" Apr 28 1910; "Lecture on Liquid Air in Aud. the 4th period. After lesson walk to and hunt for music book. Cannot find it. Finish studying early. June 13 1910; "Rain. Aud call 4th period. Man talks on Lincoln. Excused for rest of the day. . No lesson." Feb 13 1911; "Spring vacation this week. Work on wheel. Take bath. Leave 3:00 for Mrs. Bierlich's. Home early. Go to Ms. Aston's after supper. Home 10:35." Apr 10 1911. While there are references to his mother and aunts and uncles there is no reference to his father or to siblings. He graduates in 1912 and enrolls in the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken NJ. Stevens is one of the oldest technological universities in the United States and was the first college in America solely dedicated to mechanical engineering and the diary for 1916 covers some his experiences there as a student. "Computation exercise in Elect. Labs. Study some with Boards 4:15 home go to show "Mary Page" Apr 6 1916; "Commencement 10:30 Go over early. Assemble in "P Lab" . go up to Castle stay there all afternoon ." Jun 6 1916. For some entries context suggests that while in College he enrolled in the U.S. armed forces reserves specifically the U.S. Naval Reserve Force: "Lecture by General Wood on 'Preparedness' 12:00 - 1:00. 2:03 home. Go down town. Concert at Women's Club East Orange. Met . Home 12:00." Feb 16 1916; "Lecture by Capt. Steward 5th Infantry on Organization of the Army ." Feb 23 1916. In Sept 1916 he returned to Stevens to both study as well as to teach as an instructor in the Electrical Department. In 1918 it is clear that he has enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve Force and has been commissioned an Ensign. Entries on what are obviously pages from a military note book indicate that he was engaged in recruiting activities: "FROM: F.S.C. Ensign USNRF TO: Lieutenant Com. F.L. Pryor SUBJECT: Report 1. The enrollment in the naval sections of the S.A.T.C. at both the Univ of Calif and Stanford was less than that desired Instead of a unit of 500 at U of C there were only about 350 enrolled on Oct 4; of these only about 100 were engineers instead of 300. At Stanford out of a desired unit of 100 engineers there were enrolled about 85 of which about 50 were engineers. ." Oct 8 1918; "Got promotion to Lieutenant j.g. ." Jan. 16 1919. On Apr 19th 1919 he received orders to report to the USS DeKalb in Newport News. USS DeKalb was a converted German navy commerce raider that had been interned by US Customs for overstaying her time in a neutral port. When the United States entered the war she was seized and turned over to the US Navy. On Apr 28th he sailed with her to France where she picked up troops to return home from the war. They returned to the United States on May 23rd. He was released from active service May 26th 1919. He immediately returned to California and began to look for work. He was successful and began working July 9th at the rate of 40¢ / hour. His diaries for the following years detail his work at various firms in the electro-mechanical field. There are many references to social activities and people he shares time with. Most diaries contain extensive lists of expenses and in the war years additional notes of his recruiting efforts. Although there is no other biographical information on Cummings the diaries paint a very good picture of his life over this 19 year period. Indeed a social historian would see they could serve as a wider picture of daily life in these early years of the 20th century. An economic researcher or an economist would appreciate the wealth of detail in his extensive records of daily expenses on a wide range of items over this near-two decade period of time; Manuscript; 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF; UNITED STATES; CALIFORNIA; FRANK S. CUMMINGS; STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; HOBOKEN NJ. USNRF; UNITED STATES NAVAL RESERVE FORCE; USS DEKALB; USS PANTHER; EDUCATION IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICA; SCHOOLS IN CALIFORNIA IN 1910s; TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN 1910s; 1920s; JAZZ AGE; ROARING TWENTIES; WW1; GREAT WAR; FIRST WORLD WAR; RECRUITMENT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR; STUDENT LIFE IN 1910S AMERICA; SOCIAL LIFE IN CALIFORNIA; PRICES IN AMERICA IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS IN 1920s AMERICA; AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS DIARY DIARIES JOURNALS PERSONAL HISTORY SOCIAL HISTORY HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 0008220
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EDWARD S SCHWANTES
1917 ORIGINAL CHARMING PEEK INTO YOUNG LOVE AND COURTING WITH THE AWFUL BACK DROP OF WWI LOOMING FOR A COUPLE WHO WOULD JOIN IN LIFE FOR NEARLY 6 DECADES
RIDGEFIELD WASHINGTON WA. Good. 1917. On offer is a lovely original manuscript record of a young man's efforts to court a girl with whom he has obviously fallen in love. This soft cover journal is actually a notebook in which he has written in the dates and entries as the year progressed. Measuring 11 inches by 5.5 inches it contains 96 pages and is approximately 80% complete. He also includes a record of his expenses month by month. The cover is in good condition considering its age 100 years and the pages are all intact. His handwriting is legible. Edward S. Schwantes was born in Wisconsin in 1893 his parents came from Germany in the mid-19th century later his family moved to Clark County in Washington. He kept this journal in 1917 when he was 24 years of age. Although it records many things that took place in his life that year its focus is his courting of a young woman names Olga. Casual research has not turned up very much biographical information on Schwantes. We know he served in the U.S. Army and was discharged as a Private but the service years are not known. He is also recorded years later as a building contractor. He died in 1975 in Salem. However did he get the girl The answer to that lays below. Schwantes is a labourer in the Ridgefield WA area. He worked in carpentry agriculture and a variety of odd jobs: "Worked in the woods all a.m. To town in the p.m. and took in cream & brought back grass seed. To library in evening". Jan 25 1917; "Butchered old sow in the a.m. cut wood the rest of the day. Sent for 50 ¢ jar of Jacksons Influx Hair Grower & and one cake of soft Jacksons medicated soap - 25 ¢" Jan 29 1917. In February there is the first mention of 'Olga': ". took Olga home after church and found out some of her troubles. God help you Olga to win out in your undertakings. God only knows how much I would like to help you and I'm praying for you all the time Olga. I would like to do more and would do anything in my power to comfort and help you and protect you if only I dared to and I hope some day I will dare to . " Feb 18 1917. The relationship appeared to be blossoming over time: ". Had the pleasure of taking Olga home after church again and found out that her folks didn't object to my keeping company with her anymore." Mar 18 1917. He notes her birthday and his gift-giving ability: ". took Olga home after church her 19th birthday and all I could give her was love; it seemed I didn't have enough of that to satisfy her ." July 8 1917. Throughout the year he reports daily on his work whether cutting wood grubbing clearing trees shrubs stumps and rubbish from a site often a prelude to construction building and construction work etc. References to he and Olga continue throughout the year charting ups and downs. His journal also contains a detailed list of monthly receipts and expenses. And in the end did he get the girl Yes - research indicates that an Olga was born in 1898 in Scappoose moved in Ridgefield when she was about 16 in 1919 she married Edward Scwhantes and they were married for 56 years until his death in 1975. During the WW2 Edward and their sons were in the army and Olga worked as a welder in shipyards. One of their sons Paul was killed in action in the Philippines in November 1944. Olga passed away in Salem in 1996 at the age of 98. This is a wonderful looking into the life of an ordinary young man growing up in early 20th century America. His entries are well written and detailed. They give a social historian an excellent window into life in this time and place. The detailed information about receipts and expenses certainly help confirm other outside information about the economics of life at that time.; Manuscript; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF; 20TH CENTURY; 1910s; WW1; CLARK COUNTY; WASHINGTON; WISCONSIN; EDWARD S. SCHWANTES; RIDGEFIELD; WA; VANCOUVER WA; OLGA SCWHANTES; WW2 VETERANS; PRICES IN AMERICA IN 1917; YOUNG MEN IN 1910S AMERICA; EARLY 20TH CENTURY; COURTSHIP IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY RURAL AMERICA; RURAL WASHINGTON; DATING IN RURAL AMERICA; JOBS IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY RURAL WASHINGTON; AMERICAN ECONOMY IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY; GERMAN AMERICANS; AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS DIARY DIARIES JOURNALS PERSONAL HISTORY SOCIAL HISTORY HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . paperback
书商的参考编号 : 0008222
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WILLIAM J GRAY
1944 - 1945 ORIGINAL GROUP OF FOUR 4 MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOKS DETAILING THE ARDUOUS CRITICAL WORK OF A REPLENISHMENT SHIP IN THE DEADLY PACIFIC THEATER THAT WOULD GO ON TO WIN 3 BATTLE STARS
U.S. NAVY - PACIFIC THEATER SOUTH PACIFIC. Good. 1944. On offer is a fine collection of original manuscript notes and writings handwritten by a sailor on a battle-tested U.S. Navy ship in WWII. The following details the size condition etc of the diaries: There are four notebooks: January-June 1944 has 56 pages and 50% complete; July-September 1944 - 56 pages and 50% complete; October-December 1944 - 18 pages and 50% complete and February-August 1945 - 61 pages 26% complete. All notebooks measure 8' x 5'. The cover is missing on two of them Jul - Sept. and Oct. - Dec. and the cover of the last notebook is in fair condition but the pages are in good condition. Some are loose. William J Gray was a seaman second class serving on USS Lassen in 1944 and 1945. USS Lassen began life as the commercial merchant ship MS Shooting Star in 1940. After sea trials she was transferred to the U.S. Navy and took on the role of ammunition supply ship. She was renamed USS Lassen following a U.S. navy tradition of naming munitions ships after volcanoes - in this case Mt Lassen CA. Between 1941 and when Gray joined her crew in 1944 she made munitions deliveries on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and U.S. navy assets in the Pacific Ocean. After the outbreak of WWII she made a number of replenishment voyages to U.S navy elements stationed in the South Pacific. In 1944 at the time that Gray joined her crew Lassen was part of Vice-Admiral W. L. Calhoun's 7th Force Pacific Fleet. The USS Lassen arrived at Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands on 2 February 1944. She replenished ships both in the Marshall Islands and at Manus Island in the Admiralty Islands. As part of the supply train of the fleet at Kossol Passage Palau Islands from 25 September to 2 October and at Ulithi Atoll from 4 October to 18 November 1944 she earned her first of three battle stars: "On the afternoon of the 20 th we sighted 3 tankers and 2 DE's Destroyer Escorts just over the horizon. At about 1400 we had GQ General Quarters and could see the anti-aircraft barrage the other convoy was firing. It drove the 3 planes 3 Zero's off and one of them came in our direction. Our DE and the tanker fired but it was out of range and soon disappeared. . Secured from GQ at about 1600. At 1700 . GQ sounded again. . went to my station starboard 1.1 pom pom guns The DE was in the lead Lassen next and the tanker last. . the tanker fired on it. . it appeared off our starboard side. . we and the tanker opened fire on it. It went aft of our fantail turned and went back over the tanker some said it dropped several bombs then . I had a good view from the bridge." Nov 13 1944 ; ". the largest unit of the fleet we had serviced appeared about daylight - several major carriers 3 battleships of the South Dakota class escort carriers cruisers and cans destroyers. We took the Washington alongside and she took 900 5" projectiles and powder.
" July 28 1945. Gray also listed the ships in some of the Task Forces of which he was part. He also included the text of a message received from Task Force Commander Admiral Bill Halsey "after three record-breaking days of reaming". His last entries are from August 1945: ". We continued loading and at 8 AM August 15th learned that the Japs had accepted our counter proposals. Finished loading thinking we were leaving the 20th . Waiting for orders." Aug 20 1945. The USS Lassen departed for the United States on Oct 25th and arrived at Port Discovery Nov 20th 1945. This is an excellent description of life at sea in the midst of some of the greatest naval actions. Gray's notes are replete with details of ships serviced and rearmed types of ammunition transferred etc. For a naval historian this is a valuable piece of source documentation. It can serve to paint a picture of a little-celebrated but vital part of naval operations - replenishment at sea and provide a different perspective on the war in the Pacific. Gray writes well and his words bring to life the events so often related in the pages of history books or on movie screens.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF; 20TH CENTURY; 1940S; WW2; SECOND WORLD WAR; AMERICAN NAVY; AMERICANS IN WW2; WILLIAM J. GRAY; USS LASSEN; ADMIRAL WILLIAM 'BILL' HALSLEY; WAR IN THE PACIFIC; ATOMIC BOMB; AMMUNITION SHIPS; US NAVY; 7TH FORCE PACIFIC FLEET; NAVAL HISTORY; PACIFIC THEATER; WAR HISTORY; MILITARY HISTORY; AMERICAN SHIPS; AMERICAN VESSELS; MARITIME HISTORY; UNITED STATES NAVY; US NAVAL HISTORY; AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS DIARY DIARIES JOURNALS PERSONAL HISTORY SOCIAL HISTORY HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0008224
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EARLE G HOGGARD, JULIENNE HOGGARD
1930s ORIGINAL UNUSUAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A YOUNG BOY ON THE BRINK OF TEENAGE YEARS AND HIS SLIGHTLY OLDER SISTER WHOSE LIFE WOULD BE COMPLETE IF SHE COULD JUST MARRY BOTH TWINS
LOS ANGELES DOWNEY BELLFLOWER CALIFORNIA. Good. 1935. On offer is the fascinating original manuscript childhood diary of a young 12 year old boy who would one day become a successful professional and noted Rotarian growing up in Depression era pre-WWII California and his slightly older boy crazy sister! Diary measures 6 inches by 4.5 inches and contains 365 pages plus an extensive address section. This is a 5-year perpetual diary begun in January 1935. Considering its 5-year span the diary is approximately 25% complete. The cover is padded green leather and is in very good condition. The binding and pages are also in good condition. The handwriting is legible. The diary was written by Earle Hoggard begun when he was 12 years old. Hoggard was born in Spring TX in 1922. However his family moved to Downey CA where he grew up and spent much of his adult life. After finishing high school he served in the U.S. army during WWII. He was commended for decoding Japanese communications. Following the war he enrolled in the L.A. College of Optometry. Following graduation he established his own practice in the neighbouring community of Bellflower. While building his practice he became active in local politics and served on the Bellflower municipal council. At the same time he became active in Rotary International the international service organization. As a Rotarian he established a successful international student exchange program with students from Los Mochis Mexico. He also was a gifted amateur musician. Hoggard passed away in 2003 at the age of 80. This diary spans three years - the first 3 months of 1935 several of 1938 and most of 1939. The entries reflect the age and life experiences of the writers - because there was more than one! They revolve around school and his family/social life: "Rained hard today. I had to come home for lunch and got all wet. Went to Scout meeting. Also went to basketball game" Jan 9 1935; "Played football with Bill Jack and Eugene and got in fight with Sis again." Feb 20 1935. The diary continues written by his sister Julienne. There is no explanation for the transition - but the entries still revolve around school and social activities. Julienne began making entries beginning June 12 1938! "Got out of school today. Just got home from graduation. I am a 10th grader now. I think Sister Wilfred is going away. Darn it I love her! ." June 12 1938; "Got all my stuff unpacked and am living with Mother now. Dear Jesus please let me marry either Ronald or Billy or Bobby."June 13 1938. She is obviously infatuated with some twin brothers as her entries reflect repeated desires to see them and she spares no prayers in her quest: "I wanted to go home so much today but couldn't Oh Lord Jesus please give me my wish and let me meet the twins this summer. I love Bill and Bob so." July 6 1938; "Went to school and showed kids my autograph of Dale Carnegie ." Mar 13 1939. For a social historian this diary offers a look into the life of a teenage boy just before the outbreak of WWII. It is prime material for a women's studies program as it certainly portrays an attitude about gender roles in the society at that time.; Manuscript; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF; UNITED STATES; CALIFORNIA; EARLE G HOGGARD; ROTARY INTERNATIONAL; DALE CARNEGIE; JULIENNE MORTON; 20TH CENTURY; 1930s; GROWING UP IN PRE-WW2 AMERICA; PRE-WAR CALIFORNIA; GREAT DEPRESSION; SCHOOLBOYS IN 1930S CALIFORNIA; DOWNEY CA; LOS ANGELES COUNTY; GATEWAY CITIES; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; BELLFLOWER RESIDENTS; YOUTH SOCIAL LIFE IN 1930S CALIFORNIA; WOMEN STUDIES; TEENAGE GIRLS IN PRE-WW2 CALIFORNIA; AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS DIARY DIARIES JOURNALS PERSONAL HISTORY SOCIAL HISTORY HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 0008225
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Unknown, Maud Levy
1933 Diary of a Depression-Era Member of the American Women's Club AWC and Art Dealer Living in London England
United Kingdom: London United Kingdom American Women's Club France Switzerland. Good. Hardcover. On offer is a rather cryptic little diary written by a woman in the United Kingdom during the Depression. The author of the diary is not identified. Context suggests that the writer is a woman. There is a name on the inside rear of the cover - Maud Levy. However this is not conclusive evidence that this is the author. There are repeated references to the AWC which is the American Women's Club a social club for women in central London. There are suggestions within the diary that she is an artist and possibly a dealer in the arts as well. This is directly in keeping with the AWC which became a gathering point for European and American artisits. Established in 1898 the AWC continues today as an active and engaged social club in London. The entries in the diary are brief but clearly indicates that the author travels between London and the Continent with references to hotels in France and Switzerland: "Pictures shd arrive at AWC.announcement to go into paper" Jan 28 "Critics go to AWC except 4-6 5-6.89.52 food" Jan 31 "Hotel Jean Jacques in La Neuveville." Apr 16. The author makes several references to a Margaret including describing taking care of her. In the back of the dairy there is the name Margaret written in a child's hand. Although sparse on details this diary does provide a glimpse into the life and activities of a rather independent woman in the 1930d who is affiliated with a well-known women's club. The Memoranda setion contains mainy listings of prices as well as names and addresses. The diary measures 5 inches by 3 inches. It contains 100 pages plys extensive memoranda pages. It is approximately 20% complete. The cover is in good condition as is the binding. The handwriting is legible. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall . London, United Kingdom, American Women's Club, France, Switzerland hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 0011000
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Emily Caroline Smith
1913-1914 Diary of a Single Morris County NJ Woman with Close Familial Ties to the Col Hiram Smith Mayflower Settlers and an Heir to the Smith/baldwin House Writing As WWI Commenced
Morris County New Jersey: Morris County New Jersey Mayflower Baldwin House. Good with no dust jacket. 1913-1914. Hardcover. On offer is a very well-written diary of a New Jersey woman written at the beginning of WWI This diary measures 6 inches by 3 inches and contains 365 pages. It is approximately 85% complete. The covers are in good condition with some light wear marks. The spine and binding are also in good condition as are the pages. The handwriting is legible. The author of this diary is Emily Caroline Smith. She lived in Boonton NJ. She was born in April 1876 and lived her entire life in Morris County NJ. She passed away in 1956 at the age of 80. Smith is 37 when she writes this diary. The diary covers 1913 as well as a number of entries for 1914. On her mother's side Smith was a direct descendent of one of the Mayflower settlers. Her paternal great grandfather was Col Hiram Smith. Smith was a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and afterwards played a prominent role in his community. He was variously Justice of the Peace County Judge Sheriff of Morris Co member of the NJ Legislature Major and then Lt. Col in the New Jersey Militia. His son Hiram Smith Jr. Was a wealthy farmer and property investor. In 1833 he purchased a home that had been built in 1811. That house known today as the Smith / Baldwin House remained in the family until 2013 when the local government purchased it as a historical property. When he died he left his estate to his son Richard Emily's father. In time Emily and her sister Marjory inherited the property. Emily sold her share to her sister in 1909. Some moments from Emily's diary are captured here: "Horrors. Another birthday! Did a lot of shopping in A. M. took O'Dally to the 4: 00 boat. ." Apr 5 1913; "Afternoon to Settlement House to help Deaconess. Called on Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Barclay in the hospital. Evening played bridge with Capt. Colday Miss and Luther." Aug 5 1913; "Authors Reading for Hosp. Geo Ade and Sewell Ford read from their stories." Feb 18 1914; "Rainy day - Marjorie came up in A. M. . Sue and I went down home for supper. Back to in violent rain." Nov 15 1914; "Marjorie came up for all day. We started the childrens comfortables. A stormy day." Dec 9 1914. For a local historian this is an excellent direct connect to a family with a long history and deep roots in their community. For a researcher in Women's Studies this diary offers a very good look at the world of a single relatively well-off woman at the turn of the last century and the attitudes and expectations prevalent at that time.; Manuscripts; 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 365 pages; KEYWORDS: HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL Emily C. Smith; Smith / Baldwin House; Hiram Smith; American Revolutionary War; Hiram Smith Jr. ; Mayflower Descendants; George Ade; Sewell Ford Women's Studies WWI World War One WW1 New Jersey Americana American life New York women wealthy women single woman pre-war America ; Signed by Author . Morris County, New Jersey, Mayflower, Baldwin House hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 0011005
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Essie Nash
1939 Fascinating Working Southern American Woman's Diary Focused on Her Romantic Entanglements Social World in the Midst of the Outbreak of World War Two WWII
Hemp Robbins North Carolina Virginia: Southern US North Carolina Virginia Hemp Robbins. Good. 1939. Hardcover. On offer is a wonderful look life in a small town in the U. S. South through the eyes of a young working woman. The diary was written in 1939 by Essie Lee Nash. Nash lives in Hemp North Carolina now renamed Robbins and works in one of the mills in town. Our informal research has not turned up any additional biographical information about her. In her diary she recounts in detail her daily routines and the many people she interacts with. One key consideration is her social life especially with young men. One such entry reads: "Dear Diary. I just made a mistake but I'll let this be the 'memorial". A lot has happened this month. Dorothy came to live with me. JR got expelled but went back. Cay told her and she told him This past month has been stuffed alright. Roberta got married the first day. Pauline told me that she was pregnant. Wonder what it will be. I hope the next month will be as happy for me as the past." Feb 1; "Dear Diary. Dorothy and I didn't want to go to work today because it was so pretty. We got our wish. The Throwing Dept didn't run today. Everyone was glad. We put on our new dresses and went to town. Clyde carried us with him to deliver groceries early tonight J. R. And Buster came about 8: 15. I was so glad to see him. He told me something tonight je vous aime We went to Green Top and got cagin Bernie was drunk and asleep in his car. They left early. I fixed light socket" Apr 15. It is interesting to note that she makes no reference to event happening beyond the scope of her own world. There is no mention of Roosevelt's television speech the first ever or of the outbreak of WWII. After many 'crushes' she met a young man named Harold. Over time he would occupy a more and more central role in her life. ". We rode back and saw Harold. He came with us and we went to ride. He has had a time today. The girl he used to love came to see him He was home He is through with her. She is married too. Aggie ran away from Charles tonight too Harold said. He got in Dutch about it. Dud seemed despondent at first but he soon got all right. I've got a date to go swimming with him tomorrow night. ." June 6. "Dorothy worked all day today. I was lonesome but I worked all day. Certainly seemed funny that Harold wasn't here tonight. He walked to the mill with me. ." Sept 16 . Her relationship with Harold blossomed and her second last entry describes it all: "Dear Diary. This has been the happiest day of my life. We left this morning at 11: 30. We got to Martinville VA just before 3: 00. We were married at 3: 00 by Rev Horne. He was so good and kind. It was a beautiful ceremony. I've been so happy all day. We had a grand supper. Came back by High Point to the . Saw a boy I used to know in Monroe. He spoke to me. ." Dec 3 For a social historian or researcher in Women's Studies this is a superb recounting of the daily life of a young working woman in the southern United States. It paints a very clear picture of the social world that existed at that time and place. It would be an excellent addition to any reference collection depicting that time and that place for ordinary young women. This diary is a leather bound volume measuring 5.5 inches by 4.0 inches. It contains 365 pages and is approximately 90% complete. The cover is leather with wear marks on the corners and surface. Otherwise it the binding and the pages are all in good condition. The handwriting is legible. ; Manuscripts; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 365 pages; Keywords: handwritten manuscript document letter autograph writer hand written documents signed letters manuscripts historical holograph writers autographs personal memoir memorial antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier antike brief pergament dokument manuskript papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel Women's Studies North Carolina Robbins NC Hemp NC Southern US experiences Women's studies working woman World War Two WWII snapshot of life wartime life Roosevelt speech ; Signed by Author . Southern US, North Carolina, Virginia, Hemp, Robbins hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 0011006
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Helen Meyer
1914 Diary of a Teen Girl Whose Family Were Prominent Early Settlers in New York Involved in the Suffragette Movement Keenly Observant of Global Events
Upstate New York Ny Marcy: New York Upstate New York Marcy NYC Suffragette Movement New York. Good. 1914. Hardcover. On offer is fine diary written by a young woman in upstate New York at the outset of World War One. The author of this diary is 18 year old Helen Meyer. She was born in Marcy NY in 1896. Her grandfather was Mortimer Mayhew whose family had been early settlers in this area of upstate New York. Mayhew had once been the assessor and tax collector for Marcy and had served 7 terms as town supervisor. Her mother was Laura F Mayhew Meyer. She taught school and in 1890 was elected as School Commissioner for the First District of Oneida Co NY. Our informal research has not discovered any additional biographical information about her. Helen is a very smart young woman who did very well in school. Her grades were high and she wrote of graduating from high school with honours. She studied music at the Utica Conservatory and often played piano at community events. She writes: "20 o below at 6 A. M. Coldest day this year. Nearly froze riding in the car this A. M. Clear day. Glee club meeting Concert on Feb 6 at Junior Entertainment. Took my music lesson. Fine. He says I am doing very well. Will play at more recitals. My new coat is great. Wore it first time" Jan 13; "Beautiful spring day - warm. Our reports out today. New system - took them to each class. I received A - A - A - B. Had fire drill the third period. Late - got 8 AM car. Clock wrong" Mar 31; "Tried Virgil and English. Not very easy. Tired out. Stayed at Hotel Utica to wait for M. Grade certificate at conservatory" June 18; "Took music lesson. Had trouble with scales. Mr Magenday had me order 'Clementi Sonatas. Had enthusiastic assembly over Rome game. Cheered and sang til 9: 15" Sept 13Helen was well aware of events happening in the outside world. She noted the U. S. Invasion of Mexico and the taking of Vera Cruz the sinking of the Empress of Ireland in the St. Lawrence River and WWI: "War with Mexico. Vera Cruz taken by U. S
" Apr 22; "Decoration Day. Jane & I went to exercises at cemetery. About 60 present. "Empress of Ireland" sunk in St. Lawrence last night. Over 1000 drowned. 2nd to Titanic." May 30. She was certainty progressive in her thinking being elected as 'Class Suffragette'. In fact the term 'suffragette' is mentioned a number of times in her entries. She displays a wry sense of humour as well: "Dance. Fine night. Rained this AM. Had some good dances. I am not going to play for dances if no-one dances with me." Dec 30. For a social historian this is an excellent look inside the life of a quite mature older teenager. It would also be a good resource for a Women's Studies program as it directly addresses the existence of a Suffragette Movement that many think existed only in large cities. Measuring 4.0 inches by 2.5 inches this small diary contains 183 pages and is about 85% complete. The cover is in good condition as are the spine and binding. The pages are in good condition as well and her handwriting is legible. ; Manuscripts; 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 183 pages; Keywords: handwritten manuscript document letter autograph writer hand written documents signed letters manuscripts historical holograph writers autographs personal memoir memorial antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier antike brief pergament dokument manuskript papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel . New York, Upstate New York, Marcy, NYC, Suffragette Movement New York hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 0011007
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Mabel Newhouse
1909-1910 Diary of a Young Clymer New York Girl Describing the Minutiae of Everyday Life in the Early 20th Century Filled with Names and Sites of 1900s Rural NY
Clymer Ny Rural New York Upstate NY: Rural New York Clymer. Good. 1909-1910. Softcover. On offer is a delightful journal kept by a teenage girl in upstate New York in the early years of the 20th century. The author of this diary is Mable Newhouse. She notes on the inside front cover that her age is 18-19 years. Our informal research has not found any other biographical information on her. Newhouse lived in the village of Clymer NY located in the northern part of the state. This is very much a rural area. The diary covers the time period of Oct 1909 through Sept 1910. She is living at home and a great deal of her notes detail her daily life and chores: "Frank churn. I help can corn. It was a nice day" Sept 21 1909; "Iron. Pa took me to Clymer. I went to Uncle Frank N. Amy and I went to Aunt Minnie a few minutes Edna came. We had popcorn fritters. Amy and I took Edna uptown" Feb 22 1910; "Mop the back kitchen. Churn. Frank went to town. It rained" June 10 1910; "I went to work to Abbott. Fred went to work in the grape country. I went down to Uncle Franks" Sept 21 1910. These entries simple as they are give a real sense of the rhythm of daily life in rural upstate New York at that time. She makes numerous references to family and neighbours which make this a rich resource for genealogists researching families in New York state. For a researcher in Women's Studies issues it paints a very clear picture of life experienced by a young woman in rural America in the earliest days of the 20th century. This softcover journal is a lined notebook that measures approximately 6 inches by 3.5 inches. It contains 164 pages and is about 85% complete. The covers are intact but show some wear marks. The binding is intact although it too shows wear. The pages are in good condition and the handwriting is legible. ; Manuscripts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 164 pages; Keywords: handwritten manuscript document letter autograph writer hand written documents signed letters manuscripts historical holograph writers autographs personal memoir memorial antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier antike brief pergament dokument manuskript papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel Upstate NY rural living rural woman early 20th century female experince genealogy . Rural New York, Clymer paperback
书商的参考编号 : 0011010
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Ardis J Barbee, Wife To Cecil R Barbee
1954-1958 Fascinating Diary of Ardis J. Barbee Wife of Cecil Barbee Los Angeles Coca-Cola Executive VP Living the High Life in Post-War California
Los Angeles: Coca-Cola Franchisee Los Angeles California. Good. 1954-1958. Hardcover. On offer is a wonderful 5 year diary kept by the wife of the Executive Vice-President of one of America's iconic corporations Coca-Cola. The diary covers the years 1954 through 1958. The author of this diary is Ardis J. Barbee. She was born in 1907. Her adult life was spent in California where she lived in Beverly Hills. She passed away in 1996 at the age of 89. She was 47 when she began this diary. Although her full name is not inscribed in the book context clues confirm irrefutably that she is the author. Ardis Barbee married Cecil R. Barbee in 1949. He was born in Manhattan in 1889. At some point he moved west to California. There in 1923 he and his brothers purchased the Coca-Cola franchise for the city of Los Angeles and the surrounding area within a 50 mile radius. According to corporate records he served as Executive Vice-President. The company was very successful. In 20 years the Barbees had grown the business to 6 plants with some 575 employees. Sales were in the millions. Although Cecil was a very serious businessman his 2 younger brother Stanley and Algernon live flamboyant lives. Stanley as President was responsible for the construction of the company's head office - a nautical-themed building that remains an iconic location in Los Angeles to this day. Cecil Barbee was also an inventor with at least three patents to his name. From Ardis' diary the reader can see that they lived well: "Didn't go to club today. Too busy - Mama out all day - took Mama Wilma & Mae to luncheon at Miramar Hotel. Then for drive to "Hidden Valley". In A. M. with me to purchase my 2 big new outfits! Blue silk with black & white Hurrah! I did my hair. C & I drove home
" Mar 12 1954; "Left for Palm Springs about 11 - Mama Cecil & I for a well-earned holiday. I left my car at Cadillac 1 st to be repaired for damage on 24 th. Arr P S about 4 - To Casa del Camino - later to Tennis Club to "family nite" - super! To dine - Then to El Mirador hotel for cheer - heard sing. Bed 12" Apr 29 1954; "Our Sixth Year anniversary and what a wonderful day. Cecil at plant all day - Mr Nicholson Ch C. C. Board to see him at 3: 00! . called in A. M - 1 st time since our marriage - mo other word ex his family ." June 16 1955. In 1955 her husband Cecil became ill. Eventually he was diagnosed with cancer and many subsequent entries refer to how this impacts both he and her. Cecil Barbee would eventually succumb to the disease in April 1958: "Our dear Cecil passed away at 2: 20 PM in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. Mama and I at his bedside . Please give me the strength to carry on
" Apr 7 1958. For a social historian this is an outstanding look at life as lived in the booming post war years in California especially by a well-off woman. Their connection to Coca Cola as distributors in one of the company's most lucrative markets adds to the interest and value of this diary. This would be an excellent source reference to a Women's Studies program or research as it illustrates 5 consecutive years in the life of this well-to-do woman and her day-to-day life. The diary measures 6 inches by 4 inches and contains 365 pages. It is approximately 95% complete. The diary is in very good condition. The cover is intact although the clasp on the locking strap is missing. The binding is intact and all of the pages are in good condition. The handwriting is legible. ; Manuscripts; 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 365 pages; Keywords: handwritten manuscript document letter autograph writer hand written documents signed letters manuscripts historical holograph writers autographs personal memoir memorial antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier antike brief pergament dokument manuskript papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel Corporate America post-war America Coca-Cola franchisee Barbee family Stanley Barbee Algernon Barbee entrepreneurship women's studies wealthy family Los Angeles industry American dream Americana 20th Century America . Coca-Cola Franchisee, Los Angeles, California hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 0011012
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Richard Allen Metzler
1930-1945 Diaries of a Ford Motor Company Employee Chronicling His Life from Childhood to Adulthood through the Great Depression and World War Two Experiencing the Greatest Generation
Omaha Nebraska: Omaha Nebraska Ford Motor Company Labor Relations Greatest Generation. Good. 1930-1945. Hardcover. On offer is a rare 14-volume archive of diaries that chart the course of an American boy's life through the Great Depression and World War II a classic member of 'the Greatest Generation'. This is an outstanding archive of diaries that document the life of a man throughout his boyhood in Midwestern America throughout the Great Depression and into WWII. The author of this archive is Richard Allen Metzler. He was born in 1920 in Omaha Nebraska where his father Clyde was a dentist. He married Doris Cuthbert in 1946. He worked his entire career with Ford Motor Company. His wife taught with distinction in the Dearborn Public Schools system. He passed away in 2000 at the age of 80. His diaries begin at age 10 and continue until he is 25. This is a terrific collection. It traces this boy's growth as a young child teenager college student and young man through some of the most momentous years of the 20th century. As would be expected his writing matures over the years as he begins to add reflection and nuance to his daily entries. Taken as a whole they offer a superb picture of growing up in the America in the pre-war years. The following excerpts will give a sense of the flavour of these diaries: "This afternoon Paul Richard's brother went downtown with Bob Muchow and went to a show. Tonight Eddie came over and we played down in the basement" Mar 28 1930; "Tonight Paul went to the drawing lesson all alone and staid up to Story's and ate supper. Today altogether I won sixteen snurts one glassy and three mossies nicknames for types of marbles May 1 1930"; "This morning Paul went caddying but didn't earn anything. This afternoon Lary me and Paul went swimming. We got a new car and went riding" June 11 1930. Two years later he has a paper route that he manages for the next several years and takes very seriously : "We had a short little moving picture on how to brush your teeth today at school. It snowed all day today. Story carried newspapers with me. Paul went to scout meeting. I made fudge did homework and played with Tag after supper" Feb 16 1932; "In homeroom assembly I had to get up and talk on "the industry of carrying papers". When I went to school this morning I locked myself out of the house so I ate up at 27th with Story . I had to come home from Scout Meeting and go over to P. T. A. At North and demonstrate how to do beadwork in front of a pile of people. "Was I mortified! " May 8 1932; "1 of us kids went on a hike to Stone Park this morning. The other 3 walked but I rode the bike and carried all the stuff. When I was going down a hill I was in a deep rut and didn't have any brakes and there was a log slap bang in front of me ." Nov 30 1934; "Paul Huntley and Bill slept out in Stone Park last night so I carried Paul's route. Snyder helped me carry my route and then dad took us out. Threw axes and knives at trees all day. Ate dinner out there. . Found out that Huntley smokes. . Typed some more chain letters" May 5 1935; ". Eddie Meents is in my Chem class. He flunked Chem 2 last sem. & is going to flunk again. Bob Bierworth is back from reform school. He looks like the sea hag's dad
" Sept 23 1936; ". Went to A. Y. McDonald and applied for a job. Fred Hagly even phoned up here for me. He said to start tomorrow. So ----- . Paul left for Beresford to work for three weeks
" Aug 14 1938. His entries focus almost exclusively on his immediate world. He does make a passing reference to troubles afar: ". Got a cottage on Lake Carlos with electricity so now we can hear the war nes - it started Thurs. I guess but we didn't know about it" Sept 2 1939; ". I haven't said a thing about the European War. Well there is one and a real one. In fact France is licked and Britain looks pretty sick. Looks like Hitler is on the way. Hadn't better come over here bless his hide." June 18 1940; ". Just started on a letter to Marj when I was called to the phone by Mrs S. I just sensed what it was before she called up the stairs - Paul was phoning that he had gotten a telegram from Dad that mother had passed away at 5: 30 this morning. At 5: 30 A. M. July 18 1941 my mom ceased to suffer and is now with the Lord and waiting for me and Paul and dad." July 18 1941. Clipped in to a back page is a newspaper clipping of the announcement of her death. He notes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the fact that America will be at war. His Dec 9th entry begins with the laconic: "Well they didn't bomb Detroit - yet
"Dec 9 1941. He writes detailed entries about his life at college especially his life as a fraternity member. 1942 however finds him in Detroit working for Ford Motor Company - a place he would work for the rest of his life: ". Johnson and I walked over to the glass plant but got kicked out because its been completely converted into government tool & die ." Dec 5 1942And lest people thought that the war effort made other labour concerns fade away he records this: ". We struggled to keep ourselves occupied - the whole foundry was on strike. Don't like the swing shift. The stinkers should be slapped into the Army
" May3 1943; ". Foremen on strike at the Rouge. A negro-white race riot started on Belle Isle bridge last night. Several dead lot wounded
"June 21 1943. His last entry is rather poignant: ".Got a card from Dorothy Head. . She asked me why I broke it up & I told her - that I was getting way too much involved & I was too yellow to get married. She told me she loved me at the time & would have married me that I nearly broke her heart. I told her I had walked out on at least 3 other gals just the same way since. So we had quite a talk" Apr 2 1945. Within the next 15 months he would meet and marry Dorothy Cuthbert and they would be married for 50 years. For a historian this is a simply outstanding archive. Its rare to find a large group of diaries started by a young boy and maintained through to adulthood. The diaries chart the not only physical growth of this boy but the development of values and character. It is an excellent longitudinal study of life growing up in Midwestern America - a classic example of a member of what Tom Brokaw described as The Greatest Generation. For genealogists these diaries are a treasure trove. In many of them he keeps detailed lists of people he knows with in some cases phone numbers and addresses as well as class lists. This is a rare and certainly valuable collection of diaries. This collection includes 14 diaries from 1930-1945. Only 1931 is missing. The diaries vary in size most are hardcover all are 100% complete and in good condition. Please contact seller for chart with a breakdown of the size and number of pages in each diary. ; Manuscripts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Keywords: handwritten manuscript document letter autograph writer hand written documents signed letters manuscripts historical holograph writers autographs personal memoir memorial antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier antike brief pergament dokument manuskript papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel Richard Allen Metzler; Omaha Nebraska; Ford Motor Company; America in World War II; Labour Relations in World War II America; Tom Brokaw; The Greatest Generation The Great Depression strike laborers striking corporate America pre-war America intra-war years post-war America boyhood manhood; Signed by Author . Omaha, Nebraska, Ford Motor Company, Labor Relations, Greatest Generation hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 0011013
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N E Drury
1925 Work Journal of a Massachusetts Railroad Laborer During the Heyday of Railroad Construction
Worcester Massachusetts: Central Massachusetts Railroad. Good. 1925. Hardcover. On offer is a detailed worked record of a man who worked on the railroad in central Massachusetts in the 1920's. The diary belonged to N. E. Drury. He lived in Worcester MA. Our informal research did not turn up any additional biographical information on him. From context he does not appear to be married as there is no reference to spouse or children. He works for an unidentified railroad most likely the Central Massachusetts Railroad. Much of the time he served as a relief worker filling in for other men. The Central Massachusetts Railroad was formed out of the failed Massachusetts Central Railroad Company in 1883. This was the heyday of railroad construction. The 1890s and the early 1900s saw it change hands merge and be re-merges a number of times. In 1907 it became part of Charles Mellon's virtual monopoly of railroad traffic in southern New England. In one form or another the railroad lasted until the 1990's when its owners ceased all operations. Drury's diary entries consist primarily of notations about when he went to work the job he did who he replaced and the amount he earned. There are very few entries of a personal nature. The following will give a sense of the diary entries: "Fair Went work 6: 15 AM Relief job Engineer Hobart Done 2: 15 PM 1 day" Feb 22; "Fair Went work 6: 15 am Relief for Engr Barrett Done at 2: 10 PM 1 day 5.72" Apr 7; "Went work 4: 00 AM Transfer Engr Broad Eng 629 Done 2: 00 PM 1 day 5.72" May 3; "Fair Left Portland at 5: 45 am Eng 1464 Done at Worcester 12: 45 am 150 miles J. J. Conlon 10.50" June 4; "Fair Went work 11: 45 am Eng 2420 fireman Fletcher 1 day 1 hour 50 min done 9: 35 pm $9.74" Sept 28. For a railroad historian this diary gives a fine glimpse into the operations of this railroad from the perspective of one of the thousands of men who laboured on it. It also serves to cross-refences other men who worked that railroad and various pieces of rolling stock. Measuring 5 inches by 3 inches this 1925 diary contains 183 pages and is approximately 80% complete. The cloth-covered hardboard cover shows staining but is in otherwise good condition. The binding is intact as are the pages. The handwriting is legible. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 183 pages; Keywords: handwritten manuscript document letter autograph writer hand written documents signed letters manuscripts historical holograph writers autographs personal memoir memorial antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier antike brief pergament dokument manuskript papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel N. E. Drury Central Massachusetts Railroad Worcester MA . Central Massachusetts Railroad hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 0011017
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Marion Estelle Drake
1968 Texan Woman's Descriptive Travelogue of a 6 Month Long Journey by Train and Ship Throughout Western Europe
Texas Western Europe New York: Texas New York TS Hanseatic Western Europe. Good. 1968. Hardcover. On offer is delightful travel diary describing a 6 months long trip throughout Europe in the late 1960s. The author of this travel diary is Marion Estelle Drake. She was born in 1911 and lived her life in San Antonio TX. She passed away in 2003 at the age of 92. The diary covers an extended trip she took to Europe in 1968. She went by train to Port Everglades and there on Apr 22nd she and some friends boarded the TS Hanseatic for their trip. After a one-day stop in New York City they sailed to Europe. After stops in Southampton and Cherbourg she reached her final destination at Cuxhaven Germany. From there she crisscrossed Europe visiting major cities and places of interest: "Arrived Heidelberg 7: 15 AM. Betsy's friend Lt. Col & Masie Buchanan Buck met us. Buchanans took me to Officers Club in Patrick Henry Village . They also picked up two friends from Okinawa now living in Bath England. . Had dinner at Vogelswek Officers Club then went to Officers Club at Ramstein AFB and then to Spinsadel for a beer. The Spinsadel spinning Wheel is in a building which dates from the 1600's" May 4; "Left Copenhagen by train at 7: 33 AM. Went to Helsingon where train was put on ferry for crossing to Halsingborg Sweden. Route went through much of the lake country and was beautiful with all the fir and birch trees." June 19; "Took another city tour this morning in another direction. Then at 2 PM took a tour to the Trossachs and Lock Lamond at Balmaha. The highlands country is beautiful & I'm sure the mountains are even more picturesque further north." July 28; "When they raised the curtains on the ferry this AM we were at Corfu a beautiful sight. All day we sailed along the Greek coast . Arrived at Athens at 11: 25 PM & the cab driver couldn't find the hotel. When he turned down dark dingy streets I was concerned." Sept 28; "A 'tour' of the city turned out to be only the Royal Palace and the Prado Museum. . Particularly enjoyed the Goyas.tho my favorite was Velasquez' Crucifixion. After lunch at the hotel we headed for Salamanca" Oct 10. Her last entry is dated Nov 10th and has her still in Europe - back again to Paris. This is where her travel diary ends. This is a well-written travelogue that covers an extensive amount of western Europe. It offers an excellent description of a Europe that has completely rebuilt itself in the 20 years following WWII. For genealogists her diary is replete with names of friends and acquaintances ans well as people she met on her travels throughout Europe. Measuring 6.75 inches by 4.25 inches it contains 66 pages of notes plus an address index. It is 100% complete. The cover is an aquamarine leather decorated with sequins and is in excellent condition. The binding is in good condition as are the pages. The handwriting is quite legible. ; Manuscripts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 66 pages; Keywords: handwritten manuscript document letter autograph writer hand written documents signed letters manuscripts historical holograph writers autographs personal memoir memorial antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier antike brief pergament dokument manuskript papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel travel diary post-war Europe European travel women's experiences women's travel single woman in Europe ; Signed by Author . Texas, New York, TS Hanseatic, Western Europe hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 0011019
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Lena D Carey
1943-48 Archive of Six Diaries from a Rural Farmer's Wife from Walton New York Who Was Active in 4-H the Home Bureau and Walton Grange During and after World War Two
Walton New York: Walton NY Agloe NY Rural New York. Good. 1943-1948. Hardcover. On offer are a set of six diaries written during and immediately following WWII in rural America. They paint a wonderful view of life in a small rural community. The author of these diaries is Lena Carey. Carey was born May 14 1880 in Walton NY. She was married to John Carey. Together they had 2 daughters. She passed away in 1970 at the age of 89. A housewife she was a leader in 4-H work for 10 years; active in the Home Bureau and for many years a member of Walton Grange and Delaware County Pomona Grange. She lived on a farm very close to Walton. Interestingly Walton is close to Agloe the fictional town created as a "copyright trap" in the 1930's to prevent copyright infringement of a mapping company. Written in the years of and immediately following WWII her diaries offer an excellent long-term record of life in this part of rural New York. She began this group of diaries when she was 42 years old. The following excerpts taken from 6 years of entries gives a very good sense of her daily experiences: "Nice day only cold
sewed on my housecoat. Clyde stopped a few minutes this PM. He has had his upper teeth pulled. Nine of them. Joan has had pleurisy. The doctor strapped her up Saturday night. Today is her birthday" Mar 22 1943; "Willie took me over to the R. R. Depot to take the 7: 00 A. M. Train. When I got off at Unadilla Dea & Barbara were there to help Elena at the horse sale. Quite a fair day. I helped some. Tired when it came night. Blackie was there. Clyde don't feel very well" July 8 1943; "Dad was born 89 years today. I boiled some sweet apples and cooked some squash for dinner. Mended 5 sheets this P. M." Sept 14 1943; "Mother's Day and my birthday. Margaret & Dorothy were up. They were late and I was beginning to feel blue. They brought me a lot of presents. After they went I went up to the house and Gladys and Millie were there. I went down to the cemetery with them. Went up to A. J's after milk. Florence gave me a pint of soft sugar. Quite a day" May 14 1944Invasion of France. They think it means victory
" June 6 1944; "Cold & windy. Came to South Unadilla on the Bus and got ride up to house. Horse sale today & quite a crowd. Mildred & I went up to the sale late in the evening. One horse sold for $400.00 Palomino. Sold some small ponies. Went quite high" Apr 5 1945; "Auction. I missed the 10: A. M bus so waited for the 1: 00 P. M. Bus & helped Clyde's folks in the restaurant. Most all kinds of weather today - snow wind and sunshine so the old bear could see his shadow" Feb 2 1946; "Finished canning the peaches. Had 4 qts. Made 7 in all. Went out in the berry patch & got raspberries for supper. Took a nap in the P. M." Aug 8 1946; "Mended A. M. Watched Russ put the wringer roll in. Mrs. E washed after dinner and I hung them up. Dried nice. I pressed 2 pr pants for Walter. Mrs. E brought in the sheets and folded them. I got the rest folded then. Jerry don't feel very good. Walter carried him up to bed. Russ went to Monticello" Apr 23 1947; "I went to town after dinner with Flora. She took Alice to have her hair cut and curled. I did a little shopping took a nap and after supper John D and I went to Oneonta to and Carl's wedding at 8: 30. Just the family besides us and them. We went to for a reception. She looked very nice & had a beautiful cake" July 16 1948. These diaries are a terrific longitudinal record of the daily life of a woman in a small rural community mid-20th century They would be an excellent resource for a Women's Studies or Gender Studies program. For a genealogist they are filled with references to family and friends who live in this area making them an excellent reference resource. All six diaries measure 5.5" x 4.0". Each of the diaries are 121 pages long and 100% complete. All are in good condition though one diary 1945 has a few loose pages. Writing is legible. ; Manuscripts; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; Keywords: handwritten manuscript document letter autograph writer hand written documents signed letters manuscripts historical holograph writers autographs personal memoir memorial antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier antike brief pergament dokument manuskript papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel Lena D Carey. Walton NY Unadilla NY Small town America mid 20th Century Agloe Farmer's Wife farming family interwar America postwar America rural America women's studies women's lives 4-H Club Home Bureau Walton Grange Delaware County Pomona Grange . Walton NY, Agloe NY, Rural New York hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 0011020
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Unknown
1933 Detailed Travel Diary of a Young Woman Cruising the Great Lakes on the SS Octorara Making Many Stops Along the Way
Great Lakes SS Octorara: Great Depression Great Lakes Cruise. Good. 1933. Softcover. On offer is a fascinating travel diary of a cruise around the Great Lakes taken during the depths of the Great Depression. The author of this travel diary is an unknown young woman. She is travelling with a woman who is presumably her sister Margaret. From a date inside the front cover it is clear that this trip took place in the summer of 1933. The cruise took place on the SS Octorara. The SS Octorara was one of three passenger and cargo ships built in Cleveland Ohio by the American Shipbuilding Company for the Anchor Line a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The ships made regular runs between Duluth and their home port of Buffalo New York where the Pennsylvania Railroad terminated. Her name comes from a Pennsylvania river. In 1916 all three were purchased by the Great Lakes Transit Corporation of Buffalo. The SS Octorara was launched in 1910 and operated until 1936 when she was forced to lay up due to the widespread economic malaise of the Depression years. She was requisitioned by the U. S. Army in 1942 and served as a troop transport in the Hawaiian Islands. She was scrapped in San Francisco in 1952. The Octorara's brass bell hangs at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum at Belle Isle Detroit where it is rung each year during the annual blessing of the fleet in memory of ships and sailors lost to the Great Lakes. Her sister ship SS Juniata is still afloat renamed SS Milwaukee Clipper and restored as a museum ship in Muskegon MI. Much of the writer's time is spent on board: "Our advance guard the baggage truck escorted us from the train to the station where a taxi was waiting to convey us to the Octorara. After presenting our ticket and a paper containing our name and address to the purser we arranged with the deck steward to look after our baggage and to escort us to our room. Then we went up to the salon deck and received our dining room assignments seats 78-79-80 and paid for our deck chairs. Then we went up to the deck steward and received our seating places on the port side. Left side. We tried out the deck chairs and found them ok. Ha! Ha! . "; "I was the first one up! We had arranged for an early morning shower with our deck stewardess. My time was 8: 50 Margaret 9: 05 Clara 9: 20. Luckily I was first. The stewardess had cautioned us to be careful about locking the bathroom door as she was going to breakfast. Margaret accidentally locked the door; so she and Clara had to go without a shower until evening. After breakfast we took our morning constitutional on the boat deck and spent the remainder of the morning on our chairs reading and viewing the scenery
" Aug 20 1933. Arriving in Cleveland they toured the city and noted some of its landmarks. Our diarist commented on the Goodyear Blimp passing by their boat. A stormy night did not help her sleep. Their next stop was Detroit where again they went sightseeing in the morning. Then they continued up the Detroit and St. Clair Rivers into Lake Huron: "
We returned to the Octorara at 11: 00 A. M. Much pleased with our trip Detroit which was 52 miles long and circled the city in the form of a horseshoe. Shore line of Detroit is beautiful. Before noon we were steaming on our way passed Belle Isle thru Lake St. Clair St. Clair Flats known as the Venice of America where is a summer settlement on up the St. Clair River to Lake Huron. The voyage was thrilling. There was not a cloud in the sky and by mid-afternoon the sun was shinning so furiously on our side of the boat that we changed to the opposite side which was very cold and blustery. We decided to take 8 rounds on the boat deck after which we returned to our chairs in the sun for a short time and retired to our rooms to prepare for dinner. Spent the evening until 10 P. M. In a most enjoyable song fest and watching them dance. Retired for the night. Slept better than any night on the ship. Set my watch back an hour as we changed to Central Standard Time" Aug 21 1933. And so her diary goes as she describes the journey to its ultimate destination of Duluth MN. She returned part way home by rail and her description of the train is colourful: "Rode all night in berth 12 on the Chicago & Northwestern R. R. the dirtiest R. R. In the world". She spent 2 days in Chicago visiting the World's Fair and then boarded another passenger ship for the remainder of her trip home. Again each stop is carefully described as she recounts her sightseeing in each port. Accompanying her notes are dozens of post cards depicting sights around the Great Lakes. Some show pictures of homes other of mining operations and many tourist sites. This is an excellent little travelogue and a historian especially on focussed on the Great Lakes would find the commentary and interesting comparison to those places mentioned today. Measuring approximately 6 inches by 8 inches this diary contains 38 pages of post cards and descriptive notes. The pages are 100% complete. The book is soft-covered and the covers are in good condition although they do exhibit some wear. Most of the pages are intact and in good condition. Several have come loose from the binding. The notes and photo cards are held in place by small adhesive tabs and some have come loose from drying out. The handwriting is quite legible. ; Manuscripts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 38 pages; Keywords: Great Lakes; SS Octorara; The Anchor Line; Pennsylvania Railroad; SS Milwaukee Clipper; Muskegon MI Duluth Great Lakes Transit Corporation Belle Isle St. Clair River Lake Huron Great Depression Northwestern RR Chicago Handwritten manuscript document letter autograph writer hand written documents signed letters manuscripts historical holograph writers autographs personal memoir memorial antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier antike brief pergament dokument manuskript papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel . Great Depression, Great Lakes Cruise paperback
书商的参考编号 : 0011022
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JOHN BRUEN, Snr
ARCHIVE OF TWELVE 12 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTERS TO AND FROM JOHN BRUEN GRANDSON OF AN ESCAPED SLAVE AND HONORED CHRONICLER OF THE STRUGGLE FOR BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS IN 1960s AMERICA.
Geshen NY New York. Good. 1960. On offer are the powerful and significant letters of John Bruen Senior the grandson of an escaped slave and an exceptional chronicler of African American life and struggle in 1960s America. In these 12 letters all but one written to Bruen and with their original envelopes Bruen writes about and responds to the tremendous changes occurring in 1960s America and the struggle for civil rights for African Americans. All but two letters are complete. Most telling of the letters is the one in which Bruen writes. He writes it in response to someone asking for advice on how to inspire a young person. Bruen writes "
Make him know that you are proud of him even though his skin is colored. So many times a worthy champion's deeds are recognized too late like bringing flowers to the dead when they cannot smell them. I hope this isn't too long to print in your and our We who love the Ring magazine. I want to show this to so many of the
boosters
I can't say all this to them because they won't give me the chance but they'll read it and I'll see that they do. Ever a Ring Reader John Bruen Sr." This is the last page of a 3-page letter. The first two pages are missing. The rest of the 12 letters in this archive were written to Bruen. Ethel Agnew of Beacon NY makes up a number of these letters to to Bruen. She sent along copies of her poems decrying the hatred of racism some of which were published in newspapers. One such poem published on Nov. 18 1960 was in reference to Mrs. Hattie Hallowell 83 who was detained in jail for more than three years for mishandling $2000. "Daily we read of those involved in the mishandling of far greater sums who never see the inside of a jail." In the other letter she sent to Bruen she writes "
I like best the term 'colored' not solely because the NAACP sanctions it but in this modern day it is more correct. You for instance have a trace of Indian blood. I have also in my case and it shows only in facial structure high cheek bones and sometimes in my disposition.I note in 'Ebony' that Jallulah
refers to the Negroes in the South and there is an article 'The Negro in Russia. You sure get around-quite a feather in your cap too to be chosen to cover such greats as Ingo and Rocky." This is in reference to boxers Ingemar Johansson and Rocky Marciano. In yet another letter she comments about a man of prejudice "
I was thinking of writing him to say that most of the colored folks of my acquaintance are so busy with church work and with trying to make a living that they have not time to be vituperative-they leave that to such as he
It was as well perhaps that I didn't write." Bruen received received two letters from Ernestine Manuel at Hampton Institute who was helped by the Du-Rite Club in the fall of 1941. Hampton Institute was a college for African Americans. "
Words cannot be found to show you how thankful I am for all that you have done. Hampton Institute is a beautiful place
" A 2 page letter from the Royal Jewel Club an organization apparently for African Americans at the time solicits funds for a "Bethany Chapel". The Du Rite Club with which Bruen was affiliated contributed $5. In a one-page partial letter written to Bruen about his column the writer takes issue with Bruen and his beliefs: "
What is a white skin when underneath a person is rotten to the core. I have many friends among your people have worked with them for years and can understand their feelings toward us whites but acting with hate destroying property and looting doesn't make it any easier. I'm sure that the Colored people want the whites to fear them
I'd like to have my people and yours being one and live together in peace. The preaching of Stokely Carmichael and Hubert Brown is just filling your people with deathly poison. Any intelligence and normal thinking persons would shy away from such teachings. Of course there are whites also who do the destroying and looting so the blacks get the blame
And with the dope LSD and others no one knows what will happen next. And the leaders with their hate preaching doesn't help your people any." Despite being from a number of different people all the letters are easily readable and in excellent condition complete with their original envelopes. All of them are folded in some sort. Background: Bruen was born April 30 1906 and died on May 14 1998. He was a self-educated man who attended a school for African Americans in Goshen NY where he would live his whole life through the fourth grade then moved to an integrated public school. Bruen fed and groomed horses at the race track before school. He left school at 16 with an eighth-grade education and began working for the Erie Railroad working his whole life for them and finally retiring in 1971. In 1925 he married Gertrude Van Dyke and they had six children. Bruen's grandfather was a runaway slave who had shown John the scars on his back from the whippings he had received as a slave and which remained on him until the day he died. Bruen rose to prominence as a chronicler of African-American life and received many honors during his life. He became the first black columnist to write for the Independent Republican starting in 1959 and continuing until shortly before his death. Through his column "Bruen's Hash" he sought to eliminate discrimination and educate all people on the experiences and struggles of African Americans. He was an exceptional athlete in boxing and baseball playing on and coaching local teams. For several years he was president of the semi-pro Orange Ulster Baseball League. He was a sportswriter for the Middletown Daily Record and The Times Herald-Record for 20 years. By the time of his death Bruen had built a personal collection of over 2000 volumes of black history.; Manuscript; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF JOHN BRUEN SENIOR SLAVERY IN AMERICA SLAVERY AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILY TREE PERSON OF COLOR STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS 1960S AMERICA BLACK AMERICANA BRUEN'S HASH DU-RITE CLUB BLACK FAMILIES IN 20TH CENTURY AMERICA AMERICAN SPORTSWRITERS UNITED STATES RACE RELATIONS CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT CIVIL WAR EMANCIPATION COLORED PEOPLE NEGROES RACE RELATIONS AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL AMERICANA ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0009005
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Lieutenant Hussa, Sergeant Stevens, Corporal Nelson, Private Mowers, Private Sours
1930s FASCINATING AND UNIQUE DIARY OF AN ARMED DETAIL OF FIVE MARINES TRAVELING BY STEAMBOAT INTO THE INTERIOR OF CHINA EACH MAN CONTRIBUTING RECORDING AND DETAILING THE LIFE AND NATURE ALL AROUND THEM
Yangtze River Shanghai Hankow China. Good. 1935. Unbound. On offer is a fascinating and significant handwritten diary that was found with other military items from a US 4th Marine Veteran George Mower who served in China WW II and Korea. The very unique diary was written by five Marines their rank and last names listed on the first page while on duty in China from Dec. 28 1934 through Feb 1 1935. The very first words of the journal are as such: "This diary of facts concerning a trip made up the Yangtzie River into the interior of China that mysterious and forbidding land of the Green and Yellow Dragon - by five marines detailed as armed guards for the Yangtzie Rapid Steamship Co. - an American owned and operated Co. - was conceived and written by Oscar Nelson and George Mowers with the help of the remainder of the detail. The trip and what is said about the country is described by Mowers. Nelson was the he located the different points of interest learned their names and their distances apart. All members of the group added the human interest which is committed to the pages. This diary was not kept for material gain but only as a souvenir. It is written in the simple words of those who made the trip so that as they ramble through its pages so they may live over again in the memory those days spent on the Yangtzie River." The men on detail are referred to as Lt. Hussa Sgt. Stevens Cpl. Nelson Pvt Mowers and Pvt. Sours. On December 28 they gather their supplies and embark "at 5:15 PM aboard Yangtze River Steamship Co. Ship I'Fung". During the detail there are many details on their trip often in the military way of breaking down the events by the time they happened "At 1700 it begins to darken - a cold rain makes visibility poor. The bleak and dreary banks of the river is now relieved by several hills crowned by pagodas and tall trees." On another day the diary states "The weather is cold and the wind still too high to allow us to venture out on deck to observe much of the country along the banks of the river. What I can see of the short from my cabin window looks to be cold beak bare and desolate. Occasionally I can pick out a small grass shack from which drifts a small lazy column of smoke. Then at other times I can see a Chinese farmer scurrying along the banks of the river or perhaps he's a fisherman. What a perfect setting for one who likes nature in the raw. I'll take mine after it has been refined." There are plenty of details about life on the ship and the dreary and rainy conditions which seem to be ever present. As well the authors of the diary seem to be slightly interested in Chinese history as there are some small passages on the history of China: "At the close of the Sung dynasty it was founded by refugees who fled from other parts of the country to escape the conquering Mongols." There is also writings about the little time off in Shanghai and Hankow. "Arrived at Hankow and anchored at 1600. Clean well built city from the river. Went ashore after dinner and walked up the - clean and well policed. Rickshawed and walked thru the city. A big prosperous city - modeled after Shanghai - but did not see much of interest. Their famed "Cabaret Row" was a flop. Was sober and the girls looked old and their teeth were dirty. The liquor was bad." There are also run ins with bandits and pirates "Now when you get on the land opposite your ship you run into some of the famous Yangtzie River Pirates in the guise of men. They demand 40 cents big money to bring you a hundred yards to your boat. And they get it or you swim." One of the trips ashore is described as "By chance we were witness to a very interesting sight this afternoon. We saw a number of Chinese soldiers forcing a number of Chinese civilians into service in the army. They must have had about a thousand of these recruits and they marched them down the streets four abreast. Some of the recruits were greasy and dirty looking as though they had been taken from shops or factories while others were a little seedy looking and indicating that they were farmers or fishermen. What a strange site they formed as they marched along.In age and size they ranged from mere boys to full grown men. Each one of them carried on his back a blanket or rag in which was roped all of his worldly possessions as a whole they resembled a herd of wild sheep being herded to the slaughter house. Such is life in China some Chinaman with a little money who has had the privilege of gaining a little knowledge and an education declares himself a general recruits himself an army - either willing or otherwise - and procedes to make himself master of all he surveys." The diary is full of these fascinating little observations of life and nature in China along the banks of the Yangtze River. There are also details on the military strife happening in China in the mid-1930s. "National Chinese soldiers are being sent up the river to Wanhsien and other towns in the Szechuan province for very obvious reasons. Szechuan theoretically is supposed to be a part of the Republic of China but in practice it is not. It is controlled by General Lu an influential and powerful General. Szechuan is the richest province in China is isolated from the rest of China due to the fact that it lies in the remote western part of the country and is surrounded by mountain boundaries which are almost inaccessible except by way of the Yangtzie river through the gorges . It is to this isolation and natural defence formed by the mountains General Lu in the past with aid of his powerful and well equipped army has been able to maintain control over Szechuan and levy and collect the taxes. The armored detail eventually switches from their original boat to the I'Ping and then to the I'Chang. The diary ends on Feb. 2nd with no mention of any transfer or change in duty only that they were close to Shanghai. It is unclear whether this diary is complete or not. Each page is numbered at the top so they are very easy to keep in order as the pages are loose and unbound. It ends with "We anchored for the night at 2200. Lt. Shaw said that the Captain told him we would be in Shanghai about 1000 tomorrow. Nelson is becoming more and more restless. He is longing for the dear old Shanghai nights." All pages of the diary are easily readable in a very accessible script. There are spelling mistakes consistently throughout the diary but they are not a barrier to understanding the words. Each page is in excellent condition.; Manuscript; 9" x 12"; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF STORIES OF UNITED STATES MARINES EXTRA-MILITARY DUTY CHINA PRE WORLD WAR TWO PRE CHINESE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION YANGTZE RIVER HANKOW SHANGHAI BANKS OF THE YANGTZE RIVER GREEN AND YELLOW DRAGON YANGTZE RIVER STEAMSHIP COMPANY YANGTZIE THE SAND PEBBLES LIEUTENANT HUSSA SERGEANT STEVENS CORPORAL NELSON PRIVATE MOWERS PRIVATE SOURS USMC I'PING I'CHANG AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL AMERICANA ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0009004
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PAUL JAMES MCGAHAN
FASCINATING AND INTRICATELY DETAILED ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A YOUNG INFANTRYMAN ENDURING INTENSE TRAINING AND WORKING HIS WAY UP THE RANKS IN THE AMERICAN HOMEFRONT AT THE VERY END OF WORLD WAR ONE
CAMP MEADE WADSWORTH GORDON AMERICA HOMEFRONT. Good. 1914. On offer is the absolutely fascinating and deeply detailed wartime homeland diary of Paul James McGahan. McGahan starts as a simple orderly and works his way up to private 1st class and then through hard work and tremendous diligence shows himself to be an exemplary soldier and gets commissioned and ends up as a 1st Lieutenant shortly before WW1 ends. This diary is remarkably detailed with almost every day written as a fully detailed entry. Most impressive are the months of hard training that McGahan does with each training schedule written out in its entirety so the reader gets a full scope of just how difficult and intense the military training is. The diary is signed Paul James McGahan. 1325 Mt. Vernon St. Philadelphia PA. The same page also has a detailed breakdown of all the ranks that McGahan has during the course of 1918 where he earned them and from what time period he held the rank. In the beginning of the diary McGahan is in New York on leave from the military and enjoying the sights and sounds of the Big Apple: going to museums visiting friends wining and dining all over the city. January 3 1918. Spent afternoon with Dr. Cohen who pronounced me wonderfully fit and said the systolic murmur of the heart was very faint. Declared I showed great improvement over previous years exams. Dined at Harlem. Visited Margaret and Edward for Got back to Pen & Penal club and as hotels were all filled had to sleep on chairs by log fire. By January 10th McGahan is back in active duty. Came off guard at 4:30 and was told I would be head orderly starting in the morning. After January 15th there are not many entries for the next two months. A notable exception is on February 22 when McGahan writes Was made a private 1st class by Lieutenant E W Madeira commanding Headquarters Troop. There are no entries for the entire month of March and only a few for the end of April. He mentions at the end of April returning home from Annapolis to Philadelphia so it is assumed that McGahan was at Annapolis training as a private. At the very end of April McGahan goes to Camp Meade in Middletown Pennsylvania. His training seems to take an immediate toll on him as he develops two huge boils on each of his legs. Could hardly sit on train!!!!! he writes. Two days later he is in the Base Hospital. The next week have only one sentence under each entry. In hospital. He is released on May 8. On May 17th he writes Long delays at troop but Glenn and I as the 2 successful candidates departed to the school. He took artillery. I took the infantry course. Very busy evening getting belongings together to stand inspection in A.M. Was assigned to third Platoon Third Company and became instead of Private 1st Class. In Camp Meade McGahan is recommended an advanced infantry course. He spends the next month writing very detailed and specific diary entries of his days learning and training. It is obvious the army way of thinking is getting to him as the days are divided into specific increments of time and tasks. May 24 1918. Very busy day. School of soldier 7.30 to 8.30. Conference on care of equipment 8.30/9.30. Platoon drill 9.30 to 10. School of Squad 10 to 11. Was a corporal for about 15 minutes. 11 to 11.30 bayonet drill. Capt. gave me some personal instruction. Running drill as an instructor 1.15 to 2.15. Hike with gun & light pack 2.15 to 3.15. Conference on Instructor Guard Duty to 3.45. School of company to 4.45. Hard work preparing for inspection. No chance to look at books. Most days in May and June are like this. Intense training and schooling. For a bit McGahan is waylaid with a knee problem but it quickly is dressed and resolves itself for him to train some more. These months are incredibly interesting to see the tremendous amount of training that went into becoming a commissioned officer in the army. Near the end of June McGahan has his final exam for the infantry course which he passes. He describes the whole exam in detail. On June 25 he moves down to Camp Gordon in Georgia for more training. The schedule is even heavier at Camp Gordon. July 3 1918. Platoon Drill 7 to 8.15. PHysical 8.15 to 8.45. Bayonet 8.45 to 9.15. To 9.45 Wig Way. 9.45 to 10.30 Conference Musketry Chapter 8. 10.45 to 11.30 Musketry drill review of trigger and rapid fire. 1 to 2 Conference I.D.R. 350 to 424. 2 to 3 I.H.R. 50 to 83. External orders 1st man out in front of platoon at this formation. Nother hot day and I dont feel any too chillier. 7 to 9 given over to study of stuff for tomorrow. So far no regular mail service has been established. We are finding mail in all other company barracks. Ive had just one letter it forwarded from Meade. July and August are the same as the months before. Training studying drills study sleep. Over and over again. There are occasional personal comments on his life and events that occur around him mostly interpersonal relations with other soldiers but the entries are usually full of the day-to-day training schedule. No day is missing in these months. He finishes his training in the end of August. On August 26th he is sworn in as a commissioned officer. August 26 1918. Red Letter day. Were sworn in by Capt. Scott at 8.30. Signed oath of office and got Commissions. Helped McConnell and Pickett closeout company and at 11.30 said goodbye to all. Very amusing as boy dressed out in their officers regalia. Lunched at Hosers House and boarded usual train at 1. Said goodbye to Sgt. Quinn and Capt. Scott. Train did not leave until 2.45. After he is commissioned McGahan has a few weeks off where he returns to Philadelphia sees friends and family goes to Ocean City New Jersey to see his godchild and spends a good deal of time relaxing and being with non-military people. In September he is given orders to go to Camp Wadsworth near Spartanburg South Carolina. September 5 1918. It started raining as we hit Camp Wadsworth. I am assigned to the 58th Pioneer Infantry and for the present am attached to Company M. I have my own little tent. As a commissioned officer McGahan is in charge of a small number of troops with whom he trains in infantry and rifle skills and bonds with. He also participates in a court martial. The circumstances are unclear but McGahan testifies on behalf of the men being court martialed. I feel I made a good case for them he says of his testimony. In Camp Wadsworth McGahan attends automatic rifle school and gas school for understanding how to fight in gas masks. September and October are mostly full of new training and a new understanding of his commissioned roles in the military. In early November less than a week before WW1 officially ends McGahan is commissioned as a 1st Lieutenant Infantry. He is ecstatic about his promotion. On November 11 1918 World War 1 ends. Whistles and bells awakened us all at 2.45 this morning when official announcement was made that Germans had accepted offer of armistice. It is a holiday. People in autos to camp cheering and waving flags. Town was thronged with cheery celebrations. Very busy on military cemetery. The rest of the year is easy for McGahan. Shortly after the end of the war he is appointed a Judge Advocate of the Regimental Special Court Martial. In addition to his regular tasks with his own company he also attends numerous court martials as the Judge Advocate meaning he serves as a legal advisor to the command to which he is assigned. At the very end of the year McGahan gets leave and returns to New York and Philadelphia for Christmas and New Years. The diary continues past December 31 and there are entries up to January 8th 1919 when McGahan comes back from vacation and is stationed again at Camp Meade. McGahan would end up serving in the military almost his entire life and would retire a colonel after World War Two. He died in 1972 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. He would receive a Army Commendation Medal for his lifelong work in the American Armed Forces.; Manuscript; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF PAUL JAMES MCGAHAN CAMP MEADE CAMP WADSWORTH CAMP GORDON PHILADELPHIA MIDDLETOWN PENNSYLVANIA SPARTANBURG SOUTH CAROLINA TRAINING BASES IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR ANNAPOLIS RANKS OF THE MILITARY BASIC TRAINING IN WORLD WAR ONE AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL AMERICANA ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0009013
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WALTER TRENT
1944 FASCINATING ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN JOURNAL OF A HARD-DRINKING SHORT-TEMPERED EVERYMAN WORKING AS A CARPENTER ON THE SS JOLIET WORKING HARD ON DUTY DRINKING AND FIGHTING WHEN OFF
PACIFIC THEATRE WW2 LEYTE LINGAYEN BAY PHILIPPEANS. Good. 1944. On offer is the fascinating 1944 diary of Walter Trent a hard-drinking tough carpenter on the SS Joliet during World War 2. Trent works on the ship as it makes stops in the Mediterranean first and then moves on to the Pacific theater of World War 2. This diary is a very interesting document of WW2 history showing the tasks and life of a non-combat naval personnel during the war. Most of the longest entries in the diary are accounts of shore leave and downtime. These passages are where this document is most interesting. The diary shows the curious day-to-day events that transpired in the life of someone during war as opposed to the specifics of combat or military campaigns. The diary is signed on the front page Walter W. Trent 320 N. Rosine Ave. Somerset PA. The diary is interesting in that each entry uses both the verso and recto of the whole page. The first entry spanning both the left and right page is dated June 4 1944 and states Left N.Y.C. and went to Baltimore in the afternoon. Arrived and could not find a room in any hotel. Finally went to the Officers Club and got a room through them at Mr.s Florence Blades at 1220 Park Ave. Had a big front room and bath. Very nice place. The next day he joins the S.S. Joliet to take coal to Naples Italy. He has a few days before he departs on the SS Joliet so he returns to N.Y.C. takes a girl possibly a girlfriend Rose out to dinner and dancing then returns to Baltimore to depart on the ship. On June 12 Tuesday. Went aboard by 9 to find everybody had signed Articles Monday. So I went up to the Commissioners to sign on while there it came up that there was no carpenter. So I signed on as A.B. with the understanding that if no carpenter signed by 1 P.M. that I got the job. No carpenter signs and after the ship departs Baltimore there are many entries of the carpenter tasks that Trent does. Mad a towel rack for 2nd mate and started to grease the windlass and booms.; worked all day just on the doors cleaning and greasing them. Had to fix No. 1 storm batten because it had no turnbuckle. On July 1st the SS Juliet arrives in Augusta Sicily. On arrival there were bum boats around the ship all morning. Trying to buy cigarettes for $9.00 a carton American $. Soap went for 3 to 4 cakes a 100 Lira. A lira is worth 1¢. I swapped some soap for some Cognac. Received orders around 1030 AM to go to Naples Italy for further orders. He goes to Sicily and then soon to Gallipoli. For the next month or so Trent writes the tasks and odd carpentry jobs that he did around the boat commenting that the crew always seems to be breaking everything. He swims often talks about buying selling and swapping cigarettes soap booze etc. From Gallipoli the ship moves to Naples and then to Marseilles France. At the end of July he goes to the sick bay with a fever and infection. He mentions soon after that he went ashore and saw a girl about a dog in a house possibly a euphemism for using a prostitute. By early August his entries are rather short including one August 4. Saturday. Same old shit. On August 14 he has his first entry directly related to the ongoing war. Received and talking over the news it does not seem possible that peace is around the corner. 7 PM. My birthday and peace at last. The SS Joliet goes from the mediterranean to Balboa spain and then sails for the Philippines. Trent mostly works but when he goes ashore he seems to be quite the drinker and partier. Went ashore after breakfast and met Foskey and Cavelsky had some drinks. Tried to go back to the ship but Leon was dragging some Tape that held a bottle and the guard turned him back. So went to a hotel and took a room. Went to to sleep till 4 P.M. woke up and drank the bottle. Went out and had some dinner. Went back to the ship around 11 P.M.; Had a terrible hangover and a slight stuttering around 3PM.; I woke up laying out in the jungle so weak that I could not move until 10 AM when two gave me some water and helped me to there came shoes watch gone. He also seems to have a bit of a mean streak to him as there are a few entries in which he speaks of quarrels and insubordination with the mates on the ship. On October 3 the ship lands in Lingayen Bay in the Philippines. From Lingayen Bay the Joliet moves onto Eniwetok. October 25 Thursday. Arrived at Eniwetok at 4:30 PM. It is a big lagoon surrounded by small islands of 1/2 mile size in a circle of 22 miles a lot of them are submerged. Before the war the Atoll had 130 people now there are 300000 army navy. There were around 200 ships tankers & freighters and some navy. The main island was covered with buildings and only a few palm trees and was very hot. The Philippines Trent notes is hot musty and awful. A rainy day and I have Ring worms where I sit down and don't seem able to get rid of them. Everybody seems to have them or the jock itch between her legs. The SS Joliet is not long in the Philippines though. After their orders are completed they make their way back to the U.S. On November 29 the SS Joliet arrives back in Miami. Its a good thing too. The day before on November 28 Trent writes Looked in my locker and found that my wallet was stolen with 18 dollars in. Damn it I will be glad to get off this god damned ship. From Miami the ship goes back to N.Y.C. Trent parties hard on December 3rd and stays out all night. The last entry of the diary is December 4th and just says still out. Background - Launched as the SS Joliet Victory in 1944 Maritime Commission hull number MCV 114 a type VC2-S-AP3 Victory ship. She served in the Pacific War participating in the landings on Leyte in late 1944. SS Joliet Victory Naval Armed Guard crews earned Battle Stars in World War II for war action in during the Invasion of Lingayen Gulf from 4 Jan. 1945 to 18 Jan. 1945. Also a second "Battle Stars" for the Leyte landings in the Battle of Leyte from 5 March 1945 to 13 March 1945. Joliet Victory was active in delivering support for the Battle of Iwo Jima from 19 February to 26 March 1945. In each battle she had to use her deck guns to defend against air attacks. Joliet Victory and the SS Columbia Victory had the dangerous job of supplying artillery ammunition for the Iwo Jima battle. The ship was laid up in the Hudson River as part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet on 1 July 1948 and was reactivated during the Korean War serving from 27 July 1950 until 31 October 1953 when she was again laid up in the NDRF in the James River. She was acquired by the U.S. Navy on 8 February 1958 renamed Michelson and converted to an Oceanographic Survey Ship AGS at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF SS JOLIET VICTORY USNS MICHELSON T-AGS-23 BOWDITCH CLASS OCEANOGRAPHIC SURVEY SHIP UNITED STATES NAVY TYPE VC2-S-AP3 VICTORY SHIP PACIFIC THEATRE OF WORLD WAR 2 LANDINGS ON LEYTE WALTER TRENT YOUNG MEN IN WAR SOMERSET PENNSYLVANIA AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL AMERICANA ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0009010
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UNIDENTIFIED
1939 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DETAILED 5 YEAR DIARY OF A YOUNG MOVIE LOVING JEWISH TEENAGER FROM THE BRONX NEW YORK GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL STARTING COLLEGE AND LIVING A FAST-PACED VIGOROUS LIFE
BRONX NEW YORK NY. Good. 1939. On offer is a detailed and intriguing document the five-year diary of a young Jewish teenager passionate with theater movies and art. The diary starts in the beginning of 1939 and continuing to the end of 1943. Beginning when he is a high school sophomore the diary traces the life of as he graduates high school and begins college at Fordham University in the Bronx New York. For the most part every day of the five-year diary is filled in with the exception of the first half of 1940. The entries for 1940 start up around May and from then on almost every day has an entry filled in. The diary does an exceptional job of elucidating the life of a teenage boy growing up in the early 1940s. He sees lots and lots of movies goes to concerts and plays and he studies and groans about school teachers his parents and his friends. He also makes frequent trips to Brooklyn Manhattan and Queens. Most days include at least one title of a movie that he has seen. Many entries look like these: Went to Fordham and saw The Gay Sisters and Spy Ship. The Gay Sisters was swell. Just what I needed. Did some German homework.; Yom Kippur. Went to Fordham and saw Dive Bomber. Very beautiful in technicolor. Bessie and her sisters were here when I came home. Midterm tomorrow.; Went to Museum of Non-Objective Art with Chells and heard a faculty lecture by John Lennhower. Marvelous afternoon. Went shopping. Bought tickets for Rosalind. He comments little on things going on in the world around him but for a document of the quotidian and everyday life of a Jewish kid during WW2 America this diary is of exceptional value. The book also contains some memoranda at the end of the it with lists of presents received and given birthdays and a canary record which documents the death or escape of four canary birds owned by the author. In addition to the diary there is also contained numerous ephemeral items including five pay stubs from movies plays and the 1940 New York Worlds Fair newspaper clippings and a program from the July 1939 concert of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra a newspaper clipping of a picture containing Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in the musical New Moon and a newspaper clipping of a picture from Pride and Prejudice being performed at Radio City Music Hall in August 1940.; Manuscript; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF BRONX BROOKLYN QUEENS MANHATTAN NEW YORK JEWISH TEENAGER NEW YORK CITY YOUTH HIGH SCHOOL HIGHSCHOOL COLLEGE FORDHAM FILMS CINEMA MOVIES DIARY RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL EPHEMERA PLAYS THEATER 5 YEAR DIARY NEW YORK AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL AMERICANA ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0009014
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P BARRY
1943 - 1944 FASCINATING ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN CAPTAIN'S LOG OF ONE OF THE MOST DECORATED SHIPS OF WORLD WAR II THE U.S.S CALIENTE AS SHE PARTICIPATES IN SOME OF THE MOST DANGEROUS REFUELING MISSIONS OF THE PACIFIC THEATER
Pacific Theatre WW2 Eniwetok Pearl Harbor. Good. 1944. On offer is a unique firsthand document of the 2nd World War from the Engineering Department of the USS Caliente AO-53. The USS Caliente a Cimarron-class fleet oiler in the U.S. Navy was one of the most highly decorated ships in the WW2 for carrying fuel into battle areas. In early 1944 the ship took part in refueling missions in support of the Marshall Islands invasion refueling carriers such as the Yorktown Saratoga and Enterprise as well as the battleships Mississippi and South Dakota. In June and July of 1944 the ship supported the invasion of Saipan taking part in Operation Forager refueling carriers involved in that campaign. The Captain's Log contains the daily details of the ship's position and actions from December 10 1943 to August 11 1944 a time that the ship would be awarded 5 battle stars for its bravery. The book follows the ship as it sails throughout the Pacific to support and refuel numerous Navy vessels. "When specific orders are included in this book please read them carefully make sure you thoroughly understand them before attempting to carry them out." At the end of each message is written "Do not hesitate to call me at any time. Respectfully P.Barry." P. Barry is most likely the chief engineer or his second and is writing all the orders and observations of the night crew. Every day contains the numerous signatures of fellow shipmates who have read the message. Entries consist primarily of documentation of problems and potential problems with the engines as well as routine maintenance and other operations expected of the crew. With admonitions for the crew to be ready to wear life vests etc. Barry gives his expectations of the crew in a rather no nonsense manner while keeping a level-head about the potential deathly and seriousness of their mission/operation. Some pages even contain the details as to who exactly was on watch and on standby at exact times. There is a very funny idiosyncrasy in mid-April 1944: In this entry P. Barry signs off 'sincerely' instead of 'respectfully' and it appears another crew member notes this inconsistency with a penciled question mark next to the word. P. Barry's notes are always written in the same blue ink while the night crew's initials and occasional notes are written in pencil. Thankfully throughout the book both the ink and the pencil writing are fantastically well preserved. No smudging or difficulty reading the writing throughout the whole book. Some specifics to their mission are hinted at with locations such as Panama transiting the Canal around Dec. 21st Pearl Harbor Seeadler Harbor Majuro Eniwetok and the Marianas Islands mentioned as well as the names of tankers Cimarron Platte and Kinnebago. There is an olive green cloth cover with writing in red on the front cover. References to steaming in convoy are throughout with instructions to be prepared for varying speeds etc. alluding to the complexities encountered behind the scenes of large naval operations. 70 page or so of the book have writing in them as log entries. That leaves about half the book blank. This book is an incredible look into the daily operations of a decorated ship in WW2. Examples of log entries: "15 April 1944: Please note that this is the fifteenth of April & that we have skipped the fourteenth. All logs should indicate this fact & be dated 15 April. At 2000 tonight start purifying the lube oil commencing with the port side & running 24 hours on each system. Pay particular attention to maintaining constant oil temperature at the heater discharge. Do not neglect to have the messenger sweep down the operating platform at least once a watch before the watch is relieved. Wipe off the top of the reduction gear casings as necessary. Do not hesitate to call me at any time. Respectfully P. Barry."; "15 June 1944: Steaming Westward in convoy in the immediate vacinity of enemy held territory. Stand on alert watch & be sure personnel in machine shop evaporator flat & generator flat are promptly notified in the event of a G.Q. Also make sure the bridge talker notifies you of G.Q. since there is some chance that the engine room alarm is out of order. At G.Q. the fire pump is to be started immediately & the pressure in the fire main brought to 90 lbs. Standby generator feed pump fuel oil service steam & lube oil steam pumps are to be made ready for instant starting but not put on the line. We will have condition II all night with the standby officer stepping in the machine shop as follows: Watch: 20-24 Ens. Brown; 00-04 Lt. Whittaker; 04-08 Ens. O'Dell; Standby: 20-24 Ens. O'Dell 00-04 Ens. Suneson 04-08 Ens. Brown."; Manuscript; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF WORLD WAR 2 WW2 PACIFIC THEATRE UNITED STATES SHIP CIMARRON PLATT KINNEBAGO NAVAL FLEET OILERS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR UNITED STATES NAVY USS CALIENTED CAPTAIN'S LOG SHIP CAPTAIN LEDGER TANKER NAVY IN THE LAST YEARS OF WW2 P. BARRY AO-53 NIGHT ORDER BOOK ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF USS POT SEEADLER MANUS ISLAND ADMIRALTY ISLANDS PAPUA NEW GUINEA ASIATIC-PACIFIC THEATRE E.G. GENTHNER USNR UNITED STATES NAVAL RESERVE USS YORKTOWN USS SARATOGA USS ENTERPRISE REFUELER OF BATTLESHIPS INVASION OF SAIPAN OPERATION FORAGER ALLIED POWERS CHESTER NIMITZ DOUGLAS MACARTHUR AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL AMERICANA ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 0009015
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ESTHER A WALLING
1919 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DIARY OF A FEMALE CLERK OF THE ERIE RAILROAD WHO IS A STRONG AND PROUD UNION MEMBER CHURCH GOING WOMAN AND LIVELY PRESENCE IN HER SMALL TOWN
Meadville Cleveland Youngstown Pennsylvania PA. Good. 1919. On offer is the 1919 diary of Esther A. Walling of Meadville Pennsylvania. She is a very proud and at that time female Railroad Clerk at the Erie Railroad Office. Her brother with whom she lives is Frank. He is also a railroad clerk and a person she loves very much. She goes to church on Sundays and is often on trips to Cleveland Youngstown and Jamestown for fun weekends of shopping and entertainment with her girlfriends or brother. There are just a few entries until late February in which Esther takes a trip to Cleveland with her girlfriends. "Saturday February 22 We went shopping today and purchased this book also the picture "On the River Tiber." We went to the play "The Girl Behind the Gun" this afternoon and in the evening went to the Hippodrome. Aunt Attie met us & we took her to supper in the old arcade. We stayed at the Hotel Winton." She seems to have some pretty strong union sympathies often going to "Brotherhood of Railway Clerks" later known as the Transportation Communications International Union and speaking enthusiastically of the meetings and the new members initiated during the year. The early 20th century was a high time for labor movements in America and it was not uncommon to find strong believers in unions at this time. In May she and Frank go to Chicago to meet their mother who is returning from vacation in California. They spend a few days in the city shopping seeing sights and meeting friends. The entries are fairly irregular in their frequency. They tend to be most regular when Esther is on a trip outside of Meadville. During these trips there are usually entries written everyday until she comes back home in which they resume the frequency of two or three entries every week. July and September are the most consistent with entries almost everyday. The summer is filled with work small weekend trips meetings of the "Brotherhood" and much small town entertainment such as parades fireworks concerts and leisurely drives in her brother's 1919 Ford. In mid-October Esther takes a nice vacation with her girlfriend Hazel They go to Washington D.C. first and take in the famous sights. "Took sightseeing car around Wash. visited Capitol museum etc. In afternoon we went to Arlington VA. saw the wireless station where the time is sent daily over the country and many historical places." They go from Arlington to Mt. Vernon and visit Washington's home then off to to Philadelphia where they see the Liberty Bell and other attractions. From Philadelphia they move on to New York getting in at Grand Central Station. They do not stay long in the city as they have a same day train to Boston. "Monday October 20. We went in Sightseeing car to Lexington & Concord. Most interesting trip we took. Saw Harvard College and went in John Hancock's old home; saw homes of many authors poets and noted people." A few days later they are back home in Meadville. The rest of the year is back to normal for Esther. Esther's handwriting is simple and easy to read done mostly in ink with the exception of a few entries near the end of the year. The front and back cover are slightly detached from the paper. Mild age-toning to pages and some discoloration caused by newspaper clippings pasted to a few pages throughout the year mostly about birth and wedding announcements. There is also a small piece of ephemera in the book a letter from the office of D.G. Snodgrass M.D. that reads "July 27th 1918. Rec'd Esther Welling one dollar for vaccination. D.G. Snodgrass MD." Why this letter is in the book is not noted. Examples of text: "Thursday March 6. A number of other Erie girls & I attended the annual Fried Turkey supper at the Baptist Church this evening. Fine supper. After the supper we went to on Centre St. where an assistant organizer attempted to organize a local lodge of Railroad clerks." ; "Tuesday April 22. Went to lodge "Brotherhood of Railway Clerks" tonight. Good attendance. Nineteen new members were taken in and several names proposed for initiation at next meeting."; "Saturday August 16. The first annual picnic of the Erie RR Shops & Offices was held at Celeron today. Special train of 19 coaches left at 8:15 A.M. returning on special train leaving Jamestown at 11:30 P.M. There was a terrible storm & cyclone at Celeron."; "Sunday September 7. Slept till 10:30. Willie came up to attend the clam bake at Oakwood Park for Bessemen employers. An aeroplane passed over the city this A.M." Background - As related in the August 1919 issue of Erie Railroad Magazine the USRA found that nationwide 101785 women were working at railroad occupations at the high point of female employment October 1 1918. The Erie accounted for 11 percent of that total employing 10274 women in various job categories. On the Erie the largest category employing women by far was clerical: 81 percent of the female workers worked as clerks stenographers draftswomen and assistants and ticket clerks.; Manuscript; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF ESTHER WALLING FRANK WALLING MEADVILLE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD CLERK ERIE RAILROAD OFFICE BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY CLERKS TRANSPORTATION COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL UNION LABOR MOVEMENT IN AMERICA WOMEN IN UNIONS WOMEN IN THE LABOR MOVEMENT IN AMERICA RAILROAD WORKERS INTERWAR PERIOD IN THE UNITED STATES WOMEN POST WW1 WOMEN WORKING IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY SUFFRAGE SUFFRAGETTE PRE SUFFRAGE FEMINISM WOMEN'S STUDIES GENDER STUDIES PRE FEMINIST ERA POST WORLD WAR 1 AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL AMERICANA ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0009017
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E W D SAYERS [?]
1912 - 1914 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A PETTY OFFICER ABOARD THE HMS KENT A ROYAL NAVY ARMOURED CRUISER IN CHINA STATION WORKING AND LIVING THROUGH THE VIOLENT AND CONSEQUENTIAL SECOND REVOLUTION OF THE 1913 CHINESE CIVIL WAR
China Station Shanghai Hong Kong England UK. Good. 1913. On offer is an exceptional and significant piece of British naval history the diary of a petty officer and watchman from the HMS Kent The author's name is on the front but it is extremely faded. It appears to be "E. W. D. Sayers" but the name has not turned up researching the HMS Kent. The author does mention taking his petty officers exam on December 2nd 1912 which may assist local historians in confirming the name one of 10 Monmouth-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. The 75 page diary begins on August 24 1912 and goes until January 1 1914. At the beginning of the diary the author is preparing it for sea cleaning it and doing mechanical work on it. On September 1 the ship "entered Bay of Biscay 4 AM." The ship goes around Portugal "off Cape Vincent" and makes its way to Hong Kong going through Gibraltar Malta Port Said the Suez Canal Aden and Singapore. During the trip the author often keeps watch participates in "Torpedo routines" and coals the ship "500 tons". The entries are short for this part. Often they say little more than "Thursday Sept 26th at sea" "Wednesday Oct 2nd Heavy storm 2:45 AM" or "Wednesday Oct 9th Sailed for Hong Kong 6 AM." There is also the mention of the HMS Talbot and the HMS Monmouth sailing with them for a brief moments in time. From Hong Kong the ship goes onto Weihaiwei in Northeast China at that time under British rule. In Weihaiwei the author does much of what was being done before: coals the engine cleans the ship "took on duty as dayman. Recovered anchor cable and moored" "ran torpedoes. One sunk but was recovered in the afternoon." Sometimes they just read "Usual routine". The ship is kept in tip-top shape and often runs battle and weapons exercises. Early 1913 the ship goes back to Hong Kong. The routine is still usual though the author notices an increased number of Japanese ships. The entries also begin to get a bit longer at this time. "Sunday Jan 19th Bishop of Hong Kong preached aboard - Japanese cruisers arrived at noon. Went to Cathedral in evening." In Hong Kong the author continues much of his 'usual routine' noting the weather outside usually rain and the exercises routines and tasks he does day-to-day. In May the author takes leave and goes to Japan for a few days. He goes first to Kawasaki then Yokohama and finally to Shinagawa. He does not mention much of what he did during these days except visiting palaces. On July 27 1913 he writes "Captain attended conference at Shanghai arsenal. Attacked 11 30pm at Shanghai." The next day he writes "Shanghai arsenal attacked 3 am again replaced. Captain at Shanghai transports and off the entrances ready.Landed 150 men." What the author is referring to here is the "Second Revolution of 1913" in which in July 1913 seven southern Chinese provinces rebelled against the Chinese President Yuan Shikai the autocratic first formal presdient of the Republic of China beginning the Second Revolution. The revolution was over in a few weeks thanks to the military strength of the North. The revolution also resented the Chinese government's dealings with Great Britain and so attacked the HMS Kent while in Shanghai. "Wednesday July 30th - Japanese gun boats arrived and proceeded to Shanghai 1:30pm. Shots fired 2 blank charges 90mm." Shortly after the North Chinese troops arrive and begin attacking the revolutionaries. "Saturday Aug 2nd - Chinese ships bombarded Fort 4:30 AM till 5 AM. Fort replied but with no avail. rounds were exchanged. Landed at 5 aM and proceeded to naval base. Usual routine remained of day." The next few days have only a few details about the revolution mostly focusing on the author's duties on the ship. On Aug 10 he writes "Prepared for leaving. Barrackers orders cancelled 11 A.M. A few of the Northern Troops armed & reoccupied the Police Quarters." The HMS Kent leaves Shanghai on August 17 and sails back to Japan "Saturday Aug 22nd went to Michimo 11 AM and visited Japanese Hotel also Sulphur baths. Returned at 300 pm and returned aboard at 10pm." By the middle of September the ship is in Newcastle. During the trip back the 'usual routine' persists but with seemingly more attack and defense exercises especially with other British gun boats especially the HMS Monmouth. At the end of September there are a number of pages of "Regatta Results of races skiffs Hampshire." It seems that in the first few days of August there were competitions amongst Royal Navy ships in terms of skills speed and agility. These races include "32 foot cutters" "30 foot cutters" "Whalers" "12 barrelled cutters" and other ships. The ship stays in the China Station patrolling and protecting British interests until the end of November when it begins to head back to England with the HMS Monmouth. The ship reaches England in December. By Christmas the author is back home visiting friends and family writing that he is off of duty until the end of January. After the January 1st 1914 entry there are no more. The very end of the diary is fascinating however. The author pens two essays one entitled "Weddings in China" and dated "Shanghai Aug 15th 1913" and the other entitled "Funerals in China" and dated "Shanghai Aug 10th 1913." In "Weddings in China" the author describes a typical wedding writing of the customs he finds interesting. In "Funerals in China" he writes "I have had a pretty good insight as to the disposal of a corpse of all grades during my stay here as the road leads to the Chinese burial ground if it can be termed as such." He writes of the presentation of the dead the coffin they lie in and the customs and traditions around honoring the dead. The writing in this little back section is in stark contrast to the matter-of-fact diary entries. Here the entries are still mostly detail but much more sussed out and interesting reflecting a definite opinion of the strangeness of Chinese customs. Finally the last page of the book contains a list entitled "Distance Run" which lists all the places the HMS Kent travelled with the author on board the kilometers in between each big city or province and then a final count of kilometers for the whole trip: 8340. The book is in excellent condition slightly worn in a sometimes cramped but ultimately readable script in pencil. Background - HMS Kent was one of 10 Monmouth-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She was placed in reserve when completed in 1903 but was recommissioned for the China Station in 1906. She remained there until she returned home in 1913 for a lengthy refit.; Manuscript; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF E. W. D. SAYERS HMS KENT HMS MONMOUTH ARMOURED CRUISERS ROYAL NAVY EARLY 20TH CENTURY BRITISH ROYAL NAVY BRITISH NAVAL HISTORY PRE-WORLD WAR 1 SHANGHAI REBELLION SECOND REVOLUTION CHINESE CIVIL WAR ESTABLISHMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA YUAN SHIKAI SUN YAT-SEN EARLY REPUBLIC OF CHINA CHINA STATION SINGAPORE NAVAL BASE BRITISH NAVY IN EAST ASIA SIR ALFRED WINSLOW CHINA PRE-WW1 BRITISH MILITARY IN THE ORIENT FAR EAST MIDDLE KINGDOM MARINERS SAILORS TARS NAVAL MARINE LIFE OF A PETTY OFFICER BRITTANICA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL AMERICANA ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0009018
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JOHN THOMPSON
LATE 1800s ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN LEDGER BOOK OF A GENERAL STORE IN TUCKERSMITH ONTARIO KEEPING DETAILED AND METICULOUS NOTES ON PRICES PAYMENTS AND BALANCES OVER THE COURSE OF ALMOST 20 YEARS
TUCKERSMITH ONTARIO ON CANADA. Good. 1893. On offer is a mid to late 1800s handwritten ledger from an unnamed general store in Tuckersmith Ontario. The shop owner was John Thompson according to a note in the book. The ledger is made up of the all personal bills of the many patrons of the General Store. Presumably the many customers of the general store bought on credit and in this ledger John Thompson kept track of the prices. A normal page contains information such as who the account is of as well as what product and how much was purchased on what day: "William Allins account. Oct 16 - 2 bags flour; Oct 18 - Tea - 1; Oct 23 - Coffee Sugar - 1; Oct 30 - Flour - 1 bag Tea - 1; Nov. 6 - Coffee Sugar - 1 Flour - 1 bag;.December 18 - Sugar - 1 Raisins - 1 Tea lemons - two". The store seems to sell everything a person in rural township Tuckersmith Ontario 1871 population: 3699 might need: flour sugar pigs lumber coffee potatoes meat etc. Many pages do not contain the specific details of what was bought but contain the name of the person and a tally of costs. What seems to be the most common item bought at this store was lumber as specific pages are entirely devoted to the "Lumber Bills" of various people who bought various amounts of lumber of differing lengths and dimensions. Under a page entitled "John Leaper Lumber Bills" there are such items entered as "12 pieces 4 x 4 12 ft. lg. - 192" "44 pieces 3 x 4 16 ft. lg - 572" and "38 pieces 3 inches wide 12 ft. lg - 200." The number at the end seems to be the price charged for the wood. Most pages contain some sort of mathematical calculation done by Thompson usually no more than just adding up the varying things bought and calculating a total. These calculations are usually done in pencil and are much rougher and less organized than the other writing in the book. There are also pages in which Thompson writes down what he himself bought for the shop and the prices paid. Bills that have been closed often have large X's through them but this does not often impede the legibility of the words behind the X. In another page smaller and loose from the book there is a breakdown of the general store's finances in 1887. Beginning with "Balance due 22 dec. 1886 - $134.33" and the money he owes an employee for "nine months and a half work - $158" he adds up all the cash received each month since the beginning of the year. When he subtracts the cash received from the cash owed he comes out to an outstanding of "$61.91" ~$1550 dollars in 2016 dollars for the year a huge improvement from the year before. The ledger has financial information from a very wide array of years with the earliest being 1875 all the way up to 1893. Interestingly there is little or no chronological order to the dates meaning this ledger may have been used whenever needed not systematically over the years. The end of the ledger has many pages of seemingly comprehensive financial information. The pages titled "log for 1875" "logs 1877" and "logs 1878" are very detailed and easily readable and contain information on the bills and payments of store patrons through those years. The book is fragile. Some pages are ripped. The spine has been taped. Some pages are detached from the binding. For the most part the handwriting is easy to read especially when the writing is in ink. In more detailed parts of the ledger the handwriting can get cramped but it does not make the script completely inaccessible. ; Manuscript; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OFJOHN THOMPSON TUCKERSMITH ONTARIO DETAILED STORE FINANCES LATE 19TH CENTURY ACCOUNTING CAPITALISM IN LATE 1800s RURAL GENERAL STORE RURAL ONTARIO COMPREHENSIVE FINANCES AND ACCOUNTING RETAIL COMMERCE ECONOMY 19TH CENTURY RURAL ECONOMICS LUMBER SALES CANADIANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO DANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0009022
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DAVID MEYEROWITZ
1944 - 1945 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT WARTIME DIARY OF JEWISH COAST GUARD CADET ABOARD THE USCGC SASSAFRAS ON AID TO NAVIGATION AND U-BOAT DETECTION DUTY IN NEWFOUNDLAND AND THE NORTH ATLANTIC
PORT-AUX-BASCUE NEWFOUNDLAND NL CANADA. Good. 1944. On offer is the wartime diary of David Meyerowitz a Jewish cadet aboard the USCGC Sassafras. The diary is entitled by Meyerowitz Newfoundland Diary and details his time spent onboard the Sassafras performing Aid to Navigation ATON duties throughout. It begins: On october 24 1944 the Coast Guard ship SASSAFRASS pulled into the harbor of Port-aux-basque in Newfoundland. Aboard her were the regular crew and construction unit 192 which she had brought there and which I was a member of. This was that part of the world where I was going to spend six months or even more. We had come from Sydney Nova Scotia where we had been housed by the Royal Canadian Air Force for a period of two days. Sydney to me was like any other small town in the States - a main street - local prostitutes - familiar characters etc. I was surprised to find that most Canadians were quite similar to Americans in mannerisms speech and general demeanors; They differed in one aspect - their attitude or outlook seemed to contain an air of indifference and unenthusiasm but not to a great extent.From here it begins my diary of daily accounts of incidents observations and such. He keeps to his word. The diary is a faithful account of his life in Newfoundland first very interesting and curious then settling into a steady rhythm of short descriptions of work and longer entries devoted to off-time. He often comments on the locals near Port aux Basques and the rural and rugged life they live living off the harsh land. In Newfoundland the Sassafras mission was to install and maintain the powerful radio transmitters and receivers used to determine the position of a ship or aircraft. Called LORAN short for Long Range Navigation these radio-navigation devices were established at Mouse Island near Port aux Basques. The primary mission of all LORAN stations was to monitor U-boat activity and provide navigational aid to Allied vessels. Their operation was classified and the equipment was under 24-hour guard. November 7 1944. Tonight I have the watch in a lonely shack on a desolate hill overlooking the ocean. This has been one of my off-days which seems to occur at infrequent intervals.Being here is just the tonic to forget the whole damn crap. Other than the watch over the LORAN station it does not seem like Meyerowitz does much work. Often entries read like such: November 26 1944. A little work a little play. IN the evening - lounge around in the canteen.; December 13 1944. The usual day of work. A movie at nite. Uneventful.; 5 January 1945. Just another day again. The bad weather has started in again - snow rain and sleet. Stuck again tonight with the Dock Watch. There are also plenty of important days recorded. 7 December 1944. Today is Pearl Harbor Day - three years of war - although the unrestrained impatience about the war ending which was with me during my first year when I came into the service has subsided still I want again to get back into civilian life.; 12 April 1945. Tonight all of us were deeply shocked and overcome when we learned that President Franklin Roosevelt pass away. Just when we thought it was a winner - the radio reassured us that this terrible tragedy had taken place 10 minutes to 6 in Warm Springs Ga - 20 minutes after 7 here. A deep loss and affected me a great deal - Ill always relive the night when the universal calamity occurred - & at the same time news that Germany was on the verge of collapse - at intervals I am compelled to stop & concentrate on this tragedy. On April 23 Meyerowitz writes the final entry Well this is it - we have today - tonight - bursting with anxiety to get home - It has been a bad stay - And this ends my Newfoundland experience & diary - The end. The book is a small octavo format. It has held up very well with age. The cover is leather cover reads NCG 2105 / U.S. Coast Guard and is slightly curling in at the edges. The book is roughly 200 pages long with about 170 with writing. Almost all of the writing is in ink but there is very little smudging and Myerowitz writes usually in a clear and legible way. Background - The Sassafras was a C-Class 180 ft seagoing buoy tender constructed for the USCG by Marine Iron & Shipbuilding Corp. of Duluth Minnesota. The Sass was one of 39 tenders commissioned for duties that would include aids-to-navigation ice breaking search-and-rescue fire fighting law enforcement providing fuel and potable water and assistance to the National Oceanographic and Seismographic Survey.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS:HISTORY OF DAVID MEYEROWITZ USCGC SASSAFRAS PORT-AUX-BASQUE SYDNEY NOVA SCOTIA NEWFOUNDLAND UNITED STATES COAST GUARD WORLD WAR 2 IN NORTH AMERICA AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN CANADA AID TO NAVIGATION ATON DUTIES ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE LORAN LONG RANGE NAVIGATION STATION U-BOAT MONITOR LAST YEAR OF WW2 USCG C-CLASS BUOY TENDER JEWISH SOLDIERS IN WW2 JEWISH CADET DEATH OF FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND SEISMOGRAPHIC SURVEY AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL AMERICANA ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO DANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 0009027
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AN NELSON A N
1919 - 1920 HANDWRITTEN JOURNAL HANDWRITTEN BY A CREW MEMBER OF THE U.S.S. BIRMINGHAM FLAGSHIP OF THE PACIFIC FLEETS DESTROYER SQUADRON AS IT PERFORMS POST - WW1 DUTIES EXERCISES AND NAVY PUBLICITY ALONG THE WEST COAST OF AMERICA
SAN DIEGO LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA CA PANAMA CANAL. Good. 1919. On offer is a journal and diary of A. N. Nelson a crew member on the U.S.S. Birmingham the flagship of the Pacific Fleets Destroyer Squadron shortly after the end of World War 1. The diary is entitled above the first entry Cruise of U.S.S. Birmingham with Pacific Fleet on West Coast. This is an accurate description of what takes place in the book. From July 17 1919 to November 22 1920 Nelson recounts the passage of the Birmingham as it leaves the Boston Navy Yard goes through the Panama Canal and then anchors in San Diego to serve as Flagship of the Pacific Fleets Destroyer Squadron. The whole book is written in one long continuous paragraph. There are no stops or paragraph breaks. For the most part the book is a matter-of-fact retelling of dates positions and activities of the Birmingham. There are also small breaks where Nelson recounts what he sees on board the ship as well as his days of shore leave and pleasure. The book begins Left Boston Navy Yard Thursday July 17 after near six months repair work.First run started on our way for West Coast. The night before we pulled out we had a draft of 200 new recruits to replace the men paid off. I was on deck when we pulled out and felt kind of blue leaving after being near home for so long. The ship passes through the Panama Canal on route to the West Coast. We could see the part of the Canal the French Government started to build some old rusted dredges and dirt cans and old twisted nails. Well it took us about six hours to go through the canal there being six locks to pass. At the end of July the ship reaches Balboa Panama. Nelson takes shore leave and goes to watch a bullfight and cockfighting remarking that I dont think much of their sports over here. Leaving Balboa with a formation of 21 destroyers all at the Birminghams stern the squadron heads to San Diego where they are met with scores of spectators. After a quick shore leave to Los Angeles and then San Francisco the ship moves on to Portland Oregon going down the Columbia River. Nelson remarks often on the beautiful scenery and mountains of the Pacific Northwest. As Flagship of the Pacific Fleets Destroyer Squadron Nelson writes of the various patrols war games and training that the Birmingham participates up and down the West Coast. There are also passages devoted to shore leave in Los Angeles San Francisco and Portland as well as the occasional boat race against another destroyer. At the end of January 1920 the Birmingham receives an emergency call at 2 A.M. from the army transport ship Mt. Vernon which has sprung a leak 500 miles out of San Francisco. The Birmingham escorts her back to harbor. In April the Birmingham anchors in Pearl Harbor and the Nelson visits the Volcano Kilauea which is the only active volcano that you can look into. For the rest of the year the Birmingham goes up and down the West Coast being more a representative of the American Navy than anything else. In the summer of 1940 it even represents the Navy in the American Legion Convention. in Astoria Oregon. The diary ends at the end of November 1920 with the Birmingham heading for San Diego making 21 knots arriving in San Diego where the ship is refueled five hundred fifteen tons of coal. There are three loose newspaper clippings accompanying the writing all relating to WW1 or the Birmingham directly. The book has 14 pages of writing with each page except the last being full of writing. The book begins with about 10 pages of blank space and finishes with about 35 blank pages as well. Nelsons handwriting is clean and crisp very easy to read in a slightly faded black ink. It seems at a later date Nelson might have gone back over or expanded some sections as they are in a distinctly darker ink. The cover is cloth and shows a good deal of wear but is still fully attached and the name A. N. Nelson can be faintly read at the top. There are a few words underneath that look to be 301st section but they are considerably more faint. The whole book is in good condition. Background: USS Birmingham CS-2/CL-2 named for the city of Birmingham Alabama was a Chester-class scout cruiser reclassified a light cruiser in 1920. Entering service in 1908 the ship became known for the first airplane takeoff from a ship in history in 1910. During World War I Birmingham escorted convoys across the Atlantic. The cruiser was decommissioned in 1923 and sold for scrap in 1930. Following America's entrance into World War I Birmingham patrolled along the northeast U.S. coast until 14 June 1917 when she sailed from New York as part of the escort for the first US troop convoy to France. After returning to New York she was fitted for service in Europe and in August reported to Gibraltar as flagship for Rear Admiral A. P. Niblack Commander US Forces Gibraltar. She escorted convoys between Gibraltar the British Isles and France until the Armistice. After a short cruise in the eastern Mediterranean she returned to the United States in January 1919. From July 1919 to May 1922 she was based at San Diego California as flagship of Destroyer Squadrons Pacific Fleet and then moved to Balboa Canal Zone as flagship of the Special Service Squadron. After cruising along the Central American and northern South American coast she returned to Philadelphia and was decommissioned there on 1 December 1923 being sold for scrap on 13 May 1930. Commanders: Franck Taylor Evans: 28 April 1919 November 1919; George Bertram Landenberger: 1920 onwards.; Manuscript; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF A.N. NELSON U.S.S. BIRMINGHAM FLAGSHIP PACIFIC FLEET DESTROYER SQUADRON POST-WORLD WAR 1 AMERICA BOSTON TO CALIFORNIA BALBOA PANAMA CANAL SAN DIEGO HARBOR LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA PORTLAND OREGON COLUMBIA RIVER PEARL HARBOR HAWAII KILAUEA VOLCANO CS-2 CL-2 MT. VERNON POST WORLD WAR 1 NAVY CHESTER-CLASS SCOUT CRUISER AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL AMERICANA ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO DANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 0009029
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LORAN COOLIDGE
1954 - 1955 TWO 2 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN LOGBOOKS AND JOURNALS OF THE CAPTAIN OF A HIRED FREIGHTER IN ALASKA FIGHTING DANGEROUS WEATHER BEING ARRESTED AND ENDURING MONTHS OF BLOOD SWEAT AND MISERY
RED DEVIL MINE BETHEL ALASKA AL KUSKOKWIM RIVER. Good. 1954. On offer are two 2 logbooks of the Freighter Cinnabar plying its trade along the Kuskokwim River Alaska in 1954 and 1955 describing two separate trips taken by Captain Loran Coolidge a ship captain for hire. They are two trips to Alaska the first from Seattle to the Red Devil Mine in Sleemute Alaska and the second to and from Ivanof Bay. The second journal 1955 goes smoothly and comfortably for Coolidge transferring cargo to and from canneries in Alaska. The first journal is of a harrowing horrible and miserable trip from Seattle up to Bethel Alaska and back and forth from the Red Devil Mine. The Freighter Cinnabar is besot with constant horrible weather dangerous conditions and weeks of sleepless and uncomfortable nights. It even ends with Captain Coolidge being arrested for operating without a license that the company he is working for was supposed to obtain. It is an extraordinary document of human resistance to the elements and the toll it takes on the life of this poor Captain. The first log book begins: April 12 1944. Harry Sherman Decoursey Mt. Mining Co. representative in Seattle contacts me to take job of managing and navigating and engineering Tanker Freight barge Cinnabar from Seattle to the mercury mine at Sleetmute on the Kuskokwim River in Alaska. The self propelled barge was to be built by Central Sheet Metal Co. of Seattle at Maritime Ship yd. On the Lake Wash. Ship Canal. For two weeks I pondered the prospect. Considering the distance of the voyage all the conditions involved to get there. Stats of Cinnabar.: 64.6 hull depth 11 feet Beam 23 feet. Steel welded construction Deck House steel aft engine: 165 HP GMC diesel; simple semi tunnel hull. Speed: unhindered 6 knots. The rest of the book is a fairly matter-of-fact log book detailing all actions taken at specific times of each day. For the log on July 19 1954 the day of departure from Seattle the log reads like such: 1215 - start engine; 1220 - Proceed to Lk. Union to take compass adjuster aboard; 1255 - Secure at Lk. Standard Oil Dk.; 1315 - Mr. Kaufman compass adjuster comes aboard. Mounts compass. Compass avast wheel man. Must steer reversed courses; 1325 - L.V. for swing. Having considerable difficulty compensating compass; 1450 - Complete swing. Go to Stand. Oil. Lk. Union; 1500 - Permanently mountain compass and magnets; 1525 - Lv. stand Oil. Lk. Union; 1600 - SEcure at Stand. Oil Ballard; 1700 - Secure at Maritime Shp. yd. Hang fire fighting equipment; 2200 - Complete hanging fire fighting equipment. There are also additional details on the page: Loran Coolidge Capt; Thomas Smith Mate 2 man crew. The ship also contains 15 tons unslaked lime; 300 carbide cans; 19 ton International bulldozer w/ blade; Lime in forward cargo tanks; Tractor over after cargo tanks. The next day the ship leaves for Alaska. Each day contains two pages. The left side of each page contains the strict ship logs while the right is reserved for more casual remarks such as Mama & kiddies Lilly and Po to see us off Running 1000 R.P.M. must repair leak in F.W. cooling system Black night. Nearly run down by Halibut schooner Roughest I have seen it in Queen Charlotte. Really tough and many other remarks on the weather the things needed to fix on the ship direction of the ship and other observations from Coolidge. The weather especially provides much trouble: Weather report is that SE winds of 30 MPH will continue tomorrow. Plan to angle into Icy Bay and have some rest. This would kill the average sailor. Need at least 2 more men for wheel turn. In another entry he writes Take beating from this SE 40 knots solid water over the top of wheelhouse. Later: Marker buoy dragged its anchor and is lost. Life ring and lamp. Prepare to abandon ship if necessary. Howling gale and vicious sea. Dont know our position. Dont know how far we drifted while jogging. No contact during the night so must speculate sas to position. Constant danger of striking on shallow bars. This trip is the most vicious Ive made to Alaska in 20 yrs. Finally after weeks of awful and harrowing weather they reach Bethel Alaska a town near the start of the Kuskokwim River where they finally get some rest for a night. Three more people join on the boat: Claude Swan Capt. Peterson and Charles Owen. The weather subsides for the most part and the boat reaches the Red Devil mine at the end of August. The log book only continues for another 9 days. Coolidge describes his daily tasks on the ship while it is in the mine. He drops off the cargo they brought to the mine and takes on 24000 gals. Diesel 9 drums wh. Gas 67 drums full on deck. The freighter mostly carries cargo from the mine up and down the river. On September 9th the log book reads: This log is incomplete because it was copied from Pilot House log hurriedly on last day at the Mine and the airplane to take Tom Smith and me to Anchorage came 4 hours early. However after a few blank pages the logbook reads: Made 4 round trips Bethel to Red Devil Mine 230 miles up Kuskokwim River after initial trip on 27 28 29 30 Sept 54. Secure At Mine Oct. 6 last trip in Fairbanks for hearing. Complete security equipment for Winter by 12th Oct. Haul Barge Cinnabar out of river. I put in shift. Smith & I fly to Anchorage on 14th Oct. Seattle 15th. H.C. Hanson Naval Architect calls Oct. 20 and tells me mine production buildings at Red Devil North Sleet mate Mine burned to the ground last night of 19th Oct. There goes the whole summer of blood sweat and misery. Im arrested by Deputy Marshall Geo. Cuilshed for operating barge on river without certificate of final inspection by the U.S. Coast Guard. This was determined by the US District Attorney to be a responsibility of the Mine Co. and the charges against me were dropped. I was taken to Fed. Jail at Fairbanks; mugged finger-printed and spent time from Sat. aft. 1500 hrs to Monday 1000 hrs. Because govt offices were closed on Sat. when we arrived Fairbanks and Guilsher was unable to get me off on own recognizance as he had planned - L. J. Coolidge. There are a couple of log entries at the very end of the book. These are written by the first mate Ian Smith. October 1st reads Capt. Loren Coolidge was arrested on 9-30-1954 at about 1945 by the U.S. Marshall at Bethel. He and the Marshall accompanied by Boby Lyman went to Fairbanks this date for hearing. I Ian Smith will take vessel to Red Devil mine or until Capt. Coolidge returns from Fairbanks and resumes his command. The second book is the same engineer this time working on the steamer General Pershing. The layout of the logbook is the very same as the previous book. The logbook is of another trip in Alaska. Coolidge does not state who he is working for or who owns the General Pershing though there are mentions of a cannery in Ivanof Bay that the ship goes back to often that might be the employer. The first part is from Cordova to Ivanof Bay. In Ivanof Bay the ships drops off fish and takes on cargo of ice and gas from a cannery there. The ship goes on to Chignik then Fox Bay dropping off and taking on more cargo along the way at various canneries. The ship goes on to Vyok Bay where the steamer stops at a Herring Plant to unload its cargo. The ship stays in Vyok bay for a couple weeks the longest it stays in any place in the logbook. Finally the steamer heads to Kulukta Bay and the author states he has no more orders and the logbook ends. The first book has roughly 120 pages of writing and 30 or so pages of blank space. The second book is a bit smaller than the first and fully filled with about 120 or so pages of writing. Both books are easily readable in Coolidges pencil script and are both are in excellent structural shape.; Manuscript; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF LORAN COOLIDGE THOMAS SMITH TANKER FREIGHT BARGE CINNABAR SLEETMUTE KUSKOKWIM RIVER BETHEL RED DEVIL MINE CORDOVA IVANOF BAY CHIGNIK FOX BAY VYOK BAY KULUKTA BAY ALASKA MOUNTAIN MINING COMPANY MERCURY MINING IN ALASKA CARGO SHIP RIVER NAVIGATION GENERAL PERSHING AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL AMERICANA ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO DANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0009028
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THEODORE JANSEN, MATTHEW JANSEN
1905 SUPERB ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT RETROSPECTIVE JOURNAL OF THE DETAILED AND ENGROSSING BIOGRAPHY OF CIVIL WAR CAPTAIN MATTHEW JANSEN BY HIS LOVING BROTHER AND COMRADE IN ARMS WHO SERVED AND FOUGHT IN OVER 100 BATTLES AND SKIRMISHES WITH HIM
QUINCY ILLINOIS. Fair. 1919. On offer is a truly remarkable Civil War document: A deeply detailed and fascinating retrospective journal of Matthew Jansen Captain of the Union Army's 27th Illinois Regiment during the Civil War. It was handwritten in 1905 by one of Jansen's brothers Theodore who served alongside of him. It is over 60 over sized pages long and very densly filled with original content some of which was published in "The Biography and Reminiscences of Matthew Jansen 1905". The manuscript was oddly created; some portions in a cardboard folio some sewn and otherwise attached forming double sheets. The brittleness of the paper resulted in some loss to the edge and joins but since we received the item a master conservator has made repairs and stopped the losses. It gives significant first hand details about the life he lived and the many battles fought with the 27 Illinois Regiment. It begins the years before the War in Quincy Illinois where Jansen and his brother were from to the enlistment of Jansen as a private until 1865 all the way to fighting with General Sherman in Atlanta. It is an incredible piece of American history with in depth and vivid descriptions of battles fought lives lived and sights seen. Theodore writes lovingly and engrossingly about his brother constantly praising his skills and acumen in battle and in life. Much of the diary are the facts of battle but there are also passages that speak of why the brother's are fighting the war in the first place. They seem staunchly anti-slavery. Speaking on the Emancipation Proclamation the journal reads: "no thank God its dead yes slavery now from this day over is dead Lincoln's Proclamation killed it
one an undivided Democrat and Republican Volunteer Soldiers who are now going to give a backbone to the Emancipation Proclamation by going on Picket Guard
" There are also passages that describe in horrid detail the horrors of war death hunger and disease. There are harrowing passes of the suffering brought up all soldier civilian and even the horses during the bloodiest war in U.S. history. Here is a very small portion of what is in this incredible journal: "Kansas border ruffianism was republished daily and constantly inferred to either for or against both political parties until October 13th 1859 the great political orators Abraham Lincoln and Steven A Douglas arrived in Quincy and next day they engaged in a joint debate which attracted thousands of both parties from far and near and the amount of light their joint debate defused
subject was certainly of the greatest value to all who heard it understandingly as it clearly defined the position of the south and the north
Brother Matthew had the advantage of most young men of that age as his experience at the P House at Leavenworth Kansas had taught him many things
and when abruptly after the Lincoln and Douglas debate a polished club known as the 'Wide Awakers' was organized become one of the principal aids in formation and was thereafter elected by a large majority as its First Lieutenant
" The Wide Awakes was a teen and young adult organization cultivated by the Republican Party during the 1860 presidential election in the United States. "The Captain of this Wide Awake Company was Joshua R Wood son of Gov John Wood of Illinois a man of fine military training and almost daily did he drill his military company during the spring and summer of 1860
The election of Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency did not at all quite the public of the South nor a very large number of our people here in Quincy
" The Civil War begins shortly after: "three days later came the Proclamation of the President calling for Seventy Five thousand volunteer soldiers and at once the Old Mexican War hero Captain B.M. Prentiss of Quincy began the work of enrolling young able bodied men on that same Saturday afternoon
Thousands of people accompanied our march to the train and the city of Quincy seemed aflame with patriotism cheer after cheer was given for the first company of soldiers starting out for the war
" Matthew and his brother Theodor enlist as privates and are mustered into the 27th Illinois Regiment Company A. "we began our first march to Camp Butler
" Here the Regiment would be mustered into Federal Service on August 10 1861. "Captain Prentiss remarked It would be strange indeed if in a military company as large as this one or two cooks could not be found but remember boys that Uncle Sam is not running a hotel
at 6 o'clock awaking us for roll call and on looking Eastward the Ohio River disclosed to us the heavily timbered western front of Kentucky while directly westward across the broad expanse of the Mississippi River we could plainly see the Confederate Camp on Birds Point Missouri just established there with the intention of crossing over and fortifying Cairo Illinois had not our little army been sent here before they could do so
" And so begins the lead up to and the actual 'Battle of Belmont' in early November 1861 in Mississippi County Missouri. In addition to this being the Jansen Brother's first combat it was also the first combat test in the American Civil War for Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant the future Union Army General in Chief and eventual U.S. president." Jansen writes detailed and engrossingly of the battle and no action is taken without being remarked up: "we Plainly could see several large rebel flags floating over their camp and then out past our Picket Guards extended fully a mile up and down the river
At 9 o'clock the bugles sounded the Guard for both Camp and Picket guards as soldiers must not be allowed to stray away into the many saloons and other demoralizing places
Expedition to Cape Girardeau Missouri Regiment was sent out under command of Col Tilson on an expedition up the Mississippi River on the Steamer Alex Scott left Cairo at 6 AM passing the Rebel garrison on Birch Point which never as much as hailed us evidently under strict military orders as ourselves
arrived at P Landing on the Missouri Side disembarked and deployed as skirmishers hiding behind bushes rocks and trees and had not waited long before we heard approaching quite a body of rebel cavalry some 200 or more were allowed to come quite into our semi-circled net spread for their reception
they were disarmed and put on board the Alex Scott guards placed over them
shot being fired another complete surprise.these prisoners were also taken on board the Alex Scott
with these prisoners we decided our three days rations when it became supper time which was only appreciated by all these unfortunate confederate boys
" "Evacuation of Birds Point Missouri by the Confederates
Accordingly a reconnaissance from both above and below Birds Point that the enemy had departed and immediately General sent 8000 troops from Cairo to the place and also on the Kentucky side opposite of Cairo was placed of 5000 around Fort holt
Meanwhile twenty four gunboats and several monitors had been built at St Louis and were sent to Cairo was soon as complete
Commodore Foot in command of this naval squadron kindly insisted all the troops at Cairo Fort Holt and Birds Point to visit
"; "November 1st 1861 while on Picket Guard our boys spied a small white flag being waved across the Ohio River on the Kentucky side. they met a in Confederate uniform who proved to be a deserter from the rebel army at Columbus KY this deserter asked in broken english if any of their number could speak. Sherman requested to be taken to General Grant's headquarters. he was not tell why but insisted on seeing General Grant first
on being conducted to General Grant the remained there about half an hour when he emerged with one of our corporal with a written order from General Grant to be conducted to Capt Schmitts Company A 27th Illinois and then questioned more definitely
He stated his name was William Allie and he had deserted from the rebel army at Columbus Kentucky and now wanted to enlist in the Union Army and asked for the proper officer to administer the oath. This being down a uniform and rifle was furnished him
for at least ten days he would tell us anything about the rebel army at Columbus but simply said General Grant knows all and commanded me not to tell others for at least ten days
Comrade Allie proved to be a good soldier
" "Battle of Belmont Missouri. November 6th our entire brigade suddenly received marching orders
at 6 o'clc came the call in undertones Fall In and off we marched directly to the wharf where lay the Alex Scott
Col Buford saying twenty seven Illinois Rise! Fall in take arms shoulder arms prepare to load
Attention Battalion Soldiers we are about to attack the enemy your Colonel hopes that you have prepared your minds and hearts for the worst if this day slain in battle
now commend your souls to God because we are less than two miles from the enemy at Belmont
General Grant is our commander but the Lord of Hosts is our leader and our Guide
Battalion! Attention! Soldier Arms! Right Face! Forward March!
about half a mile from our landing a halt was ordered as it was still too dark to make the attack
we are commanded to crouch behind bushes to avoid being seen by their camp or picket guards. No our Colonel is in our midst and gives instructions to our captains to keep the men all together
Just at this moment on our right our battery of six cannons opens fire with shells.we now see the rebel guards retreating and though fleeing for their line we catch up with them and overtake them they throw away their guns and surrender
we can see the shells from our battery burst directly in their camp
between the line of battle and the rebel camp is a deep hollow of considerable width we rush down the sides and quickly cross and up the steep east side
are met with terrific rifle fire from the enemy who though taken on a surprise and had not even time to dress yet make a determined stand and load and fire as the fall back
hundreds of the rebel soldiers rush on board the boat to escape our rifle balls others unable to get aboard jump down the river banks and open fire
Col Buford mounted on his horse leads the charge and in about five minutes the batter is ours
Vast sheets of flame forth from the Confederate batteries
General Grant dashes forward with cigar in mouth and sword in hand calling out follow men brave boys we'll take those rebel batteries and down through the deep hobos and over to the other side we go. under General Logan is being charged by a larger rebel army camped below Belmont and soon our entire rear is threatened.despite all warnings our Brigade was at this time badly beaten. Now a large body of rebel Cavalry is seen approaching from the woods
" After the victory Grant ordered the camp set on fire. In the confusion and blinding smoke wounded Confederate soldiers in some of the tents were accidentally burned to death. This is referenced when Jansen writes "On Return to Cairo Illinois
the entire city was illuminated in honor of our little victory at Belmont." Stock is taken of the battle and specifically of the 27th Illinois: "of the entire company only William Allie the rebel deserter and Fred Worman slightly wounded our entire 27th Illinois had only 5 killed and 28 wounded of the entire brigade and cavalry killed 26 wounded 219 while some 65 men were missing
" "Battle of Stone River at Tennessee
Friday afternoon the onslaught of the confederate became simply furious and their attempt to break through our center where over three hundred cannons were massed the slaughter was awful again and again did these trusty brave men charge
terrible indeed was the slaughter for the space of three hours when at last darkness closed the scene it was quite evident to our commanding officers that they had exhausted their greatest strength in these successive charges and would now seek to retreat
the order came from General Sheridan's headquarters to double our picket line to guard against a surprise or night attack. The order fell upon the 27th Illinois and at once we moved from Company A filing to the right Captain Jansen was seeking to protect his men against the hundreds of minnie balls still flying from the rebel lines he placed a squad of ten men being in the darkness
" "Battle of Chickamauga Tennessee Our line of march extended along the Lookout Mountain chain for 4 miles
Meantime General N had been sent from Bridgeport Alabama to attack Braggs Army at Chattanooga from the north keeping the enemy busy while our army corps made this flank movement in the rear to draw the rebel army after us into the open Chickamauga valley where both armies would have an gun show
On Thursday Sept 17th our advance reached R Georgia within 30 miles of the rebel rear
Accordingly General Sheridan ordered Captain Jansen to take his reliable Company A and scant well and carefully along the river bank. We had not proceeded over half a mile when we heard splashing in the river and land talking of negroes nearer by. Our Corporal as usual several steps in advance carefully crept in the bushes to within forty or fifty feet and plainly saw a group of negro cooks engaged in cooking dinner or supper
the poor negro cooks some twenty in number were so badly frightened and surprised most of them turned almost white with fear
In the river battling some 75 or 100 rebel soldiers officers and all
too late their arms were in our possession and all they could do was to surrender in the nude condition
This company of high toned Georgia Soldiers had been sent out several miles in advance of the main rebel army to watch for the approaching Union Army but the day being warm they could not resist the temptation of a bath which of course led to their capture
Lieut V with about 25 of company A boys now took charge of these prisoners and conducted them to Sheridan's Headquarters
Next Day Friday Sept 18th our advance reached Ringgold Georgia and there met the enemy's heavy skirmish line soon our field artillery was brought forward and engaged the rebel artillery in duel which continued for hours. Now was begun the stubbornly contested Battle of Chickamauga which continued with unabated furry from Friday afternoon till Sunday night
On Monday Oct 10 our first Lieut Joseph Voelinger died from the effects of his wounds greatly lamented by his comrades and all the officers of the regiment.the boys would drink double quantities of Tennessee River Water with many of them becoming quite sick from its ill effects. Our poor horses starved to death by hundreds
their emaciated bodies swaying to and from for hours
Despite these sad surroundings and the fierce bombardment from Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge our brave boys generally sought to amuse one another in various ways
Arrival of Shipment from Vicksburg
the advance of Sherman's army arrived from Vicksburg Mississippi and crossing the Tennessee river immediately behind us at once took position on our left
The coldest day was January 1st 1864 when seven of our picket guard were found frozen to death scant clothing only half rations for several months had greatly us all
" "Atlanta Campaign or Sherman's march through Georgia
The deadly carnage followed the onslaught of a great army under General WT Sherman of more than 100000 soldiers and the rich army of fully equal in numbers under the campaign of General Joseph Johnston
fought the battle of Dalton Big Shanty Kennesaw Peachtree Creek and Atlanta each of these were genuine battles in which hundreds yes thousands were slain
Right manfully did the confederate army contend with us every step of our advance to the Chattahoochee River but our right and left flanks were under the able management of General Kilpatrick and General Stoneman compelled the enemy to fall back or be captured
On leaving the city of Atlanta the force battle of Peachtree Creek occurred
made one more desperate move to break our army in two since Thursday June 21st our Captain Jansen had been acting Commander in place of Col Schmitt who was overcome by the intense heat and was the commander of the 27th Illinois Regiment at the Battle of Peachtree Creek ten miles north of Atlanta. The great fight began at 2 o'clock the 27th Illinois was the first to cross the long covered bridge spanning the deep creek
which at once gave rise to our suspicion that the enemy had set a trap for us. Soon as our regiment crossed Captain Jansen gave orders to deploy as skirmishers and filed to the right closely followed by the 22nd 42nd and 51st Illinois
we heard the Rebel Yell making the full bayonet charge. Instantly Captain Jansen commanded lie down and the advancing rebel columns were met with
still on they came charging and yelling determined to drive us into Peach Tree Creek
Our losses were also great
" "Bombardment of Atlanta.Active preparations for the destruction of the rebel stronghold
before a single shot from our heavy ordnance was fired into the great city full of non-combatants helpless women and children the aged and feeble and ever considerate human commander in chief General Sherman sent notice to General Johnston commander of the confederate evacuate all non combatants in 10 days offering free transportation to all desiring to go north but these offered at first were rejected
This order from General Sherman brought the desired result and in short notice and in a day or two our railway trains became quite busy carrying these unfortunate families northward
Bombardment did not begin until Tuesday August 6th 1864 when suddenly after sunrise our four hundred cannon hurled their missiles of death into the doomed city
charge after charge with bayonets was made unto our line with determination to dislodge us only to be repulsed with terrible slaughter. Meanwhile the enemy flanks were driven back and communication with his interrupted heavy explosions of their magazines could be distinctly heard followed by immense balloon like clouds of smoke as the result of our vigorous bombardment and on September 4th the order was given for our general advance over the rebel works into Atlanta we met with only slight resistance as most of the rebel army had fallen back to Jonesboro Georgia
Soon we marched to the W and A Depot and running northward now had a better view of the many battlefields on which we had contended with the rebel hosts
had lost so many of our comrades whose graves were now covered with reminders of the awful battle." Background: Matthew Jansen and his brother enlisted on August 20th 1861. Theodore was commissioned as a corporal and Matthew as a 1st sergeant in the 27th IL Co. A. The promotion would not be the last. Theodore was promoted to sergeant while Matthew rose in the ranks to captain by April 16 1862. Together they fought in over 17 battles and 100 skirmishes. The 27th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The 27th Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Butler Illinois and mustered into Federal service 10 August 1861. The regiment fought in the Battles of Belmont Missouri Island No. 10 Corinth Farmington LaVerne Stone's River and the Tullahoma Campaign; at Chickamauga the Battles for Chattanooga the Relief of Knoxville and in the Atlanta Campaign including the Battles of Buzzards Roost New Hope Church and Kennesaw Mountain where the 27th Illinois spearheaded the uphill assault. Pulled out of the line at Atlanta 24 August 1864 the regiment was sent via Nashville to Springfield Illinois where 20 September 1864 it was mustered out. However 90 reenlistees most reenlisted 1 January 1864 at Blain's Cross Road today Blaine Tennessee of the 27th Illinois Infantry were kept together at Atlanta as the 27th Illinois Veteran Detachment under the command of Capt. William B. Young 1st Lt. Isreal Heaps adjutant and were attached for logistic purposes to the 79th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment as Company I. Armed with 20 new Henry repeating rifles the 27th Illinois Veteran Detachment distinguished itself at the Battles of Spring Hill Franklin Heaps was captured in the debacle of Wagner's Advance Line and Nashville Young was killed in the impromptu and successful IV Corps charge up Overton Hill. The 27th Illinois Veteran Detachment was disbanded 26 May 1865 with its survivors assigned to Company G 9th Illinois Consolidated Mounted Infantry essentially dragoons. A few of the 27th Illinois Veterans elected to remain with the 79th Illinois Infantry. Most were discharged in June 1865.; Manuscript; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF THEODORE JANSEN MATTHEW JANSEN RETROSPECTIVE BIOGRAPHY CIVIL WAR ERA UNION ARMY CAPTAIN 27TH ILLINOIS REGIMENT COMPANY A QUINCY ILLINOIS GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT GENERAL WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN MARCH TO ATLANTA CIVIL WAR ATLANTA CAMPAIGN ILLINOIS DURING THE CIVIL WAR WIDE AWAKES JOSHUA R. WOOD CAPTAIN B.M. PRENTISS BATTLE OF BELMONT BIRD'S POINT MISSOURI CAIRO ILLINOIS BATTLE OF STONE RIVER TENNESSEE BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA CIVIL WAR IN GEORGIA BOMBARDMENT OF ATLANTA BATTLE OF KENNESAW MOUNTAIN LIEUTENANT JOSEPH VOELLINGER BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR UNION OFFICER BIOGRAPHY HORRORS OF WAR ILLINOIS HISTORY AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL AMERICANA ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 0009030
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ANNA P HASTINGS
1932 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DIARY OF A YOUNG WOMANS TRIP FROM COAST TO COAST ON A GREYHOUND BUS SEEING SIGHTS VISITING FRIENDS AND LIVING LEISURELY IN GREAT DEPRESSION ERA AMERICA
WALTHAM MASSACHUSETTS MA LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA CA. Good. 1932. On offer is the 1932 travel journal kept by Anna P. Hastings a young woman travelling by Greyhound bus across the United States to tourist spots and friends homes along the way. Beginning in her home town of Waltham Massachusetts Hastings travels to California and then all the way back.This very scarce first person account of an early Greyhound cross country trip covers a mostly pleasant ride in the era before the Eisenhower Interstate System however there are times where Hastings is obviously unhappy and disappointed with the trip though they are few and far between. Along the route she stops at National Parks museums Indian Reservations roadside stops and stands but most often at the homes of friends. It may be that Hastings had once lived in Southern California as she seems to have many friends and acquaintances that she meets and stay with in Los Angeles San Francisco Berkeley and Davis California. The journal begins on June 3rd 1932. She writes Left Waltham at 11:30. Went thru beautiful country Springfield to Leonx and Dalton and Pittsfield. The streams seemed very low but the gardens and laurels were beautiful and green. Think I drove all night when I wasnt watching the stars come out. We are in Albany at one oclock then had with in Syracuse and dint stop till we got to Buffalo.; June 6 Mon. Saw acres and acres of corn and wheat growing. Coming into St. Louis we crossed the Mississippi on a very long bridge. Had a very nice diner in Ellington Ill. Had supper in station at St. Louis. Arrived at 5.15and had to wait for bus to take us on our way to Kansas City. The natives say summer has just arrived here and it is hot.; June 7 Tues. Saw miles of wide open spaces. had breakfast at the Pickwick dinner in Junction City and super in Ellis. Never felt more dirty in my life. Nothing much to see but cattle and horses and mile & mile of grain fields with once in while a village with good looking school house and churches. On the way to California Hastings comments often on the scenery and the things she sees out the window. She especially likes the landscape and scenery of the Southwest. The bus even stops at the Grand Canyon which she describes as so vast and so wonderful it seems to get you more and more as you look at it and realize it has taken millions of years to create. On June 10th a week after leaving Waltham Hastings arrives in Hollywood California and stays with her friend Miriam for a month and a half. At Miriams she sees a number of movies goes shopping with Myra Hastings bus companion and Miriam and visits the Forest Lawn Memorial Park where she sees the finest collection of statuary in the country and a stained glass window of The Last Supper I think I shall never forget. It was the most beautiful thing of its kind I ever saw. For the time at Miriams Hastings spends her time in leisure waking late enjoying the beautiful weather and visits various touristy spots including Laurel Canyon and the Huntington Memorial Library. A typical day in L.A. reads like this: July 14 Thurs. It seemed as if the sky was never more clear and blue. We left about ten oclock and drove to the San Juan Capistrano Mission arriving at noon. A guide took us there and told us how it was built in 1774 and the church was destroyed in an earthquake in 1812. The chapel was rebuilt and services have been held for 154 years. We drove home by the shore road about 190 miles in all. On July 30 the 1932 Summer Olympics Games of the X Olympiad begin in Los Angeles with a very impressive ceremony. We read about it in the papers. In early August Hastings travels up to her friend Alinas house in San Francisco. This is just for a few days and after less than a week in San Francisco she returns to Miriams. A week at Miriams and then she goes to Berkeley to stay with her friend Sadie. Aug. 2 Sn. We slept later than we intended to and got thru breakfast a little after ten. June took Sadie Alina Margaret me to Antioch where we looked up Caddies oldest sons Henry & his wife. He was very glad to see us & told us his son Harry was on a trip around the world on the S. S. President Pierce and would be in port in Boston in Nov. His next port of call for mail will be Alexandria Egypt. From Berkeley Hastings goes to a friends Edmund home in Davis then she begins a trip back home. August 30 Tues. Arrived in Chicago after riding all night and were advised to spend the night. We decided to go on to Indianapolis. After supper we left for Indianapolis arriving at 2.30. Changed busses left at 3 AM for Columbus. We were late leaving missed the bus at 11.58. Had dinner then got the bus out after 5. It was a lovely ride over hill and dale past fine farming country full of fruit and grain. The trip home is a bit longer as she stays with a friend Edith in Wheeling Illinois spending much of the time talking and resting. After a week with Edith Hastings finally leaves to go back home for good. On September 9th more than three months after leaving she arrives back in Waltham. Left N.Y. at ten oclock and after many delays that seemed terrible long we arrived in Waltham and at about eight-thirty. Everybody seemed very glad to see us. Margarete phoned to Allan and he came right up and took us home. Talked awhile then took a bath and went to bed. 11 PM seemed too good to get into my own bed once more. Came home by way of Springfield Worcester Marlboro Dudley and Wayland to Waltham. Finally there are 4 pages of Cash Accounts where Hastings has written down the item purchased the date of its purchase and the cost. Her ticket across the country and back cost her $108.3. In total she spent more than $200 on her trip over the course of 3 months a very significant amount in the midst of the Great Depression. There are also 15 pages of names and addresses of friends and family mostly from Massachusetts. The diary is filled with approx 100 double sided pages full of material and each entry is fully filled out in Hastings easily read script. The writing is in pencil and is once or twice smudged but the overwhelming majority of the book is very legible. The cover shows some wear but is still in very good shape and has the word TRAVELS embossed in gold. Structurally the book is in excellent shape. It also contains a little holder with a pencil in it possibly the one Hastings used though that cannot be confirmed.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS:HISTORY OF ANNA P. HASTINGS GREYHOUND BUS TRAVEL ACROSS THE UNITED STATES PRE EISENHOWER INTERSTATE SYSTEM WALTHAM MASSACHUSETTS LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO BERKELEY DAVIS ANTIOCH CALIFORNIA YOUNG WOMAN TRAVELING FEMINISM WOMEN'S INDEPENDENCE 1932 LOS ANGELES OLYMPICS X OLYMPIAD WOMEN DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION INTERWAR PERIOD IN AMERICA HISTORY OF TRAVEL WOMENS LEISURE AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO DANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0009031
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SALON C CURRIER
1865 UNIQUE FASCINATING ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DIARY BY AN AMERICAN LAYING LOW IN SOUTH AMERICA LIVING A LONELY BUT RUSTIC COWBOY LIFESTYLE IN THE RURAL ARGENTINA MOUNTAINS
BANTON VERMONT VA BUENOS AIRES ARGENTINA. Good. 1865. On offer is a fascinating and unusual diary written by Salon C. Currier of Banton Vermont written towards the end of the Civil War. Currier is an American who travels from Vermont to Argentina to become a cowboy of sorts. Instead of cattle in the United States he herds sheep in Argentina. He documents his entire experience from his first experiences aboard the steamship heading to the new country to his days of work in Argentina. All is documented in great detail. There is also a very strong sense from portions of his diary that Currier did not leave the United States fully voluntarily that he is most probably fleeing something from his past though he never states what that is. The inside cover of the diary reads Book Bought of Miron Joslyn Nov. 30th 1864. The last night in Boston. Bound for Buenos Aires South America. The diary begins The diary begins Dec 3 1864. These entries are located in the Memoranda section of the diary after the main diary entries and are short and concise. They begin with Currier getting onboard the steamboat: Dec. 3 1864. Went onboard the ship tonight at 4 OClock. Eat supper at 5 OClock. The steamboat is called the "Saint Dominique" and is commanded by Capt. D Gerrior. It takes him almost two months to reach Argentina. Sunday January 1 1865. We were within 8 degrees of the Equator it would be impossible to count the number of showers we had through the day besides a gail and a hard one to.I think that this is a beginning a new year under difficulties. We could not stay on deck nor in the cabin it was a lonesome day at 4 o'clock a norther calm I guess we shall have to spend the winter here. And quite different from Vermont you may tell rested very well The Chinese say Bad Beginning makes a good ending they say. He has some sort of run in with the Capt. and holds him in contempt for the entire journey. He states. I will have words with the Capt. as soon as we land in South America.; January 10 1865. There was a heavy swell today the old ship rolled so I did not sleep one night. This is the hottest day we have seen. There was a great excitement onboard. We had a pie for supper it made me dream of home. I wish some of the folks of Banton were here to experience the living we have. I found only four hairs in my pie.It was splendid I never hated a man quite so bad as I do the Capt. I think he will get some of my mind when we land. Currier spends much of the time on the boat very wistful about Vermont and his abrupt departure from Banton. At the end of January he arrives in Buenos Aires. Jan 25 1865. I stayed at Miss Brodleys Boarding House in the city of Buenos Aires South America and rested the best ill have since I left Boston. I have been traveling over the city some have been up to the depot and seen the cars.They look odd and strange to me I have run over the city until I am tired all out. It is hot enough to roast eggs in the sun. Today I have seen all of the city I want at present I want a change now. They are about 100 years behind the times in my notion. How I wish I could speak Spanish I should be perfectly happy. When he arrives in Buenos Aires he is met by a gentleman Mr. Mellion who is some sort of middleman or fixer for a Sheep herding operation. Jan 30 1865. Well this is my birthday & I wish I could spend it in my native state. We road out a little ways & it has made me awful lone you may bet it was a hard horse to ride. I wish I was 10 years younger than I am but that cannot be. I hope that when the day comes gain I shall feel better comfort than I am today. If I live to see it & I hope I shall not have to see more than two of them in this country. It is not very warm today rather pleasant of the two. Mr. Mellion came today & he looked comical & rough. One can hardly keep from laughing in his face. After preparing and resting in the city he is prepared for his profession and the adventure continues. He sets out with other North Americans by horseback and they ride to a fairly remote part of Argentina. Along the way he buys his own horse with gold and they ride many miles camp in old battle fields filled with cannon balls. Feb 31865. I bought a horse this morning for 12 dollars in gold the first one I ever owned. he is a good one to ride him out to the camp we are going to is a rather pretty place. I had a nice ride and made the acquaintance of Mr. Frank Danver he is a smart looking fellow I like him very well what I have seen of him. My horse has got a very easy gallop for me I hope he will be a good one. His first few months in Argentina are very difficult for Currier. A typical entry reads something like this: Feb 24 1865. I got up as soon as there was any day light & started with the sheep without any breakfast & my jaw was lame I could not eat much all day. So I started not in the best of spirits that I ever was. We got the sheep down to the river at sunrise & then we had trouble getting them across the river. We worked hard until noon before we got across with all the help we could get. We stopped at a natives house at 1 oclock to get some meat to eat it was strong and tough. I drank water that the folks at home would not wash their hands in it was so nasty. This was the longest day in my life I have ever seen.; March 6 1865. We work on the well today and putting on the finishing touch it is awful hot today. I carried my dirty clothes to the wash woman today for the first time since I left home and they were dirty to. I am so sick and through with this life that is so.I wish i was in tiger places about now and going home. Money is of no merit. At one point he and his companions even have their horses stolen: March 19 1865. Well we cant find the horses that aint the worst of it for I guess they are gone for good. But such is life that is one of the customs of the county to have horses stolen from you. It is clouding up and its going to rain. The bricks have arrived for the house & I am glad. We had some potatoes for the first time in camp and they were good.You may bet after living so long without them. I wish I was in Benton so i could go to church for that is a privilege i have not had since I left home. He often writes about loneliness and missing a young lady. He also gets word of some major events of the civil war and comments on the death of President Lincoln: There has been two English gentleman here today and they were warmly received. They brought us news that Charleston S.C. was taken by the North. Our feelings can hardly be imagined than described. We gave three loud cheers for the Union. Such news as this set me to thinking about going home rather than looking after sheep. He fills the page with his thoughts on Argentina his inability to speak Spanish cultural misunderstandings and much more. Eventually he settles into a rhythm and life becomes easier for him it seems. June 14 1865. This is another fine day in So. America. The flock has been very quiet all day and I am very thankful for it. I comment a letter for home today. It does not seem as if I could wait another week before I can have a letter. I was over to Mr. Melliions place today he has comment on his after so long a time. We had a great time tonight trying to catch the cow. I thought we never should ge her but we did after a long time and got some milk for supper and it paid us well for our trouble. Such is life.; Nov 10 1865. This is a little cooler morning than usual. Olsen is a looking after the flock and horses today and he says he shall have a man as soon as possible. I thought one day would bring him to getting someone soon For I am not going to look after sheep for a living out here for I can do better. Finally near the end of the year Currier prepares to go back home. Dec 201865. Well I called on the American Consul this morning Mr.Helper - and found him to be a very pleasant man to meet with. I had a good visit with him and met two gentlemen just out from the States and they are very pleasant to meet and asked me to their rooms to give a good description of camp life but they do not seem to like it much and seem to be anxious to get home. I am the happiest mortal on earth they have seen. Finally he leaves back for America on December 31st. We commence sailing at 4 oclock this morning homeward bound and at the same time bidding good bye to the old year. What changes have been made in this world to many a mortals life and soul during that short space of time. It seems like a dream to look back upon ones life. How I wish I could be home tomorrow to wish them all a Happy New Year but I hope to be soon at least. I have been reading all day on deck we have been sailing 6- 8 knots an hour and it makes us all pleasant to say the least. There are over 350 pages of writing in the diary. Currier writes in pencil and often in small script but the book is often very legible. There are frequent spelling mistakes on most pages but they are not hard to look past. The cover is black and worn and has a large tear.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS:HISTORY OF SALON C. CURRIER BANTON VERMONT BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS BUENOS AIRES ARGENTINA AMERICAN GAUCHO COWBOY AMERICAN IN SOUTH AMERICA ON THE LAMB LAYING LOW STEAMBOAT SAINT DOMINIQUE CAPTAIN D. GERRIOR CIVIL WAR ERA 19TH CENTURY EXPATRIATE SHEEP HERDING AMERICAN ABROAD RURAL ARGENTINA 1865 IN ARGENTINA POST-COLONIAL SOUTH AMERICA AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO DANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 0009032
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SANDY GRANT
1947 UNIQUE TRAVEL DIARY OF SANDY GRANT A DANCER AND ENTERTAINER WITH THE USO STAGING OVER 70 SHOWS IN JAPAN AND KOREA AND METICULOUSLY DOCUMENTING HER LIFE TRAVELING AND PERFORMING FOR THE TROOPS STATIONED OVERSEAS
TOKYO KOBE GIFU JAPAN SEOUL SOUTH KOREA. Good. 1947. On offer is a super relic of a fantastic and unique part of a United States soldier's military experience. This is the diary of a woman who traveled with an entertainment group on tours with the United Service Organization USO. The woman's name is Sandy Grant and the group she traveled with was called the "Rhythm Rockets." She performed ballet along with other forms of dancing and her diary tells all about her trip with the Rockets to Japan in 1947. The tour lasts 5 months and they perform over 70 shows. The diary has about 120 pages and 70 of those are diary entries. The rest are itinerary items purchased remarks on the customs of Japan autographs and much more. Sandy's entries are fascinating. She talks of all the many different military bases and theatres they performed at the unique and strange customs and culture of Japan and times meeting dining and seeing several different high-ranking Officers including Five-Star General and Field Marshall Douglas MacArthur. She even writes of flying on the same plane as Shirley Temple whom she refers to as "The Little Colonel." Her trip begins in the July 1947 where she leaves her home in Hoboken New Jersey taking the train west to California then boarding a plane to Hawaii and then on to Japan. Her entries are brief on the way over but get very detailed while in Asia and also detailed while sailing home on board the "Admiral Mayo" returning home after a 5 month tour. "July 20th Midnight in Reno Nevada. Wild open town. Lights galore. Very spectacular. Left 10 minutes later. California July 21st. Arrive Suisan. Fairfield Cal. 6 A.M. Waited 3 hrs. for Army Transportation to be Billeted. Processing all day. Sent 2 wires and cards."; "July 22nd. Did one show at the Suisun Fairfield Army Air Base. Went Beautifully." On July 29th the day she leaves for Japan she is meticulous with her itinerary the miles between cities and the time taken to get to each place: "July 29. Left Fairfield - Suisun. C-54 Plane California to Japan - Flew to Honolulu to Jalusta Island - to Kwajalein to Guam to Iwo Jima to Tokyo."; "August 2nd Met bus from airport. To terminal. Checked in with U. S. O. Went straight to Meiji Mee Gee Hotel. Met by Don Brynes and Norman Lessman and Miss Swanson. Showed us to the dining room immediately. To our rooms 509. Showers. Small table bed. Bar in hotel. Met other units Merle Andre Vesper and gang."; "August 4th First Show. Work tonight. First theatre date. Report. 1st show 8th Cavalry 2nd Squadron. Show excellent."; "August 5th 2nd show. Tech. Intelligence Detachment."; "August 13th. Gifu Japan. Wonderful resort place. Show tonight. No. 6. Took lots of pictures. Dining room and bar excellent. Scenery gorgeous"; "August 14th. Night fishing. Fascinating. Cormorant's birds. Bought souvenirs and postcards up the river." From August 15th to the 21st she is doing shows in Tsu and Kyoto. One of them is even a boat show. The tour keeps moving all around Japan at a fairly rapid clip. "August 26th Kobe Japan. Shurakan Theatre No. 16"; "August 27th - 28th Swimming at the Shoija Officers Club. The residence of James English man. Gorgeous spot. Best I've seen so far. Salt water. Authentic Japanese gardens. Exquisite home and surroundings."; "August 29th - 31st Arrived in Tokyo after all night trip from Kobe. Heard the sad news that China may be off our itinerary. Hope not. 30th Tokyo Army Air Base Supply Base. Show tonight. Fucho Camp No. 18. E-N-C-O-H! Club. Japanese floor show. 8 girls and principals. Very interesting.31st Drake Theatre. 1st Cavalry No. 19. And Signal Corps. Buffet dinner and after show went to officers club. Beautiful place. Bought silk at their P.X. 6 yds. $1.25. 12 yds. $2.50. 16 weave. Saw Gen. MacArthur at the Dai-ichi Bldg. 5 star. 2:30 P.M. Great thrill. Gae Mac. and I. Also Gen. Miller 2 star general." She sums up September 1st thru the 11th on one page. She does "Shows No. 20 - 26" all of which occur in Toky. One day she goes with a friend to an "International Military Tribunal Far East Court" and see trials. "October 3rd Tokyo. Shopped. Pat's slippers few cig. Cases. Gae and Mac and I took a rickshaw ride to the Imperial Hotel. No show tonight. Wardrobe left behind on another plane." In October the show moves to Korea. "October 9th Enroute to Korea. Flight C-46 Plane. Up 4:45 A.M. Truck to A. T. C. Bust to Tachikawa 25 miles. Breakfast at airport. Left 10 A.M. Arrived 11:45 at Itami Air Base. Left Itami after 45 minutes refueling. Time 12:45 left. Gorgeous views of Mt. Fuji. Flew all around it. Scenery gorgeous. Fuji half snow capped. C-46 plane. 2 motor job. Landed 4:30 P.M. "Little Colonel" on flight with us. 5 hr. and 45 min. to complete flight. 1st appearance of J. O. B. Took party to Banto. Kimpo Air Field Korea. Kwang Ha Moon Hotel. Room 22. Will live here all month."; "October 10th & 11th Seoul Korea. Played 216. Colored audience. Very good date to play. 38 parallel called the iron curtain. Beautiful scenery up there. Red Cross girls with us. Log fire bar. Went to E.M. dance. Crisp Oct. day. Show tonight for 32nd infantry 3rd Div. #42."; "November 4th 8th Calvary #61. Repeat performance. This was our first date here. Next day party at Capt. and Mrs. Matthews's home Tokyo Japan Washington Heights. Largest dependent area in the world. Cocktails. Dinner and to Peer Club. Actual room the Pearl Harbor attack was planned and executed. Beautiful place. Major Snell Major Colonel and Mrs. Doyle Dar Swaney Mac and I. Great evening." Her birthday party on Nov. 7th. On the 12th they play a show at Haneda Airfield. Says it's the first show ever played there and the last. "December 4th Gae and I in town. Took pictures of MacArthur. Took rickshaw Sent cable to mother. Bought table clasher. Linen in Marunouchi Bldg. Took pictures at Imperial Hotel. Went to post office. Came back to hotel. Changed money from script to American money. Turned in ration cards. Jackie and Lucille's house. Ate spaghetti in Japanese home. Fruit. Train out and cab home." In early December she begins the journey back to the U.S. "December 7th Sailed this morning. Left Yokohama for Seattle. Admiral Mayo left this morning 8 A.M. The Yokohama M. P. Band played at pier to see our ship off. Strange to day should be Pearl Harbor day and we left Japan a few hrs. ago. Had breakfast drills for the boat. Had lunch and dinner on deck most of day. Saw movie "Desperate". Terrible picture but first day out nice and smooth. Hope it stays this way."; "December 14th 9th day at sea. Sunday breakfast 8:30 A.M. Church services 10 A.M. Communion. On deck. To lunch. On deck all afternoon. Weather gorgeous. Took a lot of pictures. Missed movie tonight. Walked deck. Al and Norm and I. Had grand dinner. Sat in room and talked. Ronnie Mae Gae Al Norm and I. To bed."; "December 16th Awake at 5:30 A.M. Breakfast at 7 A.M. On deck. Pitch black out. First glimpse of Seattle. Lit up like a xmas tree. Went thru routine work. Checking off boat. Band played. Rained all day. Thru customs. To New Richmond Hotel Room 711. Had late lunch at hotel 2:30 P.M. Called dad at 3:30 P.M. That's 6:30 Phila. time. Called Herb. Call incomplete until 1 A.M. his time. Al Gae and I stayed in Gal's room. Then to bed. Wire from dad." She boards a train that night for Philadelphia and in the next few days rides through Montana North and South Dakota Wisconsin Chicago and then comes home on the 21st just in time for Christmas. At the end of the book there are a dozen pages or so of 'Memos' in which Sandy has listed little observations Japanese phrases and things to know. "1/ Exchange of money ¥ Yen mark 1000 Yen for 20.00. 2/ People very humble. 3/ No automobiles. Travel on foot - Jam every subway car or train - Rickshaws every where.10/ Kyoto - Former Capital of Japan. Token name for Tokyo - Kyoto - twisted around." She does the same with Korea writing down little observations and common expressions. The diary is in fair shape. The cover has pulled away from the binding in the front. It measures about 4" x 7".; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF SANDY GRANT UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO RHYTHM ROCKETS POST WORLD WAR TWO JAPAN POST-WW2 KOREA U.S. MILITARY DEPLOYMENT ADMIRAL MAYO GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR SHIRLEY TEMPLE THE LITTLE COLONEL BALLET DANCER TOKYO KOBE JAPAN SEOUL SOUTH KOREA USO AFTER THE WAR MILITARY ENTERTAINMENT KWANG HA MOON HOTEL AMERICAN IN ASIA JAPANESE CULTURE AND CUSTOMS INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL FAR EAST COURT FIRST DECADE OF THE USO MORALE BOOSTER WOMEN IN THE USO WOMEN ENTERTAINERS AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO DANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 0009037
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CAPTAIN CHARLES SANDERSON
1919 ORIGINAL SUPERB DIARY OF THE LAST YEAR OF WORLD WAR 1 HANDWRITTEN BY THE ACTING CAPTAIN OF A MACHINE GUN CORPS COMPANY FIGHTING AND LIVING THROUGH THE LAST GASPS OF THE GERMAN ARMY IN NORTHERN FRANCE AND BELIGUM
NORD FRANCE FLANDERS YPRES LYS BELIGUM. Good. 1918. On offer is the exemplary and fascinating wartime diary of Lieutenant Charles Sanderson of the Machine Gun Corps of the British Army. The diary covers the entire year of 1918 the last of World War 1. Kept against orders it is very rare to find such a detailed diary outside the archives of the Imperial War Museum or regimental collections. Sanderson notes all the place names and identifies brigades so that it is possible to follow in detail the final stages of the war. In the beginning of the diary Sanderson is in Amiens France. "Wednesday January 1918. Went into Amiens by Lorry from D.H.Q. Arrived at 9.00am. Bought Christmas Dinner for Company. Stayed all night at the Hotel de L'Univers. Coy. relieved in line by 7th Coy." The diary entries are most often short and concise matter-of-fact jottings on what was done by his company that day and the movements of other companies and officers: "Received orders for Coy. to go into line tomorrow. Won 35 fr. at Bridge."; "Rode toward Bgde. 195 Coy. in morning to 200 Coy. A.S.C. in afternoon. Went to Benatre at night to fetch in broken down G.S. wagon belonging to Bgde. H.Q."; "Rest of Br. Transport turned up in late morning. Nothing doing all day."; "Marches from Bois de Courton at 4.00 am and arrive at Germaine about 9.0 am. Entrains at 5.30 pm and detrains at Fere en Champenois at 9.30 pm. Went in lorries to Bn. at Corroy." There are also numerous entries of the fighting around him and his company. "Heavy bombing again at night. Bombs all round us but nothing hit at all in our Brigade."; "Aeroplanes about again but no bombs dropped near us."; "Badly bombed at night. 199 Coy. A.S.C. lost all their horses." In March Sanderson has leave for two weeks. He travels back to London to be with his family. "March 1. Arrived Boulogne about 6.15am. Had breakfast at E.F.C. embarked 8.30 am. Rough passage. Arrived London 2.30 pm. Went to palladium at night with Uncle Laura."; "March 9. Played golf with Dad Upjohn and T. Roman. Went to Upjohn's afterwards to play cards"; "March 15. Crossed to france in afternoon and stayed the night at the Cafe de la Pork." He is back with his company by the 17th. His company then moves onto Bucquoy France then Bonneville then Armentieres in Flanders. Here they see combat. "April 8. Attack south of Armentieres began. Part of 74th Coy. went up at night. Rode over to Free's Cashier at Ravesburg in morning." This is the beginning of the "Battle of the Lys" also known as the Lys Offensive the Fourth Battle of Ypres the Fourth Battle of Flanders and Operation Georgette which would last from April 7 to the 29th. The month of April is filled with entries about this battle. "April 10. Still at Ravelsburg but expect to move at any time. Took ammunation up to Petite Monque Farm at night."; April 14. Moved from field near Berthen to Boechepe - Abelle Road. Mess in at Boechepe. Took rations up to Dranoutre but could ot find men."; "April 22. Walked over to R. E. Park and to 199 Coy. A.S.C. in afternoon. Played bridge in evening with Dr. and Aycock and won 5 fr."; April 26. Attacked in morning & retook Kemmel Hill. Had to come back on French did not move." April 30. Heavy bombardment during day but no infantry attacked." After the Battle Sanderson takes leave in Paris: "May 17. Still in Paris having a hell of a time. Bolam & Markielle returned in evening. Went to Casino de Paris but had to leave early as there was air raid warning." After Paris he returns to his company and the trials and tribulations of war return: "May 27. Bosche attack started at 10 am. Drove us back. Moved transport back to Bourancourt and then to Lonchery Roady & then to Grevy. Out all night. Looking for Br. H.Q. and rations." Boche is a French slang word for 'rascal' first applied to German soldiers during World War One "June 16. Italians came to reconnaitre line to relieve us tomorrow night night. Major Courtaullo came up to take Command of Coy." Much of the diary follows this pattern. There are long days of his company's movement going to where they are needed and there are days where attacks and battles are witnessed and fought. In between all the moving and fighting Sanderson has his leaves from the military. These passages are much more detailed and jubilant than all the others for obvious reason. Whether in line or on leave Sanderson is quite the gambler and many passages end with him playing poker and winning or losing money. As the war nears its end there are still occasional entries of battle. In the end of October and the early part of November the last weeks of the War Sanderson sees heavy fighting in Northern France and Beligum. "October 16. Did attack with 55th Div. not a big success and had lot of casualties. Stayed with S.A. Bgde. in tavern W. on Montay."; "October 17. Still in same place with guns gradually pushing forward."; October 23. Operated with 7th 75th Bgds. in attack east of Le Calean. Took L'Eveque Wood. Moved from Quenette Farm to Pommereuil in morning living with combined Bgde. H.Q."; "November 4. Started fresh attack from neighbourhood of Fontaine au Bois. All going well. Went up to take over 'C' Coy. after Lime was wounded. Move in evening from Le Fause.; "November 6. Advanced again with guns moving behind advanced guard. Moved up with 7th Bgde. in evening to Faisniere. Put 8 guns in outpost line in evening Rept. 8 in reserve in Dompiere." The war ends on November 11: "November 11. 'Cease Fire' went at 11.00 am. So nothing more done except 'Celebration.'' The rest of the diary is comprised of pretty short entries: of parades church salvage duty and other post-war activities. On December 31st he writes: "Very wet all day & nothing doing. Months leave approved by XIII Corps. Made money in the evening at bridge." After the diary entries there are a number of detailed pages of 'Cash Accounts" that show all the money Recieved from and Paid to throughout the year. The book is roughly 100 pages long with almost every single entry on every page written in. There is a green cloth cover and structurally the book is in very good shape. Sanderson writes in pen with no smudge marks and his handwriting is very easy to read. Included as well is thin blue "Army Book 439" which was issued to every combatant officer below the rank of Lieutannt-Colonel. It has much personal and military information of Sanderson including army courses taken service record promotions received 1st Lieutenant - June 1st 1917; Captain - May 29 1918 and an employment form for when discharged from the Machine Gun Corps. The book is also in very good condition and is 12 pages long.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF CAPTAIN CHARLES SANDERSON ACTING CAPTAIN LAST YEAR OF WW1 WORLD WAR ONE MACHINE GUN CORPS BRITISH M.G.C. BELGIUM NORD FRANCE BATTLE OF LYS FERE EN CHAMPENOIS ARMY BOOK 439 KEPT AGAINST ORDERS LYS OFFENSIVE FOURTH BATTLE OF YPRES FOURTH BATTLE OF FLANDERS OPERATION GEORGETTE END OF THE GREAT WAR NON COMMISSIONED OFFICER ARMISTICE DAY WRITTEN DEPICTIONS OF BATTLE BRITANNICA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO DANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 0009036
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REVEREND WILLIAM MONEY
1824 ORIGINAL TRAVEL DIARY KEPT BY A PROPER YOUNG ENGLISH GENTLEMAN ON AN EXTRAVAGANT DELUXE TRIP TO A NUMBER OF DUTCH CITIES LANDMARKS AND WATERWAYS
MANCHESTER UK ROTTERDAM HAGUE NETHERLANDS HOLLAND. Good. 1824. On offer is a short but fascinating travel book of one wealthy young Englishmans journey to Rotterdam and The Hague Holland in 1824. It is a unique and rare look at the travel of English aristocracy in the first half of the 19th century the last great age of the English landed gentry. The book is 30 pages in length of which writing is on every single page. Every page is filled with excursions observations and examples of lavish living for William Money his father and his cousin as they travel first to Rotterdam and then spend over a month in The Hague living at quite a fancy hotel exploring the city itself and taking day trips to landmarks around the country. The little book also includes descriptions of lavish dinners and days being waited on driven and doted on by servants and friends. It begins in the Summer 1824: June 25 1824. To commence my narrative I will give a short account of the two last days before our embarkation to Holland. I went to bed rather late on Sunday and was very tired. I had been running about Town the whole day had my teeth filed By the abominable dentist which is one of the Miserries of human life. My head was distracted in short I was a picture of misery.; June 26. The servants awoke me rather early this morning about five OClock however I was much refreshed and went to work like one who had done nothing but I forgot to state that I went to dine at a Gentlemans house on Friday and after all when I came home I had to prepare my things for Holland. Well to go on with my story we get off from No. 9 Manchester Street Manchester Square at 6 oclock this was Saturday morning June 26th 1824 our Party consisted of three my precious Father my cousin and myself. We had a gentleman's carriage to take us about town and a hackney coach to carry our luggage to the Tower that place which has executed French of the greatest and has been destroyed with Royal blood by the hoards of unnatural rebellion. The next day they are on a sailboat going from the East Coast of England and then landing in the Netherlands the next day: June 27th. Went on deck. I was expecting to see nothing but blue skies and the watery ocean but was pleasantly astonished at seeing land all around. This was lacey land I Know it by that name because the Dutch gobble so. We soon got into the river Maas after a fine voyage. We then eat our hearty breakfast.We here took up a pistol and tacked along at a fine rate saw plenty of Tony-legged bison which they called Storks. We got to Rotterdam at 12. From the instant of arrival Money is taken aback by how clean and orderly the Dutch cities are and how kind and lovely the Dutch people are as well. The layout of the cities with the canals and bridges also is commented on quite frequently. June 28th1824. We took Breakfast at Home. we went out with with and enjoyed the town. It is an elegant clean looking place. Trees shaded the walk from the burning sun and canals divide the Principal Streets. However we saw nothing no hous as they call it but came home to dinner at 4. Here we had a bottle of Mousel for dinner we went out again so that I was very tired we then came home and had tea at Mr. Mackplats where we had another Prayer and a delightful conversation. He accompanied us home where I soon got to bed and fast asleep.; After two days in Rotterdam it is off to the Hague where Money and his father and cousin will spend the rest of their time in Holland. Drove off to the Hague with which Place we are most highly delighted. I the beauty of it. It far surpassed my places that I have seen. We walked everywhere the People the PLace and all are so clean. We came to the Hotel de Belle where we have so very nice rooms that had attendance the man who drove us here cheated as that. We were not long here before . Of the gentleman who got these rooms for Papa he took us out to Table d`ote d`hotewhere we dined . This was 4 oclock and had an excellent dinner and a bottle of vin ordinaire called Bordeau.after dinner we went to Mr. Ls house to get him to show us the Place. He showed us everything in the wood.` The `wood` is most probably the Haagse Bos a rectangular neighbourhood and forest in the Haagse Hout district of The Hague Netherlands. This was simply called Die Hout The Woods Mr. L.made a capital bargain with the man only one Golden to go to that sweet Ducking Place the old man of the Place has fishing boats to go over to England for something or other. We came back after a good bathe.We then came home and prepared for dinner and went to Table Doht d`hote and after that we came back and then went to the Wood where we had tea.; After early June there are no entries until late July. July 23 1824. We got up at seven and had breakfast. We set off at 8 in a caravan with Mr. London and Mr. Tosc. We reached Leyden at 9 very much interested.We first went to the University where we saw all of plenty Indians what from all parts of the globe. We saw there a tree which was brought from Egypt in 1573 just about the time when Leyden was besieged. It was made a present by William the first and planted there
We then went to the museum and saw curious specimens of all types. Mr. London went to the Anatomy Hall to gut us to see a Head. He came back saying we could only see one which was most beautiful all the views of the Head Neck and parts of the body it was very interesting.; Money also has a deep regard for the engineering works of the day and has a special fascination for the canals and waterways of Holland. We had dinner and then went to to see the sluis the most Beautiful work I ever saw. It was begun in 1784 and finished in 1787. The whole country was inundated by the overflowing of the Bacchus of the Nile. It was like a sea but now these are houses where there was formerly nothing but water. This formed so when the sea is very boisterous there's a good deal of sand connected to the side of the gate so that it is had to clear away as it is on the sea side. The way they do it is the precipe overflows then they lift the gates all of a sudden which goes with such force that it forces the sand away.`` This is accompanied by a page-length drawing of the canal with it`s locks and steps and houses on each sides. The drawing is amateur but well done. The book is in very good shape structurally. The writing is clear and concise script done in black ink. A few pages have some smudging and one page in particular has a good bit of ink fading but which impedes legibility but does not make it impossible. The front cover of the journal states: `Short account of a holiday spent in The Hague by William Money later Rev. William in the summer of 1824 when he was 22 years old.` This is not in Money`s handwriting and was added later by an unknown person.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF REVEREND WILLIAM MONEY ENGLISH GENTLEMAN LANDED GENTRY 19TH CENTURY ROTTERDAM MANCHESTER ENGLAND UNITED KINGDOM THE HAGUE DEN HAAG DIE HOUT LEYDEN LEIDEN THE NETHERLANDS HOLLAND CANALS IN THE NETHERLANDS FLOOD CONTROL EXTRAVAGANT TRAVEL TABLE DHOTE SLUICE GATE AGE OF BRITISH NOBILITY COLONIAL ERA ENGLAND BRITANNICA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO DANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0009038
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JOHN WHEELER RUTLEDGE [to Julia Ann Ward Rutledge]
1835 HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM A DOTING HUSBAND IN BALTIMORE TO HIS WIFE TOUCHING ON FAMILY FRIENDS AND THE GROWTH AND LOVE OF THEIR CHILDREN TOGETHER
BALTIMORE MARYLAND MD CAMPBELL VIRGINA VA. Good. 1835. On offer is a letter written from Baltimore in 1835 by John Wheeler Rutledge to his loving wife and friend Julia Ann Rutledge in Virginia. The letter is sweet and obviously shows a deep devotion to his wife. As to why they are apart it does not say but it seems that Julia is with her family in Virginia. Theyre home seems to be in Baltimore as John speaks of their children and of his work most probably as a farmer. The letter touches on a number of subjects but mostly family friends and some gossip. It was written in Baltimore on October 20th 1834. It begins My Dear Julia Ann and after some words about receiving her last letter he writes about his great satisfaction to hear of your safe arrival and good health and of Martha Ganes being so much pleased with her board. It also gives me great pleasure to inform you that my health is much better than it was when you left home. He believes the main cause is that preacher is gone.which I now think was a great drain back on my health. He lets her know that his children are doing well in good health and very fond of her and often asking me question about going to Virginia for you and about Grand Ma and sister. He mentions that his son Randolph has fattened like a little pig and become very fond of me. His son Randolph was born in 1834 and is one year old. He then tells her of their cousin Jane who is visiting and seems quite low spirited at times complains very much of being so lonesome. John may be a farmer in Baltimore as he tells Julia that he has got a lot of corn by the Spring House pulled shucked and lofted and of the pumpkins gathered. John says he is very sorry to hear D. Rutledges health is likely to be so delicated tell John to write me soon and let me know if he has seen a John Lynch and as well that he is very sorry to hear that you did not get in soon enough for Martha Dollards wedding as I have no doubt you would have enjoyed yourself very much. He then informs her that Abraham Amos negro woman Easter and her husband Wm. Bosley had Runaway last saturday night. He makes no further comment on this. Finally he finishes with pleasantries and implores her to give my love to Mother and all inquirious friends tell Martha Jane to behave pretty and be good girl and believe me to be your affectionate Husband. John W. Rutledge. The letter is 4 pages in length one long sheet folded in half and written on both sides. The front cover has the letter address written: Ms. Julia Ann Rutledge Moormans Campbell County Virginia It is in a very legible handwriting black ink with minimal smudging. The letter shows a good bit of wear from aging and folding and there is a good deal of discoloration of the paper but this does not impede any legibility of the handwriting. There are also a few small holes in the paper but only one hole is in the place of a word and that word can easily be assumed. This is a lovely document. Background: John Wheeler Rutledge was born May 7 1800 in Harford Maryland and his wife Julia Ann Rutledge née Ward was born May 2 1808 in Campbell Virginia. They were married September 30 1826. John died in 1873 and Julia in 1889. They had six children together born between 1828 and 1843.; Manuscript; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; KEYWORDS: KEYWORDS: ANTE BELLUM ERA HISTORY OF JOHN WHEELER RUTLEDGE JULIA ANN WARD RUTLEDGE BALTIMORE HARFORD MARYLAND CAMPBELL VIRGINIA PRE CIVIL WAR ERA LOVE OF A HUSBAND 19TH CENTURY AMERICA FIRST 100 YEARS OF THE UNITED STATES AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO DANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0009044
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MARGARET C HULSEY
1857 PAIR 2 OF ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DIARY AND MEMORY BOOKS RECOUNTING THE DEATHS AND LIVES OF MANY BELOVED FAMILY MEMBERS ALONG WITH DOZENS OF QUAKER HYMNS POEMS AND REMINISCENCES.
BALTIMORE MARYLAND MD. Good. 1857. On offer are two books from a Baltimore family in the mid 1800s professing a life of faith and determination in the wake of tragedy and loss. The two books are written by one Margaret Hulsey of Baltimore Maryland a seemingly deeply religious Quaker woman. The first book is very unique collection of hymns letters diary entries and first-hand accounts dealing with the deaths Ms. Hulseys family friends and loved ones. The book begins with a short passage that lays out what much of the book with deal with: death. The first link in the family circle was broken many years ago in the removal of a beloved child at the early age of two years. But as this occurred long before the recovery of the younger children they of course have no recollection of the bereavement - To the ____ parents there was much of consolation in the reflection that their little one was taken from the evil to come before sin had sullied the innocence of childhood. Died Nov. 30th. 1826. John Clapp - Jr. aged 1 year. 11 months. And 4 days. Following this are pages and pages of Christian hymns poems and descriptions of grief and bereavement in the face of death both of the young child mentioned and also of someone who was presumably Ms. Hulseys brother. This is an interesting and unique book as much of the diary entries are written in the 3rd-person as if the author is collecting these stories of grief as a family history An unspeakably heavier bereavement was in store for them in the death of their eldest son at the age of 32 years. Gentle and affectionate in childhood he had endeared himself to the family circle in no common manner and as he grew up to mans estate his strongly masked character cultivated mind and clear judgement gave promise of a bright career of usefulness. During the last few years of his life particularly the all pervading influence of Christian principle was most strikingly displayed. When his bright prospect in life were clouded he weakly bowed to the dispensation and received it as a token of his Heavenly Fathers love.Died in New York on the morning of the 11th of 12th month 1848. Family H. Clapp aged 32 years. 1 month and 3 days. The book is filled with long descriptions of family members friends and loved ones who met their deaths too early. About six months after our dear brothers death my warmest sympathies were weakened by the decline and removal of a beloved young friend and connection in Philadelphia - We had spent several weeks together the preceding summer in a little town.and I had learned to love and advise her gentle Christian character - The following letter speaking of her illness was from the pen of a sister. Many of the entries in the book are like this one letters collected by Ms. Hulsey and then faithfully copied down in this book as a remembrance of someone loved who has passed. Alongside the letter are hymns and poems of a Christian nature and quotations and aphorisms taken from The Friends Review that speak to the nature of death and the overcoming of grief through Christian love. The same format is used for the deaths of Margaret Hulseys brother friends and longest of all her mother. Near the end of the book there are also letters that had been sent specifically to Ms. Hulsey that are copied down well-wishes and condolences from friends on the event of her mothers death. This book has roughly 200 pages of which almost everyone has writing. Margaret Hulseys handwriting is neat and very legible and no smudging is evident. The first few gatherings of the book are detached from the spine but the whole thing is sewn together so the pages are not loose. Quarter leather spine with a marbled cover page. The second book is Some extracts from the letters and diary of our beloved mother and is also written in the hand of Margaret Hulsey. Beginning in September 1848 and continuing until her death in 1857 the book contains copies of letters sent from to family members especially Margaret as well as entries from her personal diary some short and others extending many pages. The thread throughout the diary entries is the love of Jesus and her worship of him through the Quaker church. Baltimore - 3rd mo. - First day - attended mtg. After sitting a short time in silence. L. M. Hoag appeared in present supplication - He soon of towards ___ with the words. Ye are lively stones built up a spiritual house carrying out the figure by applying it to stones in the quarry which must first be taken out then hammered and brought into the proper shape afterwards smoothed and polished - He was continuing the application when the mtg. Was disturbed by the sudden indisposition of H. Baldesion. In about ten minutes he resumed his discourse without any apparent confusion and embarrassment and preached an excellent sermon. About a quarter of the book are entries from 1848-1850 and then the rest of the book is from March 1857 the beginning of the decline and death of Margarets mother. The first entry in 1857 concerns Margarets mother and fathers decision to leave America for England. Their trip to England is interesting with Margarets mother ruminating on her life on the sea the friends she has left behind and the future ahead for her. Rested very well - It seems as if the motion of the boat reduces drowsiness at least this has been the effect on me - We spend much time on deck wishing to cherish all the advantages possible from the sea air. And we go up on the principle of eating at every meal even if we feel but little appetite. We passed a steamer last night supposed to be the Arctic. It gives a social gladsome feeling to pass a ship at sea. We have already seen two sails but they were distant we were unable to learn where they were from or whither bound. When they arrive in London there are many passages of their new life there attending new Quaker Friends Meetings and making new friendships as well as trips to other cities to spread the word of Jesus. After 3 months they return Just 3 months since we left the shores of America - It seems a brief space now that it is past - Soon went on deck - all things were put in ample order - the floor was scrubbed the brasser cleaned the sun was shining brightly - the broad experience of ocean before us with scarcely a ripple on the surface while our noble ship was ploughing through the waters with majestic steadiness. Soon the diary entries end and Hulseys point of view takes over again: Our dear Mother felt the heat of the water excruciatingly.soon after she accompanied Father to Phila. And Baltimore to visit their children - It was unspeakable pleasure to her to meet them again.She accordingly accompanied the family to Cape May.At the end of ten days she had a strange and alarming attack of dysentery. It yielded to medicine however but a relapse a week later placed her in a very critical situation.On First day Dr. Chesterman was called - he fully agreed with Dr. Rabson and discovered a new feature in the disease which had now assumed the character of bilious diarrhea. The mother continues to be sick and weakens to a terrible extent. Margaret Hulseys description of her mother is heartbreaking and she goes into long details of the last night of her mothers death and her eventual passing away: The breath grew shorter and shorter and the quietly passed away without a struggle - at the same hour of the day as that beloved son who had only preceded her by about three years. The last few pages of the book are transcripts and copies of remarks made at her mothers funeral and an obituary of her mother in the Friends Review. The book is roughly 170 pages in length of which 150 or so have writing. It looks almost identical to the first book both of them having a small sticker on the front inside cover that reads Sold at Raynors Bookstore 76 Bowery NY. No pages have detached from the spine. Both books are in very good condition.; Manuscript; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF MARGARET C. HULSEY CLAPP FAMILY BALTIMORE MARYLAND RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS QUAKERS BOOK OF MEMORY REMINISCENCES OF LIFE PRESENCE OF DEATH IN LIFE QUAKER HYMNS AND POEMS MID 19TH CENTURY FRIENDS MEETING DEPICTIONS OF GRIEF BEREAVEMENT CONDOLENCES LOSS OF LIFE COPING WITH DEATH FAITH IN HARD TIMES RETROSPECTIVE JOURNAL AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO DANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 0009052
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FRANCES M SIMMONS
1914 - 1918 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT 5-YEAR DIARY OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF A YOUNG WOMAN WHO MOVES TO NYC TO BECOME A RED CROSS NURSE AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE WAR EFFORT IN A HOMEFRONT HOSPITAL
HILLSBORO TX TEXAS NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK NY. Good. 1914. On offer is a five-year diary of Ms. Frances M. Simmons of Hillsboro Texas beginning in 1914 and ending in 1918. The diary is a fantastic artifact of the years of a homefront nurse in NYC during the First World War. It presents a thorough and comprehensive life both of work and of play for a young woman nurse treating returning soldiers ravaged by the brutal war in Europe. For the most part 1915 is the year that is written in the most and provides the most comprehensive look into Ms. Simmons life. Though there are many many entries though they are less consistently written. The entries start in Texas with family "calling" ordering and receiving gloves and glove cases picnics etc. By 1915 Simmons has moved to New York City either training or fully working as a public health nurse in Willard Parker Hospital on East 16th Street. The year or so in New York is quite interesting. Not only does it have medical significance references to hospitals tuberculosis cases even a good new "Scarlet" fever case but also social from the low visiting tenement houses to her vibrant and fascinating social life. Wanamaker's department store is one her favorite places to visit illustrating a middle-class salary for her work as a nurse as was as frequent trips to the Metropolitan Opera where she writes down what she saw and who was singing. March 5. 1915. Fri - aft. off. M. Butterfly: Farrar Scotti - Fornia. Botta Bada Rossi etc. Il Trovatore: Destin Ober Martinelli Amato.. She sees lots of movies too--everything from "Birth of a Nation" to "Baby Peggy." She goes often to the theater skates in Central Park and mentions regular trips to Brooklyn and the Bronx. Examples: May 18. 1915. Saw Naval Review of Pres. Wilson from Mayflower as Atlantic Fleet passed out to sea - past Statue of Liberty - N.Y.; May 20. 1915. Thurs. Hard night @ tubies Miss Flannigan a hard little worker. Very pleasant to work with.; July 5. 1915. Mon - Got up at 2:30pm. Went out to Bronx - saw Christine at Mrs. Gs about 20 - Letter to her from Will - plans for Mamas trip.; October 25. 1915. Mon - Left Bronx Went to Met. Life bldg. Miss Robins nurse. Society for Prv. of Cruelty to Animals. Henry St. Settlement. Neighborhood Playhouse. Pub. Lib. Seward Pk. Br. The other significant time period is 1917 where she mentions "Unrestricted Submarine warfare declared by Germany" 2/1/17 watching Naval reviews and even buying $100 the equivalent of over $2300 today! worth of Liberty Bonds Simmons is very active in the war effort as her cousin Will who also lives in NYC is in the army. She mentions in a December 1917 entry that he was made 1st Lieut. of his company. Throughout the diary there are many references to "auto drives" and "calls by phone." She travels quite a bit--to various parts of New England New Jersey esp. Sandy Hook back and forth from the North to her childhood home in Hillsboro Texas. Her family travelled a lot too including "by sea" indicating that the family had some money. There are also times where it seems she is the primary nurse of single patients. One named Mr. Sawyer takes up a number of weeks in 1916 until the entry May 25. 1916. Thurs. Mr. Sawyer died - 4:10am. Julian & me at the time. Dr. Smith arrived directly after death. She attends his funeral the next day. Everyday of the diary has at least one entry written in it. As state before 1915 is the most comprehensive year but 1917 and 1916 come close. For reasons unknown the months of November and December are almost entirely devoid of any entries that are not 1914. Simmons writes each entry is exceptionally neat and legible handwriting and reading the short lines of text for each day is a delight. Despite the handwriting being very small each word is written clearly and legibly. The diary has some Front inner hinge weakening and the cover has a small tear on the top of the spine as well as some slight shelf wear. It is a Wards A Line A Day Book.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF FRANCES M. SIMMONS HILLSBORO TEXAS WORLD WAR 1 ERA AMERICAN HOMEFRONT RED CROSS NURSE TEXAS TO NEW YORK CITY WILLARD PARKER HOSPITAL NURSING IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY TREATMENT OF WOUNDED SOLDIERS NEW YORK CITY CULTURE HOMEFRONT WAR EFFORT TUBERCULOSIS SCARLET FEVER 20TH CENTURY MEDICINE AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO DANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0009048
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FEGAN FAMILY [JOHN FEGAN, DANIEL B FEGAN, JOHN R FEGAN, JOSEPH G CATHERINE]
1880 - 1895 HANDWRITTEN LEDGER BOOK OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PERSONAL AND BUSINESS EXPENSES AND BILLS OF THE PATRIARCH OF A FAMILY OF STONE MASONS IN SMALL TOWN IOWA
LYONS CLINTON IOWA IA. Good. 1880. On offer is the personal home and business accounting log book of a man John Fegan patriarch of a family Masonry company living in Lyons Iowa from 1880 all the way to 1895. The book is a fascinating mix of both professional and personal expenses over the years. This is a fascinating piece of history. At the beginning of the book January 5th 1880 Daniel Fegan is employed seemingly as a Mason by the Clinton & Lyons Horse Railway Company. The accounts of 1880 and 1881 are included almost exclusively on the first 8 pages. On these pages under the entries for 1880 and 1881 are entries for 1885 and 1886 as well. Later in the book around page 31 there are a number of pages devoted to the living expenses for 1880 written down. Jan 5th - To 1 bottle of ink and 5 pens - $.15; 6th - To Tobacco and cigars - $.60; 7th - To candies and nuts - $.40.9th - To 12 photographs part pay - $2.00. These living expenses continue throughout the entire year. It can be inferred that by 1885 Fegan has his own masonry company though it is possible he already had this company in 1880 and 81 and just contracted out to the Clinton & Lyons Horse Railway Co. September 25th 1885. Charles Phillips Sr. 4 1/2 days masoning at $2.30 per day - $11.25. His accounts for 1885 and 1886 show much more detail the entries of 1880/1881 and show quite a bit of complexity in the costs incurred and bills charged. As well they show the personal expenses that Fegan occurred as well. August 1885. The Bill or Cost of Building a porch on west side of the house. For all kinds of lumber - $18.00; For Mr. Boid for Carpenter work - $11.00; David Mitty for spouting - $6.34; Nails and paints of Snider - $6.00; John Anthony for a Load of Stone - $1.25. There are also entries under the titles Money paid out for housekeeping and living expenses account of Money Layed out for the House and Money Layed out for the use of House. It can be seen from these passages that the patriarch of the family was Daniel D. Fegan and that he had his three sons Joseph G. John R. and Daniel B. Fegan working for him. There is a page with the title John Fegan Money earned myself seemingly showing that the ledger would have been used by more than just one person at a time not just the father. In the pages solely devoted to 1886 the ledger book contains mostly living expenses such as Tobacco salt soap ivory 1/2 bushel of apples butter as well as others such as Paid for Clinton County Album church collection and Goose for Thanksgiving. For each day of the year the expenses are written on one or two lines. There are also pages titled Money Received of the Boys which pays opposite each name showing the money that each son paid to their father and mother usually $10 and $5 respectively. This might imply that the boys were somewhat independent contractors and paid their father and mother a monthly fee. The father John Fegan is very methodical throughout even writing down the expenses that his children occurred through buying him presents on his 70th birthday. These presents included a small handkerchief - $.10 2 pair socks $.20 each and a neck bough - $.25. For the years of 1890 and onwards there are no expenses related to the costs of the family business in the ledger. By this time its assumed that the ledger has become solely for personal expenses for the father John Fegan. One of his children most probably took over the company business ledger book possibly the oldest child Daniel B. The latest entry is for April 1st 1895. John Fegan would die later that month. Though this is the latest entry it is not the end of the book. However the entries that follow are few and far between. On the 77th page there is an attempt to use the book as a diary though only two days are recorded. October 18th 1880. The wind was blowing very hard Saturday and turned cold and we had a little freeze but it is very pleasant today. December 17th 1880. It has been snowing this morning but has slowed up some at 11 Oclock a.m. There are also a number of pages under the title Rent paid each month that begins in 1903 and go until 1907. The though the author of this section is unknown. It could be one of the children. The rent goes to Rands House Corner 3rd & Exchange. Beginning on page 132 there are a number of pages that begin in 1895 of the living expenses of Catherine Fegan the late John Fegans wife. The pages show her living expenses as well as the money received from her children. It lasts only a couple pages. There are a few diary entries from 1886 on a page as well as many other pages of notes and expenses and some calculations. The entries stop after around page 150. The book is in fair shape. Both front and back cover detached as well as a number of pages on the inside. The writing inside is very legible and clear and is in great shape.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF FEGAN FAMILY JOHN FEGAN DANIEL B. FEGAN MASONRY COMPANY LYONS IOWA CLINTON & LYONS HORSE RAILWAY COMPANY END OF THE 19TH CENTURY CASH ACCOUNTS DETAILED LIVING EXPENSES PERSONAL FINANCES BUSINESS EXPENSES FAMILY BUSINESS TAY COHN BOOKKEEPER AMERICAN PATRIARCH LIFE IN THE MIDDLE WEST MID-WEST AMERICA AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO DANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0009056
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SAMUEL J [and FRED C] BROWN
1855 - 1891 SIX 6 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT JOURNALS FOLLOWING THE ADULT LIFE OF A MAN AS HE GROWS MARRIES HAS CHILDREN AND LIVES A BUSY SOCIAL LIFE IN SALISBURY MASSACHUSETTS
SALISBURY AMESBURY BLACK ROCKS MASSACHUSETTS MA. Good. 1855. On offer is a remarkable and comprehensive set of diaries of five 5 diaries by Samuel J. Brown of Salisbury Massachusetts and one 1 of his son. There are 6 diaries in all and they represent the years: 1855 1858 1860 1861 1866 and 1891. The first five were written by Samuel and the last diary 1891 was written by Fred C. Brown Samuels son of Amesbury Mass. Samuel was born about 1835 and married Susan Osgood on September 13th 1860. They had one son Fred Currier Brown. The first two diaries were written before his marriage and then comes the 1860 diary written the year of his marriage. The 1855 diary has an entry for every day but many of those are just short one liners. The 1858 diary is completely full and is the largest and most comprehensive dairy in the lot. He has written long detailed entries in this one including several trips taken. The 1860 diary has 152 days worth of entries the 1861 diary has 115 days of entries the 1866 diary has just a few sporadic notes and finally the 1891 diary has 132 days worth of entries. In the back of the 1858 diary Samuel has written a brief summary of his lifes work between the years of 1851 and 1857 which gives you an idea of the author and his activities during this time: Commenced services in E. Allens store October 1st 1851. Left store and went to trade at West Amesbury April 30th 1855. Left West Amesbury for good November 28th 1855. Went to school in Boston December 4th 1855 through School March 4th 1856. Commenced services second time in E. Allens store April 1st 1856 making 5 years to October 1st 1857. Samuel is working in E. Allens store when much of his diaries were written. The 1858 and 1860 diary often speak of working at the store and the activities done and observations made there. In the 1858 diary his life is quite full with social events which makes this diary particularly interesting and historically significant. He belongs to the Minnehaha Club and attends their meetings and functions quite regularly. Hes even in charge of taking care of the club room. He loves dances attending social events at Washington Hall sleigh rides attending lectures singing school and so much more. During the 1858 diary he also takes a camping trip by boat to Black Rocks Plymouth County Massachusetts which he writes all about and in great detail. In the 1860s diaries it is evident that a great change coming to the United States: the onset of the civil war. Each diary also contains some memoranda at the end of the book as well as a Cash Accounts section that details living expenses each month with the items written next to the date bought and a tally at the end of the month comprising Cash Received Cash Paid Out and finally Cash on Hand which carries over to the next month: Cash Account - May. Balance from April - $1.46; Oranges - $.03; Horse-back ride - $.58; Coffee - $.08; Saddle - $3.75; Ale - $.15. This is present in every diary with differing degrees of comprehensiveness and completeness with the exception of the 1855 diary. Excerpts of text: 1855: Panorama of the American Revolution A.M. and evening at Washington Hall. Oranges &c .06. Raffle .05 Singing School; Pleasant. Concert by the Luca Family at Washington Hall. E. S. Worther went to trade 125 lbs.; Rain morning.Pleasant rest of the day. Went to Hampton Beach with S. C. Patten and co. Stopped at Eagle Hotel. Took dinner and supper; Rainy A. M. Pleasant P.M. Went to Hampton Beach with S. E. N. Stopped at the Ocean House and took supper. $3.90. Comb &c .08.; Went to Salisbury Beach by way of cars to E. Salisbury. Walked rest of way. Stopped at the Atlantic House took dinner and supper.; Pleasant. Atlantic House breakfast dinner and supper. Walked to Hampton River morn. Chowder at Black Rocks P.M.; Pleasant. Walked to West Amesbury. Fire on Larkings Hill. Old buggy filled with shavings set on fire burnt up down round the river. 1858: January 1st Arose in the morning at 6 ½ oclock. Wind south west. Pleasant. Opened store at 6:50 oclock. Thermometer stood 32 degrees above zero. Alleys once. A.M. Ball at manufactures Hall by the Powon Engine Company. Tickets $1.00. Supper and oysters at Lewiss.; February 18th Arose in the morning at 7 oclock. Wind west. Pleasant. Opened store at 7:50 oclock. Thermometer stood 4 deg. above zero. Alleys eight times. Flag .04. Promenade Concert by Gilmores band at Washington Hall. Danced from 9 ½ until 1 3/4oclock. 25 S. C. O.; April 7th Arose in the morning at 6:20 oclock. Wind northwest. Pleasant. Opened store at 6 ¾ oclock. Thermometer stood 26 deg. above zero. Union Engine Company appeared in uniform at the funeral of J. Kent. Closed store at 8 ½ oclock. Club room. Kiss. Retired at 9 ½ oclock. Flag .04. Expense .04.; April 15th Arose in the morning at 6 oclock. Wind West. Pleasant. Opened store at 6:10 oclock. Thermometer stood 40 deg. above zero. Alleys seven times. Engine trail morning. Hall &c 12. Band out P.M. H. & H. C. present. Dramatic Club played The Drunkard and Omnibus Ave. Down to E. Salisbury on Engine .02. Cider .04. Retired 11 ¼ Expense .37.; July 14th Arose in the morning at 5 oclock. Wind south. Pleasant. Rain. Opened the store at 6 oclock. Thermometer stood 70 deg. above zero. Alleys six. Left for Rye Beach at 9 ¼ oclock with S.E.A. C.H.M. & L. Stopped on way down and ordered supper on our return. Arrived at Rye at 11 ¼. Dinner at the Atlantic House. Stopped at the Lafayette House and had a talk supper 1.50. Exeter.; Left Mills for Black Rocks at 10 oclock Sunday night. Passed Powder River bridge at 11 ¾ oclock Chain Bridge at 12:10 oclock Smoking breeze. Passed the E.R.N. Bridge at 12 ¾ arrived at the Rocks and pitched the Nellie Gray at 1 ½ oclock. Turned in for a nap at 2 ½ oclock. Turned out at 5 ¾. Pleasant. Wind northwest. Clam chowder at 9 oclock A.M. All hands piped to shift tent on account of the wind. Went to old Gaters. Turned in at 8 ½. Wind blowing a gale; September 10th Arose in the morning at 6 ½ oclock. Wind Northeast. Cloudy. Opened store at 6 ¾ oclock. Thermometer stood 68 deg. above. Closed store. Col. Allen on the account of his being joined in the bonds of matrimony gave the Minnehaha club a treat on oysters ale and cigars at their room in eve. High old time.; December 9th Arose in the morning at 7 ¼ oclock. Wind Northwest. Pleasant. Opened store at 7 ½ oclock. Thermometer stood 20 deg. above. Club room P.M. Feltches four. Closed store at 8 oclock. Members of the Minnehaha Club surprised by a party of ladies eve. Refreshments cards likening &c. Grand good time. Broke up at 1 oclock. Club. Retired at 1 ¼ oclock. 1860: September 13. Left home at 8 ½ A.M. Lawrence at 12. Franklin House dinner; Lowell at 3 P.M. American House. Married by Rev. J. J. Twiss Lowell Mass. 6 ½ P.M. Called on Mary Ann eve. left 9 ¼. $3.00 Hotel 1861: Boy killed by the cars on the Salisbury branch near the bridge 5 oclock P.M
.Pleasant. Third Annual Ball of the Minnehaha Club. Danced from 8 ¾ until 4 ¾ oclock. Baldwin and Richardsons band of Boston. Tip top time. 3 couples took supper at Clarks. B.H.M. C.N.D S.J.B.s Sleighing. Frost morning. Dancing cost us .42; Flag acrosst from Washington Hall to Manills House. P.M. Two men belonging to the six regiment of Massachusetts were killed by a mob in Baltimore while on their way to protect the National Capital of Washington.; Letter from Orce Newburyport National Guards marched from N. Port collation at S. Point. Chowder at Manills Hall. Home in the cars at 5:50 P.M.; .The members of the Minnehaha Club made up a purse of $16.25 and presented to John Allen who had enlisted in the National Guards of Newburyport. Capt. J.P.L. Wescott and bound for the war.; Wallace Guards Capt. Morrill left for Camp at Lynfield in the 9:40 train A.M.; Left the Bluff for home at 6 oclock. Dinner at the Sandy Beach Hotel. Arrived home at 8 oclock eve. Tip top time. Letter from John and Christine. 1891 Fred Browns diary: The New Year opened with a slight fall of snow. Went to the auction again. Today is the fifty first anniversary of Grandpa and Grandmas marriage. The month just ended was the coldest Dec. for nine years.; Went to hear Dixon on The Negro at the Opera House with Mrs. Sibley. Only a small audience was present owing to several other attractions. His lecture was very fine with a great deal of whit.; Have been at work all day on electrics. My battery for gas lighting now consists of 4 cells of Samsons. Club meeting with Frank Halley this evening. Have added three electric lighters to the original one
.The H. H. S. held their second field day at Salisbury Beach leaving Amesbury at 8 A.M. The party stopped at Mr. Todds cottage. The day being cold and rainy part of the sports were given up. In the evening an entertainment was given.; The H. H. S. closed today for the summer vacation. The graduating exercises were held in the Opera House this evening. The school occupied reserved seats in the orchestra left as last year. The house was crowded.; A large fire at Salisbury Beach. Among the burnt buildings were Hiram Littlefields Stables and store the Amesbury House Black Rocks S. A. Central Station and many small buildings. Also ice house. Lose unknown.; Mr. Cutter preached a very interesting sermon this morning. The Elm St. RR is doing an immense business carrying people to see the ruins.; Experiments are being made during this month trying to produce rain by the use of explosives in a very dry spot in Texas which are proving quite successful.; Father and I went to Boston on 7:40 train there being no school. In the afternoon went out to Mount Auburn a distance of five miles. In the evening went to the Boston Theatre to see Denman Thompson in his Old Homestead. Home on Theatre train 1:00 A.M. All of the diaries have worn covers but the bindings and pages are consistently good throughout. The two larger diaries 1858/1891 measure about 3 ½ x 6 and the 4 smaller diaries measure about 2 ½ x 4. Samuel Brown and his son write in pencil throughout the diaries and their handwriting though often small is very legible and readable.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF SAMUEL J. BROWN FRED C. BROWN SALISBURY BLACK ROCKS PLYMOUTH COUNTY AMESBURY MASSACHUSETTS CIVIL WAR ERA POST CIVIL WAR ERA LIFE OF A YOUNG 19TH CENTURY MAN SOCIAL EVENTS OF YOUNG MEN CASH ACCOUNTS MINNEHAHA CLUB FAMILY HISTORY SUSAN OSGOOD WASHINGTON HALL AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO DANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0009059
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GEOFFREY BROWNE
1915 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN TRAVELOGUE OF A JOURNEY FROM LIVERPOOL TO BUENOS AIRES BY AN OBSERVANT AND CLEVER ENGLISHMAN IN THE DANGEROUS VOLATILE EARLY YEARS OF WORLD WAR 1
LIVERPOOL ENGLAND UK BUENOS AIRES ARGENTINA. Good. 1915. On offer is a fascinating diary of a trip taken from Liverpool to Buenos Aires and back taken during the first year of World War 1. The book begins a day before Mr. George Browne the author of the diary who is seemingly a slaughterhouse owner or successful meat salesman sails for Argentina. The front cover contains the words: A Diary of a trip from Liverpool to B.A. and back. Geoffrey Browne. 1.8.15. 23.9.15. He mentions the boat he is sailing on is the passenger-cargo steam vessel the El Uruguayo. She is a big Square sturdily built boat with one large black squat funnel. Crew 100 passengers 12. A tastily decorated saloon and smoking room with wainscoting. My cabin is on the starboard side and is a deck cabin on the main deck. It is owned by the British and Argentine Steam Navigation Company Ltd and also has a number of guns for defense. He sails for Argentina beginning on August 1st 1915 and his voyage ends more than a month and a half later on September 23 1915. On the trip he mentions the people he meets: a doctor A Spaniard but he doesnt speak English and many others. Wednesday the 4th. Glorious day. Sky blue sea blue black and clear. Woke up and had a bath shaved and dressed and so to breakfast. Stayed for a bit after breakfast and read the Marconi news which was good. We had a pow-wow about the 4.7 gun and its shell also a long talk with the gunner who had been on board one of the four captured German submarines in Portsmouth Harbour. He says they are magnificent boats and now fully Commissioned in our service.Boats are rare now. We saw one high before and after and with one funnel well down on the Starboard Horizon.312 miles yesterday the sea being so calm. Browne also includes descriptions of discussions he has with fellow passengers and crewmen including a long description of a discussion about theology with the chief engineer of the boat. His entries on the way to Buenos Aires consist of mostly his daily activities and observations and occasional descriptions of discussions had. There are also occasional spots of war news from other ships that pass. Thursday. We saw another boat today probably one of the Lamport and Holts. She was Homeward Bound. Of course there is no news. Im rather anxious to hear about war so close to bound up does one get with great events.; In the morning there was excitement. Several of the officers and crew saw a number of whales and a killer. All the passengers were on deck and the others were so sure we couldnt possibly miss them that they did not tell us consequently we saw none of them. They reach Buenos Aires. When I woke I found that we were anchored. I dressed and got up. The wind was strong and very cold and all about was shipping. Browne describes the port officials he sees: All the officials smelt strongly of scent. One of them had fair long hair and a vacant face; his tie was an extremely light green his waistcoat was white with spots and he was adorned profusely with gold chains. For a couple pages Browne writes a few sentences each describing his fellow passengers. These passengers include a Mr. and Mrs. Dalton a Mr. and Mrs. and baby Summers Mrs. Williams and Thelma and a couple of others. After these pages of descriptions Browne writes of his observations of Buenos Aires with Continental store facades and arcades; methodically arranged streets and foreign looking men and women. Browne spends a number of days in Buenos Aires exploring and seeing the sights it has to offer. He even writes of a tram collision he sees and a large cattle market in the city. He mentions walking through Palermo Park the neighborhood of Florida having lunch at the Jockey Club and comments quite often on how European the city looks in his eyes. He also takes a trip to Campana Argentina remarking on the land and people he sees as rides a train through the countryside. In Compana Browne visits a slaughterhouse and writes a description of the place noting the various rooms and buildings that comprise the meat works. He also travels briefly to La Plata noting its fine buildings and that its streets are fine and broad and the main playa is very pleasant. From La Plata Browne and the other passengers leave to return home going down the La Plata river towards open water. Going down the Rio de La Plata Browne notices the lights of Montevideo the capital of Uruguay. All day we sailed down the Plata and might saw us off the bright twinkling lights of Monte Video. From Montevideo the ship enters the South Atlantic and makes towards Tenerife Island owned by Spain. The trip is fairly uneventful however the influence of a major World War is present: We are well out to the eastward for we have been warned by the Admiralty of German Submarines operating or about to operate from the Brazilian coast in company with travelers of which we are told to beware. They are not attacked on the way back. As the ship approaches Tenerife there is a gun drill that happens. We fire a shot when passed Tenerife to show that all is in working order before we meet a submarine. As they continue onwards Browne makes note that lunch followed and with it lime juice. According to the Board of Trade regulation every boat when ten days out of port has to supply the crew with lime-juice - and can fine anyone who refuses it - to prevent scurvy. During this time Browne also makes note of the Marconi Radio still a very notable and fascinating invention. At the time radio was still in its infancy and Browne is obviously quite impressed with the communication skills of the Marconi even noting that one night the Marconi heard the Eiffel Tower. referencing that the Eiffel Tower was being used as radio transmitter for the duration of World War I. The ship reaches Tenerife and Browne goes ashoregetting his hair cut and also providing a magnificent description of the island as he left the port. Finally as they come closer and closer to England there is a strong warning against German submarines after they pass the parallel of St. Vincent and enter the danger zone. We have as good a chance as any other boat perhaps better since we are armed; the whole thing is like a game of cards pure luck. Browne notes that all watches are doubled while they are travelling through this very dangerous part of the ocean close to England but not there yet. The boat is not attacked and it reaches the Bristol Channel safely anchoring in Cardiff. From Cardiff Browne departs the boat takes a train to London and then finally a train back home to Liverpool. The book is in good condition. It is 166 pages in length of which all have writing and which all but the very last pages are numbered. The book has a marbled cover with quarter leather binding of which much of it has peeled off the spine. Browne writes in pencil but there is little smudging and throughout the book his handwriting is clear and legible.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF GEOFFREY BROWNE LIVERPOOL ENGLAND UNITED KINGDOM BUENOS AIRES ARGENTINA WORLD WAR I ERA WW1 NAUTICAL MARINE WWI WW1 WORLD WAR ONE AT SEA ABOARD SHIP EL URUGUAYO SCREW STEAMER BRITISH AND ARGENTINE STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY STEAMER SHIP TRAVEL PALERMO PARK RIO DE LA PLATA MONTEVIDEO MARCONI RADIO EARLY DAYS OF RADIO TENERIFE GERMAN SUBMARINE WATCH ATLANTIC DANGER ZONE BRITANNICA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 0009054
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J G BEILBY
1942 - 1943 TWO 2 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT JOURNALS THAT SHOW TWO INTERESTING AND DIFFERENT VIEWS OF A LIFE LIVED ONE CIVILIAN ONE MILITARY BY AN AUSTRALIAN PILOT IN CANADA
ALBERTA CANADA BRISBANE AUSTRALIA RCAF TRAINING. Good. 1942. On offer are two 2 books used by J.G. Beilby of Brisbane Australia while on duty in Alberta Canada training with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War 2. Beilby is a pilot and sergeant with the Royal Australian Air Force. The first a book entitled My Cruise with R.A.A.F is inscribed To johny Xmas 1942 Nil Desperandum. From Bill. The book obtained by Beilby in Australia lists the many cities through which Beilby travelled through. From Panama through the U.S. to Canada Scotland and finally England ending in a listing written Whitley Bay Commando. The book is over 100 pages in length but there is writing on only the first 6 pages. Beilby sails out of Brisbane Australia on June 22nd 1942 on the S.S. President Cleveland going towards Norfolk Virginia. The ship goes to Tahiti Panama Cristobal Balboa Panama Santiago di Cuba Key West finally landing in Norfolk. From Norfolk Bielby goes to Philadelphia Washington New York up to Winnipeg Calgary and then Vancouver. On the return journey Beilby leaves on the famous S.S. Queen Elizabeth operated by the Cunard line from Halifax Nova Scotia on March 10th 1943 stopping in Boston and New York before going across the Atlantic to Bournemouth London Newcastle and Whitley Bay in England. The other book smaller and more compact has a front title of Royal Canadian Air Force Diary. In this book other Beilby has written addresses and phone numbers. Near the end of the book there are pages filled with dates for Anniversariesand Birthdays of friends and family as well as a page titled Name Suggestions implying Beilbys girlfriend or wife was pregnant during his time in the RCAF service. The Cash Accounts section near the end of the book also shows over 10 war bonds bought by Beilby totalling $1250 as well as the year they fully mature. There is also a page of living expenses for the month of November that include purchases of a Jacket - $53.00 Mothers gift - $4.00 Prescriptions - $8.50 and man others. The most interesting part of the book though is the first 145 pages taken up by a tremendous amount of scientific and military information about flight. The foreword says that in COLLINS AERO DIARY the Publishers have constructed from technical literature and practical data a useful compendium on the subject of Flight. This literature and data contains everything from conversion tables to flight dynamics to Morse code semaphore color pages of maps of other countries and a tremendous amount more. The two books together produce an interesting document of a soldier in the 2nd World War. Background: John George Beilby was born in 1920 in Brisbane Australia. He was a Sergeant and pilot in Unit 21 of the Operational Training RAF during the War. He mostly likely died on April 24 1944. Flying a Wellington LN 878 of No 21 Operational Training Unit RAF he took took off from RAF Station Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire on a day cross country exercise on 24 April 1944. The last known position of the aircraft was a fix which placed them 80 miles east of Hull. The aircraft failed to return to base after the exercise. Subsequent reports show that the Wireless Operator had contacted numerous stations during the trip and was well up to his job. He would have taken correct action in distress had he had time. There was no evidence to show how the aircraft became lost. From the way the plot faded suddenly there is a strong possibility that it had been shot down by enemy fighters. Subsequent searches found no trace of the missing aircraft or crew. Sgt J.G.Beilby Pilot.Following post war enquiries and investigations it was recorded in 1949 that the missing crew had lost their lives at sea.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF J.G. BEILBY SERGEANT JOHN GEORGE BEILBY ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE DIARY RCAF ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE RAAF AUSTRALIANS IN CANADA PILOT TRAINING ALBERTA CANADA BRISBANE AUSTRALIA WORLD WAR 2 ERA CASH ACCOUNTS COLLINS AERO DIARY MY CRUISE WITH THE R.A.A.F. S.S. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND S.S. QUEEN ELIZABETH TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF FLIGHT UNIT 21 OPERATIONAL TRAINING UNIT AUSTRALIANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO DANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0009057
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[to MISS S R CRAGIN]
1846 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTER DESCRIBING A RIGOROUS TRIP UP ONE OF AMERICAS MOST FAMOUS ECOLOGICAL LANDMARKS MT. WASHINGTON AS WELL AS DETAILING AN EVENT IN THE DARKER SIDE OF NATURE
MT WASHINGTON NEW HAMPSHIRE NH CRAWFORD NOTCH. Good. 1846. On offer is an 1846 letter containing 4 pages of writing detailing the incredible account of a journey the unnamed author took up to Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. It is addressed to a Miss S. R. Cragin of Westminster East Vt. In addition to this account the author of the letter talks about the Willey House or cottage which was and still is standing at the time. The tragedy that befell the house and the family inside it in 1826 was an flood and landslide that killed the family of 9 and destroyed everything around it but the cottage itself. The letter begins Bethlehem Aug. 7 1846. My Dear Friend I received your kind letter yesterday and was very glad to find you kept your promise on hand tho you delayed so long to fulfill it
.I have spent my time very pleasantly this summer so far since I regained my usual state of health which is about six or seven weeks ago and I have performed one great feat for so much of an invalid as I am. Would you believe it I have been to the top of Mt. Washington the highest point of land in the US this side of Mississippi River you know. She continues my brothers John and Charles with their wives came here the last of June on their way to the mountains and after their visit here we concluded to go with them to the Notch about 17 miles and spend a day as to viewing the wondrous works of the Great Architect of nature. The Notch she speaks of is most probably Crawford Notch. .I could not give you any adequate description of the awful grandeur of the place if I would nor of the emotions of the bosom while passing there other than that they were those of bordering upon the terrific. The mountains appear to have been sent asunder from the top to the foundation and separated just far enough to make a road through and for a small stream to run which soon became the Saco River. In looking up those giddy heights almost directly over head and into the fearful chasms below one feels like holding their breath in astonishment and exclaiming how came they so No answer comes back but from the mountains themselves eloquent in their stillness the hand that made us is divine. The author then describes coming upon the Willey House that place of melancholy interest to those who have read the story of that ill fated family. You recollect a family of nine were destroyed twenty years ago this summer but an avalanche from the mountain.One can near fully realize the terrific scene by standing on the spot and have someone conversant with the affairs of late the particulars then by re-enacting the account. The author and her party then return to the tavern to rest. They ascend the next day. We presented a most curious spectacle that long cavalcade; making our way directly up that steep mountain. I thought of Bonaparte's army crossing the Alps.But we all got safely up to the pinnacle and seated ourselves by a cool spring by the side of the great rock and retired then looked about saw what we could among other things a great snowbank as big as the garden then made the best of our way down. She concludes the journey by saying I never felt more my insignificance than when standing alone upon that mountain; and yet I could not but feel that one in mortal soul was of more main account with Him who made them both than all these stupendous works of his hands. After the journey ends the letter commences with the usual pleasantries remembrances and news between friends: Remember me to your mother and sisters. How does little Frances and her sister Mrs. Halton likewise. Have they opened their tavern yet
.We had a sudden death in our neighborhood this morning. A man who was well Saturday night as usual was a corpse this morning at 6 oclock. His death was caused by eating cherries. Much of the last bit of the letter is written along the edges of the pages and can be a bit more difficult to decipher as the script is smaller and denser. However the handwriting is clean and the script can be worked out with just a bit more effort than takes to read the main portion of the letter. The letter is in fairly rough shape and has tears on many of the creases. It is still intact and the entire thing can still be read if care and caution are taken. Each page measures about 7 1/2 x 10. Historical notes: The Willey House was built in 1793 or 1798 some say 1820 as a public house in Crawford Notch about 23 miles northwest of the village of North Conway NH in the White Mountains. In 1825 it became the homestead of Samuel Willey Jr. and his family. They operated it as an inn to accommodate travelers passing through the mountains on the notch road. In August 1826 a violent storm occurred and the Saco River began to rise in front of the house. The family apparently left the house to escape the flood only to be buried in a huge landslide. Mr. and Mrs. Willey their five children and two hired men all perished but their house was left untouched. It was protected by a rock ledge on the hillside above it that split the major slide into two streams that flowed around the house. After the tragedy at the Willey House the White Mountains became a popular subject for hundreds of artists in the nineteenth century. The landscape scenes painted by artists became known as White Mountain Art. The house was later occupied and in 1844 the house and its stable were repaired and a seventy by forty foot hotel was built adjacent to it. The old house was a favorite tavern in the region and visitors were charged a small fee to be escorted through rooms of the house. The remnant of the rock which protected the house during the tragedy was still behind the house and the track of the slide could be ascended through a scattered forest of birch trees; Manuscript; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF S. R. CRAGIN WESTMINSTER VERMONT MOUNT WASHINGTON MT. WASHINGTON NEW HAMPSHIRE CRAWFORD NOTCH PRESIDENTIAL MOUNTAIN RANGE WILLEY HOUSE TRAGEDY WHITE MOUNTAINS TOURISM IN THE 19TH CENTURY HIKING IN AMERICA AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO DANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0009064
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MARGARET ELLIOTT
1925 UNIQUE DEEPLY PERSONAL ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DIARY OF A YOUNG LIBERATED WOMAN IN UNIVERSITY LIVING AN EXCITING SOCIAL LIFE DATING SEVERAL MEN AND EMBODYING THE QUINTESSENTIAL FLAPPER IDEAL
PURDUE UNIVERSITY LAFAYETTE INDIANA IN. Good. 1925. On offer is an exceptional diary of the personal life of a young woman in the mid 1920s who perfectly embodies the Aesthetic and ideas of the Flapper. The diary is extremely personal in nature and showcases an amazing view into the life of a woman on the vanguard of a new generation of women. The diary provides fascinating insight into the mind of a young women during the 1920s Gilded Age. As can be seen throughout the diary she definitely embodies the liberated woman ideal of the time: attending University dating several men at a time hinting at casual sexual encounters and maintaining a strong individualistic streak throughout. The diary is packed with details about her ever changing and active love life. The diary belonged to Margaret Elliott a sophomore at Purdue University circa 1925. There are many entries dealing with Sorority life as she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega and briefer entries about her studies. Nevertheless the majority of the diary concerns her relationships with men and almost every page has some discussion of her thoughts about dating the personalities of boyfriends how she met them what shows they have attendedand in cases hint at sexual encounters There are also very personal entries dealing with periods of depression and times where she questions her own inability to be with just one partner and her constantly changing state of mind when it comes to her many suitors. Elliott is in so many relationships throughout the diary that it can be hard to keep track of all the names. This is an intensely personal diary of a very active young woman who represents a very new and exciting period in American history as well as womens history in general. The diary is a fascinating read. In all it contains 368 handwritten pages. Her handwriting is very easy to read usually done in either blue ink and occasionally pencil and can be quite dense as she often takes up the entire page with her thoughts and observations. Most entries also have a small quote at the top of the page. These quotes also show an important part of Elliotts intellectual life as many of them are from prominent feminist writers and thinkers of the time such as Sarah Grand and Margaret Widdemer as well as poets such as Tennyson Kipling and others. The last three pages also contain a number of quotes and passages and poems mostly dealing with love and womanhood. Some of the quotes also show distinct feminist thought such as: Man may redeem the past but woman never can Does a woman ever marry the man who is kindest to her It is unrecorded if this has ever happened and There is no such thing as justice in the world! This is one of the most personal diaries listed here. Its definitely the type of diary that encourages the reader to turn the page and read on. The book is in good shape. The front cover and portions of the spine show a good bit of wear and tear from use and age. There are also two bits of tape on the diary that Elliott used to close off the diary from other people. It is evident Elliott thought this diary to be absolutely personal. The front cover reads Personal. Hands off! Eyes off! Samples of Entries: Jan 181925. Slept until 12 o'clock Dreamed I was at home. Got up and ate dinner. Dot called up. She is a good old scout. Pinkie was not at the dance last nite but sang a serenade outside while Tex was here Oh My ! I suppose he was drunk! Rode right across the aisle in the St so confront him yesterday he couldnt look anywhere but the window. If he wanted to come back I wonder what Id do Tex! called me about his Pain and his episode last night. Here to be another horrible morning I fear.; Jan 311925. Had a somewhat serious conversation with Chris and he thinks I care an awful lot for someone else I told him i didn't and I dont think I do. Anyhow I could live without them all. He was not expecting me to go back Sunday P.M. and I did feel momentarily sorry for him. The show was What Man Desires and had for its theme Girls strive to be what the man they love ; thinks and wants them to be it is very true I guess. I wonder wonder and wonder!; Jan 28 1925. Got home last night about 6:30 car broke and we had to transfer making 45 mins late. Read last night and heard all the news. Got up late this morn have a date tonight with Feister and am not at all crazy about seeing him bet I hate him before evening is done. Went to see Conrad Nagel and Lou Cody in So this is Marriage. Bible picture was pretty but story and theme was bunk. Saw no one I knew.; Jan 29 1925. Got up and wrote a letter to Tex! Hope he appreciates it but he wont. Received no letters from La Fayette yet so guess he is still ok. Harvey Kendall is going to write me if he takes sick so is Claude. Had a miserable evening last night. Im growing to hate Feister as I hate them all around here. He cant help it or know it I think . I wouldn't let him near me. He makes me shriek Ugh! If he knew!; Feb5 1925. Tex gets out of Quarantine Oh ! Tex got out Wed am at 10o clock. He did call me and came over just as I hoped. We danced awhile and acted crazy then shut the door and talked. He said people didn't fall in love by seeing so much of each other but by being separated awhile. He said he realized he loved me when i was gone Skeetz was here with Lou and he hardly knew what to make of us I'll bet Tex was so mean and teased me all evening. We had a peach of a time. I asked him to out.; June 71925. Nat didn't leave till 3 am it was just light as day. He doesn't trust or love me now. But maybe he will get over it. It made me feel badly but I am not worrying it was wrong but - We went to the mixer for a little while Sat night it was an Alumni mixer big crowd but didn't know many people. Nat came over and took me to the Fauter- for dinner all showed up in full style and it sure was good. Came home and tried to make up with him but he wouldn't get over it till I got mad!; July 131925. Blue Monday ! I feel depressed lost as if I had forgotten something I cant figure out the cause. Nat is better but is still on crutches till Wed or Thursday He is going to make me write him an invitation before he will come to see me ! Sensitive nature again ! I like him for it I mailed him a letter today and am going to write tonight again One day! M came and told me lots of News!!!; Aug 261925. There is something wrong with me this week I feel entirely different towards Nat. His letters dont even interest me Oh diary am I wicked or so terribly different from other girls in that I cant like one man alone It seems there must be two before Im happy.When I get a letter from Nat I am looking for one from Tex. I almost get mad at Nat. I have been writing him short letters because I cant think of a thing to say. Historical Notes: This was the age of the Flapper. Flappers were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts bobbed their hair listened to jazz and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup drinking treating sex in a casual manner smoking driving automobiles and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms. Flappers had their origins in the liberal period of the Roaring Twenties the social political turbulence and increased transatlantic cultural exchange that followed the end of World War I as well as the export of American jazz culture to Europe. The flapper stands as one of the most enduring images of youth and new women in the twentieth century and is viewed by Americans as something of a cultural heroine nowadays. However back in the 1920s many Americans regarded flappers as threatening to conventional society representing a new moral order. Although most of them were the daughters of the middle class they flouted middle-class values. They shrugged off their chaperones danced suggestively and openly flirted with boys.; Manuscript; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF MARGARET ELLIOTT PURDUE UNIVERSITY INDIANA FLAPPER NEW WOMAN FEMINISM 1920s WOMANHOOD FLOUTING SOCIAL NORMS ROARING TWENTIES GILDED AGE NEW ROLE OF WOMEN NEW BEHAVIOR FEMININE MYSTIQUE FEMININE SEXUALITY SORORITY LIFE ALPHA CHI OMEGA WOMENS STUDIES CASUAL SEX AMERICA IN THE 1920s POST WORLD WAR 1 ERA INTERWAR PERIOD IMAGES OF YOUTH WOMEN DATING FREELy LIBERATED WOMAN AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO DANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0009063
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JOSEPH HOLMES
1850 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A WELL-TO-DO YOUNG MAN WHO EXPERIENCES HOMESICKNESS AND DEPRESSION AS HES SENT OFF TO CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS TO STUDY FOR HIS HARVARD ENTRANCE EXAM
KINGSTON CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS MA HARVARD. Good. 1850. On offer is the diary of Joseph Holmes an 18 year old boy who leaves his home in Kingston Massachusetts in 1850 to be tutored for the college examination in Cambridge Mass. presumably for entrance into Harvard University. On the first page Holmes writes: The Intention of this Journal is as well and faithfully as I am able to carry out my purpose to contain a description of all my actions of my advancement in study of my pastimes of my expenditures and all such other matters as may be interesting for myself parents and other friends to whom it shall always be open in after time to review neatly written down each day at an appointed period set especially apart for the purpose. He begins his journal as follows: "This morning for the first time I left the place of my Nativity the Home of Eighteen years the Friends of my infancy and Youth the Companions of a happy Boyhood the scenes of a brief but gladsome experience and more than all the immediate presence and supervision of my Parents for a long absence but I trust not separation. He writes of his farewells to his family and takes the train to school with his father: "Having seated myself in the cars I was soon beyond Kingston and summoning all my courage I tried to appear cheerful. The Hon Daniel Webster occupied a seat directly in front of me. Upon leaving the cars I perceived Capt A Baker. After our arrival we proceeded directly to the Fitchburg Station and took the Harvard Branch for Cambridge about to be my dwelling place. Holmes finds a boarding house to live in Cambridge. He becomes homesick very soon and to add to his misery the weather is very poor with constant rain. He writes: "My room is dark disagreeable and cold. I am obliged to wrap a coverlet about me to keep comfortable. I never before have seen so dusty and muddy a place as this is it is difficult to decide which is the worst - one day you are covered with dust the next splattered with mud which resembles ashes and water." However he does take to his studies with his tutor very well: I went to my Tutor an hour earlier instead of my appointed one for other days. My lesson being well acquired and ____ I happily began to prepare myself for my first walk into Boston and later I spent most of the morning in study preparing my lesson. Mr. Lowe seems to be very well satisfied with my advancement - I told him this morning he must scold if I was not smart enough. In spite of the poor weather Holmes does walk quite often to Boston and around the area. He visits Mount Auburn and writes of the beautiful monuments and the simple beauty of the chapel. He also visits Harvard Hall: "we went over to Harvard Hall and viewed all the paintings and portraits. Some of them are splendid pictures. The principal room is the place where the students practice forensics. Shall I ever tremble on that stage myself thought I as I saw it and after that came this encouragement.Shall I ever make those before me in this Hall to tremble." Holmes is an excellent and mellifluous writer: Here we have another dull rainy homesick day. The clouds seemed to be overloaded with water and are pouring forth their liquid contents plentifully and continually. Holmess father must have done business in Boston as Holmes meets him quite often at the depot. His father keeps his son updated on the news from home as well as with letters and the diary contains mentions of deaths marriages and family news. There are no entries from May 27 until Oct 20 the last entry in the journal. In this last entry he summarizes what he had done since May. Most importantly to him he passed the "dreaded college examination". He writes I studied very steadily during the month of June and a fortnight of July preparing.July myself the pleasure of a few visits home. He also wrote of the Fourth of July Celebration in Boston and the great Quarter Celebration of the June 17th: "I spent the day with Mrs. Barker having just returned from Kingston. Mr. Everett delivered the Oration in one of the Ship Houses of the Navy Yard which was beautifully decorated and arranged for the occasion." Edward Everett was a US Representative a US Senator Governor of Massachusetts and Secretary of State. He was also President of Harvard from 1846 to 1849. In this same long entry the Holmes mentions another historical event that occurred in July 1850: "On the 10th of July I went home with my tutor Mr. Lowe to spend a day with Father and Mother before the examination. We carried with us the sad news of the death of President Z Taylor. He finishes the entry by stating: I returned to Cambridge and entered upon my Collegiate Course when I should have also returned to any Journal but for various reasons I have delayed this long. At the very end of the book There are two pages of the Account of Joseph A. Holmes in which Holmes writes down his various expenses for the month of May such as Carriage to convey Trunk - $.25 1/2 Lb. Confectionary - $.10 1 pr. Congress Gaiters - $3.00 1 Pr. Pants - $5.00 and a number of others. The final page of the book is titled Memoranda of Correspondence of J. A. H. and contains a column of Correspondents alongside columns of Letters written and Letters recd with the amount written next to each name. The diaries duration is from May 7-26 and an entry on October 20 1850. There are 28 handwritten pages in total in the book which is roughly 70 pages in length. It is bound in brown marbled paper with a piece of black cloth on the spine; Both covers are detached from the text block. Holmes writes in black ink and his script is very neat and legible fitting for a young man studying higher education in the 1850s.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF JOSEPH HOLMES HARVARD UNIVERSITY CAMBRIDGE KINGSTON MASSACHUSETTS HARVARD HALL MOUNT AUBURN 19TH CENTURY HIGHER EDUCATION ELITE EASTERN COLLEGES HIGHER EDUCATION IN NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE EXAMINATION TUTORING MATURATION OF A YOUNG MAN FLANEUR ELITE YOUNG MEN MID-19TH CENTURY MALE EDUCATION AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO DANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . hardcover
书商的参考编号 : 0009062
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UNNAMED [with JOHN JAMES, PETER DAWSON, HARRY DAVIES]
c1940s ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF A FASCINATING AND ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY TAKEN BY FOUR PROPER ENGLISHMEN AND THEIR ETHIOPIAN SERVANTS THROUGH EAST AFRICA BY LAND SEA AND AIR
CAIRO KHARTOUM DURBAN SOUTH AFRICA EAST AFRICA. Good. 1940. On offer is a short and fascinating travel journey through East Africa undertaken in the 1940s. It is a detailed account of four Englishmen John James Peter Dawson Harry Davies and the unnamed author and two Ethiopian servants brothers named Datchee and Bouwee who take a journey from Cairo Egypt to Durban South Africa travelling by horseback punts canoes and aeroplane. Chances are that the trip was undertaken during the second half of the 1940s as there is no mention of the war that consumed the world in the first half of the decade. The first page of the book contains an index which shows that the diary consists of six chapters: 1- Preparation for the journey; 2 - From Cairo to Wadi; 3 - From Wadi to Khartoum; 4 - From Khartoum to Lake Rudolf; 5 - Through the jungle; 6 - Back to the world. The index also shows on which page in the book these chapters begin. The first chapter begins: John James Peter Dawson Harry Davies and myself had been working on the Persian oil field for six years and we wanted a holiday. Peter Dawson proposed to go on a travel holiday from Cairo to the Zambesi and we all agreed. We set off by boat on May 16th and arrived at Cairo on May 17th. The preparation for the journey consists of their trouble in finding suitable servants in Cairo. They eventually find Datchee and Bouwee. They also buy their tents sheets and other assorted travelling gear. It had taken us five days to get everything ready but we had enjoyed every one of them. We went to our hotel for the last night for in the morning we were going to start our journey. The second chapter consists of their travel to Wadi in what is now Sudan. They cross through Giza travel on a punt down the Nile river where they meet and exchange food with the natives. They travel down the Nile for a few days having great difficulty crossing the Aswan Low Dam having to carry their punts quite a while to come to the other side. In Wadi they get in touch with a British officer who warned us of the hard work that was coming & entreated us to trek across land but we decided to carry on as we were. We started out from Wadi alright but soon `struck the second cataract. Here the punts had to be carried round & the provision boat unloaded. This was a great waste of time & we were able to sail fifteen miles that day. It takes twenty days to reach Khartoum. One day we had quite a thrill when a hungry lion stepped in our path. We quickly got our rifles all had a shot & all missed. This made the lion more furious & had not Jack intervened and shot it through the heart we should not have been alive to tell the tale. We each took some of its skin as a memento. They rest for three days in Khartoum. And from there they abandon their boats and begin the trek to Lake Rudolf. They follow a caravan route along the Blue Nile. the authors friend John James sprains his ankle but they managed to find a French doctor who rubbed it with oils and bandaged it up tightly. Going forward our greatest handicap.was the tributaries that had to be crossed. Not long after we were over the first tributary we encountered linos. But horses had been trained for this and when they say the lions they laid down that for us to shoot over them. One lion dashed at Tommy and we all shot at it. We killed it all right but it fell on Tommys back legs and were three hours before we could get it off. When they reach Lake Rudolf the author writes our first job was to make friends with the natives which we easily did by giving them a few beads. We were very fortunate in being able to speak to them through Bouwee and Datchee
. Bouwee and Datchee asked them to make us six canoes and one raft for the horses and the food. They all worked like horses for the next few days and at last got them finished. Three of them came with us to propel the raft. Crossing Lake Rudolf proves difficult especially at night. We had a watch as usual but had a very uncomfortable night. Frequently during the night we were awakened by shots from the rifles which had to be fired to scare some animals that were coming too near the camp. They cross the lake in twenty days and reach Port Victoria and continue on foot through the jungle of present-day Tanzania. We arrived at the source of the Luangwa River thirty days after we had set out from Mwanza and decided to make that our destination. On their journey back to the world they decide to sell their horses and return by boat through rivers and tributaries back to Cairo. They sell the horses to an English missionary. It was very good going on the river. WE were sailing with the current and with wind at our backs. In this manner were able to do forty miles per day. They then part with their trusted partners. It took us nine days to reach Chinde where we had to part with Bouwee & Datchee. We offered them five pounds each but they would not take it all they wanted was the canoes which we gladly gave them and said goodbye. We waited a day at Chinde for a boat to Durban. At Durban we took an aeroplane to Khartoum where we reclaimed the punts and sailed down the river. We visited the Pyramids and then returned to work. The cover of the book is a light brown patterned paper. It is in good condition showing very little age or wear. The authors handwriting is in an easily legible script written in black ink. The author of the diary is not stated. No precise dates provided but the trip took several months. The book is 26 pages long in which 23 have writing in them as well as numbered pages.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF JOHN JAMES PETER DAWSON HARRY DAVIES DATCHEE BOUWEE ENGLAND UNITED KINGDOM ENGLISH TRAVEL WORLD WAR TWO ERA POST WW2 CAIRO EGYPT KHARTOUM SUDAN LAKE RUDOLF LAKE TURKANA KENYA ASWAN LOW DAM BLUE NILE DURBAN SOUTH AFRICA PUNT TRAVEL PYRAMIDS OF GIZA PORT VICTORIA TANZANIA LUANGWA RIVER JUNGLE BUSHWACKING THE ENGLISH IN EAST AFRICA MWANZA ENGLISH COLONIALISM BRITANNICA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO DANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0009060
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REV [?] CLAIR
1940 UNIQUE HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND LOG BOOK OF A BRITISH ARMY SCRIPTURE READER AND INTELLIGENCE AGENT! PREACHING THE WORD OF GOD TO THE TROOPS AND ADVOCATING TO BETTER THEIR SPIRITUAL LIVES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
CAIRO EGYPT JERUSALEM BRITISH MANDATED PALESTINE. Good. 1940. On offer is a very unique and one-of-a-kind diary belonging to an O.S.S. agent and British Army Scripture Reader as well as a member of the Soldiers & Airmen's Christian Association serving in the Middle East during the beginning of World War II. The author of the diary last name Clair is obviously a deeply religious and spiritual Christian man and the diary tell of his exploits in both Egypt and the Holy Land in attempting to get the British Army to build a venue for the troops to relax when off duty and attend to their spiritual needs. The diary details comprehensive lists of everyone he has had meetings with including high ranking Generals and church members Bishops etc. as well as observations of the civilian social life in Egypt. The diary entries begin on April 5 1940. We arrived at Alexandria @ 8 AM. The Rev. Horden came on board and called up us at the A.C.G.'s Air Combat Group ___. This was most courteous of him.We praise the Lord for all His Merries and especially for putting putting His Seal on the Testimony by Saving 13 Souls on board the we know of. Surely merry and goodness have followed us all our days. His entries for everyday are quite long and filled with his stories of meeting with all sorts of people advocating the necessity of places of spiritual and religious respite for the soldiers and militarymen stationed in the Middle East. Throughout the diary Clair calls upon dozens upon dozens of people to spread his message. Each person or organization is underlined in the diary so they are very easy to find. Sometimes he meets with so many people in one day that he numbers them. Called on A.C.G. and discussed our movements. He promised to get us a permanent pass for Palestine.He will also try and procure rail passes on reduced fares. He told me that if at any time a Chaplain was found to be hindering or opposing the work I must let him know at once and he would put a stop to it. In May Claire moves on to British Mandated Palestine where he continues to preach the gospel and teach bible classes to soldiers as well as advocating for more spiritual services for the men in uniform. On June 10th Claire records that Italy declares war against Britain and France: Over the wireless we heard that Italy had declared war on England and France. Once war is declared by Italy he buys a truck and travels to the front line at places like Mersa Matruh Jerusalem Tiberias Haifa Abbassia Cairo etc. and details the Army units he visited. Clair returns to Cairo at the end of June. June 21 1940. I had a long talk with Mj. Oates in wh. I discussed the various aspects of our work and we had prayer about it. I asked his opinion about Vernon being asked to look after the ___ at Mersa under himself as Reader as I did not think we should have any new workers.I said that as he was a Saved man the Lord cld. Teach him especially as he would be in a new atmosphere. Mj. Oates agreed. In July Clair spends a week on bed rest with Bronchial Catarrh wh. had affect the left lung. These entries are very short and just concern his health as he was not meeting with anyone during this time. By mid-July the entries are back to their normal length and description and Clair is again fully engaged in preaching the gospel teaching the bible and advocating for a great spiritual presence in the British Army and Air Force. July is quite a busy month for Clair and some days he calls up 8 or 9 different people. In August he travels back to the Holy Land going to Jerusalem for a number of days to help set up a location for a permanent post for the British Army Scripture Readers. He returns to Jerusalem as well as Tel Aviv in December. The book also includes a number of lists of professed Christians Addresses of Christians at Sarafand RAF ministers tools and equipment in his car items in his personal canteen and colors of Army unit. The book is roughly 380 pages in the length with writing in at least 325. The months of January and February have fairly inconsistent writing and the entries consist of the lists previously mentioned. The entries are consist after April 5th through the month of August is has a number of days missing. The book is in good shape. The cover title has Charles Letts POPULAR DIARY for 1940. No. 281 and Charles Letts & Co. written on the front. Clair has also written briefly on the cover: O.S.S. Clair. Army Scripture Reader S.A.C.A. Egypt. Background: The Soldiers and Airmens Scripture Readers Association commenced informally in 1818 amongst troops in the Woolwich Garrison. It expanded to such an extent that in 1838 concerned Christian Officers formed the Soldiers' Friends Society and The Army Scripture Readers; the then Chaplain General placed it on a more formal footing by issuing a Charter in 1854. In 1887 The Soldiers Christian AssociationS.A.C.A. was formed becoming The Soldiers and Airmens Christian Association when the Royal Air force was formed. In 1938 the Army Scripture Readers and SACA amalgamated and in 1950 the name The Soldier's and Airmens Scripture Readers Association was adopted. Usually known by the acronym SASRA.; Manuscript; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF BRITISH ARMY SCRIPTURE READER SOLDIERS AND AIRMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SASRA CHRISTIANITY IN THE BRITISH ARMY WORLD WAR 2 PASTORS SPIRITUAL LIVES OF TROOPS IN WW2 CHRISTIANITY IN MODERN WARFARE CAIRO EGYPT MERSA MATRUH JERUSALEM TIBERIAS HAIFA ABBASSIA BRITISH MANDATED PALESTINE PRE-ISRAEL MIDDLE EAST THE HOLY LAND IN WWII MIDDLE EAST THEATRE OF WORLD WAR II ITALYS DECLARATION OF WAR ON FRANCE AND BRITAIN BRITANNICA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO DANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
书商的参考编号 : 0009061
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