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1911réf. 2949Salt Lake City: Souvenir Novelty Co. Inc 1911. 40pp Oblong duodecimo 16 cm x 3 cm Tan string tied wrappers. Good only. Complete with some of the leaves loose from the string binding and laid in. 39 views of Salt Lake City and the surrounding area including views of Mormon buildings with brief descriptions and past and present leaders of the Mormon Church. The vast majority of the images are from the firm of C.R. Savage. Flake/Draper 7608d. Souvenir Novelty Co. Inc unknown books
1977réf. 152028N.p.: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co 1977. Vintage poster for the 1978 Daytona 500 held on February 19 1978 at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach Florida. Poster is cross promotion for the 1978 Daytona 500 and Winston Cigarettes. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's Winston Cigarettes sponsored the NASCAR Cup Series from 1971 to 2003. The 1978 NASCAR Grand National Winston Cup Series was the 30th season of US professional stock car racing and the 7th modern era NASCAR Cup series. The 1978 Daytona 500 was the 20th running of the event and the second race of the 1978 Winston Cup season. Defending winner Cale Yarborough won the pole and Bobby Allison won the race. 20 x 27.75 inches. Very Good with some edgewear creasing and small closed tears at extremities 1/2 to 1 inch chips on top and bottom right corners and very light foxing on bottom. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co unknown books
1963réf. 151483Tooele County UT: N.p. 1963. Archive of 163 vernacular photographs including 145 in color and 18 in black-and-white capturing the 1960-1963 National Speed Trials commonly known as Speed Week at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Housed in 17 yellow envelopes with dates and names of racers written in holograph ink annotation to the rectos. Offered with the archive is a brand new set of the two-volume Bonneville National Speed Trials references covering 1949-1958 and 1959-1968 respectively. The set is new and still in shrinkwrap. In the early 1960s wealthy California car owners began to experiment with surplus jet engines to boost the horsepower of their cars creating distinctive bootlegged hotrods referred to as jet cars or jets designed specifically for the compacted salt surface of the flats. The photographs in the archive document many early iterations of these unusual and profoundly dangerous vehicles with a particular focus on racers from southern California including Art Arfons' 8000-horsepower Cyclops which set a record for an open-cockpit vehicle 342 mph which still stands today and Mickey Thompson's Challenger I the first car to record a top speed of 400 mph. Also notable are several photographs of the streamliner entries of the Summers brothers in 1961 1962 and 1963 whose streamliner Goldenrod would go on to hold the land speed record from 1965 to 1991. As a whole the photographs are bright and well-executed clearly shot with a racing insider's eye for detail. Photographs from the perspective of Speed Week attendees are scarce owing to the relatively remote locale and complete absence of accommodations for spectators making the images in the archive an uncommon intimate record of several pivotal years in the history of hotrod racing. Photographs 5.75 x 3.5 inches envelopes 7.5 x 4. Some photographs with faint adhesive residue to the versos else envelopes and photographs generally Near Fine. Full provenance available. N.p. unknown books
1964réf. 151477San Diego: San Diego Timing Association 1964. Archive of vintage programs bulletins flyers and newspaper clippings published by and relating to the San Diego Timing Association a foundational sanctioning organization in US drag racing. In postwar America the return of risk-loving unmarried ex-GIs with advanced mechanical skills and extra money to spend led to the rise in popularity of illegal street racing. Southern California racers took advantage of the growing number of abandoned military strips in the state colloquially known as "drags" such as the Santa Ana Drags and Sweetwater Dam Navy Outlying Field. Local car clubs pressured law enforcement to allow racing on the strips efforts which would precipitate the formation of the San Diego Timing Association. The SDTA held their first sanctioned meet at the Sweetwater Dam drag which the members renamed Paradise Mesa on March 11 1951. The events drew spectators and racers from across southern California catching the attention of the newly formed National Hot Rod Association which became a co-sanctioning body for the Paradise Mesa meets in 1953. Importantly the Paradise Mesa races were the first to present drag races in their now standard modern form two cars competing on a quarter-mile closed strip. Paradise Mesa faced local backlash after a gory racing accident in June 1956 which injured 12 spectators leading to the prompt closure of the facility for racing purposes. Tensions between police and racers heightened in the ensuing years culminating in a two-day clash in August of 1960 after racers shut down three blocks off El Cajon Boulevard in San Diego to stage their own unauthorized drags. The El Cajon Boulevard Riot is now considered one of the first of the youth riots which would come to characterize the 1960s. The materials contained in the archive provide an extensive register of the early years of the Paradise Mesa races compiled by foundational SDTA member Andrew Smith including 16 original programs for events at the strip and 9 mimeographed broadsheet flyers advertising races. The archive also includes several documents authored by members of the SDTA such as a constitution document signed by the members of a car club called The Kingpins and a typescript press release statement created in response to the El Cajon Boulevard riots. Of particular note is a nine-page circa-1952 mimeographically duplicated issue of the SDTA News subtitled "Competition Rules" which contains the first known use in print of the word "dragster" defining the word as a class of race car formerly known as a "lakester." A vibrant fascinating collection allowing a rare glimpse into a seminal period in the histories of both auto racing and youth culture sparsely documented up to this point as a result of the scarcity of available information and surviving material. Housed in a three-ring binder. Binder and contents generally Near Fine. San Diego Timing Association unknown books
1950réf. 151268N.p.: N.p. 1950. Archive of 13 vintage single-weight vernacular photographs and 1 vintage double-weight vernacular photograph of open-wheel racing events held at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines circa 1950s. The photographs in the archive show close-ups shots of races at the Iowa State Fairgrounds' original half-mile dirt track with the idiosyncratic vehicle designs and paint schemes of the era on full display. Also included in the archive are several photographs of the Bardahl Special #2 "The Black Deuce" a champion racing car owned by noted car collector Hector Honore Jr. with the car's second driver Bobby Grim behind the wheel. Open-wheel racing was first sanctioned in the US by the AAA Contest Board who introduced the first track season national championship in 1905. The sport grew in popularity after World War II attributable in large part to the rapid innovations in auto engineering and design throughout the 1950s. In the ensuing decade the rise of the Chevy V8 would quickly render prewar four-cylinder and flathead engines obsolete making the photographs in the archive a valuable record of early race car construction and use. Photographs generally Very Good plus lightly and evenly faded. N.p. unknown books
1956réf. 151379Indianapolis: O'Dell and Shields Studios 1956. Two vintage photo albums documenting Dean Van Lines Indy car team before during and after the Indianapolis 500 in 1955 and 1956 with legendary driver Jimmy Bryan at the helm. Several photographs stamped on the verso by the O'Dell and Shields Studios of Indianapolis longtime contract photographers for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Dean a California moving company magnate and noted championship car owner began his association with Bryan in 1954 when the driver would score his first significant win the AAA National Championship. The pair would win an astonishing 17 national championship races over the course of the next four years. The 1955 album contains 12 photographs capturing the moments before the 500 with several views of the team performing last-minute modifications to the Kuzma-Offenhauser better known as the Dean Van Lines #2 Special custom-built by Eddie Kuzma for the 1955 race. Also included in the album are several action shots of the race itself along with a single photograph of Bryan posing behind the wheel of Dean's #7 Champ car. The second album containing 20 photographs documents the Dean Van Lines team at the 500 the following year with Bryan again behind the wheel. A blown tire around lap 100 would spin the Special into the south infield effectively ending the team's shot at winning the race a moment evocatively captured in the album. Dean and Bryan would take the roadster pictured in both albums to the short-lived Race of Two Worlds in Italy in 1957 an event which featured Indy drivers racing against European Formula One drivers. Bryan would go on to win the 500 in 1958 for George Salih only a few years before his death at 34 in a crash on the Langhorne Speedway in 1960. A fascinating collection of photographs providing an unusually intimate look behind the scenes at two pivotal figures in US motorsport history. Albums 11.25 x 8.5 inches photographs 8 x 11 inches. Albums and contents generally Very Good plus. O'Dell and Shields Studios unknown books
1931réf. RALBAUT00EFScarborough Motor Guide Company 1931. Very Good. Albany Auto Club. Automobile Green Book All-in-One Guide: Road Reference and Tourists' Guide of All States East of Mississippi River Eastern Ontario Quebec and Maritime Provinces. Boston: Scarborough Motor Guide Company 1931. 985pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Olive wraps. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed bumped and faded edges light soiling and creased corners and spine. Spine ends are slightly chipped. Pages are yellowed have a few light stains and slightly dog-eared corners but are otherwise clean. Contains maps histories of towns and other roadside attractions from Quebec to Miami Beach. Scarborough Motor Guide Company paperback books
1929réf. 23770Port Jefferson N.Y.: Arthur S. Greene Photographer 1929. Group of 13 professionally-photographed images of a roadway and vehicles one taken of a badly-damaged flatbed truck secured to a tow truck; another image an auto not damaged; also including measured areas with ruler; of an automobile accident site near Patchogue Long Island; a roadside sign in one image advertises Bailey's Lumber in Patchogue; several dated with August 21 1929 and a couple with a date of the 23rd or 27th same year; all with the A.S. Greene photographer identification on back via stamp or hand-written; black and white; each image approx. 7 3/4" x 9 3/4" size cropped to the edge and all are backed with linen for durability; light wear; in very good condition; interesting use of photography as a vital form of evidence-gathering in the legal insurance and accident claim business. See 1999 Kenneth C. Brady Arthur S. Greene 1867-1955: The life and work of a Long Island Photographer for very good information and pictorial history concerning this Port Jefferson photographic artist. Photography. Not Bound. Very Good. Arthur S. Greene, Photographer Paperback books
1966réf. 48845Washington DC: UAW International Affairs Department 1966. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; publisher's pictorial staplebound wrappers; 63pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Fine condition. UAW International Affairs Department unknown books
1981réf. 138961Los Angeles: Automobile Club of Southern California 1981. 21.3 cm pp. 1-3 4-39 40: blank cover illustration 5 maps pictorial wrappers stapled. First edition. Describes access regulations accommodations and other services interpretive and other recreational activities and principal points of interest. Includes short sections on the history geology and ecology of the parks together with a section on hiking and backpacking including day hikes and major backcountry routes. Reprinted with revisions several times at least through 1995. Cover edges tanned mostly along bottom edges a very good copy. #138961 Automobile Club of Southern California unknown books
1988réf. 15939Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1988. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; 334pp. Clean tight and unmarked about Fine without jacket. Wayne State University Press unknown books
réf. 15644Early Women's Liberation and the Automobile in the Age of Suffrage. Collection of 4 pieces tracing the new path to independence gained by women with the invention of the automobile. Coming of age at the same time as the suffrage movement was reaching full swing the new technology offered by the automobile allowed women not only a newfound sense of freedom but the ability to travel unimpeded to demonstrate mastery of a new technology and even opened careers in mobility. This collection's vintage pieces include rare printed material on women and the automobile a signed license letters and photos from women who drove right over gender barriers explore the new world opening to women in the 20th century. Leading up to the 20th century automobiles became a symbol of women's increasing social mobility and financial independence. Car makers and dealers realized that a significant number of women wanted and were capable of purchasing their own cars; and so they developed vehicles and marketing campaigns specifically for the female population. This collection's early 1913 brochure "To the American Woman" represents this trend and it declares that "the automobile . is of the greatest use to the woman.because of the importance of her work a woman's need for saving time and effort is imperative." The car saved wives and mothers time as they executed familial duties. It also provided some single women with independent incomes. As young women purchased their own vehicles some used the technology to support themselves by becoming mechanics and chauffeurs. These women are represented in this collection by a 1923 "Motor Magazine" with coverage on women car owners a vintage photo of the first woman to motor from Africa to London and an original 1929 Professional Chauffeur's License for Vivian Pickard. Pioneering women like those in this collection overcame gender barriers by increasing their mobility taking advantage of opportunities for mechanical and technical education thus opening new possibilities for women in transportation technology. unknown books
1988réf. 151333N.p.: N.p. 1988. Archive of 120 vernacular borderless color snapshot photographs of the Detroit Grand Prix taken in 1986 1987 and 1988. In the summer of 1982 the US became the first country to host three World Championship Grands Prix in one season with the older Grand Prix West races in Long Beach and Las Vegas joined by the newly established Detroit Grand Prix in Michigan near the General Motors headquarters. The Detroit race continued to be held annually for the next six years in spite of its growing reputation for its narrow bumpy track a result of the race taking place on a closed street course in downtown Detroit and typically hot humid weather. These factors would ultimately push FISA to declare the track unsafe ending the circuit's affiliation with Formula One in 1988 to be replaced by the CART-sanctioned Detroit Indy Grand Prix the following year. The photographs in the archive document an attendee's perspective of the races from 1986-1988 won all three years by Brazilian champion driver Ayrton Senna. The photographs are taken from both the main grandstand and the garages with views of the vibrant car designs downtown cityscape and track layout on full display. An uncommonly thorough look at three successive years in the race's history more broadly capturing the end result of Formula One's attempts to expand internationally throughout the decade. Photographs 5.25 x 3.5 inches housed in three separate envelopes grouping the photographs by year 1986 1987 and 1988. Photographs and envelopes generally Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1968réf. 149422N.p.: N.p. 1968. Archive of 48 vintage photographs of car accidents scenes in the Columbia County New York area from the years 1961-1965 1966 and 1968. With the stamp of Lee's Studio in Chatham NY on the verso of the majority of photographs along with occasional holograph annotations. Most photographs housed in sleeves with annotations detailing dates locations and occasionally noting whether or not the accident was fatal. Also included are several accident reports prepared by Lee Studios for internal use and correspondence between Lee and law firms representing people involved in the accidents requesting copies of photographs. The 1960s saw large increases in the number of vehicle fatalities as car ownership greatly increased over the previous decades and out of the six years documented in the archive 1966 and 1968 are both among the ten deadliest in US history. Photographs variously sized with most being 10 x 8 inches. Generally Near Fine. Housed in a contemporary photo album and two folders. N.p. unknown books
1910réf. WRCAM55051Chicago 1910. 116 photographs plus advertising leaf removed from HARPER'S MAGAZINE issue. Includes album of modern reproductions of the photographs. Oblong pebbled morocco album gilt title on front board. Boards rubbed and worn corners bumped spine perished. Photographs mounted on original linen which is slightly curled. A few small chips to edges no loss to images occasional toning and spots to images. The photographs overall in near fine condition. A handsome trade album of vehicles available from the White Motor Company Cleveland Ohio which grew out of the White Sewing Machine Company into one of the largest truck military and heavy equipment manufacturers of the 20th century. This album was created especially for W.J. Urquhart the general manager of the Western sales department headquartered in Chicago as reported in "The Horseless Age: The Automobile Trade Magazine" vol. 24 1909 p.420. The album opens with a photograph of a Pabst beer truck and continues with a wide variety of passenger and commercial vehicles most with the names of the companies painted on the sides. Among the commercial vehicles depicted are trucks operated by Marshall Field Red Rock beverages the Birmingham Coca-Cola Bottling Company Pocahontas Coal and B.F. Goodrich and there are also images of an ambulance and a police car. A few of the images are detailed views of engines transmissions or other mechanical parts of the vehicles. Most of the photographs have a label on the reverse describing the vehicle or part its price and in some cases also including information on the purchaser. Several of the owners are local but most are scattered across the country Canada and even Russia. A few photos depict the full fleet of a company's trucks lined up proudly in front of factories warehouses and storefronts. Despite the company's reputation decades of mismanagement at higher levels forced the company to declare bankruptcy in 1980; White was bought by Volvo the following year. Such early automobile trade albums are rare. "White Motor Corp." in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CLEVELAND HISTORY online Case Western Reserve University. hardcover books
1976réf. 45761Stuttgart Germany: Porsche KG 1976. Original Porsche red vinyl 4 ring binders with printed title label in spine compartment. General wear & soiling. Some foxing to paper. Some leaves detached some dividers chipped. Overall Very Good. 4 volumes. Divers paginations. Plastic tabbed section dividers. Illustrated with photographic images drawings schematics graphs etc. 12-1/8" x 10" Covers Assembly Groups: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0. Essential reference for 1970s Porsche 911 enthusiasts. Porsche KG unknown books
1923réf. WRCAM265471923. 16-panel map. Some foxing soiled. Minor tears at top of map. Good. Map of New Jersey includes extracts from the traffic laws of the state and a ferry schedule. unknown books
1908réf. WRCAM24263Worcester Ma 1908. 133pp. Quarto. Original limp leather binding rebacked. Corners chipped. Slight loss to corners of "Skeleton Key" map which is pasted inside front cover. Overall quite good. One of the earliest American motoring atlases compiled "from United States Government surveys official state county and city surveys and original sources by Henry MacNair Geographer Associate Member American Society Civil Engineers." This edition not in the NUC which does record two copies of a new edition of the following year. A lovely piece from the beginnings of auto travel. hardcover books
1920réf. WRCAM265441920. 24-panel map. Mild tanning. Very good. Map of New York City. Also includes "Police Regulations for Street Traffic in New York City" and a ferry schedule with rates. unknown books
1941réf. WRCAM28597Washington D.C.: American Automobile Association 1941. 656pp. including maps illustrations and advertisements plus two large folding maps. Printed stiff pictorial wrappers. Wrappers soiled and faded a note in ink on the front wrapper. One leaf detached. Very good. Descriptions and points of interest for fourteen Northeastern states the District of Columbia and eastern Canada. Also includes 454 travel routes throughout the Northeast. American Automobile Association unknown books
1918réf. WRCAM265481918. 24-panel map. Moderate tanning. Some contemporary marks on map. Good. Map of Pennsylvania. Includes curious advertisement for an early form of traveler's checks. unknown books
1940réf. WRCAM28595Washington D.C.: American Automobile Association 1940. 640pp. including maps illustrations and advertisements. Large folding map affixed to rear wrapper. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Wrappers soiled and beginning to pull away from the text block spine cracked. Good lacking the second folding map. Gives descriptions and points of interest for fourteen northeastern states the District of Columbia and eastern Canada. Also includes 453 travel routes throughout the Northeast. American Automobile Association unknown books
1926réf. WRCAM28593Boston & Indianapolis: Scarborough Motor Guide Company 1926. 814pp. including maps and advertisements plus large folding double-sided map. Green fabrikoid. Cover rubbed worn at the head and toe of the spine. Two closed tears to the map of 7 inches and 3 1/2 inches and a few tears at the folds. Else very good. Directions distances and road conditions for nearly 1000 routes in the eastern half of the United States. Also includes a list of golf and country club courses in the states east of the Mississippi River and eastern Canada. Scarborough Motor Guide Company unknown books
1919réf. 21758Syracuse New York: Franklin Automobile Company 1919. Pamphlet. Fair. Together 2 ITEMS. 1 An sales brochure from 1927. 12 pages plus covers. 7 x 9 1/2 inches. Paper wrappers printed orange and brown design staple bound. Folded in the center minor wear at the extremities dealer name and address on front cover upper left. Very good. 2 Repairman's Manual The Franklin Car Series 9-B cover title. 82 pages.5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. March 1919 date. Printed grey wrappers. A FILTHY copy this one is dampstained has what looks like insect trails on the front cover evidence of old mold internally. Even so a rare survival and usable for it's intended purpose. Pamphlet. Franklin Automobile Company unknown books
1932réf. 2459Cleveland: McSweeney Auto School 1932. Signed by the president and superintendent of the school and dated 13 March 1932; with the gold ribboned seal of the school; nice black and white vignette at top of farm tractor truck and auto ;11" x 14" size; some darkening; slight wear; overall very good condition. Very Good. McSweeney Auto School unknown books
