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Davis, Richard E.; Klein, Gertrude; Dickson, Vance; Keegan, John J.; Vincent, Harry; et alMareMagnum

Official Detective Stories Magazine, October 15, 1936, Vol. II, No. 11 - The Camden Dobbins Murder / Sex Behind Bars

1936If vintage true crime is your thing, you just hit the jackpot! 48 pages of fascinating cover-to-cover articles on sensational crimes of the day and related topics, all generously illustrated with quality black and white reproductions of photos. Features: Rehabilitation As I See It - by Richard E. Davis, Warden, Utah State Penitentiary; Inside Story of the Murder of Curtis W. Dobbins, brilliant young engineer of the RCA Victor Corporation, in the exclusive Camden suburb of Haddonfield; The Skull That Came Back To Life - the bones of Lillian White, murdered on Cheesecock Mountain near Haverstraw, New York, were used to reconstruct her identity and make possible a feverish manhunt; Sex Behind Bars - an expose of the ways of prison love and the unscrupulous "wolves" therein; The Most Wanted Man in Portland - Roy "Ted" Massey, alias Jack Henry, wanted for Hold-up and Murder Investigation; Rise and Fall of Racketeer Barons - Dossier of the Fabulous Volpe Brothers of Pittsburgh - they reached out for racketeer gold - and ruin; The Rape and Murder of pretty NYU student Helen Clevenger; What Happened to Vanished New York Supreme Court Judge Joseph Force Carter?; Sterilization - If legalized it could have prevented the heinous love racket killings of Harry F. Powers; Amazing photo of a portion of the throng of 20,000 souls who turned out to witness the hanging of 'Negro rapist' Rainey Bethea in Owensboro, KY; Brief write-ups (with small photos) of the murders of Japanese actress Neda Taka in Los Angeles, and Louise Trammell in Chicago; San Quentin Penitentiary Inmates caught operating a counterfeiting plant that circulated queer money from Canada to Mexico!; Modern Science in Crime Detection - fingerprints at the scene; Spicy color-illustrated back cover ad for the next issue features young lady being whipped; Somewhat above-average external soiling, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this outstanding vintage issue. Book

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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January, 1926 Through December 1926

1926Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Great photo of cable-pulling gang; The progress of the phone in greater Vancouver; New record set by Vancouver installers; Cartridge fuses defend against foreign currents; Providing phone facilities is a co-operative task; New Kerrisdale exchange being equipped; How a switchboard lamp is made; William Buckle and Splicing; Construction/splicing in Vancouver; A Switchboard Plug and Cord Explains its troubles; Where the cables end when they crawl out of the sea; Chilliwack's first telephone agent, John McCutcheon, passes away; Nice photo of Granville and Hastings; Nice photo of Richmond Road and area near Victoria; Operator training - 8 pages with nice photos; Peter Grant helped equip Canada's first common battery office; Nanaimo and New West. offices to be expanded; Preparing the pay cheques; George P. Kelly - installed 80' poles; More trunks in Vancouver; Lightning damage on mainland; Repeaters aid voice currents on long journeys; automatic typewriters - chief repeaterman William Faulkes; New Kerrisdale office; Bar Graph of growth of the B.C. system; Statement of Development: # of phones in operation in towns across the province; Victoria and Vancouver to be united by new route; how the phone bill was paid 20 years ago; Kootenays get service; The service application; High tension hazards; draughting the system; Mr. C.E.S. Fisher; Operator Grant gets a phone in her home; Arithmetic is paramount in traffic man's life; Phone shattered by lightning strike; Kamloops now connected to coast; Despatching yellow cabs from 'seymour 4000'; New Carlton office; plant garage serves many cars; new Langley office; Long Kamloops feature with many photos; Grouse Mountain yields to phone's advance - long article with many photos; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear overall with the exception of backstrip which shows significant wear and is loose along back edge. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Book

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HELENA'S SOCIAL SUPREMACY

1894ref. WRCAM55246Helena Mt 1894. 48pp. including eleven full-page illustrations and a full-page map. 12mo. Original printed green pictorial wrappers. Previous ownership signature on front wrapper see note below. Wrappers lightly soiled. Near fine. In a folding cloth chemise and cloth slipcase spine gilt. A satirical work on the serious subject of locating the Montana state capitol in the guise of a survey of Helena society and its mores. This pamphlet was issued by the supporters of Anaconda as Montana's capital city and though they ultimately lost that war they won this battle attacking the pretensions of Helena's elites. Home to a number of mining millionaires Helena is described as "Montana's center of fashion refinement gentility etiquette kettle drums high fives progressive euchre and mixed drinks." In the contest between Helena and Anaconda for state capitol Helena is shown to be vastly superior civilized and cultured whereas in Anaconda "the merchants do not even carry silk stockings in stock." The humorous line-drawn illustrations are excellent and the map shows Helena as the railroad center of the state. The illustration on the rear wrapper shows Helena as an octopus ensnaring surrounding towns including Butte and Virginia City in its tentacles and the facetious advertisements on the final three pages are for businesses such as "Sin Brothers and Bum: Finest Opium Dens in the City" and "Bustem & Skinem" real estate and mining agents who specialize in the "salting of mines." The Eberstadts loved this title asking $200 for a copy in 1965: "A witty satire on the dead-serious subject of locating the capital.The alleged villainy of Marcus Daly - who spent half a million dollars to bring the capital to Anaconda - is painted blacker than black; he is even accused of consorting with miners and common laboring men and being interested in the miserable affairs of their families. A comparative table demonstrates Helena's overwhelming superiority in the number of silk hats No. 7 shoes silk night shirts kid gloves cocktail and champagne guzzlers ladies who rip other ladies up the back and skeletons in closets." This copy bears the ownership signature on the front wrapper of Richard Lockey Jr. son of Richard Lockey a pioneering Montana real estate agent banker and merchant. As a partner with Peter Winne in the Denver and Helena Investment Company Lockey senior arranged for the donation of the site for the Montana State Capitol in 1895. He was therefore intimately involved with the subject of this work. SMITH PACIFIC NORTHWEST AMERICANA 4318. GRAFF 1846. EBERSTADT 168:334. DECKER 26:223. hardcover books

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Photographic Album Documenting the Aftermath and Funeral Procession of the January 15 1895 Explosion and Fire in Butte Montana. Butte Montana 1895.

ref. FRE64Accordion-fold album containing twelve 12 original photographs each approximately 11.4 × 8.9 cm 4.5 × 3.5 in. mounted on heavy cloth leaves between dark brown cloth-covered boards; album when closed approximately 12.7 × 10.2 cm 5 × 4 in. Prints somewhat faded and with generally light contrast nevertheless retaining considerable detail. Some wear and fraying to the cloth mounts and extremities; overall good condition. The photographs form a coherent visual record of the aftermath of the January 15 1895 Butte explosion and fire one of the deadliest disasters in Montana history. The fire began in Butte’s warehouse district and had already become well established when the fire department arrived. A relatively small initial explosion was heard inside the Kenyon-Connell warehouse; believing it safe to continue fighting the blaze firefighters resumed pumping water before a much larger explosion occurred caused by a large quantity of dynamite stored inside the building without the fire department’s knowledge. Firemen and bystanders were killed and injured and the explosion drew additional people to the scene to assist in recovering the dead and wounded. During these efforts another major explosion occurred at the nearby Butte Hardware Company warehouse where dynamite was also being stored. The official death toll was 57 possibly higher and included thirteen paid and part-paid members of the Butte Fire Department. Only two paid firefighters survived together with “Jim” the horse pulling the hook-and-ladder wagon. In the aftermath Butte prohibited the storage of dynamite within the city. The album includes with two contemporary memorial composites of members of the Butte Fire Department. A substantial group of photographs records the immediate physical destruction. Broad sections of the warehouse district have been reduced to fields of splintered timber collapsed sheet material and structural debris with virtually nothing left standing in several views. Individual photographs show townsmen and recovery workers wondering around the ruins; groups of men gathered amid the wreckage; isolated figures crossing the devastated area; and the skeletal remains of large wooden structures. Another photograph shows men gathered beside a horse-drawn wagon within the disaster area apparently during the recovery and clearing of the site. The concluding photographs document the public mourning and funeral procession following the disaster. One shows an immense crowd filling and lining a Butte street; others photographed from elevated positions record the long procession passing through the city with pedestrians mourners and successive horse-drawn vehicles extending far into the distance. Taken together these views convey both the scale of the funeral and the extraordinary effect of the disaster upon the community. The explosions killed the majority of Butte’s professional firefighting force and devastated part of the warehouse district while the subsequent funeral became a major civic event. The album is particularly effective in its progression from memorial portraits of the firefighters through the almost completely flattened explosion site and contemporary recovery activity to the mass public mourning that followed. hardcover

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British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January, 1923 Through December 1923

1923Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photo of downton Nelson; Bird's-eye photo of Nelson from atop a mountain on north shore of west arm; Kootenay Feature 'The Romance of the 1890s - 8 pages of text and archival photos, including electric street cars in Nelson!; Table showing 'Exchanges in order of percent good toll calls; Cover advert. for Northern Electric Vacuum Cleaner!; Review of growth show steady expansion - 3 pages; Telephoning across Atlantic by AT&T Wireless continued for hours; When the Victoria and Esquimalt Telephone Company issued its own (one call) nickels; B.C. Industrial Review - statistics; Bar graph of # of phones operated from 1906 through 1923; the company's operator school; Issuing of monthly phone bills a work of magnitude - 4 page article with photos; photos of the halibut industry before 'the fish were scarcer in quantities and their habitats more scattered'; William Farrell- an appreciation of the former company president; 7 page article on B.C.'s deep sea fishing industry - great photos - halibut, herring, flounder; multiple photos from the Kootenays of snakes which have climbed up phone poles onto the wires!; photo of 25 year-old phone; Great full-page photo of the CIBC building at Hastings and Granville; 8 page article on the banks of vancouver with excellent photos; First interdepartmental football game; new power plant at Seymour office; A phone in B.C. for every 6 persons; Feature on Dams and the water-powers that turn the wheels of industry - photos of dams and various industries which use electricity, including the American Can factory and grain elevators; new power plant at Seymour office - illustrated; photos of productive farms and ideal homesites with super centerfold luxury Saanich home; Cover photo of U.S. President Harding in Stanley Park; Full-page photos of the U.S.S. Henderson entering the narrows and at dock with President Harding aboard; 13 page illustrated feature on the visit of President Harding - the first visit to Canada made by a President of the United States (President Harding died mere days later on August 2nd in San Francisco and this is reported as well); Photo of Crosland Bros. Farm in Duncan; 9 page illustrated feature on the seed growers of B.C.; photo of Duncan office under construction; Nice 8-page illustrated feature on Haney and area; photographing sound; Exploring Kootenay - Bill Skilling; 9 page illustrated feature on the Delta and Ladner district; Many miles of new long distance circuits; Improved inter-office trunk lines in Vancouver; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear overall with the exception of the backstrip which is missing small chips and loose at back edge. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge else unmarked. Binding intact. Spine leaning moderately. Book

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Tunnel and Mountain ExcavationBiblio.com

The Transportation and Infrastructure Boom: Archive of 19 Large Photographs of the Gardner Denver Co Tunnel and Mountain Excavation Photographs c. 1960s

1960ref. 231891960. Labor Industrial rock drilling photograph archive documenting Gardner Denver and drill carrier machinery in factory yard and field settings circa 1960s recording how specialized drilling equipment was designed serviced and operated in steep-cut and tunnel construction environments. The group centers on crawler-mounted drills compressor-fed hose systems and rail-mounted heavy equipment photographed both as machines and in use by work crews. Gardner Denver is identified directly by company stamps and visible signage while the field views place the machinery within active excavation and blasting work rather than isolated product display. Photo archive of 19 Large silver gelatin photographs all 8 x 10 inches Quincy Illinois and unidentified mountain construction sites circa 1960s. Views include operators seated or standing at tracked drill carriers on exposed rock faces; close mechanical studies of valves feed assemblies hoses and fittings; factory-yard portraits of articulated drill rigs parked on pavement; and a large rail-mounted drilling platform photographed on tracks with crew members standing above it. Several photographs show men in work clothes and caps monitoring or operating the machines on steep slopes with forested ridgelines behind them. One image records a tunnel portal marked BLUE MOUNTAIN with adjacent heavy construction equipment and rails leading into the opening. Blue Mountain Tunnel belonged to the original Pennsylvania Turnpike system opened in 1940 and by the 1960s it stood within a corridor undergoing major modernization as rising traffic as Americans in the postwar years increasingly relied on automobile ownership suburban commuting and highway expansion ultimately reshaping infrastructure construction and everyday mobility from the late 1940s through the 1960s. Advances in carrier-mounted rock drilling concentrated labor on machine operation positioning maintenance and coordinated blasting making work at Blue Mountain Tunnel faster more systematized and less dependent on earlier hand-held drilling methods. After World War II postwar conditions produced the demand capital and public-works agenda that made this machinery necessary: rising automobile traffic highway expansion tunnel widening and large earthmoving projects pushed contractors toward faster more powerful and more standardized drilling systems. Drilling was one of the mechanical developments that transformed rock excavation in the 1950s and 1960s and moved from more limited portable systems toward carrier-mounted equipment able to work faster more consistently and on more difficult terrain for highway cuts tunnel approaches and other large infrastructure projects. Because the group includes stamped manufacturer views shop and yard photographs working machine close-ups and field operation scenes it shows the full operating system of industrial drilling technology rather than a single machine in isolation. Light handling wear and minor curling at edges; one print with blueprint attached to verso; all images otherwise clean and in good condition. Depicting the industrial postwar boom and infrastructure investments carried out by mid-century American excavation technology manufacturer documentation and construction labor in practice. unknown

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Neufeld, Charles; Edmonds, Alfred; Russell, Kitty; Knowles, Rev. Joshua; Barclay, H.V.; FitzGerald, W.G.; Perkins, H.; Et alMareMagnum

The Wide World Magazine - An Illustrated Monthly, October (Oct.) 1899, Vol. 3, No. 18 - My Impressions of Pekin (Beijing / Peking)

1899Pages 562-676. Features: In the Khalifa's Clutches - part IV of Charles Neufeld's ordeal; Impressions of Pekin - sensational photo-illustrated article; Two Loves Affairs, and How They Ended - Colonel Hervey Tryon falls headlong into a deep well of garbag; The Hook-Swinging Ceremony as I Saw It - Rev. Joshua Knowles describes a South Indian pagan festival in which devotees have hook placed in their flesh before they are swung into the air at the end of long poles - with photos; A Desperate Plight - travails of Captain H.V. Barclay in the arid Australian interior; The Great Grottos of Han - photo-illustrated article on the marvelous caverns near Han-sur-Lesse in the Belgian Ardennes; Held by An Octopus - Herbert Perkins explains how he was grabbed from out of the water; Shooting the Reversible Falls - photo-illustrated story from St. John, New Brunswick involving Xavier Francis and Louis Mitchell; Life in an Italian Village (near Pallanza); On the War-Path with Redskins - a retaliatory raid of natives is recounted by J.W. Schultz, a Rocky Mountain guide who was married to a Blackfoot and lived among them in Montana; The Fantastic Carnival at Pangau in a remote part of the Austrian Tyrol; Twenty-Seven Days in an Open Boat - Part II - the castaways are finally rescued, but in ghastly condition; Naia, The Witch of Rochefort-en-Terre, in Brittany - photo-illustrated article; Through Italy in Bedouin Dress - photo-illustrated account; One Thousand Miles on Mule-Back - Part I of this photo-illustrated article of the amazing journey of Mabel Penniman from New York to London via Central and South Amerca; The Bogus "Rush" at Coolgardie - photo-illustrated of a fake gold rush in Australia as told by John Marshalll of Kalgoorlie; Photo of women coal heavers in Dresden; Full-page photo from Kelsey Creek, California showing a river of fish three feet deep - with no water!; Photo of Tunisian camel fight; and more. Average external wear and soiling. Few pencil markings. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this excellent issue. Book

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