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1943ref. 211901943. WWII Japanese American Japanese American incarceration archive circa 1940s documenting the personal lives of Japanese American detainees at Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona and Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming during World War II. Executive Order 9066 authorized the forced removal and incarceration of more than 120000 persons of Japanese ancestry two thirds of them United States citizens. This archive provides direct material evidence of communication and daily life in the War Relocation Authority camp system. An addressed envelope postmarked February 20 1943 connects two of the ten major incarceration sites indicating a maintained interpersonal network across camps. Photographs in this archive depict a young Japanese American woman in Western dress posed outdoors with barracks visible in several backgrounds and include an image of a young girl on a see-saw before rows of camp housing illustrating the family and youth experience in the camps. Archive of 8 pieces including 7 photographs mostly black and white with one color and 1 post stamped envelope addressed to "Mrs. Asako Kudari" sic at Block 15 21 F Heart Mountain Center Wyoming. Circa 1940s. The envelope bears a purple United States stamp depicting an eagle above the slogan "Win the War" and is postmarked February 20 1943 from Block 44 3A Poston Relocation Center Arizona. Photographs measure approximately 6.5 x 3.5 inches to 2.25 x 3.25 inches. Several images show detainees with camp barracks in the background; others portray a young woman with a Japanese American man wearing glasses suggesting prewar memories though no inscription confirms dating. Poston located in Yuma County Arizona was the largest of the War Relocation Authority camps while Heart Mountain in Park County Wyoming confined nearly 14000 people at its peak. Heart Mountain became a focal point of organized resistance to the military draft of Nisei men in 1944 when 85 young men and seven leaders of the Fair Play Committee were prosecuted under the Selective Service Act after challenging the legality of conscripting citizens while their civil rights were suspended. The present archive predates that confrontation but documents the correspondence networks and ordinary domestic life of the immigrants and citizens detained. Minor edge wear and light surface handling to photographs; envelope with expected postal folds and moderate age toning; overall very good condition. An archive linking two major incarceration sites. unknown books
1945ref. 199841945. Official U.S. Army map documenting the military geography of the Obersalzberg Adolf Hitler's Bavarian headquarters and one of the principal leadership centers of the Third Reich during the final weeks of World War II. The map identifies the Berghof SS barracks the residences of Martin Bormann and Hermann Göring roads toward Mount Kehlstein and the Kehlsteinhaus and other features within the restricted Nazi compound. It provides a contemporary record of how American forces mapped and navigated this highly fortified and symbolically important enemy landscape at the moment of its destruction and occupation. Official U.S. Army Map of the Obersalzberg Nazi Compound. U.S. Army 1945. Single-sheet map measuring 8 x 11¾ inches. By the war's end the Obersalzberg had developed into a cordoned-off Nazi leadership enclave centered on Hitler's Berghof with residences barracks administrative facilities and security installations serving senior members of the regime and SS personnel. The map's schematic and somewhat imperfect geography suggests a practical military purpose rather than a postwar survey providing U.S. personnel with navigational guidance through terrain that had not yet been fully documented on the ground. Its 1945 date places the map directly within the destruction and Allied occupation of the Obersalzberg. RAF Bomber Command attacked the compound on April 25 1945 and American forces entered the area in early May discovering and occupying the remains of one of Nazi Germany's most politically charged command centers. Typical fold creases from field handling; upper corners clipped possibly from mounting or pinning; light stain at lower left; edge wear; tear at lower right not affecting the map image. Overall very good. A scarce contemporary U.S. military document recording the physical organization of Hitler's Obersalzberg headquarters and the practical geography confronting American forces as they entered and occupied the Nazi leadership complex in the final days of the war. unknown books
1969ref. 276114Berkeley CA: Red Mountain Tribe 1969. Newspaper. 28p. folded tabloid underground newspaper articles reviews news opinion events ads comix very good on newsprint. Eldridge Cleaver's Novella "The Black Moochie." Cover cartoon by Sheridan of Alioto flanked by Mafia saying "The Black Panthers Are Just a Bunch of Hoodlums!" Short column of the Renaissance Faire with photo. Gay Liberation full page article. Back page full-page Willy Murphy comic. Red Mountain Tribe unknown books
1964ref. 446625Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club 1964. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. 12mo. 147pp. Color plates in rear drawings. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with tears along the extremities spine sunned. Appalachian Mountain Club hardcover books
1899ref. 365579Montana 1899. 21 silver print photographs. Captioned in pencil on verso. Approx. 4-3/4x7 inches each. Uniformly matted. 21 silver print photographs. Captioned in pencil on verso. Approx. 4-3/4x7 inches each. Although the photographer is unidentified the captions on the verso are in the same hand and the image quality suggests a pictorialist such as Dan Dutro or an extremely talented amateur. The group if noted for its images on the Blackfeet reservation including several of the Grass Dance dated 1899. The captions comprise: Grass Dance 1899 Grass Dance 1899 Inside Medicine Lodge Camp on Cut Bank on Reserve Cut Bank Cut Bank Creek Cut Bank in winter Cut Bank in winter Camp in Cut Bank in winter View in the large park on Cut Bank Peak up Two Medicine Upper St. Mary's Lake Upper St. Mary's Up Birch River Birch Creek south line of reserve Birch Creek Birch Creek Fish Lake south of reserve Fish Lake Grinnell Mt and Swift Current Fall On the trail to Bull's Head Mine in the Swift Current country back of Grinnell Mt. Mt Wilbur in distance. unknown books
1877ref. 321671Montana Territory 1877. Pen-and-ink drawing on ruled paper cut out to size and captioned as above. Approx. 20-1/2 x 7 inches. Old folds. Matted. Pen-and-ink drawing on ruled paper cut out to size and captioned as above. Approx. 20-1/2 x 7 inches. From the first reports of the Yellowstone region such as Gen. Wm. E. Strong's A Trip to the Yellowstone National Park in July August and September 1875 the word began to spread: "There is probably no river in the world the equal of the Yellowstone for big trout." Though tourist parties began to travel to the Yellowstone it was still uncertain territory. In the late summer of 1877 it was the seat of war. In early September 1877 Civil War veteran General Oliver O. Howard who a decade earlier had founded Howard University and served as its president was leading his troops on the trail of the Nez Perce who had just left the Yellowstone Park. Howard's forces more than 500 strong reached the northeast corner of the Park on Clark's Fork on 7 September. The Nez Perce under the leadership of Chief Joseph moved through incredibly rugged terrain and ultimately evaded both Howard and another military cohort under Col. Samuel D. Sturgis. This contemporary record of a Yellowstone river trout was made on a large sheet of ruled ledger paper. The anonymous artist is believed to be Lieut. Cyrus A. Earnest of the 8th U.S. Infantry as the item was found among his papers with a cyanotype of Fort Bridger California where he was posted following his Yellowstone expedition service as well as several related printed documents of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion California Commandery. These items accompany the drawing. Earnest 1840-1893 was a lieutenant in the Eighth Infantry and served with Custer in the 1873 Yellowstone Expedition to survey a route for the Northern Pacific Railroad along the Yellowstone River. While serving under Howard in the Nez Perce expedition Earnest received special commendation for a heroic 2-day over 100 mile ride over rough terrain to resupply the army at Baker's battlefield. Ernest who was born in Ohio used the conventional name for the brook trout Salmo fontanalis but that describes a non-native eastern species. Yellowstone cutthroat trout or black spotted are the most widespread native trout with "highly variable coloration but generally yellow-brown or brassy/bronze" They were first described as a distinct species Oncorhynchus clarkii bouvieri by Jordan and Gilbert in 1883. A remarkable artifact from the earliest years of the U.S. presence in the Yellowstone valley and a reminder that at the edges of battle people attend to customary tasks and pursuits: fishing and making a record of daily activities. Provenance: Cyrus A. Earnest 8th U.S. Infantry see below unknown books
1880ref. 55682St. Louis: Jno. McKittrick & Co. ca.1880. The Shortest and Quickest Route to Points in Missouri Arkansas and Texas An attractive broadside promotional for the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway with a large engraving in the center depicting the route from St. Louis through Arkansas and into Texas beneath a train wheel bearing wings about which the motto "Bound for the happy lands" appears all in the center of a circle of stars. A schedule of ticket costs for various routes is included as well as a pitch directed at homesteaders regarding the purchase of government lands. The names of three land agents are listed at bottom - one in Missouri one in Illinois and one in Arkansas. The railway touts their "large grant of lands from the United States Government embracing all varieties of soil and timber adapted to Farming Fruit Growing and Grazing purposes.Immigrants can locate on railroad land in well improved neighborhoods having Roads Mills Churches and Schools and peopled by honest and industrious citizens who will give a cordial welcome to all good people coming among them." Only six copies in OCLC spread over four records located at Yale SMU Michigan the University of Texas at Arlington Truman State and the University of Missouri at St. Louis. Old center horizontal fold small chip to left edge slight wrinkling. Very good. Matted and shrinkwrapped. OCLC 22160865 166641127 702349761 761878887. unknown books
1968ref. 601304New York: Vantage Press 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Spine ends gently bumped topedge with a bit of foxing near fine in a lightly rubbed very good dust jacket with a sunned spine a few tiny tears and one 1" tears on the front cover and a touch of interior foxing. With a short Inscription on the front fly by the author. Vantage Press hardcover books
2004ref. 21548Plains MT: Ellen Childress 2004. Paperback. Very good. Quarto 27.5 cm unpaginated. Cream-colored paper wrappers with black titling. Signed by author also signed and inscribed by Putzker's daughter Ellen Childress to Livingston author Jo Sykes: "For Jo Sykes- Mom's good friend and inspiration." Wrappers have light edge wear and a few smudges. Childress prepared the volume on the occasion of her mother's 85th birthday. It contains as much of the prose poetry and plays that Putzker a Livingston Montana native wrote over the course of her life. A profile of Putzker published in the Missoulian is laid in. Ellen Childress paperback books
1987ref. 89786Cambridge & London: MIT Press 1987. First trade paperback printing. 4to. 315 pp w/index. Fine in wrappers and very near fine illustrated dust jacket. A well-illustrated survey of the College with an interesting and useful faculty and student roster. SIGNED by Harris on the first leaf. Accompanying this copy is both a checklist of the exhibition and illustrated exhibition booklet. Cambridge & London: MIT Press paperback books
1995ref. 86335Greenville: English Department East Carolina University/North Carolina Literary & Historical Association 1995. First edition. 256 pp. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Greenville: English Department, East Carolina University/North Carolina Literary & Historical Association, unknown books
1958ref. TB30011Utica New York: Adirondack Mountain Club Inc. The Adirondack Museum and North Country Books 1958 1973 and 1994. All First Editions. First Printings A three volume set of books providing a complete bibliography dealing with the Adirondack region of upper New York State. These volumes cover books pamphlets and periodical articles All three are first editions. None of them have dust jackets. Adirondack Bibliography by the Adirondack Mountain Club is a first edition of 1958. It is fine in medium green cloth covered boards with a faint stain to the cloth at the lower fore edge of the front board. 354 pages including an index to 7539 listed items. Adirondack Bibliography Supplement 1956-1965 by the Adirondack Mountain Club is near fine in light green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and illustrated end sheets. 198 pages including an index. The cloth at lower fore edges of the boards are faded. Adirondack Books: 1966-1992 by Douglas Welch is fine in illustrated paper covered boards with white text on the spine and front board. A quarto containing 145 pages including an index a list of additional titles a list of un-located titles and text. Adirondack Mountain Club, Inc., The Adirondack Museum and North Country Books hardcover books
1899ref. TB30102Helena Montana: Independent Publishing Co. 1899. First Edition. Near fine in original printed pink thin paper wraps over a stab sewn binding. A small octavo of 7 15/16 by 5 1/4 inches with minor traces of soiling to the covers. The contents are very slightly tanned. 76 pages of text. A very clean handsome and damage free copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. Independent Publishing Co. paperback books
1917ref. 6104Washington DC; Helena Mt: The Collins Land Co 1917. About very good. 20pp. Narrow 12mo. Original tan printed wrappers stapled. Light wear inner spine reinforced with tape. Contemporary ink stamp to cover and p.11. "The aim will be to set out in this little booklet the methods by which public land may be acquired and the services we can render in that connection." Herein Jeremiah Collins offers advice on how to acquire public land and move your claims through bureaucracy offering his services as a land attorney if needed. The Collins Land Company maintained offices in both Helena and D.C. indicating much of his work centered on Montana. We locate a single copy in OCLC at the Wisconsin Historical Society. The Collins Land Co unknown books
1959ref. 4928Saltese Mt. and various places across the American West 1959. Very good to near fine. Approximately 2150 photo negatives each about 3 x 5 inches contained in twenty-two fully-annotated Kodak negative albums. A bit of exposure bleeding at edges hardly affecting image areas. Occasional light scratching visible in margins. Fine strong images overall. A comprehensive and meticulous collection of photo negatives comprising well over 2000 images of Saltese Montana -- its industry development and culture -- over the first six decades of the 20th century. The images present here were compiled across two generations of the Rogers family primarily by Herbert Rogers and his son Gale Rogers both influential citizens in the very small town of Saltese during its brief heyday. Herbert moved to Montana in the late-19th century and began this photo record soon after; and until his retirement in the late 1920s he was the chief owner and operator of the power and water services for the town. Gale attended a small business school in Butte and thereafter was involved in many of the Rogers' local business interests including the Woodburn Mining Company the aforementioned Saltese Electric Light and Water Company and the Rogers Tourist Cabins and Standard Service Station. The elder Rogers was perhaps the prime mover of this archive's generation as the photo series ends in 1959 following quickly upon his death the year prior. Today the town of Saltese in the northwest corner of Montana near the border with Idaho is a small collection of houses with a bar and a general store sandwiched between Interstate 90 and the St. Regis River. The 2020 census recorded a population of ten souls. In its former life Saltese was a gold and silver mining town established in the 1880s as Silver City and renamed after the Nez Perce chief in 1891; for a time in the early-20th century and during the period covered by the present archive it could boast over 2000 residents and a stop on the Northern Pacific Railroad. The twenty-two albums that house the negative collection each contains an index filled with manuscript dates and descriptions for each image. The core of this archive is an almost sixty-year visual record of life in Saltese with images of town architecture views industry business social activity and citizens. The preponderance of images date from the early 1920s to the late 1950s with one album covering the period before World War I. The negatives include classic mining images railroad views and town floods; floods of the St. Regis River winter storms and their effects and various weather mitigation efforts; social events town baseball games and family gatherings; group and individual portraits of town citizens friends and members of the Rogers family. In addition to the images of mining efforts there is ample documentation of other industry in the region such as lumbering and milling; the local water and power plants which the Rogers owned; and construction of various edifices and businesses. The negatives are also an excellent record of town life showing schoolhouse gatherings town sports teams fire lookouts and Rogers family activities. A substantial portion of the collection documents automobile journeys taken across the intermountain West by the Rogers who traveled extensively in Montana Idaho Wyoming Utah Colorado and elsewhere. A subset of these is an interesting group of major dam projects and construction such as Polson Dam on the Flathead River and the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River. In all a fabulous and expansive visual archive of a small town in northwestern Montana and life in the mountain West as it was lived by the Rogers family during the first half of the 20th century. unknown books
1938ref. 2573Medicine Lake Mt. 1938. Very good. 90pp. containing 147 photographs as well as newspaper clippings ephemera and several manuscripts. Folio. Original green cloth stamped in black. Light soiling and wear to covers. Internally clean one or two items loose. A charming scrapbook kept by Antoinette Olsen Faaborg documenting her married life. Antoinette 1891-1969 married Simon Carl Faaborg 1885-1938 in North Dakota in 1919 settling afterward in Medicine Lake Montana. At the time Medicine Lake had a population of about 300 people. Clippings in the album indicate that Simon was a banker originally from Iowa who served for a year during the Great War before marrying Antoinette. The couple had a daughter Norma Lucia. Images here show their wedding photos their early life together and their daughter's childhood. There are images of their house the bank of Simon in his military uniform and numerous family events. There are also many Christmas cards newspaper clippings and other ephemeral memorial items included. Altogether an interesting portrait of one family's life together over twenty years in Montana. unknown books
ref. 431914No place: no publisher 1976. Softcover. Near Fine. Oblong 16mo. Spiral bound paper and cardboard wrappers with tipped-on elements on the front. 24pp. An artist sketch book repurposed to serve as a prospectus for a new comic strip written by Peg Montana wife of Archie creator Bob Montana along with his art assistant Jeff Cuddy following Bob's sudden death in 1975. The prospectus consists of photomechanically produced cover and interior illustrations with a single strip mounted on the verso of each page along with a slogan fact or pithy comment about the strip's appeal. The inside front wrap also has two mounted tipped-in paper slips one summarizing the strip and the other listing Cuddy's address in Manchester New Hampshire. The strip's humor was came from the alien's observations and misinterpretation of Earth culture. Our research turned up no evidence that the strips was published outside of a brief showing in a small newspaper in Delaware County Pennsylvania which may have been its only appearance in print. A unique survivor. no publisher] unknown books
1882ref. 40637Elroy Wisconsin: Tribune Job Print. 1882. Original printed wrappers. 16pp plus undated one-page circular cover letter laid in "inviting the reader to read the prospectus and buy stock in the company" BYU description on OCLC. A rare Wisconsin imprint. The Company was incorporated at Leadville Colorado on August 1 1882. J. B. Bissell of Leadville was President. "Mines include: Birtie Bowne Nuggett Elroy Early Dawn Morning Star Surprise Smuggler located in Lake Creek Gulch on the north slope of Twin Peaks 3-1/2 miles from Twin Lakes and 20 miles south of Leadville in the Twin Lake Mining District Colorado. Excellent detail of mines and development" online Colorado Artifactual. OCLC records six newspapers printed in Elroy before 1882 and no pre-1882 pamphlets. OCLC 367387807 1- BYU as of December 2024. Tribune Job Print. unknown books
1893ref. 27608Butte Montana: Butte Inter Mountain Print 1893. 12mo original printed and decorated wrappers staples. 64 pages. Wrappers spotted text clean. Good. "Scarce." Adams. This book "is a fair index of the resources of one of the youngest States in the Sisterhood and may well command from the visitor more than a passing observation." Montana's leading industry is "mining- the production and reduction of gold silver copper and lead ores and the mining of coal." With much on history geography climate resources agriculture manufactures. Adams Herd 1537. Butte Inter Mountain Print unknown books
1916ref. 19048Chicago & New York 1916. Large folding color map. Original printed wrappers. 32 2 advt. pp. Good or so. unknown books
1889ref. 19945Helena: Published by authority of the Independent Publishing Co 1889. 76pp original printed pink wrappers stitched. Light tan and wear Very Good. "The Constitution that brought Montana into the Union." Sonneborn Sale. FIRST EDITION. Sonneborn Sale 89. Published by authority of the Independent Publishing Co unknown books
1910ref. 19049Chicago & NY 1910. Large folding color map. Original printed wrappers. 22 8 advt. pp. Very Good. unknown books
1995ref. 313485Liberty TN: Short Mountain Collective 1995. 79p. 8.5x11 inches illustrations photos very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Rustic Fairy Dreams aka Radical Faerie Digest. Magazine emphasizing communal aspects of rural gay life. Short Mountain Collective unknown books
1969ref. 239659Berkeley: Red Mountain Tribe 1969. Newspaper. 12p. folded tabloid illus. lightly and evenly toned small closed tear and crinkle at bottom of front cover else very good condition. When the staff of the Berkeley Barb went on strike against publisher Max Scherr they printed one issue of Barb on Strike before starting the Berkeley Tribe at issue 2 thus this is the Tribe's true first issue. Cover shows photo of Max's face within a clenched fist. Bulk of the issue consists of short Barb-style news items with the two main articles devoted to the trial of accused bomber Wayne Green and to the Barb strike itself. Red Mountain Tribe unknown books
1999ref. 227088Liberty: Short Mountain Collective 1999. Magazine. 72p. 8.5x11 inches illustrations photos very good magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Rustic Fairy Dreams aka Radical Faerie Digest. Magazine emphasizing communal aspects of rural gay life. Short Mountain Collective unknown books
