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1920réf. 181251920. California photograph and postcard scrapbook 1920s-1950s documents the development of regional identity tourism and youth leisure culture during a period of rapid population growth and national attention to the American West. The album captures informal social life alongside curated views of California's built and natural environments including missions urban centers and recreational landscapes. Images of camping excursions bathing scenes and staged outdoor portraits present a visual record of mobility and leisure that accompanied the expansion of automobile travel and the increasing accessibility of California as a destination. The inclusion of postcards depicting historic sites such as mission architecture and Olvera Street situates the scrapbook within broader efforts to frame California's past for visitors while candid photographs of young men and women emphasize social bonding performance of identity and recreation within emerging twentieth century youth culture. Scrapbook containing approximately 200 photographs and postcards dating from the 1920s through the 1950s primarily depicting locations and activities across California. Photographs and cards range in size from approximately 2 x 1.5 inches to 9 x 6 inches and include both candid and posed images. Notable sequences include a group of four young men on a camping trip in the 1920s shown cooking washing dishes outdoors with tin buckets and a camp stove posing individually before a shared tent and engaging in playful staging including one image of a figure standing on a rock over a stream partially covered by a towel. Additional sequences depict groups of young women in bathing caps and swimwear posed in coordinated arrangements. Postcards interspersed throughout the album depict missions streetscapes and scenic landmarks reinforcing the connection between personal travel experience and widely circulated images of California. Produced across decades that saw the rise of the film industry expansion of tourism infrastructure and continued migration into California the scrapbook offers a layered record of how individuals encountered and documented the state. The juxtaposition of personal photographs with commercial postcards reflects the intersection of private memory and public imagery in shaping perceptions of place. Camping and outdoor leisure scenes align with broader trends in early twentieth century recreation while the repeated use of specific sites and poses suggests intentional documentation of shared experience. Brown cloth boards with gilt title "Photographs" on front cover; album measures approximately 7 x 11 inches. Minor wear to boards and edges with typical age toning to some images; contents remain stable and intact. Overall very good. unknown books
1894réf. 182811894. Imperial size albumen photo of students and faculty at the Albany Business College. 1894. This very large photograph measures 24 x 20 inches. The image consist of 4 smaller group photos showing 35 subjects total including 5 female Graduates. Names of all the subjects listed at the bottom. The albumen is mounted to photographer's board. Although women did own and operate businesses during the 19th century many of them were apprenticed or self-taught as educational opportunities were limited. For a graduating class to include women at all much less 5 makes this group exceptionally scarce. Financial independence through business acumen provides a level of freedom women were not often allowed within a patriarchal society as rigid as 19th century America. Dampstains to side of photographer mat board does not affect photographic image. Toning and foxing to mat. One corner clipped. Light sunning. Features are crisp and details clear. Overall very good condition. unknown books
1900réf. 168731900. Three female nurses at work circa 1900 documents women performing routine clinical duties during the formative decades of professional nursing. One nurse prepares or dispenses liquid into a bottle another sits at a table writing in what may be a patient record or other hospital register and a third stands with her back to the camera giving the scene an unusually work-centered rather than posed character. The image belongs to a period in which hospital-based nurse training was expanding and nurses were increasingly organizing around formal standards of education and practice; the first modern nurse-training schools in the United States opened in 1873 followed by national professional organizations in the 1890s concerned with nursing education and professional standards. Original gelatin silver photograph. Circa 1900. Approximately 4 x 7 inches. The three women wear white caps and aprons over floor-length striped dresses with prominent leg-of-mutton sleeves. Their activities provide specific visual evidence of the knowledge-based and administrative dimensions of nursing work: preparation of medicine or supplies written documentation and coordinated activity within a hospital interior. These functions were increasingly central to trained nursing as late nineteenth-century hospitals incorporated new practices surrounding hygiene antisepsis asepsis and patient observation. Historical scholarship on nursing education during this period likewise emphasizes that trainees were taught developing medical practices concerning infection control and wound care rather than serving merely as informal caregivers. The photograph also belongs to a broader history of women's changing access to professional medicine. Women had entered American medical schools during the nineteenth century but continued to encounter institutional exclusion; in 1870 only a small proportion of women medical students attended regular medical schools with many relying upon separate women's medical colleges and gender barriers remained significant thereafter. Nursing meanwhile developed into a heavily female profession and offered an important avenue into skilled medical employment although access and advancement were also shaped by race and class. Census-based research shows that by 1900 the category of professional nurse in the United States was already overwhelmingly female and disproportionately white. Surface abrasion along the lower left edge; otherwise light handling wear good condition. A candid visual record of women's skilled hospital labor at a formative stage in the professionalization of modern nursing. unknown books
1944réf. 147961944. Bloom Barbara C. Typed Letter Signed to WAVES officer's mother and accompanying photographs 1944 documents United States Navy WAVES service during World War II and the recognition of women's military labor within the wartime home front. The material captures the relationship between enlisted women's service and familial acknowledgment situating women's naval participation within the broader Allied military campaigns against Germany and Japan. The letter explicitly ties the daughter's service to active wartime offensives while the accompanying photographs provide visual evidence of WAVES personnel in both formal and informal settings offering insight into daily life camaraderie and presentation of women in uniform during the final year of the war. Bloom Barbara C. Typed Letter Signed. Office of Naval Procurement December 1944. One page. Accompanied by six black-and-white photographs of Navy WAVES stationed aboard USS Hunter. The letter addressed to Mrs. Cadman praises her daughter's contribution to the war effort stating: "You have the right to be very proud of what your daughter has done in speeding our recent offensive ever closer to the heart of Germany and Japan" and includes statements attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ernest J. King recognizing the WAVES' service. It further references the daughter's conduct discipline and contribution to the reputation of the organization. The six photographs depict groups of uniformed WAVES women aboard USS Hunter including posed portraits group formations and informal off-duty scenes in which women are gathered socially. One larger photograph bears period handwritten identifications on the reverse naming the women pictured. Image sizes range from small personal formats to larger prints capturing both individual and collective representation. The Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service WAVES program established in 1942 expanded the role of women within the U.S. Navy by assigning them to non-combat duties thereby releasing male personnel for deployment. By 1944 WAVES had become an established component of naval operations with thousands serving in administrative technical and logistical roles. The letter reflects official efforts to frame women's service as both militarily essential and socially respectable emphasizing family pride moral conduct and national duty. The photographs reinforce this narrative through visual presentation of uniformed discipline and group cohesion. Together the materials provide direct documentation of women's participation in wartime service and the integration of that service into domestic and public recognition structures during World War II. Light edge wear and minor foxing to photographs; one image with handwritten identifications on verso; letter with docket holes at top margin not affecting text; overall very good condition. A cohesive grouping linking official wartime communication with visual documentation of WAVES personnel. unknown books
1966réf. S14097Oxford:: Pergamon Press 1966. 1966. Series: Journal of atmospheric and terrestrial physics special supplement no. 3. 8vo. vii 1 208 pp. Figs. 1 folding tables. Original navy gilt-stamped cloth. Very good. CONTENTS OF VOLUME 7. Introduction by A. BEER – Megalithic Astronomy: Indications in Standing Stones by Alexander THOM 1894-1985 Formerly University of Oxford; The Hill Dunlop. Ayrshire – Astrophysical Investigations utilizing Objective Prisms by Charles Bruce STEPHENSON 1929-2001 Warner and Swasey Observatory Case Institute of Technology Cleveland Ohio – Spectroscopic Studies of Late-Type Stars by Yoshio FUJITA 1908-2013 Department of Astronomy Faculty of Science University of Tokyo Japan – Magnetic Stars and Metallic-Line Stars by MARGHERITA HACK 1922-2013 University Observatory Trieste Italy – Statistical Population Indices by Wilhemina IWANOWSKA 1905-1999 Astronomical Observatory N. Copernicus University Torun Poland – The Stellar Luminosity-Function by S. W. McCUSKEY Warner and Swasey Observatory Case Institute of Technology Cleveland Ohio – Some Problems of Star Formation by Vincent Cartledge REDDISH 1926-2015 Royal Observatory Edinburgh – INDEX. / Arthur Beer was a German astronomer who worked at Cambridge University. / "In the early 1950s Arthur committed himself to a voluminous and thorough survey of current astronomy. Ultimately 215 scientists mathematicians and historians contributed to what was to become the multi-volume Vistas of Astronomy covering both historical and current topics for which he was a writer and editor-in-chief 1955–1956 for the first two volumes. The series outlived Beer Volume 42 appearing in 1998 before its functions were taken over by the New Astronomy Reviews and the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage." Pergamon Press, 1966. hardcover books
2024réf. 225289Lyons Press 2024-05-07. paperback. Good. 6x0x9. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Only minor wear. Lyons Press paperback books
1956réf. 2222157First edition so stated. Octavo. Portrait; map. Pictorial dust jacket unclipped designed by Gilbert Etheredge. Very good. 511 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Housed in a custom red morocco and matching cloth slipcase and cloth wraparound. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1969réf. 2221968Enlarged edition. 4to. 50 b/w illustrations 41 figures. Dust jacket clipped designed by Miriam. Very good. 312 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Includes three additional articles. Da Capo Press hardcover books
1970réf. 2221593First edition so stated. Octavo. Dust jacket unclipped designed by Carl Smith. Very good. 304 pages. Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper to actor Ken Murray: "To Ken Murray - a good friend of Bert." Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1959réf. 8655First edition. 9" x 7". Very good. Crown Publishers, Inc. hardcover books
1802réf. BK0037Frederick County Maryland 1802. Manuscript legal pleading signed "R. B. Taney / Atty for Plff." 13 x 7 ¾ inches. Old folds; light wear; very good. An early Maryland legal pleading written and signed by Roger B. Taney later Chief Justice of the United States and author of Dred Scott v. Sandford in a Frederick County debt action over the unpaid hire of an enslaved man named Jim. The document dates from Taney's early law practice and shows him participating in the ordinary county court enforcement of slave-hire contracts decades before the better-known public episodes that would define his historical reputation. The suit was brought by John McIlhaney against Thomas Johnson the 3rd and James Montgomery described as yeomen of Frederick County Maryland and otherwise as men of Loudoun County Virginia. Taney's declaration states that Johnson and Montgomery had obligated themselves on April 10 1801 to pay McIlhaney $160 by January 1 1802: ". whereas the said Thomas and James on the tenth day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and one by their certain writing obligatory did oblige themselves their heirs executors and administrators to pay or cause to be paid on the first day of January eighteen hundred and two to the aforesaid John . the said sum of one hundred and sixty Dollars current money it being for the hire of a Negro man Slave named Jim unto that date . Nevertheless the said Thomas and James the said sum of one hundred and sixty Dollars current money have not been paid to the said John . but the said sum of one hundred and sixty Dollars current money to him the said John hitherto to render or pay they the said Thomas and James have altogether refused and still do refuse . wherefore the said John saith he is the worse and hath damage to the value of two hundred dollars current money and therefore he brings his suit . and the said John brings here into Court the writing obligatory aforesaid sealed with the seals of the said Thomas and James .". A very early Taney manuscript from his Frederick County practice placing the future author of Dred Scott inside the ordinary legal enforcement of slave hire debt and enslaved labor in Maryland. . unknown books
1971réf. 72348Anjo: Anjo History Compilation Society 1971. 8vo pp. 6 14 1275 1 14; text in Japanese; folding map 10 leaves of plates text illustrations; full blue cloth; owner's stamp on free endpaper and slipcase else fine. Anjo city is just southeast of Nagoya Japan Anjo History Compilation Society unknown books
1997réf. 63644Beijing: Morning Glory Publishers 1997. First edition 4 volumes folio illustrated throughout much in color; fine copies in dust jackets. Over 1250 objects illustrated and annotated. Volume I: Palaeolithic Age - Spring and Autumn Period; volume II: Warring States Period - Northern and Southern Dynasties; volume III: Sui Dynasty - Northern and Southern Song Dynasties; volume IV: Yuan Dynasty - Qing Dynasty. Morning Glory Publishers unknown books
1994réf. 61580N.p.: American Printing History Association 1994. Edition limited to 200 copies folio consisting of a bifoliate title with introduction a list of the 28 contributors and 28 broadsides all contained in a natural linen folding box with a red morocco label on the upper cover; fine. From the library of Kim Merker. Introduction by editor Michael Peich designed by Jerry Kelly title page introduction and contributor list printed at the Stinehour Press. Selections from the work of Dwight Agner Harold Berliner Barbara Henry Allan Kornblum Henry Morris Michael Peich Gaylord Schanilec Neil Shaver Roderick Steinhour W. Thomas Taylor and many others. American Printing History Association unknown books
réf. 13419Cambridge UK: W. Heffner & Sons Ltd.; Black Bear Press Ltd.; Maney Publishing 2023. First printing. Original Wraps. Very Good in Wraps. First printing. Original Wraps. "Ambix is an internationally recognized peer-reviewed quarterly journal devoted to publishing high-quality original research and book reviews in the intellectual social and cultural history of alchemy and chemistry. It publishes studies discussions and primary sources relevant to the historical experience of all areas related to alchemy and chemistry covering all periods ancient to modern and geographical regions. Topics covered by Ambix include but are not limited to interactions between alchemy and chemistry and other disciplines; chemical medicine and pharmacy; molecular sciences; practices allied to material instrumental institutional and visual cultures; environmental chemistry; the chemical industry; the appearance of alchemy and chemistry within popular culture; biographical and historiographical studies; and the study of issues related to gender race and colonial experience within the context of chemistry."--Publisher. Ambix is one of the oldest journals of the history of science in the English-speaking world it was founded in 1936 and has appeared continuously from 1937 to the present other than from 1939 to 1945 during World War II. It is currently published by the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. This set is incomplete but begins with 1937.2023. There are a few reprints of the earliers issues. Also included is the Table of Contents and Cumulative Index 1937-2003 compiled by William A. Smeaton and William H. Brock. From the personal library collection of Brian Cotnoir alchemist artist and award-winning filmmaker. Author of Practical Alchemy: Guide to the Great Work The Emerald Tablet a series of Alchemical 'Zines Alchemical Meditations Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter and most recently On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy. He has presented seminars and workshops around the world on various aspects of the alchemy. Khepri Press was started in 2014 as a place to organize and distribute his work. It is a very small press dedicated to alchemical book arts. Some of this work is publishable and others may exist only in manuscript or object form - alchemical results or talismans. The Ambix collection is not full run but each issue has articles on alchemy. Minor shelfwear light foxing smudging buckling else tight bright and unmarred. 8vo. Digest. var.pg. Index. Perfect bindings. Incomplete run. Beginning with 1937.2023. W. Heffner & Sons Ltd.; Black Bear Press Ltd.; Maney Publishing unknown books
réf. 4907Boston MA: Boston Society of Natural History. First Edition. Original Wraps/Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Original Wraps/Hardcover. Birds of Labrador Boston Society of National History Proceedings Vol. 337 p. 277-428 pl. 29. by Charles Townsend and Glover Allen. North American Wood Frogs by Reginald Herer Howe Vol. 28 no. 14 p. 369-374 1899. with insert: A Time Table of New England Frogs and Toads. The Orthoptera of New England by C.H. Rernald 1888. 61pp. Students in the Mass. Agricultural College and the Farmers of the State Edward Howe Forbush: A Biographical Sketch by John B. May.1928. Vol.39 no. 2 p. 33-72 pl. 4-5. Hardcover bound with marbled boards illus. The Snakes of New England by Harold L. Babock 1929. Natural History Guides no.1 four color plates. Toning and chipping on wrappers else tight bright and unmarred. 8vo var. pp illus b/w. Printed wrappers and one hardboard in cloth over marbled boards. Boston Society of Natural History hardcover books
réf. 250937Liverpool: Henstock & Foulkes. Soft Cover. Good binding. The articles of incorporation from 1908 for the "Colosseum Picturedrome" in Blackpool. There are still "picturedromes" in England. The purpose of this picturedrome was "for cinematograph entertainments and the production of spectacular pieces for roller and other skating rinks Badminton indoor tennis and other games sports and gymnastic contests.and all kinds of amusements and entertainments and other purposes. No markings in text. Bottom corner of front cover is chipped with piece missing. Small closed tears at upper and lower spine. Good binding. Henstock & Foulkes unknown books
1957réf. 252296Lisboa Lisbon: Separata da Revista "Ocidente 1957. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. 32pp. Bound in printed publisher's wrappers with light soiling; textblock is partially unopened. Previous owner date in Portuguese written in ink on the half title. A scarce Portuguese publication of a speech given by D'Arcos in Lisbon on the occasion of Churchill's 80th birthday. Very Good binding. Separata da Revista "Ocidente unknown books
1995réf. TB34098New Brunsw: Rutgers University Press 1995. First Edition. Fine in full brown cloth covered boards with white text on the spine. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. 223 pages including an index text and extensively illustrated with black and white photographs maps and sketches by M. Margaret Geib. Subtitled: "A field guide to North American Bars and Other Farm Structures. Rutgers University Press hardcover books
1962réf. TB33708New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co 1962. Eighth Printing. Fine in decorated brown cloth covered boards with silver and copper colored text on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. "The story of the Boston Post Road" from Boston to tip of Manhattan New York. The second volume in The American Trails Series. This is one of the full set of 15 McGraw-Hill Trails Series titles. 273 pages including an index bibliography and text. Illustrated with a map and with chapter headpieces from drawings by Larry Lurin. McGraw-Hill Book Co hardcover books
1976réf. TB33713New York: McGraw-Hill 1976. First Edition. First printing Near fine in red and blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine shows very minor rubbing and with two faint coffee stains to the fore edge of the text block. Although the entire dust jacket is present with no chips or tears a previous owner has covered it almost completely on the verso side with masking tape which has bled through to the recto side with a light brown stain. The 14th volume in The American Trails Series and the most difficult title in the series to locate. 341 pages with index and bibliography. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1966réf. TB33712New York: McGraw-Hill 1966. Fourth Printing. Fine in light blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. The 8th volume in The American Trail series. The story of "America's Route of the Ages" which runs from Alaska south through the Rockies to what is now Texas. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1964réf. TB33492New York: Harper & Row 1964. First Edition. First Printing Fine in 1/4 black cloth and yellow paper covered boards with silver and gilt text on the spine and a facsimile of Kennedy's signature in silver on the front board. An octavo of 8 3/8 by 5 1/2 inches. In a near fine. unclipped dust jacket with very light wear to the ends of the spine area. Edited by Theodore J. Lowi 148 pages of text containing the "dedications and beliefs of Mr. Kennedy are put on the record - together with a personal credo and review". from the dust jacket. Harper & Row hardcover books
1996réf. TB04008Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1996. First Edition. Fine In a fine dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
1947réf. TB28014Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co 1947. First Edition. Near fine in bright red gilt decorated cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and with decorated map end papers. An octavo measuring 8 1/2" by 5 3/4". Without its issued dust jacket. The second volume in The American Trails Series which followed The Wilderness Road. Three volumes were published by Bobbs-Merrill before the series was continued by McGraw-Hill. 431 paqes including an index. Bobbs-Merrill Co hardcover books
