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1938rif. 120086Glasgow: Daily Record 1938. 1st edition. Nice copy. large octavo. card covers 120pp. b/w plates illusts. Nice catalogue copiously illustrated inc. much Royal content Daily Record unknown
1979rif. 908489Nottingham: The Midland Group 1979 A Very Solid Soft Cover Book From The Hockney Exhibition Tour. B/W Plates . No Marks Or Inscription Very Dlan. Hockney Card Covers Showing No Shelf Wear Faint Reading Crease On The Spine. Hard To Find The Midland Group paperback
2017rif. 11861London: Lévy Gorvy 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Square 4to. Pp. 103. Color and b&w photo reproductions and document facsimiles. Introduction by Michael Bracewell. With exhibition checklist and biography. Illustrated paper covered boards titles stamped in black and red red textured endpapers. With 12mo. pp. 12 saddle stapled facsimile of A Day in the Life of George & Gilbert the sculptors within printed envelope in back cover pouch. Published in conjunction with the September - November 2017 exhibition in London on the duo's fiftieth year of collaboration. Lévy Gorvy hardcover
1893rif. 9662Detroit: The American Engraving Company Publishers & Printers 1893. First Printing. Saddle-stapled wrappers. Good-. Oblong 4to. Unpaginated. Saddle-stapled wraps with printed illustrated front cover. Both covers detached and with age-toning to edges. Interior quite sound. A remarkable exhibition-in-print of the variety of world ethnicities arrayed at the Chicago World's Fair. This aspect of the midway was an exploitative carnie-like objectification of human beings featuring a Kurd a female Turkish dancer swordsmen from Damascus a "donkey boy" from Cairo et al. Scarce: OCLC locates only two cataloged institutional copies at the University of Michigan and the Michigan State Library. Now housed in a removable clear archival sleeve with an acid-free backing. The American Engraving Company Publishers & Printers unknown
1913rif. 8901San Francisco 1913. First edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 11.25" x 8". Pp. 56. Profusely illustrated with full page b/w illustrations. Some scuff marks to rear cover else Near Fine. Photographic rendering of the expedition's progress through 1913. At publication 26 foreign countries and 35 States had signed up to participate. Includes photograph of then governor of Washington State M.E. Hay dedicating the state site March 22 1912 A scarce promotional from the exposition with worthpoint recording no auction sales. unknown
2009rif. BN27038Scheidegger & Spiess 2009. 2009. Hardcover. 25 x 217 x 25 cm. 1834 brach der Zürcher Karl Bodmer mit dem deutschen Naturforscher Maximilian Prinz zu Wied und dessen Gefolge zur legendär gewordenen "Reise in das innere Nord-America" auf. Die Expedition dauerte 28 Monate. Während Maximilian sein Tagebuch schrieb Naturalien zusammensuchte und Gegenstände von Indianern erwarb zeichnete Bodmer mehr als 400 Indianer- Landschafts- und Tierbilder. Seine detailgetreuen Skizzen und Aquarelle die später als Vorlagen für die druckgrafischen Illustrationen des Reiseberichts dienten gelten als Höhepunkt in der bildnerischen Darstellung fremder Völker. Und sie zählen zu den wichtigsten Dokumenten über die Indianerkulturen am oberen Missouri. Dieses reich illustrierte Buch ist die Hommage seiner Geburtsstadt Zürich an den grossen Maler dem wir viele Einsichten in die Lebensweise und das Aussehen der Natives in den Plains und Prärien verdanken. Es verbindet biografische Erzählung und analytische Essays und beleuchtet den eigenwilligen Stellenwert dieser Zeichnungen Aquarelle und Stiche zwischen exakter Wissenschaft und Kunst. - Karl Bodmer born in Zurich in 1809 is well known in the present day for the magnificent illustrations he made in 1832-34 on an extensive expedition led by the German aristocrat and scientist Prinz Maximilian zu Neuwied along the upper Missouri and Ohio rivers. Bodmer's more than 400 detailed sketches and watercolours are unsurpassed until the present day and still recognised as an epitome in depicting alien culture and they are among the most important documents of Native American culture. This book marks Bodmer's 200th anniversary and is an homage to the painter who gave so many detailed and lively insights into the way of life and appearance of the native people in the North American plains and prairies. It presents all 81 engravings after his watercolours used to illustrate Prince Maximilian's travels in the interiors of North America besides of many of his original watercolours and sketches and also photographs of artefacts collected during the expedition.The illustrations are complemented by essays on Bodmer's life and investigating key aspects of his oeuvre as well as the particular nature of his work between scientific illustration and art. Autor: Hartwig Isernhagen born 1940 has been professor of American literature at the University of Basel Switzerland from 1981-2004. He is an expert of Karl Bodmer and his work and curator of an exhibition marking Bodmer's 200th anniversary at the North American Native Museum in Zurich in 2009. Karl Bodmer - Maler der amerikanischen Urvölker: A Swiss Artist in America Ein Schweizer Künstler in Amerika 18091893 Englisch Gebundene Ausgabe Hartwig Isernhagen Herausgeber Professor of American literature University Basel Switzerland curator exhibition marking Bodmer's 200th anniversary North American Native Museum Zurich 2009 Peter Bolz Denise Daenzer Hartwig Isernhagen Gerold Lauber Sonja Schierle Ausstellungskataloge Bildende Kunst Indianer Indianermaler Motiv in der bildenden Kunst Literatur Nordamerika Native Museum Zürich North American Native Zurich Museen Naturforscher Maximilian Prinz zu Wied Reise in das innere Nord-America Tagebuch Naturalien Indianerbilder Landschaftsbilder Tierbilder detailgetreuen Skizzen Aquarelle bildnerische Darstellung fremder Völker Indianerkulturen am oberen Missouri Hommage Einsichten in die Lebensweise und das Aussehen der Natives in den Plains und Prärien Zeichnungen Stiche upper Missouri and Ohio rivers sketches watercolours documents of Native American culture painter native people in the North American plains and prairies engravings Prince Maximilian's travels in the interiors of North America photographs of artefacts collected during the expedition illustrations oeuvre Kunst Musik Theater Malerei Plastik Ausstellungskataloge Bodmer Karl Bildende Kunst Indianer Indianermaler Motiv in der bildenden Kunst Literatur Nordamerika Native Museum Zürich North American Native Museen ISBN-10 3-85881-236-6 3858812366 ISBN-13 978-3-85881-236-0 9783858812360 Painter of the Native Americans: Europe Encounters America Depicting the Native North Americans A Swiss Artist in America 1809-1893 Karl Bodmer - Maler der amerikanischen Urvölker: A Swiss Artist in America Ein Schweizer Künstler in Amerika 18091893 English Hardcover Hartwig Isernhagen Herausgeber Ausstellungskataloge Bodmer Karl Bildende Kunst Indianer Indianermaler Motiv in der bildenden Kunst Literatur Nordamerika Native Museum Zürich North American Native Museen ISBN-10 3-85881-236-6 3858812366 ISBN-13 978-3-85881-236-0 9783858812360 Painter of the Native Americans: Europe Encounters America Depicting the Native North Americans A Swiss Artist in America 1809-1893 Karl Bodmer - Maler der amerikanischen Urvölker: A Swiss Artist in America Ein Schweizer Künstler in Amerika 18091893 English Hardcover Hartwig Isernhagen Herausgeber 1834 brach der Zürcher Karl Bodmer mit dem deutschen Naturforscher Maximilian Prinz zu Wied und dessen Gefolge zur legendär gewordenen "Reise in das innere Nord-America" auf. Die Expedition dauerte 28 Monate. Während Maximilian sein Tagebuch schrieb Naturalien zusammensuchte und Gegenstände von Indianern erwarb zeichnete Bodmer mehr als 400 Indianer- Landschafts- und Tierbilder. Seine detailgetreuen Skizzen und Aquarelle die später als Vorlagen für die druckgrafischen Illustrationen des Reiseberichts dienten gelten als Höhepunkt in der bildnerischen Darstellung fremder Völker. Und sie zählen zu den wichtigsten Dokumenten über die Indianerkulturen am oberen Missouri. Dieses reich illustrierte Buch ist die Hommage seiner Geburtsstadt Zürich an den grossen Maler dem wir viele Einsichten in die Lebensweise und das Aussehen der Natives in den Plains und Prärien verdanken. Es verbindet biografische Erzählung und analytische Essays und beleuchtet den eigenwilligen Stellenwert dieser Zeichnungen Aquarelle und Stiche zwischen exakter Wissenschaft und Kunst. - Karl Bodmer born in Zurich in 1809 is well known in the present day for the magnificent illustrations he made in 1832-34 on an extensive expedition led by the German aristocrat and scientist Prinz Maximilian zu Neuwied along the upper Missouri and Ohio rivers. Bodmer's more than 400 detailed sketches and watercolours are unsurpassed until the present day and still recognised as an epitome in depicting alien culture and they are among the most important documents of Native American culture. This book marks Bodmer's 200th anniversary and is an homage to the painter who gave so many detailed and lively insights into the way of life and appearance of the native people in the North American plains and prairies. It presents all 81 engravings after his watercolours used to illustrate Prince Maximilian's travels in the interiors of North America besides of many of his original watercolours and sketches and also photographs of artefacts collected during the expedition.The illustrations are complemented by essays on Bodmer's life and investigating key aspects of his oeuvre as well as the particular nature of his work between scientific illustration and art. Autor: Hartwig Isernhagen born 1940 has been professor of American literature at the University of Basel Switzerland from 1981-2004. He is an expert of Karl Bodmer and his work and curator of an exhibition marking Bodmer's 200th anniversary at the North American Native Museum in Zurich in 2009. Karl Bodmer - Maler der amerikanischen Urvölker: A Swiss Artist in America Ein Schweizer Künstler in Amerika 18091893 Englisch Gebundene Ausgabe Hartwig Isernhagen Herausgeber Professor of American literature University Basel Switzerland curator exhibition marking Bodmer's 200th anniversary North American Native Museum Zurich 2009 Peter Bolz Denise Daenzer Hartwig Isernhagen Gerold Lauber Sonja Schierle Ausstellungskataloge Bildende Kunst Indianer Indianermaler Motiv in der bildenden Kunst Literatur Nordamerika Native Museum Zürich North American Native Zurich Museen Naturforscher Maximilian Prinz zu Wied Reise in das innere Nord-America Tagebuch Naturalien Indianerbilder Landschaftsbilder Tierbilder detailgetreuen Skizzen Aquarelle bildnerische Darstellung fremder Völker Indianerkulturen am oberen Missouri Hommage Einsichten in die Lebensweise und das Aussehen der Natives in den Plains und Prärien Zeichnungen Stiche upper Missouri and Ohio rivers sketches watercolours documents of Native American culture painter native people in the North American plains and prairies engravings Prince Maximilian's travels in the interiors of North America photographs of artefacts collected during the expedition illustrations oeuvre Kunst Musik Theater Malerei Plastik Scheidegger & Spiess hardcover
rif. 1018461418.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
rif. 1171516061.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1908rif. 10104Chicago 1908. First edition. Soft cover. Very good. 46p 86 lots a few photos. Auction catalogue December 2 1908 of "the greatest sale of Shetland Ponies in point of quality and numbers ever held in America" held under the auspices of the American Shetland Pony Club at the height of the pony fad in the United States. With short descriptions and family histories for most of the ponies. A scarce survival. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. 46p 86 lots a few photos. paperback
1939rif. 8673New York: Exposition Publications Incorporated. Very Good. Hardcover. Moderate wear to extremities. Slight soiling to front free endpaper; Hardcover edition of World's Fair guide for 1939; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 200 pages . 1939. Exposition Publications, Incorporated hardcover
1994rif. mon0004261882Harry N. Abrams 1994-01-01. Paperback. New. . Harry N. Abrams paperback
2006rif. ABE-1667830309724The Grolier Club New York 2006 New and unread limited edition. First Edition hardback in a protected jacket. This was issued for an exhibition at The Grolier Club and was LIMITED to only 525 copies. Bound in green cloth with gilt title. The pictorial dust jacket is inside a mylar sleeve. This beautifully designed and produced hardback accesses the archive of Judge John Patterson. This exhibition was the first time this has been possible since his death in 1925. Here are letters autographs portraits and illustrations and it has been brilliantly curated by Ralph and Bruce Crawford. This is of great interest to all who are interested in this great writer. It is VERY RARE to find a copy in the UK. Limited Edition. Hardcover. New/New. The Grolier Club New York hardcover
1913rif. 191661Bruxelles and Paris: G. Van Oest & cie 1913. One set of 500 printed. Paperback. Good-Both volumes' wraps show heavy shelfwear and small tears here and there foxing soiling and age-toning but are intact; pages of both volumes are very clean and in great condition showing some light age toning as expected with age; pages are untrimmed all around and darkened with age; the spine of Volume I is split in three parts and the back cover and plates 105-118 have been pierced. Tan wraps with black and white lettering and illustration; Volume I is marked as #388 out of 500 copies; Volume II is unnumbered; Volume I has xxxi 317 pp. and 118 plates with some tissue guards. Volume II has 286 pp and 82 plates with some tissue guards. Text in French. The volumes are oversized. 14.5x10.5x5 inches. G. Van Oest & cie paperback
1989rif. ABE-1654695868502Hayward Gallery 1989 A now rare poster advertising the brilliant exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 1989. This was a chance to see this very great Renaissance man in all his guises. It is hard to find this poster in any condition but this one is Fine. Ideal for framing. The poster has not faded at all; it was discovered in a plans chest drawer and UV damage has therefore not happened. Ideal for framing. It is 28" x 18" and it is gorgeous. No Binding. Fine. Hayward Gallery unknown
1909rif. 64351New York NY & Seattle WA: Singer Sewing Machine Co. Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition 1909. Oblong 12mo. 7.25 x 4.6 in. 10 photo plates unnumbered w/ red & black illustrated ads on versos yellow borders to photos on rectos slight dustsoiling shelfwear w/ original illustrated souvenir mailing envelope cover art view of the A-Y-P Exposition minor scuffing 1 closed tear minor chipping still VG bright set originally handed out by the Singer Sewing Machine Co. Main Store in Seattle WA located in 1909 at 1317 Third Ave. First edition of this exceedingly scarce complete set of souvenir images handed out as Singer Sewing Machine Co. promotional advertising packets featuring views of the Location of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition; Panoramic View of Seattle; First Avenue & Pacific Avenue; Waterfront bluff and Eleventh St. in Tacoma WA; Shipmast loading at Port Blakely Mills; Logging photos by B.L. Singley; Satoosh Range from Mt. Rainier & Wheat Harvesting; Mt. Adams; Cape Horn on the Columbia River; Ranch in Crab Creek Valley near Sprague Washington. No copies in Worldcat 1 incomplete set w/ no envelope and only 9 images of similar Washington views at Yale. Singer Sewing Machine Co., [Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition], unknown
1909rif. 63387Seattle WA Portland OR & San Francisco CA: Lowman & Hanford Idealdruck Edward H. Mitchell Co. Portland Postcard Co. Robert A. Reid Publisher 488 Arcade A. Sims 1909. 4to. 9 x 10.5 in. 80 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper w/ slot inserts in each leaf for holding four postcards back-to-back. With 82 colour-printed black & white printed photo chromolithograph & 1 suede-leather postcards. Padded faux alligator skin black cloth rounded corners gilt lettering stamped on front cover slight shelfwear occasional minor rubbing & creasing to a couple of the postcards still a NF exemplar. A marvelous postcard souvenir album filled with postcards assembled by a young Port Angeles teenager chronicling the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. The postcards encompass the views from the gardens to Mt. Rainier the Alaska Monument 7 Hawaii Building Arctic Brotherhood Building Canadian Government Building the Emergency Hospital Building Machinery Hall Manufactures Building Forestry Building many of the States Buildings and courts. In addition there are views of the Japanese Building the “Tokio Cafe” leading to the Japanese Village Nanaimo Building and a number of nighttime shots of the Exposition. Four of the postcards depict the Siberian and Alaskan Indigenous peoples on display at the Exposition with images of baby’s in furs and Indigenous Peoples standing in front of A-Y-P pavilions. The printed photo postcard of the Daughters of the American Revolution Building at the A-Y-P includes note on verso addressed to Juanita Shelpman 1896-1974 at the time a daughter of a Port Angeles barber and later a music teacher in Vancouver WA later married to the rather flighty orchestra leader Lewis Kincheloe 1892-1978. Lowman & Hanford, Idealdruck, Edward H. Mitchell Co., Portland Postcard Co., Robert A. Reid, Publisher, 488 Arcade, A. Sims, hardcover
1904rif. 62227St. Louis MO: n.p. 1904. Oblong 4to. 10.25 x 7 in. 24 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper stock 27 mounted silver gelatin photographs nearly all sized 3.25 x 5.5 in. annotated below or alongside in white ink manuscript. Contemporary self-printed black paper covers white lettering printed on front cover title in white ink manuscript punch-sewn at spine w/ red silk braid minor edgewear slight bumping to 1 corner minor over-exposure to some of the images still a VG exemplar. An original vernacular souvenir photo album created by an unknown amateur photographer documenting their tour of the famed 1904 St. Louis World Louisiana Exposition World’s Fair using their own camera -- typically after paying an entrance fee as inaugurated at the 1893 Columbia Exposition over 10 years before. The album opens with views of the Palace of Liberal Arts Festival Hall and the fountains Terrace of the States Electricity Palace Education and more. Along with many of the general public fair-goers these photographs reflect a fascination with the ethnological “Human Zoo” exhibits at the Exposition including the Igarrote-Filipino Village with one young child striding in the fore-ground the Philippine Restaurant and view of the Village with huts temple and walled city. Also featured are a few of the Japanese tea garden and pavilion and the Chinese temple exterior and interior. The photographer also captured the Life-Saver’s Exhibit by the Lifesaving Service; the Jefferson City Guards marching in front of the Austria & Sweden Buildings as well as the entrance to “the Pike” with visits to the Japanese Roof Garden Restaurant Beer Garden and German Coffee House. [n.p.], unknown
1935rif. 61830San Diego CA: Shell Building San Diego Exposition 1935. One oblong atlas folio map. 32 x 22 in. Double-sided colour lithograph pictorial map with inset colour illustrations on verso of History of San Diego fold creases as issued light age toning at fore-edges very minor edgewear w/ original mailing envelope from the “Shell Building” at the CPIE toning to envelope NF/VG- copy mailed to Miss Gladys Buckman 1920-2011 in Long Beach CA from her brother Loren M. Buckman 1913-1995 who at the time was stationed on the USS Northampton CL/CA 26 US Navy Cruiser sunk later in 1942 at the Battle of Tassafaronga repelling Japanese from reinforcing troops on Guadalcanal. First edition of this scarce and beautifully rendered pictorial map celebrating the very successful California Pacific International Exposition held in San Diego over two years at the depths of the Great Depression to revive the Southern California economy which featured a number of unusual concessions and exhibits such as the Gold Gulch Lost Continent of Mu the Zoro Garden Nudist Colony and the “One Ton Mechanical Man.” Several of the exhibits used at the recently closed Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago 1933-1934 were re-used for the CPIE. This map reminiscent of the work of Jo Mora looks Eastward from a high point above the Pacific Ocean depicting San Diego from La Jolla to Oneonta and inland up to Cuyamaca Dam. Many of the buildings developed the architect Requa’s 1881-1941 “Southern California Architecture” style drawing upon the historical architecture of the Colonial Mexico the Pueblos of the Southwest and the Moorish features from Spain and North Africa and preserved the popular buildings which are still evident in Balboa Park. Bloodgood 1896-1989 was an illustrator cartoonist and map maper who produced a substantial body of pictorial maps from 1935-1968 for Shell Oil and the Pic-Tour Guide Series with this one being distributed from the Shell Building exhibit at the CPIE. Worldcat locates 6 copies SFPL U of FL Osher Map Lib. Bancroft UC San Diego Harvard. Shell Building, San Diego Exposition, unknown
1875rif. 60874Philadelphia PA: H.J. Toudy 621 & 623 Commerce Street 1875. One oblong atlas folio hand-coloured lithograph sized 25 x 20.5 in. still retaining fairly wide borders printing below centered image colour-tinted border to image some very minor age toning dustsoiling still an excellent copy preserved in the original quarter-sawn oak wood frame 33.5 x 25.5 in. retaining the original glass newly backed in archival foam core framed w/ archival matting. First edition of this impressive first edition birds-eye view of the buildings and sites Centennial International Exhibition with the fairgrounds set above the Schuykill River. This view depicts the Exposition before it was completed and the Halls featured include the Main Building Machinery Hall Memorial Hall Horticultural Hall and Agricultural Hall. Once the construction was complete Toudy issued another version with fuller buildings as well as some changes to the foreground and center of the image. Toudy fl. 1865-1878 first established with William Toudy his lithography firm at 503-505 Chestnut and later merged with Geroge Wl. Ward & Co. in 1872 lasting less than 2 years. Henry became the sole owner by 1875 and were well known for their atlases maps and city views and he worked on several Stone & Stewart County Atlases from 1866-1877 as well as many of the Mid-Atlantic general surveys. They also managed to outlast a lawsuit over a print based on the drawing by Hermann Schwarzmann architect of the Centennial grounds entitled “Bird’s Eye View” after copyrighting this image in 1875. Firm was destroyed by fire in 1878. Worldcat locates 2 copies AAS DLC another version located at Library Company of Philadelphia. H.J. Toudy, 621 & 623 Commerce Street, unknown
1893rif. 60192Chicago IL: C.D. Arnold World’s Columbian Exposition Department of Photography 1893. Oblong 4to. Seventeen albumen photographs mounted sized from 7 x 8 up to 7 x 8.5 in. on 9.5 x 8 in. printed studio board photographer’s imprint w/in negative of image and lower corners of board titles imprinted at lower blank board of each image Columbian Exposition medal stamped on versos minor edgewear slight rubbing very minor over-exposure on a few images still a VG bright set of original images. A group of very scarce mounted souvenir albumen photographs shot at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893 when patrons carrying small Kodak cameras were required to pay $ 2.00 license fee to bring a camera onto the grounds and no cameras or tripods able to shoot larger than 4 x 5 in. images were allowed. Most visitors bought the printed photo album versions wealthier ones would buy entire souvenir photo albums filled with Arnold images and yet others could buy them as individual mounted shots depicting their favorite or preferred venues. The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair ran almost six months featured grounds and gardens laid out by Fredrick Olmsted covering 630 acres and a Midway skyline dominated by the 250-foot Ferris wheel designed by George Ferris which could carry 2160 patrons when fully loaded. The “On the Midway” photo shows the Ferris wheel still under construction which much of the structure still clad in scaffolding. Others depict throngs of visitors individual exhibits and some Buildings just newly finished such as the U.S. Government Building featuring scaffolding off to the side for future installation to be completed. Arnold 1844-1927 was prior to the Fair an obscure Buffalo NY photographer who had been initially contracted to photograph the construction of the 1893 World’s Fair but proved to be an excellent architectural photographer so so became the Chief of the Fair’s Dept. of Photography. See; Thomas Yanul Charles Dudley Arnold Photographer 1844-1927 Official Photographer Chicago Columbian & Pan-American Expositions 2001. C.D. Arnold, [World’s Columbian Exposition, Department of Photography], unknown
1893rif. 59216Chicago: A. Wittemann 67 & 69 Spring St. 211 & 213 Wabash Ave. The Albertype Co. 1893. Oblong 12mo. 7.25 x 4.25 in. 13 leaves unnumbered. With 12 sepia- and aqua-tinted photogravure plates. Embossed limp brown covers raised lettering w/ gilt highlights on front cover punch-sewn at gutter margin w/ blue silk ribbon yapp edges slight curving to cover very minor shelfwear still NF copy. First edition of these nicely executed photogravure images of the magnificent Columbian Exposition in 1893. The historic World’s Fair which ran almost six months with grounds and gardens laid out by Fredrick Olmsted covering 630 acres and a Midway skyline dominated by the 250-foot Ferris wheel designed by George Ferris. These photogravures depict the Machinery Hall Admin Building and Court of Honor the Lagoon The Art Palace Woman’s Building the Japanese Hooden Palace on Wooded Island The Krupp Gunworks building and even the Monastery of “La Rabida.” Adolph Wittemann and his brother Herman began working as printers in New York in 1867 and first started printing books and postcards under the Albertype name in 1887. Adolph acted not only as agent finding customers for their services but taking photographs across the country to be made into postcards. See: World’s Columbian Exposition Collection Ryerson & Burnham Archives Art Institute of Chicago 2002; Annie Schentag Photography at the World’s Fair: Construction “Official” Images Architourism Cornell University 2011. A. Wittemann, 67 & 69 Spring St., 211 & 213 Wabash Ave., The Albertype Co., unknown
1925rif. 59293Reading PA: Metropolitan Edison Co. 1925. Oblong 4to. 11.5 x 8.25 in. 57 linen-backed silver gelatin photographs nearly all w/ typed captions on versos linen hinges & stubs at gutter margin bound w/ two brass screw-posts at gutter margin recent flexible mylar cover as protection secured w/ screw-posts slight curling at fore-edges still all photos w/ bright strong contrast. This remarkable series of undocumented photographs visually produces the efforts of Metropolitan Edison to further expand their footprint in the Pennsylvania market after electrifying over 35000 customers by 1925. As they accelerated their push to introduce additional electrical appliances following World War I they sponsored trade shows and expositions to advertise the latest available products and even commissioned their employees to regularly make house calls after hours with electrical toasters and lamps with prizes awarded for the most sales. Met-Ed customers could pay for the latest appliances with installments on their monthly electric bills. These images reveal the nighttime lighting illuminating the Electrical Exposition Auditorium on South Fifth in Reading featuring over 30 display booths of local suppliers and contractors wired-in music as well as demonstrators of all the different gadgets showing off their features and uses. “Kill O’Watt” figures as symbols of electrical service were installed at the doorways and with all the different booths and the exhibition space featured a “Court of Illumination” dominated by a life-size nude of the Egyptian Goddess of Light surrounded by 12-foot columns and golden incense burners. Every night and afternoon electric waffle irons and coffee percolators were raffled off and one lucky visitor won the grand prize of a brand-new Frigidaire refrigerator when the Exposition ended. As shown by the photographs visitors to the Electrical Exposition could view huge lighted display maps for the Pennsylvania-New Jersey Super Power System; Frigidaire Refrigerators; miniature home architectural models with cutaways showing the electrification of homes; lighted advertising signs and generators for Exide batteries 1920’s Art Deco Lamps electric train sets and even the most “beautiful booth” from the Philadelphia Electric Co. Supply Dept. with a lavish display of electric vacuums lights lamps toasters percolators fans irons and sound equipment. The Met-Ed Co. filled the entire balcony with the latest insulators meters control devices power transformers and equipment for their system and also featured are salesman sample photo albums displays electric ranges washing machines and more. Of special interest is the photo from Pennsylvania Edison Co. showing “The Story Behind Your Lighting Switch” a motorized mechanical book featuring articulated brass arms turning pages as they slid along the leaves and powered by a small motor. These were produced by the Metropolitan Mechanical Display Co. of New York who were one of the earliest and most successful firms for animatronic and popular powered displays. Metropolitan Edison was originally formed in 1917 after merging Met-Ed with Edison Electric Illuminating Lebanon Valley Electric Light Co. with subsidiaries of Reading Electric Light & Power Neversink and Penn-Ed under W.S. Barstow & E.L. West. We could find no other contemporary surviving visual records of the Electrical Exposition trade literature programs or catalogues in institutional holdings or sales records. See: A History of Met-Ed’s Western Division Met-Ed Centennial 1983; Moody’s Manual of Investments: American and Foreign 1922 pp. 414-418; Reading Times Nov. 7-21 1925 multiple entries & advertisements -- no images. Metropolitan Edison Co., unknown
1939rif. 57677San Francisco CA: H.S. Crocker Company Official Publishers G.G.I.E. 1939. Oblong folio. 13.5 x 10.75 in. 24 pp unpaginated. With photo plates throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art colour photos of the Exposition by Henry Wachs yapp edges very slight shelfwear w/ original printed mailing envelope minor toning shelfwear still F/NF copy. First edition of this beautifully printed photographic excursion through the Art Deco marvels of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition held on Treasure Island in San Francisco. Photographers included Roberts & Roberts Gabriel Moulin and George Grau. Worldcat locates 6 copies Cal. Hist. Soc. Cal State Library CS Fresno SF Public UC Berkeley Art Inst. Chicago. [H.S. Crocker Company, Official Publishers, G.G.I.E., paperback
1905rif. 56241Portland: Lewis & Clark Official Photographic Co. F.H. Kiser Goodnough Building c. 1905. One large silver gelatin photograph sized 10.25 x 13.5 in. mounted on gray studio board 17 x 13.75 in. w/ embossed photographer’s stamp in lower right corner of the board in white some scuffing & wear to corners fore-edges couple very minor scuffs to the image still a VG- image w/ bright strong contrast. A very scarce original souvenir intending to promote the Pacific Northwest for the Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition marking the anniversary of the famed exploration across the North American continent after the Louisiana Purchase. The Kiser Brothers Fred Kiser 1878-1955 and Oscar Kiser 1883-1905 began shooting photos as a hobby but very quickly became successful commercial photographers and one of the best artistic photographers in the country during the first three decades of the 20th century. They sold their images as prints photo albums stereoviews postcards glass lantern slides and even later hand-coloured many of them and sold them to tourists and collectors as framed or unframed art prints. Lewis & Clark Official Photographic Co., F.H. Kiser, Goodnough Building, unknown