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1886réf. 78130New York: G.W. and C.B. Colton 1886. Hand-colored pre-statehood map published only three years before the Dakota Territory was split into North and South Dakota. Depicts the various counties railroads and townships with relief indicated by hachures. The 15 ½” x 12 ½” map folds into the original burgundy cloth-covered boards 3 ¾” x 5 ¾” with gilt and blind stamping. “Compliments off Aug. T. Post Banker 25 Nassau St. New York” is stamped on the front panel. Near fine. Scarce OCLC locates only two holdings: Yale and State Historical Society of North Dakota. G.W. and C.B. Colton unknown
1827réf. 25576Brussels: P. Vandermaelen 1827. An early map of the Exmouth Western Australia area from the North West Cape to Roebuck Bay. Lithograph with original outline color 15 3/4 x 21". Scale ca. 1:1 650 000. Plate no. 44 Partie de La Nlle. Hollande in vol. 6 Oceanique of Atlas Universal de Geographie Physique Politique Statistique et Mineralogique" by P. Vandermaelen 1827. Tooley 1286; Phillips 749; Bib ID 1553060. P. Vandermaelen unknown
1827réf. 25575Brussels: P. Vandermaelen 1827. Maps. Very good condition. An early map of the Broome & the Kimberly Western Australia area from P. Cantheaume to Cambridge Gulf including the Lacepede Islands. Broome is at the bottom of the Dampier Peninsula called "C. Boileau." Lithograph with original outline color 25 x 21.5". Plate no. 35 Partie de La Nlle. Hollande in vol. 6 Oceanique of Atlas Universal de Geographie Physique Politique Statistique et Mineralogique" by P. Vandermaelen 1827. Tooley 1282; Phillips 749; Bib ID 30855. P. Vandermaelen unknown
1920réf. 180564China: c. 1920s. An attractive handmade gift for the tourist market the delightful papercuts depicting rural scenes and reproducing the Chinese characters for "luck" and "joy". This example contains 18 pages for inscriptions each with a papercut in the bottom corner. Landscape octavo. With 20 handmade papercuts on 10 leaves glassine guards. Original dark blue brocade with embroidered patterns blue silk xianzhuang stitching Rear cover with couple of marks toning and offsetting internally first glassine with loss at foot: near-fine. unknown
1913réf. 178292London: Thos. Cook & Son 1913. Second edition revised and updated from the first edition following the 1911 revolution. "It is seldom such momentous changes take place in a country within three years as have shaken the political industrial and civil life of China since this book was first compiled" introduction. The construction of railway lines from the late 19th century onwards afforded new opportunities for Westerners to travel in Asia. Thomas Cook established its first China office in 1911 in Shanghai to capitalize on this. Its guides were well known for their itineraries maps and ease of use. Octavo. Folding frontispiece map of railway and steam connections across East Asia folding plan of Beijing and Seoul maps and illustrations in text. Original yellow cloth covers lettered in black within black frame yellow advertising endpapers. Recent bookseller's ticket on rear free endpaper verso; ownership signatures and stamps of one Gerald A. Gill on endpapers and title page as well as his marginalia on table of contents. Cloth bright light marking and bumping maps and endpapers browned as usual: a very good copy. hardcover
réf. 2090202120400497Comes with box N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Comes with box paperback
1934réf. 2080302106808674Seibu Sewing Girls' Association 1934. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Seibu Sewing Girls' Association paperback
1970réf. ZB679366Utah State University 1970-2000. Volumes 1-31 1970-2000 bound library markings else text clean and bindings tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Utah State University unknown
1882réf. 138714Perth: Richard Pether Government Printer 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Perth Richard Pether Government Printer 1882 and London L. Reeve & Co. 1879. Large quarto 28 pages last blank with several tables plus 2 tinted lithographs and 2 colour maps one folding 490 × 370 mm; and viii 30 pages plus 21 plates including 17 full-page uncoloured lithographs of eucalypts after drawings by R. Austen. Pebble-grain dark green cloth with a large title-label printed in gilt on black paper on the front cover; minor loss to the label removing two letters of one word; cloth a little marked with light wear to the extremities; small section 25 mm of the leading edge of the rear cover a little abraded; endpaper hinges neatly reinforced; light tidemarks to two small sections of the endpapers with a little foxing confined mainly to the inner surfaces of the free endpapers and the adjacent pages; one tear to the folding map expertly sealed; minimal loss to silverfish to the bottom margin of the small map; mild signs of age and use; a very good copy. The balance of the first title is 'with some remarks and suggestions on future conservation and management of the timber areas from various authorities. With a reprint of the regulations and laws in force for the renting or leasing of timbered lands'. The introduction to the combined work compiled under the direction of Malcolm Fraser the WA Surveyor General has this to say: 'In compliance with your instructions and so far as the information and means at my command allowed I have collected in a general way such information about our timber Forests as was available to me and I have endeavoured to weave this together somewhat in a connected form. By including the valuable Report on the Forest Resources of Western Australia by Baron Ferd. von Mueller it will be brought more prominently before the public than it has hitherto been. the drawings give a very fair idea of the character of the Jarrah and Karri forests'. Richard Pether, Government Printer hardcover
19728vo., Second Impression, with plates, and endpaper maps on blue stock; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON DEDICATION with newspaper obituary mounted on title verso. SOLD WITH A SMALL ARCHIVE OF STEPHENSON MEMORABILIA, INCLUDING 3 A.L.s, ASSOCIATED LETTERS AND COPY-LETTERS, Report & Accounts of the London Flotilla for 1972, Obituary number of the London Flotilla Bulletin (No. 2 July 1972) with cover photograph and extended obituary, and Order of Service of Thanksgiving at St. Martin-in-the-Fields 22 June 1972. Published a month after the first edition. Fascinating account and character sketch of the man who did more than any other to train the Royal Navy during the Battle of the Atlantic. Well-known BBC presenter and journalist Richard Baker, like many thousands of others, trained at Tobermory on Mull for the longest-running and hardest-fought campaign of WWII. A RARE AND RELEVANT ARCHIVAL COPY RELATING DIRECTLY TO ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INSPIRATIONAL COMMANDERS OF THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC.
1798réf. 930273The Works: London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson Paternoster-Row and J. Edwards Pall-Mall. MDCCXCVIII 1798 WITH Memoires of the Last Ten Years of the Reign of George the Second: London John Murray Albemarle-Street. MDCCCXXII 1822. Over 4000 pages and 177 full-page engravings. Seven volumes uniformly bound in Contemporary Calf over marbled boards. Gold Gilt on black leather title labels. Additional spine gilt stamping with decorative blindstamp. Some rubbing to bindings wear heavier towards extremities see image. Hand Marbled endpapers hinges unobtrusively reinforced with moire brown cloth. Internally clean Unmarked. Off-setting from plates with sporadic foxing particularly to plates and adjoining leaves as per usual. Full Collation of the papers used contents and plates on request. A Very Good Antiquarian Set Indeed. First Edition. Half-Leather Marbled Boards. Very Good. Illus. by 177 Full-page Engravings Fold-outs etc. 4to - over 11½" tall. Extremely Heavy Oversized Safely Securely Packed. Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson and J. Edwards hardcover
1917Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: A Bandit's Bride - Part I - Pancho Villa, the bandit-Revolutionist of Mexico, rescued the heroine of this exclusive narrative from a loveless marriage with a Mormon and married her himself - one of the most remarkable stories of love, battle and intrigue ever published; Unknown Animals of the African Wilds - J.A. Jordan describes recent finds such as the Okapi, Bongo, Giant Pig, Pygmy Elephant, the "dingonek", and the "Rhodesian Monster" - article with photos; Private McTosher Discovers London - the adventures of a Highland soldier visiting London for the first time; A Flying Man in South America - Part IV - John G. Barron took a monoplane to South America and performed flying shows for 2.5 years, often before people who had never before seen a plane; How We Salved the Vigilant - While some of the crew headed for safety aboard a Dutch liner, three remaining crewmembers managed to safely guide the Vigilant to port!; The Finding of the "Mollybaun" - the discovery of a big nugget in Coolgardie, Western Australia, leads to multiple murders; Strange Stories of the War - a selection of incidents entitled A Kite Balloon Adventure, The Lady of the Manor, Mixed Identities, The "Phantom Sniper", The Subaltern's Gun, and The Mysterious Message; On the Borders of Tibet - Part III - Reginald Farrar spent two years wandering - largely among wild lands and wilder people whose chief desire was to build the intruding foreigner up in a damp bonfire to smoulder to death - with photos; The Ring - a dramatic story of the old days in New Zealand, before white and Maori had settled down in friendship; Historic Crimes and Mysteries - The Vanished Boatswain, The Monster of Regendorf, Bavaria; Remittance Men - an account of sundry remittance men the author met during his sojourn in Africa; The Tragedy of Sanborn Harbour - wholesale murder at the cod-fishing station on remote Nagai Island, Alaska; Photo of 'two Indians squaws' casting ballots in California for the Presidential election; Photo of 'The Human Fly' scaling a tall building in Birmingham, Alabama; and more. pp. 4 [ads], [2], 194-284, 5-16 [ads]. Unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
1935Volume I, No. I of this publication. Contents include two long complete novels of war flying entitled "One Man's War", a tale of a Handley-Page night-bomber, and "Gas-Bag Aces", a tale of Seaplane and Blimp adventures of the Coast Defence Forces in the Great War; Terror in the Sky - A Pilotless R.A.F. Fighter crashes in the centre of New York; Murder in the Air - The Red Prop School trained the Foreign Legion of the Air; Cundall of the Camels - The remarkable life of a Camel pilot of the R.F.C. on the Western Front; Real Life Adventures - Crashing Aeroplanes for Movie Thrills and Thrills and Spills in Parachuting; and more. Interesting cover illustration depicts kilt-wearing machine-gunner. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
1916A most unusual and wonderful item. Appears to be a privately bound collection of early Calgary periodicals dated November 17th, 1916 through April 14th, 1920. Sturdily bound in red cloth with no external markings. Measures just over 2" thick, 11.5" high and 9" wide. Many issues included although we are not sure if a full run is contained. No table of contents or index. Contents tanned with age, otherwise sound. Captures an exceptional and vintage slice of early Calgary and Alberta history. Replete with contemporary advertisements. Book
1890réf. 40232n.p. 1890. Not bound. Overall quite good but some creasing tears fading a few remounted. 12 sheets. Size varies from 4 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches to 13 x 10 inches. 42 albumen and silver prints mounted on large card stock some tipped in some remounted. Images of San Francisco Yosemite Pikes Peak Grand Canyon as well as the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 some captioned in plate or in manuscript. unknown books
1955réf. WRCAM56693Oakland Ca.: Utsumi Studio 1955. Panoramic silver gelatin photograph 8 x 30 1/4 inches. Minor edge wear a few soft creases mild surface soiling. Very good plus. An appealing panoramic photograph featuring the attendees of the 1955 conference of the Western Young Buddhist League. The photograph captures a few hundred finely- dressed Japanese-American men and women posed in a courtyard in Oakland California. Various delegates to the conference hold handwritten signs indicating their home cities and regional organizations which include Marysville Palo Alto San Mateo San Francisco Fresno Oakland Sacramento Delta Pasadena and numerous other smaller California cities and locales. There are also banners for attendees from the Stockton Chapter of the Y.B.A. the Coast District of the Young Buddhist Association and the Central California Young Buddhist Association. The elders of the organization sit in chairs in front of the young Bussei. Interestingly this photograph was taken by Oakland photographer Kinji Utsumi a photographer in the Bay Area both before and after World War II. Utsumi bought his photo studio in 1941 but was forced to close at the outset of the Japanese-American internment period. He then became one of the official photographers at the Topaz internment camp in Utah; he is mentioned in the RAMBLINGS yearbooks for Topaz High School during the internment period. After the war Utsumi returned to Franklin Street in Oakland and opened another photographic studio. A rare image of a large organization of young Japanese-American Buddhists in California in the middle of the Eisenhower years with no copies reported in OCLC. Utsumi Studio unknown books
1915réf. 901Portland 1915. Very good. Sixteen cyanotypes approximately 5 x 7 inches. Minor wear and toning at edges images generally sharp with nice contrast. Sixteen cyanotypes depicting the activities of the lumber industry in Oregon taken by an unidentified photographer. The images include scenes of the premises of the Oregon Planing Mill in Portland Globe Mills and a more rural lumber yard and timber camp in the Pacific Northwest. The Oregon Planing Mill was located at 224 2nd Street in Portland and was active in the 1910s and 1920s leading us to a date for the group of images. Two photographs are of the planing mill one showing the outside and the other the interior. Another set of images shows the exterior and interior works of the Globe Mill. Two images show tidy rows of houses which may be a logging camp or an early rural development. The remaining ten images are industrial in nature depicting large buildings and lumber yards full of cut timber planks. All the images have good contrast and are quite sharp with an eye for composition and detail. An interesting group of particularly fine cyanotypes. unknown books
1938réf. 917Various Places including Mexico Wyoming Nevada Arizona and California 1938. Very good. 296 photographs in corner mounts on fifty-five leaves. Oblong quarto. Original cloth boards string tied. Cloth worn and frayed at edges. A few leaves loose. Photos generally crisp and neat; about half with manuscript captions on leaves. A travel album of nearly 300 original images of alluring and uncommonly high quality the preponderance of which chronicle a series of road trips made by a group of young men crossing the United States and Mexico by car in 1936 and 1937. The subjects were likely students at Worcester Polytechnical Institute. Approximately 250 of the images depict their trips across North America in the midst of the Depression with locations in the east including Mt. Katahdin in Maine; Washington D.C.; Lookout Mountain Tennessee; Lake Michigan; and Niagara Falls. In the West they drove through Texas and Mexico to Mexico City. They toured the Mexican capital and also stopped in Monterrey where they saw a bullfight. After re-crossing the border at Fort Stockton they traveled through New Mexico Arizona Nevada Wyoming and California with a series of photographs depicting their experiences in Yellowstone and Yosemite. Indeed many of the photos depict their stops in national parks across the West and demonstrate an interest in the major water engineering project being undertaken at that time. The remainder of the images show the aftermath of the 1938 hurricane on Bellows Falls Vermont likely the hometown of the album's compiler and scenes on the campus of WPI. An excellent visual account of Depression-era car travel. unknown books
1888réf. 1964Sioux City Ia.: James H. Hamilton 1888. Very good. Twenty stereoviews on printed mounts one duplicative. Some light soiling and wear one card lightly creased affecting image. Some slight fading to several photos. A group of twenty stereocards depicting the Corn Palace of 1888 taken by James H. Hamilton the official photographer for the Corn Palace festival that year. The Corn Palace at Sioux City was the world's first founded in conjunction with a citywide harvest festival in the fall of 1887. The festival and the palace were such a success drawing nearly 140000 visitors to Sioux City that the founders decided to repeat their efforts for a further four years. Each year the Corn Palace was rebuilt from scratch the framed timber structure coated with grain from top to bottom. The Corn Palace of 1888 drew approximately 350000 people and advertised "toilet rooms and conveniences for ladies and gentlemen". James H. Hamilton worked as a photographer in Sioux City from the mid-1860s through the 1890s. He photographed many notable figures and scenes in the region including the Corn Palace serving as the event's official photographer in 1888. He also worked in partnership at different points with photographers Franklin Hoyt and John Kodylek. The views present here primarily depict the interior of the Corn Palace showcasing its various rooms which include features such as fireplaces and gas lighting. James H. Hamilton unknown books
1890réf. 40232n.p. 1890. Not bound. Overall quite good but some creasing tears fading a few remounted. 12 sheets. Size varies from 4 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches to 13 x 10 inches. 42 albumen and silver prints mounted on large card stock some tipped in some remounted. Images of San Francisco Yosemite Pikes Peak Grand Canyon as well as the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 some captioned in plate or in manuscript. unknown
1955réf. 56693Oakland Ca.: Utsumi Studio 1955. Young Buddhists in California in 1954 Photographed by the Former Official Photographer of the Topaz Internment Camp An appealing panoramic photograph featuring the attendees of the 1955 conference of the Western Young Buddhist League. The photograph captures a few hundred finely-dressed Japanese-American men and women posed in a courtyard in Oakland California. Various delegates to the conference hold handwritten signs indicating their home cities and regional organizations which include Marysville Palo Alto San Mateo San Francisco Fresno Oakland Sacramento Delta Pasadena and numerous other smaller California cities and locales. There are also banners for attendees from the Stockton Chapter of the Y.B.A. the Coast District of the Young Buddhist Association and the Central California Young Buddhist Association. The elders of the organization sit in chairs in front of the young Bussei. Interestingly this photograph was taken by Oakland photographer Kinji Utsumi a photographer in the Bay Area both before and after World War II. Utsumi bought his photo studio in 1941 but was forced to close at the outset of the Japanese-American internment period. He then became one of the official photographers at the Topaz internment camp in Utah; he is mentioned in the RAMBLINGS yearbooks for Topaz High School during the internment period. After the war Utsumi returned to Franklin Street in Oakland and opened another photographic studio. A rare image of a large organization of young Japanese-American Buddhists in California in the middle of the Eisenhower years with no copies reported in OCLC. Panoramic silver gelatin photograph 8 x 30¼ inches. Minor edge wear a few soft creases mild surface soiling. Very good plus. unknown
1907réf. 13196San Francisco: Chief Engineer's Office 1907. Three blueprints each about 18 x 24 inches. Old folds noticeable chipping to edges occasionally costing minor content near the margins. Good condition. A trio of blueprints detailing the Western Pacific Railroad's standard 20-x-32-foot Desert Depot structure. This standard building plan was created for the depots between San Francisco and Salt Lake City in the Nevada Desert. The blueprints include side views of the building plain views floor plans details of footings overall foundation construction details of prominent structural support and so forth. The layout of the office reveals that each would have a telegraph office at front and center a conductors room at the right of the building three bedrooms and a kitchen. A wonderful relic of the western railroad. Chief Engineer's Office unknown
1900réf. 64553Ashland OR: F.L. Camps ca. 1900. One large silver gelatin birds-eye quadriptych panoramic photograph stretching 37.75 x 7.75 in. mounted on studio board 42 x 12 in. divided by the photographer into four panels w/ 2 outer panels sized 11.75 x 12 in. and 2 central panels sized 9.25 x 12 in. w/ photographer’s embossed imprint w/in the image at lower right corner on panel 4 originally intended to be clasped w/ 8 brass rings at each joint but later framed w/ remnants of black & brown backing paper on versos still a VG exemplar. This exceptional original and unknown large panoramic photo depicts Ashland Oregon at the end of the 19th-Century. Included are glimpses of historic structures and their advertising as the Hotel Oregon later renamed the Ashland Hotel which was a Queen Anne style building completed in 1889 featuring long porches and an elegant restaurant which was managed by noted Chinese-American chef “Chinese Jim” who cooked for Jack London William Jennings Bryan and Joaquin Miller as they stayed in the hotel and passed through town. Although the board sidewalk appears in the photo there are no evidence of the palm trees which were also planted later. Another structure glimpsed nearby is the fascinating beehive Chautauqua structure completed in just 10 days in 1893 and could seat 1000 attendees. Although the original structure no longer exists the Oregon Shakespeare Festival first organized in 1935 still takes place at the old Ashland Chautauqua site. The significant large “Furniture Store” is visible with awnings on Main Street along with nearby livery stables businesses homes as well as the train station and railroad rolling stock structures in the distance with one long train of railcars visible. Although undated and without caption the photograph style bears resemblance to the large panoramic photo by Lars Henrichsen shot and later marketed in several panels in 1903 and visual evidence indicates a Winter time shot as nearly all of the deciduous trees bear no foliage. Camps 1870-1935 was a German-American photographer who set up his earliest studio in Olympia WA in 1891 and was noted for ambrotype portraits but before 1900 moved and set up his studio in Ashland OR frequently traveling the countryside to shoot photos by buggy and horseback and later by 1913 in a licensed Ford Model T. After 1914 Camps had ceased operating a photo studio according to street directories and moved onto owning and managing automobile garages in Ashland Klamatha Falls or San Jose as well as Elkhorn CA and remarried. By the last years of his life during the Great Depression he continued to reside only in Klamath Falls OR. No similar examples located in Worldcat or other institutional holdings. F.L. Camps, unknown
1949réf. 57035Portland OR & Santa Barbara CA: E.B. Quigley 1949-1966. 1st -- 8 silver gelatin photos sized 8 x 10 in. some w/ photographer’s stamp on verso others w/ pencil and/or ink MS marking; 2nd -- 8vo. 12 pp unpaginated. illustrated self-printed softcovers pencil annotations back cover; 2 copies of 6 pp unpaginated. triptych illustrated; 4 pp unpaginated. brochure Rancheros logo by Joe de Yong on front cover creased from fold; 3rd -- 4to. 5 leaves broadsides photo illustrated 1 on stationery 1 signed by Ed Quigley; 4th -- 12mo. 4 x 5 in. 3 illustrated Christmas Cards 4 pp unpaginated. bifolium illustrated by Quigley 1 ALS on verso of front flap; 5th -- 4to. 1 leaf broadside of Quigley’s cabin in Sandy OR; 6th -- Oblong 8vo. to 4to. Approx. 100 pieces of illustrated & printed stationery invoices & envelopes on laid paper; 7th -- 4to. 8.5 x 10.25 in. 142 2 pp. Title printed in silver & black w/ colour and black & white photo illustrations & plates throughout 1 colour map text illusts. by Joe de Yong. Half-burgundy cloth over printed boards illustrated endpapers w/ d.j. wraparound cover art photo by Karl Obert 1 closed tear back cover NF/VG copy; 8th -- Small group of artifacts including 8 rawhide leather ribbons personalized to Quigley stamped w/ De Yong illust. including the Los Vigilantes badge for them to be attached to as well as personalized badge for dam dedication all from the library of Ed Quigley. This captivating archive offers a number of items documenting the storied career of noted Western artist Ed Quigley 1895-1984 including photographs catalogues broadsides and printed pieces as well as souvenirs from his participation with Los Rancheros Visitadores riding club in Santa Barbara CA. The photographs open with an image of him completing a painting of a cowboy working with mustangs in a corral with Quigley holding his palette and glimpses of Portland OR through the studio window in the background; another two show him and his smartly dressed friends during the 1930’s while he was painting for the Works Progress Administration Federal Artist’s program; and five additional photos by Santa Barbara photographer Karl Obert depict him riding with others at the Los Rancheros Visitadores in 1958. The exhibit catalogues include his June-July 1949 exhibition at the Maryhill Museum of Fine Arts which also included a number of his original woodcarvings; the 1962 Western Art Exhibits sponsored by Los Rancheros Visitadores which featured works by Quigley Charley Russell Will James Edward Borein Joe De Yong Olaf Wieghorst Frank Tenney Johnson and others; and the 1964 gallery showing of Oil Paintings and Wood Carvings at the Oregon Society of Artists Gallery in Portland OR including a photo of the artist carving sculptures. The several sales broadsides include one signed by Quigley for his bronzes with the verbiage that he had intended to cast 20 but there were only 10 and these include “Unloaded” “Indian Scout” and “Bronc Rider.”Quigley expanded his career through the 1930’s and 1940’s by gaining inspiration from Yakama Indians in and around Toppenish while visiting horse trader Frank Green and would often return there. He writes in one of the undated Christmas cards that he had just “spent 3 interesting weeks with a couple of mustangers and the Indians on wild horse round-ups on the Yakima Reservation. Got a lot of good material and have 2 - 30” x 40” paintings finished.” The stationery included here all reproduce paintings by Quigley of mustangs on the Palouse as well as pen & ink drawing of the cabin built by the artist on Cedar Creek near Mt. Hood and Sandy Oregon. The prolific and popular Western artist focused on cowboys and Native Americans working in rugged landscapes often with pastoral themes as a native of the Pacific Northwest who also was an active member of many riding clubs including Los Rancheros Visitadores. Los Rancheros Visitadores was founded as an invitaiton-only riding club which included such members as founder Ed Borein along with Will James Joe De Yong Walt Disney Gary Cooper Montie Montana Clark Gable Philip Wrigley Charlie Russell Chuck Yeager Max Baer and Ronald Reagan. The rides usually center on the Los Prietos Ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley often include a visit to Santa Ynez Mission and for over four decades their rides participants and activities were documented by famed Santa Barbara photographer Karl Obert 1897-1976. No copies of the exhibition catalogues or broadsides are located in Worldcat; See: Phoebe Oelheim Artist Edward Quigley’s Romantic Vision of the West Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission 2002; Graham Sharkey Boots & Spurs The Capital Journal July 20 1950 p. 10. E.B. Quigley, paperback
1919réf. 2655Various locations including Wyoming Nebraska and Iowa 1919. Very good plus. Forty-two original black-and-white photographs and real photo postcards most with manuscript annotations bound into a two-ring leather binder. Two additional postcards laid in. Minor occasional dust soiling but overall in excellent shape. An intriguing pocket-sized binder containing a collection of photographs and real photo postcards documenting large-scale construction projects in the American West mostly involving concrete projects such as dams drainage reservoir infrastructure railroads and more between about 1913 to 1920. All of the projects occur on or west of the Mississippi River in locations such as Keokuk Iowa; Ardmore South Dakota; Grand Island Nebraska; and Arminto Wyoming. The projects cover a wide range of subject matter from a simple base for a railroad mail sack crane to entire dam wall construction and seem to feature several involving sprayable concrete commonly known as gunite. This material was rather new in the 1910s but is still widely in use to the present day. The majority of the images are captioned in manuscript identifying the project or location or often both. These include a power-generating dam in Keokuk; reinforcement of a reservoir dam near Lysite Wyoming; widening of a cut for the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad through Arminto; memorializing a concrete crib wall for the same railroad at the Bancroft St. Vincent Omaha; the installation of an eighteen-inch wall casting and sinking the Kelly well in Grand Island; documenting frost action on a brick chimney and water tank and also picturing a "concrete gun" in Worland Wyoming; and others. The images are organized into two sections with small tabs one reading "Dams" and the other "Miscellan." The compiler of the pictures is not identified but he or she was most likely involved in the operational aspects of the construction projects. One of the captions is initialed at the bottom "JRH" which may help scholars identify the compiler with further research. The binder itself was produced in Kansas City which may be an additional clue to the compiler's identity. A small but focused collection featuring major western construction projects from the early-20th century. unknown
