Western

1889 · réf. 64513 — Portland OR: R.L. Polk & Co. Publishers Room 12 First National Bank Building 1889. Thick 8vo. 1 1015 1 pp including pastedowns. plus additional inserted 118 pp unpaginated. advertisements including woodcut-engraved illustrated ads printer’s samples half-sheets and more inserted by advertisers w/ nearly all on colour-tinted paper additional contiguous printed sections on colour-tinted papers text illustrations. Quarter-black calf over blue-gray publisher’s cloth printed ads in gilt & black on covers & spine printed ads on fore-edges of textblock minor edgewear minor wear & slight bumping to corners inner hinges expertly repaired very slight repairs to leather spine faint occasional tidemark at fore-edges of some leaves still a VG- copy from library of Mrs. Thomas J. Rose Alice Maney Fox 1882-1954 wife of Dr. Fox 1883-1953 who also operated a grocery in Portland OR w/ former ownership label on front pastedown. First edition of this scarce directory of Portland’s most important people and businesses at the end of the 19th-Century and two years before the consolidation of Portland which drew in Albina East Portland and other areas into one city complete with a number of commercial advertising samples and added advertisements. Of special interest are such lavish illustrated sections as the Banks & Bankers section touting the deposits and prowess of the First National Bank Ladd & Tilton Portland Savings Bank Ainsworth National Bank and others with woodcut engravings of their historic downtown architecture. In addition there are advertising and paper samples throughout with engraved letter heads for companies such as G. Arata & Co. Wine & Liquor Dealers on First Street; Frank Brothers Implement Company for harness & horse goods; Good Samaritan Hospital at the time with Emma J. Wakeman who successfully oversaw the facility and nursing training school from 1885-1905; steel-engraved letterhead advertising from Meston & Dygert book binders and blank book manufacturers; Schwab Bros. Printing & Litho Co. advertisement sample as well as engraved illustrated ad for the Honeyman DeHart & Co. Hardware & Mining Supplies store on Front Street in Portland. Of particular interest is the inclusion of Vancouver Washington Territory listings prior to statehood including nearby La Camas now Camas as well prior to the great fire which destroyed the original courthouse and jail along with much of Vancouver W.T. which was subsequently rebuilt. Several illustrated paper sample ads detail the available products from the Columbia River Paper Co. founded just 6 years earlier in La Camas by Pittock and J.K. Gill. Pittock expanded his paper making operations to La Camas Washington Territory because of greater access to water and raw materials on the North bank of the Columbia River East of Vancouver W.T. Founding the Columbia River Paper Co. in 1883 with J.K. Gill the site was cleared by 100 Chinese-American laborers who had just completed work on the final link of the Northern Pacific Railroad the mill was erected a 7000 foot long aqueduct was built and the water and timber rights to the 3 lakes above La Camas were acquired as well. At the same time Pittock hired George William & Charles Smith West a father & son team of paper makers with long experience in the New York & Massachusetts paper industries with George William already having specialized in wrapping papers from Manilla hemp tea rag & straw. No copies located in Worldcat None located in OHS Mult. Co. Lib. or U of O. R.L. Polk & Co., Publishers, Room 12, First National Bank Building, hardcover