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1841réf. 863181841. Western Thomas George. Lolme Jean Louis de 1740-1846. Commentaries on the Constitution and Laws of England: Incorporated with the Political Text of the late J.L. de Lolme. London: J. Richards 1841. Third edition revised and corrected. Octavo. xvii 476 civ pp. Contemporary full calf faded gilt spine and lettering piece. Marbled endpapers and edges. External wear scuffing and minor soiling. Institutional copy with the gilt ownership inscription of the "Birmingham Law Society" to the front board and their gilt insignia to the rear board. Small bookseller's ticket "Wildy & Sons / London" to front pastedown. Property stamps to title page and page 399 contents otherwise clean and tight. A good sound copy. $250. First published in French in 1771 De Lolme's foundational text was a highly influential account of the English government praised by William Blackstone and the authors of The Federalist Papers. This 1841 edition by Western updates the classic text for the Victorian era integrating the monumental changes of the Reform Act of 1832 and the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829. This copy's provenance links it directly to the nineteenth-century legal community via the Birmingham Law Society founded 1818 and London's historic legal book trade via Wildy & Sons operating out of Lincoln's Inn Archway since 1830. unknown books
1891réf. 50232Chicago IL: Western Pearl Co 1891. Very Good. Chicago IL: Western Pearl Co. 1891. First Edition. Octavo; stapled self-wrappers; 311pp.; photographs and illustrations throughout. Rubbing and mild smudging to wraps; binding sound; Very Good. Uncommon pamphlet bribing kids to sell Western Prince Double Strength Baking Powder to get a brand new "free" bike. Includes testimonials and photographs of kids with their new bicycles and references state by state. A hundred and fifty cans at 40 cents each did the trick. We find no copies in retail and two holdings in OCLC at Indiana and Brown. Western Pearl Co unknown books
1925réf. 1729801925. THE WESTERN SHADE CLOTH COMPANY. Color Harmony with Luxor Shades. 47 colour plates and 14 coloured sample sheets. Oblong folio 277 x 342 mm publisher's decorated cloth. Chicago: William Volker 1925. A fine copy of this rare elaborately produced work containing many plates with cut-outs. Not listed on OCLC. hardcover books
1923réf. 5280Various locations in the American Southwest and West 1923. About very good. Two oblong folio photograph albums bound in brown pebbled leather each titled in gilt on front cover "WANDERLUST" containing a total of 266 full-page vernacular and professional photographs. First albums: 146 leaves illustrated with 128 full-page landscape photographs each around 6 x 8 inches or slightly larger and occasional manuscript or hand-fashioned sectional title pages and maps. Second volume: 148 leaves illustrated with 138 photographs and occasional manuscript or hand-fashioned sectional title pages. All contents mounted one per page to recto of each leaf. Spines perished but holding strong boards worn scuffed and soiled. Contents noticeably curled with minor to moderate dust-soiling throughout. A studio photograph of a young man is laid-in to the first album likely the compiler of the albums but sadly unidentified. An elaborately-produced pair of vernacular photograph albums documenting an epic cross-country train excursion in 1923 by a well-to-do but anonymous traveler from New York comprised of over 260 full-page photographs. The photographs are a mixture of silver gelatin images printing out paper prints handcolored photographs and a handful of cyanotypes. Most of the images appear to be taken by the traveler en route but some images may have been bought along the way. The images largely picture the landscape or architecture seen along the way with a healthy number of images showing the railroad and the railcars themselves with many images taken at train depots. The occasional manuscript sectional title pages denote the regions of travel as the compiler moved west to California and then eventually back east towards home. The first album begins with a manuscript title leaf quoting the text of Gerald Gould's poem "Wanderlust" supplemented by two small drawings and two thumbnail photographs. A map on the second leaf traces the voyage from New York down through the American South and Southwest to California and back to New York through Arizona Colorado and the Midwest. Thereafter the album is comprised mostly of full-page photographs grouped together by location with anywhere from a few to several images per section. The first section in the first album shows the first major stop on the trip -- Washington D.C. and Mount Vernon; this section contains photographs of the Capitol the Lincoln Monument other D.C. buildings and several on the grounds of George Washington's home at Mount Vernon. The album then includes sections featuring New Orleans six photographs; the route between New Orleans and El Paso five images including the train depot at Langtry Texas; El Paso five shots featuring the city and street views; Juarez Mexico eight shots mostly either street scenes or a bullfight; "Thru New Mexico and Arizona" four images; The Apache Trail in Arizona nineteen shots mostly desert landscapes but with some buildings along the trail; and onward through the Carriso Gorge seven photos to California beginning at Coronado Beach eight photographs. The remainder of the first album features California locations namely San Diego sixteen images mostly missions; Pasadena ten photos mostly featuring gardens; Catalina Island eight shots of the island scenery or the bay; Los Angeles eight views in Santa Monica Venice and Ocean Park; and ending with fourteen images featuring missions and other notable structures in Santa Barbara. The second volume picks up the excursion in Del Monte California featuring fifteen scenes in Carmel by the Sea and Monterey. The photographic journey of California then continues to Santa Cruz and the Big Trees five shots; San Francisco eleven views around the city and in the Japanese gardens; Mt. Tamalpais a dozen shots of elevated vistas big trees and forests; Yosemite National Park twenty park views; Mariposa Big Trees seven shots; and ends with the Glenwood Mission Inn in Riverside twenty-two images of the hotel grounds and other local scenery and missions around Riverside. The remainder of the album features photographs from the Grand Canyon in Arizona twenty-six images mostly landscapes but with a few featuring Native American ceremonies and Colorado Springs twenty landscapes and other views of the city surrounding desert Pikes Peak and so forth. Concerned mostly with scenery of the American South Southwest and West Coast the compiler did not see fit to record photographs of the remainder of his trip back home to New York. In addition to the information contained in the photographs here the elaborate materiality custom matching albums with matching gilt titles to the front board handcrafted sectional title pages the hand-drawn and traced map and the nature of the organization of the albums arranged in the order of travel from east to west and back east again speaks volumes about the importance the compiler placed on the trip. Substantially documented western travel albums are growing rare in the market and the present example is one of the most carefully-assembled examples we have ever seen. unknown books
1940réf. 154291St. Croix Falls WI: N.p. 1940. Vintage string bound photograph album containing 31 black-and-white snapshot photographs including four hand-tinted in blue and yellow documenting a school costume day. Manuscript ink annotation to the inside front cover provides the date and album title: "Dress-Up-Day Pictures / April 5 1940". Many photographs with manuscript ink annotation captions to the bottom edges identifying the subjects. The outfits run the gamut: while some teens opted for simple cross-dressing costumes many were more creative dressing as cowboys hula girls hoboes married couples and the like. Notably unusual costumes include an ice box Life Magazine a beer barrel a telephone directory several rolls of Tums and a record player with a paper sign noting the record title as Rhapsody in Blue. A humorous assortment. Photographs generally 2.5 x 3.5 inches. Mounted on black cardboard album leaves rectos and versos. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1935réf. 152267N.p.: N.p. 1935. Archive of 24 vernacular photographs documenting a 1935 summer road trip through the badlands of South Dakota Idaho and Wyoming. Each photograph with manuscript ink annotations identifying location to the margins and manuscript pencil annotations to the verso noting locations and dates along with the stamp of Rays photography studio in LaCrosse WI. Captured in the archive are various natural landmarks including Shoshone Canyon IXL Ranch and Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming Bald Mountain in Idaho and the Black Hills Badlands and Missouri River in South Dakota. Also included are a few photographs taken along US Route 14 one of the original US highways of 1926 an east-west route running 1398 miles. An alternately charming and chilling collection of Depression-era travel photography in the Midwest and Mountain West. 23 photographs 4.5 x 2.17 inches 1 photograph 3.5 x 2.75 inches. Generally Very Good plus some with light fading and age toning. N.p. unknown books
1964réf. 235701964. José G. Cruz "Juan Sin Miedo" photo comic group from 1964 documenting the transformation of the Mexican western from a rural frontier setting into a mass market adventure which absorbed crime fiction and romance into photomontage storytelling. Juan Sin Miedo one of Cruz's most widely circulated characters appears here as a charro hero moving between ranches mining camps taverns criminal conspiracies romantic encounters and wilderness pursuits. In these issues the character is portrayed by actor Jesús Gómez whose photographic performances were combined with drawn layouts and captions producing a hybrid form between comic book film serial and fotonovela. Published during a period of rapid urbanization and expanding consumer media across Latin America the issues show Mexican popular culture negotiating rural identity and modern life through stories that place horses beside automobiles cowboys beside helicopters folk medicine beside commercial advertising and traditional notions of honor beside contemporary crime and technology. Juan Sin Miedo. Ediciones José G. Cruz. Mexico Bogotá and Caracas distribution circa 1964. Five issues. 1 Juan Sin Miedo. Año 2 No. 55. Bogotá: Editorial América S.A. por convenio con José G. Cruz circa 1964. Small format 5 x 7 inches approximately 31 pages. Cover shows Jesús Gómez as Juan Sin Miedo beside H. Palacios with Colombian and Venezuelan prices; interior advertises "Medicamentos Indígenas" and "Tamakuin El Vengador Errante." 2 Juan Sin Miedo. Año 2 No. 63. Bogotá: Editorial América S.A. por convenio con José G. Cruz circa 1964. Small format 5 x 7 inches approximately 33 pages. Cover caption reads "Juan Sin Miedo y Claudia" with interior advertising Casperín Capulina and Colombian distribution through Distribuidora Meridiano. 3 Juan Sin Miedo. No. 163. El Valle del Diablo. Mexico: Ediciones José G. Cruz August 31 1964. Large format 9.5 x 7 inches approximately 32 pages. Cover shows Juan holding a woman under the title "El Valle del Diablo"; interior includes the ownership inscription "Luis Enrique Garcia" and a story opening at the "Central de Estudios Mineros del Estado." 4 Juan Sin Miedo. No. 167. El Salvaje. Mexico: Ediciones José G. Cruz September 28 1964. Large format 9.5 x 7 inches approximately 31 pages. Cover shows a smoking charro beside a woman and horse; interior opens with "El Salvaje" and carries the same Luis Enrique Garcia inscription. 5 Juan Sin Miedo. No. 176. El Helicóptero. Mexico: Ediciones José G. Cruz November 30 1964. Large format 9.5 x 7 inches approximately 31 pages. Cover places the western hero inside a tavern scene; interior action sequences show helicopters gunfire coastal pursuit and a forced landing in the jungle. The archive show Cruz expanding the Mexican western beyond its nineteenth-century frontier setting. In El Valle del Diablo Juan's investigation begins at the "Central de Estudios Mineros del Estado" placing the charro hero within a landscape shaped by resource extraction and state development. El Helicóptero shifts the action into aerial pursuit radio communication jungle landings and international escape routes while El Salvaje juxtaposes ranch culture automobiles romance and crime. Throughout the group horseback riders revolvers and rural villages coexist with aircraft motor vehicles celebrity publicity campaigns and international distribution networks extending from Mexico to Colombia and Venezuela. Covers and interiors with edge wear toning small losses and handling; No. 63 in poor condition with cover unbound but remains fully legible. Overall good condition. A five issue record of José G. Cruz's photo comic western as a transnational Latin American form joining charro heroism popular modernity and serialized visual culture in 1964. unknown books
1920réf. 235991920. Western logging and resource extraction photo archive circa 1925 to 1940 documenting the engineering labor and transportation systems that supported industrial development across the American West. The photographs record the transformation of forests and mountain landscapes into organized production sites through road construction surveying bridge building temporary camps and mechanized earthmoving. Their emphasis falls not on harvested timber alone but on the infrastructure that allowed western pine forests and mineral resources to be exploited on an industrial scale during the period when the Western Pine Association promoted standardized forestry practices and expanding commercial lumber production throughout the Pacific Coast states. Photo archive of 11 silver gelatin photographs approximately 3.5 x 4.5 inches Northern California Oregon and Arizona circa 1925 to 1940. The photographs show crews grading wide logging roads with early bulldozers and earthmoving equipment; surveyors laying out roadbeds with transits and leveling rods; timber bridges and heavy wooden structures under construction; logging camps with canvas bunkhouses and workers posed outside camp buildings; cultivated fields and company gardens established beside mountain camps; and forest clearings where wagons equipment and draft animals remain in use alongside mechanized machinery. Two photographs depict Arizona mining operations and retain contemporary manuscript captions on the versos. One reads "This is a view of the sluice box before it is quite done has a large or tall gin pole to be put up above hopper for pulleys to work on." Another identifies a camp and garden noting "This is a picture of the camp and garden and in the back ground can see the sluice box in the canyon." Several images appear to have been produced as documentation of western pine logging operations possibly in connection with the Western Pine Association or a related lumber concern. The archive belongs to the decades when western timber companies shifted from rail centered logging toward increasingly extensive truck roads crawler tractors and mechanized grading allowing commercial harvesting to penetrate previously inaccessible stands of ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests in Northern California and Oregon. Founded in 1916 the Western Pine Association encouraged scientific forestry standardized lumber grading and modern logging methods as western pine became one of the nation's principal building materials during the interwar years and the approach to the Second World War. The Arizona views complement this narrative by documenting comparable engineering practices in western mining where sluice boxes temporary camps and improvised lifting systems illustrate the labor required before mechanized extraction reached full capacity. Particularly notable is the absence of hard hats and modern protective equipment reflecting industrial work before federal occupational safety regulations fundamentally altered logging and construction practices after the creation of OSHA in 1970. Light surface wear occasional corner rubbing and minor silvering; overall in very good condition. A concentrated visual record of the engineering labor and temporary infrastructure that made large scale timber and mineral extraction possible across the early twentieth century American West. unknown books
1942réf. 222721942. Japanese InternmentWWII Framed original broadside issued April 24 1942 by the Western Defense Command enforcing Executive Order 9066 by the compulsory removal of Japanese Americans from a designated district of Los Angeles. The broadside directs "all persons of Japanese ancestry both alien and non-alien" to present themselves for relocation initiating their forced transfer to government custody. This document dates to the first phase of the federal mass incarceration program that uprooted more than 120000 Japanese Americans approximately two-thirds of whom were United States citizens. Civilian Exclusion Order No. 41 Large format broadside framed. Western Defense Command and Fourth Army. San Francisco: U.S. Army April 24 1942. The notice mandates that a "responsible member of each family and each individual living alone" report to a designated Civil Control Station between April 25 and April 26 1942 and warns that failure to comply would result in criminal penalties under Public Law No. 503 and possible immediate apprehension. The text specifies the geographic boundaries of the exclusion zone within Los Angeles and outlines the administrative procedure for removal including reporting instructions and compliance requirements. The exceptionally fast pace of mass incarceration is especially evident here as the poster issued April 24 commands representatives to report immediately over the following two days for instruction and mandates all Japanese and Japanese-Americans be vacated from the area by May 1 the following week. During this period immigrants and citizens alike were suddenly ripped from their homes schools and jobs forced to say good-bye to neighbors loved ones and pets and pack whatever belongings were permitted by the U.S. government for internment of an indeterminate length of time. Posted publicly in affected neighborhoods across California Oregon and Washington exclusion orders such as this were a key part of the first phase of Japanese American mass incarceration. They introduced military command into neighborhood-level enforcement and a suspension of civil liberties for the West Coast Japanese immigrant population. The order is dated less than five months after the attack on Pearl Harbor when the U.S. was rapidly expanding federal emergency powers on the home front parallel to increasing involvement in WWII abroad. Exhibiting some damage including folds creases pinholes and several small tears at edges with a some in the center many have been repaired with acid-free archival tape en verso. No loss to paper. Overall good condition. A rare and historically significant artifact of wartime racial profiling and a sobering reminder of the fragility of constitutional protections during times of crisis. unknown books
1892réf. 216661892. Medical History Education Lasher Weston William. Medical notebook 1892 documents formal instruction in clinical medicine at the Western Pennsylvania Medical College and provides direct evidence of how diseases symptoms and treatments were taught to medical students in the late nineteenth century. The volume records lectures delivered by instructors including Professor Snively and Professor Lange preserving contemporaneous terminology diagnostic frameworks and therapeutic approaches during a period when bacteriology and modern clinical standardization were still developing. The notebook supports research into medical pedagogy diagnostic reasoning and the transmission of clinical knowledge in American medical schools prior to the full institutionalization of laboratory science and standardized curricula. Lasher Weston William. Medical notebook. Pittsburgh: Western Pennsylvania Medical College 1892. Handwritten manuscript volume containing dated lecture notes quizzes and clinical summaries. Entries begin January 4 1892 with "Practice of Medicine" addressing diseases of the larynx defining laryngitis as "an inflammation of the mucous membrane lining the larynx" with symptoms including hoarseness and whispering and noting severe cases in which "the disease may take the life in a few hours." Subsequent entries include a February 16 1892 quiz on diseases of the air passages and a March 1 1892 lecture on valvular disease describing "shortness of breath" "irregular pulse" and advanced conditions in which "the patient becomes water-logged" with emphasis on prophylaxis. Additional sections address clinical medicine topics including sclerosis hepatic disease and peritonitis the latter described as presenting with "abdominal pain & soreness progressively increasing" and acute cases "ushered in by a chill" with pain "burning or lancinating in character." The notebook is bound in marbled boards with cloth spine and contains manuscript ownership inscription identifying Lasher and his institutional affiliation. The notebook situates student medical training within a transitional period in American medicine when clinical observation and descriptive pathology remained central to instruction while emerging scientific frameworks were still unevenly adopted. Lasher's later career as a physician in Butler County Pennsylvania where he practiced for decades and treated patients in both clinical and domestic settings underscores the continuity between this instructional material and applied rural medical practice in the early twentieth century. Edge wear to boards with some loss and fading to spine; internal pages toned but legible with no significant text loss. Overall very good condition. A detailed primary record of medical education and clinical thought in the United States at the close of the nineteenth century. unknown books
1890réf. 212421890. Archive of postcards documenting the popular image of the American cowgirl in Western Americana and early twentieth-century mass visual culture. Working in Cultural / Representational Mode the material illustrates how women participating in rodeo performance equestrian spectacle and frontier-themed entertainment were presented to national audiences during a period when women's public roles remained heavily circumscribed by conventional gender expectations. The postcards emphasize physical skill horseback mobility and frontier self-sufficiency through repeated depictions of women handling lassos firearms and bucking horses. Collectively the archive offers insight into the commercialization of the American West and the circulation of gendered frontier mythology through inexpensive illustrated print media from the late nineteenth century through the postwar period. Collection consists of 16 postcards dating approximately from the 1890s through the 1950s including early colored lithographs chromolithographs and colored real photo postcards. Each measures approximately 3.5 x 5.25 inches. Images portray cowgirls mounted on horseback in a variety of staged action scenes including lasso throwing galloping bucking and trick riding performances. Many women wear fitted riding outfits cowboy hats bandoliers holsters and western boots while posed with rifles pistols whips or ropes against rugged frontier backdrops. Several postcards emphasize dramatic movement with horses shown rearing trotting or in mid-action poses. The repeated use of lassos and firearms visually aligns the women with iconography traditionally associated with male cowboys in Wild West shows rodeo advertising and popular Western entertainment. Some postcards retain handwritten inscriptions on the versos. The archive preserves a long-running commercial visual tradition in which the cowgirl functioned simultaneously as frontier worker entertainer and symbol of female independence within American popular culture. Particularly notable is the tension between conventional femininity and the rugged physicality emphasized throughout the imagery with the women consistently portrayed as active riders and performers rather than domestic figures. The postcards also document the persistence of Western mythology across changing photographic and print technologies during the first half of the twentieth century. Minor edgewear and scattered markings to some cards; overall very good condition. A visually cohesive grouping documenting representations of women in frontier and rodeo culture across more than five decades of American postcard production. unknown books
1890réf. 212411890. Archive of illustrated and photographic postcards documenting the popular image of the American cowgirl in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Western visual culture. Working in Cultural / Representational Mode the material traces how women participating in rodeo equestrian performance and frontier-themed entertainment were presented to mass audiences during a period when gender conventions in the United States remained heavily tied to domestic ideals. The postcards illustrate popular fascination with female riders engaged in activities associated with masculine frontier labor and spectacle including trick riding roping horse handling and armed performance. The archive also provides insight into the commercialization of the American West through souvenir imagery touring exhibitions rodeos and romanticized frontier iconography circulated through postcard publishing during the first half of the twentieth century. Collection consists of 19 postcards dating from approximately the 1890s through the 1950s including primarily colored lithograph and chromolithograph postcards alongside several later colored real photo postcards. Most measure approximately 3.5 x 5.25 inches. Images depict cowgirls mounted on horseback using lassoes pistols and whips in staged action scenes including bucking galloping roping demonstrations and parade formations. Earlier cards portray women riders wearing skirts or dresses while mounted reflecting transitional equestrian fashions prior to the widespread normalization of riding trousers for women during the 1920s. One postcard depicts a "Grand Entry" scene featuring numerous mounted cowboys and cowgirls carrying national flags from various countries suggesting an international rodeo or exhibition setting. Another early color postcard shows a man and woman posed together on horseback in cowboy attire. A postcard postmarked 1951 depicts a cowgirl tending to her horse and bears the handwritten verso inscription: "How we long for you in Fort Worth horses and more horses cowgirls too" addressed to Alabama. Several additional cards contain handwritten correspondence and postal markings dated between 1906 and 1908. The archive documents the enduring cultural construction of the cowgirl as both frontier laborer and commercial entertainment figure during the height of Western Americana imagery in American popular culture. The postcards capture changing attitudes toward women's athleticism mobility and public performance while preserving highly stylized depictions disseminated through inexpensive mass-produced print media. Particularly notable is the tension visible between conventional feminine presentation and physically demanding equestrian activity especially in the earlier cards depicting women riding aggressively while still dressed in skirts and formal attire. Minor edgewear scattered markings and light handling wear to some cards; overall very good condition. A cohesive visual archive of cowgirl imagery and the gendered mythology of the American West across more than half a century of postcard production. unknown books
1890réf. 202841890. Photographers unknown. African American cowboy photographs late 19th century. These images document Black participation in ranching and frontier life in the decades following emancipation when a significant proportion of working cowboys in the American West were African American. The photographs record both labor and self-presentation through an outdoor riding scene and a formal studio portrait providing evidence of how Black men and youth engaged with western occupations mobility and dress during a period when new economic opportunities emerged alongside persistent racial constraints. The material supports research into African American labor history western expansion and the social formation of Black life in the post-Civil War United States. Two photographs comprising one albumen print and one tintype each approximately 2.5 x 3.5 inches. The albumen image depicts a young African American boy mounted on a bucking horse holding a cowboy hat and riding crop dressed in a buttoned shirt trousers and lace-up boots; a tipi structure is visible in the background situating the scene within a western or plains environment. The tintype presents a studio portrait of a young African American man wearing a striped three-piece suit and a wide-brimmed hat associated with late nineteenth-century western fashion indicating the circulation of frontier dress within formal portrait settings. Together the images contrast lived outdoor activity with constructed studio identity documenting both labor and presentation. These photographs align with broader patterns of African American migration and employment in the American West after the American Civil War when formerly enslaved individuals sought work in ranching cattle driving and related trades. Historians have noted that a substantial number of cowboys in the late nineteenth century were Black though their presence has often been underrepresented in popular narratives of the West. Visual documentation of African American riders and western dress provides primary evidence for the study of labor identity and mobility in this period particularly in relation to how individuals navigated new economic roles following emancipation. Minor corrosion affecting a portion of one image primarily in a blank area; remaining details clear and legible. Overall very good condition. unknown books
1880réf. 194771880. Western Americana Cowboy photograph archive documenting armed riders ranch labor rodeo culture and frontier mobility across the American West between the 1880s and 1920s. Images capture working cowboys on horseback cattle branding scenes and interactions with Native American families during the late frontier period when cattle ranching and horse culture formed the backbone of Western rural economies. These photographs provide visual documentation of occupational practices such as branding long distance riding and mounted travel through difficult terrain during the closing decades of the open range era and the early twentieth century transition toward modern ranching systems. Archive of twenty original photographs in multiple photographic formats including tintypes albumen prints and silver gelatin photographs. Images date approximately from the 1880s through the 1920s and depict cowboys riding horses working cattle participating in rodeo competitions and traveling across rugged Western landscapes. Several photographs show armed riders carrying pistols or rifles including one large albumen print showing a mounted cowboy with a rifle across his lap. One photograph depicts cowboys branding livestock with a caption reading "Brother Manzer Branding his Cow." A real photo postcard dated circa 1910 shows several cowboys on horseback crossing a large river with water rising to the horses' necks. Another image shows a cowboy with a Native American family wearing traditional clothing in rocky badlands terrain. Photographs illustrate the working environment and material culture of Western cattle operations including ranch yards feed lots and livery stables. Rodeo imagery reflects the transformation of working ranch skills into organized public competitions during the early twentieth century. Image sizes vary. Overall minor wear consistent with age. Very good condition. A cohesive visual record of cowboy labor frontier mobility and Western ranching culture across four decades of the American West. unknown books
1925réf. 178071925. Photograph and postcard archive circa 1910s-1940s documenting rodeo culture and competitive riding traditions across the American West with particular emphasis on organized events such as the Pendleton Round-Up and regional competitions in Oregon Montana and Nevada. The collection captures core rodeo practices including saddle bronc riding bull riding relay racing and bulldogging presenting visual evidence of both individual performers and large public gatherings. Identified riders such as Leonard Stroud Soapy Williams Milt Moe Frank Smith and Paddy Ryan appear in action situating the material within a period when rodeo emerged as a structured spectator sport tied to regional identity and western heritage. Images of grandstands filled with spectators Labor Day competitions and named championship events indicate the scale and institutionalization of rodeo culture in the early twentieth century while repeated depictions of high-risk maneuvers document the physical demands and performance conventions that defined the sport. Archive of 16 photographs and real photo postcards primarily measuring approximately 4.75 x 3 inches with one smaller photograph measuring approximately 1.75 x 2.5 inches. Most images are real photo postcards several bearing AZO and DOPS stamp boxes consistent with production dates between approximately 1925 and 1942 alongside earlier material including a copyrighted 1918 image and one example dating to 1904. Locations identified include Pendleton Oregon; Bozeman Montana; and Nevada. Several images carry printed or negative titles including "Leonard Stroud on Indian Tom wins championship at Cheyenne Wyo."; "Soapy Williams on Glasseye"; and "Milt Moe on Tea Trader." The archive includes multiple scenes from the Pendleton Round-Up featuring bulldogging by Frank Smith in 1923 relay racing during a 1925 Labor Day event and additional captioned scenes such as "They treat 'em rough at the Roundup." Other images depict riders thrown from horses bull riding sequences and staged or candid action views that emphasize the dynamic movement and risk inherent in rodeo performance. Sixteen photographs and postcards on cardstock mounts with a mix of black and white and sepia tones. Light wear consistent with handling including minor surface wear and occasional spotting; overall very good condition. A concentrated visual record of early twentieth-century rodeo culture in the American West documenting named competitors regional events and the development of rodeo as a public spectacle. unknown books
1870réf. 58937Dublin: Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland n.d. 1870. Unaccomplished pro-forma folio broadside approx. 13¾" x 8¾" on gray paper; fine. Pro-forma contract for the purchase of rails and fish plates with blanks left for tons of rails date terms signature and date. "To be delivered free on any part of the wharves of the Royal Canal Docks at Dublin that may be pointed out by the engineer or into lighters in the docks at his option . With the rails sufficient fish plates ared provided . the rails and fish plates are to correspond accurately with the annexed drawings" not present. Unlocated. Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland, n.d. unknown books
1910réf. 56461910. Reid Hal. No. 2. Cow Boy's Delight. Bringing Calves to Brand circa 1910 records the mounted labor involved in gathering cattle for branding on the western Kansas plains. The image supports research into ranch work livestock management cowboy occupational history and the visual construction of the American West during the early twentieth century. Rather than presenting a posed studio portrait the photograph captures working cowboys engaged in a specific stage of cattle handling preserving evidence of the horses ropes animals and open-range setting associated with regional ranching practice. Sepia-toned real photo postcard published by Hal Reid of Liberal Kansas measuring 5½ by 3½ inches. Two mounted cowboys occupy the foreground using ropes to bring calves away from a larger herd; an adult cow follows at the right while additional cattle extend across the background. The printed caption reads in full: "No. 2. Cow Boy's Delight. Bringing Calves to brand." An institutional description of another example identifies the same arrangement of two horsemen roped calves following cow and background herd while Fort Hays State University records Reid as a Liberal Kansas photographer responsible for a numbered series of western cattle scenes. Produced during a period when real photo postcards circulated localized images of western work to audiences beyond the communities depicted the postcard joins documentary observation with the popular imagery of cowboy life. Its emphasis on coordinated movement between riders horses calves and herd provides a compact visual record of ranch labor while the promotional title "Cow Boy's Delight" shows how such work was packaged for postcard consumers. Light expected handling wear; sepia toning remains clear and the printed caption is legible. Very good. A visually specific record of early twentieth-century cattle work and the commercial postcard culture through which western Kansas presented its ranching identity. unknown books
1876réf. 143791876. The Press July 7 1876 is a Philadelphia newspaper issue preserving early Eastern reporting on the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of George Armstrong Custer one of the most widely mythologized military defeats of the American Indian Wars. The issue appeared less than two weeks after the June 25 to 26 1876 battle along the Little Bighorn River where Lakota Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors fought the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry in south-central Montana. Its front-page account is significant as a contemporary record of how Custer's death was immediately framed for urban newspaper readers during the nation's Centennial summer emphasizing sacrifice military honor and shock rather than the Indigenous defense of land and sovereignty now central to historical interpretation. The Press. Philadelphia Pennsylvania. July 7 1876. Four pages present comprising pages 1 2 7 and 8 only. The front page is dominated by war-related reporting with the lead story addressing dispatches to Generals William T. Sherman and Philip Sheridan and stating that the first reports of Custer's defeat were "only too true." The article suggests "Custer sacrificed himself and his command by blundering hardihood" while also elevating him in memorial language: "The name Custer is a household word" and "Custer fell-fell at the head of his command; fell where Death's sickle cut close and sure." The surviving front-page spread offers a concentrated example of immediate post-battle newspaper rhetoric combining battlefield uncertainty military chain-of-command reporting and heroic commemoration before later national mythologies of "Custer's Last Stand" had fully hardened. The issue's timing gives it research value for the study of Reconstruction-era print culture U.S. military expansion Indigenous resistance and the formation of public memory around the Plains Wars. As a Philadelphia paper published days after the battle became national news it shows how eastern readers encountered the event through telegraphic dispatches and editorialized martial language during a year otherwise dominated by Centennial commemoration. Incomplete with only pages 1 2 7 and 8 present; slight wear and small tears around edges; otherwise well preserved very good. A strong contemporary newspaper survival centered on the first wave of public reaction to Custer's defeat and the national reframing of Little Bighorn in the summer of 1876. unknown books
1868réf. 167531868. Women's Education Movement. Western Female Seminary Catalog 1868-1869. Oxford OH. Western Female Seminary was founded in 1853 as a daughter school of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley Massachusetts. Its first principal Helen Peabody and most of the early faculty had been students and teachers at Mount Holyoke. Mary Lyon Residence Hall on the Western campus is named for Mount Holyok's founder Mary Lyon. It later received a charter and became Western College an all-female institution. Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. At the time that this description is being written no copies are recorded in American institutions. OCLC search results are at best an estimate and can vary over time. Women's Academy and Seminary Archive recording the first important movement of women into higher education in the United States seminary was synonymous with "academy" and did not have the religious connotation of today. In the 1800's the Female Academy and Seminary Movement transformed American educational norms allowing women the opportunity to receive secular non-religious college-level education. Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. unknown books
1967réf. 167971967. Western Union International Inc. stock certificate 1967 documents the corporate financing of Western Union's international communications business during the transition from traditional telegraphy toward newer telecommunications technologies. Western Union had separated its international cable properties into Western Union International in 1963 and the company became publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange in 1967. The certificate therefore dates to the year of that public listing and records the financial structure supporting an international communications enterprise descended from the nineteenth-century telegraph network. Western Union International Inc. Stock Certificate. 1967. Series N3669. Engraved and printed by the American Bank Note Company with an ornate orange border surrounding the principal text and a central vignette depicting two allegorical female figures among clouds. Printed facsimile signatures of the company's President and Secretary appear on the certificate. The document combines corporate ownership information with elaborate security engraving characteristic of American stock certificates preserving material evidence of Western Union International's capitalization in the year its shares entered public trading. Western Union's nineteenth-century telegraph network had transformed long-distance communication before telephone service increasingly displaced telegram traffic during the twentieth century. Its earlier confrontation with Bell over telephone patents ended with an 1879 settlement under which Western Union withdrew from the telephone business while telegraphy remained central to American commercial and social communication for decades afterward. By 1967 Western Union International belonged to a communications industry increasingly shaped by telephone cable microwave and other electronic transmission technologies making this certificate a dated corporate record of that technological transition. Condition not stated in the supplied description. unknown books
1847réf. 90883New York: Snowden & Prall Printers 1847. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fair. 93p. Original marbled boards. 23cm. Lacks backstrip. Covers detached. Substantial foxing in large portions of book. DEFECTIVE -- one signature pages 57-64 present in duplicate while the next signature pages 65-72 is missing. Ex lib. Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts Library. Snowden & Prall, Printers hardcover books
1900réf. 51798Chicago: Curt Teich & Co. for the Van Noy Inter-State Co 1900. Oblong 4to unpaginated; 25 full-pg illustrations in color and mounted two pages of text containing illustration descriptions; tan pictorial wrappers lettered in black & gilt color illustration mounted on upper cover ribbon-bound; covers a bit toned at edges corners creased illustrations clean & bright overall very good. A picturesque view-book of "the most interesting views seen along the route" of Utah Nevada and California. Curt Teich & Co. for the Van Noy Inter-State Co unknown books
1984réf. 43714London Ontario: University of Western Ontario 1984. First edition 4to pp. 2 viii 1 plus 91 leaves; printed from typescript; original black cloth tape-backed yellow wrappers about fine. WHSTC Western Hemisphere Short-Title Catalog Library Catalog no. 24. University of Western Ontario unknown books
1988réf. 43710London Ontario: University of Western Ontario 1988. Reissue 4to 1 vii 65 leaves; printed from typescript; original black cloth tape-backed yellow wrappers; fine. WHSTC Western Hemisphere Short Title Catalog Library Catalog no. 20. University of Western Ontario unknown books
1988réf. 43712London Ontario: University of Western Ontario 1988. Reissue 4to pp. 2 vii 1 plus 33 leaves; printed from typescript; original black cloth tape-backed yellow wrappers; fine. WHSTC Western Hemisphere Short-Title Catalog Library Catalog no. 8. University of Western Ontario unknown books
