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[Western Photographica]: [Travel]: [Railroads]ABAA

Wanderlust caption title

1923Best.-Nr. 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

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[Western Photographica]ABAA

Extensive Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting California Ranch Life in the 1920s

1920Best.-Nr. 6535Various locations near San Diego 1920. Good. 48 leaves containing 344 photographs. Oblong octavo. Original black cloth gilt. Light wear to covers rubbed. Black paper leaves many loose or crumbling at edges. Many images captioned in white ink throughout. A fascinating vernacular photo album that contains nearly 350 well-executed images of agricultural California in the years before the Great Depression. The album depicts San Diego-area farmers of the 1920s and illustrates rural life of early ranchers in the surrounding areas of Escondido San Pasqual Valley Julian and Ramona. The compiler was a young woman whose family was working at or with the Linton Ranch in North San Diego County. The Ranch was locally famous as a pioneering livestock and homesteading hub where its managers oversaw tens of thousands of head of sheep horses and cattle across the regional valleys. The album mostly features vernacular photos of the compiler her relatives and friends next to their properties such as fields or ranches amidst livestock and engaged in various agricultural activities such as pitching hay casting a bovine handling mules harnessing animals etc. Several photos show them during leisure time hiking posing for photos and the like. Several show sporting events such as basketball or men in football kit. One odd image is captioned "China" and depicts a group of Chinese children; the image below it has street signs in English and Chinese and might be from a local Chinatown. About fifteen rare amateur photos show the newly-commissioned North Island Naval Air Station during or shortly after the end of World War I. The compiler apparently took the photos while visiting her friends in naval service. The images show aerial views of the North Island Battle ship Oregon sea planes and group portraits of UN Navy Sailors. The California series also includes photos of an Escondido dam Lake Wohlford Dam "basketball game at Ramona" Balboa Stadium and the Bishop's School in San Diego. Overall a very interesting and detailed series of vernacular photographs that depict agricultural life in Southern California prior to the transformational Dust Bowl period. unknown books

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Western Pine LoggingABAA

Western Pine Logging Operations and Industrial Forest Engineering in the American West California Oregon and Arizona 1920s-40s

1920Best.-Nr. 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

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Japanese American Internment; Western Defense CommandABAA

Poster Ordering the Forced Removal of Japanese Americans from South Los Angeles 1942

1942Best.-Nr. 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

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Western CowgirlsABAA

Women of the American West Postcard Archive Depicting Cowgirls Rodeo Culture and Frontier Performance 1890s-1950s

1890Best.-Nr. 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

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Western CowgirlsABAA

Western Americana Postcards Showing Female Riders Rodeo Performers and Cowgirls Across Early Twentieth Century Visual Culture

1890Best.-Nr. 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

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Western Pennsylvania Medical College; PittsburghABAA

History of Medicine and Student Instruction: Handwritten Lecture Notes on Disease and Treatment at Western Pennsylvania Medical College 1892

1892Best.-Nr. 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

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African American Western CowboyABAA

African American Western History Black Cowboy Portraits and Youth Horsemanship in the Post Emancipation West Late 19th Century

1890Best.-Nr. 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

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Western Cowboys ArchiveABAA

Western Cowboy Photo Archive Circa 1870s-1920s

1880Best.-Nr. 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

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Western Rodeo CowboysABAA

Western Rodeo Culture and Performance in the American West Photograph and Postcard Archive Oregon Montana Nevada. circa 1910s-1940s

1925Best.-Nr. 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

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Western CowboysABAA

Western Americana Cowboys Roping Calves for Branding in Kansas circa 1910

1910Best.-Nr. 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

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Western Americana; General CusterABAA

American Indian Wars History Philadelphia Newspaper Reporting Custards Death at Little Bighorn 1876

1876Best.-Nr. 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

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Western Female Seminary Catalog; Women's EducationABAA

Women's Education Movement. Western Female Seminary Catalog 1868-1869

1868Best.-Nr. 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

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Western Union Stock CertificateABAA

Western Union International 1967 Stock Certificate Documenting the Telegraph Company's International Communications Business

1967Best.-Nr. 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

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Compiled at the Western Museum Laboratories of the National Park Service with assistance by the Work Projects Administration andABAA

A Bibliography Of National Parks and Monuments West Of The Mississippi River Vols 1 and 2

1941Best.-Nr. TB33750Washington DC: U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service WPA and CCC 1941. First Edition. Both volumes of this complete two volume set are in very good and near fine conditions. Both are small quartos of 10 1/4 by 7 3/4 inches bound in adhesive bindings in light brown cloth covered boards with darker brown text on the spines and front boards. The cloth at the head and heel of volume I is rubbed and worn and the upper fore corners of the front and rear boards are bumped but professionally straightened and strengthened. Volume II shows only light wear to the cloth at the head of the spine and the text block for this volume was made from two-hole punched paper. Volume I is made from standard un-holed paper. Both volumes contain four index tabs each. In volume I: Northwest Inland States; Pacific States; Yellowstone; and Yosemite; Volume II: Central States Southwestern National Monuments; Southwestern States; and Territorial Parks and Monuments. These two volumes contain 664 pages of bibliographies on 79 national parks and national monuments each one with its own pagination. This bibliography is not listed in any of the WPA or American Guide resources held by Town's End Books. OCLC locates only five institutions owning the book version of this title. The forward contained in volume I mentions that this project started in 1936 with: where "much credit is due Mrs. Hazel Hunt Voth for originally laying out the program and directing it until her resignation in April 1939." Hazel Voth's other other major accomplishment was A Bibliography of Yellowstone National Park which is reprinted in this set. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, WPA and CCC hardcover books

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