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McAgee, M.; St. Lawrence, Bernard; Smith, L. Marsden; Fitz-Simmons, F.W.; Lees, Frederic; Weddall, A.; Walmsley, Leo; Turner, Captain Fred; Evans, Captain E.A.; Greenwood, Charles; Ferguson, R.Muir; Read, Oliver; North, P. EscottMareMagnum

The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, December [Dec.] 1923, Vol. LII, No. 308: Exploring in Central Brazil / The Signalman Baboon

1923Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Black Cat Luck - Story related by John McAgee, a Texas cowman; The Fete of "St. Muslin" - Annual festival in Tarare, France to honour M. Antoine Simonet, inventor of Muslin which is made in local mills - article with photos; Exploring in Central Barzil - Part III - A small English expedition explores the Amazon's forests and studies the native peoples; The Signalman Baboon - Photo-illustrated article about "Jack", a baboon who assists his crippled master, James Edwin Wide, in operating railway signals and other important tasks at Uitenhage, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa; Among the Bohemians - Photo-illustrated article on the peoples of the little-known young Republic of Czecho-Slovakia; The Three Angleteers - Part II - The continuing adventures of three bored Englishmen who travelled in Europe; Msimba Konguo's Curse - A curse is put on an Irish trader by a native headman in Nyassaland; Marooned! - A strange and romantic story of the South Seas, reminiscent of the old Island days when unscrupulous traders did much as they pleased; Treed By a Bison - Many sportsmen consider the Indian bison a more dangerous opponent than the tiger; Beating Our Way - Two young men surpass a hobo at his own game of getting free train rides; A Hundred Dollars a Day - Salmon Fishing Off Vancouver Island - long photo-illustrated article by Charles Greenwood; The Watching Eyes - A tale from the South African constabulary of Mangwere; My Volcano Trip - Climbing La Nevada, an active volcano near Toluca, Mexico; A Bunch of Keys - A traveller's story of an odd little adventure in Boston, MA in 1911; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book

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Streetcar Modernization and Boston Area Terminal Operations 25 Color Photographs with identifying captions 1970-1972

1970réf. 234661970. Urban transit photo archive depicting MBTA trolley PCC and commuter rail operations across Greater Boston during the agency's first decade of system consolidation and modernization 1970-1972 shortly after the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority absorbed many aging lines and inherited rolling stock from earlier private and municipal systems. Several captions identify ex Dallas Transit PCC cars operating at Mattapan Station documenting the nationwide postwar transfer of surplus streetcars into Boston service as American transit agencies abandoned street railway systems in cities such as Dallas Cleveland and Cincinnati during the 1950s and 1960s. Photo archive of 25 chromogenic color snapshot photographs each 3.5 x 3.5 inches Boston Brookline Cambridge Newton Watertown and surrounding Massachusetts locations 1970-1972. Highly legible captions preserve exact locations car numbers transfer origins and operational terminology valuable for transit history urban planning industrial design and postwar metropolitan infrastructure research. Handwritten verso captions identify specific equipment routes and locations including "Picture window PCC car Riverside terminal Newton Mass." "All electric 3197 ex Dallas at Mattapan Station Boston Mass 10/71" "Trackless trolleys at N. Cambridge carhouse" "MBTA work car at Lechmere yard" "Boston & Maine RDC cars at North Station" and "Trolley coach at Watertown Sq." Orange-and-cream PCC streetcars appear at yard tracks terminal loops maintenance areas and curbside boarding points beneath dense trolley wire networks while interior views show fluorescent-lit passenger compartments with transverse seating metal grab rails and wide picture windows characteristic of postwar PCC design. Additional scenes record Commonwealth Avenue service through Brookline Cleveland Circle operations work equipment at Watertown carhouse all-electric consists at Arborway and Mattapan and Boston & Maine RDC commuter rail equipment standing beside elevated platforms at North Station. Riverside Terminal in Newton appears repeatedly showing the Green Line's western extension over the former Boston and Albany Highland Branch a commuter rail corridor converted to rapid trolley service in 1959 to relieve growing automobile congestion along Route 9. North Station scenes place PCC and RDC equipment within the same transportation network recording the coexistence of street railway infrastructure and regional commuter rail service immediately before the MBTA's major 1970s reconstruction campaigns reshaped much of the system. The archive captures the MBTA immediately before major service reductions and infrastructure rebuilding altered many of the locations shown including the eventual closure of Arborway streetcar service and the disappearance of several surviving PCC fleets from daily operation. Light surface wear and occasional minor fading; captions fully readable throughout. Overall in very good condition. unknown

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Streetcar Modernization and Boston Area Terminal Operations 25 Color Photographs with identifying captions 1970-1972

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis450,00 $US≈ 402,04 €

Republican Institution in the Town of Boston, ABiblio.com

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS A REPUBLICAN INSTITUTION CERTIFICATE. BE IT KNOWN THAT MR. WILLIAM B. BRADFORD OF BOSTON IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK AND COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS IS THE SOLE PROPRIETOR OF ONE SHARE VIZ: NO. THIRTY SIX IN A REPUBLICAN INSTITUTION IN THE TOWN OF BOSTON SUBJECT TO THE BY-LAWS AND SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS AS MAY BE ADOPTED BY THE MEMBERS AT ANY MEETING LEGALLY HOLDEN FOR THAT PURPOSE WHICH SHARE IS TRANSFERABLE BY ENDORSEMENT TO BE MADE AGREEABLY TO THE 16TH ARTICLE OF THE BY-LAWS

1821réf. 40754Boston 1821. Broadsheet oblong 8" x 10." Seal and blue ribbon intact in the left blank margin. A variety of type fonts and sizes completed in ink manuscript. Engraving of Screaming Eagle with shield "E Pluribus Unum" banner and arrows. Signed in ink by H. Dearborn as President and Thaddeus Page as Recording Secretary. The verso records that on 3 August 1826 Bradford transferred this Certificate to A Republican Institution. The verso prints the 16th Article of the By-Laws permitting transfers of certificates among members. Signed twice by Bradford. Very Good plus. William B. Bradford was a Boston wholesale and retail grocer. The Boston Public Library's Archives contain some of his papers. The "Republican Institution was founded in 1819 'as a body politic and corporate forever for the purpose of procuring a building and keeping it in repair with suitable apartments for a reading room library and the meeting of the said society in the town of Boston Massachusetts.' Its intent was to provide a forum for political education and discussion of best means of promoting national welfare. Measures approximately 10" x 8 1/4". Affixed at left is the large corporate seal which indicated that the corporation was incorporated in 1819. Attached to and extending below the paper seal is a blue ribbon" online 'Republicanism' web site description of a specimen Certificate and description of the Institution 'Historical Pillars of the Republican Party'. Henry Dearborn of Boston had been a veteran of the Revolutionary War a Federalist Congressman and Secretary of War. He founded the Institution which was chartered in February 1819. Its purpose was to promote political thought and discussion. Seeking to purchase a building the Institution's organizers resolved to sell four hundred shares in the Institution for $25 each. A person could purchase up to four shares. unknown