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1944réf. 929931944. Good. Letter dated September 13 1946. 28 cm. Carbon copy on thin Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company letterhead stationery. Substantial chipping around edges no loss of text on first leaf. Our unnamed Captain of Police reports on an incident which began when around 200 African American soldiers were changing trains. Local police arrested two of the soldiers for intoxication and took them to the local Police Station. When police returned to the railroad station they found six of the soldiers assaulting two military policemen and intervened to help the MPs using the butt end of a riot gun to break up the fight. When a large number of other soldiers came to join the fight they were stopped at gunpoint by the local policemen with assistance from the MPs and military officers. The African American soldiers marched in formation to local Police Headquarters where 133 soldiers were charged with disorderly conduct and five others differently charged. Almost all pleaded not guilty but all were found guilty the next day and remained in jail another night until their fines were paid -- $17 each for the 133 soldiers and up to $100 for the five who were differently charged. All 138 soldiers were then marched back the the train station and departed. One wonders how accurately the incident was described to our unnamed Captain by those he interviewed. There is nothing in his letter to suggest that he interviewed any of the African American soldiers. unknown books
1861réf. 55725Washington DC: Beverley Tucker; A. O. P. Nicholson; George W. Bowman; Thomas H. Ford 1861. Mixed Senate and House editions. Leather bound. Very Good. Twelve volumes in thirteen books Volume twelve in two parts plus one thick volume with the following title in gilt on the spine: "Explorations and Surveys for a Railroad Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. General Report." Large quartos 30 cm Bound in modern black leather with the title stamped in gilt on the spines and blind-tooled embellishments on the spines and boards. "Senate" and "House" stamped in gilt at the head of the spines. "War Department" stamped at the foot. New endpapers. Spines of a couple volumes a bit faded. Sporadic foxing and toning throughout though a large majority of the color lithographs remain in excellent condition. Stitching periodically visible in the inside margins. Occasional moisture stains other light stains and darkening to the pages. Tide mark staining more frequent in volume VI and the General Report. Volumes VIII and XII Book 1 are ex-library with discreet markings. Volume XI with maps and plates is heavily foxed at the beginning mostly affecting the text. This volume contains Warren's great map. Many of the large maps and profiles are fragile and have many splits normally encountered in these kinds of sets. "General Map of Explanations and Surveys in California" in Volume XI completely detached from binding but present. With 665 illustrated plates 64 maps/sections/profiles and 15 diagrams. Collation Notes: Volume II: 12 scenic plates one nearly detached; 20 botanical plates; 4 geological plates; 1 large folding map; 1 large folding geological section. Volume III: 12 scenic plates; 7 diagrams; 8 Native American plates missing illustration titled "Pictographs at Yampais Spring"; 3 geological plates; 2 folding sections and 1 folding map at the rear. Not present in this volume: "General Map from Fort Smith to Rio Del Norte" "General Map from Rio del Norte to the Pacific Ocean" and "Profile of a route for the Pacific Railroad from Fort Smith to Martinez." Volume IV: 1 large folding botanical plate with explanation of signs; 24 plates related to Cacti; 25 other botany plates; 10 plates devoted to Mosses and Liverworts. Volume V: 12 views; 4 maps; 14 sections; 13 views missing plate XII- "Mirage on the Colorado Desert"; 11 fossil and shell plates missing plate X; 28 botany plates. Volume VI: 13 General Report plates; 5 geology plates; 14 botany plates missing Plate I- "Quercus Hindsii"; missing plate X- "Juniperus occidentalis"; 11 fish plates; 3 mammal plates; 2 bird plates. Volume VII: 8 scenic plates; 10 paleontological plates; 14 geological plates; 2 fold-out maps; 8 botanical plates; 11 meteorological plates. Volume VIII: 20 mammal plates plates XVII-LX. Volume X: 33 reptile plates missing plate VI- "Dipsosaurus dorsalis Hallow & Sceloporus biseriatus Hallow"; reptile plate II mislabeled as III; 51 fish plates; 9 mammal plates plate XI- "Sciurus fremonti Towns" mislabeled as plate VI; plate VIII- "Lepus audubonii Baird" mislabeled XIII; 28 bird plates. Volume XI: 4 map plates; 13 sketches of Route of Forty-First Parallel- Beckwith's Report Vol. II; Warren Map plus 31 maps and profiles. Volume XII Book I: 70 lithographs. Volume XII Book II: 6 botany plates; 2 insect plates; 5 mammal plates missing plate VIII- "Texas Mouse etc."; 8 bird plates; 10 reptile plates; 21 fish plates. Some fish plates that are listed in Volume XII Book II as being present in Volume X appear to be absent LXXVI XXVb XXV XXVI LXX LXXV. General Report: 8 diagrams; 3 large folding maps/profiles at rear one with tape repairs- "Milk R. to the Crossing of the Columbia R."; 120 illustrated plates lacking "View of Fort Smith" and "Pictographs at Yampais Spring". No general title page. A mixed Senate and House set in attractive modern leather bindings. The quarto edition of the Pacific Railroad Reports first appeared in 1855 and concluded in 1861 with volume XII. The Surveys aimed at determining the best route for a transcontinental railroad. It embodied the most comprehensive information source on the American West in the mid-19th century. Numerous illustrators engravers lithographers cartographers and printing firms contributed to the publication. This monumental work is rarely found in such nice condition. ".it was the best cartographical work on the West up to its time." - Wright Howes. ".these volumes contain a monumental collection of scientific information geographical zoological botanical geological of the still mysterious American West." - Henry Wagner. Howes P3. Moffat 3536 & 49. Wagner/Camp 262-267 pp. 468-507. Beverley Tucker; A. O. P. Nicholson; George W. Bowman; Thomas H. Ford unknown books
1959réf. 235191959. Erie Railroad accident recovery photo archive depicting a freight train derailment at Newburg Yard on August 10 1959 most likely in the Cleveland Ohio Newburg or Newburgh industrial district. Newburg was an old industrial section of southeast Cleveland tied to railroads steel works and freight switching with the former Atlantic & Great Western later Erie running through the area. The location identification is strengthened by the yard name Erie equipment industrial overpass setting and the known Cleveland use of Newburg or Newburgh in railroad and steel district geography. The wreck occurred one year before the Erie Railroad merged with the Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad in 1960 placing the scene near the end of the independent Erie era. Photo archive of 8 silver gelatin photographs approximately snapshot to small-format prints Newburg Yard August 10 1959. Freight cars sit overturned and jackknifed across multiple yard tracks with Pennsylvania and Erie-marked cars visible among the wreckage. A crane works beside the damaged cars while railroad men stand along the ballast on the embankment and under a bridge or overpass watching the clearance operation from trackside. Several views show the same derailment from elevated and ground-level positions including a crushed cab or caboose area tipped hopper cars tangled rails scattered debris and crews working near the crane boom. Verso captions repeat "Aug. 10-1959" "Newburg Yard" "Walczak Cond." "Lyons Bachman" and "Kompura" with faint "Kodak Velox Paper" stamps on the backs. Railroad yard accidents in the 1950s were handled before modern centralized emergency-management practice relying on railroad wreck crews cranes section men conductors brakemen and yard personnel to reopen tracks quickly so freight could move. The repeated captions naming the conductor brakemen and additional crew members give the group stronger labor value than an anonymous wreck scene tying the damaged rolling stock to the men responsible for the train and its aftermath. Light curling handling wear minor creasing and light verso soiling; overall in good condition. The archive preserves a dated Erie Railroad freight accident with named crew visible wreck-clearance work and a probable Cleveland Ohio Newburg Yard setting. unknown books
1856réf. 40780New York: Press of the New York and Erie Railroad Company 1856. 2 iv 5-180pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers. Rear plain wrapper detached and torn. Very Good. Press of the New York and Erie Railroad Company unknown books
1852réf. 40771Boston: J. B. Yerrinton & Son 1852. Original printed wrappers stitched. 19 1 blank pp unpaginated folding table. Fine. Lowell Massachusetts was the site of "an exhibition of Improvements in the Mechanic Arts and Manufactured Articles." The Exhibition's Managers invited the New England Association of Railway Superintendents to exhibit and act as judges of "a show and trial of Locomotive Engines." Tables and data accompany this Report of the Judges. Not in Sabin or BRE. As of March 2025 OCLC records only facsimiles of this Boston imprint. Several holdings of the pamphlet printed in Lowell are noted. 1 Soliday 1420 records the Lowell imprint. J. B. Yerrinton & Son unknown books
1864réf. 39928Chicago: Dunlop Sewell & Spalding 1864. Original printed wrappers bit of spine wear. 38 2 blanks pp two folding tables. Stitched light old folds. Very Good. The Report describes all information on this busy Railroad. Much financial information and data on travel the stock and the growing success of the Company is provided. A comprehensive report. FIRST EDITION. Ante-Fire Imprints 790. Dunlop, Sewell & Spalding unknown books
1877réf. 40160New York: H.J. Hewitt Printer 1877. 2 60 pp. Original printed front title wrapper lacking rear wrapper. Disbound. Clean text. Except as noted Very Good. The Argument is a detailed indictment of the discriminatory and monopolistic practices of the Union Pacific Railroad in support of a bill to require the Union Pacific to cease its illegal conduct. The history of the establishment of a cross-continent railroad is reviewed with analysis of the relevant statutes and their judicial interpretation. The Kansas Railway Company argues that "The Union Pacific Railroad Company from the year 1870 up to the present time has operated its road in open and direct contravention of the requirements of the Acts of Congress and in violation of vested rights of the public the Government and the Kansas Pacific Company to the manifest loss and injury of the public the Government and the Kansas Pacific Company." OCLC locates about fifteen copies as of June 2024. H.J. Hewitt, Printer unknown books
1878réf. 40161New York: H.J. Hewitt Printer 1878. 2 34 pp with two folded leaves of freight rates. Original printed front title wrapper lacking rear wrapper. Disbound with slight loosening. Clean text. Good. The Argument demonstrates that the Union Pacific Company discriminates against the Kansas Pacific Company in its imposition of freight rates. OCLC locates twelve copies under several accession numbers as of June 2024. H.J. Hewitt, Printer unknown books
1857réf. 38897Chicago: Illinois Central Rail Road Office Chicago Daily Press Print 45 Clark St. 1857. 80pp stitched into original printed and illustrated yellow wrappers. Frontis maps and plate: Outline Map of Illinois; double-page map entitled Railway Guide to the Illinois Central Railroad Lands; engravings in text. LACKS the frontis engraving entitled 'Prairie Scene in Illinois.' Else Very Good. "The work is in effect a guidebook to Illinois." Eberstadt. Chicago imprints had previously issued in 1855 and 1857 the 1855 offering 2000000 acres. This one does as Byrd notes contain some material not printed in those editions. The "pamphlets deal with such topics as the value of Illinois lands for farming purposes; advantages of settling in Illinois; cost of moving to Chicago; prices of products; fuel and fencing. They contain statistics of towns on the line of the road and letters from Illinois farmers giving their experiences and opinions." Buck. Ante-Fire Imprints 263. Byrd 2683. Illinois Central Rail Road Office [Chicago Daily Press, Print, 45 Clark St.] unknown books
1858réf. 38490Chicago: Illinois Central Rail Road Office 1858. 80pp stitched into modern plain wrappers. Frontis maps and plate: Outline Map of Illinois; double-page map entitled Railway Guide to the Illinois Central Railroad Lands; engraving entitled 'Prairie Scene in Illinois.' Very Good. "The work is in effect a guidebook to Illinois" Eberstadt. Chicago imprints had previously issued in 1855 and 1857 the 1855 offering 2000000 acres. This one as Byrd notes contains some material not printed in those editions. The "pamphlets deal with such topics as the value of Illinois lands for farming purposes; advantages of settling in Illinois; cost of moving to Chicago; prices of products; fuel and fencing. They contain statistics of towns on the line of the road and letters from Illinois farmers giving their experiences and opinions" Buck. Ante-Fire Imprints 331. Byrd 2932. Buck 559. Illinois Central Rail Road Office unknown books
1855réf. 18117Washington: Printed by A.O.P. Nicholson 1855. 116 1 note 1 blank pp disbound. Light tanning scattered foxing. Good. Printed by A.O.P. Nicholson unknown books
1894réf. 31668San Francisco 1894. Original staples and printed wrappers with wrapper title as issued. 12pp lightly toned Very Good. The Mass Meeting attacked the "Railroad Octopus" which assails the people "by unjust accumulations and intelligent and determined concentration of power for bad ends . . . Its cupidity its selfishness its trickery the debasing pressure exerted upon every form of industry and the unprincipled use of money and of purchased intellect by a powerful railroad monopoly has checked our progress and reduced us to virtual slavery for twenty-five years." OCLC lists twelve copies under two accession numbers as of October 2024. Not located in Rocq Cowan or BRE. unknown books
1888réf. 31649np 1888. 79 1 pp plus folding map couple of expertly repaired short fold splits one chip. Disbound Good. This promotional went through a number of editions of which this appears to be the first. It provides the information promised by the title. 110 Eberstadt 15. unknown books
1853réf. 31456Davenport: Sanders & Davis 1853. 24pp. Stitched lightly foxed. Very Good. This pamphlet provides "elaborate details of the projected road across the State from Davenport to Council Bluffs" 130 Eberstadt 311. The incorporators included the well known civil engineer John Jervis of New York. 130 Eberstadt 312. Graff 2828. Not in Sabin Moffit Decker or BRE. Sanders & Davis unknown books
1853réf. 31651Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley Printers 1853. vii 1 blank 1-65 1 blank pp. Disbound with a lightly foxed last page else Very Good. Current by-laws and all relevant statutes from 1846-- the year of the Road's incorporation-- up until the date of this publication are printed. BRE 250 2. Crissy & Markley, Printers unknown books
1870réf. 31135Springfield Mo. 1870. Stitched in original printed wrappers. 41 1 blank pp. Very Good. The opening is "a great event in the history of St. Louis and of the State of Missouri.The South Pacific Railroad has burst through upon the prairies of Southwest Missouri and has welded its western terminus upon the rails of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. This latter road is going to the Pacific coast as rapidly as it is possible to construct a road in this day of rapid railroad building." The pamphlet describes "the celebration" including speeches and festivities; the route; and the many exciting possibilities the Road will create for the State and Nation. BRE 175 4 locations. Sabin 57393. unknown books
1863réf. 30260Memphis 1863. Broadside 9" x 11". Lined paper with columns in blue and red inks entirely in manuscript. Two large stains at left edge moderate dusting to right edge on verso. A few small edge chips old folds with archival tape repairs of short splits on verso. Good to Good. The Mississippi Central Railroad Company was chartered in 1852; construction began in 1853 and was completed in 1860. The road ran from Canton Mississippi to Jackson Tennessee; it connected to the New Orleans Jackson and Great Northern Railroads at Canton; the Memphis and Charleston Railroad at Grand Junction Tennessee; and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad at Jackson Tennessee. The Mississippi Central Railroad was the scene of several military actions during 1862-1863 and was severely damaged. R.S. Taylor & Co. of Memphis Tennessee advertised as Cotton Factors and Grocers "We have a large and well selected stock of Groceries and Flour among which is the old favorite Grafton 000 and Reincke's Elegant." THE MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL VOLUME 31 NUMBER 67 FEBRUARY 22 1871 Page 1. unknown books
1851réf. 30447Baltimore: John Murphy 1851. 50pp small printed addendum note tipped in at pp.42-43. Several folding tables charts large folding map "Exhibiting the Railway Route between Baltimore & St. Louis; Together with the Other Principal Lines in the Eastern Middle and Western States." Plain rear wrapper present. Stitched. Scattered foxing light edgewear. Good with the map in Very Good condition. The Report of this important early railroad contains financial information and material on coal transportation the extension of the Ohio River the Washington branch the Northwest Branch and more. Not located in Modelski. John Murphy unknown books
1883réf. 28496Buffalo NY: Matthews Northrup & Co. 1883. 104pp frontispiece illustration many illustrations. Original color printed wrappers detached rubbed and chipped four staples. Light wear Good. "The time occupied in making the reconnaissance upon which this report is predicated was about three months during which time about 4000 miles of railway were traversed. These lines reach out into the best sections of the great States of Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota the Territory of Dakota and the garden portion of the Prairie State whose other name is Illinois. Matthews, Northrup & Co. unknown books
1856réf. 29362Massillon Ohio: James E. Wharton Printer 1856. Disbound 22pp. Light wear Good. The Company was chartered in 1848 by the legislatures of Ohio and Pennsylvania. Its mission beginning at Pittsburgh where the Pennsylvania Central Rail Road ended was to link that Road with the railroads of Ohio which would then connect with other roads westward and thus become it was hoped a crucial part of the rail transportation system. Unfortunately the Company "sustained heavy losses from various causes" in seeking to accomplish this mission; an Investigating Committee was appointed to figure out what caused the calamity. This pamphlet -- signed in type at the end by Thomas W. Bartley Dwight Jarvis and W. Bagley-- is the Stockholders' review of that Report. They give it a grade of "unsatisfactory." The Investigating Committee treated the Company's managers with excessive deference and tenderness ignoring or minimizing their shocking cost overruns defalcations and mismanagement. OCLC 16315711 1- OH Hist. Soc. as of September 2012. BRE 247 related pamphlets. James E. Wharton, Printer unknown books
1892réf. 29205Detroit: John F. Eby & Co. Book and Job Printers 1892. 21 3 blank pp folding color map. Text printed on glossy paper. Original printed green wrappers tanned chipped at edges institutional rubberstamps rear wrap detached stitched. Institional rubberstamp on title page. Good. John F. Eby & Co., Book and Job Printers unknown books
1890réf. 29204Detroit: John F. Eby & Co. Book and Job Printers 1890. 21 3 blank pp. Original printed grey wrappers tanned a few small chips rear wrap detached stitched. Bottom outer corner of text lightly chewed. Good to Very Good John F. Eby & Co., Book and Job Printers unknown books
1878réf. 29199Detroit: Daily Post Book and Tribune Book and Job Printing Establishment 1878. 23 1 blank pp. Original printed tan wrappers some browning along edges stitched. Minor wear at bottom outside edges of text. Else Very Good. Daily Post Book and Tribune Book and Job Printing Establishment unknown books
1877réf. 29198Detroit: Daily Post Book and Job Printing Establishment 1877. 1-title 1 blank 1 1 blank 24pp. Original printed tan wrappers minor dustsoiling and wear stitched. Text quite clean. Very Good. Daily Post Book and Job Printing Establishment unknown books
1872réf. 29196Boston: Wright & Potter Printers 1872. 59 1 blank pp. Original printed purple wrappers chipped large dampstain institutional rubberstamp on front wrap stitched. Light dampstaining of first two leaves of text. Good to Good. Wright & Potter, Printers unknown books
