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[Women's Rights – Abolition – Underground Railroad] Haviland, Laura SmithABAA

Cabinet Card portrait of Laura Smith Haviland

1885réf. Cat361Chicago Illinois: C. D. Mosher National Historical Photographer to Posterity 125 State Street 1885. Albumen photograph on printed “Memorial Portrait” cabinet mount approximately 4 ¼ x 6 ½ inches. The elaborate printed verso advertisement promotes Mosher’s ambitious Centennial-era “Memorial Portraits” project and bears contemporary manuscript identifications reading “Laura Smith Haviland” and noting her authorship of A Woman’s Life Work. Very good condition with light surface wear. A late-life portrait of the celebrated abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor Laura Smith Haviland 1808–1898 one of the most courageous white allies of the antislavery movement in the Old Northwest. Born into a Quaker family in Ontario and raised in Michigan Haviland devoted her life to reform causes including abolition women’s rights prison reform and temperance. With her husband Charles she founded the Raisin Institute near Adrian Michigan one of the earliest racially integrated schools in the United States. Haviland became deeply involved in the Underground Railroad during the 1840s and 1850s assisting hundreds of freedom seekers to escape through Michigan to Canada. At considerable personal risk she also traveled repeatedly into slave states including Kentucky and Tennessee to aid formerly enslaved families and to challenge slaveholders directly. During the Civil War she continued relief work among freedpeople in the South and remained active in reform movements well into old age. The portrait was produced by Chicago photographer Charles D. Mosher 1829–1897 as part of his Centennial-era “Memorial Portraits” project an ambitious attempt to assemble thousands of photographic likenesses of notable Americans to be preserved for future generations. Mosher exhibited hundreds of such portraits at the 1876 Centennial Exposition and later sealed many of them within a “Memorial Safe” intended to be opened at the American Bicentennial in 1976. The project sought to memorialize politicians military leaders reformers entrepreneurs and other public figures; known participants included leading African American figures such as Frederick Douglass and Mifflin Wistar Gibbs along with prominent Chicago politicians and civic leaders. An evocative photographic likeness of one of the most fearless women associated with the Underground Railroad preserved within one of the most unusual commemorative photographic projects of the nineteenth century. C. D. Mosher, National Historical Photographer to Posterity, 125 State Street unknown books

Auger Down Books · États-Unis375,00 $US≈ 335,03 €

[New York City]. Office of the Secretary of State Hudson Tunnel Railway CompanyABAA

Hudson Tunnel Map and Profil sic. Profile of the first tunnel under the Hudson River with Certificate

1909réf. 42908Albany NY: State of New York 1909. First edition. Very good clean copy with long tear repaired on th verso and tiny chips at one fold on map inch tear to fore edge of certificate and along bottom margin. Ink on drafting vellum with colored outlines. 15 x 24 inches. Docket sheet mounted to verso. In 1874 the Hudson Tunnel Railroad Company soon named the Hudson River Railway Company was formed to construct tunnels between Jersey City and Greenwich Village the route originally to be about two miles commencing at a point under the Hudson River in the westerly boundaryline of the state of New York opposite the foot of Clarkson street at the termination of the Hudson Tunnel Railroad Company of New Jersey and thence running by a feasible route under the bed of the river and beneath the surface of the city of New York to a point at or near the westerly side of Broadway between Prince and Eighth streets; from whence the line proceeds via Sixth avenue to Thirty-third street New York but stopped construction well before completion. The assets land partially-constructed tunnels trackage etc. were eventually sold to the newly-organized New York & Jersey Railroad incorporated on February 12 1902 under the leadership of William G. McAdoo who was later U.S. Treasury Secretary and which then became the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad 1906. The original of this profile was drafted in 1891 before the railroad collapsed and the present certified copy was prepared by the Secretary of State's office on February 25 1909 almost exactly one year after the official opening of the tunnel the Pennsylvania Railroad's North River Tunnels the second to burrow under the Hudson did not open until late 1910. The reason that a copy of the map was requested is not known but what is known is that the railroad was seeking to extend the Sixth Avenue line later as well as other related projects. Perhaps the map was needed to settle some land issue or in some legal negotiations as the pencilled word "referee" appears after two sets of initials. The tunnels still carry a heavy load of PATH train commuters between Jersey City and Manhattan. Similar maps are difficult to locate. The closest a printed "Map of Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Hudson tunnel system January 1908" is located at the University of Chicago and the Jersey City Historical Society. Provenance: Collection of Gerald J. Levy. State of New York hardcover books

Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB · États-Unis950,00 $US≈ 848,75 €

[Railroad History – Iowa] Baldwin, William; Harbert, Albert; et alABAA

Letters and Documents from the Development of Western Railroad Lines Late 1800s to Early 1900s

1936réf. List3240United States 1936. Forty-two letters with several miscellaneous documents circulars stock offerings etc. Conditions vary with some items worn and quite fragile; most excellent. The Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad CB&Q was formed in 1855 by a consolidation of several other western railroad companies. The company and its subsidiaries known for their sleek diesel Zephyr trains operated extensively throughout the midwest west and Texas throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Today its former passenger operation has been assumed by Amtrak and its freight operation continues as the BNSF Railway. The Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway BCR&N operated between 1876 and 1903 and was succeeded by the Rock Island Line. Offered here is a small collection of letters and documents pertaining to the relatively early days of the CB&Q and BCR&N alongside later correspondence from an Iowan who was writing a history of Iowa railroads. Earlier letters include discussions of plans for the extension of the CB&Q lines; for instance railroad official O.W. Palmer writes: “The other day at the meeting I gave Mr. McClure some changes to Leavenworth – Since that time I have gone into the question a little more thoroughly and find that to be consistent we would have to reduce a great many points in Western Iowa where there is no competition whatever no need of a reduction – I have therefore concluded not to make any changes except where we have to meet some other fellows rate.” August 7 1894 On the reverse of this letter and one other is an attractive map of the many CB&Q lines between Chicago and Denver/Cheyenne. Also from around this time are several letters from William W. Baldwin discussing railroad business in both an official and unofficial capacity with BCR&N President Charles J. Ives. In 1895 Baldwin tells Ives about a scalping scheme on the BCR&N for which several conductors are fired April 20 and in 1896 about a silver-backing newspaperman: “A fellow named Hyskel has persuaded certain silver idiots here to loan him $200 or $300 with which he has started a morning daily called the “Burlington Democrat”. It is a violent vindictive anarchistic silver sheet and Hyskel himself a thorough crook of the bigoted sort although personally decent and mild enough. Has your company given them transportation They will be after it hot foot. Our folks here have refused him – saying he will have to get it under a regular advertising contract. These are to be made January 1st. If you can put him off until then I think the paper will die before January. They own no press nor any property – are simply trying to bull it through past the election. It is easy enough to put them off there are plenty of good reasons why it ought to be done. There is not a meaner silver organ in the state. It was started as a silver venture purely. I suppose Tracy will get them B.CR. N. transportation if he can. He is the same variety. It is such examples that make the situation so full of menace danger to all business.” October 19 “Tracy” is Samuel K. Tracy then Solicitor general for the BCR&N the son of Judge Joshua Tracy who was president of the line until his death in 1884. Later correspondence is mainly between Baldwin and Albert N. Harbert of Iowa; Harbert was writing a history of Iowa railroads and Baldwin had apparently written a number of pieces on the topic the collection includes a mimeographed bibliography of his works. Harbert had a particular interest in the china dinnerware used on the lines. Of interest to historians of western railroads around the turn of the century. unknown books

Auger Down Books · États-Unis875,00 $US≈ 781,74 €

[Transcontinental Railroad]ABAA

Railroad Record. And Journal of Commerce Banking Manufactures and Statistics. Extra

1856réf. 3168Cincinnati 1856. Very good. Five issues and supplements totaling 72pp. Spines reinforced. Light tanning and dust soiling; scattered faint foxing. A lengthy extra issue of the Railroad Record with four additional eight-page supplements that together comprise a ringing endorsement from this industry periodical and its editors of the southern route through Texas and the Southwest for the American transcontinental railroad. The first two items of this extra published on October 4 1855 are by Texas Western Railroad owner and promoter Edgar Conkling who exhorts readers to examine the evidence supporting construction along the southern route and to invest in his railroad which was already sanctioned by the Texas state legislature as the text of two laws printed following his address demonstrate. Much of the issue is taken up by extracts from Secretary of War Jefferson Davis' positive report on the route through Texas and by a précis by Colonel A.B. Davis of his exhaustive survey of the proposed path through the recently completed Gadsden Purchase with a double-page map of the intended line. After several other attestations a subscription form is included at the rear for those who wish to purchase stock at $100 per share in the Texas Western Railroad Company. The additional four supplements dating from late 1855 and the first half of 1856 print more arguments in favor of the southern route including a lengthy letter from Thomas Butler King and lead articles with titles such as "What Shall Be Done for a Highway to the Pacific" and "Objections to the Construction of the Pacific Railroad reviewed." The Texas Western never built more than fifty miles of track connection Shreveport Louisiana and Marshall Texas and it was another twenty-five years before the Southern Pacific and Texas & Pacific Railroads connected near El Paso in 1881 to complete the "southern route" as it was originally conceived. unknown books

McBride Rare Books · États-Unis1 250,00 $US≈ 1 116,77 €

[Cuba – Railroad History] Unknown PhotographerABAA

Photo Album Documenting the Havana Central Railroad Company Building Its Line from Havana to Guanajay in 1906

1906réf. List3021La Habana Province Republic of Cuba 1906. Twenty-two photographs measuring 7 ¼ x 9 ½ inches mounted on heavy cardstock measuring 10 x 12 inches. Photos numbered and dated on negative. In album embossed with “Havana Central Railroad Co./ Progress Photographs/ GUANAJAY”. Photos with fine contrast and some wear; mounts with minor damage slightly warped with some detached from binding. Overall excellent. Havana Central Railroad Company was an American company formed in April 1905. It opened two electric tram lines—Havana to Guanajay in 1906 and Havana to Güines in 1907—before it was bought by the English company United Railways following the Panic of 1907. Offered here is a photo album showing the construction of the Guanajay line. The photographs show laborers assisted by horse-drawn carts digging culverts laying tracks and erecting bridges and buildings. This project came on the heels of the successful efforts of the Cuba Company another railroad company to make the emerging Cuban Republic amenable to American business.They did so first by using ‘revocable permits’ which could ostensibly be revoked by the new government when it was formed to circumvent the Foraker Amendment prohibiting concessions to American companies by the US’s military government; and second by using their close relationships to several members of the Cuban Constitutional Convention to include a law allowing irrevocable permits.1 These along with the Platt Amendment and Governor Leonard Wood’s General Railway Law led to what would amount to domination by US interests in Cuba particularly but not exclusively in the railroad industry.2 Of interest to scholars of the early Republic of Cuba especially the history of US businesses in the country. 1 Juan C. Santamarina “The Cuba Company and the Expansion of American Business in Cuba 1898–1915” The Business History Review 74 no. 1 Spring 2000: 41–83. 2 Louis A. Pérez Jr. “Insurrection Intervention and the Transformation of Land Tenure Systems in Cuba 1895–1902” Hispanic American Historical Review 65 no. 2 1985: 229–254. unknown books

Auger Down Books · États-Unis2 000,00 $US≈ 1 786,83 €

Canada Atlantic Railway CompanyABAA

THE CANADA ATLANTIC RAILWAY COMPANY. INCORPORATED BY THE PARLIAMENT OF CANADA. CONTENTS. MAP OF THE RAILWAY. REPORT OF W. SHANLY C.E. TRUST MORTGAGE DEED TO SECURE FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS. ACTS OF INCORPORATION OF THE RAILWAY

1881réf. 35023Ottawa: Printed by MacLean Roger & Co. 1881. Original printed salmon wrappers stitched. 2 10 large folding map short closed tear 20 11 3 2 2 pp as issued. Vertical fold light edgewear. Very Good. offered with Booth C.J. President: THE CANADA ATLANTIC RAILWAY CO'Y. PROSPECTUS. Ottawa: 1889. 4 pp printed on rectos only. Caption title as issued. Pinned at upper blank corner and docketed in ink on final blank "Canada Atlantic RR Prospectus January 1889." Fine. The map in excellent condition is titled "Canada Atlantic Railway Map December 1881" accomplished by "Geo. Bishop & Co. Lith. Montreal." It measures 18" x 35" with the route of the railway; extensions and other railways also noted; other boundaries in green. All the documents creating the Company set forth in the title of the pamphlet are printed each individually numbered. The Railway as the Prospectus states "extends from Ottawa in a south easterly direction a distance of 142 miles and connects with the Central Vermont Railroad at the village of Alburgh Springs Vt. U.S.A." "The Canada Atlantic Railway CAR was a small regional railway created in 1880 by lumber baron John Rodolphus Booth. Initially planned as part of the transportation network for his vast lumber holdings the railway quickly grew into a general-purpose railway serving passengers and communities along the route. Booth's first target was to gain access to Vermont in order to connect with the Central Vermont Railway CV and further exploit the US markets" "Canada Atlantic Railway" Ontario Railways accessed at Canada-Rail website May 2018. As of January 2026 2026 we do not locate either of these documents-- or the map-- on OCLC. Printed by MacLean, Roger & Co. unknown books

David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 670,06 €

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