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[PACIFIC INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ART -- PICTORIAL MAP]. COVARRUBIAS [DUCLAUD], [Jose] MiguelBiblio.com

Art forms of the Pacific Area. Plate III: Pageant of the Pacific. . . .

1940réf. 64695San Francisco CA: San Francisco Bay Exposition Co. Published by Pacific House Lithographed by H.S. Crocker Co. Inc. & Schwabacher-Frey Inc. 1940. One oblong elephant folio map 38 x 25 in. colour lithographed on beautiful thick paper stock minor age toning slight creasing to fore-edges some minor soiling to fore-edges still a VG bright original pictorial map. First edition of this separate issue souvenir map issued by the Golden Gate International Exposition GGIE World’s Fair which first opened in 1939 and carried over to 1940 celebrating the stunning series of giant murals painted in 1939 by Covarrubias for the Pacific House presenting the Pacific Ocean as an idyllic yet with remote and exotic areas prior to World War II. This splendid and vibrant pictorial map showcases the primarily Indigenous Peoples art forms across North Central and South America Asia Indonesia and Melanesia. The swath of Pacific Islands with representative art pieces encompass Papua the Solomon Islands Trobriand New Hebrides New Caldeonia Fji Samoa the Maori of Australia and New Zealand to Native Hawaiians. The six original murals ranged in size from 9 x 13 feet ”Native Dwellings” and “Transportation” while the other four such as “Flora & Fauna” measured 16 x 24 feet. Originally the set of six was exhibited until 1953 at the American Museum of Natural History shipped back to San Francisco in 1949 when the original “Art Forms of the Pacific” mysteriously went missing and exhibited at the Ferry Building until 2001. Covarrubias 1904-1957 was a noted Mexican muralist illustrator caricaturist painter and ethnologist who not only produced artwork and caricatures for the Mexican Ministries of Education and Communication but also later became noted artist and caricaturist for Vanity Fair and the New Yorker set designer and commissioned later by the GGIE to produce the murals series. San Francisco Bay Exposition Co., Published by Pacific House, Lithographed by H.S. Crocker Co. Inc. & Schwabacher-Frey, Inc., unknown

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Pacific Northwest Logging deforestationBiblio.com

Pacific Northwest Logging Industry Large Photographs Archive of Labor and Deforestation Systems 1920s-40s

1920réf. 233311920. Logging Pacific Northwest logging industry photo archive documenting systems of timber extraction in Oregon Washington and Northern California during the early twentieth century illustrating how camps moved logs through cutover ground snowbound slopes skid roads and mechanized loading sites. The prints show the sequence of logging work: clearing hauling lifting sorting and burning slash as part of industrial forest production across the western lumber belt. Photo archive of 4 large silver gelatin photographs each approximately 8 x 9.5 inches Northern California Oregon and Washington circa 1920s-1940s. One photograph shows a jammer raising a massive log while a worker stands in the foreground with peavey in hand and freshly cut rounds stacked beside the machine; the verso reads "Jammer bringing in W.P. log / Park River Lbr. Co." Another records winter logging on a steep snow-covered hillside where a horse team and two workers move timber down a built log road; the verso notes "I-20 / winter logging at camp 23 PFI / 1019-CL." A third shows a bulldozer amid a broad cutover tract strewn with felled trunks and stumps emphasizing road building and ground clearing after cutting. The fourth captures active burning in the forest with smoke rising around a dozer and a handwritten verso caption reading "Burning out skid road with dozer." Captions include "PHOTO FROM / WESTERN PINE ASSOCIATION / Yeon Building Portland 4 Oregon / PLEASE RETURN" stamps a Rognon Studio Westwood California stamp and a Haas Brown Seattle studio mark preserving the circulation history of the prints within western forestry and commercial photography networks. These photographs come from the period when Pacific Northwest logging shifted across overlapping systems of machinery camp roads and organized slash disposal concrete evidence of how western timber companies converted forest land into transportable lumber under changing technological conditions. Creasing to corners and minor loss at corner margin on one image. Overall clear and sharp very good condition. The photographs preserve the working sequence of regional resource extraction and the transformation of forest landscapes in the Pacific Northwest. unknown

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Pacific Northwest Logging deforestationABAA

Pacific Northwest Logging Industry Large Photographs Archive of Labor and Deforestation Systems 1920s-40s

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis450,00 $US≈ 401,25 €

PACIFIC RAILWAYS ADVERTISING COMPANY Burke,Biblio.com

The Coaster. Vol. IV Number 1–26.

réf. 4014San Francisco:: The Company. 4to brown pebbled cloth black leather spine and tips; company’s name on front cover in gilt as well as “Earl V. Burke”. Six-month run of an in-house organ of a company that provided large advertising cards used in electric street cars on the West Coast. It was published every Saturday and did not have a set number of pages per issue. Paging is erratic and at a certain point there are two numbering systems: one typed at the head of the page at one point dropping some 20 pages and the other rubberstamp numbering at the point of error to the end.The masthead to each issue has the following text: “The coaster is issued every Saturday for the exchange of ideas and news between our offices. It must not be circulated outside of our Organization. Contributions desired for publication should each San Francisco Office not later than Thursday of each week. If you benefit by reading the articles of others in the coaster you should reciprocate by letting us have some of your own ideas.The text is a mixture of social news: happenings in the various branches; retirements; encouraging rhetoric and express business instructions on the placement of cards some are returned to the client after the agree and instructions for ordering supplies.The first issue of this volume contains two pages outlining the United States eminence in many fields. With only 6% of the world’s population and 7% of the land the United States produced in 1920: 25% of the agricultural supplies; 40%of the mineral products; 34% of the manufactured goods.Earl Vincent Burke 1885–1963 was a graduate of UC Berkeley and is listed in the 1930 census as “Business Manager Advertising”. He was a member of the Book Club of California; John Henry Nash printed an invitation for Burke’s lecture at the San Francisco Public Library on Master Printers. By the 1949 census he and his wife both listed themselves as “Free Lance Writers”. San Francisco:: [The Company],. hardcover

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PACIFIC RAILWAYS ADVERTISING COMPANY Burke,ABAA

The Coaster. Vol. IV Number 1–26.

Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books · États-Unis450,00 $US≈ 401,25 €

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