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réf. 7626San Francisco ca. 1905. 20” x 24” in original oak frame with a title plaque 25.5” x 29.5” overall. Frame manufacturer label of “Sanborn Vail & Co.” of San Francisco on verso. Stamp on verso of “Grover C. Drake District Passenger Agent 937 State Street Santa Barbara California.” CONDITION: Some very small losses at edge of image in lower left corner very good overall. A large and very appealing advertising photograph of Santa Barbara Beach and vicinity issued by the Southern Pacific Railway. This turn of the century photo likely taken on the weekend captures the lively scene at Plaza Del Mar built in the 1890s showing men women and children sitting on benches or strolling about. Many of the women wear white dresses and hats and a few hold parasols. Several boys in bathing suits sit in the sand in the lower right foreground. Los Baños del Mar opened 1901 shown here with picnic tables on the roof appears just to the left of the crowd. At center-left a Japanese tea garden and a sign identifying it as such can be seen on the roof of a building and to its right is a storefront with a sign reading “Boulevard Card Store.” Cabrillo Boulevard with its palm tree-lined promenade stretches along the beach at center right. Hotel Potter appears in the distance on the left and foothills and mountains loom in the background. The phrase “Road of a Thousand Wonders” which is included in the photo’s title was used by the Southern Pacific Co. from the 1900s to at least the 1920s. One of the great American railroad systems the Southern Pacific was established by the “big four” of western railroad building: Collis Huntington Leland Stanford Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker. After completing the Central Pacific line from California to Utah in 1869 the four partners started the Southern Pacific as a branch line into southern California. It was incorporated in 1884 and the railroads making up the Central Pacific system were leased to the Southern Pacific Co. the following year. The Southern Pacific system grew to serve fifteen states in the West and Southwest with lines reaching the Pacific and Gulf coasts. A striking image of the Santa Barbara Beach scene produced by the Southern Pacific Railroad. REFERENCES: Southern Pacific Railroad at Britannica online. [San Francisco?, ca. 1905.] unknown books
1900réf. 2733Houston: Southern Pacific Sunset Route 1900. Very good. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. Minor toning and creasing. A simple but still interesting promotional leaflet touting the advantages of rice farming in Texas. The text was taken from the Southern Pacific Rice Book and lists twenty-six points of advice about the rice industry and how it is a good investment. These points are listed alphabetically by letter and each entry begins with that letter. For example: "H. Harvest rice same as wheat using a rice harvester." OCLC records just a single copy at the Autry Museum. Southern Pacific Sunset Route unknown books
1900réf. 10228San Francisco; Chicago: Southern Pacific Railroad; Printed by Poole Bros 1900. Duodecimo-size booklet 14.75 x 8.5 cm. 80 pages. Blue and brown ink on pink paper. Two photographic portraits Monsieur and Madame Bégué. Illustrations. List of railway agents. Title from cover. In logo at head of title: Southern Pacific Sunset Route. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A souvenir anthology of writings including sixty recipes from two landmark New Orleans restaurants offered for sale to customers traveling the Sunset Route San Francisco–New Orleans by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. A sampling: Mutton Feet à la Créole Liver à la Bégué Jambalaya of Chicken Codish with White Beans Bisque of Crayfish Creamed Cauliflower Onion Salad Eggplant with Rice and Ham Mayonaise of Celery and Shrimps Pineapple with White Wine. ~ The title displayed on the wrappers is misleading: the atmospheric essays and testimonials – arranged by a literary journalist who contributed to Southern Pacific's promotional magazine Sunset Henry Monroe Mayo 1868-1950 – reveal little regarding the eponymous originator of the recipes or the history of the cuisine that brought her fame. Only pages 47-68 contain recipes by Elizabeth née Elisabetha Kettenring Dutreuil Bégué 1831-1906 the proprietary chef of the beloved restaurant in the Vieux Carré – the second oldest such establishment in New Orleans – located on the Rue de la Levée Decatur Street after 1870 downriver from Jackson Square and across from the French Market. An immigrant from southern Germany she had opened a coffee shop with her husband Louis Dutreuil in 1863. After his death in 1875 she married again and with her second husband Hippolyte Bégué 1842-1917 reopened in the same location with the aim of serving one meal per day – a “second breakfast” beginning at 11:00 a.m. – to accommodate laborers in the meat markets and on the docks who started work at dawn. A fuller history by David Shields is available in his The Culinarians Chicago: University or Chicago Press 2017 pages 270-273. By the mid-1880s trade fairs held in the city were bringing tourists as well and Bégué’s became a destination on its own. Madame Bégué died in 1906. The restaurant continued under management of her daughter but was sold in 1914 to relatives of the family Tujague competitors since 1856 on Decatur Street a few doors away. ~ A shorter tribute with recipes pages 69-74 is accorded another restaurateur presumably Victor Béro d. 1904 an immigrant from Belgium who had presided over Victor's Restaurant since 1873. Mayo appears to confuse the "Monsieur Victor" of his time with the founder and namesake of the establishment Victor Martin 1812-1865; cf. Shields page 136 445. ~ The Sunset Route of the Southern Pacific Company was the southernmost of the transport lines to the West Coast originally contemplated by the series of Pacific Railroad Acts between 1862 and 1866. Of the resulting publicly subsidized corporate consortia that would transform western North America – known collectively as the transcontinental railroads – Southern Pacific was already a mammoth system in 1900 including smaller subsidiaries such as the Texas and New Orleans Railroad and extending across territories that would later become New Mexico and Arizona as well as northwards through Nevada Utah and much of California. The in-house Sunset magazine appears to have been printed close to headquarters in San Francisco but like many publications issued by the transportation industry Mme. Bégué and Her Recipes was printed by Poole Brothers of Chicago who advertised as "railway printers" and also produced tickets brochures and mileage tables. ~ Internally clean and sound; in publisher's red wrappers decorated in black and white with an image of Madame Chef in kitchen apron. Wrappers with some rubbing and two small chips to the spine Near very good. Rare. OCLC locates thirteen copies; Uhler 28; New Orleans Culinary History Group page 13; not in Bitting Brown or Cagle. Southern Pacific Railroad]; [Printed by] Poole Bros unknown books
réf. 5510Chicago: Cameron Amberg & Co. Printers ca. 1880. Illustrated chromolithographic broadside with map 21.25” x 13.125” plus margins inset map measuring 4.5” x 5.875” illus. measuring 3.25” x 12.5”. CONDITION: Very good margin chipped at upper right corner a few minor stains. A rare and striking broadside issued by the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railway advertising the Rock Island through-express route and promoting the railroad’s numerous destinations connections and amenities. Featuring the eye-catching mix of typefaces and colors that characterized railroad advertising in this era this attractive broadside promotes the numerous midwestern stops and destinations accessible via the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific R’y. At this time two through-express trains for Kansas and Nebraska ran daily in connection with the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe and Union Pacific railroads. As noted here meals were served in palace dining cars for seventy-five cents each and 150 pounds of baggage were allowed on each full ticket and seventy-five pounds on each half ticket free. The line’s various destinations included Iowa City Council Bluffs Denver Salt Lake City and San Francisco as well as “all points in Kansas Nebraska Colorado Arizona New Mexico Utah Montana and California.” Showing the Rock Island R.R. in bold the inset map spans from Chicago and Lake Michigan in the east to Omaha and Council Bluffs in the west and reaches from St. Paul in the north to St. Louis and Kansas City in the south—with Lake Michigan lying in the upper-right corner. One axis of the line extends from Milwaukee and Racine Wisconsin to Leavenworth Kansas and another stretches from Chicago to Omaha. Various spurs connect to both. The lower section of the broadside features a marvelously detailed illustration of the interior of a palace dining car showing numerous fashionably dressed passengers seated and dining among African American waiters who are shown in the small kitchen and serving food. In the far-right end of the train men are depicted in drawing rooms—reading newspapers and smoking—and various railway operators and ticket-men appear at the ends of the car. Also included is a table of connections with various railroads that could be made in “Union depots.” Through-tickets via this route could be found on sale at all coupon offices in the U.S. and Canada. Those seeking additional information folders maps and times-tables are encouraged to contact any of the ten agents and managers of the Rock Island R.R. listed at the bottom who were based in New York Toronto Philadelphia Chicago etc. Established in 1847 as the Rock Island & LaSalle R.R. the company was reincorporated in 1851 as the Chicago & Rock Island R.R. Co.—its rails during this period reaching to Morris Illinois and later Ottawa. After acquiring the Mississippi & Missouri R.R. in 1866 the company was renamed Chicago Rock Island & Pacific R.R. Co. Expanding between 1873 and 1882 the company built more branch lines that reached into Iowa as well as Kansas City. In 1880 the firm was reorganized under the name Chicago Rock Island and Pacific R’y Co. and by 1883 extended nearly to the southern boundary of Kansas. After Congress granted passage across Indian Territory in 1887 the Rock Island R.R. began developing through Texas to Galveston as well as New Mexico Territory. During the 1920s the railroad enjoyed considerable success. In 1926 the company began constructing a freight line between Amarillo Texas and Liberal Kansas which was finished in 1929 and served to make accessible a country of rich grain. While the railroad industry continued fairly steadily through 1930 between 1931 and 1935 the Depression took a toll on the Rock Island R.R. and went into decline. The company ceased operation in 1980. OCLC records just one copy held at Yale. REFERENCES: “Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway Records” at Kansas Historical Society online. Chicago: Cameron, Amberg & Co., Printers, [ca. 1880] unknown books
1946réf. 69375Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1946. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 287-576pp. ; numerous folding maps. 'Received" stamped on each endpaper pages tanned else very good in publisher's blue cloth. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1856réf. 1004314to original cloth rebacked with original spine strip laid on new endpapers. Illustrated with 20 of 21 color lithographs several steel engraved charts and shell engravings and three color lithographed folding maps. Table of contents list 20 color plates but some copies seem to have twenty-one. Two of the folding maps/charts have been placed in a rear endpaper pocket; one has a neat repair. A little rubbing to cloth and some minor darkening within. Could be missing one plate. Overall very good and nicely restored. One of the great sources of information on the west the Pacific Railroad Reports also contains some great illustrations. This installment Vol. III is no exception. Included are some interesting and colorful pictures of the Mojave Indians and their territory. This report contains intelligence on an expedition near the 35th parallel which took the southern route due west to the Pacific Ocean from Fort Smith Kansas that was conducted by Lieutenant A.W. Whipple and assisted by Lieutenant J.C. Ives. Ives would make his own mark on western expansion a few years later in his travels on the Colorado River. Wagner-Camp 263 Beverly Tucker hardcover books
1857réf. 1004304to 11 ½ x8 ¾ original law calf morocco illustrated 4 134 85102 114 2 iv 64 pp. Some scuffing and wear to covers slight gouge to front joint chipping to edges. Two plates detached one with a chipped corner. Overall very good. Organized by the War department under the direction of Jefferson Davis who was Secretary of War at that time a collection of volumes was produced in the quest for the best route for a railroad to the West. Jefferson Davis wrote part of the introduction to this series and outlines the goals of the project. This report is on routes explored in Northern California and Oregon. Specifically the expedition was to look for a railroad route crossing the Sierra Nevada near the source of the Carson River and to see if it was feasible to connect the Sacramento valley with the Oregon Territory. Most of the color plates in this volume are located in the first three parts of the publication which is focused on topography geology and botanical subjects. This volume includes 23 color lithographs of scenery and botanical subjects 2 hand colored plates of birds and 24 steel engraved plates. Wagner-Camp 264a. Beverly Tucker, unknown books
1856réf. 1006214to leather spine and tips with marbled boards 36 Illustrations include 21 tinted/color lithographs one folding diagram two folding maps and a couple of black and white plates 36 14 136 127 175 pp. Binding with some wear at the spine and extremities hinges cracked some pages are a bit loose plates all present but probably not bound in correct order folding maps have a few tears some staining to front endpapers but not into the balance of the text plates and text show some aging foxing and browning but most plates resonably are clean. One of the great sources of information on the west the Pacific Railroad Reports also contains some great illustrations. This installment Vol. III is no exception. Included are some interesting and colorful pictures of the Mojave Indians and their territory. This report contains intelligence on an expedition near the 35th parallel which took the southern route due west to the Pacific Ocean from Fort Smith Kansas that was conducted by Lieutenant A.W. Whipple and assisted by Lieutenant J.C. Ives. Ives would make his own mark on western expansion a few years later in his travels on the Colorado River. The substantial amount of information on various Indain tribes makes this installment an important one. Since many of these volumes are broken for the plates they are getting somewhat scarce. Beverly Tucker, hardcover books
1860réf. 100432Large thick 4to contemporary calf spine and tips with marbled boards 70 very attractive color lithograph plates 358 41 pp. Extremeties worn minor aging one map has tear in lower corner plates bright and clean. The Pacific Railroad Surveys 1853-1855 explored possible routes for a transcontinental railroad. However the surveys went beyond looking for a place for a railroad they included and incredible amount of information on natural history and the peoples that inhabited the areas where the surveys explored. Representing the first part of the final volume of these surveys this installment focused on the northern route for a railroad. The 12 volumes included in these surveys is also known for rich illustrations many of which were in color. With 70 color plates one folding and three folding maps in Volume XII part 1 this edition is particularly rich in illustration and the plates are bright and clean. Thomas A. Ford hardcover books
1998réf. 339053San Francisco: GAPA 1998. 10p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches news stories calendar of events services and resources photos reports very good newsletter in unbound folded sheets bright yellow covers. Yet another incarnation of the house organ for GAPA. GAPA had several organs including the Newsletter a Bulletin and a semi-slick magazine. GAPA unknown books
1989réf. 234390San Francisco: GAPA 1989. 12p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches news stories calendar of events services and resources photos reports very good newsletter in unbound folded sheets bright white covers. GAPA had several organs including the Newsletter a Bulletin and a semi-slick magazine. GAPA unknown books
1996réf. 234395San Francisco: GAPA 1996. 6p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches news stories calendar of events services and resources photos reports very good newsletter in unbound folded sheets bright yellow covers. Yet another incarnation of the house organ for GAPA. GAPA had several organs including the Newsletter a Bulletin and a semi-slick magazine. GAPA unknown books
1992réf. 234391San Francisco: GAPA - Gay Asian Pacific Alliance 1992. Two issues 4p. & 6p. 8.5x11 inches illustrations ads articles announcements etc. very good in unbound self- wraps. GAPA had several organs including the Newsletter a Bulletin and a semi-slick magazine. GAPA - Gay Asian Pacific Alliance unknown books
1990réf. 235067San Francisco: GAPA 1990. 16p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches news stories calendar of events services and resources photos reports very good newsletter in stapled sheets. GAPA had several organs including the Newsletter a Bulletin and a semi-slick magazine. GAPA unknown books
1991réf. 218945San Francisco: GAPA 1991. 20p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches news stories calendar of events services and resources photos reports unbound folded sheets bright white covers. GAPA had several organs including the Newsletter a Bulletin and a semi-slick magazine. GAPA unknown books
1950réf. 70004New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1950. Early edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good . SIGNED. 338pp. Octavo 22 cm Olive green cloth over boards. Light bumping and rubbing to the extremities; boards just a hair cocked. In the dust jacket with intermittent closed and open tears to the edges and folds and an abraded area to the surface of the spine not obscuring the title. Inscribed by the author on the half title: "For___- / also blessed by / - / with my affectionate regards / Wm O Douglas / Dec. 30 1950. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover books
1900réf. 6878San Francisco; Chicago: Southern Pacific Railroad; Printed by Poole Bros 1900. Duodecimo-size booklet 14.75 x 8.5 cm. 80 pages. Blue and brown ink on pink paper. Two photographic portraits Monsieur and Madame Bégué. Illustrations. List of railway agents. Title from cover. In logo at head of title: Southern Pacific Sunset Route. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A souvenir anthology of writings including sixty recipes from two landmark New Orleans restaurants offered for sale to customers traveling the Sunset Route San Francisco–New Orleans by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. A sampling: Mutton Feet à la Créole Liver à la Bégué Jambalaya of Chicken Codish with White Beans Bisque of Crayfish Creamed Cauliflower Onion Salad Eggplant with Rice and Ham Mayonaise of Celery and Shrimps Pineapple with White Wine. ~ The title displayed on the wrappers is misleading: the atmospheric essays and testimonials – arranged by a literary journalist who contributed to Southern Pacific's promotional magazine Sunset Henry Monroe Mayo 1868-1950 – reveal little regarding the eponymous originator of the recipes or the history of the cuisine that brought her fame. Only pages 47-68 contain recipes by Elizabeth née Elisabetha Kettenring Dutreuil Bégué 1831-1906 the proprietary chef of the beloved restaurant in the Vieux Carré – the second oldest such establishment in New Orleans – located on the Rue de la Levée Decatur Street after 1870 downriver from Jackson Square and across from the French Market. An immigrant from southern Germany she had opened a coffee shop with her husband Louis Dutreuil in 1863. After his death in 1875 she married again and with her second husband Hippolyte Bégué 1842-1917 reopened in the same location with the aim of serving one meal per day – a “second breakfast” beginning at 11:00 a.m. – to accommodate laborers in the meat markets and on the docks who started work at dawn. A fuller history by David Shields is available in his The Culinarians Chicago: University or Chicago Press 2017 pages 270-273. By the mid-1880s trade fairs held in the city were bringing tourists as well and Bégué’s became a destination on its own. Madame Bégué died in 1906. The restaurant continued under management of her daughter but was sold in 1914 to relatives of the family Tujague competitors since 1856 on Decatur Street a few doors away. ~ A shorter tribute with recipes pages 69-74 is accorded another restaurateur presumably Victor Béro d. 1904 an immigrant from Belgium who had presided over Victor's Restaurant since 1873. Mayo appears to confuse the "Monsieur Victor" of his time with the founder and namesake of the establishment Victor Martin 1812-1865; cf. Shields page 136 445. ~ The Sunset Route of the Southern Pacific Company was the southernmost of the transport lines to the West Coast originally contemplated by the series of Pacific Railroad Acts between 1862 and 1866. Of the resulting publicly subsidized corporate consortia that would transform western North America – known collectively as the transcontinental railroads – Southern Pacific was already a mammoth system in 1900 including smaller subsidiaries such as the Texas and New Orleans Railroad and extending across territories that would later become New Mexico and Arizona as well as northwards through Nevada Utah and much of California. The in-house Sunset magazine appears to have been printed close to headquarters in San Francisco but like many publications issued by the transportation industry Mme. Bégué and Her Recipes was printed by Poole Brothers of Chicago who advertised as "railway printers" and also produced tickets brochures and mileage tables. ~ A few pages dog-eared. Very good in publisher's red wrappers decorated in black and white with an image of Madame Chef in kitchen apron. Rare. OCLC locates thirteen copies; Uhler 28; New Orleans Culinary History Group page 13; not in Bitting Brown or Cagle. Southern Pacific Railroad]; [Printed by] Poole Bros unknown books
1911réf. 100851Souvenir pamphlet 8vo colored printed pictorial wrappers illustrated 16 pp. Folded and creased down the middle with a little wear at the fold some minor rubbing to wrappers normal aging; otherwise very good. This is a scarce piece of ephemera commemorating the 1911 groundbreaking ceremony by President William H. Taft for the exhibition in the Golden Gate Park. While the purpose of the exhibition was to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal it seemed to function more as a worlds fair held in San Francisco. It took over three years to construct and the exhibition ran from February through December 1915. There are a number of black and white photographs in the booklet including a double page panoramic view of the city of San Francisco. The activities of the ceremony are recorded in this pamphlet which feature speakers songs marches and what they had for dinner Blair-Murdock Co., books
1949réf. 69540Los Angeles: The University of Southern California Press 1949. Paperback. Good. 245pp. Octavo 23.5 cm Gray printed wraps. Several small chipped losses to the surface of the spine and to the bottom fore-edge corner of the front wrap. Wraps mildly toned at the edges. Text block cracked at p. 204. Notation in pen on first page. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions Volume 13 Number 2. The 1000-ton vessel Velero III a floating research lab funded by Los Angeles oil millionaire Angeleno George Allan Hancock 1875-1965 enriched early ocean research tremendously. Hancock acted as captain aboard the research vessel and the Velero III would undertake yearly months-long scientific expeditions throughout the Pacific Ocean with scientists geologists paleontologists and marine biologists from university institutions the Smithsonian the Steinhart Aquarium the San Diego Zoo and the Bureau of Fisheries. The University of Southern California Press paperback books
1936réf. 174662San Francisco: Maritime Federation of the Pacific Coast 1936. Pamphlet. 17p. wraps 3.5x6 inches stamp of the ILWU Library on the front wrap else very good condition errata slip tipped in. Maritime Federation of the Pacific Coast unknown books
1969réf. 90329Boston: New England Free Press 1969. pp. 18-23 8.5x11 inch pamphlet old price tag on cover otherwise very good. Reprinted from Ramparts. On intergration of the building trades unions. New England Free Press unknown books
1900réf. 42650Miles City Montana: Wiley Bros. Photographers Successors to L. A. Huffman 1900. Photograph. Very Good. Large format photograph 18.5 x 24 cm on a tan mount 25 x 30 cm. Wiley Bros. backstamp "Wiley Bros. Photographers Successors to L. A. Huffman. Miles City - Montana.". Mount edges are lightly bumped and chipped. Photograph is gently rubbed and lightly faded but still showing good detail and contrast. Shows many workers constructing the bridge with Northern Pacific Railroad cars visible in the background. Photograph taken from above looking down. In ink by hand on the front of the mount "Progress showing detail of bench walls of Culvert detail of brick arch; also general view of Coulee Bridge 148. Yellowstone Riv. River. Wiley Bros., Photographers, Successors to L. A. Huffman unknown books
1894réf. 30071St. Louis: Woodward & Tiernan 1894. Seventh edition. Paperback. 124pp. Duodecimo 20 cm Peach and black printed wraps. Good. The wraps are foxed and faded. The rear wrap is partially detached. The wraps have perhaps been discreetly glued to the spine. There are numerous losses from the paper of the spine and there are also some small losses from the edges of the wraps. In addition there are several short closed tears in the edges of the wraps. There are several very light moisture stains on the front wrap and there is a thin 1 and 1/4 inch tall light moisture stain on the fore edge of the rear wrap. The edges of the pages at the beginning are chipped and have small light stains in the bottom corners. The pages are browned. Compliments of the Passenger Department Union Pacific The Overland Route. Flake 9078. With a map on the inside of the front wrap. Woodward & Tiernan paperback books
1979réf. 84443Berkeley CA: Pacific Collective M-L 1979. 21p. stapebound pamphlet 7x8.5 inches very good. Pacific Collective (M-L) unknown books
1978réf. 332308Berkeley: Pacific Collective M-L 1978. 17p. plus a one page "political correction" stapled to the last page; 7x8.5 inches very good. Printed cover latter laid in. Pacific Collective (M-L) unknown books
