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1932ref. 234061932. New Deal-era western construction and industrial expansion across California Oregon and Washington recorded in an extensive family photo album with inscribed dates locations and details. The album records the surge of dam bridge road harbor and flood-control work that followed Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal public works programs. The photographs record the individual impact of the 1935 Emergency Relief Appropriation Act the Works Progress Administration and earlier Public Works Administration funding which helped push thousands of men into construction work is documented. This album's years align with the federal agencies and private contractors shift to reshape western rivers harbors roads and transportation infrastructure. Photo archive of 469 photographs mostly silver gelatin photos and with some real photo postcards ranging from 2.5 x 4 to 5 x 7 inches California Oregon and Washington Arizonia 1932-1938. The album includes extensive handwritten captions identifying Monterey California breakwater work in 1932 Azusa road construction in San Gabriel Canyon in 1933 Bonneville Oregon in 1934 Monterey Bay dragline work in 1934 San Francisco and Oakland Bay views Hansen Dam shovel work and family travel between Encinal Washington and Oakland. Monterey pages record a shovel loading rock trucks lined for breakwater work a first load of rock dumping rock from a pier and Monterey Pier from the water. Azusa pages show a slide covering a shovel a truck being let down a steep hill by cable road cuts through canyon rock and named men beside heavy trucks. Bonneville pages show "Dolph & a new Mack truck" four new Mack trucks a new car beside a shovel men standing inside a shovel bucket and a "50 B drag line" on the Columbia River. Additional construction scenes show electric shovels steam shovels loading trucks workers in quarries tug crews draglines extending over water trestle rail lines partially framed industrial buildings in San Francisco in 1937 and captioned men including Key Dolph Bill Reid Pat Al Bow Irving Pinky Hamlistall and George Lamblet. Travel and family pages add a 1936 Oldsmobile camp trailers ferries Treasure Island and the Bay Bridge Oakland camps Warrendale and Bonneville family portraits sailors at a beer hall Columbia River Highway views and domestic scenes that place construction labor inside a wider pattern of westward automobile mobility. This album records the overlap between large-scale public works and ordinary itinerant life: heavy machinery quarry crews draglines trestles cofferdams dump trucks travel trailers and family stops all appear. Many photographs document domestic life from family gatherings to celebrations of new born babies. At its core this album depicts regional power planning flood control military and commercial harbors and the creation of automobile infrastructure which permanently altered the West Coast and Columbia River basin. Bonneville and Grand Coulee brought hydroelectric capacity irrigation planning and federal power policy into the center of Northwest development while the Bay Bridge and related Oakland-San Francisco work changed metropolitan circulation around the bay. The captions repeatedly tie people to machines and locations suggesting a family or work circle moving through construction jobs rather than a tourist album with incidental industrial views. Edge wear chipping album leaves worn spine and many loose pages; images remain clear captions remain legible and securely mounted or associated with their original pages. Overall in good condition. This archive documents the New Deal-era western construction through quarry faces truck yards draglines ferry crossings trailers named workmen and families following the work from site to site spanning the Bay Bridge to Hansen Dam. unknown books
1926ref. 80739Nashville: The McQuiddy Press 1926. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on front endpaper: "To Nettie Spielman / with best wishes from / Geo. D. Hay "Solemn Old Judge" dated 1933. Tight Near Fine copy lacking the dustwrapper. Hay 1895-1968 started his career in print journalism but made his name as a radio personality primarily in Nashville where he was the originator and long-time Master of Ceremonies of the Grand Ole Opry program on WSM from which the venerable live stage variety show at the Ryman Auditorium drew its name. Between musical acts Hay would intersperse comic interludes in the character of "The Solemn Old Judge" a character he had first invented for his column "Howdy Judge" in the Memphis Commercial Appeal. These columns are reproduced here; they are mostly in the form of racist caricature very much drawn from the minstrel show tradition the typical premise being an African-American character appearing in court before a white judge with much white-supremacist hilarity to follow the Black voices written in exaggerated dialect. Hay adapted his "Solemn Old Judge" persona to radio along the way establishing the basic character of the popular American "hillbilly" music industry - white southern and racially segregated - that placed country music in direct opposition to the race-mixing socially "degenerate" music of the northern cities especially New York. In the words of sociologist Richard Peterson: "The down home rural card was a good card to play.because there was such fear of what was happening in the cities. There was so much race mixing there was so much jazz there was all kinds of degradation in music. Here was a way of finding a pure unadulterated American music that came out of an Anglo-Saxon background. They Hay and the Grand Ole Opry made up a whole bunch of stuff." quoted in American Public Media "New York Clashes With the Heartland" audio documentary. An historically important book despite its racially offensive underpinnings somewhat scarce and seldom found signed. The McQuiddy Press unknown books
1935ref. 81892New York: International Publishers 1935. First Edition. Octavo 20cm. Orange cloth boards lettered in black; dustjacket; 256pp. Tight Near Fine copy in a very bright crisp dustwrapper - minutely chipped along bottom edge else close to Fine and most uncommon thus. An entirely pro-Communist account of unionization in the ILGWU and the Furrier's Union with the expected attacks upon the "reactionary" policies of the Socialist and AFL factions. Dale Zysman is identified in Bella Todd's autobiography as a Vice-President in the Teacher's Union widely referred to as the "Stalin of the Union" for his habit of holding his pipe at precisely the same angle as appeared in Stalin's official portraits. SEIDMAN H54. International Publishers unknown books
1934ref. 157936Milwaukee WI: Alloy Products 1934. Vintage sales sampler created by Alloy Products Corporation of Milwaukee Wisconsin housing 45 linen-backed photographs of various pressure vessels and pressure as well as technical illustrations and images of fabrication elements. Six photographs bear photographer stamps on the versos and most of the photographs include a "shipped to" date among the technical information on the versos dating from 1929-1934. The photographs capture eight tanker trucks five unmounted tanks for truck or rail four rail-mounted tanks three fabrication photographs nineteen various self-standing pressure vessels and pressure tanks and six coils and parts. Founded in 1929 Alloy Products Corporation manufactured various pressure vessels and pressure tanks predominantly used for dairy and other food and beverage industries. Detailed information on photograph versos includes dimensions materials fabrication techniques and various other technical specifications as well as the client for whom it was built. Among the client companies represented in the sampler are Anheuser-Busch Borden's Milk Bowman Dairy Blue Moon Cheese Products Brockway Motor Truck Canada Dry Ginger Ale Carnation Kentucky Color and Chemical Company Libby McNeill and Libby Liberty Trucking Company Miller High Life Nestle's Milk Products Rexford Paper Sunshine Dairy United Milk Products and Van Camp Packing among others. Photographs: 7.5 x 9.5 inches. Near Fine overall. Housed in a Very Good plus binder measuring 11.5 x 8 inches. Alloy Products unknown books
2008ref. 131924Glen Ellyn IL: Gahlberg Gallery College of DuPage 2008. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran January 24 through March 1 2008. Essay by curator Dominic Molon. Includes 8 black and white images. A fine copy in stapled wrappers. Scarce with no copies listed in OCLC or anywhere else. Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage unknown books
1785ref. 113721785. SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF INDUSTRY Lindsey England. A Second Account of the Origin Proceedings and Intentions of the Society for the Promotion of Industry in the Southern District of the Parts of Lindsey in the County of Lincoln. Louth: By R. Sheardown 1785. 4 xiv 76 p. Removed. Very light browning else very good. ESTC records no copies in England. unknown books
1929ref. 302295Los Angeles 1929. 100 pp of typed documents and an additional 50 album leaves mounted with approximately 50 photographs various sizes and processes and various documents. Folio. Limp leatherette with title and recipient name stamped in gilt to upper cover. Large black quarter morocco clamshell box gilt. 100 pp of typed documents and an additional 50 album leaves mounted with approximately 50 photographs various sizes and processes and various documents. Folio. "It is proposed that a COMPLETE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS be opened to the public on a fifty cent admission basis which is to be properly laid out as an attractive Zoological and Botanical Garden with the finest and largest private collection of animals birds and reptiles to be seen anywhere on the continent." The advent of the motion picture industry in California had many wide-ranging ramifications on the business world and one was that it created a new market for firms who traditionally supplied animals to circuses and zoos both public and private owned by the likes of William Randolph Hearst. This archive is a report by the Investment Auditors of California for the Horne Corporation that was looking to expand by establishing a zoological garden in the environs of Los Angeles. The Horne Corporation was the largest and most successful of its type at the time apparently the only company in the US that could completely outfit a circus with both animals and show equipment. They were to purchase the Los Angeles Zoological Garden and Jungle Studio for $250000 and thereby sought to provide a similarly complete service to the film studios with both animals and suitable locations for film sets. The head of the company I.S. Horne for whom this report was compiled commenced trading in animals from Kansas City MO around 1914. The range of animals at the their disposal included big game birds reptiles and many of the documents concern the prospect of importing reindeer from Alaska. The material is held in a presentation album and includes the certificate of incorporation in Wilmington Delaware May 13 1929 as well as the by-laws of the corporation minutes of the first meeting the proposal for Los Angeles Zoological Garden and Jungle Studio and a balance sheet. At this stage the company had total assets of $57700 & liabilities of $625388.46; an enumeration of the various animals in inventory including wildebeest sables leopard lynx Rhodesian baboons bushbaby and a large aardvark. Of real interest are the plans for the park including artist's impressions which would be furnished with circus attractions "Monkey Island" jungle setting for motion pictures and an acknowledgment that "before the introduction of the motion picture industry the art of showmanship was not quite so highly developed as it is today." In fact one of the first pictures they supplied animals for was - appropriately enough - Trader Horn which was nominated for the 1931 Academy Award for Best Picture. On a more practical level there is a "Descriptive Classification of Principal Commercial Wild Animals" which lists 340 different animals in some details. There is also an account of hunting wild animals in East Africa as well as a section on animals that have been trained to hunt by man. Furthermore there is also much correspondence which provides much insight into the game industry its clients and the prospects for its future. Horne's venture subsequently became known as the World Jungle Compound in Thousand Oaks California eventually being acquired by 20th Century Fox studios. This archive is a record of a new phase of the entertainment industry. unknown books
1930ref. 253020Tokyo Japan: Mitsubishi Goshi Kaisha 1930. Illustrated with photographs. 10103 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original dtraight grained blue cloth. Almost fine. Illustrated with photographs. 10103 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Abundantly illustrated account of the history and current activities of the diversified Mitsubishi concerns in 1930 including shipbuilding engine and aircraft production; banking investments and real estate; economic research; and other enterprises with portrait of Baron Koyata Iwasaki President. Mitsubishi Goshi Kaisha] unknown books
1974ref. vita5650Atlanta: WSB Radio 1974. Quarto red textured and illustrated boards hardcover silver letters and illustration to the upper cover 112 pp. Fine. WSB Radio, 1974. hardcover books
ref. qms418Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services 1982. Quarto paperbound stiff illus. white wrappers unpaginated. Title page detached laid-in a few ink marks to index; otherwise a very attractive copy with minimal wear clean & tight. unknown books
1942ref. 40874Paris 1942. unknown books
2010ref. 33677San Francisco: Chronicle Books 2010. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover. A charming book that provide a short history and description of letter press printing followed by letterpress "portfolios" of work of many printers from the United States and Europe. Each printer has one or two pages with images of his/her work. Most produce broadsides cards invitations etc. rather than books. Bound in bright yellow cloth with red title lettering on cover and spine. In near fine condition. Measures 7 x 7.5 inches. 191 pages. BOB/112119. Chronicle Books hardcover books
ref. 168662INDUSTRIA SETA ITALO-AMERICANA. Catalogue in the Shape of a Butterfly. 7 dye-cut double-sided leaves including the covers. NP. ND. A most unuusual and spectacular publication issued to promote the Italian-American silk industry. Except for the center spread which is devoted to I.S.I.A the sheets have either one or two images representing various Italian towns. unknown books
1950ref. 234871950. Industrial drilling operations engineering crews and heavy extraction equipment dating to the 1950s-1960s. The group records workers assembling servicing and operating large drilling rigs and mechanical boring equipment in both field and industrial shop settings. New hydraulic systems diesel-powered rigs and mobile boring equipment allowed construction and engineering firms to reach deeper foundations quarry sites utility corridors and oil-bearing formations with unprecedented speed. Archive of 9 large-format silver gelatin and color photographs each measuring 8" x 10". Several photographs focus closely on the machinery itself: hydraulic drill assemblies suspended by cranes pipe sections and cylindrical boring units laid out for repair cable-fed drilling towers and articulated rigs positioned against exposed rock and excavation walls. Workers appear handling drill heads aligning equipment inspecting mechanical components and assisting with assembly procedures. One image includes a Motorola mark suggesting possible corporate or engineering documentation use. The photographs preserve the visual language of postwar industrial extraction industries when drilling technology expanded rapidly alongside highway construction mineral exploration petroleum infrastructure utilities work and large-scale civil engineering projects. Following World War II mechanized drilling became central to the expansion of North American infrastructure and resource extraction. Minor surface wear and toning overall very good condition. These photographs document the labor required to sustain that industrial growth with crews working directly beside dangerous and mechanically complex equipment maintaining the machinery that powered mid-century construction transportation and energy development. unknown books
ref. 173031SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY. CIBA. Neolanfarbstoffe auf Chevreau. Colorants Neolane sur Chevreau. Neolan Colours on Chevreau. 2 foldout plates with 10 tipped-on fabric samples. 8vo 245 x 156 mm folded 245 x 315 mm unfolded publisher's cloth. Basel: Society of Chemical Industry n.d. The French Fuchsine monopoly forced several French chemists to move to Switzerland around 1862 to pursue their quest for developing their own formulas for dyestuffs. In 1884 one of those emigres Alexander Chavel founded Ciba. Ciba would eventually go on to be part of what is today Novartis. A modest work on dyeing of considerable rarity with no listing on OCLC. hardcover books
1911ref. SJ13642London:: Society of Chemical Industry 1911. 1911. Series: Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry no. 18 vol. XXX September 30 1911. 4to. pp. 1099-1146 xii. Figs. Original printed wrappers; creased. Very good. Complete issue of the Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry. FULL TITLE: Journal and Patent Literature I. General Plant; machinery; IIa. -- Fuel; gas; mineral oils and waxes. IIb: -- Destructive Distillation; Heating; Lighting. III. -- Tar and Tar Products. IV. -- Colouring Matters and Dyes. V. -- Fibres; Textiles; Cellulose; Paper. VI. -- Bleaching; Dyeing; Printing; Finishing. VII. -- Acids; Alkalis; Salts; Non-metallic Elements. VIII. -- Glass; Ceramics. IX. -- Building Materials. X. -- Metals; Metallurgy including electro-metallurgy. XI. -- Electro-Chemistry. XII. -- Fats; Oils; Waxes. XIII. -- Paints; Pigments; Varnishes; Resins. XIV. -- India-Rubber; Gutta-Percha. XV. -- Leather; Bone; Horn; Glue. XVI. -- Soils; Fertilisers. XVII. -- Sugars; Starches; Gums. XVIII. -- Fermentation Industries. XIXa. -- Foods. XIXb. -- Water Purification; Sanitation. XX. -- Organic Products; medicinal Substances; Essentials Oils. XXI. -- Photographic Materials and Processes. XXII. -- Explosives; Matches. XXIII. -- Analytical Processes. XXIV. -- Miscellaneous Abstracts. Society of Chemical Industry, 1911. hardcover books
1911ref. SJ13665London:: Society of Chemical Industry 1911. 1911. Series: Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry no. 22 vol. XXX November 30 1911. 4to. pp. 1291-1342. figs. Original printed wrappers. Very good. Society of Chemical Industry, 1911. unknown books
1956ref. 71375Tokyo: Touanenryou Kougyou Kabushiki Kaisha 1956. Thick 8vo pp. 4 12 2 1302 2; text in Japanese; text illustrations and plates throughout including two double-page views of the company campus; green cloth boards backed in sheep; spine stripped and worn text clean and sound good. Tounen Later Toua Fuel Industries was a major energy company founded by Nakahara Nobuhei. Touanenryou Kougyou Kabushiki Kaisha unknown books
ref. 12998Various locations mostly Phoenix AZ 1980. 24 leaves illustrated with twenty-three mounted photographs plus dozens of mounted ephemeral items including letters documents certificates newspaper clippings and more plus a folder laid in containing television prompt copies. Folio. Contemporary brown vinyl scrapbook string tied. Minor overall wear some old tape stains to most items some items apparently re-mounted likely by a later friend or family member. Overall very good. A wonderful scrapbook celebrating the professional career of Evelyn Lorraine Thompson 1948-2005 on-air reporter and news anchor for KOOL-CBS Radio and Television and KTVK-TV in Phoenix Arizona in the 1970s. Thompson worked for KOOL straight out of college after graduating from Boston University in 1972. She was hired as a writer-producer for morning newscasts then worked as a full-time news reporter. Unusual for the era Thompson also served as KOOL's weekend sports reporter. She later moved to KTVK-TV also in Phoenix where she worked as a news anchor. We could find no other information about Thompson following about 1980 except for her brief obituary in the Arizona Republic. The present scrapbook provides a valuable snapshot of Thompson's life and early career through a range of original photographs showing her as a child but with the majority showing her during her working years at KOOL and KTVK. The album also includes numerous letters to Thompson from a variety of correspondents thanking her for stories congratulating her for her positions at the news news releases and other documents announcing her personal appearances newspaper clippings when Thompson appeared in the paper either for a story or as the subject of a story and so forth. The scrapbook even includes the prompt copy of a speech given by her before sorority students at Northern Arizona University. For a deeper look at her life as a reporter or anchor a number of additional prompt copies of some of Thompson's stories are gathered in a manila envelope laid into the scrapbook. The scrapbook also includes award certificates most notably her award as one of the "Outstanding Young Women of America" in 1973. Altogether a unique assemblage of original materials documenting a trailblazing Black reporter and news anchor in the contemporary American West. unknown books
1831ref. 72999Baltimore: Published by order of the Convention 1831. Paperback. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 44pp. Wraps have been vertically folded. Light occasional foxing. Paper covers are worn and creased. Period inscription with name written top of the outer wrap else a good complete example. Published by order of the Convention paperback books
1875ref. 33711Somverville MA 1875. Broadside 5" x 10". A few old folds. Signed in type by A.T. Small Jas. E. Crawford Able Jones Sarah J. Price and J. Campbell as the Committee on Charges. Official Council blindstamp at the bottom right corner. Very Good. The Sovereigns of Industry established in 1874 grew out of the Patrons of Husbandry a mutual aid society for farmers. The Sovereigns sought members among all workingmen not just farmers. Its purpose articulated by its founder William H. Earle of Massachusetts was "elevating the character improving the condition of and as far as possible perfecting the happiness of the laboring classes" through the establishment of consumer cooperatives. The cooperative network would allow workers to "control the whole of what they produce and exchange it as near as may be even with other hand-workers thus saving to themselves the fortunes which those who are devoted to manipulating other people's labour and to getting rich thereby have heretofore taken by extortion." Commons John R. et al.: HISTORY OF LABOUR IN THE UNITED STATES: NATIONALISATION 1860-1877 VOLUME II New York: 1921 Pages 172-173. A scandal occurred in Union Council No. 71 Somerville Massachusetts. A conspiracy to usurp the authority of the Council majority on the location of a new Hall was charged. The conspirators allegedly were guilty of self-dealing by choosing a Hall for their own personal gain. "Riotous disorderly and disgraceful proceedings" erupted. Not located on OCLC as of May 2017. unknown books
1831ref. 29476New York 1831. 31 1 pp. Disbound foxed Good. Caption title as issued. A report on the status of the iron and steel industries and a call for their protection by federal tariff legislation. AI 7164 4. unknown books
1831ref. 4067Baltimore: The Convention 1831. First Edition. Stitched as issued. Very good. 8vo. 1-34 - 44 12 - 197198 4 pp. The complete minutes with the supplementary reports on currency coastal trade revenues frauds and domestic commerce issued under the title of General Convention . and having a separate pagination. Containing S & S #7163; absent from Kress; see Taussig The Early Protective Movement . Political Sci. Qrtrly. v.3 #1 The Convention unknown books
1951ref. 1487Milan: Touring Club Italiano 1951. 8vo. 170 x 125 mm. 6 ¾ x 4 ¾ inches. 256 pp. including Appendices: Table of Distances in Kilometers; Index of Illustrations; Index of Place-Names and Items of Note; and an Index of Maps and Plans. With one-hundred and nine black and white photographs thirteen topographical maps and eleven town plans within the text. Publishers' illustrated softcover wrapper. Book is Good: rubbing and wear along the spine and along the edges; creasing along the spine and on both the front and back covers; otherwise the text block is clean and the wrapper remains vibrant and in fairly good condition. First Edition. The Touring Club Italiano was founded in 1894 to promote cycling and to encourage travel throughout Italy. Over the years it has produced several guidebooks detailing much of what the country has to offer to travelers domestic and international. It is perhaps best known for its Guida D'Italia informally known as Guide Rosse or Red Guides which provide detailed descriptions of the major sites and cultural landmarks of Italian cities and regions alongside a rich set of maps and illustrated materials to help guide readers as they navigate between destinations. This guide focused on Italy's seaside resorts gives a brief sketch of each location categorized by region as well as a list of railway stations information services attractions and hotels. . Touring Club Italiano unknown books
1935ref. 88894Tokyo: Board of Tourist Industry. Japanese Government Railways 1935. Revised Edition. Paperback. Good. illustrations folding map 50p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19 cm. Cover chips and tears reglued here and there leaving some small gaps on narrow backstrip and in upper right corner of front cover. Internally sound with some creasing and dog-earing. An uncommon tourist guide. Board of Tourist Industry. Japanese Government Railways paperback books
