Mainly 1910s, with some exceptionally rare cards. Includes: Both Ends of the Corliss Tunnel, Langley High School (both color and b&w), Glenmawer Ave. (some corner wear to verso), Chartiers Ave. & Allendale St. (1912), Hillsboro St. (1910), Zephyr Ave. (1920), Birds eye view of West End (ca. 1900s), West End.....
Pittsburgh: North Allegheny Regional Planning Commission, 1962. First Printing. Oblong folio, 17.5 x 11 inches, stiff card covers with metal spiral binding, very good, some small stains & spots to front cover, light edgewear and soil, contents very good. 86 pp, illustrated, some of the charts & maps in colors.....
New Kensington, PA: Aluminum Cooking Utensil Co., 1932. Wraps. 6.25 x 3.5 inches, 10 pp plus covers, illustrated throughout. Very good, light wear. Advertises the aluminum siphon bottle, like the kind used these days for seltzer, with recipes for a variety of non-alcoholic drinks, punches, ades, nectars, ice cream sodas.....
Erie: Askin's, 1927. Paperback. 8.25 x 4.5 inches, wraps, 23 pp. brochure booklet advertising men's and women's clothing available at Askin's in Erie. Light wear.
8.5 x 4.8 inches, two stiff sheets tied with cord at top, the top sheet being a fancy chromolithograph image, the first of cats, the second of a cottage by the river, with rose and lace decorations; the second sheet, the same for both, is dated March 31, 1910 and.....
Hollidaysburg, PA: 1851. 1851 handwritten legal document for a dispute involving the Cassidy family with the top part written by Jacob Cresswell, atty for the plaintiffs, and Peter Cassidy attesting that a book of field notes of sundry surveys in Bedford County are almost all in the handwriting of his.....
Camden, NJ: 1910. Hardcover. 14 x 8.75 inches, half leather and green cloth, stamped in gilt on front cover, good copy with some wear to leather, recent cloth over spine, contents very good; the first 37 sheets of this book of 100 sheets have been filled out and issued, leaving.....
Pittsburgh: Boggs & Buhl, 1895. Paperback. Wraps, 10.25 x 7.5 inches, wraps, very good with minor repairs to a few short tears, some tanning to both covers and text, 164 pp, illustrated, priced. Items include: aprons, bed sets, black silks, boys' clothing, brushes, buttons, children's garments, collars, corsets, curtains, drapes.....
Pittsburgh: Boggs & Buhl, 1901. Paperback. Wraps, 9.5 x 6.5 inches inches, wraps, very good with light wear and loss to covers, contents very good, 162 pp., illustrated, priced. Items include: aprons, bed sets, black silks, boys' clothing, brushes, buttons, children's garments, collars, corsets, curtains, drapes, embroideries, fans, feathers, flannels.....
Braddock, PA: L. Schmidt, 1922. 8vo, color pictorial stapled wraps, 32 pp, illustrated, all priced. Very good, faint wear. An impossible to find catalog from a jeweler in a Monongahela River steel town.
Allentown, PA: Muhlenberg College, 1961. Paperback. Includes an early publication by the award-winning novelist Frederick Busch, the poem 'To You'. Black wraps. 8vo. 55pp. Near Fine. Light shelfwear.
Butler County PA: 1860s-1870s. Hardcover. 5.75 x 4.75 inches, old cloth with clasp, good with recent cloth on spine, original cloth spine mounted on new cloth. Contents very good, many of the people identified. There are 28 photographs, some are tintypes, others regular albumen CDV style pictures, still others are.....
Butler, PA: Butler Senior High School, 1936. Stiff Wraps. The 1936 Class Yearbook from Butler Senior High School. Decorative wraps. 4to. 86pp. Illus. Good+. Moderate rubbing to edges of wraps and spine-ends, wraps darkened, light general soiling to contents.
Pillow PA (Dauphin County): C. S. Roshon, Ca. 1888. 6.5 x 4.5 inches, very good, showing a young woman in her working clothes and bonnet, her hands atop fancy embroidered fabric. The woman's visage and bonnet signifies Pennsylvania Dutch to us, possibly Amish, Mennonite or some related group.
Canonsburg: Jefferson College Historical Society, 1960s. 2 sets of 6 postcards, in original mailing envelope, postcards fine and crisp, envelope moderately worn and used. Issued in the 1960s, we guess, as the address has a zipcode.
Pittsburgh: Chatham College, 1978. Hardcover. Hardcover. c.1978. 4to. 152pp. Illus. Near Fine. Mild general shelfwear.
Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S.A. Springer Verlag, 1999. Paperback. Silver soft back copy. Near fine copy. Clean, crisp page with unmarked text. With B&W illustrations and diagrams. 229 pp. Octavo.
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Boston & Farmington: Cook and Watkins, 1895-1903. Hardcover. Catalog from 1897 measures 14 x 11 inches, folio, deep red cloth stamped in gilt, very good, some small scattered abrasions to rear cover. Although the catalog is from Cook & Watkins in Boston, it is stamped John W. Holt, Farmington PA.....
Pittsburgh: Smith Bros. 1946. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, very good, light tanning and soil, ownership signature of Nicholas Unkovic (1906-1983, a prominent labor law attorney with Reed, Smith in Pittsburgh). 27 & 35 pp. The source of the complaint was that the strikers decided not to permit strikebreaking workers, scabs, or.....
Meadville, PA: 1864. We could not find out much about the recipient of these letters, William B. H. Dickson. He came from Meadville and was apparently engaged in mercantile activity and owned some real estate, and a newspaper clipping accompanyiing the last letter mentioned here discusses the background and geneaology.....
Pittsburgh: Pennsylvania College for Women, Pittsburgh, PA, 1946. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1946. Hardcover, 158 pp., heavily illustrated, Very Good copy, soiling or age-toning to some pages, light rubbing to the book's covers, no dust jacket.
Ford City PA: Eljer, 1941. Wraps. 8.5 x 6 inches, softcover, about fine, 22 unnumbered pages, illustrated in color throughout. Catalog and promotional booklet on Eljer products, the "dressette" with legation bath, Martha Washington lavatory, quieta closet, Sylenta Closet, Riviera Bath, and other bathroom fixtures: mainly sinks, toilets (closets, commodes).....
Erie, Penn. Republican Book and Job Printing House, 1868. Hardcover. Published 1868, cloth, 134 pp, light discoloration to binding, signs of prior institutional ownership (Warren, PA library) including pocket at rear, scattered pencil marks and notes to contents, perhaps from a patron and reader. OCLC records only one copy, at.....
Uniontown, PA: 1920. Wraps. 12 x 9.5 inches, textured blue paper covers, recent cloth spine, good copy, general moderate wear and soil, contents nice and clean, tape stain on p. 14. About 100 pp, lots of ads, photos and student writing contributions.
Pittsburgh: Federal Rice Drug Co., 1969. Paperback. 11 x 9.25 inches, yellow printed wraps with yellow plastic comb binding, very good, light wear and soil, probably about 200 pp, illustrated and priced, much in color. The smoking section is particularly appealing, with accesories for smokers, luxury lighters, butane lighters, pipes.....