Taken by a Cleveland OH studio, message on the back hard to decipher: "The man at my left is the hard ___ ___[?] he is the forman also. The rest of fellows is from Jamestown NY and are all Swedes."
(Dayton): Henry Borenstein, Ca. 1910. Paperback. Wraps, 7.25 x 5.25 inches, pictorial covers with festive red, white and blue ribbon ties, 2 pp. text, 32 views of the campus, facilities and buildings. Good with some wear and soil to covers, contents very good, a little toned. OCLC locates two holdings.....
11.75 inches tall, string-tied with floral lithographic cover by Paul de Longpre. 38 pp, mainly ads for Alabama businesses. Good, cover with edgewear and loss, contents good. Program states this is the first music festival produced in northern Alabama.
Postmarked 1911, with message.
Brooklyn: Bureau of Public Safety, Brooklyn Rapid Transit System, (1913). 9 x 6 inches on pale orange thick stock, very good, small repaired chip to left edge, light wear to one corner. The movie was produced to teach children about the dangers of living in a city, including reckless drivers.....
Postmarked 1913, no publisher's information, in color pictorial envelope style folder, with 11 postcards accordion folded within. Light wear and soil.
Very good, postmarked and with message on verso.
Hardcover. Oblong quarto (11 x 8), leather backed cloth boards, very good, some wear and rubbing to binding, contents very good. 167 pp, many ads, many photos, and typical contents of a yearbook of the era: portraits of faculty, student bodies, extra-curricular organizations, athletics including football, plus jokes, cartoons, quotes.....
Measures 11 x 7 inches, nice condition, first half of the album is inexplicably not used. Kept by a Mary Leopold, Winebiddle, who attended the Pennsylvania College for Women which was renamed Chatham College. Documents outings with her friends to Rockmere on the Allegheny River near Oil City, to Chautauqua.....
Philadelphia: Hopkins, 1915. From 'Plat Book of the Eastern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, Vol. 8.' Large double page color map backed with linen, very good, light edge-wear and soil.
Philadelphia: Hopkins, 1915. From 'Plat Book of the Eastern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, Vol. 8.' Large double page color map backed with linen, very good, light edge-wear and soil.
Philadelphia: Hopkins, 1915. From 'Plat Book of the Eastern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, Vol. 8.' Large double page color map backed with linen, very good, light edge-wear and soil.
Philadelphia: Hopkins, 1915. From 'Plat Book of the Eastern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, Vol. 8.' Large double page color map backed with linen, very good, light edge-wear and soil, minor restoration to bottom of center fold.
Philadelphia: Hopkins, 1915. From 'Plat Book of the Eastern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, Vol. 8.' Large double page color map backed with linen, very good, light edge-wear and soil.
Philadelphia: Hopkins, 1915. From 'Plat Book of the Eastern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, Vol. 8.' Large double page color map backed with linen, very good, light edge-wear and soil, interestingly the Princeton Park Plan has been pasted on top of the pre-existing map.
Some very light scattered spots on card, identified in pen on verso. Handsome Craftsman style house.
Chicago: 1917. Wraps. 14 x 8 inches, wraps, good to very good with some wear to the yapp edges of the wraps, contents very good. 36 unnumbered pages. With a short history and description of the Lyceum and Chautauqua Movement and then a description of the musicians, performers, lecturers and.....
New York: J. Freger, (1918). Folds out to 14.5 x 5.5 inches, postmarked 1919 and addressed with short note, light wear, darkening, soil, with a glossary of sailor slang printed on both sides. Unusual and rare.
Pittsburgh: 1920. Brochure measures 11 x 8.5" folded, gatefold brochure with 6 panels, very good, light soil. Advertising a performance by the great Russian dancer Michel Fokine and his wife at Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh. Together with portions of a large placard on heavy stock, with text advertising the.....
Unused, but with some pencil notations on verso. On June 20, 1920 the "Blockade of Russia" happened in Petrograd on the island of Kammeny Ostrov, north of Petrograd Quarter, where a mock invasion of Russia was staged with fireworks, circus elements, clows and mimes, etc, and the country is "saved".....
NP: NP, Ca. 1920s. In 12 x 9 pictorial envelope with rules and b/w image of the donkey and pins, housing 21 x 28 inch chromolithograph poster with pins still not cut out, and little flat brass eyehole for hanging on a wall. All very good, light wear and stains.....
Hardcover. 11 x 8.5 inches, full embossed decorated brown leather, very good, some wear and rubbing to binding, contents very good, with over 125 snapshot-sized photos of hunting camp & cabin in upper Ontario about 200 miles north of Toronto, off the NE shore of Lake Huron. Showing hunters collecting.....
Light soil, not used or postmarked.
(Japan): 1922. Map measures 20.75 x 15.25 inches, printed in red and black, good to very good light edgewear, tanning, creasing, housed in homemade gray folder with cord binding, hand lettered in Chinese as "Map of the Tomb of the War Dead" for "Anzo Town." We assume the tomb or.....
Philadelphia: G. M. Hopkins, 1924. From 'Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, Vol. 3. Comprising the Wards 8, 10, 11, 12 & 13.' Single-page map showing the largely empty area that would eventually be East Hills. VG with light wear and soil.