The ones that are postmarked are from 1910-1916. Includes: Allegheny and Western RR Bridge, New Castle; Cascade Park, New Castle; Kildoo's at McConnell's Mills; Water Works at New Castle; McConnell's Mill; Burning Oil Tank at Franklin PA; Liberty Street at Franklin; "In the Heart of Oil Country;" View on Broad.....
Album measures 8 inches tall, full leather, clasp missing, wear to leather and some loss to spine, has 29 photographs, 3 cabinet photos including a large tintype of female twins in their 20s, quite a number of CDVs of children, from McKeesport studios, almost all the rest are tintypes, assumption.....
Mounted on old card stock, fair with wear and yellowing, people identified in a later hand on rear: Jane Crans Thomas in chair on porch, the girl on the porch was adopted, a sie yaerd Billy Crans, some of William J. Eakin (1836-1919), and E. Jennie Eakin Crans (2nd wife).....
Measures 10.5 inches tall, leather with clasp, very good, general rubbing and light wear, with contents intact: 26 CDVs of people, 24 larger sized cabinet photos. No one is identified by name, studios are Gettysburg and Altoona mainly but we have not removed any to look for studio names. Note.....
Elizabeth, PA: 1963. 9.25 inches tall, wraps, 36 pp, mainly ads, sponsored by the Elizabeth Fire Department, held August 11-17, 1963.
12 x 7.5 inches, black stamped stiff covers, approximately 100 photos and snapshots. Frederick B. Leopold (1865 -- ?) was the General Manager of Pittsburgh Filter Mfg. Co. and also a formidable inventor who patented several water filtration and water softener methods. At some point he lived in Sewickley, and.....
Both very good, postmarked and with messages.
3 photos, ca. 1900s, measuring 9.5 x 7.5 inches, mounted on thick gray stock, addresses and residents identified on versos. Very good but for normal edge-wear to mounts. Apple Alley no longer exists off E. Grant Ave. in Duquesne, but it must have been near Prune Alley and Apricot Alley.....
Butler, PA: Butler County National Bank & Trust Company, 1940. First printing. Paperback, 40pp.
Not identified, but from the estate of a longtime Slippery Rock PA antique dealer who never went far from home, so almost certainly from the western PA region. Photo measures 9 x 6.5 inches, mounted to a dark gray sheet of backing paper and in old frame measuring 13.5 x......
Washington, PA: E. E. Crumrine, 1881. Paperback. 8vo, pale gray wraps, good copy with some wear to rear cover (2 x 2 chip at bottom inner corner), contents VG and clean, 109 pp.
Measures 17.5 inches tall and 7 inches wide at its base, very good condition and very much like the small oil derricks found throughout NW Pennsylvania in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Paperback. Green wraps, 9.5 inches tall, a semi-yearbook and journal for the high school. Very good with light wear to covers. 60 pp, illustrated, and with ads.
Indiana: Indiana Evening Gazette, (1955). Paperback. Quarto (11 x 8.5), plastic comb binding, very good, approx. 25 pp illustrated. A survey of the town and the campus, with some statistics. Photos by Frank J. Sipos. We could only locate one copy in institutions according to OCLC -- at IUP.
Letters to a John A. Criss, first to him in Beaver Falls and then to Mercer PA; Criss lived from 1910-73, always in Western PA. He is described on his 1940 draft card is 5'10" with ruddy complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, 163 lbs. Whatever he had, the effect was.....
Braddock: Press of J.A. Strathearn, 1930. 8vo, pictorial color wraps, 51 pp, illustrated, good with evidence of a price sticker removal on front wrap lower left, light general wear. Uncommon, 2 copies in libraries: Heinz History Center and the PA Commonwealth Library.
Not postmarked or dated but the type of postcard published in the early 1900s. Shows thje horse-drawn sanitarium carriage.
Washington DC: Dept. of Agriculture, 1983. Paperback. Quarto, wraps, very good, light wear and soil, [viii], 93 pages, 169 folded pages of plates: illustrations, maps.
8 x 4 inches, mauve wraps printed in red, 12 pp, woodcut of the Washington Courthouse, very good copy, with facts about The Observer and Reporter, the two papers for morning and evening, and information about the town of Washington. Uncommon.
8 x 4 inches, lime green wraps printed in red, 12 pp, woodcut of the Washington Courthouse, very good copy, small chip to front cover, with facts about The Observer and Reporter, the two papers for morning and evening, and information about the town of Washington. Uncommon.
8 x 4 inches, gray wraps printed in red, 12 pp, woodcut of the Washington Courthouse, very good copy, small coner chip to bottom of front wrap, with facts about The Observer and Reporter, the two papers for morning and evening, and information about the town of Washington. Uncommon.
Pittsburgh: Daniel W. Kauffman, 1847. Hardcover. Rebound in quarter leather with marbled paper covered boards, octavo, 352pp., 406pp., + vi, illustrated with two fold out b&w maps. Book has handsome new boards and endpapers, tight binding, text has toning and foxing throughout. No DJ. Howes 505.
Pittsburgh: Daniel W. Kauffman, 1846. Hardcover. Rebound in green buckram boards, octavo, 352pp., 406pp., + iv + vi + iv, not illustrated NO MAPS. Book has mild rubbing to boards, tight binding, PO's signature to copyright page, otherwise text has toning and foxing throughout. No DJ. Howes 505...
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. Second printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author, dated 2010, on the title page. 1937, second printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on the fly leaf; clean text. DJ edgeworn with shallow snags; light soiling; small abrasion on rear panel from.....
Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1869. First printing. Hardcover. 12mo, green cloth gilt, very good, light wear and soil to binding, hinges tight, contents very good, slight spine lean. A book-length discussion of the politics, economics and ethics of the Erie Railroad and its leaders, by a member of the distinguished New.....