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.....
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.....
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.....
Chicago: Gravure Illustration Company, 1905. Folio (books are 13.5 inches tall) cloth chemise housing 7 of 9 parts of this architectural survey of the county; lacking parts 1 and 4. Altogether 43 finely printed gravure photos of residences, buildings, gardens and landscapes in Washington County. Overall good; part 3 has.....
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.....
Not postmarked or dated but the type of postcard published in the early 1900s. Shows thje horse-drawn sanitarium carriage.
Chicago: A Warner, 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Two parts bound as one. 1889. First edition. Hardcover, 4to. rebound in later black cloth and endpapers, all edge gilt. 758, 790pp. frontis, illustrated with tissue covered plates throughout. Good. Rebound, lacks front endpaper. Periodic offsetting from laid in newspaper articles throughout, a......
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.....
Philadelphia: L.H. Everts, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. 1882. First edition. Hardcover, 4to. in original full red leather with gilt titles, decoration, all edges gilt. 727pp. illustrated with engraved plates, including a full color 2p. map of Westmoreland County. Very good. Rubbing, surface loss to leather corners, spine ends, boards mottled.....
The South Heights card is postmarked 1910, RPPC, First Presbyterian in Shousetown postmarked 1909, light wear, Lover's Walk in Shousetown dated 1913, light wear, Residence of A. A. Porter, Wireton, RPPC postmarked 1916, light wear, and the Catholic Church in Wireton, RPPC postmarked 1910 is in excellent condition. All three.....
Looks like a RPPC to us, light soil, postmarked 1916 with a message on the back that is probably offering booze (this is Prohibition era) in coded language: "Bertha I wanted to tell you not to get anny of that you said you were out of we can give you.....
Pittsburgh: W. W. Waters. First printing. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front flyleaf by the publisher Waters. First edition, ca. 1888. Cloth hardcover with gilt title on the front cover, gilt top edge, 154 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Good copy, straining to the inner hinges, age-toning to the outer pages.....
State College, PA: Barbara Metzger Anderson, 1979. Limited edition. Hardcover. Signed by Barbara Metzger Anderson on the title page. Limited edition of 500 copies. 143pp. illustrated. Very good in very good dust jacket. Edge wear, price sticker on dust jacket. Contents unmarked.
Indiana, PA: Times Steam Print, c. 1890. First edition. Hardcover. No date, c. 1890, First Edition. Hardcover, brown cloth, gilt title. 200 pp., errata. Very Good. Light soil and rubbing to the binding; front hinge a little tender, but secure; unmarked text. Sound copy.
Pittsburgh: Anicus Lodge #67--Order of the Arrow/Boy Scouts of America, 1965. Paperback. RARE, only one copy in OCLC! Printed paper wrap, octavo, 16pp. + pamphlet map laid in, sparsely illustrated with map. Book shows hint of toning to edges of wrap, stapled binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.....
Pittsburgh: Privately Printed / The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, 1935. First printing. Hardcover. Inscribed by Arbuthnot. First edition, 1935. Leather hardcover with gilt ruling on the covers and gilt title on the spine, gilt top edge, 231 pp., clean unmarked text, Good copy, minor soiling or age-toning to some of.....
Harrisburg: Board of Governors, 1878. Hardcover. 8vo, black cloth, good, with spine neatly renewed with black cloth, 305 pp, illustrated, including foldouts, plus 7 maps and charts in pockets, mainly in color: East Broad Top Railroad, Environs of Orbisonia, Sideling Hill Creek, Geology of Three Springs, Huntingdon County, etc. Part.....
Versailles, PA: Borough of Versailles, 1968. Paperback. Paperback, 1968, octavo, unpaginated, illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with some toning and soil to wrap, stapled binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1939. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1939. Cloth hardcover, 326 pp., Very Good+ copy, minor ex-library marks, no dust jacket.
Meadeville: Meadville Sesqui-Centennial Commission, 1938. First printing. Paperback. First editions, 1938. Softcovers, 48 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, 1 copy Very Good and 1 copy Near Fine, Very Good copy with soiling and wear to the covers. Very Good copy also has several pencil signatures to the front cover...
Evansville, IN: Whipporwill, 1985. Reprint. Hardcover. 1985. Facsimile reprint of the 1888 edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in grey cloth. 808pp. illustrated. Very good. Boards rubbed, edges foxed. Contents unmarked.