![Item #8690 [Lot of fifty-five dramatic photos documenting the San Francisco Earthquake.]. A....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8690_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1709508114)
A cache of photographs powerfully documenting the cataclysmic damage caused by the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, with many photos taken in the earthquake’s immediate aftermath while the fires were still burning. About half of these images are commercial photos while the other half are snapshots by an unidentified amateur photographer.....
An unusually rich document of bank architecture and bank interiors in New England and elsewhere, evidently for the use of a firm involved in bank design. Stamps on the versos of several photos suggest that this album was compiled and owned by the General Bank Equipment Co., which at the.....
A pamphlet promoting the developing town of Broken Bow, Nebraska including a large map, produced two years after the railroad arrived in the area. Platted in 1882, Broken Bow in Custer County, Nebraska allegedly took its name from the suggestion of a settler who found a broken bow in the.....
An appealing and apparently unrecorded Capewell Horse Nail Company advertising calendar featuring an illustration of Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders charging into battle with their sabers drawn, a dashing figure seemingly representing Roosevelt himself prominent in the foreground. This topical advertisement was issued shortly after the conclusion of the Spanish-American War—when.....
A large, attractive map highlighting the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, known as the Burlington Route. This map presents the entire U. S. rail network, with the Burlington Route (BR) and its spurs shown in black at the center, passing through Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and other states, and connecting with.....
An unrecorded and colorful broadsheet promoting the Burlington Route of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad and associated western destinations. Exhorting viewers to read the text “carefully, especially if you contemplate a trip to any point west, northwest or southwest,” this broadside provides information on route options for those traveling.....
![Item #7376 Electric Railways and Traction [manuscript-title on page one]. Milwaukee Chicago, St....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7376_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1719070309)
An impressive and apparently unique photographically-illustrated shop manual relating to the early phase of electrification of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, supplemented with eight illustrated electric railway parts catalogs published by General Electric Co. between 1914 and 1920. This manual includes photos and illustrations of locomotives, rail lines.....
![Item #5628 City and Harbor of Los Angeles [panel title]. Clason Map Co](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5628_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1704384274)
A map brochure issued by the Security Trust and Savings Bank of Los Angeles, intended to promote the city, to advertise the bank, and to closely identify the growth of the city with the growth of the bank. Appearing on the recto is “The Map of the City of Los.....
A fascinating unrecorded broadside for the Delaware and Hudson Canal listing its twenty-two rules, regulations and by-laws, illustrated with a wood-engraving of a canal boat being towed by a team of horses. Built between 1825 and 1829, the 108 mile-long Delaware and Hudson Canal was built to transport anthracite coal.....
An apparently unrecorded circular announcing changes in ownership at the Philadelphia book publishing business Grigg, Elliot, & Co. Founded by John Grigg in 1823 and purchased by J. B. Lippincott in 1849, Grigg, Elliot, & Co. was for a time the largest and most prosperous publishing firm in Philadelphia. Their.....
A scarce broadside advertising travel via the Oregon Stage Line’s overland mail route from Oregon City to Sacramento, illustrated with a wood engraving by California artist William Keith (probably after his own drawing or painting) and his partner Harrison Eastman. The Oregon Stage Line’s mail route connected with daily stages.....
A scarce broadside issued by Boston fur dealers Hart, Taylor & Company. Featuring an appealing illustration of a bear at the top, this circular lists fur garments manufactured by Hart, Taylor & Co., including robes, blankets, and coats of bearskin, wolf, genet, wildcat, fox, buffalo, raccoon, and seal. Also promoted.....
This charming map, with its appealing front-cover illustration depicting cyclists on a road, shows all of Bermuda from Somerset Island to St. George’s Island, and also includes an inset street map of Hamilton. A printed note in the lower left-corner provides information on the condition and nature of the roads.....
A handsome brochure promoting the award-winning Tiger, King of Rakes, as the “Perfect Self-Discharging Sulky Rake,” with a 3” x 5” engraving of the J. W. Stoddard Farm Machinery factory complex on one panel, a 2” x 3” engraving of a farmer perched on the rake being pulled by a......
A rare “serio-comic” map of Europe in 1914 with warring nations represented as dogs and other countries represented as caricatured soldiers displaying their attitudes toward the war. Issued shortly after the French and British forces stopped Germany’s advance at the Battle of Mons on 23 August 1914, this map represents.....
A group of three circulars (and original envelope) issued by a patent medicine company that manufactured a pain killer advertised as a “no quack nostrum,” these examples sent to a minister in Maine. Based in Pittsburgh, Robert Monroe Kennedy invented and patented as early as 1869 the product advertised here.....
A broadsheet promoting bond investment in the Northern Pacific Railroad Company during its first great construction push on the line, with a map at verso showing the projected rail line. Founded in 1865, the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. only began breaking ground on construction in 1870 after receiving extensive financial.....
An importer’s guide to fifty-nine European and American Mineral Waters, listing the available waters “kept constantly fresh, on hand”; also describing the thermal and cold spring sources, presenting in tables the carbonate, sulphur, etc. composition of each product, and testifying to the medicinal value of each water for specific diseases. .....
A dazzling advertising print for English Baking Powder and English Fruit Flavors produced by the Royal Chemical Company of New York. Employing English imagery for these nominally English products, this chromolithograph features a splendidly dressed court figure sounding a trumpet at a Royal banquet, possibly a Christmas feast, judging from.....
A fine bird’s eye view of National City, California in the 1880s, issued as one side of a folding brochure promoting real estate offered by the San Diego Land & Town Company. Depicting National City as seen from an elevated vantage point in the east looking toward San Diego Bay.....
A scarce map of copper lands in the southwest of Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan, showing tracts of land for sale by the St. Mary’s Canal Mineral Land Co. as well as the landholdings of a number of other mining and land companies. The Keweenaw Peninsula, known as “Copper Country,” is.....
An elaborate Mardi Gras poster documenting the Knights of Momus’s 1906 pageant, depicting characters, themes, and objects from Chinese, Japanese, and Indian folktales and mythology as popularized by Lafcadio Hearn. This poster shows the sixteen Knights of Momus carnival floats paying tribute to the much-beloved Lacfadio Hearn who, while editing.....
An unrecorded promotional broadside and receipt documenting pottery production in East Liverpool, Ohio. During the nineteenth century, stoneware potteries sprang up in Ohio after clay deposits were discovered along a number of the state’s riverbanks. These potteries availed themselves of the state’s various transportation routes (railroads, canals, the Great Lakes.....