An apparently unrecorded broadside for a lecture delivered by a Union veteran who avenged the killer of the first slain Union serviceman of the Civil War. In May 1861, private Frank E. Brownell of the 11th Fire Zouaves arrived in Alexandria, Virginia. After the commander of the regiment, Col. Elmer.....
An issue of the first newspaper published on Pike’s Peak, with a vivid front wrapper, extensive text, and photographic illustrations mostly from photos. The cover features a chromolithograph of a woman dressed all in red, looking through binoculars at a sunset just beyond Pike’s Peak. The railway can be seen.....
An impressive image of Yellowstone Park’s Giant Geyser, with a burst of steam surrounded by mud and snow. F. Jay Haynes (1853–1921), nicknamed the Professor, was the official Yellowstone photographer from 1884–1921 and took the first known winter photographs of Yellowstone Park in 1887 on a 29-day, 200 mile epic.....
A strong image of Yellowstone National Park’s Minute Geyser, with a silhouetted man in a cowboy hat observing. F. Jay Haynes (1853-1921), nicknamed the Professor, was the official Yellowstone photographer from 1884-1921 and took the first known winter photographs of Yellowstone Park in 1887 on a 29-day, 200 mile epic.....
An evocative photo taken in Yellowstone Park’s Upper Geyser Basin. Steam rises in a landscape where two people have fallen in the snow, both of whom appear to be skiers. F. Jay Haynes (1853–1921), nicknamed the Professor, was the official Yellowstone photographer from 1884–1921 and took the first known winter.....
An exceptionally rare and important photographically-illustrated work documenting President Chester Arthur’s legendary trip to Yellowstone National Park at a critical moment in its history, featuring photographs by expedition member Frank Jay Haynes, who would subsequently become the official Yellowstone photographer. Just twelve copies of this album were made, one for.....
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This timetable map highlights the route of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad, extending from Chicago through Illinois and Iowa to connect with such western railroads as the Union Pacific, Burlington & Missouri, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, and the Kansas Pacific. A multitude of other spurs and connections are.....
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A photo of the celebrated conjoined twins Millie-Christine shown here aged about thirty-five, the two dressed and styled identically, signed by the sisters in ink on the verso in the same hand seen in other known examples. Wearing striped dresses, jewelry, pointed shoes and coifed hair, the two sisters stand.....
A fresh example of the fourth installment of Wright’s series of sporadically published manifestos, dedicated to the preservation of American democracy and economic autonomy; expressing animus towards fascism, communism, and all forms of empire. Wright delivers a blistering Independence Day message summed up as follows: “Let this truth come through.....