A scarce pictorial map of the Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico, one of the world’s largest youth camps, depicting its rugged landscape. This map shows the enormous 219 square mile ranch, located just west of Cimarron, its territory defined by a pinkish-brown line superimposed on a U.S. Geological Survey.....
![Item #8956 [Note of] Exchange for $2400 Thirty days after sight of this second of Exchange…Pay...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8956_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1718659328)
A rare note of exchange for funds to provide for sick and destitute sailors, signed by a founder of the first large-scale sugar production company in Hawaii. William Northey Hooper (1809–1878) was born in Manchester, Massachusetts, into a family of merchants and shippers. In 1832 he sailed to Hawaii as.....
A wonderful gathering of full-length portraits of Black navy recruits in uniform, many posed in various drill and ceremonial positions, at the mammoth naval training center in Great Lakes, Illinois. This lot of portraits show young recruits variously posted—standing, saluting, holding a gun—most photographed standing in front of a tree.....
![Item #8323 [Panoramic photo of] Co[mpany]. 401—H. H. Brooks—S R[?] (A) 7c Co. Comd’r. Apr....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8323_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692201069)
A striking World War II-era photograph showing some 144 African American Navy servicemen of Company 401 at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station on Lake Michigan in Illinois. The company is shown here standing in front of a building bearing the number 1608, and in the front row is a......
![Item #9605 [Panoramic photo of] Co[mpany]. 831 C. G. James—C. SP. Co. Com’d. July 29, 1943....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9605_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1738258598)
An evocative World War II-era photograph showing some 106 African American Navy servicemen and one white officer of Company 831 at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station on Lake Michigan in Illinois. Organized in five lines, the uniformed company is shown here standing on bleachers in front of several buildings.....