![Item #5864 Our Stay At The Flying V [cover title]. L. Austin, compiler](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5864_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1585666916)
A photo album comprising 181 images documenting a family’s eight-and-a-half month stay at a dude ranch in Tucson in the 1940s. This album chronicles the Austin family’s time at the “Flying V” Ranch, featuring images of the ranch and its lodgings; dudes on the trail; a “chuckwagon” with African-American cooks;.....
First edition of this Revolutionary War diary and orderly book, shedding light onto the militia experience at Winter Hill during the Siege of Boston and around Lake Champlain during one of the first naval engagements of American independence. Jonathan Burton was born in Middleton, Massachusetts in 1741, and first served.....
An unusually decorative and lively photo album documenting the recreational and romantic life of a group of central Illinois friends in the early 20th Century. This album is striking for its attractive, neatly accomplished manuscript captions and illuminations—with cobwebs and other patterns and devices—in white ink, enhancing a lively photographic.....
A brilliantly colored and richly detailed case map of Ulster County, New York by John Homer French, the compilation of which was part of the foreground to the publication of his landmark map, The State of New York from New and Original Surveys, which appeared a year later. The map.....
A scarce pocket map of Kansas City accompanied by an inserted guidebook, providing much information on the development and potential of this important midwestern commercial hub in the 1880s. The map provides a comprehensive view of the city, situated at the confluence of the Missouri River and the Kansas River.....
A photo album documenting a 1905 western tour undertaken by a Czech American from Chicago who was active in the Freethinkers Movement. Adolf Hrusa was one of many Czechs who belonged to the Freethinkers Movement (or Society of Free-Thinkers), an organization that split from the Catholic Church as a result.....
Second edition of this map first published in 1887 by the Southern Pacific Railroad, showing by use of color California’s different climatic zones, and evidently intended to promote both travel and settlement in the region. The map extends from Mexico in the south to Oregon in the north, and from.....
A stunning and important set of eight photo albums documenting Japanese life, scenery, and culture, as well as the activities of two American expatriate brothers in Japan and the foreign community to which they belonged. Also included are images of China, Hong Kong, and Formosa (Taiwan). These albums, compiled by.....
![Item #5471 [Scrapbook of WWI Intelligence Officer and Author.] World War Scrap Book [cover...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5471_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1575039024)
A fascinating, carefully organized album of original photos, maps, official military documents, letters, and other materials compiled by Intelligence Officer and later New York University Law School dean and professor Alison Reppy, the author of the regimental history Rainbow Memories (1919). Born in Hillsboro, Missouri, Lieut. Alison Reppy (1893–1958) served.....
An appealing map of Colfax and Mora Counties in northeastern New Mexico and part of southern Colorado, highlighting the famous and controversial Maxwell Land Grant. This map was produced by the Maxwell Land Grant Co. amid its legal battle to have the validity of its grant recognized. The Maxwell Land.....
![Item #7062 [Glacier National Park photo album]. Unknown compiler, postcard photographer T. J....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7062_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1630879055)
An impressive Glacier National Park photo album, apparently compiled by a woman during a visit in the 1920s, providing ample documentation of the park’s extraordinary natural beauty and early buildings, as well as the compiler’s peregrinations, various companions, people encountered along the way, etc. Mounted at the beginning of the.....
A delightfully vivid vernacular photo album depicting ten years of summer camps, college, vacations, and outings—in Maine, Cape Cod, Montana, and elsewhere—of a girl and her family from White Plains, New York. The album also includes a number of striking photos relating to aerial photography and naval aviation in 1926.....
An album vividly documenting three Oregon mining operations in which the compiler, a St. Louis photographer and businessman, owned stakes, with detailed annotations. This album documents two trips to Oregon undertaken in May and Oct. 1908 by J. Fred Woltz of St. Louis, Missouri, a man of perhaps sixty who.....
A rare and richly illustrated promotional booklet covering the thriving communities in St. Francis and Bird City, Kansas and touting the opportunities awaiting prospective settlers. It begins with an overview of Cheyenne County and its history, covering the County’s natural resources, land, industries, water supply, the “underflow” watering the western.....
![Item #5711 [Panama-Pacific International Exposition photo album.]. Betty Zamloch, compiler?](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5711.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1576100659)
An extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. The Panama-Pacific Exposition, a world’s fair held in San Francisco for nine months (Feb.–Dec. 1915), celebrated the opening of the newly-completed Panama Canal, and was also widely perceived in the city as an opportunity to demonstrate.....