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Glimpses of Denison, Texas: Indelible Photographs.

New York: The Albertype Co.; Texas: Denison Board of Trade, 1890. 16mo (7” x 5.5”), gray wrappers, embossed title and rose on front wrapper. 17 leaves, with 1 p. text, 16 albertype plates.

A scarce albertype view book for the “Queen City of the Southwest,” featuring Denison’s banks, churches, schools, train-yards and bridges, exposition building, internal and external views of businesses, residences, and cotton mills. The final plate reproduces bird’s eye views published in 1886 and 1873.

Located in Northeastern Grayson County, adjacent to the Red River, Denison was founded as a depot in 1872 along the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad, becoming an important commercial center of the American West. In the introduction, the Board of Trade promotes its natural resources of coal and iron, fine fruit lands and proximity to the Indian Territory “which, in the nature of things, must in a few years, be open to settlement.” At the time of publication, the first free public school in Texas had been established in Denison, new railway lines were in development, and a cotton mill was about to open, which would employ some 650 “operatives.” Interestingly, in 1890, the year of this publication, Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in Denison.

CONDITION: Good, ribbon at spine partly detached, light surface loss and foxing to wrappers, contents very good.

Item #6236

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