First and only edition of this Black Hills rarity, a document which signaled the taming of one of the wildest towns in the West. Herein the new city government is empowered to curtail just about every activity that made the town famous. Included are provisions to prevent horse-racing as.....
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A rare eighteenth century Maine shipbuilding-related contract. This memorandum records an agreement made on 12 January 1795 by and between Freeborn Groves and Stephen Jewett (ca. 1727–1803) in Pittston, Maine. Detailing the specifications of the vessel to be built, the agreement reads as follows: The said Stephen Jewett doth covenant.....
An appealing album of the Bahamas and its native inhabitants and local industries, compiled by an American tourist during a 1901–02 visit, soon after the opening of the Colonial Hotel in downtown Nassau, built by industrialist Henry M. Flagler. The compiler of this album stayed at the Colonial, located.....
A lively group of photos documenting life and labor on the V.V. Ranch in Lincoln County, New Mexico, founded by James M. Cree in the mid-1880s. The images offered here show thirteen cowboys during a round-up of hundreds of cattle (“Scenes on the Round Up ‘Catching Horses out of.....
An early 19th century pyrotechnical manual, comprising ingredients, recipes, and construction details. With a delightful hand-colored frontispiece depicting all manner of fireworks entertaining observers. OCLC records just five holdings of the Derby edition, as well as holdings for two London editions published in 1825 and 1835. CONDITION: Good, frontispiece.....
The Barnum and Bailey program for the season of 1912, with a total of 16 fantastic acts, including: “The Spectacle of Cleopatra”; “Three Royal Riding Acts” (including “Dainty and dexterous displays of principal bareback equitation by the charming exemplar of grace and agility, Miss Victoria Davenport”); “A Complete Number of.....
This colorful broadside promotes a tight-rope act performed by an unnamed gentleman pictured in numerous illustrations here. He is shown in three different vignettes performing the “sensational drop high to low wire,” the “sensational drop with ladder,” and “nerve tantalizing tricks wire swinging.” Arrows in the illustrations indicate the motion.....
An informative and attractive album depicting life—theatrical life in particular—at this now defunct women’s college on the Hudson River in the early twentieth century. Originally established as Mrs. Dow’s School in 1903 at Briarcliff Lodge, a premier resort hotel in the Hudson Valley, in the late 1910s the institution.....
A spectacular Mardi Gras poster for the Krewe of Proteus floats for 1896, depicting a wide variety of animals—here dubbed “Dumb Society,”—in imaginative situations. Represented here are twenty floats with titles such as “Presidential Sport,” “At Home…Dancing,” “In the Surf,” and “A Royal Banquet.” One marvelous float entitled “Five.....
A captivating poster featuring the Krewe of Rex’s “Heavenly Bodies” floats for the 1896 Mardi Gras. One of the oldest participants in Mardi Gras and the source of many of its storied traditions, the Krewe of Rex was founded in 1872 on the occasion of the visit to New.....
A scarce police equipment catalogue featuring numerous illustrations of weaponry and equipment, and doubling as a policeman’s ‘how-to’ guide. John P. Lovell Arms Co. of Boston manufactured and dealt in fire arms, fishing tackle, bicycles, and police goods. This catalogue begins with a price-list of police clubs, paralyzers, ball.....
An rare silk broadside announcing the celebration of the U. S. Centennial aboard the excursion steamer “Plymouth Rock,” in Shanghai, China. The day long program included a “Salute of One Hundred Guns at Sunrise,” a “national Salute at 12 Meridian,” a reading of the Declaration of Independence by O. B......
A remarkable piece of 19th century American photographica, being a hand-colored studio photograph of Newburgh, New York fire chief Chauncey Leonard, in a striking and elaborate firefighting-themed frame. Leonard is shown wearing a heavy overcoat, sitting at ease beside a table upon which rests his silver trumpet and firefighter’s.....
An attractive timetable for the “Maple Leaf Route” of the Chicago Great Western Railway. Includes schedules, rates, and general information, as well as a large map illustrating the Route through Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and Kansas, with a green maple leaf printed over the area of service. The map shows.....
An impressive brochure and itinerary for Southern Railway System tour of the Battle of Chickamauga battlefield with five routes noted through Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia to Chattanooga. Includes detailed accounts of various aspects of the battle (corresponding to segments of the tour); nine monuments are pictured; also entrances to the.....
A scarce view book of copper-mining boomtowns Clifton and Morenci, with images of smelters, offices, railways, and hillside and roadside residences of the Shannon, Arizona, and Detroit copper companies; also public buildings such as the Morenci Club, Morenci Hotel, South Clifton High School, and Detroit Copper Mining Store. Estimated.....
Illustrated brochure for the Cody Road into Yellowstone via the Burlington Route of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy lines. “Have you ever heard of the Cody Road into Yellowstone Park?” This brochure is happy to educate. Text and photographs “Along the Road” offer something of a guided tour of.....
Published on the occasion of the American Railway Master Mechanics Association’s Third Annual Convention, this beautifully produced souvenir volume contains the various announcements, programs, invitations, menus, etc. printed for distribution to members. All were printed by Philadelphia lithographer Jacob Haehnlen, whose imprint appears at the bottom of each, and the.....
A Confederate almanac by noted southern printer Sigmund Goetzel, evidently acquired during the Civil War by Union soldier James Eldridge. Containing the astronomical matter typical of almanacs, this War-time publication includes a table of the moon’s phases for the cities of Richmond, Raleigh, Charleston and Mobile with a middle column.....
A rare and visually striking broadside reproducing the joint resolution passed by the legislature of the state of California to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, including the facsimile signatures of those who voted both for and against it. The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was the first of the.....
An extensive and richly illustrated promotional account of Cripple Creek and Colorado Springs, with much on mining operations, and featuring several maps. A large folding map at the front shows the gold fields; another map shows the wagon road and railroad ties of the District, and another the Economic Geology.....
A lovely Mardi Gras poster for the Phunny Phorty Phellows and its numerous extravagant and intricate floats, whose theme for 1896 was “Popular Phads and Phancies.” The Phunny Phorty Phellows krewe first came onto the Mardi Gras scene in 1878. Known for their satirical costumes reflecting contemporary issues, the.....
This attractive folding brochure features evocative illustrations of the Historic Deadwood Days of ‘76 festival, including “Sioux Indian Battles and War Dances Every Day,” a covered wagon train, Paris Williams,”the most ensational Woman Rodeo Performer in America.” One image shows President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge taken into the Sioux Tribe.....
First edition of this rare first Confederate Kentucky imprint and the earliest published record of the so-called Russellville Convention. At the beginning of the Civil War Lincoln is reputed to have said, "I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky." The state of Lincoln's.....
A large and handsome carriage-road map representing the extensive network of roads in the city of Hartford, Connecticut and the surrounding area, published during the peak of the carriage era. This highly detailed map shows cities, towns, roads, mills, factories, dwellings and their owner’s names, railroads, rivers, lakes, etc......