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...
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....
An extensive timetable for “America’s Most Popular Railroad,” connecting Chicago to St. Louis and Kansas City, with extended connections to San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle. A full sheet railway map appears on the verso, depicting the entire United States, Southern Canada and northern Mexico. The Chicago & Alton line...
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...
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...
A comprehensive, attractively illustrated look at the transportation provided by the Boston and Bangor, [Maine] Steamship Co. in 1882. Steamers traveled daily to Bangor via Rockland, Camden, Belfast, Searsport, Bucksport and Winterport, with a rail connection to Moosehead Lake, and steamer connections to Mount Desert, Bar Harbor, and beyond. The...
A handsome summer-of-1880 schedule for travel via rail and steamship from Boston to Mt Desert Island, Maine and beyond. For $10.00, one could travel in the “most comfortable and the quickest” manner by rail to Portland and thence by steamer to Bar Harbor, or entirely aboard a steamer for $8.00...
An appealing promotional brochure for a visit to a Maine north woods paradise during the age of the grand hotel. “It almost seems as though nature had fashioned her thousands of other beauty spots throughout the world and made Kineo the climax of all of them.” (Kineo). Once the largest...
One of two handkerchiefs celebrating the character of George Washington that were printed simultaneously at the Germantown Print Works in the first decade of the 19th century. The text consists of what is likely the earliest appearance in verse form of Parson Weems’ famous tale of Washington and the...
An attractive promotional brochure extolling the virtues of Kineo, Maine, celebrating the seventieth season and the rebuilding of the the Mount Kineo House during the age of the grand hotel. “Kineo and Moosehead have forever been an inspiration to men of letters, whose stirring descriptions have heralded the magnificence...
An railway brochure and map issued in the midst of the Great Dakota Boom. A folding brochure with 8 panels of promotional text and 5 panels of railroad time tables advertising not only its “Low Rates to Settlers and Land Hunters” but also that it “Runs More Through Trains from...
A handsomely illustrated, comprehensive guide to the operations of the Northern Pacific Railroad, including information about the Railroad’s land for sale as well as schedules, excursion rates and promotion for the Pullman sleeper car experience. The country the N.P.R.R. traverses is described in terms of its resources: agricultural, grazing industry...
A striking and extensively detailed map of Yellowstone National Park, in a Northern Pacific Railway brochure promoting travel to both Yellowstone and Alaska. This fine map depicts the park and its surrounding areas, with relief represented pictorially. At the top of the map, the Northern Pacific R.R. runs parallel to...
An official printing of an 1845 treaty, concluded and ratified under President James K. Polk, relating to the Creek lands in Florida, rectifying a treaty of 1833 which grouped the Creeks and Seminoles together and misled the Creeks with regard to the lands they would be given. The result was...
A splendid copy of a rare handkerchief printing of the Declaration of Independence. The text of the Declaration is followed by the names of the signers, the text of John Adams’ letter of 5 July 1776 celebrating the Declaration; the dates of the treaty of Peace between Great Britain...
The first separate printing and first separate facsimile of Lincoln’s famed autobiographical sketch, originally composed in response to a request from his friend Jesse Fell, printed with a brief account by Fell of the circumstances under which it was written and extracts from a few of Lincoln’s speeches. Lincoln...
![Burning Daylight Part I How He Made Eleven Million Dollars [with] Burning Daylight [Part II] His Adventures in San Francisco. Jack London, author, actor and producer Hobart Bosworth.](/pictures/thumb/3786_1.jpg?v=1512248528)
An unrecorded pair of broadsides advertising an early silent film adaptation of Jack London’s novel Burning Daylight, produced by and starring film industry pioneer Hobart Bosworth. Burning Daylight tells the story of one Elam Harnish, an enormously energetic and successful Klondike Gold Rush miner, better known as “Burning Daylight,”...