Photograph of Ruth Hale, Possibly at the Pendleton Round-Up, C. 1922-1923
by [Women’s History] Hale, Ruth
Oregon, 1923. Silver gelatin photograph mounted to cardstock measuring 6 ¼ by 4 ⅞ inches. Press marks verso. Some wear, very good overall. Very Good. An image of the women’s rights activist and author Ruth Hale, likely taken at one of her well-publicized trips to the Pendleton Round-Up in Oregon in 1922 or 1923. Hale is shown on... Read More
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Collection of a Women’s Army Corps Technician Concerning VE Day, Reassignment to the Pacific Theater, and Processions for Roosevelt and Eisenhower, with Lyrical Descriptions of Paris on V-E Day
by [Women's History - World War II – Women’s Army Corps – VE Day – Pacific Theater] Bremer, Mary J.; Miller, June; Melotte, John
Paris, France; and Washington, D.C., 1945. Six 8 x 10 inch and smaller typed pages; one 4 x 5 inch card with two tickets; one twenty-six page 4 x 5.5 inch pamphlet; one six page 6 x 8.5 inch pamphlet; six 2.5 x 3.5 photographs and two 3 x 4.5 inch photographs. Of the printed matter, most is affixed... Read More
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![Respectfully Dedicated to All Who Want The Fashions. [Lithographic Advertisement for Women’s Hats Accompanying Sheet Music for J.B. Westendorf’s Come One, Come All, or, A Plea from your Milliner.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/891/244/1299244891.0.m.jpg)
Respectfully Dedicated to All Who Want The Fashions. [Lithographic Advertisement for Women’s Hats Accompanying Sheet Music for J.B. Westendorf’s Come One, Come All, or, A Plea from your Milliner.]
by [Women] [Advertising] [Fashion] [Lithography] Taylor, Thomas & Co.; Westendorf, J.B.
Chicago: J.B. Westendorf, 1877. Folio, 10 ½ x 14 inches, 6 pp. Very Good.
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A Company Presentation Album with 101 Photographs of Early American Steel Hoists in their Installed Locations. V.p., circa 1900
by [Industrial Photography] Reading Crane and Hoist Works
Reading, 1900. Oblong 8vo, black cloth covered boards. With 101 prints, 70 on silver and 31 on printing out paper. Each picture captioned. Near Fine. The Reading Crane and Hoist Company, later Roeper Hoist and Crane Works, installed cranes throughout the Northeast, many of which are pictured here. Many pictures show designs patented in the late 1890s, making... Read More
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![Looking Back. [A World War II Memoir by Annemarie Bliwernitz]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/826/068/1702068826.0.m.jpg)
Looking Back. [A World War II Memoir by Annemarie Bliwernitz]
by [World War II – Germany – Nazism] Bliwernitz, Annemarie
St. Petersburg, Florida: unpublished, 1974. Ninety-four typed and photocopied pages measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches in a soft binding. Binding with wear; pages generally excellent to Near Fine. Overall excellent to Near Fine.. Annemarie Bliwernitz (1905–2005), née Entz, was born in Notzendorf, East Prussia. In 1952, after surviving both World Wars, she and her husband Bruno (1900–1992)... Read More
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Three Illustrations by Cartoonist Perring Smith of the 1689th Engineering Combat Battalion for Thanksgiving 1945
by [World War II – Occupied Japan – Art] Smith, Cpl. Perring F.
Japan, 1945. 8 x 10 ½ inch double-sided mimeographed sheet with damage to margins and tape at corners; very good plus. With one 3 ¾ x 3 ¼ inch photograph of an illustration; Fine. Overall excellent.. Three illustrations—two of which are for a Thanksgiving menu—by cartoonist Perring Smith of the 1689th Engineering Combat Battalion, stationed in occupied Japan.... Read More
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Two Press Photographs Relating to the 15th Infantry
by [World War One][15th Infantry, Known as the “Harlem Hellfighters”]International Film Service / Underwood and Underwood, Photographers
New York: Underwood and Underwood, 1919. First Edition. Gelatin silver prints, 7 ¾ x 5 ½ inches each on 11 ½ x 7 inch black paper mounts, captioned with affixed text. Very Good. Two WWI-era press photographs related to the Negro 15th Infantry Division of the New York National Guard (a.k.a. the 369th US Infantry Regiment) and their... Read More
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Letters Home from an American Professor Working in the Ottoman Empire in the Aftermath of World War I.
by [World War I – Ottoman Empire – Turkish War of Independence] “H.C.”
Constantinople, New York City, and others, 1922. Four letters totaling seven pages. Folded, else fine.. A small collection of letters from “H.C.”, who seems to have been an American university professor in Constantinople, to his “Darling Clementine” back home. H.C. may have taught at Robert College, a Christian college founded in 1863, now a prestigious private highschool. ... Read More
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Burt C. Buffum’s Photograph of Guy Holt Riding “Steamboat,” September 1903
by [Wyoming – Rodeo] Buffum, Burt C.
Laramie, Wyoming, 1903. Single photograph measuring 6 ½ x 8 ½ inches. Manuscript caption verso. Wrinkling, slight damage; left corners missing. Very good plus.. A photograph, taken by University of Wyoming professor Burt C. Buffum, of rodeo cowboy Guy Holt riding “Steamboat.” The caption reads: “Guy Holt Worlds Champion bronco buster riding ‘Steamboat’ (said to be the hardest... Read More
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Two Letters from Soldiers Stationed at Camp Carling, Wyoming Territory, Inviting A Local Socialite Out for a Date
by [Wyoming Territory – Westward Expansion] Oakley, W.L.; “Mr. Moore”
Camp Carling, Wyoming Territory, 1875. Two letters totalling three 5 x 8 inch pages, with envelopes. Folded with a few very small tears at folds; fine.. Two letters, written from Camp Carling in June of 1874 and February of 1875, from “Mr. Moore” and W. L. “Jack” Oakley, likely soldiers stationed at the camp. Oakley asks “Miss Annie”... Read More
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Letters to a Dancer from Friends Concerning Life as Artistic Young People in Post-War California
by [Youth Culture – 1950s – Dance] Lawrence, David
California, 1940. Approximately 248 total pages: 149 8.5 x 11 inches and smaller (three typed) and ninety-nine 5 x 8 inches and smaller. Most undated; those with dates ranging from 1944 to 1958. Ninety-two pages from Nancy Gotthart and eighty-six pages from Helen Gotthart; the remaining from various friends either unsigned or with first name only. Many letters missing... Read More
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