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An extremely interesting archive of 35 millimeter, 2 1/2" x 2 1/2", 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" , & glass plate photographic black and white negative images taken in Germany and a few other locales in Europe in the period just after the Second World War; filmed on Perutz and Agfa Isopan film, other films; some items can be dated from internal evidence: 1949, 1950s; The collection extremely rich in photographs of all aspects of the industrial arts, from the creation of models of equipment, machinery at fairs and on sites, demonstrations and personnel; with also images of countryside scenery and portraiture, sporting events: gymnastics, cycling with racing photographs & stadium shots, diving, track, motorcycle race (many) including men's and women's events; livestock, probably at a fair or competition; construction sites; automotive and other factories with personnel, equipment, signage; heavy construction, earthmoving equipment cranes, caterpillar tractors and others; burning buildings; many nautical views of harbors, sailboats, transport shipping, including an early wooden hydroplane; much on bridges, architecture and views of important modernist architecture as well as some classic forms, probably all that was left from the War; folk dancing, nightime shots, stage sets & designs; folk and decorative arts, including closeups; transportation including airports and airplanes; many hundreds of images concerning industrial fairs and technology, including medical, automotive; travel: much interior German travel and also Italy-Rome, with shops, architecture, advertising signage, portraiture, Pellizzari electronics signage, market scenes, sidewalk artists at their work; Deutsche Industrie Messe Hannover 1951 with photographs of the technical equipment displays at that fair; German Industries fair 1952; Neubau Einer Festhalle fur Film Theater und Konzert; Rotaprint booth; Dorfgemeinschafts-haus displays; housewares, stoves, food products; jewelry, Wolfgang Assman storefront, graveyards; office and studio equipment; statues and sculpture, including many of livestock and other animals and insects, plants and other natural history which depict interior organs and come apart and which were apparently used as study and educational devices; a trial or exposition, with uniformed attendees and gallery; signage notifying of Russian Zone, British Zone, military personnel, the "Wall"; construction, cookery, laboratory, other occupational activities; photographs of documents, manuscript and printed including musical notation (Bach); much more in this vast collection; we do not have an identified photographer and perhaps with examination and study this may be determined. Seemingly these photographs were done professionally, from the sheer numbers of them and also because many will have crop marks indicated on the glassine envelopes, which indicates perhaps use in periodicals and journals of the time. We have seen at least several negatives in the group which show a couple of men in a booth in an industrial fair which display books and magazines relating to the items photographed here-we speculate that these may be the result of the photographers' work; some of the film on six-shot strips, others single negatives all in original glassine envelopes; two groups on strips are contained in Leitz albums, with the typewritten label: "Leica-Negative...", which we assume that the contained images were taken with that camera, approximately 4000 negs in the two albums; About 7000 negatives in the 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" format contained in G.O. Belhoff 'sleeve'-drawers which slip into outer cases (one group of these are also in a plain cardstock box); in this size there are an additional 1000 or so negatives that are in a drawer and sequestered into bundles with rubber bands, seemingly divided into categories or types of image by a previous owner; the larger-sized negatives, are also divided this way or in bags, about 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" size number about 500 also in a drawer-box; there are approximately 300 glass plates which have been divided into bundles of roughly 25 each also contained in drawers in the same boxed system; glass plates are standard at 3 1/2" x 4 1/2", also same subjects as above; there is an 'odd' and an enigmatic group of only a few images in a small negative tray: two of which state Dec. 10 1940 Max showing a man in a very well-equipped chemistry or physics laboratory. The envelopes regard a couple of images, seemingly not present, dated 1939 in Germany and in the United States, along with a couple of printed photographs of what appear to be family members; and a group of about 13 smaller format 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" glass plates photographs of deformed people, bones, and some which appear to be 'pictures of pictures'-couple of portraits and a some others; we have made prints of several of the negatives and they reproduce very well, with great and professional detail: Documenting via powerful imagery the fabric of the society and the industrial and cultural rebuilding of Germany after the war, done in a prolific and graphic manner.
Circa 1950s Archive Collection of Approximately Thirteen Thousand Photographic Negatives: Graphically Recording German Industrial Design & Architecture, Travel & Sporting Events, Cultural Activities & Business Development.
(Photography)
Price: $15,000.00
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Collection of 30 silver-print original photographs of female nudes, seemingly of the same model in various poses and states of undress, many with props - bow & arrows, hand-mirrors, flowers, filmy garments…; each with the Aurora Studio imprint & negative number with the date of 1912 or (mostly) 1913 in the plate; each also with their stamp on back, stating "For Artists Use Permission is given to copy this photo in any medium except photography for use in illustration, designs, mural decorations, etc. The Aurora Studios Boston, Mass." the images are not mounted and are printed on good quality heavy photographic paper stock; average size 5" x 8" with some having a more slender format, according to the pose in the image; found loose within a small portfolio with plain polished paper-covered boards, cloth spine, original black cloth ribbon ties; some wear and fading to the portfolio, previous owner pencil name on endpaper; all images clear, strong with good light and contrast, very professional and in very good condition; a very good group of this genre, especially interesting as being of one model and within a specific and short time period; documenting the history of photography in erotic art, here presented as 'artistic' studio aids.
1913 Collection of 30 Original Cabinet-Size Photographs from The Aurora Studios, Boston Massachusetts
(Aurora Studios)
Boston, Massachusetts: The Aurora Studios, 1913.
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Complete manuscript children's storybook "Tommy the Tuna" with color final renditions of illustrated pages, and the black and white tissue mockups tipped-in opposite typed text pages, all accomplished on approximately 50 pages of 18" x 14" RichArt Studio sketch book, colors bright and beautifully done, nice original work; Ephemera & art, many with a childhood, juvenile and educational theme: very attractive air-brush effect art-deco style color Spain/flamenco motif artwork; original fishing-occupational artwork, some color, original captioned cartoon comic doctor/patient bw art from the Book Review; original pen & ink comic airline quip signed in Wall Street Journal mailer envelope; pages of (some) signed and numbered 'clip-art' including baseball figures, clowns, circus performers, cats, 'verb detective' in the guise of Sherlock Holmes and a ringmaster at a circus taming a 'verb' lion; George Washington & other patriotic & comic figures, examples of published work in The Reporter (original is also present in this group), The New York Times Book Review (original present-in this case a large-format comic with the motif of moviegoers in a long line viewing "From Here to Eternity"), permission to reprint a particular cartoon on Scott, Foresman and Company letterhead (with cartoon example); and a few other pieces of original cartoon and illustrative art, these contained in their original artists' 14 1/2" x 13" binder, sleeved; material dates from the 1950s; some wear and rubbing to the folder and binder covers; materials overall very good condition and a nice archive of creative work by this good commercial artist.
Collection of Original artwork and Examples of Published material and Other Ephemera and including a Complete Children's Book in Folio By Stern
(Jesse Stern)
Price: $1,500.00
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A unique album containing over 375 phootographs concerning these US construction companies and portraying their work on the steel skyscraper C.F. Carter Building, Houston Texas (1910), the Bates Mill in Lewiston Maine, the Municipal Building in Mechanicsville, New York, buildings built for the N.Y. Westchester & Boston R.R. and more, depicting construction from start to finish, workers, crews, designers, engineers, street scenes and employees (& family members) on various projects, illustrating the techniques of the heavy building trades in use in America in the early part of the 20th century: Placing last column, the slab steel, material bins, view of the Main Street Houston, steel frame of building, Bristol Hotel in background, full views of the Carter during construction, from various angles, Mrs. Lane, first woman atop the Carter Bldg 1910 (sitting on steel beams) and a shot of Charlie Lane raising the flagpole on the building, Excavation site, showing 'the hole' & the site office of the Fred A. Jones Building Company, from a couple of angles, all Carter Bldg project 1910; Duque (High Class) Garage project New York City 1911, site photographs; photographs of the Car Repair Shops N.Y. Westchester & Boston R.R. 1912; construction of the Mechanicville N.Y. High School 1914, roof construction and auditorium at Mechanicville, jail walls, site photos, more; on the new mill building, site shots, taken from large tower, more, machinery, crews, sheet piling, erecting supports for temporary lights along canal, a couple of amateur 'panoramas' of this site, forms for bent beams of sawtooth roof, closeups of systems, old power house, spillway & tailrace, pouring footings and grading, erecting floor forms, saw mill, towers-derrick and guys 165', first floor forms, sawtooth roof construction, new Bates bridge, pouring retaining walls, picture taken at 11 p.m. during pouring of concrete in tailrace, city crushing plant at Lewiston, rented and operated by Industrial Eng. Co. during construction of the Mill, with gang operating plant & other photos, hydraulic plant small generator, enclosed forebay, water gates, many and varied aspects of the Bates Mill Lewiston Maine project; also including a good miscellany of other imagery, concerning the U.S. military (then preparing for entry into the first World War), transportation, yachting & other leisure activities: "Woman aviator flying in Long Island" (1); wreck of Simplex car after strking elevator column and killing chauffeur; Showing result of fire up structural steel Bangor Post Office and views of post office after famous Bangor fire; Ely, Porter and J.J.M. in first car used on N.Y. W & B. R.R. Co. 1912 (2- of interior of car); Galveston, Texas street view, Galveston sea wall, Buffalo Bayou Texas; American Cigar Factory Greensboro, NC; Kennebec River Bangor & several others of the town, the R.R. station in Augusta, both in Maine U.S. Submarine at 130th St. and North River 1915, 12" guns on U.S.S. Tonopah Submarines in background N.Y.C. 1915 Hatchway for entering submarine, conning tower and bridge, periscopes & conning tower on subs; W.P.F. in Camp - Arizona, Cooper Arizona; Carpenter and street gant Milllbury Mass High School; camp photos of U.S. soldiers, Co. "C" going into action, evidently war games-training, Armored Car moving into action , horse-drawn Co. "C" ammunition wagon, company on skirmish line, Capt. Engel at War games, 3rd Company Seventh Regiment, the company marching through NYC, two African American soldiers, not in uniform and with bayonet-equipped rifles, all circa 1915; small panorama view of a football game (Columbia?); several snapshots of a automobile travel journey "From Kuck's Cafe, N.Y. to Pittsfield, Mass in Fred Kafka's Stutz"; a couple of a "Trip to U.S.S. Drayton in Collector of Ports Yacht "Neutrality" for purpose of inspecting telephone"; nice group shot of the "Pilsner Athletic Club on porch of N.Y. Fishing Club Staten Island"; good photograph of two men sitting in a "Oakland" automobile; Jay Collins and Elizabeth Conway Old Orchard Me. 1913; Dr. Fluhrer and J.J.M. at Mountaindale, NY 1914; Rebecca Cushing Houston Texas and several others of the Cushing family girls, children; L.P. Fluhrer Mining in Arizona 1909; San Jacinto Bayou Texas, the battle ground in San Jacinto & several shots from aboard the S.S. San Jacinto steamer; Worlds Tower Building from office of L.P. Fluhrer Co. 1914; Pullman Memorial Church Albion NY; most photographs average 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" size, some smaller and some larger; generally, condition good, some fading to imagery, most photos fairly clear and with good composition and content; all in old album, tipped on to pages; some leaves detached, edges of pages chipped; overall, very good condition and a very interesting record of this company's activities as well as a very thorough historic, pictorial documentation of the time.
Photographic Record of the Construction Projects of the Industrial Engineering Co. - United Fireproofing Co. Associated with L.P. Fluhrer Co. Circa 1910 with Site Photos, Crew and Engineering Details, Before and After Imagery and American Military Forces
(Industrial Engineering Co.- United Fireproofing Co.)
United States: 1910.
Price: $1,200.00
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Two letters; one typed and signed and the other entirely hand-written; the first on James Montgomery Flagg 340 West 57th Street New York City letterhead and typed, signed in red crayon "Monty", a very amusing and irreverent letter, obviously to a close friend, dated "Indegardampendence Day 1944" (1944 artistically spaced beneath; the addressee 'Paul' from internal evidence was apparently an executive at CBS radio and for whom Flagg worked on occasion), stating in part: "Dear Paul - One of my most favorite characters of fiction and Lousey but Beloved Bastard of Modern Times; Snir; There is a despicable weakness in my otherwise robust ego that lets me write to you on my Model T Corona. I would think my Pride would stop me knowing as I do that you not only will ignore it but in all likelihood wont even read my letter: Maybe you cant read! So you went into advertising. What is this magnetism you use on me? It cant be entirely the hope that I can wangle jobs out of you; And yet what HAVE you got but money? You certainly are not pretty!...(a friend gave Flagg a book on Velasquez)...I pored over it and decided there wasn't such a chasm between Velasquez and me as you would hastily imagine. Except he couldn't illustrated Galsworthy-nor think up Nervy Nat while putting out a pair of clean shorts for Philip IV. You have noticed that Velasquez is NOT listed in Who's Who!..." and more, comparing his talent and lambasting that of Franz Hals, Howard Chandler Christy and Hamilton Fisher; evidently, Flagg was asking about painting a portrait and ends with "...For the love of Mary and Michael Joseph answer this for-free proposal! Don't be a mucous-minded small-town Equine-Brioche!"; the second letter, undated and seemingly from the same period of time and also addressed to "Paul", written in black ink on two sides of plain paper and referring to additional portrait work, Flagg is complaining about bothersome staff and getting paid for his efforts; He jibes Paul with "...Did you get a copy of Owen Wister's "Ancient Grudge"? I told you I'd like to read it on the air- I doubt if you heard me as you were sitting in a dark corner making fond caricatures of me at the time!..." Flagg goes on to speak of other sitters he has had or not been able convince for a portrait painting sitting, mentioning a Mrs. Berwith, Sgnr. Martinelli (most probably Giovanni Martinelli, Italian opera singer) at the Lotos Club and comparing refusals because of 'busyness" to the fact that FDR found the time to have his portrait done; with suitable funny ranting about calling Martinelli a "...shirt with a voice in it!..."; Flagg calls Mrs. Berwith "...she is nothing but a girdle with an angel in it..."; Flagg signs in ink "Monty" with the admonishment below, "Now pay attention to this letter!" and with a wonderful self-portrait caricature in pencil, colored in red crayon and with finger pointing at the sentiment above; letters are perhaps addressed to Paul Kesten, who was Vice President of the fledgling CBS Radio network at this time, during the WWII years; James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960) American illustrator, cartoonist, perhaps most famously remembered for his fabulous poster art especially of the patriotic variety during the U.S. involvement in wars; typed letter one-sided; script letter is two sided; some edge, tips wear and old lines; some age-darkening; very good condition and wonderful content revealing the humor and personality of this famous American illustrative artist.
1944 Two letters signed by artist James Montgomery Flagg, with an original caricature self-portrait of the Artist
(James Montgomery Flagg)
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A handwritten note, on "The Barracks Duncan Falls, Ohio" letterhead and dated Sep 9th 1909; evidently the addressee had asked Christy about a famous verse he'd penned; "Dear Mrs...Your letter has just reached me having been forwarded from New York. Here is the (?) "Here to me girl-whose face would stop a clock! - It is so very fair-that even thine (?) must Linger There-..."; and signed "Very Truly Yours Howard Chandler Christy"; about 4 ¾" x 7 ¾" size, written on one side of the paper; Howard Chandler Christy (1870-1952) prominent American illustrator and artist, famous for the "Christy Girl" and his work depicting women and society of the time; some age-toning, faint old fold-lines, old mounting residue on back; in very good condition.
1909 Signed handwritten note by Howard Chandler Christy
(Howard Chandler Christy)
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A handwritten note, interestingly written from Carnegie Hall and dated May 2 1912 and with a artists' palette-style "Dana" in the signature; evidently the addressee had asked Gibson about using an image he'd drawn; to a Mr. Abbott, and describing the process for using the art, fees & copyright notice; very businesslike and polite; a good indication that Gibson knew his rights and responsibilities and had the ability to take care of his own; about 7 1/2 " x 10" size, written on one side of the paper; Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944) prominent American illustrator and artist, famous for his "Gibson Girls" and his work depicting women and society of the time; some age-toning, faint old fold-lines; in very good condition.
1912 Signed handwritten note by Noted American Graphic Artist Charles Dana Gibson
(Charles Dana Gibson)
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Circa 1959 from the Tony Award-winning (5) Broadway show which ran for 719 performances; the show about the early life of Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan; with this stellar cast, signed in full by Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, James Congdon, Patricia Neal; 6 1/2 " x 9" approx., printed two sides; all four autographs are on the front, in blue ink; some edge, tips wear, darkening, a little spottiness, a little splitting old fold-lines with no loss; in good condition and great autograph theater history ephemeral item.
Playbill for The Playhouse Theatre Fred Coe Presents The Miracle Worker Signed By Star Performers Anne Bancroft, Patrcia Neal, James Congdon & Patty Duke
(The Miracle Worker)
1959.
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1973 - 1979 Collection of Limited Edition Printings of Fine Letterpress Items from The Biscuit City Press of Kingston, Rhode Island (with) a Group of Their Business Correspondence
(Biscuit City Press)
Kingston, Rhode Island: Biscuit City Press, 1973.
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With over 225 individual items, including ship discharge papers, printed and manuscript ephemera relating to voyages made, the formation of the National Maritime union and CIO with related strike materials especially from the 1935-1937 time period, business and personal correspondence, a few photographs and other paper. The ships and working career of this man and the track of the development of the National Maritime Union & its fortunes in peace and war are here as evidence of these stories: there are many ship discharge papers, which offer valuable information, albeit in very abbreviated form: Seaman's name, signature of shipmaster & the seaman, as well as the shipping commissioner, ships name, number, net tons, brief description of voyage (as in "Foreign" or "North Atlantic"), birthplace of seaman, character, ability, seamanship, capacity (serving as, in this case "A.B." - Able Seaman), date of entry, date of discharge; by examining the discharge papers over the 17-year span of the career of this seaman, Raymond McIlwaine (sometimes written McIlvaine here) we trace his career and movements via the American mercantile shipping of the time: the oft-served S.S. President Harding of the United States Lines traveled the North Atlantic - here also is a 1934 recommendatory typed note signed on U.S. Lines letterhead from R.C. Gregory Clerk in Charge of the U.S. Sea Post Office No. 4 regarding this seaman's work in the onboard post; in 1935 there was work aboard the S.S. Manhattan and the S.S. Columbia and a Certificate of Discharge from the Marine Hospital on Staten Island after a 10-day hospital stay; 1936 service on the S.S. Standard of Standard Oil of New Jersey, the E.G. Seubert, the oil tanker S.S. Wm. Rockefeller (torpedoed & sunk in 1942), the Pan America (traveling the New York-East Coast of South America-Trinidad run) and also in 1936 comes evidence of involvement with union politics - McIlwaine is registered as Lookout aboard the S.S. California of the Panama Pacific Line at the time when that ship became the focus of the union activities of Joseph Edwin Curran, (1906-1981) American labor leader and also aboard as an able seaman who - "...while his ship, the California, was docked in San Pedro, California, …organized a sit-down strike to press (union) demands. The strikers went back to work after Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins promised they would get a fair hearing in New York, but as soon as they landed all sixty-four men were fired and blacklisted. In the wave of strikes that followed, East Coast sailors made few gains in part because they were systematically undermined by their union leaders...Curran's activism in the strike, which crystallized years of dissatisfaction with bad conditions and ISU's corrupt leadership, made him a hero with ordinary seamen. Organizing his fellow insurgents as the Rank-and-File Committee, Curran initiated a series of job actions so disruptive that they convinced employers the ISU could no longer control its members. In May 1937 one major shipping line agreed to recruit its sailors from Curran's hiring hall. Immediately Curran announced the formation of the National Maritime Union (NMU)...A contemporary described the six-foot two-inch Curran as having "a head like a block of granite, a loud, angry voice, and the attitude of someone struggling against an impulse towards mayhem"…These qualities served him well, reinforcing his standing as a militant voice for the ordinary sailor..." (Sandra Opdycke in the ANB) - three days of log entry from this period are here, typed, signed by the Ship master and chief officers, for McIlwaine with the entry: "For refusing to turn to, and to let-go the lines, in order that the ship might proceed to sea; also refusing routine ship's work" - for each one of these infractions his is fined 2 days pay - he was physically involved in the seminal, occasionally violent formation of this powerful American union in its first moments, with two well-worn Strike Picket Cards for McIlwaine, signed by Joseph Curran, one with a note by Curran on back - card No. 48, International Seamen's Union Provisional Strike Committee dated 3/19/36 and the other later, Dec. 3 1936 - here also are the discharge papers for the S.S. California and a crew station card with duties which indicaes that McIlwaine was one of the 64 men blacklisted and idled by the heavy-handed treatment of government and private industry against the men; in 1939 McIlwaine returned to duty aboard the S.S. President Harding, with several voyages; in 1939 also are an airmail letter from Ireland, U.S. unemployment card, Tanker Strike Clearance cards, Grace Line identification card and in 1939 and in other years, there are several pencil-written note sheets with items important to this seaman- union book and strike book numbers, identification numbers and more - these private papers also give a chronology of organizations joined and dates, wages, benefits and other work-related details; in 1940 there is service aboard the S.S. Tachira (sunk by U-boat with loss of 5 hands in 1942), service on S.S. Nightingale, the steamship Santa Rosa; 1941: S.S. Pastores, the S.S. America and again on the Santa Rosa; 1942 service on the S.S. Uruguay, "Now Bound on Voyage to - Ports in any part of the world"; 1943-1944 service on the S.S. Brazil (one of FDR's 'Good Neighbor Ships' in the S. American trade run by Moore-McCormack line - at this time the ship was probably being used to transport troops to the North African theater of war); in 1945 there is a typed letter signed on Carolina Line shipping company letterhead regarding sending clothes to McIlwaine's sister and receipts from the United Fruit Company Champ Clark, with related War Shipping Administration documents and receipts; 1946-47 finishes the group, with a few Treasury Dept. receipts and notes and some materials regarding payments from Wright Aeronautical for a deceased family member, along with service on the S.S. Grenville M. Dodge, S.S. George Durant, S.S. Amasa Delano - all 'Liberty' cargo ships; miscellaneous materials include: cancelled membership book of McIlwaine, with various stamps at front -Marine Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy NMU, Tanker Strike support sticker, Algic Crew Defense Fund sticker (crew arrested for mutiny, not allowing scabs to unload ship at dock in Uruguay) and other stickers and stamps and a running history of his union 'Statement of Account' until 1940; a group of crew passes, business(?) cards of men and women in the U.S. and other countries; a WPA N.Y.C. employee i.d.; a 5" x 7" negative of McIlwaine in sailor dress uniform, a few snapshots of possibly related women, a Membership Employment Card of the Bowery Branch YMCA; medical social service papers; a clearance card for the Joint Maritime Strike Council (New York) noting 51 days on strike (w/ facsimile sig. of Curran and others); an interesting "Ficha Individual" for McIlwaine, working the Munson Steamship Lines Pan America, printed text in Spanish, with his photo, fingerprints, and on back over 2 dozen entry stamps for Argentina for various dates in the 1930s; a small pin-back button "I.S.U. Striking Member"; other strike and union money assessment papers; a 1937 typed letter of recommendation signed on Pharma Chemical Corporation letterhead indicates that McIlwaine sought land work as well, perhaps between available voyages or possibly, while on strike from the Merchant Marine; our research has not indicated a date of death for McIlwaine and date of birth is variously reported here on documents as 1904 or 1905, with residence in New Jersey - possibly using the address of a married sister from internal evidence; one particularly poignant folded pencil-list of ports of call visited is folded carefully around a small coiled lock of hair; Condition: overall, condition of the materials is good; some of the cards and papers with old fold lines, soiling and much wear, others in very good condition; an interesting glimpse into the life of a union-activist working seaman over a nearly 2-decade span. NOTE: For convenience, these papers have been ordered by year and with a miscellaneous file for the undated items.
1930 - 1947 Manuscript and Printed Ephemera: The Career of a Seaman in the U.S. Merchant Marine, Including Union and Strike Material signed by Joseph Curran & the Formation of the National Maritime Union and other Material
(U.S. Merchant Marine)
New York - London: Not Published, 1930.
Price: $750.00
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102 pages; color map of the coffee-growing areas of the world laid-in "A Chart of the Globe Showing the Several Places Where Coffee is or may be Produced and Where it is Also Used Together with the Telegraph Lines in operation or contemplated for completing the Circuit of the Globe" approx. 16" x 25" ; with a tissue-guarded chromolithographed frontispiece of a coffee plant in bloom, other black and white illustrations in the text; laid-in is receipt with vignetted billhead illustrations of two styles of coffee pots, to Jos. Heinrichs, general manager for the Bi-Metal and French Steam Coffee Pot Co. 1908; bound in the original light brown beveled-edge cloth covered boards, gilt and black decorated; binding with some edge, tips wear and soiling, spine ends chipped; map loosely laid-in, with a couple of closed tears along folds, no loss; contents in very good condition and good coffee and telegraph industry history of the latter third of the 19th century.
Coffee: Its History, Cultivation, and Uses.
Hewitt, Robert Jr.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1872.
Price: $650.00
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Collection includes 50 individual items, with some of these running to multiple pages; 1798 - 2 documents; 1800-1810 being 5 pieces; 1811-1820 having 13 items; 1821-1830 with 19 cases; 1838 with 1 and 1843 with 1 case; the Justices involved include Abraham Ditmars, William Mott, Oliver Denton, Richard Bedell, Cary Dunn Jr., William Furman, Amory Remson, James Hendrickson, Luke Covert and others; areas mentioned include Oyster Bay, Hempstead, North Hempstead, Jamaica, all within the old Queens County jurisdiction; for offenses including chicken- stealing, assault and battery on a woman, tenancy eviction, insolvency and debtors arrangements, tavern licensing, juror lists, various pleas and statements, dockets on cases; document sizes and paper quality varies, most written in very legible hands on good quality paper, several with the original wax seals still extant; about 1/2 dozen of the documents are partially printed and have the blindstamp of the State of NY and completed by hand; some wear, splitting along old fold lines; in generally good to very good condition and an interesting group of law and crime related documents from Long Island in the earliest part of the 19th century, with a variety of legal import.
1798 - 1843 Collection of Legal Documents Queens County Long Island New York State, Court of Common Pleas, Supreme Court and Special Sessions
(Manuscript Americana - Law)
New York: Not Published, 1798.
Price: $650.00
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John Steinbeck Autograph on a Copy of The Suffolk County Whaling Museum of Sag Harbor, Long Island, N.Y.
(John Steinbeck)
Sag Harbor, New York:
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A Collection of C. 150 pieces of Busines & Financial Correspondence and records From Sag Harbor Businessman George Tindall 1865 -1901
(Sag Harbor)
Sag Harbor, New York:
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Three ledgers, with laid-in singles and groups of related invoices and notes for this Union, Ohio building contractor; each ledger with at least 100 pages of manuscript written material, listing names of clients, payment history, exactly enumerated lists of work ordered and accomplished, prices broken down item by item with much detail, including labor costs & pricing, day by day hourly counts, with worksheets showing calculations for costs; at front of these ledgers are the thumb-indexed sheets with the lists of the company's clienits; perhaps most interesting is the amount of business being done here during the Depression years and into the World War II period; evidently this company had a solid and viable system, with commercial and public clients as well as private individuals using their contracting services: Board of Education, Berger Lumber Co. Concil of the Village of Union, Church at Pleasant View, Trustees of Polk Drive Parsonage, Odd Fellows Hall, Miami Conservancy Co., Holland Baking Co., Milky Way Farm, Board of Public Affairs, Englewood Tool Shop, M.E. Parsonage, Ohio Fuel & Glass Co., Valley View Inn; we note that the writer of the ledger has also put down the dates, amount received (about $ 71.00 per month) of the monies they have received from the Social Security Admin., carrying to 1960, the writing hand having become slightly wobbly in older age; All ledgers hardbound standard accounting books; some edge, tips wear to cloth; some old residue from paper clip deterioration on pages; in very good condition overall and very interesting business and contracting, building industry history for this mid-America small town during the Depression and World War II years.
1929-1947 Collection of Ledgers and Related Ephemera for Roy A. Class, Contractor Plumbing, Heating, Electric Wiring Sheet Metal Work Union Ohio
(Roy A. Class, Contractor)
Union Ohio: Roy A. Class, Contractor, 1929.
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Dated "VII-2-1970" and stating "Dear Miss Bunyan - I'm glad that you got the check - Thank you for trusting us - Mr. Dolan - her son - was very pleased - Also happy that you enjoyed Coco - (signed) Katharine Hepburn" a very typical bold dark signature; Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) award-winning American actress; Letter on 'Cranes' watermark paper; approx. 10 3/8" x 7 1/4"; with her mother's name simply printed in small red lettering at top, Katharine Houghton Hepburn; old fold lines; in very good condition. 'Coco' about Coco Chanel, was Katharine Hepburn's only stage musical and was running on Broadway at this time; Robert Emmett Dolan was musical director of the production; our source for this autograph item indicated only that the "Miss Bunyan" referred to reputedly owned or worked at a flower shop and evidently did a favor for Hepburn which was appreciated and gratefully acknowledged. The actress was apparently frugal - she is using the letterhead of her mother, Katharine Martha Houghton Hepburn (1878-1951) women's rights activist and noted suffragist - 20 years after her death.
1970 Typed Letter Signed by Katharine Hepburn - on Her Mother's Letterhead Paper
(Katharine Hepburn)
1970.
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The homestead of the late Dennis Murphy, with a map of the property, approximately 8 acres and showing the location of a house and barn - "...On the premises is an excellent neat New House, handsomely painted and well finished, together with other out buildings adequate for the size of the farm, all in good order..."; bounded on the south by a lane leading to Wm. J. Willis' Residence, on the east by the land of Willis (and also most probably north side as well - here, not designated) and on the west by the "Highway Leading from Glen Cove to Hempstead"; this is an area outside of Roslyn proper and may be part of what is now Greenvale; printed by the Long island Farmer Print, with their notice at bottom, dated Dec. 2nd 1885 - who are still in business today as the Long Island Press; a large and boldly-printed broadside announcement poster - approx. 19 3/4" x 28"; printed with several typefaces typical of the time; old fold lines; some discoloration markings at center lines, small crumb of paper loss at old fold; bit of edgewear; in very good condition and an interesting ephemeral survival of late 19th century Long Island real estate development history, from an area which rapidly became one of the most populous & wealthiest in the state and the U.S., especially after the formation of Nassau county in 1899.
1885 Large Broadside with Map: Wm. E. Hawxhurst, Auctioneer. Executor's Sale of Real Estate...One and One-fourth Miles Easterly from the Village of Roslyn...Benjamin Hicks Executor.
(Long Island Real Estate Development History)
Jamaica, L.I.: Long Island Farmer Print, 1885.
Price: $450.00
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Safe Submarine Vessels and the Future Of the Art & Modern Submarines in War and Peace: Present Status of the Submarine and Its Future Possibilities-Early Submarines and Lessons Applied to Modern Development
Lake, Simon, Esq.
London: Institute of Naval Architects, 1907.
Price: $350.00
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A Collection of 66 Catalogues Supplements Lists Plate Books from the Fine Bookselling Company of Elkin Mathews Ltd.
(Elkin Mathews Ltd.)
London: Elkin Mathews Ltd. 33 Conduit Street,
Price: $350.00
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Circa 1950 Food Fair Game: Play Store 3-Dimensional Children's Toy
(Food Fair)
Price: $350.00
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