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Matte-finish black and white photo of a row of 4 old flat-bed potato trucks, laden with tons of sacked potatoes, just visible to left of image is warehouse or garage; image approx. 7" x 10" approx. size; good heavy-quality photo stock; "Orient, N.Y. and "C.A. Barwise" written on back in pencil; light wear, one corner with old crease; a nice image with a nostalgic east end Long Island agricultural business theme, the potato still grown in the area for market, although much of the agricultural lands left are now devoted to commercial cultivation of the grape.
C 1920s Large Format black and White Photograph of Loaded Potato Trucks at Orient, Long Island
(Long Island - Photography)
Orient, Long Island New York: Not Published, 1920.
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24 pages; illustrated throughout in black and white with views of the resort and Shelter Island; resort & hotel amenities, Manhanset cottages, amusements, recreational opportunities via swimming, golf, social life, boating, more; interior and exterior views of this resort hotel complex; with advertisements & illustrations of two other Lannin Co. properties, the Garden City Hotel as well as the Hotel Gramatan; giving detailed instructions for travel, via the Montauk Steamboat Co. Ltd. (also illustrated, underway before the Manhanset house property) and the Long Island Railroad; original illustrated printed paper wrap covers; with an oval tipped-on black and white illustration of the Manhanset House; elaborate lettering in green and gilt; 5 1/4" x 8 1/2" size; old pen calculations on cover in a contemporary hand; soiling & discoloration, still good; contents in very good condition and interesting, detailed information especially via the illustrations of the amenities at this early 20th-century resort on Shelter Island; the main building burned to the ground in 1910.
Season 1907 Manhanset House Manhanset Manor Shelter Island New York J.J. Lannin Co. Proprietors
(Long Island - Shelter Island)
Shelter Island New York: Manhanset House, 1907.
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Well-printed folding railway map, done in black and colors; printed by Dai Nippon Printing Company; the legend showing trains, elec. car, private railways, subway; approx. 17" x 23 1/2" size; title section on reverse notes the Tuttle Bookshops & directions, and a list of travel and Japanese culture books with pricing; the railway map lists station in English characters; some wear and soiling, couple short closed edge-tears; still about very good and an interesting mid-twentieth century Japanese transportation history ephemeral item.
Railway Map of Tokyo and Vicinity
(Japan - Map)
Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1955.
Price: $45.00
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A snappy-looking simple electric vehicle design in fine pen and ink and hand-colored in blue, yellow and heightened in white; chain-driven, steering 'bar' instead of wheel, open top, plush interior visible; side and front views; bottom third of drawing with pencil details of parts; approx. 13" x 18 1/2" size; on 'onionskin' engineering linen-paper; old fold lines; some rubbing-away of surface at bottom, corners, fold lines; fraying towards edges; still in good condition, colors bright and very well-accomplished; not signed or credited and with good provenance, from the family of the founder of the Ward M.V. Co., which specialized in electric vehicles and eventually trucks, in the first part of the 20th century; interesting automotive ephemeral material & electric car history.
Circa 1916 Color Rendering of a Ward Motor Vehicle Company Electric Car Design
(Automobile History - Electric Car)
New York: Ward Motor Vehicle Company, 1916.
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A company overview and catalog, 47 pages; black and white illustrated throughout; history of Kimball, manufacturing musical instruments in Chicago for years; extolling quality, tonal design, testimonial quotes from 'outstanding organists' - users around the country; at this time, the company could reveal that they had "...built over four thousand pipe organs, installed all over the world...designed by the Kimball staff in consultation with the purchaser and his advisers to suit the acoustical conditions of the church and the purpose it serves..."; with c. 25 pages of illustrations of their products visible in the interior, or exterior views of: St. Bernadette's R.C. Church, Brooklyn; Hollywood Presb. California; First Church of Christ Scientist Oak Park, & that in Cambridge Mass; Congregation B'nai B'rith Los Angeles; St. Paul's Cathedral Pittsburgh; St. John's Cathedral Denver (this one double-page, with specifications of the organ as well); Thorne Hall at Northwestern; Municipal Auditoriums at Minneapolis, in Worcester Mass, Memphis, Union Medical College in Peiping(sic) China, and many more mentioned, with details of construction and use of all these; the rest of the catalog describing the quality of the Kimball-Welte Reproducing Organ, self-contained and pipe organs, the company line of pianos; descriptions of the factory & offices, console organs, illustrations of factory techniques and testing of products; catalog quality-printed on glossy stock, in black and deep orange type and ornamentation; approx. 9 1/4" x 12 1/2" size; metal 'coil' binding (little rust at back inner leaf), illustrated stiff blue paper covers, matching endpapers; some edgewear, closed tears to binding, bit of color-fade, very good overall; (with) laid-in Wicks company 4-fold illustrated brochure for their 'Fuga' organ (circa 1930s also) and several typed pages which list organ stop information - the organ of Leipzig, another list of ranks for a 'miniature baroque organ' and others, and a page of 'repertoire' listing various organ pieces - this group of paper with some relevant pencil notes and information; contents of Kimball catalog in very good condition as are the ephemeral items; interesting keyboard musical instrument history and especially for the illustrations and background of some of the particularly large & famous organ installations of the Kimball Company - both the Kimball and Wicks (only very recently) co.'s had given up the manufacturing of organs in this country, after enjoying much popularity and long-term brand recognition in their fields.
Kimball Pipe Organs
(W.W. Kimball Company)
Chicago Illinois: W.W. Kimball Company, 1938.
Price: $250.00
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64 + (4) additional pages of advertisements (on blue paper, at back); contents with much editorial on finance and treasury topics, banking and proposed reform measures, devaluation and stolen notes, "The Silver Raid, " an article on "Prof." W. A. Rooks, "Treasury Expert." from Boston; Canadian banking institutions, much on how to detect counterfeit notes, stolen notes, descriptions of counterfeit silver notes, counterfeiting of coinage, Canadian counterfeit notes, foreign gold, silver and bank notes information, more; the advertisements with coin scales, check punches, caligraphs, adjustable microscope, bill holder; pamphlet format, approx. 6" x 9" size; original light gray illustrated (Treasury Bldg & ornamental type) printed paper wraps, stapled binding; little rust-through on wraps at stapling; spine paper splitting, some soil, tiny soot-burn hole (about 1/16"); back cover with closed tear at bottom corner; contents very good; according to an OCLC search, this serial appears to have run from 1884-1907; with few physical holdings and a microform; an interesting American & international financial and monetary history ephemeral item from the latter part of the 19th century.
Dickerman's United States Treasury Counterfeit Detector, The Standard Authority. June 1890 No. 6.
(Americana - Treasury)
New York: Dickerman's United States Treasury Counterfeit Detector and Bankers' & Merchant's Journal, 1890.
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A press photograph of an active operating room scene with surgery taking place, 5 doctors and nurses visible, instrument tray, dramatic focused lighting; black and white, approx. 7" x 9" size; with the Bob Leavitt 921 Wash'n Av. Brooklyn, N.Y. studio stamp and "Not released B.L." in pen below along with request for credit, also in ink; a few pencil numbers; no other identifiers; image with a little edgewear, back with some soiling; in very good condition, good photographic & medical history ephemera, especially with photographer Leavitt's personal initial & markings.
C. 1940 Press Photograph of an Operating Room with Surgery Underway By Bob Leavitt Brooklyn New York and Initialed by Him.
(Photography - Medicine)
Brooklyn, New York: Bob Leavitt, 1940.
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A press photograph of Churchill, while riding; with the Assoc. News. Ltd. group stamp on back; no date, circa 1930s; approx. 5" x 7" size, crudely trimmed-down at the corners and bottom by a previous owner; image with some yellowing at edges; back of photo spotty; in about good condition, a good image of a sprightly-looking Churchill on horseback.
Circa 1930s Photograph of Winston Churchill on Horseback
(Photography - Winston Churchill)
Northcliffe House, London Engl: Associated Newspapers Ltd., 1930.
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7 pages; elaborately lettered & decorated black and white cover page; the musical score for this march, no lyrics; an unusual Long Island sheet music item, an OCLC search reveals no holdings; approx. 10 3/4" x 14" standard sheet music size; some soiling, closed edge-tears, scrape and offsetting of title lettering on back cover; in good condition and good east end Long Island musical history ephemera.
To H.G. Elmer, Peconic, L.I. Southold Grand March By Harry M. Payne. Southold. N.Y.
(Sheet Music - Long Island)
New York: P. Lawson, 1893.
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Colorful map of this east end Long Island village; the map surrounded by black and white images from the community, a couple of inset maps at bottom and giving streets, locations of interest and use - schools, beach club, churches, 'Home of the late Alfred Thayer Mahan USN', more; approx. 11" x 17" size, National Survey Chester Vermont printer; on back at center are listed 45 local businesses with their small business-card-like advertisements for their services, including Shipman's Riding School, Miss Isabel Hair Stylist, Elsie's Corset Shop, Henry L. Bennett's Garage, The Blackburn House, many more; with also explanatory text regarding location and accessibility, accommodations, fishing, yachting, wildfowl sanctuary, bathing, country club activities, salient facts about Quogue; nicely printed, map colors still vivid; old fold line, some edgewear, little closed tear; in very good condition and interesting Long Island local history ephemera from about mid-20th century.
C. 1950 Village of Quogue Long Island New York
(Quogue - Map)
Quogue, Long Island New York: Quogue Businesses, 1950.
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15 pages; especially interesting for the fold-out "Chart of Montauk Yacht Harbor (by) Montauk Beach Development Corp...." provided at the back and with a perforation for easy detaching (still wholly integral here), approx. 15 1/2" x 23", black and white, noted as submitted, approved and dated 6/7/3, revised after a 1929 plan - with an inset map showing the location of this 'development' in the larger Montauk landscape. The chart shows future commercial basin & boat houses, polo fields, the Montauk Island Club, yacht basin on Star Island, a future channel running right around the inner coastline of Lake Montauk and other details. This development project was the final real estate resort scheme of Carl Graham Fisher (1874-1939) American automotive & real estate entrepreneur, who had previously developed Miami Beach and used the funds to try and establish a similar resort in the north, in Montauk Long Island - "...In 1925, Fisher purchased the entire peninsula of Montauk…to develop as a grand resort. Much of what makes up today's Montauk - it's roads, churches, downtown village, harbor area, golf course, and dozens of commercial buildings and homes, were built by Fisher during a whirlwind of development from 1926 - 32. If it weren't for his considerable vision and investment, Montauk would be a far different place today…his impact profound..." (ref. Montauk Life).; black and white illustrated throughout with images from prominent Montauk locales: the yacht & golf clubs, tennis club, riding, Island Club, these mostly of a sporting nature, meant to attract the wealthy clientele Fisher wished to have patronize his resort; a page devoted to the 1930 train service between New York and the Hamptons & Montauk and including the Montauk-New London ferry service, and a directory with telephone numbers for local businesses and services; approx. 8 1/2" x 11 1/4" size; original stapled covers, illustrated with a black and white view of fishing boat in Montauk; cover wear and soiling, first leaf with some faint spotting; contents good; interesting Montauk real estate development, sporting and social history ephemera.
Montauk Yacht Harbor
(Montauk - Real Estate Development History).
Montauk, Long Island New York: Montauk Yacht Club, 1930.
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48 pages; with a useful 'Index to Exhibitors' With classes in which they have entries (names and town addresses) + index to advertisers at back (which acts as a local business directory for the time), black and white illustrated throughout with images from prominent Montauk, Long Island locales: the Montauk light, fox hunting at Montauk, the Downs golf club, tennis club, casino & pools, more, mostly of a sporting nature; the show committee members including: Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, Carl G. Fisher, J.V. Bouvier III (father of Jacqueline Kennedy), Harrison Tweed, Mr. & Mrs. James R. MacMann, Judges including W.E. Baker (saddle horses & ponies), Frank A. Bonsal Jr., J. Garner West (hunters and jumpers) & other worthies listed; a very large event, with classes for model & novice hunters of various weights, novice, model & gelding saddle horses, polo mounts, jumpers, 'horses suitable to become hunters,' road & park hacks, touch-and-go, more ; approx. 7" x 9 3/4" size; original stapled covers, illustrated with a black and white view of the frontage at Montauk Manor; wear and soiling, old rubber stamps on back of Mr. Marcell O. Thommen Sag Harbor N.Y. on back; detached from the binding, and triangular chip at top inner back of the cover; contents good; interesting Montauk sporting and social history ephemera, with genealogical interest as well.
1931 Montauk Horse Show Official Catalogue
(Montauk - Horse Show)
Montauk, Long Island New York: Montauk Horse Show, 1931.
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Black and white image of deep- sea fisherman and author Farrington & his wife (also a world-record holder angler) holding large placards which advertised theatre seating for the Dowling show at the John Drew Theatre in East Hampton; no photographic studio noted, not dated and circa 1950; approx. 5" x 7"; very good; interesting photographic East Hampton theatre & social history ephemera, with genealogical interest, from the middle part of the 20th century.
C. 1950 Candid Photograph of S. Kip Farrington & His Wife Chisie Selling Tickets at the John Drew Theatre in East Hampton Eddie Dowling in "Border Be Damned"
(East Hampton - Photography)
East Hampton Long Island New Y: Not Published, 1950.
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Portrait image of this fashionably-attired young woman, with the identifier hand-written on back in a contemporary hand; our research indicates that Blanche (L.) Babcock was educated at State Normal School (now SUNY Cortland) and went on to teach high school at Sag Harbor & Sayville on Long Island, before accepting a teaching position at the House of Refuge on Randalls Island, the Manhattan reformatory for children; approx. 4 3/4" x 6" size overall; black and white; Hyatt & Tooke Cortland N.Y. photographer's blindstamp imprint at base of mount card; some soiling in margins; image very good; interesting photographic Sag Harbor & New York educational history ephemera, with genealogical interest, from the first part of the 20th century.
C. 1900 Cabinet Card Photograph of Blanche Babcock, Sag Harbor Long Island By Hyatt & Tooke, Cortland N.Y.
(Sag Harbor - Photography)
Sag Harbor Long Island New Yor: Not Published, 1900.
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Photograph approx. 6 1/4" x 8 1/2", most probably a professionally taken image in sepia tones, notations on back: "T.A. Loveland (Buck's company secretary) Frank Buck in foreground - Chicago World Fair and Monkey Mountain Frank Buck's Jungle Camp"; the 'mountain' a huge construction, with over 50 simians visible on it and humans surrounding the feature, gazing on - souvenir shop, other fair attractions visible in background. Old pin mounting-holes at corners, crinkling to image, still a great view and in good condition; (with) 1937 typed letter signed by Loveland on Frank Buck Enterprises, Inc. letterhead from Amityville, Long Island thanking the sender for a suggestion for the Park (with) a lengthier (3 paragraph) 1938 TLS by Mrs. Fanchion E. Long, also on a (different) F.B.E. Inc., letterhead to the same recipient, regarding an introduction to an unnamed authoress friend who'd wanted a 'jungle prowl' with Loveland - with news of the 'Jungle Camp' travels, thanking the sender for a 'pineapple concoction' recipe - perhaps for sale at the amusement park - also mentioning music on the grounds via the public address system, which may have been an earlier suggestion by the same person. Both letters with their original Frank Buck mailing envelopes with postal cancellations, some wear and aging to mailers, letters in very good condition; Frank Howard Buck (1884-1950) American hunter, movie actor, director, writer and producer, entrepreneurial entertainer, in addition to being the supplier of many of the world's zoos and nature parks with live specimens of animals for their exhibits; Buck had taken his 'Jungle Camp' exhibit from the Chicago World's Fair "...which broke all attendance records." and relocated it to Long Island and again showed his exhibit at the 1939 NY World's Fair; interesting World's Fair, Long Island amusement park and entertainment ephemera.
1937-38 Frank Buck Enterprises, Inc., "Frank Buck Jungle Camp Zoological Specimens Animals Birds Reptiles Amityville Long Island - 2 Letters (with) Photo of Frank Buck's Monkey Mountain (from the Chicago World's Fair - Later Re-Constructed on Long Island)
(Long Island - Amusement Parks)
Amityville, Long Island New Yo: Frank Buck Enterprises, Inc., 1938.
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v + 98 pages; with a useful 5- page bibliography at back; with a page having six small black and white illustrations of early aircraft; a year-by-year chronology of the aerospace industry on Long Island, from its infancy in the mid-19th century to 1965: "...a first attempt to list events peculiar to geographical Long Island's aviation history. From the very beginning, planes were being built, men and women were flying them, and all "records" were continually being broken..." (from the Preface); part of the Hofstra University Yearbook of Business Series 5, Volume 5; bound in the original printed light blue stapled paper covers, approx. 5 1/2" x 8"; light wear, fading to binding; in very good condition and interesting Long Island aviation history.
Development of Aerospace Industry on Long Island A Chronology: 1833-1965 By Raymond V. Discala (With Additions and Editing By William K. Kaiser)
(Long Island - Aerospace Industry)
Hempstead Long Island New York: Hofstra University, 1968.
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Photograph of Gloria Finckenor Jayne, Mrs. Victor (Betty) Young, Mrs. Malcolm (Nancy) Willey and Mrs. Douglas A. (Victoria) Gardner in WCBS studio with two unidentified men, one of the ladies holding the Guide and evidently on air; on back in addition to the list of names is the statement "Telling the World about Historic Sag Harbor 40 years ago" - referring to another notation stating 'Sept. 10/87 in paper" - perhaps used in the 1980s to publicize this 'radio history' story one more time; approx. 7" x 9" size; black and white; no photographer or studio noted; much crinkling at top edge of image, back soiled, spotty; still, in good condition and interesting Sag Harbor media and social, history ephemera from the first half of the 20th century.
C. 1940s Photograph of the Ladies of the Sag Harbor Round Table Club at WCBS Radio Station Reading from Their Visitor's Guide to Historic Sag Harbor on Air
(Sag Harbor - History)
Sag Harbor Long Island New Yor: Not Published, 1932.
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Small broadside announcement for this theatrical event; with "...New Scenery painted by Messrs. Lynch, Dayton, Hand and assistants. The Decorations by the Misses Dominy and Dayton. the Musick composed by Henry R. Bishop, Esq. and performed by the Misses Marting and Mulford and Mr. Young..."; with the program "...arranged and produced by Mrs. Estelle Davis, assisted by Mr. Mammen..."; with the list of parts, characters, musical numbers sung and their players; notice was also given of thanks to the New York State Historical Association for their patronage; printed by W. Boughton, Printer, Main Street, East Hampton and the prices in admission given in British notation, we surmise for extra period 'flavor'; approx. 6" x 12 1/4" size; printed one side only; old fold lines, light wear; in very good condition and an interesting piece of East Hampton amateur theatre production history ephemera.
Guild Hall - East Hampton...On Saturday Evening, October 8th, 1932 Will be Performed the Much-Admired Drama in 3 Acts, Entitled Clari or, the Maid of Milan Written By John Howard Payne, Esq....Stage Manager, Mr. Stasheff
(East Hampton - Theatre)
East Hampton Long Island NY: Guild Hall, 1932.
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35 pages; signed by the author in full on the front endpaper; with black and white illustrations of the area; map on cover; illustrates New Suffolk-Cutchogue history; giving information on the beginnings of the area, harbor, the Tuthills, Peconic Bay, Robins Island, summer resort, more; original stapled paper wrap covers, previous owner name sticker on title page; light wear, soiling to back cover; in very good condition; good local history and genealogical information from historian Butterworth (1909-1991) and especially nice as signed by her.
The New Suffolk Story Then, Now and In-Between a Brief History of a Charming Village on Eastern Long Island's North Fork (author signed)
Butterworth, Marjorie Moore
Cutchogue Long Island N.Y.: Cutchogue-New Suffolk Historical Council, 1983.
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96 pages + (16) pages of notes on contributors, index & advertisers section (with much of local interest for this period); edited by H(offman) R(eynolds) Hays (1904-1980) writer, anthropologist, and educator; together with Mary Soles and Eliot H. Atkinston; with a couple of black and white illustrations; prose and poetic contributions by Eliot Atkinson, Rober A. Aurthur, Charles Boltenhouse, John Cole, Jr., Oscar Collier, Averil Dayton, Henry Gilfond, H.R. Hays, William Iverson, Barbara Leslie Jordan, Eunice Juckett, Joseph Liss, Frank O'Hara, Ann Porter, Fairfield Porter, Jeffrey Potter, Dorothy Quick, Lynn Riggs, Larry Rivers, May D. Rogers, Mary Soles, William Soles, May Natalie Tabak, Parker Tyler, John Hall Wheelock, Kazamierz Wierzynski; previous owner name on front cover (pencil, 'Penny Hays' possibly Hays' daughter); bound in the original printed yellow paper wrappers; light wear and soiling; in very good condition and interesting contributions from a large field of writers from the east end of Long Island in the mid-twentieth century period.
1953 The Bonacker A Collection of Eastern Long Island Writing
(The Bonacker)
East Hampton Long Island New Y: The Bonacker Press, 1953.
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