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Depicting a group of 5 men inside oil rig works; Photograph laid down to old cardstock mount; approx. 5" x 7", with about 1" surrounding mount; professionally photographed, with "Interstate Oil Corp., Jones # 1. D.T. Stevens, Driller, Taylor, Winters, Gifford, Mick." in white lettering in the image; on back is noted, "The first well drilled on the very top of Signal Hill, 1923 Taken in July 1923 Shows and (sic) old time Drilling Rig. Steve was the Driller - who was the top man The others were 'roughnecks.'"; interesting occupational imagery from the early part of the 20th century California oil industry.
1923 Photograph of the The First Oil Well Drilled on Signal Hill California Showing the Driller and His Crew of Roughnecks and Equipment
(Photography)
Signal Hill California: 1923.
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Maps or plans in blueprint format; small notations indicating pricing, 'x'ed out areas, presumably sold; indicates streets, lot sizes, numbers, bordering roads, coordinates; Heights Map scale is 1" = 50', dated April 10 1926, about 21 1/2" x 26" size; Garden City Estates South Map lot plan scale is 1" = 100', dated March 1924, about 17" x 19" size (with) a black and white copy of a section of the same; and a lot plan of Garden City Estates South dated February 9, 1925, showing a more overall plan of this developing area, about 16" x 24" size; Gleeson & Dolan 152 W 42nd St. N.Y.C. noted as Sale Agents; wear, a little holing at old fold lines, some splitting; edgewear, couple closed tears; good condition; a good early 20th century map of Nassau County on Long Island, New York, detailing this area's suburban real estate development history.
1924-1926 Group of Real Estate Development Maps of Garden City Heights, Garden City Estates South, Town of Hempstead Nassau Co., N.Y. Lot Plan Cyril E. Marshall Civil Engineer Hempstead, N.Y.
(Garden City)
Hempstead Long Island New York: Cyril E. Marshall, Civil Engineer, 1924.
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Album of 15 photographs and two humorous color cartoons tipped-in at back; including "Our Home San Salvador" with interior, exterior views; Salvadorians outside in a gazebo at which a lottery drawing is taking place; country scene on way from San S. to La Vinion; Volcano San Miguel; Mrs. Morrow "Aunty" and Lola (Indian) Sonsonate; Volcano Izalco & town, including a couple of images with eruption smoke visible; ; park in Amapala Honduras and Gulf of Fonseca; Antigua-Guatemala; Havana view, Morro Castle; Memorial Park with winged statue atop world Jacksonville Florida; and 1920s style risque greeting humor at back; photos nearly all same format, approx. 3 " x 5" size; all contained in original black side-string photograph album; some wear to covers, chipping to edges of first couple of leaves, cover detached; some fade to some images; overall, in very good condition.
1924-1926 Photograph Album of Americans in San Salvador and Other Central American Locales
(Photography)
1924.
Price: $75.00
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1925 Pathe Newsreel of the Inauguration of Calvin Coolidge as President of the United States
(Calvin Coolidge)
New Jersey: Pathe Film, 1925.
Price: $1,200.00
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Large format group; average approx. 7" x 9 1/2"; some smaller, some larger, + cardstock mount surrounds; identification on backs, with the "People's Exhibit..." stamp for court, John H. Sullivan Stenographer and date; evidently some gunfire had been exchanged here as bullet holes in rear wall of 8011 90th Ave. pointed out in one photograph; also identifying 9033, 78th Str. home and gate at southside 89th ave. and 80th St.; some edgewear, chipping to cardstock mounts, occasional mark in the photos; very good condition; interesting group of Queens, New York City criminal and investigative history ephemeral photographs.
1926 Collection of Large-format New York City Crime Scene Photographs Woodhaven Queens 90th Ave 78th Street.
(New York City)
Woodhaven New York: 1926.
Price: $45.00
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Printed one side, made to seem like an enormous opera theatre ticket, 4" x 9"; a whimsical pair of well-dressed and festive mice (lady and man with Santa coat) waving and giving welcome to "Metropolitan Opera Mouse 8.80 Cheeses A1 Day, Dec. 25, 1926 Retain These Wishes 10 East 9th Street, "West of B'Dway" "The larder we'll sweep, The best for you keep" The Mice-ter Singers Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cummings Chase wish you a Merry Christmas"; printed black on cream stock with hand coloring; light wear and dustiness; very good condition and charming. Joseph Cummings Chase (1878-1965) portrait painter, author, educator, Dean of Hunter College, known for many of his portraits of Generals and Medal of Honor heroes, now in the U.S. National Museum. (W.W.W. in American Art, 1999).
1926 Humorous hand Colored Christmas Greetings from Artist Joseph Cummings Chase
(Joseph Cummings Chase)
New York: Artist Published, 1926.
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Map well-drawn in black ink on cloth; giving the titles of various parcels and the engineer, Eugene R. Smith, Inc. Civil Engineers Islip, N.Y.; approx. 18 3/4" x 21" size; indicating area to be conveyed, canal of Anson W. Hard, West Street Dock, Town of Islip Basin, more; old fold lines, some corner creasing; a little discoloring; still, in very good condition and interesting Long Island commercial fishing, oyster industry historical ephemera; since it was created on cloth, it has survived well and should continue to do so.
1927 Manuscript Map of Long Island Oyster Farms, Inc. to Town of Islip West Sayville, Suffolk Co., N.Y. Great South Bay Oyster Bed Conveyance Document
(Long Island)
Islip Long Island New York: Eugene R. Smith, Inc. Civil Engineers, 1927.
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Image identified & dated, with Underwood credits and information attached, stamp on back as well; black and white image, 6 1/2" x 8 1/2" approx. size; some light wear; very good condition and an interesting photo for German running & sprinting sports history in the early part of the 20th century; Joachim Büchner (1905-1978) German athlete, who competed mainly in the 400 metres, for which he won a Bronze medal at the 1928 Netherlands Summer Olympic games.
1927 Photograph (Joachim) Buechner Champion German Short-distance Runner
(Joachim Buechner)
New York: Underwood, 1927.
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Image identified & dated, with Underwood credits and information attached, stamp on back as well; sepia tones and white image, 8" x 10" approx. size; some light wear, little corner chip; very good condition and an interesting photo for horseracing history in the early part of the 20th century in New York State; the founder of the Bowman Park racecourse was John McEntee Bowman (1875-1931) Canadian-born businessman and American hotelier and horseman who was the founding president of Bowman-Biltmore Hotels Corp., here pictured with his fellow horseracing afficionados and prominent businessmen: James F. Haggerty, E.H. Manville, Robert Law, Jr. Oliver Harriman, on the inauguarl meeting of the turf course there.
1927 Photograph of Bowman Park Opening Rye, New York at the Westchester Biltmore Club
(Bowman Park)
New York: Underwood, 1927.
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3 tickets; with a nice vignette depiction of an early hook & ladder truck; dance to be held at Masonic Temple, Westbury, Wednesday Evening, April 17, 1929; Music by Elliott's 8 Aces: Electric Radio Awarded; Ticket Numbers 376 + 377 + 481; approx. 2 1/4" x 4" size; printed black on yellow cardstock; Union Labor printing stamp at bottom; little bit of faint creasing; very good condition and nice Westbury, Long Island Fire Department ephemeral memorabilia.
1929 3 Tickets For Westbury Fire Department Hook & Ladder Company No. 1 Third Annual Dance
(Fire Department)
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Small panorama-style black and white photograph; approx. 8" x 20" format; with the Brush Studio, Plattsburgh, N.Y. photographer's name in the plate as well as 'Co. G., C.M.T.C., July 1929'; group of about 100 young lads in uniform, many bearing their arms; with flag having the "CMTC (crossed rifles) G" emblem; front row of 5 older men as officers for the company; individually signed and occasionally in various colored inks on back by Le Roy C. Brown Esq., Stanley McTetridge, Mr. Robert C. Ford Robert C. Loughlin, Wm. H. Lenz Jr., Herman H. Ruger Jr., Andrew J. Zak, John Ernest (Vitaphone) Pruyn, Peter M. Wyleczuk, Cameron Mac Laren, John Murtagh, Edward Conti Jr., Harvery Brouard, Joseph Porowski, Lloyd W. Bastow, Michael O. Borsuk, Robert B. Chandler (2nd Lieut. Co. G.), Thomas B. Oakley Jr., George H. Williams Jr., Gen. Ralph H. Bain, Barden Whedon, James. M. Knowles, Charles Mesuvac, George Staab, Edward R. Master, Paul R. Rice, Jos. Bigley, Howard Mallon, Gerald E. Quinn, Eddie Balles Jr., Jere Casagrande, Arthur Kane, Harry A. Perry, Mortimer D. Burger, Joseph S. Deutsch; some old wear and crinkling to image, from being rolled and kept that way for many years; very good condition and interesting United States military history ephemera; the Citizens Military Training Camps were in existence from 1921-40 and were established in order to continue a peacetime military training effort for American males, without the obligation or commitment of the ROTC; the CMTC was a later development of a movement begun by Theodore Roosevelt and Gen. Leonard Wood in 1915, which sought greater trained American military strength before the first World War and one of the training camps was in Plattsburgh (and sometimes called the "Plattsburgh Movement"); after World War I, these one-month summer training camps were continued under the CMTC, with similar goals of preparedness and the training of a future officer corps for military service.
1929 Company G C.M.T.C. Citizens Military Training Camp Photograph, Signed By 35 of the Personnel in Plattsburgh, New York
(Citizens Military Training Camps)
Plattsburgh, NY: Brush Studio, 1929.
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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.
Price: $450.00
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Black and white image taken in front of the school doors of the team; 10 members, all in uniform + coach; image approx. 8" x 10" format; with the old Morris Studio Southampton, L.I. cardstock 'window' mount, having the descriptive caption below the image; surround with some wear and staining, trimmed on right side; image is in very good condition; an interesting Long Island high school sports history and photographic imagery ephemeral item.
1930-1931 Large Format Photograph of the East End Long Island Champions Southampton Long Island New York Boys High School Basketball Team By Morris Studio
(Photography)
Southampton Long Island New Yo: Morris Studio, 1931.
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Three large archival binders housing large scrapbook pages in 11" x 15 3/4" size, about 116 pages; including signed and inscribed pieces, all collected by his friend and physician-companion on the trip, Dr. William S. Schroeder Jr. NYC's Sanitation Commissioner and staunch Walker ally; there are several aspects of this grouping that make it particularly memorable and an important historical compendium: nearly all the people, places and events which were attended by the mayor and his friend are identified; the time is of a limited duration - one month in 1931, a significant period at the beginning of the Depression years, with the growing presence of National Socialism in Germany and concurrent fears and societal upheaval in surrounding countries; the importance of the Mayor of New York elevated his status to the level of a visiting head of state - and the countries he visited lauded and feted him at that level, with the very highest-placed government, scientific and social dignitaries anxious to meet him and cultivate his friendship- of course, the places he stayed and the meals he ate which are recorded in detail here in hotel printed ephemera, wine lists and printed menus and tour itineraries - and were also of the finest quality; Jimmy Walker (1881-1946) had been pressured into resigning the mayoralty as a consequence of the corruption investigation of the Seabury Commission and by then-Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The ex-Mayor then left promptly for this tour of Europe, where far from being disgraced, it is obvious he was feted and honored by the heads of state and society in England, France, Germany, Czechoslovakia and Hungary; including: a large-format professionally taken and mounted photograph of the dapper Mayor, signed and inscribed to Dr. Schroeder below the image by Jimmy Walker; Nord Deutscher Lloyd Bremen steamship ephemera - maps, first class passenger list book; dozens of newspaper clippings relating to the Mayor's departure, return to NYC, the doctor's work with the Sanitary Commission of NY, and all the visits in Europe made by the Mayor and his friend, including such tidbits as Jimmy Walker being awarded the French Legion of Honor, denying losses at the Monte Carlo gaming tables, taking the 'cure' at Carlsbad spa, with various notables of society and politics throughout the Europe tour and more; there is an ongoing correspondence as well, letters and telegrams concerning the doctor's involvement in the Mutual Insurance business and its sale as well as his work with the sanitary commission; there are literally hundreds of items here, carefully tipped-on to the scrapbook leaves and often in layers two and three deep to the page; in addition to the photographs and memorabilia, there are unusual and colorful bon voyage cards and well-wishes and dozens of telegrams from friends and associates to the doctor on his tour; the photographs range from snapshot to large 7" x 9 1/2" size photos, real photo postcards and other formats; A sample photo: A group in Cannes France, identified as "...August 26, 1931 at the Hotel Martinez: James J. Walker, William Schroeder Jr., Henri Prince, Charles Wilson Prop. of the Martinez, William Degrau, David Mairen Roger Davis and a number of the guests of the hotel" or a press photo "Raimbouillet France Mayor James J. Walker of New York Pays a Visit to President Doumer of France..." and " Tomb of Unknown Soldier Budapest Hungary August 23, 1931 with official representatives of the city of Budapest and the Mayor" many photos of the shipboard life and more of the tour; an example of an ephemeral item, a typed list: "Dinner to be given by Sir William Jowitt, Attorney General of England, at the House of Commons, on Monday, 14th September, to meet Mayor Walker. Those invited to dine with Mayor Walker are the following - Lord Reading, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas, Secretary of State for the Dominions and Colonies, Rt. Hon. Arthur Greenwood, Minister of Health in the late Labour Government, Rt. Hon. Sir John Simon..."; An interesting sidebar to the tour was medical research work of Dr. Schroeder, who had been asked to visit various medical institutions and scientific research facilities in Germany and elsewhere to investigate techniques, especially as related to community hygiene. Letters and telegrams of invitation, signed by German scientists and including itineraries are here present, evidently the doctor's work of some importance; A unique and massive collection and a wonderful evocation and record of the time.
1931 Large-Format Collection of Photographs, Hotel and Steamship Brochures, Telegrams and Souvenir Items from State and Social Dinners, Community Events and More from the European 'Exile' Tour of New York City Jazz Age Mayor James John "Jimmy" Walker
(Jimmy Walker)
1931.
Price: $2,500.00
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Pencil and some color; a humorous 'sporting' scene with a man in fox hunt garb, hat flying off, speeding along on a horse, chasing a dog running along the course, others in background, a fun action scene; inscribed and signed in pencil on the right, "To a charming hostess from Tony Sarg '31"; composed on one of the blank panels of a green paper menu; approx. 7" x 12"; some spotting and discoloration to image, edgewear; back of menu wording rubbed, no indication as to the location; amusing Sarg image in good condition.
1931 Original Tony Sarg Artwork Signed and Inscribed
Sarg, Tony
1931.
Price: $250.00
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Image identified & dated, with Underwood credits and information attached, stamp on back as well; Black and white image, 8 1/2" x 6 1/2" approx. size; light wear; very good condition and an interesting photo for lawn tennis and intercollegiate sporting history in the early part of the 20th century; Keith Gledhill (1909-1999) American tennis player of the 1930s, with championship wins in the doubles competitions especially.
1931 Photograph of Keith Gledhill of Stanford University winner of the Intercollegiate Lawn Tennis Championship at Haverford Pennsylvania Defeating Bruce Barnes of Texas.
(Keith Gledhill)
New York: Underwood, 1931.
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14 individual dance cards, booklet style; 12 of the 14 with their tiny pencils still attached with strings in various colors; including: 3 pieces from "O.W.L." events. 2 of these from 1931, approx. 2 3/4" x 6" size, with original well-executed and colored cover art, one having a handsome man in suit and the other an attractively-attired woman in long dance dress and stylish jacket - inside with printed menu for the occasion (included O.W.L. sandwiches) and a Program of music and song, remarks - we note also that a Mr. Nelson was to give 'Remarks' at the end and that both Mr. Nelson and Mrs. Nelson are handwritten on the covers of these cards - these names also occur on others of this group and presumably were given to the couple at these social events. Mr. Nelson's dance card slots on the back are nearly all filled in, while Mrs. had no dances, or perhaps did not attend. Both with the imprint of Allied Union Printers of Quincy, Illinois on back. Both of these cards with no pencils, and no holes punched for holders. With also a smaller O.W.L. Dinner-Dance card, for 1935 for Mr. Nelson, who is not noted as having any dances. This also with a musical background and with dinner menu and noted as also being Union printed, at The Royal Printing Co., Inc.; (2) undated handcolored Aurora (club?) dance cards, each differently colored with a Japanese geisha girl motif, with musical and literary program and (blank) hand numbered dance numbering (with) another Aurora example, this undated and with a hand drawn and colored whimsical balloon motif, at center a silhouetted Pierrot-clown figure in black, rather well-done. This card simply gives the names of the 4 lady officers of the Aurora inked by hand and also numbered dance list (blank); 1933 Annual Dance Centennial Debating Society 1818-1918, cover with the printed shape of the State of Illinois, with list of officers, motto, emblem, colors, object of the organization noted, card list blank, union printed by Royal Printing Co.; 1931 (2) from Hypatia (society or club) both with hand drawn and colored cover artworks of bust portraiture of a dapper couple a la 1930's, handwritten program in each, with listing of participants names and events, with a couple of pencil notes on the back of one and a pen name on the back of the other, (with) (2) others from Hypatia, 1933, also with handcolored artwork on covers - each with a belle in full fancy dress and flowers and with two blank dance lists within; 1934 a rather austere card, simply stating on front Prom Parliament 1934 and the inside with usual numbered slots for dances, blank, cover with black pencil & string attached and a small tasteful black ribbon; An undated card with Mrs. Nelson's name on front, this with a hand drawn 'Chinaman' motif in black and white and with 3 printed 'pages' - menu, program, dance list; and an undated small card with well-done 'flapper' style head portrait hand colored and drawn with Mr. Nelson's name, handprinted dance list within, blank; with a small paper canoe shape having Mrs. W. Nelson's name, evidently a marker of sorts; sizes vary, average about 3" x 4", some smaller, some larger; light wear and soiling; colors bright and a fun group in very good condition and interesting 20th century dance card ephemera from Illinois, especially charming for the original artwork.
1931-1935 Group of Dance Cards, Many with Original Illustrations and Hand Coloring and Designs, with Illinois Provenance
(Dance Cards)
Illinois: 1931.
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Note on The Literary Digest 354-360 Fourth Avenue New York, N.Y.; letterhead; dated March 31, 1932 to "Dave," humorously mentioning "...I seem to have something wrong with my face (not that there was ever anything right with it)-- at present. But as soon as I am in form again.... (signed ) Cordially yours, Lowell Thomas"; Lowell Jackson Thomas (1892-1981) American writer, broadcaster, and traveller, member of the Explorers Club, earlier in his career perhaps most famously promoting Lawrence of Arabia to fame; about 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" size; slight wear, darkening, old fold-lines; in very good condition.
1932 Typed Note Signed By American Author Journalist Lowell Thomas
(Lowell Thomas)
1932.
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Letter entirely handwritten, on imprinted Tiffany Thayer letterhead, dated July 19, 1933; several paragraphs from the novelist Thayer, regarding one of his controversial stories "Three Sheet": "... A great many people hold it in different esteem. Several parents have been kind enough to thank me for writing it...their sons will be less likely to go that way..." and reassuring the recipient, "...Don't worry about any of your children growing up to be "another T.T." (one of the less-savory characters in the book-or himself?). I feel very, very certain none of them will..."; old fold lines, light wear to letter; in the original mailing envelope, postally canceled Van Nuys, Calif, from the period when Thayer worked in Hollywood screenwriting and acting; Tiffany Ellsworth Thayer (1902-1959) in addition to writing rather indifferently received, sometimes scandalously explicit novels, founded with Theodore Dreiser the Fortean Society which promoted the eccentric theories of Charles Hoy Fort (Martians ruling earth, Sargasso Sea in space, teleportation, etc.). Dennis Wepman writing in the ANB notes about Thayer, "...Characterizing himself as an atheist, an anarchist, and a skeptic, he enjoyed his image of impudent prurience...A writer with few literary pretensions, he seemed indifferent to the critical disapprobation of his voluminous output, observing breezily in an interview reported in the Saturday Review of Literature in 1956, "Literature? To hell with literature." He also worked in antiquarian bookstores in his youth; an interesting letter from an independent thinker.
1933 Autograph Letter Signed By Author Tiffany Thayer
(Tiffany Thayer)
Van Nuys California: 1933.
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An interesting letter to friends, wherein Smith recounts that he's just returned from a trip to Persia (the Iranian gov. awarded him a medal for his work in translating the Rubaiyat) and relating that he'd "...been motoring in Asia. We covered some 10,000 kilometers by car, and another thousand by rail and about as much more by sea. It was a very strenuous trip (Smith was 73 at this time) but it was worth the effort. My niece brought back, or sent by freight more than a thousand specimens of the handicraft output of a half dozen asiatic countries..." evidently the niece following in her uncle's collecting footsteps - David Eugene Smith (1860-1944) teacher and historian of mathematics - "...he traveled to Europe and the Far East and acquired materials for his own library that were to make it one of the premier historical mathematical collections in the country...a major influence in establishing the history of mathematics as both an intellectual discipline and as a profession in the United States." (Albert C. Lewis in the ANB); Smith's collections are held at Columbia University where he'd taught; letter dated June 29, 1933; 2 1/2 pages handwritten on folded printed D.E. Smith note letterhead, the 501 W. 120th St. NYC address; signed in full; light wear, old fold lines; very good condition.
1933 Autograph Letter Signed By History of Mathematics Author, Educator and Collector David Eugene Smith (1860-1944)
(David Eugene Smith)
United States: 1933.
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