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How the West Was Built: A Mining and Electrical Engineer in Colorado and California 1. Armington, Howard C.: [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OF ENGINEER HOWARD C. ARMINGTON, DOCUMENTING HIS PARTICIPATION IN MASSIVE UTILITY PROJECTS IN COLORADO AND MINING EF- FORTS AND RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION IN CALIFORNIA IN THE EARLY 20th CENTURY]. [Various places in Colorado and California, as described below. ca. 1907-1913]. 406 photographs (395 silver prints, eleven cyanotypes) ranging in size from 2½ x 4 to 5 x 7 inches, one photo 9½ x 13 inches. All but six photos mounted in album. Oblong folio. Textured leather boards, secured by brads. Some chipping and wear to boards; minor fading and creasing to a few photos, but overall very well-preserved. Very good.

A fascinating album documenting the early career of mining and civil engineer Howard C. Armington (1884-1966). The photographs in this album record several projects that Armington worked on early in his career, including electrification projects in Colorado, and mining, railroad, and dam construction in California. The photographs that Armington compiled in this extensive album provide out- standing evidence of projects that created an infrastructure allowing for increased migration westward, and increasing exploitation of western resources.

The album begins with a photo of Armington as a student and member of the Crucible Club (precursor to the Beta Theta Pi fraternity) at the Colorado School of Mines (1906-07), there are then about 100 photographs highlighting his work with the Central Colorado Power Company (1908-09) building the Shoshone Hydroelectric Plant Complex. Included are images of work progressing on the powerhouse and the dam, with a series of photographs of miners working on the adits (tunnels) for the project. The plant complex was designed to take advantage of the elevation drop through the central part of Glenwood Canyon by diverting water from the river just above Shoshone Falls. Eight adits were created in the canyon wall to allow work to proceed from both ends. When completed, the main tunnel was approximately 12,450 feet long and averaged thirteen feet high by seventeen feet wide.

abandoned due to speculative over-expansion and increasing debt. Originally named Hedges, it was renamed Tumco in 1910 when The United Mines Company (i.e., T.U.M.Co.) attempted and failed to make a go of it. The album includes a small manually-constructed panorama of the operation made up of four photographs, and more than forty other images showing mining operations, the min- ing settlement, and people living in what is now a ghost town.

Armington also married in 1911, and the photos suggest that his wife, Nona Ross Black, traveled with him to subsequent work sites. A group of more than seventy-five photos illustrate work on the Big Creek Railroad (1912), a standard gauge common carrier railroad that operated in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Fresno County. It was originally built to transport men and supplies to The next section features photos of reinforced concrete pipes being laid at Ned- the Big Creek Hydroelectric dam site for the Pacific Light and Power Company erland, Colorado for what is now known as Barker Dam and Reservoir and the (now Southern California Edison). The railroad photographs are followed by Kossler Reservoir. This is followed by over a dozen photos of the Western Ce- images related to the construction of the dam. The album also includes numer- ment Products Co. in Pueblo, Colorado, showing cement production operation ous photos of family and friends, and pictures from the International Irrigation and machinery including a crusher, furnace, curing sheds, and brick machines. Congress held in Pueblo in 1910. Finally, there are three larger cabinet cards: one of the Colorado School of Mines class of 1902 and two overhead shots of the In 1911, Armington became an engineer at Tumco in the Imperial Valley near the school; and then one larger image of the class on cardstock with a brief summary Arizona border. Tumco was one of the earliest gold mining areas in California, of Armington’s career on the verso. where gold was first discovered by Spanish colonists nearly two hundred years earlier as they moved north from Sonora, Mexico. By 1905, it had been completely A glimpse into the beginnings of the electrification of the West. $4000. built by the Public Works Administration, was designed to span a portion of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Jones Falls Valley; the concrete arch bridge still stands today, and currently spans Interstate 83 and Jones Falls. The present photographs date from March 5, 1936 to February 6, 1938, arranged in roughly reverse chronological order, and present a relatively complete photographic record of the project.

The bridging process illustrated here begins with excavating, grading, and foundation work, and proceeds through building footings for piers and the piers themselves, setting temporary arches, underpinning, setting steel centers for the main spans, flooring, concreting, and facade work. There are numerous views offering different vantage points of the bridge, provid- ing a comprehensive picture of the bridge project, but also capturing local landmarks such as the pumping station, the Pennsylvania Railroad, the field offices of the construction managers, and more. Heavy construction machinery is visible throughout, including cranes, cement trucks, and excava- tors (one of which is emblazoned with the company name of “Potts & Callahan Contractors, , Md.”). A few of the photographs clearly show African-American crewmen working on the bridge, especially at the excavation stage.

The 29th Street Bridge was completed on December 4, 1937. A photograph here dated February 5, 1938 shows the completed bridge, and Building a Bridge in Baltimore, includes relevant statistics about the construction project on the verso. The Detailed in Construction Photographs 1335-foot bridge was built of reinforced concrete and stone, with “main arch spans of 232 feet,” a roadway forty feet wide, and seven-foot sidewalks on either 2. [Baltimore Photographica]: [ALBUM OF PROFESSIONALLY-PRODUCED side. The bridge was Public Works Administration Docket No. 1008-R-19, and PHOTOGRAPHS DETAILING CONSTRUCTION OF THE 29th STREET the total cost of the bridge came in at $601,414.02. The contract for the project BRIDGE IN BALTIMORE]. [Baltimore]: Leopold Photo, 1936-1938. Eighty- was awarded on December 26, 1935 to the aforementioned Potts & Callahan nine black-and-white photographs, each approximately 8 x 9½ inches, most dated Contracting Company. Below the statistical information is a small paper label in the negative. Each photograph linen-backed and all with typed captions on belonging to George Cobb, Highways Engineer for the Bureau of Highways in the verso. Oblong quarto. Contemporary plain brown paper binder, titled in ink Baltimore; the album likely belonged to him. manuscript, “29th Street Bridge” near spine. Minor wear to binder. Photographs in generally excellent condition. The “Leopold” credit in the photographs likely belongs to Harry Leopold, a contract photographer in Baltimore who also often worked for the Baltimore Sun. An informative collection of photographs documenting the various stages of con- struction of Baltimore’s 29th Street Bridge, a federal construction project com- A rare and perhaps unique photographic record of an FDR-era bridge construc- pleted during the latter years of the Great Depression. The 29th Street Bridge, tion project in Maryland. $2250. for his skill and industry as a topographical art- ist, a calling which he pursued in the seemingly generous spare time allowed him by Magdalen College. His first recorded drawings were of Wolvercote church, north of Oxford; one of his drawings was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1798, and he exhibited there every year un- til 1849. In 1797, with the encouragement of Martin Routh, president of Magdalen, whom he later described as his ‘early and constant friend’ (Buckler, 50), he published two aquatint engravings of the college, and two years later, in 1799, again with Routh’s support, he made an engraving of Lincoln Cathedral, the first of a series of engraved views which by 1814 had grown to include all the English cathedrals and many of the major collegiate and parish churches.... Commissions from other antiquaries, among them William Salt of Stafford, and from several noblemen, gentlemen, and clergymen, followed rapidly, and by the end of his life Buckler could claim authorship of 13,000 drawings of buildings throughout England and Wales, A Lovely Aquatint View with Somerset, Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Stafford- shire, and Wiltshire especially strongly represented. (Taunton Museum, Somerset, 3. Buckler, John: [VIEW OF SAINT MARY MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OX- holds a collection of Buckler’s drawings, as does the Bodleian Library, Oxford.) FORD]. London. 1799. Colored aquatint engraving. Image size 15½ x 22¾ inches, These meticulous works of art, in pencil or pen and wash, supplied an invaluable matted and framed to 24 x 32 inches. Minor toning, else fine. Matted and framed. body of information about medieval and later buildings, many of them previously A large aquatint engraving by British artist John Buckler (1770-1851), with a view unrecorded, and many subsequently demolished or drastically altered” – DNB. of Mary Magdalen College as seen from across the river. The River Cherwell is This print appears to be rather scarce and is actually misidentified and dated in the foreground, and the Magdalen Bridge and the College buildings are seen incorrectly in the British Museum’s online catalog, as their copy is lacking the from a distance, with the main tower rising centrally in the landscape. imprint line. No other references to this work could be found. Buckler went to work as a clerk for the College’s steward at the age of fifteen, es- DNB (online). BRITISH MUSEUM CATALOG (online) 1917, 1208.2955. tablishing a lifelong involvement with the college. “Buckler is chiefly remembered $1750. Massive Transcontinental Railroad Bridge 4. [Central Pacific Railroad Stereocard]: SECTION OF THE LONG RA- VINE TRESTLE BRIDGE, FROM BELOW, 120 FEET HIGH. CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD [caption title]. San Francisco: Thomas Houseworth & Co., [n.d., ca. 1870]. Single stereocard, 3½ x 7 inches. Stereo image mounted onto printed orange cardstock. Slight wear at edges. Very good.

A very attractive single stereocard image of the Central Pacific Railroad’s “Long Ravine Trestle Bridge.” The bridge is located in Nevada County, California, in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, just west of the Nevada state line. The image comes from a set sixty-two stereocards created by Thomas Houseworth & Company for the railroad sometime after the railroads completion, in 1869. According to the website of the Central Pacific Railroad (www.cprr.org), the Houseworth company produced more than one hundred such stereocards for the railroad, including more than a dozen views of the 878-foot long Trestle Bridge. A nice early stereoscopic image of an engineering wonder from an important American railroad. $250. “About half past three the Rebs had got their line formed & charged our line with three Corps. As soon as our skirmishers and a Brigade of the 4th Corps which had ben placed out clost to the skirmish line had got in we pored in a murderous fire onto them. They made three charges but were badly repulsed. Their loss is estimated at ten thousand killed, wounded & missing. Our loss seaven hundred.” 5. [Civil War]: Cook, Thomas J.: [PAIR OF MANUSCRIPT POCKET DIA- RIES KEPT BY CORPORAL, THEN SERGEANT THOMAS J. COOK, 104th OHIO INFANTRY, RECORDING HIS WAR EXPERIENCES UN- DER GENERALS BURNSIDE AND SHERMAN, INCLUDING CONTENT ON THE DEFENSE OF KNOXVILLE, THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN, AND THE BATTLES OF COLUMBIA, FRANKLIN, AND NASHVILLE]. [Various locations in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia. Jan. 1, 1863 to Feb. 22, 1865]. Two volumes: [271]; [186]pp. Approximately 30,000 words. The writing in each diary is occasionally challenging to read, due to occasional fading of ink, especially the latter portion of the second diary. First diary: 12mo. Contemporary green limp calf wallet-style binding. Minor chipping to spine, some rubbing, front hinge starting. Very good. Second diary: 16mo. Contemporary calf. Front cover detached, spine almost completely perished, rear cover lacking. Good only. A pair of daily diaries kept by a young Ohio officer serving in the middle-southern theater of the Civil War during the war’s last two years. Thomas J. Cook (1841- 1925) of Salem, Ohio enlisted as a corporal in the 104th Ohio Infantry in August, 1862, and was promoted to sergeant the following August. He mustered out at war’s end with the remainder of his regiment. His diary entries provide a vivid picture of life in the middle south during the Civil War, detailing several skirmishes in Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina, numerous troop movements, road repairs, guarding bridges, reports of receiving his military wages, and more. The first of Cook’s two pocket diaries was kept from January 1 through October 17 1863, documenting operations in Kentucky and East Tennessee under General Burnside. Cook reports on his movements, drilling, camp life, shooting target practice, guarding the bridge over the Kentucky River, protecting rail lines, and more. The diary begins during a particularly-difficult Kentucky winter (any mis- spellings have been retained in the quoted excerpts that follow). In late January, near Frankfort, Kentucky, Cook and some of his regiment are assigned to “gow down to the city to help fix up an old road so that the teams could get to whare the railroad strikes the River.” They also clear massive amounts of snow, which built up and blocked the railroad tracks. Protecting roads, railroads, and bridges was the primary duty of the 104th Ohio Infantry during this part of the war, and Cook makes several mentions of these efforts. By April 11, Cook traveled by train through Nicholasville, south of Lexington, and Hickman’s Bridge in the far western portion of Kentucky, to camp about twelve miles from Lancaster. Here he and his unit scouted the area around Lancaster, following their general duties to protect infrastructure. Sadly, on May 9, Cook Cumberland River on August 23, and into Tennessee two days later. The next day, on August 26, Cook reports that Burnside “rose through camp. He is not a very stilish man in his dress. Wares an old slouch and check shirt.”

In camp in Tennessee, Cook records the arrival of other units joining his in Tennessee, amassing for Burnside’s defense of Knoxville throughout the fall and early winter of 1863. On August 27, he writes that “the Second Brigade came up today. The good news of the fall of Ft. Sumpter and the Bombardment of Charleston was read on parade.” Over the next week or so, Cook marched south, crossed the New River into Morgan County, through Wartburg, and crosses the Clinch River, and arrived in Knoxville on September 6.

Throughout September, Cook mentions the Rebel surrender of Cumberland Gap, the death of a , a squirrel dinner he shared with Captain Fawcett, but little else. He suffers from diarrhea most of September and October, and leaves in mid-October for home on a medical furlough.

Cook’s second diary is more eventful, recording his actions from March 31, 1864 to February 22, 1865. Back from his furlough, Cook traveled through Nashville, Chattanooga, and Loudon in early April, arriving in Knoxville on April 5, 1864. On April 16, men from Cook’s regiment captured sixteen “Reb Bushwhackers...among them was the noted Capt. Reynolds who had been carrying on to shoot himself for some time in this part of Tenn.”

Cook’s regiment embarked on Sherman’s Atlanta campaign in late April. They first traveled by train back into Tennessee, through Athens to Charleston, before turning back towards Georgia, which they reached on May 4.

For about the next week, Cook and his regiment organize, maneuver, and prepare reports the death of Joseph H. Anglemyer from pneumonia; the unit gave a funeral for the Battle of Resaca, penetrating further into Georgia, sending men through service and buried him the next day. On May 26, Cook mentions news that the Dalton, “which I understand the Rebs have strongly fortified,” and hearing that “old flag flies over Vicksburgh,” a reference to the recently-undertaken Siege of a forward unit “got possession of part of Tunnel Hill & captured quite a number Vicksburg in Mississippi. of prisoners....” Cook writes of the troops forming battle lines and inching ever In late June and July, Cook’s unit moves all around Kentucky, through Buck’s closer to combat, and worries on May 8 that “I hardly believe there will be an Creek, Somerset, Stanford, Lancaster, and Nicholasville. On the last day of July, advance made on our side today, without the enemy making an atack on us.” Cook and his unit were ordered to march “towards Lancaster as some Rebs were The next day, after reporting that Grant and Burnside had “completely whipped trying to capture our train.” Lee’s Army & that they had retreated leaving all their dead & wounded on the August 3 finds Cook marching towards Camp Dick Robinson near Danville, field” (a reference to the Battle of the Wilderness), Cook’s fears are realized: “Made Kentucky. The camp was a staging ground for organizing troops to head south about four or five miles and formed in line of battle. Layed there until about and join Burnside’s forces in Tennessee. On August 12, Cook records an inspec- Noon when we started and moved forward. Have been nearing the skirmishers all tion by General Burnside, after which they marched south. They crossed the day. We kept advancing slowly until about four when a Reb Battery opened out on a Reg’t to the right of us & before it quit threw over us. Was now dammage On November 28 and 29, Cook records additional shelling by Confederate forces done in our Reg’t and not much in the Reg’t in the valey.” around Columbia, then his unit is assigned to move to Franklin, where the Battle of Franklin broke out the next day. Cook provides a vivid picture of the resound- Cook and his unit were then ordered to perform a “retrograde movement to try ing and bloody Union victory in his entry for December 1: & draw out the enemy from their works.” They skirmish off and on through the duration of the battle, which lasts just a few days. On May 14, Cook writes: “Last night will be one to be long remembered by many. About half past three “Crossed the valey in good order, under a heavy shower of grape & canister. the Rebs had got their line formed & charged our line with three Corps. As Moved up to the top of the ridge & were ordered to hold it at all hazards....We soon as our skirmishers and a Brigade of the 4th Corps which had ben placed lay there with the bullets and shell whisteling and screaching over us in all direc- out clost to the skirmish line had got in we pored in a murderous fire onto them. tions, cliping off the twigs...and in a good many instances taking off the tops of They made three charges but were badly repulsed. Their loss is estimated at good sized trees.” ten thousand killed, wounded & missing. Our loss seaven hundred. About one our troops commenced withdrawing & this evening we are laying on the suburbs Two days later, Cook writes that the Confederate forces are on the retreat, and of Nashville having successfully withdrawn without material loss. We went into he and Sherman’s forces continue toward Atlanta. They reached Cassville and camp & I was detailed for guard.” then Cartersville by May 20, just about forty miles northwest of Atlanta, regularly keeping up their “line of battle” and skirmishing with the Confederates along the Later figures would place the Confederate losses at Franklin at around 6,000, way. Cook provides much detail here about troop movements, skirmishes, and but it was nevertheless a lopsided and significant win for the Union. Cook and details an instance whereby Rebels destroyed some Union railroad cars. his unit stayed in the area around Nashville, preparing for further battles and occasionally skirmishing before participating in yet another overwhelming Union On May 28, Cook was shot in the leg by a stray bullet while reading his mail on victory in the Battle of Nashville on December 15-16. In these two days, the a stump, and his own march toward Atlanta was halted. The wound was severe Union effectively provided Confederate General John Bell Hood with his final enough to send him to the brigade hospital and kept him out of action through defeat of the war. Cook’s entries for December 15-16 are summarized here: November. As such, he would miss the major activities around Atlanta during July and August. He remained in Georgia through early June, and continued “We received the order to advance double quick, but the mud was so deep we to record details of the skirmishes he hears about near Atlanta. He is then or- could not move faster than a brisk walk....We had to lay down right in the mud dered to a Union hospital in Tennessee. On a train to the hospital on June 21, as the bullets whistled over close.... The order come for us to clime over our Cook writes, “when we got 43 miles from Nashville we found a train that had works. We rather expected to have warm work, for the Rebs were fortified in been thrown off the track by gorilahs. They shot the enginere four times, also front of us....Our brig captured five pieces of artillery. The Rebs are fairly routed, wounded another man.” with our cavalry at their heels. I cannot state how many have been captured but heard of one whole Brig. gowing in and there is more coming in all the time.” After convalescing over the summer and early fall, Cook returned to his regi- ment in Tennessee in October and he continues to record his unit’s movements The last several pages of the second diary have faded fairly substantially, but around Tennessee. By November 8, they had taken the Tennessee and Alabama could certainly be deciphered from close reading. They do reveal that in the final Railroad to Franklin, then marched to Spring Hill, which Cook describes as the month of the time recorded here, Cook and some of his unit were reassigned to “best part of Tennessee.” Over the next couple weeks, they travel past Columbia, North Carolina, where they arrived at Fort Fisher in early February. The last then Lynneville, to Pulaski, back to Lynneville, then back to Columbia, where few pages of the second diary record skirmishes fought by the 104th Ohio near they met up with skirmishers engaged in the Battle of Columbia, which took place Wilmington. Cook and his unit continued to serve in North Carolina for the November 24-29. He describes the scene on November 24: remainder of the war, and were stationed near Raleigh when General Lee sur- rendered at Appomattox, fufilling an optimistic message Cook had penned in his “When we got within about two miles of Columbia we took off to the left come diary back on January 1, 1865: “This is the commencement of a new year & still across lots until we struck a road coming at right angles to the Pike. After we the wicked Rebellion that has been raging for the last four years continues to had come about a mile on it we could hear firing & in a short time we had to darken our otherwise bright & happy country. But it is for us to hope that ere double quick & in a short time struck another Pike running into Columbia on this one draws to a close it will be thoroughly crushed.” which our mounted Infty. were retreating in on full split & the ‘jonnies’ after them in a hurry. The Second Brigade was in the lead & soon formed and threw An important and informative pair of Civil War diaries kept by a young man out skirmishers. The 1st Brigade forming on the Right with the 100th thrown serving in the 104th Ohio during some of the war’s more interesting southern out as skirmishers. Which stopped the Rebs in a hurry. The other Regts of the campaigns, with much research potential. $6500. 1st Brigade formed on the Right & Left of the Pike. Our Regt the 104th is on the Right of Pike coming out of Columbia. We went to work carrying Rails for Breast works....” Bridge Across the Rockies 6. [Colorado Railroad Stereocard]: THE “LOOP,” GEORGETOWN, COL., U.S.A. [caption title]. Meadville, Pa: Keystone View Company, 1898. Single stereocard, 3½ x 7 inches. Stereo image mounted onto printed peach cardstock. Paper lightly soiled at edges, image clean and crisp. Very good.

A nice stereocard image of a locomotive steaming across a high railroad bridge in the Colorado Rockies. Another railroad track is shown crossing underneath the bridge, and a snow-capped mountain is visible in the distance. Georgetown is located just west of Denver, along the route of what is now Interstate 70. $200. ages in the album focus on the Bethany Dam project, with additional shots of houses and other buildings presumably near the site, perhaps structures now lost in the wake of the dam’s construction. Other photos show construction of a pipeline and a small pedestrian bridge.

The next important series of photos, several hundred of them in fact, focus on the construction of the Shepaug Dam, which the city of Waterbury completed in 1933 to divert water from the Shepaug River to Waterbury city reservoirs. Over a third of the total number of photographs in the archive concern either the Shepaug or Bantam rivers, most with manuscript captions on the verso. Most of these photos show the construction of the dam, the Shepaug River Bridge, or the Bantam River or Morris, Connecticut siphon tunnels. These photos date from about 1919 to the mid-1930s, concentrated mostly around the late ‘20s and early ‘30s, when most of the construction was accomplished. There are also numerous photos of the power station and other related buildings around the construction site.

The majority of the remainder of the archive shows road, bridge, and waterway construction from all around the Waterbury area, including a great many photos showing downtown Waterbury, and with numer- ous images of the construction or paving of roads such as Watertown Avenue, Alder Street, Baldwin Street, or Lovers Lane near the Mad River Bridge, as well as the Shepaug River Bridge, Bank Street Bridge, Turkey Hill Bridge, Sheffield Street Bridge, and the Silver Street Bridge over the Mad River. There is a striking juxtaposition of two photos in one of the paperbound albums, showing the South Main Street Bridge as it Building Connecticut, Especially the Bethany Dam was in 1929 and as it was renewed in 1940, both shots taken from practically the same vantage point. The snapshots highlight the difference in bridge construc- 7. [Connecticut]: [MASSIVE ARCHIVE OF OVER 1,550 ORIGINAL PHO- tion styles, the older showing the traditional trestle system common in the 19th TOGRAPHS RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, MAINLY IN century and then the sleeker, modern box girder style. There are a couple dozen NEW HAVEN COUNTY, CONNECTICUT, 1892 – 1951]. [Mainly Waterbury, images marking the period between the two bridges, showing the dismantling of Ct. 1892-1951]. Approximately 1,550 sepia-toned or black-and-white photographs, the old and the rising of the new. most between 2 x 4 inches and 4 x 6 inches (a handful slightly smaller, some slightly larger), a handful of panoramas, and about ten examples 8 x 10 inches. The other paperbound album spotlights Chase Park, the Chase Parkway, and a One cloth photograph album, two paperbound photo albums, numerous loose bridge built over Sled Haul Brook. The images date from 1927 to 1938 and reveal album pages, and the remainder of approximately 950 photographs loose. Some a landscape transformed from a rural park area to a modern parkway, complete slightly faded, minor edge wear, a handful unevenly trimmed, almost all of the with a brand new bridge. This series of about 100 photographs is particularly loose photos previously mounted, with adhesive and paper remnants on verso. A interesting for its depiction of the march of progress through a particularly scenic handsome and engaging assemblage. rural Connecticut area. An amazing collection of vernacular photography, most detailing public works Another series of over seventy photographs shows the construction of a pipeline projects in Connecticut from the late 1920s through the 1940s. The earliest of along Great Brook in Waterbury from 1919 to 1935. The photographs follow the photos are housed in the cloth photo album and date from 1892 to 1894, Great Brook at the Naugatuck River from South Main Street, along Elm Street, showing the construction of the Washington Avenue bridge and sewer system in Meadow Street, and Brook Street to North Main Street. This selection of photo- Waterbury, Connecticut and the construction of the Bethany Dam. In fact, the graphs, more than any other in the archive, shows people at work on the project, lion’s share of the photos in the present archive come from Waterbury, Bethany, building the pipe and paving the foundation of the waterway. It appears that or other towns in New Haven and Litchfield counties. The majority of the im- the project was intended to change the flow of water near Waterbury, perhaps to supply water to a different part of the city, relieve flooding in the area, or divert the water to a reservoir.

This archive is an important treasure trove for the urban planner or developer, or anyone studying water use, engineering, architecture, or public works projects, specifically dam, bridge, and road construction. Some groups of photographs are like time-lapse photography; one can almost watch the Shepaug River Bridge being built from the foundation to finished product through a couple hundred photographs. The photos reveal the massive nature of this and other public works projects, especially interesting since most of the work here was begun and completed in the darkest years of the Great Depression. Joseph W. Dellapenna, “Waterbury’s ‘Water War’” on Rhode Island Water Re- sources Board website. $7500. Railroad Routes All Over the West, Illustrated 8. Crofutt, George, publisher: CROFUTT’S TRANS-CONTINENTAL Crofutt started publication of his guides in 1869 and issued them annually. This TOURIST’S GUIDE, CONTAINING A FULL AND AUTHENTIC DE- is apparently the third or fourth revision, described on the titlepage as “Fourth SCRIPTION OF OVER FIVE HUNDRED CITIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, Volume, Third Annual Revised.” Wonderfully illustrated with plates depicting STATIONS...FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Fourth railway routes and scenery from all over the West (e.g. Yellowstone Park, Salt Lake Volume, Third Annual Revised. . 1872. 224pp. including illustrations, City, and Omaha Bridge). Crofutt guides rarely escaped heavy use, but the present plus 8pp. of advertisements, and six folding sheets with plates and maps printed on copy is in quite nice condition. The best guide of its day to the Pacific Railroad. both sides. Illus. Engraved title. 12mo. Original gilt cloth, a.e.g. Some bubbling HOWES C901 (ref). $500. of cloth on covers, spine a bit faded, slight edge fraying. Overall an unusually tight, very good copy. Hundreds of Views of the Thames 9. Farington, Joseph; William Westall; Samuel Owen; [and others]: [ALBUM OF VIEWS ON THE RIVER THAMES, ENGLAND]. [N.d., but mounts watermarked 1837]. 92 leaves, window-mounted with 344 prints after Farington, Westall, Owen, and others, and two original watercolors, all of views on or near the Thames; one plate folding; twenty-eight handcolored. Folio. Expertly bound to style in light brown half calf over original red textured cloth boards, spine gilt with raised bands, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Most plates cut close to the image, some with loss of imprint. Very good. Provenance: James Frothingham Hunnewell (1832-1910, Charleston, Suffolk County, Mass. bookplate dated 1902).

A very fine series of views mounted and bound geographically: the first leaf has views of Thames Head, the final leaf of the Thames estuary.

Following the tradition established by the Boydells with their History of the River Thames, the present album allows the viewer to follow the course of the river Thames through the countryside of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, and Surrey before entering London, and then through and out the other side, with Essex on one bank and Kent on the other.

The prints include aquatints (handcolored, printed in two tints, printed in one tint, and uncolored), lithographs, copper engravings (handcolored and uncolored), and steel engravings. There are images from two main works: J. & J. Boydell’s History of the River Thames (London, 1794-96) with twenty-eight from a total of seventy-six aquatints after Joseph Farington (with five printed in bistre, one printed in two tints, and twenty-two handcolored) (see Abbey 432). There is also a complete suite of uncolored plates from William Westall’s Thirty-Five Views on the Thames (London, 1824) (see Abbey 434 [a handcolored issue]). Also included are at least eighty-one uncolored engravings by William or George Cooke after sketches by Samuel Owen.

Neither of the watercolors are signed, but one is of Randall’s Mill at Nine Elms and is inscribed “Nine Elms / Battersea Surrey” in pencil on the verso with a pencilled annotation on the mount. The second is inscribed in pencil: “Scene from the Inn at Purflett [sic] Sept 18/[18]25.” Randall’s Mill was a favorite sub- ject for artists in the 1820s, but the present example is reminiscent of the work of John Varley (1778-1842). He is known to have produced at least one other view of the same subject (see Brighton & Hove Museums catalogue: John Varley’s “Randall’s Mill, Nine Elms, looking towards Vauxhall Bridge,” signed and dated 1830, watercolor, 8 3/16 x 12 inches, accession number 100018), and the pencilled annotation beneath the watercolor could be in Varley’s hand. If this is the case, then he is a possible compiler, as a number of the other images are inscribed in pencil in the same hand.

The album was subsequently in the library of the well-known 19th-century Bos- ton book collector, James F. Hunnewell. The author of a number of antiquarian and historical works, he also had a catalogue of his library privately printed in an edition of fifty copies, A Catalogue of Books Belonging to James F. Hunnewell of Charlestown, Mass. (Cambridge, Ma., 1873). ABBEY 432 (Boydell), 433 (Havell). TOOLEY 102 (Boydell), 255 (Havell, 1812 ed). $9,500. View of an Early American Railroad Bridge 10. [Fenderich, Charles]: [RAIL ROAD BRIDGE OVER THE WISSAHICKON, NEAR MANAYUNK]. [Philadelphia. ca. 1834]. Lithograph, approximately 14 x 8 inches. In an old frame, under glass. A bit tanned. Overall quite good.

An early American railroad print. “The bridge spans the Wissahickon just above a waterfall. Robinson’s mill stands at the right. On the bridge is a train consist- ing of a primitive engine, two stagecoach-like passenger cars with passengers on the roofs, and a low car, probably for freight. This bridge was completed for the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad in 1834, and was torn down in 1844 to make way for a new bridge. The bridge had been very unpopular because it was not deemed safe, and this feeling had operated against the success of the railroad” – Wainwright. This image is illustrated on page 28 of Wainwright’s book. WAINWRIGHT, PHILADELPHIA IN THE ROMANTIC AGE OF LITHOG- RAPHY 304. $750. Original Civil War Artwork in the Aftermath of a Mississippi Battle 11. [Harper’s Weekly]: [Civil War]: [PENCIL SKETCH OF IUKA, MISSIS- bridge on the Memphis & Charlestown Railroad line behind him. In the center SIPPI, DRAWN FOR Harper’s Weekly, 1862]. [Iuka, Ms. ca. October 1862]. background are the building of the Iuka Springs House, the waters of which the Pencil sketch, with ink caption, 5¼ x 9 inches. Old central vertical fold, with ink verso caption claims “possess many medical qualities.” caption at foot of image and twelve-line description on verso. Near fine. Matted. The battle of Iuka took place on Sept. 19, 1862, in which smaller elements from A well-executed pencil sketch of Iuka, Mississippi, drawn after the capture of the the Southern forces of both sides sought to prevent one another from reinforcing town by Union troops under Gen. William Rosecrans, which served as the basis larger armies to the north in Tennessee under the command of generals Braxton for an engraving that appeared in the Oct. 4, 1862 issue of Harper’s Weekly. A Bragg and Don Carlos Buell. $1100. Union soldier rides across the foreground, with the Tennessee River and a rail became stuck together, minor fading and curling to a handful of other photos. Overall very good.

Engaging photographs by and of a couple living in Emmett, Idaho, just north of Boise, and their travels throughout the region, as well as to Port- land, Oregon. The man is never named, but is presumably the photographer in most cases, as he is referred to as “Me” or “I” in the captions; the woman is named Daisy. Many of the photographs are captioned in manuscript, either with a paper label pasted below the photo or written directly on the photo itself, usually identifying the loca- tion and subjects. The first album begins with photos of Daisy, and “Auntie” and “Grandad” from Portland. There are several photos of the Payette River and the bridge in Emmett, includ- ing a few where the bridge has been damaged by flooding. There is a photo of the “new” Emmett High School building (dated 1921) and Wardwell Elementary School. There are also several pictures of the photographer’s mother and siblings, friends and extended family, the family home (301 E. 1st St, Emmett), and numerous shots of Daisy. The photographer, Daisy, and friends make several trips to the nearby towns of Sweet and Montour and the hot springs there, as well as over the border to Vale and Fruitland, Oregon.

The second album continues in a similar vein, starting with several photos from a trip to Lake Lowell (Deer Flat Reservoir), about thirty miles southwest of Emmett. Next are photos of Arrowrock Dam on the Boise River, just east of Boise. There are aerial views of the dam, as well as photos of it under construction, including shots of the outlet gates and the dam before and after filling. The Life in Rural Idaho Arrowrock Dam was completed in October, 1915, and at the time was the tallest dam in the world (until the completion of the Schräh dam in Switzerland in 1924). 12. [Idaho Photographica]: [TWO PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS DOCU- Finally, there are photos from a visit to lumber mills in Placerville, Idaho. About MENTING LIFE IN AND AROUND THE TOWN OF EMMETT, IN two dozen of the images in these albums are photo prints from a larger collec- SOUTHWESTERN IDAHO, IN THE EARLY 20th CENTURY]. [Emmett, tion of professional photos, including aerial views of Emmett, the Boise Payette Id., Sweet, Id., Portland, Or. ca. 1915-1921]. Two albums. 169 total photographs, Lumber Co. mill, the Payette River, and downtown Emmett. mounted, measuring from 1 x 1 to 3 x 5 inches. Matching albums of black textured cloth, with blindstamping on front boards. Wear, rubbing, and some light soiling An interesting collection of photos documenting life in Emmett as the region was to boards. Twelve leaves detached (but present and undamaged) in first album, the in process of transitioning from a mining economy to agriculture and lumber some water damage to second album with minor damage to twenty photos which processing. $850. also been helpful for Japanese-Americans businesspeople looking for a fresh start after their companies were taken away from them at the outset of the relocation program, and for new businesses to connect with the growing Japanese-American community in San Francisco and other places after World War II. The guide, illustrated with numerous photographs and a front cover illustration featuring the Golden Gate Bridge by renowned Japanese-American artist Chiura Obata, consists of a lengthy report printed entirely in Japanese, followed by a bilingual directory of Japanese-American organizations (including the Japanese American Citizens League, the Anti-Discrimination Committee, and others), churches (mostly Buddhist), professional organizations, businesses, and a residen- tial directory. The latter is organized by cities, with the great majority listing names and addresses of individuals in dozens of cities throughout California, but also Utah, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Idaho, Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Washington, D.C., Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, and Peru. The directory is interspersed throughout with advertisements for Japanese-owned businesses and other businesses friendly to the Japanese-American community; advertisements are also printed on the inside covers and back cover. Advertised businesses include the Yamate Brothers, importers and exporters; Takeuchi Broth- ers, “wholesale distributors of quality fishing tackle;” Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co., which touts “Direct high-speed radiotelegraph service to and from Japan;” Shibata Mt. Eden Nursery Co.; Kusano Hotel; Ogi Jewelry company; Wm. S. Yamashita Company, grocers; Dr. G.I. Kawamura and his medical partners; the Namimatsu Farm; Hime Brand Sacramento Noodle Factory; Mukai Brewing Co., and scores of others. The photographic illustrations at the beginning of the text are interesting. They open with a page showing various California buildings, including the state capitol in Sacramento. These are followed by pictures of the evacuation of Japanese Americans in 1942, a couple of scenes inside the internment camps, including Heart Mountain, and two aerial views of internment camps, one identified as Topaz in Utah. These photographs are followed by several pages of San Francisco street Directory of Japanese Americans, scenes showing various buildings of Japanese-American interest, ending with the Produced Just Three Years After World War II Nichi Bei Times office. 13. [Japanese Americana]: KIKAN FUKKO SHI NARABINI JUSHOROKU [in This directory was published by the Nichi Bei Times, an important Japanese- Japanese characters] NICHI BEI TIMES EVACUATION-RESETTLEMENT American newspaper started in San Francisco in 1946 by former employees of REPORT 1948 DIRECTORY [cover title]. San Francisco: Nichi Bei Times, the Nichi Bei Shimbun, after the return of Japanese Americans to the Bay Area 1948. [16],1-42,42A,43-138,[2],[10],1-[144],[4],145-243,[3]pp. Text in Japanese from internment camps. The paper quickly became an important source of news and English. Illustrations. Quarto. Publisher’s textured pictorial wrappers. Minor for Japanese Americans that the mainstream media often neglected, including wear, head of spine chipped. Minor toning to text, internally clean. Very good. important issues such as civil rights violations dealing with discrimination and hate crimes. At the time of its print demise in 2009, the Nichi Bei Times was the A fascinating guide designed to assist Japanese Americans with resettlement after longest-running Japanese-language newspaper in northern California; it continues their forced evacuation and confinement in internment camps earlier in the de- today as an online newspaper. cade. This guide would have been of great help in assisting Japanese Americans in reconnecting and reuniting with family, friends, and business associates from OCLC records just four copies, at Yale, the San Francisco Public Library, the whom they had been separated during the internment period. It would have Bancroft Library, and the University of Washington. OCLC 55742908, 21851426. $4250. book entitled Nome and Seward Peninsula, author E.S. Harrison includes a biographical passage on Lang:

“W. H. Lang is at the head of one of the large ditch enterprises of Seward Peninsula. He is the general manager of the Flambeau Ditch and Mining Company, which is constructing a thirty-mile ditch from the Flambeau River to Hastings Creek. This ditch will cover a large area of valuable mining ground. Mr. Lang is a native of Rock County, Wisconsin, and was born September 25, 1856....The business of his company was constructing and building, and its field of work was in Northern Wisconsin. Several electric light plants were constructed by the company. Another feature of the company’s work was the building of lumbermen’s log driving dams. Mr. Lang followed this character of work until 1897 when he started for the Klondike by way of White Pass. He spent two years on the Yukon in the business of mining. He returned home in 1899, and in the following spring went to Nome on the Robert Dollar. During his first two years in the Nome country he mined on Hungry, Oregon and Bourbon Creeks. In 1903 he organized the Flambeau Ditch and Mining Company and has been associated with the enterprise as general manager ever since.”

The photographs move through British Columbia and Alaska, showing a great variety of scenes along the way. A couple of the early pictures are captioned “W.H. Lang & party” and show a group of men in the snowy wilderness of Alaska or perhaps British Columbia, with pack horses out- side log cabins and in camp. One of the camp scenes shows two Native Americans standing next to a tent emblazoned with the name “Camp Latz.” Other shots feature hunters with a prize deer, men standing at the dam of a river, men standing in an Alaskan coastal town next to a large canoe, and a few images of frontier families posed near their houses.

These pictures are followed by a photograph bearing a sign reading, “New Wellington Coal Evans, Coleman & Evans.” These were two separate coal companies operating in Vancouver, British Columbia in the early Alaska and British Columbia 20th century. Another photograph shows Hing Kee Tailors, a successful shop in at the Height of the Klondike Gold Rush Vancouver’s Chinatown district. Amongst these photographs are several show- ing pack trains in the wilderness, frontier houses and settlements, and images 14. [Klondike Photographica]: [Lang, William H.]: [LARGE VERNACULAR of indigenous peoples, namely a photograph of a smiling native family and one PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM FEATURING SCENES IN ALASKA AND BRIT- of a nine-piece brass band composed of indigenous musicians. There are also ISH COLUMBIA DURING THE KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH, LIKELY AS- street scenes, railroads, harbor scenes (including two featuring a paddle-wheel SEMBLED BY DITCH AND MINING ENGINEER WILLIAM H. LANG steamboat), a handful of industrial images (one showing coal or a similar raw OR ONE OF HIS ASSOCIATES]. [Various locations in British Columbia and material being loaded down a conveyor belt), and numerous photographs of the Alaska. ca. 1895-1903]. 175 silver gelatin photographs, each approximately 4¼ x wilds around Vancouver. 6¼ or 3½ x 4½ inches. Oblong large folio. Contemporary brown pebbled leather. Binding worn and chipped, rear board detached, front joint partially split. Some Intermingled with the northern scenes are two pages of photographs featuring surface soiling to several photographs. Overall good condition. In an archival scenes in Salt Lake City, Utah, showing the Brigham Young Monument and the folding box. interior of the Mormon Tabernacle, along with various street scenes. It is likely that Lang took a side trip to Utah during his northwestern exploits. Besides A fantastic, large-format vernacular photograph album capturing a variety of scenes these two pages, the vast majority of the album captures the people, places, life, in Alaska and British Columbia during the Klondike Gold Rush, memorializing and development of the northwestern and Canada during an im- the exploits of ditch and mining engineer, William H. Lang, as he worked on the portant period for Alaska and British Columbia, and was likely kept by William Seward Peninsula in Alaska. Lang was a noted engineer from Wisconsin work- H. Lang, an important Wisconsin engineer working in Alaska at the time, or one ing on the Seward Peninsula around the turn of the 20th century. The nature of his associates. of the photographs, namely the industrial scenes and pictures of men at a dam E.S. Harrison, Nome and Seward Peninsula, History, Description, Biographies and or at construction sites, align with Lang’s professional experience. In his 1905 Stories (Seattle: Metropolitan Press, 1905), pp.206-7. $3000. Superb George McClellan Letter on His Mexican-American War Service 15. McClellan, George B.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM GEORGE McCLELLAN TO CAPT. GEORGE WASHINGTON CULLUM, ABOUT HIS MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR SERVICE WITH THE EN- GINEER CORPS]. West Point, N.Y. Nov. 14, 1848. [7]pp. Three quarto sheets (one bifolium, and two loose sheets). Two horizontal mailing folds, light foxing to last two sheets, a few very short fold separations. Very good. An unpublished report by George Brinton McClellan on his Mexican-American War service, written while a first lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers to his commanding officer, Capt. George Washington Cullum, additionally docketed with McClellan’s signature on the verso of the last leaf. McClellan (later commander of the during the Civil War) was a young graduate from West Point when he received his first taste of combat as a lieutenant with Company A of the Corps of Engineers in the Mexican-American War. At the war’s close he returned to West Point, where his regiment helped with the instruction of young engineers. This letter was drafted at the request of his West Point commanding officer, George Washington Cullum, who wanted a full report on the company’s activities in Mexico. For most of the war the company was commanded by Capt. Gustavus Woodson Smith, who later fought against McClellan as a Confederate major general. McClellan’s report reflects the dangerous and unglamorous nature of military engineering work from their arrival under Zachary Taylor’s command to the conclusion of the war. In the campaign for Tampico, the company “performed a great deal of hard & useful labour in repairing the road, making bridges &c, for which the men...have never received one word of credit in any official paper.” Of the siege of Vera Cruz, McClellan recalls “cutting the road for the investing corps, the handsome manner in which they supported the reconnoitering officers & their constant & untiring exertions in doing the work of at least 10 times their number in the trenches.” Again he laments the lack of recognition and hopes the Chief Engineer will “do it the justice denied by others.” From there they rushed to the Battle of Cerro Gordo, with “wretched & insufficient” transportation which forced them to “lit- erally push the wagons up every hill we came to.” He then describes the march on to Puebla and Mexico City, followed by the journey back to West Point. An engaging account of the war by a major historical figure. $7500. Including Three Chromos by Prang 16. [Miller, James]: MILLER’S NEW YORK AS IT IS. OR STRANGER’S Handsome guide to New York. The first and last leaves contain pictorial advertise- GUIDE-BOOK TO THE CITIES OF NEW YORK, AND ments, and it is illustrated with numerous plates. The three Prang cards present ADJACENT PLACES.... New York. 1871. [10],134,[20]pp. plus thirty-four here are “Fancy Bridge No. 14,” “The Cove,” and “The Marble Bridge.” $750. plates and three mounted chromolithograph cards by Prang. Original red cloth, stamped in blind. Light wear and soiling to binding. Internally clean. Very good. issued numerous series of cards, often showing nature scenes, and meant to be collected and tipped into albums. Among these series, one of the rarest is the present series of thirty-six views of Central Park. When these cards were issued, Central Park was still a new attraction in . In 1857 a competition had been announced to submit designs for the park, and the winning entry was the “Greensward Plan” submitted by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. The park opened later in 1857. This collection contains views of some of the most famous places in the park, including The Ramble and the Boat Landing. The scenes in this collection are:

1) “The Island.” 19) “The Drive.” 2) “The Rustic Bridge.” 20) “The Bridle Path.” 3) “Entrance to Cave.” 21) “The Music Temple.” 4) “The Lake.” 22) “Sunset on the Lake.” 5) “Rustic Arbor.” 23) “Rustic Arbor.” 6) “The Brook.” 24) “A Glimpse of the Lake.” 7) “Moonlight on the Lake.” 25) “The Marble Bridge.” 8) “Cascade.” 26) “Vine Arbor.” 9) “The Arch.” 27) “Bust of Schiller.” 10) “The Ramble.” 28) “The Fountain.” 11) “Boat Landing.” 29) “On the Ramble, near the Lake.” 12) “Marble Bridge Over the Lake.” 30) “Fancy Bridge No. 14.” 13) “Rude Stairway.” 31) “The Casino.” 14) “Abode of the Swans.” 32) “Bridge at the 7th Avenue Entrance.” 15) “The Silver Lake.” 33) “The Cove.” 16) “Entrance to Cave From the Lake.” 34) “Rustic Bower.” 17) “The Tower.” 35) “Rustic Arbor.” 18) “Ornamental Bridge.” 36) “Evening on the Lake.”

Prang followed the present three series of Central Park views with another two series issued in 1869. Any of the cards in the Central Park series are among the rarest of Prang cards. With the Central Park series is another early Prang series, depicting street scenes and characters of New York. These charming images capture the spirit of the metropolis at the beginning of the Gilded Age. They are: Thirty-six Prang Chromos of Scenes in Central Park, with Twelve More of New York Street Scenes 1) “Street Musician.” 8) “Walking Advertisement Balloon 2) “The Drum Major.” Seller.” 17. [New York Views]: [Prang, Louis]: [VIEWS IN CENTRAL PARK]. [with:] 3) “Emigrants Just Arrived.” 9) “The Convoy Over Broadway.” [NEW YORK STREET SCENES]. [Boston: Manufactured by L. Prang & Co., 4) “Muddy Street.” 10) “On Broadway.” 1864]. Central Park: Thirty-six chromolithographic cards, each 4¼ x 2½ inches. 5) “The Fruit Pedlar.” 11) “French Nurse.” Tipped to three album sheets. Street Scenes: Twelve chromolithographic cards, 6) “The Old Coin Merchant.” 12) “Newspaper Boy ‘Tribune Sir?’” each 4¼ x 2½ inches, tipped to matching album sheet. Light soiling or foxing to 7) “The Street Singers.” a few images. Near fine. A marvelous collection of chromolithographic views of New York City’s Central An amusing collection of images of the sort of people who would have been found Park, issued by the renowned firm of Louis Prang and Company. In 1864, Prang in Central Park in the 1860s. $8500. Classic Views in New England 18. Oakes, William: SCENERY OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS: WITH SIXTEEN PLATES, FROM THE DRAWINGS OF ISAAC SPRAGUE. Boston: Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1848. 4 preliminary leaves, sixteen lithographic plates interleaved with corresponding leaves of explanatory text. Folio. Original blue cloth, gilt device on front cover, rebacked in period style. Corners repaired, minute wear to rear cover. Faint dampstain in upper outer corner of one plate. Overall internally clean. Very good. A series of classic landscape views in New Hampshire and Maine: 1) “The White Mountains”; 2) “Mount Crawford”; 3) “The Notch of the White Mountains”; 4) “The Lower Cascade of the Notch”; 5) “The Gate of the Notch”; 6) “The Falls of the Amonoosuck”; 7) “The Granite Cliffs of the Falls” (two views on one plate); 8) “The Franconia Notch”; 9) “Profile Mountain at Franconia”; 10) “The Profile Rock”; 11) “The Basin, in Lincoln, N.H.”; 12) “The Flume, in Lincoln, N.H.”; 13) “Nancy’s Bridge”; 14) “Mt. Crawford, from the Notch” (two views on one plate); 15) “Mount Washington” (two views on one plate); and 16) “Mt. Washington, over Tuckerman’s Ravine.” HOWES O1, “b.” $1750. subjects of the photographs range widely around the city of Cleveland, showing stores, factories, warehouses, breweries, foundries, welding companies, and much more, along with residences, railroads, bridges, undeveloped or underdeveloped areas, and scenes along the Cuyahoga River. The images are often populated with residents, sometimes posing for the photographer, and are also interesting for the automobiles, advertisements, and other tertiary subject matter contained in them. The annotations describe the subjects and locations of the photographs, with streets delineated on one or both sides of build- ings. The annotations also include address designations, along with parcel numbers for the associated plots of land.

The intention of the photographs is not entirely clear, and would be an interest- ing research project for scholars of urban development, specifically in early 20th- century Ohio. We believe that the likely purpose of the photographs relates to some form of a real estate development project in Cleveland, or real estate purchasing. One of the largest construction and re- development projects in Cleveland in the 1920s was the Union Terminal and Terminal Tower, which resulted in the closing of the Diebolt Brewing Company (pictured here); perhaps the collection relates to that monumental project. The photographs could have also served a municipal function such as defining political districts, Documenting Rapid Urban Growth in Cleveland construction, rezoning, or property taxation. However, with the explosion of growth and construction in Cleveland in the decade of the Roaring Twenties, 19. [Ohio Photographica]: [Urban Development]: [SUBSTANTIAL COL- the photographs most likely relate to the city’s development or redevelopment. LECTION OF ANNOTATED PHOTOGRAPHS PERTAINING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF CLEVELAND, OHIO DURING THE 1920s]. [Cleve- Aside from the original intent of the compiler, the photographs themselves provide land: Printed by the Fowler and Slater Co., 1922-1924]. 161 black-and-white glossy an important and extensive survey of the city of Cleveland in the early 1920s. Kodak prints, each 5 x 7 inches. Each photograph with an inventory number and Many of the buildings and residences pictured here are long gone, along with the often a date in white printed in the negative, and with further manuscript notes people, automobiles, advertising billboards, and undeveloped areas in the pho- in black ink in the lower margin or on the photograph itself. Minor rubbing and tographs. The photographs were taken and produced by the Fowler and Slater edge wear. Very good plus. Company, a prominent Cleveland photography studio founded in the city in 1895. An engaging and useful collection of photographs with often extensive annotations A valuable and insightful collection of annotated photographs of the city of in the image area, documenting the development of Cleveland in the 1920s. The Cleveland at the outset of a period of rapid change. $3250. Urban Landscape of the Steel City 20. [Pittsburgh]: ART WORK OF PITTSBURG [sic]. PUBLISHED IN TWELVE PARTS. [N.p.]: George E. White Company, 1899. [14] leaves of text, plus seventy-eight plates. Folio. Green cloth spine, card covers lacking. Minor scattered soiling. About very good.

Seventy-eight plates of photomechanical reproductions of photos showing public buildings, rural and town views, bridges, etc., in and around Pittsburgh. The images are accompanied by a brief descriptive text. This work appears to be part of a series published by the George E. White Company, which included views in other towns such as Cincinnati; Paterson, New Jersey; and New Britain, Connecticut. This work was published in parts, and all the works in this series appear to be relatively scarce. Only eight copies of this title appear in OCLC. OCLC 10385762, 166590816, 82493876. $950. Second American Book on Bridge Building 21. Pope, Thomas: A TREATISE ON BRIDGE ARCHITECTURE; IN A rare American work on bridge building, which describes Pope’s plan for a great WHICH THE SUPERIOR ADVANTAGES OF THE FLYING PENDENT “flying pendent lever bridge” over the Hudson River. This is only the second LEVER BRIDGE ARE FULLY PROVED. WITH AN HISTORICAL AC- American book on the subject of bridge building, the first being An Essay on COUNT AND DESCRIPTION OF DIFFERENT BRIDGES ERECTED IN Building Wooden Bridges (1797) by Charles W. Peale. Pope surveys the world’s VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD, FROM AN EARLY PERIOD, DOWN great bridges and includes handsome engravings of the Hampton Court Bridge, TO THE PRESENT TIME. New York. 1811. [14],[9]-xxxii,[33]-288pp. plus Wearmouth Bridge, the Bridge of the Louvre over the Seine, as well as his pro- errata leaf and eighteen plates (including duplicate of “View of T. Pope’s Flying posed bridge over the Hudson. In addition to his architectural pursuits, Pope Lever Bridge”). Original boards, rebacked in leather, leather label. Moderate tan- was an accomplished gardener and ship builder. His patented design, although ning and occasional foxing, else quite clean. Very good. Untrimmed. In a cloth apparently not appreciated in his day, became the basis for the cantilever bridge. case, leather label. An interesting subscribers list includes Mayor De Witt Clinton and Gov. Daniel D. Tompkins. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 23721. SABIN 64123. RINK 2658. Condit, AMERICAN BUILDING ART, pp.86-87. HITCHCOCK 946. $1500. FDR Transfers Federal Employees 22. Roosevelt, Franklin D.: [TYPED LETTER, SIGNED BY FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, TO THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY ADMINISTRATOR OF PUBLIC WORKS, REGARDING PERSONNEL]. Washington. Dec. 6, 1938. [1]p. Folio. Old folds. Minor soiling. Near fine. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt writes to Harold L. Ickes, Administrator of Public Works, regarding a transfer of four employees to that agency, with their former and future positions and salaries listed. The four men in question, transferred from various departments and agencies, were all to become Engineer Inspectors for the Public Works Administration. The Public Works Administration was a New Deal agency created in 1933, in an attempt to stimulate the economy with the construction of large-scale public infrastructure projects, such as dams and bridges. It was closed in 1939, with the advent of World War II. $1250. Essential If London Was Drowning and You Lived by the River 23. Smith, Samuel [publisher]: A CORRECT TIDE-TABLE, SHEWING THE TRUE TIME OF HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE, TO EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR 1805.... [London]: Printed and sold by Samuel Smith, [1805?]. Broadside, 15 x 9¼ inches. Old, light fold lines. Near fine. A comprehensive list showing the times of high tide on the River Thames at London Bridge for each day of the year 1805. Additional information allows the user to adapt the times for a few dozen other cities and ports. You would not have wanted to sail the Thames in 1805 without it. A nice ephemeral survival, and scarce. $450. Very Rare Early Charleston, South Carolina Imprint 24. [South Carolina Laws]: ACTS PASSED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF SOUTH-CAROLINA, AT A SESSIONS [sic] BEGUN TO BE HOLDEN AT CHARLES-TOWN, ON THURSDAY THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER...IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1751. AND FROM THENCE CONTINUED BY DIVERS ADJOURNMENTS TO THE 21st DAY OF APRIL, 1753. Charleston: Printed by Peter Timothy, 1754. 19,[1]pp. Folio. Expertly bound to style in period marbled paper wrappers. Very good. The acts include directions for appointing commissioners to build a bridge “over the Pond in the Four Holes Swamp,” for building churches in several locations, for making the Black River and Wataree River navigable, and more. “Collection includes acts passed in March and April 1753 and title of tax act, Aug., 1753. Possibly not issued until 1755” – Gould & Morgan. The official printer of South Carolina at this time, Peter Timothy, was the son of the proto-printer of the state, Lewis Timothy, and (as recorded in an article by Douglas C. McMurtrie) was a regular correspondent with Benjamin Franklin, who had helped his father establish the press. An exceptionally rare work, with Gould & Morgan locating copies at the Library of Congress, Harvard Law School, and the present copy. GOULD & MORGAN, SOUTH CAROLINA IMPRINTS 150. SHIPTON & MOONEY 40718. BRISTOL B1682. ESTC W31064. $4500. Improving Water Transportation in the United States 25. Stevenson, David: SKETCH OF THE CIVIL ENGINEERING OF A classic compendium documenting the early stages of America’s internal improve- NORTH AMERICA; COMPRISING REMARKS ON THE HARBOURS, ments, including bridges, canals, railways, harbors, steam power, etc. Brooke RIVER AND LAKE NAVIGATION, LIGHTHOUSES, STEAM-NAVI- Hindle calls this the best of the early European works on American engineering, GATION, WATER-WORKS, CANALS, ROADS, RAILWAYS, BRIDGES, adding that the earliest American surveys of native civil engineering feats were AND OTHER WORKS IN THAT COUNTRY. London: John Weale, 1838. not as elaborate or well executed as British works on American technology: “...a [3]-320pp. 8pp. plus fourteen plates (four folding), folding engraved map, tables, knowledgeable Scot, [Stevenson] presents a remarkably well-paced view of har- and advertisements. Modern half calf and boards, leather label. Occasional light bors, lake and river improvements, steamboats, building methods, canals, roads, foxing. Upper forecorner of first thirty leaves a bit chipped. Else very good. bridges, railroads, waterworks, and lighthouses.” THOMSON 2013. SABIN 91589. HOWES S976. Hindle, Technology in Early America, pp.50-51. $750. Illustrating the Failure of the Austin Dam 26. Taylor, Thomas U.: THE AUSTIN DAM. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900. 52pp., including in-text illustrations. Plus sixteen photographically- illustrated plates. Contemporary three-quarter red morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Scuffing to edges and spine, light soiling to boards. Mild toning to text. Very good. An informative United States Geological Survey report on the construction and ultimate failure of the Austin Dam, built just north of the Texas capital city in the last decade of the 19th century. The report is part of a series on water supply and irrigation, and was written by Thomas U. Taylor, a professor at the University of Texas. The work is especially interesting for the photographically-illustrated plates documenting the early construction, completion, and eventual breaching of the dam on April 7, 1900 after a violent flood hit central Texas. Fifteen of the sixteen plates have two separate captioned photographs, providing a linear narra- tive on the life and death of the dam; the sixteenth plate is a schematic showing the “Resistance Line of Dam.” A scarce work in trade, and an interesting work of engineering in the Lone Star State. $500. Developing an Agricultural Infrastructure for Wyoming

27. [Wyoming]: Mead, Elwood: SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TERRITORIAL ENGINEER TO THE GOVERNOR OF WYOMING, FOR THE YEAR 1889. Cheyenne. 1890. [4],100pp. plus folding table. Original printed wrappers. Trifle dust soiled, head of spine bit frayed. A very good copy. A fairly early Wyoming imprint, including a description of agricultural resources and recommendations regarding irrigation, dams, farming, etc. STOPKA, WYOMING TERRITORIAL IMPRINTS 1890.12. $150.