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Western Touring Photo Album Tschanz Rare Books Denver Book Fair List 24 Usual terms. Items Subject to prior sale. Call: 801-641-2874 Or email: [email protected] to confirm availability. Domestic shipping: $10 International and overnight shipping billed at cost. www.tschanzrarebooks.com Ludlow Massacre and Colorado Coalfield War 1- Dold, Louis R. 29 Real Photo Postcards on the Ludlow Massacre and the Colorado Coalfield War. [Trinidad, CO]: L.R. Dold Photo, 1913-1914. 29 RPPC [8.5 cm x 14 cm] all are very good or better with only four having contemporary (1913-1914)manuscript notes and postmarks from Trinidad, Colorado. All have detailed identifications in pencil, by noted Colorado post card collector, Charles A. Harbert. Lou Dold's excellent photographs show the places and people surrounding the Ludlow Massacre and the destruction that would take place in its wake, and would be featured in newspapers and periodicals around the world. "That winter Lou Dold had been making good money selling postcards of the strike. He sold them like newspapers just as soon as he made them." - Zeese Papanikolas 'Buried Unsung' p.185 The Ludlow Massacre was preceded by a strike of 1200 miners in September of 1913, who were striking against the unsafe and unjust treatment of John D. Rockefeller's Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. The striking miner's were evicted from their company owned homes and soon relocated to a tent city north of Trinidad, that was erected by the United Mine Workers of America. Rhetoric and violence escalated between the striking miners and the mine companies and the (largely immigrant) strikebreaking miners that were brought in to replace them. Governor Ammons called in the Colorado National Guard to keep the peace, and they largely did, and in the spring of 1914, the Governor recalled most of CNG, but left one company behind that was supplemented by guards from the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. On the morning of April 20, 1914, this militia lay siege to the tent city firing on the occupants and setting fire to their village. When the slaughter had subsided and the smoke cleared, nineteen were dead and the tent city was ashes. Over the following two weeks miners and sympathizers attacked and destroyed mines and mining equipment from Trinidad to Walsenburg, that became known as the Colorado Coalfield War. $4,700 Jemez & Taos 2- Sandahl, Gustaf. 4 photographs of the Jemez Pueblo and Santa Fe. [Colorado Springs, CO]: Gustaf Sandahl, November, 1925. Four unmounted black and white snapshots [10 cm x 13 cm]. Manuscript identification in pencil on the reverse of three of the images. Sandahl stamp on the reverse of one of the images. The images show: 1- Dancers in the plaza at Jemez; 2- A group of men sitting in the shade just off the Jemez Plaza; 3- The San Francisco de Asis church of Ranchos de Taos; 4- A posed group of four dancers in Taos. A nice collection of snapshots showing some of the people and buildings of the Taos area of northern New Mexico in the early 20th century. These images are from the collection of Ernie Bulow. $150 Boulder, Colorado View Book 3- Snow, Charles F. “Souvenir of Early Boulder, Colo.”. [Boulder]: (c.1918). 37 black and white photographs mounted on black paper and housed in a side sewn brown buckram album [21 cm x 15 cm] Near fine. Photographs of the Snow family engaged in outdoor activity in Boulder and the surrounding area, visiting a mine, driving dirt streets in pre-1920 automobiles. One photo taken on 14th Street where the Snow photography studio was (2028 14th), also shows Curran Opera House and Jake Hartman grocery. Includes an excellent quality family photo and a photo of a school group. Charles Snow (1886-1964) operated a photography studio in Boulder, Colorado for 56 years. He studied with Pirie MacDonald and went on to win more than 600 awards for his work. Snow served as President of both the American Society of Photographers and the Photographers Association of America. $500 Western Touring Photo Album 4- [Western Photo Album]. Kansas Family Touring the West. [1928]. [80pp] Oblong octavo [21.5 cm x 28 cm] String-bound brown boards, with 'Photographs' gilt on front board. 304 black and white snapshots [280: approx. 7 cm x 13 cm] [24: 4 cm x 7 cm - purchased identified shots - Kolb?] mounted to black card stock with manuscript identifications in blue ink, mostly in the upper margins of the images. Charming photograph album that contains three hundred plus images, documenting a (Beaver Kansas?) family's trip through the west. They travel to Salt Lake, Ogden, Cheyenne, Garden of the Gods, Cave of the Winds, Denver, Golden, Lookout, Garden City, Beaver, Cimarron, Albuquerque, Rio Grande River, Kingman, Flagstaff, Grand Canyon and Colorado River. A nice well-identified album. $450 Large Signed Photograph of Aspen 5- Durrance, Dick. Aspen [Photograph]. (c.1960). Large black and white [34 cm x 27 cm] aerial photograph of Aspen, Colorado. On plain white mount [44 cm x 38 cm] that shows some minor smudging and discoloring. Signed by Durrance on the mount beneath the lower right corner of image. Photograph is in fine condition with nice contrasts. Dick Durrance (1914-2003) was an alpine skiing legend who was instrumental in the western U.S. ski scene. First at Sun Valley where he designed and cut the first trail on Mt. Baldy (1939). He was one of the first general managers and ski school director at Alta (1941), where he trained the 503rd US Army Battalion paratroopers, to ski once they had landed. After his time at Alta, Durrance moved to Aspen, where he was named general manager (1947). Durrance was also an accomplished documentary film maker and photographer, which is on display in the nice image of Aspen, Colorado. $300 Bird’s Eye of Fargo 6- Haynes, Frank Jay. Bird's Eye View of Fargo Dakota 1880. Fargo, D.T.: F. Jay Haynes, (c.1880). Small panorama albumen photograph [15.5 cm x 9 cm] on a yellow Haynes (stereoview) mount [18 cm x 10 cm] with Haynes 'Northern Pacific Views.' Very good. Age toning to mount and image with a scuff to the backstamp that effects the text. Extremities show some rubbing. Rare image of a Birdseye of Fargo drawn by Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler (1842-1922) The perspective is from the northeast looking southwest, with the tracks running through the city to the west. The circle on the left side is Island Park. Photographed by F.J. Haynes (1853-1921) who was one of the most prolific of the West’s early photographers. $500 Bird’s Eye Salt Lake City 7- Gast, Augustus. Salt Lake City, 1887 [Bird's-Eye View]. [Salt Lake City]: S.W. Darke, 1887. Bird's-eye view [91 cm x 61 cm] Lined with tissue to repair some splitting at the folds with some minor infilling. This map was originally issued with S.W. Darke's Salt Lake City Illustrated. Lovely bird's-eye of Territorial Salt Lake City, from 4th south and Main looking north. Inset of Fort Douglas in the lower left corner and and inset of the Old Council Hall in the lower right corner. Moffat 214 $800 3rd South & State 8- [Salt Lake City]. 3rd South and State Street. [Salt Lake City]: (c.1911). Albumen [10 cm x 12.5 cm] cabinet card on a plain dark gray mount [15 cm x 17.5 cm] Near fine. Ink notation on the reverse. Image shows a group of four men standing next to a horse drawn wagon that carries two teamsters. The men and wagon are posing in the intersection of3rd South and State Street facing south. Western Outfit Co. building is in the background and the Knutsford Hotel's covered walkways are shown on the right. Western Outfit moved to this building in 1910. The Knutsford became Auerbach's in 1912 and the sidewalk covers were traded for cloth awnings. Nice image of Salt Lake City. $175 Territorial Mercantile Ephemera 9- [Salt Lake Mercantile]. Taylor & Cutler Ephemera. [Salt Lake City]: (c. 1876). Manuscript listing of purchases by Hyrum and Mary Scott, on a house account. Two lined sheets of paper that have been pinned together for one sheet [50 cm x 21 cm] Taylor & Cutler letterhead and dated Oct. 21, 187(?). Purchases include: tea, flour, sugar, scissors, salt and socks. Manuscript letter requesting payment from Mary Scott. Single sheet [27 cm x 20.5 cm] on Taylor & Cutler letterhead and dated Feb. 17, 1876. 10 manuscript lines. Taylor & Cutler were dealers in dry goods and groceries on east Main Street. "Messrs. Taylor and Cutler's reputation for reliability and honorable dealing is well known through the Territory, and the success which has attended their business is the best evidence of their popularity." - Salt Lake Herald (10/6/1874). $150 Coal Country Deputy 10- [Lawmen]. ALS from Carbon County Deputy. [Winter Quarters, UT]: [1908]. ALS. Single lined sheet [22.5 cm x 14 cm] fourteen manuscript lines on one side. Near fine. This letter is a request for funds for work performed and witness fees. "Mar. 21st 1908 / Winter Quarters / Carbon Co. Utah / Mr. H.C. Smith / Co. Clerk / Dear Sir . / Please send me check when / this claim is allowed along / with my witness fees in the / case of State v.s. Logan of Feb. 28-29 at Price Court / House. From yours respectfully / Noah Potter/ Deputy Sheriff." $40 Manuscript Lectures on Foundations of Mormonism 11- [Manuscript Book]. "Mormonism". [Liverpool?]: (c.1890). [20pp]. Light blue sheets [21 cm x 14 cm] that are side-sewn.
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