E-list #4 - ’21 Political Propaganda, Challenger Archive, the Cola Call Collection, Unpublished manuscript [E. Goldman]…etc.

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[International]

1. Memoria del 1er Seminario del Cafe. 12-19 Octubre 1973. [Memory of the 1st Coffee Seminar. October 12-19, 1973]

San Salvador, El Salvador: Asociacion Cafetalera de El Salvador, 1973. 117pp. Single-sided. 7 1/4 x 9 3/4“. Small stains and overall tanning on both sides of softcover, cream; multiple seminar documents and photographs of participants. Illustration of coffee beans and a steaming cup in brown, red and green on cover with brown text. Spine worn, inside clean. Very good. OCLC locates only one copy in the Netherlands (5/26/2021).

The red berries on the cover are native to Africa, the coffee berry borer, (Ferrari) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae), and has gradually invaded most coffee-growing areas worldwide. Adult females colonize the coffee berry and oviposit within galleries in the coffee seeds. Larvae and adults consume the seeds, resulting in drastic reductions in yields and quality, negatively affecting the income of approximately 20 million coffee-growing families (∼100 million people) in ∼80 countries. This must have been one of the many topics during the eight-day conference. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4535578/ down loaded on 5/17/2

$1,200 Unpublished Manuscript about Emma Goldman

[Anarchists]

2. [Wood, Lea Walker]. Emma Goldman, Daughter of the Dream. An Original Screenplay Based on the Life of Emma Goldman First Draft 25 August 1984 Registered WGoA,W. by Leah Walker Wood

Aptos, CA: Not Published, 1984. This is the first draft of an unpublished screenplay of 138, single-sided pages of photocopied text. Triple hole-punched, bound by brads in cream colored blank wraps. The title is written in ink on the bottom edge.

Goldman was an anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.

Her writing and lectures spanned a wide variety of issues, including prisons, atheism, freedom of speech, militarism, capitalism, marriage, free love, and homosexuality. Although she distanced herself from first-wave feminism and its efforts toward women's suffrage, she developed new ways of incorporating gender politics into anarchism. After decades of obscurity, Goldman gained iconic status in the 1970s by a revival of interest in her life, when feminist and anarchist scholars rekindled popular interest.

Born in 1916, Lea Walker Wood grew up in Ohio and worked as a news reporter and stenographer. She attended Bowling Green State University, Ohio, in 1938-40. To experience life, she hitchhiked across the country, and in 1943 during World War II she joined the Women's Army Corps and served in New Guinea and Manila, Philippines, where she was secretary to the U.S. defense team for the trial of Gen. Yamashita. From 1946-49 she worked for the U.S. occupation forces in Berlin, Germany, as a civilian conference reporter on a four-nations committee governing Germany. She finished her Bachelor of Arts at San Jose State University in 1960.

In 1950 Lea moved to Los Gatos, California, taught elementary and junior high school in California. Upon retiring at 60, Lea became an environmental activist and was arrested for civil disobedience against the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, the Vandenberg Air Force Base X Missile, and four trespasses at the Nevada Test Site. She was arrested in Barre, Vermont, protesting the recruiting center sending men to the Iraq War, and at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in 2011 and 2012.

In California she worked on environmental and political issues, wrote a column, "Nature Walk," for local papers, and authored social issue plays presented to the community in readers' theater style.

After moving to Vermont in 1993, Lea became a member of the Underhill Conservation Committee; joined the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; and continued writing social issue plays, among them "Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," "Women Say No to War," and "Bread and Roses" about the Women's Garment Union and Triangle Fire. She moved to Montpelier in 2003. She is the author of a book of poems, "Wind & Water, Fire & Stone," and an autobiography, "The Adventure of My Life.” She passed away in 2014 at the age of 97. A rare piece.

$1,500 A treasure trove for the aficionado

[Collecting - Coca Cola]

3.The Cola Call ..... (Coca-Cola).

Np:The Cola Clan, (1975). Quarto. Soft Cover. Approximately 100 issues of The Cola Call, a journal put out by the members of The Cola Clan, an organization of collectors and dealers of Coca-Cola memorabilia.

An almost complete lot starting with issues 2 to 6 of Volume I (1975) through two issues of Volume XIII (1987). A few issues seem to have been mis-numbered and some monthly "issues" may have been supplementary materials rather than issues per se. Most journals are very good with photographs, history, articles on collecting. the Cola Call is a newsletter for Coca Cola collectors, when not seeking collectibles, such subscribers may be found pursuing information which provides significant for their endeavors to become knowledgable collectors.

A treasure trove for the aficionado.

$1,500

[NASA]

4. 1986 SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER DISASTER: 1000-PAGE NASA ARCHIVE

136 NASA documents, memoranda and letters, with some handwritten notations (approximately 1000 total pages) dating from January 24, 1986, four days before the STS 51-L Challenger accident, to September 9, 1986, three months after the Presidential investigating Commission chaired by former Secretary of State William Rogers submitted its report on the disaster to President Reagan.

These papers offer an “inside” view of NASA, unseen by the public, with the shocking image of the explosion viewed by millions locked in the nation's collective consciousness, from the perspective of a top engineer and NASA executive. Provenance: personal papers of Don Puddy, NASA’s 10th Flight Director, who served in that capacity in the three Missions of , the first US Space Station (1973), the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (1975), and the first Space Shuttle Mission, STS-1 (1981).

At the time of the Challenger launch, in which he was not involved, he was Associate Director of NASA at the at Houston and was preparing to head the Flight Crew Operations Directorate at Houston, responsible for selecting Astronauts for future Space Shuttle missions. Before retiring from NASA 10 years later, he would play a key role in laying the diplomatic groundwork for the Shuttle-Mir collaboration between the United States and the former Soviet Union.

Most of the papers are dated during the three months when the presidential investigation was in process and the great variety of subjects covered reveal what Puddy, in his only public statement, on February 21, called the enormous complexity of Space Shuttle decision making – the most complex in the history of NASA manned spaceflight – with management of different Shuttle components divided between the Johnson Space Center in Houston, where Puddy was headquartered, the Marshall Center in Alabama, and the Kennedy Center in Florida.

Since Marshall had responsibility for rocket engines, propulsion systems and external fuel tanks, there is no discussion in the Puddy-Houston papers of the infamous “O-Ring” seals of the Solid Rocket Booster, the failure of which was eventually found to be the main cause of the explosion of the fuel tank that killed all seven crew members. Houston, on the other hand, was responsible for flight control operations and astronaut training so that his papers reveal Houston’s consideration of issues not publicly discussed such as the possible overwork of flight personnel, deficiencies in training and varied “erroneous” procedures. Here also are hints of the distraught and dismal post-accident atmosphere at NASA when, immediately after the disaster, systems and facilities were legally “impounded” and bureaucratic jargon crept into documents, with one unfortunate reference to the disaster as a “mishap”, and the recovered torn and twisted remains of the Shuttle categorized as “debris”.

Of particular interest are documents scattered throughout the papers about design changes necessary to allow future Shuttle flights, and, indeed, the larger question of when such flights might resume. In the end, while the Puddy papers indicate NASA’s expectation of imminent flight resumption, the Shuttle Fleet was grounded for two years, the next flight not taking place until September 1988.

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$4000

[Civil War]

5. [Civil War] Confederate Rebel Song Celebrates Confederate Geneva Girls Who Aided Wounded And Sick E.R. Manron

“Geneva Girls” was apparently a title given to Confederate women who were devoted to helping wounded and sick soldiers regardless of the side they were fought for. 2 pp, 5 3⁄4 x 14 3⁄4. Splits repaired with archival tape. Even toning, soiling.

2 pp, 5 3⁄4 x 14 3⁄4, E.R. Manron, writes to W.C. Morrison “Right out of the rebel camp...Well, Mr. ‘Billy’ here is the song you wanted. You must excuse the bad writing for I write in great haste. If you are out of the notion of wanting this song yourself please give it to one of the boys who know the Geneva Girls.

“Yours ever...Geneva Girl No. 2.”

On the verso, Manron, titles the song, “Geneva Girls/Air of Fairy Belles” The song, “Now please give attention to what I am going to say about our Geneva Girls in my own peculiar way; Now pretty girls one by one everybody knows, that you are always taking on about your precious beaus; Chorus. Geneva Girls, Geneva Girls so gay, Long may you to it in your own peculiar way; Tis Jennie with her good looks, The prettiest girl in town, Now Miss Roach beware of hooks for your Tisher is coming down; Next comes Miss Cassie. You all agree she is pert, Oh she is a pretty lassie. But she is such a flirt; Miss Helena is a pretty maid, Her manners are so endearing, But she is a goner I’m afraid, For she is very fond of Herring; Now Virgie is on the lookout, And she says it is all in vain, There is no use to look about, there is her good looks, The prettiest girl in town, Now Miss Roach beware of hooks for your Tisher is coming down; Next comes Miss Cassie. You all agree she is pert, Oh she is a pretty lassie. But she is such a flirt; Miss Helena is a pretty maid, Her manners are so endearing, But she is a goner I’m afraid, For she is very fond of Herring; Now Virgie is on the lookout, And she says it is all in vain, There is no use to look about, There is none like Alex McLean; Miss Sophia is a lovely girl, She is happy as a clam, [next line difficult to read], Just like her darling Dan, Miss Durlie tho’ it matters not, She is bound to have her fun, Lookout Durlie you may be shot, By that young Danie Gunn; The widow I’m afraid she’d blame Me if I were to confront her, Oh! My what precious game she’d be for the hunter. So girls go it while you are young, But remember what I say, It was always best to hold your tongue, in its own peculiar way.”

Hospital services in the Confederacy were dire, typically without medicine or surgical appliances. Treatment would have been much worse were it not for the Southern women who devoted themselves to the sick and injured. Every woman available was a nurse if she were needed and every house, if needed, a hospital. To them a wounded man was sacred regardless of the side he was fighting for.

At one point, the Red Cross Society was established and the Geneva Conventions, whose founder, Henri Dunant, focused on the amelioration of the wounded in time of war in 1864. The convention provided for immunity from capture and destruction of establishments for the treatment of wounded and sick soldiers and their personnel; the impartial reception and treatment of all combatants; the protection of civilians providing aid to the wounded; and, the recognition of the Red Cross symbol to identify persons and equipment covered by the agreement.

Written on ledger paper, not uncommon during the Civil War especially in the Confederacy as paper was scarce. Splits repaired with archival tape. Even toning, soiling. Address leaf is light.

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$2000

[New York City - Postcards]

6. New York Vintage Postcard Collection

Postcards are a fantastic visual resource for a place’s past that are often underutilized by scholars. They offer rich evidence of culture and architecture as a visual record of the past.

Postcards provide important information about so many elements of society that no other objects do. They can provide the best set of available images for examples of architecture, types of buildings, historic events, and certain places. Postcards are important for researching social history as well, as they often provide authentic insights into daily activities and appearances of neighborhoods, and show material culture “in the vernacular” as few other objects can.

As the world relies more and more on visual materials to convey information, researchers must mine available sources in their studies of history. Images for years were “omitted from academic journals as mere expensive and frivolous adjuncts to text” and are now included as meaningful evidence.

Postcards are of real significance for studies of various aspects of modern society. They may be used, for example, to study the consequences of public welfare activities -- what happened to private economic organizations under Government regulation or the rural and urban patterns that are developing in the country, social trends, and the like.

Postcards offer interpretations of what features of a city or town are distinctive or valuable by noting benchmarks of civic achievement such as train stations, public buildings, parks, libraries, theaters, and “Main” Streets. Construction of these places in turn reflects local resources and aesthetics. Additionally, they are documents of regional and time specific clothing. Postcards appealed to both visiting tourists and to local residents who frequently sent cards to people who may never visit. Many of the cards have messages on the back may provide additional data to what is pictured on the front. When you think of New York, you might think of Broadway, Central Park, the Empire State

Building, the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, and Coney Island. But if you look at these vintage postcards, you’ll see that New York State has lots of historical views to offer. These postcards document historical buildings, churches, synagogues, the Hudson River and snapshots of the past across Long Island.

For tourists, immigrants, residents and relatives, a souvenir of the sights of the Big City proved irresistible, and postcard publishers responded with an inexhaustible supply of sets picturing New York. The Historical Postcards of the Picture Collection show every stage of the “golden age” of picture postcards.

The collection contains 401 postcards depicting New York City primarily in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Some of the cards are dated later. Both front and back of the cards are viewable. Includes views of bridges, parks, notable buildings, skyline, monuments, schools, neighborhoods, skyscrapers and many others. Primarily photomechanical reproductions of black & white photographs with the addition of hand coloring or lithographic tints. Most postcards are near fine, the others very good.

A substantial collection of postcards visually documenting New York City in the the first two decades of the 20th century.

Content:

-17 Trinity Church -35 + folder NYC United Nations -46 NYC -30 NYC -6 Hotel Woodstock -5 Hotel Dixon -3 Grand Central Station -5 Hotel Astor -21 St. Patrick’s Cathedral -9 Little Church Around the Corner -23 NYC RPPC -71 Ed u card and folder of NYC -7 Hotel Biltmore NYC -88 NYC -35 NYC Hotels $2000

[African Americana - Child Development]

7. Morris Child Development Center Morris Infants and Toddler’s Center: A State of Michigan Pilot Program

Detroit: Morris Nursery School, 1972. 13 x 10.5” folded into thirds. Green pamphlet with orange text, photo of kids on a jungle gym- tinted orange. A licensed and well-planned demonstration center for children six weeks through age two that is modeled on the environment of a well- functioning home. Motto of the school: “The Closest Thing to MAMA.” Not in trade or OCLC as of 4/30/21). $350 [CHINA] - RELIEF

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8. 1944 Rare UNITED CHINA RELIEF wartime children’s COLORING BOOK

Mary Gamble Lewis, T’ING WING AND HIS MAGIC KITE, A STORY COLOR BOOK (United China Relief, NY, 1944) 9 x 12”, 30pp. Color pictorial wrappers. Illustrated by Elinore Blaisdell and Jeanne Bendick. Coloring book has child’s crayon scrawls on most pages. Not in OCLC (5/18/21).

A wartime propaganda appeal to the sympathies of American children for suffering China, telling the fantasy story of an “ordinary” Chinese boy whose father was a bomber pilot! (Curiously, Blaisdell, the illustrator, later edited a horror anthology about Vampires.) The book is rare, WorldCat locating no copy in any American institution and only one internationally – in Singapore!

$800 [WWII - KID PROPAGANDA]

9. WWII Kid Propaganda 1944 Off To Win! [Wet a Brush and Bring out the Colors] Children’s Coloring Book

Akron, Ohio: Saalfeld Publishing Company, 1944. Original paperback, 4to. Saalfeld #127-C. Cover by Bill Bailey. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Text block is lightly toned and faded. Not in OCLC (5/17/21).

$700