DeGolyer Acquisitions, 2014-2015 A Selective Checklist

[Accounting] Pacific Business College. A Treatise on the Science of Accounts Theoretical and Practical, as Taught at the Pacific Business College San Francisco, Cal. [San Francisco]: Published by W.E. Chamberlain and T.A. Robinson, Proprietors of the Institution, 1885. 6th ed. “Pacific Press: Printers, Electrotypers and Binders, Oakland, Cal.”

[Accounting] Packard, S.S. Packard’s New Manual of Book-Keeping and Correspondence. New York: S.S. Packard, 1888. 10th ed. 158 pp.

[Addresses, essays, lectures, etc.] Humphrey, James. Annual Address of the Kansas State Agricultural College, Commencement, 1883. Manhattan, Kansas: Printing Dept., State Agricultural College, 1883. 8 pp.

Adams, John Quincy. Letters of Hon. John Quincy Adams on the Nature of Masonic Oaths, Obligations and Penalties to Col. William L. Stone, Edward Livingston, and Others. Chicago: Ezra A. Cook, 1875. 130 pp. In addition to freemasonry, ranges across other political topics.

[Advertising Fiction] [Agriculture] Univ. of Illinois. The Story of a King and Queen. No place or date [1910]. [16]pp + wrappers. With five half-tones in text. Apparently the true tale of King Corn and his wife, Queen Clover, who settle in the Midwest, but together the couple begin to deplete the soil, with the Queen becoming sickly and weak. Until they called in Dr. Science who said what they needed was limestone and phosphate. This tale—with statistics on crop production achieved by the royal couple!—was published by the University’s Agricultural Experiment Station, as Circular No 145. In a parenthetic aside, Clyde Hopkins of the Station advises parents and teachers “to help their children and pupils to understand the full meaning of this story.” Perhaps because it is somewhat obtuse! Plus the sentence structure is often convoluted. This story follows the Station’s earlier entry into the field of “inanimate fiction,” with Story of Rose and Queen.

[Advertising Fiction] [Beverage] Charles E. Hires Co. The Cruise of the Bee. Philadelphia, ca. 1920. [8]pp including color pictorial wrappers, a little worn along spine. Tale of three girls who strap a box containing Hires Household Extract onto the back of a giant bee and then for a trip around the world, where they introduce many different cultures to Hires Root Beer. “The romantic Spaniards agreed that in Root beer they found a drink which pleased them to perfection, quenching their thirds and giving them strength and energy.”

[Advertising Fiction] [Cleansers] B.T. Babbitt. At Your Service from Cellar to Garret. [NY: Babbitt, 1910] [8]pp. including color lithographed die-cut wrappers by American Lithographic Co. The firm’s mascot, the Babbitt Bobbie—a young man in a police outfit, with a scrub-brush in place of revolver—takes the reader on a tour of all the places in a modern home where Babbitt Cleanser could be put to good use. “Babbitt’s Cleanser doesn’t eat out dirt, it rubs it out.” Not located in OCLC.

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[Advertising Fiction] [Cleansers] Clorox Chemical Co. Women “Adore” Me. Oakland, CA, ca 1925. 12mo. Five-panel folding flyer, profusely illustrations. Braggadocio from a talking bottle of bleach… “I have no ‘Double’”… “I Work Wonders in the Laundry.” With a section of 16 postage-stamp size photos with text showing/describing use and wonders of Clorox.

[Advertising Fiction] [Cosmetics] Dorothy Gray. The Story of Dorothy Gray. [New York, 1927.] 12mo. 32pp + pictorial wrappers. A few illustrations. Somewhat fictionalized and romanticized biography… “And as she studied and experimentalized, gradually her life’s ambition fixed itself. She would make millions beautiful!” The Story is an opener to pushing the full line of cosmetic plus a treatise on beauty with lots of tips (using Dorothy Gray creams and products).

[Advertising Fiction] [Crayons] American Crayon Co. Around the World with Aunt Millie. Sandusky, OH, 1927. Oblong 8vo. [20]pp including color pictorial wrappers (with text on insides panels, ad on rear). Nice entry in the ‘let’s fly around the world and discover where the ingredients for our product comes from.” In this case, crayons… and so Bob and Betty hop onto a plane, actually a motorized crayon, and go to such places as India, where the bee’s wax originates. Seven of the panels are, naturally, uncolored illustration meant to be colored in using, of course, Prang Crayonex.

[Advertising Fiction] [Electricity] Armored Cable Section, National Electrical Manufacturers Association. Bright Ideas for Ladies, Or What to Teach Husbands About Electric Wiring. New York, 1960. [24]pp including pictorial wrappers. Small cartoon illustrations throughout. Narrator and her husband spend a weekend with a couple who had moved out to the suburbs. While the husbands go fishing, the wives talked A LOT about wiring electricity, much of learned from Helen’s electrical contractor. “’Somewhere,’ Helen said, ‘I’ve heard the expression ‘overloaded circuit’ and never knew what it meant. I’m beginning to see it now.’” The publisher comments that the booklet “is written in a clear, non-technical style that anyone can understand and take pleasure in reading.”

[Advertising Fiction] [Furs] A Little Trip to Gammel’s. No place or date [NY? ca. 1910.] [8]pp + wrappers with color plate tipped on front. Small vignettes (eight) of store and operation. Woman who had walked past Gammel’s Furrier many times finally gathers the courage to walk in and is met by courteous and non-aggressive staff, who show her the entire operation, “I asked to see a Skunk or Black Marten set, and was shown a large muff and shawl collar at $80.00.”

[Advertising Fiction] [Health] Lerrigo, Marion O. and Helen Southard. A Story About You. Chicago: American Medical Association, 1962. 43pp + pictorial wrappers. Text illustrations and diagrams throughout. Sex education tract told in the voice of someone explaining to a fictive You just what’s up. E.g., “You may wonder how the sperm cell found its way to the egg from which you grew.” OR: “If you stop to think about it, you will realize that there are many ways in which your feelings change as you grow up.” One of a five different booklets in a series.

[Advertising Fiction] [Margarine] Wm. J. Moxley, Inc. “Certified.” The Story of a Country Girl’s Visit to Chicago. Chicago, 1913. [16]pp + color pictorial wrappers. Doubting Thomasina from the country doesn’t believe her friend that Moxley’s Oleomargarine is better than butter. So

2 she goes to Chicago to see for herself and is given a tour of the plant (shown in small vignettes throughout). “I noticed in uniform going around looking at everything, and behind everything and under everything—and I asked who he was. ‘Oh, that’ is the Government Inspector,’ our guide said.” Product packaging on last page—14 different brands of oleo!—and photos of the Moxley Improved Delivery Motor in inside wrappers. OCLC locates two holdings (Hagley & Clements), noting 8pp.

[Advertising Fiction] [Petroleum] American Petroleum Institute. The Curious Case of the Mumbling Maniac. No place, 1940. [12]pp including pictorial wrappers. Odd tale of two policemen reminiscence about an oil salesman they picked up on the street because he was spouting “screwy lingo” about oil change practices and “mumbling a lot about mileage, changes, and when and why.” The cops thereby learn a lot… and you will too! Vignette cartoons throughout. A pre-war effort towards oil conservation.

[Advertising Fiction] [Salesmanship] Retail Shoe Salesmen’s Institute. Jim Parkes Has It Out With The Boss. Guide No. 1. Training Course for Retail Shoe Salesmen [cover title]. Boston, 1920. 11pp + printed wrappers. Jim has worked at the show operation for four years but has not risen high in the ranks…. Nor received the salary that he felt was due to him. So he approaches the boss, who gives him the straight dope—he doesn’t study enough. Jim, therefore, changes his attitude, becomes a better retail shoe salesman, and eventually makes the dough he wants.

[Advertising Fiction] [Shoes] Hall, Eugene J. The Story of a Shoe. Chicago: Wilbur Publishing Co., 1888. 12mo. 12pp + pictorial wrappers—wrapper and all text chromolithographed throughout. Elaborately illustrated little fancy in which a man finds an old shoe in the undergrowth… and the shoe proceeds to tell its story… all a pitch for the fine footwear made by Phelps, Dodge & Palmer. Good candidate in the genre of the “inanimate object narrative.”

[Advertising Poetry] [Agricultural Equipment] William Deering & Co. A Future Customer [cover title]. Chicago, ca. 1894. 16mo. [24]pp + chromolithographed wrappers. Illustrated throughout with sepia-toned chromos. Series of small poems, all cheering the Deering line of binders and mowers, with some prose push too. OCLC locates one holding (VA).

[Advertising Poetry] [Appliance] Canadian General Electric Co. The Knight in the White Castle. No place or date, ca. 1925. 4to. 12pp + color pictorial wrappers. Prof. illustrated with dramatic panels (in black, grays, and orange) by “RFH.” Strange poem about a young girl who becomes sick because of rancid food in an old icebox, but then General Electric is summoned and who tells Betty that he is sending his “brave and handsome knight” who lives in a white castle (aka, a GE refrigerator) to her house—that is, sending over a new appliance—and the poem describes how the Knight slays the Dragons of bad food.

[Advertising Poetry] [Auto] Raybestos Co. Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes for Automobile Owners. No place, 1929. 12mo. [12]pp. + color pictorial wrappers. Eight fractured rhymes—with each stanza illustrated by a small red-and-black panel cartoon—each within the poem pushing Raybestos Brakes. “Mary had a little car/ With brakes on all four wheels/ And every time that Mary stops/ the darn thing always squeals.”

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[Advertising Poetry] [Banking] New York Savings Bank. Lessons in Saving. Cleveland: Art Dept., ca. 1910. [11]pp + color pictorial wrappers. Color illustrations by “Dean.” Verses on animals who “save”—woodpecker, dormouse, beaver, squirrel, chipmunk, polar bear [saves body fat], honey bee, ant, and hare. So why kids? “Savings Accounts from One Dollar up.”

[Advertising Poetry] [Cleanser] Morse Bros. The Rising Sun & Who He Shines Upon. Canton, MA, ca. 1890. 12mo. [8]pp + chromolithographed wrappers, with view of the Polish Factory on rear wrappers. Eight stanzas, each with an illustration, about women of various countries who use Rising Sun Stove Polish… from America, Britain, France, Germany, Ireland, Scandinavia, Italy, and concluding with a “young lady of color. OCLC notes a copy (naturally) at Brown.

[Advertising Poetry] [Food] Albers Bros. Milling Co. Hello! Little People. [San Francisco, 1902.] Oblong 12mo. [12]pp illustrated + 12 blank tissues + pictorial wrappers. Poem about the ingredients that go into making Carnation Mush. Rear ad addresses the Mothers: “We have tried to please the children by pictures and jingles and to awaken in them an interest in drawing by the use of a rhyming tale of our breakfast foods.” Also to awaken an interest in Mush. Product packaging shown in every illustration. OCLC notes two holdings (Washington, Winterthur).

[Advertising Poetry] [Medicines] Emerson Drug Co. The True Tale of Trilby Tersely Told. Baltimore, 1895. 12mo. [16]pp + decorative wrappers. The tale of Trilby, and the mesmerist Svengali—from George Maurier’s popular novel—told in verse, concluding that the woman could not have been hypnotized if she had consumed some Bromo-Seltzer. Small plug for the novel which is poetically pirated here, printed on the front wrapper. Facing pages with ruled blanks for “Memorandum.” Some ad copy, too. OCLC locates two holdings: Brown & Amherst.

[Advertising Poetry] [Medicines] Merchants & Planters Oil Co. The Major Talks [cover title]. Houston, ca. 1890. Oblong 12mo. [12]pp + color printed wrappers. Lithographed illustrations in blue throughout. Major Burton is sitting with some chums in the club room when he announces “I never have deceived my wife but once since we were wed.” The jovial clubmen gather ‘round “For conversation in a club are of peculiar sort—They rarely hold prayer meetings in a city club resort.” After giving birth, Mrs. Burton was rather weak and instead of serving her butter, the Major served her (unknown to her) M&P Butter Oil, and she got well immediately because of this innocent deception. Ads for the product on every facing page.

[Advertising Poetry] Piso. The World Over. A Cure-ious Tale But True. New York: Designed and Lithographed by Geo. S. Harris & Sons, [188-]. Oblong 12mo. [12]pp + chromolithographed wrappers. Illustrated throughout with blue-tinted lithos. With seven strange verses followed by some testimonials. Verses about the wonders of Piso Cure for Consumption, showing caricatured use by a “dusky Negro,” and Chinese man [“Heap-ee fine thing for a cough”], Jonah and the whale, and a deep-sea diver and a mermaid. OCLC locates one holding (Rochester Med.)

[Advertising Poetry] [Paint] Murphy & Co. Rattle & Prattle No. 2. For Little Carriage Makers, and Young Car Builders. Newark, 1879. Square 8vo. [16]pp + chromolithographed wrappers. Christmas gift book/anthology from varnish maker, with all tales, stories, and poems pushing Varnish in one way or another. Even a sort of ABC for Carriage Makers. Fantastic double-page

4 spread chromolithograph, “Mother Goose Melodies for Children” (e.g., “Tom, Tom the Painters Son/ Bought a Can and Away He Run…” OCLC notes one holding for the 1878 issue (Florida).

[Advertising Poetry] [Soap] N.K. Fairbanks. Fairy Tales. Chicago et al, ca. 1890. [24]pp + pictorial wrappers, light stain on front cover, otherwise fine. Profusely illustrated throughout with color of blue-tinted lithographs. Anthology of Mother Goose rhymes (e.g., Old Lady in the Shoe, Three Little Kittens) and others verse, all perverted at some point to end with singing the praises of FAIRY SOAP. Later followed by a “Second Series” volume.

[Advertising Poetry] [Soap] N.K. Fairbanks Co. Fairy Tales (Second Series). Chicago et al, 1898. [24]pp + embossed pictorial wrappers. Color lithographs (full-page) throughout as well as green-toned lithos surrounding text. Eleven poems which in one way or another feature Fairbanks’ Fairy Soap within the story. All illustrations also depict said bar of soap. Lots of fairies throughout.

[Advertising Poetry] [Soap] Procter & Gamble. Some Facts About Ivory Soap. Cincinnati, ca. 1890. [24]pp including wrappers; soiled with a few tears. Vignette illustration on every page. Poems that force a reference to Ivory Soap (e.g., The Village Blacksmith) sandwiched between testimonials from chemists on the purity of the soap and other promotional prose. OCLC notes three holdings (Rochester Med., Brown, Hagley).

[Advertising Poetry] [Stove] Malleable-Iron-Range Co. “Pray, Mother Goose,” Quoth Monarch Wise, “Wilt Lend Your Rhymes to Advertise My Famous Kitchen Range?” Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, ca. 1920. Six-panel accordion fold 12mo pamphlet—12 panels of illustrated Mother Goose rhymes, perverted in each verse to push Monarch Ranges, which are sometimes shown, too, such as in “Jack Spratt.”

[Advertising Poetry] [Stoves] Rock Island Stove Co. A Novel Race. Rock Island, IL, ca. 1880. Oblong 12mo. [16]pp + color printed wrappers. Profusely illustrated by blue-tinted lithographs, designed (and printed) by George S. Harris of New York. Leonore has a “curious” dream about a race involving various models of kitchen stoves (ridden by small men), with the winner being a Rock Island “Riverside” model. Upon awaking, her husband reveals a surprise in the kitchen. Not located in OCLC.

[Advertising Poetry] [Yeast] Fleischmann’s. Untitled poem about a young girl who decided to surprise her mother by baking a batch of rolls, using Fleischmann’s Yeast. [8]pp + 8ff of tissues. Uncolored illustrations with tissue paper interleaves (for tracing). Unused copy. Color pictorial wrappers. No place, ca. 1890.

[Advertising Sheet Music] [Auto] Becker, Ernest A., Sr. March of the Pioneers. Bristol, CT: Becker, 1929. Standard format, 4pp, last blank; cover illustration of wagon train. March (sans words) “Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of New Departure, Division General Motors Corporation.” Becker was the conductor of the New Departure Band. Division then made bearings for GM.

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[Advertising Sheet Music] [Auto] Grossman, Bernie et al. Ray and His Little Chevrolet. Chicago: Milton Weil Music Co., 1924. Small format sheet, 6pp. Illustrated cover, with inset portrait of Frank De Voe. Although not published by the firm, this song speaks of Chevrolet in very positive terms, plus the use of the word on the cover uses the company’s distinctive logo. OCLC locates four holdings.

[Advertising Sheet Music] [Beverage] Tobias, Charlie. The Man Who Cares. NY: C.T. Music Publishing Co., 1938. Standard format, 4pp. Cover with reproduction of James Montgomery Flagg painting of a handsome man… obviously one who cares enough to say “Carstairs.” Whiskey that is. “Apart from his heart, the man who cares has a mind that appreciates the mellow… in music, life and liquor. And the latter he chooses with good taste and uses good taste.” The swill was a “blend of several distinguished whiskies.”

[Advertising Sheet Music] [Bread] Phillips, Al Sherman and Al Lewis. Got the Bench, Got the Park (But I Haven’t Got You). NY: Berlin, 1931. Standard format, 6p; spine stapled. Cover inset photo of Pep, Vim and Vigor, the “Tastyeast Jesters.”

[Advertising Sheet Music] [Cosmetics] Gounod, Charles. The King of Love My Shepherd Is. St. Louis: J. A. Pozzoni, ca. 1890. Large format sheet, 6pp. Rear cover features full-page illustrated ad for Pozzoni’s Complexion Powder (“Society Women, all over the country as using it”) and Pozzoni’s Dove Powder, “unsurpassed for an infant powder.”

[Advertising Sheet Music] [Food] My Favorite Clown. Ronald McDonald’s New Theme Song… from McDonald’s, the McFriendliest Place. No place: McDonald’s Corp., 1974. Illustrated sheet in format/size of a place mat, with Ronald in the center; folded in half. Talk about McEphemeral Music!

[Advertising Sheet Music] [Furs] Redmond, John (words) and Senior Pokrass (music). Lovely Lady. NY: Fox, 1934. Standard format, 4pp. Cover illustration of a woman on a settee, wearing a full-length mink, smoking a cigarette. “Written Exclusively for the I.J. Fox Fur Trappers, Sponsored on the Radio by I.J. Fox, America’s Largest Furrier.”

[Advertising Sheet Music] [Pen] Penn, A Goode [pseudo.]. Simplo Filler Waltz. Cincinnati: Weidlich and Simpson, ca. 1910. Large format sheet, 6pp. Striking graphic cover of title and fountain pen; rear cover features full-page ad from the publisher, “makers of everything in fountain pens and ink pencils.” Their Specialty: “The Simplofiller.” Sheet rubbed and somewhat soiled; some edge tears; fair copy of rare local ad piece.

[Advertising Sheet Music] [Razors] We Are the Blades. Theme Song of “The Gillette Blades.” Radio Program of the Gillette Safety Razor Co. Boston: Gillette Safety Razor Co., 1929. Standard format, 4pp. Pictorial cover with six inset photos (performers from Show). Horizontal center crease. “The latest song made popular by the ‘Five Gay Young Blades,’ singing weekly in the radio program ‘The Gillette Blades’…”

[Advertising Sheet Music] [Sales] Tobias, Charles and Jack Ellis. I Can Get It For You Wholesale. NY: Santly Bros., 1929. Standard format, 6pp, small stain on edge of center leaf.

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Pictorial cover. A song about a guy from the Bronx who promised that he can get ANYTHING wholesale.

[Advertising Sheet Music] [Sewing Machine] Ohlmer, Hermann. Florence Schottische. Buffalo: Wahle & Sons, 1872. Large format sheet, 6pp; removed from bound volume. Engraved cover with decorative borders, features center cut of a Florence Sewing Machine,” with the tune dedicated to “William M. Kingsley, Esq., General Agent of the ‘Florence Sewing Machine Co.’ Buffalo, N.Y.”

[Advertising Sheet Music] [Shoes] Gorman, Bill and Ed, and O. Oliver Riehl (music). Waltzing. No place: National Broadcasting Co., 1930. Standard format, six pages, tear on corner of last leaf at top. “Composed Expressly for the Florsheim,” with full-page ad from firm (selling shoes “for the woman who cares”).

[Advertising Sheet Music] [Tobacco] Charles, Bob. Carolina’s Calling Me. NY: Santly Bros., 1931. Standard format, 6pp. Pictorial cover with inset photo of “Alice Joy, The Prince Albert Dream Girl.” Read cover is full-page ad for Prince Albert Tobacco, with larger picture of Ms. Joy. The “Prince Albert Quarter-Hour” music show, full of “soft musical reveries and salty philosophies” [from “Old Hutch”] ran on NBC, six nights a week, sponsored by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco (of Carolina).

[Advertising Sheet Music] [Transportation] Goodwin, Joe and Lew Brown. He’s on a Boat That Sailed Last Wednesday (He’s Coming Home). NY: Feist, 1913. Large format sheet, 6pp (publ. Advts on p.6). Cover features three color half-tone inset views of the R.M.S. Mauretania—one of the ship and two interior views of lounge and restaurant—“By Courtesy of the Cunard Steamship Co. Ltd.”

[Advertising Sheet Music] [Wire] Murphy, Rea (words) and Gus Haenschen. Baby Days. NY: Haenschen, 1928. Standard format, 6pp. Color cover illustration of a baby. Song “featured by Gus Haenschen and his Gold Strand Orchestra… Compliments of American Wire Fabrics Corporation.” Ad for said corporation, manufacturer of screen wire cloth and other products on the rear cover.”

[African Americans] Carpenter family. Carpenter and Washington family papers. [Dallas, Texas], 1895-1960s. Description: 1 box (0.5 linear foot). Robert E. Carpenter and his wife Bessie were an African American couple who lived in the State-Thomas neighborhood of Dallas in the early twentieth century. Their daughter Lanita married Booker T. Washington, Jr., and they settled on Clark Street. Included in this collection are Robert and Bessie's financial documents, correspondence from Bessie's children, two postcards, one photograph of Bessie, and deeds; Lanita's birth and marriage certificates, correspondence, and financial documents; and Booker's World War II documents. Lanita and another sibling attended Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, and Lanita's letters to her mother describe her life as a coed. Part of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection.

[African Americans] Das Heimathlose Negerkind und Bote des "Sel.-Peter-Klaver-Vereins." Leavenworth, Kan.: Sel. Peter Klaver Vereins. A magazine published by the Leavenworth

7 branch of the Society of St. Peter Claver, a Catholic charitable organization dedicated to the amelioration and repatriation of ex-slaves, as well as missionary work in Africa. Articles are principally devotional in content.--From bookseller's note. In German. DeGolyer has one issue, 1887.

[Agriculture] Biddle, Nicholas. Address Delivered Before the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, at Its Annual Meeting, on the Fifteenth of January, 1822 … Philadelphia: Clark & Raser, 1822.

[Agriculture] Dearborn, Henry A.S. An Address Delivered before the Massachusetts Society for the Promoting Agriculture, at Brighton, Oct. 14, 1835. Boston: N.E. Farmer Office, 1835.

[Agriculture] Norton, John P. Elements of Scientific Agriculture, or the Connection between Science and the Art of Practical Farming. Prize Essay of the New York State Agricultural Society. Albany: Erastus H. Pease & Co.; New Haven: T.H. Pease, 1853. 208 pp. 4th ed.

[Agriculture] The Western Pomologist. Pomology, Gardening, Forestry, Horticulture, Rural Architecture. Bees. Vol. 1, no. 6, 9, 11, 12. Leavenworth, Kansas, 1870-1871. Each issue 16 pp, text in three columns, illustrated. Original green printed wrappers.

[Architecture] Gardner, E. C. (Eugene Clarence), 1836-1915. Homes and How to Make Them. Boston, J.R. Osgood and Co., 1874. 314 pp. Letters between an architect and his friend.

[Arizona] Auditor. Biennial Report of the Territorial Auditor to the Governor of the Territory of Arizona 1899-1900. Phoenix: Press of the Arizona Republican, 1900. 143 pp.

[Arizona] Clark, Vernon L. Maricopa County Arizona Its Resources and Inducements to Settlers Farming, Stock Raising. Maricopa County: Board of Supervisors, [ca. 1913]. 40 pp., including illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers. A rare promotional for this region in central Arizona, describing climate, water supplies, agriculture, stock growing, etc. Several towns in the area are profiled, including Phoenix (population 18,000 and growing fast), Tempe, Glendale, Mesa City, Agua Caliente (and its hot springs) and others. Clark was the Arizona commissioner of immigration. Rare, with no copies listed in OCLC.

[Arizona] University of Arizona. Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station. Agricultural Convention. Tucson, Arizona, 1895. 53 pp. “Full synopsis of the proceedings of the first convention of farmers, fruit growers and stockmen of the Territory, held at Phoenix on Friday and Saturday, October 18th and 19th, 1895, under the auspices of the Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station and the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce.”

[Arkansas] Jefferson County Immigration Bureau. Pine Bluff and Jefferson County, Arkansas. Full Description. World’s Fair Edition. [Pine Bluff?] Jefferson County Bureau of Agriculture, Manufacture, and Immigration, 1893. 4to. 40pp + pictorial wrappers. County map on inside front wrappers, state map on rear wrapper. Profusely illustrated throughout with vignette views, produced by G.S. Burch of Chicago, of scenes around town— buildings, schools [e.g., Colored Industrial Institute], churches [even the local synagogue], large ornate Victorian houses, local

8 plantations, interiors of manufacturing facilities such as the lumber company, street scenes— very reminiscent of the work of a county history. Printed throughout in blue. Double-page center spread shows exterior and interior views of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway operation. In a section at the end on “Our Engravings,” which provides detailed descriptions of some of the images, the compilers hoped that the various building and city views “will enable people at a distance, when reading it, to form for themselves a pretty good idea of the character of our city.” The only issue noted by OCLC is also stated the “World’s Fair Edition”, of which OCLC notes four locations—Central Arkansas Library System, Univ. of Arkansas/Mullins, Newberry, Wisconsin Historical Society.

Ash, George. Captain George Ash: His Adventures and Life Story as Cowboy, Ranger and Soldier. Eastleigh: Eastleigh Printing Works, [1933]. “Deals with cattle rustling and some outlawry along the Mexican border.” Adams, Six Guns 42.

[Automobiles] Automobile Red Book (San Antonio, Tex.). Official Automotive Red Book. Vol. F, No. 3, 1926. 48 pp. “Galveston-Houston, San Antonio-El Paso with detours and connections and the Davis Mountain Section.”

Baptists. Indian Territory. Short Mountain Baptist Association. Minutes of the Second Annual Session of the Short Mountain Baptist Association, Held with Double Branch Church, Choctaw Nation, I.T. … 1885 … Witcherville, Ark.: Buckner Printing Office, 1885. 8 pp.

Baptists. Indian Territory. Short Mountain Baptist Association. Minutes of the Fourth Annual Session of the Short Mountain Baptist Association, Held with Rock Branch Baptist Church, Indian Territory … 1887 … St. Louis, Mo.: American Baptist Flag, 1887. 8pp. In wrappers.

Baptists. Indian Territory. Short Mountain Baptist Association. Minutes of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Short Mountain Baptist Association. Held with Harlan’s Chapel Church, Skullyville County, Choctaw Nation, October 5, 6, 7, 8, 1889. …. Little Rock, Arkansas: Arkansas Baptist Print, 1890. 12, [1] pp. Pink wrappers. Title from wrapper.

Baptists. Texas. Baptist General Association of Texas. Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the Baptist General Association of Texas. Held with the First Baptist Church in the City of Jefferson, July 25th, 26th and 28th, 1873. … Jefferson: J.C. Rogers, printer, binder, and blank book manufacturer, 1873. 26 pp. Winkler & Friend locate 4 other copies.

Baptists. Texas. Leon River Baptist Association. Minutes of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Session of the Leon River Baptist Association, Held with the Coryell Church, August 9, 10 and 11, 1894 … Waco, Texas: Baptist Standard Printing House, 1894. 16 pp. No other copies recorded.

Baptists. Texas. Mt. Gilead Primitive Baptist Church (Upshur County, Tex.) Mt. Gilead Primitive Baptist Church Minutes. Upshur County, Texas, 1848-1891. 1 volume. These bound minutes from 1848-1866 of the Mt. Gilead Primitive Baptist Church in Upshur County, Texas also includes Articles of Faith and Rules of Decorum. Laid in is a letter fragment dated 1891. Members are listed "by experience" or "by letter," including "Phebe a black woman."

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[Business] Freedley, Edwin T. A Practical Treatise on Business: or How to Get, Save, Spend, Give, Lend, and Bequeath Money: With an Inquiry Into the Chances of Success and Causes of Failure in Business … Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1853. 354 pp.

[Business] Medbery, James K. Men and Mysteries of Wall Street. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. 344 pp.

[Business] Teller, William Pierre. A First Book in Business Methods, by William P. Teller and Henry E. Brown. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Company, 1903. 271 pp.

[California] Hunt, T. Dwight, Rev. Address Delivered Before Before the New England Society of San Francisco, at the American Theatre, on the Twenty-Second Day of December, A.D. 1852. San Francisco: Cooke, Kenny & Co., 1853. 20pp. Address by the pastor of the New England Church in San Francisco on the courage of the early Pilgrims at Plymouth, and his hopes that California will be "the Massachusetts of the Pacific." The Pilgrims succeeded, Hunt asserts, because they planted "a colony at the right time, on the right principles, in the right circumstances, in the right place, and by the right men....Sons and daughters of New England! You are the representatives of a land which is a model for every other." COWAN, p.298. GREENWOOD 387. DRURY 26. SABIN 33896. HOWELL 50:536.

California. Laws, statutes, etc. Compiled laws of the State of California: containing all the acts of the Legislature of a public and general nature, now in force, passed at the sessions of 1850-51-52-53, to which are prefixed the Declaration of Independence, the Constitutions of the United States and California, the Treaty of Queretaro, and the naturalization laws of the United States … Benicia: Published by S. Garfielde ; Boston, Mass. : Press of the Franklin Printing House, 1853. xix, 1071 pp. Part of the John Holmes Jenkins Collection. Gift of Maureen V. Jenkins, 2015.

[California] Views of Modesto, Calif. [cover title]. San Francisco: Pacific Novelty Co., [circa 1920]. Nineteen photographic views, each measuring 4 x 6 1/4 inches, folding accordion-style into original mailer. Sent from Modesto, addressed to a recipient in New York State, with a stamp and contemporary postmark. Scarce book of views of Modesto, California, during its boom years in the early twentieth century. Located in the heart of California's Central Valley agricultural region, the city's motto is "water, wealth, contentment, health." The images show several new buildings and public works, including the McHenry Library, Modesto High, the La Grange Dam, the Tuolumne River Bridge, banks, churches, schools, parks, the Court House, the Hotel Modesto, the Hotel Hughson, the Southern Pacific Railroad depot, and the Borden's Condensed Milk factory. Scarce, with no copies listed on OCLC.

[Cattle] Bacon, J.H.: Judy, Col. J.W. & C.C. (auctioneers). Bay View Herd. Public Sale of Short- horns, Property J.H. Bacon at Fort Madison, Lee County, Iowa, on Tuesday, March 31, 1885. Fort Madison, Ia.: Democrat Steam Book and Job Printing Office, 1885. 56 pp. Original printed yellow wrappers, with an illustration on the rear wrapper. J.H. Bacon was a prominent short-horn cattle rancher in Iowa, and this catalogue lists the bulls, cows, and heifers from his "Bay View Herd" to be sold at auction in 1881. One of the star bulls, Baron Bates 6th 22009 (descended of

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J. Brown's Red Bull J. Thompson) is depicted on the rear wrapper. No copies are located in OCLC.

[Cattle] Bandera County brand book. [Bandera County, Texas], [between 1870 and 1879]. 1 volume. This brand book is arranged alphabetically and housed in a brown cloth clamshell case. Some brands note who paid for the brand. Purchase, 2014.

[Cherokee Nation] Adair, W. P., D.H. Ross, and W.A. Phillips. Brief on Behalf of the Cherokee Nation on the Question Touching Her Jurisdiction. Washington, D.C., 1879. 16 pp.

[Civil War] Charles A. Garcelon papers, Houston, 1865. Garcelon, from Maine, was a captain in the U.S. army commissary corps. 12 documents and letters describing requisitions for wood, water, supplies, etc. for federal troops in Houston, Texas, after the Civil War.

[Civil War] General Orders No. 4. Head Quarters Trans-Mississippi Department. Shreveport, La., Jan. 5, 1865. 4 pp. Signed in type S.S. Anderson, Assistant Adjutant General.

Colorado. Governor. Biennial Message of His Excellency Frederick W. Pitkin, to the Two Branches of the Legislature of Colorado, January 5, 1881. Denver: Tribune Publishing Co., State Printers, 1881. 44 pp.

[Colorado]. Greenleaf, Lawrence. N. King Sham, and Other Atrocities in Verse; Including a History of the Pike’s Peak Excitement. N.Y. Hurd, 1868. 139. [1]pp. Decker Cat 34#236: "Mr. Greenleaf was supposed to have written the first poem marking the discovery of gold in Colorado, which appears on p.52 - "Pike's Peakers of '69." Not in Wynar.

[Colorado] Lemen, H.A. Address of President H.A. Lemen, of Denver. Delivered Before the State Medical Society at Its Twelfth Annual Convention, at Pueblo, June, 1882. … Denver, Colorado: Edwin Price & Co., Book and Job Printers, 220 16th Street, 1882. 32 pp.

[Colorado] Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. Directory of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. Denver, Colorado. January 12, 1892. Published by the Western Church Directory Co. 72 pp. Includes advertisements.

[Colorado] University of Denver. Fifth Annual Announcement of the Faculty of Medicine, 1885- 86. Denver: Collier & Cleaveland, 1885. 15, [1] pp.

[Commercial Comic Books] [Alcoholism] Alcoholics Anonymous. What Happened to Joe and his Drinking Problem … NY, 1967 [perhaps 1983 printing?] Oblong 12mo. [24]pp including color pictorial wrappers. Joe falls so low that he stops shaving! Then he goes to an AA meeting. Self-examination text at the end. OCLC notes two holdings each for a 1967 and a 1985 issue.

[Commercial Comic Books] [Disability] Goodwill Industries. The Will to Win. No place, ca. 1955. 8vo. [8]pp including color pictorial wrappers. Story of a handi-capped boy, “Good Willy”, now in a wheelchair because of an auto accident, who is given a tour of a Goodwill Industries operation. Cartoon character “to be a symbol of Goodwill Industries” created by Milton Caniff.

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[Commercial Comic Books] [Electricity] Reddy Kilowatt Inc. The Mighty Atom, Starring Reddy Kilowatt. The Story of Electricity from Amber to Atoms. NY, 1959. 8vo. 32pp + color pictorial wrappers. “Story based on cartoon TECHNICOLOR motion picture ‘The Mighty Atom.’” Not one word about nuclear waste. “I’m a busy little atom! I split myself in two!/ I multiply as many times as I have jobs to do.” OCLC notes a 1959 holding at Ohio State, and a 1966 at Bowling Green.

[Commercial Comic Books] [Politics] Sponsored Comics Inc. Ike’s Story. NY, [1952?] 8vo. [8]pp including color pictorial wrappers. Reporter goes around asking people why they Like Ike… he’s in favor of capitalism, he is not an isolationist… issued pre-Republican Party convention. Interesting piece meant to influence, actually, Republican Party conventioneers.

[Commercial Comic Books] [Railroads] Association of American Railroads. Clear the Track! How railroads fight snow, flood, fires and other emergencies. Washington DC, 1956. 4to. [16]pp including color pictorial wrappers.

[Confederate Veterans] Carter, Presley Gilbert. Presley Gilbert Carter correspondence. [Texas], 1877-1910. 1 box (0.5 linear foot) This collection contains the correspondence of Presley Gilbert Carter, a native of Rye Cove, Virginia. He served as a colonel in Virginia's 25th Cavalry Regiment during the Civil War. After the war he moved to Hunt County, Texas and was a member of the First Texas Regiment, United Confederate Veterans. This organization had an interest in the Texas Confederate Home in Austin, Texas. Much of the Confederate Home correspondence is critical of the staff and conditions of the home. Also included is a folder of Dr. James Fry's correspondence. He was the third vice-president of the Association of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy, commander of Camp Calvin Crozier U.S.C.V., and a doctor in Wills Point, Texas.

[Cookbooks] Osborn, Mrs. Grace. Cakes of Quality: How to Make Them. Bay City, MI, 1919. 47 pp. Gift of Cammie Vitale Shuman, 2014.

[Cookbooks] Charleston Recipes. Charleston, South Carolina: Published by The Studio, 1928. 18 pp. Gift of Cammie Vitale Shuman, 2014.

[Cookbooks] Capital City Cook Book: A Collection of Practical Tested Receipts. Revised and Published by the Woman’s Auxiliary of the First Presbyterian Church, Raleigh, N.C., 1927. 122 pp. Gift of Cammie Vitale Shuman, 2014.

[Cookbooks] Dallas (TX). All Saints Church. Ladies’ Guild. Hints to Housekeepers. Suggestions by the Ladies’ Guild of All Saints Church. Dallas, TX, ca. 1905. 36 pp. Gift of Cammie Vitale Shuman, 2014.

[Cookbooks] Recipes Out of Bilibid: Collected by Col. Halstead C. Fowler. Compiled by Dorothy Wagner. 1946. 81 pp. Gift of Cammie Vitale Shuman, 2014.

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[Cookbooks] Eureka (KS). Methodist Episcopal Church. Souvenir Cook Book. Compiled by the Ladies of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Eureka, KS, 1896. 39 pp. Gift of Cammie Vitale Shuman, 2014.

[Cookbooks] First M.E. Church, Boulder, Colorado. Cook Book of Tested Recipes [Boulder, ca. 1896?] 96 pp. OCLC lists one other copy, at Boulder Public Library.

[Cookbooks] Ladies’ Aid Society, All Souls Church, Scott, Arkansas. Recipe Book. Little Rock, Ark.: Jordan-Foster Printing Co., [1920s?]. 51 pp.

[Cookbooks] Ladies Aid Society of First Baptist Church, Tulsa, Okla. Recipes Worth While. [Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1914?] 56 pp. Not in OCLC and as far as we can tell, the first cookbook from Tulsa.

[Cookbooks] Newton (KS). St. Matthews Episcopal Church. The St. Cecelia Guild Cook Book. Compiled by the St. Cecelia Guild of the St. Matthews Episcopal Church. Newton, KS, 1933. 100 pp. Gift of Cammie Vitale Shuman, 2014.

[Cookbooks] Minot (ND). The First Presbyterian Church. The Sunshine Cook Book. Compiled by the Sunshine Club of the First Presbyterian Church. Minot, N.D., 1921. 76 pp. Gift of Cammie Vitale Shuman, 2014.

[Cookbooks] Virginia Cookery Book: Traditional Recipes. Richmond, Va.: Published by Virginia League of Women Voters, 1921. 192 pp. Gift of Cammie Vitale Shuman, 2014.

[Cookbooks] Washta Cook Book. Washta, Ia.: Compiled and published by the Ladies’ Aid Society of the M. E. church of Washta, Ia., 1906. 70 pp. Gift of Cammie Vitale Shuman, 2014.

Crockett, Davy, 1786-1836. Davy Crockett promissory note. Washington, 1829 February 24.1 item. This note signed by David Crockett promises to pay Bob McHatton seven hundred dollars by December 26. In 1829 Crockett was representing western Tennessee as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. This note is matted and framed with a reproduction of a portrait of Crockett, and a small plaque of important dates in Crockett's life. Part of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection.

[Dakota]. Black Hills. [N.p., ca. 1989]. 16 pp. Illus. Original printed 16 mo printed decorated wrappers. First edition. The Hot Springs, Vale of Minnekahta, climate, hotels, scenery, testimonials, etc. Produced by the Northwestern Line. Not in Jennewein.

[Dakota]. Caledonia Gold Mining Company. Location of Works: Black Hills, Dakota Territory. Principal Place of Business: San Francisco, California, Reports of Directors… San F., Women's Co-op Printing, 1887. 10 pp. Original printed wrappers. First edition. Contains a list of Directors, President Thomas Bell's report to the stockholders, William L. Oliver's report of the Secretary and T. L. Skinner's Superintendents report. Not in Howes, Cowan, Graff or Jennewein.

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[Dakota]. Double Eagle Mining and Investment Company of Rapid City, South Dakota, Incorporated Under the Laws of the State of South Dakota, November 12, 1896. By Laws. [Sioux Falls, Double Eagle Mining, 1896]. 14 pp. Original 12 mo printed wrappers. First edition. Contains eight articles as the by-laws.

[Dakotas]. Ellis, Frankwill. History and Future of Minnehaha County, Dakota and City of Sioux Falls. Sioux Falls, 1887. 26 pp. Illus., folding map as frontis with "a view of Phillips Avenue going south on rear, woodcuts in text. Original printed pictorial wrappers. "Compliments of M. A. Stickney" printed at head of front wrapper. First edition. Howes E117. Dakota Imprints 531. Not in Graff.

[Dakota]. Land of Promise. How to Go and What to do When You Get There. Milwaukee, Riverside, [1882?]. 15 pp. Original 12 mo printed wrappers, rear outside wrapper has a map of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Co. First edition. People, soil, water, climate, productions, stock raising, routes, government lands, homesteads, pre-emptions, timber, pioneers, land offices, route of railroads with timetable showing Chicago and Milwaukee routes to Dakota. Not in Jennewein.

[Dakota]. Sioux Falls, the Most Populous City, and Minnehaha, the Most Populous in South Dakota: The Paradise of Settlers and Investors. Farms are Always Valuable near Large Towns and Cities... Sioux Falls, Sutton & Bench, [1890]. 10 pp. 12 mo folder with pictorial front wrapper. First edition. Contains a sketch of Minnehaha and J. H. Moor's facts and figures concerning Sioux Falls, the metropolis of South Dakota. Not in Jennewein.

[Drama] Newcomb, Cyrus F. & J.M. Haynes. The Fireworshippers: A Drama [and] Dermot McMurrough A Drama (Time A.D. 800). Del Norte, Colorado: “Prospector” Print, 1882. Together, 2 vols. in 1, each with separate title, as issued.

[Education] Farmington Baptist College. Catalogue … 1899-1900. Farmington, Mo., 1899? 22 unnumbered pages.

[Education] Keokuk, Iowa. Outline of the Course of Study of the District Schools of the City of Keokuk, Iowa. Adopted September, 1873. Keokuk: Gate City Steam Print, 1873. 8 pp.

[Education] Topeka, Kansas. Manual of the Public Schools of Topeka, Kansas. Topeka, Kansas: Geo. W. Crane, 1886. 52, [1] pp. Illustrated.

Episcopal Church. Diocese of Texas. Journal of the Forty-First Annual Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Texas Held in Saint Paul’s, Waco, May 21, 22, 23, 1890. Printed by Order of the Council. Houston, Texas: W.H. Coyle, Stationer and Printer, 1890. 73, [1] pp.

Episcopal Church. Diocese of Texas. Journal of the Forty-Second Annual Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Texas Held in Saint David’s, Austin May 20, 21, 22, 1891. Printed by Order of the Council. Houston, Texas: W.H. Coyle, Stationer and Printer, 1891. 71, [2] pp.

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Episcopal Church. Diocese of Texas. Journal of the Forty-Sixth Annual Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church Held in Saint Paul’s Church, Waco, Texas, May 8th, 9th, and 10th, 1895. Printed by Order of the Council. Houston, Texas: W.H. Coyle, Stationer and Printer, 1895. 81, [1] pp.

Episcopal Church. Diocese of Texas. Journal of the Forty-Seventh Annual Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church Held in Christ Church, Tyler, Texas, May 6, 7, 8, 1896. Printed by Order of the Council. Houston, Texas: W.H. Coyle, Stationer and Printer, 1896. 65, [1] pp.

[Episcopal Church] Kansas City Convocation. First Annual Session. Held in Grace Church, Kansas City, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, January 16th, 17th and 18th, A.D. 1877. Kansas City: Tiernan & Wainwright, printers and binders, 1877. [12] pp. Wrappers.

[Fiction] Cottin, Madame (Sophie). Elizabeth; or, the Exiles of Siberia: A Tale, Founded upon Facts. From the French of Madame Cottin. Philadelphia: Printed by Ann Cochran, for Mathew Carey, 1811. 166 pp. Shaw & Shoemaker 22628.

[Fiction] Flint, Timothy. Francis Berrian, or The Mexican Patriot. Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, and Company, 1826. 2 vols. Streeter, Texas, 1091. “The first novel in English with a Texas background … The novel tells the story of a Harvard graduate intended for the ministry, as was the case with Timothy Flint, who, instead, in search of adventure, went to the Southwest and in Texas was captured by Indians. He and the heroine, a young Spanish girl of noble family, escaped; and the main plot of the story is whether the hero, a New England Protestant, should marry a Spanish Roman Catholic.” Reprinted often; we had later editions, but had never been able to acquire the first edition until now. Purchased with funds provided by John M. Parker, M.D., 2014.

[Fiction] Harris, Brady. The Spirit Of The West, A Tale Of The Ozarks. Written, illustrated, edited and published by Brady Harris, West Plains, Mo. The scene is laid in post-bellum days when Missouri was on the frontier of the great unknown West. West Plains, Mo.: Journal Press, 1904. (2), 126 pp. Illustrated with half-tone photos. Self-published offbeat Western fiction. Brady Harris was a Missouri lawyer, minister, and editor of the Belton Herald. A sketch of his life can be found in the Missouri Historical Review, Vol. XI, 1916-1917, p. 351. OCLC lists ICN, OkU, Ohio State and six in Missouri.

Freemasons. Kansas. Council Grove Lodge No. 36. By-Laws of Council Grove Lodge No. 36 A.F. & A.M., Council Grove, Kan. Chartered October 21, A.D. 1862, A.L. 5862. Council Grove, Kan.: Bell, Book and Job Printer, 1899. 17 pp.

Freemasons. Kansas. Grand Lodge. Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of Kansas during the Era of “Bleeding Kansas” and Civil War. Leavenworth and Lawrence: 1856, 1861-1865. The imprints are bound together in later half morocco and marbled boards, with gilt-lettered spine title. The 1856 Proceedings, the original of which appears in imprint No. 1, is spotted. Otherwise, these are clean and in Very Good condition.

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1. ...From the Time When the Convention Met for Its Organization, in November, 1855, to October, 1861, Inclusive. Leavenworth, Kansas: Times Book and Job Printing Establishment. 1861. Pages 27, [1 blank], 20, [29]-258, [6] ["Certain portions are reprints, while others show evidence of having been run from the same type forms as those of the original editions. The proceedings for 1856 are of the original edition, which accounts for the irregular pagination" (AII)]. AII Kansas 282. 2. ...At Its Seventh Annual Communication, Convened in the City of Topeka, on the Twenty- First Day of October, A.D. 1862, A.L. 5862. Lawrence: Kansas State Journal Steam Press. 1862. 76 pp. AII Kansas 326 [recording 82 pp]. 3. ...At Its Eighth Annual Communication, Convened in the City of Topeka, on the Twentieth Day of October, A.D. 1863, A.L, 5863. Lawrence: Kansas State Journal Steam Press. 1863. 103, [1 errata] pp. AII Kansas 362. 4. ...At a Special Communication Convened in the City of Topeka, on the Twentieth Day of December, A.D. 1864, A.L 5864. Lawrence: Kansas State Journal Steam Press Print. 1865. 111, [1 errata] pp. AII Kansas 452. See, AII Kansas 362 ["No copy of the proceedings of the ninth annual communication, 1864, has been located"]. 5. ...At Its Tenth Annual Communication, Convened at the City of Topeka, Tuesday, October, Seventeenth, A.D. 1865, A.L. 5865. Leavenworth: Bulletin Book, Poster and Job Rooms. 1865. 105, [1 blank] pp. AII Kansas 453. Maintaining fraternal spirits in Kansas during the tumultuous decade 1856-1865 was no easy task. The 1856 convocation is warned, "In the present disturbed state of political affairs in our country we are often called on to exercise that charity in construeing [sic] the acts of others which our own excesses, when under the influence of a high state of excitement, may often require; beware then, my brothers, that political animosities find no hold among the fraternity: let no political discussions or feeling enter into your Lodges and let all your discussions out of the Lodge be marked by prudence, calmness and caution, remembering that even contending soldiers on the bloody field of battle are sometimes brothers." Other convocations, concerned about "discordance," seek nevertheless to spread education and culture throughout the Territory: "establish common schools in every village, neighborhood and town." The "Mystic Tie" of Masonry "embraces in its folds many brethren of heathen nations in Asia, Africa, America ..."

Freemasons. Kansas. Grand Lodge. Proceedings … at Its Eleventh Annual Communication, Convened at the City of Topeka … Leavenworth: Printed at the Bulletin, Book, Poster and Job Rooms, 1866. 210 pp.

Freemasons. Kansas. Grand Lodge. Proceedings … at Its Thirteenth Annual Communication, Held at the City of Lawrence … Leavenworth: Daily Bulletin Steam Book and Job Rooms, 1869.

Freemasons. Nebraska. Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Communication of the M.W. Grand Lodge of Nebraska of A.F. & A.M. Begun and Held at Brownville, Nebraska, 22 June. A.L. 5865.

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Nebraska City, Nebraska: Printed by A.F. & W.E. Harvey, “Statesman” Job Office, [1865]. 41 pp.

Freemasons. Nebraska. Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Nebraska, Ancient, Free, and Accepted Masons, at Its Nineteenth Annual Communication Held at Lincoln June 20th and 21st, A.L. 5876. Davenport, Iowa: Day, Egbert, & Fidlar, 1876. 175 pp.

Freemasons. Oregon. Grand Lodge. Proceedings of the M.W. Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Oregon. Forty-Third Annual Communication, Held at Portland, June 14, A.L. 5893 … Portland, Oregon: F.W. Baltes, 1893. 467, viii pp.

Freemasons. Texas. Proceedings of the M.W. Grand Lodge of Texas, at Its Thirty-Third Annual Communication held at the City of Houston … Houston: Printed for the Grand Lodge, 1869.

Fremont, John C. et al. Reisen Durch die Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika Nebst Einem Inem Ausfluge nach Canada, nach F. V. Raumer, F. Gerstacker, E. V. Gerstner, L. DE Wette, M. Beyer und L. Koch, Paul Wilhlem, Herzog von Wurtemberg, Herzog Bernhard von Weimar, J. MacGregor, CH. Lyell, F. Wye U.U.M. Sowie nach dem Felsengebirge im Jahre 1842 und nach dem Oregongebiet und Nord-Californien in den Jahren 1843 und 1844 von Capitian J. C. Fremont, Burger der Vereinigten Staaten mit Einem Stahl Stich und Einer Karte. Leipzig, 1848. 447, [1]pp. Illus., frontis and folding map "Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika... " by Heinzelmann. Wagner-Camp-Becker 115:12. Howes F370. On p.262 begins "Reisen Nach Dem Felsengebirge... "which deals with the Oregon country and California in 1843-1844. In addition to the German edition of Fremont's classic travel narrative, the volume also includes accounts from several other travelers in the west. The frontispiece depicts the falls in the Pacific Northwest.

[Geology] Breislak, Scipione. Introduzione alla Geologia. Milan: Stamperia Reale, 1811. xxvii, [1], 36, 367, [1] pp.; 490 pp. Two vols. 8vo, orig. marbled wrappers, entirely uncut. First edition. This highly influential work was rapidly translated into French and German and widely circulated. Its criticism of Neptunian dogmas was largely instrumental in eradicating them from the teaching of the universities and colleges. Breislak gives a good account of volcanic phenomena and volcanic rocks in Italy, and contributes a number of valuable observations on gaseous explosions, volcanic ejecta, and on lava and basalt. “Considered one of the founders of volcanology in Italy, Breislak was the first to determine that basaltic rocks were of extrusive origin; he also emphasized that the tufaceous deposits of Campania originated under water, and he reconstructed the evolution of Vesuvius.”–D.S.B., II, p. 439. É Ashworth & Bradley, Theories of the Earth 1644-1830 (Linda Hall Library: 1984), 47. Zittel, pp. 78-79 & 144-45.

[Geology] Eaton, Amos. An Index to the Geology of the Northern State, with Transverse Sections, Extending from Susquehanna River to the Atlantic, Crossing Catskill Mountains. To Which is Prefixed a Geological Grammar. Troy: Wm. S. Parker, 1820. Two engraved double- page plates. xi, [1], [13]-286 pp. 8vo. “Second edition, wholly written over anew, and published under the Direction of the Troy Lyceum.” Eaton (1776-1842), was an eminent American geologist, botanist, and educator. “Eaton’s Index was an important early American geological treatise, and the foldout section of Massachusetts, with its massive granite base, is truly

17 stunning.”–Ashworth & Bradley, Theories of the Earth 1644-1830 (Linda Hall Library: 1984), 50–(describing the first ed. of 1818). D.S.B., IV, pp. 273-75.

[Geology] Robinson, Thomas. An Essay towards a Natural History of Westmorland and Cumberland. Wherein an Account is given of their several Mineral and Surface Productions, with some Directions how to discover Minerals by the External and Adjacent Strata and Upper Covers, &c. To which is Annexed, A Vindication of the Philosophical and Theological Paraphrase of the Mosaick System of the Creation, &c. London: W. Freeman, 1709. 8 p.l., 95 pp.; 1 p. l., 118 pp., one leaf of ads. Two parts in one vol. First edition. Robinson (d. 1719), natural philosopher, took his degree at Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1668 and was soon appointed rector of Ousby, Cumberland. He established a major mining enterprise in 1693 when he reopened the Newlands mines near Keswick with the intention of mining copper and silver. By 1703, the enterprise failed and because of considerable debts, Robinson had to take refuge in London. The present work is divided into two parts. The first describes the geology and mineralogy of Westmorland and Cumberland. Part II present the author’s theory of the earth. Robinson admired the theories of Burnet and Woodward and agreed that God worked through secondary causes in creating the earth. Signature dated 1775 and engraved armorial bookplate of Thomas Dampier (1749-1812), bishop of Ely and prominent book collector. Errata slip mounted on p. 118. É Ashworth & Bradley, Theories of the Earth 1644-1830 (Linda Hall Library: 1984), 97. ODNB.

[Geology] Woodward, John. An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: and Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: as also of the Sea, Rivers, and Springs. With an Account of the Universal Deluge: and of the Effects that it had upon the Earth. London: R. Wilkin, 1695. Title within ruled border. 8 p. l., 277, [2] pp. 8vo. First edition of this celebrated contribution to the advancement of geological knowledge; it was widely read both in Great Britain and, in translation, in other European countries. Woodward (1665-1728), believed that “the earth formerly had been submerged beneath a universal deluge…These waters had dissolved, or disintegrated and held in suspension, all the stony and mineral matter forming the outer crust of the earth…From the confused mass that had formed, the matter in suspension, both organic and inorganic, subsided in an order determined, so far as was possible, by the specific gravity of the individual components. Thus a stratigraphic succession was formed.”–D.S.B., XIV, p. 501. This work was criticized by Dr. John Arbuthnot, John Ray, and others. The Essay contributed toward establishing that strata throughout the world are, generally speaking, similar in character, a conclusion necessary before an acceptable theory of the origin of the rocks of the crust of the earth could be formulated. Ashworth & Bradley, Theories of the Earth 1644-1830 (Linda Hall Library: 1984), 9. Hoover 896.

[Home Economics] Fowler, Charles Henry, 1837-1908. Home and Health and Home Economics: A Cyclopedia of Facts and Hints for All Departments of Home Life, Health, and Domestic Economy / by C.H. Fowler and W.H. De Puy. New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1879

[Hogs] Catalogue of the first annual combination sale of 50 head of choice Poland China hogs to be held at Blackwell, Okla. Thursday, March 2, 1905 …. Chillicothe, Missouri: Hatcher Printing Co., 1905. [24] pp. Annual. Began with 1st (1905). Cover Title: Annual combination sale of choice Poland China hogs to be held ... Notes: "I.E. Knox, manager." Catalog with

18 descriptions and pedigrees of swine for sale. Library's copy of issue for 1st (1905) has inscription in ink on front cover: "Marked copy for reference, Blackwell sale." It has markings and notes in blue pencil and in ink throughout.

[Horses] Kimberly, A.E. First Annual Catalogue 1890 Union Valley Stock Farm where Highly Bred Trotting Stock are Always for Sale [wrapper title]. [West Liberty, Ia. 1890]. 120, [4]pp., plus illustration. Original printed wrappers. Contemporary manuscript annotations. The first catalogue for A.E. Kimberly's Union Valley Stock Farm, a breeder of trotting horses located in West Liberty, Iowa. Kimberly had established himself as a breeder of short horn cattle before branching into trotting horses. The most prominent stallion in Kimberly's stable was Bezant 6321, depicted in an illustration and whose services were available for $100 for the season, but limited to servicing only ten mares outside of Kimberly's own. The other stallion, Guide 1197, could be had for $50 for the season. The rest of the catalogue lists dozens of mares and colts also available. The manuscript annotations throughout the catalogue indicate that this might have been Kimberly's own reference copy. No copies are located in OCLC.

[Horticulture] Butterfield, H. M. History of Deciduous Fruits in California [wrapper title]. Sacramento: California Fruit Exchange, 1938. 38 pp., illustrated. An essential history of the early days of the fruit industry in California by H.M. Butterfield, Specialist in Agricultural Extension at the University of California. Reprinted from The Blue Anchor, the nine sections cover a variety of crops, including pears, cherries, plums and prunes, peaches, apples, figs, grapes and raisins, apricots and nectarines, and persimmons, quinces, and pomegranates. With portraits of important pomologists and orchardists, statistics, information on varieties of California origin, and much more.

[Horticulture] Harrison, C.S. A New World of Beauty. A Description of the Rocky Mountain Evergreens Trees of Marvellous Tints. Adapted to the East and West, Tested and Approved by Leading Horticulturists. … Franklin, Neb.: Printed by J.W. Robinson, [1880s?] 10 pp.

[Houston, Sam] Letters to Sam Houston, 1855-1856. Mss. Summary: This collection consists of 89 letters written to Sam Houston from October, 1855, to March, 1856. At the time, Houston was a U.S. Senator from Texas. The letters reveal the wide range of his correspondence, from all over the United States, from complete strangers as well as long-time friends and supporters. The topics run the gamut, from personal and family news to the great political issues of the day, especially the growing tensions concerning slavery, the durability of the Union, and Houston’s prospects as a potential presidential candidate. Of special interest are long letters from E.W. Cave in Nacogdoches, the editor of the Nacogdoches Chronicle and a political supporter. Henderson Yoakum, the author of an early history of Texas, declares his pro-Union sentiments and expresses his fears for the future unless reasonable heads prevail. Geographically, the correspondents range from California to New Hampshire. Of the 89 letters, 23 were sent from Texas, many of which contain important observations on agriculture, society, economics, and politics. The variety of topics in this collection makes for interesting reading as well: most everyone wants something—a favor, a pension, a government job, seeds from the patent office, government publications for libraries and private citizens. Houston is often asked to give a speech, or informed that he has been elected to an honorary society, or is the local favorite of the American party.

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Five of the correspondents are women. A Mrs. E. Ewing in Houston, Texas, writes of her difficulties with “Awgustus,” probably her slave, who has run away and “is now at Mr. Middleton’s in Washington City.” “If I cannot succeed in getting him in the Navy or on some Merchant vessel that is going on a long voyage I do not know what I am to do with him.” Mrs. Ellen Coleman in Gonzales, Texas, writes to request “fruits, grapevines, cereals & vegetables.” Mary Clarke, the editor of the Mother’s Journal in Philadelphia, writes to obtain a renewal of Mrs. Houston’s subscription to the magazine. “Allow me to express my pleasure at your frank admission that all good husbands are more or less directed by their wives. I sincerely hope that all such, like yourself, may be blessed with good wives.” Henrietta Creecy writes concerning land claims of her late husband. Mrs. DeJamin writes from West Point, N.Y., to complain about her husband’s low salary and their uncomfortable living quarters. Office seekers abound, but probably none can equal the frank admission of Isaiah Graham of Philadelphia, who desired an appointment as a captain’s clerk on board a man of war. “I have always had a liking for a sea faring life …” For students of political history and social history, these letters offer a rare glimpse at the myriad concerns facing Americans on the eve of the Civil War, from the quotidian details of daily life to the larger themes of a democratic government divided over the question of slavery. Gift, John N. Rowe, III, 2014.

Idaho. Registration Law of Idaho Territory, Passed at the Twelfth Session of the Territorial Legislature, February 8, 1883. [Hailey, Idaho]: Printed at the Hailey Daily News-Miner Job Office, 1884. 7, [1] pp.

[Indian captivities] Flandrau, Charles E. The Ink-pa-du-ta Massacre of 1857 in Minnesota and Iowa: A Paper Read before the Minnesota Historical Society, Dec. 8, 1879. St. Paul: H.M. Smyth, 1895. 22 pp.

[Insurance companies] Bankers Life Association. Articles of incorporation and constitution of the Bankers Life Association, Des Moines, Iowa. Des Moines: Carter, Hussey & Curl, printers, 1879. 22 pp.

Iowa. Acts and Resolution Passed at the First Session of the General Assembly, of the State of Iowa, Which Convened at Iowa City, on the Thirtieth Day of November, A.D., 1846. Iowa City: 1847. xiv, [2 blanks], 260 pp.

Iowa. Acts, Resolutions and Memorials Passed at the Regular Session of the Second General Assembly, of the State of Iowa, Which Convened at Iowa City, on the Third Day of December, Anno Domini, 1848. Iowa City: 1849. xvi, [17] -235, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp. Original printed front wrapper.

Iowa. Acts, Resolutions and Memorials Passed at the Regular Session of the Third General Assembly, of the State of Iowa, Which Convened at Iowa City, on the Third Day of December, Anno Domini, 1850. Iowa City: 1851. 294, [1], [1 blank] pp. Original printed front wrapper,

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Iowa. Acts, Resolutions and Memorials Passed at the Regular Session of the Fourth General Assembly of the State of Iowa, Which Convened at Iowa City, on the Sixth Day of December, Anno Domini, 1852. Iowa City: 1853. 240pp.

Iowa. Acts, Resolutions and Memorials Passed at the Regular Session of the Fifth General Assembly of the State of Iowa, Which Convened at Iowa City, on the Fourth Day of December, Anno Domini, 1854. Iowa City: 1855. xv, [1 blank], 326 pp. The foregoing bound uniformly in later brown cloth, morocco spine labels. These are the Acts, Legislative Memorials, and Resolutions, of the first five General Assemblies of the State of Iowa. Much on the organization of the new State, with emphasis on education, transportation, civil and criminal codes, and other foundation material. The First Session prints the Iowa Constitution of 1846.

Iowa. Attorney General. Opinion of the Attorney-General, on Interest and Penalty of Railroad Bond Tax. Des Moines: F.M. Mills, state printer, 1870. 7, [1] pp.

[Iowa] Day, J.C. A New Resort in Iowa. Sabula, Iowa: Published by J.C. Day, June 1897. [21] pp. Caption title. Cover title: J.C. Day, Hardware, Sabula,Iowa. Printed by Chicago Photo Engraving Co., 1897. Not in OCLC and this viewbook promotional appears to be the first (and only?) for Sabula, Iowa.

[Iowa] [Des Moines] Citizens Association of Des Moines, Iowa. City of Des Moines: Business Opportunity and Desirable Location. Des Moines, Iowa: Citizens Association, 1873. 24 pp.

[Iowa] Farmer’s Cooperative Creamery. Annual Statement … St. Ansgar, Iowa, March, 1, 1894. 1 sheet.

Iowa. Governor. Biennial Message of Samuel Merrill, Governor of the State of Iowa. To the Fourteenth General Assembly, January, 1872. Des Moines: G.W. Edwards, State Printer, 1872.

[Iowa] Heizer, Edward P., editor. Sioux City Illustrated: The Pioneer Period And An Authentic Sketch Of The Sioux City Of To-Day. Embracing the stages of its development and relation to the Upper Missouri Valley. With over sixty illustrations, and an article on the famous Corn Palace. Sioux City, and Omaha: D.C. Dunbar & Co., Publishers, 1888. Perkins Bros. Co., Printers and Binders, Sioux City, Iowa. [64] pp., numerous photo-engraved illustrations. Color lithographed pictorial cover. An attractive and especially well-illustrated promotional piece. OCLC locates American Antiquarian Society; Brigham Young; and Winterthur. There is also a copy at Yale.

[Iowa] Kilbourne, D.W. Inaugural Address of D.W. Kilbourne, Esq., Mayor of the City of Keokuk. Delivered at Concert Hall, April 10, 1855. At the Unanimous Request of the Audience, Ordered to be Published by the City Council. Keokuk: Gate City Print., 1855. 20 pp.

Iowa. Legislature. House of Representatives. Rules of the House of Representatives and Joint Rules of the House and Senate. Des Moines, Iowa: John Teesdale, State Printer, 1860. 13,[3] pp. Includes folding table with names of the members, their profession, address, county, birth place, religion, boarding house, age, weight, years in Iowa, and married or single. Of the 80 some odd

21 members of the House, only 8 were bachelors. Among the predominant Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians, one finds three “liberals,” four “free thinkers,” and one “eclectic.” The heaviest member was L.R. Peet, at 230 pounds; the lightest member was E.G. Bowdoin at 120 pounds. The oldest member, age 70, was J.W. LeLacheur, a farmer from Plum Spring. The youngest, at 23, was J.H. Williams, a lawyer from Dubuque.

[Iowa] M.E. Church, Red Oak, Ia. Catalogue of the Art Loan Exhibition at the M.E. Church, Red Oak, Iowa. Red Oak, Iowa: Record Job Print, 1880. 36 pp. An interesting catalog, showing just how up-and-coming Iowa could be in late Victorian days. The Red Oak Methodist Episcopal Church was chock-full of committees to organize these exhibitions, including committees for Ceramics & Silverware - Bric-a-Brac, Relics and Curiosities - Laces and Textile Fabrics - Paintings and Engravings - Mineral Specimens, Coins and Jewelry - Books and Manuscripts - Comic Department - Daguerreotypes, Photographs, etc. - Floral and Decorating - Music and Entertainment - Refreshments. The catalog listing of the items exhibited is divided into the categories previously listed, as well as a section of "Cabinets," collections of items including "150 specimens from the Holy Land," Persian artifacts, and so on. The catalog also serves as a de facto Commercial directory, including many pages of illustrated advertisements for Red Oak area businesses. Not recorded elsewhere.

Iowa. State Dairy Commissioner. Eighth Annual Report of the State Dairy Commissioner to the Governor of the State of Iowa. For the Year 1894. … Des Moines: F.R. Conaway, 1895. 171 pp.

Iowa State Agricultural College and Farm. Report of the Secretary of Iowa State Agricultural College and Farm. [Ames: The College, 1860] 8 pp.

The Iowa Real Estate Register. Clinton, Iowa, June [1870]. Published by Frank Woodworth. Listings of land, farms, residential houses, and commercial buildings available for sale in and around Clinton, Iowa. Issue for June 1870 lacks designation of year; 1870 is based upon content throughout that refers back to the year 1869, as well as a statement that the city of Clinton was founded in Aug. 1855, "little more than 14 years ago."

[Japanese Internment] The Displaced Japanese-Americans [wrapper title]. Washington: American Council on Public Affairs, [1944]. 20 pp. Reprinted from an article in the April 1944 issue of FORTUNE, this pamphlet outlines events surrounding the internment of over 100,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II.

[Japanese Internment] Wada, Yori. Beyond the Horizon [wrapper title]: [Berkeley. 1944]. 12 pp. Original printed self-wrappers. First separate edition, reprinted from the California Monthly of December, 1943 and published by the Committee on American Principles and Fair Play. Yori Wada graduated from the University of California in 1940 and was inducted into the Army in July, 1941, eventually being assigned to the 442nd Combat Team at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, which was composed entirely of Japanese-Americans. His family, however, was relocated to the Hanford internment camp. He writes that "the sale of our ice cream store which had been ours for 25 years had also be borne in bitter shame and silence since the United States Government had wanted it so. We had committed no crime; it was only that Japan, our enemy, was the land of

22 our ancestors." An eloquent testimony by a patriot who, despite the injustices he and his family suffered, maintained his belief in American ideals.

[Japanese Internment] See the Film Challenge to Democracy. Los Angeles: United Co-Operative Industries, [1944]. [2]pp. A scarce flier promoting the short American propaganda film A Challenge to Democracy, released in 1944 by the War Relocation Authority. The film is a somber view of Japanese internment that also tries to put a positive spin on the situation.

[Japanese Internment] “What We’re Fighting for" Statements by United States Servicemen about Americans of Japanese Descent. Washington: War Relocation Authority, [1944]. 21pp. Prints various letters by American servicemen opposed to the idea of Japanese-American internment: "When I meet a Japanese-American on the street in the same uniform as my own, I know he is fighting two wars, our war and his own private war for his people against public opinion and racial discrimination."

[Juveniles] Abbott, Jacob. Juno on a Journey. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1870. 300 pp.

[Juveniles] Abbott, John S.C. David Crockett. New York, 1898. 350 pp.

[Juveniles] The Bible Boy Taken Captive by the Indians. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1845. 22 pp.

[Juveniles] Bilby, T. (Thomas), 1794-1872. The Book of Animals: for the Amusement and Instruction of Young Persons: Exemplified by Original and Select Illustrative Anecdotes by T. Bilby. Illustrated with Twelve Elegant Designs. New York: Leavitt and Allen, 1857. xii, [21]-200 p. Illus.

[Juveniles] Book about Birds. Concord, N.H.: Rufus Merrill, [1850?]. 16 pp. Some of the illustrations nicely colored by a young artist.

[Juveniles] Brooks, Noah. The Boy Settlers: A Story of Early Times in Kansas. New York: Scriber’s, 1896. 252 pp.

[Juveniles] Campe, J.H. Cortez: or the Conquest of Mexico. As Related by a Father to His Children, and Designed for the Instruction of Youth. Translated from the German … by Elizabeth Helme … London: C. Cradock and W. Joy, 32 Paternoster- Row; and P. Norbury, Brentford, 1811. 259 pp.

[Juveniles] Cozzens, Samuel Woodworth. Crossing the Quicksands; or, the Veritable Adventures of Hal and Ned upon the Pacific Slope. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1877. First Edition. 12mo. Frontispiece with facing illustrated title-page vignette, [1–5], 6–317, [1, blank], [2, ads], 2, blank]pp. 6 plates. From the author’s “The Young Trail Hunters’ Series.”

[Juveniles] Ellis, Edward S. The Young Conductor: or, Winning His Way. Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates, [ca 1895]. 246 pp.

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[Juveniles] Hurd, Edith Thacher. Engine Engine No. 9. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1940. Illustrated by Clement Hurd.

[Juveniles] Jenness, Theodora R. Two Young Homesteaders. Boston: D. Lothrop, 1880. 364 p.: ill. Adventures in Kansas.

[Juveniles] Knight, Mrs. H.C. “Puffing Billy” and the Prize “Rocket.” The Story of the Stephensons and our Railways. London: S.W. Partridge, [ca. 1880?]. 96, 16 pp. Includes 16 p. catalog of “New & Popular Works” by S.W. Partridge, publisher of children’s books.

[Juveniles] Knight, Helen C. (Helen Cross), 1814-1906. Saw Up and Saw Down: or, The Fruits of Industry and Self-reliance by H.C. Knight. New York: American Female Guardian Society, 1853. 32, 32 pp. Bound with: What small hands may do, or filial love rewarded by Mrs. S.S.A. New York, 1853.

[Juveniles] The Little Keepsake; a Poetic Gift for Children. New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, [1849-1856?]. 8 p. First series; no. 11. Includes “The Railroad Ride”: Ding dong, / Off we go; / Sing a song, / Hurra ho. Ding dong, / Here we are; / Hold in strong, / Stop the car. Ding dong, / Back we go; / Fly along, / Hurra ho.

[Juveniles] Lossing, Benjamin. A Primary History of the United States. For Schools and Families. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings. New York: Mason Bros., 1864. 224 pp. Part of the David J. Weber Collection. Gift, Carol B. Weber, 2014.

[Juveniles] Malkus, Alida Sims. Raquel of the Ranch Country. New York: Harcourt, Brace, c1927. “Fifth printing, April, 1937.” 314 pp.

[Juveniles] Myers, Sarah A. The Rail-Road Boy. By the Author of “Poor Nicholas,” &c. &c. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Education, 1863. 180 pp. OCLC records one copy Colorado.

[Juveniles] Optic, Oliver. Desk and Debit: or, the Catastrophes of a Clerk. Boston: Lee and Shephard, 1871. Part of the “Upward and Onward Series.” 334 pp.

[Juveniles] The Railway Book. New York: Sam. Gabriel & Sons, 1913. ABCs, text, and beautiful chromolithographs in the “Linenette” style.

[Juveniles] Seeger, Ruth Crawford. Let’s Build a Railroad. New York: American Book Co., 1954. Illustrated by Tom Funk.

[Juveniles] Telescope, Tom. The Newtonian System of Philosophy Explained by Familiar Objects, in an Entertaining Manner, for the Use of Young Ladies and Gentlemen … Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner, 1808. 140 pp. “Illustrated with copper plates and cuts.” The second Philadelphia edition, “with notes and alterations by Robert Patterson, professor of mathematics, in the University of Pennsylvania.” “Tom Telescope” is a pseudonym of the English publisher John Newbery (1713-1767), often considered the father of children’s literature. The Newtonian System was first published by Newberry in London in 1761. Johnson & Warner

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[Kansas] Cram, George F. Cram’s Rail Road & Township Map of Kansas. Chicago: Published by Geo. F. Cram. Proprietor of the Western Map Depot, 1878. Colored map, 16 3/4 x 21 1/2 inches. Folding into original 16mo. pictorial wrappers. First published in Cram's 1875 atlas, and in pocket form in 1876, this map shows the western half of Kansas still unsettled, and also includes the northern half of Indian Territory, noting the lands of the Cherokee, Arapahoe, Cheyenne and Osage tribes. Drawn on the scale of 19 miles to the inch, the map shows excellent detail, giving the route of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad and other lines, rivers large and small, and the boundaries of the various counties of the state. The wrapper title is Cram’s Township and Rail Road Map of Kansas, and the inner front wrapper contains a county by county census of the state. Not in Phillips. Rather scarce, with OCLC recording only three copies, at Wichita State, the University of Kansas, and Iowa State.

[Kansas] Moad, G.L. A Sermon on a Call to the Ministry; Delivered at the Opening of Leavenworth Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church … Leavenworth, Kansas: Printed by Coulter & Kelly, no. 117 Delaware Street, 1867. 20 pp. In wrappers. OCLC lists one other copy, at UT Austin.

[Kansas] Spalding, Hugh M. Spalding's Kansas Town & Township Laws: containing the original text of the general statutes & acts of legislature, unabridged, with practical forms, official calendar, tables, etc., etc. Topeka, Kan.: Geo. W. Crane, 1879. 4th ed.

Kansas State Agricultural College. Experiment Station. Annual Report … Manhattan, 1892, 1895, 1896, 1900. 4th (1891) and 8th (1895) printed Topeka: Hamilton Printing Co. 9th (1896) printed Manhattan: Mercury Publishing House.

[Kansas] Waconda Sanitarium. Waconda Springs. [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], [1902?] 29 p.: illustrations; 9 x 16 cm. Cover title. "A description of the most remarkable springs in the country: the traditions of Waconda; historical references; directions for the use of the health-giving waters; words of commendation"--Page 1.

[Klondike] Canadian Pacific Railway. The Gold Fields of the Yukon and Atlin Lake. Handbook of information illustrated with maps and charts of the routes. Montreal, March 4th, 1899. (Montreal?, C.P.R., 1899). Tall narrow 8vo, 21 (3) pp., including double-page map. Covers titled in red, "Klondike and Atlin Gold Fields via the Canadian Pacific Railway." The northern tip of Atlin Lake, the largest lake in British Columbia, is in the Yukon. Includes Canadian mining regulations for the Yukon; Yukon hydraulic mines regulations; and U.S. mining regulations for Alaska. Information also on mining camps; law and order; banking facilities; miners' supplies; modes of transportation; and routes. Not in Peel. OCLC lists a single copy at Simon Fraser University, dated May 24, 1899.

[Lincoln, Abraham] (Garvie, James, translator). Abraham Lincoln Toni Kin, QA Aesop Tawoyake Kin. Life of Abraham Lincoln and Aesop's Fables. Santee Indian Agency, Neb.: A.L. Riggs, Publisher, 1893. 12mo. 17, (1), 10 pp. Original printed wrappers. A Sioux language biography of

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Lincoln, "printed by Indian pupils of Santee Normal Training School, Santee Agency, Neb." The translator, Rev. James Garvie, was a missionary to the Sioux; his mother, according to Monaghan, was a member of the Sioux who lived in Minnesota in the Sixties. The second part consists of translations of Aesop's Fables by Jennie Cox and Eunice Kitto. This is the first and only (up to 1939) biography of Lincoln in a Native American language found in Monaghan (Vol. I, 3856 and p. 441, note). Checklist of North and Middle American Indian Linguistics, Dakota 79.

Louisiana: Address of the Louisiana Native American Association, to the Citizens of Louisiana and the Inhabitants of the United States. New Orleans: D. Felt & Co, 1839. 20pp. Original plain wraps. An unusual Know-Nothing Address from the ethnic hodge-podge of Louisiana. The Irish and German infiltration of the country-- "swarms of foreign locusts"-- is especially condemned. The Association's "purpose was the repeal of the naturalization laws that permitted 'hordes and hetacombs of beings in human form- the outcast and offal of society- the vagrant and the convict to be transported in myriads to our shores.'" Eberstadt. First Edition. Jumonville 1068. 111 Eberstadt 335. Sabin 42185. AI 56905.

[Manufacturing] American Snuff Co. Snuff Almanac. Memphis, 1954. 36pp + color pictorial wrappers, with product packaging featuring on inside covers and rear cover. Profusely illustrated almanac with usual miscellany of information (e.g., gospel songs, recipes), but primarily concerned about pushing the line… “A brand for every taste, a size for every purchase”… with page 5-17 showing and describing the whole process for producing snuff such as Peach Sweet Snuff (“Sweet as a Peach”) with much modern machinery, and center-spread rendering of “The World’s Largest Scotch Snuff Factory.” OCLC notes holdings of this issue at Delaware and Western Kentucky.

[Manufacturing] California Fruit Growers Exchange. The Story of California Oranges and Lemons by the Sunkist Growers. Los Angeles, 1932. 32pp + pictorial wrappers. Vignette illustrations throughout. From tree to you, via packaging and transportation processes. Series of questions at the end suggest the educational use of the work. “There is romance in the story; also news—for many people; and a little understandable science. Business men concerned with organization and production, and bankers, orchardists and farmers will be informed by it.” OCLC locates two other issues (1926, 1931) both in foreign holdings.

[Manufacturing] Crown Laundry and Cleaning Co. The Home of Clothes Cleaning Satisfaction-- and a portion of our prompt delivery service equipment. Los Angeles, ca. 1920. Oblong 8vo. [12]pp + pictorial wrappers. A tour through “the most modern, the most sanitary laundry plant in Southern California,” with captioned views of the various departments… the Flat Work Department! “Crown” Collar Department! “Crown” Hand-Ironing Department. Lot of women working in the factory, male sales reps (“our hustlers”) working the field. Not located in OCLC.

[Manufacturing] H.G. Fetterolf Co. The Story of a Buckingham Rug. Philadelphia, ca. 1925. [26]pp + decorative wrappers. Profusely illustrated. “This little book describes the making of a high grade Wilton Rug.” Not located in OCLC.

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[Manufacturing] Heinz, H.J. The Spice of Life. Pittsburgh: Heinz Co., 1901. [19]pp + eight full- page chromolithographed wrappers + fold-out chromolithographed plate of bird’s-eye view of the Heinz factory operation in Pittsburgh + decorative embossed wrappers. Chromo plates, all by Charles Graham, printed on “linen” stock. Half-tone vignettes and illustrations throughout the text. A magnificent and rare booklet in which the famous food provider describes how it operates, from field to bottle—especially how the food gets into the bottle, various steps, mostly involving (as seen here) women workers. Graham is probably best known for his chromos produced for the Columbian Exposition of 1893. OCLC only locates one holding: NY University.

[Manufacturing] Hoover Steel Ball Co. B-A-L-L-S. Steel, Bronze, Brass, Copper, Aluminum and Other Materials in Both High and Commercial Grades. Ann Arbor, ca. 1925. 115pp. Cover title: “The Evolution of the Steel Ball Industry.” Full of text and full-page photos depicting manufacturing process and facilities.

[Manufacturing] International Harvester Co. The Story of Bread. Chicago, 1911. 32pp + pictorial wrappers. Chatty paean about flour and bread told by an omniscient narrator—addressing the reader as “we”—with the eventual plugs to IHC’s role in bread-making (e.g., agriculture, development of the reaper, etc). “Every tall building is a monument to cheap bread.” OCLC notes 32 holdings!

[Manufacturing] King, Caroline B. Sweetmeats. A Franklin Sugar Book of Recipes for Making Candies and Bon Bons, Conserves, Cake Icings and Meringues. Philadelphia: Franklin Sugar Refining Co., 1923. 64pp + color pictorial wrappers, slight stain on rear and some cover spotting. Color illustrations throughout—“Designed, engraved and printed by Edward Stern & Co.” Nicely illustrated recipe booklet, with center-spread section of four color illustrations showing harvesting and manufacturing processes. OCLC notes a holding at The Strong.

[Manufacturing] National Lumber Manufacturers Association. The Story of Wood. Washington, DC. 1927. [16]pp + pictorial wrappers, small section of front scrapped (removed of label?). Profusely illustrated throughout. Description of wood, use, availability, etc., with center spread showing process from forest to home. “Look around you! Doors and window frames and sash are almost universally of wood!” Not located in OCLC.

[Manufacturing] Natural Food Co. Shreds of Life. Niagara Falls, ca. 1910. 12mo. [32]pp + color lithographed wrappers. Profusely illustrated throughout with vignette half-tones. A trip through the factory that made shredded wheat biscuits (as well as Triscuit racked “baked by electricity”!). Manufacturing process described and accompanied by small illustrations. Also features of the plant itself focused on employees’ health. OCLC locates a copy at the Clements.

[Manufacturing] Nonotuck Silk Co. Silk, Its Origin, Culture, and Manufacture. Illustrated from Photographs Taken at The Corticelli Silk Mills. Florence, MA, 1895 and 1902. 62pp + decorative gilt-stamped red cloth, some adhesion on front wrapper, otherwise very good. Illustrated throughout. With five pages of illustrated ads at the end as well as a description of the “Teachers’ Silk Culture Cabinet.” Thinly veiled commercial publication offered as a text book to children. Corticelli Mills and products mentioned throughout.

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[Manufacturing] Scientific American. Book Making. [New York?, 1880.] Small 8vo. 16pp including self-wrappers. With 15 half-page wood-engravings. Separate printing—obviously reset or reduced—from an article first publishing in the Oct. 2, 1880 issue of Scientific America, describing and illustrating the process of producing books (post actual printing), especially the binding and stitching processes.

[Manufacturing] U.S. Electrical Mfg Co. The Story of U.S. Motors. Highlights on advance motor design… discussion of inherent advantage of Asbestos Protection… the perfection of a principle... exclusive features of design… and the story of manufacturing facilities behind the Product. Los Angeles, 1929. 4to. 46pp + decorative wrappers, small tear along edge. Profusely illustrated work full of captioned views showing the process of manufacturing rotors and motors. Issued as the firm’s Catalogue Number 29, and does include some specific product information.

[Manuscripts] Bandera County Brand Book. Bandera, Texas, 1880. Handwritten list of brands of Bandera County. May have been prepared by Henry Hamilton. Marbled boards with cloth spine. Hand-numbered pages through 56 contain brand and miscellaneous information.

[Manuscripts] Walter Gay to Charles Upham, 4 ALS, 1872-1873. Gay, a young man in Nebraska, describes his experiences in the western country to his friend Upham, back east in Boston.

[Maps] New Historical War Map. New York: Phelps & Watson, 1863.

[Maps—Texas] Allen, R.S. Waggoner Colony. 56000 Acres. Wichita and Wilbarger Counties, Texas. [Electra, Texas? 1902?] Broadsheet, with letterhead on recto and map on verso.

[Methodists] Collins, L.C. An Address to the Members of the Minnesota Annual Conference of the M.E. Church. Buchanan, Michigan: Western Advent-Christian Publishing Association, 1868. 36 pp.

[Mexico] Solís y Rivadeneyra, Antonio de. Istoria della Conquista del Messico … Terza impression veneta. Venice: A. Poletti, 1733. 624 pp; 7 plates. Translated from the Spanish, first published in 1684. European Americana 733/247.

[Mississippi River] Long, Stephen H. Voyage in a Six-Oared Skiff to the Falls of Satin Anthony in 1817. Philadelphia, 1860. 87, [1]pp. Map. Collections of the Historical Society of Minnesota. Graff 2528. Buck 100. Howes L445. This is the first publication of Long's journal wherein he describes his ascent of the Upper Mississippi from Prairie du Chien to the Falls of St. Anthony. The objects of his voyage were to explore and study the course of the river, to exhibit the general topography of the regions and to determine upon suitable sites for the military. It contains the first account of the legends of Maiden Rock and the Falls of St. Anthony, and describes the actual appearance of Indian villages on the sites of numerous busy towns of the present day.

[Missouri]: Bauerlein, J.H. What They Say in Kansas City [wrapper title]. [Kansas City. 1889]. 8pp. pamphlet printed on a single sheet. A scarce little (self)-promotional for Kansas City realtor,

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J.H. Bauerlein, made up entirely of testimonials to his talents from business leaders in the city. Included are tributes from railroad men, stock raisers, seed merchants, journalists, lawyers, government officials, booksellers, insurance agents, and one from R.H. Hunt, simply identified as "capitalist." No copies are listed in OCLC.

[Missouri] Carthage Butter and Cheese Company. By-laws of the Carthage Butter and Cheese Company. Carthage, Mo.: Press Job Printing House, [1890-1893?] 8 pp. A joint stock company, capitalized at $6,850. The Carthage Press began in 1881. This pamphlet accompanied by accounts and bill of sale from 1893.

[Missouri]. Gobel, Gert. Langer Als Ein Menschenleben in Missouri. St. Louis, [1877]. [8],234pp. Original printed small 4to wrappers. First edition. Howes G 271 (aa): "Autobiography of a pioneer who settled in Missouri in 1834." Gobel left Baltimore on July 23, 1834 and traveled to Missouri. He gives details of the trip, of the Indians on the frontier, the early settlers, and his part in the long parade of events through the Civil War and reconstruction.

[Missouri] [St. Louis] Annual Review of the Trade and Commerce of St. Louis, for the Year 1848. Compiled for the Missouri Republican Newspaper. St. Louis, Mo., 1849. 13pp. Original printed wrappers. Very scarce. Much on produce, tobacco, lumber, beef and pork packing, steamboats and barges, etc.

[Missouri] [St. Louis] Message of the Mayor of the City of St. Louis, and Reports of City Officers, Delivered to the City Council, May, 1850. Printed by Order of the Board of Delegates. St. Louis: Printed at the Intelligencer Office, 1850. 12pp plus two folding tables. [with] Mayor’s Message, with Accompanying Documents, Submitted to the City Council, of the City of St. Louis, At the Opening of the First Stated Session, May 12, 1851. St. Louis: Missouri Republican Office. 1851. 16pp plus folding table. Printed in two columns per page. [with] Mayor’s Message….At the Opening of the Second Stated Session, October 13, 1851. St. Louis: St. Louis Times Office. 1851. [with] A Consecutive Run of the Mayor’s Messages for the First and Second Sessions of 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859. St. Louis: 1852-1859. Variously paginated, with folding tables, Very Good. A total of 19 separate, consecutive imprints. This collection of Messages reports the growth of St. Louis into an important urban center. The Messages recount the City's progress in developing a sophisticated infrastructure-- wharves, harbors, roads, railroads, sewers, street cleaning, fire safety, and other urban improvements are reported, with charts and tables of activities and expenditures by the Engineer, Comptroller, and other City officers. Imprints Inventory 671 [Missouri].

[Missouri] [Washington] Amended Charter of the Town of Washington, Franklin Co., Mo., Approved March 21st, 1878. Also revised Ordinances of the Town of Washington, and Rules and Orders for the Government of the Mayor & Board of Councilmen. Washington, Mo.: Printed at the “Observer Office.” 1873. 31, [1] pp. We can find no other copies listed in OCLC.

[Native Americans] Address of the Catholic Clergy of the Province of Oregon, to the Catholics of the United States, on President Grant’s Indian Policy, in Its Bearings upon Catholic Interests at Large. Portland, Oregon: The Catholic Sentinel Publication Company, 1874. 16pp.

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[Native Americans] Blunt, Joseph. A Historical Sketch of the Formation of the Confederacy: Particularly with Reference to the Provincial Limits and the Jurisdiction of the General Government over Indian Tribes and the Public Territory. New York: C. Carvill, 1825. 116 p.

[Nebraska] Burlington Route. South-Western Nebraska and North-Western Kansas. A Brief Description of the Country, Its Products and Resources, Together with a Synopsis of the Homestead, Pre-Emption, and Timber Culture Laws. Lincoln: Journal Company, 1887. 16pp + large folding map laid in. “Map of Nebraska and Eastern Colorado. Published by the Burlington Route. 1887” engraved by F. Hirschfield, 24.5 x 42 inches, with the Railroad route line heavily marked in printed red lines. Good typical immigration plea from a railroad. This pamphlet is a companion piece, as it were, to a similar appeal from the Burlington Route (also in 1887), An Invitation to South-East Nebraska, which we hold.

[Nebraska] Nebraska’s Centennial Offering [running headline]. [Philadelphia: Longacre & Company, 1875]. 16pp, including two full-page illustrations and illustrations on verso of wraps. Original printed blue wrappers, gilt, with NEBRASKA printed in gilt on front wrapper and an illustration of the Liberty Bell on the rear wrapper. This Nebraska promotional was issued for the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The illustrations include views of vast Nebraska lands, as well as a birds-eye view of the Centennial Exposition buildings in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park and a view of the exposition's Agricultural Building. The text gives an account of the progress of the state, statistics to bolster its claims of potential growth, and touts its suitability for agriculture and livestock.

[Nebraska] D. Lowman and Son. A Partial List of Wild Lands for Sale ... Hastings Avenue, Hastings, Nebraska. Hastings: Democrat Book and Job Office, (ca. 1880, not before 1878 or after 1886). 4-page leaflet, 23 x 16.5 cm. Includes lands in 7 counties: Adams, Kearney, Clay, Webster, Nuckolls, Thayer, and Hamilton, giving location; section; town; acreage; price, and terms for some 150 parcels. The firm operated under this name from 1878 to 1886, after which William M. Lowman took over his father's firm and changed its name. (Who's Who in Nebraska. Lincoln, Neb., 1940). No Hastings, Neb. imprint with "Democrat Book and Job Office" found in OCLC, which lists a number of "Democrat Printing House" imprints, the earliest 1886, most of them much later.

[New Mexico] Folsom Springs Town Improvement Co. Folsom! Folsom, the Beautiful! Folsom, the Charming! Folsom, the Delightful! The Health Giving! The Life Preserving! Capulin! The Grand! The Magnificent! Fort Worth: Texas Printing & Lithographing Co., 1890. 12 panel folder. Map. Illustration. Superlatives abound!

New Mexico. Penitentiary. Informe Bienal del Cuerpo de Comisionados y del Superintendente de la Penitenciaria de Nuevo Mejico al Governador de Nuevo Mejico. Por los Dos Anos Concluyendo Diciembre 31, 1898. Santa Fe, N.M.: Compania Impresora del Nuevo Mexicano, 1899. 61 pp.

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[Oil] Frisco Line. Oil and Where to Find It. Likely Locations on the Frisco Line. St. Louis: Woodward & Tiernan, [1902?]. 15, [1] pp. Promoting lands in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, with illustrations. No other copies recorded.

[Oklahoma] Eureka Normal School of Music. The Eureka Echoes. An Excellent Collection of Sacred Songs. South McAlester, Indian Territory: Eureka Publishing Company, 1903. [128] pp. 113 hymns and tunes.

[Oklahoma] Morris, James A. Mining Laws, Regulations and Decisions. Miners in Oklahoma. Compiled by James A. Morris, of Lawton. Guthrie, Okla.: State Capital Printing Co., (1902). 91 pp. Contemporary owner inscription by "W.H. Mulherin, Jr., Springfield, Comanche Co.," Oklahoma Territory. Not located in any of the standard sources. Morris was a lawyer who apparently specialized in mining disputes.

Oregon Pioneer Association. Transactions of the Nineteenth Annual Reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association for 1891, Containing the Annual Address, by Lydell Baker, Esq., and the Occasional Address, by Geo. H. Burnett, Esq. With Biographical Sketches, and Other Matters of Historical Interest. Portland, Oregon: An. Anderson & Co., printers & lithographers, 1893.

[Oregon] Public Sale! At the Clyde Farm, at Mehama, Oregon … Wednesday, March 16, 1892 … [Salem, Oregon? 1892]. 1 sheet.

[Periodicals] Evergreen Monthly (Avon, Wash.) Avon, Wash.: Will H. Skaling. "A monthly journal devoted to choice literature." Vol. 1, no. 4 (Jan. 1898).

[Presidents] Friedman, Irving I., 1904- editor. Meet General Ike; A Pictorial Profile of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. New York, Virson Pub. Co., 1948. 96pp.

[Presidents] Republican Party (U.S.: 1854- ). National Committee, 1928-1932. Women's Division. Facts: President Hoover and the Republican Administration. [Place of publication not identified]: [Division], 1932. 32 pp.

[Publishing] [Microbooks] Micro Information Concepts. Dallas: Micro Information, (c. 1985). In the mid 1980s, Micro Information Concepts launched "Unknown Worlds," a publishing venture dedicated to issuing difficult-to-find science fiction periodicals on microfiche, for home use. Astounding Stories, Analog Science Fiction, Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Unknown were offered on microfiche, "the paperback of the future." "What can beat 641 issues, 54 years, of Astounding/Analog, that can be held in one hand, last for more than 100 years and cost less than $1.42 each with the reader included?" The "reader" described here is a 12-pound "475" model for home viewing of the books of the future; although another flyer included here offers the compact 2 lb. "Fichette" for $140. Enclosed with the promotional material is a sample copy (microfiche numbers 1 and 2 of 78 total) of the first issue of Unknown magazine, March 1939. Original envelope included, which is sunned; all other items (promotional materials, microfiche) fine. A glimpse of the imagined future of publishing from 30 years ago. Quirky technological ephemera.

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[Railroads] Allen Paper Car Wheel Co. Descriptive circular and price list, 1882. New York: Allen Paper Car Wheel Co., 1882. 32 pp. Illustrated.

[Railroads] Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R.R. Santa Fe Route. Chicago: Rand McNally, March 1894. 24 panels. Timetables, routes, maps.

[Railroads] Atlantic Coast Line. Annual Reports, 1915-1925.

[Railroads] Brewster, Benjamin Harris. Address of Hon. Benjamin Harris Brewster, at a meeting of excursionists, held June 7th, 1867, near Fort Harker, Kansas, at the western end of the track of the Union Pacific Railway (E.D.). Philadelphia: Review Print. House, 1867. 16 p.

[Railroads] Brigham, Fred. A. Flagg's Railway Safety Gate. Central Falls: E.L. Freeman & Co., printers to the state, 1884. 24 pp.; ill. "All the patents on the railway safety gate for the United States, Canada and Great Britain are owned and controlled by Fred. A. Brigham, Riverside, R.I., to whom all communications should be addressed." Includes testimonials and "Extracts from letters patent."

[Railroads] Chestnut and Walnut Street Railway: A Consideration of the Subject of the Central Passenger Railway, Being a Railway for Passengers Only, Proposed to the Run from Scond to Twenty-Third Street, via Walnut and Chestnut Streets, in the City of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: W.B. Zieber, 1858. Original printed wrappers, stitched. 94, [1], [1 blank] pp. The inner wrappers print reports and articles advocating the passenger railway. Philadelphia's once-"conspicuous ascendancy over all the cities of America is gradually, but palpably, passing away." The city's salvation depends on "energy, activity, and indomitable enterprise." The proposed railway is the best means of sweeping away the "palsy" that has afflicted Philadelphia. The pamphlet sets forth the reasons for its construction, and rebuts opposing arguments.

[Railroads] Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company. Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad contractors' department payroll of men employed. 1858-1859. 1 volume. Mixed Material. This payroll ledger for Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad lists employees' total work days, pay rate, work for cutting wood, hauling fir, laying and repairing track, board bills, and work on bridges from April 1858-January 1959. Purchase, 2014.

[Railroads] Indiana Central Railway Co. Charter and Amendments of … Approved Jan. 26, 1847 and Jan. 20, 1851. Richmond, [Ind.]: Holloway & Davis, Printers, 1851. 25, [1] pp.

[Railroads] Kansas and Missouri Railroad Company. Minute book, 1882-1888. This manuscript includes the Articles of Association, minutes of meetings of directors and shareholders, and printed indentures. 40 pp.

[Railroads] Mine Hill & Schuylkill Haven Railroad. Act of Incorporation of the Mine Hill & Schuylkill Rail Road Company; with the Supplements and By-Laws. Philadelphia: Joseph and William Kite, 1836. 32 pp. CAI 39001, Thomson, Railroads, 1371.

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[Railroads] [New York Central] Defense of the New York Central Railroad and its policy: as connected with the mercantile interests of the city and state of New York. Albany: Atlas & Argus Print., 1859. 29 pp.

[Railroads] [North Carolina] Message from His Excellency, the Governor, Relative to the State’s Railroad Liabilities. Raleigh: Seaton Gales, Printer for the State, 1848. 11,[1] pp. At head of title: Executive Document No. 8.

[Railroads] St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Co. Station Agents … St. Louis, 1877-1900. Over 30 circulars and bulletins.

[Railroads] Scioto Valley Railway Company. Corporate History: The Scioto Valley Railway Company, The Scioto Valley and New England Railroad Company. Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott, printers, [approximately 1890]. 74 pp. Cover title.

[Railroads] Sheffield & Savannah. Wheaton, W.G.: Report upon the Preliminary Survey of the First Two Divisions of the Sheffield & Savannah Railroad: with a Map Showing Its Connections. Rock Island: From T.R. Raymond's Printing House, 1856. Original printed wrappers, later stitching. 15, [1 blank] pp, plus large folding map showing the route of the Railroad and other railroads traversing Illinois. Sheffield and Savannah are both in Illinois. Wheaton's Report describes the route's topography and contours, and explains the commercial and agricultural opportunities thus rendered available. Illinois's "resources [are] almost boundless. She is yet in her infancy--scarcely a tithe of her riches are known. She has many Railroads, and many projected routes; some I will grant not well conceived-- but many roads yet remain to be built, which will not only pay well as an investment, but which must be built to develope [sic] the country." Tables are included, showing the 'Estimated Cost of Graduation, Masonry and Bridging.' The 1854 Act is printed, authorizing the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad Company "to construct a branch of its road from Sheffield, by way of Prophetstown, to a point on the Mississippi river at or near Savannah." 168 Eberstadt 232. Not in Byrd, Sabin, Modelski.

[Railroads] Texas and Pacific Railway Co. Fourth Annual Report … August 10th, 1875. Philadelphia: Review Printing House, 1875. 46 pp.

[Railroads] [Texas] Southern Pacific Railroad: letter of Hon. T. Butler King, with a map, illustrating the course of trade between Europe and Asia, over the continent of America. Cincinnati: T. Wrightson & Co., printers and publishers, [1855]

[Sales] "Selling America": pointers on selling out of the autobiography of Ben Franklin adapted from a Jam Handy picture. Dayton, Ohio: Reynolds and Reynolds Co., c1938. 23 pp.

[Sample Books] Nashua Mfg. Co. Your Color & Why [cover title]. Nashua, NH, 1924. 12mo. 16pp + color pictorial wrappers. Color illustrations throughout; actual fabric sample tipped to inside front wrapper. Brochure advertising Indian Head fabrics to the style-conscious woman. OCLC notes a copy at the American Textile Museum.

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[Science] Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences 1875-1880. Iowa City: Printed by John P. Irish, 1880. 28 pp.

[Sermons] Bedell, G.T. Railroad Sermon. The Way of Righteousness. New York: International Committee of the Young Mens Christian Associations, 1880. 39 pp. "Preached by special request before the Railroad Men's Christian Association of Cleveland, Ohio. Repeated before the Railroad Branch of the Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York."

[South Dakota] Hughes, Richard B., et al. Rapid City, South Dakota, the Commercial, Manufacturing and Mining Metropolis of the Black Hills Country. Minneapolis: Northwestern Photo-Eng. Co., [1891]. 39pp., illustrations throughout. This volume is especially interesting for the account of the pioneer party which located and laid out the settlement of Rapid City in February, 1876. The text promotes the potential of Rapid City as a center of agriculture, commerce, mining and investment in the upper Plains, and the illustrations show prominent buildings, mills, public works, churches, residences, and more. OCLC locates four copies, at the Denver Public Library, Yale, Rapid City Public Library, and South Dakota State Archives.

South Dakota. Superintendent of Public Instruction. First Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. State of South Dakota. 1892. Pierre: Carter Publishing, 1892. 156 pp. Illustrations.

[Spanish-Language Imprints from San Antonio] Almanaque ilustrado de la Prensa, San Antonio: Lozano, 1929. Great almanac, notable for the profusion of advertisement by San Antonio businesses, many of which are printed on colored paper interspersed with the newsprint used for most of the text. Front wraps has fantastic illustration of a sinking ship (representing 1928) and an airplane dropping roses (representing 1929), signed by R Munguía. The artist is undoubtedly one of the Munguía family who came to San Antonio during the Mexican Revolution and eventually established their own printing house, Artes Gráficas (see next title).

[Spanish-Language Imprints from San Antonio] Miguel Álvarez Acosta, Hidalgo (Intento Biográfico), San Antonio: Artes Gráficas, 1939. Álvarez Acosta was a Mexican Consul in San Antonio, and this is the text of a speech he delivered to commemorate the Grito de Dolores, in which Father Hidalgo declared independence from Spain. I quote from his prologue (my translation): “This modest work is directed to the Mexicans who live in Texas, it is and should be simple, clear, and explanatory. I am not creating great literature but will limit myself to saying that I was taught by the most famous historians of Mexico.”

[Spanish-Language Imprints from San Antonio] Anonymous, La verdad sobre la muerte de Carranza, San Antonio: Librería de Quiroga, 1921. A great popular pamphlet informing the Mexican community about the assassination of Carranza. (Judging by the cover, a bunch of armed men approached the grass hut in which he was resting and fired into it.) This is very typical of the types of pamphlets being published in Mexico, bringing people up to date about political happenings back home, often in lurid detail.

[Spanish-Language Imprints from San Antonio] Anonymous, Galería de mártires mexicanos, narraciones verídicas, San Antonio: Imprenta Universal, n.d. [ca. 1928]. This is the sublime

34 photographic account of martyrs of the Cristero Revolt, chock full of photographs. Most depict the martyrs during life, but a tantalizing minority show executions, dead bodies, and mourning relatives. Brief accounts of their tragedies accompany the photos. The cover has an extremely weird design: a figure of Christ appearing before a column (perhaps the Angel of Independence, erected on La Reforma in Mexico City in 1910?), with the words “Sanguis Martyrum Semen” superimposed in the sky.

[Spanish-Langauge Imprints from San Antonio] Anonymous, La rebelión militar contra el gobierno legítimo del Sr. Presidente de la República Lic. D. Emilio Portes Gil, descrita y comentada por un observador, San Antonio: Talleres La Época, 1930. A political tract concerning the military uprising against the “legitimate” president, which places this book squarely in the tradition of books that were published in San Antonio because they were too hot to print in Mexico.

[Spanish-Language Imprints from San Antonio] Anonymous, Inglés sin maestro, método práctico para aprender en veinte lecciones el idioma inglés, con la pronunciación figurada en castellano. San Antonio: Lozano, 1924 (this is the 8th printing--copyright is 1916). A self- teaching course in English. Front wrap has an incredible multi-color typographic design. This is one of those paradoxical books that went through many printings but which has barely survived: just three holdings in OCLC.

[Spanish-Language Imprints from San Antonio] Anonymous, El perfecto secretario mexicano, San Antonio: Lozano, 1924 (6th Printing, copyright is 1915). A book with sample letters for all occasions: very 19th Century! Ditto comment above re current scarcity in spite of great popularity upon publication: only four holdings in OCLC.

[Spanish-Language Imprints from San Antonio] Lic. Antonio Castellanos, Anales del crimen: El automóvil gris, narración histórica de esta célebre banda, tiempos de la revolución carrancista, San Antonio: Antonio Castellanos, 1922. An absolutely fabulous piece of popular culture, recounting by the true life tales of a group of bandits (the Grey Car Gang, known for their getaway car) who operated in Mexico City between 1914 and 1919, but written and published in San Antonio. There is also a wonderful film connection: stills from a movie about this gang appear on the front wrap and throughout the book. I believe they are from the Enrique Rosas film about this gang, which came out in 1919 and was one of the most famous silent films produced in Mexico. (Rosas also filmed the execution of ten members of the gang!). There are more attractions to the book besides the photo stills: a Posada print of a skull on the title page, funky borders surrounding all the text, and ads for local restaurants, hotels and funeral homes (?!). In addition to having a law degree (thus the title of “Lic[enciado]”), Castellanos worked as a journalist for the Spanish language press in San Antonio, and it was on this beat that he wrote a wonderful account of the San Antonio flood of 1921, published by the Librería de Quiroga.

[Spanish-Language Imprints from San Antonio] José Elizondo, Cosas bellas en palabras ingenuas, 1926. Original prose and verse by Elizondo, the uncle of publisher Ignacio Lozano Introduction by Nemesio García Naranjo, a Mexican intellectual who spent many years in exile in San Antonio. The foreword by Elizondo indicates that this was a private edition and refers to

35 the “escaso número de ejemplares,” ie small number of copies. Numerous illustrations by Jose Antonio Audirac. OCLC lists three holdings.

[Spanish-Language Imprints from San Antonio] Querido Moheno, Cosas de Tío Sam, San Antonio: Talleres Tipográficos de la Revista Mexicana, 1916. Moheno was a renowned Mexican orator and politician; he served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 1913 to 1914. This is a record of his impressions of a visit to the United States, via a series of letters written to his aunt. He did not like what he saw; a 1975 article in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly as referred to the text as containing “typical examples of Yankee phobia.” The front wrap has a great illustration (signed Viguet) of a ghostly Washington remonstrating a petulant Uncle Sam.

[Spanish-Language Imprints from San Antonio] Juan de Dios Peza, Devocionario de mis nietos, San Antonio: Lozano, 1930. A volume of prayers in verse by Peza, intended to teach his grandchildren how to pray. The author died in 1910, but this book suggests that this is the first appearance of these poems.

[Spanish-Language Imprints from San Antonio] Cristobal Schmidt, Genoveva de Brabante, San Antonio: Lozano, 1924 (novísima edicion: not clear if this means a subsequent printing from Lozano, or that this book was previously printed by other publishers). This is an interesting title due to its European origin: Genevieve of Brabant was a famous figure of popular German literature who was subject of a number of dramas from the Romantic period. Per the story, she was a noblewoman who was falsely accused of adultery, spent six years as a hermit in a cave with her son until her husband decided she had been telling the truth and came to rescue her.

This particular version was first published in Augsburg in 1825 and was translated and disseminated widely throughout Europe, and eventually Mexico (and Texas!). OCLC lists 3 holdings.

Texas. Acting Provisional Comptroller’s Report. Condensed Statements of the Acting Provisional Comptroller’s Report Comprising Statements from August 31, 1873, to June 8, 1865; also, from October 13, 1865, to August 13, 1866. Austin: Printed at the Office of the “State Gazette,” 1866. 18, [10], 12, 10 pp. Winkler & Friend 1528.

Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. Bulletin No. 3. October, 1888. Grasses. Agricultural and Mechanical College. College Station, Brazos Co., Texas. … Houston: J.J. Pastoriza, stationer and printer, 1888. 14 pp.

Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. Bulletin No. 5. March, 1889. Creameries in Texas. Agricultural and Mechanical College. College Station, Brazos Co., Texas. … Houston: J.J. Pastoriza, stationer and printer, 1889. 24 pp.

Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. First Annual Report of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1888. College Station, Brazos County, Texas. Houston: J.J. Pastoriza, printer and stationer, 1889. 79 pp.

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[Texas. Anderson County] Souvenir Program. Dedication of Anderson County Courthouse at Palestine, Texas December 20th, 1914. Palestine: Herald Print, [1914]. [4] pp. Includes view of the new courthouse on the cover.

Texas Bar Association. Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Session … held in the City of Galveston, July 26 and 27, 1893 … Austin: Printed by Order of the Association, 1893.

[Texas] Canadian the Beautiful [caption title]. Wichita: McCormick-Armstrong Press, n.d. [20]pp. including the pictorial wrappers. Wrapper title: “Canadian We Can Handle The Panhandle.” Stapled as issued. Oblong. Good illustrations. Centerfold bird's eye view of Canadian. Hemphill County. Not in Jenkins CBC.

[Texas] Canyon, Texas: The West Texas State Normal School Town. "Capital City of the Plains.” Dallas: Southwestern Folder Co., Publishers, ca. 1910. A fold out of 13 illustration and [2]pp. of text. Original pictorial grey wrappers printed in blue. A center fold illustration of Canyon City. Not in CBC. Promoted by the First National Bank of Canyon.

Texas. Comptroller's Office. Condensed Statements of the Acting Provisional Comptroller's Report … Austin, Printed at the office of the "State gazette, " 1866. 18, 9, 12, 10, [3] p. 22 cm.

[Texas] Conner, John C. (John Coggswell), 1842-1873, author. John C. Conner and H.D. McDonald correspondence. [United States], 1870-1872. 1 folder John C. Conner represented Texas as a Democrat in the United States Forty-first and Forty- second Congress (1870-1873). John Conner writes to his friend H.D. McDonald in Paris, Texas, about the Democratic convention in Dallas and politics. Letters are written on Conner's congressional letterhead. Included are railroad passes, two broadsides of Conner's addresses, two copies of a letter by McDonald to The National Intelligencer, and an advertisement for the The National Intelligencer. Part of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection.

[Texas] Cozart, Henderson, author. Receipt for tools used at Goliad endorsed by James Fannin. Goliad, 1836 February 18. 1 page. This receipt written by Assistant Quartermaster Henderson Cozart lists several tools in various states of usefulness that Major Michael Riley made available while stationed at Goliad in order to fortify the garrison. J.W. Fannin Jr. endorsed the receipt at the bottom of the page with quartermaster David Holt. The document was written the month before Fannin was executed at Goliad. Part of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection.

Texas. Court of Appeals. In Court of Appeals of Texas at Austin Term, 1885. No. 1079. Archie McFarland, Appellant, vs. The State of Texas, Appellee. Appeal from County Court Bell County. Brief of Appellant. 8 pp. Title from wrappers. Signed in type by W.K. Saunders, attorney for appellant, p. 8. Not in OCLC. Concerning the killing of a mare and mule.

[Texas] [Dallas] Abstract of Title to Thomas’ Addition to the City of Dallas, Tex. [Dallas?] 27,[1] pp. Title from wrapper. Dated and signed, in type, p. 27: Dallas, Tex., February 29, 1888. J.M. Hayes.

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[Texas] The Dallas Herald carriers' address: a happy New Year. [Dallas, Texas]: [Dallas Herald], [1882?] [4] pp. Other Titles: Dallas weekly herald. Notes: Cover title. At head of title: 1883. First lines: Happy New Year! 'tis a greeting that ever will be told. Part of the George W. Cook Collection. Gift, 2014.

[Texas] [Decatur] Phillips’ “Little Giant,” Official, Historical and Business Directory and Pocket Guide of Decatur, Texas … Fort Worth, Texas: Beaumont Printing Co., 1894. 54 pp. Filled with ads and everything one needs to know about Decatur and Wise County. Not recorded in OCLC.

[Texas] Democratic Party. Democratic Ticket. For Convention. Against Convention. For Delegates to Constitutional Convention, 30th Senatorial District. Wm. H. Russell. Santos Benavides. Charles H. Howard. [El Paso? 1874] 1 sheet. Handbill. Evidently a printer’s proof of the ballot. Not in Winkler & Friend.

[Texas] Denison, Tex. Ordinances of the City of Denison. Denison, Texas: Printed at the Daily News Job Office, 1879. [iv],37,[3] pp. Yellow wraps. Not in OCLC and

[Texas] Farmers’ Institute (Decatur, Tex.). The Farmers’ Institute of the Fifth Congressional District, Decatur, Texas, August 29 and 30, 1890. Decatur Post Steam Print, 1890. [4] pp. Not in OCLC. An impressive program, including a talk by Governor J.S. Hogg on “Texas, Its Past, Present, and Future.” Our copy addressed, in manuscript, to H. Greathouse, who gave a talk on “Raising Mules in Texas, and Is It Profitable?”

[Texas] Fredericksburg, Tex. 1846 Fredericksburg 1896 Programme … [Fredericksburg, Tex.]: Printed by Gillespie Co. News, 1896. 1 sheet. No other copy known. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of first settlement by German immigrants.

[Texas] Fretz family. Fretz family papers. [Texas], 1876-2003. 6 folders. Emil Fretz (1858-1928) was born in Zurich, Switzerland and his family immigrated to a Swiss Colony in Dallas County, Texas in 1870. Fretz was a barber and proprietor of an artesian bath, and he was also known for his work with the Park Board in the city of Dallas. Included in this collection are his family photographs, deeds, wills, financial documents, naturalization papers, and death and marriage certificates. Photographs include early nineteenth century photographs of a trip to Pikes Peak, Colorado, and an album of the Fretz family farm. Part of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection.

[Texas] Fry, J. T. An Address of Judge J. T. Fry, of Matagorda County To the People of the District Composed of the Counties of Galveston, Brazoria, and Matagorda... Delivered at Matagorda, July 5th, 1878. Broadside 52 x 32.2 cm. Printed in 5 columns. Probably printed in Matagorda.

[Texas] Gaisford family. Gaisford and Autry family papers. [Dallas, Texas], 1880s-1961. 1 box (1.0 linear foot)

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The majority of this collection consists of Gaisford family letters and photographs. Dorothy Olive Gaisford married Leslie Autry, and their daughter Dorothy Olive married Arthur Brown. Included are photographs and correspondence of the mother and daughter, and photographs of the Simon and Autry families. Marie Simon was the mother of Dorothy Gaisford, and the Simons had one of the first furniture stores in Dallas at the turn of the twentieth century. Photos of retail stores are also included. Part of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection.

[Texas] Gaston, Robert, author. Robert Gaston letters and flag. [Texas], 1861-1902. 5 items. This collection contains four letters written by Robert Gaston to his family while he served in the 1st Texas Volunteers Infantry Regiment, Company H in 1861. Robert Gaston died at Antietam in 1862. His brother William H. Gaston was one of the first millionaires in Dallas, Texas, and he donated the land for the State Fair of Texas grounds. Included in this collection is a CSA reunion flag that flew over the fairgrounds during the 1902 encampment reunion there. Part of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection.

Texas. Governor. Hogg. Election Proclamation! By the Governor of the State of Texas … Austin, this 16th Day of May, A.D. 1892. 1 sheet. Broadside calling for a special Congressional election June 14, 1892, to fill the vacant seat of Roger Q. Mills, from the 9th Congressional District. Mills had resigned.

Texas. Governor. Hogg. Quarantine Proclamation … September 21st, A.D. 1892. Austin: Eugene von Boeckmann, state printer. 1892. 1 sheet. Broadside. Made “against New York City, and all other places where cholera now prevails …”

[Texas] Graber family, collector. Graber family collection of Terry's Texas Rangers materials. [Texas], 1882-1945. 4 folders. Mixed Material This collection contains an 1882 printed volume of Terry's Texas Rangers annotated muster roll with a signed register of all veterans who attended the 1902 reunion; three uniform buttons; photographs of the H.W. Graber family; and correspondence. Benjamin Franklin Terry formed the Eighth Texas Cavalry during the Civil War, and it was known as one of the best units from Texas in the Confederate army. H.W. Graber served in this unit and later wrote his autobiography that detailed his time as a Terry Texas Ranger. Graber (1841-1917) was born in Bremen, Germany, and immigrated to Houston, Texas, in 1853. He moved to Dallas in 1885, and hosted the 1902 reunion of Terry's Texas Rangers in Dallas. Included in this collection are a photograph and military record of his grandson, Graber Kidwell, who served in World War II; correspondence of Lessie Kidwell; and pamphlets. Part of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection.

[Texas] Grand Opera House. San Antonio, Vol. 5, no. 95 (Jan. 5, 1890).

[Texas] Griggs, A. R. Have Had No Pastor In Four Years. [Dallas, 1891]. Small broadside Several tears. Good copy. With this broadside is a letter from Griggs on his stationery regarding banking matters with Maverick Bank of San Antonio dated January 14, 1891. Money to build a church, etc. Great letter head. “Texas for Jesus.”

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[Texas] Griggs, A. R. Mission Work Among the Colored People of Texas as reported at Houston Oct. 16th, 1890. Broadside printed in red. Most likely printed in Dallas as it was the home base for Griggs.

[Texas] Hogg, J.S. Proclamation By The Governor Executive Office Austin, Texas, February 18, 1892. Folio broadside. To Whom These Presents May Concern. Elections, re-apportion of congressional and other offices.

[Texas] [Houston] Morrison & Fourmy’s General Directory of the City of Houston 1887-88 … [Galveston, Tex.]: Morrison & Fourmy, 1887. 357 + pp. Advertisements interleaved. “Printed by Clarke & Courts … Galveston.”

[Texas] Jennings, J. W. (James W.), 1827-1906. Address to the Patrons of Husbandry: giving a few reasons why the order should endorse, and petition Congress to grant aid to, the Texas and Pacific Railway Company, and recommend the passage of the bill reported by the Committee of the House of Representatives last winter / J.W. Jennings, chairman committee T. & P. R.R. and transportation, State Grange of Texas. [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], [1874?]. 1 folded sheet (3 unnumbered pages); 27 cm

[Texas] Jones, Anson, 1798-1858. Anson Jones papers. [Texas], 1836-1861. 2 folders. Anson Jones was a doctor and the last president of the Republic of Texas. Included in this collection are his letters to his cousin, letters to his wife, a confederate envelope, a war tax receipt, and a document appointing the first official physician in the Republic of Texas (1841). The two letters to his wife mention Sam Houston, as well as the new newspaper The Daily Bulletin, which was in opposition to The Daily Texian. Part of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection.

[Texas] Koons family. Koons family scrapbook. [Texas], 1918-1970. 1 box. Mixed Material This scrapbook contains clippings, correspondence, speeches, and photographs of the Walter and Bessie Koons family. Walter Koons was a judge in north Texas, and head of the legal division of the Texas Public Works Administration. Part of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas image collection.

[Texas] Krankenkassen-Verein (San Antonio, Tex.). Statuten des Krankenkassen-Vereins von San Antonio, Texas "Beneficiary Association of the city of San Antonio, Texas.” .... San Antonio: Freie Press fur Texas, 1885. 17 pp. Original printed grey wrappers. Minor fading and chipping to spine. Not in OCLC.

[Texas] Ladies' Cemetery Association. Austin, Texas, Sept. 14th, 1892. Dear... (Printed letter) Broadside. Mrs. Jos. Spence, President. Wanting to improve the city cemetery.

Texas law review (Austin, Tex.: 1883) Austin, Tex.: E.J. Hamner, 1883-1886. Weekly Vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 6, 1883)-v. 6, no. 43 (Dec. 29, 1886) = No. 1-no. 196. Notes:"A weekly legal newspaper, containing all the decisions of the appellate courts." Title from caption.

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Imprint varies, No. 5-129 published: Galveston, Tex.: Galveston Printing and Pub. Co. Library's copy missing a few issues in last volume.

[Texas] Looscan, M. 1878. An Old Document Reprinted, Which May Be of Some Interest to Young County Attorneys. Address of Major M. Looscan to the Voters of Harris County in 1878. Houston, Tex., W.H. Coyle, 1891. 7 pp.

[Texas] McLane, Hiram H. The Three Friends, and the Proposed Reform. [San Antonio, Texas]: San Antonio Times Job Printing House, 1887. 31 pp. "The three friends" are labor, capital, and land. Contains: His Watchman! What of the Knights? Inscribed by the author. Copies: CtY, TxDaDF, TxU

[Texas] Marshall University (Marshall, Tex.) Collection of Marshall University records. Marshall, Texas, 1857-1880. 3 items. Mixed Material. Marshall University was founded in 1842 and was a co-educational institution until 1850. The university was then split into Marshall Male College and Marshall Masonic Female Institute. This collection includes documents regarding repairs (1857-1858) and a Marshall Male College tuition receipt (1889). Purchase, 2012, 2014. Original articles of corporation (1842) cataloged separately: Broadside File Box LD3231.M66 T49 1842.

[Texas] Marvin College. Annual Catalogue of Marvin College Located at Waxahachie, Ellis County, Texas. For Year Ending June 15th, 1881, and Announcement for 1881-82. June, 1881. Galveston: Press of Shaw and Blaylock, 1881. 38 pp. Unrecorded. Annotated, in pencil, sometimes noting death dates of graduates and faculty.

[Texas] O'Neal, C. J., appellant. In the Court of Civil Appeals of the Fifth Supreme Judicial District of Texas: C.J. O'Neal, appellant, vs. Fore Bros., appellees: on appeal from County Court of Camp County: brief of Zachry & Heath, attorneys for appellees. [Texas]: Enterprise Printing House, [1899?] Description:16 pages ; 22 cm

[Texas] Philbhick, E. W., appellant. In the Court of Appeals of Texas, at Austin, spring term, 1877: appeal from Cameron: E.W. Philbhick and W.H. Swilkey, appellants, vs. the State of Texas, appellee. [Texas]: [publisher not identified], [1877] 4pp.

[Texas] Proposed Treaty with Texas, a Gross Usurpation of Power: The Annexation of Louisiana, a Precedent against the Constitutionality of the Treaty with Texas. Inconsistency of the Strict Constructionists, Who Favour that Treaty. Opinions of Jefferson. If the Enumeration of Slaves Be a Fundamental Condition Which Cannot be Abolished without Consent of One Party; Without the Consent of the Other, It Cannot be Extended to Another Nation. Philadelphia: 1844. 8pp. The author-- who has signed this at the end, 'A Washington Federalist'-- argues that Southern 'strict constructionists' are unprincipled hypocrites: like Jefferson, they called the Bank of the United States unconstitutional because the power to create it was not explicitly granted by the Constitution. On similar grounds they also believed purchasing Louisiana was unconstitutional. Now, however, they call the Louisiana acquisition "a precedent justifying the

41 usurpation of power which is contemplated in relation to Texas. In law, does acquiescence in one beneficial illegality justify another which is injurious?" Even if acquisition of Louisiana, and then Florida, were a "paramount expediency," "what is there to be gained by a union with Texas? Is it an object to have our frontier in the vicinity of the Mexicans and Camanches?" The "consequent extension of slave representation" is reason enough to deny admission to Texas. First Edition. Streeter 1527A. 162 Eberstadt 856. Cohen 10857.

Texas. Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Revise and Digest the Laws of the State of Texas. Galveston: Printed by Clarke & Courts, 1893. 32 pp.

Texas (Republic). Republic of Texas, County of [Brazoria] … Columbia: Printed by G. & T.H. Borden, [1836?]. 1 sheet. 15 ¾ in. x 10 in. Broadside. Printed form, filled in manuscript by Solomon Page, conveying land to Monroe Edwards. Witnessed and signed by A.C. Horton, Mosley Baker, and Spencer H. Jack. Dated Oct. 8, 1836. Not in Streeter and unrecorded in OCLC.

[Texas] Rock Island System. The Panhandle of Texas: Early History, Progress, Resources and Future Development. … F. R. Dennis, Southwestern Lands. [Peoria, Ill.?] 1906. 15 pp. Wraps. Illustrated. Oats produce 75 bushels to the acre. Winters are short and mild. Climate salubrious.

[Texas] Rutersville College. Female University. [Austin?]: [publisher not identified], [between 1845-1856]. 3 pages. Caption title. A memorial to the Texas legislature seeking an appropriation to fund a college for women. Type signed at end, William J. Russell, by authority of the trustees. Winkler 714, which assigns the date 1856?

[Texas] St. Edward’s College. Tenth Annual Catalogue of St. Edward's College, Austin, Texas, 1893-94. [Austin, Texas: St. Edward's College] ([Austin, Texas]: Eugene Von Boeckmann, printer), 1893. 70, [2] pp Summary: Includes courses of study, rosters of students, lists of student award winners, student societies, and school officials and faculty.

[Texas—San Antonio] San Antonio Illustrated in Photo-Gravure from Recent Negatives. NY: Wittemann, 1892.

[Texas—San Antonio] The Historic and Picturesque San Antonio River. San Antonio? 1895.

[Texas—San Antonio] San Antonio as a Health and Pleasure Resort. St. Louis: Iron Mountain Route, [1901?]

[Texas—San Antonio] Picturesque San Antonio, Texas. Photo-gravures. San Antonio: Nic Tengg, 1903. (Brooklyn: Albertype Co.)

[Texas—San Antonio] San Antonio. San Antonio: Nic Tengg, 1904. (Brooklyn: Albertype Co.)

[Texas—San Antonio] Lure of San Antonio. San Antonio: Guessaz & Ferlet, [1908?]

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[Texas—San Antonio] San Antonio, Historical and Modern. San Antonio, 1909.

[Texas—San Antonio] Hotel St. Anthony. 1910 (NY & Chicago: Norman Pierce Co.)

[Texas—San Antonio] San Antonio, Texas. San Antonio: Gunter Hotel, [1915?]

[Texas—San Antonio] San Antonio, the Mission City. Houston: Southern Pacific, 1916.

[Texas—San Antonio] Visitor’s Guide and History of San Antonio. San Antonio: Nic Tengg, 1918. 5th ed.

[Texas—San Antonio] San Antonio Booster Guide Book. San Antonio: San Antonio Light, 1924.

[Texas] Smith, Edward J., and Harry M. Pease. Texas Spring Palace City Fort Worth. A Parody on H.M.S. Pinafore. [Fort Worth]: Texas Spring Palace, 1889. iv,50,[v]-xiv pp., including illustrations and advertisements. Original pictorial front wrapper, rear wrapper lacking. "The Texas Spring Palace, a regional immigration and agricultural fair located in Fort Worth, opened on May 29, 1889. The fair was inspired by an idea of Robert A. Cameron, immigration agent for the Fort Worth and Denver Railway, and designed to attract settlers and investors to Texas" - Handbook of Texas. Taking its inspiration from Sioux City's Corn Palace and Toronto's Ice Palace, the Spring Palace City highlighted the natural products of the state, and counties throughout Texas contributed to the exhibits. The Palace drew thousands of visitors to Fort Worth and helped boost the local economy before it was consumed by flames in May, 1890. The text of this parody by Edward J. Smith, taking Gilbert & Sullivan's wildly popular H.M.S. Pinafore as an inspiration, mocks the excessive boosterism of the Texans, complemented by illustrations by Harry M. Pease. Other illustrations show prominent Fort Worth buildings, including the Board of Trade and the Fort Worth Iron Works. Handbook of Texas (online).

[Texas] Sons of Hermann. Constitution der Freiwilligen Lebensversicherung des Ordens der Hermanns Sohne in den Vereinigten von Amerika. [Constitution of the Volunteer Life Insurance of the Order of [Germany's] Sons in the United States of America]. Original printed grey wrappers. 24pp. 6pp. Last six pages in English. "Charter" More than likely printed in San Antonio gleaned from the English part of the pamphlet.

Texas State Medical Association. Transactions of the Texas State Medical Association, Seventeenth Annual Session, Held at Houston, Texas, April 21, 22, 23, 1885. Austin, Texas: Printed for the Texas State Medical Association, 1885. 430 pp. “Draughon & Lambert, printers | John Southgate, Binder, | Austin, Texas.”

Texas. Supreme Court. Brief. I.B. Bigelow, Attorney. Margarito Castillo, appellant vs. The State of Texas, Appellee. In the Supreme Court of the State of Texas. January Term, 1869. Appeal from Cameron County. Brownsville, Texas: Sentinel Book and Job Printing Office, 1869. 7,[1] pp. Title from wrappers. Concerning a burglary. Not in Winkler & Friend. Not in OCLC.

Texas. Supreme Court. In the Supreme Court. Austin Term, 1879. E.G. Hanrick, Appellant, Versus A.M. Jackson, Appellee. Appeal from Falls County. Motion to Set Aside Submission and

43 to Advance Cause, With Brief for A.M. Jackson, Appellee. By Wooldridge & Fisher, Attorneys for Appellee. [Austin? 1879?] 20pp. TxDaDF

Texas. Supreme Court. In the Supreme Court, of the State of Texas, Galveston Term, January, A.D. 1879. … Candida Ramirez, plaintiff in error, vs. John McClane, administrator, et als., defendants in error. Error from Nueces County. [n.p., n.p., 1878?] 3,[1] pp.

Texas. Supreme Court. In the Supreme Court of Texas. January 1869, at Galveston. A.J. Bloomberg, Appellant, vs. Andre & Schulz, Appellees. No. 3182. Appeal from Cameron. [n.p., n.d.] 7,[1] pp. Caption title. Signed in type, p. 7: “S. Powers, for Appellant.” Concerning collections for debt. Not listed in Winkler & Friend; however, a 20-page brief for the appellees is listed [Winkler & Friend #2054], held by TxU. Stephen Powers, attorney, is also cited seven other times by Winkler & Friend.

Texas. Supreme Court. In the Supreme Court of Texas. The City Bank of Houston, Appellant, v. The First National Bank of Houston, Appellee. Appeal from Harris County. Raised Checks, and Where the Liability Rests, When the Drawee, at the Time of Payment, Is Advised by the Drawer’s Account Current of the Fraud. Brief of Appellant. Austin: Cardwell & Walker, printers, 1874. 41,[1] pp. Cover title. Includes photograph of sample check, glued to p. 2 of brief, as issued. An abstruse but important question on the negotiation of checks, and a very early use of photography in a Texas legal case. Winkler & Friend 3374.

[Texas] Temple Conservatory. Conservatory Recital, Friday Night, January 29th, 1892 … [Temple, Tex.? 1892?] 1 sheet. Broadside. Not in OCLC. Though no place given, many of the people can be identified with Temple, Texas. Mrs. Huling P. Robertson, whose husband was in the Texas legislature 1899-1913, founded the DAR in Temple in 1904. On this night, she presented a vocal solo, “O Luce Di Quest Anima” from Donizetti’s Linda di Chamounix.

[Texas] Victoria Fire Co. No. 1. Grand Fireman’s Ball Under the Auspices of Victoria Fire Co. No. 1, Casino Hall, Victoria, Texas, Friday, October 12th, 1883. …. Galveston: Clarke & Courts, Stationers, [1883]. 1 sheet. Pictorial invitation. Includes cut of fireman rescuing damsel from the flames. Printed in red and blue.

[Texas] Waco Immigration Society. The Immigrant’s Guide to Waco and McLennan County, Texas. By Order of Waco Immigration Society, and Approved by City Council of Waco and the Honorable County Court of McLennan County. Waco: Lambdin & Furman, printers, [1884]. 32 pp. Title from wrapper. Line drawing of the suspension bridge on the front cover; the Masonic Temple on the back cover. Other city views inside. Very rare. The only other copies are at the Bancroft Library and New York Public.

[Texas] Walcott Institute. A Circular of Information Pertaining to Walcott Institute Located at Honey Grove, Texas. Register for 1881-82. Paris, Texas: A.W. Neville & Co., job printers, [1881]. 26, [12] pp. Includes curriculum, lists of students, faculty, and information about Honey Grove, including a wealth of ads from local merchants.

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[Texas] Weaver, Flave J. Six Years in Bondage and Freedom at Last. A Tale of Prison Life. Waco, Texas: Huff Show Print, [ca. 1896?]. 24 pp.

[Texas] Winn & Cooke. Important to Consumers. In Consequence of Utterly False Report! … [Belton, Texas? 1870s?] 1 sheet. Winn & Cooke were wholesale and retail grocers in Belton. The Belton Journal was in existence 1875-1876 and probably printed this piece. Not in Winkler & Friend.

[Trade Catalogues] [Cloth] Simplex Sampling Association. Simplex Buyer’s Guide of Standard Merchandize. New York, 1919. Folio. 36ff + embossed wrappers. Amazing sample piece from a firm that represented a number of firms that made cloth goods—dresses, pillow cases, robes, as well as lines of cotton clothes, crepes, etc. Recto of each leaf is an advertisement, of sorts, for a specific line, with samples of cloth (or finished products such as towels), and usually on the verso an actual tipped-on sample (total of 45 real samples). The embossing “samples” of fabrics- - in a variety of colors, patterns, and textures—appears almost real. Fine reference and display piece. OCLC—which classifies this as a serial—notes five holdings. Two have single dated issues (Cincinnati Public, 1926; Virginia, 1923); Philadelphia Univ. has undated entry; American History Textile Museum owns three issues (1923, 1924, 1925).

[Trade Catalogues] [Hats] Catalogo Tardan. Primavera 7 Verano 1953. El Sombrero que todo Mexico USA. 32pp + color pictorial wrappers. Color illus.

[Trade Catalogues] [Hats] Catalogo Tardan. 32pp + pictorial wrappers. Typed price slips (revised) pasted over original text on most pages. Ca. 1940.

[Trade Catalogues] [Hats] Catalogo Tardan. [16]pp including color wrappers. Ca. 1940.

[Trade Catalogues] [Hats] Catalogo Tardan. 16pp including wrappers. Printed in red and black; old damp stain on lower corner.

[Trade Catalogues] [Hats] Catalogo Tardan. 32pp + pictorial wrappers. Ca.1940.

[Trade Catalogues] [Hats] Catalogo Tardan. Sombrero de Charro. 32pp + pictorial wrappers. A selection of “hats for horsemen”—that is, fancy sombreros worn at fancy events, performances, parties, etc. What Yankees think of when they hear the word “sombrero.”

[Trade Catalogues] [Hats] Primavera Catalogo 1946. [32]pp including pictorial wrappers.

[Trade Catalogues] [Hats] Sombreros, Tijidos, de Hilo, De Lino. Escoto. Catálogo No. 20. [16]pp including pictorial wrappers. Escoto brand of hats available from Tardan.

[Trade Catalogues] [Hats] Tardan Catalogue 1956. Primavera y Verano. 36pp including color pictorial wrappers. Plus five other advertising pieces (e.g., two double-sided broadsides; six-page folding sheet with mostly straw hats.

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[Trade Catalogues] [Paper] Guggenheimer, H. Specimens of Universal Programmes, Folders, Announcement Cards, Tickets, Menus, Show Cards, Badges, Souvenirs, Visiting Cards, Beveled Edge Cards, Wedding and Reception Invitations, Tassels. New York, [1892?.] Oblong folio. 23ff + covers. Approximately 160+ items, many printed in color, some chromolithography, some embossing. Good sample book of unfinished “blanks” available to job printers. OCLC notes two holdings for an 1892 issue (Delaware, Winterthur).

[Trade Catalogues] [Paper] M. H. Levine Co. Samples. Flora-foil. NY, ca. 1930. Thirteen large samples of colored foil wrapper paper (for use in florist shops) + one leave with colors named), stapled at top into card folder.

[Travel] Montgomery, Cora [i.e. Cazneau, Jane]: The Kind of Rivers, with a Chart of Our Slave and Free Soil Territory. New York: Charles Wood, 1850. 19pp., including a single-page map. Cora Montgomery was the pseudonym of the fascinating Jane Cazneau, Texas pioneer and promoter, journalist, and the author of Eagle Pass and Texas and her Presidents. Very active in public affairs (not just as the alleged mistress of Aaron Burr), she also supported the annexation of Cuba and the plots of William Walker in Nicaragua. In this work she describes her voyages down the Mississippi, includes a substantial section on Louisiana and New Orleans, and gives her views on slavery and national expansion. Cazneau predicted the gradual abolition of slavery as cheap foreign labor made it economically disadvantageous. This essay was planned to be part of a book called Our Mother Land, though that work was never published. The Democratic Republican Young Men's General Committee ordered this essay to be printed in 5000 copies. It is sometimes found as part of another work, called The Queen of Islands ..., published the same year (see Clark). Sabin 50133. Clark, Old South III:366 (note).

[Twain, Mark] Die Abenteuer Huckleberry Finns (des Kameraden von Tom Sawyer) Halle: Verlag von Otto Hendel, n.d. [1890s?]. original printed wrappers.

[Twain, Mark] Abenteuer des Tom Sawyer und Huckleberry Finn. Foreword by Walter Seiler. Leipzig: Zenith Verlag Erich Stolpe, 1927. 291pp

[Twain, Mark] Mark Twain’s ausgewählte Humoristische Schriften Stuttgart: Robert Luß, 1892. 6 vols. Green gilt cover.

[Unitarianism] Sunderland, Jabez Thomas. The issue in the west: is western Unitarianism ready to give up its Christian character? Is it ready to give up its theistic character? [Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], 1880s. 45 pages ; 15 cm

Utah. Laws, statutes, etc. Laws of the State of Utah, passed at the Second Regular Session of the Legislature of the State of Utah … Salt Lake City: Start Printing Company, 1897. 327 pp.

Utah Agricultural College. Experiment Station. Annual Report of the Utah Agricultural College Experiment Station. Logan, Utah: The Station, 1891-1897. DeGolyer has volumes 3 (1892) and 4 (1893).

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[Washington Territory] Confidential. If Any One Should Happen to Know a Man by the Name of L.A. McLane or he Spells His Name L.A. MacLane.... Seattle, Washington Territory. February 22, 1889. Broadside, 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, printed on pink paper and affixed to a contemporary ledger sheet.

[Women] Anonymous. Diary. Galveston, Texas, 1858 April 17-1858 May 5. [64 pp.] Apparently kept by a woman visiting Galveston from Palacios? Frequent mention of “Mr. Gotthiel,” identified at one point in the diary as an architect. Possibly Edward Gotthiel, a German emigrant known for his work in New Orleans. The anonymous woman diarist reveals that her father, recently deceased, was a ship captain. She mentions the last time she saw him at Powder Horn wharf along the Texas coast. Might be possible, with further research, to identify the diarist. Much religious introspection here as well as accounts of her daily activities; mention of a “daguerrian saloon.” Frequent expressions of guilt and regret concerning her father’s death.

[Women] Anonymous. Washington D.C. social diary. [Washington D.C.], 1907-1909.1 diary. This anonymous social diary of a wife from Washington, D.C., describes the various dinners and luncheons she and her husband Herman attended. Guests included diplomats, titled foreigners, and cabinet members. After the election of William Howard Taft, she and her husband dined at the White House with the Roosevelts. She had a "sympathetic talk with Mrs. Roosevelt, also with the President. Saw them in the intimacy of home life. Quite alone."

[Women] [Blethen, Mary A. P.] In Court of Civil Appeals. Second Supreme Judicial District of Texas, at Fort Worth. Mary A. P. Blethen, Appellant, vs. W. A. Bonner, Et Al., Appellees. Appeal from the District Court of Bosque County. Brief for Appellant. N. J. Wade, Attorney for Appellant, Mary A. P. Blethen. Meridian, Texas: Bosque Eagle Print, [circa 1897]. 28 pp. "Statement of the Nature and Result of the Suit: Mary A. P. Blethen, appellant, sued the appellees, W. A. Bonner et al, in trespass to try title to 1428 and one-tenth acres of land described in her petition filed July 29th, 1897. In addition to the statutory allegations of trespass to try title, she alleged that she had formerly been the wife of the appellee, L. B. Blethen; that they were married in Massachusetts in 1863 and were divorced in Texas in 1880; that her separate property was reserved to her by an ante-nuptial contract made in Massachusetts October 1st, 1863..." Signed in pencil, by N. J. Wade, on front cover.

[Women] Fenwick, M.B. & Sara Hartman, compilers and publishers. Directory of Societies and Ladies Address List. San Antonio, 1897. 92 pp.

[Women] The Ladies Pocket Magazine. London: J. Robins, 1824-1840. Published 1824-1840. Cf. Union list of serials. Notes: Engraved title-pages; engraved plates, some hand-colored. Numbering begins each year with v. 1, sometimes called pt. 1. Supplements accompany some issues. DeGolyer has:1830:pt.1-1830:pt.2, 1834:pt.2

[Women] Lane, Harriet. The book of culture. New York, Social Culture Publications [©1922]. 64 pp.

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[Women] Oakley, Annie. A Brief Sketch of Her Career and Notes on Shooting. [Bridgeport, Conn.?: Union Metallic Cartridge Co.?, 1913?] 16 pp. Annie notes that she no longer makes her own cartridges but now uses the Union Metallic Cartridge Co.’s cartridges. The company was in Bridgeport and likely put out this booklet.

[Women] Swanson, Emily. Letters from Emily Swanson to her husband Glenn Swanson. Amarillo, Texas, 1919-1932, bulk 1931-1932. 23 letters. This collection contains typescript letters from Emily to her husband [Frederick] Glenn Swanson from September 1931 to May 1932. These letters are written on Morgan, Culton, Morgan & Britain letterhead, and describe Em's life working in the law firm and her social activities in Amarillo, Texas. Frederick Glenn Swanson was involved in building the Panama Canal and later was elected to serve two terms in the Texas Legislature from 1945 to 1947. These letters are all addressed "Dear Glenn" and are signed "Love Em," most likely Swanson's wife Emily. It appears that Glenn was recuperating from an injury in Tyler, Texas and Em sent him candy, magazines, and letters. Also included is one letter on J.H. Young Lumber Company letterhead dated June 12, 1919 in Warren, Pennsylvania. This is one of the collections in the Archives of Women of the Southwest.

[Women] Tumlinson, Elizabeth. Articles of agreement between Elizabeth Tumlinson and George Foley. [Texas], 1828 February 14. 1 page. This handwritten document states that Elizabeth Tumlinson is to furnish board, lodging, team, and everything necessary for farming. George Foley is to farm until corn is hoed over once, crib the corn, and start a garden with the help of Elizabeth's husband, Joseph. All three people signed the document, which was made in "Austin's Colony District of Colorado." Elizabeth Tumlinson was the first woman Texas rancher and the only woman to receive a land grant from Stephen F. Austin.

[Women] United Daughters of the Confederacy. Missouri Division. Minutes of the third annual meeting of the Missouri Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy ... Fayette, Missouri: Press of Democrat Leader, 1900. 19,[1] pp.

[Women] Wood-Allen, Mary. Teaching Truth [Ann Arbor, Mich.]: [Wood-Allen Pub. Co.], 1892. 24 pp. On sex education for children.

Wyoming. Session Laws of Wyoming Territory, Passed by the Eighth Legislative Assembly, Convened at Cheyenne, January 8, 1884. Cheyenne: Democratic Leader Book and Job Print, 1884. viii,198,xxiv pp. Several of the laws passed by the Eighth Territorial Assembly relate to Yellowstone, including the creation of a voting precinct, the enforcement of laws within the park, and the construction of a jail at or near Lower Fire Hole Basin. Also included herein are the acts to incorporate the cities of Laramie, Sheridan, and Buffalo, laws regarding juvenile delinquents and the criminal code, an "act to punish the procurement of abortion," another to punish those aiding the commission of adultery, laws regarding cattle brands, and much more. Stopka 1884.15. AII (Wyoming) 89.

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Wyoming. Auditor. Annual Report of the Auditor of Wyoming Territory, for the Year 1889. Cheyenne, Wyo.: The Cheyenne Daily Leader Steam Book Print, 1890. 28 pp. Stopka 1890.6.

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