Cultural Images' List 18-2

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CULTURAL IMAGES’ LIST 18-2 A Spring Miscellany Covering a Variety of Subjects! Neurologist F.X. Dercum Prescribes Poland Water

1. [ADVERTISING – Billhead with Medical Interest] Hiram Ricker & Sons, Philadelphia. Color illustrated billhead advertising Poland Water with images of a labeled bottle of the celebrated water and its branded cork; a litho of the Poland Spring House; and another of the Maine State Building at the World’s Fair. The bill was made out to a Dr. Dercum, who was treating Mrs. A.L. Mills of Portland, Oregon, while in Philadelphia, on December 26, 1905 for the purchase of one five-gallon demijohn of Poland Water. An inn was opened by a spring near Poland, Maine in 1797. The grandson of the first innkeeper claimed the spring water cured him of dyspepsia. By the 1860s, with the craze over (what later proved to be quack) patent medicines and the healing powers of certain spring waters, the original inn grew to a resort where people could come to drink the water to be healthy. The pictured Poland Spring House was remodeled and added-to from an earlier structure and opened to the public in 1876. Because of its popularity, Poland Water began to be bottled and distributed throughout the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Poland Spring water is still being distributed as a bottled water as a subsidiary of Nestlé.

The prescribing doctor was Francis Xavier Dercum (1856-1931), a noted neurologist who specialized in treating nervous and mental disorders. The 1929 Wallace Street address on the billhead was the location of Dercum’s private sanitarium. Dercum taught at the University of Pennsylvania and was on the staff of the Philadelphia General Hospital. Later, he became the hospital’s consulting neurologist. He also served in similar consulting capacities to other psychiatric hospitals, including one for the criminally insane. As a neurologist, he is known for having treated President Woodrow Wilson.

The billhead measures 8 3/8” x 6 ½” and is in Fine condition. Great soft colors and fine graphics. [14- 3000] PRICE $ 25 Presbyterian Missionaries in Central Alaska

2. [ALASKA – Nenana Missionary Photographs] Marquis, Rev. R.R. Collection of thirty-two (32) vintage snapshot photographs (plus four duplicates for a total of 36 photos) of the Nenana, Alaska area related to the presence of the Grace Presbyterian Church and the Sabbath School Missionary program of the Presbyterian Church in the Yukon Presbytery, circa 1924-1927. The majority of the photos measure approximately 3 ¼” x 5 ½”, plus a few smaller ones. Sixteen of the photos are identified in the same manuscript hand on the back side. Four of the photos bear the ink imprint of the “Rev. R.R.

Marquis / Sabbath School Missionary / Presbyterian Church U.S.A. / Nenana, Alaska”. The circa 1924- 1927 date of the photos was determined because that time period coincides with Rev. Marquis’ tenure in Nenana.

The Rev. Robert J. Diven organized the Presbyterian church in November, 1918 to serve as a center for a widespread ministry to the native Nenana/Athabascan language speaking peoples and settlements along the line of the Alaska Railroad, the construction of which began in 1915 to connect Nenana to the southern port of Anchorage. In 1923 the long truss railroad bridge was opened across the Tanana River near Nenana which linked the community to Fairbanks and Seward. During that time period, the population swelled to around 5,000 people. The Auburn Seminary Record (Vol 14 / 1918-1919) reported that the Rev. and Mrs. Diven drew the plans and specifications for what would become the Grace Presbyterian Church of Nenana. An architect took their plans and drew up the working sketches. “These however were chewed up by some dogs on the day the building was started but work was finished successfully without them.” The combination church/manse was built in 40 days at a cost of $6,200. After the railroad construction was completed, the town had a dramatic drop in population and the church could no longer support a pastor, so it became more of a mission station. The Rev. Robert R. Marquis, a graduate of the 1914 class of McCormack Theological Seminary, arrived in Nenana in 1924 and for three years made an attempt to revive the congregation and at the same time establish mission Sunday schools at a number of points along the railroad line where they were no other Christian organizations. The attempt to revitalize the church was not successful and by 1927 Marquis was in Anchorage. The church building was only occasionally used by other groups, like Episcopalians, but finally was abandoned by the Presbytery. Today the population of Nenana is about 400.

This group of photographs documents the church building, congregational activity, Sunday school, Boy Scout troop, visit of members of Presbytery, missionaries serving in Alaska, dog sledding, and boat traffic. Captions on some include, Boy Scouts on the trail at 30 degrees below zero; Members of Presbytery ready to leave (at the train station); Nenana Church & Manse; 55 [degrees] below zero church attendants; Nenana Church & S.S. party – Rev. Vernon in picture / also Bobby / Luella; Mrs. Sacante’s S.S. class; and Yukon Presbytery / Vernon, Marquis, Youel. The Rev. James F. Vernon served in Nenana in 1924 and throughout Alaska in the later 1920s; Rev. John Youel served in Alaska in the late 1920s and throughout the 1930s. Altogether, this collection of vintage photographs provides a wonderful visual overview of the work (and the conditions under which they worked) of the early 20th century Presbyterian missionaries in central Alaska. Good detail and clarity. [AGLF-Alaska] PRICE: $ 275

Bank of Jonesboro, Arkansas

3. [ARKANSAS – Photographs] Robins, W.L. Pair of mounted cabinet views (6 ½” x 4 ¼”) showing two different views of the Bank of Jonesboro in Jonesboro, Arkansas, circa 1890s. One view is vertical and shows the two-story brick building with its pediment high above the angled doorway (where two men are standing) at the corner of a block; the other is a horizontal view of the bank which shows an empty lot to the left of the building with a little snow showing on the street and roofs in the background. Both photos bear the photographer Robin’s imprint on the face of the mount; one reads “W.L. Robins, Jonesboro, Ark” and the other, “Jonesboro Robins Arkansas”. Jonesboro, in the northeast part of Arkansas, is the county seat of Craighead County and home to Arkansas State.

Printed on the back of the vertical view is information about the Bank of Jonesboro dated January 21, 1888. The text is addressed “To the Farmers and Merchants of Craighead and adjoining Counties” and details the bank’s resources and liabilities (a corresponding $85,197.74) and states that they have “boxes in the vault to rent at $1.50 per year and every man can have a fire proof safe of his own for a trifle”. The stockholders are listed, including Judge W.H. Cate, President; G.W. Calberhouse, Vice President; and O.M Nilson, Cashier. Other prominent stockholders included Judge J.E. Riddick; Dr. Thos. H. Wyse; J.C. Hawthorne; Sam A. Warner Jr.; E.F. Brown; J.C. Brookfield; John K. Gibson; Marcus Berger; and one lady, Mrs. M.A. Hills. Judge Cate (1839-1899), listed as President of the bank in 1888, was one of the organizers in 1887. Cate had served as a captain in the Confederate Army; studied law and was admitted to the Arkansas bar in 1866; was elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives (1871- 1873); became a judge in 1884; and served twice as an Arkansas Representative to the U.S. Congress (1889-1890 and 1891-1893).

Both photographs are a little light in contrast, but, with the exception of a small circular dark spot on the horizontal view, are in VG+ condition. Arkansas photographs do not often appear on the market.

Consequently, this pair of views of the Bank of Jonesboro, built in a late Victorian commercial architectural style, serves as important visual documents of the growth and economy of that part of Arkansas. [18-GLF] PRICE for the Pair: $125 Portland, OR Responds to the SF Fire & Earthquake

4. [CALIFORNIA – San Francisco Fire & Earthquake] Taylor Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Two-sided, printed program (5 3/8” x 7 ¾”) with one side the Order of Service for Sunday, April 23 [1906] and the other side the notice of a Special Service for San Francisco Sufferers during both the morning and evening services (Portland, OR: Taylor Street Methodist Episcopal Church, [1906]). “Both services today will be given over to the interests of the San Francisco Sufferers… Special offerings will be taken at both services… Special Music… The subject for the Prayer Meeting next Thursday night will be “What Do You Know About San Francisco?” Both of the special services were arranged by Dr. W.A. Cumming. Very rare program of a Christian community in a neighboring state about 600 miles to the north supporting the victims of the great San Francisco fire and earthquake, that had occurred five days earlier, through prayer and money. Printed on thin paper, this rare program has a horizontal fold mark and is in Fine condition. [18-455] PRICE: $ 30

5. [CANADA – British Columbia] Canadian Pacific Railway Lines. Booklet with the cover title Canada’s Evergreen Playground / Victoria B.C. (Canadian Pacfic Railway Lines. 1930). Illus paper wraps with the front cover illustration in color showing a young woman surrounded by roses and a young man teeing off on a golf course overlooking the ocean; 6” x 9”; 24pp plus a list of Canadian Pacific Agencies in Canada and the United States printed on inside of back cover; map on page 2 shows water routes between Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver. “Natural beauty can often be poignant enough to make you catch your breath. Canada’s Evergreen Playground abounds in such glorious glimpses of nature’s handiwork.” Text sections include information on Victoria; the Empress Hotel; year round golf, including the Empress Winter Golf Tournament; the Crystal Garden, which included one of the largest warm sea-water swimming pools in America, Turkish baths, a dance floor and badminton court; hunting and fishing; the Island Highway and sights and stops along the way; B.C. costal service, cruises and coastal trips (including to Alaska) presented by the Canadian Pacific’s British Columbia Coast Steamships; Vancouver; antiques; yachting; Harrison Hot Springs; a flower calendar from October to April; and other tourist related information. Fine condition; clean and bright throughout. [18-2231] PRICE $ 40

6. [CANADA – New Brunswick] Tourist promotional booklet titled New Brunswick / Canada’s Unspoiled Province (Fredericton: New Brunswick Government Bureau of Information and Tourist Travel, 1931). Graphic paper wraps, stapled; [28] folded pages measuring 9 ¼” x 11 ¼” when open (booklet is 9 ¼” x 6” when closed); maps; profusely illustrated from photographs. The photos illustrating the booklet were supplied by the Canadian National Railways, Canadian Pacific Railway, Canadian Government, The New York Herald-Tribune and visiting sportsmen. The inside of the front cover contains a full page of information concerning fishing and hunting in New Brunswick. The inside of the back cover contains a full page of Canadian Customs Regulations for the Admission of Tourists. Contains the usual tourist promotional language, but is greatly enhanced with the number of identified photographs in each section: New Brunswick’s Modern Tourist Accommodations; The St. Croix Gateway; Grand Manan and Campobello; St. Andrews by-the-Sea; St. George and Lake Utopia; Saint John Loyalist City; The Kennebecasis Valley and St. Martins; Sussex; Albert County’s Grandeur; Moncton the Railway City; Westmoreland County; Along the East Coast; The Beautiful Miramichi; Bathurst and Gloucesteer; The Campbellton Gateway; Edmundston Gateway; Grand Falls and The Tobique; The Woodstock Gateway; The Saint John River Valley; Fredericton The Capital; Grand Lake & Washademoak; and The Rhine of America. One full page map is an official highway map of New Brunswick showing main roads with an inset of the location of golf courses in New Brunswick. The other map is a sketch map indicating main automobile roads into New Brunswick and contains an adjacent Table of Distances and where to get information on the New Brunswick Liquor Control law! Several of the page folds show some splitting and minor paper loss along the crease; otherwise attractive, clean copy in VG condition. [17-2081] PRICE: $ 35 From Editor to Short Story Wannabe

7. [LITERARY – Archive of Letters and Unpublished Short Stories] Simmons, Franklin Bradley, and Emily Lee Simmons. The collection contains 39 pieces of correspondence (both incoming and outgoing), mostly dating between 1919-1924 in either manuscript or typescript format; 15 articles or short stories by Franklin Simmons and two by Emily Lee Simmons dating from the 1920s; and eight miscellaneous pieces. Although both Franklin and Emily were native to Minnesota, the majority of this collection dates from their later years living in Portland, Oregon. Frank Simmons was born in 1859 in Little Falls, Morrison County, Minnesota and died in Portland, Oregon in 1930 at the age of 70. As a young boy Frank spent some time after the Civil War with his father, J.O. Simmons, on plantations along the Mississippi. He also went to Bismark, D.T. for a brief time in 1874 with his father. In the Spring of 1876 he went to New York where for almost five years he clerked in a general store at Allen’s Hill. By 1880 he had learned the printer’s trade and returned to Little Falls. He purchased the local newspaper in 1880 and besides being the editor of the Little Falls Transcript had a job printing office in the post

office building where he also held the position of Deputy Postmaster. He sold out his interests in June 1883, moved to Long Prairie, MN, and established a newspaper there. In July of 1884 Frank Simmons married Emily C. Lee, a native of Swan River, Morrison County, MN, and a daughter of Samuel Lee. An article in the October 5, 1903 issue of the Saint Paul Globe about businesses in Long Prairie mention Mrs. Emily C. Simmons’ millinery store that she had established circa 1895 and reported that she was “prominent in local social affairs, active and a leader in church and fraternal society matters, and, altogether, a worthy and gracious woman.” The February 4, 1909 issue of the Bismarck Tribune newspaper noted that Frank B. Simmons had come from Long Prairie to do abstract work for P.E. Byrnes in Bismarck, North Dakota. It is unclear when or why they left for Oregon, but one of the letters in the collection dating from 1912 is addressed to their Portland, OR residence.

A little more of their biographical history is contained in a letter dated December 12, 1924, written by Frank Simmons to the Civic and Commerce Association of Northeastern Minnesota, he says, “Both Mrs. Simmons and myself were born and raised in Minnesota, our parents having been among the Territorial pioneers. The Simmons family at Little Falls and the Lee family as Swan River and Long Prairie are a part of the history of Northern Minnesota. The late William E. Lee of Long Prairie was Mrs. Simmons’ brother. In 1880 I became interested in the Little Falls Transcript which we (Simmons & Fuller) purchased in 1881. We made it a real “hummer” throughout the Kindred – Nelson “Bloody Fifth” congressional fight in 1882. The following year I sold out of the Transcript and went out to Long Prairie, Todd County, and there established The Long Prairie Leader which is now in its forty-second year and one of the best country weekly newspapers in the country.”

Correspondence between the couple when apart make up a good portion of the letters in the collection and are lengthy and newsy. A couple of the later pieces relate to Franklin’s efforts to find a publisher for their short stories and articles, which had such titles as: Should Capital Punishment be Abolished; A Man You Don’t Meet Every Day; The Humane Treatment of the Horse; Satisfying the Law; Humorous Story; Finding the Lost Watch Chain (with a note to Weird Tales); One of My Narrow Escapes from Death; Lost and Found; True Story of an Old Time ‘Coon Hunt’; The Runaway Swede; An Honest Robber; Strange Flight of a Piece of Paper; Hopping Along; The Story of John Hans of Prairietown; and Dale’s Mistake. The manuscript for each story is included. Some are handwritten; others are typed. Most have word counts. We find no evidence of any of their writings being accepted for publication.

In one letter (August 26, 1924) addressed to the editor of The Pioneer Magazine of Texas, Franklin B. Simmons writes, “A friend suggested to me today that I send to you some of my short scribbles with a hope of getting your assistance in “breaking the ice.” I have yet to receive my first dollar from my pen productions, directly. A long time in the harness as a country editor and having contributed many columns of stuff gratuitously to newspapers and class publications may or may not be of any advantage to me in trying now to write for a little profit or for a little “bread and butter” fund. My health is broken and I am no longer in the active service class, and like some others my finances are uncomfortably short.” Simmons was trying to market two short stories for $5 each.

The collection is currently broken down into eleven file folders, as follows: Correspondence 1903-Sept 19, 1919 [17 letters]; Correspondence Sept 20, 1919-Oct 1919 [16 letters]; Correspondence 1923-1924 [6 letters]; Announcement of Frank B. Simmons Candidacy for Senate; Notes re Frank B. Simmons as a Democratic Candidate; Ephemera – Ladies of the Maccabees 1890s (4 copies); Letter to an Editor [nd]; Puzzle – Manuscript; Short Stories – by Franklin Simmons 1920s (Folder 1 of 2); Short Stories – by Franklin Simmons 1920s (Folder 2 of 2); Short Stories – by Emily Lee (Mrs. Frank) Simmons [circa 1926]. [NMRE] PRICE: $ 250 Swedish-American 1893 Lithograph of Columbus

8. [LITHOGRAPH – Landing of Columbus] Kurz & Allison. Color lithograph titled below the image, Columbus Landstigning I Amerika 1492 / Premie Till Svenska Tribunen 1893. At lower left below the image is printed “October 12th 1492.” At lower right is printed, “Kurz & Allison – Art Studio, 76-78 Wabash Ave, [Chicago].” The word “Chicago” is missing as about an inch or so of the entire right side of the image has been trimmed off. The 20” x 24” view shows in bright colors the landing of Columbus with Indians looking on from the bushes on the right side of the image.

This litho was evidently produced in 1893 for the Swedish-American newspaper Svenska Tribunen in celebration of the Columbian World’s Fair held in Chicago that year. The Svenska Tribunen (Swedish

Tribune), founded in 1877 and published by the Swedish American Publishing Company in Chicago, became one of the leading Swedish language newspapers in the United States. In 1906 the newspaper claimed 32,000 subscribers.

Kurz & Allison was a prolific lithography company in Chicago from 1880 until 1921. Louis Kurz (1835- 1921) was an Austrian immigrant, arriving in America as a young boy. Both before and after his service in the Civil War, Kurz was involved as an artist and lithographer in Chicago and Milwaukee. In 1880 he joined with William Allison to form the lithographic firm Kurz & Allison in Chicago. Jay Last, in his book, The Color Explosion, devotes two pages to Kurz and his career. Of Kurz & Allison, he says that the company produced hundreds of “garish” colored lithographs on a variety of subjects, including prints commemorating American historical scenes.

The lithograph has been trimmed along the left side close to the edge of the image and about an inch or so has been trimmed off the right side of the image. A portion of the top border also may have been trimmed. However, the primary content of the lithograph is all there, with Columbus and his men celebrating their landing and Indians looking on in amazement. There is a 5/8” tear in the bottom margin at lower left below the “October 12th, 1492” printed date. A colorful image of a significant event in America’s history. [18-288] PRICE: $ 185 “Ideal Location for Summer Hours”

9. [MAP – Wisconsin – Upper Michigan] Chicago and North Western Ry. Co. Fold- out map with the cover title, Summer Outings / Wisconsin – Upper Michigan (Chicago: Chicago and North Western Railway Co, 1942). Opened up, the piece measures 32” x 27”. On one side is a map of “The Great North Woods Tourist and Fishing District of Wisconsin / Ideal Location for Summer Hours” along with an inset showing that district within the state. Maps on the other side are of upper Michigan. Included on both sides are long lists of resorts and lodges in every community, boy’s and girl’s summer camps, and golf courses located in Northern Wisconsin along the railway line. Folded, this promotional map measures 4” x 9” with the same color image on both covers of people recreating in the woods along a river with an inset of a man fly fishing. A few separations at fold lines and some light wrinkling to one side of the covers, but overall in VG+ condition. [17-RE] PRICE: $55

Late 19th Century Photos of Concord, MA

10. [MASSACHUSETTS - Photographs] Hosmer, A.W., photographer. Group of five boudoir (5 ¼” x 8 ½”) mounted photographs of buildings and scenes, all bearing a paper label of A.W. Hosmer, photographer, Concord, Massachusetts, circa 1890. An additional paper label on the reverse side identifies each image: Monument Square, Concord, Mass; Public Library, Concord, Mass; Battle Ground, Concord, Mass; Unitarian Church and Wright Tavern, Concord, Mass; and Nashawtue Bridge, Concord, Mass. The paper label on the back of one photograph being offered here reads, “A.W. Hosmer, / Landscape Photographer, / Concord, Mass”, while the other four have a different label that reads, “Photographed by / A.W. Hosmer, Concord, Mass.”

Alfred [Fred] A. Hosmer (1851-1903) was born in Concord; attended MIT one year; returned home and worked in carpentry and clerked in the post office and later in a dry goods store, which he bought in 1898. A lifelong bachelor, Hosmer has been described as a photographer, naturalist, and Thoreauvian, who contributed a great deal to further Henry David Thoreau’s reputation as a major American author. Sometime after 1880 Hosmer began to take photographs of plants, animals, and landscapes around the Concord, MA area that reflected Thoreau’s writings. He also collected Thoreau-related writings and objects and corresponded with other Thoreauvians. His collection of Thoreau material, as well as over 800 of his photographic negatives, are housed in the Concord Free Public Library. His photographs were used in two early biographies of Thoreau. Although described by some as an “amateur” photographer, his body of work seems to imply a highly developed sense of composition and technical prowess. Besides his work photographing the natural world, he also was interested in documenting his hometown of Concord and its place in early Colonial and Revolutionary times. Concord was the site of one of the first two military engagements of the Revolutionary War on April 19, 1775 (the other being the nearby community of Lexington) where militiamen turned back the British regulars at the battle at the old North Bridge. Both sides suffered casualties, but the tenacity of the colonial militia was ably demonstrated.

Each of the sepia-toned photographs are in Fine condition with the exception of the battlefield image which has several small liquid spill marks at middle left. Great contrast and detail to this grouping of photos from historic Concord. [16-1278/79/80, 16-1498 E/F] PRICE for the Lot of Five: $ 225

Bloodletting, Amputation & Trephining

11. [MEDICINE – Surgery] Ruf, Frank A. Surgery / Two Hundred Years Ago / Illustrated from Original Copper Plates (New York: P. Tennyson Neely, publisher, [circa 1900]). Green cloth covered thin boards with illustration on front cover; gold endpapers and front and back flyleaves; [1, 24, 1]pp; twelve plates depicting early surgical operations, including bloodletting, lithotomy, amputation of legs and arms, treating a dislocated humerus, lithotomy of the bladder, trephining, tracheotomy, transfusion and infusion, treatment in apoplexy, and amputation of breasts. The general text is made up of several sections (articles) of more contemporary medicine, including “The Remedial Properties of an American Discovery”, “Few Drugs are Necessary”, “Treatment of Affections of the Respiratory Tract”, “Malaria, Mental Exhaustion, Chorea, Dyspepsia, Pertusis”, “Affections of the Gastro-Intestinal Tract”, and “Headaches of Extra- Cranial Origin” by Frank Woodbury, MD, Philadelphia, read before the Mississippi Valley Medical Association in 1894. The introduction states, in part, “In the magnificent development which has attested the latter half of the Nineteenth Century in all branches of science, it becomes a source of interest at all times to review the conditions and methods which have preceded them. Experimentation and observation, skill and mechanical ingenuity have evolved results which are almost beyond the comprehension of the knowledge of fifty years ago.” The booklet measures 7 5/8” x 5 ¼”. Near Fine condition; clean and bright throughout. [16-1211] PRICE: $ 75 Republican Politics

12. [MICHIGAN – Politics] Illustrated Harrison and Morton Republican Ticket, 1888, from Jackson County, Michigan. Printed on one side of a 3 ½” x 10 ¼” piece of thin paper stock, the Republican election ticket includes candidates for the National Ticket (Harrison and Morton); State Ticket (Cyrus G. Luce for Governor); Congressional Ticket (James O’Donnell for Representative in Congress for the Third District); Legislative Ticket (Adelbert R. Chapman, for Senator to the State Legislature); and County Ticket (including Mark H. Ray for Sheriff). Benjamin H. Harrison and Levi P. Morton were successful on the national level. On the local level, Luce was elected for his second two-year term as governor of Michigan; O’Donnell was elected as a Senator to Congress; Adelbert R. Chapman was successful in his bid for state senator, representing Hillsdale and Jackson counties; and Mark H. Ray was elected sheriff of Jackson County, Michigan. Nice piece of Political Americana. Couple of nicks along the edges; circular spot below the image of Morton; lightly toned; o/w in Near Fine condition. [17-1617] PRICE: $ 45

Liquor, Cigars, Billiards, One Night for Ladies, and No Dogs!

13. [MILITARY – Fort Monroe Club, VA] Fort Monroe Club. Fort Monroe Club. / Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Virginia. / Officers, Constitution, By-Laws, and Members, 1909. Red cloth-covered thin boards; decorative endpapers and front and back fly leaves; 72 pp; 5 ½” x 6 ½”. Light wear to the extremities; some pencil markings by some of the names; o/w in Near Fine condition.

The Text includes a brief history of the club, which originated in its earliest form as a Mess in 1852; a list of officers of the Fort Monroe Club from 1876- circa 1907; a list of the 1909 officers; constitution and by-laws of the club; a list of members of the Fort Monroe Club, including the honorary members (President, Secretary of War, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Army, Senior Admiral of the Navy, Lt.-General John M. Schofield, and Joseph R. Hawley, Major-General, Volunteers); and one page “In Memoriam” listing nine men. The club’s constitution states membership should be composed of officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps of the United States on duty at Fort Monroe, with an allowance of officers of either service not on duty there and civilians to “be elected to honorary membership by a unanimous vote of the members present at Fort Monroe”. There was a $5 initiation fee and monthly dues were not to exceed $2.75 per member at the post. The Executive Committee had the arduous task of fixing the prices of wines, liquors and cigars and the prices of games of billiards and pool and prescribing the newspapers to be purchased for the reading room. Billiards (besides liquor) seemed to be a primary concern of the club. The by-laws called for copies of the standard rules for billiards be kept in club rooms at all times and that the Executive Committee would be the authority on all disputed points. Any member could purchase a cue from the Treasurer for the cost of it and, for fifty cents a year, could have the use of a lock rack and its key. No minors and no dogs were allowed in the club rooms; Saturday evenings (after 7 pm) “ladies of the garrison, their guests and friends” could attend with those evenings to be known as Ladies’ Night. Poker and all other gambling games were prohibited! Pages 45-71 contain the list of members (with rank at joining) as of this 1909 printing.

The site of Fort Monroe was an important military installation for the Virginia colony as early as 1609. It went through several name changes until it was named after President Monroe when its more substantial stone buildings were constructed in 1834. It played an active role in the Civil War (the one piece of Virginia that was under Union control) and was where Jefferson Davis was imprisoned for some time after the war. Fort Monroe was decommissioned in 2011. The National Park Service museum in the old casement building contains an exhibit relating to the Fort Monroe Club, including a display of the liquor bottles found when the moat was excavated! Interesting piece of military officers’ club tradition

at this historic fort. No copies found on OCLC and no indication of a copy being offered for sale in the recent past. [16-GA] PRICE: $95 Pioneer Life in Colorado, Nevada & Montana

14. [MONTANA] Bruffey, George A. Eighty-One Years in the West (Butte, MT: Butte Miner Company, Printers, 1925). Wraps; perfect bound; 152pp; frontis portrait of the author; illustration of the Fish Creek Stage Station. This very interesting autobiographical narrative is signed and dated (June 4, 1928) by the author along with a list of the places and dates of where he lived throughout his life. At the date of the signing, he was living in Livingston, MT. The booklet covers the adventures of George Bruffey (ca 1842-1928) in the West, including crossing the plains; pioneer life in Colorado and Nevada; mining, ranching and his mercantile business in Montana; reminiscences of times past; and some of his poetry. His papers are housed at the Montana Historical Society. Some soiling to the covers and light toning of a few pages, o/w in Near Fine condition. A now scarce narrative with much of the content relating to early Montana. [GA-18] PRICE: $ 35 Butte the Unique 15. [MONTANA – Butte] Butte Businessmen’s Association. Promotional booklet with the cover title, Butte / Montana and an interior title of Butte The Unique (Butte: Butte Businessmen’s Association, [1905]). Overhanging paper wraps with rectangular window cut to see an image of a mining operation on the first interior page; 31, [1] pp; heavily illustrated from photographs. Printed by the McKee Printing Co., Butte, MT. Measures 5 7/8” x 9 7/8”. The four-page center sheet is loose from the staples; light soiling on several pages; some wrinkling throughout and some discoloration to edges of wraps; still in VG to VG+ condition. Describing Butte as “the seat of the greatest mining enterprises ever developed within the industrial limits of one center”, the publication includes sections of text devoted to its population, climate, history (“the good old days when only men with strong arms and brave hearts ventured into this then remote country, in search of gold and adventure”), industries, light and power, public institutions, the people of Butte (“It is sometimes assumed that in a city made up so largely of laboring people, the children are inferior in the matter of intelligence and general deportment. It is not true of Butte. There are no brighter children to be found in the entire country…”), health statistics, educational, federal building, water supply, street railway system, pleasure resorts, resources of wealth, copper production (chart), depth of mines (listing), and the world’s largest smelter. An attractive promotional piece with the last date referenced being the copper production of 1904 – hence, the 1905 attribution. This is the original, not the Shorey reprint. OCLC locates four holdings of this original (Montana Historical Society, UC San Diego, Columbia, American Antiquarian Society). [17-XWAX] PRICE: $ 75

Licenses for Vice in Montana Territory 16. [MONTANA TERRITORY – Gambling] Lewis, Chelsbey (?). License No. 1062 issued on August 13, 1866, to Chelsbey (sp?) Lewis for maintaining a Gambling House in Virginia City, Montana Territory, for a month, July 25 to August 25, 1866. The one-month license cost Lewis $50. Printed form, measuring 3 ¾” x 3 1/8”, filled in by manuscript hand. Gold was discovered in Alder Gulch in 1863, a year before Montana Territory was created out of Idaho Territory. The ensuing town of Virginia City quickly grew to over 5,000 people by mid- 1864 and swelled to over 10,000 at its peak. Saloons and gambling establishments abounded in the predominately male mining community. This license was issued at the height of mining activity along Alder Gulch. With the discovery of gold in Helena, Virginia City’s population dropped substantially until there were only a few hundred residents left by the 1870s. Virginia City today is one of the best-preserved mining camp communities of the Montana gold rush period. There are four circular punch holes on the left side of the license for early filing purposes; o/w the piece is very bright and clean and in Fine condition. [17-NMRE] PRICE: $ 95

18. [MONTANA TERRITORY – Saloon] Guinn, John. License No. 3306 issued August 19, 1867 to John Guinn (or Quinn) of Red Mountain City, in Deer Lodge County, Montana Territory, for a saloon keeper, good for the period of June 1st – September 1, 1867. This three-month license cost $15 (which was substantially less than the $50 one-month gambling house license issued in the above listing). Printed form for 1866 with the last 6 of the 1866 date crossed out and a 7 superimposed over the old date and filled in by manuscript hand. The form measures 4 ¾” x 3 ½”. Placer gold was discovered in the Red Mountain / Highlands area south of Butte, Montana Territory in 1866 at an elevation of 7,000 feet. By 1867 Red Mountain City was the largest settlement in southern Deer Lodge County with over 300 houses, 10 saloons and 5 dance halls. Although the placer gold soon played out, a discovery of lode gold kept the mining community going for several more years. By 1874 the mining camp was mostly deserted. It is estimated that between 1866 and 1875 over $1 million dollars-worth of gold was extracted from the area. Printed on off-white paper stock, the license has two small spots of foxing not affecting any of the printing or writing; the piece is in Near Fine condition, bright and clean. [17-KH-77] PRICE: $ 125

French Military Wedding

18. [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM – Military Wedding] Paulus fils, photographers. Photo album prepared by the photographers Paulus fils, 82 Rue d’Amsterdam, Paris, France documenting a June 1, 1925 wedding between a French military officer and his bride. Off-white, 6 ¾” x 8 3/8”, decorative, embossed board, front album cover with a heavy, plain back cover tied together with a heavy cord. The front cover has an oval inset that displays one of the wedding pictures of the newly-weds. The album contains eighteen 4 ½” X 3” photos (plus the one of the cover which is a duplicate of one of the 18), including views of the people in the wedding party, the bride and groom, and them leaving in an automobile with a driver in military uniform. The date of the wedding being photographed is written in period pencil (1st Jun 1925) below the photographer’s imprint on the front cover. Many of the men in uniform seem to have a lot of ribbons and medals showing. Interesting album, well presented. The photographs are in fine condition. The album’s front cover has some foxing at the upper right corner; o/w in VG+ to Near Fine condition. [JXH2] PRICE: $ 55 Take the Railroad to See Lindbergh Fly into Montana in 1927

19. [TRANSPORTATION – Railroad & Lindbergh] Northern Pacific Railway. Large poster advertising Special Low Fares / [NP logo] / Lindbergh Celebration /… to be held in Butte, Montana on September 5 and in Helena on September 6, 1927. Measures 18” x 24”; printed on one side in bold black lettering; fold-lines; approximately 9” x 6” portion of album page on the back of one of the fold sections, not visible or affecting the front of the poster; toning mark down the bottom third of the left side margin. Overall in VG+ to Near Fine condition; displays very well.

Never missing an opportunity to attract passengers, Northern Pacific Railway’s Passenger Service Department issued many posters, handbills, booklets, brochures, and other printed pieces designed to promote communities, agricultural and natural resource potential, the National Parks along its northern route, the lure of the out-of-doors, and special events – like Charles A. Lindbergh coming to Montana. Lindbergh completed his trans-Atlantic flight in May of 1927 and shortly after was financed by Guggenheim to tour the United States with his “Spirit of St. Louis” Ryan monoplane. Lindbergh flew into Butte on September 5 and was welcomed by a large crowd that came out to see America’s new hero. The next morning, he flew from Butte to Helena, the state capitol, via Glacier National Park and Great Falls, a trip that took him seven hours. In Helena, he was met by the governor of Montana and the city’s mayor and treated like royalty with a public reception at the fairgrounds. His plane was on view at the Helena air strip. After spending the night in Helena, Lindbergh flew back to Butte, this time via Billings and Yellowstone National Park. This poster is representative of America’s interest in Lindbergh and his aviation feat and the prominent role the railroad had in the nation’s transportation system in the 1920s. Northern Pacific was a major factor in the development of the

northern states from Minneapolis/St. Paul to the Pacific Northwest. Their tourism promotional efforts were very successful in attracting travelers to the region. [17-MF/M] PRICE: $ 250 Memory and Fellowship Book from Norwich University w/Photos & Ephemera

20. [VERMONT – Norwich University Student’s Memory Book, 1913-1914] Wendell, Harold Burleigh. Tied, purple cloth covered album with a title page, Memory and Friendship Book, Published Exclusively by The College Memory Book Company, Chicago, Illinois (copyright 1912 by Wharton Clay), “Dedicated to Keepers of Keepsakes”. The Name Plate inset has been filled out in manuscript: Harold Burleigh Wendell / 118 Pleasant Street / Portsmouth, N.H. The memory book measures 17” x 12” x 2 ¼” thick.

The album contains 78 pages, of which 27 have photos or ephemera mounted on them and two depict printed artwork by E. Bert Smith of a young man and a young woman inserting items into their respective memory books. Another 8 pages contain the handwritten names, addresses, birth dates, and comments from acquaintances; another contains the filled-in names of athletes and scores of football and baseball games and polo matches. There are other pages filled in regarding school and social functions Wendell attended (1913-1914); clubs and societies (Common Club & S-Squad); memorable trips around VT and NH; entertainment, lectures and plays (with four tickets glued in); a My Favorites page (chemistry, infantry drill, band, riding, rifle practice, sleeping, etc); and a list of Professors I Have Met. Following those fill-in-the-blanks pages, there are 27 pages of photos, ephemera and clippings, and a pocket on the inside back cover that contains an additional 18 pieces of ephemera, including a Boston & Maine RR ticket that appears to have been pulled from one of the pages and a copy of the 95-page Norwich University catalogue for the 1913-1914 school year. Ten of the 27 pages contain 46 original photographs of Wendell, his friends, and scenes on campus and the surrounding area, including his military training sessions. Campus photos include a 5” x 7” birds-eye view of Norwich University and a series of smaller campus life views titled in ink under each image, including: Base Ball Diamond; Freshman Football Team; Sunday Guard Mount; Third Passage Banquet; Jackson Hall, Dodge Hall; Weather Bureau; Dewey Hall; Alumni Hall; B Troop; Down on the Oval; Pyramid Drill; and many others. The ephemera mounted in the memory book includes

permission slips to leave campus; musical concert programs; sheets containing test questions for various courses Wendell took; campus activity programs and invitations, including dances; and semester reports. Special pieces of ephemera tipped in include a 25” x 28” broadside, “$5,000 Reward / The Above Mentioned Reward will be Paid for the Carcass, Dead or Alive, of Any Unsophisticated Rook Guilty of the Heinous Crime of Breaking Any of the Following Rules and Regulations…” The first letter of the first word of each “rule” spells out “Nineteen Sixteen”. Another page contains four different broadsides on very thin paper; a menu; and a circular announcing a sale of college-related items at Alumni Hall.

Founded in 1819, Norwich University (The Military College of Vermont) is the oldest private military college in the U.S. Wikipedia states that Norwich is recognized by the US Department of the Defense as the “birthplace of ROTC”. It has produced a long list of military officers and many others who have made substantial contributions to their respective occupations. A visually interesting memory book of Norwich University and one of its “Rooks” in 1913/1914 on the eve of the country’s entry into WWI. This particular Rook, Harold Burleigh Wendell, was the son of F.S. Wendell. He grew up in Portsmouth, NH and was one of four original members of the Wenehasa Club that organized in 1912 in order to field a basketball team. He is referenced as a graduate of the Class of 1917 in a 1949 Norwich Record publication which recorded his move from Denver, CO to Portland, OR. Another citation indicates that he was a graduate of Dartmouth. A January, 1924 article in a Portland, OR newspaper announced his engagement to Miss Idabelle Burns and hinted at a summer wedding. In 1938 Wendell was working for Lippman Wolfe Co in Portland, Oregon and was interested in funding for a Front Street development project. The memory book was found in Portland.

Several pieces have been removed from the pages, leaving some holes and tears; the folded broadsides have some splits along some of the folds; but overall in VG-VG+ condition. [M] PRICE: $ 200

Early 19th Century Account Book

21. [VERMONT / NEW YORK / OHIO] Huntington Family Account Book. Account book originally used by Jacob Huntington (1773-1819) and later by one of his sons, James Huntington (1800-1872), between the years 1803 through 1825. Three- quarter leather over thick boards; [5], [2] double-sided loose pages, 35 hand- numbered x 2 [70] pages of account entries; many unused pages; one page of genealogy. Together 80 pages of hand-written information. The account book measures 15 ¼’ x 6 ½”. Pieces of leather missing from spine; corners frayed; covers scuffed; ink smudges; discoloration at the edge of some pages. Very readable.

Jacob Huntington’s first entries reference Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont. Research indicates that Jacob was born in Norwich, New London, CT in April, 1773, the son of James and Hannah [Curtis] Huntington. His father, James (1743-1808), who had served in the Revolutionary War in 1775, and his family moved from Norwich, CT to Lebanon, NH about 1785, and to Royalton, VT about 1792. James was a farmer and a cabinet maker. Both James and Hannah died in Royalton. Jacob was one of several children.

Jacob Huntington married Martha Lindley (b. April 26, 1875 – d. Sept 2, 1856), who was born in Rehoboth, MA, at Royalton, VT on March 26, 1797. Together they had ten (and perhaps as many as twelve) children: Patty (1797-1826); Polly (1779-1819); James (1800-1872); Temperance (1802-1804); a second Temperance (1804-1806); Emily (1807-1902); Benjamin (1809-1895); Jacob (1813-1898); William (1816-1894); and Daniel L. (1818-1823). Research indicates that Jacob Huntington (James’ father) drowned in the Ohio River “the ninth of September in the year of our Lord 1819 in the 47th year of his age.”

A brief biography of Jacob’s son James on a genealogy website indicates that he left Vermont, “lived a while in New York, then Ohio and Indiana, the last of which he left April 19, 1852 for the Pacific Coast, arriving there the 26th of October of that year.” Apparently, he was accompanied by three of his brothers (Benjamin, William and Jacob) and their families. They all settled in Washington Territory. James bought land from Anton Gobar, a French- Canadian employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company in what is now Cowlitz County, Washington. In 1853 James became the first sheriff of Cowlitz County. In 1860 he built and operated the first insane asylum in W.T. Under contract, prior to the construction of a territorial insane asylum, James

Huntington cared for patients in his home which was on the east side of the Cowlitz River across from the townsite of Monticello. He continued to provide that care until 1871 when the patients were transferred to the new facility.

James Huntington had married Mariah Bowler (1803-1877) in Chilo, Ohio in 1821. James was killed in Cowlitz County, W.T. by a train while crossing the railroad tracks that went through his property.

Following the movements of James (the elder), his son Jacob, and Jacob’s son James, it is likely that the account book began with Jacob and sometime after, either before or after his drowning in 1819, was used by his son, James, perhaps in NY and Ohio. The first mention of Pittsford, NY was in 1817 and the first mention of Chilo, Ohio was in accounts dated 1820. The last business entry is in 1825. The last genealogical entry records the 1856 death of Martha Lindley Huntington. Most likely the account book accompanied James and his family on their trek to Washington Territory in 1852 and was passed down through his or one of his brothers’ families.

The accounting entries list all kinds of work being done, such as harvesting wheat, making shoes, making ploughs, cutting wood, spinning, weaving, making a cradle, and pasturing horses. The names on the accounts for entries in VT, NY and Ohio make the volume a good, early genealogical reference source. Besides the various Huntington brothers, sons, and uncles, other account names for the Vermont entries include John Bliss, Stephen Cleveland (who was an uncle of James’), Jack Ayers, John Hutchinson, Jabez Bowen, David Fay, and Josiah Farr. The list goes on to include more accounts of folks in Vermont and New York and Ohio: William Parker, Hopkins Harris, Joseph Chubb, George Levalley, Nathan Nye, James Converse, Hutchinson Patterson, Nathan Tilletson, Bishop Stillwill, Evan T. Davis, Michael Parker, Silas Nye, Simon Perkins, Noble Datson, Freeman Mosier, Cyrus Horton, Adam Miller, James Prather, James Murphy, Jacob Weber, Jas Colebourn, John Cunningham, Moser Ellis, Rueber Bartlet, Charles Harris, and Lewis Cockrill and many more. An interesting account book with some good research potential. PRICE: $ 150 “The orange cider from California is made out of chemicals…”

22. [WISCONSIN – Lake Geneva] Swing, Prof. David. Small, 4 ½” x 6”, booklet with the cover title, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, / “The Newport of the West” / “The Enchanted Summer Land”. Thin, colored paper wraps; [12] pp plus advertising on inside front and outside back cover; three of the eight interior pages contain advertising for Lake Geneva businesses and a fourth one advertises The Odell Typewriter for $15; map on inside back cover; overprinted in red on the front cover, “For Lake Geneva Real Estate Apply to The Herald Real Estate Agency, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.” The booklet serves as a promotional piece with the intent of attracting tourists, sportsmen, and summer vacation cabin owners. “Here the air, the water, the sunshine, the ground are genuine. The orange cider from California is made out of chemicals near Columbus, Ohio. Man must turn away from these fabrications and make friends with the pure food of nature. An acre of ground on a pure lake, a

boat, a rake, a hoe, a flower-bed, a horse and buggy and other things sundry and divers, these are the articles of value when an office man or a studio slave would set forth in July and August in pursuit of a general recuperation to offset for a year his general debility.” Appears to date from the late 1890s to early 1900s. Closed tear at upper left of front cover; o/w in VG+ condition. [17-1416] PRICE: $ 40 Twenty Factories & “a few saloons”

23. [WISCONSIN – Port Washington] Home Coming Committee, The Business Men’s Club. Pictorial, promotional booklet with the cover title, Port Washington / “A Beauty Spot of Wisconsin” / “The Little City of Seven Hills” (Port Washington, WI: Home Coming Committee, The Business Men’s Club, circa 1908). Paper wraps; 9 ¼” x 6”; 56pp; business ads, some illustrated, throughout; many photo illustrations. Back cover sports a photo illustration of “Port Washington’s Historic Cannon and the Home Coming Celebration Committee”, all of whom are identified by name.

The inside front cover states, “Port Washington is located on the west shore of Lake Michigan, 25 miles north of Milwaukee, and 110 miles north of Chicago. The population is 5,000. Port Washington has twenty factories, including a large chair factory, three foundries, two gasoline engine works, plow works, table factory, flour mill, three first-class hotels, numerous hotels and boarding houses, two public parks, several private parks, including Columbia Park, a favorite resort, one bank, two brick yards, five churches, excellent public and parochial schools, a brewery, malt house, five newspapers, -- and a few saloons.” Looking through the ads in this publication, there were twelve different saloons that placed advertisements! The photo illustrations record the businesses, churches, residences, schools, and industry of the Port Washington area – all identified. Although the booklet is undated, the images and design suggest it was published sometime around 1900 – 1910. An on-line search references this booklet and indicates it was published in 1908. The inside back cover states, “This Book published by the Home Coming Committee / Photos by Reuter… / Retouching by Theo Carstens… / Halftones by C.R. Gether Co. / and printed by Burdick & Allen, Milwaukee”.

The once pinkish colored wraps are faded out; some splitting along the fold of the covers; evidence of the coated paper stock having been at one time stuck together throughout, but that does not affect text or images; overall in VG condition. Great documentation of this Wisconsin community; the ads alone, with some of them illustrated, make this a valuable historical resource. [15-1144] PRICE: $ 40 AND… It Happens Every Spring - BASEBALL

24. [BASEBALL – International League, 1921] Syracuse Stars Base Ball Club, Syracuse, NY. Official Score Card / Regular Schedule Game / between / Baltimore – Syracuse / International League / Y.M.C.A. Field / Auburn, N.Y. / Wednesday, August 24, 1921 / Benefit Police Pension Fund. Paper wraps; [16]pp; many ads for Auburn, NY businesses throughout; measures 6 ¾” x 10 5/8”. Light chipping

at edges; unobtrusive vertical crease evident throughout, not affecting visual appeal; some staining on back cover; corners bumped. Overall in VG to VG+ condition.

There is a pencil notation on the top of the front cover that reads, “Baltimore won score 12 / Syracuse 8”. All the money derived from buying this scorecard was to be “placed to the credit of the Auburn Police Pension Fund and used by them for the support of the widows and orphans of deceased members.” The scorecard has a full-page photo illustration of the Auburn Police Department and another full page lists all the various committees, including for tickets and admission, grounds, publicity and advertising, concessions and parking space, transportation and entertainment, and programs and score cards. Two of the interior pages are devoted to the rosters and score cards of the two baseball teams, both un-scored.

The 1921 Baltimore Orioles team of the International League was a great one. Their record that year was 119-47. Several of their players had spectacular years. Jack Bentley lead the league with 246 hits, a .412 batting average, 47 doubles, and 21 home runs, all while going 12-1 as a pitcher with a 2.34 ERA. Pitcher Jack Ogden had 31 wins, 33 complete games, and six shut-outs. Baltimore also had a pitcher, Bob “Lefty” Grove, who led the league with 254 strikeouts! The Syracuse Stars that same year had a losing 71-96 record. Nice piece of baseball memorabilia with a good supporting cast of ball players included. PRICE: $ 75 Local PCL Baseball Player Returns to Portland to Pitch Against the Beavers

25. [BASEBALL – San Francisco Seals] Portland Beavers Baseball Club, Portland, OR. Broadside encouraging Portland, Oregon area baseball fans to come “See the Great Canby Southpaw Pitch / Buy Tickets Here / of / AL LIEN / [photo of Lien] / DAY / Baseball Game at Beaver Stadium / San Francisco vs. Portland / Friday, September 22, 1959 /…”. Printed on one side on thin, tan-colored paper (shrinkwrapped); image of Al Lien in his SF Seals hat; measures 9 3/8” x 11 ¼”. The broadside may be toned, but if it is, it is uniformly so. Fine condition. [18-357]

Al Lien was born in Canby, Oregon, a community about 20 miles southeast of Portland, in 1915. A left-handed pitcher, he began playing professional baseball in 1936 for Joplin, a minor league affiliate of the New York Yankees. Following two seasons

there, he came west and played in the Western International League for Wenatchee, Yakima, and Tacoma. He began playing for the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League in 1942. His best win- loss record was recorded in the same year as this Al Lien broadside, 1950, when he went 20-13 with 18 complete games and three shut-outs. His last season in professional baseball was 1954, ending a career that spanned 17 seasons. His life-time win-loss record was 196-169 with a career ERA of 3.69. Unusual that the home Portland team would have special day for an opposing team’s player – but in this case it was a Welcome Home to a local boy who made good. A rare piece of PCL baseball memorabilia. PRICE: $ 100 One of Professional Baseball’s Worst Tragedies

26. [BASEBALL – Tragic Bus Wreck, 1946] Spokane Indians Base Ball Club, Spokane, WA. Spokane Memorial Baseball Program for a game played in Spokane, Washington’s Ferris Field on July 8, 1946 between Oakland and Seattle of the PCL as a benefit in support of the survivors and families of those killed in a Spokane Indians team bus wreck. Illustrated paper wraps; 8pp; photographs; measures 7 ½” x 10”. Fine condition. [M]

The wreck occurred on June 24, 1946 as the team, Spokane’s entry in the Western International League since 1937, was heading from Spokane to the west side of the Cascade mountains. The program details the incident: “The terrible bus tragedy that rocked the entire baseball world Monday night, June 24 at 8 o’clock cost the lives of nine Spokane baseball players and injured the remaining six occupants and the bus driver. The bus ripped out 125 feet of guard rail down the Snoqualmie Pass highway before the driver lost control and the vehicle went over the precipitous embankment and while rolling 400 feet, caught fire, burning every player, the majority of the equipment and completely destroyed the bus.” Those who died in the wreck were Chris Hartje, Bob Kinnaman, George Lyden, George Risk, Fred (Marty) Martinez, Bob James, Bob Paterson, Vic Picetti, and Mel Cole. One of the players injured, Irv Konopka (fractured shoulder) gave credit to pitcher Pete Barisoff (chipped heel bone) for saving his life and “gave glowing praise to the work of [pitcher Gus] Hallbourg (burned right hand) who with Barisoff attempted to aid every member of the team immediately after the crash.” Others injured were Dick Powers, Levi McCormack (more about him in another listing), and Ben Geraghty. This horrific wreck is considered to be one of the worst tragedies in the history of professional baseball. One of the Spokane players, Jack Lohrke, was pulled off the team bus in Ellensburg, WA just before the team started up

toward the mountain pass. Lohrke had been called up to the Yankees, thus avoiding the accident that occurred only an hour or so later, thereby earning him the nickname “Lucky Lohrke”.

The memorial program includes an Editorial by Dave Kirk of the Spokane Chronicle who wrote, in part, “I am the shadow sinister called Fate, by whose whimsy you are here tonight. Without my sanction no man moves, or conquers, or dies. I visit the homes of the humble, and send men to the pinnacles of greatness. I go to the places of the mighty and at the nod of my head kings skitter off to the waiting rooms of death. I fall across every path… I am Fate… I am the Master Umpire and I call the plays the way I see them. I have raised my arm, and nine grand boys are out.” Another page has the order of the Dedication Ceremony and prints in full a prayer offered by Rev. Arthur Dussault, S.J. of Gonzaga university and a statement by Arthur Meehan, Mayor of Spokane. Another page gives a brief history of the Spokane Indians baseball team since 1937 and gives the account about the wreck and the survivors. On the center-fold pages is a team photo of the Spokane team, naming each person and their fate with regards to the accident. Below the photo are the team rosters for Oakland (led by manager Casey Stengel) and Seattle. The next three pages have photos and brief biographies of the nine men who died in the crash.

An historically significant piece of baseball ephemera that recounts one of the sport’s greatest tragedies. PRICE: $ 75 Washington Nationals, AL, before the Washington Nationals, NL

27. [BASEBALL – Washington Nationals, 1953] Washington Base Ball Club. Single-fold, 4-page unused scorecard for a 1953 American League baseball game between the Washington Nationals and Boston Red Sox at Griffith Stadium. Printed in red, blue and black on off-white heavy stock, all four pages display regional advertising. Measuring 7” x 11” when closed, the unmarked scorecard is in Very Fine condition. [14-4142[

The inside right-hand page has the tentative line-up (without the catcher and pitcher listed) for Washington: Busby cf; Terwilliger 2b; Vernon 1b; Vollmer lf; Jensen rf; Yost 3b; and Runnels ss. The opposite page lists the first seven batters for the Red Sox: Goodman 2b; Evers lf; Gernert 1b; Kell 3b; Umphlett cf; Piersall rf; and Boling ss. Lou Boudreau was the manager. The back page lists the pitchers and catchers, by uniform number, of all the National League and American League baseball teams (except the home team, Washington Nationals) as Scoreboard Information. The Washington team in the American League preceded the current Washington Nationals in the National League. The AL team was named the Senators from 1901-1904. In 1905 they changed the team name to the Nationals and continued with that name until it changed back to the Washington Senators in 1956. The Senators moved out of Washington to become the Minnesota Twins in 1961. PRICE: $ 20

Hail to the Chief

28. [BASEBALL – Western International League] Spokane Indians Base Ball Club, Spokane, WA. Official Baseball Scorecard and News published by the Spokane Indians Base Ball Club in 1947, with this being the issue for the game between Spokane and the Tacoma team with a picture of Spokane outfielder Levi McCormack on the cover. Illustrated paper wraps; [16]pp; illustrated; 7 7/8” x 10 ¾”. Fine condition.

This was a special program with the McCormack cover over the regular scorecard that has a caricature of an Indian smoking a pipe in front of a teepee, blowing smoke rings with the names of the other teams in the league: Vancouver, Victoria, Tacoma, Salem, Wenatchee, Yakima, and Bremerton. Levi McCormack was one of the survivors of the tragic 1946 bus wreck that killed nine of his teammates. McCormack, a Nez Perce Indian, was an all-around athlete – fast and strong, with a good batting eye. He was one of Spokane’s all-time favorite players. With his injuries sustained in the accident and the stress of being a “survivor”, McCormack only played a short time after this season and took a job as a mailman in Spokane. Nicknamed the “Chief”, his smiling photo on the cover of this program is a very collectible souvenir of one of Spokane’s all-time best loved professional baseball players. PRICE: $ 60

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