![Item #831 Arkansas Via Iron Mountain Route [cover title]. Arkansas, Missouri](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB831_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1565781510)
Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., [1888]. Folded map brochure, 9 x 4 inches, unfolded to 36 x 23 inches. Minor wear and toning, minor separation at some folds. Contemporary ink stamp on cover. A large partially-colored map of Missouri and Arkansas issued by Rand McNally, including extensive information for immigrants..... More
Chicago: Poole Bros. [1889]. Folding pamphlet with 14 panels, approximately 13 x 24 inches unfolded. A few very short separations along folds. Light tanning. Scarce pamphlet promoting lands available along the route of the Burlington and Missouri Railroad and associated lines in Colorado and Nebraska in the late 1880s. According..... More
![Item #5150 [Group of Ten Small Mugshot Photographs or Studio Shots of Criminals in Kansas]....](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB5150.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724848511)
[Kansas City, Mo. 1895-1899]. Ten carte-de-visite photographs, 4 x 2.5 inches or slightly smaller, on thick cardboard mounts, four with partially-printed "rap sheets" on verso, completed in manuscript. Occasional edge and surface wear, as well as generally light dust-soiling. A nice group. A group of ten fabulous mugshot photographs or..... More
Kansas City, Mo. 1912. [48]pp. Original printed card covers, stapled. Remnants of original paper label at top of front cover, some light wear and soiling. Errata slip town away at title page. Internally clean. Early telephone directory for Hannibal, Missouri, Mark Twain's hometown. The Missouri & Kansas Telephone Company was..... More
St. Louis: [ca. 1890]. Folding map, 16.75 x 16.5 inches; folded to 8.5 x 4 inches. Moderate wear, separation at some folds. Contemporary manuscript notations. Promotional brochure issued by the Missouri Land and Live Stock Company, advertising tracts of prime agricultural land in McDonald County. The interior is a map..... More
![Item #4234 Picturesque Marshall, Missouri [wrapper title]. Missouri](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4234.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1716910328)
[N.p. J.W. McChesney, ca. 1900]. [38]pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Light dampstain in upper left corner, with some minor attendant damage. Scarce, early 20th-century photographic promotional for the town of Marshall, Missouri. The small town, located in Saline County midway between Kansas City and Columbia, was "third in the mule..... More
![Item #2306 [Handsome Gouache Watercolor of Steamboats on the Mississippi River at St. Louis]....](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB2306_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1638221673)
[St. Louis]: 1891. Watercolor, 7.25 x 10 inches. Matted and framed in an early walnut frame with gilt accents. Contemporary notation on verso of image, "H.P. Wicker" of Boston. Image lightly but evenly toned. A charming, impressionistic watercolor scene of paddlewheel steamers on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, painted..... More
Cape Girardeau, Mo. 1875-1892. [138]pp. of manuscript content. Folio. Contemporary preprinted record book, with some pages partially-printed and completed in manuscript and some pages with wholly manuscript content, bound in three-quarter calf and brown pebbled cloth, gilt spine titles. Some abrasions and wear to spine and edges, minor rubbing and..... More
[West Plains, Mo. West Plains Journal, ca. 1915]. Printed broadsheet, 10 x 5.5 inches, plus separate "Map of Howell County, Mo.," 9.75 x 7.25 inches. Even tanning and old folds to broadsheet; minor wear to map, old folds, a few manuscript additions to the area of the map, two contemporary..... More
[St. Louis: 1890]. Four items, including two blueprint designs, measuring approximately 27 x 18 and 23 x 12.5 inches respectively. Folded, bradded at upper left corner. One-inch closed tear along fold from lower edge of larger blueprint. Otherwise, minor wear, toning, and dust soiling. An interesting group of documents that..... More
![Item #3720 Photographs River des Peres Drainage Works Section J [cover title]. Missouri, River...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB3720_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1669821616)
St. Louis: 1926-1931. Cover letter, plus 109 photographs, all 8 x 10 inches, including about thirty duplicate prints. Contemporary brad-bound wrappers, typed title label on front cover. Moderate soiling and significant edge wear and tearing to wrappers. Varying levels of marginal chipping to cover letter, first two photographs, and top..... More
[Various locations in Missouri]: May to June, 1891. [54]pp., rectos only. Small quarto. Contemporary limp dark brown leather, thin gilt borders and gilt lining on spine. Minor wear, spine head a bit tender. Clean internally. An interesting collection of observations on American business, politics, and more from the standpoint of..... More
Flat Woods, Va. December 10, 1855. [4]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor wear. A detailed record of one man's travels upriver and overland to Missouri in search of a place to resettle. Jonathan Koiner (1820-1889) of Flatwoods, West Virginia, went on a western tour in 1855..... More