A selection of items which recently appeared with us at the conference, Conversations on Collecting Yellowstone. The list features a wide array of material -- photos, manuscripts, ephemera, etc. -- from the greater area around Yellowstone and the northern Rocky Mountains. Enjoy!
Our latest list offers thirty items on the growth and development of California from the late 19th century through the early 20th century. There are several promotional brochures for specific towns - Petaluma, Chico, Porterville, and Martinez; automobile guides and maps; a run of the agricultural periodical the California Fruit Grower; an archive of a San Francisco shipyard with hundreds of blueprints; blueprint schematics for two different California dams; and more. Enjoy!
A list of twenty-five items from across Latin America, including Cuba, Mexico, South and Central America. Highlights include an unrecorded guide to Havana from 1916, photographs from Cuba just prior to the Spanish-American War, a mimeographed cookbook from Mexico, maps, archives, and a rare Spanish-language imprint from San Francisco.
An offering of twenty city directories ranging from Alaska to Kansas to Illinois. Directories are packed with so much information -- histories, civic information, the names and occupations of citizens and business owners, ads for local enterprises. We love directories. Primarily comprised of directories for Western states, the list also includes an early directory for Cincinnati with a segregated African-American listing, and a rare and unusual Illinois directory for the "Twin Cities" of Rock Island and Davenport, Iowa. Enjoy!
Twenty-five recent acquisitions including archives, photography, rare Western American imprints, and more. Highlights include a complete set of Civil War muster rolls for the 39th Regiment U.S. Colored Troops, unrecorded auction catalogues of Oklahoma Indian land, the first pamphlet printed in the Dakota Territory, an early Cincinnati directory with a "colored" section, utopias, and the archive of a Texas woman in the late-19th century.
Our list of nearly 60 items features interesting broadsides on a wide variety of topics - wanted posters, racial politics, illustrated travel, railroads, minstrels, &c. Also several rare newspapers, plenty of Texas, photos from World War II, maps, and much more.
A selection of material which we will be exhibiting during Rare Book Week in New York. Highlights include the archive of a Midwestern woman artist, unusual American imprints, selections of Western Americana, Civil War manuscripts and ephemera, a Chinese California directory, Mexican woodcuts, and several interesting archives, to name just a few. Enjoy!
Our fourth list focuses on promotional material for the American West -- brochures and pamphlets encouraging settlers, travelers, and investors in the region. Items here cover the Dakotas, Iowa, the Great Plains, Colorado, California, and Texas. Much of this material is ephemeral and either unrecorded or known in only a few copies. Enjoy!