[Oklahoma City?]: Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., 1920. [36]pp. Original printed card covers, stapled. Light wear and soiling, especially to lower corner. Small tape reinforcement to rear lower corner. Some minor foxing to contents. An early telephone directory for the little Oklahoma town of McAlester -- the largest town inside the..... More
![Oklahoma Oil Wells Company General Report [caption title]. Oklahoma, Oil](/pictures/thumb/McBRB664_01.JPG?v=1564256222)
Muskogee, Ok. 1918. [4]pp., on a large bifolium. Previously folded. A couple of very minor losses at fold points. Light tanning. Scarce, illustrated report from 1918 on the developments and production of the Oklahoma Oil Wells Company, based in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Much of the text is dedicated to an assessment..... More
Philadelphia: 1883. Vol. I, Nos. 1-13. Each issue 8pp. Large folio. Loose issues stitched together at an early date. Light wear and soiling to outer leaves, heaviest to first leaf. Daily newspaper published by the Old Guard State Fencibles of Philadelphia during the Fair of the Infantry Battalion held at..... More
Portland: [ca. 1886]. Broadsheet, 11 x 8.5 inches. Old fold lines, light wear and soiling, a few chips. Rare and ephemeral handbill for "Fairdale Bitter Water," marketed as a mineral water with remarkable health benefits for a variety of ailments. "The possibilities of this water are almost beyond belief, as..... More
![Gran Baile de Calaveras [caption title]. Jose Guadalupe Posada](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2430_01.jpg?v=1638221857)
Mexico City: Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, 1906. Broadsheet, approximately 15 x 11 inches. Matted. Closed tear at center of image, sympathetically repaired on verso. An unusual, double-sided Posada calavera, with numerous lively illustrations imagining the "Great Skeleton Ball" on Dia de los Muertos. "Several Posada plates have been combined to produce..... More
![Group of Fifteen Unfolded Mexican Devotional Sheets and Pamphlets Illustrated by Posada]. Jose...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2460_01.JPG?v=1638289063)
Mexico City: Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, [ca. 1910-1920]. 15 items, mostly unfolded half sheets measuring approximately 10 x 7 inches, with two smaller items. Occasional light dust soiling and dampstaining. One sheet with moderate worming, not affecting sense of text. Toned. A nice assemblage of fifteen Mexican religious songsheets and unfolded..... More
San Francisco: H.S. Crocker & Co., 1881. 162pp. plus [16]pp. ads and two folding maps. Original blue cloth covers, gilt. Moderately worn, corners and spine frayed. Light wear and soiling internally. Early tourist guide to northern California, featuring natural wonders such as the Big Trees, Yosemite, and the Sierra Nevada..... More
Milwaukee: Burdick, Armitage & Allen, [1893]. 48pp. Original yellow printed wrappers. Minor wear and soiling. Internally clean. Work promoting lands in South Dakota along the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. The work contains both testimonials and rosy facts about the healthfulness of the climate and its high suitability for..... More
![To the Free-Holders of Rowan & Davie Counties [caption title]. Texas, A. G. Carter](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1153.JPG?v=1577461753)
[Salisbury, N.C. 1844]. Small broadside, 12.5 x 7.75 inches. Several minor chips at edges. Light, even tanning. A rare campaign broadside for a State Senate candidate in North Carolina, A.G. Carter, which discusses his position on the annexation of Texas. Carter had held his seat representing Rowan and Davie counties..... More
![Office California and Texas Bank of Boaz, Marklee & Co... [caption title]. Texas, Finance](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1806.jpg?v=1614345843)
Fort Worth: 1877. Broadside, 11 x 8.5 inches. Previously folded. Two very short separations at top edge. Light tanning. This handbill, dated June 4, 1877, announces the closing of the California and Texas Bank and the formation of a new entity, the City National Bank of Fort Worth. The directors..... More
![Special Bargains. 522,000 Acres of Farming, Pasture and Mineral Lands... [caption title]. Texas,...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1090.JPG?v=1577114047)
[San Antonio: Martin & Co., [ca. 1890s?]. Small broadsheet, approximately 8.5 x 6 inches. Printed on pink paper. Two small, marginal perforation. Light dust soiling. A busy broadsheet flyer with numerous offers of Texas lands from San Antonio agents Martin & Co. Among the advertised deals are over 500,000 acres..... More
Fort Worth: Utter & Evans, [ca. 1900]. Color lithograph map, approximately 17 x 22 inches. Previously folded. A couple of very minor chips at edges. Light tanning. Rare cadastral map of Schleicher County, Texas, and an attractive promotional for a Fort Worth lithography company. Schleicher County, approximately fifty miles due..... More
[Hays County, Tx. 1890-1897]. Twenty-eight manuscript documents or partially-printed documents signed, ranging from one page to twelve pages. Old folds, minor loss to a few documents, one document with a long separation along one fold line, various levels of toning. Overall a well-preserved group. An interesting group of mostly late-19th-century..... More
![Archive of Correspondence and Records Related to Speculative Claims on the Spindletop Estate]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1450.jpg?v=1607005204)
[Various places, mostly Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia. 1931-1932]. Eighty-five typed and manuscript letters, including thirty mimeographed copies of a form response. Moderate chipping and wear to a few letters, most previously folded but otherwise in strong condition. A fascinating collection of correspondence relating to spurious Depression-era claims on the..... More
![Supplement. Atlantic and Pacific Railroad [caption title]. Texas, Railroads](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1220.JPG?v=1586198886)
[Cincinnati: 1855]. Broadsheet, 11 x 8.5 inches. Three pinholes at left edge. Light tanning and dust soiling. An unrecorded newspaper broadsheet extra published in late 1855 that prints arguments in favor of a railroad route to California through Texas and the lands in New Mexico and Arizona recently acquired via..... More