![Item #3518 Profit Sharing Loan Certificate [caption title]. African Americana](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3518.JPG?v=1661782148)
[Des Moines, Ia. Robert E. Patten, 1951]. Broadside, 8 x 6 inches, printed in brown ink within a decorative border. Mild toning. A rare sample copy of an original promotional certificate offering a loan to prospective members of a “Co-operative movement” in Iowa. African-American publisher, printer, and Co- operative movement..... More
Iowa City: Printed by Wm. Crum, 1844. 22,[1]pp. Disbound. Moderate foxing, heavier to outer leaves. Slight paper loss at foot of title page, not affecting text; contemporary ink stain and pencil inscription at top of title page. Several contemporary ink notations to text. Unrecorded and early Iowa Territory imprint presenting..... More
![Item #1739 [Handwritten Diary of H.L. Erskine, Farmer in Onawa, Iowa]. Harlow Linzel Erskine](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1739_01.jpg?v=1617484930)
[Onawa, Ia. 1870-1871]. [88]pp. Handmade journal comprised of forty-four lined sheets, folded and stitched with twine. Outer leaves detached, minor wear at upper corner. In a somewhat cramped but legible hand. Manuscript diary and account book for 1870 and 1871 of Harlow Erskine, a farmer and lumberman in the small..... More
Des Moines: State Register Print, 1876. Small folding pamphlet, with [8] panels. Small separation at foot of one fold line; slight biopredation at head of two panels. Light tanning. An unusual Iowa promotional, which charts the growth of the state over the 19th century through statistics and tables of its..... More
[Boston: 1889]. 34,[1]pp. Original green pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor chipping, some discoloration to wrappers. Soft vertical crease, light occasional foxing. The rare prospectus for the Boston Investment Company, formed by William Gordon (1857-1933) to finance the development of Sioux City, Iowa. Gordon raised over a million dollars in order to..... More
Chicago: Geographical Publishing Co., [1915]. Folding map, 20.75 x 27.75 inches. Original printed wrappers. Light wear and dust soiling to wraps. Several short separations along fold lines. Handsome map of Iowa, with each county printed in color, delineating all the automobile roads in green. Also titled "Premier Series Map of..... More
![Item #1277 Copy of Official Primary Road System of Iowa [cover title]. Iowa](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1277_01.JPG?v=1587506622)
Waterloo, Ia. [ca. 1925?]. Folding map, 11.5 x 17.5 inches, in a printed card cover, 6.25 x 4.75 inches. Light wear and soiling to covers. Map with slight separation at corner folds, lightly toned. A map of the roads in Iowa, prepared by the state Highway Commission. The map is..... More
![Item #1492 Glimpses of Mt. Vernon, Ia. [cover title]. Iowa](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1492_01.jpg?v=1599052571)
Mount Vernon: Warren C. Fisher, [1910]. [24]pp. Oblong 12mo. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Minor creasing and wear to wraps; two short closed tears and fore-edge of front wrap, repaired with tape. Some tanning and dust soiling. A scarce pictorial promotional for the small Iowa town of Mount Vernon, east of..... More
New York: C.S. Hammond & Co., 1912. Folding map, 17 x 28 inches folded to 7.5 x 3.5 inches. Map printed in color. Original printed card covers. Slight separations along a few folds, minor wear and soiling. A handsome map of Iowa, with each county printed in color and railroads..... More
Des Moines: 1900. Folding pocket map, 9.5 x 12.75 inches; covers 5.5 x 3.25 inches. Original printed card covers. Covers lightly chipped and worn. Minor wear to map. Lovely little map of Iowa, here in promotional covers advertising the Capital Insurance Company of Des Moines. An ominous ad on the..... More
Mt. Ayr, Ia. News Job Print, 1893. Broadside, 16 x 11 inches. Previously folded, a few small chips and tears at edges. Small repair on verso. Top corner torn away, contemporary remnants of glue on verso. Broadside advertising a farm auction in rural Iowa in the late 19th century, featuring..... More
![Item #2474 [Run of Ten Newsletters Published for the Old Settlers' Reunion in Iowa]. Iowa](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2474.JPG?v=1650973576)
[Muscatine, Ia. 1887-1899]. Ten issues, each between 6pp. and 10pp. Single folded sheets. Minor chipping, uneven toning, occasional mild edge wear. All newsletters unopened and untrimmed. A significant collection of newsletters memorializing the Old Settlers' Reunion in and around Muscatine, Iowa in the last decade-and-a-half of the 19th century. The..... More
Anamosa, Ia. [1891]. 26pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers worn, spine and edges chipped, soiled. Contents with some wear and soiling, moderate at times. Illustrated catalogue for the mail-order elevator company of Kimball Brothers in Anamosa, Iowa. The company was founded in 1883 when a local grocer wanted an easier way..... More
![Item #1916 [Archive of Charles Liscom of Clinton, Iowa, Dealer in Coal and Railway Ties]. Iowa,...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1916_01.jpg?v=1622220851)
[Various locations in Iowa and Illinois]: 1858-1862. Sixty-eight pieces (33 letters and documents, 33 receipts and manifests, and 2 pieces of related ephemera). Minor soiling and wear, old fold lines. Highly legible. Small archive of material relating to the business activities of Charles H. Liscom of Clinton, Iowa, as per..... More
Iowa City: [1892, 1894]. Small quarto. Spine ends slightly chipped; light wear to edges and spine cloth. Occasional small patches of staining; light tanning. "Revised edition," published in 1894 by University of Iowa botany professor T.H. McBride, of a workbook for students of the subject to record their plant finds..... More
Cedar Rapids: 1894. Small broadsheet, 10.5 x 6.75 inches. Previously folded. Minute closed tear at top edge. Light tanning. With accompanying transmittal envelope. Ephemeral, illustrated broadsheet advertisement for two agricultural machines for sale by the Hamilton Bros. company of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the mid-1890s. The "Sweep Feed Mill" promises..... More
Boone, Ia. Standard Book and Job Office, 1876. [2],51pp. 16mo. Original printed wrappers. Spine perished, first two leaves loose at top of spine. Some light wear and soiling, marginal loss and wear to first two leaves. One page with contemporary pasteover in text. By-laws for the Freemason's lodge in Boone..... More
Vinton, Ia. [ca. 1913]. [80]pp. Oblong octavo. Original printed wrappers. Light dampstaining and creasing to wraps. Light dust soiling internally. A scarce, profusely illustrated trade catalog for this Iowa harness company based in the town of Waterloo. The publication advertises and illustrates nearly forty different types of available harnesses, hundreds..... More
[Burlington, Ia. Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company, ca. 1872]. 24pp. 24mo. Original yellow printed wrappers. Light soiling and wear. Lovely little promotional work advertising lands along the Burlington Route in Nebraska and Iowa. At this time the Burlington Route ran from Burlington, Iowa, across Iowa and Nebraska to Fort..... More
[Toronto, Ia.]: 1882-1918. [224]pp. Folio. Original black half calf and cloth, spine gilt. Corners and spine ends a bit worn. Text block separating from spine, but still sound. Several leaves loose, lightly soiled. Large folio ledger recording thirty-five years of health data for Clinton County, Iowa, comprising the minutes of..... More
![Item #1798 The Little Garden; or, Fruits of Repentance. By C.S. [cover title]. Iowa, Religion](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1798_01.jpg?v=1614345671)
Vinton, Ia. T.O. Loizeaux, Bible Truth Depot, 1878. 8pp. 16mo. Original printed wrappers, stitched. Minor wear. Slightly later ink stamp on first leaf recto. Unrecorded tract on repentance published by the Bible Truth Depot of Vinton, Iowa. The short narratives weaves various extended metaphors comparing the necessity of fruit to..... More
[Various locations in Iowa]: 1894-1895. 149 albumen photographs on twenty cardstock leaves, images measuring 4 x 5 inches. Oblong quarto. Original black cloth, cover gilt; leaves laid in, formerly string-tied. Light wear and soiling to cloth, evidence of slight dampstaining to lower edge of binding and later leaves. Internal numbering..... More
[Iowa: ca. 1900]. Four cyanotypes (one duplicative), 10.5 x 13.5 inches. Light wear and soiling, heavier to third image. Manuscript notation to verso of one image. Slight toning. Three large cyanotype photographs depicting a railroad trestle near Council Bluffs, Iowa, belonging to the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad. Per..... More
Sioux City: 1878. Broadsheet, 6.25 x 5 inches. Minor soiling, lightly toned. Trimmed unevenly along bottom edge. Broadsheet advertising the land services of Daniel H. Talbot, a speculator and land agent based in Sioux City, Iowa. "Having but recently made a visit to the state, and with the aid of..... More
[Various locations in Iowa, Minnesota, and California: 1880s to December 1900]. Approximately 630 autograph letters, signed; typed letters, signed; manuscript documents, signed; and partially-printed documents completed in manuscript, totaling well over a thousand pages. All folded twice horizontally, the great majority docketed on the verso with the name of the..... More