![Club Assembly 1951-1952 [cover title]. African-Americana](/pictures/thumb/McBRB781_01.JPG?v=1565781363)
Philadelphia: [1951]. [32]pp. Folio. Original red printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear and soiling. Contemporary ownership inscription on first page. The first publication of this collective African-American women’s social club, based in Philadelphia. "Club Cascade, feeling the need for unity among Negro Women's clubs, invited presidents of twenty-six groups to an..... More about Club Assembly 1951-1952 [cover title
Manhattan, Ks. 1980-1981. Seventeen photographs (three silver-gelatin prints measuring 8x10 inches, fourteen smaller photos); typed letter, signed; 10 issues of Powerlifting newsletter. Light wear and soiling. Small archive of African-American powerlifter Nate Foster, including nine issues of the Powerlifting Mo-Valley, “The Official Missouri Valley Powerlifting Newsletter,” of which Foster was..... More about Archive of African-American Powerlifter, Nate Foster, with Photographs and Nine Issues of...
![Two Picture Postcards Featuring Jack Johnson]. African-Americana, Jack Johnson](/pictures/thumb/McBRB194.JPG?v=1548352329)
Chicago; San Francisco: ca. 1915. Two postcards, each approximately 3x5 inches. One card with a couple of creases. Both with minor wear and light dust soiling. Two attractive and scarce postcards featuring boxing icon Jack Johnson. The first comprises a full-length portrait of Johnson in boxing attire with two inset... More about Two Picture Postcards Featuring Jack Johnson
[Jacksonville. ca. 1921]. [4]pp. on a folded sheet. Folio. Lightly dampstained, resulting in some wear and staining. Illustrated promotional for the Norman Film Manufacturing Company, advertising “The Bull-Dogger” starring African-American cowboy Bill Pickett. The center two pages comprise a single spread, with several images from the film, as well as..... More about The Norman Film Mfg. Co....Presents "The Bull-Dogger" Featuring Bill Pickett and the...
![Ingleside, Arizona. The Finest Winter Climate in the World [cover title]. Arizona](/pictures/thumb/McBRB482_01.JPG?v=1554400477)
Los Angeles: "Wood's" Print, [1912]. [8]pp. Narrow quarto. Original printed pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and soiling. Scarce promotional for an early 20th-century Arizona club community, now fully subsumed by Phoenix. The town and resort were several miles northeast of central Phoenix, under Camelback Mountain. Much of the text centers... More about Ingleside, Arizona. The Finest Winter Climate in the World [cover title
[Denver: 2006-2008]. 166pp. typescript, plus more than 100pp. printed email correspondence. Typescript with pencil corrections, presumably by the author. Original draft of the 2011 baseball novels, Seams, with pencil annotations and corrections by the author. Jan Sumner is the author of numerous books on baseball, and was active for six... More about Original Typescript Draft for His Novel, Seams, with Pencil Corrections, Together with Extensive...
San Francisco: Southern Pacific Company, 1907. 24pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor wear. Booklet promoting the Southern Pacific Railway and highlights along its route. With a map and numerous images of the handsome Southern California scenery. More about The Inside Track. The Way Through the Wonderful Fruit and Flower Garden of Southern California
![The Sign of the Arrowhead. Arrowhead Hot Springs. Arrowhead, California [cover title]. California](/pictures/thumb/McBRB677_01.JPG?v=1562628767)
Los Angeles: [1924]. 27,[5]pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor wear, contemporary ink stamp on rear cover. Internally clean. Handsome promotional work for the Arrowhead Hot Springs Resort located near San Bernardino. The pamphlet describes the healing power of the hot springs (the hottest in the world according to the chart... More about The Sign of the Arrowhead. Arrowhead Hot Springs. Arrowhead, California [cover title
[Los Angeles: ca. 1920]. 137 maps cards, each 10.5 x 3.75 inches, plus folding map index. Light tanning, occasional light wear. Set numbered 1-221; lacks cards 6, 19, 32-35, 70, 88; cards numbered 135-199, 205-214 not present but not shown in index. A substantial collection of over 135 strip maps... More about Collection of Nearly 140 Strip Maps of California Roads and Highways, with Printed Map Index,...
![Los Angeles: The Gateway to Southern California [cover title]. California, Railroads](/pictures/thumb/McBRB685_01.JPG?v=1563022153)
[Chicago? 1916?]. [12]pp. Original pictorial self-wrappers, stapled. Small contemporary publisher's notice affixed to front wrap. Light wear and dust soiling. Rare promotional for the Salt Lake Route by rail to Los Angeles, and for the attractions of the city itself, published circa 1916. The text touts the population and commerical... More about Los Angeles: The Gateway to Southern California [cover title
Bellows Falls, Vt. [1908]. Broadside, 12 x 5.75 inches. Printed on grey paper. Old folds, formerly mounted in an album with remnant of mount attached to top of broadside. Contemporary manuscript date notation at bottom. Broadside advertising a performance of the play “A Night in Chinatown” starring the “clever little... More about To-night Barber Park, O.M. Custer, Mgr. J.C. Welsh Presents the Little Comedy Magnet Dot Karroll...
[Chicago: W.H. Hall, ca. 1895]. 24pp. Original embossed, illustrated wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and soiling. Internally clean. Promotional brochure for the Hotel Colorado and adjacent hot springs, with text, a small map, and many half-tone illustrations, including numerous exterior and interior views of the hotel facilities, the baths and vapor... More about Glenwood Hot Springs Hotel Colorado
![Grand Basket Picnic at Burlington Park, Illinois. Nine Miles East of Aurora...[caption title]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB513.jpg?v=1552571965)
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1892. Broadside, 28 x 10.5 inches. Printed in brown ink. Folded, a few small tears and chips at edges. A rare and interesting broadside for the Burlington Railroad. The stated attractions include “music, dancing, boating, photograph galleries, merry-go-rounds, base ball games, and other wholesome and innocent diversions...a.... More about Grand Basket Picnic at Burlington Park, Illinois. Nine Miles East of Aurora...[caption title
New York: 1900. [1]p. Old folds. Light wear. Signature smeared. Typed permit, on Department of Parks letterhead, allowing Mrs. G.B. Herbert, a resident at the Waldorf Astoria, “to enter upon and pass over the drives of Central Park with an ELECTRIC pleasure carriage (Victoria) operated by an experienced motorman.” This..... More about Typed Letter, Signed, Granting Permission to Mrs. G.B. Herbert to Drive Her Electric Car in...
Tacoma: Rainier National Park Company, [ca. 1928]. 24pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and soiling. Internally fine. Application slip for 1929 tipped onto rear cover with a small sticker. The Wonderland Camp for Boys was under the direction of the Rainier National Park Company. Over the course of a.... More about Wonderland Camp for Boys in Rainier National Park