This catalogue is comprised of twenty-one unique, archival items for the Western States Virtual Book Fair. Highlights include an incredible archive of an Oregon pioneer during the Civil War; an entire lifetime’s worth of diaries kept by a Brooklyn socialite who traveled abroad and to the American West; a wonderful unpublished World War II unit history with a maquette containing original photos; vernacular photography, scrapbooks, business letters, and more. Enjoy!
![Item #1739 [Handwritten Diary of H.L. Erskine, Farmer in Onawa, Iowa]. Harlow Linzel Erskine](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB1739_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1617484878)
[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
[California: ca. 1947]. 21pp. typescript, together with maquette illustrated with eighteen photographs. Folio. Typescript stapled, minor soiling and toning. Maquette is large folio, original pictorial printed boards. Photographs pasted in, some loose. Light chipping and wear. A large maquette with original typescript designed as a book proposal for Will Lane's..... More
[Virginia City, Nv. 1877-1896]. Three items, totaling [5]pp. Light wear and soiling. Three neat documents of early mining unions in Nevada during the last quarter of the 19th century. The two principal pieces here comprise oaths of office and certifications of the elections for the trustees of the Virginia City..... More
[Various locations including the Southwest, California, Mexico, and Colorado: ca. 1900]. Forty silver gelatin photographs on thirty-eight leaves. Images 3 x 4 inches (all but three), one per page and captioned. Oblong 12mo album. Original black cloth with black paper leaves. Internally clean, most images with good definition and contrast..... More
[New York; Bethesda; Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia: 1944-1946]. Scrapbook; [28] leaves, filled with a variety of printed and photographic materials. Original embossed cloth boards, string tied. Items affixed to album leaves with tape; many items loose and laid in. Leaves tanned; light wear to contents. A scrapbook of diverse materials compiled..... More