This list is comprised of thirty items freshly catalogued covering the West from Arkansas to Alaska. Highlights include the narrative of a Cuban traveler in Colorado; an archive of ephemera from a Houston YWCA social club; early Texas territorial printing; real photo postcards from the Mexican Revolution; a book of Montana cattle brands; and an African American photo album from 1940s Texas. There are maps, photographs, and archives, and much more. Enjoy!
![Item #2099 Map of Arkansas [caption title]. Arkansas, Fort Smith Lumber Company](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB2099_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1624626684)
Des Moines: Kenyon Map Company, 1911. Folding pocket map, 12.5 x 14.5 inches. Original printed card wrappers. Wraps somewhat worn and dust soiled, a with a few small chips at edges. Two separations along folds from lower edge, one with minor loss. Short closed tear from left edge at attachment..... More
Oakland: Howe Print Company, [ca. 1895]. 43pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear and dust soiling to wraps, heaving along spine and at staples points. Paper somewhat browned, but sturdy. A scarce anti-everything screed by late 19th-century Oakland politician and crank, John H. Fones. In the present work, financial policy..... More
![Item #1877 [Group of Eleven Palo Alto Stock Farm Pamphlets]. California, Horses](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB1877.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1624627046)
San Francisco; New York: 1894-1895; 1900-1903. Eleven pamphlets, varying paginations. Original printed wrappers, some stapled. Minor wear; a few small chips. Scattered contemporary ink stamps. Light, even tanning. One pamphlet with dampstaining from top edge. A good group of scarce auction and sales catalogs for the Palo Alto Stock Farm..... More
Mexico City: May 20, 1836. Broadside, approximately 12 x 8.25 inches. Light wear, including a couple of small chips at edges. Minor wrinkling and toning at left edge. Contemporary manuscript annotations and docketing. A rare and significant Mexican broadside decree, dated May 20, 1836, promulgated by the Secretary of War..... More
Dallas: R.L. Polk & Co., 1924. 526pp. Original printed cloth. Corners bumped, corners and spine ends worn. Older paper label on spine; ex-Sutro Library markings on the front endpapers and title page. Internally clean otherwise. Directory for the city of Muskogee, Oklahoma, with an alphabetical, listing of individuals as well..... More
[Ashland? ca. 1900]. Thirteen silver gelatin photos, each 3.5 x 5.5 inches, mounted inside front cover and on six black paper leaves. Oblong octavo. Original card covers tied with ribbon, front cover with oval cutout. Ribbon mostly perished, minor wear to covers. Images clean and sharp. Lovely vernacular album with..... More
[Oregon: ca. 1890]. Four original panoramic photographs, each 3.5 x 12 inches. Affixed to grey studio mounts. Minor dampstaining and wear to mounts; one mount with slightly heavier dampstaining entering margin of photograph. A bit of dust soiling and mirroring to images. An attractive set of four panoramas that depict..... More
![Item #2094 [Pictorial Letter Sheet of Vignettes Depicting Matagorda, Texas]. Texas, Helmuth Holtz](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB2094.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1624626783)
Hamburg: Eduard Lang, [ca. 1860]. Lithograph on a lined bifolium. Light wear at edges; even tanning. Scarce Texas pictorial letter sheet that comprises six vignettes of Matagorda, Texas, lithographed from drawings by German sailor Helmuth Holtz. The views depict the architectural highlights of the town, including the church, Masonic hall..... More
![Item #2095 [Unused Stock Certificate for Land in the City and Port of Trespalacios, Texas]....](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB2095.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1624626783)
London: 1845. Small broadside, 8 x 10.5 inches. Minor discoloration and wear at edges. Scarce stock certificate that conferred title to land in the small Gulf Coast town of Trespalacios, Texas, offered for sale to Londoners at the very end of Texas' period as an independent republic. The certificate granted..... More
San Antonio: 1917. Large panoramic photograph, 8 x 92 inches. Rolled. Minor wear at edges, with one very short closed tear at top edge. Light blemish in negative at center of image. Light dust soiling and toning. An outstanding and extremely long panoramic photograph, measuring well over 7.5 feet in..... More