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Historical and Pictorial Review . . . Camp Lee, Virginia. 1941

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Title: Historical and Pictorial Review . . . Camp Lee, Virginia. 1941
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Baton Rouge, Louisiana: The Army and Navy Publishing Company, Inc, 1941. Very good. 12¼" x 9". Decorated cloth over boards. Pp. 106. Very good: 2" loss to cloth at top of spine; front hinge partly cracked; a few faint soil spots and dings to boards; marginal foxing, damp stains and associated creasing throughout; some thumb soiling and a few small spots; former owner's name to front pastedown. This is a fantastic yearbook revealing the wholly African American (save commanding officers) 9th Training Regiment of the Quartermaster Replacement Training Center (QRC) at Camp Lee, Virginia. Camp Lee was built in 1917 as one of 32 National Cantonments used to train the United States Army to fight in France in World War I. The area had seen notable battles in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, and was named for Robert E. Lee. It was reactivated as QRC to train over 300,000 quartermaster soldiers during World War II and renamed Fort Lee in 1950. It changed names again in 2023 to Fort Gregg-Adams, in honor of two trailblazing Black military officers, then back to Fort Lee in 2025 to honor Buffalo Soldier Fitz Lee. It continues to train 25,000 soldiers yearly, and houses the U.S. Army Quartermaster and Women's Museums. This book contains a detailed history of both Camp Lee and QRC, with great images "reprinted from war-time photographs." It lists the many training functions, revealing (white) men at work in the "motors," "plumber's," "laundry" and "bakery" schools (seemingly portraying other regiments). African Americans take center stage in images of the "Salvage School," drills and "Regimental Parade," "familiar camp scenes," "the soldier's leisure hours" and a great montage of "the ninth" at work and play. There are individual portraits of the soldiers in each company, ranging from Privates to Master Sergeants (with slightly larger images for the white commanding officers) and we note one Black Regimental First Lieutenant, Chaplain Samuel F. Giles. This book belonged to First Lieutenant Commanding (of the Company Band), Caucasian Fred McCaw. In-depth, highly visual coverage of an African American training regiment in World War II. OCLC shows five holdings.

Clifton-Morenci [View Book]

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Title: Clifton-Morenci [View Book]
Seller: James Arsenault & Company (United States)
Description: Clifton, Arizona: Arizona Copper Company. Drug Department; Brooklyn, N. Y.: Albertype Co., [ca 1910]. Oblong 8vo (8" x 10"), printed tan wrappers, albertype 4" x 5" photograph cut in a semi-circle mounted on front cover. 18 4" x 6" albertype photos mounted on brown album paper, 1 fold-out 5" x 20" panoramic photo. A scarce view book of copper-mining boomtowns Clifton and Morenci, with images of smelters, offices, railways, and hillside and roadside residences of the Shannon, Arizona, and Detroit copper companies; also public buildings such as the Morenci Club, Morenci Hotel, South Clifton High School, and Detroit Copper Mining Store. Estimated dates of this view book are derived from the history of the public pictured. The Longfellow School, captioned as "Public School-Morenci," was built in 1902 and converted to a two story red brick building in 1908, as it appears here. The three story Morenci Club with galleried porches was constructed ca. 1900, providing a bowling alley, billiard tables, baths in the basement, a library, and club rooms on the second floor. The Morenci Hotel was built in a Moorish style ca. 1901-03, adjacent to the company store of similar design, with a lobby, bank, post office, offices, parlors, dining rooms on the second floor, and rooms for 50 guests on the third floor. In addition to the single-page views included, this volume includes a folding panorama of the Arizona Copper Company's smelter in Clifton. Copper was discovered by gold and silver prospectors during the Civil War in this rugged area 116 miles from Tucson. Apaches resided here, and used the copper oxide minerals in their pottery. Conditions were dangerous with the Indian resistance and desperados traveling through the mining towns. Original miners included Robert and James Metcalf, Joe Yankie and Henry Clifton whose operations were later sold to Arizona Copper Co, a Scottish firm run by James Colquhoun. The population of the area was diverse. The work force initially consisted of temporary Mexican laborers, but many moved to the area in 1870's when company towns were established. In 1877, Chinese laborers were brought to the district, preferred because they were less likely to leave and more willing to do the more hazardous underground work. In 1904, there was an epidemic of Typhoid in the region. OCLC records just three copies. REFERENCES: Briggs, David F. History of the Copper Mountain (Morenci) Mining District, Greenlee County, Arizona at repository.azgs.az.gov; Watt, Roberta. History of Morenci, Arizona. [Thesis], University of Arizona, 1956.

THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD by Goldsmith, Oliver

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Title: THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD
Author: Goldsmith, Oliver
Seller: Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description: London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1893. Bound in forest green cloth with elaborate cover and spine designs and titles in gilt. All edges gilt. A later edition of one of the titles in the Cranford series, illustrated by Hugh Thomsen. Aside from the book being ever so slightly squint...this is a fine, fresh copy of a stunning book from the Art Nouveau period of design.

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