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[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Travels of the Royse Family Across the American West, With Much Content on Early Automobile Culture and Industry in the Far West] by [Western Travel]. [Royse Family]

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Seller: McBride Rare Books

Title: [Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Travels of the Royse Family Across the American West, With Much Content on Early Automobile Culture and Industry in the Far West]
Author: [Western Travel]. [Royse Family]
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: [Various locations, including Montana, Wyoming, Missouri, California, 1931. Very good.. [45] leaves, illustrated with 185 original photographs, from 2.75 x 2 inches to 6.5 x 4 inches, the great majority measuring 5.75 x 3.5 inches, and a few postcards, most with manuscript annotations on the borders of the images or on the album pages. Oblong folio. Contemporary textured black cloth, gilt title on front cover, string tied. Moderate rubbing to covers, bottom edge worn, corners creased. Internally clean, photographs in very nice shape. A well-annotated vernacular photograph album chronicling about two decades of the travels and experiences of Ray Royse and his family as they trekked from Illinois to California through the Upper West in the first quarter of the 20th century. The Royse family started in Aledo, Illinois, and numerous photographs feature various family members here. They then traveled through Casper, Wyoming, Great Falls and Butte, Montana, and other locations before settling in Long Beach, where Ray and his brother-in-law worked at the shipyards. The images here document Ray's training at the Sweeney Automobile & Tractor School in Kansas City, driving Harley-Davidson motorcycles, attempting to repair a nearly destroyed family sedan, visiting the Custer Battlefield and the monument to Buffalo Bill Cody among other western sites, scenes in Yellowstone Park, and a family drive up Pike's Peak, among many others. Ray's efforts to move West reflect the expansion and increasingly wide availability of automobiles, and the growing industry in the West following the First World War. The photographs here record numerous locations in the American West to which Ray Royse, along with his family and friends, traveled or worked in in a 1922 Nash, and later a Ford Model T. They traveled across the Continental Divide, Ray worked for a time at the Anaconda Mines near Great Falls and Butte, Montana, and later the Standard Oil Refinery at Shelby, Montana. Many images show a wrecked Ford Model T, with Roy diligently at work trying to repair it, before finally resigning his efforts by attaching a sign reading, "Rest in Pieces" on the radiator. Another picture shows another Ford weighed down with a huge sack of wool in Bear Creek, Wyoming. There are also images emanating from Dublin Gulch near Butte; Livingston, Montana; Wind River Canyon in Thermopolis, Wyoming; Salt Creek, Wyoming; ; and several park scenes in Kansas City. A handful of images feature the Warren family in Butte. Several photographs memorialize the Royse family trip to Yellowstone Park in 1923, with many of the geysers and surrounding landscapes, the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone, and more. There are also interesting photos from a Royse family drive to the top of Pike's Peak with views from the peak, with additional shots from the Garden of the Gods, cliff dwellings near Colorado Springs, scenes in New Mexico and Arizona in 1929, dams near Great Falls, the Beaver Dam in Wyoming, a picture of the "Million Dollar Fire" in Casper in 1921, and a beached fifty-five-foot whale in Long Beach, dated December 28, 1929. Altogether, the images clearly illustrate the wandering nature of the Royse family across several states in the American West. Ray Royse (1903-1942) was an automobile mechanic, metal worker, and sheet metal specialist who worked in the Long Beach shipyards from 1929 until 1942, when he was killed in a shipyard accident. He also worked as a coal miner in Wyoming and on the Douglas Sheep Ranch in Wyoming, both of which are chronicled in photographs in the present album. He met and married Sylvia Lambert in 1934 in South Dakota, before returning to California. A wide-ranging and eclectic mixture of original and unique photographs of the West documenting an interesting family who began in Illinois and eventually settled in California.

Nineteen (19) Original Photographs Used in TIME Magazine Depicting 1950s Automobiles - The American Dream

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Title: Nineteen (19) Original Photographs Used in TIME Magazine Depicting 1950s Automobiles - The American Dream
Seller: Eclectibles (United States)
Condition: Very good to near-fine. Some discoloration from adhesive on a couple.
Description: N.pl: N.p., 1950. Very good to near-fine. Some discoloration from adhesive on a couple.. A group of nineteen (19) original photographs used in TIME Magazine, each depicting a different 1950s automobile. The cars' dates and makes are indicated on the versos of the photos in ink or pencil manuscript, and include: 1950, 1953, 1954, and 1955 Ford; 1955 Cadillac; 1949, 1950, and 1955 Pontiac; 1951 Buick; 1949 Buick Roadmaster; 1955 Buick Special; 1950 Studebaker; 1951 and 1955 Chevrolet. The verso of most of the photos also have an ink stamp with a unique number for requesting reproductions and then-owner ("General Motors Photographic Section"). Each measures approx. 8" by 9.75", a couple a little smaller. Of particular note is the fact that these photos were intended to depict the average middle class American dream. A couple of the photos are accompanied by typewritten slips of paper with copy: "Pictured with a U.S. Air Force jet fighter plane, Chevrolet's Fleetline De Luxe four-door sedan exemplifies the clean, flowing surfaces that are the essence of modern transportation styling ...

Chinese Shadow Shows by Wimsatt, Genevieve

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Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA

Title: Chinese Shadow Shows
Author: Wimsatt, Genevieve
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936. Hardcover. Octavo; G- Hardcover w/ G- Dustjacket; Brown spine with Black text; Dustjacket has moderate edgewear, moderate shelfwear, significant color fading from sunning to spine and both covers, closed tear along head edge of front cover, small open tear along head edge of front joint, closed tears along tail edge, open tears at both corners of both covers, small open tear along head edge of rear joint, small open tear along spine, small closed tear along tail edge of rear cover, color rubbed off on inside of dustjacket; Boards strong, slight cocking to spine, bowing to both covers, bumping to corners, moderate edgewear, some shelfwear; Textblock has age toning, particularly to forward and rear pages, small water stain on title page, dedication page, contents page, page 43, page 45, gray stain on page 45; 68 pp NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #5. 1327117. FP New Rockville Stock.

COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD AND FEET, IN ALL AGES AND COUNTRIES by [Wallin, S.]

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Title: COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD AND FEET, IN ALL AGES AND COUNTRIES
Author: [Wallin, S.]
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, 1856. Very good.. First edition of this informational chapbook of various examples of hats and shoes from history and around the world. This fashion-conscious chapbook compares the Chinese practice of foot-binding to "the tight-lacing of the ladies of the present age," noting the historical "inconveniences and torments which have been endured for fashion's sake." 6'' x 4''. Original pictorial wrappers, saddle-stitched. Numerous woodcuts throughout. 24 pages with ads to rear wrapper.

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