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[Large-Format Photograph Picturing the Last Reunion of the Final Five Survivors of the Battle of San Jacinto, Posed with Colonel Fannin's Goliad Cannon and a Large Texas State Flag] by [Texas Revolution]: [Photography]

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Title: [Large-Format Photograph Picturing the Last Reunion of the Final Five Survivors of the Battle of San Jacinto, Posed with Colonel Fannin's Goliad Cannon and a Large Texas State Flag]
Author: [Texas Revolution]: [Photography]
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition: About good.
Description: Houston: Nelson Art Studio, 1906. About good.. Albumen photograph, 9.25 x 7.25 inches, on a printed studio mount measuring 14 x 11 inches. Substantial rubbing and soiling to printed mount, with some loss of printed text, top two corners chipped, right corner chip costing a few words of text. Extremities of photograph worn and a bit chipped, with some soiling to the image area. Overall, a battered but charming survivor. A stunning original photograph of the final five survivors of the crescendo of the Texas Revolution, the Battle of San Jacinto, on a detailed printed mount which provides important information on the subjects. These five Texian veterans are all identified in the printed caption at the bottom. From left to right, they are: William Physick Zuber of Austin, John Washington Darling of Taylor, Stephen Franklin Sparks of Rockport, Levi T. Lawlor (or Lawler) of Florence, and Alfonso (or Alphonso) Steele of Mexia. Each man's age is listed, as well. The latter man, Alfonso Steele, was the last surviving participant in the battle when he died in 1911. Zuber stretches the Texas flag out from the flag staff while the other four men sit or stand at right, facing the camera. One of the veterans sits on the cannon used by Colonel James Fannin at Goliad. The photograph was taken at the final annual meeting of the Texas Veterans Association on April 21, 1906, the seventieth anniversary of the battle. According to the online Portal to Texas History: "The Texas Veterans Association, an organization of those who had served prior to, during, and immediately after the Texas Revolution, held its first convention in Houston on May 13-15, 1873, with about seventy-five veterans present. After 1876 the annual meetings, held in some seventeen different Texas cities, always took place in the week including April 21, San Jacinto Day.... The association dissolved in Austin on April 19, 1907, during its thirty-fifth annual convention. With its dissolution its work was taken over by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas." The present card mount containing the photograph is printed with important information on all four sides, though some of the information at the top has been chipped away. We would prefer to know the handful of missing words, but we cannot find another example of this photograph on the same mount for comparison. Still, the heading of the photograph identifies the subjects as survivors of General Sam Houston's Army from the Battle of San Jacinto, fought April 21, 1836. The caption in the left margin states that "This Picture Was Taken at Their Last Reunion. They Have Resolved Never to Meet Again, Being Too Old to Travel. This Picture Can Be Had for One Dollar. Address, V.C Terry, Houston, Texas, General Delivery." A few words in the right margin are obscured but can be easily inferred: "These are the Remnant of General Houston's Army. Five Living Out of Six Hundred and Eighty-Six Who Captured Santa Ana and His Murderers, Twenty Miles Below Houston." The last portion of text below the identifying captions at bottom addresses the other Texas war relic in the photograph: "This is Colonel Fannin's Cannon at the Massacre, near Goliad, where Two Hundred and Eighty Men Were Shot Next Day, Two Weeks After the Fall of the Alamo." The present photograph is decidedly rare, but not completely unknown. The only other version of the image we can locate measures roughly the same size, but includes a sixth Texas veteran named Asa Collinsworth Hill (who holds the flag staff but was not part of Houston's forces during the Revolution), and is affixed to a different printed mount, with identifying captions for the veterans, but with a simple title reading, "Veterans of the Mexican War -- 1836" above two lines of poetry. This other version contains a photo credit and copyright notice from C.A. Major of Goliad, who apparently took the original photograph at the reunion. The present example pictures only the five surviving veterans of San Jacinto, is affixed to a much more verbose printed mount, with a blindstamp in the center of the bottom margin credited to Nelson Art Studio in Houston. Curiously, Asa Hill may have been removed from the middle of this version of the photograph through photographic development methods. In any case, these are the only two versions of this photograph we can find. We locate examples of the six-man version on the simpler mount at the Bee County Historical Commission in Beeville (with an image hosted by the University of North Texas's Portal to Texas History), the Texas State Library, and the Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library (which may own more than one copy). We have been unable to locate any other examples of the present photograph on the same printed mount as seen here. This somehow appropriately-wounded photographic relic featuring the heroes of the Texas Revolution should positively sing to collectors of Texas history.

ELEMENTARY NUCLEAR THEORY: A Short Course on Selected Topics by Bethe, Hans

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Title: ELEMENTARY NUCLEAR THEORY: A Short Course on Selected Topics
Author: Bethe, Hans
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Near fine in very good plus jacket.
Description: New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1947. First edition. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. Scarce inscribed first printing of Bethe's course on the fundamental theory of nuclear forces, from lectures originally presented to the engineers and scientists of the General Electric Company. In 1946 GE, leading manufacturer of the betatron particle accelerator, began its efforts to recruit outside physicists as consultants for its Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York. Bethe and Richard Feynman, both having just returned to Cornell from Los Alamos, were among those successfully attracted. "One of the results of that was my book on elementary nuclear theory. They wanted very much to learn nuclear theory. [...] So they asked a large number of their research staff to listen to these lectures. Then three of the young men who were summer consultants" - Melvin Lax, Conrad Longmire, and Arthur S. Wightman - "were asked to write up the notes and that finally made the book" (Bethe, 1972). A considerable amount of the later 20th century's advancement in nuclear physics, which Bethe references in his inscription here, was due to Bethe himself: he famously calculated the Lamb shift during his 1947 train trip from the Shelter Island conference back to Schenectady, and in 1967 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on stellar nucleosynthesis. Very scarce inscribed. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original silver-stamped blue cloth. In original unclipped ($2.50) dust jacket. 147, [1] pages. Inscribed by Bethe on title page: "Nuclear Theory has grown a lot since 1947 / Hans A. Bethe 12/12/96." Minor scuffing to lower edge of front board. Light chipping to jacket with a few small closed tears, a bit of rubbing. Sharp and clean.

Africa's Contemporary Art and Artists: A Review of Creative Activities in Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics and Crafts of More Than 300 Artists Working in the Modern Industrialized Society of Some of the Countries of Sub-Saharan Africa by Evelyn S. Brown

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Title: Africa's Contemporary Art and Artists: A Review of Creative Activities in Painting, Sculpture, Ceramics and Crafts of More Than 300 Artists Working in the Modern Industrialized Society of Some of the Countries of Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Evelyn S. Brown
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good-
Description: New York: Harmon Foundation, 1966. Very Good-. New York: Harmon Foundation, 1966. First Edition, Wrapper Issue. Quarto (28cm); publisher's pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 136pp.; halftone photographic illus. throughout. Wrappers worn and creased at top right-hand corner, bottom corner of textblock dog-eared; About Very Good, internally clean and sound.

Beautiful Windows. Natural Lighting Effects That Window Shades Can Give You by Farley, Elsie Sloan

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Title: Beautiful Windows. Natural Lighting Effects That Window Shades Can Give You
Author: Farley, Elsie Sloan
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: New York: Home Decorating Service Department, The Columbia Mills, Inc., 1923. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 9 1/4 x 6; pp. [1], 4-35; pink wraps, printed in gilt and black; illustrated with numerous photographs; a few small nicks to tips of spine and edges; a bit of spotting, mostly to first and last leaves; overall in very good condition.Written by renowned, early-20th-century, "high-society" interior designer Elsie Sloan Farley - the book targeted "altogether the women who are not going to have a professional decorator." It contained chapters on colors, fabrics, shade rollers, etc.

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