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Circa 1910 - Photograph album documenting improvement projects on the Erie Canal during the construction of the New York State Barge Canal system

Circa 1910 - Photograph album documenting improvement projects on the Erie Canal during the construction of the New York State Barge Canal system

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Seller: Kurt A. Sanftleben
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Circa 1910 - Photograph album documenting improvement projects on the Erie Canal during the construction of the New York State Barge Canal system
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Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Photographs show in-progress construction work including workers, boats, cranes, and dredges > Vicinity of Ilion, New York, circa 1910. This album measures approximately 7½ " x 10 ½" and contains over 65 photographs ranging in size from 3½" x 2½" to 5¼" x 3¼". All have been glued to the pages. There are no captions, however, some of the photos show company names on the equipment. A laid-in slip paper identifies one of the photo subjects as "Daniel Sullivan / Postmaster, Ilion, N.Y." Some of the images are a little over-exposed. Light wear to the album. In nice shape. About 60 of the photographs show in-progress construction work including workers, boats, cranes, and dredges working in concert to either extend or widen the canal. Several of the photographs show equipment from Pearson & Son, Inc. of New York City. Six additional photographs in the rear of the album show a freight train wreck, perhaps related to the project. "In 1903, the New York State legislature authorized construction of the 'New York State Barge Canal' as the 'improvement of the Erie, the Oswego, the Champlain and Cayuga and Seneca Canals.' In 1905, construction . . . began; it was completed in 1918, a cost of $96.7 million [and] opened to through traffic May 15, 1918." (See Wikipedia) "Ilion Terminal, located on the Erie Canal, is a component of the nationally significant New York State Barge Canal. It is one of several terminals constructed along the Barge Canal to provide points for freight transfer." (From the Library of Congress photography collection). In 1909, Pearson & Son, Inc. was awarded contracts totaling over $5.7 million for work on this project and may have received more awards in other years. (See the Annual Report, Superintendent of Public Works on the Canal of the State, 1909.) A first-hand visual record of improvements made to the Erie Canal in the early 20th century. Scarce. At the time of listing, no similar items are for sale in the trade. There are no auction records listed at the Rare Book Hub. Although OCLC shows no similar vernacular albums held by institutions, there is an official NY State Engineer photograph album of the project at the Buffalo History Museum.
1898 – A colorful trade card featuring Mephistopheles advertising a special beer originally brewed by Adolphus Busch specifically for serving in a friend’s restaurant which at the time was the finest in St. Louis

1898 – A colorful trade card featuring Mephistopheles advertising a special beer originally brewed by Adolphus Busch specifically for serving in a friend’s restaurant which at the time was the finest in St. Louis

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1898 – A colorful trade card featuring Mephistopheles advertising a special beer originally brewed by Adolphus Busch specifically for serving in a friend’s restaurant which at the time was the finest in St. Louis
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Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
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St. Louis. Missouri, 1898. Unbound. Very good. This colorful card measures approximately 3¼” x 5½”. The front features Mephistopheles from Goethe’s classic tale of the Faust legend in a medieval tavern announcing, “Well say, what your desire to relish I’ll give every man his choice. Very well. If I should choose give me a glass of Tony Faust Beer.” The reverse features the famous Anheuser-Bush logo and a bird’s eye view of the huge brewery complex in St. Louis. . Anthony Edward Faust, a young German immigrant who worked as a plasterer, was accidentally shot in the leg by a volunteer militia man as he watched a parade in St. Louis at the beginning of the Civil War. Unable to continue working in his trade, he opened a small bar and café. A personable man, his small restaurant attracted large crowds, and by 1870 he had relocated to a much location in the city’s theater district, adjacent to the Southern Hotel, one of the city’s finest. He built his business, Tony Faust’s Oyster House and Saloon, around “every variety of oysters, clams and fisH that the East or South can furnish.” The hotel and Tony’s business were badly damaged by fire and rebuilt in 1877, as a new two-story restaurant with a rooftop garden terrace for warm weather dining. It was incredibly opulent with special ladies’ parlors should they wish to dine separate from male customers. Entry was atop an elegant staircase that rose from a ‘piazza’ with parapets, fountains, statues, shrubbery, and colorful globe gas lights. Feeling squeezed for space, Faust built a larger and even more magnificent venue that could seat 1,500 diners at once at the cost of $98,000 (about $3.5 million today). In addition to serving regular patron’s, the restaurant catered to leading businessmen and beer barons with a special “Millionaires Table” where Adolphus Bush lunched daily with Faust. The men became fast friends and later in-laws when their children married. At Tony’s request, Adolphus created a special beer, originally only available at the restaurant, which he christened, Faust. When Anheuser-Busch began to market the beer, the company used Goethe’s classic telling of the Doctor Faustus legend complete with the Devil to whom he sold his soul for its advertising campaign. (For more information, see “Tony Faust’s” at the Lost Tables website.) A rather scare bit of pre-prohibition advertising, although examples occasionally appear for sale on and at breweriana websites. .
THE ADVENTURES OF A NEW-YEAR'S NIGHT, from the German of Henry Zschokke, by Dr. Henry Scholl [caption title]

THE ADVENTURES OF A NEW-YEAR'S NIGHT, from the German of Henry Zschokke, by Dr. Henry Scholl [caption title] by [Zschokke, Heinrich]

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THE ADVENTURES OF A NEW-YEAR'S NIGHT, from the German of Henry Zschokke, by Dr. Henry Scholl [caption title]
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[Zschokke, Heinrich]
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Bartlebys Books (United States)
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Philadelphia, PA, 1840. 22 cm. 63 pp. Full leather, gilt tooled borders, spine richly gilt. Chip to head of spine, front joint tender and starting to split at bottom edge. A hand-written translation transcribed, in an elegant script, done for John Fries Frazier, and presented to him Feb. 26, 1840 by the translator Dr. Henry Scholl. Frazier's bookplate is laid down on the front pastedown. Heinrich Zschokke (1771-1848) was a popular German-Swiss writer whose work was often translated into English in the first half of the 19th century. This particular tale apparently first appeared in English in Blackwood's Magazine, May 1837, translated by Tobias Watkins. According to an article by John Preston Hoskins in PMLA, Vol. 20, No. 2 (1905), pp.265-304, Parke Godwin included it in his American version of Zschokke's "Tales," published in two volumes in New York in 1845. The story, published as "Adventures of a New Year's Eve," was "very popular in England and furnished the materials for a farce at one of the London theatres." John Fries Frazier (1812-1872) was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. He served as a professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry there from 1844-1872, and as Vice-Provost of the University. He was also a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1842. Over the course of his life, he accumulated a large and varied library [see his brief biography in the Biographical Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania of the Nineteenth Century (Phila: 1874), pp. 270-1; and a "Memoir of John Fries Frazier, 1812-1872" by John L. Le Conte, prepared for the American Philosophical Society, April 4, 1873.].

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