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1902 - Special Orders directing that transportation be arranged for Corporal Eugene Dupree, who had fought at the Battle of Tientsin, to return to the United States via Japan following the completion of his enlistment

1902 - Special Orders directing that transportation be arranged for Corporal Eugene Dupree, who had fought at the Battle of Tientsin, to return to the United States via Japan following the completion of his enlistment

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Seller: Kurt A. Sanftleben
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1902 - Special Orders directing that transportation be arranged for Corporal Eugene Dupree, who had fought at the Battle of Tientsin, to return to the United States via Japan following the completion of his enlistment
Seller
Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Peking, China, 1902. Unbound. Very good. This one-page Boxer Rebellion document on onion-skin paper reads: United Sates Legation Guard Peking, China, July 21st, 1902 Special Orders No. 63 (Extract) 1. There being no Army Transport available the Quartermaster Department will furnish transportation by commercial line to Eugene Dupree, late Corporal, Co. "B", 9th Infantry, discharged by expiration of service from Tonggu [Tanggu], China, to Nagasaki, Japan, where upon arrival he will report . . . for additional transportation to the United States. . .." An endorsement on the reverse from the "Office of the Depot Quartermaster, Nagasaki, Japan, Nov. 6th 1902 reads: "Transportation furnished the within named discharged soldier form this point to San Francisco, Cal. O the U.S.A.T. Crook." . Dupree had deployed to China with the U.S. Army's 9th Infantry Regiment. He fought in the bloody campaign to relieve the international settlement at Tientsin (Tiajin) and the legations at Peking (Beijing) which were under siege by a combined force of Boxers (the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists or Yìhéquán, which was a violent, anti-foreign and anti-Christian peasant movement) and the Imperial Chinese Army that lifted the siege of the international community. After victory at Peking, the 9th began occupation duty, and Dupree's company was assigned to the logistics base at Tanggu, a port district within Tientsin. (For more information, see Dupree's letter to the editor "At Battle of Tientsin: New Bern Boy Tells of His Experience. Slaughter of Chinese. With the Famous 9th" published in the 7 September 1900 issue of the New Bern Weekly Journal, Bowden and Warner's The Boxer Rebellion, and Harlow's Logistical Support of the China Relief Expedition.) Original source American documents letters from the Boxer Rebellion are exceptionally scarce. At the time of listing, no others are for sale in the trade. Two similar items have appeared at auction per the Rare Book Hub, and OCLC shows several institutions hold American Boxer Rebellion personal papers collections. .
Circa 1890 – Cigar band for a cigar sold or distributed on a Colorado Midland Railroad train

Circa 1890 – Cigar band for a cigar sold or distributed on a Colorado Midland Railroad train

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Circa 1890 – Cigar band for a cigar sold or distributed on a Colorado Midland Railroad train
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Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Unbound. Very good. This cigar band has a central motif featuring a standing Native American warrior holding a shield that displays a Colorado Midland Railroad logo. Text on the band reads, ”Colorado Midland Rail Road”. . The Colorado Midland Railway which was incorporated in 1883, was the first standard gauge railroad built over the Continental Divide in Colorado. It ran from Colorado Springs to Leadville and through the divide at Hagerman Pass to Glenwood Springs and Grand Junction. John J. Hagerman gained control of the company in June 1885 and sold it to the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway, which changed its name to the Colorado Midland Railroad in 1890 and operated it as a subsidiary line. Some railroads provided cigars on their trains that were branded with company logos. They are also known to have been sold and distributed by the New Haven, Lehigh Valley, Old Colony, and Boston & Albany Railroads. (For more information, see “The Colorado Midland Railway” at the Rio Grande Info website and “Railroad Cigars?” at the railroad.net website.) Cigar bands from the Colorado Midland Railroad have infrequently appeared for sale on . .
Boo-Boo the Barrage Balloon

Boo-Boo the Barrage Balloon

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Boo-Boo the Barrage Balloon
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Eclectibles (United States)
Condition
inside back cover reinforced with age-darkened "scotch tape". Cover wear.
Description
England: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1944. inside back cover reinforced with age-darkened "scotch tape". Cover wear.. 22 pp. color illustrated stiff wrappers. The story of an anthropomorphic dirigible and his family. There design is influenced by an elephant. The story line supports the war effort as Boo-Boo becomes a hero by taking down an enemy plan. Color illustrations throughout except for inside cover illustrations (gray tones). Oblong quarto. 11" x 8 1/2". Scarce item.

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