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1890s Vacation Photo Album of Oregon, Washington, and California, Including Shots of Early Euro-American Architecture and Indigenous People by [Washington – Oregon – California] Unknown Photographer

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Title: 1890s Vacation Photo Album of Oregon, Washington, and California, Including Shots of Early Euro-American Architecture and Indigenous People
Author: [Washington – Oregon – California] Unknown Photographer
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Album pages with chipping at corners and some repair with tape; photographs with some wear and very good to excellent contrast;
Description: Oregon, Washington, and California, 1890. One forty-two page photo album with 9 ½ x 7 inch pages; 109 total photographs with eighteen 4 x 7 inch and larger and ninety-one 3 ½ x 3 ½ inch. Larger photographs captioned on negative and likely purchased while smaller ones are original. Album pages with chipping at corners and some repair with tape; photographs with some wear and very good to excellent contrast; overall very good to excellent.. A photo album from two trips taken by an unknown tourist, one around the Pacific Northwest and the other in central and southern California, with written captions describing location and subject matter. The California trip starts in San Francisco and includes shots of Monterey, “Mexicans at Los Angeles”, and many of the Santa Barbara Mission and San Diego. The Pacific Northwest photos show scenery around Mts. Hood and Rainier including from the recently-built Cloud Cap Hotel; the Columbia River, Paradise Valley, American Lake, and others. There are also shots of the Hotel Groe (built in 1893) and Kernahan home in Pierce County, Washington – James Kernahan was one of the earliest Euro-Americans to homestead in the region, arriving in the area in the late 1880s. The Kernahan family is mentioned in an account told by John Muir’s photographer of summiting Mt. Rainier with John Muir in 1888.[1] Further towards Rainier, there are shots of the Longmire buildings, built in about 1884. Four interesting shots from Puyallup, also in Pierce County, are worth mentioning. Two show hops fields, one a line of tents identified as belonging to the “Indians”, and one of an “Old Indian woman” standing barefoot on train tracks. Before 1892, growing hops drove the economy of Pullyup; Indigenous people would travel from the US and Canada to Pullyup to work the harvest.[2] These photographs likely postdate the hops crash. Of interest to historians of the Pacific Northwest and California, and especially of Pierce County, Washington. [1] “John Muir’s Ascent of Mt. Rainier (As Recorded by his Photographer, A. C. Warner),” The Mountaineer 50, no. 1 (1956): 38–45. [2] Hans Zeiger, “Indigenous Hop Pickers in Western Washington,” HistoryLink, October 3, 2021, https://www.historylink.org/file/21295.

Reglamentos de Atletismo : Para las competencias internacionales de pista y campo y reglas generales para los juegos olímpicos by Pubicaciones de la Secretaria de Educacion Publica. Departmento de Bellas Artes. Direccion de Educacion Fisica

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Title: Reglamentos de Atletismo : Para las competencias internacionales de pista y campo y reglas generales para los juegos olímpicos
Author: Pubicaciones de la Secretaria de Educacion Publica. Departmento de Bellas Artes. Direccion de Educacion Fisica
Seller: Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare (United States)
Description: [Cover title: Reglas Oficiales de Atletismo.] 66 pp. rule book for international sporting competitions. 8vo. Very good. Illus. stiff wraps, saddle stapled. [1185] Primarily of interest for the superb but uncredited estridentismo illustration that graces the front cover. "Aceptados por la Federación Atlética Internacional de aficionados, en el Congreso de La Haya, en agosto de 1926, con las adiciones y reformas hechas en el congreso de Amsterdam, en 1928." As of February 2021, we can locate only one holding in North America, at the National Library of Mexico.

Aramco Handbook: Oil Industry, and Cultural Understanding in Saudi Arabia, 1960 by Aramco

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Title: Aramco Handbook: Oil Industry, and Cultural Understanding in Saudi Arabia, 1960
Author: Aramco
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1968. Roy Lebkicher, George Rentz, and Max Steineke, with contributions by other Aramco employees. Aramco Handbook. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia: Arabian American Oil Company, 1960. Printed in the Netherlands. 324 pp. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs, maps (some in color), and diagrams. Original tan cloth lettered in black and brown with Aramco logo. The first major edition of Aramco's internally authored corporate reference work, issued at the dawn of the 1960s when the Arabian American Oil Company-then a consortium of U.S. oil majors-controlled the majority of Saudi petroleum production. Designed for company personnel, government contacts, and industry allies, this lavishly illustrated volume positioned Aramco not merely as a commercial entity, but as a key transmitter of informatoin between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the industrialized West. Organized into five sections-"Background of Saudi Arabia and the Middle East," "The Oil Industry and Its Place in Modern Industry," "The Aramco Venture," "Saudi Arabia: The Government, the People and the Land," and "The Culture and Customs of the Arabs"-the text merges corporate history, historical narrative, and anthropological overview. Visuals and captions play a critical role in crafting the company's image. In Part I, a full-page photograph of the Kaaba in Mecca's Great Mosque accompanies a color-coded map of the 7th-8th century Arab conquests, framing Islam's rise as "one of the most amazing episodes in the experience of mankind." The oil industry sections offer stark industrial panoramas, including an aerial view of the Ras Tanura refinery overlaid with labeled units-"Catalytic Desulfurizer," "Bulk Plant," "Crude Stabilizers"-and an inset image of its long piers "capable of berthing ten tankers at a time." Descriptions of manufacturing processes emphasize technical mastery: "Crude oil... is found in a complex mixture of individual substances known as hydrocarbons... separated, purified, and changed in form to liquid and gaseous fuels." Cultural chapters illustrate Aramco's portrayal of Saudi society as both traditional and compatibly modern. A double-page spread on the pilgrimage to Mecca shows the Station of Abraham, the Well of Zamzam, and pilgrims at ritual sites, the captions interpreting their significance for a Western audience. The final section on social customs offers transliterations of Arabic greetings-is-salaam 'alaykum, kayf haalak?-and advice on etiquette, noting that "Arabs are good-humored, kind and informal, as every guest soon finds them to be." Throughout, the text blends anthropological detail with industry commentary. Light toning and faint soiling to cloth, gentle bump to one corner; interior clean, binding sound. Overall very good.

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Dawkins, Richard

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Title: Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
Author: Dawkins, Richard
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
ISBN: 9780395883822
Condition: Fine
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 9x6x1. Signed by Author(s). Signed by Dawkins on title page; first edition with full number line. Hardcover with dust jacket, black spine over blue paper-covered boards, 8vo, 337 pp. Fine in near fine jacket with crease to top edge of front panel."Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder.

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