Search Results: Titles starting with C from Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC

U.S.S. Independence at New York, 1843. Envelope or Cover. Very good. This three-page stampless folded letter, measuring 16.5" x 9.5", is datelined "U. S. Ship Independence / New York, Nov. 21st. 1843." It bears a manuscript "12½" rate mark (the cost to send a letter from 80 to 150 miles) and a circular red New York postmark dated November 13. In nice shape; small hole from opening the seal. A transcript will be provided. When Greene wrote this letter, the U.S.S. Independence had just become the Flagship of the U.S. Home Fleet. As Greene awaited the ship's departure from New York, he penned this humorous, gossipy, and cattily racist letter to his wife, Catharine, in Philadelphia, who was recovering from a fairly serious illness. Excerpts include" "I . . . suppose that [your] fever, chill, &c, arose from inflammation of the face. . .. I am proud that my letter, or whatever it may be called, has affected a cure; it must indeed be from the quantity, and not from its quality. . .. I was under a… Read More

Paris: L. Vivien Geographe, 1834. Unbound. Very good. Approximately 20.5" x 13.5" including the margins. Text in French. A nice map with a strong, clear image. Minor wear and soiling at lower left tip of margin; top margin is a little rough where the map was removed from the atlas. This is the second printing of this very attractive map, however it is essentially the same as the first which was done in 1825 and was based on information from several years before that. Although Missouri had become a state in 1821, it is shown as three separate regions (St. Louis, Cape Girardeau, and Howard) within a vast Territory of Missouri that encompasses the majority of the Louisiana Purchase. There is no mention of Texas. Mexico, which won its independence from Spain in 1821, is shown in control of the entire Southwest from the Gulf of Mexico to New California on the Pacific Coast. The entire northwest is labeled as either New Albion or Columbia and extends northward well into present-day Canada. The… Read More

Death Valley, California, 1950. Very good. This lot consists of a one-page letter from the National Park Service at Death Valley National Monument, dated 17 February 1950, and two photographs of graffiti that read, "J W ADE". The letter is signed L. F. Kellar, "Death Valley National Monument Park Naturalist" L. F. Keller. The photographs were mounted on a piece of bond paper with cello tape that has discolored over time. The letter reads in part: "On February 16, 1950, Mr. C. E. Choucher . . . directed us to the site in Greenwater Canyon where he located last week an inscription which he reported as 'C Wade'. "The inscription was 'J Wade' located 1.4 mile northeast of the petroglyphs and 6.9 miles southwest of the Lila C. Mine on a great vertical volcanic breccia 50 feet west of the road. . .. "The inscription seems to be old and could antedate 100 years. The letters are chiseled ¼ to ½ inches deep in the volcanic breccia, 6 inches height, and the entire name is 24 inches long. . .. "Since… Read More

Envelope or Cover. Very good. This stampless letter measures 15½" x 9¾". It was sent by A. M. Fannin and M P Allen to their relatives, care of "Miss L. A. Fannin / Madison / Ga." It bears a faint circular red "Augusta & Atlanta R.R." station agent postmark and a manuscript "5" rate mark. In this letter Fannin and Allen express their concerns about a Scarlet Fever epidemic that has struck their family and its enslaved workers at Madison. "All said all the negroes have had the sarlet fever Sis was so uneasy was the reason why we did not write is it so All had a very sore throat and high fever Ms Allen gave him Dr. Simmon's fever medicine he has quite recovered. . .. you must not expect us down till you all get well I would not have the boy exposed to the scarlot fever. . .. Mrs Chercer is quite sick, Mrs Tom Gibbs is in very poor health unable to leave the house. [the] little girl has gone entirely blind. . .." . Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, Scarlet Fever, was a mostly benign… Read More

Leipzig, Germany: Illustrite Zeitung (Illustrated Newspaper), 1845. Disbound. Very good. This wood engraving clipped from an unidentified edition of the Illustrite Zeitung (Illustrated Newspaper), known colloquially as the 'Leipziger,' is undated, but information on the reverse indicates that it was published by J. J. Weber of Leipzig, Germany. It is titled, Quarantine und Marinehosital fur Einwanderer auf Staten Island, Newyorf (Quarantine Station and Marine Hospital for Immigrants at Staten Island, New York). It is in nice shape with some light toning. It can be dated as locations of the buildings and dock exactly as shown almost identically match those shown on a map of the grounds, "Marine Hospital Ground, Staten Island . . . made by John Ewein. Dated March 1845 . . . City Surveyor." The large building in the foreground is "[St. Nicholas] Hospital." The center building on the hill is the "Yellow Fever Hospital." The building to the far right is the "Small Pox Hospital." The small buildings on… Read More

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… Read More

Unbound. Very good. These three unused postcards show quarantine stations that protected transit through the Panama Canal. In nice shape. "Quarantine Station, Culebra Island, Panama." Leipzig, Berline, & New York: Americhrome, no date. Message on reverse; some soiling "Quarantine station La Boca, Panama." No publication data. "Quarantine Station, Naos Island, Panama." No publication data. Message on reverse. . Ships transiting the canal were required to undergo a health inspection. Although by the mid-1920s, most concerns had been eliminated, the major concern with regard to ships transiting the canal came from Bucaramanga and the interior of Columbia (Yellow Fever) and Plague from the west coast of South America. When necessary, ships were fumigated with cyanogen chloride gas. (For more information, see the Report of the Health Department of the Panama Canal for the Calendar Year 1923, available online.) .

San Francisco, Californi, 1900. Unbound. Very good. These three unused postcards show quarantine and immigration facilities at Angel Island near San Francisco. In nice shape. All are unused. "Quarantine Station, Angel Island, Calif." San Francisco: Stanley A Piltz Company, undated "Quarantine Station - Angel Island, Cal." San Francisco: Souvenir Publishing Company, undated "U.S. Quarantine Station. Angel Island. Cal." San Francisco: Pacific Novelty Co. undated .

South Mountain, Pennsylvania, 1945. Unbound. Very good. These five cards show the the South Mountain Sanitorium's doctors' residence, nurses, residence, women's dormitory, men's dormitory Unit 8, and men's dormitory Unit 15. . The sanitorium movement began in Europe, and the first was established in the United States at Asheville, North Carolina in 1875. The movement exploded in the 1880s when Dr. Edward Livingstone Trudeau of the Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium at Saranac Lake realized that patients symptoms improved (or at least did not worsen) with exposure to fresh air, and the number of sanitation beds in the United states grew from 4,500 in 1900 to over 675,00 in 1925. Treatment consisted of bed rest, exposure to fresh air, walking exercises, and occupational therapy like weaving, basketry, and leather work. The movement ended in the 1950s when streptomycin, isoniazid, and pyrazinamide became readily available to treat the disease. The words sanatorium and sanitarium and be used… Read More

"3rd man is Cousin Clarence who lived with these Indians for a long time."
Unknown location, circa 1930.
Homemade stereoview by Joseph Clarence Grimm, an early 20th-century collector of Native American artifacts and a National Councilor for the Indian Confederation of America and the Indian Association of America.
This card was passed through relatives to its last owner, Robert Panchison
In the photograph, Grimm has inserted an image of his face and headdress into a group photograph of American Indian chiefs. The pair of photos have been mounted on a Keystone stereoview card, and the reverse annotated, "3rd man is Cousin Clarence who lived with these Indians for a long time."

Nevada, 1905. Unbound. Very good. One photograph is captioned "Beatty, Nevada. / Year 1905." It measures 4¾" x 3½". Glue residue on the reverse. The second photograph, 5½" x 3¼", is captioned on the reverse, "Outside Beatty / Rube Ryan's Mine & / Hollywood Dry Store". The third photograph is captioned "Belmont, Nevada / Bel-HM-1" on the reverse. It measures 7" x 5". Beatty, Nevada was named for a Civil War veteran who established a ranch along the Amargosa River. It boomed in 1904 after gold was discovered in the nearby Bullfrog Hills west of town. Initially, wagons hauled freight between the Bullfrog region and the railroad located at Las Vegas. Over 15,000 horses were used for hauling until the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad began regular service in 1906. The Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad reached Belmont, the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad in 1907. The photograph of Rube Ryan's Mine and Hollywood Store is included in Robert Palazzo's Ghost Towns of Death Valley, which notes it was close to… Read More

New York City: Various, 1900. Unbound. Very good. These three unposted postcards show quarantine and immigration facilities at New York City. In nice shape. All are unposted; one contains a message. "Staten Island . . . Quarantine Station." New York: American Souvenir-Card Co.: 1897 "Extreme Point of Manhattan, showing Emigrant Landing and Whitehall Building, New York." New York: McGown-Silsbee Litho. Co.: no date "Ellis Island Immigration Depo. New York." New York: Photo & Art Postal Card Co.: no date .

Pennsylvania, California and Japan, 1968. Unbound. Very good. This collection of 20 b/w and color photographs ranges in size from 4.25" x 3" to 9" x 7.5". 11 snapshots picture the dealer and his wife interacting with their hosts in Japan. One large b/w image shows all of the U.S. dealers who were attending the event posing before a Japanese Air Lines airplane at Los Angeles and holding a large sign that reads, "JAL Welcomes Toyota Jet Away to Japan Oct. 23, 1968". One mid-size b/w image shows all of the U.S. dealers posing in a reception room in Japan. It is captioned "Compliments of Japan Travel Bureau in Kyoto 1968". One large color image, dated "1968. 10. 29" shows the group posing in front of Toyota's headquarters building. Five of the large images show Toyota facilities in Japan Four have separate caption slips; one caption slip is missing: "Cylinder blocks machining line in Kamigo Engine Plant," "Assembly line of Corona Mark II at Motomachi Plant," "High Speed Test Track on the… Read More

Greenpoint (Brooklyn), New York, 1861.
This 3-page letter and endorsement measure approximately 8" x 9". It was carried by courier between Rowland's Continental Iron Works and the Providence Tool and Armory Company, which employed both Borden and Andrews, as there are no postal markings. The letter has two horizontal folds and the cover is docketed, "W. Borden Order. - Oct. 22d/61." It is in nice shape with some small splits beginning at the folds.
The Brooklyn shipyard, especially Rowland's Continental Iron Works, was a bustling place when this order was placed. The U.S. Navy had recently learned that the Confederacy was soon to launch the CSS Virginia (better known as the Merrimac) and, as a result, contracted for the rapid construction of three ironclad prototypes with three different firms. Maxon, Fish and Company began what was to become the USS Galena, Merrick & Sons designed what would become the USS New Ironsides, and Battery Associates led the conglomerate that would build the USS Monitor.… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good -. Gramatky, Hardie. 8vo. Complete. First edition with $2.25 on dust jacket. Inscribed by Gramatky on the title page, "For my very fine friends / -The Kollikers / with all good / wishes / Hardie Gramatky / 1948". Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages; small faint dampstain at bottom margin of title page. Almost no wear to cover. Dust jacket missing small pieces at head and tail of spine, otherwise only minimal wear. Gramatky's fifth children's book.