Search Results: Titles starting with E from Martin Hartzold

East St. Louis, Illinois, 1957. Photo album binder. Approximately 12" x 10." Maroon vinyl over boards with gilt stamped titles to front. Snap-ring metal binder inside holding 24 black and white photographs, each approximately 8" x 10" glossy darkroom prints to rectos and versos of 12 black paper leaves and beneath clear plastic overlays. Photographer's ink stamp to print versos. Outer album vinyl splitting at spine folds. Prints each about fine. A presentation photo album documenting the October 5, 1957 funeral of Earl W. Jimerson (b. 1889), longtime International President of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. The funeral was held in Jimerson's native East St. Louis, Illinois and the ornate procession (detailed by a laid-in typed list of arrangements) included 27 limousines of Union and industry dignitaries and family. Photographs include portraits of mourners, lavish flower displays donated by various union locals, the hearse, the casket being carried, etc....… Read More

St. Charles, Missouri: A. Balzer [German Evangelical Synod of the West], 1869. 6" x 4" ; 461pp. ; 98pp. [index] Full brown leather over boards with detailed gilt decoration allover. All page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Ownership inscriptions to first two blank endpapers. Mild to moderate edgewear to outer leather. Volume sound, solidly very good. A lovely leather-bound example of this German-language Evangelical hymnbook published by the German Evangelical Synod of the West in St. Charles, Missouri in 1869. An early edition of a volume assembled by founding Synod member Louis E. Nallou, first published in 1862.

St. Louis, Missouri, 1985. 22" x 21" color photo offset on thick paper stock. Print to recto only. Mild foxing to white background near lower margin, tiny pinholes at corners, otherwise very good. A boldly-designed event poster for the first "Gateway Cup," the St. Louis leg of the 19-city "Mayor's Cup" series of professional bicycle races sponsored by Wheat Thins in 1985. The race course was a 1/2 mile criterium circuit run over the streets in front of Union Station in a short-track style race intended to draw a sharp contrast to European endurance racing and appeal to an American crowd. 1985's press coverage was sparse, but the event endures as The Gateway Cup, a significant sporting event for the City which draws thousands of spectators each year to world-class bicycle racing on the streets of St. Louis, one which saw its 37th running in 2023 as the final leg of the prestigious American Criterium Cup.