Search Results: Titles starting with G from Auger Down Books

Texas, 1970. Nineteen photographs, each measuring 8 x10 inches, in a leather album with title tooled among acanthus leaves, rear cover with the image of a Native American in headdress. Fine condition. Scarce photographic documentation of Texas Quarter Horse racing in the late 1960s, with nineteen photographs showing horses owned by C.C. or Elizabeth Brown. Most of the photographs are composite images, produced by the Mohon & Nelson Photo Timing Service. All but one have the jockey W. Gillum aboard. All but one were trained by H.G. Bass. The races took place at four Texas tracks: Columbus Race Course (Columbus), Crosby Downs (Crosby), La Bahia Downs (Goliad), and L.I.F.E. Downs (Laredo). There are three color photographs interspersed with the others. The horses included are Sue's Billy Joe, Brownie's Chick, Flashie, Sue's Barbett, Hi Motion, Flashie Sis, and Olympia Chick. Because of anti-wagering laws, horse racing endured financial hardships in Texas until the laws were changed in 1987. We find… Read More

Brooklyn, 1893. Single page. Some tears at creases, else about fine, very good overall. Very Good. A letter written by Thaddeus Hyatt to the editor of the New York Tribune, in response to a letter written by Eli Thayer on William Lloyd Garrison entitled "Garrison and his Creed." Hyatt takes issue with Thayer's portrayal of Garrison. He writes: "I think it is a great pity that so practical a man in Eli thayer, and who confessedly did a great work for Kansas (for which I have alwqays honored him) - should end his days as a Don Quixote, for he might just as well hope to bring down Gibraltar with a pop-gun as to think that he can change the verdict which coming generations will surely take upon the men he so grossly misrepresents and defames.... I am not a non-resistant; but my heart was with Mr. Garrison always in all his burning utterances against Slavery. Garrison, Phillips and John Brown need no defenders. Mr Thayer only hurts himself, and I respect to add that the Tribune (in my judgment) ;;is… Read More

Hattiesburg: Earl M. Finch, 1944. Sheet music measuring 12 x 9 inches, 4 pp. Signature of a Nabuko Hayashida on front cover. Slight tears at fold, some toning, two small pinholes, very good overall, quite attractive. Very Good. In Hawaii in May 1942, a battalion of Nisei volunteers was assembled for service in World War Two, despite earlier failures of efforts to recruit Japanese-Americans due to the Army's labeling of Nisei recruits as 4-C enemy aliens. Designated as the 100th Infantry Battalion, they were deployed to North Africa in June 1943, integrating with the 34th Division in active combat. Their subsequent deployment to Italy in September 1943 exposed them to intense warfare, earning them the moniker of the "Purple Heart Battalion" due to their notably high casualty rate. In January 1943, the U.S. War Department officially declared the establishment of the segregated 442nd Regimental Combat Team (RCT), which was comprised of Nisei volunteers originating from Hawaii and the mainland. The… Read More

New York: Anson P. Norton, 1860. 12mo, wraps, 144 pp. Very Good. An uncommon pro-annexation title on the gold fields of what is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Courtney was commissioned by the editor of the New York Herald to write a pro-annexation treatise. He described the island as a virginal paradise ready for U.S. husbanding and fertilization. The outbreak of the Civil War a year later left these efforts to annex nearly impossible, and Courtney and similar advocates' ambitions were blocked. Spain reannexed Santo Domingo in 1861. A very good minus copy in original wraps with light general wear and some chips to wraps.

California, 1850. With thirteen letters, most multi-page, written from Monterey in 1850, a 7 pp facsimile transcription of a 1834 Mexican land grant on cloth measuring 11 x 14 inches, and and eleven page document on paper in Spanish relating to a Monterey land grant, transcribing an 1841 document. Letters heavily worn with some loss at margins but mostly legible, land grant in good to very good condition, transcribed document in Spanish in fair condition with water damage to margins. Fair. An interesting archive of 1850s-era material relating to the life and career of the surveyor Edward Williams, which recently surfaced in the central mother lode region. The group includes his personal letters from the California Gold Rush, as well as well two interesting documents form his work for the Surveyor General J.W. Mandeville in 1858, where he transcribed two Mexican land grants. Lt. Edward Williams was a member of Company E, New York Volunteers under Capt. Nelson Taylor. He came to California around… Read More

San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft and Co, 1870. Hand colored printed invitation, 4 ¾ x 7 inches, folded. Very Good. A scarce printed invitation to the Masquerade at San Francisco's Lick House, held in 1870, and according to contemporary accounts, one of the major events of the holiday season in the city. The hotel, built on the corner of Sutter Street and Montgomery, was one of the finest in the city before its destruction in the 1906 fire. A very good copy, bright, with a partial tear at the fold and some wrinkling to lower margin.

New York, 1925. Very Good. A large-scale rendering of the plans for the Greenpoint Avenue bridge over Newtown Creek. The bridge connected Greenpoint to the Blissville neighborhood in Queens. The bridge is the sixth in this location.

American, 1910. Silver gelatin photograph measuring 6 x 8 inches on larger mount. Some hand coloring to costumes. Some fading, chips and wear to mount, very good overall. Very Good. A photograph of a fraternal group in faux-Native American costume, likely a meeting of the Improved Order of Red Men or a similar organization. Spectators line the hill in the background.

Lawrence, 1880. Albumen photograph on card stock, 7 ¾ x 4 ½ inches. Good. Working conditions were notoriously bad in Lawrence, one of the industrial hubs of the textile industry in the late nineteenth century after the harnessing of the Merrimack River's water power in 1845. The city was a hub of immigration - mostly Irish - and many immigrants who were familiar with mill work flocked to the city in the 1850s. In 1860 an accident at the Pemberton Mill killed 145 workers. The Bread and Roses strike of 1912, also known as the Lawrence Textile Strike, was the culmination of decades of poor working conditions. This uncommon occupational photograph of female mill workers gives scant clues as to the background of the workers or specifics of the factory. We find no record of the photographer, a J.J. Greene, based in Lawrence. The seven women pictured are mostly looking off-camera, suggesting that the photographer had a companion. The date is unknown but the albumen cabinet card format and general feel… Read More

Marysville, 1860. Marysville, 1850s-1860s, the bulk mid-1850s. A collection of documents including eleven receipts, three manuscript legal documents, four manuscript documents relating to land claims; five partially printed documents relating to land claims; two letters from the US Land Office in Marysville, 1858, regarding land claims; six billheads from Marysville firms with receipts for a range of goods, some illustrated; one letter from Marysville, written in 1853, concerning a death in a family. Generally fine condition. Fine. A mini-archive or assemblage of documents relating to the early Euro-American citizens of Marysville and its environs in the 1850s. The population of Marysville grew quickly after the town's incorporation to 10,000 by the mid-1850s due to its strategic location close to the gold fields, but the levee system put in place to control flood damage limited the town's growth beyond this initial phase. The documents here relate to Marysville in this early period of growth, and… Read More