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Diccionario De Escritores Mexicanos
Aurora M. Ocampo de Gomez; Ernesto Prado Velazquez
Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1967.Dictionary of Mexican Writers.
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Crossing the Great River: A Glimpse into the Funeral Rites of Afrikan-Amerikan People
Skobi Matunde
Philadelphia: Freeland Publications, No date. -
Letters from Orange and Lemon Growers in the Tulare County Citrus Belt
California Grove Planting Company
Los Angeles: California Grove Planting Company, 1914.Eight letters from citrus growers in the Tulare County area that verify the output and recommend the purchase of citrus orchards in the district. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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[Murat] New Temple Ceremonial
John E. Milnor
Indianapolis: Murat Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, 1922.in Murat’s Jama Masjif on the twenty-fifth day of the fourth month Rabih Ul Akhir, 1343 which is to say Friday, December 15, 1922. An invitation to the opening celebrations of the extensions to the Murat Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine in the Oasis of Indianapolis, Desert of Indiana. A great ballroom, it was decorated with an Egyptian theme to match the Arabic concept of the Shrine, with hieroglyphics and drawings found in ancient palaces and tombs near Thebes. Shriners membership form laid in, and housed in an original unmarked posting envelope. Unrecorded in OCLC at October, 2022.
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Enjoy the 1960 Winter Olympic Games from Nearby Nevada & Skiing (3 Volumes)
State Printing Office, Carson City, Nevada
Carson City: State Printing Office, 1960.Accompanied by 2 similar brochures titled Nevada: Gateway to the 1960 Winter Olympics: Skiing. The Skiing brochures each have the same text, but some of the illustrations differ.
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A Summer at the Top o’ the World
William Walter Shaw
Los Angeles: Sixth Avenue Publishing Company, 1927.Chronicling the impressions received by the author during a summer’s vacation spent among the National Parks of the United States and Canada. Locations visited included the Carquinez Strait, the Redwood Highway, Portland, Columbia River Highway, Yellowstone National Park and its geysers, Jackson Hole country including a rodeo there, Buffalo Bill Country, Glacier National Park, Turtle Mountain, the Banff-Windermere Highway and the Okanagan Valley.
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Open Sesame! Varnum Electric Door Engines – for Safer Safety
Varnum Door Engine Company
Los Angeles: Varnum Door Engine Company, No date.Early 1920s catalogue for the Varnum Door Engine. Contains a short history of the Varnum door opening and closing engine, followed by details and photographs of them as installed in bank vaults and the gates of grand estates. Also included are letters of recommendation from happy customers, and a list of banks across the United States using the door engines.
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Frigidaire
Frigidaire
Dayton: Delco-Light Company, No date.Describes the benefits of the oak or white enamel Frigidaire, including the ice cube drawers in which may be made 72 ‘crystal-pure cubes of ice for table use.’ Also includes recipes for Frozen Dainties made with the Frigidaire. This copy with The Frigidaire Corporation printed through on the colophon and printed No Made and Guaranteed by Delco-Light Company, a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation.
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The Luxury of the Four Stream Needle Shower
Reddan Specialty Co.
New York: Reddan Specialty Co., 1914.The benefits of the four head shower invented by Mr. A. E. Kenney are many: the year around way to start your day; send you down to your office feeling like a boy; no longer confined to the rich man’s home; the only curtainless shower; the price is low as you don’t have to tear the walls out to install; stimulates your whole system without shock to the head; no rubber cap needed to keep your hair dry and so prevents hair thinning, dandruff and catarrh; takes up no room; fits any bath tub. Unfortunately it doesn’t put out the cat or turn off the lights. This copy with the stamp of the sales Agent Wm. B. McMahon, Troy, New York, stating a free 5 day trial to the wrappers front panel.
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Iowa Law in Regard to Registration and Regulation of Motor Vehicles (2 Volumes)
W. C. Hayward; W. S. Allen
Des Moines: Emory H. English and Robert Henderson, State Printers, 1911-1913.As enacted by the 34th General Assembly. Takes effect July 4th 1911, and as Amended by the 35th General Assembly 1913 to take effect May 1st 1913
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Addendum to the Instruction on the Use of Aerial Observation in Liaison with the Artillery
Army War College, Washington
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1918.January 19, 1917 (Modifying “Field Artillery Notes No. 1”).
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Price List of Parts for Canadian Training Airplanes
Aircraft Material and Equipment Corporation
New York: Aircraft Material and Equipment Corporation, No date.A price list for every part of an airplane, from wing panels ($88.85) down to cotter pins (1 cent). This copy with notice stamps of the United Air-craft Engineering Corporation.
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The Symbol of Service
Southern California Telephone Company
[California]: Southern California Telephone Company, No date. -
The Telephone in America
Bell Telephone System
[United States]: Bell Telephone System, 1950. -
Some Telephone Suggestions
Southern California Telephone Company
[California]: Southern California Telephone Company, No date.1930s instruction booklet for conducting polite business communication on the telephone. “To have persons habitually look forward to a pleasant experience when they deal with your business is one of the greatest assets your firm can have. There are ways by which your staff’s use of the telephone can have a big effect in creating such an attitude. ” (from wrapper) Unrecorded in OCLC.
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America’s Most Famous Teeth
Reidar F. Sognnaes
Washington, DC: Vick Clark Cleveland, 1974.Reprinted from the Smithsonian Magazine, February 1973. “What kind of dentures did Washington wear? Wood, elephant tusks, elk’s teeth, gold?” (from p.1). Published by a denture company.
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The Land of the Prairie: And the Wonders of the Gospel’s Power among the Mochicans and Red Indians
[John Ritchie]
Kilmarnock: John Ritchie, No date.Stories of some of the missionaries to the American Indians including John Elliot, a Puritan missionary who with others is credited with editing the Bay Psalm Book, the first book published in North America in 1640. Other missionaries mentioned include David Brainerd, John and Charles Wesley and David Zeisberger. Published by Christian Literature published John Ritchie. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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Garrets and Pretenders: Bohemian Life in America from Poe to Kerouac
Albert Parry
Mineola: Dover, 2012. -
The Kangaroo Heads South: Midshipman Cruise Alfa – USS Canberra – June 8 to August 6, 1957
Canberra (Guided missile heavy cruiser : CAG-2)
Norfolk: Tidewater Offset Printing Service, [1957].Being a Pictorial Voyage of the Kan-Do Kangaroo, on a Midshipman Training Cruise from the US east coast to South America and back. A cruiser of the United States Navy named to honour the Australian cruiser HMAS Canberra sunk during the Battle of Savo Island. The first USN warship named after a foreign capital city. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the crew and illustrations of kangaroos. A ship tune, ‘sail on, Canberra’, sung to the tune of Waltzing Matilda. Inscribed by a US Navy Captain to the front cover. 1 copy in OCLC at the United States Naval Academy.
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Inspirationist Mysticism and the Amana Community
Wallace C. Christen
Lockport: The Ogren Press, 1975.Study of the communal religious mysticism of the Amana Community in Iowa by Wallace C. Christen (1935-2013), at the time Assistant Professor at the Social Justice Institute, Lewis University, and himself an Inspirationist and Amana native.