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American Album

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Description: Salesman's album containing title-page and 43 leaves, with 172 chromolithograph cards (11 x 7 cm) mounted in cut-outs of 4 per leaf. Includes almost all of Prang's famous early series with depictions of: Crosses with virtues (2); humming birds (12); sets of winter and summer landscapes; 3 sets of American birds (36); scenes of the Hudson River Valley; wood ferns and mosses (24); sets of autumn leaves; flowers; butterflies; fruit blossoms; and sea mosses.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: Patented April 5th, 1864.
Call number: 470371
Creator: L. Prang & Co(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Acquired from Victoria Book Shop, May 1978.

Wilderness Wanderings in Jasper and Mt. Robson Parks

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Volume with typescript detailed narrative and 173 snapshots of camping trip to the Canadian Rockies by Baker, Huck, and Crisp. With a birthday inscription to Baker from Huck, December 1936. Includes several magazine photographs, brochure for Brewster's Rocky Mountain Ranch in Jasper, Alberta, and booklet The Geological Story of Jasper National Park, Canada by E. M. Kindle (National Parks of Canada, Department of the Interior) and a fold-out map of Jasper Park. Narrative includes a list of identified birds, mammals, butterflies, plants, trees, ferns, and shrubs. Leather binding stamped "Grabau."

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Peace of Rainbow and Canyon

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Volume with typescript narrative and approximately 200 snapshots of a trip to the Grand Canyon and Rainbow Bridge Canyon by Baker, Huck, and Crisp. A list of identified herbaceous plants, trees, ferns, shrubs, grasses, butterflies, birds, and mammals is appended. Also includes a one-page list of Navajo terms, a map of Indian reservations in Arizona, and some clippings. Includes images of the Grand Canyon, Havasu Canyon, pictographs in Havasu, Mooney Falls, Navajos at Cameron, Jack and Katherine Wilson, Rainbow Bridge, the Colorado River, Surprise Valley, a Navajo weave, Piute Canyon, Betatakin cliff dwellings, Tsegi Canyon, Inscription House ruins, and Inscription Camp. Leather binding stamped "Grabau."

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Birds eye view of Redding, Shasta County, California : 226 miles north of San Francisco on S.P.R.R. to Oregon

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Dated from verso which shows property for sale and extolls the virtues of Shasta County. "The climate is unexcelled, 106 degrees being the highest temperature and 18 degrees above the lowest recorded." Vignettes: Significant buildings and businesses in the surround. Prime meridian: GM. Projection: Birds-eye view. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Sales and promo information on Redding and Shasta County.

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Victorian album of collages

Manuscripts

This album is composed of 12 original collages inserted into decorated paper-covered front and rear boards. Collages are made with paper, silk ribbons, flowers, dyed wool, shells, leaves, cut-outs from various printed sources, and lithographs. The collagist was likely an Irish Catholic young woman, either from or living in Avoca, Wicklow County, Ireland (there is a collage page with the title "Sweet Vale Avoca"). Each collage speaks to a different theme ranging from rural life, nature, a childhood home, childhood, youth, communion, perceptions of old age, and a haunted house. Each collage has a title and handwritten pasted-down captions, some coming from popular songs and verse including Thomas Moore's "The Meeting of the Waters." Housed in a slip case with gilt title "ALBUM ANGLAIS."

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Stock label: oranges with butterflies

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Image of two oranges on a branch with leaves and blossoms with butterflies and a sky with fluffy clouds.

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Trail Riding in the Canadian Rockies

Visual Materials

Volume with typescript narrative and 97 snapshots documenting a trip to the Canadian Rockies by Baker, Huck, and Crisp, and a stay on the Kananaskis Ranch and Brewster Ranch in Alberta. Contains an account of the trail ride and stay at Lake Louise and CPR hotels. A list of herbaceous plants, trees, ferns, butterflies, shrubs, animals, and birds is appended. Also contains a small map of the "Route of the General Trail Ride and the Pow Wow, July 30-Aug. 3, 1937," plus a list of the participants in the Trail Rides party plus song sheet of the Trail Riders of the Canadian Rockies. Includes articles, photographs, and illustrations about the Trail Riders. In addition, there is a large map of Lake Louise Park; one Christmas letter from Kananaskis Ranch, signed by the whole Brewster family, and 6 magazine photos and 1 magazine with an article on Mt. Assiniboine. Leather binding stamped "Grabau."

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