Travel &Tourism
travel album, photograph, tourism, statue of liberty, Furness Bermuda Line, Tom's Moore's House Tavern, travel
Germany: 1920s. An travel album with 18 photographs of a trip from New York to Bermuda. The first photograph depicts the Furness Bermuda Line Offices in New York, which ran a line of shipping vessels that ferried passengers from New York to Bermuda. The next few pictures show the Statue.....
Price: $175.00
Travel and Tourism, Bay de Noc, Michigan
Escanaba, MI: Chamber of Commerce, [1940]. A four-fold promotional brochure and pictorial map. Numerous images from photographs of outdoor activities, narrative describing Parks, Picnic and Camp Grounds, Winter Sports, Scenic Tours, Fall Colors, Hay Fever Relief and what to Do in the Bay De Noc Area. Also features a pictorial.....
Price: $60.00
Marketing, Periodicals, U.S. States, Native American and Indigenous Peoples
Sioux Falls, South Dakota: The Sunshine State Company, 1925. Before Florida was "The Sunshine State", South Dakota claimed the nickname. We offer here Vol. VI, No. 5 of an illustrated periodical dedicated to marketing South Dakota as "The Sunshine State". Opportunities for outdoor recreation are prominently featured, and the publication.....
Price: $150.00
manuscript, guest log, guest book, travel & tourism, sports & sporting, fishing, hunting
Kennebec County, Maine: July 7, 1890 - September 10, 1900. A guest book for the Birches, a camp in Maine owned by Frank B. Webber (1848-1910). The cabin was located in the Belgrade Lakes region of central Maine, and it appears it was used by Webber and his extended family.....
Price: $475.00
History of Connecticut, Real Estate and Land Development
Clinton, Connecticut: Stannard & Chapman, c.1900. A rare booklet advertising seaside homes in Clinton, Connecticut, a shoreline destination on Long Island Sound. Includes a description of opportunities for recreation and relaxation in the area (such as digging for clams, sailing, and picking berries), details about the cottages for sale, a......
Price: $325.00
Viewbook, Photo Album, Madison Wisconsin
Madison, WI: James E. Moseley, Bookseller, c1910. 16 pages. Embossed illustrated wraps. Includes local views of City Hall, High School, Main Street, various views of University of Wisconsin campus including the horticultural, dairy and agricultural buildings, an evening on Lake Mendota, boating on Lake Mendota with lakeside picnickers and a......
Price: $85.00
Travel and Tourism, Squirrel Island, Vacationland
Squirrel Island ME: Parke G. Dingley & Co., Aug. 8, 1885. 8pp. twice weekly periodical for Aug. 8, 1885. Historical recalling of details of Identification of Boothbay and Pentacost Harbor (from the early 1600s) A section called Wavelets naming the various guests on the island. An article on The Samoset.....
Price: $175.00
maine, Massachusetts, merriam-webster, merriam, webster, vacation, tourism, family photos
New England: 1912-1917. A photo album belonging to the Rowley family consisting of their vacation family photos from a variety of locations in New England in the early 20th century. Some of the vacation spots are: Bellow Falls, VT, Pemaquid Beach, ME, York Beach, ME, Kittery Point, ME, Portland, ME.....
Price: $325.00
Correspondence, Argentina, Daily life, Argentina countryside
Buenos Aires, Argentina: February 1855. In early 1855, a husband and wife, moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, Estancia del Folag with their two sons, Hasen and Jonathan. The collection contains three letters, comprised of eighteen pages, written to the wife's friend. Color vignette on first page with stationer's embossing on.....
Price: $175.00
Syria, Lebanon, French Mandate, Post-WWI
Courbevoie, France: Society of the Encouragement of Tourism, 1930s. Folding photo-illustrated poster marketing Lebanon and Syria as tourist destinations for Americans, published by the Society of the Encouragement of Tourism, located in Beirut. Contains eleven photographic images and a map of the region, along with descriptive sections on transportation, places.....
Price: $100.00
Atlantic Telegraph, Visual Culture, Transatlantic Cable
1857-1858. Three ( 3) different pieces of printed music with illustrated covers depicting the enthusiasm surrounding the laying of the cable. Both romanticized and scientifically accurate depiction of the Niagara & Agamemnon laying the cable, the cable itself; both size and composition and the geographic placement. The titles the Atlantic.....
Price: $450.00
travel journal, travel, scrap album, transportation, printing, stationary
1930-1940s. A unique scrap travel book compiled by an unknown person with each page filled will snippets from letterheads from hotels presumably visited by the journaler. These pieces of the letterhead have been cut out and pasted into the album and there is a range of a singe (larger) piece.....
Price: $225.00
Western America,Mormon,Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, Utah: Bureau of Information and Church Literature, c.1903. An informational guide for tourists, published by the Bureau of Information and Church Literature in Salt Lake City, Utah. Provides a general overview of Salt Lake City's people and industries, with photos of the Salt Lake Temple, Assembly Hall.....
Price: $185.00
Journal, Pyrography, Travel
A 7 3/4" x 5 1/4" suede cover with suede tie binding. The cover is pyrography decorated and depicts the exterior and grounds of the Northfield Chateau. The journey begins with the traveler leaving Springfield MA at 3:30 pm on July 3, 1898. Based on the content of the 20.....
Price: $100.00
Mineral Springs, Mineral Water, Health Tourism, Prohibition
West Baden, Indiana: The West Baden Springs Company, 1904. Handwritten letter on illustrated letterhead for the West Baden Mineral Springs Company, "An Ideal Resort for Health and Pleasure". The letterhead depicts the hotel's luxurious and impressive turn-of-the-century architecture. The letter appears to be written to a friend from a hotel.....
Price: $225.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Women in the Military,U.S. Navy,20th Century Career Women
United States: U.S. Navy, 1950s. A recruitment booklet promoting careers for women in the Navy, featuring a photo of a smiling and sharply-uniformed young woman walking towards the camera with battleships in the background. When the booklet is fully unfolded, it reads in large letters, "JOIN THE WAVES". Offers brief.....
Price: $325.00
Maine,Summer Resorts,Travel,History of New England
York Harbor, Maine: c.1930. A beautifully photo-illustrated travel brochure promoting York Harbor and the coast of Maine as a summer resort destination. Includes photos and descriptions of local historical sites, country clubs, recreation and sport, antique shopping, and a number of "quaint old houses", which the publication particularly relishes in.....
Price: $150.00
health resort, mineral springs, hot springs, sulfur springs, travel and tourism, advertising, medicine, Sanatarium, Spa
San Luis Obispo, CA: San Luis Hot Sulphur Springs, [1907]. An promotional booklet for San Luis Hot Sulphur Springs which was operated by A. M. Smith. The booklet contains information about the resort and over twenty-five printed black and white photographs of the resort and surrounding area. The resort claimed.....
Price: $175.00
photographs, resort, nature resort, hotel
Oscawana, NY: [1920s]. Valeria Home was a resort in Oscawana, New York, that provided "unusual opportunities for rest and outdoor recreation", that combined the "forest, hills and lake with the best results of landscape architecture... [to] create an environment which is especially pleasing to those who love the beautiful in.....
Price: $65.00
spa, health resort, mineral springs, chronic disease, underground tunnel, sanitarium
Marlin, TX: [1920]. An eight page folding brochure for the Buie Clinic and Hospital which was a sanitarium and bath house in Marlin, TX, which claimed to help cure a variety of chronic diseases. The baths of the sanitarium were connected to the 'Falls Hotel' via an underground tunnel. The.....
Price: $75.00
inn, yarmouth, maine,
Portland, ME: Bradford Press, [1930]. Homewood & Cottages was an Inn and vacation rental cottages located in Yarmouth, Maine, run by Burton Prentiss Lyman. According to the brochure it is situated just eleven miles east of Portland, ME, on the shores on Casco Bay. A converted old homestead serves as.....
Price: $125.00
Children's Camp, Boys Sleepaway Camp, North Carolina,
Brevard, N.C. Queen City PTG. Co., 1935. 40pp. Embossed cover illustration of boy golfer. Includes original mailing envelope with image of stereotypical Native American. The Camp Carolina brochure provides details about the general life and activities that can be expected for boys to experience. There is a description of the.....
Price: $110.00
Travel, California, Frontier
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1876. 255 pp. Gilt stamped cloth. An 19th century travel guide, both for travelers and people looking to settle out west. There are twenty-six (26) chapters in the book, with fifty-eight (58) B&W engravings. The illustrations vary in size, from full page to 1/16.....
Price: $125.00
education, Italy, England, Ethiopia, scrap book
New Haven: 1936. Created by Chester Katzman, an eleven year old boy from New Haven, CT, this scrap book was a school assignment to record an imaginary European tour taken by the student. The book includes various short essays on what was seen, the history and agriculture of the countries.....
Price: $200.00