Land Development
Urban Development,Workers and Labor,Industrialization,Pittsburgh,Foundries
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Trafford Improvement Co., c1910. Printed pamphlet advertising homes for rent in Trafford City, incorporated in 1904 after operations at the Trafford Foundry began in 1903. Workers at the Foundry would have received this pamphlet, which shows fifty homes recently built for their families. The homes are marketed as.....
Price: $150.00
California,Trade in San Francisco,Panama Canal
San Francisco, California: Dempster Bros., Printers, 1880. A primary account of discussions surrounding the push to build a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, a feat not accomplished until the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914. Seen as "The Key of the Pacific", the canal opened up a......
Price: $175.00
Land Development, Real estate, land agreement
Cattaraugus County, NY: February 13, 1842. A real estate agreement between the couple Moses and Emma Beecher and Isaac Curry which sells a total of approximately 2,956 acres of land from different portions of about 40 different plots of land within Cattaraugus County, NY. Due to the complexities of the.....
Price: $400.00
Falls Bridge, Petition, D. Briggs & Co., Holyoke, South Hadley, Receipt
1870. The documents include As a single-fold 9 3/4" x 7 3/4" hand written pledge petition beginning with "We the undersigned interested in a Bridge between Holyoke & South Hadley Falls promise to pay the amount opposite our respective names for the purpose of processing plans and making surveys for.....
Price: $275.00
Land development, menu
The banquet was held under the auspices of the Tax Payer’s Association. The first page of the menu is an image from a photograph of Geissenhainer. The second page is a tribute acknowledging Geissenhainer’s philanthropy, civic interests, broadmindedness…welfare and prosperity of the community in which he dwells…” The next page.....
Price: $150.00
The American Dream,Architecture and Construction, Asbestos,Great Depression,Housing and Politics
Stratford, Connecticut: Tilo Roofing Company, 1930s. A promotional booklet for Tilo brand shingles and siding, featuring a rosy and idealized image of an American family in front of their country house. Markets the products as beautiful, durable, lasting, and cost-effective. Includes color images of the products. Note the inclusion of.....
Price: $125.00
Land Development, History of Providence, Surveying
Providence, Rhode Island: Cushing & Walling, 1848. A scaled plan for land development by Providence-based surveyors Cushing & Walling, showing several lots off North Main Street including "A.E. Arnold's Store", "Aborn's Store", the "Jackson Estate", and four other lots owned by Arnold and Aborn. Measures 7.5" by 12.75", plans in.....
Price: $200.00
Surveying, Record keeping, History of Maine
[Greenville, Maine]: 1854. A handmade pocket record book owned by Jeremiah Varney (d.1893), a surveyor for the town of Greenville, Maine. Includes 3 pp. of handwritten instructions signed in ink by the town assessors, Stephen Darling and Edmund Scammus[?]. Includes a record of poll, personal estate, and real estate taxes.....
Price: $250.00
Cemeteries,Public Institutions and Services
Chicago, Illinois: Cemetery Beautiful Publishing Co., 1915. A scarce guide to cemetery management, covering the following topics: a history of cemeteries and interment; how to plan the perfect cemetery (location, topography, drainage, landscaping etc.); flowers; cremation; primate mausoleums; accounting for small cemeteries; perpetual care funds; organization and ownership; rules and.....
Price: $150.00
historical memorabilia, advertising, travel & tourism, Newton
Newton, MA: Newtonville Library Association, INC, 1939. A short booklet advertising the town of Newton, MA, both to tourists and potential new citizens. The majority of the booklet features a historical sketch of the town which delves into the different time periods in the town's history, often providing printed black.....
Price: $150.00
Real Estate, Land Development, History of Brooklyn
Brooklyn, New York: c1911. A window into the ever-shifting built landscape in Brooklyn, New York, in the first half of the twentieth century: an illustrated circular advertising the sale of a large building at the southwest corner of Schenectady Avenue and Herkimer Street in Stuyvesant Heights, circa 1911, owned by.....
Price: $135.00
Land Development, Land Plat, Historical Memorabilia
Philadelphia, PA: 1865. A 10 1/2" x 32" Plan of the Estate of Thomas Woodward, deceased, in the Twenty-fourth Ward, Philadelphia. To be sold at 12 O'clock noon at the Phila. Exchange, by M. Thomas & Son, Auctioneers. Plat by M. H. Traubel. Well annotated and marked. Watercolor highlights. Woodward.....
Price: $225.00
Land Promotion, Women's Work, Louisiana
Louisiana Building, 1882. 4 pp promoting the city of Lake Charles and the surrounding area. The cover depicts an image from a photograph of tropical fruit and verses by Longfellow and Townsend. Presented by Miss Della A. Neal, Parish Delegate. Includes information on Rivers, Timber, Prairie, The lay of the.....
Price: $225.00
South Dakota, immigration, advertising, agricultural, land development, map
Aberdeen, SD: American Publishing Co., [1910]. A fold out brochure advertising land development and immigration to South Dakota. The full title of this pamphlet is: "South Dakota The Land of Sunshine, Fertile Fields, Mountains of Gold, Silver and Precious Metals and Happy People People : Offers You a Place...
Price: $125.00
Land Development, Washington DC,
Washington DC: E. R. Marden, 1911. A 23 1/2" x 22" color land development plat for Villa Park Heights Washington DC. This was a proposed development between Eastern Avenue on the north and Bunker Road on the south, It also included McKinley Circle. The narrative describes how it is some.....
Price: $325.00
Urban Development,Atlantic City,Vacation Destinations
Atlantic City, New Jersey: Atlantic City Daily Press, 1902. Original illustrated poster and price list, advertising prospective lots in the West Atlantic development in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Styled as the "Venice of America", the new development hoped to target the upper class, in search of a European-esque summer holiday.....
Price: $350.00