Various places, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. Small chip from top of back cover. 60pp occupied; pictorial items throughout. Grace Adams got around. The memorabilia in her scrapbook comprise many photographs, menus, postcards, brochures, souvenirs, etc. Her extensive collection of ephemera from her student life on college campuses includes professional photographic views, course materials, social life and activities, candid shots, etc., beginning in 1935 at the University of Maine.1936, University of New Hampshire.1937, Univ of Virginia.1938, Univ of Wisconsin. Her vacation material includes brochures, paper mementos and photos from Ocean City, New Jersey, a 1940 cruise to Havana, a 1941 cruise to Quebec and Montreal, and a 1948 cruise to Nassau and Bermuda. Also present is material from Orono and Bangor, Maine; Skyline Drive, Virginia; Wisconsin Dells; caverns; etc. Wherever she went, Grace gathered mementos of her trip and pasted them into this scrapbook. Bound in cork covers with cork cutouts of geese in flight mounted on the front, comb-back binding. 13.5" x 10.5". (more information)

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Not published, 1981. Original. Soft Cover. Good. Pictorial paper covers are pocket-worn. Approx 60+ pages, handwritten, few drawings in text. Subjects include: explosives, antitank weaponry, camouflage, hand signals, capturing enemy soldiers, nuclear-biological warfare, etc. 5.5" x 3.25". (more information)

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New York State: Not published, 1935. Original. Soft Cover. Very Good. 12 pocket-sized volumes, 200-300pp in all, entries in pencil. Tells what he planted and when, which fields, direction of rows, fertilizer tests, cold frames, harvest yields, etc. 6" x 3.5". (more information)

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Fort Benning, Georgia: Not published, 1970. Original. Soft Cover. Good. Pictorial paper covers and text are shaken. 94pp; handwritten, few drawings in text. Subjects include: first aid, weaponry, camouflage, explosives, poison and gas antidotes, evasion techniques, etc. Good detail. 5.5" x 3.25". (more information)

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Chicago: Consolidated Book, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Designed as a diary for men and women serving in World War II. Barth's handwritten entries occupy 8 pages, are limited to May 4-13, 1943, and are of considerable interest. He was called for active service on March 19, 1943 and classified as a navigator in the Army Air Corps on April 4th. In addition to the names and addresses of a few buddies he has met (Barth himself hails from 326 W. Fishers Avenue, Philadelphia), the diary entries occupy five pages in blue ink while he is stationed at Nashville, Tennessee. He is ill on May 4th, so he "accepts a job as Barracks orderly" and sleeps most of the day. He talks about dinner with a civilian family which he cannot attend, parting with buddies who are shipping out, etc. On garden detail on May 5th, he muses over why he hasn't been paid after 46 days in the service. His health improves and he spends a lot of time marching in formation: "All this constructive exercise is ultimately for the purpose of destruction." He goes with a buddy to the West End of Nashville for an evening but can't pick up any women, even at the bowling alley. On May 11th, during dinner at a civilian's home, he meets a girl who is a minister's daughter--"but cooperative all the same." By May 13th, on a company hike, he learns that shipping orders have come through, "open port" has been canceled, and his unit is "pulling out" for foreign ports unknown. This brief record offers insight into the stateside experiences of an intelligent, humorous draftee in the days before he is shipped overseas and the diary ends. 6" x 4.25". (more information)

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Norwich, CT, 1927. Full-Leather. Very Good. The entries are in a small, neat hand, in blue ink, and are easy to read. Begins March 25, 1927: "Bought Marmon [automobile] - list $1,895 - 3% war tax, $56.85 - freight, $71 - extra tire & cover, $27.15 - total $2,050." Records 11 grease & oil changes during the year: mileages, gasoline bought, etc. "Bought Little Marmon No. 808895 from Mr. Beach, N. London, speedometer read 6.Arrive Norwich 27.Alice short ride 30.Bill Spalding short ride 50." The next 27 pages document where Mr. Cardwell drove, and with whom, including a trip to Plymouth and Cape Cod, &c., and finally reaching 8173 on the speedometer by the end of December. This is an excellent record of the costs incurred in buying and maintaining a car in the US in 1927. 4.5" x 2.5". (more information)

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Pawtuxet Cove, Rhode Island, 1950. Original cloth. Very Good. Manuscript, 365pp of entries. Gardiner, a known artist, made each page of the diary serve ten years of entries by drawing horizontal lines between her 10 entries on each date. Laid in are various handwritten slips recording highlights of trips to: Maine; New Hampshire; Putney, VT; Northampton, MA; Kingston, RI; etc. Also laid in are news clips, a child's letter, a watercolor of an animal, etc. Gardiner's hand is eccentric but readable, mostly written in black or blue ink. Although she is 69 in the first year of the diary (1940) and 79 in the final year, Ms. Gardiner is active in the art community. She exhibits at the Providence Art Club as well as at shows and museums in other cities. She is still creating woodblock prints, pastels, and paintings. The diary details her progress on various (titled) works, tells who bought them, where they will be shown, etc. Early in 1940, for example, she "traced and at last began to carve" a print, "corrected block and made trial print," "cut mats and worked on head again," "worked a little on pastel background," "framed picture `Sun in Meadow,'" sold "shoemaker print to C. Metcalf," "made decision at last for R.I. Artist show--circus elephant print, `Little Spec', pastel of Sally," &c., &c. Besides her artistic life, Gardiner gives many details of her private life, creating a picture of a woman who cares deeply for friends and family, who loves animals and buys meat for stray dogs, who is an avid bird-watcher, gardener, church- and funeral-goer, etc. She also reports on her own health and the health of her friends, keeps track of visits and calls, &c. During the years of World War II, world events creep into her record. 9" x 5.5". (more information)

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Holliwood: Not published, 1926. Original. Hardcover. Good. Gilt-pictorial leather binding, worn at edges. Headpiece illus throughout; 30pp of entries. Many of the guests are repeat visitors from various places in Minnesota, Milwaukee, Chicago, etc. Sample comments: "a palace at the Hollisters"; "Holliwood is an ideal place to spend a vacation"; "Boy, those eats"; "What a lake!"; various references to fishing in the lake; "Sept. 3, 1939--England declared war on Germany--When and how will it end?"; etc. 8.25" x 7". (more information)

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Hornellsville, NY: Tuttle & Bunnell, Printers, 1902. First Edition. Full-Leather. Good. pp: 45 + 97; engraving of locomotive. Bound in the original wallet-style case of cordovan leather; carried in a pocket and showing some signs of use. Begins with 45 pages of printed text, ".giving the Proper Method of Firing both Bituminous and Anthracite Coal, together with Rules for Operating the Westinghouse Air & American Steam Brakes.also Rules regarding Accidents to the Locomotive." Following the text are 97 pages of handwritten time and cash accounts, kept by Engineer G.C. Northrop, giving day-by-day details of engine numbers, miles run, times, names of conductors and engineers/firemen, embarkation points and destinations. Also filled in is the section of cash accounts (dates, amounts owed and received, payees, etc.). Finally, several pages contain notes on railroad happenings in 1905-1906 (personnel hurt, killed, buried). 6.5" x 4". (more information)

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Various Places, 1958. leatherette. Very Good. 131pp, hand written. Mrs. Larson's accounts of meals, souvenirs, hotels and prices are detailed. She takes lots of photos on this trip and makes extensive tours on foot. After a one-week sail on the SS Saturnia, she arrives at Lisbon, tours the city, comments on the food, then goes by seaplane to Funchal, Madeira and spends 12 days there, taking snapshots, enjoying cocktails and dinners, and nightclubbing with new acquaintances (including one man whom she describes in her pre-diary notes as "homosexual mink"). Then it's on to Las Palmas, Canaries by seaplane, a car-tour to Tejedas, detals of banana plantations in Arucas, etc. After a brief stay at Tenerife, she bums a free ride back to Las Palmas on a German freighter. On March 26, she flies to Madrid, then back to Lisbon, and a "trip north" by car to Aljubarrata, Bussaco, Coimbra and Fatima, returning to Madrid. Then she's off on an "Andalusia trip" including Seville and Merida, a bus tour to Granada and Cordoba, and on to Alicante, Valencia and Barcelona (bullfight, dining with sailors, nightclubbing, &c.). After sightseeing in Segovia and Avila, she flies to Rome, entrains for Florence, on to Naples, an "Amalfi drive" to Sorrento and Pompeii, then off to Capri. Finally, she trains back to Rome, flies to Paris (Lido and Follies), then by train to Brussels and the Exposition, a Cook's tour of Bruges and Ghent, flight back to Paris, and home. As an unsophisticated but eager traveler, Mrs. Larson offers an interesting point-of-view. 6.75" x 4". (more information)

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Various Places, 1954. Buckram. Very Good. Buckram binding with pencil. 96pp, handwritten. On the first leg of her trip, Mrs. Larson flies from Chicago to Shannon and on to Geneva, Lucerne, Innsbruck, Salzburg, etc. An avid photographer, she tours Geneva by bus and on foot, with boat trips to Montreux and Castle Chillon, taking pictures all the way. Then she goes by train to Interlaken and the top of the Jungfrau, then on to Lucerne. After a day there, she entrains for Zurich, then on to Innsbruck [details], then to Salzburg (Eagle's Nest and Heilbrun Castle), and on to Vienna. After several days in the city and a tour of the Vienna Woods, she's off to Paris and a buying spree as well as a sightseeing binge. Finally, she flies out of Orly to Shannon, buys liquor, and returns to Chicago. Mrs. Larson is not an educated sightseer, but her travel diary does contain a lot of particulars about how a woman travels alone on a budget, including many prices, tips re hotels and transportation, etc. Her accounts tend to be interesting. She meets a divorced film star, a US Army field nurse, a Sicilian from Washington, a Swedish couple who detail their travel plans, etc. Of special interest are her descriptions of the post-WWII US Army presence in European cities. She has problems with Russian soldiers in Vienna (take their picture and they take you prisoner, etc.). In Salzburg, which she notes is US Army Headquarters, she "saw only one negro with a white girl. They say there is an awful lot of it." Her driver in Salzburg tries to con her into getting their group into a movie theater for US forces. She and the Army nurse do shop at the PX in Vienna, etc., etc. 6.5" x 4". (more information)

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Berkeley Univ of California Press 1945., 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Spine gilt dull, else in very good condition. 9.5" x 6" pp: xiv, 383 Has index. Contains thousands of annotated entries. First Edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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Grantsville, MD: Not published, 1897. Original. Hard Cover. Good. Some wear to spine and edges. 100+ pp of entries for Miller's "Cornucopia Farm," which bred barred plymouth rock hens, mammoth bronze turkeys, and silver pencilled wyandottes. All entries in this book relate to accounts for fowl and eggs sold by the Farm to various individuals. Laid in are a Cornucopia Farm illustrated envelope (unused), L.J. Miller's hand-calligraphed business card, and other ephemeral items. 12.5" x 7.75". (more information)

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Columbus, OH: Not published, 1908. Original. Hardcover. Good. Two volumes, leather spines and corners worn, contents in very good condition. pp: 200 + 295. All of the pages are filled with handwritten entries. The Auxiliary, who met at Memorial Hall in Columbus, had as their main purpose: "Loyalty to their beloved flag and the Spanish War Veterans." These books contain complete, formal minutes, handwritten by several secretaries over the years. Included are: elections of officers; reports of the officers as well as the chaplain, conductor, pianist, etc.; reports on parties, lectures, fundraisers, bazaars, services, card club, and many ritual ceremonies. An extensive record of this women's group. 10.5" x 8". (more information)

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