Search Results: Titles starting with P from Kurt A. Sanftleben, LLC

New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, 1923.
This 8" x 6" album contains 37 b/w photographs, each measuring approximately 4.75" x 3". The crisp, well-composed snapshots are chronologically arranged and neatly glued to the album pages. Most have been captioned in white, but much of the writing has faded.
In addition to the rugged workmen, equipment, and environment of 1920s oil fields, these images show the men's Model T Ford, roadside tent camping, and a big campsite at Cleveland's Euclid Beach Park. Ohio became home to one of the first oil booms in the United States in the 1860s after a blacksmith, William Jeffrey, drilled a successful well in Trumbull County. The discovery of oil near Woodville in 1892 started a boom that lasted until 1905 by which time the area was mostly drained although drilling and pumping continued in a few of the area's fields.
A historically valuable visual record of life as a traveling roughneck in the eastern oil fields.
Rather scarce. At the time of this listing, no other Ohio… Read More

St. Louis, 1936. Unbound. Very good. The advertising proof shows a portrait photograph of Mr. August Siever and announces that he has left his position as the manager of the Geo. D. Fisher Optical Co. and is now associated with the Optical Serice Company located on the 2nd Floor of the Missouri Theater Building. Siever has confirmed approval of the advertisement with his signature. The 7" x 5" photograph of the Optical Service Company shows its interior with Siever and another white-coated optician fitting one patient for eyeglasses while another looks on. The advertising proof is tipped onto the reverse of the photograph. Both are in nice shape.