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KINNE'S IMPROVED ENGINEMEN'S GUIDE, TIME AND POCKET BOOK: Showing a Practical Way of Becoming a First-Class Fireman by Kinne, George R
First Edition
- Bookseller: R & A Petrilla, Booksellers
 (US)
- Bookseller Inventory #: BOOKS008492I
- Format/binding: Full-Leather
- Book condition: Good
- Quantity available: 1
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Tuttle & Bunnell, Printers
- Place: Hornellsville, NY
- Date published: 1902
- Keywords: MANUSCRIPTS, TECHNOLOGY, RAILROADS, ENGINEERS, FIREMEN, TRAINS, NEW YORK STATE, HANDWRITTEN
- Subjects:
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Paper Ephemera;
Book Description
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
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