Search Results: Authors starting with C from Martin Hartzold

St. Louis, Missouri: Fulton Iron Works Company, (1922). Slightly larger than 11" x 8." 32pp. Illustrated stiff card wrappers. Spanish language text. Illustrated in halftone photographs throughout. Some mild handling wear to exterior, occasional stray pencil markings to contents. Overall clean, solidly very good. An unusual Spanish language trade catalog issued by the St. Louis-based Fulton Iron Works Company, illustrating installations of its milling equipment in sugar refineries throughout Cuba. Seemingly produced for the Latin American market, it is an attractive, neat survivor demonstrating the global reach of St. Louis industry. Appears unrecorded.

Chicago, Illinois: Standard School Heater Company, [ca. 1913]. Wraps. 12 1/4" x 9." 12 leaves: [6]pp. of text plus 6 illustrated plates. Red printed paper wrappers with black lettering to front. String-bound at left margin. Wrappers fragile, flaking a bit at edges and stressed at string binding. Faint finger smudging, staining about edges of first text leaf, otherwise contents neat, bright. Overall very good. [WITH] Two tack-bound booklets of blueprint drawings (three prints in each, for a total of six blueprints). An early 20th Century trade catalog promoting the National Series of coal and wood burning furnaces produced by the Standard School Heater Company of Chicago to be utilized in forced air heating and ventilation systems in schools. Sales text promotes the products superior "sanitation" versus traditional classroom stoves and radiant heatres prevalent at the time and further notes the use of asbestos insulation. The addition of six blueprint drawings further illustrates technical product… Read More

[Albertville, Alabama], [ca. 1988-1989]. Commercial sticky-page photo album. Approximately 10 3/4" x 11 1/2." Smooth faux-snakeskin printed vinyl over boards with gilt bordering to front. Metal snap-ring binder inside with 17 adhesive card leaves with plastic overlays holding 121 color snapshot photographs (most 3 1/2" x 4 1/2", a few cut down smaller). 20 additional loose snapshots, 2 color enlargements and a few event programs laid-in loose. Well preserved. Very good or better throughout. A striking vernacular snapshot album compiled by a teenage cheerleader in Albertville, Alabama from about 1988 to 1989. Views include local and national events, including a 1988 National Cheerleaders Association summer camp and a 1989 regional competition in Dallas, Texas. Behind-the-scenes glimpses are ocassionaly provocative, with the anonymous compiler and her cheermates scatily-clad and posing in hotel rooms, though overall the content is solidly PG-rated. Two event programs and a copy of a school newspaper… Read More

[St. Charles, Missouri]: American Car and Foundry, (1932-1940). Commercial album approximately 15" x 11." Black cloth over flexible card panels. Metal screw post binding at left margin holding 43 black paper leaves with 140 large black and white photographs adhesive mounted to rectos and versos. Strip of black cloth through post binding covering spine with lettering in white pen: "AIR. COND'T. EQUIP." Some flaking from edges of paper leaves. A couple of prints laid in loose and some cloth tape reinforcement to some leaves at hinge creases. Else very good. An engineering department reference album of the St. Charles, Missouri headquarters of the American Car and Foundry Co. holding 140 original photographs of air conditioning systems and components used in passenger railroad cars from 1932 to about 1940. The photographs are typically identified with typed specs and information providing a broad and highly technical record of the early years of mass adaptation of the now-ubiquitious use of cooling… Read More

Kahoka, Missouri, [ca. 1938-1940]. Handmade scrapbook consisting of an approximately 50pp. printed booklet and 20 leaves of black album paper, all wrapped in plain black card. First seven album leaves holding 40 snapshot and small portrait photographs. Three additional snapshots and a printed/typed discharge document laid-in loose. All about very good. A vernacular production documenting the family life and Civilian Conservation Corps service of a Claudie E. Phillips (b.1918 - d.1944), originally of Greensburg, Missouri. The volume consists of a printed series of generic blank leaves intended as a keepsake for CCC enrollees, with text and printed images specific to Camp Progress and its 3745th Company located at Kohoka, Missouri. Kahoka-specific text includes a brief history of the Camp's founding, description of its conservation work, and detailed roster of leadership and enrolees (accurate as of about 1938). Additionally laid-in and mounted are more than 40 original snapshots and small portrait… Read More

[Various, including Tuscola, Illinois], [1917-1939]. About 178 loose black and white photographs. Most drugstore print snapshots of various dimensions ranging from about 6" x 4" and 4" x 3." Several with notations to versos (and a few to image sides). Mild handling wear, overall group very good. A substantial archive of vernacular photography intimately documenting flood and water control projects on levees and farmland in the immediate Illinois and Mississippi River watersheds in the early 20th Century, from mitigation of the devastating River floods of the 1920’s to the essential and enduring farm drainage work of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Locations are plentifully identified in Central and Eastern Illinois spanning about 1917 into about 1939. Scattered ownership stamping to versos suggests these were compiled by an L.C. Craig, engineer with the state of Illinois division of waterways and later, Civilian Conservation Corps, as leader of its camp near Tuscola, Illinois during 1938-1939.… Read More

Oswego, Oregon: Carnot Press, (1976). First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 9 1/4" x 6 1/4." Full grey cloth over boards. Gilt titles to spine. In original illustrated dust jacket. Unclipped ($18.95). INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to first endpaper: "23 July 1979 / To Don Cummins - / from his "cuz" and one-time / co-worker in fuel oil & blow / down air.- / Now at last the U.S. diesel / car is here, and from what / I've heard due to a great / extent because of your own / efforts! / With warm regards, / Lyle / C. Lyle Cummins Jr." Jacket lightly edgweord with the short horizontal crease along lower front panel edge. Apart from inscription text clean, unmarked. An attractive, sound copy. Lengthy errata slip tipped onto a second endpaper in front. A family association copy of this exhaustive treatise on the history of the internal combustion engine authored by C. Lyle Cummins, Jr., son of the founder of the Cummins Engine Co. and inscribed to cousin and longtime firm engineer (son of the company's… Read More

[Savannah, Georgia]: [Gulfstream Aerospace], [2014]. Square folio presentation album. Tooled full leather over boards, "GULFSTREAM" stamped in relfective silver to front. 18 approximately 8" x 10" color photographs (likely ink-jet, archival prints) fit into recto and verso openings of 9 card leaves with all edges in silver and metal accents over corners. Stamp of photographer to interior, rear board. Some trace wear to leather of front board. Otherwise about fine throughout. A lavish corporate album done by Los Angeles-based photographer Eric Curry and commissioned by the private jet maker in 2014, likely to coincide with the rollout of the "ER" version of its $65 million business jet. Curry's "light painting" style of photography, incorporating long exposures and innovative use of lighting, quite heralded in the modern photography scene (think an honest man's Peter Lik), is on full display in this exceptional, hyper-current visual document of aviation design and American excess.