Search Results: Titles starting with M from Martin Hartzold

Norristown, Pennsylvania: Wildman Manufacturing Co., (ca. 1940). Approximately 11 1/2" x 9" brown card folder with typed label to front. Brass tack binding holding 82 paper leaves with cyanotype print and photographs to rectos only. Mild handling wear, occasional soiling from handling and use. Overall good-plus. A technical manual published by the Wildman Manufacturing Co. of Norristown, Pennsylvania referencing its "TWD" hosiery knitting machine. Three table of contents leaves precede a full-page photographic view of a complete example of the machine followed by dozens of exploded diagram prints of individual components, a few printed data tables, etc... An unusual example of cyanotype printing and photography used to sriking effect.

[Temperance, Michigan], (1954). Single sheet broadside event poster. Approximately 17" x 11" spirit-duplicated to recto only. Address label and postage marks to verso. Storage folds and small staple punctures from original mailing. Some moderate handling and age wear alogn with a small section of loss from lower left corner. Overall about good only. An original event poster heralding a "Field Meet" staged by the Blackhawk Motorcycle Club in Bedford Township, Michigan, immediately north of the Ohio border and just east of old U.S. Highway 23 / Lewis Ave. (as illustrated by a neatly drawn map at lower right). The poster depicts a rider losing control of a bike in a hill climb above the image of a trophy and the afore-mentioned map. A 2013 article on the Club in the Toledo Blade noted the AMA-sanctioned Club formed in 1943 and maintains a clubhouse near the site of this field meet in Temperance. A graphically appealling, llikely unique survivor from the postwar boom in motorcycle club culture in… Read More

St. Louis, Missouri , (ca. 1918-1940). Two ruled ledger books. THE FIRST: 12 1/2" x 8 1/2" gray cloth over boards with marooon calf at spine corners. 200 numbered pages full with manuscript entries. Dozens of scrap manuscript notes, printed business cards, etc... laid-in. Binding nearly failed from being laid flat. Gatherings coming loose from one another, but most contents, apart from a few stray loose leaves, servicably holding together. THE SECOND: 12" x 7 1/2." Printed card wraps. 88 numbered pages full with manuscript entries. Card wraps almost entirely split along spine. Mild to moderate handling wear. A few manuscript scraps laid-in loose. Overall each solidly good or better with legibility about the same. A pair of manuscript ledgers recording visits of patients to the office of Dr. G. William Poehl (1887-1971) from about 1918 to 1940. Located at 5101A Delmar Blvd. on the city's north side and about two blocks east of St. Luke’s Hopital, Poehl's practice seems to have been a general one,… Read More