[Rarebooks] FS: Americana - A Friday Selection

Fri Jun 14 08:32:30 EDT 2019

Six Varied Americana Items-

1) 19th Century Books for Public & Private Libraries American Eagle 
Label. A dramatic paper label or plate from an unknown source, probably 
mid-19th century. About 4.75”x3.5”. Edges cut unevenly, removed from a 
scrapbook and glued to the backing paper. $20

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2) 1920s Mohican Forest Printer ‘Indian Weaving’ Promotional Card. An 
attractive card issued and printed by Joseph C. Duport promoting his 
‘Wigwam’ and announcing that indian weavings were available there. The 
March, 1913 issue of “The American Printer” has a short article about 
Duport and his Westfield, Massachusetts ‘Press in the Forest’, which 
included the hand-built ‘Seneca Wigwam’, in which he installed a small 
portable press, stove, bunks and other accouterments, which was located 
on his property, the ‘Mohican Forest’. Situated on “the main artery of 
travel between Boston and Albany”, “on the summit of an elevation called 
Acquittamang Terrace”, Duport “ordained that the motive of everything 
should be American Indian”. This card, undoubtedly printed by Duport 
himself (though probably not at the Wigwam, his main printshop was back 
in town), shows that by the 1920s he had upgraded the Wigwam to be a 
part-time store, selling “Articles of Indian Weaving”, and inviting 
visitors- “In the touring season be sure and stop off - where the rugged 
Berkshires come down to meet the fertile meadows of the Woronoco 
Valley”. In his 1920 anthology, The Best American Humorous Short 
Stories, editor Alexander Jessup notes his regret that he “was unable to 
obtain a copy of Joseph C. Duport's story, The Wedding at Timber Hollow, 
in time for inclusion, to which its merits - as he remembers them - 
certainly entitle it. Mr. Duport, in addition to his literary 
activities, has started an interesting ‘back to Nature’ experiment at 
Westfield, Massachusetts”. Altogether quite politically incorrect, but 
nonetheless charming in that oblivious and enthusiastic 1920s way.  
5.25”x3.25”. Minor soil, light wear.  $25

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3) A Discourse Delivered in Newburyport, July 4, 1814, in Commemoration 
of American Independence, and of the Deliverance of Europe. By Daniel 
Dana. Printed in Newburyport by William T. Allen in 1814. The Rev. 
Daniel Dana [1771-1859], a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1788, was a 
minister in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and served as president of 
Dartmouth from 1820 to 1821. Interestingly, though the War of 1812 was 
still ongoing there is little mention of it here, but the Rev. Dana does 
take much time to deplore the state of Europe under the heel of Napoleon 
and celebrate his overthrow at the hands of the Emperor of Russia. 
Disbound. 5.5”x8”, 20 pages. Some scattered minor wear and soil, top 
corner torn from title page. $60

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4) 1884 Portland Maine Fourth of July Celebration Expense Tally Sheet. 
Ever sit down and wonder what it cost to run a Fourth of July 
celebration in a moderate sized U.S. city in the late 19th century? 
Well, in Portland, Maine it cost $3,038.91 in 1884. This typewritten 
sheet, “Items of Expenditure for the Fourth of July Celebration”, lists 
16 separate line items, starting with “Paid on account for above 
Fantastics” ($404), and Paid for Chandlers Band” ($250), continuing 
through such items as ringing bells, decorating the hall & observatory, 
ambulances, fire works, and a lawn tennis prize, and ending with “Paid 
for work on band stand” ($28.09) and “Paid for horse and carriage hire, 
etc.” ($38). Single sheet. 8”x10”. Folds, light soil, creases, rimmed 
unevenly at the base. $50

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5) 1910s Soldiers & Young Woman w/Flag on Submarine Prop Real Photo 
Postcard. An amusing patriotic real photo postcard showing two soldiers 
and a young woman posed inside a two-part painted studio 
backdrop/foreground scene showing them riding a submarine. The soldiers 
hats suggest 1900-1915 vintage, the very crude submarine and odd 
fish-shaped “aircraft” above them suggests 1910 or so. The 30-star flag 
suggests a lack of attention to detail on the part of the 
scene-painters. Postcard. Minor soil, light wear. Unposted. $40

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6) An 1870s Cape Cod Christian Camp Ground Carpenter Card. A card for 
Nathan Bennett, “Contractor and Builder, Pleasant Avenue, Christian Camp 
Ground”, under which is written in light pencil, “Nob(?) 158 - Hyannis”. 
The Barnstable Historical Commission explains- “In 1871 The New England 
Convention of the Christian Church purchased and established a camp 
meeting known as Camp Christian on the 160 acre Perry Farm in 
Centreville. In 1872 the Christian Camp Meeting Association was 
established… Camp Christian was renamed Craigsville in 1881 in honor of 
the life and ministry of Dr. J. Austin Craig. Situated on a bluff 
overlooking Nantucket Sound, it served as a spectacular spot for a 
retreat from everyday life. Families were able to buy or lease the 288 
small lots… They initially erected tents or built small shelters, and as 
time and mean allowed, small cottages were constructed”. Card. 
2.25”x3.5”. Minor soil, 2 pencil notes. $40

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