[Photograph Album]

HOLMES FAMILY PHOTO ALBUM: KANSAS, NEW MEXICO, CALIFORNIA, OREGON, WASHINGTON

Portland, Oregon: Woodard Clarke & Co. Chemists, (n.d.). C. 1895-1898. Period brown pebbled cloth album with blind-stamped panels, white moire paste downs. [48] pp. ms annotations in pencil. 153 original b/w silver gelatin photographs, all about 4" x 3-1/4"-5" x 3 1/2", mounted. Oblong format: 11 1/4" x 15-1/4". Boards a bit soiled/frayed, some splitting at joints, lower board detached, photos are still quite clear, with a few faded to yellow; overall VG. A unique collection of photos from the lives and travels of R. J. Holmes and family, who would go on to found a successful coal and ice company in Portland. The album includes many one-of-a-kind views of homes in Kansas City, historic sites in Las Vegas, New Mexico, and homes, businesses and scenic views of Portland, Oregon. Notably, the photos include the flooding of the Wilamette River in downtown Portland, ships and coastal shots from the Southern Washington coast, winter scenes and many beautiful formal and informal portraits of the Holmes family including but not limited to travel, leisure and work. Not all of the photos are annotated, but many include the names of family members, dates and locations. This album beautifully preserves a glimpse of life during this period and many important landmarks along the Western United States at the turn of the century.

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Book number: 47659

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[Photo Album]

JAPANESE PHOTO ALBUM. 19th C.

(n. p.): , (n. d.). Ca. late 19th C. Housed in a period maroon lacquered-finish accordian-style photo album. 39 hand-colored albumen photographs, mounted . Most not captioned. Oblong format: 6" x 7-3/4". Photo size: 3-9/16" x 5-3/8". Some wear to cover corners, primarily upper. Occasional foxing. Photographs range in quality to clear & sharp to somewhat faded. Overall, a VG item. Nice album of divers scenes in Japan, depicting various aspects of Japanese life, scenery & nature.

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Book number: 36270

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[Photograph Album]

On BOARD The SS MONGOLIA. San Francisco to New York, via the Panama Canal

: , 1925. Commerical black pebbled leather screw-post binder. 28 leaves of black construction paper, the first with an introductory 5 line verse & graphic [in white ink]. 27 leaves with 2 b/w photographs [4-1/2" x 3-3/8"] per side [= 108 photos]. Numerous blank leaves at rear. Captioning to approximately 20% of the images. Map of journey affixed to inside of front cover. Oblong format: 8-1/8" x 11-3/4". General wear to album covers. Some photographs show a bit of fading & yellowing, though most quite clear. Overall, Very Good. A family of 5's photo-record of a trip starting from San Francisco March 21st, through the Panama Canal, to the west of Cuba, then up the east Coast to New York, arriving April 8th. Photos show all aspects of the journey, from those involved ["Our taxi-driver on Twin Peaks - San Francisco"], to picturesque scenry [train station at "Observatory on Mt. Tamalpais"], to aspects of the ship ["On the port side, looking toward sherry. The bar is astern .."].

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Book number: 39041

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[Souvenir Photo Album]

SOUVENIR Of ... ... SACRAMENTO, CAL ... Photo-Gravures

Brooklyn, N.Y.: A. Wittmann / Albertype Co, (n. d.). Ca 1901. Rocq 6984. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with silver stamping to front cover. Brown cord tie. Blue 'burlap' paper paste-downs. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Title leaf [verso blank]. 24 b/w Albertype captioned images on 19 leaves. Last a panormanic fold-out of the city, as seen from the Capitol. Oblong format: 5-3/8" x 7-1/4". Modest binding wear. A VG - VG+ copy.

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Book number: 35384

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[Photograph Album]

TRAVEL PHOTO ALBUM: CALIFORNIA, NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA, KANSAS, ALABAMA AND TEXAS

(n. p.): , (n. d.). C. 1899 - 1902. Period red cloth album with "Photographs" stamped in silver to the upper board, white moire endpapers. [48] pp. ms annotations in pencil. 91 original b/w photographs, all about 3-1/8" x 3-1/8", slipped under the leaves into square frames, one b/w photo postcard slipped in. Oblong format: 7" x 11-1/2". Boards a bit soiled/frayed, photos are still quite clear, with a few faded to yellow (a few of the portraits at the end); overall VG. A wonderful collection of photos from a family's travels. Most of the photos are from the Bay Area, with some from New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas, Alabama, and some unidentified; some are portraits. Over 35 photographs taken in California including the cities of Oakland, Fresno, San Francisco and Alden. There are several photographs taken in Kansas including photos taken in Topeka, Osage City and Kansas City. Not all of the photographs are annotated, however there are photos of the canyons of Arizona, "Mexican Hut" and "Prairie Scene" in New Mexico, boats and ships in the San Francisco Bay, trains in California, Kansas and Texas, buildings and street scenes in California and Kansas and informal portraits including sailors, and a ship's captain (of whom the album's creator seems to have had a close relationship). Some notable subjects include: "Claremont Ave. Alden," "Sutros Residence," "Collis P. Huntington Residence," several shots of "Cliff House," several shots of the "Bay of San Francisco," "Broadway, Oakland," "Capt. Ainsworth Residence," "Station Signal tower and Ferry House," "Fresno, Cal. at the Station of S.P.R.R." and many more. These unique photos offer a one-of-a-kind glimpse into the history of those regions, especially the Bay Area pre-1906 earthquake.

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Book number: 44995

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[Photograph Album]

USS GENERAL WILLIAM A MANN (AP 112). Slow Boat From China

: , 1948. Photographs mounted in a twin-screwpost commercial photograph album. 30 leaves of black mounting-stock paper. 118 b/w photographs [evidence of some removed], plus 10 RPPCs. Most photographs captioned, as are all RPPCs. Album: 7-1/2" x 10-3/4". Images mainly 2-1/2" x 3-1/4" [xx] and 3-1/2" x 5-1/8". Album lacks front cover. General signs of use to mounting leaves. About VG. Images generally clear & sharp, overall VG - VG+. The "General W. A. Mann, a P2-type troopship, was built by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Kearny, New Jersey, in 1942–43 and commissioned on the date of acquisition, 13 October 1943, Comdr. Paul S. Maguire, USNR, in command.. From 2 November 1945 to 5 January 1946 she made a round trip voyage from Seattle to Nagasaki and Wakayama, Japan, setting the pattern of a series of "Magic Carpet" passages and "Diaper Runs" in which servicemen and their families were carried to and from the Far East. She stood duty as a "Guam Ferry" and continued to transport men and material until transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service in October 1949." [Wiki] This photo album, obviously compiled by one of the ship's enlisted crew, documents one such voyage in 1948. And while there are a goodly number of photographs depicting the sailor's crewmate's [e.g. "Doc Moose" & "Chief Dees (The Slave Driver)"], there are also a significant number depicting the ship & shipboard life ["Doctor and Chief Rankin Stacking the Chow", "Captain's Inspection Aboard the Mann", & "One of the Main Engine Rooms on the Mann"], other vessels [e.g. "S.S. Cleveland on her Maiden Voyage", "Tin Can at Pearl Harbor" & "Sea Plane Tender at San Diego"], and places visited on the voyage [e.g. "Tied up at Pearl Harbor", "Comming [sic] Up The Wangpoo River to Shanghia China" & "Anchored Out in Manila Bay in the Phillippines"]. Most of the RPPCs depict life in Hawaii [e.g. "Banana Tree", "Kau Kau Corner, Honolulu" & "Hula Girls & Canoe"]. All-in-all, a nice visual record documenting this ship's 1948 voyage.

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Book number: 43981

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[Photograph Album]. Andretti, Mario [b. 1940]; Rutherford, Johnny [b. 1938]; Lammers, Jan [b. 1956]; Arnoux, Rene [b. 1948] - Pictured racer(s)

NASCAR WINSTON CUP STOCK CAR RACE - 1981 [accompanied by] GRAND PRIX WEST FORMULA ONE - 1981

Riverside International Raceway / Long Beach, California: , 1981. Housed in a generic commercial dual screw-post vinyl album, marbled off-white with triple gold perimeter rule to covers. 18 leaves of clear plastic mounting leaves, 12 images per leaf. Laid-in are 2 additional [one of Rutherford in his Penzoil 5 car]. The preponderance of images depict the cars on track. 96 color 3-1/2" x 4-7/8" snapshots of the Winston Cup race; 122 color -1/2" x 4-7/8" snapshots of the GPW. All apparently uncaptioned, though some with numbers inked on the verso. Album: 11-7/8" x 12-1/2". Minor wear & soiling to album - VG+. Photos sharp, with little wear or fading - Nr Fine. Riverside International Raceway (sometimes known as RIV, RIR, or Riverside Raceway) was a race track or road course in Riverside, California. The track was in operation from September 22, 1957, to July 2, 1989. The NASCAR championship race was held at RIR from 1981 - 1987. Cars pictured in the RIR segment: 88, 28, 43, 11, 21, 2, 48, 42, 2, 90, 5, 15 [Melling], & 44. Formula One race cars pictured include: ATS [9, Lammers], Renault [15, Prost; 16, Arnoux], Gitanes, Ferrari/Fiat [27, 28], Fittapaldi, Leyland, Marlboro/Alfa Romeo [22, Andretti, 4th place], Michelob, Tyrrell [3, Cheever, 5th place], Ragno, Parmalat, Moulin Rouge & others. RIR photographs identified by prior owner [though the specific Riverside race that year not known]; date of GPW images inferred primarily by Lammers, who raced for ATS only in 1980/81, and Anroux, who drove for Renault.

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Book number: 42763

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Anonymous

SILVER GELATIN PHOTOGRAPH. B. C. Electric Rly. Co. Observation Car. Vancouver, B. C. 1927. "Teddy" Lyons, Conductor

Vancouver, B.C.: B. C. Electric Railway Co, 1927. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Oblong format: 3-3/4" x 9-1/4". Light wear to edges. Inked '1927' to bottom right edge margin. Mount remnants to verso top. Date & Place stamp to verso. Very Good. Street scene with the open air car loaded with passengers.

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Book number: 39783

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[Class Photograph Album]. Barker, C. F. - Former Owner

BROWN UNIVERSITY. Class of '75. [Cover title]

[Providence, RI]: , 1875. 1st edition thus. 3/4 brown leather album with gilt stamped title lettering to front board. Bevelled edges. AEG. Marbled eps. 85 leaves of stiff-stock mounting board. Album contains 86 original albumen photographs, portraits 6" x 4", mounted recto-only, on a 13" x 9 mount, one photograph per leaf. The scene photographs are ~ 6" x 8". A complete list of photographs supplied on request. 13-7/8" x 10-1/4" x 2-5/8". Front board professionally reattached. A VG+ album. The album begins with a photographic image of a portrait of Nicholas Brown, a college alum, early benefactor & for whom the college was renamed in 1804, followed by 15 photographs of important Brown alumni & professors, including past presidents Francis Weyland & Ezekiel Robinson. Then comes 39 individual photographic portraits of the 1875 graduating class, the preponderance holographically signed underneath, followed by a group photograph & 3 more individuals. The album concludes with 27 captioned [save 2] images of divers college & town landmarks/scenes, such as the "Library Interior", "Hope College - East", "Butler's Exchange" [which was new in 1875], "Bay from University Hall" & "Labratory". Included in these 27 are 2 large class group photographs of the class of 1875; one of these group photographs is set on the steps of Rhode Island Hall, werein each class member is holding a stuffed animal, no doubt from the Taxidermy class. A rare item, which not only visually documents this Ivy League school & the '75 class, but also the town during this year.

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Book number: 39748

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[Air show Photo Collection]

A COLLECTION Of POLAROID'S (Primarily) Of AIR SHOWS AT MOFFETT FIELD AND TRAVIS AFB

(n.p.): , 1983. Card stock, self wrappers, each quadrant numbered (1-10, 11-20, 21-30 and 31-40), printed in white. Photographs are scotch-taped in at head of each photo. Each photo has a handwritten caption either in blue or red pencil. Tri-fold photo album. 37 color photographs. Folded: 7-1/2 x 4-1/2". Open: 7-1/2" x 18-3/4". A VG+ copy. Some rubbing to edges and corners of the album, but the photographs are NF. In this collection, there are about 30 photos of different planes, (even a couple "in flight" shots" and about 10 photos of Portland and the train cars they took to Seattle. The compiler also took a few candid photos of pilot extraordinaire Bob Hoover. He was obviously star struck as the photos consist of Mr. Hoover speaking, standing in crowd and sitting in a car! No close ups, ha! "Robert Anderson "Bob" Hoover (January 24, 1922 – October 25, 2016) was a United States Army Air Forces fighter pilot in World War II, USAF and civilian test pilot after the war, flight instructor, aviation record-setter, and air show pilot for nearly 50 years until his retirement in 1999. Known as the "pilot's pilot", Hoover revolutionized modern aerobatic flying and has been described in many aviation circles as one of the greatest pilots ever to have lived." [wiki].

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Book number: 47765

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[European Tour Photograph Album / Travel Scrapbook / Ephemera Collection]

CUNARD WHITE STAR R.M.S. BERENGERIA. New York - Cherbourg - Southampton. 1936

Divers places & locales: , 1936. All items housed in 38 clear plastic sleeves, placed in a large tan vinyl 3-ring binder. Items affixed, recto & verso, of black stiff-stock mounting paper. Binder - Nr Fine. Plastic sleeves showing just a hint of yellow tinting. Photographs & ephemera: Very Good to Nr Fine. A wonderful photograph & ephemera collection documenting an unidentified lady's summer trip aboard the R.M.S. Berengeria. This large album filled with over 210 photographic images, comprised of snapshots, commercially produced photographs, real photo postcards & half-tone images from newspapers & magazines. The ~ 75 pieces of ephemera includes tickets, menus, momentos, guide booklets, maps and even a Reichsmark Travellers Check booklet. The scrapbooks begins with boarding the R.M.S. Bererngeria [5 pp], London & England [9 pp], The Hague [4 pp], Berlin & the Olympics [13 pp], Pottsdam & Dresden [11 pp], Rhine environs [4 pp], Switzerland [8 pp], Italy [12 pp], & France & Monte Carlo [12 pp]. A nice compilation showing Europe, pre-WWII.

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Book number: 41883

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Ferroni, Ferruccio [1920 - 2007]. Amati, Silvana - Presidente de Consiglio Regionale delle Marche

PORTFOLIO Of 10 PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES. Consiglio Regionale dell Marche. Pio Soldalizio dei Piceni. 1 / 10 Luglio 1999. Roma

Rome: Consiglio regionale delle Marche, 1999. 1st edition thus. Housed in a black stiff stock paper 4-flap porfolio, with printed title onlay to front cover. 4 page introductory text [in Italian]. High-quality half-tone reproductions of 10 b/w photographs by Ferroni, as held by Archivio Gruppo MISA. Portfolio: 16" x 11-3/4". Image size: 10-3/8" x 8-1/4" [as printed on a stiff-stock glossy sheet 15-3/4" x 11-5/8"]. Portfolio shows some extremity wear & some soiling. VG. Images: bump to upper right corner, otherwise VG+. Ferroni took up photography in 1948, under the guidance of Giuseppe Cavalli. His photographs are kept in the permanent collection of the Museum Folkwang in Subjektive Pictures of Essen and at the permanent collection of the Association Photo Misa in the Museum of Modern Art and Information of Senigallia. In 1996 he was awarded with the title of "Italian Master Photographer" by FIAF and "Author of the Year 2006" by FIAF. [It Wiki]. The ten images: "Cancello bianco" [1950], "La nuvola" [1950], "Marina m. 1" [1950], "Finestra dell'Albertina Musuem" [1985], "Scultura in legno" [1985], "Composizione" [1984], "Scala con muro a Simi" [1984], "Angoscia" [1953], "Donna con gatto" [1952] & "Il cortese orologiaio" [1951]. Scarce item.

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Book number: 41967

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[Photograph]. Hammer, William

YOSEMITE. Half Dome

: , (n. d.). Ca pre_WWII (?). Framed: 21" x 17". Image: 9-1/4" x 7-1/4". Overall Very Good Plus.

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Book number: 37343

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Hannon, J. Walter [1890 - 1955]

INDIANA TELEPHONE COMPANY / BELL Services / AT&T PLANT SUPERVISOR'S ARCHIVE. Photograph albums, Labor and conference reports, trade magazines, etc., Circa 1920 - 1957

[Indianapolis, IN]: J. Walter Hannon, Indiana Telephone Company, 1955. Two black (one dark brown) flexible leatherette bindings with gilt stamped lettering to front, two albums with black cord ties. One black blind-stamped stiff cloth covered folder, one flexible black plastic folder. Loose photographs in mylar covers. 3 Photograph Albums, of varying pages. Two typewritten notebooks, one folder of Indiana journal publications laid-in, and many loose photographs and adverts. Many b/w photographs throughout albums (some sepia toned), including 28 photo postcards; most group company photographs commercial, remaining photographs by Hannon(?) or perhaps a company photographer. Nine loose 8" x 10" original photos, six 2.5" x 4" photos tipped-in on loose board with clipping attached. Labor report with photo plates, illustrations, diagrams, numerous letters on letterhead, memos, tipped-in printed brochures, text illustrations, color illustrated wrappers. Photo Albums oblong format: (1) 10-1/2" x 13-1/2". (2) 8-1/2" x 11-1/2". (3) 10-1/4" x 13-1/2". Albums with modest rubbing to edges and light soiling/aging to covers; light musty odor; minor bumping to edges and scuffing to fore-edges. An extensive archive chronicling nearly 40 years of the Indiana history of what would become AT&T Co. during the more than half-decade career of one of the company’s Indianapolis-based plant supervisors, J. Walter Hannon. Hannon took a job at the Leavensworth, KS, telephone plant in order to pay his way through high school and college, and transferred to Indiana Telephone Co. in 1916. Over 700 b&w images provide a dense visual record of the company’s workers and operations, with a particular emphasis on the natural and manmade disasters that affected service during these years; additionally, a large framed lithograph (23-1/2â€� x 30-3/4â€�) entitled â€oeLoyalty to Public Service,â€� from 1921, is also included. Hannon’s notes, memos, and trade publications offer an accompanying, if far from complete, documentary record of company policies and internal workings. The photograph albums and loose photos are the undeniable heart of the archive. The first album, which includes a few leaves of personal photographs, depicts Hannon early in his career, showing both the young man and the still fairly young telephone company at work. Photos include images of laborers — including at least two female workers — digging ditches for conduit pipes and laying lines of cable across muddy fields and beside city streets; cutting and erecting telephone poles; repairing ice-laden telephone wires, etc. Several views are included of the destruction following the F3 or F4 tornado that ripped through Indianapolis on May 18, 1927, destroying over 400 homes in the eastern part of the city and doing considerable damage to the area’s telephone wiring. The second album covers the Anderson, IN fire that decimated the building housing the city’s telephone switchboard, as well as the department store in which the fire began and several doctors’ and dentists’ offices, on January 29, 1934, and the third album is almost entirely devoted to recording the effects of the Ohio River Flood of 1937 on plant operations in Jeffersonville, IN. Jeffersonville was heavily submerged, but fared better than some: water levels reached nearly 54’ in Evansville, IN, during the flood, causing the city to declare martial law, and reached 80’ in Cincinnati. Images include telephone crews boating to work and rowing out to half-submerged telephone poles; discussing engineering problems at the â€oeLog Cabin,â€� where ~300 workers were housed and fed in dormitories during and after the flood (including one of the â€oebarâ€� at Log Cabin, which the Index notes was the â€oe[d]raft table during weekdays. Altar on Sundaysâ€�); the workers’ in their dorms; and much more. Accompanying the albums are Hannon’s notes and reports, as well as various trade publications. Of particular interest, given AT&Ts long resistance to labor unions, is a note in Hannon’s hand from a 1926 conference that â€oe[o]rganized labor gave more production & share of profits […] get into larger connecting(?) co’s firstâ€� (AT&T instituted Employees’ Committees around this time, which the Wagner Act of 1935 ruled were illegal); later reports and a binder of internal memos from 1950 on labor, equipment and cost efficiency make up the remaining portion of Hannon’s personal material in the archive. Full list of material available upon request.

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Book number: 41459

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[Photograph Album]. Harvey, Farrell E. - Compiler [inferred]

U.S.S. ALGONQUIN C. G. 328 Black & White Images

[Seattle, WA]: , 1930. Brown suede album with hand-painted suede covers with suede ties, with front cover having a hand-printed title "Photographs U.S.S. Algonquin C.G." & Coast Guard emblem. 10 pp. autographs pages, unused except for five penciled names (all dated 1930) + 40 leaves of black mounting paper, unpaginated, with last two leaves unused. Images mostly snapshot size of 2-1/2" x 3-1/2", or 3-/12" x 4-1/2". Laid in: A menu from Thanksgiving dinner 1929, one 5" x 7" portrait of the crew, two 8" x 10" photographs, and a 1955 official's Seattle Gold Cup committee ribbon [with Harvey's name-tag at top]. Oblong format: 8" x 11-1/2". Album edgeworn; leaves quite fragile at the gutter, causing many to be detached or nearly so, though all leaves appear to be present. Photographs generally Very Good or better. Overall, Good condition. An extensive, albeit unofficial, visual record of life aboard the USS Algonquin, commissioned as a Revenue Cutter in 1897 and retired late in 1930. The Algonquin operated along the East Coast of the United States with additional assignments in the West Indies and the Gulf of Mexico. Later, in cooperation with the U.S. Navy at the onset of World War I, the Algonquin patrolled and defended Chesapeake Bay, with subsequent assignment to European waters, escorting over 750 ships safely in her rounds between Gibraltar, England and the Azores. In 1919, the Algonquin was transferred to the West Coast, assigned to the 13th Naval District, which meant patrolling the Pacific Northwest, as well as the islands and coast of Alaska, which included protection of endangered seals. Evidence suggests this album compiled by Farrell Harvey, a documented Algonquin crewman [F 1c] during the late 20s/early 30s, while the ship was stationed in the PNW. These primarily uncaptioned photographs illustrate the rough and ready life of sailors such as Harvey during their shipboard tour, with divers images of the crew, their drills and daily tasks, and significant occasions such as the Equatorial Line Crossing Ceremony. Many photographs show sister ships and other vessels, coastline scenery, whaling, and people encountered in the tropics and divers scenes while patrolling along the Pacific Northwest Coast. A wonderful primary source for seeing the life of a Coastie aboard a cutter during the late 1920s, and into the beginning of the 1930s.

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Book number: 36814

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