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Original map of the northern peninsula #Michigan from 1927 in muted pastel colors with an eggshell gloss.
Map: 8" x 11"
Page: 9 5/8" x 12 ¼"
Reverse: part of Indiana
$13.50 and free shipping in the U.S. Outside the U.S., shipping is $4.00. Frame not included.
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Original map of the southern peninsula #Michigan from 1927 in muted pastel colors with an eggshell gloss.
Map: 8" x 11"
Page: 9 5/8" x 12 ¼"
Reverse: part of southern Ohio
$13.50 and free shipping in the U.S. Outside the U.S., shipping is $4.00. Frame not included.
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Original map of #Alabama from 1927 in muted pastel colors with an eggshell gloss.
Map: 8" x 11"
Page: 9 5/8" x 12 ¼"
Reverse: part of Kentucky & Tennessee
$13.50 and free shipping in the U.S. Outside the U.S., shipping is $4.00. Frame not included.
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Original map of #Minnesota from 1927 in muted pastel colors with an eggshell gloss.
Map: 8" x 11"
Page: 9 5/8" x 12 ¼"
Reverse: part of Iowa
$13.50 and free shipping in the U.S. Outside the U.S., shipping is $4.00. Frame not included.
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This is one of a series all printed on quality photographic paper. Each of the rich photographs included were hand-tinted prior to printing. They each have water stain at the bottom edge that may be evident when framed. (See photo.)
Title: Where History Was and Is Made
Date: 1915
Page: 11" x 14"
$9.00 and free shipping in the U.S. Outside the U.S., shipping is $4.00. Frame not included.
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This is one of a series all printed on quality photographic paper. Each of the rich photographs included were hand-tinted prior to printing. They each have water stain at the bottom edge that may be evident when framed. (See photo.)
Title: The East’s Enchanted Land
Date: 1915
Page: 11" x 14"
$9.00 and free shipping in the U.S. Outside the U.S., shipping is $4.00. Frame not included.
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This is one of a series all printed on quality photographic paper. Each of the rich photographs included were hand-tinted prior to printing. They each have water stain at the bottom edge that may be evident when framed. (See photo.)
Title: Scenic New England
Date: 1915
Page: 11" x 14"
$9.00 and free shipping in the U.S. Outside the U.S., shipping is $4.00. Frame not included.
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This is one of a series all printed on quality photographic paper. Each of the rich photographs included were hand-tinted prior to printing. They each have water stain at the bottom edge that may be evident when framed. (See photo.)
Title: Historic Sentinels
Date: 1915
Page: 11" x 14"
$9.00 and free shipping in the U.S. Outside the U.S., shipping is $4.00. Frame not included.
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This is one of a series all printed on quality photographic paper. Each of the rich photographs included were hand-tinted prior to printing. They each have water stain at the bottom edge that may be evident when framed. (See photo.)
Title: Beauties of the Carolinas
Date: 1915
Page: 11" x 14"
$9.00 and free shipping in the U.S. Outside the U.S., shipping is $4.00. Frame not included.
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This is one of a series all printed on quality photographic paper. Each of the rich photographs included were hand-tinted prior to printing. They each have water stain at the bottom edge that is not evident when framed.
Title: In the Great Lakes’ Country
Date: 1915
Page: 11" x 14"
$9.00 and free shipping in the U.S. Outside the U.S., shipping is $4.00. Frame not included.
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Original awesome graphics showing Population, Manufactures, and Agriculture of the U.S. from 1915 in muted pastel colors on heavy, thick, quality paper. Considerable age-toning around all the edges. Population specs listed in margin. Matte finish (no gloss).
Page: 11" x 14"
$18.00 and free shipping in the U.S. Outside the U.S., shipping is $4.00. Frame not included.
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Original awesome graphics of the Eastern Hemisphere from 1915 in muted pastel colors on heavy, thick, quality paper. Considerable age-toning around all the edges. Matte finish (no gloss).
Page: 11" x 14"
Reverse: part of map of the world
$18.00 and free shipping in the U.S. Outside the U.S., shipping is $4.00. Frame not included.
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Original awesome graphics of the Western Hemisphere from 1915 in muted pastel colors on heavy, thick, quality paper. Considerable age-toning around all the edges. Matte finish (no gloss).
Page: 11" x 14"
Reverse: Solar System and Theory of the Seasons
$18.00 and free shipping in the U.S. Outside the U.S., shipping is $4.00. Frame not included.
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Original awesome graphics of the “Solar System and Theory of the Seasons” from 1915 in muted pastel colors on heavy, thick, quality paper. Considerable age-toning around all the edges. Matte finish (no gloss).
Page: 11" x 14"
Reverse: Western Hemisphere
$18.00 and free shipping in the U.S. Outside the U.S., shipping is $4.00. Frame not included.
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Original map of New Hampshire from 1915 in muted pastel colors on heavy, thick, quality paper. Considerable age-toning around all the edges. Population specs and cities listed in margin. Matte finish (no gloss).
Map: 9 ¼" x 12 ¼"
Page: 11" x 14"
Reverse: in-depth details about the Kentucky (not TN) and its history
$16.50 and free shipping in the U.S. Outside the U.S., shipping is $4.00. Frame not included.
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Original map of #Kentucky & #Tennessee from 1915 in muted pastel colors on heavy, thick, quality paper. Considerable age-toning around all the edges. Population specs and cities listed in margin. Matte finish (no gloss).
Map: 9 ¼" x 12 ¼"
Page: 11" x 14"
Reverse: in-depth details about the Kentucky (not TN) and its history
$16.50 and free shipping in the U.S. Outside the U.S., shipping is $4.00. Frame not included.
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In honor of today’s newest Duke graduates, some lovely examples of invitations to Trinity College’s Commencement Party from the mid-to-late 1800s.
Congratulations to the Class of 2017!
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We’ve probably all done this before. While out and about, perhaps while traveling or shopping, we lay a scrap of paper inside a book. Maybe it’s a receipt for the book’s purchase, or perhaps it’s a plane ticket. Whatever it is, we probably don’t give it much thought at the time. But decades later, or even centuries, those scraps of paper can prove more fascinating than the host book itself.
Not to discount Robert McAlmon’s first book, Explorations, but what we found laid inside our 1921 first edition was far more interesting: an early advertisement for Ulysses (as it happens, McAlmon edited Joyce’s Ulyssesmanuscript).
Early press for Ulysses more commonly manifests as a four-page prospectus that included a detachable order form. There were two versions of this that indicated Ulysses would be published in “Autumn of 1921”—just like our single-leaf advertisement (the book was finally published in 1922). One of these prospectuses bore the earlier address of Shakespeare & Co., 8 rue Dupuytren. The second of these prospectuses bore the new address, 12 rue de l’Odéon. Our advertisement here has the earlier address, though corrected by hand (someone please tell us if it’s Sylvia Beach’s hand!) to reflect the new rue de l’Odéon address. So with a bit of sleuthing and some help from The Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo, we can confidently suggest that this rare Ulysses ad was printed about the same time as the first prospectus.
As you might expect, printed ephemera aren’t known for their survival skills. WorldCat locates two other copies of this particular ad, one each at Yale and Cornell. Surely there are others out there, safely filed away in archival collections—or perhaps just languishing inside an old book, a forgotten memento of a visit to a Paris bookstore in 1921.
~Patrick
This Provenance Project guest post was written by Patrick Olson, Rare Books Librarian at MSU Special Collections. Patrick joined Michigan State University in 2014, having previously held special collections positions at the University of Iowa, MIT, and the University of Illinois, where he also earned his MLIS. Prior to becoming a librarian, he spent four years working in the rare book trade.
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In addition to documenting marks of ownership and marks of use in our rare books, here at the MSU Provenance Project we also catalog loose ephemera found in books—handwritten notes, pressed flowers, advertising cards, etc. Last week a long-forgotten box of such “laid-in material” was dumped on my desk, and it contained a number of fascinating pieces.
One of the items was a mysterious typewritten note inviting the recipient to a clandestine meeting near Mary Lyon’s grave on the campus of Mount Holyoke College, an all-women’s college in Massachusetts. Handwritten at the bottom was the monogram or logo of an organization identified only as MHS.
Folded up in the letter were five notecards, filled with manuscript notes in black ink. The cards make reference to student syndicalism (syndicalism was a revolutionary anti-capitalist philosophy that gained popularity in the early 20th century) and to William Z. Foster, an early 20th century radical labor organizer and chairman of the US Communist Party. A number of clues allow us to date the letter and the cards to 1923. Here are some excerpts from the handwritten notecards:
Criminal Student Syndicalist Act of Mass. Criminal Student Syndicalism = doctrine which advocates the emancipation of the undergraduate intellect from undigested dogma, from preconceived prejudice, and from convention, & which advocates the overthrow of everything that has been and is, and which advocates the installation of anything that might be…
Everything that has been is defined as meaning what ever has had existence, in the metaphysical sense, within the last 147 yrs. That being the period of our life as a great and free republic of perfect institutions. Anything that might be = the category of events which might conceivably at some future date or in some unearthly place be substituted for what now is…
William Z. Foster (alias Borden alias Hewes) is charged with violating the Criminal Student Syndicalist Act of the Commonwealth of Mass. On ground that he assembled with M.H.S. knowing that the party sought & advocated Stud. Syndicalism…
But what is MHS? Could it stand for Mount Holyoke Syndicalists? Was there such a group operating on the Mount Holyoke campus in the 1920s that might have had some connection to William Z. Foster? What is the connection between these notecards and this secretive typewritten invitation? The first half of the handwritten text comes across as sympathetic to the student syndicalist cause, while the last few cards sound antagonistic to Foster and the MHS. What went on at this clandestine meeting nearly 100 years ago?
Unfortunately, whoever pulled this material from its host book (likely 30+ years ago) failed to document what volume it came out of, so how Michigan State University came to possess these notecards is something of a mystery in and of itself. Put on your sleuthing caps and help us solve this fascinating historical puzzle!
~Andrew
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