Description from HiBid
Historical Documents, and Books Featuring Mining, Railroad, and Regional Ohio Interest. This collection includes a wide variety of antique and vintage paper goods, books, and official records spanning the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. Notable bound volumes include a 1956 edition of Daniel Boone by Felix Sutton, published by Grosset and Dunlap, and an 1862 German children's book titled Entdeckungs-Reisen in Haus und Hof by H. Wagner, published in Leipzig by Verlag von Otto Spamer. Specialized booklets feature Oil Painting Materials and Methods by C.B. Moore for Devoe and Raynolds Company, Hexology by Jacob and Jane Zook, and an official catalog for the convict ship Success from its 1933 Chicago appearance. Children's materials include a Little Brown Koko coloring book illustrated by Dorothy Wagstaff and a 1942 edition of The Story of Little Black Sambo published by Samuel Lowe Company. Legal and genealogical records comprise a 1934 certified copy of an 1879 marriage certificate from Barbour County, West Virginia, and an 1894 Clerk Bond and oath for John L. Beckley of Vinton County, Ohio. A bound minute book contains handwritten entries for the Plains Parent-Teacher Association dating to 1923. Industrial history is represented by various coal mining pay statements from the Luhrig Coal Washing and Mining Company (1912), The Sunday Creek Coal Company, and The Poston Consolidated Coal Company. Railroad ephemera includes 1919 shipping receipts from the Hocking Valley Railway Company, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad luggage tags, and a 1913 term pass for the Marietta, Columbus and Cleveland Railroad. Labor and military history includes a 1969 United Mine Workers Journal featuring an obituary for John L. Lewis, a 1939 Ladies Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen review, and a 1917 Camp Sherman edition of The Scioto Gazette. Other periodicals include a 1972 Billings Gazette with a headline regarding a Montana UFO sighting and a 1947 Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey circus program. Miscellaneous items include an 1884 Victorian trade card for Granite Iron Ware, a 10 lb paper flour sack from Whites Mill in Athens, Ohio, and a mid-century Davy Crockett cardboard jigsaw puzzle. Dimensions vary by item. Largest newspapers approximately 15 by 23 inches. Daniel Boone book measures approximately 9 by 12 inches. Burns in-house shipping is available. Pickup is Thursday, May 28 from 11 am to 7 pm at our gallery in Lancaster, Ohio 43130 or we will provide in-house shipping for this item. We will charge a $5 fee if you want to pick this lot up another day. Once packed up we will send you an invoice for shipping & handling. Shipping questions: shipping@burnsbid.com. Sales tax is collected on this auction. AB281
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