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hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Missing. 1985. Red cloth covered boards with white titles; minimal wear; top edge dusty/spotted, otherwise like new condition; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; no jacket. interior is clean and unmarked; 368 pages.

[Teheran : Headquarters, Persian Gulf. Command, United States Army, c.1945]. Folio photograph album (320 x 255 mm), original brown textured cloth over boards with embossed silver lettering 'Persian Gulf Command / Iran' and embossed insignia of the Persian Gulf Command to upper board, original silk ties; [19] leaves with 268 corner-mounted gelatin silver photographs, most 70 x 90 mm (some slightly larger) -a unique selection of photos taken from commercial snapshot folders/packets acquired by the album's owner whilst on active duty with Persian Gulf Command, with the accompanying mounted printed caption sheets from those folders/packets mounted alongside the photos; followed by [26] blank leaves; two photos apparently lost from recto of the first leaf, otherwise contents complete and in superb condition. [TOGETHER WITH]Persian Gulf Command.[Teheran : Headquarters, Persian Gulf. Command, United States Army, c.1945], 295 x 220 mm, staple-bound pictorial wrappers, pp. [34], photographically illustrated throughout; with loosely enclosed typed cover letter from Brigadier General Donald P. Booth (Persian Gulf Command), addressed to the unidentified recipient of the souvenir photo album and booklet, thanking them for their wartime contribution as a member of the Persian Gulf Command: '. your hardships and sacrifices of the past two years have helped immeasurably to win the war, and save the lives of fellow Americans'; the booklet and document are in very good condition. The United States Army established its Persian Gulf Command in 1941. Its principal aim was to protect the supply of Allied militarymateriel to the Soviet Union which was sent overland through Persia. All members of the PCG received a specially bound photograph album, in which they could mount their own photos to remind them of their wartime service in the Middle East, along with the Persian Gulf Command booklet. The photos in the unique album offered here do not depict Persia but comprise almost exclusively scenes in Palestine, including Jerusalem; Galilee; Bethlehem; Nazareth; Tel Aviv; Mount Carmel, Haifa and Acre; Jaffa, Ramleh and Lydia; and Jericho.…

[s.l. : s.n., 1973]. Small oblong quarto photograph album (205 x 260 mm), spiral-bound navy blue pebbled cloth over boards, upper board lettered in gilt 'Dedication of Tidbinbilla 64 metre antenna 13th April, 1973'; [12] b/w photographs and [1] colour photograph in uniform 150 x 170 mm format mounted recto only, with printed captions below each image; the binding and contents are in pristine condition. A rare album of photographs commemorating the dedication of the NASA antenna at Tidbinbilla in the A.C.T. in April 1973. The album was privately prepared - likely in very limited numbers - and was presumably made for distribution to a small number of dignitaries and/or scientists connected with the occasion. Trove locates no other example; in fact, the album appears to be completely unrecorded. The NASA 64-metre deep space antenna at Tidbinbilla was constructed by Collins Radio between 1969 and 1972. It was given the Indigenous name?Ballima?, meaning ?very far away? The antenna was dedicated by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on 13 April 1973; however, ithad already been used to support the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 4to, 343 pp + 21 supplements + 182 pp. of Documents and their contents, original cloth backed boards slightly soiled, title on front cover in Arabic as follows; ' Copy No. 4, Volume II. 1948, A highly important work compiled and well documented by copies of original documents written by leading leaders of Arab tribes from the Gulf area and Saudi Arabia. A detailed full list is available on request.…

Zustand: Very Good. VERNACULAR TRAVEL DOCUMENTATION - THE RAILROAD, THE FRATERNITY & THE MOUNTAIN WEST. A carefully assembled 1906 scrapbook documenting a coordinated leisure and sightseeing tour through Colorado, undertaken by collegiate elites in connection with national fraternity travel for the Beta Theta Pi Annual Convention. Measuring 11 × 9.5 inches, this album integrates original photographs with contemporaneous railroad, hotel, excursion, and entertainment ephemera. Rather than a casual souvenir collection, it presents a deliberate visual narrative recording both personal landscape experiences and the complex early twentieth-century transit infrastructure of the American West prior to automobile dominance. PHYSICAL FEATURES: Softcover scrapbook with dark paper wrappers. with original vernacular photographic prints capturing tourist groups, carriage travel, and rail infrastructure, alongside a laid-in panoramic photograph of convention participants measuring 7.12 × 3.12 inches. 16 leaves, utilized on one side only, with all photos and ephemera mounted securely throughout. +++ Content: Integrates clipped illustrated guide panels, Denver & Rio Grande railroad promotional imagery, 'Pike's Peak by Rail' illustrations, banquet passes, hotel call cards, and excursion tickets issued by the Colorado Alumni Association. +++ Geography: Maps a structured travel circuit through Manitou, Colorado Springs, South Cheyenne Canyon, and Pike's Peak. CONDITION: Very Good. The bindings are sound and stable, holding the delicate dark paper wrappers together securely. The internal pages remain intact with all mounts firmly attached. The photographs and ephemeral inserts exhibit light, even age-toning consistent with early twentieth-century paper materials, showing minor handling wear and occasional edge wear to a few mounted items. A highly legible, well-preserved, and complete example of vernacular travel documentation. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - Compiled at the transition point of American leisure culture, this album captures the final golden era of the railroad vacation before the automobile revolutionized Western travel. The inclusion of 'A Swing Around Pike's Peak' guide excerpts and specialized rail tickets highlights how the tourism industry of Colorado purposefully engineered the landscape experience for affluent travelers. By nesting this excursion within the framework of the Beta Theta Pi Annual Convention, the album provides crucial primary research data on the social history of collegiate elites. It showcases how fraternity networks functioned as engines of social mobility and nationwide networking, transporting large groups of young professionals into the American West via pre-arranged corporate transportation systems. SCHOLARLY FEATURES +++ Design: Exemplifies early modern scrapbooking pedagogy, where commercial transit graphics and personal snapshots are intentionally paired to form a cohesive narrative of organized mobility. +++ Scholarship: Documents how national collegiate networks utilized specialized railroad routes to reinforce social status and fraternal identity across regional boundaries. +++ Influence: Preserves rare ephemeral epoptica from the Colorado Alumni Association and the Denver & Rio Grande system that rarely survives in institutional union catalogs outside of formal corporate archives. SUBJECTS: Colorado tourism, Pike's Peak, Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, Beta Theta Pi fraternity, collegiate conventions, American leisure culture, early twentieth-century photography, Western Americana, Scrapbook, Photo Album, Vernacular Photography, Ephemera, Travel Diary.…