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Leavenworth: Philips & Springer, general job printers, Times Printing House, 1878. This 1878 edition was the first Edwin Green Directory of Ft. Leavenworth. 8vo. 197, (1) pp. 32-page illustrated furniture catalogue for Abernathy Brothers of Leavenworth, Kansas is inserted between pp. 192 and 193; broadsheet, 12 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches, folded to fit, pasted to rear board titled "List of organized counties in the State of Kansas," with the names of their respective county seats, 1879. Small printed business card of P.S. Noble, Adjutant General State of Kansas pasted on front board, with inscription "Presented by Maj. Shreve." Additionally inscribed on front pastedown by A. P. Shreve to P.S Noble; Shreve served as paymaster for a Union regiment during the Civil War and is listed here as a "bookkeeper." Fred Harvey who established restaurants and hotels along railroad routes in the west is found listed among the residents; he called Leavenworth his home through his death in 1901. The 10th Cavalry, made up of…
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Colorado State Business Directory with Colorado Mining Directory, and Colorado Live-Stock Directory Departments, for 1879
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Denver: J. A. Blake. Good. 1879. Hardcover. Blue paper boards with advertisements and brown cloth spine with gilt lettering. Soil and some edge paper loss on boards, rubbed and bumped corners, fraying of spine ends. Spine cocked. Front hinge loose. Former owner's name on front board and title page, some other penciled notes on endpapers. Ex-library with marks and bookplate of the Sutro Library on the front pastedown. Advertisement endpapers and many color paper pages throughout. An early comprehensive directory of the state, with mine and mining camp lists, a mining glossary, agricultural production statistics, government services and officials, and thousands of businesses. Scarce, with only one copy found on OCLC, at the Autry Museum in California. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 296 pp .
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EDWIN GREEN'S CITY DIRECTORY OF THE INHABITANTS, INSTITUTIONS, MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS, BUSINESS FIRMS, ETC., in the CITY OF FORT LEAVENWORTH. FOR 1878-9.; together with an abstract of state collection laws, court calendar, &c., of Kansas and Colorado. Also United States Post Office Directory of Kansas
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COLORADO STATE BUSINESS DIRECTORY, WITH COLORADO MINING DIRECTORY AND COLORADO LIVE STOCK DIRECTORY DEPARTMENTS. Sixth Annual Volume
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Denver: J.A. Blake, 1880.. 8,376pp., including many pages of illustrated advertisements, plus a folding advertisement leaf and a tipped-in advertising slip. Original half cloth and printed paper-covered boards with pictorial advertisements, spine gilt. Boards rubbed, soiled, and scuffed, edges worn, spine extremities fraying. Hinges cracked, but holding. Contemporary ownership inscription of Staley & Safley, Attorneys at Law on front free endpaper and one additional page within, modern bookplate on front pastedown. Quite clean internally. Very good in all. A scarce and early Colorado directory, published within the first five years of statehood. Printed the year after silver was discovered in Leadville, this directory was produced on the precipice of an enormous boom in Colorado's population and economy. Towns are listed alphabetically, with businesses broken down into categories. While the classifications are not explained in detail, they provide an interesting glimpse into the state of affairs in…
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