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Various locations, 1941.
This archive consists of 17 loose album pages with about 75 mounted photographs, 35 loose photographs, a Marines' Hymn postcard, Captain Bryant's ticket for a Lahainaluna School luau, and a booklet, North China Pictorial U.S.M.C., that chronicles the III Amphibious Corps' occupation duty.
The loose photographs were removed from a soiled envelope marked "Capt W. Bryant". The photos range in size from 2" x 3" to 11" x 4.25". About half of the loose photos have "It is absolutely forbidden to reprint, reproduce or publish this photograph without the express permission of the Public Relations Dept. U.S. Marine Corps" on the reverse.
About a dozen of the loose photographs are scenes of Bryant's unit while in Hawaii, and the remainder show Marines in a jungle combat zone, presumably the Marshall Islands.
One identifies Lieutenant Damrow who online records show as being wounded while assigned to Company A, 10th Amphtrac (Amphibious Tractor) Battalion, 4th Marine Division during the… Read More

New York City, 1912. Good to Very Good. The medal is approximately 7" long. The pale blue ribbon has faded printing that reads "Dedication of / Washington's Monument / Feb 22 1912 / New York City." A hanging medallion, featuring a color illustration of a firemen saving a woman as flames blaze around him, contains the text, "Exempt and Volunteer Firemen Association / New York City." An additional color medallion with a portrait of George Washington is affixed to the ribbon. A brass pin-plate at the top has an insert that reads, "Simon Brentano." Some soiling. Brentano, the head of the famous bookselling and publishing company, was the single most knowledgeable person about New York firefighting and one of the most knowledgeable experts about firefighting in general. He was often consulted by fire departments from around the world.

Brooklyn, Ten Mile River, Peekskill, and Warrensburg, 1900. Album. Very good. All but one of the images measure approximately 4.5" x 3.5". The cyanotype on the front cover is approximately 3.75" x 2.75". The images are glued to the album pages. The two pages with photos have been removed from the album, trimmed, and are laid in. The nine cyanotypes show: Two different ship images at the Brooklyn Navy Yard: U.S.S. Miantonomoh II and the Barge Pioneer, The Manhattan Beach Train at the South Brooklyn Terminal, A view of Warrensburg from the Erie Railroad, Military guard duty at New York State Military Camp at Peekskill, Lane, The ferry at Ten Mile River, A group of young men fishing from the Ten Mile River Bridge, and A covered bridge near Warrensburg. The two photographs show a group of people on the bank of Ten Mile River and an ox-cart full of people on Ten Mile River Road.

London: Remington and Co, 1886. Hardcover. Very good. Approximately 6" x 9". Complete: Vol. 1 with 244 pages. Vol. 2 with 260 pages; map and 20-page catalog in rear. Original brown diapered cloth with black decoration and gilt lettering. Very good. Sound binding; front hinges of both volumes beginning to crack. Vol. 1 is slightly cocked. Text pages generally clean but toned; some foxing to the preliminary pages and endpapers. Minor shelf-wear. Folding color map is in nice shape; one short (.5") split at the end of one fold. First published in French as Souvenirs del a vie militaire en Afrique at Paris in 1852, this is a fascinating first-person account of life in the French Foreign Legion in Algeria that spans the years from 1840 to 1851. Chapters include: The Province of Algiers, and Spahis, The Darha, Khamis of the Beni-Ouraghs, A Winter Campaign, The Sahara and the Great Desert, The Province of Oran, and Expedition to Kabylia. A note in the preliminaries of Vol 1 relates that… Read More