Search Results: Ephemera from Henry Berry, books/ephemera

[1883 RAILROAD CONTRACT, NEW YORK, NEW ENGLAND, RARE] CONTRACT AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR GRADING AND MASONRY For the Extension of the Second Track, New York and New England Railroad Company, Office of the Chief Engineer, Boston, Mass. 1883, Printed by the Rand Avery Supply Company, 1883, softcover, 8" x 10", 16 pages (right-hand pages only with reverse sides blank), specific areas of contract Alterations, Excavations for Foundations, Kind of Work, First-class Arch Masonry, Payment, Precautions and Safeguards, Slopes, etc.; RARE, no copies recorded at WorldCat/OCLC, none found for sale, presumably limited edition printing for limited number of individuals who woUld be involved in the contract, this copy with blank spaces for prices, dates, etc., not fllled in; PROVENANCE: contract was among a group of assorted railroad materials of Herbert C. Keith, a leading railroad engineer and consultant of the latter 1800s-early 1900s who worked mostly on bridges, notably the Des Moines -Fort Dodge River Viaduct /… Read More

[1935 HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, CRIMINAL LAW COURSE TAUGHT BY FRANCIS BOWES SAYRE, LAW STUDENT CLASS NOTES] HARVARD LAW SCHOOL HANDWRITTEN/MANUSCRIPT COURSE NOTES for a course on Criminal Law in 1935 taught by Francis Bowes Sayre (first professor to teach labor law in a law school), cover half red leather and black pebbled leather with gilded "Law Notes" and "4-L COOP" (for Harvard Cooperative Society bookstore) on spine, 287 handwritten/manuscript pages with blue lines and one horizontal red line (full notebook) plus many tipped-in sheets of notes and additional 23 pages laid in, copious text variously in black and red inks with parts underlined in red, content variously case summaries, analysis, legal principles, proof, evidence, motivation, etc. /// NOTES: FRANCIS BOWES SAYRE, 1885-1972, graduated from Harvard in 1912, received law degree from Harvard in 1918, Harvard law faculty member 1918-1933…first person to teach a course on labor law in any law school, and also taught courses on international,… Read More

[1902 DES MOINES RIVER–FORT DODGE RAILROAD BRIDGE/VIADUCT GROUP OF PHOTOGRAPHS, ALBUMEN, CYANOTYPE, ASSOCIATION TO HERBERT C. KEITH, LEAD ENGINEER OF THE BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION] A GROUP OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE DES MOINES RIVER–FORT DODGE, IOWA RAILROAD BRIDGE/VIADUCT, 4 original mounted albumen photographs (faint with notes on back), 7 photocopies of original period cyanotype photographs (i. e., copies on paper, not original photos, see below)…4 albumen photos are faded, notes on subjects on back, albumen photographs 4-1/2" x 6-1/2" on black board mounts 7" x 9", Bridge Superintendent Herbert C. Keith pencil notes in black on back of black mounting can be clearly read with microscope under light, notes are (1) "Site for Fort Dodge Viaduct, MC-FD RR [Mason City-Fort Dodge Railroad], Looking Across Des Moines River and up the west hill, December 1902"; (2) "Des Moines River Viaduct at Fort Dodge, Iowa, for Mason City–Fort Dodge RR, section of first truss span, Winter of 1902-3"… Read More

[1945 DESTRY RIDES AGAIN; DINAH SHORE AND OTHER CAST SIGNED; ORIGINAL WWII U.S. RADIO PLAY ADAPTATION ANNOTATED DIRECTOR COPY] "FEMME OU DEMON" — from the Universal Pictures "DESTRY RIDES AGAIN" [the movie title for the release to the English-speaking market, "Femme…" is the movie title in French for the international market release in 1939], original ribbon radio script for the U. S. Office of War Information (OWI) WWII program, heavily annotated by director Gerald Kean whose name is in red pencil at the upper right corner of the cover page in pencil, editing of script dialog in black pencil and in red pencil for performance notations, cover page with heading United States Government, Office of War Information, Overseas Branch, Hollywood French Unit, Hollywood, California, For New York Radio Program Bureau, MUSIC: Serge Glykson, Nathan Scott, PRODUCTION: Gerald Kean, :SCRIPT: Jacques Surmagne, TIME: 30:00 [minutes], DATE: 3-15-45 [March 15, 1945], with United States Office of War Information seal… Read More

[EARLY 1900s FATHER TO SON LETTERS DISCUSSING MINING STOCKS AND OTHER INVESTMENT AND BUSINESS MATTERS; GILDED AGE] THREE LETTERS FROM JOSEPH SHATTUCK of Lawrence, Massachusetts to "My Dear Son" (unnamed) mostly discussing mining stocks and others and also the son's new position as "treasurer of a Savings Bank," and words of advice, handwritten 6 pages total over 4 lined sheets, 5-3/4" x 9" with Lawrence as location with dates 1905, 1906, 1910…samplings of the three letters are: (1) one page dated Oct. 20th 1905, "the position you have now is one the equal of which there are very few in the state and probably not one filled by one of your age...very liberal salary [the Trustees] are paying..."; (2) 3 pages dated January 16, 1906, "I have a feeling that American Telephone stock will sell higher before the year is ended...my income was over 36M ($36,000) last year...I suppose the Rogers crowd control [shares of a certain mining company, Henry H. Rogers was a Gilded Age financier/investor collaborating… Read More

[EMMY AWARDS 1970; CANDID PHOTOS 2 CONTACT SHEETS; TELEVISION ENTERTAINMENT MEMORABILIA] 2 CONTACT SHEETS CANDID PHOTOS OF VARIOUS CELEBRITIES INVOLVED IN THE 1970 EMMY AWARDS SHOW AND RELATED FESTIVITIES taken in early 1971 at the direction of leading Hollywood celebrity reporter Hal Jacques active from the 1950s to '80s…contact sheet #1 - 8-1/2" 11", 35 black-and-white candid photos, 3 with red crayon markings, the stars in the photos are identified on the revere in handwritten notes in pen corresponding to the photos on the front side, also on the back handwritten are the notes in pen "Emmy Awards for 1970, taken early 1971" [when awards were presented], and in red pencil "Stephan Jacques" the son of reporter Hal Jacques who at the time sometimes went on assignments or to events with the father to take candid photos while the father was gathering material for an article, and "Dup" [for duplicate, though photos are originals from negatives], the celebrities identified with more than one in a… Read More

[1920 ENRICO CARUSO METAL PRINTING PLATE INSCRIPTION TO JOSEPH GIOE COMPOSER / ITALIAN AMERICAN STUDIES MEMORABILIA] ENRICO CARUSO, about 30 word inscription in Italian with signature and date August 1920 to the Italian-American composer and music publisher Joseph Giuseppe Gioe active in New York City and surrounding areas, 4" high x 5-3/4" across, about 8 small holes at edges where plate was presumably attached to a wooden printing block at one time, text in full, "Al Maestro, Joseph Gioe, che tanta aminia e sentimento infuse nel musicare la Poesia de Esposito. 'I' m'arricordo e Napule' e invio ugrariamenti e onorato di esserne padrino Enrico Caruso Agosto 1920" (rough English translation using Google translate: "To the Maestro, Joseph Gioe, who instilled so much life and sentiment in setting the 'Poesia de Esposito' to music. 'Memories of Naples', and I am sending you a memento and honored to be godfather. Enrico Caruso August 1920"… "I' m'arricordo e Napule" ("Memories of Naples") is the title of… Read More

[JIRI TRNKA, PUPPETEER, SCRIPT FOR U. N. FILM 'A FABLE FOR FRIENDSHIP', WITH GROUP OF PAPERS; ANIMATED FILM PROJECT 1959] A FABLE FOR FRIENDSHIP, short animated film for UNESCO, 1959, with related letters on development, 2 copies of script, (A) attached to November 1959 letter TO Tor Gjesdal, Director, Mass Communications, UNESCO [see below for details], 5-pages of original ribbon continuity script-in-progress on carbon weight paper for scenes 12-94 with words for respective scenes, first page for scenes 1-11 missing…; (B) full continuity script scenes 1-94, mimeograph (purple text) 6-pages plus 4 pages inserted between different pages containing verse-like passages mostly handwritten and some typed to go with respective scenes in the continuity script-in-progress, passages written by Gerald Kean for the American audience for the film [see following re: letters], with the continuity scripts are two letters discussing the UNESCO film featuring Jiri Trnka animation, (1) stamped 29 Aout 1959 [August… Read More

[1979 CBS MYSTERY THEATER RADIO PLAY PARTIAL ORIGINAL EDITED SCRIPT, WITH PHOTOCOPY OF COMPLETE SCRIPT] THE CASE OF THE FORCED DIVORCE (The Wedding Ring), no author named/Gerald Kean (see provenance below), Act I 11 pages, 8-1/2" x 11", heavily edited variously with black marker and turquoise ink and slips of paper with text affixed to some pages, with photocopy of three acts 41 pages, dated 1-23-79 at upper right corner of title page (the program was aired on July 18, 1979); NOTES: "A gentleman con man and his American police detective try to assist a British woman who is being hounded by her husband for a divorce. At stake is the custody of their young son.", aired July 18, 1979 (Old Time Radio Downloads); GERALD KEAN (sometimes Keane): 1915-2002, wrote numerous CBS Mystery Theater radio play scripts using different pen names working with Himan Brown; PROVENANCE: this script is from a large archive of work by Gerald Kean in varied fields of media and entertainment from the 1930s to the 1980s ///… Read More

[1866 LYNCHING OF AFRICAN AMERICAN JOHN TAYLOR IN MICHIGAN; CLEVELAND DAILY PLAIN DEALER NEWSPAPER] "Full Particulars of the Hanging of John Taylor, the Murderer of the Buck Family — A Horrible Transaction", reprint of article from the Jackson, Michigan, Citizen newspaper on front page of The Cleveland Daily Plain Dealer, Volume XXII, Cleveland, Tuesday Evening, September 4, 1866, Number 217, 2-1/2" x 9", first article at top of third column (first two columns are ads), large-format newspaper / 20-1/2" x 26" as folded to 4 pages, 1 vertical and 3 horizontal folds, main article 3 columns on page 2 about president Andrew Johnson's stop in Cleveland during his tour of Northern states to promote his Reconstruction plans, headlines include "Grand Gala Night…Great Reception…Enormous Crowds", but he was greeted at times with heckling for his plans, about three-quarters of the issue is ads, some illustrated, for hoop skirts, Fall Fashions, hardware, home remedies, steam engines, and other consumer… Read More

[WAR OF 1812, LETTER DATED 1813; US TRADE MEASURES/LAWS; HANDWRITTEN BUSINESS/COMMERCIAL LETTER NEW YORK TO HAVANA; POSTAL/STAMP HISTORY] HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTER SIGNED/ALS FROM NEW YORK CITY MERCHANT WILLIAM STEVENS TO DOCTOR WILLIAM FROST IN HAVANA, CUBA, dated New York, 4th March 1813, 8" x 10"/about 375 words, in the lower part of the letter after telling Frost a shipment of fruit was received spoiled because of the "length of passage" on board the ship, Stevens informs Frost of three new laws likely to be passed by the U. S. Congress in an effort to alleviate stresses on trade caused by the War of 1812, then tells Frost how each law would adversely affect U. S. shipping including Steven's and Frost's trade between the U. S. and Cuba they are engaged in; Stevens writes, "By our news from Washington [D.C.] of today it appears that the following bills will become laws, they are calculated to have important bearings on commercial operations from your quarter [i. e., Cuba and throughout the West… Read More

[1930s WORKBOOKS NEW MARKETING/AD TECHNIQUES re: Edward Bernays] THREE WORKBOOKS BY A SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY STUDENT IN A BUSINESS CLASS TAUGHT BY PROFESSOR HARRY HEPNER based on Edward Bernays writings on mass communication, propaganda, consumerism and marketing, and business practice, manila covers, brass tacks binding pages internally, 8-1/2" x 11", student's name handwritten in upper right corner of each workbook, throughout the workbooks mostly folded color and black-and-white ads clipped from popular periodicals of the day (1) PSYCHOLOGY OF ADVERTISING, Exercise I, Professor Hepner, [name of student], March 1, 1931, 29 black-and-white clipped ads from periodicals affixed on right-hand/rector pages only with source of ad variously Cosmopolitan, Saturday Evening Post, and American Mercury typed at top of page and typewritten notes on size of ad overall and the size of the coupon that is a part of the ad underneath each, with chart in front comparing size of ad vis-a-vis size of the coupon and note… Read More

[HARVEY PARRY STUNTMAN promo items Don's Place Burbank CA RARE] HARVEY PARRY, 1900-85, famed stuntman who worked with Harold Lloyd, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, and other stars, his career spanned the era of silent movies of the 1920s to popular movies of the 1970s, ca. 1970s, 4 items total, including 2 rare Harvey Parry promotional items (a) 8-1/2" x 11" flyer on heavy paper for the popular Don's Place burger joint in Burbank, CA with "Congratulations ARCHIE MOORE - AL BAFFERT and HARVEY PARRY at the top, on the reverse article "The (Reel) Life Story of Harvey Parry (In How Own Words)" with 6 black-and-white photos from his career, (b) 6" x 9" 4-page brochure for Parry's character "Millionaire's Bum" with b+w photos on front and back and across the two inside pages "Also Plays Millionaires 'Bum' for sale"…Harvey Parry", a character he apparently played for parties and other gatherings…and also 2 black-and-white 8" x 10" promotional photos (a) scene from the 1940 movie "City for Conquest" with… Read More

[JAYNE MEADOWS HANDWRITTEN LETTER WITH ARTICLES ON PSYCHIC FEELINGS 1985] JAYNE MEADOWS, 1919-2015, popular actress who was married to Steve Allen, original host of "Tonight Show", handwritten/holograph reply on original letter from Hollywood/celebrity reporter Hal Jacques seeking approval for publication of an article on her in the National Enquirer, with envelope with holes along one side for keeping in binder at one time, 1985, about 75 words in red ink signed "Jayne", "Yes, certainly you may republish this article. I have also had many other startling E.S.P. experiences…Thelma Moss wanted to study me…Edgar Casey's [sic, for Cayce] secretary was so fascinated…[if he could] write them up in a book he was doing….", with black ink handwritten postcard undated, "Have I ever written to thank you for the excellent story on my E.S.P?…", plus 17 pages variously original ribbon and photocopies of articles by Hal Jacques and National Enquirer on the celebrity's psychic nature and experiences, some… Read More

[JEREMY INGALLS, AMERICAN WOMAN POET, 5-PAGE HANDWRITEN LETTER/ALS 1945] JEREMY INGALLS, WOMAN POET, 5-page handwritten letter, 8-1/2" x 11"/about 950 words, dated Chicago, Illinois, November 14, 1945, to "Dear Jimmy" (author James R. Mellow, see below), Mellow wrote to Ingalls after gaining confidence in receiving a high-school award for something he wrote asking her to comment on and critique a group of sonnets he had written, Ingalls replies generously that they are "part of the record of your adolescence" having more personal than lasting or literary value, but which evidence good writing skills and talent, her lengthy letter involves literary critique, psychological observation, perspective, and encouragement, reading in part, "Your manuscript and letter arrive this morning…this particular group of sonnets should not be revised…You yourself recognize the Millay lines…and you probably recognize also the Wordsworth, Byron and Keats and other echoes…you probably recognize also the sequence… Read More

[WALKER EVANS PHOTOGRAPHER ASSOCIATION; JOHN T. HILL BIOGRAPHER SIGNED LETTER] JOHN T. HILL, author "Walker Evans –The Hungry Eye, handwritten letter/60 words in ink hand-signed, 25 May 97, 3-1/2" x10-1/2" (narrow strip) with envelope with stamped return address Bethany, Connecticut, with enclosures to the author James Mellow in Clinton, CT, about a Walker Evans photograph unknown to Hill, "curiosity from the STRAND…puzzling size…4-1/4 x 3 inches…must have been from the '30s…to be collected by J. L. [Julien Levy]", three enclosures (a) 2 pages, cover page of exhibition catalog "The Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection, The Witkin Galley" with photocopy of the small-size Walker Evans photograph with the caption "Walker Evans, untitled, n. d., 4-1/4 x 3 inches", photograph of Victorian-style parlor; (b) 1 page, another photograph from the Julien Levy Collection exhibition of shabby carousel horses presumably by Walker Evans, but no caption and not listed; (c) 3 pages photocopies from… Read More

[1950 LISTER SINCLAIR PURSUIT OF PEACE UN RADIO ORIGINAL SCRIPT RARE / AVIATION] LAND, SEA AND AIR, episode of the United Nations radio program series "Pursuit of Peace", April 23, 1950, by Lister Sinclair, [directed by Esse Ljungh, noted in accompanying letter, see below], 45 pages original ribbon typescript held together with one paperclip at top edges (as found), 8-1/2" x 11", RARE, only a few records of materials relating to the program in institutional archival holdings and none found for sale (as of 6/28/22)…Lister Sinclair's script opening with lyrics from the Newfoundland folksong "Kelligrew Swarree" is about the crew, work, and mission of an International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) weather ship named "Canso" stationed in the "Davis Strait: the great cold channel of ocean between Labrador and Greenland: the path of the bitter Labrador current, and the path, too, of the great storms that detach themselves from the Arctic and slide down into the grey North Atlantic..[Canso] is here… Read More

[BLACKFACE MAN AND WOMAN VAUDEVILLE TEAM, ca. 1900 ORIGINAL HANDBILL] LEE MACK AND SISKIE RELGIER, with photos of each in blackface, the woman Siskie wearing a large hat, ca. 1900, original vaudeville performers handbill, with Lee Mack and Siskie Relgier on one side with side-by-side photos of each in regular dress for performances and beside this in blackface with comical attire, 3" high x 8" across on disbound scrapbook page also with a small handbill for Elmer Walters, clipped notice for play "Born in the Blood", and faded photo of a woman performer looking like Siskie Relgier, on reverse side is a second handbill "Mack and Relgeir presenting their Comedy sketch, entitled 'Little Willie and the Girl with the Dreamy Eyes' ", 4-3/4" high x 10-3/4" across with a photo of each (no blackface) ///// CONDITION: well-preserved, general light normal wear including light brown age-spotting at right side of page with performers in blackface.

LEITZ MICROSCOPE ACCESSORIES Catalogue No. 44 D [1913], with Price List No. 1 for Catalog 44 D, published by E. Leitz, 30 East 18th Street, New York, 1913, at lower part of title page: Works at Wetzlar, Established 1849 [in 1997 Leitz merged with a British company to become Leica Microsystems], linen cover, 7" x 1-", 47 pages, engravings, price list laid in is 7" x 10", 47 pages, with a number of changed prices put in by hand in ink, the section on the last page "Special Rats for Duty-Free Importation" begins, "According to the United States Tariff Act of October 3, 1913, Educational and Scientific Instruments, etc….are entitled to duty free importation…[bold for emphasis in original], previous owners' notes in pen "1913 44 D" at upper left corner of front cover and "Catalog of 1913" at bottom of title page, RARE Leitz catalog, only 2 recorded at WorldCat/OCLC (Harvard and Oregon State, none found for sale at online booksellers (10/8/20) /// CONDITION: very good or better, pages 19-30 loose in one… Read More

[LEONIE ADAMS LETTER AND BOOK INSCRIBED TO SIGRID DE LIMA; WOMEN'S INTEREST] LEONIE ADAMS, HANDWRITTEN LETTER/ALS, 5" x 6-1/2", 2 pages on right hand pages of folded sheet for 4 pages/about 150 words, dated September 10, 1961, to "Dear Sigrid" in Valley Cottage, New York, replying to letter from Sigrid presumably in sympathy upon death of Leonie's husband, reading in part, "Many though late, thanks for you lovely letter…I trust that you and Stephen [de Lima's husband Stephan Greene] and the daughter, I shall met again…Bill [husband William Troy, d. May 26, 1961] died peacefully, even though after great suffering…", with envelope addressed by hand with New Milford, Connecticut, return address, Leonie Adams signature in return address with first couple of letters in her first name separated from the way the letter was opened at this corner, letter laid in in copy of Poems – A Selection by Leonie Adams, inscribed, "For Sigrid de Lima, with confidence in her books to come and esteem for those… Read More