[Western Americana] Archive of 6 photo-postcards with of the American West. Early 1900s. black and white RPPC real photo Postcards show a range of western towns in Iowa, New Mexico, and South Dakota. 5 x 3.5 inches. Images show a mix of horse drawn carriages and early automobiles in main.....
Adams, Ansel. Photographs of the Southwest. 1976 volume presenting a selection of Ansel Adams’ landscape photographs created between 1928 and 1968 across the American Southwest, inscribed and signed by the photographer. Adams emerged as one of the most influential figures in twentieth century American photography and environmental advocacy, widely recognized.....
[Western Americana] Sonnichsen, C.L. The El Paso Salt War. Texas: Texas Western Press, 1961. Signed First Edition Hardcover with Original Dust Jacket. 68 pages. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR and Typographer . Measures 6.25" x 9.5". An elegant creation including illustrations by Jose Cisneros and typography by Carl Herzog, featuring ten.....
[Western Americana] McCarthy, Cormac. Cities of the Plain. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First edition, first printing hardcover in original dust jacket with mylar-wrap. 298 pages. Measures 6.25" x 8.75". The third and final book of McCarthy's Border Trilogy follows John Grady Cole and Billy Parham of the previous.....
[Chicano Journal] Jose Armas, Donaldo Urioste, Francisco Lomeli et all. De Colores Journal Of Chicano Expression And Thought: Vol. 3 No. 4. Albuquerque, New Mexico: Pajarito Publications. 1977. First Edition. Soft cover. 85pp. Minor shelfwear, some interior annotations. Overall very good condition.
[Chicano Literature] Lomeli, Francisco A., and Urioste, Donaldo W. Chicano Perspectives in Literature: A Critical and Annotated Bibliography. New Mexico: Pajarito Publications. 1976. First Edition. 7" x 10", 120 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout by various contributing Chicano artists. This anthology of Chicano literary criticism acts as a contextual.....
[Women’s Suffrage] [Americana]. Senate Article on Woman Suffrage Introduced in United States Senate by Hon. Thomas B. Catron Senator from New Mexico Feburary 19, 1917. In paper wrappers. 9.5” x 6” inches. 16 pages. Article presented to the Senate by New Mexico senator, Thomas B. Catron. Contents include sections on.....
Brochure in newspaper format calling for support of Ricardo Chavez Ortiz, who hijacked a Fronteri Arilines 737 from Albuquerque to Los Angeles to gain a public forum for injustice towards Chicanos. Independently published, possibly by the Chavez Defense Fund. He conducted interviews aboard the plane with Spanish-language stations, after which.....
[Chicano Literature] Anaya, Rudolfo. Tortuga. Berkeley, California: Editorial Justa Publications. 1979. First stated edition, first printing. Signed by the author on title page. Soft cover. 8vo; 197pp. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. Anaya spearheaded the Chicano literature movement as he wrote on themes of Chicano culture and heritage that were.....
[WWI][National Guard][WWII] Primary-source archive documenting U.S. Army transportation command operations supporting Allied logistics following the Normandy landings, centered on the development of Cherbourg as a critical supply hub. Assembled from the career of Lieutenant Colonel George C. Sullivan, the collection spans World War I mobilization through World War II and.....
Cold War missile and rocketry archive documenting the technical training, range testing, and operational instruction behind American ballistic missile development from the late 1950s through the 1970s. The material spans the Air Force’s intercontinental ballistic missile program, Strategic Air Command crew preparation, White Sands Missile Range instrumentation, and Army missile.....
Bell, William. New Tracks in North America. 1869 stands as a primary narrative of post–Civil War railroad expansion and scientific exploration in the American West, written by a British physician who joined General William J. Palmer’s Kansas Pacific Railway survey expedition of 1868–1869. Traveling from St. Louis across Colorado, New.....
