Henry L Whiting (4 results)

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. This issue devoted to motoring. Features: Title page photo of the sport of winter motoring; One-page cartoon by E.W. Kemple represents the G.O.P. as a car tilting in the 'stand pat' direction; Improvement to be offered auto purchasers in 1911; Photo comparison of Fifth Ave. traffic between 1901 and today (many more cars in use and no horses to be seen now); How to Sell a Car; The Anatomy of the Motor; Joy-Riding of the Real Kind - new car models are brutally tested; Motoring in Winter; Boggs Sees Naples and its Environs; Two photos of new fire truck for the Bradford, England fire brigade; First Aid to Broken Cars - article with great vintage photos; Laocoon (snake fiction by Herman Scheffauer); Article on Superstitions; Witherup's Cyclopaedia of the Months; Romances of the Recruiting Offices (for the United States Army); Home Song for Montana (poem by Leonard Bacon); Blanche Bates (article with photo); The Well-Kept Car "At Home" - article with photo of home grease pit in use, small home machine shop, and large storage building with several cars parked in front; The Horse and the Motor Car - article by Henry Harrison; One-page Goodyear tire ad; Automobile Horns - article by Steven D. Thatton; Sensational one-page illustrated ad for the Phipps-Grinnell Electric Car, featuring the Model "C" 1911! (yes, electric cars were in production well over 100 years ago!); Bond Markets Renewal - article by Franklin Escher; Nice one-page ad for the Carhartt Thirty-Five automobile; Nice half-page photo ad for the Speedwell Motor Car Co. of Dayton, OH features the 4-passenger Torpedo; Quarter page ads for the Premier Motor Mfg. Company and the Atlas Motor car Company; Motoring on European Highways; Nice illustrated ad for the Hupp-Yeats Electric Car Co. of Detroit; Full-page ad for the White Company of Cleveland features illustration of a Western canada Flour Mills Co. truck. Middle leaf loose but present. Please note: front cover is numbered page 3. Presumably this issue originally included an illustrated outer wrap which is no longer present. Otherwise, it appears complete and unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy, notable for its wonderful coverage of a formative time in the history of motoring - both gas and electric. Kemble, E.W.; Fancher, Louis; Groesbeck, Dan Sayre; Levering, Albert; Bayha, Edwin F.; Taylor, Horace (illustrator). …

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Features: Just What Do We Owe the Foreigner? - Much of what we use, wear and eat comes from abroad; An Open Door to author William J. Locke; Where Wild Birds Sleep; Grab 'Em Young - how to progress in sporting skill; Will Spain Become a Republic? - photo-illustrated article on Spain and her regime of de Rivera; Williamsburg - the most storied village in America; Mr. Ford's Page; Editorials; This Fishing, by Ben Hur Lampman; Do You Ever Read Short Stories or Try to Write Them?; Dorothy Sidney - A Noble Lady of the 17th Century; Why The Scot Loves the Bagpipes; The Quack of Equatorial Africa - Weird ordeals by Poison and Fire are Part of the Stock-in-Trade of the Jungle Scientist; No Greater Rogue Than Barry Lyndon - the amazing verity of Thackeray's portrayal; Photos of 'Changing China' inside back cover and more. 32 pages. Covers holding by one staple, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.; 4to.…

Circular. 26 x 20cm. Printed in two columns, and signed in type by Richard Pease of Edgartown, and Henry Whiting and W.H. Sturtevant of Tisbury. This copy directed, in manuscript, to the selectmen of Shrewsbury, Mass. The Martha's Vineyard towns complain that they have filled their quotas of recruits for military service, but "that, owing to defective or incorrect returns or records of state, city or town officials, or, possibly, to fraud or connivance on the part of agents and military officers, their claims were disallowed, their labors lost, and their moneys uselessly expended." Men they have furnished have been claimed for other towns, according to this broadside, and the cases are not isolated. In remedy the towns affected must seek their own justice. A meeting in the Marlboro Hotel in Boston is called for the 22nd of June, each town to provide a written statement of their claims. No locations found.…

Issued in House Document 68 by the Massachusetts State Legislature. The text is included with this map. Very good condition, printed on very thin paper, small separations at some fold junctions. Some highlights are hand colored. Shows the end of Cape Cod, including Provincetown and part of Truro. Little detail on land. Several uncolored coastal profiles along the top. This map is not to be confused with a much more common reduced version of this map with the same title. That map measures 37.5x74.3 cm. (14.75x29.25 inches), roughly 1/4 the overall size of this map. …