Promoting the American Landscape in the 1920s 
 

From a group of 16 press and landscape photos

Some by Underwood & Underwood

A group of press photos promoting the beauties of Colorado, in 1922

Perfect mirror, no i.d.

Lake Keechulue, Washington, by Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway

Looks like a double exposure of beavers and loggers at work

Diptych of huge house on the road

Names of Persons for Whom Marriage Licenses were Issued by the Secretary of the Province of New York, Previous to 1784.

Printed by order of Gideon Tucker, Secretary of State.

Albany: Weed, Parsons & Company, 1860.

Not much to look at from the outside. The outer spine is gone, the boards still attached but a bit bowed.

You can still the embossing on the front board, and remnants of the inside leather on the spine.

Someone named Schoonmaker, an old NY name, practiced writing their name.

And some more.

Here we go.

By ordered by Gideon J. Tucker, the secretary of state.

closeup of the engraved arms on the title page.

Before this book, this information was just scattered throughout the state.

The introduction talks about how disorganized getting married could be. Actually, just the license.

Some saw a marriage license as an invasion of privacy.

The list starts with the A's.

A marriage license was issued to Abigail Van Buren and Jacobus Abeel on Oct 14, 1757.

Not much writing in this book, except a few marks in the first few pages. An impatient geneaologist?

I owned the house that had once been the farmstead for Samuel Russell and Margaret Mosher. A bit eerie to see their name here. They were issued a marriage license in Dec. of 1771.

Written upside down in this venerable book, aside from a flourishy, blotty penned "Joseph P. David Accord NY," an incomplete little ditty, possibly Schoonmaker's work.

Last night I was out rather/late twas only an innocent spree/My wife for my comming/did wait while she...

Doggett's New York City Directory 1844-1845 Third Publication

Leather spine, gilded lettering, paper boards, dog for proportion.

Every inch of space on the front cover is taken up by an ad.

Book cover as billboard, mid 19th century style.

Endpapers: more ads. Including a bear.

More on the bear. In an ad for a fur warehouse.

The street directory in the back is exhaustive.

The only place in the book where the pages are a bit loose in their stitching.

In case you're wondering why there's a red stamp on the title page, it's to prove that book wasn't stolen. Does that even make sense? What if the books were stolen after they were stamped?

More on how this extraordinary body of information was gathered.

Signs of the ever changing metropolis.

Pink page advertisements occur throughout the book.

Helpful list of names in their variations — Plum, Plumb, etc.

Croton water — before the reservoir system.

You could buy fishing tackle on Fulton and Nassau Sts.

What P.T. Barnum was doing in 1844.

Giant, scary surgical scissors?

Great piece of gun history.