Smyrna: Photographie Parisian, c. 1870. Mounted Photograph. An expansive Rubellin image, displaying his early rubber stamp "PHOTOGRAPHIE PARISIAN / RUBELLIN / SMYRNE" to one panel verso and "Smyrne" written in a cursive hand in pencil. Circa 1870, before the company name was changed to "Rubellin et fils" or even later..... More
![Item #4406 [Railway Brochure] Modern Travel by Pullman. Pullman](/pictures/thumb/4406.jpg?v=1678497179)
USA: Pullman, 1957. Brochure. A folding, full color brochure, measuring 11 x 11.5 inches wide, opens to a two-sided poster, measuring 22 x 34.5 inches wide. Some minor handling creases and small abrasion at upper right corner, else fine. An interesting look at the once luxurious world of train travel..... More
![Item #4346 [Yukon] Circa 1942 Alaska Highway Christmas Gag Card. Army Corps of Engineers?](/pictures/thumb/4346.jpg?v=1673810403)
Alaska: n.p. [Army Corps of Engineers?], [1942]. Ephemera. Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Army Corps of Engineers started and finished building 1600 miles of highway to Alaska. The 10,000 strong Corps did it in just over eight months with much help from Canadians. This humerous Christmas greeting..... More
![Item #4344 [New Westminster] Original 1896 Steam Boat Boiler Inspection Certificate for Freight...](/pictures/thumb/4344.jpg?v=1673555103)
Victoria, BC: Dominion of Canada, Dept. of Marine, 1893. Certificate. Original 1893 Certificate of Inspection for the steam powered vessel "Idaho" of New Westminster, B.C. A printed Canadian government inspection certificate w. holograph infill in black fountain pen ink, measuring 9.5 tall x 13.5 inches wide. Certificate is toned and..... More
Montreal, QC: Canadian Pacific Railway, 1920. Paperback. A very scarce CPR publication, with just three institutional copies found by OCLC : The British Library, UBC and Ingenuim Library and Archives [Science & Tech.] in Ottawa. Brad-bound thick 16mo size (5.75 inches tall), pp. xxv, 159 pages, [1], plus 1 unnumbered..... More