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Them were the good old days: [an immense photo album filled with 688 photographs and Real Photo Postcards documenting the maritime travel, camping & mountaineering adventures, and automobile travel of young Jack Kamm, twin brothers Walker & Phillip Kamm, and the extended Kamm family, and college classmates at Andover, and Oregon Agricultural College in the Progressive Era. Jack Kamm, and friends played on the Oregon Agricultural College baseball, football, basketball, track, and wrestling teams, with many images depicting sporting events. They were also active riders, with many showing Jack and friends in cowboy garb, with visits to steamship building yards, the Pendleton Round-Up, and an ascent of Mary’s Peak in 1912 all thrown in to the m

[MARITIME & TRAVEL -- OREGON ALBUM]. [KAMM, Jacob Gray "Jack" (Compiler)]. Thick oblong folio. 15.25 x 10 x 2.25 in. [128 pp (unpaginated).], on thick khaki-coloured paper stock. With 688 silver gelatin photos on matte finish photo paper, and Real Photo Postcard paper stock, sized 1.25 x 2.5 in. up to 5 x 7 in., and a 4 x 9 in. panoramic, 100's of them dated and annotated, many w/ text w/in image, 12 cyanotype images reproducing short story, cartoons & humorous titles from Kamm and college classmates at Andover College in Portland, ME, and Oregon Agricultural College, ruled charts at rear for OAC classmates, w/ addresses & comments. Softcover post-binder, screw-posts at gutter margin, manuscript block-lettered title on front cover, rounded corners (occasional edgewear, creasing to a couple leaves, occasional photos with minor over-exposure), still an exceptional album from the libary of Jack Gray Kamm. This extraordinary photo album serves as an historic visual record of maritime travel, sporting, and outdoors life in Oregon and Pacific Northwest in the early 20th Century, as experienced by a member of the industrious family of Jacob & Caroline Kamm. The album opens with a number of photographs of travel on the historic Columbia & Willamette River steamers, including the Lurline & Undine, Elkkader, Bailey Gatzert, steamships under construction, as well as scaffolding and buildings at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition under construction, and opened. The Kamm family's ownership and connection of the Oregon Steam Navigation Co., and Vancouver Transportation Co., also directly connected them with some of their steamboat captains, including Captain Archibald "Scotty" McNeill (1866-1935) of the Undine which sailed between Portland, OR and Vancouver, WA with her sister ships Lurline, and the Telephone. Many of the images depict young Jack Kamm, brothers Walker & Philipp, as well as friends cowboying, traveling by automobile, logging operations and forest fire on the Lewis River, and camping with friends at Seaside & Astoria. Nine RPPC photographs vividly capture the rodeo cowboys and events at the 1911 Pendleton Round-Up, shot by W.S. Bowman, identifying such riders as Braden Girking, J.E. Briscoe, John Walletsia, Bert Kelly, Narcise McKay, and others. Much of the album surrounds Jack Kamm's college life at Andover College in Portland, ME, and at the Oregon Agricultural College (now OSU), with humorous house rules of the Billiken Inn at OAC, cartoon lampooning Kamm in his roadster slowing down to 90 MPH, as well as class excurions, mountaineering with his buddies on Mary's Peak near Corvallis in the snow, climbing on Mt. Hood, as well as riding as the "Red Devil" on his 1910 Indian Motorcycle. Of additional interest, are the over 100 photos depicting the OAC football, basketball, baseball teams, and Jack Kamm's 1909 Andover football squad, along with track & field events at Andover. Of particular value are all the identifications of players in 1909-1912, with action shots of Duarte hitting a long ball, Philips batting, Keck going for first base, Moore catching behind the bat, Max Meyer in his twirling pitching stance, and many others. Of special interest are several snapshot images capturing a women's Junior-Senior baseball game at the picnic in 1912, with women catching bare-handed, and dressed in the notoriously stifling long skirts of the pre-World War I era. In addition, Jack has included assorted images of the OAC Regiment passing in review, marching, and the assembly hall at the College. Also apearing are photos of Prom workers and staff in 1912, the theatre production "German Beer Garden at the Country Fair" Jan. 13, 1912, and even two RPPC photos of Emma Wooten as Wallulah in the Astoria Centennial version of the Bridge of the Gods historical pageant, with Leo Wise playing Chief Multnomah after having donned heavy make-up.Amongst the hundreds of images, there are also photographs of the Kamm family home in Portland, OR, dockyards, rail yards, logging operations, summer camping & canoeing, and even
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Manual of the Board of Supervising Inspectors. Acts of Congress relating to steam vessels. Rules and regulations of the Board for the Government of Inspectors. . . revised and adopted October 27, 1863.

[MARITIME - CIVIL WAR]. 12mo. 147, [1], xx pp., with woodcut rule borders throughout. Publisher's black diced calf, overlapping flap at front fore-edge, w/ tongue & strap to insert (minor rubbing, shelfwear, closed tear to close flap), still VG- copy, from the library of Caroline Augusta Gray Kamm (1840-1932), noted socialite and philanthropist in Portland, built home for poor women & girls with the YWCA, and was daughter of PNW pioneer William H. Gray (1810-1889) who traveled to the Lapwai Mission in Lewiston, ID in 1836 where he was the Nez Perce secular agent, and she subsequently later married Jacob Kamm (1823-1912), pioneering Oregon steamship builder, industrialist and entrepreneur. First edition, thus, of this Civil War-era manual for inspecting steam vessels was considered a Wartime imperative by Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase, who while writing to Baltimore's Supervising Inspector that "the security of the lives of persons in the public service, whether serving in civil or military capacities on board Government transports or other vessels. . . and the protection of the Government property, are objects quite as important at the safety of private citizens." Inspectors were charged with determining seaworthiness, condition of boilers, materials, bonds, combustible fluids, enforcing regulations, pilot rules, and much more. If the vessel failed to pass due to negligence, it could be seized. Worldcat locates 3 copies (US Coast Guard Academy Lib., Smithsonian, Cincinnati & Hamilton County Lib.).
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Sawmill equipment & supplies [Log haul chairs; Head sprockets for long link chain; Log haul chain; Cast steel carriage wheels; Technical data; Columbia special alloys; Analysis of miscellaneous dredge parts and logging equipment. . . ; Logging & mill equipment display list; Bucket inspection sheet. . . ]; (together with) The determination of the critical dimensions for necked-down risers; Walker & Hughey, Fundamentals of heavy cutting. . . .

[LOGGING EQUIPMENT & COLUMBIA STEEL]. [BRODIGAN, James Thomas]. 4to. [Approx. 266 pp (assorted sections, some separately paginated).], including 12 cyanotype white on blue blueprints, numerous silver print diazotype blueprints, manuscript blueprints & diagrams on graph paper, as well as white paper, several sections in original typescript, copyletters signed by Brodigan, work orders w/ printed letterhead and Brodigan's autograph, and manuscript notes, two added reports at rear in their original printed covers, w/ text photo illustrations, diagrams, etc. All preserved in original gray-green cloth 3-ring binder, rounded corners, piano-hinge joints, typed label on spine, typed thumb tabs mounted on fore-edges (minor soiling, edgewear, some rubbing), still VG- exemplar from the library of Columbia Steel Casting Co. This well-organized plans and data notebook filled with original blueprints, manuscript diagrams, typescript reports, and signed work orders chronicle efforts of a Columbia Steel casting engineer & manager designing products for the fast-growing logging industry during World War II and in the post-War building boom. Columbia Steel had long been a pioneer in the logging equipment industry, founding the Skookum line before 1906, and as reflected in this manuscript notebook, specialized in the casting of Log Haul Chairs for logging trucks, loaders, and log railcars, as well as the durable log haul chains in assorted sizes. Columbia Steel maintained an in-house metallurgy lab and research group experimenting, testing, and developing new products using their specially created Manganese alloy, with some links measuring up to 8" in diameter. They also cast the sprocket assemblies to secure the loads as they were yarded out of the timber stands, and in the sawmills, as well as the much needed durable cast steel carriage wheels. As evidenced by the original reports, manuscript details, and blueprint designs preserved in this notebook, they also were pioneers and primary suppliers for dredging parts, used not only in digging and clearing holding ponds for logging operations, but also for supplying gold mining and other mineral mining operations in the West. Some of the companies specified in these included C.H. Thurman Dredge in Snelling, CA, buckets for Yuba Consolidated Goldfields, and still others for Junction City Mining Co. Original production and design materials from this historic company are quite scarce due to the catastrophic 1948 Vanport Flood, as well as later fires which nearly destroyed all the facilities. Brodigan (1918-2003) was casting engineer, and later plant manager for Columbia Steel Casting Co., starting work with them prior to World War II, and continuing until his retirement.
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Motor Vehicle Digest [Cover title: Engine Parts: magneto gasoline pumps. . . ; Engine Parts: water pumps, radiators, mascots, ornaments; Engine Parts: Carburetors, air cleaners, filters. . . ; Engine Parts: Carburetors; Electrical Systems & Parts: Spark plugs, ignition apparatus. . . ; Internal Combustion Engines: Diesel or modified, gasoline, kerosene. . . ; Internal Combustion Engines: Submarine diesel engines, two-cycle engines, sleeve valve motors. . . ; Final Drives or Transmissions; Elements of General Application: Gears, universal joints. . . ; Steering: Axles, knuckles, gears. . . ; Steering – Steering Gear: Roadwheels, tires, springing. . . ; Springing – Pneumatic Suspension. . . .]

[AUTOMOBILES -- ENGINEERING]. [LORD, Frank Howard (Ed.)]. Twelve vols. Oblong folio. 19 x 12.5 x approx. 2-3 in. per vol., 30 linear inches. [251; 278; 228; 84; 233; 312; 264; 140; 158; 160; 208; 212 leaves (11 of 12 vols. unnumbered).], all silver gelatin Photostatic photo print positives, on inconsistent quality papers, either due to processing or washing process after being shot with the Rectigraph camera reproducing through a prism an image, some w/ borders, all featuring nine 4 x 6 in. data cards on recto of each leaf, all identified w/in the original images, some from photographs, containing well over 20,000 illustrations, diagrams, photographs, and technical details (roughness to some of the fore-edges, photo textblock not cut or trimmed to size, so rough cut at fore-edges, occasional lifting from old wicking at fore-edges, faint tidemark to lower fore-edges of a couple volumes). Uniformly bound in three-quarter maroon-coloured calf over black pebbled cloth on beveled boards, Broun-Green Co. Safety Minute Book, McMillan Patented post-binders, with three metal posts and ring locking mechanism, all leaves perforated at gutter margin for loading into the binders, decorated endpapers, thumb tabs at fore-edges demarcating the front of the binder, gilt lettered title stamped on front covers of all (some scuffing, edgewear, couple hinges starting, or weakened, occasional scuffing to back covers, or to spines, former owner's labels attached to spines of a couple vols.), still a VG set originally acquired by a collector when most of Harrah's automobiles, and other material were auctioned off in three separate sales in the mid-1980's, after efforts to preserve the collection failed following the acquisition of Harrah's casino and hotel empire by Holiday Inns, with their ownership stamps on flyleaves. Since Harrah mechanics had to maintain a fleet of over 1425 automobiles, many of them exceedingly rare early Brass Era, and foreign models, these volumes provided invaluable mechanical details. This immense and unique reference set reproduces over 22,000 well-illustrated index research cards on 2525 leaves, prepared by General Motors for their engineering and technical staff tracking and recording the myriad of manufacturers and suppliers for automobiles, trucks, aircraft, and marine craft from the Brass Era through the Great Depression. These prepared by the GM in-house technical periodical, "Motor Vehicle Digest," provide essential visual and technical historical data for the development, patent history, engineering, inventions, of most of the major and minor, national and international, automobile manufacturers, and parts suppliers for over three decades prior to World War II. Basically serving as the automotive industry's equivalent of the National Union Catalogue, or Acta Sanctorum, these gigantic volumes trace the origins, mechanical development, devices, and equipment on 1000's of different manufacturers, most having been lost now to the passage of time, and the many shake-ups during the 20th Century. Not only do they serve as original reference from contemporary technical journals in German, French, Italian, Norwegian, Dutch, and Danish, all neatly translated into English, but also offer a means to visually trace the development of the automobile. The four "Engine Parts" volumes include extensive sections on magnetos, gasoline pumps, accessory drive chains, camshaft gears, water pumps, pistons, crank shafts, water pumps, fuel systems, fuel gauges, carburetors, throttle controls, air filters, fuel injection, and even the 1937 introduction of the Down Draft Carburetor. Of notable interest is the extensive section on radiator badges or mascots, and Motometer ornaments for the radiators, including winged Gods & Goddesses, animals, and grille ornaments. The myriad of manufacturers represented is dizzying, ranging from Mercedes to Packard, Bugatti to Lejeuene, Wolsely to Zenith, with Napier, Thornycroft, Solex, Rateau, Mercedes, Rickenbacker, Stromberg & Locomobile thrown in. Electrical s
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