Title: “Pictures of fair Buildings and fair Exhibits” - scrapbook Author: Place: [San Francisco] Publisher: Date: [1939] Description: 20ff, scrapbook album with 35 original colored postcards (mounted) and 22 pamphlets, flyers and other printed matter + captions in ink album leaves. Title in pen on front free endpaper. (Oblong 4to), thick wooden covers and leather hinges and string tie—with “Mexican” figure (painted wood) on cover and an added “wood-burned” wooden label: “Golden Gate/1939/International/ Exposition/ San Francisco/ Calif.” Scrapbook assembled by an eager Fair-goer, with 28 colored postcards of the GGIE, with manuscript captions. Also with 19 printed items— US Marines brochure, two different souvenir telegraphs, menu from the Estonian café + 6pp pamphlet on Estonian liqueurs, flyer on the Japanese Travel Exhibit, Ruth Taylor’s colorful “cartographic” map, cultured pearls, coffee; plus six postcards and 10 printed pieces from “places of interest in and about San Francisco”, such as menu from the “De Luxe Coffee Shop”, two silk-paper napkins from afternoon tea the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. Lot Amendments Condition: With stain to front panel, light overall wear; leaves a bit browned with wear to extremeties, one leaf and a few items detached; very good. Item number: 261177
Title: “Pictures of fair Buildings and fair Exhibits” - scrapbook Author: Place: [San Francisco] Publisher: Date: [1939] Description: 20ff, scrapbook album with 35 original colored postcards (mounted) and 22 pamphlets, flyers and other printed matter + captions in ink album leaves. Title in pen on front free endpaper. (Oblong 4to), thick wooden covers and leather hinges and string tie—with “Mexican” figure (painted wood) on cover and an added “wood-burned” wooden label: “Golden Gate/1939/International/ Exposition/ San Francisco/ Calif.” Scrapbook assembled by an eager Fair-goer, with 28 colored postcards of the GGIE, with manuscript captions. Also with 19 printed items— US Marines brochure, two different souvenir telegraphs, menu from the Estonian café + 6pp pamphlet on Estonian liqueurs, flyer on the Japanese Travel Exhibit, Ruth Taylor’s colorful “cartographic” map, cultured pearls, coffee; plus six postcards and 10 printed pieces from “places of interest in and about San Francisco”, such as menu from the “De Luxe Coffee Shop”, two silk-paper napkins from afternoon tea the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. Lot Amendments Condition: With stain to front panel, light overall wear; leaves a bit browned with wear to extremeties, one leaf and a few items detached; very good. Item number: 261177
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