Compiler unknown (14 Ergebnisse)
Verlag: n.p. 2021
- Hardcover
- Erstausgabe
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Title repeats her automobile licence, her buggy being a nippy VW model. 207p., numerous photo-illustrations, all in color, a handsome book in 10x7 inch maroon cloth boards cover-titled in blind, spine-titled silver. Presswork on nice alkaline paperstock, illustrations well-integrated with the various narrative and mem…orial texts. We see no flaws, item is perfectly sound, square, clean and unmarked, but we wish we had been provided with title & copyright information. Irish immigrant with athletic prowess, channeled mostly into (bi)cycling, with kudos in weightlifting. She developed intestinal cancer and left mourners. Printed and bound in Italy by Verona Libri, but in life, after immigrating, she was local to the Bay Area, including having a foothold in Bolinas.
Verlag: Unknown Compiler
- Softcover
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In den WarenkorbSoft cover. Zustand: Good. A truly unique item.Compiled I assume by a crew member (or passenger) this one off card bound book contains EVERY menu from 11th October 1960 to 1st January 1961, some of the days there are 3 different menus (Breakfast,Luncheaon & Dinner) bound in.3 of the menus are in full colour.Card covers, some fox…ing, but overall in vg condition.A rare and unusual item from this ship which was scrapped in 1962, shortly after this cruise.
- Softcover
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Dust Jacket. Book is a journal/notebook with lined pages. Spine of book is missing at least 1" from each end and has surface wear. Covers have light wear to outer corners. One group of pages is detached but present, binding shaken. ; Handwritten genealogy of the Hills and Lyman Families, some hand dr…awn coats-of-arms. Also A Supplementary Record Connecting with The Hills Family In America [booklet, 1908]. The manuscript is NOT for the book mentioned in the title of the booklet.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Portable Trunk Publishers, Undated, Modern Reprint circa 2002 0, United States 2002
- Softcover
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In den WarenkorbSoft Flex Covers w Cloth Spine. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Modern reprint, no edition stated. A modern reprint of the original wholesale samples book. Minimal text, in English. Direct reprint of the original 1800s trade samples catalog fine patterns for sewn designs for various cloth applications including wall covering…s, clothing etc. 76 pages, in very good condition. Glossy, flex covers, with cloth binding. Profusely illustrated with trade samples from the era. Thoroughly engaging for historical reference. A delightful look at many different pattern designs to be commercially reproduced or manufactured to order that would be available in the early and mid 19th century. This catalog shows samples, designs and styles available to make at home, dressmakers or early shops. Ideal catalog for collectors, designers, restorers, period prop departments or antiques dealers of novelty fine fabrics and wall coverings. Paper / Soft cover reprint edition in very good condition, flex covers, bound, a sturdy book with typical slight wear to edges and spine from being moved around the shop, stored flat. Overall wonderful copy, informative resource. It would make a great gift for the fan in your life, even if that's you. Stored flat. Firmly resourceful, ideal for reference and collecting. General wear from being moved around the shop. ~ We appreciate your consideration of one of our books, art prints or novelty items. We strive to offer fast, courteous and professional service to all our patrons. Reading is one of life's great pleasures. Please inquire for further details, our items arrive shrink wrapped and well packed. ~ Thank you for viewing and stopping by. Book.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Album privately compiled. Blei-Kindt & Bucher Verlag. Giessen.
- Softcover
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In den WarenkorbSoft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. The album contains some 80 cuttings in black and white, some loose, bound in a soft cloth wrap. Very good indeed. Loosely inserted is a booklet: Franz Blei - Die Göttliche Garbo - Kindt & Bucher. 9pp of text by Blei, a 2pp afterword by Garbo, and 32pp of photos. Very good indeed in wrap…s. Also a postcard of Tallulah Bankhead, photo by Dorothy Wilding (no. 297d. "Picturegoer" series 88 Long Acre, London) Acquired from Maude Lloyd, an admired leading dancer with Ballet Rambert in the 1930s. With her husband, Nigel Gosling a renowned art critic, she later wrote, influential dance books and reviews under the joint pseudonym, 'Alexander Bland'. When Rudolph Nureyev defected in 1961, Margot Fonteyn asked them to befriend him which they gladly did offering him freedom of their house. Gosling edited his autobiography. Nureyev wrote an admiring memoir of him in Observer of the Dance anthologising Goslings reviews, "He and Maude were like my family.".
Weitere BilderVerlag: N.p., n.d.
- Softcover
- Erstausgabe
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In den Warenkorb16.7x24.2 cm (oblong octavo), 20 plates, each with printed glassine paper guard, original brown pictorial wrappers, printed in black and light green, string-tied. First edition. A scarce Mill Valley souvenir view book, published circa 1900-1910. "Mill Valley, located at the base of Mount Tamalpais, was first planned in the late…1880s and incorporated in 1900. The city was named for a sawmill built by John Reed, to cut lumber harvested from the surrounding area. Once the area was logged, the land was divided into parcels and sold as home sites, which at first were primarily Mill Valley, California, vacation residences" (Wikipedia). OCLC lists three copies, at the California State Library, the Marin County Free Library, and the Mill Valley Public Library. Not in Rocq (1970). Mild soiling and wear to wrappers, some tanning and foxing to glassine guards and plate margins, a very good copy. (#166860).
Weitere BilderVerlag: [Glacier National Park, ca. 1920] 1920
- Hardcover
- Foto
Anbieter: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, USAJames Arsenault & Company, ABAA
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Small 4to (10.5" x 13.25"), flexible black cloth, black lace tie at spine, applied illustrated label reading "Great Northern" on upper cover. 2 mounted color printed maps, 8.5" x 11" and 8" 13.5", misc. mounted railroad ephemera both clipped and intact, 216 silver print photos, approx. 3.5" x 5.5",… including 16 real photo postcards; 3 b&w photomechanical postcards, 27 color postcards, numerous pressed flowers; many photos captioned on mount in white crayon. An impressive Glacier National Park photo album, apparently compiled by a woman during a visit in the 1920s, providing ample documentation of the park's extraordinary natural beauty and early buildings, as well as the compiler s peregrinations, various companions, people encountered along the way, etc. Mounted at the beginning of the album are a number of pieces of railroad ephemera demonstrating that the compiler and companion(s) began their trip on the Pennsylvania Rail Road and were thus easterners. A Great Northern Railway ticket advertises the Oriental Limited, the railroad s primary passenger train from 1905 to 1931, and the means by which the compiler reached the park. A photo of the Oriental Limited rounding a curve below Marias Pass appears early in the album and was apparently taken from the back of the train as they were arriving in the Glacier Park region. Also among the preliminary items are two maps, one entitled Map of Glacier National Park and the other (mounted underneath the former), Aero Plane Map[,] Glacier National Park. The subjects of the photos include: scenes on the Northern Pacific; Lake McDonald; "Charlie Russell s cabin at Lake MacDonald" (famed western artist Charles Russell spent some twenty summers on the lake); views on the trail to Sperry Glacier; a cowgirl described "a waitress at Sperry"; various chalets and lodges (Granite Park Chalets, Many Glacier Hotel, Glacier Park Hotel, etc.); Grinnell Mountain and falls, and numerous other mountains, lakes, etc.; a series of images of an unidentified woman in jodhpurs who is seen frequently throughout the album (and was likely the compiler); the "new road to Logan Pass"; a group standing around a fire identified as "Mrs. Bull & Son, Mr. Singleton, Mr. Cook and WAH at Gunsight"; John Clark s curio shop; the saddle horse corral at many Glacier; and more. Pressed flowers appear throughout. Most of the photographs were taken by the compiler or a companion, but a number are real photo postcards made by T. J. Hileman, as are quite a few of the color postcards, while a few are credited to Fred Kiser and some are uncredited. Closely associated with Glacier National Park, T. J. Hileman (1882 1945) produced and sold numerous photographs from his commercial shop in Montana over the course of many years. In addition to capturing scenic images, he also documented visits of notables to the area. In 1911 he moved to Kalispell and opened his own portrait studio, and in 1913 married Alice Georgeson in Glacier Park the first couple ever to get married there. Hileman began his association with the Great Northern Railway soon after arriving in Montana. Carrying his bulky camera equipment via packhorse, he soon became one of Glacier National Park s most prolific photographers, his work widely reproduced in postcards, newspapers, ephemera, and books. In 1926, he opened photo-finishing labs in Glacier Park Lodge and Many Glacier Hotel, developing photos taken by tourists. Following the construction of the Great Northern Railway through Marias Pass and the conservation efforts of George Bird Grinnell, Glacier National Park was established in 1910, as the nation s tenth national park. In order to promote tourism, the Great Northern constructed a number of lodges and chalets in the park. Most of those constructed in the teens are pictured in the album. The Prince of Wales Hotel, built in 1926-27, is not pictured, suggesting that the album precedes its construction. An ample and thematically strong photo album.
Weitere BilderVerlag: D. S, Kieffer, Printer, [1845]., Lancaster 1845
- Softcover
- Erstausgabe
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In den Warenkorb[PENNSYLVANIA]. First edition. 8vo. Printed yellow stitched wrappers with decorative border; 17, [7] pages plus covers. "Compiled from actual assessments and authentic sources." Short leaf of Omissions and Corrections bound in. An index of names with locations and occupations followed by financial worth. The Preface, in full: "I…t had been suggested to the compiler to accompany some of the names with biographical notices; arduous as such an undertaking would have proved itself, no pains should have been spared to gratify the public; but the consideration, in order to do justice to all, impartiality would have been requisite, and to have been faithful, many of the notices might have been viewed either as 'invidious or lavish,'?dissuaded the compiler to change this feature. Care has been taken not to overrate men?s wealth. Should there be any errors or omissions discovered, they will be corrected in an improved edition." We are not aware of another edition being published. Few pencil additions. OCLC locates only 4 copies of this slight, fragile pamphlet. Early owner name "Rhoads" on verso of front wrapper and on rear wrapper dated 1846; "McAllisters all Healing Ointment" in early hand in ink on the title page; lightly soiled and small nicks chips to the extremities. Very Good and scarce. Housed in a leather clamshell case with titles stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine.
Weitere BilderVerlag: The German Government (no publisher indicated) 1940 (n.d.) 1940
- Softcover
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, USAChurchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA
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In den WarenkorbPaperback. English-language edition, only printing. This is a rare, extremely well-preserved, and fascinating wartime Nazi propaganda piece ridiculing Churchill's wartime alliance of convenience with Stalin. It was produced by the Germans specifically to help recruit captured British soldiers to the Britisher Freikorps, the SS u…nit made up of British troops. This English language edition was distributed to British POWs. Versions are known in Croatian, French, German, Norwegian, and Swedish, but by far the most important and scarce is the English language version. The format is newspaper cartoons critical of Stalin on each right hand page with notes and Churchill quotes critical of Stalinist Russia on opposing pages. The effect is a stinging contrast between Churchill's wartime alliance of necessity with his long history of ardent anti-communist sentiment. The book measures 8 5/8 x 6 inches, is 110 pages long, and is bound in cream-colored card wraps. The title page lists Winston Churchill as author, with both the publisher and the editor unspecified. There is an unsigned, two-page preface at the beginning and a three-page list of "Source of Reference" at the end. Publication was of course directly at the behest of the Nazi government. Churchill bibliographer Ronald Cohen speculates that Wilhelm Liljencrantz may have been the compiler. Given the nature of this perishable wartime publication, surviving copies are quite scarce. This is a superlative copy of the English language issue of My Ally, the best copy of this perishable wartime publication that we have ever seen. The cream-colored card binding is tight, square, and complete with no tears or creases, including no vertical creasing of the spine. Very light overall soiling and toning and fractional wear at the corners are the only external flaws to report. The contents are printed on cheap, newsprint-style wartime paper. The contents are thus inevitably age-toned, but not severely. There is no spotting. The sole previous ownership mark is a small, decorative bookplate on the inside front cover. Bibliographic reference: Cohen A122.1, Woods D(a)6, Zoller A68.
Verlag: No publisher indicated c. 1940, No place indicated 1940
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In den WarenkorbLeaflet. This is a rare and fascinating wartime propaganda piece ridiculing British Prime Minister Winton Churchill's Second World War alliance of convenience with Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The unsigned, undated leaflet reproduces excerpts from five unidentified pieces of Churchill's writing. The leaflet measures 8.125 x 5.8…75 inches (20.6 x 14.9 cm) and is printed only on the recto. Churchill's bibliographer Ronald Cohen gives no publisher or location for this item. The poor English of the introduction and the use of a z with a horizontal stroke through it leads us to speculate that this leaflet is continental, possibly German, propaganda.The leaflet ends by turning Churchill's words into a derisive attack on the alleged hypocrisy of Britain's wartime alliance: "We cannot treat with Bolshevism but you can make the supreme sacrifice so that it can overturn existing civilization by stealth, by propaganda, and by bloody force." The effect is a stinging contrast between Churchill's wartime alliances of necessity and his long history of ardent anti-communist sentiment. A scarce item; we know of only two other copies - one which we offered half a decade ago and one in the collection of the Imperial War Museum.Condition of this fragile, ephemeral item approaches near fine. Incredibly, the wood pulp paper has survived with no loss or tears. Though there is some wrinkling to the bottom third of the sheet, this is likely an artifact of the printing process, as the only other copy we have handled had similar wrinkling. The leaflet does not appear to have been folded at any time and has apparently been stored flat.Reference: Cohen A138.
Weitere Bilder- Softcover
Anbieter: Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Armadale, AustralienDouglas Stewart Fine Books
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In den Warenkorb[Teheran : Headquarters, Persian Gulf. Command, United States Army, c.1945]. Folio photograph album (320 x 255 mm), original brown textured cloth over boards with embossed silver lettering 'Persian Gulf Command / Iran' and embossed insignia of the Persian Gulf Command to upper board, original silk ties; [19] leaves with 268 corn…er-mounted gelatin silver photographs, most 70 x 90 mm (some slightly larger) -a unique selection of photos taken from commercial snapshot folders/packets acquired by the album's owner whilst on active duty with Persian Gulf Command, with the accompanying mounted printed caption sheets from those folders/packets mounted alongside the photos; followed by [26] blank leaves; two photos apparently lost from recto of the first leaf, otherwise contents complete and in superb condition. [TOGETHER WITH]Persian Gulf Command.[Teheran : Headquarters, Persian Gulf. Command, United States Army, c.1945], 295 x 220 mm, staple-bound pictorial wrappers, pp. [34], photographically illustrated throughout; with loosely enclosed typed cover letter from Brigadier General Donald P. Booth (Persian Gulf Command), addressed to the unidentified recipient of the souvenir photo album and booklet, thanking them for their wartime contribution as a member of the Persian Gulf Command: '. your hardships and sacrifices of the past two years have helped immeasurably to win the war, and save the lives of fellow Americans'; the booklet and document are in very good condition. The United States Army established its Persian Gulf Command in 1941. Its principal aim was to protect the supply of Allied militarymateriel to the Soviet Union which was sent overland through Persia. All members of the PCG received a specially bound photograph album, in which they could mount their own photos to remind them of their wartime service in the Middle East, along with the Persian Gulf Command booklet. The photos in the unique album offered here do not depict Persia but comprise almost exclusively scenes in Palestine, including Jerusalem; Galilee; Bethlehem; Nazareth; Tel Aviv; Mount Carmel, Haifa and Acre; Jaffa, Ramleh and Lydia; and Jericho.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Compiler unknown, 1909., N. P. 1909
Anbieter: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, USABUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA
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In den Warenkorb[PACIFIC NORTHWEST]. An exceptionally well-composed and annotated photograph travel album with 61 original photographs of which 59 are captioned neatly below in white ink along with the negative number. The album compiles a camping and hiking trip into Klickitat County, voyage on the Bailey Gatzert down the Columbia River gorge,… and finally a visit to the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition for "Iowa Day." July - August 1909. 118 pages. photographs are 3 1/4" x 5" and 3 3/4" x 4 1/4." Each photograph is neatly captioned and dated and mounted in a Housh Album. This nicely arranged album records a trip into Klickitat County for camping and a visit to a logging camp; climbing Wind Mountain for views of Mt. Adams; voyaging down the Columbia River and eventually reaching Seattle for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. A very skilled amateur photographer treats us to scenic views of Mt. Hood; Klickitat Canyon; Klickitat River Gorge; a logging operation on the Klickitat River with scenes of the bridge over the Big Muddy in Hellroaring Canyon and one of a bridge made from a single giant Yellow Pine log. The album continues with views of the steamship landing at Lyle, Washington; the Steamer Bailey Gatzert on the Columbia River and subsequent travel down the river with a stop on Memaloose Island. Photographs capture the indigenous remains on the island at "Old Indian Burying Ground" with Major Victor Trefitt's grave monument in the background. A 19th century memoir by Ira Rowland wrote that "it was the Indian custom to wrap their dead and leave them on Memaloose Island. It was half covered with skulls and bones.the stench of the dead was terrific.hundred of skulls staring out of empty eyes." Trevitt had requested to be buried on the Island as he considered the Native Americans to be "the most honest people in the world." Most of the Pacific Northwest Indigenous remains were later relocated to the Native American cemetery across from the Columbia at The Dallas before the Bonneville Dam waters covered much of the Island. The photographer and party sailed on the Bailey Gatzert to the Cascade Locks, with views of the steamship entering the Locks, followed by views of Cape Horn; the Cape Horn Railroad Tunnel; the Seattle, Portland & Spokane Railroad bridge over the Columbia River at Vancouver, Washington and Fort Vancouver. After a short stop in Portland, with views of the Portland harbor on the Willamette, Suspension Bridge at Oregon City and the Forestry Building from the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition, they head to Seattle. The last ten images are devoted to Seattle including their arrival in Seattle on the waterfront, with views of the Galbraith Dock and steamships tied up; a view of Fort Lawton, Washington, now in the Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle, followed by a series of views at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition August 12, 1909 - "Iowa Day." The photographs of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition capture the "Cascades" waterfall and the Government Building; Manufacturers Building' and the fountain Forestry; Building Idaho Building' Spokane County Building and crowds of Iowans filling the area, including a huge crowd in front of the Alaska Building and the Hawaii Building. The two additional photographs capture different Brass Era automobiles, one a four- passenger sedan parked in front of the Sacramento, California Capitol Building and the other a seven-passenger 1910 Mitchell Sedan at a Western ranch yard. A well-presented clean and neat album in solid very good condition.
Weitere BilderA contemporary photograph album of the Boer War (1899-1902) including 41 captioned images, among them one of the most striking early images of Winston S. Churchill dating from his time as an itinerant solder and war correspondent during the waning days of Queen Victoria's reign
Compiler unknown, including photographs attributed to J.E.M., Jan Van Hoepen, and J.E. Middlebrook
Verlag: Privately compiled 1899-1901, South Africa 1899
Anbieter: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, USAChurchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA
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In den WarenkorbPhoto album. This compelling photograph album from the turn of the 19th century contains 41 black and white photographs, all captioned, of the Second Boer War (1899-1902), the final British conflict of Queen Victoria's long reign. Among the photographs is one of the most striking early images of Winston S. Churchill, dating from… his time as an itinerant soldier and war correspondent, just before his final battle of the war, return to England, and first election to Parliament. While most of the photographs were taken by J.E.M., there are some attributed to Jan Van Hoepen, and J.E. Middlebrook. Subjects include troop ships and disembarkation, field camps, groups of soldiers, prisoners, river crossings, and, of course, Winston Churchill, among others. Nearly all of the photographs measure approximately 5.5 x 7.5 inches (14 x 19 cm). Condition of the album is only good, but the photographs within are generally very good. The 11 x 8.125 inches (27.9 x 20.6 cm) album is bound in leather, the spine is cracking and fraying, particularly at the heel, the corners bumped and frayed. The pages are toned and spotted, commensurate with the cardstock of which they are made and the passage of time, but the photographs are clean and well-protected. Additionally, laid in are three small, silvered images, each roughly 3.25 x 2.25 inches (8.3 x 5.7 cm), each captioned by hand on the verso. One rather brutal image captures "2 boers killed in action River Poort 18/11/01", another is of soldiers "Entering River Poort" and the third of an encampment at "Warmbaths".In October 1899, the second Boer War erupted between descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa and the British. Along with troops, the conflict drew photographers and reporters. Among them was Winston Churchill, already one of the world's highest paid war correspondents, with the 21st Lancers and an assignment as press correspondent to the Morning Post. Among the most striking photographs in this album, roughly at the center, is one of Churchill, a full-length portrait of him in uniform and slouch hat standing in front of the overturned armored train where he had been captured by the Boers near Chieveley in November 1899. Churchill leans insouciantly on a cane but belies his own casual posture with his countenance, directly regarding the camera with confident intensity. The vintage gelatin silver image, attributed to the Daily News, Durban, is captioned "MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL AFTER HIS ESCAPE FROM THE BOERS REVISITS THE SCENE OF HIS HEROISM THE ARMOURED TRAIN DISASTER BOER WAR 1899-1900". On 15 November 1899, Churchill was captured during a Boer ambush of an armored train. A month later Churchill made a daring and improbable escape, making his way to Durban via Portuguese East Africa with the Boers literally offering reward for his capture "dead or alive". Churchill entered Pretoria on 5 June 1900 with victorious British troops as a Lieutenant in the South African Light Horse. On 11 June Churchill fought at Diamond Hill generally acknowledged as the turning point of the war. It proved to be Churchill's last military engagement until the First World War. By 20 July Churchill was back in England and on 1 October 1900 he was elected to Parliament, partly on the strength of his wartime fame.Also included in the album are two terrific photographs by Dutch photographer Jan Van Hoeplen (1856-1922). One of the Boer forts at Mafeking, and another of "Boers in the trench on Spion Kop" a battle in which Winston Churchill participated. In this Spion Kop image, the scruff and age and fighting resolve of the fighters seems nearly uniform, nearly all of them sighting down their rifles. The notable exception is the face of a young boy, visibly smaller and younger than his comrades, looking away from the frontline and toward the camera instead. It's a terribly humanizing picture, and an anonymous and decidedly unglorifying counterpoint to Churchill's own image in the album.
Weitere Bilder- Hardcover
Anbieter: Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Armadale, AustralienDouglas Stewart Fine Books
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In den Warenkorb[s.l. : s.n., 1973]. Small oblong quarto photograph album (205 x 260 mm), spiral-bound navy blue pebbled cloth over boards, upper board lettered in gilt 'Dedication of Tidbinbilla 64 metre antenna 13th April, 1973'; [12] b/w photographs and [1] colour photograph in uniform 150 x 170 mm format mounted recto only, with printed cap…tions below each image; the binding and contents are in pristine condition. A rare album of photographs commemorating the dedication of the NASA antenna at Tidbinbilla in the A.C.T. in April 1973. The album was privately prepared - likely in very limited numbers - and was presumably made for distribution to a small number of dignitaries and/or scientists connected with the occasion. Trove locates no other example; in fact, the album appears to be completely unrecorded. The NASA 64-metre deep space antenna at Tidbinbilla was constructed by Collins Radio between 1969 and 1972. It was given the Indigenous name?Ballima?, meaning ?very far away? The antenna was dedicated by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on 13 April 1973; however, ithad already been used to support the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972.
