Sale 2455 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 28, 2017

202 202 c   (NEWYORK—LONGISLAND.) Group of 11 Real Photo Postcards of St. James, including 3 showing the estate of architect Stanford White. Each 3 1 / 2 x 5 1 / 2 inches, minimal wear; 6 mailed, the others unused. St. James, NY, circa 1910 [300/400] 203 c   (NEW YORK—LONG ISLAND.) Howell, Mabel E. Diary of a farmer’s daughter in East Moriches, continued after her death by her older sister. [179], [21] manuscript pages. 4to, original 1 / 2 calf, worn; minimal wear to contents. Vp, 1895-1936 [250/350] Mabel E. Howell (1880-1905) was the youngest daughter of small farmer Isaac Terry Howell (1837- 1905) in rural East Moriches on Long Island’s south shore. The diary begins on her fifteenth birthday, and describes school, social life, church, and family. Watching bicycle races and playing croquet were favorite recreations, and she traveled often throughout eastern Suffolk County, including the Poospatuck Indian reservation on 7 April 1898. Some of the entries are intriguing: “In the evening, Marion and Minnie and Jay and Marion’s cousin called here. Her cousin was dressed like a lady” (28 December 1897), or “Harry Demarest . . . was on his way to Patchogue with the pony Buttons as they wanted him for the circus” (31 July 1898). On 3 November 1896, she “went to the polls to see them vote. Mr. McKinley was elected.” She does not sign this diary, but the birthdays of her and her parents match the dates given on their gravestones. She kept up daily entries until stopping abruptly on 13 February 1899. In the rear of the volume, her sister Sarah J. “Sadie” Howell Hand (1860-1949) added her own sporadic diary entries from 1 January 1927 to 25 October 1936. 204 c   (OHIO.) A Visit to Mr. John D. Rockefeller by Neighbors and Friends at Forest Hill, Cleveland, Ohio. Platinotype frontispiece portrait with embossed stamp of photographer George M. Edmondson, 16 pages of facsimile signatures. [21, 1] text leaves. 4to, 1 / 4 calf over gilt-lettered boards, minor wear; offsetting from frontispiece on title page; uncut at fore-edge, #99 of 425 signed copies, Rockefeller’s signature in blue pencil under portrait; issued to H.P. Dyer. [Cleveland, OH], 1905 [1,200/1,800] A tribute to America’s wealthiest man. Includes remarks by Andrew Squire and L.E. Holden, and a concluding address by Rockefeller. Rockefeller notes that he began his first job fifty years ago that day in Cleveland, and recounts the kindness of a bank director who helped young businessmen get their footing. Books signed by Rockefeller are difficult to come by, this being the only one issued with his signature. 204