Leedy e c (3 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book size about 8 1/2 by 11 inches with some 36 pages. Bound in yellow wraps with front cover color photo. Published for the Great Northern Railway by E C Leedy, General Immigration Agent. Book proclaims the advantages of living in Washington State and is loaded with information on the agricultural climate. Illustrated throughout with numerous photos, inside front cover map of Washington, inside rear cover map of the Great Northern Railway routes. Also has info on parts of Idaho and British Columbia. Thrust of the book is to get you to settle in Washington State. Book with moderate wear along the spine with separation at the bottom half; light overall wear and soil. GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Original publisher's white paper wrappers with staple binding. Color illustration of an Oregon valley and red, white, and black lettering on front cover. Interior pages on newsprint-type paper. No date, circa 1910s. 8 1/4" x 10 1/2." Thirty-two pages, complete. Several black-and-white illustrations, complete. One color map of Oregon printed on inside of front cover. One black-and-white map showing the Great Northern Railway in part of the U.S., including Oregon, printed on inside of back cover (has one section of printed red ink highlighting Oregon). Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning, slight edge wear, and several small wrinkles. Covers are very clean and intact except for light age toning, slight splitting along spine, several tiny stains, slight edge wear, and small wrinkles. A Very Good copy. A promotional booklet encouraging settlement in Oregon and travel via the Great Northern Railway. Much of the booklet is about promoting the economy and industries of Central Oregon, but specific places in this part of Oregon and other regions, such as Western Oregon and "Columbia River Country" are also highlighted. Various aspects of Oregon are described and promoted such as its agricultural and economic opportunities, quality of land, and lumber industry; demand for Oregonian products outside of the state; and its quality of education, Oregon Agricultural College, accessibility to Great Northern Railway lines in the state, Crater Lake National Park, outdoor recreation, availability of government land, cultivation of crops, and dairying, stockraising, fruit-growing, and manufacturing industries. There are brief individual spotlights about Wasco and Sherman Counties, Crook County, Harney County, Lake County, Klamath County, Malheur County, Willamette Valley, Umpqua River Valley, Rogue River Valley, Columbia and Clatsop Counties, Multnomah County, Hood River Valley, Portland, Portland Rose Festival, and Astoria. In the back is a blank order or request form (with fill-in date of "191_") to General Immigration Agent E. C. Leedy on which petitioners could request information about train tickets to move from their current place of residence in the United States to Oregon. …

Two pieces. 4to. 8.25 x 11.5 in. 36; [4 pp (unpaginated).] Numerous photo illustrations, 2 maps (1 colour, 1 colour-tinted), colour photo-illustrated softcovers, cover art of lush farm w/ splendid numerous barns, cattle, and hogs; 2nd -- with numerous black & white photo illustrations, front cover of self-printed wrappers printed as if on Great Northern letterhead, w/ 2 leaves TLS from Leedy to prospective buyer, printed request form, and order form (very minor shelfwear, slight toning to fore-edges), excellent set. First editions, thus, of these land promotion advertisement brochures detailing the agricultural and farming opportunities of all the lands along the route of the Great Northern Railway in Washington State and Northern Idaho at the depths of the Great Depression. This land promotion was prepared and presenting using the statistics of the 1930 census, maps revised by the Great Northern Railway land department in 1929, and as the Great Depression began to wane, prospective homesteaders were being offered railroad fairs of 2 cents per mile. Details of the livestock and dairying possibilities in Minnesota, wheat growing in Montana, and logging opportunities, and farming in the Pacific Northwest predominate. Edwin C. Leedy (1872-1939) was a very successful land promoter and agricultural agent for the Great Northern until he retired due to ill health in Montana, 1939.…