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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Original publisher's light brown papers wrappers. No lettering on spine. Illustration of the First Presbyterian Church and lettering printed in black ink on front cover. No date, circa 1889. 6" x 7." Forty-seven pages, complete. Index in back. Errata in back. Pages are very clean and intact except for three that are stuck together and light age toning. Covers are clean and intact overall but have age toning, moderate darkening on front and back, small closed tear at bottom edge on back, "1890" written in black ink and a small mark on front, and several small stains on back. A Very Good copy. A history and directory of the First Presbyterian Church in Portland, Oregon. This pamphlet is the first of its kind to be published for the First Presbyterian Church. Committee members of the church are E. Quackenbush, W. B. Gilbert, J. Thorburn Ross, and Arthur J. Brown (Brown also served as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church). Information herein is about a number of subjects including a history of the Church, names of church officers and committees, the Sabbath School, related societies, names of church members, names of people on the "Absent List," church calendar and other meetings, notice that all strangers are welcome, church activities, and names of newly admitted church members. The front notice states that additional pages for newly admitted members can be glued in the back.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. Unique. A pastel drawing of an unknown sitter, probably a young prominent Scotsman possibly a writer/author, slight resemblance to ayoung Charles Dickens? A half length portrait on art card. The work is high quality and it is a strong image done with a confident hand and superbly finished. Measures approx 14.5 x 12 inches [37 x 30 cm] from mount line. The drawing was framed at some point and lines from a mount are visible (but would be hidden if re-framed), there are no marks on the image. An original pastel & graphite drawing that has the artists name and date "Dec 1843" in full. Sold unframed, we pack carefully with 100% recyclable materials. NOTE* Quote: "Mr. Robert Thorburn Ross, R.S.A., died on the 13th July, he would have been 27 when he painted this. He was made Associate in 1853, and Academician in 1869, and for many years was a regular and valued contributor to the Annual Exhibition. Of industrious habits, and possessing very considerable artistic ability, he produced a large number of works, mainly illustrative of scenes in the life of the humbler Scottish peasantry. Latterly he gave himself with evident relish to the fine of the delineation of sea-side views and incidents, and these he treated with marked success, both in oil and water-colour. Mr. Ross's amiability and modesty of character secured for him the kindly esteem of his brother Artists, while, as a painter, he justly attained, in the estimation of the public, no small measure of popularity". Signed by Author and Artist.

One large double elephant folio chromolithograph colour plat map. Approx. 3 x 6 feet, printed on clay-sized paper stock, mounted on linen, colours still vibrant, creasing & edgewear, crinkling from the linen having been rolled & unrolled over the decades, linen reinforcements at fore-edges, renewed later wooden dowels & moulding removed at upper & lower fore-edges, some faint minor dampstain & tide mark, couple very minor losses to original image, now repaired), still an extraordinary copy, shrunk wrap on archival foam core. First edition of this exceedingly scarce original chromolithograph plat map of Roseburg, Oregon for the Title Guarantee & Loan Co., at the time owned and operated by the notable Portlander, land developer, and banker, William Ladd, and managed by J.T. Ross. The same year Huber & Maxwell also produced a large four section map of Oregon which measured 6 x 7 feet, just 2 years before the Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition, and four years after they had created a giant map for Ladd in 1901. In 1903, Roseburg was a fast growing city in Southern Oregon, serving as a major trans-shipment point for farm and agriculture with flourishing crops of turkeys, prunes, and hops -- the Roseburg brewery had been closed down in 1898 by the owner's widow who was a firm temperance supporter. In addition, there were large nearby hydraulic mining operations, as well as growing sawmill and logging industry cutting and milling the stands of Douglas Fir trees. This large plat map reflects the large and fast growing suburbs and city additions at the time, including the Riverside Addition, the Behrke's and Thomas' suburbs, nearby Fruitvale & Cloverdale, along with the Kinneys Improved addition, the Terrace Park Addition, Chadwick's Addition, as well as West Roseburg. Individual large land owners are shown on the plat map, along with cemeteries, the Court House Square, the trestle bridge connecting West Roseburg and Fullerton's property to Lane Street in Roseburg, and faint pencil marks indicating later bridge on Oak connected to the Coos Bay Wagon Road. Huber (1859-1924) was a prominent civil engineer, paving contractor, and director of works for the Lewis & Clark Exposition. After working as surveyor for the U.S. Government in Arizona and New Mexico Territory in the 1880's, he then worked as engineer in Los Angeles, and then city engineer for Spokane, WA before the 1893 crash until 1900 when he began working for H.W. Goode of the Portland, Railway, Light & Power Co. in Portland, OR. Maxwell (1857-1911) was the son of a prosperous Pennsylvania bookseller who first moved to Tacoma, Washington Territory as engineer in 1880, and later worked in Spokane from 1882-1894, by 1893 had having formed partnership with Huber. Huber & Maxwell were also the successful engineering firm which oversaw the new South Jetty at the mouth of the Columbia River, and later were the key engineering firm which oversaw the feasibility of the Guild Lake site in Portland, OR for the Lewis & Clark Exposition in 1902, but unfortunately he was committed to the Oregon State Insane Asylum in 1906, where he remained until his death. All of their maps, including the famed Routledge Birds-eye of the Exposition were lithographed by The Mutual Label & Lithographic Co. in Portland, OR. No copies in Worldcat; See: Jerry Olson, Government Land Office Surveyor Personal Notes (March 30, 2014), pp. 549-551.