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Sale 2687 - Lot 185

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(NEW YORK.) Collection of Shelter Island ephemera, manuscripts, and photos. Approximately 150 items, 0.7 linear feet; various conditions but generally strong. Shelter Island, NY and environs, bulk 1810-1932
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Highlights include:

The original typescript of Ralph G. Duvall's "The History of Shelter Island." More than 300 typescript pages, with a few manuscript corrections and typesetting notes. [1932]. With a proof dust jacket and illustrations, plus a 4-page printed prospectus.

27 letters by Julia Ann Conklin King (1826-1895), a Shelter Island whaling captain's widow, and other family members, to son Edgar Cornelius King (1865-1927) and his wife of nearby Sag Harbor, most with original stamped and postmarked envelopes, 1888-1894.

Handbill, "Sale at Auction," 8½ 5½ inches. For an auction conducted by Shelter Island native Henry Packer Dering (1783-1822) in nearby Sag Harbor, 30 July 1810.

"Illustrated Long Island," a booklet of 12 postcard-sized chromolithograph views folding out accordion-style. Said to contain "the earliest known view of Manhanset House," a prominent Shelter Island Hotel; only 2 in OCLC and none traced at auction. Long Island City, NY: Long Island News Co., 1883.

Other tourist brochures including "Souvenir of Shelter Island / Shelter Island Illustrated," 1888 (3 copies in 3 different colored bindings); C.H. Bateman, "Map of Shelter Island Showing Locations of Roads and Buildings," 1889 (3 examples); Ralph Duvall, "Shelter Island: Past and Present," 1901.

Worn 4-page prospectus for West Neck Park development, March 1889.

"Epher Whitaker. "A sermon at the Funeral of Rev. Daniel M. Lord." 30 pages, stitched. Boston, 1861.

A pair of ribbon badges from the Shelter Island chapter of the Junior Order, United American Mechanics; and a pin from the Shelter Island Heights Fire Department (with a provenance note).

Typed stockholders list for the Dering Harbor Golf Club, 1937.

Letter to Abby Congdon of Shelter Island, 1846.

Approximately 70 photographs in a variety of sizes and formats, many of them uncaptioned; many or most depict Shelter Island and environs. Highlights include a carte-de-visite of an identified Shelter Island man; a 1900 cabinet card of the iconic Sylvester Manor windmill with a long manuscript note on verso; 4 promenade cards of identified Shelter Island views by G.W. Howard circa 1907; and a series of 7 snapshots of a raging hotel fire (possibly the Manhanset House fire of 1896).

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