OUR CITY AND ITS PEOPLE A DESCRIPTIVE WORK ON THE CITY OF ROME, NEW YORK

Three maps, photos, half morocco, raised bands, gilt lettering, floral pattern in the panels, reddish brown cloth, aeg, 247;54pp. Spines sunned, gilt lettering sharp, lacks small piece from tip of spine, outer hinges worn/scuffed, cloth has soiling, corners worn, light soiling to endpapers/pastedowns else very good condition. Pencil name and date of "Charles C. Hopkins, 1896". Hopkins was the co-founder of Stanwix Engineering Company, Rome, New York. There are pencil notes and/or corrections from him in the book ie. Daniel E. Wagner died before completion of the book and the preface indicates who wrote the account of the Masonic order but "Mr. Backus told me two days ago he did not write the account." Found in the book were two postcards: real photo postcard of three men and a woman with a note (Hopkins' hand) "Who are the strangers?" and printed by Feltman's Coney Island, 3.5 x 5.5", postally unused. The other is a printed image of a man about to enter Rome's Free Baths and is giving a coin to an African-American man who has a small red devil on his back, written on the front "Mr. Hopkins" and on the back "Dinner Chit at D.W. Wardwell's", 3 x 4.5", some soiling and edgetears. One book and two postcards, a total of three items.…