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Winged mail : Avalon to Bunker Hill, 1894-1898 : a Roxburghe-Zamorano Club keepsake about Santa Catalina Island / by Anna Marie Hager.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hager, Anna Marie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postal service--California--Santa Catalina Island.
- Postal service.
- Pigeon post--California--Santa Catalina Island.
- Pigeon post.
- California--Santa Catalina Island.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printed wrappers (Binding)
- Keepsakes.
- Local histories.
- Physical Description:
- [16] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco] : Roxburghe Club ; [Los Angeles] : Zamorano Club, [1986]
- Summary:
- The Zahn brothers established a carrier pigeon message service from Santa Catalina Island to Los Angeles in 1894. It was a private service that lasted until a radio telegraph station was established on the island in 1902.
- Notes:
- "Presented to the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs October, 1986"--Page [15].
- "Printed by Richard J. Hoffman. Cover hot-stamped by Bela Blau. Cover drawing by Vance Gerry"--Colophon.
- "This keepsake contains a very brief account from Winged mail: Avalon to Bunker Hill, 1894-1898, by Anna Marie Hager. Published by Dawson's Book Shop as volume 16 of their Los Angeles Miscellany Series, designed and printed by Richard J. Hoffman."--Introduction.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C1358 AI") in pencil on blank leaf preceding title leaf.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.
- OCLC:
- 18427738
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