- Creator:
- Lacerenza, William A
Mayer, Peter F
Reuter, Louis W
Suess, George H
Van Kannel, T. (Theophilus), 1841-1919 - Published / Created:
- 1928
- Call Number:
- BrSides Elephant Folio 2013 7
- Collection Title:
- Amusement park attractions : blueprints, plans, and building permits for Coney Island and other
- Image Count:
- 2
- Abstract:
- A collection of blueprints, plans, and building permits for Coney Island attractions and for the Witching Waves ride in Detroit and Euclid Beach Park, Cleveland. The Witching Waves ride was originally a Coney Island attraction that was later licensed to other locations. Collection includes plans for rides (such as Witching Waves, Bubble Bounce, Roll-O-Plane, and Thunderbolt), restaurants, arcades, a revolving platform and a miniature golf course, as well as for foundations, pipelines, and concrete piers. Includes also plans for an elephant track and stables for 5 elephants and 5 persons.
- Description:
- Architects and surveyors named on plans: T. Van Kannel, George H. Suess, William A. Lacerenza, Peter F. Meyer, Louis W. Reuter., Collection includes 1 blueline print and 1 manuscript floor plan and duplicate blueprints., Imperfect: manuscript floor plan mutilated with loss of text., and Stamps of the Department of Housing and Buildings, Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) and Euclid Beach Park (Cleveland, Ohio)
- Subject (Topic):
- Amusement parks--Michigan--Detroit, Amusement parks--New York (State)--New York, and Amusement parks--Ohio--Cleveland
- Collection Created:
- [United States :
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > 1928 Thunderbolt
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- Creator:
- White, Elijah, 1806-1879
- Published / Created:
- 1846
- Call Number:
- Zc74 846wi
- Image Count:
- 42
- Alternative Title:
- American settlement of Oregon (continued)
- Publisher:
- T. Barnard, Printer
- Subject (Geographic):
- Northwest, Pacific, Oregon --Description and travel, and Oregon --History --To 1859
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America --Oregon and Law --Oregon
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A concise view of Oregon Territory, its colonial and Indian relations; compiled from official letters and reports, together with the organic laws of the colony, by Elijah White ...
- Creator:
- Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698
- Published / Created:
- [1677?]
- Call Number:
- 1978 748
- Image Count:
- 48
- Resource Type:
- Books, Journals & Pamphlets
- Description:
- 46 plates (some tab mounted and folded) : incl. tables, maps, diagrams., Autograph of Samuel Plowman[?], Blank pages counted but not scanned., Bound as a commonplace book with blank pages interspersed. Numerous notes in pencil and ink ., and Imperfect?: all editions listed in pre-1956 NUC and the BM cat. include text as well as plates.
- Publisher:
- And are sold by him at the Hermitage in Wapping: and by John Hills in Exchange Alley in Cornhill, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Almanacs, English and Astronomy --Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A pocket book, containing severall choice collections in arithmetick [!], astronomy, geometry, surveying, dialling, navigation, astrology, geography, measuring, gaugeing. By John Seller ...
4.
- Published / Created:
- 1668
- Call Number:
- Uv81 668q
- Image Count:
- 81
- Description:
- Published also in The queens closet opened. and With copious manuscript recipes on blank leaves at end.
- Publisher:
- Printed by J. Winter, for Nat. Brook, at the Angel in Gresham-colledge
- Subject (Topic):
- Canning and preserving, Liquors, and Recipes --Early works to 1800
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A queens delight, or, The art of preserving, conserving, and candying : as also, a right knowledge of making perfumes, and distilling the most excellent waters
5.
- Creator:
- Chitty, Abraham, 1683-1759
- Published / Created:
- 1735-1754
- Call Number:
- Osborn fc154
- Image Count:
- 133
- Abstract:
- Highly detailed accounts of both receipts and expenses (written from opposite ends of the volume) kept by the London merchant Abraham Chitty, brother of Alderman Thomas Chitty. Receipts include records for rents on his properties in London, Westminster and Surrey, as well as income from an interest in a brewhouse and insurance records for warehoused goods such as wine. The record of Chitty’s personal expenses is particularly complete and includes 6s. "for Pamila. 2 Vollums;" "about L1.4s.6d to see The Conscious Lovers" at Covent Garden Playhouse in 1739; and 14s. for "Chockolate, Mackoroons, carraways and oysters." Also included are regular payments for housekeeping expenses "For Mrs. Chitty;" purchases at auctions and sales, such as "a barometer;" and frequent carriage repairs.
- Description:
- Both pastedowns contain notes on birth and death dates for family members., Related material: Abraham Chitty, Letters (Osborn c608)., and Volume contains unnumbered pages, blank pages (not digitized), and text written in both directions; both sections of text paginated separately.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain --Economic conditions --18th century and Great Britain --Social life and customs --18th century
- Subject (Name):
- Chitty, Thomas
- Subject (Topic):
- Amusements --England, Chitty family, Cost and standard of living --England --18th century, Family --England --Domestic relations, Home economics --Accounting, Luxury, and Middle class --England --London --18th century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Account book
- Creator:
- Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294
Freelove, Robert
Jean, de Meun, d. 1305?
Khālid ibn Yazīd al-Umawī, 7th cent - Published / Created:
- [ca. 1550]
- Call Number:
- Mellon MS 33
- Image Count:
- 277
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper of 1) Unidentified alchemy. 2) Jean de Meung, Liber Lapidis mineralis, Book II only, translated into English by Robert Freelove, 1522. 3) The Practys of Lyghtes. 4) Roger Bacon or Johannes Sawtre, Radix mundi, translated into English by Robert Freelove, 1550. 5) Rudianus, Liber trium verborum, translated into English. 6) Khalid ibn Yazid, Liber secretorum philosophorum, translated into English, 1542. 7) Unidentified alchemy.
- Description:
- Binding: Sixteenth century, English. Brown calf over pasteboards, the covers paneled in blind fillets, much deteriorated and the backstrip missing, preserved in a cloth case., No color or rubrication; occasional headlines or headings in large writing., Script: At least three scribes writing English cursive vernacular hands; the first, whose initials were probably "T.R." as written on f. 18r, 20, wrote ff. 1-18; the second wrote ff. 19-53, 67-94, and perhaps ff. 115-128; the third wrote ff. 54-65., and Watermarks: 1) a pot similar to Briquet 12801; 2) a similar one with a gothic "3" on the pot; 3) a hand with flower like Briquet 11347, all datable about 1550.
- Subject (Topic):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800, English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alchemical miscellany.
7.
- Creator:
- Lacerenza, William A
Mayer, Peter F
Reuter, Louis W
Suess, George H
Van Kannel, T. (Theophilus), 1841-1919 - Published / Created:
- 1940
- Call Number:
- BrSides Elephant Folio 2013 7
- Collection Title:
- Amusement park attractions : blueprints, plans, and building permits for Coney Island and other
- Image Count:
- 29
- Abstract:
- A collection of blueprints, plans, and building permits for Coney Island attractions and for the Witching Waves ride in Detroit and Euclid Beach Park, Cleveland. The Witching Waves ride was originally a Coney Island attraction that was later licensed to other locations. Collection includes plans for rides (such as Witching Waves, Bubble Bounce, Roll-O-Plane, and Thunderbolt), restaurants, arcades, a revolving platform and a miniature golf course, as well as for foundations, pipelines, and concrete piers. Includes also plans for an elephant track and stables for 5 elephants and 5 persons.
- Description:
- Architects and surveyors named on plans: T. Van Kannel, George H. Suess, William A. Lacerenza, Peter F. Meyer, Louis W. Reuter., Collection includes 1 blueline print and 1 manuscript floor plan and duplicate blueprints., Imperfect: manuscript floor plan mutilated with loss of text., and Stamps of the Department of Housing and Buildings, Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) and Euclid Beach Park (Cleveland, Ohio)
- Subject (Topic):
- Amusement parks--Michigan--Detroit, Amusement parks--New York (State)--New York, and Amusement parks--Ohio--Cleveland
- Collection Created:
- [United States :
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arcade, 1940
8.
- Creator:
- Lacerenza, William A
Mayer, Peter F
Reuter, Louis W
Suess, George H
Van Kannel, T. (Theophilus), 1841-1919 - Published / Created:
- 1949
- Call Number:
- BrSides Elephant Folio 2013 7
- Collection Title:
- Amusement park attractions : blueprints, plans, and building permits for Coney Island and other
- Image Count:
- 4
- Abstract:
- A collection of blueprints, plans, and building permits for Coney Island attractions and for the Witching Waves ride in Detroit and Euclid Beach Park, Cleveland. The Witching Waves ride was originally a Coney Island attraction that was later licensed to other locations. Collection includes plans for rides (such as Witching Waves, Bubble Bounce, Roll-O-Plane, and Thunderbolt), restaurants, arcades, a revolving platform and a miniature golf course, as well as for foundations, pipelines, and concrete piers. Includes also plans for an elephant track and stables for 5 elephants and 5 persons.
- Description:
- Architects and surveyors named on plans: T. Van Kannel, George H. Suess, William A. Lacerenza, Peter F. Meyer, Louis W. Reuter., Collection includes 1 blueline print and 1 manuscript floor plan and duplicate blueprints., Imperfect: manuscript floor plan mutilated with loss of text., and Stamps of the Department of Housing and Buildings, Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) and Euclid Beach Park (Cleveland, Ohio)
- Subject (Topic):
- Amusement parks--Michigan--Detroit, Amusement parks--New York (State)--New York, and Amusement parks--Ohio--Cleveland
- Collection Created:
- [United States :
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Arcade, 1949
- Creator:
- Lacerenza, William A
Mayer, Peter F
Reuter, Louis W
Suess, George H
Van Kannel, T. (Theophilus), 1841-1919 - Published / Created:
- 1947
- Call Number:
- BrSides Elephant Folio 2013 7
- Collection Title:
- Amusement park attractions : blueprints, plans, and building permits for Coney Island and other
- Image Count:
- 2
- Abstract:
- A collection of blueprints, plans, and building permits for Coney Island attractions and for the Witching Waves ride in Detroit and Euclid Beach Park, Cleveland. The Witching Waves ride was originally a Coney Island attraction that was later licensed to other locations. Collection includes plans for rides (such as Witching Waves, Bubble Bounce, Roll-O-Plane, and Thunderbolt), restaurants, arcades, a revolving platform and a miniature golf course, as well as for foundations, pipelines, and concrete piers. Includes also plans for an elephant track and stables for 5 elephants and 5 persons.
- Alternative Title:
- Bubble Bounce foundation details and Bubble Bounce foundation plan
- Description:
- Architects and surveyors named on plans: T. Van Kannel, George H. Suess, William A. Lacerenza, Peter F. Meyer, Louis W. Reuter., Collection includes 1 blueline print and 1 manuscript floor plan and duplicate blueprints., Imperfect: manuscript floor plan mutilated with loss of text., and Stamps of the Department of Housing and Buildings, Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) and Euclid Beach Park (Cleveland, Ohio)
- Subject (Topic):
- Amusement parks--Michigan--Detroit, Amusement parks--New York (State)--New York, and Amusement parks--Ohio--Cleveland
- Collection Created:
- [United States :
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bubble Bounce, 1947
10.
- Creator:
- D.W. & J.D. Clark (Firm)
- Published / Created:
- [18--?]
- Call Number:
- 1984 80
- Image Count:
- 14
- Description:
- Original wrappers.
- Publisher:
- D.W. & J.D. Clark,
- Subject (Topic):
- Fishing--Equipment and supplies and Manufactures--Catalogs
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > D.W. & J.D. Clark's wholesale price list : manufacturers of all kinds of cotton, linen & silk fish lines, chark lines, mason lines, trot lines, fishing reels of every description, and importers of silkworm, cut and fish hooks ...