Notre Dame vs. Northwestern in 1930...

SECTION TWO (sports) of the Chicago Sunday Tribune, Nov. 23, 1930



* Notre Dame Fighting Irish vs. Northwestern Wildcats

* 3rd to last collegiate game coached by Knute Rockne

* ND to be National Champions for 1930 season

* NCAA college football



The front page of this section has a one column heading: "WHAT ROCKNE TOLD IRISH-AT HALF AND FINISH" with subhead and 2 photos. . (see i... See More  

Molly Maguires ?...

BETHLEHEM DAILY TIMES, Pennsylvania, April 5, 1875



* Molly Maguires

* Miners - railroad

* Gov. John F. Hartranft

* Pennsylvania



Page 3 has an article with small heading: "The Troubles in the Coal Regions" (see images) Nice to have in a Pennsylvania title.

Other news and advertisements of the day. Complete in 4 pages, nice condition.... See More  

Coelophysis dinosaurs found in New Mexico... DC-3 airliner crashes in Florida swamp...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 14, 1947



* Coelophysis dinosaurs skeletons discoveries

* Ghost Ranch, New Mexico

* DC-3 crashes in Florida swamp



The front page has two column headings: "Museum Finds Dinosaurs Of 200 Million Years Ago" "Skeletons of Ancestor of Forty-Ton Monster Are Only Three or Four Feet in Length--Discovered in New Mexico" Coverage on the famed Coelophysis d... See More  

1947 airplane speed record broken...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 20, 1947



* Test pilot Albert Boyd

* United States Air Force

* Air speed record broken

* First jet fighter airplane



Near the bottom of the front page has a two column heading: "U.S. Jet Flies 623.8 Miles an Hour To Capture World Speed Record" (see images)

Complete with 42 pages, rag edition in very nice condition.



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Upperville, Virginia TWA Flight 514 disaster...

THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass., December 2, 1974



* TWA Flight 514 disaster

* Boeing 727-231 jet airplane

* Mount Weather, Virginia



The front page has a headline that reads: "Jet Crash Kills 92 Near Washington D.C." with subhead. Related photo on page 8. (see images) First report coverage on page 2 for the TWA Flight 514, Boeing 727-231 jet airplane crash near Upperville, Virginia.... See More  

Sally Ride to be 1st Woman in space ?...

SAN JOSE MERCURY, California, Jan. 17, 1978



* Stanford University student Sally Ride

* Selected to be a possible future astronaut

* First American Woman to fly in space fame

* Future NASA space program icon w/ photo



The bottom of the front page has a four column heading: "3 Central Coast scientists on astronaut list" with a photo of a young Sally Ride, a student at Stanford Univ... See More  

John Philip Sousa death... "The March King"....

CHICAGO SUNDAY TRIBUNE, March 6, 1932



* John Philip Sousa death (1st report)

* American composer and conductor

* "The March King" - military marches

* Charles Lindbergh Jr. baby kidnapping



The front page has a one column heading: "Sousa Is Dead; Stricken After Talk at Dinner" First report coverage continues inside with photo. Nice to have in this World famous publicati... See More  

Amelia Earhart autogiro flight w/ passenger....

THE NEW YORK TIMES, December 20, 1930



* Amelia Earhart autogyro flight

* Willow Grove, Pennsylvania

* First to carry a passenger



The top of page 3 has a one column heading: "Miss Earhart Pilots Passenger In Autogiro" with subhead. (see images) I suspect this is one of the few publications to report this particular event as other titles in our inventory do not.

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Anthony Fokker death... aviation pioneer...

CHICAGO SUNDAY TRIBUNE, Dec. 24, 1939



* Anthony Fokker death w/ photo

* Dutch airplane - aviation pioneer

* "The Flying Dutchman"



The top of page 8 has a one column heading: "FOKKER'S BODY WILL BE TAKEN BACK TO HOLLAND" with subhead and small photo. (see images)

Complete 1st section only with all 10 pages, rag edition in nice condition. A few small binding holes al... See More  

Japanese aerial bombing of Canton & Nanjing (Nanking), China

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Malcolm Campbell... Over 300 MPH in automobile...

SECTION II (sports) only, February 6, 1931



* Race driver Malcolm Campbell

* Bluebird car speed World record

* Daytona Beach, Florida



The front page of this section has a nice banner headline: "CAMPBELL DRIVES 245 M.P.H.; WORLD RECORD" with subheads and related illustration. (see images) A photo of the race car is on the back page.

Complete section II only with 10 pages, rag edit... See More  

1st person to drive over 300 MPH in automobile...

SECTION TWO (sports) only of the Chicago Daily Tribune, Sept. 4, 1935



* Sir Malcolm Campbell makes history

* British racing motorist - Bluebird car

* 1st person to drive automobile over 300 mph

* Bonneville Salt Flats in Tooele County, Utah



The front page of this section has a banner headline: "CAMPBELL REACHES GOAL: 301 MILES AN HOUR" with subheads and small photo. Another rela... See More  

1979 Flight 191 O'Hare airplane disaster....

CHICAGO SUNDAY SUN-TIMES, June 1, 1979



* American Airlines Flight 191 takeoff crash

* O'Hare airport disaster investigation

* In a Chicago publication (RARE)

 

The front page has a heading: "Engine fails, DC-10 returns" More on page 5 with two related photos. Until 9/11, it was the deadliest air disaster to occur on U.S. soil.

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Japanese aerial bombing of Nanjing (Nanking), China

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Crash of the Concorde in 2000....

LOS ANGELES TIMES, July 26, 2000



* Concorde supersonic airliner - airplane

* Air France Flight 4590 crash disaster

* Paris to New York City takeoff



The front page has a four column headline: "113 Die in Fiery Crash of Concorde" with subhead and two related photos. (see images) Much more on pages 8 & 9.

Complete with all sections (90+ pages), great condition.... See More  

Neil Armstrong selected for future Moon flight...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Sept. 18, 1962



* NASA Astronaut Group 2 is selected

* Apollo program - human spaceflights

* Neil Armstrong - Moon missions



The front page has a two column heading: "9 New Astronauts Named To Train for Moon Flights" (see images) The top of page 18 has a 7 column heading: "Sketches of the Nine New Astronauts Chosen by U. S. to Train for Flights to the Moon... See More  

1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd concert advertisement...

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York City, June 20, 1977



* Lynyrd Skynyrd - American Southern rock band

* Pre Ronnie Van Zant airplane crash disaster

* Upcoming area concerts advertisement

* "Street Survivors Tour" - Nassau Coliseum



Page 55 has a nice full page advertisement for upcoming "LYNYRD SKYNYRD" concerts including one at the Nassau Coliseum... See More  

Premiere of "Airplane", in a Los Angeles newspaper...

LOS ANGELES TIMES, July 4, 1980



* Best "Airplane" film advertisement

* Grand opening weekend movie premiere

* Satirical parody - Leslie Nielsen

* Great ad for "The Shining" too



A nice issue on the premiere of the motion picture hit "Airplane" and perhaps no better issue could be found than this, the leading newspaper from the home of the entertainment industr... See More  

Bicycles... The "accidental" discovery of x-rays... Biltmore estate...

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Feb. 1, 1896  Page 3 has a notable report "Prof. Roentgen's Discovery" [Wilhelm Röntgen] which is the accounting of how the discovery of x-rays was made by accident.

The front page shows the United States Navy Yard in New York. Also within the issue are articles: "A Twenty-Five Cent Bicycle" made of wood; Mr. Vanderbilt's estate... See More  

Hebron massacre of 1929...

THE DAY, New London, Connecticut, August 26, 1929 



* Hebron Massacre

* Palestine riots - Arabs vs. Jews

* Western Wailing Wall

* Graf Zeppelin around World flight

* Historic aviation feat (airship)



The top of the front page has a four column headline: "Arab-Jew Fighting Spreading Over Palestine, 12 Americans Slain, Government Worried" with subhead. (see images)

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A slave insurrection?

NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 21, 1862  



* Amissville, Virginia - Culpeper County

* Slaves insurrection shut down - Negroes



Among the front page column heads on the Civil War are: "Recent Operations In Virginia" "A Cavalry Expedition to Catlet's Station" "Attempt to Capture a Rebel Train..." "Quiet Along the Lines" "The War On the Mississippi&quo... See More  

1972 Alice Cooper concert advertisement...

THE VILLAGE VOICE (weekly), Greenwich Village, New York City, Aug. 10, 1972



* Alice Cooper - School's Out tour

* American rock singer and songwriter

* Roosevelt Stadium concert advertisement

* Jefferson Airplane "Long John Silver" concert ad



Page 37 has a full page advertisement for a "ALICE COOPER" concert at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City. (see image)

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Extoling the climatic virtues of San Diego...

THE SAN DIEGO UNION, California, Jan. 19, 1871  Front page items include: "The Pacific Paradise" which extols the great climate of San Diego over that of Nice, France. "How to Fight the Apaches" "The Transcontinental Railroad" and more.

Four pages, great condition.

The latest improvement on the bicycle...

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Aug. 19, 1868  Inside is an article: "Improvement in the Velocipede" accompanied by a print of "Hanlons' Patent Improved Velocipede", an early model of a bicycle. 

Other interesting illustrations and articles on the latest inventions & improvements of the day.

Sixteen pages, library stamps at some of the prints, otherwise good ... See More  

Very first automobile advertisement...

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, New York, Sept. 10, 1898  



* 1st ever automobile advertisement

* Horseless carriage



A very significant issue in the history of automobiles, as the noted reference work "Kane's Famous First Facts" records that the first automobile advertisement ever published in America is on the back page (not the very first appearance, which was in the July 30, ... See More