c1905 PHOTO PICTURE BOOK RIVERSIDE CALIFORNIA ROOSEVELT

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Payment | Shipping | ****POLICIES*** c1905 PHOTO PICTURE BOOK RIVERSIDE CALIFORNIA ROOSEVELT Album Album Album Album Album Album Album Album Album Album Album Album Album Album Album Album Album Wonderful early photo book of Riverside,California.No printed date but t is a picture of Teddy Roosevelt planting the "Original Orange Tree" dated 1903 and a paragraph in the introduction states that "Riverside is only a little over thirty years old..".so I say 1905 max for the age of this..Contains (38) black and white printed pages..a poem opens the book "A Hymn to the Vale That the Gods Love Best" by Harry Cree..and then a "History of Success" describing the town,home of the orange,a modern city, and not least among the features.."No saloons!!"..t are in the front two fold out panoramas,one a town birds eye view and the second one is The Glenwood Hotel..many other pics inside..scene along Victoria Ave is a dirt road,telephone poles and trees! And the city street pictures in the back are dirt streets and no autos,only a trolley car..book is soft paper covers and string tied at the spine,tight, and is 7" x 10 1/4"..the (2) panorama just the pics alone,7" x 10 1/4" and all other photos tin are on pages 6 3/4" x 10" with photos 4 1/2" x 7"..cover has wear and spine and edge chips,dog ears..t is a light water stain thru the read more