When asked how he wanted to be remembered, Hogan would answer, “As a gentleman.”

As Hogan said : the 389 best things anyone said about how to play golf compiled and edited by Randy Voorhees New York : Simon & Schuster, c 2000 Hardcover. 1st ed. and printing. 127 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Clean, tight and strong binding with clean dust jacket. No highlighting, underlining or marginalia in text. VG/VG

New craze for idle-rich … aerial golf. With not enough hazards in an ordinary game of golf, and not enough adventure in flying, some genius has invented aerial golf. The rules are quite simple. There are nine holes, each one an airport near Washington. The play flies to the first airport, tee #1 and from a minimum height of 500 feet, drops the ball, attached to a parachute, to the nearest pit or hole, indicated by a red flag at the airport. He then lands his plane, finds his ball and proceeds as in every game of golf, to hit the ball into the hole with his golf clubs. This done, he tunes up his plane and flies to the next airport or tee #2 and repeats. Every player is required to carry a score-keeper. Photo shows three girls, prominent in Washington Society absorbed in a game of aerial golf.

Taft golf cabinet [standing with golf clubs] (March 1909). From left to right: Sherman; Butt; Edwards; Taft

John Henry Taylor, golf champion – for the fifth time in his career won the British open golf championship

Photograph shows Katherine Harley (Mrs. H. Arnold Jackson), full-length portrait, facing front, swinging a golf club; as Kate C. Harley, she was winner of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Golf Championship of the U.S. Golf Association, at the Chevy Chase Club, Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Print shows David B. Hill as a golfer trying to play a tough lie, his club, labeled “Peanut Politics” is broken, his ball labeled “Presidential Hopes” is in a hole, and the flag is at the top of a hill with three bunkers labeled “Dishonest Methods, Snap Conventions, [and] Petty Tricks” in the way. Charles A. Dana, carrying a golf bag labeled “N.Y. Sun”, stands nearby as the caddie. In the background is a large building labeled “Tammany” and on the green is the White House.

Grand golf tournament by professional players On Leith links 17th May 1867

Negro playing marbles on the first warm day in the spring. In this game the players shoot from hole to hole, the same idea as in golf or miniature golf. Eufaula, Oklahoma

World War I disabled veteran heroes in spite of their handicaps play par golf. Colonel Charles R. Crosfield, who uses an artificial leg, and Gen. James A. Drain, who has only one arm, in golf match at the Washington Golf and Country Club.

The prodigal son returns – great crowds greet Bobby Jones as he arrives at City Hall with 3 new major golf titles. Photograph shows a bird’s-eye view of a large crowd gathered to greet Bobby Jones and his wife as they arrive at the new City Hall in Atlanta, Georgia.

Seated on bench, with golf clubs, left to right: Byron Nelson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ben Hogan, and Clifford Roberts.

Dorothy Kelly, Virginia Hunter, Elaine Griggs, Hazel Brown and Mary Kaminsky in bathing suits seated on two large blocks of ice, Washington, D.C.

Golf course grass now dyed green for nervous putters. Washington, D.C., Aug. 5. Nervous golfers who have complained that some insecticides used on greens turned the grass brown, thus creating a mental hazard which spoiled their game, have no excuse now. Experts of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, working with the United States Gold Association, have combined an insecticide with a green, which, when sprayed does not harm healthy grass but improves both the color of uneven greens and the tempers of the golfers who blame their putting on the uneven color of the greens. The new dye is being used on football gridirons and baseball fields. A.E. Rabbit, grass specialist of the United States Golf Association, is pictured spraying the new dye on an experimental green at the Department of Agriculture, 8/5/38

O Trinity of love and power! Our brethren shield in danger’s hour; From rock and tempest, fire and foe, Protect them wheresoe’er they go; Thus evermore shall rise to Thee, Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.

Photograph shows crew and passengers of the S. S. Vestris trying to lower lifeboats from the port side; passenger in foreground trying to keep balance as ship tilts sharply to starboard side.

From the 15th century until the middle of the 20th century the way to get from Europe to the Americas was via a waterborne route. The same was true of going from the Americas across  the Pacific or even for trips within or between the two continents of the Americas themselves. The variety of vessels used – everything from 10 ton sail power to 25,000 ton steam – the uncertainty of weather information, the incompleteness of nautical charts and the improbability of rescue made this form of travel very high risk.

Images showing a shipwreck and people in a boat sailing toward the wreck. Illus. in: Bontekoe, Willem Ysbrandsz. Ovrnael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinghe vande Oost-Indische reyse…, Hoorn : Ghedruckt by I. Willemsz, 1646.

Yet travel they did – not by the thousands but by the tens of thousands – in search of better land, better opportunities, better lives and the fact that these people demonstrated the indomitable will to pursue that which was better is what gives the poignancy to the tragedies that occurred. We have illustrated this post with a series of prints from the Library of Congress that gives a sampling of some American shipwreck’s – not all of them are covered in the book but together with the book they give a greater appreciation of those who lived in peril on the sea.

Destruction of the packet-ship John Rutledge by an iceberg, Feb. 20, 1856 The only survivor, Thomas W. Nye, of New Bedford [with others in lifeboat].

Ships and shipwrecks of the Americas : a history based on underwater archaeology edited by George F. Bass New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1988 Hardcover. 1st ed. 272 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. Clean, tight and strong binding with clean dust jacket. No highlighting, underlining or marginalia in text. VG/VG

Nova Scotia – loss of the steamship “Atlantic” – scenes and incidents during and after the wreck [4-1-1873] [3 cuts – “the fisherman Clancy and his daughter administering to … shipwrecked people; fishermen’s boats going to the wreck; … survivors at Halifax”]

SHIPWRECKS AT MILE ROCK SEWER OUTFALL, JANUARY 23, 1940. Department of Public Works, Map and Plan Room, photo #A 6271. – Mile Rock Tunnel, Under Forty-eighth Avenue from Cabrillo Street to San Francisco Bay at Point Lobos, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

Print shows a large ship capsized with hundreds of people on board; groups of rescue workers on rocks are pulling people out of the water from the crashing waves; others are holding a long rope extending from the ship and secured to a rock for passengers to use as a way to escape the vessel.

Disasters of 60 days : Wreck of Steamship Tennessee, Indian Cove, March 6th, 1853 ; Wreck & burning of the steamer Independence on the island of Margarita, Feby. 16th, 1853. 150 lives lost ; Collapse of flue on board Jenny Lind off San Francisquito, April 11th, 1853, 50 lives lost ; Wreck of propeller steamship S.S. Lewis, Duxburg Reef, April 9th, 1853 / / Lith. & pubh. by Britton & Rey, cr. California & Montgomery St., San Francisco.

The sinking of the United States steamer Oneida off the port of Yokohama, Japan, Sunday, January 23 / from a sketch by a survivor.

The marine Redowa–Dedicated to the brave, energetic and whole souled Capt. Hiram Burt, of the Brig. Marine, who rescued from a watery grave a large number of the passengers of the ill-fated Central America

The loss of the Pennsylvania New York packet ship; the Lockwoods emigrant ship; the Saint Andrew packet ship; and the Victoria from Charleston, near Liverpool, during the hurricane […] Jany. 7th & 8th, 1839 / painted by Samuel Walters ; drawn on stone by T. Fairland.

Wreck & burning of the steamer Independence on the island of Margarita, February 16th, 1853 ; 150 lives lost / / From the sketch of Mr. Cross, passenger ; Lith. & publd. by Britton & Rey, S. Fco.

 

North Carolina. The steamship “Metropolis,” wrecked in a gale off Currituck Beach, on the night of January 31st, with the loss of one hundred railroad operatives, on their way to Brazil

Burning of the steamer Stonewall, on the Mississippi River, October 28th, during which upward of two hundred lives were lost

The U.S. Steam Frigate Mississippi, Com..re M.C. Perry–Going out to the relief of the American steamer Hunter a French bark [her prize] and an American pilot boat wrecked on Green Island reef near Vera Cruize March 21st, 1847 / lith. of Sarony & Major ; executed by H. Walke Lt. U.S.N.

AL-KI wrecked on Point Augusta, Alaska coastal steamer.

 

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture on wider seas, where storms will show your mastery, where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars. We ask you to push back the horizon of our hopes, and to push us into the future in strength, courage, hope, and love. This we ask in the name of our Captain, who is Jesus Christ… Francis Drake

Cicumnavigators; Sir Francis Drake; Oliver van Noort; Ferdinand Magellan; Wilhelm Schouten; Thomas Cavendish; George Spilman

Francis Drake : the lives of a hero John Cummins London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, c 1995 Hardcover. 1st ed. xv, 348p., [24]p. of plate : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. Bibliography: p 332-338. Includes index. Map on lining papers. Clean, tight and strong binding with clean dust jacket. No highlighting, underlining or marginalia in text. VG/VG

The Thames, or the Triumph of Navigation’ (James Cook; Sir Walter Ralegh; Sir Francis Drake; Charles Burney)

The most famous of all English seafarers, Drake earned his fame and fortune through his skilful seamanship and outstandingly successful piracy. His circumnavigation of the globe from 1577-81 involved a number of very profitable raids on Spanish ships and ports. Drake’s increasingly frequent and serious attacks during the 1580s were an important factor contributing to Philips II’s decision to launch the Armada against England in 1588. Drake served as vice-admiral of the English fleet which defeated the Armada.

Admiral Drake knighted by Queen Elizabeth

We’re the battling bastards of Bataan; No momma, no papa, no Uncle Sam; No aunts, no uncles, no cousins, no nieces; No planes, no pills, no artillery pieces; And nobody gives a damn!

Where Pearl Harbor had been like a quick punch to the face the battle of Bataan and its subsequent death march were like the beating that follows the first punch – and the kicking of the victim once he is down. This is an excellent book about the death march but with so many of our historians now following the convenience of it-was-a-long-time-ago-and-probably-never-happened-anyway school of politically correct story telling we are using this post to illustrate some of what the Americans at home saw at the time.

Theirs may have become the greatest generation but at the time the average citizen had replaced the uncertainty of the economic despair of the depression  for a war production job that reinforced on a daily basis the uncertainty of wartime despair. In all of our post World War II military operations it has been possible for huge sections of the citizenry to have no personal involvement in the conflict – they may not even know anyone who is serving – but in the second world war there were blue star homes on every block, there were single parent families not because of divorce but because fathers were half a world away fighting and every citizen from age five to ninety-five was somehow called upon to do their duty.

The men entombed on the USS Arizona did their job in providing the truth of the need to fight and the men of Bataan kept the fires burning for the four long years that it took the American people in their righteous might to subdue the empire of Japan. God grant them peace.

Death march : the survivors of Bataan  Donald Knox  New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c 1981  Hardcover. 1st ed., later printing. xxv, 482 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. Clean, tight and strong binding with clean dust jacket. No highlighting, underlining or marginalia in text. VG/VG

Brothers in arms. Typical of the 10,000 Americans who helped to stall Japan’s forces on Bataan was Captain Arthur W. Wermuth (left) shown here with his Filipino aide. During the four months of fighting in Bataan, Captain Wermuth and his aide accounted for over a hundred of the enemy

War heroes to speak to war workers. A heroine of Bataan and a hero of Midway meet at the Capitol to join in Pearl Harbor Day ceremonies. Lieutenant Mary Lohr, Army nurse, of Greenburg, Pennsylvania, recently awarded the Royal Blue Ribbon for gallant service at Bataan, and Lieutenant Robert L. Laub of Richland, Missouri, who received the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism as torpedo bomber pilot in the Battle of Midway, will speak to war workers in about 1800 war plants on December 7. They were selected by the War Production Drive Headquarters of the War Production Board (WPB) to participate with Honorable Joseph C. Grew, former ambassador to Japan, in personal messages for transcription as a feature of Pearl Harbor Day observance, which is being held under auspices of war production Labor-Management Committees

General view showing houses burning as the result of Japanese bombing raid in Bataan, the Philippine Islands

Last ditch stand in Luzon. On a rugged, mountainous peninsula and a heavily fortified island American and Filipino troops made their final stand against Japanese invaders of Luzon. Map shows the Bataan Peninsula-Borregidor-Manila area where the U.S. and Japanese forces clashed

One of our Filipino boys, injured in the fighting on Bataan, January 28, 1942, being brought back to a first aid station by his comrades. Longoskawayan Point, West Coast

General Douglas MacArthur, left, congratulates Captain Villamor of the Philippine Air Force, after awarding him the Distinguished Service Cross, December 22, 1941. Captain Villamor was one of the small group of flyers that did heroic service in the Battle of Bataan

Guiding genius of Bataan was General Douglas MacArthur (right) shown here with Major General Jonathan Wainwright, who assumed command when MacArthur was ordered to Australia

Production. Ventura bombers. The “Pony Express” driver in a large Western aircraft plant rounds the corner of “Bataan Boulevard,” one of the assembly lines on which many fighting and bombing planes are being built. His work is to distribute parts for Ventura bombers and other mighty ships of our new air armada. Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, California

One year of reciprocal aid. Food is probably the most important contribution of Australia to the supplies of the U.S. armed forces stationed in the Pacific. She sent shiploads to our beleaguered men at Bataan and has increased her contributions as the size of our forces has grown. The U.S. ships practically no food to our troops in Australia and New Zealand. The Americans are supplied on the spot, and the space thus freed in our ships is used for tanks, planes and ammunition.

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness… Alfred Korzybski

Poster showing portrait of King George V and a map of Great Britain as parts of a rebus.

The historical atlas of World War I  Anthony Livesey ; H.P. Willmott, consultant  New York : H. Holt, 1994  Hardcover. 1st ed. and printing. 1 atlas (192 p.) : ill. (some col.), maps ; 27 cm. Scales differ. Index maps on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-191) and index. Clean, tight and strong binding with clean dust jacket. No highlighting, underlining or marginalia in text. VG/VG

Soldiers looking at map by armored car probably in France

The profound influence of World War I on politics and society is still felt today, yet it remains a greatly misunderstood conflict, shrouded in myths and misperceptions. In  Atlas of the First World War, leading historians of the conflict, draw on recent scholarship to present a clear introduction to the war. In maps, accompanied by supporting text and statistical tables, they survey the main battles and political features of the war. This concise volume will give students and general readers important insights into the nature and effects of world war.

Poster shows a map of the province of Schleswig, indicating the location and numbers of Danish speaking inhabitants (as of 1912), and four views of the province, a farmhouse, a church in a town, a river or canal, and a coastal view. Text: Is Schleswig Danish? Schleswig is German! Additional text addresses the issue of Schleswig remaining part of Germany or being partitioned to Denmark.

 

War is the national industry of Prussia. ‘Attacked, we are fighting back in the name of liberty.’ Général Philippe Pétain (1856-1951), June 1917.

 

Poster showing a map of Wales, with text in Welsh.

 

Poster shows a view of Earth with flames in the eastern hemisphere. Poster is an advertisement for The Great War by Hanns von Zobeltitz, a book with maps and pictures.

 

Poster showing the Kaiser and the King of Romania arguing while examining a map.

 

Poster shows a Bolshevik leaning on a map of Europe and setting fire to Bavaria. Text: The Bolshevik is coming! Throw him out on Election Day! Bavarian People’s Party.