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General Category => Hackensack History => Online Auctions/Local Images (Moderated by BLeafe) => Topic started by: BLeafe on November 02, 2009, 12:28:11 AM
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http://xrl.us/LoomisSig
Seller's description:
CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS, author. Flyleaf inscribed and signed entirely in his hand, Hackensack New Jersey, 11 December [19]06. Reading: “To 'Dooley' who has made me laugh so many many times and will many times again from [signed] Charles Battell Loomis”. Measures approximately 7 1/2” x 4 1/2”. Toned, unevenly trimmed, otherwise in very good condition. Authenticity guaranteed.....Charles Battell Loomis (1861-1911) was an American author whose works include: Yankee Enchantments (1900), Cheerful Americans (1903), I've Been Thinking (1905), Cheer Up (1906), A Bath in an English Tub (1907), The Knack of It (1908) and Just Irish (1909).
While researching Mr. Loomis, I came across this page that contains a lot of mid-19th century mentions of Hackensack:
http://www.archive.org/stream/ramblingreminisc02bird/ramblingreminisc02bird_djvu.txt
(Editor - this page may be worth your time)
The second image is something else I found that Mr. Loomis wrote about Hackensack.
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