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Item #8945 [Album with 114 Original Gelatin Silver Photos Taken During a Cruise to Alaska in 1938...

[ALASKA - CRUISE] TEMBREULL, Christine Erma (1895-1961), attributed to

[Album with 114 Original Gelatin Silver Photos Taken During a Cruise to Alaska in 1938 and Showing Metlakatla, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Sitka, Skagway, Letnikof Cove, Haines Barracks, Famous Skagway Tour Guide Martin Itjen, Indigenous People, Filipino Steerage Passengers, American Military men from Haines Barracks, Cruiseship Passengers and Captain, &c.].

1938.

Price: $1,250.00

Item #6734 [Historically Significant Private Archive Documenting the Experiences of a Gold...

[ALASKA - KENAI PENINSULA – GOLD RUSH] WISWELL, George E. (1852-1938)

[Historically Significant Private Archive Documenting the Experiences of a Gold Prospector during the Kenai Peninsula Gold Rush (1895-98); the Archive Consists of Wiswell’s Pocket “Excelsior” Diary with over 60 Pages of Entries; Two “Notices of Location” for the Claims in the Turnagain Arm Mining District, Two Related Power of Attorney Documents; a Letter to Wiswell Addressed to him at “Hope City, Cook’s Inlet, Alaska;” and a Receipt for His Return Passage to Seattle; All Dated “1896”]

Са. 1896.

Price: $3,750.00

Item #6840 Innokentii, Mitropolit Moskovsky i Kolomensky po Yego Sochineniyam, Pismam i Rasskazam...

[ALASKAN MISSIONARY] Barsukov, I.P.

Innokentii, Mitropolit Moskovsky i Kolomensky po Yego Sochineniyam, Pismam i Rasskazam Sovremennikov [i.e. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, His Works, Letters and Stories of Him by His Contemporaries]

Moscow: Typ. of the Holy Synod, 1883.

Price: $3,500.00

Item #8253 [Typewritten Manuscript Account of the Fifth Ascent of Aconcagua, by British Climber...

[ARGENTINA - ACONCAGUA - FIRST AMERICAN ASCENT] [De La MOTTE, Edward].

[Typewritten Manuscript Account of the Fifth Ascent of Aconcagua, by British Climber Edward de la Motte and American Mountaineer James Ramsey Ullman, Being also the First American Ascent of Aconcagua, Titled:] Horcones Valley and Aconcagua. February/March 1928.

Ca. 1928.

Price: $2,250.00

Item #8936 [Album of 159 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Buenos Aires and Argentina, Including...

[ARGENTINA - BAPTISTS]

[Album of 159 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Buenos Aires and Argentina, Including 147 Real Photo Postcards and Four Views of Baptist Theological Seminary and College in Buenos Aires, and a Baptist Church in Adrogue].

Ca. 1930s.

Price: $3,250.00
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Item #8233 [Album with 174 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of a Steamer and Land Journey from...

[ARGENTINA, URUGUAY, PARAGUAY, IGUAZU FALLS] STANDKE, Fritz

[Album with 174 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of a Steamer and Land Journey from Buenos Aires to the Iguazu Falls and Asuncion (Paraguay) in August-September 1918, Compiled by an Upper-Class German Resident of Argentina and Showing Argentinian and Uruguayan Ports on the Uruguay and Parana Rivers, San Ignacio Jesuit Mission, Puerto Iguazu and its First Hotel, Iguazu Falls from Argentinian and Brazilian Sides, Travellers and their Companions, Asuncion and San Bernardino, &c]

1918.

Price: $2,250.00

Item #8937 [Historically Interesting Album with ca. 293 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Rio de...

[BRAZIL – RIO DE JANEIRO]

[Historically Interesting Album with ca. 293 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Rio de Janeiro].

Ca. 1930s.

Price: $2,750.00
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Item #8234 [Album with 112 Gelatin Silver Photos Documenting the Construction of Port Facilities...

[BRAZIL – RIO GRANDE DO SUL]

[Album with 112 Gelatin Silver Photos Documenting the Construction of Port Facilities at Rio Grande and Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul]

Ca. 1910s.

Price: $2,500.00

Item #8248 [Autograph Note Signed by an American Engineer and Surveyor of Lower California and...

[CALIFORNIA - COLORADO RIVER SURVEY] WHITING, Jasper S.; [IVES, Joseph Christmas] (1829-1868)

[Autograph Note Signed by an American Engineer and Surveyor of Lower California and Sonora, Talking about Him Joining Lt. Ives’ Exploratory Expedition to the Colorado River].

San Francisco: 22 October [1857].

Price: $950.00

Item #8946 [Collection of Twenty Loose Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Building and...

[CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES – DOWNTOWN & INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT] CAWOOD, Albert E.; HUDDLESTON PHOTO CO.; PRESS PHOTO SERVICE; GRAHAM PHOTO CO.

[Collection of Twenty Loose Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Building and Businesses in the Historic Downtown and Industrial Districts of Los Angeles].

Ca. 1920s.

Price: $1,850.00

Item #8247 [Original Autograph Letter to an Agent of a Potential Buyer for a Mining Property in...

[CALIFORNIA - MINING] [STECH, Baron Ferdinand]

[Original Autograph Letter to an Agent of a Potential Buyer for a Mining Property in California, Urging Him to Make up His Mind and Complete the Negotiations Because the Repairs of Machinery Need to Be Done and the Mine Needs to be Pumped before the Winter Rains].

San Francisco: California: 21 September 1872.

Price: $950.00

Item #8245 [Original Autograph Letter Written by a Young Gold Miner in Sacramento City, Telling...

[CALIFORNIA - SACRAMENTO] ALLISON, William P.

[Original Autograph Letter Written by a Young Gold Miner in Sacramento City, Telling the Latest News from the Gold Mines and Mentioning the Latest Cholera Epidemic in the City].

Sacramento City: 14 September 1852.

Price: $950.00

Item #8947 [Collection of Three Original Watercolours, Showing the Floats and Participants of the...

[CALIFORNIA - SAN FRANCISCO BAY – 4TH OF JULY PARADE]

[Collection of Three Original Watercolours, Showing the Floats and Participants of the a 1907 Fourth of July Parade – Most Likely, a First Such Parade Held in South San Francisco].

Ca. 1907.

Price: $1,500.00

Item #8932 [Collection of 79 Loose Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing the Destruction...

[CALIFORNIA - SAN FRANCISCO – 1906 EARTHQUAKE & FIRE] [BULLOCK, Thomas Fontaine] (1872-1938); [ROSS, John] (ca. 1859-1929)

[Collection of 79 Loose Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing the Destruction of San Francisco and Environs about a Week after the Earthquake on April 18, 1906; With a Commemorative Issue of the “San Francisco Examiner” dated 18 April 1975, and Three Clippings from Californian Newspapers (1972, 1975 and 1976), Dedicated to the Earthquake and Reproducing Eleven of Bullock’s Photos].

Ca. spring-summer 1906.

Price: $5,250.00

Item #8948 [Original Autograph Letter Signed by a Mate on the San Francisco Trade Brig “Ida D....

[CALIFORNIA - SAN FRANCISCO – TRADE SEAMEN & WOMEN AT WORK] [CATTLE, J.?]

[Original Autograph Letter Signed by a Mate on the San Francisco Trade Brig “Ida D. Rogers,” Describing the Ship’s Recent Trade Voyage to Costa Rica, His Salary, a Spaniard Sailor on the Brig “Who did not Know the Bow from the Stern of a Vessel,” Quick Growth of San Francisco, Favorable Conditions for Doctors, His Private Life, Views on Politics and Disapproval of Women Going to Work; the Letter Mentions American President Andrew Johnson, Politician Francis Preston Blair Sr., &c.].

San Francisco: 14 July 1867.

Price: $950.00

Item #8949 [Collection of 75 Loose Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing the Destruction...

[CALIFORNIA - SANTA BARBARA – 1925 EARTHQUAKE]

[Collection of 75 Loose Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing the Destruction in Santa Barbara and Environs after the Earthquake on June 29, 1925].

Ca. 1925.

Price: $2,250.00

Item #8950 [Original Autograph Letter Written by a Gold Miner in the Garden Valley (El Dorado...

[CALIFORNIA – EL DORADO COUNTY] [CLARK, S.M.?]

[Original Autograph Letter Written by a Gold Miner in the Garden Valley (El Dorado County), Talking about His Sea Voyage, Being Fed with “Hard Bread & Stinking Meat,” Gold Mining in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Tree Cutting, Plans to Take a “Job of Fluming to Carry Water from one Hill to Another,” California Climate, Liberal Public Attitude to Sundays, and Mentioning: “I have never Found that Large Nuget of Gold you Told me to Send you, but I Expect to Soon”].

Garden Valley, 17 April 185[8 or 9?].

Price: $1,250.00

Item #8951 [Historically Important Album with 104 Original Gelatin Silver Photos and Real Photo...

[CALIFORNIA – HOBART MILLS]

[Historically Important Album with 104 Original Gelatin Silver Photos and Real Photo Postcards of California, Showing the Town of Hobart Mills (non-Existent since 1938), Prosser Creek, Independence Lake, Tahoe Lake, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Gabriel Mission, Life Savers at Long Beach, &c.].

Ca. 1900s.

Price: $1,850.00

Item #8952 [Original Handwritten, Signed, and Notary Certified Deed of the Sale of the Millerton...

[CALIFORNIA – MILLERTON/FRESNO CO.] MORROW, Jessy (1827-1897); CARROLL, Hugh Augustus (1828-1899)

[Original Handwritten, Signed, and Notary Certified Deed of the Sale of the Millerton Ferry across the San Joaquin River (now the site of the Millerton Lake, Fresno County) from Jesse Morrow to Ira McGray on June 9, 1855].

Millerton: 9 June 1855.

Price: $1,500.00

Item #8953 [Original Autograph Letter Signed from Moores Flat (a Gold Mining Town Later Abandoned...

[CALIFORNIA – PIONEERS & GOLD MINERS] MURRAY, John Sutherland (1818-1882), [MOORE, Henry M.]

[Original Autograph Letter Signed from Moores Flat (a Gold Mining Town Later Abandoned in the Early 20th Century), Written by a California Forty-Niner and Talking about the Construction of a “Store-Room” in the General Store or the Hotel of a Town Founder H.M. Moore, Successful Gold Mining, When “an Ounce of Beautiful Gold” was Obtained after an Hour Washing “under Disadvantageous Circumstances,” Nevada County Pioneer and Gold Miner James Weaver, &c.].

Moores Flat (Nevada Co.): 1 January 1854.

Price: $2,250.00

Item #8954 [Original Autograph Letter Signed by George Spurr - a Renowned Forty-Niner and...

[CALIFORNIA – SACRAMENTO] SPURR, George Graham (1828-1903)

[Original Autograph Letter Signed by George Spurr - a Renowned Forty-Niner and Sacramento Pioneer, then the Owner of a “Tea and Coffee Saloon” on the K Street, Delivering the Latest News about His Correspondent’s Sons and Describing Sacramento’s “Deplorable Condition” during the 1853 Flood: “Streets are Like Swamp & Goods are again Transported in Flat Boats from the Levee to Places of Designation. All Business Matters Seem Suspended & Grim Merchants Count their Future over Hot Stoves & Brandy Smashes…”].

Sacramento City: 30 March 1853.

Price: $1,500.00

Item #8955 [Original Autograph Letter Signed by the Owner of the General Store in Oak Valley...

[CALIFORNIA – YUBA COUNTY REPUBLICANS] ADKISON, Lewis D. (1816-1903)

[Original Autograph Letter Signed by the Owner of the General Store in Oak Valley Lewis D. Adkison, Addressed to George R. Bearss from his Hometown of Peru (IN), Talking about the Latest News from the Oak Valley, His Sympathies to the Republican Party, and the Results of the California General Election and the US Presidential Election of 1856].

Oak Valley [Yuba Co.]: 14 November 1856.

Price: $1,250.00

Item #8943 [Album with 165 Original Gelatin Silver Photos and Cyanotypes, Taken and Collected...

[CARIBBEAN – EARLY CRUISE] [ARNOLDSON, Louise Griffin, née PATERSON] (1876-1956)

[Album with 165 Original Gelatin Silver Photos and Cyanotypes, Taken and Collected during the 1902 Cruise Around the Caribbean on Board the Hamburg-America Line Ship “Prinzessin Victoria Luise,” Including Several Images of St. Pierre and Morne Rouge on Martinique Shortly before Their Destruction during the Eruption of Mount Pelée in May and August 1902].

Ca. 1902.

Price: $3,250.00

Item #8246 [Autograph Letter Signed by the Owner of a Jewellery Store in Eddyville, Iowa, to His...

[COLORADO - PIKE’S PEAK GOLD RUSH] BARKER, Leverett N. (1834-1930)

[Autograph Letter Signed by the Owner of a Jewellery Store in Eddyville, Iowa, to His Brother in Oriskany Falls, New York, Talking About his New Shop, the Construction of a Railroad Planned to Reach Eddyville, and a Description of the Recent Pike’s Peak Gold Rush].

Eddyville [Iowa]: 25 January 1859.

Price: $850.00