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Item #8957 [Original Autograph Letter Written by a Forty-Niner from Cayuga County (NY), Talking...

[OREGON – FORTY-NINER] GUYLES, R.B.

[Original Autograph Letter Written by a Forty-Niner from Cayuga County (NY), Talking about His Voyage to the Oregon Territory Onboard the USS “Massachusetts” in Winter 1848-May 1849, Life and Work in the Oregon City, Local Climate, Prices, Plans to go to the Walla Walla Mines, &c.].

Oregon City: 25 June 1850.

Price: $1,250.00

Item #8956 [Original Autograph Letter Signed by an Oregon Pioneer Margaret McLean, Talking about...

[OREGON - PIONEERS] [MCLEAN, Margaret Rebecca, née Davidson] (1835-1925)

[Original Autograph Letter Signed by an Oregon Pioneer Margaret McLean, Talking about the Leaders of the United Presbyterian Church of Oregon, Her Family’s Upcoming Wagon Trip to the Oregon Coast, Where They Planned to Have “Plenty of Fresh Oisters [sic!] and Big Fish in Abundance,” a School Teacher in Eugene - a “Young Lady” Who Gets Paid “Forty Dollars a Month in Gold,” the Author’s Relatives, Including William who “was out Fighting Indians,” Her Love to Oregon which is “One of the Best Fruit Countrys [sic!] in the World,” &c.].

Eugene City, Oregon: 18 June 1866.

Price: $950.00

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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #8944 [Collection of 26 Real Photo Postcards of Guatemala, Showing Chichicastenango, Solola,...

[GUATEMALA] EICHENBERGER, Roberto (1902-?), and others

[Collection of 26 Real Photo Postcards of Guatemala, Showing Chichicastenango, Solola, Totonicapan, Santiago Atitlan, San Antonio Palopo, Lake Atitlan and La Antigua].

Ca. 1930s-1940s.

Price: $950.00

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 #8942 [Collection of Three Original Manuscripts, Reporting on the Voyage to Jamaica of a...

[JAMAICA - HURRICANE]

[Collection of Three Original Manuscripts, Reporting on the Voyage to Jamaica of a British Merchant Brig “Jane” in August 1780 – March 1781, Including a Detailed Account of “Jane’s” Wreck and Damage in the Mouth of the Great River during the Savanna-la-Mar Hurricane on October 3, 1780].

Montego Bay (Jamaica), 10 January 1781; London, 24 July and 31 August 1781.

Price: $1,850.00

Item #8938 [Album of 180 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Dutch Harbor (Unalaska), Sand...

[ALASKA - ALEUTIANS – UNALASKA, UMAKNAK & SHUMAGIN ISLANDS] [ENNIS, R.C.?]

[Album of 180 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Dutch Harbor (Unalaska), Sand Point (Popof Island) and Unga Village on Unga Island (a Ghost Town Since 1969), Taken and Collected by an American Resident During WW2].

Ca. 1940-1944.

Price: $2,500.00

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

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

Item #8935 [Collection of Two Original Autograph Letters Signed and Three Period Copies of...

[OREGON – ROGUE RIVER WAR] BARKWELL, M.C., Surgeon General of Oregon Territory; WIXOM, Henry Walker (1820-1888); COOMBS, L.J., Surgeon, Oregon Mounted Volunteers

[Collection of Two Original Autograph Letters Signed and Three Period Copies of Certificates of Service and Discharge, Detailing on the Medical Service and Supplies in the Second Regiment, Oregon Mounted Volunteers during the Rogue River War of 1855-56].

Jacksonville & Fort Leland: 8 May, 10, 16, 28 August, 4 September 1856.

Price: $3,250.00

Item #8933 [Historically Significant Collection of 102 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of...

[NEVADA – PETROGLYPHS] [MILES, David (Dave) Francis] (1902-1977); JOHN W. WALKER ELECTRIC STUDIO

[Historically Significant Collection of 102 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Archaeological Excavations, Artefacts and Petroglyphs Discovered in Eastern Nevada by Members of the “National Cosmographic Society” (Ely), Which David Miles was a Secretary of; With a Later Manuscript Draft of a Letter (Most Likely, Authored by Miles) to an American Archaeologist Frank H.H. Roberts, Talking about His Latest Archaeological Discoveries near Potosi Mountain Southwest of Las Vegas].

Photographs: ca. 1920s; manuscript: ca. 1940s-1950s.

Price: $3,750.00

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