Western Americana
[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.
[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.
海外異聞 [Kaigai Ibun - Ichi Mei Amerika Shinwa: A Strange Tale from Overseas, or a New Account of America]
Tokyo: Seifuen Juō, Kaei kōin, [1854].
[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.
[Autograph Letter Signed Regarding the Defense of Dakota Outlaw “Laughing Sam” (Samuel S. Hartman), and Mentioning the New Governor of the Dakota Territory William A. Howard, the First State’s Attorney of the Lawrence County A.J. Flanner, and Yankton’s Store Owner and Public Figure A.W. Lavender].
Yankton, D[akota]. T[erritory]: 25 April 1878.
[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.
