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

[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

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

[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

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

[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

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

[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: $1,750.00

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

[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

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

[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

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Item #6825 [A Manuscript Journal, Describing Voyages of the Pleasure Yachts “Restless” and...

[A Manuscript Journal, Describing Voyages of the Pleasure Yachts “Restless” and “Peerless” in the San Francisco Bay in the 1860s and 1870s, Illustrated with an Ink Drawing Showing Ogden Hunting from the board of “Restless,” and Several Contemporary Newspaper Clippings about “Restless” and “Peerless;” The Journal is Titled:] A Concise and Condensed History of the Goings & Comings & Voyages of the Sloop Yacht "Restless" by a reliable not contraband but highly respectable gentleman slightly tinctured with a fondness for salt water, a piscatorial weakness and the pursuit of ducks under difficulties. The schooner “Peerless” appears upon the surface of events and the water…

Ca. 1870s.

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Item #10027 [Historically Interesting Original Autograph Letter Written by One of the Earliest...

[Historically Interesting Original Autograph Letter Written by One of the Earliest Gold Miners in the Stanislaus River Area, Geo Danchy, and Addressed to “Dear Folks,” “Delia,” and “Helen Mary” in Troy (NY), Promising to Bring Back Home “a Lump of Gold as Big as a Piece of Chalk,” Mentioning the “Unforeseen” Problem of Irrigation, and Talking About “Ferocious Attacks of Mosquitoes,” His Daily Menus (“Squirrels, a Sprinkling of Ducks,” Etc), Favorite Newspapers (“The Tribune,” “The Express,” Etc.), Etc.; Also Discussing the Great San Francisco Fire of 1850, the Skyrocketing Rental Prices in the Nearby City of Stockton, Early Anti-Slavery Sentiments Among the Local “Barbarians,” and the Growing Number of American Gold Miners Arriving with “Their Mujeres”].

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Item #10044 [Historically Important Document of the American Chinese Trade and Chinese Migration...

[Historically Important Document of the American Chinese Trade and Chinese Migration to the US in the 1870s: A Large Purchase Bill for Over Forty Types of Products Ordered by the San Joaquin & Kings River Canal Co from One of the Leading San Francisco-based Importers of Chinese Goods, Tong Wo & Co. Among the Products Purchased for the Chinese Labor Force Are 20 Bottles of Gin, Tobacco, Silk Jackets, Cotton Shoes, Bamboo Brushes, Pills, Shrimps, Etc.].

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