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

[CALIFORNIA - SAN FRANCISCO BAY – EARLY YACHTING] [OGDEN, Richard Livingston] (1822-1900), Commodore

[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 #6807 [Album with 133 Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken During an Automobile Trip in Southern...

[CALIFORNIA – EL CAMINO REAL & AUTOMOBILES]

[Album with 133 Gelatin Silver Photographs Taken During an Automobile Trip in Southern California in the 1910s, Titled:] Along the El Camino Real

Ca. 1910s.

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Item #6824 [Album of Sixty-Seven Gelatin Silver Photographs of a Railroad Trip through...

[CALIFORNIA, NEVADA, UTAH & COLORADO - RAILWAYS]

[Album of Sixty-Seven Gelatin Silver Photographs of a Railroad Trip through California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado, Showing Monterey, San Francisco, Auburn, Ogden, Salt Lake City, Engines and Trains, a “Railroad Camp,” a Train Wreck, a Female “Fellow Passenger,” etc.]

ca. 1900.

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Item #6834 海外異聞 [Kaigai Ibun - Ichi Mei Amerika Shinwa: A Strange Tale from Overseas, or...

[CALIFORNIA] BUNZO, MAEKAWA AND SAKAI, JUNZO]

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].

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Item #6818 Materyaly dlya Istorii Russkikh Zaseleniy po Beregam Vostochnogo Okeana: Prilozheniye...

[RUSSIAN AMERICAN COMPANY IN ALASKA, CALIFORNIA & HAWAII]

Materyaly dlya Istorii Russkikh Zaseleniy po Beregam Vostochnogo Okeana: Prilozheniye k Morskomu Sborniku: Vyp. 1-4 [Materials for the History of Russian Settlements on the Shores of the Eastern Ocean/ Supplements to Morskoy Sbornik. Parts 1-4]

Saint Petersburg: Naval Typ. 1861.

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[RUSSIAN AMERICAN COMPANY – ALASKA & CALIFORNIA] ZAVALISHIN, Dmitry Irinarkhovich (1804-1893)

Rossiisko-Amerikanskaya Kompaniya [The Russian American Company]

Moscow: University Typ. 1865.

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