Los Angeles, California: late 1880s. Two photographs measuring approximately 4 ½ x 7 ½ inches. Pasadena Historical Society stamps verso. One with manuscript caption verso including “Mtn Home of John Brown’s Sons Located just south of Brown’s Peak between Millards Cañon + arroyo seco”. Owen Brown (1824–1889) and Jason Brown.....
Bakersfield: C.A. Nelson, 1890s. Silver gelatin photograph measuring 5 ½ x 3 ⅞ inches on larger mount. Heavy wear to mount, some staining to margin of photograph, wear and creases and a closed tear to mat, fair to good overall. An incredible image of a young African-American man, finely dressed.....
San Francisco, California: M. Gray, 623 & 625 Clay Street; Portland, Oregon: 101 First Street, [1873]. Lithographed pictorial sheet music cover printed by Grafton Tyler Brown; by special arrangement with W. A. Pond & Co. Folio. Good to very good with moderate edge wear, toning, and handling marks; contemporary William.....
Los Angeles, California: New Age Publishing Company, November 1940. Printed yellow wraps, staple-bound. Good, with moderate wear, soiling, and fading to covers, one corner of a page missing presumably from a business advertisement cut out near the time of publication. A scarce directory documenting the Central Avenue District at its.....
Great Britain: 1850. Broadside measuring 9 ⅞ x 15 ⅜ inches. Some chipping and wear to edge, ink number written in corner, two small section of loss due to improper mounting, very good overall. Coat of arms of the United Kingdom above printed text. A scarce broadside relating to British.....
Los Angeles: 1923? Guidebook measuring 9 ⅜ x 4 inches. With forty-eight numbered and eleven lettered (A-K) maps. Some chipping and folding to edges primarily of outer pages, some loss to a few margins, otherwise bright, very good minus overall with some brittleness and toning. An uncommon early automobile guidebook.....
Northern California: Late 1880s. 4to, one album in burgundy cloth, the other oblong brown pebbled cloth. Seventy-one sepia-toned and cyanotype photographs, most measuring 6 ½ x 4 ½ inches. Near fine with some light wear to albums, photographs very good or better with very good contrast, some showing a hint.....
California: 1850s. With thirteen letters, most multi-page, written from Monterey in 1850, a 7 pp facsimile transcription of a 1834 Mexican land grant on cloth measuring 11 x 14 inches, and and eleven page document on paper in Spanish relating to a Monterey land grant, transcribing an 1841 document. Letters.....
Marysville: 1850s-1860s. Marysville, 1850s-1860s, the bulk mid-1850s. A collection of documents including eleven receipts, three manuscript legal documents, four manuscript documents relating to land claims; five partially printed documents relating to land claims; two letters from the US Land Office in Marysville, 1858, regarding land claims; six billheads from Marysville.....
Callao: Alsop and Company, 1850. Folded ship manifest measuring 15 ¼ x 12 ½ inches. Fine condition with slight normal wear. A very scarce Gold Rush period shipping manifest for the Barque Equator, captained by William Weir, listing the passengers and cargo for a voyage to San Francisco in December.....
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Britton and Rey: 1850s. Single sheet measuring 8 ¼ x 10 ¾ inches on blue wove paper. Small chip to corner not affecting image, some older tape repairs verso at margins, else fine, very good plus overall and quite attractive. A series of four illustrations telling the story of a......
Marysville: R.A. Eddy, 1851. First Edition. Lithograph by Justh, Quirot & Co. Illustration measuring 7 x 10 ½ inches on folded sheet measuring 8 ½ x 10 ⅞ folded. Fine condition. A striking lettersheet illustration of the conflagration in Marysville in 1851, which, according to the city of Marysville, originated.....
Los Angeles: La Aurora Mexicana, 1909. 8vo, wraps, 92 pp. Some chips to front wrap and first two pages, slight brittleness, very good minus overall. Ramon Verea was a writer and inventor who was best known for his invention of a mechanical calculator capable of multiplying large numbers with great.....
San Francisco: 1858-1864. Broadside measuring 12 x 8.5. Some wear and archival tape repair to margin, fine contrast, excellent condition overall. An interesting broadside advertising the Lighte and Bradbuiry piano as well as Martin Guitars, printed for the Salvator Rosa music store at 615 Montgomery Street in San Francisco. Lighte.....
Southern California: 1920s. Limp leatherette album, oblong 4to measuring 10 x 7 inches, with seventy photographs, most measuring 4 x 2 ½ inches. Wear to binding, photographs with excellent contrast, very good to near fine overall. An energetic album of photographs belonging to one Eddie Jones, a fun-loving banjo player.....
Los Angeles and Environs: 1919. Photograph album measuring 6 ½ x 8 inches with fifty-one photographs, each 4 ⅜ x 2 ⅞ inches. Front page captioned “California 1919 / Flowers / Animals.” Fine condition, no visible flaws. A visually compelling and very charming relic of early motor tourism, this collection.....
Panama City, Panama: June 29, 1851. Single three-page letter measuring appx. 8 x 10 inches. Stampless cover marked “STEAMSHIP” and circled rate marking “40”. A letter from Henry Francis Douglass (1826–1897) while on his way to the California gold mines, sent to his wife Lydia Lillibridge (1828–1904) in Voluntown, Connecticut.....
Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, California, and others: McLain’s Photo Service, Bona Fide Photo Service, et al. 1950s. Eleven individual photographs with one duplicate, measuring 8 x 10 inches. Eleven photographs showing NAACP activities in and around Los Angeles in the early 1950s. Most are uncaptioned; the one captioned photograph.....
S.I. Department of Public Works, Division of Land Settlement, 1921. Large broadsheet; 19 ½ x 16 ¾; pp. [2]; illustrated with photographs, drawings, and a large map; a few penciled-in, manuscript notes (possibly originally belonging to a potential settler); some age-toning along fold lines; edges a bit unevenly trimmed; in.....
California: c. 1915–1921. Photo album measuring 10 x 12 inches, containing approximately 360 photographs. Photos are approximately 3 ½ x 4 ½ and smaller with very good to excellent contrast. Album with wear to covers and edges of pages; photos generally excellent to Near Fine. A photo album belonging to.....
Greenville, Illinois: 1954. Two stapled packets of mimeographed typed pages (eighty-seven and twenty-eight pages), with one signed. An autobiography and genealogy written by Ulysses S. DeMoulin (1871–1955), founder of DeMoulin Bros., a uniform manufacturing company which now mainly supplies marching band attire. The genealogy incorrectly traces the family’s history back.....
California: 1892. Albumen photograph on board, very good contrast, mount near fine with minimal wear. A photograph of Main St. in San Andreas in 1892, showing banners for the Democratic ticket of Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson and the Republican ticket of Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid hanging above.....
El Dorado County, California: 1879–1902. Sixteen items, mainly letters and descriptions of mining claims which total thirty-seven handwritten pages. Of the written pages: one 7 ½ x 7 ½ inch, three 8 x 5 inch, twenty 8 x 10 inch, seven 8 x 12 ½ inch, and six 8 x......
Eureka, California: 1868–1873. Single 5 ½ x 12 inch ledger book with five small pages of notes and one short letter. Forty-two pages of the ledger filled out with many more blank. Offered here is a wharfage fee account ledger from Eureka, California, with dates between 1868 and 1873. The.....
Fresno, California: Detroit Photographic Co., 1901. Single photograph measuring 7 x 8 ¾ inches. Captioned on negative with Brown Brothers and Frank A. Munsey stamps verso. A photograph of a young man standing in a grape field and holding a drying rack in Fresno, 1901. Grape farming in Fresno began.....