United States: likely 1917 or 1918. Real photo postcard measuring 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches. A real photo postcard with a photograph of an Asian family relaxing by the side of the road, near what appears to be a 1917 Ford Model T Touring car or similar (the stamp.....
New York City: Brown Brothers, c. 1910s. Photograph measuring 5 x 7 ¼ inches, with manuscript caption and Brown Brothers stamps verso. A photo of a nighttime scene in San Francisco’s Chinatown, the oldest and largest in the US; the caption identifies the location as Dupont Street (now Grant Avenue).....
Montana Territory: 1870-1872. Lot of seventy-six checks measuring 8 ½ x 4 inches, with vignette illustration of a prospector and his dog. With one additional document relating to the Hershfield account with the Bank of California. Most checks issued to “Gold Coin,” and drawn on the Bank of California in.....
Sterling, Pennsylvania: Brown Brothers, 1912. Five photographs; four measuring 8 x 10 inches and one 5 x 8 inches. Most with manuscript captions verso. Five photographs depicting Chinese farmworkers in New York around 1912. In the late 19th century, many Chinese people, facing increasing anti-Chinese hostility, left the west coast.....
New Haven, Connecticut: April 1925. Single 8 x 10 inch photograph. Fotograms and date stamps verso with typed news caption affixed. A portrait of “Mike” Foon Kai-Kee (1903–deceased), a Chinese-American college baseball player at Yale University, from Dinuba, California (misspelled as “Dinerba” in the caption). The caption describes the third.....
San Francisco, California: Jimmy Lum Advertising Service, 1950. 107 pp directory measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches. Normal wear, with some manuscript markings on wraps; contents excellent with some markings and wear. The 1950 edition of the San Francisco Chinese Directory, published by the Jimmy Lum Advertising Service. The directory.....
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1904. Seventy-four page booklet measuring 4 ½ x 5 ¼ inches. Damage to wraps with one detached; inside with manuscript (Chinese) markings. A guide compiled by immigration officer John Endicott Gardner for converting between the Gregorian and traditional Chinese calendars for Gregorian years 1849 to.....
Carson: 1881. Single sided receipt measuring 7 ¾ x 4 ½ inches. Near fine with a small tear to bottom of page. A receipt issued for passage from Carson to Badie, Nevada, in 1881 aboard the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, issued with a note that reads “Chinamen” in the remarks.....
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American West: 1880s-1890s. Cabinet Card measuring 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mount. Identification on ink verso. Some fading, very good. A photograph of a Chinese man on horseback in western attire, possibly taken in Oregon or California in the 1890s. A search of genealogical and newspaper records yield.....
California: 1927. Photograph measuring approximately 6 ¾ x 10 inches. Unevenly trimmed top edge; some folding at lower corners; excellent contrast with extensive pencil caption verso. A portrait of the Waseda University basketball team from 1927; according to its manuscript caption the photo was taken following their defeat by the.....
Fresno, California: 1936. Approximately 7 x 30 inches. A photograph of the attendees of a yearly meeting of an affinity group for young Japanese-American Christians in California. The first YPCC retreats were held in 1920 with the help of the Japanese YMCA and YWCA, and the group continued its meetings.....
Hattiesburg: Earl M. Finch, 1944. Sheet music measuring 12 x 9 inches, 4 pp. Signature of a Nabuko Hayashida on front cover. Slight tears at fold, some toning, two small pinholes, very good overall, quite attractive. In Hawaii in May 1942, a battalion of Nisei volunteers was assembled for service.....
Muskogee, Oklahoma: c. 1904–1918. Real photo postcard measuring 3 ¼ x 5 ½ inches. A real photo postcard depicting Japanese-American boxer Young Togo, inscribed verso: “To K. Iwana Muskogee Oklahoma / From Young Togo fighter and jiu jitsu wrestler Muskogee Okla”. Young Togo was a lightweight and sometimes featherweight or.....
New York City: ACME Newspictures, June 23, 1932. Photograph measuring 8 ¾ x 6 ½ inches. With caption, ACME and N.E.A stamps, manuscript, and later sticker verso. A photograph of Rikan Konishi (1887–1982) with the “Pele’s Transport” cage, part of the contraption he used to retrieve the bodies of Margaret.....
San Francisco, California: c. 1915. Single photograph measuring 6 ¼ x 9 ¼ inches. Brown Brothers stamps with manuscript caption verso, with other manuscript markings. In the early 20th century, in order to appease increasing anti-Japanese sentiment in California without offending the growing world power, the US and Japan reached.....
New York: Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1944. Illustrated with photographs by Dorothea Lange, Clem Albers, Francis Stewart, Joe McLelland and Tom Parker. A booklet published by the Quaker anti-war group Fellowship of Reconciliation concerning the evacuation and resettlement of west-coast Japanese Americans. The booklet was written from federal prison by conscientious.....
Los Angeles, California: The Rafu Shimpo / L.A. Japanese Daily News, 1937. [appx 90], 485 pp. Limp cloth. With illustrations in color and black and white. A very scarce directory of the Japanese-American community, with a focus on Los Angeles, but also covering other areas of California including Terminal Island.....
Southern California: c. 1900–1910. Ten photographs measuring 8 x 10 inches and smaller, with most measuring 5 x 7 inches. Brown Brothers stamps and manuscript captions verso; some with editorial overpainting; some mounted on heavy cardstock. Japanese immigration to the US began at a large scale following the midcentury loosening.....
United States and Japan: 1948–1964. Approximately 143 items: forty-two letters (twenty-five in Japanese and seventeen in English); seventy-six photographs with twelve medium-format negatives; eleven pieces of military ephemera; an inscribed handkerchief; and a lacquered wood storage box (8 x 14 x 7 inches) with family crest. Kiyoshi Tanaka (1914–2001) was.....
United States: June 27, 1942. Photograph measuring 10 x 8 inches. With some editorial overpainting; two newspaper captions, manuscript, several date stamps, and later sticker verso. A press photo of soldiers from the 100th Infantry Battalion relaxing at a bar in La Crosse, Wisconsin, while on pass from Camp McCoy.....
New York City: Keystone View Co., Inc., c. 1920s. Photo measuring 5 ⅞ x 7 ¾ inches. With caption, Keystone stamp, manuscript, and later sticker verso. A portrait of Hadji Gulamu Rasul, around the 1920s. Rasul was the son of Filipino statesman Abd ul-Bagui Butu Rasul, and some sources state.....
VP: 1939. Scrapbook measuring 10 x 13 inches. Twenty three leaves, some detached, good overall with fine contents. A visually engaging and interesting scrapbook documenting a trip by a man from Honolulu named Albert Tyau to purchase a Plymouth Deluxe 4-Door Touring Sedan at the Chrysler factory in Detroit in.....