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1891BB009<p> CHINA: Propaganda against Western Missionaries<br /></p><p>The Cause of the Riots in the Yangtse Valley. A "Complete Picture Gallery" by CHOU HAN. Hankow China 1891. With 32 full=page woodblock plates printed in color. Oblong 4to original printed wrappers sewn spine soiling minor repairs.</p><p>The author Chou Han is described by the translator Griffith John 1831-1912 as 'a gentleman of high official rank Taotai in Hunan' and was part of an orchestrated propaganda campaign aimed at discouraging Western Christian missionaries from working and traveling in China. This volume was perhaps his most significant and horrific attack on western culture managing a "reptile press" in Hunan creating unrest and distrust amongst the Chinese people see John's "A Voice from China" 1907 p. 220. Chou Han himself is probably represented in plates IX XIII XXVI and XXIX; the images are virulently anti-foreigner and specifically anti-Christian. John translated and circulated the present work to draw attention to the British authorities of the problems faced by missionaries in Asia. </p><p>Very Rare. ONLY 3 COPIES CAN BE TRACED AT AUCTION IN THE PAST 40 YEARS ABPC & RBH. </p><br /> paperback books
1897WRCAM56506Various locations in Oregon California and Colorado 1897. Seventy-nine printing out paper photographic prints each image 6 x 8 inches on 9 1/2 x 11 1/4 inch medium weight sheets all but two captioned in the negative. Minor surface wear to a handful of prints several with minor emulsion chipping to edges some curling to prints. Overall very good or better condition. An extraordinary collection of large handsomely-produced photographic prints documenting the exploits of a group of travelers who set out by train through Oregon California and Colorado in 1897. The photographs which are skillfully composed and indicative of an experienced photographer picture a wide variety of both urban and rural settings along the Pacific Coast and in Colorado showing a mixture of horse-drawn and cable and street cars but nary an automobile and constitute a unique and evocative time capsule for numerous locations in the American West in the final few years of the 19th century. <br> <br> The first image features a large group of women and children posed outside a railroad car with the image captioned "The R&W 97 Transcontinental Party." In fact two of the images reference the party as "R&W" which likely refers to the company or family who participated in the railway excursion. The travelers were apparently well-to-do by their dress and by the variety of notable high-end hotels they visited. The selection of photographs here was likely hand-picked by one of the members of the excursion after the journey was completed. <br> <br> The preponderance of the images document locations in California. These include two different views of Mount Shasta scenes in Yosemite Park sites in Santa Cruz and several images each in and around San Francisco Santa Cruz and Los Angeles. The Yosemite Park pictures show members of the group taking a horse-drawn carriage through a redwood tree and other Yosemite landmarks are captioned "Yosemite from Inspiration Point" "Bridal Veil Falls" "Two Brothers of the Yosemite" "Trail to Glacier Pt." "A fallen Monarch of the Yosemite" the famous downed redwood tree and "Wawona Point." <br> <br> The San Francisco images include Stanford University two images a view of Stanford's Tomb in Menlo Park the driveway to the Crocker residence a striking image of downtown focused on the Spreckels Building the San Francisco City Hall building the "Courtyard of the Palace Hotel" Golden Gate Park a spectacular view across the ocean from Golden Gate Park the entrance to Sutro Park and the esplanade in Sutro Park. <br> <br> Images in Santa Cruz depict the residence of Major Frank McLaughlin known as the Golden Gate Villa an elevated view of the beach at Santa Cruz a scene of several travelers in a horse-drawn carriage captioned "Our four in hand on the cliff drive Santa Cruz Cal." and three striking views of the cliffs including two featuring the "Natural Bridge" Cliff at Santa Cruz. <br> <br> The Los Angeles area is well represented in the photographs which picture the downtown courthouse a downtown street scene showing the Van Nuys Hotel the year it opened a view down Spring Street West Lake Park East Side Park four images including the entrance an orange grove in Riverside picturing one of the travelers Magnolia Avenue in Riverside an "Orange grower's home" in Riverside a pair of horses pulling a streetcar labeled "Riverside & Arlington Ry." before the line was electrified in 1899 and an interesting street scene in downtown Riverside. <br> <br> Other sites in California comprise the Hotel Coronado four pictures including an unusual view of the "Drive to the Entrance" of the hotel Coronado Beach two views the "Ruins of Capistrano" the remnants of the mission church the train depot at Fresno a residence in San Jose the "View from Mt. Hamilton" near San Jose and the road to the hedge maze at the Hotel Del Monte in Monterey. <br> <br> The Colorado pictures include a breathtaking elevated view of a snowy Denver taken from the top of the capitol building. Other Colorado scenes include a view of New Castle from the train Glenwood Springs an image of horse-drawn carriages crossing a bridge over the river in Glenwood Springs and two images capturing the incline tram up the Royal Gorge near Canon City. The collection also includes a handful of images in Portland Oregon. These feature the Portland wharf three separate shots of the Portland Hotel the "Residence of Dr. McKenzie" and a horse- drawn carriage ride on City Park Drive. <br> <br> Eight of the more intriguing images in the collection were taken while aboard the traveling party's moving railroad car and picture the vast landscape of the American West in California Colorado and Nevada. The captions for these read "From Top of Mountain near Scisco" "We pass through Eagle Cañon" "Leaving Leadvill sic behind us" "Some Colorado Scenery" "On the Rio Grande Western" and "Princeton Harvard & Yale" a distant view of the three mountains named for those Ivy League schools in the "Collegiate Peaks" region of the Rocky Mountains. One image likely in Colorado but with location unidentified is captioned "Mountains rising thousands of feet all around." There are even a couple of images taken from the train while passing briefly through Nevada including one of the "Humboldt Desert." <br> <br> In addition to the aforementioned image picturing the women and children of the "R&W 97 Transcontinental Party" there are a handful of images focused on other various members. One is captioned "The R&W 97 Philharmonic Symposium" and features six men standing on a railroad handcar with musical instruments. The words and music to "Sweet Rosy O'Grady" have been written into the photographic negative at center along with a humorous musical quatrain at right referencing one of the traveling party. This latter bit reads "The Director General Russ Couldn't play with us with us He was not allowed to toot So he kept time with His Boot." Additional pictures of the group feature them dining inside an unnamed restaurant posed in front of a giant redwood near Santa Cruz and sitting on chairs in a semi-circle in Sutro Park. The latter photograph is captioned "The Russo Hershian Family will now perform." The collection is rounded out with a striking photograph of a woman in a white dress posing for the camera against a white wall which is captioned "Miss Lethbridge." <br> <br> Though the subjects of the traveling party in these pictures are ultimately unknown to us their journey is emblematic of an entire generation's fascination with the railroad and the American West. In addition these large and impressive prints which capture both the urban development of California Oregon and Colorado along with the majesty of the rural settings in these states document their travels in an unusually rich and deluxe format. <br> <br> A unique and rich collection of western photographs produced in the last few years of the 19th century. unknown books
193050786New York Chicago San Francisco: Wilson-Western Sporting Goods Company 1930. First edition. 2 volumes. 8vo. The wrappers are illustrated with Rogers Hornsby in batting stance on the front cover. There are some marginal tears and general wear and soiling especially to the Made -To -Measure catalogue; else in very good condition. Housed in a custom-made clamshell box of cloth with inlays of wood and leather. These two companion catalogues illustrate off-the-rack and tailor-made uniforms in a variety of price ranges. They contain original wool flannel samples a drawing of the complete uniform full description and price. The READY-TO-WEAR catalogue is sixteen pages plus covers fully illustrated and contains thirty-two uniform samples in a variety of colors and pinstripes. The MADE-TO-MEASURE catalogue is thirteen pages plus covers contains illustrations and sixty uniform samples in a variety of colors and pinstripes. Additionally there are endorsements for mitts with photo portraits by Bill Terry and Ray Schalk. We have been unable to locate any other copies of these or other Wilson swatch book catalogues in OCLC or any other database. The library of The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown New York had heard that such catalogues were produced but had never seen one. Rare. <br/><br/> Wilson-Western Sporting Goods Company hardcover books
1872WRCAM29311Various places 1872. Twelve cards each 17 x 13 inches a.e.g. with manuscript captions in lower margins. Images are 9 x 6 1/2 inches except the two oval images of San Francisco. Some minor soiling on cards some images slightly faded. Very good. Archivally matted protected with a mylar sheet. An excellent collection of views quite early for Hawaii and New Zealand. The four views of Honolulu include one wide view of the town a view of a side street with a church steeple in the background the Pali mountain pass and the harbor with several large vessels at anchor. In New Zealand the Supreme Court building in Christchurch and the city of Littleton are displayed. The San Francisco images include the Palace Hotel and the famous Cliff House. Of particular interest are the three views of the Central Pacific Railway. The sections of the track include Capestown the Palisade and Summit Station each with fresh evidence of the line's recent completion. Also in the collection is one image of a railroad along the banks of Salt Lake and three wide views of Salt Lake City one with the Mormon tabernacle completed in 1871 prominently featured. An attractive collection of views each quite displayable. unknown books
44211<p>Japan and Western Medicine. Oranda jin Geka ryoji no zu Dutch Surgery in Nagasaki. Original pen ink and watercolor drawing on light brown-toned silk with 4 vertical lines of Japanese characters in the upper left corner. Japan: late 18th or early 19th century. 483 x 363 mm. mounted as a scroll at a modern date on light grey silk backed with paper with a half-round hanging rail with braided ribbon attached at the top and a suspension bar at the foot measuring 914 x 443 mm. overall; preserved in a custom-made wooden box. A few tiny pinholes in upper corners of image but fine with the coloring fresh and bright.</p> <p> This striking image showing an amputation carried out by a Dutch surgeon in Japan was most likely painted in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century during Japan's self-imposed period of national isolation. The hand-painted image is related but by no means identical to a Nagasaki woodblock print titled "Surgery by a Dutch Physician" one of many popular souvenir prints depicting scenes unique to Nagasaki which at the time was the sole point of contact between Japan and the outside world. See our reproduction of the print. It may be that our scroll is the original of the image; however it is also possible that both hand-painted and woodcut versions of the image were produced simultaneously.</p> <p> Western surgery came to Japan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries via the Portuguese who in 1543 became the first Europeans to make direct contact with Japan and the Dutch who became the only European nation allowed to trade with Japan after Japan's expulsion of the Portuguese in 1639. Surgeons attached to the Dutch East India Company established practices at the island of Dejima in Nagasaki Bay which led to the formation of several Japanese schools of surgery based on European methods. "This aspect of Western medicine known as K m -ry geka or ‘Surgery of the Red-Haired' has had a profound effect on the development of surgical practice in Japan" Van Gulik p. 37. Van Gulik "Dutch surgery in Japan" in Red-Hair Medicine: Dutch-Japanese Medical Relations ed. Beukers et al. pp. 37-50. </p> <p>. unknown books
18951422Various locations in Iowa 1895. Very good. 149 albumen photographs on twenty cardstock leaves images measuring 4 x 5 inches. Oblong quarto. Original black cloth cover gilt; leaves laid in formerly string-tied. Light wear and soiling to cloth evidence of slight dampstaining to lower edge of binding and later leaves. Internal numbering sequence indicates first sixteen images lacking. Images generally clean some minor fading; one photograph partially removed and effaced. Wonderful photo album of images documenting late-19th century Iowa assembled by an unidentified young man with a clear passion for both amateur photography and the area's rivers. Internal evidence suggests he was a student at the University of Iowa possibly pursuing a course of study in the geological sciences. Each image is numbered captioned and dated in a tidy hand usually identifying location and any interesting features. The images span a full year from April 1894 to July 1895 ending with a self portrait.<br/><br/>There are two series of eighty-three images the first sixteen of which are not present. The first of these focuses on the area around Iowa City documenting explorations along the Iowa River. Captioned images include: "21 -- Looking across Iowa River - University buildings in the distance. May 3 '94"; "25 -- Looking up Iowa River from Iowa Ave. Bridge. - Water Works in the distance. May 26 '94"; "46 -- Children at play - Iowa River. May 12 '94". There are images of a baseball game between the University and Luther College views of lime kilns and images of natural specimens. Several photographs chart the "Great Hail Storm at Iowa City" on May 5 1894 with images of golfball-size hail and the damage done to the windows of buildings around town. There are also photos of the author's roommate and some of the activities they got up to including catching snakes and hunting. The roommate Bartsch appears to have been studying natural sciences and one photograph shows him seated at his desk "Blowing Bird Eggs."<br/><br/>The second series has a manuscript title of "Oneota Expedition" and documents a trip by boat from Decorah Iowa on the Upper Iowa River and down the Mississippi as far as Muscatine several miles below Davenport. The trip began on June 18 1895 and lasted through July 26th. Scenes along the river include "6. Women wading the river - w. of Decorah June 19 '95"; "14 -- Dragging our boat in the Oneota. June 24 '95" which shows a flat-bottomed boat laden with supplies being both pushed and pulled by a man at either end; a series of views taken from Oneota Bluff near New Albin on the Minnesota border; "37 -- Winnebago Indian Camp - Iowa Slough July 6 '95"; numerous lovely images of camping along the river and river towns as seen from the water; "77 -- Beds of Montpeliar Sandstone at water's edge - Below Montpeliar Ia. - Bartsch & 'Fitz' hunting fossils. July 23 '95." An interesting album full of wonderful and meticulously documented views of the Iowa River as seen through the eyes of a 19th-century university student. unknown books
195232351Placerville 1952. 1st appearance. Custom bound in blue "marbled" cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine & front board. 1st book with abrasion to rear board. Paper yellowing as usual. Withal a VG to Nr Fine set. 16 of 18 volumes in 8 books. Most issues 16 pp. Illustrated. Small Folio. 13-3/4" x 10-1/2" <br/><br/>A wonderful resource for students of Western America- within are personal reminiscences interviews with those that lived the "West" etc. etc. hardcover books
19321252Various locations in California 1932. Very good. 219 photographs on fifty leaves most 3 x 5 inches; plus six real photo postcards. Oblong octavo. Original black cloth string-tied. Light wear to covers. Images crisp and clear. Many images with typed captions. A wonderful photo album documenting road trips taken in the Eastern Sierra and western Nevada in the area in and around Owens Valley. The photographer and his friends explored numerous mines and mining towns in the region braving the desert in their car. The album winds from Owen's Lake to the National Soda Products Company and the Estelle Mine to the tiny town of Keeler where they celebrated Easter. They continue on to the mining camps of Panamint City and Ballarat both now ghost towns. There are photographs of the town of Lone Pine the Cerro Gordo Mine Darwin and in Nevada the towns of Lida and Goldfield. They take an extended trek through Big Pine California staying in Glacier Lodge Canyon and spend time in Onion Valley. There is also a lengthy series of photographs taken out at Lone Pine California documenting the Universal Pictures film "Oh Promise Me" with images of the actors and sets and crew. An altogether fascinating album documenting the region of the Eastern Sierra and Owens Valley. unknown books
1920List515Various Places 1920. Oblong folio cloth over cardstock 15 x 11 inches. Photographs and realphoto postcards most measuring around 5 x 3 1/2 inches mounted to pages. The system of national parks was created at first in a somewhat piecemeal fashion with the Department of the Interior holding responsibility for establishing each park individually. Chief White Calf of the Blackfeet famously negotiated the sale of the bulk of the lands that would form Glacier National Park in 1895 with the agreement being that the US Government would allow for Blackfoot hunting Chief White Calf's son Chief Two Guns White Calf would later travel to Washington in protest of the government's subsequent actions. The establishment of the National Park Service in 1916 coincided roughly with the dawn of American motor tourism. <br /> <br /> This album dates from that early period of National Park recreation and bears evidence as to the recreation that happened around the early part of the century. The album shows scenery in three national parks by noted photographers including some iconic photographs of Yellowstone by Frank J. Haynes first taken in the and several scarce images of Blackfoot attributed to the noted photographer T.J. Hileman who was the official photographer of Glacier National Park during this period. The album begins with twenty-eight photographs by Haynes who printed copies of his classic Yellowstone photographs first taken in the 1890s from his St. Paul Minnesota studio. The next group shows twenty realphoto postcards of Mt. Rainier National Wilderness Area taken by Frank Jacobs. Some images show the architecture of the lodges some of which were later designated as national landmarks due to their exemplification of National Park Service rustic-style architecture. Surrounding these images are a series of photographs presumably of the family responsible for the album showing a young family picnicking beside their automobile. This section also includes interestingly a realphoto Christmas Card from Mr. and Mrs. Mark Frederick Jukes. Jukes was a notable photographer based in Elko Nevada during this period. <br /> <br /> The next section which represents the most uncommon images in the album shows a series of images of Glacier National Park. The group includes ten realphoto postcards by or attributed to T.J. Hileman some with his copyright mark who was at that time the park's staff photographer and famously took photographs of the Blackfoot people living in the eastern portion of the park. Included are two portraits of Two Guns White Calf and a portrait of Chief Three Bears neither of which we find records of in the trade. Following the Hileman images are twenty-one images taken by Fred Kiser of Glacier National Park each measuring 3 x 3 ⅝ inches showing captioned scenes throughout Glacier National Park in Kiser's distinctive cursive writing. Kiser began photographing western mountain landscapes on his own in 1905 following the death of his brother and his photographs of Glacier and its environs were reproduced during the park's early days. Eight amateur photographs follow showing camping scenes in an unidentified Western landscape. The remainder of the album - 29 pictures - show the family at home and are most notable for a series of white children dressed up in faux- American Indian costumes. <br /> <br /> Overall a somewhat extensive and iconic representation of early automobile-age Western travel with the grand western scenery and zeitgeist of the time on full display. Images generally in fine condition with a few stray creases album with some light normal wear. <br /> <br /> Offered in partnership with James Arsenault & Company. unknown books
1955WRCAM56693Oakland Ca.: Utsumi Studio 1955. Panoramic silver gelatin photograph 8 x 30 1/4 inches. Minor edge wear a few soft creases mild surface soiling. Very good plus. An appealing panoramic photograph featuring the attendees of the 1955 conference of the Western Young Buddhist League. The photograph captures a few hundred finely- dressed Japanese-American men and women posed in a courtyard in Oakland California. Various delegates to the conference hold handwritten signs indicating their home cities and regional organizations which include Marysville Palo Alto San Mateo San Francisco Fresno Oakland Sacramento Delta Pasadena and numerous other smaller California cities and locales. There are also banners for attendees from the Stockton Chapter of the Y.B.A. the Coast District of the Young Buddhist Association and the Central California Young Buddhist Association. The elders of the organization sit in chairs in front of the young Bussei. Interestingly this photograph was taken by Oakland photographer Kinji Utsumi a photographer in the Bay Area both before and after World War II. Utsumi bought his photo studio in 1941 but was forced to close at the outset of the Japanese-American internment period. He then became one of the official photographers at the Topaz internment camp in Utah; he is mentioned in the RAMBLINGS yearbooks for Topaz High School during the internment period. After the war Utsumi returned to Franklin Street in Oakland and opened another photographic studio. A rare image of a large organization of young Japanese-American Buddhists in California in the middle of the Eisenhower years with no copies reported in OCLC. Utsumi Studio unknown books
1915901Portland 1915. Very good. Sixteen cyanotypes approximately 5 x 7 inches. Minor wear and toning at edges images generally sharp with nice contrast. Sixteen cyanotypes depicting the activities of the lumber industry in Oregon taken by an unidentified photographer. The images include scenes of the premises of the Oregon Planing Mill in Portland Globe Mills and a more rural lumber yard and timber camp in the Pacific Northwest. The Oregon Planing Mill was located at 224 2nd Street in Portland and was active in the 1910s and 1920s leading us to a date for the group of images. Two photographs are of the planing mill one showing the outside and the other the interior. Another set of images shows the exterior and interior works of the Globe Mill. Two images show tidy rows of houses which may be a logging camp or an early rural development. The remaining ten images are industrial in nature depicting large buildings and lumber yards full of cut timber planks. All the images have good contrast and are quite sharp with an eye for composition and detail. An interesting group of particularly fine cyanotypes. unknown books
1938917Various Places including Mexico Wyoming Nevada Arizona and California 1938. Very good. 296 photographs in corner mounts on fifty-five leaves. Oblong quarto. Original cloth boards string tied. Cloth worn and frayed at edges. A few leaves loose. Photos generally crisp and neat; about half with manuscript captions on leaves. A travel album of nearly 300 original images of alluring and uncommonly high quality the preponderance of which chronicle a series of road trips made by a group of young men crossing the United States and Mexico by car in 1936 and 1937. The subjects were likely students at Worcester Polytechnical Institute. Approximately 250 of the images depict their trips across North America in the midst of the Depression with locations in the east including Mt. Katahdin in Maine; Washington D.C.; Lookout Mountain Tennessee; Lake Michigan; and Niagara Falls. In the West they drove through Texas and Mexico to Mexico City. They toured the Mexican capital and also stopped in Monterrey where they saw a bullfight. After re-crossing the border at Fort Stockton they traveled through New Mexico Arizona Nevada Wyoming and California with a series of photographs depicting their experiences in Yellowstone and Yosemite. Indeed many of the photos depict their stops in national parks across the West and demonstrate an interest in the major water engineering project being undertaken at that time. The remainder of the images show the aftermath of the 1938 hurricane on Bellows Falls Vermont likely the hometown of the album's compiler and scenes on the campus of WPI. An excellent visual account of Depression-era car travel. unknown books
18881964Sioux City Ia.: James H. Hamilton 1888. Very good. Twenty stereoviews on printed mounts one duplicative. Some light soiling and wear one card lightly creased affecting image. Some slight fading to several photos. A group of twenty stereocards depicting the Corn Palace of 1888 taken by James H. Hamilton the official photographer for the Corn Palace festival that year. The Corn Palace at Sioux City was the world's first founded in conjunction with a citywide harvest festival in the fall of 1887. The festival and the palace were such a success drawing nearly 140000 visitors to Sioux City that the founders decided to repeat their efforts for a further four years. Each year the Corn Palace was rebuilt from scratch the framed timber structure coated with grain from top to bottom. The Corn Palace of 1888 drew approximately 350000 people and advertised "toilet rooms and conveniences for ladies and gentlemen".<br/><br/>James H. Hamilton worked as a photographer in Sioux City from the mid-1860s through the 1890s. He photographed many notable figures and scenes in the region including the Corn Palace serving as the event's official photographer in 1888. He also worked in partnership at different points with photographers Franklin Hoyt and John Kodylek. The views present here primarily depict the interior of the Corn Palace showcasing its various rooms which include features such as fireplaces and gas lighting. James H. Hamilton unknown books
189040232n.p. 1890. Not bound. Overall quite good but some creasing tears fading a few remounted. 12 sheets. Size varies from 4 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches to 13 x 10 inches. 42 albumen and silver prints mounted on large card stock some tipped in some remounted. Images of San Francisco Yosemite Pikes Peak Grand Canyon as well as the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 some captioned in plate or in manuscript. unknown books
190533875Nevada California Colorado Arizona Montana 1905. Documents of many different sizes approx. 3-1/2" x 7" to 13" x 21". Light dust occasional scattered spotting. A few items have folds with some splits no loss. Very Good. <br/><br/> The documents concern mining companies in Nevada and California plus a few from Colorado Arizona and Montana. Several companies in the Nevada Territory and California had claims in the Comstock Lode. <br/> CALIFORNIA: <br/> 1 Certification of filing Articles of Incorporation of the Imperial Gold Mining Company of San Francisco with starting capital of $100000. Preprinted form completed in neat ink manuscript with names of officers Henry C. Blake W.F. Bogart J.B. Treadwell A.J. Shrader D.L. and signatures of Thomas Beck Secretary of State and Wm. A. Beck Deputy dated 1/9/1878 with large gilt seal measures 16" x 21"; <br/> 2 Hussy Mine Report typed dated 6/12/1880 4pp held with metal clasps at head. Describes Nevada County California mine including location tunnels gold yield and quality. This may be typed version of 11 page manuscript described at OCLC 79446888; <br/> 3 M.M. Sexton T.C. Stallo & O.M. Broms Manuscript Notice of Mining Claim for the "Rissell opposite the Store at Temperance Flat for the purpose of erecting a wheel and machinery for a Quartz Mill" signed at Millerton on 8/1/57 and docketed on verso. <br/> 4 Thomas Price's Assay Office and Chemical Laboratory Memorandum of gold bullion deposit dated 4/24/1879; <br/> 5 Chemical Laboratory Assay Offices Bullion Rooms & Ore Floors - with Thomas Price as Analytical Chemist Assayer and Bullion Melter memorandum of bullion deposit dated 7/24/1882; <br/> 6 Wells Fargo & Co.'s Express receipt dated 7/29/1880 $3900 in gold bars addressed to "W.F. & Co. San Fran. for assay;" <br/> 7 Palmer & Day's Assay Office receipt dated 3/13/1862 for 73.21 oz. of gold dust; <br/> 8 Selby Smelting & Lead Co. three memoranda of gold bullion deposit dated 5/1/1882 for 406 oz. 9/29/1890 for 7.02 oz. & 82.85 oz.; <br/> 9 Mountaineer Gold Mining Co. payment receipt dated 9/7/1868 for $125.00 to C.W. Hendel for one year service as Secretary; <br/> 10 T.P. Crandall of Crandall & McKillican Provisions Mining Supplies Etc. 8/13/1888 draft payable to Buckeye Mill Co. $147.06 with signature endorsements on verso; <br/> 11 Kellogg & Humbert's Assay Office 9/28/1858 gold bullion deposit no. 5282; <br/> 12 Rufus Butterfield San Francisco 10/26/1852 receipt for $134.63 on goods shipped from New York on "Ships 'Racer'" "Milch of the Mare" and "Gray Hound."<br/> NEVADA: <br/> 13 Gould & Curry Silver Mining Company 7 receipts for gold & silver ore dated 1863-1864 in two different styles and 2 receipts for labor payments from 1862 and 1864 $2000 for "working one " and $175 for "labor on Moor Ranch;" <br/> 14 Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co. dated June 1911 Sheet No. 6 employee nos. 201-239; <br/> 15 Manhattan Silver Mining Company of Nevada payment receipt dated 7/8/1875 in the amount of $140; <br/> 16 Van Wyck & Co. Assay Office receipt for 2229.5 ounces of bouillon dated 7/14/1864 deposited by Savage M. Co.; <br/> 17 Savage Mining Company voucher dated 2/3/1892 for $32.50 paid to Wells Fargo & Co. for expressage of 1780.5 lbs. of amalgam from Nevada Mill to U.S. Mint in Carson City; <br/> 18 Savage Gold & Silver Mining Company receipt dated 1864 for supplies bought of White's Canon Mill preprinted with both companies' names; <br/> 19 U.S. Mint at Carson City memorandum of silver and gold bullion deposit dated 11/6/1890; <br/> 20 Mexican Mill manuscript statement of F.S. Bars manufactured in payment of H & N deposit written on preprinted undated form of the U.S. Mint at Carson Cashier's Office; <br/> 21 White & Murphy Gold and Silver Mining Company receipt dated 2/28/1864 for "merchandise." <br/> MONTANA: <br/> 22 North Butte Mining Company Check to Jas. McMillen $23.50 written on First National Bank of Butte. <br/> ARIZONA: <br/> 23 Bank of Bisbee two drafts dated 7/11/1905 Nos. A7069 payable to Jose Estrada for $6.75 in Mexican Silver Dollars and A7070 payable to Pedro Rivera for $10.00 in Mexican Silver Dollars with endorsements and perforated rubber and paper stamps on verso. <br/> COLORADO: <br/> 24 The Eagle Ore Company original and carbon of receipt of 15520 pounds of gold & silver valued at $270.18.<br/> Gould & Curry Silver Mining was organized in June 1860; Manhattan Silver Mining Company of Nevada was established in 1863; and the Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co. was organized in November 1906. The U.S. Mint at Carson City was created in 1863 and operated from 1870-1885 and from 1889-1893 when its doors finally closed. It was established specifically to facilitate the minting of silver coins from silver in the Comstock Lode although it also minted some gold coins.<br/> Charles Hendel 1831-1920 came to California in 1853 and began mining for gold in Sierra County later serving as the county's surveyor as a U.S. Deputy Surveyor and as Plumas County Surveyor. He owned a large interest in the Alturas Tailing Mine and the Lucky Gold Hill Mine. Guide to the Charles William Hendel Collection 1853-1918 662-701 California State Library. unknown books
1954List516California and Oregon 1954. Oblong 8vo dyed calf album measuring 11 x 7 inches. Contains 218 photographs most measuring 3 x 5 with some smaller. Very Good. A charming album depicting the canine-centric adventures of a couple as they fish hike and camp their way through some of the great Western parks nearly always with a German Shepherd in tow. Several iconic landmarks are on display - El Capitan the Columbia River giant redwoods and more. The photographer had a keen eye for landscapes and the overall quality of the images and the omnipresent dogs present an infectious appreciation of nature and the outdoors.<br /> <br /> The size of the fish on display and the beauty of the surroundings show the bounty of the Western parks in the early days of automobile-era tourism. Mixed in with the shots of the outdoors is a curious series of a German shepherd in various poses at a table and several pictures of the couple at home. Presumably several dogs are shown all German Shepherds as the album spans several decades. Contents are beautifully preserved album torn at seams at the exterior and spine perished good to very good condition overall. unknown books
19331962Long Beach Ca 1933. Very good plus. Forty silver gelatin photographs. Twenty-six mounted on leaves with typed captions the remainder loose but captioned in negative. Images 3.5 x 5.75 inches and 3.5 x 4.5 inches. Images crisp and clean mounting leaves a bit rumpled with light wear. Small collection of images documenting the Long Beach Earthquake of May 10 1933. The images mounted to sheets are numbered and captioned in typescript with the heading "Earthquake Damage - Long Beach and Vicinity. March 14 1933". They provide a visual survey of the damage to major sites around Los Angeles and Compton such as the Masonic Temple the Dominguez Sub-station the Security First National Bank in Compton buildings along East Compton Boulevard and several of the local schools. The loose photos all show damage in Long Beach itself including the Seaside Hospital the Catholic Church the Imperial Theatre schools and an image captioned "Feeding refugees at Lincoln Park - Long Beach Cal."<br/><br/>The Long Beach Earthquake occurred just before 6 o'clock in the morning and was a magnitude 6.4 killing more than 100 people. The epicenter was offshore south of Los Angeles with much of the damage limited to Long Beach but also spreading north into southern L.A. It is notable that many of the images here document school buildings as more than 200 schools were damaged in the event. This highlighted a need for earthquake-proof construction in school buildings where the death toll would have been much higher had the earthquake struck during school hours and the legislature passed the Field Act on April 10th as a result. An altogether interesting set of images. unknown books
196853467Los Angeles: Southern California Jewish Historical Society 1968-92. Ninety-three original issues in the original wrappers comprising an unbroken run but for a single issue from the debut issue in October 1968 to January 1992. Octavo; original printed card wrappers; most issues 96pp. Beginning with Vol. XVI the name changes to "Western States Jewish History." A few issues have old rubber-band adhesions to the covers; otherwise they are pristine most appearing unread. Missing is Vol. XX no 3 April 1989. Publisher's prospectus laid in to Vol. I no 1. <br/><br/>An attractive long run of this well-edited scholarly journal providing a rich vein of original historical research on Jewish communities west of the Missisisippi. Will occupy approximately 36" of shelf space. Southern California Jewish Historical Society unknown books
185831868Springfield IL 1858. Broadside 10-1/2" x 13-1/2". Printed in four columns. Lightly foxed old folds Very Good.<br/><br/> This evidently unrecorded broadside recounts the proceedings of a Convention. held at the State Capitol in Springfield to determine the feasibility of a regional program to advance the cultivation of sorghum or Chinese sugar cane. Notice of the Convention was reported in the Sangamo Journal / Illinois State Journal for 30 December 1857: "It is confidently believed that the Chinese Sugar Cane is well 'adapted to our soil and climate' and that it can be successfully and profitably cultivated and manufactured into molasses and sugar." <br/> The Agricultural Committee submitted information from growers and processors in Kentucky Pennsylvania Ohio and Indiana. The Mechanical Committee could not produce an acceptable proposal for a processing machine and the Convention adjourned with a recommendation that Illinois delegates gather more information for a future convention. Efforts to stimulate the growth of northern sugar cane continued through the succeeding decades.<br/>As of October 2019 not located on OCLC or the online sites of AAS NYPL Newberry Harvard Yale U MI. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker Graff. unknown books
WALTER-FILM000646No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 11 x 14"" 28 x 35 cm. lobby card USA. Lon Chaney Edith Roberts Noah Beery Dewitt Jennings Ralph Lewis Jack Mulhall dir: Irving Cummings; Western Pictures Exploitation Company. Border art and inset photos with story details enhance this card with main image of Lon Chaney Edith Roberts and Jack Mulhall. In this story Chaney plays a convict who has broken out of jail and is hiding in Chinatown. He takes on the identity of a cripple in order to track down and take revenge upon the businessman who framed him some 15 years before. When he finds him however he discovers that his daughter is in love with the man's son. Chaney's role here anticipates his work a few years later for MGM's THE BLACKBIRD. Minor crease in lower right blank border overall FINE. unknown books
183129035Nelson Ohio 1831. Broadside 7.5" x 34.5" three leaves joined end to end with wax. Manuscript petition written on unlined paper bold calligraphic heading followed by small neat handwriting. Signed by sixty-one petitioners from the Township of Nelson. A dampstain runs through the right edge of the petition light scattered foxing. Very Good. <br/><br/> This is a petition for the Court to provide the village of Garrettsville Ohio with a justice of the peace. Garrettsville was founded in 1804 by Col. John Garrett III and was officially incorporated in 1864. The citizens complain that the township of Nelson had only two justices neither of which was easily accessible to Garrettsville leaving Garrettsville "entirely destitute." The petition is followed by the signatures of sixty-one residents. The Court refused the request. <br/> Among the signers is Elisha Garrett son of Garrettsville's founder; Lyman W. Trask 1809-1863 a physician and editor of the Western Pearl a short-lived literary newspaper of the 1830s; Edwin Atwood who built the Garrettsville Grist-mill with Leman Ferry and the first church with John Garrett; and Abraham Dyson a blacksmith and War of 1812 veteran. Other names include: Willis Hall Robert H. Scott Richard A. Denison Hiram Austin Warren Waste John M. Tilden E.L. Jones Martin McClintock Samuel Fuller Ferriss Couch Henry Gillmore Mylowe Eggleston Joseph Gillmore John Zubull Anson Booth Joseph A. Chapman John Noah by his mark and many more. Brown: HISTORY OF PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO. 1885. unknown books
1922669Various places 1922. Good plus. 181 original photographs most 3.5 x 3.5 inches some larger. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Scattered manuscript captions. Some album leaves with tape repairs but photos generally fine. An absorbing photograph album containing over 180 original images that documents a family's travels in the West over a four year period after World War I. The group travelled to a disparate set of Western destinations during this time making their way across the county by train automobile and riverboat. In 1919 they travelled through the Northern Rockies making an obligatory stop in Denver but also halting at places such as Vananda Montana now a ghost town and Lake Pend Oreille in the Northern Idaho Panhandle. During 1920 the group was in Dalhart Texas and returned to Idaho to visit Lake Coeur D'Alene and to travel along the St. Joe River. Images from 1921 and 1922 center on travel around the Spokane area where the group appears to have been from including a series of images taken at Liberty Lake. A varied and interesting album of post-World War I western travels. unknown books
19091557Various locations in the West 1909. Very good. Forty-seven leaves containing forty-one photographs 4 x 6 inches supplemented by postcards and a few newspaper clippings. Oblong octavo album. Original leather cover gilt black paper leaves. Spine perished but holding covers worn. Some leaves intentionally trimmed on fore edge. Two photos loose and laid in. Contents clean and fresh. An interesting album documenting a train trip to the Western United States taken by several businessmen from Chicago on a tour to study irrigation investments in Colorado Idaho and Wyoming. The album starts out with panels from the trip brochure pasted onto the first two leaves followed by newspaper clippings documenting the trip as well as a map of the train routes in the west and a sheet of stationery signed by all the members of the party. The trip was organized by Trowbridge & Niver a municipal bond company based in Chicago and one Denver newspaper headline notes "Half-Billion Dollars Represented in Party. Many are already backing projects here and are making trip to investigate." Each photograph is captioned with a typed label documenting stops along the route starting with Fort Morgan Colorado. There are several images of Eldorado Springs including the swimming pool and a large building whose roof says "Moving Pictures" which we presume to be an early movie theatre. There are many group shots of the "Buffalo Party" along the way all looking quite dapper in caps and touring coats out to spend their millions. One image shows the group on a tour by buggy captioned "Our party inspecting irrigated orchards at Palisade Colorado." There are three photographs of Salt Lake City followed by a series in Idaho which includes a charming photo of several women laughing captioned "Shoshone Indians at Pocatello Idaho." There is a series taken along the Snake River in Idaho and Oregon followed by several images taken in Boise. This cataloguer's favorite is a pair of photos taken at the local pool showing the men in their swimsuits: "Buffalonians in the Natatorium Boise." The final four photos depict the group at stops in Wyoming. Throughout the compiler has used postcards to set the scenery for the trip using the photographs to capture the group itself on tour. Altogether a wonderful album documenting a business trip yet assembled like a family vacation album or young woman's scrapbook. The format speaks to the novelty of such a trip even for businessmen in the early years of the 20th century. unknown books
1802216710Washington D.C. 1802. First edition. 53 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Sewn uncut. Fine. First edition. 53 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Shaw and Shoemaker 3298 2 copies unknown books
1836016450Boston: Dutton & Wentworth Printers 1836. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. A bound volume containing a collection of ten publications relating to the Western Rail-Road Corporation from the incorporation in 1836 to 1840. The First Annual Report from 1836 is included twice. Bound in contemporary original three quarter leather which is moderately to heavily worn with the front board nearly detached. There is minor to moderate foxing and the final half of the text is lightly stained at the top corner. The 1836-37 Reports of the Engineers is complete with two fold-out maps which were printed on very thin onion-skin paper. These two maps have been detached and are misfolded with minor tearing as well as some foxing. A ready-made collection of the founding documents of this railroad company which starts in Boston winding its way across the state where it enters New York State at West Stockbridge. Dutton & Wentworth, Printers Hardcover books
