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[CALIFORNIA & OREGON]. [HINES, Joseph Wilkinson].Biblio.com

Touching incidents in the life and labors of a pioneer on the Pacfic Coast since 1853.

[CALIFORNIA -- LEGAL HISTORY]. RALSTON, Jackson HBiblio.com

United States vs. Mexico: Pious Fund of the Californias heard before a Tribunal of the Permanent Court of Arbitration under the Hague Convention of 1899. . . with pleadings appendix exhibits briefs and record of the entire proceedings.

190258885Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1902. Six parts in one vol. Thick 8vo. 2 16; 2 9 1 13 1 18 58 2 14; 2 84 2; 2 62 26 28 3-68 8; 10 29 1 15 1 13 1 2 24 5 1 13 1 2 4 5 1 11 1 4 50 2; 2 iv 427 1 pp Approx. 1600 pp sections & sub-sections all separately paginated. Recent burgundy-coloured cloth black & gilt lettered spine label marbled endpapers occasional annotations brackets etc. in pencil still VG copy. First edition of this uncommon report prepared of the pleadings exhibits briefs and record of the celebrated legal case surrounding the Pious Fund of the Californias. Originally established under the Jesuits the Pious fund was to pay for the missionary efforts of the Society in Baja and Alta California as well as many other territories of the Western United States under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which later became Arizona New Mexico Idaho Montana Oregon & Washington. The fund had been held as a Royal Trust paid out until in 1842 the assets were seized by General Santa Ana with a promise to pay annual interest but ceased payments after California was ceded to the U.S. at the end of the Mexican-American War. Despite repeated litigation the case was finally presented as the first to be heard at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague which ruled against Mexico and they were forced to pay the California Archbishopric $ 1.4 million and in perpetuity an annuity of $ 43050.99 which was made until the Mexican Revolution in 1912. The pleadings and exhibits include documents in English Spanish & Latin and even a detailed report for all of the Catholic Mission Indian Schools in the West covering those territories embraced originally as Alta California referring to many different indigenous students on the Coeur d’Alene reservation Fort Hall Lapwai Nez Perce Lemhi Jocko Flathead De Smet in Idaho Puyallup Colville and Tulalip Indians in Washington and many others. Government Printing Office, hardcover

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[California] [Nautical]Biblio.com

VOYAGE TO CALIFORNIA DURING THE GOLD RUSH MANUSCRIPT

79631Handwritten memoir 35 pp. handwritten by an unknown person concerning their voyage from New York to California in 1849-50 during the Gold Rush. This narrative is written in three draft chapters and covers the voyage from New York to Bermuda where the writerâ€™s ship underwent extensive repair. The writer was a passenger on the Powhatan which left New York on December 12 1849. Although he was cautioned at the docks about the shipâ€™s seaworthiness the writer was assured by the Captain Benjamin Ward Tucker 1814â€“87 that all would be fine. However when they were a few days out to sea it was apparent the boat was leaking. â€œIt turned out that no real danger existed or was likely to occur on account of the â€˜leakâ€™â€¦â€ according to the narrative. â€œThe â€˜caulkingâ€™ as it is termed with which these seams are filled was rotten the coppering was worn out and this would cause any vessel to leak though comparatively new in all other respects. It was well however that we were strong handed as it required 1200 strokes of the pumps per hour to keep the ship free.â€ The Captain continued the six-day voyage to Bermuda where they arrived on December 18. The company that owned the boat attempted to get it condemned but the Captain insisted on the repairs; they were in Bermuda for 40 days. The ship was recalked and coppered throughout and her running rigging was overhauled. Because no dry dock was available there is a detailed explanation about how the Captain was able to move the boat close enough to shore and tip it so the keel was exposed. All the expenses of the passengers were paid while they were in Bermuda. We have not been able to determine whether this Powhatan is the ship of the same name that sank off the shore of New Jersey in 1854 resulting in the loss of hundreds of passengers mostly German immigrants. During their stay on the small island of St. Davidâ€™s in Bermuda the writer encountered Scottish soldiers who were stationed nearby. â€œExcepting the honor of our presence I do not know that St. Davidâ€™s was ever enough distinguished for anything to make it worthy a place even in these rambling reminiscences. The soil of the Bermuda is not naturally good only hollows of their broken surfaces being used to cultivation all the rest is bare coral rock.â€ One of the chapters includes a lengthy description of leaving the port of Bermuda under the direction of a â€œpilotâ€ they were forced to hire who was drunk and nearly ran them aground. There are also descriptions of passengers including one who snuck aboard and was caught. This is followed by allusions to a one-sided passionate affair involving the stow-way and a married German woman Mrs. Wibbard who brought barrels of sauerkraut for the voyage to California where she and her new husband planned to open a boarding house. One of the drafts ends as the author is about to relate the story of a storm at sea. None of the chapters recall reaching San Francisco. The language is verbose and flowery and the writer often trails off on tangents concerning everything from sea sickness to hats. The manuscript pages are written on legal size white paper in black ink. There is some toning to the pages and general edgewear along with rust from a paper clip. Overall quite legible and very good. unknown

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[California]: Breton, Louis leBiblio.com

Vue de Sacramento caption title

19104369N.d. but Paris: Le Breton 1910. Very good. Hand-colored lithograph. Image area: 9.75 x 14.25 inches overall sheet size: 14 x 19.5 inches. Mounted to later board. Small bump to lower left edge some chipping to bottom edge paper remnants along top edge and some marginal discoloration from previous matting. A striking waterfront view of Gold Rush-era Sacramento depicting an energetic and developing township recently flooded with emigrants from around the United States and the world. The image shows the Old Sacramento Waterfront from the Sacramento River towards the city down J Street. The busy commercial waterfront district is populated with dozens of people moving about the town as well as numerous houses identified businesses City Hotel Eagle Theatre Eldorado Exchange Fremont House General Jackson's Hotel J.B. Starr & Company and others tents one identified as Hot Cake and Coffee and wagons. The bank of the shore also shows stacks of building materials and cargo. Several vessels are pictured on the river including sailing ships a sidewheel steamship and rowboats. Interestingly one of the larger sailing ships sports the flag of a Chilean sailing ship. The view was produced just before the railroads came to Sacramento later in the 1850s. It was prepared by the French painter draughtsman and lithographer Louis Le Breton 1818-1866. Before largely committing to lithography in 1849 Le Breton concentrated much of his painting on nautical scenes as he spent much of his early career as a shipboard surgeon. The dating of the present lithograph is difficult as examples were produced for several decades in the 19th century and into the first two decades of the 20th century without distinction between the various editions. Interestingly Le Breton is also credited on a larger print of the present view titled Ville de Sacramento and dated 1851 which is held by the Bancroft Library. With regard to the present example we could locate no institutional copies. A stunning display piece of the capital city of California at an early time of explosive growth and development. Le Breton unknown

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[CALIFORNIA -- ARCHITECTURE]. [McKENZIE, Charles S (Architect); LB (Draftsman).] L BBiblio.com

Westlake Professional Building. . . Architectural elevation interior renderings and floor plans for the planned medical professional building near Westlake & Orange renamed Wilshire Boulevard in 1924 and now stands at 2010 Wilshire Blvd.

192259524Los Angeles CA: Wholesale Properties 607 Van Nuys Building 1922. Oblong atlas folio. 17 x 12 in. 15 leaves black paper stock interleaved as paper guards for silver-print blow-up of TLS from Title Insurance & Trust Company 3 hand-coloured elevation and interior renderings w/ initials L.B. & steerâ€™s skull below 5 hand-coloured floor plan drawings w/ architectural design details 1 blueprint map demarcating the â€œLocation of Westlake Professional Building.â€ Black pebbled buckram post-binder gilt lettering stamped on front cover some scuffing edgewear minor soiling wear to screw-posts still VG exemplar. An exceptional architectural sales album for the historic Westlake Professional Building renamed Macarthur Park Medical Plaza 2007 Wilshire Blvd. designed to serve the burgeoning medical professionals in Southern California during the Roaring 20â€™s. This building designed by Charles S. MacKenzie a noted San Jose CA architect for the Wholesale Properties Corp. was â€œone of the earliest extensions of the medical community to Wilshire Boulevard . . . and had special amenities for medical professionals including gas electric and vacuum outlets in each suite circulating ice water and compressed air.â€ At a reported cost of $ 350000 the structural engineers were Noice & Merrill out of Los Angeles and building contractors were Walace & Bush. The enlarged linen-backed silver print of the TLS outlines the acceptance of the terms of the Trust to manage the building while the architectural renderings vividly portray the exterior elevation and interior amenities of the stately building erected at the corner of Orange & Westlake in 1922-1923. The Wholesale Properties Corp. intended to capitalize as well on the extension of Orange across Westlake Park connecting the area directly to downtown Los Angeles and with anticipation of when the street would be renamed the historic Wilshire Blvd. No similar albums located in Worldcat; See: Intensive Survey: Westlake Recovery Community Redevelopment Area City of Los Angeles 2009 pp. 16 74-75. Wholesale Properties, 607 Van Nuys Building, hardcover

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