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THE MARIPOSA COMPANY.

California Gold Rush: Havens Langdon H.: Judd JW. J. W.ABAA

AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED BY J.W. JUDD TO GUY R. PHELPS REGARDING A LIFE INSURANCE POLICY FOR LANGDON H. HAVENS A FORTY-NINER AND MEMBER OF JOHN WOODHOUSE AUDUBON'S ILL-FATED OVERLAND EXPEDITION TO CALIFORNIA IN 1849

1849WRCAM49949New York 1849. 1p. of a bifolium docketed on verso of second bifolium leaf. Mailing folds slight edge discoloration else fine. An intriguing note regarding life insurance for a forty-niner traveling to California in 1849 with Henry Webb and John Woodhouse Audubon. The note reads: "Langdon H. Havens wants a life insurance permit for California to go over the Overland Route in company with persons bearing dispatches from our Government in a Company of 100 or more. He wants to leave for Washington immediately." Perhaps the twenty-six-year- old Haven sometimes spelled Havens originally intended to join a safe government- sponsored expedition from Washington but he was in fact among the 100 Forty-Niners who embarked on a famously ill-fated overland expedition led by Army Colonel Henry Webb with John Woodhouse Audubon son of the famous ornithologist as his second in command which left New York on February 8. The company proceeded by ship train stagecoach and riverboat to New Orleans and from there by steamer across the Gulf of Mexico to the mouth of the Rio Grande where they arrived on March 13 - an odd overland route dictated by Webb a veteran of the Mexican-American War. There disaster struck. A dozen men died of cholera the company's money was stolen and leadership conflict led Webb to leave the company with a dozen followers. Some of the remaining stalwarts including Haven followed Audubon onward trekking for seven months through Mexico and Arizona the survivors finally reaching San Diego in November. Some then took a boat to San Francisco; others continued overland to the gold fields. As meticulously recorded by Audubon a naturalist and painter in his own right the entire venture has gone down in history as "one of the most poorly-planned" Forty-Niner expeditions "on record." Haven though nearly dying en route was one of the fortunate few who "made it to California." An appealing note dated in the famous year of the California Gold Rush that eerily anticipates the dangers inherent in overland travel in America in the 19th century. unknown books

William Reese Company · États-Unis600,00 $US≈ 507,66 €

California Landmarks and Historical Records BureauABAA

The Romance of El Camino Real With Authentic Kaloprints Attesting to the Period of Construction 1769-1830 The Period of Depletion 1835- and Partial Preservation of the Historic California Missions

1936CYG215-005Los Angeles CA:: Kaloprint Corporation 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 1000 copies. 4to. 13 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches. Unpaginated. 122 pp. Registration and Dedication Pages left blank 2 vignettes on the title page list of the missions by date of dedication what follows are a series of 25 openings with descriptive text on the versos tissue guards and a Kaloprint image on the rectos text facing illustration of Father Serra the mission buildings manuscript documents and Indian survivors of the missions; text clean unmarked. Blind- and gilt-stamped brown leather this copy has been neatly re-backed with brown cloth that matches the leather; binding square and tight. Laid in are 3 ephemeral pieces from the Bureau including a typed note on Bureau letterhead telling how to have an ancestor's portrait mounted on the dedication page a small bi-fold "Value Received" which details the benefits of membership in the Bureau and a certificate that states that Sonya Carlson Doud is a sustaining 5-year member of the Bureau. SCARCE. Very Good. The California Landmarks and Historical Records Bureau Inc. was incorporated in 1931 as a California non-profit organization. Its purpose was to gain legislative and public support to preserve "the romance" of California by passing laws for historic preservation and marking of historic landmarks. It hired newspapermen Sherman Danby who signed Sonya Doud's certificate of membership and Frederic N. Shovey as Director and Publicity Directors respectively. It was headquartered in Sacramento but its Southern California Office was in the Douglas Building in Los Angeles; it began by organizing prominent women in Southern California and then made an organizing tour of the state in 1932. One of its benefits of membership is this volume extolling the Romance of El Camino Real with its pictures of the California Missions. The Bureau actually assumed the care of several missions and in 1933 was able to secure Federal Assistance in reconstructing certain missions when the National Director of Work Relief and Special Projects Jacob Baker authorized relief labor to be used in Mission reconstruction. See: The San Bernardino Sun September 13 1933 page 1 and The Santa Cruz Sentinel January 22 1933 page 5. Kaloprint Corporation, hardcover books

John Howell for Books · États-Unis600,00 $US≈ 507,66 €

CaliforniaABAA

CALIFORNIA POLITICAL BUTTON COLLECTION

73242A collection of 1950s and '60s political buttons supporting causes and candidates ranging from the Vietnam anti-war movement to Ronald Reagan's campaign for the California governorship. This group consists of 56 unique metal pinback buttons which are housed in a period cardboard box. Most of the buttons are coated paper with metal backing; some are union printed. Several of the political pins relate directly to Northern California. For example a button for the Free Speech F.S.M. is associated with the 1964-65 student protest at the University of California Berkeley the first mass act of civil disobedience on an American college campus in the 1960s. The orange and black Viva Kennedy button in this collection is representative of clubs formed by Latinx supporters of John F. Kennedy during his 1968 presidential campaign. The Viva Kennedy clubs began in Texas as a forum for Mexican American veterans to rally support for equal rights and eventually spread to swing states with large Latinx populations like Arizona and California. They also promoted increased voter registration and political organization for the Latinx community. Another button in this collection advocates "No on Prop 14". The Proposition 14 in question is the proposed amendment to the California Constitution which had it passed would have effectively allowed housing discrimination. The initiative was intended to counteract the effects of the Rumford Fair Housing Act which was passed by the California Legislature in 1963 to help end racial discrimination by property owners and landlords who refused to rent or sell their property to people based on ethnicity religion sex marital status physical handicap or familial status. It was drafted by William Byron Rumford the first African American from Northern California to serve in the state legislature. Overall the buttons are in very good condition. unknown books

johnson rare books & archives · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

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