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1890List1301Bakersfield: C.A. Nelson 1890. 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 taken by the photographer C.A. Nelson around the turn of the century. No identification though someone has written “Romeo†on the verso. A remarkable and uncommon early portrait unfortunately not in the best shape. C.A. Nelson unknown
18906029101890 1890. Photograph is by Wm. Wax/Universal Art Studio on heavy weight stock and is on the original photographer's mount with bevelled edge. Image is 7 3/4" x 4 3/4" on mount 9 3/4" x 6 7/8"; Fine fresh. Great outdoor shot of ten unidentified men in baseball attire together with their manager dressed in coat and tie. With catcher's gear ball and 2 bats in foreground. Six players holding their gloves. Columbia is located in Tuolumne County. Hardcover. Fine. 1890 hardcover
1902List2824El Dorado County California 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 14 inch. Items date between 1879 and 1902 with seven items undated. One empty envelope from “Brinckmann Quartz Crusher and Furnace Company†and one souvenir ribbon for the Placerville “Admission Day Celebration†by the Native Sons of the Golden West 1898. Some items with tearing and staining mostly not affecting legibility; overall very good to near fine. James Ireland c.1830–deceased worked as a mining broker in the late 19th century in California. Records suggest that he was an immigrant from Scotland meaning that he was probably not a member of the Native Sons of the Golden West despite the ribbon in this collection; a fraternal organization celebrating the California Gold Rush the Native Sons did not offer membership to those born outside the state until 2024. Ireland seemed to have lived in San Francisco and Oakland but his mining interests were in El Dorado County. Most famously the home of Sutter’s Mill the county currently has nearly 2600 mines on record with the USGS and sits near the northern end of the “Mother Lode†of gold-bearing quartz that runs along 120 miles of the Sierra Nevadas.<br /> <br /> Offered here is a small collection of Ireland’s materials relating to various mining prospects mainly descriptions of mines presumably for soliciting interest in purchasing them. These include the Church Union and Red Rover mines outside of Diamond Springs the Dry Gulch gravel mine near Pleasant Valley the Argonaut mine in Greenwood and the Sly Park gravel mine probably near Pollock Pines. The descriptions give details about the locations whether the land is under patent what improvements there are the mine’s per-ton financials likely costs for necessary improvements like mills and so on. <br /> <br /> Some material pertains to mines that Ireland seemed to already own or have financial stakes in. In Shingle Springs he managed to purchase a mine for “no moneyâ€; the previous owners were “not at all anxious to sell at the figures agreed upon†but conceded that “if the money is paid within the time agreed upon the mine shall be yours†September 23 1879. Ireland also owned or managed at least one mine in Nashville though in 1879 he seems to have left his worker there in the lurch. The worker John R. Davies writes:<br /> <br /> “I am geting on very slow you know that one man cannot do two mens work in mining and I have to Go and Borrow Powder fuse when I want to put a Blast . Most of my things at Nashville Powder drills coal which I left there when I left are gone. I Expect Also to have some Money here for the first of the Month. I shall want $25.00 here to Pay my Bills at the store the Balance you will Pay to my wife on my Order and I hope that you will do it Punctualy for she needs it and I have Earned it. you did not Pay her according to our agreement at first.†May 30 1879<br /> <br /> Of interest to scholars of Californian gold mining after the gold rush especially for its detailed descriptions of lesser-known mining claims. unknown
19172886Santa Clara Ca 1917. Still very good. Blueprint map approximately 35 x 31 inches. Folded. Short separations and wear along folds. A few contemporary manuscript annotations. Interesting blue print map of this ranch situated along Llagas Creek in Santa Clara County California delineated with fields for various crops such alfalfa vegetables pasture etc. and with the house barn and corrals as well as some of the irrigiation located. Some portions are indicated as being deeded to apparent family members as "Deeded to Lester" and "Deeded to Martin." Ownership of neighboring properties is also given. There are a number of light pencil notations on the map as well some indicating "Sold" as the ranch was evidently divided up around this time. unknown
19026344Los Angeles 1902. Good plus. viii152pp. Original printed wrappers stapled. Remnants of paper spine covering. Light wear to wraps heavier at corners spine perishing but text block solid. Light dust soiling and scattered creasing internally. Scarce early 20th-century edition of the telephone directory for Los Angeles County issued by the Pacific States and Sunset Telephone & Telegraph Companies in May 1902. At this time the companies which grew out of the Los Angeles Telephone Company founded in 1881 provided manual operator service to approximately 10000 phones. This number of phones was only slightly less than the total population of Los Angeles in 1880 11000 people thereby mirroring the dramatic growth of the city during that period. Despite this increase service beyond the city limits was still very spotty as evidenced by the entries for other town in the county. With an extensive classified business directory at the rear and several local advertisements scattered throughout. OCLC notes a small handful of institutions with examples of other issues of this directory but seemingly none of the May 1902 version. unknown
1911List2829Orangevale California 1911. 4 ½ x 7 ½ inch notebook 124 pages. Very good. A notebook belonging to Charles W. Landis 1877–1943 an Oakland-based civil engineer with Landis Bros. It is unclear with which brother Charles W. was in business as both of his brothers are listed as ranchers. The notebook contains plans for the construction of a park in Orangevale in 1909. Later entries include notes about ranches and amounts of cattle on them and what appear to be inventories or cash books. unknown
19062281Santa Barbara: N.H. Reed 1906. Good. 17 leaves. Oblong 12mo. Original pictorial wrappers string-tied. Wrappers heavily chipped at edges some light soiling. Minor soiling to edges of a few leaves. A handsome viewbook of Santa Barbara featuring gravure views of the mission hotels and local sights. One image features Teddy Roosevelt visiting the mission; other images depict waves crashing at high tide the home of the first governors of California and the Plaza del Mar. An advertisement by the publisher on the title page notes "The pictures in this book with hundreds of others are made in Platinum in large sizes for framing at 927 State Street Santa Barbara." We locate a single copy in OCLC at the Huntington Library. N.H. Reed unknown
1871List2932Oakland and San Francisco California 1871. One four-page letter measuring 5 x 8 inches; one five-page letter measuring 6 ¼ x 8 inches; one photograph measuring 4 ½ x 2 ¾ inches. With envelopes. Near fine. Two letters from Alice C. Lantelle in San Francisco and “Mamie†in Oakland to their cousins Lizzie and Lottie Hubbard in Boston in late 1871 discussing school and family matters in the young state. The photograph shows several generations of family posing in front of a house. Mamie’s letter contains an interesting description of the origins of the name of Oakland’s Mount George:<br /> <br /> “there is one hill with a winding road which goes up to the top this is called mount George because there is an old hunter that lives up there whose name is George and he dresses in skins of animals he lives on quail and animals which he carries to market and sells; this mountain is covered with whortleberries in the summer seasonâ€. unknown
191831915San Francisco CA: Cattle Protection Board 1918. Very Good. San Francisco CA: Cattle Protection Board 1918. First Edition. Thin octavo. 355; 1pp. 245 pages of brand marks. Red cloth stamped in black. With a brand and ear mark handwritten on wood property of a Frank Roach of Phelps Ranch. Boards worn and/or gnawed at extremities with minor fraying; a few spots and scuffs. Binding sound and interior unmarked. <br /> <br /> Includes thousands of registered ear and brand marks with index text and synopsis of the Cattle Protection Act designed to prevent cattle thieving and a list of license slaughterers by county. The Cattle Protection Board only lasted two years before being subsumed by the Department of Food and Agriculture. Records of their work uncommon in retail; a lovely record of early 20th-century California cattle business. <br /> <br /> Adams Rampaging Herd 396. Cattle Protection Board unknown
1986List2877Oakland California 1986. 18 x 25 inch poster on heavy cardstock. Fine. Poster for Run-DMC’S Raising Hell Tour featuring Whodini LL Cool J and R&B group Timex Social Club. Run-DMC were touring on their third studio album Raising Hell which went triple platinum. Later tour dates including New York City Pittsburgh and Long Beach were disrupted by alleged gang violence causing Run-DMC to cancel at least one date. Nonetheless the album and tour are variously credited with kicking off the so-called golden age of hip-hop and cementing the genre in popular culture making the careers of LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys who did not play at this particular date and reviving the career of Aerosmith. unknown
1940Cat332United States 1940. Photo album measuring 7 x 10 inches containing fifty-three photographs: two tintypes c. 1890s and 1920s six RPPCs and forty-five modern photographs. Photographs mainly measure 4 x 6 inches and smaller. Conditions vary; some with wrinkling and damage especially to corners and edges; others Fine. Overall excellent. A photo album of an unknown couple. Early shots include two tintypes which appear to be turn of the century to 1920s and six real photo postcards dating to the 1920s at the latest based on stampboxes. The RPPCs include portraits shots from a farm and a souvenir photo from Brooklyn. Later shots are likely WWII-era showing several men posing in military uniforms.<br /> <br /> The album is highlighted by its photographs of Californian auto tourism and a Soap Box Derby event likely also in California. Identifiable tourist locations include Bear Canyon Campground in Altadena and Cedarpines Park in the San Bernardino mountains; people pose with the car in deep snow and at the campside and shots show the car with luggage strapped to the outside and filling up at a Shell. One Cedarpines photo is dated captioned “Winter ‘28â€. Later auto tourism shots—with what appears to be a 1940s model car—show the car at a Los Angeles mechanic with a teardrop camper and a boat on top and later parked at a beach with the camper set up with manuscript verso indicating that the location is Mexico. Alongside these photographs is a shot of a Depression-era billboard reading “NO JOBS in California / KEEP OUT / 6 MEN FOR EVERY JOB / NO STATE RELIEF AVAILABLE FOR NON-RESIDENTSâ€; on the verso it is captioned “1929 / This sign was posted in Tennesseeâ€.<br /> <br /> Soap Box Derby is a Depression-era invention beginning in 1934 in Dayton Ohio and quickly becoming a national phenomenon. Derby shots in this album appear to be Californian or at least to highlight Californian entrants: the cars pictured are sponsored by Siminow Bros. a Los Angeles gas station and mechanic. These include the cars being towed in the line for the inspection station the starting line and action shots.<br /> <br /> Highlighting two very different forms of car-based recreation the album is of interest to historians of the car in American leisure in the period surrounding the Great Depression. unknown
19203850New York: American Missionary Society 1920. Very good. 8pp. Pictorial self-wrappers stapled. Small perforation at upper left corner. Even tanning. An ephemeral piece of pro-Japanese propaganda published by the American Missionary Society during the early 1920s when limitations on immigration to the United States from Japan were eventually put into place. The pamphlet purports to be an interview with "Kiyoshi" pictured on the front wrapper a second-generation Japanese American born in San Francisco and an Army volunteer during World War I. The interview stresses the values of hard work and honesty supposedly inherent in Japanese families and implies that success of Kiyoshi's family in the United States was amplified by their conversion to Christianity. The pamphlet concludes by stating: "There is no force which makes for true assimilation and Americanization as the transforming power of Christianity. Anti-Japanese legislation works injustice and hardships on them and only complicates the problem and in no way removes the difficulties. A practical Christianity lived out in the everyday life of Americans and Japanese alike will most quickly and surely dissolve the hate and race prejudice which lies at the bottom of the present bitterness and agitation." OCLC locates one copy at Columbia. American Missionary Society unknown
1927WRCAM56708N.p. likely Pasadena 1927. 12pp. Pictorial self-wrappers stapled. Minor creasing and toning. Very good. A rare ephemeral program for a concert held at the Rose Bowl on Sunday September 28 likely 1927 featuring African-American performers. The program identifies the origin of the concert: "Learning that the only Professional Community Musical Organization in Pasadena was making its final stage appearance owing to lack of funds we the Colored Citizens of Pasadena determined to give a benefit concert for the Pasadena Municipal Band as a matter of civic pride in our City." The performers include the band itself followed by the Etude Ethiopian Chorus and soloists Cora Leverda Morrow and Mattie Duckett. The Etude Ethiopian Chorus was managed by Freita Shaw. Both Shaw and Duckett who was also the business manager for the group are pictured on a page describing the Chorus. There are also committee listings for the Colored Citizens Presentation Committee passages regarding the importance of music to the African- American community and a program of the songs performed at the benefit concert including James Weldon Johnson's "Life Every Voice and Sing" described by the NAACP in 1919 as "the Negro national anthem". The program text is interspersed throughout with advertisements for local businesses including the Bickley Printing Company of Pasadena who most likely printed the program the printer always gets an ad in the local program. OCLC seems to be silent on this publication. unknown books
1870WRCAM44211Magdalena Bay Lower California 1870. 4pp. on a folded folio sheet including a map on the final page. Small tape repair in fore-edge of first leaf. A bit of offsetting from the masthead and the map. Near fine. In a half morocco and cloth folding case spine gilt. The second and final issue of this scarce Baja California newspaper of which only two issues were ever published. Meant to be published weekly the first issue was dated Oct. 12 1870 and was followed by the present number. It was published by the "exploring and colonizing expedition of the Lower California Co. at the projected City of Cortez Magdalena Bay Lower California." The map shows the California coast from San Francisco south to the tip of Baja with steamship routes and the location of Magdalena Bay. The text records the comings and goings of steamships improvements taking place at the colony advantages available to settlers testimonials as to the veracity of the text advertisements and an ad promising free land to the first 1000 colonists. "A curious Baja California item.quite typical of a great deal of promotional literature and ephemera which appeared during the 1870's and 1880's" - Barrett. BARRETT 1525. hardcover books
18906029101890 1890. Photograph is by Wm. Wax/Universal Art Studio on heavy weight stock and is on the original photographer's mount with bevelled edge. Image is 7 3/4" x 4 3/4" on mount 9 3/4" x 6 7/8"; Fine fresh. Great outdoor shot of ten unidentified men in baseball attire together with their manager dressed in coat and tie. With catcher's gear ball and 2 bats in foreground. Six players holding their gloves. Columbia is located in Tuolumne County. Hardcover. Fine. 1890 hardcover books
1937UK615-002San Francisco CA:: Book Club of California 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Series: Book Club of California Publication No. 51. LIMITED EDITION of 300 copies this is one of 265 regular copies handset in Franciscan type on machine made paper. Folio. 15 3/4 x 10 7/8 inches. ii xxii 2 pp. Title-page and text printed in red and black double-column 4 hand-colored initials 3 in blue red and gilt 1 in blue red and yellow tipped-in King James Bible leaf with the text of Zechariah Chapter 11 verse 8 through Chapter 14 verse 8 printer's device on the colophon; text clean unmarked except for a pencil notation on page XV that records the passage on the leaf. Quarter tan cloth cloth sides printed paper spine label titled in red; binding square and tight mild shelf wear and foxing to the cloth sides corners lightly bumped end-papers with modest toning offsetting associated with the bookplate. Black-leather bookplate of H. L. Doolittle 1882-1974 Pasadena collector on the front paste-down. Very Good. Printed by the Grabhorn Press the original leaf contains text from Zechariah. This leaf comes from the "She" Bible of 1611 that contains the incorrect text of Ruth Chapter 3 verse 15 "And she went into the citie." "An extremely handsome book which drew praise from both contributing essayists and many Book Club of California members some of whom found in this volume a relief from the Western Americana theme which had predominated in the Club's publications of the previous five years." Magee. REFERENCES: De Hamel and Silver Disbound & Dispersed No. 72; Heller & Magee Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press 1915-1940 No. 275; Magee The Hundredth Book No. 51. Book Club of California, hardcover books
1863WRCAM16649New York 1863. 80pp. Contemporary plain wrappers. Spine chipped. A sound copy. In a green cloth case leather label. Lacks the map evidently not issued with this copy. A promotional guide for this California mining company including a description of the resources and gold mining potential of Fremont's famous Mariposa Grant with elaborate reports by L.A. Garnett H.P. Wakelee Dr. J. Adelbert and T.C. Allyn. Neither Eberstadt nor Sabin cite the map which is not present in this copy. COWAN p.414. ROCQ 5117. SABIN 44599 EBERSTADT 136:148. hardcover books
1850251930San Jose i.e. New York: J. Winchester State Printer 1850. ix 1 482 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary calf expertly rebacked retaining original backstrip and gilt leather labels new endsheets. Calf a bit rubbed. Stains in the early and late parts of the text else rather clean internally. A good copy. ix 1 482 pp. 1 vols. 4to. The first published volume of the statutes of California. Herein are contained some of the basic laws establishing the government and civil operations of the state including naturalization laws the acts incorporating San Francisco Sacramento Los Angeles and other cities and acts regarding the militia internal improvements marriage rights etc. <br/>Chapter 1 of the Laws establishes the Public Archives; chapter 2 creates the office of the State Printer. <br/>Although the title page bears a San Jose imprint these laws were actually printed in New York. "The Legislature of 1850 in consideration of having the Statutes and Journals printed at a reduction of 50% from the price of its contract with the State Printer agreed to allow them to be printed in the east. When Winchester received his appointment he agreed to this condition and had them printed in New York by J. Craighead of Fulton Street" - Wagner. Cowan p.610; Wagner California Imprints 147; Greenwood 167 J. Winchester, State Printer unknown books
1887248542New York & San Diego: International Company of Mexico 1887. Five photographically-reproduced illustrations and two maps. Printed on a sheet of green paper measuring 351â„4 x 161â„2 inches folding into twenty-four panels. In a half morocco and cloth folding box spine gilt. Two ink stamps of U.S. Geological Survey Library on front panel. A bit of wear at the edges and folds. One panel with a neat closed tear halfway across but with no loss. Overall very good. Five photographically-reproduced illustrations and two maps. Printed on a sheet of green paper measuring 351â„4 x 161â„2 inches folding into twenty-four panels. A fact-filled promotional encouraging emigration to and investment in Baja California. The International Land Company of Mexico issued several similar pamphlets on Baja in the mid-to-late 1880s see Barrett 1303-1307 but the present example is the most elaborate in format having been printed on a single large sheet folded into twenty-four panels with text printed in varying orientations. The agricultural opportunities are described at great length as are the qualities of the city of Ensenada. The illustrations show orange groves oaks banana plants and olive trees and the map shows the Peninsula down to the twenty-eighth parallel. One paragraph discusses the fine quality honey produced in the region. Scarce. Barrett 1306 International Company of Mexico unknown books
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. <br> <br> 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
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
1864WRCAM44179Sacramento: O.M. Clayes 1864. lxxxvii3710216pp. Contemporary pigskin rebacked in matching style gilt morocco spine labels. New endpapers. Light stain in lower margin of last few pages else quite clean internally. Very good. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase spine gilt. Laws and statutes of the state of California for 1863-1864 printed in Spanish. The laws were printed by the official state printer in Sacramento and translated into Spanish by the official state translator Señora N. Florida Brown. The printing of California statutes in Spanish began in 1854 and shows the efforts the young state took to include Spanish-speaking citizens in its civic life. O.M. Clayes hardcover books
19171235Oakland: R.L. Bond & Sons 1917. Very good. Folding map 18 x 29.5 inches. Original printed card wrappers. Light wear along edges and spine. Light wear and dust soiling along map folds. Map printed on coated paper and tipped into wraps in reverse. A somewhat crude unrecorded mileage map for driving destinations between Los Angeles and the Bay Area published in 1917. The map shows routes between major towns and cities on the California coast in the Central Valley and southern desert with mileages between them and major route intersections. Eleven small insets show the fastest routes through San Francisco Oakland San Jose Stockton Modesto Fresno Santa Cruz San Luis Obispo Santa Barbara Bakersfield and Los Angeles. A neat piece of early California automobiliana in quite good condition; not in OCLC. R.L. Bond & Sons books
1890813Madera Ca 1890. Very good. Broadside 16.5 x 9.5 inches. Horizontal fold at center. A few very short closed tears at top edge. Even tanning; a couple of faint fox marks. A scarce broadside advertisement for a land sale north of Fresno during the late 19th century. The Bank of Madera went into liquidation in 1897. Pacific Bank to whom the local bank owed a good deal of money apparently took control of its real estate assets and promoted their fire sale via this illustrated broadside. The advertisement contains a plat map and table of available lots and states that "This land is situated about 2 1/2 miles southwest of the town of Madera is all under irrigation and is as good soil and there is in the County of Madera." Additional text promotes other available lots and emphasizes the low prices for which all are available. The sale was placed in the hands of the local attorney Robert Hargrove who according to a contemporary state report on recent bank failures was also one of the principal shareholders and president of the bank. We locate only one copy of this broadside at Berkeley. unknown books
18891212San Francisco: Theatrical Publishing Co 1889. Very good. Broadside 17 x 6 inches. Previously folded. Small closed tear at top edge. Even tanning. An attractive broadside advertisement for entertainments at a downtown San Francisco theater in 1889. The Wigwam Theater was built in 1884 on the corner of Stockton and Geary Streets as a headquarters and event space for the presidential campaign of the Blaine and Logan Republican ticket. After Blaine lost the election to Grover Cleveland the Republican party leased the brick and sheet iron building to an Austrian immigrant named Gustav Walter who operated it first as a beer hall and then turned it into a venue for variety and vaudeville acts in the late 1880s. The present broadside promotes a slate of acts to be performed on March 11 1889 that range from vaudevillians and sketch comedians to acrobats and prestidigitators. With three lively woodcuts of actors and printed in a variety of types. We locate a portfolio of promotional material for the Wigwam at the Bancroft Library but no other records. Theatrical Publishing Co unknown books
