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189547619Littleton N. H.: B. W. Kilburn Photographer & Publisher 1895. Now housed in an archival sleeve. Some modest wear & soiling to card with a few smudges to the verso. Top of images a bit faded aspects of the town itself quite sharp. A VG example. Albumen stereo image of San Rafael from an elevated perspective mounted to peach-colored card stock. Lettering in black ink. Verso with publisher imprint. Oblong format: 3-1/2" x 7". Concave. Rounded corners. <br/><br/>San Rafael was incorporated in 1874 and is named after the Archangel Raphael the Angel of Healing. B. W. Kilburn, Photographer & Publisher unknown books
190145013Santa Clara Ca: Chas. A. Nace Printer 1901. 1st Edition. Beige wrappers with lettering embossed in gilt. A VG copy internally bright and complete some chips at the first few leaves creases to wrappers otherwise very good. i-ii 1-64 i-ii 1-4 5-59 60 pp. 25 b/w plates on glossy paper. Oblong format: 6-1/2" x 9-5/8" <br/><br/>Not in Rocq. The "Souvenir" glorifies the history of the college and publishes Clay M. Greene's play "Nazareth" for the first time. "Nazareth" is perhaps Greene's most famous work and was written especially for Santa Clara College's Golden Jubilee where it was also performed for the first time. Greene graduated from Santa Clara College in 1869. Chas. A. Nace, Printer unknown books
195042570William E. Bittner Election Campaign 1950. Stiff cardstock. Black recto with white lettering white verso with black lettering. Adhesive with opaque paper remnants to verso only faintly obscuring the text near the mask's string holes. Else only minor wear clean and crisp. VG. Die-cut campaign advertisement in the shape of a robber's mask printing on both recto and verso. ~3" x 6-1/4" <br/><br/>Feisty political flyer from William E. Bittner's campaign for the Controller's office in the 1950 California elections implicitly accusing the incumbent Thomas Kuchel of figuratively robbing the people while in office. Kuchel beat Bittner for the Controller seat and later was appointed to fill Richard Nixon's Senate seat when the latter was elected Vice President in 1952. [William E. Bittner Election Campaign] unknown books
18891461Penryn Ca 1889. About very good. Broadside 9 x 6.75 inches. Trimmed unevenly corners clipped lightly tanned. Contemporary pencil notation at bottom of sheet. Broadside advertising a reward for the arrest of Henry Kaiser for the abduction of Miss Amy Douglas taken from the little town of Penryn in Placer County on Sunday June 2 1889. Kaiser is described as "aged 47 years height about 5 ft. 10 1-2 inches brown hair blue eyes brown light moustache cut square slightly stooped shouldered plays violin carried with him a violin and black satchel." Miss Douglas is described as well: "aged 14 years about 5 ft. 1 1-2 or 2 in. high large blue eyes light hair wears it in a braid and cut short in front and banged very awkward cannot read or write." The reward is offered by a J.H. Frost and a pencil note seems to indicate that he was a real estate and insurance agent. A newspaper article from the San Francisco Chronicle of June 24 1889 relates that the two eloped. Kaiser was a divorcé and the son of a well-known winemaker in the area. The two were located in Portland Oregon having unsuccessfully tried to gain a marriage license due to Amy's young age. Another article indicates that Amy fled cruelty at home her father having consented to her marrying Kaiser when she turned sixteen. In any case Kaiser was discharged from criminal prosecution having been found to have acted honorable with regards to the girl. An interesting story and the broadside is unrecorded. unknown books
1994258347San Francisco: GLHS 1994. Six panel brochure folded to 3.5x8.5 inches with announcement of the book sale and signing at B&N and on the back an announcement that GLHS is recruiting new members very good on blue stock. B&N held a signing featuring Allan Bérubé signing his "Coming Out Under Fire" and Robin Stevens and others signing "Girlfriend Number One: Lesbian Life in the 90s" and offering 10% of all sales to GLHS. GLHS unknown books
193911361.1San Francisco: California Dried Fruit Research Institute 1939. Color pictorial wrappers stapled. Faint damp-stain to head of inner rear wrapper; minimal wear. Text clean bright and crisp. VG. 32 pp. B/w photographic illustrations. 12mo. 7" x 5" <br/><br/> California Dried Fruit Research Institute unknown books
189344953San Francisco Ca: Thomas Houseworth & Co 1893. Orange stiff-stock card mount. Rounded corners. Light wear to edges of mount. Photograph clear & sharp. VG. One photograph with the two views dome top captions printed in black. 3-1/2" x 7" <br/><br/>Images show Montgomery St. from the vantage point of a south-facing balcony. Thomas Houseworth & Co unknown books
197733959Berkeley CA: University of California 1977. Softcover. VG- light wear and scuffing to cover. White coil bound wraps. 54 pp. Numerous bw plates. Works by Victor Cohen-Stuart Kathy Goodell David Ireland David Mackenzie Mike Roddy Mary Anne Rose William Wareham Richard Berger Anya Horvath Bruce Johnson Vince Lynch David Maclay Marsha Moberly Cherie Raciti Dorothy Reid Gregg Renfrow Rudy Serra and John Woodall. Exhibition held February 1 to April 24 1977. University of California unknown books
1855007164Sacramento California 1855. Two manuscript letters in ink both on ruled paper with folding creases the 1855 letter 8" x 12 1/2" with single spaced writing both sides approx. 500 words. The 1856 letter 15" x 10" folded in half to make 4 pp. approx. 300 words with small blindstamp top left corner depicting an eagle. The earlier letter is headed "September 18th 1855 Naperville Dupage County Illinois" and ends "Michael direct your letters Nevada County Nevada post office California". George writes to his brother Michael in Naperville that he has "seen a good dele sins i rote you they last letter" including a hundred "inshins" and some "Buffellow". He adds that "we had good luck all they way of may we left Council Bluff" and that he is not home sick yet. He then talks of the gold mines river mining what they are paying and the cost of things such as board "from five to ten dollars a week" "Beaf" "wors 15 to 20 cents" and "potato" "4 cent per pound". He adds that he intends to have some gold before he comes home and that "girls are not so plenty here as they are in state". He closes by asking his brother to write him and to remain at home in Illinois to care for their parents. The 1856 letter headed Sacramento august 3th 1856 informs his brother that he is well and "down to Sacramento now" working on a farm feeding a "schrasing" thrashing machine and that "they times is verry hard in California now". He adds that he had some money "stole" while he was in the mountains but since coming down into the valley he was making money and will send some home soon. The letter ends with George wishing to see them all soon and that he is not home sick. The third page of the letter bears a drawing of a wing or leaf eleven smaller versions of the same image interspersed on page 2. A fascinating testimonial on California during the gold rush written in a strong hand and in a wonderful vernacular style by a good observer. . HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Manuscript. Very Good. books
188934051Sacramento: Young 1889. First Edition. 283pp. illustwo schools as frontis. Orignal gold stamped cloth upper edge of front cover shows some wear Not in Cowan Young hardcover books
189824068Placerville California: Pocahontas Mine 1898. Typed letter on the Pocahontas Mine letterhead dated Jan. 19th 1898 to the Norwalk Iron Works Company of South Norwalk Conn. asking for compressor parts & catalog; the mine was using the Norwalk equipment at the time; approx. 8 1/2"x 11" size; old fold lines; light wear; in very good condition. Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Pocahontas Mine Paperback books
70639Very good. An album containing 24 silver prints measuring 6 x 4 inches many showing the popular Smith's automotive businesses in downtown San Diego California. The automotive service and parts company was founded and operated by Howard B. Smith known to many San Diegans at the time as "Service Smith". A native of Connecticut he trained as an engineer at U.C. Berkeley working his way through college in a repair shop and as a taxi driver. He moved to Michigan to work with the Chalmers Motor Company before relocating to San Diego in 1914 where he became an agent for cheap automobiles. In 1916 he opened the Smith automotive businesses and in 1918 the Owl Taxi with five Ford cabs. It would appear from the age of the automobiles in the photographs that the images date from the early 1920s. In 1921 Clemens W. Stose purchased Smith's Savoy Garage Smith's Motor Supply and Smith's Repair Shop. Laid into the album is a handwritten letter on Owl Taxi letterhead postmarked 1922. The album also contains early images of advertisements for tires and batteries along with a few other automotive-related businesses in the area. The album and photographs are in very good condition. The photographs are held in place with photo corners. The oblong black cloth album is bound with a string tie. unknown books
16604Women Education Scrapbook Album. School photo and memory album from girl who attended Los Angeles area Lincoln High School Class of 1927. Reva C. Leslie. My Memories of School Days Album. New York: C. R. Gibson & Company 1924. Original green cloth board covers. 72 pages. Unpaginated. 7 x 10 in. Includes 14 handwritten messages and inscriptions from friends; 3 handwritten entries from album owner documenting her school memories. 73 Gelatin silver print black and white photos of various sizes ranging from 5 x 7 in. to 1 x 1 in. Two newspaper clippings of Leslie as a student. 11 ticket stubs from plays and school events around Los Angeles 1923-1924. Two hand colored cutouts of Kewpie babies a popular type of doll at the time. <br/><br/>Photo and memory album of Reva Leslie a popular high school student in the 1920s who writes about dances parties and clubs. "I can remember the first party I ever attended at Lincoln. I was a scrub and a Sr. asked me to a dance in the evening.I went to a Hi-Jinks. I had oodles of fun there.I went to all the basketball games but one and we sure had a swell team.I went to the Army dance with Raymond and Johnnie introduced me as "Captain" of the Girls Reserves.I even can say I like very much the faculty or at least some of them."<br/><br/>A large class photos identifies Leslis as "me" in addition to friends such as Mabel Payne; and she draws in cartoon figures of schoolmates who missed the class photo. Inscriptions from friends show her likability and kindness. "I hope that we will be pals for many years to come even if we happen to be far apart. My love for you is growing more each day and i hope it will continue on thru the years. I hope you will remember the many days we spent together at parties dances and everywhere we went we were the inseparable sisters I hope you won't object. This scribbling is terrible but your used to that aren't you honey.I want to be considered your very bestest pal. You'll let me won't you dear" Another from an admirer: "I had a good time at all the parties and football games you attended with me and hope you had the same". There are many photos of friends including at the beach and in stage productions; some friend's names are printed in full while other are identified by nicknames such as "Lu" and "Vi" showing the closeness of these bonds.<br/><br/>Leslie was a Class Officer as Secretary and there are many photos of her as an active student including various clubs and photos of her and friends labelled "Three of a kind" and "one of the three muskateers". There's even photos of girls playing playing hockey in school uniforms. Includes a poem about a late night club in which she describes having "oodles of fun": "To the Hi-Jinx the Hi-Jinx of course you'll come. Wear any costume you'll surely have fun. The time will be merry our hearts will be light! Oh come ye lassie and join in the night." The last inscription written from "Eddie Robbins" was notably updated after graduation with the new salutation "To the Dearest Wife". His original message reads: "One friend in a thousand Solomon says is more close than a brother and its worthwhile seeking him half your days if you find him before the others. Nine hundred and ninety nine of them looks for what they can get out of you but the thousandth friend is worth them all and will stick to you. With the whole wide world against you." Very good condition. unknown books
192417340Berkeley CA 1924. 1st thus. Blue faux leather. VG. A nice copy. 720 pp including index. Profusely illustrated primarily from photographs. 4to. <br/><br/> hardcover books
193422838California: Not Published 1934. Group of 8 letters; sent from silverware salesperson Chauncey G. Nichols to his wife - who is in Great Neck Long Island NY at first - and later moves to California - and then back to New York; written from various hotels on their letterhead and in their imprinted envelopes including the Los Angeles Biltmore the U.S. Grant in San Diego the Olympic Hotel in Seattle Washington the Hotel Benson in Portland Oregon and finally with the return to the East coast the Hotel Adelphia in Philadelphia PA; the first letter containing a 3-page International Silver Co. Pacific Coast Division Route List with day-by-day typed information on Nichols' schedule - date city state which hotels - at which he would be for mailing and telegraphic contact; all the letters very clearly hand-written in ink and of several pages giving details of the struggle to make sales earn commissions names of clients and businesses appointments and success or failure - this all interspersed with family information - preparing for the move of the family to California - via bus train or automobile and the pluses and minuses of each mode - money & budgeting children pets great devotion and love between the partners and a few other family details - notice that Nichols give his wife that she should not pack the 'still' - that it was no longer required Prohibition having been repealed by this time; with a few portrait photographs laid-in; envelopes with postal cancellations most sent via airmail with stamps intact; some wear and soiling to envelopes; letters and photos in very good condition and an interesting group of business history from the depression era; ".The International Silver Company was formed in 1898 by various independent New England silversmiths that joined themselves together to form a company that became the world's largest manufacturer of silverware.International Silver Company and its factories were active in the whole Meriden-Wallingford area becoming possibly the larger center for silver craftsmanship in the US. The peak of the production was reached in the late 1930s." from the Silver Collection website information on the company; Barbour Meriden Silver Rogers Wilcox Forbes American Silver were all part of this consortium at one time. Manuscript. Broadside. Very Good. Not Published books
1935941Los Angeles: All Year Club of Southern California 1935. Staplebound. Very good. 80pp stapled booklet in wraps with California Pacific International Exposition San Diego advertisment on rear. All Year Club of Southern California unknown books
1947111970San Francisco: California CIO Council 1947. Pamphlet. 15p. stapled wraps 5.5x8.25 inches previous owner's name penned on front wrap rear wrap stained touch of rust to staples else good condition. California CIO Council unknown books
1987258417San Francisco: SCWU 1987. Magazine. 20p includes covers 8.25x11 inches ads bios photos very good program booklet for the event in stapled blue & white wraps. Eleventh annual event. SCWU unknown books
1988196931Los Angeles: SCWU 1988. Magazine. 36p including covers 8.5x11 inches ads program illustrations and photos bios very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. SCWU unknown books
1990250102Los Angeles: SCWU 1990. Four-panel card very good with cover photo of honoree Karen Thompson the activist for disabled and partnership rights. Honorary dinner committee listed on back panel in small font. SCWU unknown books
1992189395Los Angeles: SCWU 1992. Magazine. 32p including covers 8.5x11 inches ads program illustrations and photos bios very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Twelfth annual awards dinner. SCWU unknown books
2010225767n.p.: the Council å—加州ä¸Â文å¸校è¯åˆ會 2010. 141p. paperback 8.5x11 inches presentation inscription in Chinese on cover occasional marginalia handling wear. Text mostly in Chinese. the Council å—加州ä¸Â文å¸校è¯åˆ會 unknown books
1998184177Rosemead CA: the Association 1998. 96p. very good in wraps 8.5x11 inches text mostly in Chinese. Special convention publication of the Association. the Association unknown books
197754249N. pl: the Convention 1977. 34p. program book some photos 8.5x11 inches wraps. Includes a membership roster. The group retired dining car cooks and waiters founded branches in Utah Nebraska and Oregon which subsequently became defunct. the Convention unknown books
43900Monteca CA: Cresta Blanca Wine Company Inc n. d. Circa early 1940s. White paper printed in multiple colors. Very mild wear only. Clean bright and crisp. NF. Single sheet printed recto only and folded to form a 10-panel brochure. Body of text printed to inner 8 panels outer panels serving as covers. Color illustration to 2nd and 9th panels. 6-1/4" x 3-1/2" <br/><br/>Contains 15 cocktail recipes plus seven food recipes using Coronet including Coronet Duck Supreme Kidneys Coronet and Coronet Plum Pudding and five other drink recipes. "Coronet Brandy rescues ration-bound meals. adds a festive touch to everyday foods. helps you achieve success in entertaining." Cresta Blanca Wine Company, Inc unknown books
