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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF MERCED STANISLAUS CALAVERAS TUOLUMNE AND MARIPOSA CALIFORNIA.

[CALIFORNIA -- SAN FRANCISCO CHINATOWN PAINTING]. [HOBBY, Carl Frederick (Artist).]Biblio.com

A nicely executed original painting depicting a street scene and Chinatown shop awnings in San Francisco with young Chinese-American woman walking with child another person walking with basket held above their head and another small child in background.

192963892San Francisco CA: Carl Frederick Hobby 1353 Post Street 1929. One small oil painting on canvas sized 8.5 x 11 in. preserved as original stretched canvas within the frame as presented to the artistâ€™s sister Ruth Annis Hobby Gibbs 1878-1940 Scouticut Neck Fairhaven Massachusetts with the original wooden frame now professionally cleaned and w/ artistâ€™s signature in lower right corner of painting this painting was presented with a gift inscription in Chinese åäºŒæœˆå»¿äº”è™Ÿä¸€ä¹äºŒä¹ December 25 1929 and given with others by the artist over a 10 year period in the 1920â€™s-1930â€™s to his sister and held in the family until 2025. This original oil painting portrays a Chinese-American woman and child strolling past shop windows in Chinatown w/ awnings and fire-escapes looming above while another person carrying large basket walks away and another small child looks on. After settling in San Franciscoâ€™s Chinatown less than 6 years before the artist had launched his lifetime work to depict through oil paints and pen & ink the quintessential life to be discovered in Chinatown. Eventually he would issue a book just 7 years later in 1936 of Chinatown sights and attractions filled with his pen & ink illustrations. Hobby 1886-1964 was the son of an Iowa City IA ophthalmologist and moved with the family as a teenager to San Diego CA about 1900 about the time his sister Ruth Annis Hobby voyaged to marry her fiance during the Philippine Insurrection in 1899 in Manila. He studied art at the Cumming School of Art in Des Moines the Art Students League in New York and became portrait and landscape painter in San Diego until 1923. After a divorce from Plooma Crowther he settled in San Francisco in Chinatown where he became an instructor at the Art Center while also painting and sketching the densely populated area publishing â€œThe Street of Dragon Lanterns Chinatown of San Franciscoâ€ in 1936 while contracting with the Madison & Burke Agency through World War II. Exhibits of his paintings and pen & ink sketches were displayed at the Oakland Art Gallery in 1928 and the Society for Sanity in Art in 1945. See: Maud McB. Maywood Palm City The Chula Vista Star July 9 1937 p. 6. Carl Frederick Hobby, 1353 Post Street, unknown

Zephyr Used & Rare Books · États-Unis525,00 $US≈ 444,20 €

[OREGON & CALIFORNIA -- FURNITURE CO ARCHIVE]. HAMILTON, Clarence & BUREN, Max OBiblio.com

A noteworthy archive of over 400 documents and samples chronicling the buying preferences and habits of Oregonians at one of Salem Oregon’s largest home furnishings and art stores at the end of the Gilded Age and into the Progressive Era. Buren & Hamilton drew upon wholesalers in Portland OR Seattle New York Detroit Chicago and heavily from San Francisco & Sacramento firms just a couple years before the devastating 1906 Earthquake & Fire for wallpapers linoleum floorings oriental carpets framed photos and art mouldings bed mattresses and much more.

189356869Salem OR: Buren & Hamilton 1893-1904. 4to. 90 mylar sleeve leaves unnumbered. containing 403 invoices shipping & waybills TLS ALS TL copy letters and more many of which appear on steel-engraved letterhead many printed on colour-tinted paper often shipping and weight bills still retaining original stamps a few mailing envelopes a number of check receipts many w/ manuscript and stamped autographs others w/ corrections and/or annotations in ink or pencil; also included are actual samples of velvet fabrics wallpapers and textured colour sample papers printing sample for perforated business card. All preserved in recent 3-ring cloth binder stamping on front cover. An exceptional archive of original letters invoices waybills business cards and receipts all documenting the thriving business of Buren & Hamilton at the end of the Gilded Age and beginning of the Progressive Era in Salem Oregon in the aftermath of the 1893 economic crash. Drawing from suppliers in California just a few years before the San Francisco Earthquake & Fire the company also sourced from Seattle WA New York and Chicago. Portland was the manufacturing and industrial hub of Oregon as can be seen in these invoices and receipts: such companies as The Columbia Chair Company Dealers who sold chairs office chairs and rockers from 309-311 Front St. shipped rocking chairs and office chairs to Salem in 1903; Henry Jenning & Sons located at 172-174 First St. shipped a load of leather oak chairs in 1903; J.G. Mack & Co. located at 86 & 88 Third St. in Portland supplied velvet rugs oil cloths and lamp shades in 1903; while the A. Merle Co. and McCord & Work located on Water St. supplied brass and iron bed frames the same year. Buren & Hamilton also sourced mattresses and sacks of recycled denim cotton â€œShoddyâ€ from Peters & Roberts Furniture Co. for mattresses; and purchased often from the Portland Mattress & Upholstery Co. at 18-20 Front St. which supplied wool-combed coverings mattresses mattress tops from 1900-1904 -- their factory would be gutted by fire in 1907. Many of the items were shipped down the Willamette River on the Oregon City Transportation Co. ships with a note from 1904 indicating the company had completed a sale of odd sized mattresses to them; numerous Southern Pacific Oregon Division freight bills; as well as a shipment on the SS Oregonian via the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. of five crates of chair seats from Marshall Field & Co.In addition it appears that Oregonians in and around Salem purchased heavily from the store luxury goods such as beveled mirrors framed artwork sleek wallpapers velvet fabrics tapestries oriental rugs and more. Many of the invoices letters waybills and documents record many items supplied by the storied W.P. Fuller & Co. of San Francisco & Sacramento CA as well as their subsidiary in Portland OR. They were main suppliers of beveled and mirrored glass on the Pacific Coast which often had to be imported from England into the U.S. and several of the orders in 1899-1901 note that the company was having issues supplying such pieces to Buren & Hamilton due to labor difficulties finally sourcing mirrors from Pilkington Bros. English Picture Glass. They occasionally canceled orders and the Fuller Co. writes in 1901 over a canceled order of â€œdeadening felt.â€ The W.P. Fuller Co. explain that â€œyour reasons for wishing to cancel your order are not considered sufficient to justify us in doing so . . . â€ and that they were aware that â€œsome of our competitors are circulating unjust and untrue reports concerning us all the time.â€ Included amongst these letters are samples of cotton backing for carpets and even three original samples of wallpaper. There are also present a number of letters and invoices from the firm of Tozer & Son which took over the W.P. Fuller Wallpaper division about 1901 with letters present making that announcement. Of additional interest are the many invoices letters and waybills back and forth with the storied Schussler Bros. on 119-121 Geary St. Star King Building in San Francisco detailing many of the popular framed and matted photographs and images for Salem shoppers. These encompassed the â€œLone Indianâ€ which were often reproductions of the iconic End of the Trail sculpture by James Earle Fraser; Athletes Dutch Windmills Shakespeare prints of assorted types and sizes Lone Arab a Chinese print a boxing series of matted â€œDeal of a Fellowâ€ Madonna Artotypes -- typically reproductions of Raphaelâ€™s Madonna and Taber art photos. Many of the letters bill heads and invoices sport steel engraved architectural vignettes documenting buildings which would be destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake & Fire as well as many of the business records for those companies. One of the freight bills bears the photographic letterhead of the Chicago & North-Western Railway Co. dated 1904. Another significant supplier was the D.N. & E. Walter & Co. of San Francisco which supplied linoleum flooring fabrics and more for Buren & Hamilton from 1899-1904 and even includes in one of the letters a piece of the red velvet fabric they no longer carried.Buren & Hamilton was originally founded in the late 1880â€™s by A.T. Yeaton as a furniture/undertaker business later sold to A.B. Buren and finally sold to Max O. Buren and Clarence Hamilton who operated at three locations along Commercial St. including Greenbaumâ€™s Building at 298 Commercial the building at 136 Commercial 340 Court St. now Sidâ€™s Furniture. Clarence bought out Max Burenâ€™s shares in 1916 becoming the C.S. Hamilton Furniture Co. and operating until it was sold to Rubensteinâ€™s in the 1960â€™s. See: Norma Hamilton Cochran Historic Businesses -- Hamilton Furniture Salem History Matters March 17 2017; New Stationery Department of Schussler Brothers San Francisco The American Stationer Vol. LIV 1903 pp. 4-5; John Caldbick Panic of 1893 and its Aftermath HistoryLink Essay 20874 Oct. 1 2019. Buren & Hamilton, hardcover

Zephyr Used & Rare Books · États-Unis1 500,00 $US≈ 1 269,15 €

[California - Early Photography] [San Francisco and the Bay Area]Biblio.com

A Pair of Photograph Albums Documenting San Francisco Monterey and the Surrounding Areas in the Late 1880s

1880List1314Northern California 1880. 4to one album in burgundy cloth the other oblong brown pebbled cloth. Seventy-one sepia-toned and cyanotype photographs most measuring 6 Â½ x 4 Â½ inches. Near fine with some light wear to albums photographs very good or better with very good contrast some showing a hint of fading. A very early pair of vernacular photograph albums centering on the experiences of a wealthy family in San Francisco Monterey and the surrounding areas in the late 1880s. The bulk of the images show the family and their unidentified circle in domestic scenes with the vernacular architecture and landscapes of the Bay Area on full display. Other images show landmarks including Golden Gate Park the Francis Scott Key monument various views of the first Hotel del Monte in Monterey which would burn in 1887 dating the photographs to the period prior to the fire. The album also includes photographs of African American families. <br /> <br /> The image quality is generally quite strong and the photographer was either a professional assembling the album which includes many portraits of family and presumed friends for themselves or the work of a highly skilled amateur. The Initials on the front pastedown are â€œM.J.R.â€ though this could be a later owner. The albums were from the estate of the muralist Clara Fargo Thomas who was a resident of New York and could possibly have been from one of her family members though we are unable to glean much detail from the contents. The few annotations offer little clues one just reading â€œ5/11/89 - Golden Gate Parkâ€ and another identifying a house as 509 Webster St. in San Francisco though the typical Victorian architecture and sloped street of the house suggest it could have just been a photograph of San Franciscoâ€™s unique architecture. <br /> <br /> The photographs of the people give insight into the lives of the new wealthy class of San Francisco residents of the late 19th century with others interestingly showing rural scenes and people. The photographer also had an eye for the flora of the region which is displayed throughout. It is unclear what the relationship of the African-American subjects was to the photographer and why they appear in the album. Overall a compelling group of images and the earliest example of vernacular photograph albums of California images we can find in the trade. unknown

Auger Down Books · États-Unis4 500,00 $US≈ 3 807,45 €

(PHOTOGRAPHY: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA)Biblio.com

A Playful Photograph Album of a Group of Friends from Ontario California.

191075671Ontario: N.p. 1910-1920. Original oblong 8 x 6 inches brown leather album bearing 188 original photographs. Most are snap shot size but some are large. Some fading to a few but overall a nice album with no dropped pictures and in good condition.Seems to be an album of a tight-knit group of friends in eastern Los Angeles primarily Ontario. There are 10 small head shots on the second page with Blanche Bradburn being the wildest and on the page following it shows what appears to be the same women with a title of "Mrs. Warmer's Sunday School Classes." They all appear too old to be taking Sunday School classes so likely they were teachers. Early photograph albums concerning Los Angeles are not so scarce but albums where the main people live in Ontario right at the foot of Mt. Baldy are few and far between. This is born out by the photos on the next two pages which concern a horse and buggy outing to Cucamonga Canyon in 1910. Here we can see that the teachers are talking them on a field trip. They are next off to Urbita Springs near San Bernardino which offered a lake and swimming area along with amusement rides in the location that is now Inland Center Mall. Nest trip; Redondo Beach and Pier but this time the youngsters are left behind. After a brief trip back to Cucamonga Canyon the go by car to Stoddard's Canyon in Idaho where they spend a great deal of time hiking and exploring.The group seems to dwindle in size yet their next trip is a gutsy one; up the Owens Valley to Mammoth. It is here that the captions stop and the album turns into a sort of remembrance of friends and the children they birth through the years. There is one fun photograph of one of the women playing golf. Finally at the end we see a group shot of them all again looking considerably older and wiser but still smiling. N.p. hardcover

Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA · États-Unis300,00 $US≈ 253,83 €

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