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1860 ALS from Henry Innes Thornton Jr.

186074708Downieville CA: N.p 1860. Original 4-page letter from H. I. Thornton Jr. to his mother and dated August 3rd of 1860. Contemporary lined blue paper with each page measuring 7 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches. Written in a very legible hand. Expected fold-lines and one short marginal tear else and excellent letter filled with California politics before the Civil War.Harry I. Thornton Jr. was born and raised in Alabama in a highly distinguished family; his father was Alabama Supreme Court Judge and his uncle John J. Crittenden of Kentucky was a United States Senator for four terms. Harry Jr. came to California in 1854 and immediately took up his law practice in Nevada City. Soon thereafter he moved to Downieville in Sierra County. He was enormously popular and in 1857 was elected District Attorney. As his popularity grew he was soon induced into running for State Senator. He did and won. This letter is to his mother telling of his political wishes and hesitations. He tells her that the incumbent Kirkpatrick has endorsed him and that he thinks winning the elections is an actual possibility. He writes - "All considered I am wavering. I will leave the matter open until the / comes in from Washoe which will be next week. it is more likely I will be lured off by the trumpet call of this war into the Constitutional Rights of the States and the People of the States against the dangerous sectional doctrines of Douglass-ism and Republicanism." He also writes much about the Platform of John Breckinridge for President. In a lighter vein he writes - "A burglar entered my room and stole my watch and $.50 from my pocket. I awoke and flushed the felon and gave chase had no forearm or could have shot him and have finally lost my pet my old companion." Thornton did win the election.When the Civil War broke out Thornton gave a famous speech on the Senate floor in Sacramento defending the South. Along with many other Democrats in office at that time he quit his position after his speech and left for the South to join the Confederacy. He was promoted rapidly eventually making the rank of Colonel. After the war he removed to Nevada and teamed up with John Garber to form the most powerful law firm in the state. N.p unknown

[California – Mining History – Race] "Charly"Biblio.com

1860 Letter Likely from Plumas County Describing â€œsorry Chineseâ€ and Indigenous Populations

1860List3317Likely Plumas County California 1860. Single four-page letter measuring 7 Â½ x 9 Â½ inches. Folded with some small tears at folds; excellent. A letter from â€œCharlyâ€ to his wife or fiance written in January of 1860 from â€œGanser possibly sic Valleyâ€ likely in Plumas County California. Located in the Sierra Nevada Plumas County contained a number of mining towns following the California gold rush; however Charly does not specify his line of work or discuss any particulars. Insteadâ€”besides inquiring after the health of family and friends and considering when he would return homeâ€”Charly discusses the other residents of the valley. He writes: â€œI can tell you that I have not much news to write we are hemmed in here by the mountains and only see very few people except the inhabitants of the valley and their number is not very great we have lots of Digger company though there being lots of them in the valley and at this season of the year they are hard up for grub and they hang round most of the time sometimes we ask them to eat with us sometimes not You may be sure they are a hard nest of beings as you ever thought of them there are sorry Chinese and they are but little ahead of the Diggers though they will work which the Diggers will not if they can help it There is what might be called a mixed population here from all parts of the earth some work some do not and there are a great many of the last classâ€. â€œDiggerâ€ is a derogatory term applied to several Indigenous peoples in the region referring to their diet of root vegetables. In this part of California they would likely have been Northern Paiute or Mono people. Following the USâ€™s acquisition of California and especially after the discovery of gold these groups were decimated by murder enslavement and disease; an 1896 article notes that the Plumas area had proportionally more survivors of American depredations.1 Of interest to historians of the late gold rush especially relations between Anglo-Americans and other races. 1 Mabel L. Miller â€œThe So-Called California â€˜Diggersâ€™â€ Popular Science Monthly 50 December 1896 201â€“214. unknown

Auger Down Books · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

[Washington – Oregon – California] Unknown PhotographerBiblio.com

1890s Vacation Photo Album of Oregon Washington and California Including Shots of Early Euro-American Architecture and Indigenous People

1890List2871Oregon Washington and California 1890. One forty-two page photo album with 9 Â½ x 7 inch pages; 109 total photographs with eighteen 4 x 7 inch and larger and ninety-one 3 Â½ x 3 Â½ inch. Larger photographs captioned on negative and likely purchased while smaller ones are original. Album pages with chipping at corners and some repair with tape; photographs with some wear and very good to excellent contrast; overall very good to excellent. A photo album from two trips taken by an unknown tourist one around the Pacific Northwest and the other in central and southern California with written captions describing location and subject matter. The California trip starts in San Francisco and includes shots of Monterey â€œMexicans at Los Angelesâ€ and many of the Santa Barbara Mission and San Diego. The Pacific Northwest photos show scenery around Mts. Hood and Rainier including from the recently-built Cloud Cap Hotel; the Columbia River Paradise Valley American Lake and others. There are also shots of the Hotel Groe built in 1893 and Kernahan home in Pierce County Washington â€“ James Kernahan was one of the earliest Euro-Americans to homestead in the region arriving in the area in the late 1880s. The Kernahan family is mentioned in an account told by John Muirâ€™s photographer of summiting Mt. Rainier with John Muir in 1888.1 Further towards Rainier there are shots of the Longmire buildings built in about 1884. Four interesting shots from Puyallup also in Pierce County are worth mentioning. Two show hops fields one a line of tents identified as belonging to the â€œIndiansâ€ and one of an â€œOld Indian womanâ€ standing barefoot on train tracks. Before 1892 growing hops drove the economy of Pullyup; Indigenous people would travel from the US and Canada to Pullyup to work the harvest.2 These photographs likely postdate the hops crash. Of interest to historians of the Pacific Northwest and California and especially of Pierce County Washington. 1 â€œJohn Muirâ€™s Ascent of Mt. Rainier As Recorded by his Photographer A. C. Warnerâ€ The Mountaineer 50 no. 1 1956: 38â€“45. 2 Hans Zeiger â€œIndigenous Hop Pickers in Western Washingtonâ€ HistoryLink October 3 2021 https://www.historylink.org/file/21295. unknown

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[San Jose – California]Biblio.com

1899 to 1912 collection of letters by Gladys M. Manweiler studying at the College of the Pacific San Jose California with earlier correspondence to Rev. Dr. Hugh K. Hamilton San Francisco Methodist minister

3730384Delaware Ohio 1899 and 1901 and San Jose California 1912. 63pp. 8vos. Overall very good with original envelopes. A collection of 18 letters. The first 14 were written by Gladys M. Manweiler of Santa Cruz California when she was a student at San Joseâ€™s College of the Pacific during the 1912 Spring semester. Manweiler writes to her future husband Rev. Hugh K. Hamilton a 1907 graduate of Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley and a San Francisco minister. Manweiler writes of girlsâ€™ college basketball; attending a concert by German-American opera singer Ernestine Schumann-Heink; women versus men â€œThe â€˜Womanâ€™s Pacificâ€™ weekly is out now. The boys are â€˜soreâ€™ about it. There were several jokes about athletics and they could not take a joke and are very indignant.â€â€”March 21 1912; reading Jane Austenâ€™s Pride and Prejudice; and audaciouslyâ€”as she describes itâ€”registering to vote in early January 1912 womenâ€™s suffrage just having been enacted in California. She is also an officer in the collegeâ€™s Sopholectia a womenâ€™s literary society at College of the Pacific and the local Y.W.C.A. Manweiler engages in â€œshocking thingsâ€ beyond registering to vote: â€œI must tell you what father and I did Sunday evening. It is most shocking I admit. My older sister says she will not be surprised anymore at anything I do. There was a Mr. Eddy a Medium at the opera house. Father and I both seemed to be possessed with a great sense of curiosity so what did we do but go on Sunday night. I had my curiosity satisfied but paid for it seeing â€˜spooksâ€™ all night long. What do you think of us Mr. Metz went and had no chance to escape unseen for he was called upon the platform as one of the committee to prove that things were done OK. I have left the thing which I suppose will please you the most until last. Just be patient now and sit down if you are not already for you may not be able to stand the shock. Are you ready Well I will sum it up in just three words. They are these â€“ Listen â€“ now dramatically continuing at the top of the next page I have registered. Father took me down Wednesday morning. He wanted us all three to go but mother was sick and Grace would not do it. I do not know whether or not I will be home to vote but I will be able to if I am.â€ January 12 1911 Manweiler recounts a campus measles outbreak and female studentsâ€™ coordination in response to the collegeâ€™s nursing policy: â€œI received your letter this after-noon. Now donâ€™t worry about me please. I have not got the measles yet. I have been feeling mighty â€˜bumâ€™ the last few days but they are not measles symptoms I donâ€™t think. I am determined not to get them. I am going home next Tuesday sick or well. So far there are only three cases of measles here in the dormitory. They are all quite bad though one of them especially so. Some of us girls became real desperate yesterday. Nothing was being done as a preventative and it seemed we were all doomed to have it. It would be dreadful to be sick with anything like that in this place. If we were going to be sick we wanted to be home where our mothers could take care of us. A delegation of about fifteen of us girls go together and went to Dr. Guth college president William W. Guth to lay our case before him. We found that he was in the city and our efforts in vain. Some precautions have been taken since and the doctor thinks that there is little danger of any more cases. I hope he knows what he is talking about. There are three others of the girls sick who havenâ€™t the measles. Edith Dennett is getting better slowly and is able to sit up a little every day. We are running a regular hospital here. Miss Ban says sheâ€™s going to put out a sign.â€ March 28 1912 The final four letters in the collection were sent to Hugh K. Hamilton see above by his mother during his time as an undergraduate and O.W.U. Cadet at Ohio Wesleyan University. These letters cover topics such as local church affairs womenâ€™s temperance canvassing activities and updates from home. Refs. â€œMethodist Minister Emeritus Dr. Hugh K. Hamilton Diesâ€ in Santa Clara Sentinel Santa Clara Calif. Wednesday September 29 1965 p18. Also see in same Wednesday June 27 1951 p4: â€œAfter Rev. and Mrs. Hamilton were married ca. early 1910s Hamilton enrolled at the Boston university where he received an STB degree. Later Dr. Hamilton received honorary degrees of doctor of divinity from the Pacific School of Religion and the College of the Pacific. The latter also is the alma mater of Mrs. Hamilton. For a number of years he was a member of the board of trustees of both institutions. He held pastorates in San Francisco Berkeley Hughson Los Gatos and Lodi in addition to Santa Cruz and Visalia. â€¦ Dr. Hamilton also served in World War I as army YMCA secretary at Camp Kearny near San Diego and later in San Francisco. For eight years he was superintendent of the Sacramento and Nevada Districts of the Methodist church supervising about 60 churches.â€ unknown

Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA) · États-Unis275,00 $US≈ 232,68 €

[California – Auto Tourism – Hydroelectric Power] Unknown PhotographerBiblio.com

1910s–1920s Photo Album from California Showing Farming Recreation and Trips to Hydroelectric Projects

1921List3510California 1921. Photo album measuring 10 x 12 inches containing approximately 360 photographs. Photos are approximately 3 Â½ x 4 Â½ and smaller with very good to excellent contrast. Album with wear to covers and edges of pages; photos generally excellent to Near Fine. A photo album belonging to an unknown Southern California family; license plates date the album to about 1914 to 1921. Most of the photographs are of family life including farm work: piles of hay; cows pigs chickens turkeys and horse-drawn plows; gigantic watermelons; and family members posing outside vineyards and in cornfields. The family also documented their car and their recreational activities including swimming hiking and fishing picnics and carriage rides. It appears that they were quite proud of their car and were frequent â€œauto-campers.â€ They seem to have taken a trip to Mexico or the Southwest as some shots show wide desert landscapes Joshua trees and low Spanish colonial-era buildings. Identifiable subjects include the ferry boat Ramona; the Rose Parade in Pasadena showing Culver City Pasadena and Glendale floats; San Gorgonio Mountain Half Dome and the Wawona Tree a giant sequoia in Yosemite; and the Fairview Farm Club paradeâ€”a line of cars driving down a dirt road the first decorated with cornstalksâ€”which is probably related to the ranching development located between Huntington Beach and Newport Beach. Someone in the family had an interest in hydroelectric power as many shots show ongoing or completed hydroelectric works projects in Southern California. Several show the Southern California Edison Big Creek plant. Located in the Sierra Nevada the Pacific Light & Power Corporation began the Big Creek project in 1910 to provide power to the growing metropolis of Los Angeles. The photographs in this album appear to include both exterior and interior shots. Another set of shots show a dam under construction; this may be Devilâ€™s Gate Dam on the Arroyo Seco which was constructed in 1920. Of interest to historians of Southern California in the early twentieth century and some of its public works projects. unknown

Auger Down Books · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

Woman Education CaliforniaABAA

1920s Scrapbook from Female High School Student in Los Angeles

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. 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." 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. 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

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis480,00 $US≈ 406,13 €

[Great Depression – California – Auto Tourism – Soap Box Derby] Unknown PhotographerBiblio.com

1920sâ€“1940s Photo Album of California Auto Tourism a Soap Box Derby and a Billboard in Tennessee Warning of â€œNO JOBS in Californiaâ€

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. 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 â€œWinter â€˜28â€. Later auto tourism shotsâ€”with what appears to be a 1940s model carâ€”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 â€œNO JOBS in California / KEEP OUT / 6 MEN FOR EVERY JOB / NO STATE RELIEF AVAILABLE FOR NON-RESIDENTSâ€; on the verso it is captioned â€œ1929 / This sign was posted in Tennesseeâ€. 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. 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

Auger Down Books · États-Unis600,00 $US≈ 507,66 €

[Mexican-Americana – California – Masons] Sifuentes, Alfonso; Sifuentes, Enriqueta ("Harriet"); "Andres"Biblio.com

1920s–1940s Photo Album of a Mexican American Family in Santa Ana California

1940List3659Mexico and California 1940. Photo album measuring 7 Â¼ x 11 Â¼ inches containing approximately eighty-five photographs generally 4 Â½ x 2 Â½ inches and smaller with three Rito Nacional Mexicano Freemason membership cards one 1943 tax return and one 1943 letter. Album cover broken and beginning to detach else excellent; contents excellent to Near Fine. A photo album belonging to the Sifuentes also recorded as Cifuentes family of Santa Ana California. Alfonso Sifuentes Rodarte 1896/9â€“1994 was born in Coahuila and his wife Enriqueta â€œHarrietâ€ Gonzalez Galvan 1903â€“d. in Jalisco. The couple married in Orange California in 1923. The album situates the family at several Santa Ana addresses including W 4th Street and E 1st Street the latter appearing on a 1927 Masonic membership card from the University of Mexico; commercial signage also suggests an address on Bristol Street. The earlier photos from the 1920s and 30s show children and family playing and posing in front and back yards beach trips and two formal baby shots real photo postcards; two men pose in sombreros and stylish young ladies pose with a car in front of the house. What are likely photos with extended family look to have been taken on a farm. There are also wedding and church shots and later photos of men in uniformâ€”Alfonso Sifuentes joined the Coast Guard during World War II. Photos are occasionally captioned in Spanish on the verso giving names and relations. The 1943 letter included in the album is from a fellow Coast Guardsman â€œAndrÃ©sâ€ to his girlfriend Celia Sifuentes one of the family's daughters. AndrÃ©s mentions translated passing â€œthe famous exams . without incidentâ€ and how much he enjoys spending time with Sifuentesâ€™ family: â€œI wish my parents had the harmony that exists in your home.â€ According to the National Parks Service some 500000 Mexican Americans served in World War II while at the same time facing anti-Mexican and anti-Latine sentiment at home. Of interest to historians of Mexican American and Southern California regional history in the interwar era. unknown

Auger Down Books · États-Unis1 250,00 $US≈ 1 057,63 €

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