San Francisco: Republican State Central Committee 417 Kearny St. 1872. 8pp caption title as issued. Text in double columns Very Good. <br /> <br /> On the Democrats' treasonous behavior from Nullification through Civil War and Reconstruction. Additionally "the difference between Republicans and Democrats is this: the Republicans try to discover and punish their thieves; the Democrats never punish theirs." The California State Central Committee published this speech in an effort to secure California for Grant and the Republicans. <br /> Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker LCP. NUC records the DC edition only. Republican State Central Committee, 417 Kearny St. unknown
California Palace of the Legion of Honor San Francisco 1960. 4to. 5 pp. Soft Cover. Volume 18 Number 3. Very Good. Scuff marks on Covers. BW Plates.Provenance: From the estate of Gerald Nordland 1927-2019. Nordland was a museum director art critic educator and author.Dean of the Chouinard Art Institute 1960-64 Director of the San Francisco Museum of Art now SFMoMA 1966-73 Milwaukee Art Museum 1977-85 and the UCLA Wight Art Gallery 1973-1977. He is the author of over 60 publications including books on Lachaise Nakian Diebenkorn and Frank Lloyd Wright. California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco 1960 paperback
Sacramento CA: California Dept. Of Agriculture 1957. Screw Bound. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. unpaginated: 4 vols. in 1; HB tan no title on cover or spine - no spine; edges & corners w/some rub; clean tight pgs. California Supplemental Cattle Brands from 1955 & 1957 9.5x12.25 <br/> <br/> California Dept. Of Agriculture unknown
1930. California photo Album documenting 1930's roadside commerce's Oil and logging industries and desert sightseeing across Southern California and Death Valley circa 1930s. Include logging photographs made when steam power still ran the woods before the gasoline tractor and chainsaw displaced the steam donkey engine and the logging railroad. The photographs were made just as the paved highway and the auto court were turning the California desert and mountains into a tourist destination reachable by family car. John Marshall High School in Los Angeles shown new and unweathered in the album opened its doors on January 26 1931 fixing the album's date to that year or shortly after.<br /> Photo Album of 116 silver gelatin photographs mostly snapshot format ranging approx 3 x 5 to 5 x 7 inches California Sierra Nevada and Death Valley circa 1931 to 1935. The logging images show a tracked crawler tractor fitted with a tall steel arch for skidding logs a steam donkey engine venting steam beside a yarding spar rigged with cables decked logs stacked on railcars marked with painted numbers a single rail line running through uncut timber and a man in suspenders and field hat standing beside a standing tree with a felling axe and undercut wedge driven into the trunk. The Southern California group includes wooden oil derricks stepped up a steep eroded canyon wall three women in cloche hats and drop-waist dresses standing arm in arm on a pile of oil-field casing pipe a touring sedan with passengers parked among the derricks a typed caption reading "No 4. Artist's Drive. Death Valley" above eroded badland hills the neon-topped "El Don Motel" sign advertising kitchenettes and refrigeration the "Beechwood Motor Apartments" and "Aut-O-Tel" auto court a palm-lined commercial street with a Citizens Bank and parked Model A automobiles the Collegiate Gothic John Marshall High School captioned in pencil the grounds of the Hotel del Coronado covered wagons drawn up in a mountain meadow a backyard scene of an older couple outside a board cabin and harbor views with a small fishing boat numbered "A 619." Photographs are mounted with black corner tabs on black album leaves several captioned in pencil or by typed slip.<br /> Southern California in the early 1930s was the most prolific oil-producing region in the world with derricks crowding canyons and city lots from Signal Hill to the Newhall fields and the album captures ordinary visitors treating an active oil field as a sightseeing stop. The same years saw the auto court and motel emerge along the new highways and the El Don and Aut-O-Tel signs document that roadside lodging industry in its first decade. The logging photographs record steam-era timber work the crawler tractor and steam donkey caught at the moment mechanized gasoline equipment was about to replace them. Overall in very good condition with some fading to individual prints. The album places steam-era timber work and first-decade California auto travel side by side recorded firsthand during the years of the development of roadside infrastructure. unknown
Belmont Ca 1947. Very good. Sheet map 11.25 x 15.25 inches. Previously folded. Light wear at folds. Light tanning. Scarce post-World War II street map of Belmont California south of San Francisco. The map depicts the layout of the area between San Mateo San Carlos and Hidden Canyon Park and was issued for the use of a local insurance agent Harry Walden "When the subject of the conversation is Insurance talk with Walden". Provides a good delineation of a town on the San Francisco peninsula that numbered approximately 5000 inhabitants after the end of the war but today is home to over 25000. Ephemeral with no copies located by OCLC. unknown books
2001. Soft Cover. Good. Publisher: California Land Surveyors Association Inc. 2001 Good Spiral Bound Soft Cover 166 pp. cover discoloration. few pp. have highlighting. paperback
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