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[California]
Menlo Park Centennial Celebration June 13-19 1948 Official Program
Menlo Park: Menlo Park Chamber of Commerce 1948. First Edition. Self Wraps Printed Saddle-Stapled. Very Good. 8vo. Pp. 52. Includes welcoming notes from Charles P. Burgess Mayor of the City of Menlo Park and Daniel Hayes President of the Menlo Park Chamber of Commerce. With programs for various days of the celebration. Includes photos of personalities appearing during programs including Peggy Lee. Laden with ads for local businesses. Bound in stiff textured wrappers photo-illustrated. Spine has a split between staples else Fine. The program evokes the promise of the California dream following the Depression and WWII. Ads for the Longbarn all-new Austin Motor Cars at the Egan Car Co. Dinah's Shack Derry's Feed and Fuel and John S. Wickett "the Atherton Realtor" among others evoke the impending affluence of the region. A prominent full-page ad for the Oakville Terrace subdivision "homes now being built or choose your own lot" is described as "highly restricted" presumably a reference to redlining designed to keep the new neighborhood exclusively white. Now housed in an archival sleeve with acid-free backing. Menlo Park Chamber of Commerce unknown
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[CALIFORNIA -- SAN FRANCISCO FOOD & DRINK]. [GAVELLO, Pierino "Pete" & Elmer; PERASSO, George & CAPELOTI, Chef Leo].
Menu: Monaco Theatre Restaurant. . . .
San Francisco CA: Monaco Theatre Restaurant 560 Pacific Ave. 1943. 8vo. 8 pp unpaginated. colour printed bi-fold which opens up into panoramic interior scene menu minor edgewear center creasing from folding slight scuffing still VG copy. First edition thus of this souvenir menu touting the Monaco Theatre Restaurant which anchored one end of Gavallo’s International Settlement Latin Quarter following the clean-up of the notorious Barbary Coast during the 1939-1940 Golden Gate International Exposition. The Monte Carlo-themed nightclub was authentically appointed filled with musicians singers and dancers in Spanish-revival costume and was instant hit serving De Luxe dinners for $2.50 initially $ 1.00 and featured Mixed Green Salad Minestrone Soup Raviolis or Spaghetti as well as Fresh Crab Bordelaise or Roast Duck. California Sparkling Wines including the Ambassador Red or Aristocrat White were very popular. The International Settlement thrived during the World’s Fair but really boomed after the U.S. entered World War II and armed forces swamped the city ironically returning Pacific Avenue back to its red-light roots with many of the Monaco’s neighbors offering burlesque shows honky-tonk and a smattering of prostitution. Worldcat locates 1 similar copy Bancroft; See: Woody LaBounty International Settlement Jackson Square Teh Exotic Restaurant Row San Francisco Story March 19 2025. Monaco Theatre Restaurant, 560 Pacific Ave., unknown
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[California Midwinter International Exposition]
Midwinter Fair and the Golden State: Art Views Nos. 1 and 2
San Francisco: H.S. Crocker 1894. Nos. 1 and 2 in the California Educational Series published in March and May of 1894 and issued as Sunday supplements by the "San Francisco Chronicle" in conjunction with the California Midwinter International Exposition a World's Fair held from January 27 through July 5 1894 in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.<br /> <br /> Each volume features 12 color lithograph illustrations accompanied by descriptive captions.<br /> <br /> Both volumes side-stapled in wrappers. No. 1 Good only moderate loss to the wrapper edges with wrappers and several leaves detached from the binding. No. 2 Very Good plus with some light wear to the bottom right corner of the final leaf and rear wrapper. H.S. Crocker unknown
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[California; Mining]
Miner's Brand; California Gold Miner puzzle
1880. Otherwise very good condition. Collectible advertising puzzle for the Colton Packing Co. in Colton California. An image of a gold miner with pickax and rifle looking up at a winged cherub holding bunches of grapes with log cabin & mountains in the distance. 18 color cardboard pieces complete 9x7 1/2" some minor marks 1/2" corner of image missing and one small corner piece missing. unknown
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[CALIFORNIA -- MEDICINE]. ANDERSON, Winslow
Mineral springs and health resorts of California with a complete chemical analysis of every important mineral water in the World. . . A prize essay annual Prize of the Medical Society of the State of California awarded April 20 1889. . . .
San Francisco CA: The Bancroft Company 1892. Tall 8vo. xxx 384 pp. Woodcut engraved frontisp. bound-in after p. iv woodcut engraved plates & text illustrations throughout. Brick-red pictorial publisher’s cloth cover art illustration of waterfall and California mountains and hand wielding the Rod of Asclepius black ruling gilt lettering & ruling on spine some thumbing edgewear rubbing & minor wear to corners some slight scuffing still VG- bright copy from the libraries of Dr. James W. Yarbrough 1860-1927 longtime general practice physician in and around Obion TN ownership marking on ffep. and Rogers Clark Caldwell 1890-1968 w/ his historic Brentwood House armorial bookplate on front pastedown and trade card for the Geyser Hotel owned by William Moxley in Cloverdale Sonoma County California near the Geyser Springs. Second edition of this well-illustrated and relatively scarce work detailing the chemical composition and the therapeutic health and medical benefits from the wide variety of hot springs and mineral baths across California in the 19th-Century. Details are offered by the author on how the Arrowhead Hot Springs could cure rheumatism and syphilis; Bear Valley kidney & bladder infections Blodgett’s Springs constipation along with mentions of Native Americans finding cures in California mineral waters & geysers. Of additional interest are the several contemporary blue pencil checkmarks presumably made by Dr. Yarbrough of hot springs and mineral springs in Tennessee Kentucky and Arkansas. The majority of Dr. Anderson’s water analyses seem to have been completed by 1888 and often compared to assorted other previous studies. The Bancroft Company, hardcover
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[California]
Mining and Scientific Press. A Journal of Mining Agriculture Manufactures Science Art Chemistry Inventions Etc.
San Francisco 1863. Very good. Six issues each 8pp. Folio on single folded sheets of newsprint. One issue separated along spine minor foxing creasing and edge wear. A small collection of early issues of a notable scientific journal published in San Francisco beginning in 1860; the present issues were all issued during the opening years of the Civil War. The issues present here include Vol. V No. 5 April 9 1862; Vol. V No. 13 June 9 1862; Vol. V No. 16 July 2 1862; Vol. V No. 21 August 8 1862; Vol. VI No. 4 November 8 1862; and Vol. VI No. 38 July 20 1863. The articles present a wide range of scientific subjects such as mining news new inventions lectures extracts from scientific publications metallurgy balloon ascensions patents and more. Illustrations in the present issues include a map of Sinaloa Heath's Spiral Spice Mill and various other machines the Coffey & Risdon Boiler Factory and sectional illustrations of the Colorado River among others. There are also articles related to encouraging emigration to Sinaloa Mexico and notices of local "theatricals;" along with a wealth of advertisements for scientific equipment services and local businesses. The June 9 1862 issue even prints a "Business Directory" of almost seventy commercial interests who have subscribed to the periodical. A nice batch of issues of Mining and Scientific Press from its early few years of publication. unknown
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[CALIFORNIA MISSION -- PHOTO]. WORDEN, W[illard] E[lmer].
Mission Walkway. Original large silver gelatin photograph hand-painted and hand-coloured by Worden possibly of the Mission San Juan Capistrano with the distinctive arcade of arches depicted in the photograph.
San Francisco: Worden Art Goods Pictures Framing 312 Stockton Street ca. 1910. One large original silver gelatin photograph hand-painted & coloured by Worden sized 16 x 20 in. framed by Worden’s gallery in beautiful Arts & Crafts frame sized 21 x 25.5 in. retaining the original plaster hanger and silk braid now reinforced with modern coated wire and retaining the original studio label on back. This exceptional photograph provides a fantastic example of the abilities of Worden 1868-1946 at the height of his career and just before he was appointed one of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition’s official photographers. This haunting image records the walkway and arches of the mission in some disrepair with ivy growing on some of the pillars occasional adobe bricks crumbling from the uprights and an exceptional sharpness of the image. Worden grew up in Philadelphia studied painting at the PAFA and became a photographer while serving in the Spanish-American War. In 1902 after the war he established his studio near the Presidio and began photographing views of San Francisco’s Coastline Golden Gate Park Chinatown the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire and later hand-painting or colouring the images for sale. See: De Young Golden Gate Park Portals of the Past: The Photographs of Willard Worden July 25 2015 - February 15 2016 Gallery 12. Worden Art Goods, Pictures, Framing, 312 Stockton Street, unknown
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[California] [Suffrage]
MOTHERS OF SAN PEDRO
A pair of pre-women’s suffrage handbills circa 1901 encouraging the mothers of San Pedro California to attend a meeting at the First Presbyterian Church to discuss "business pertaining to our public schools." Both pieces carry the imprint of the San Pedro Times.<br /> <br /> Printed in black on one side of a 5 3/4" x 9" sheet of pink paper the first handbill is addressed to the voters of the San Pedro School District:<br /> <br /> "For the past three years our Public Schools have been unsatisfactory both to parents and teachers. We believe that every parent taxpayer and voter is in duty bound to use every lawful effort to overcome the present indifference and lack of business methods. The parents are confronted with discouraged children and teachers have been handicapped by uncertainties and only an eight months school."<br /> <br /> It also mentions the organizations' nomination of Henry Baly 1853-1930 an English-born banker for school trustee. The handbill was folded in quarters with a bit of toning and wear along the extremities.<br /> <br /> Although women did not yet have the vote the Mothers of San Pedro asserted its influence by officially nominating Baly and calling for at least a nine-month school year. “Reminding you that we as mothers have great interest in the schools we ask for him the support of every voter†the handbill declares.<br /> <br /> Women in California were not granted voting rights until 1911 and nearly a decade later women were granted this right at the federal level with the passage and ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In 1893 the California legislature passed a bill extending suffrage to women in school elections. However it was vetoed by Governor Henry Markham.<br /> <br /> The second piece printed in black on one side of a 6" x 9" sheet of standard stock provides details of the meeting and concludes: "Every Mother is urged to be present." Come! Come!" The handbill was folded in quarters with some general toning and bit of minor staining.<br /> <br /> No reference to the Mothers of San Pedro could be readily located. The San Pedro School District which dates to the founding of San Pedro Elementary in 1866 joined the Los Angeles Unified School District in 1909 when the city was annexed. unknown
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[CALIFORNIA -- MOUNTAINEERING]. KING, Clarence
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada. . . edited and with a preface by Francis P. Farquhar.
New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Inc. 1935. 8vo. 320 pp. Photo frontisp. 7 plates. Blue publisher’s cloth gilt lettering front cover & spine minor shelfwear rubbing to lower fore-edge light toning to fore-edges of textblock w/ d.j. cover art photo of King rappelling down a cliff minor chipping head & foot of spine creasing closed tears old tape repair still VG/G- copy. First Norton edition of this classic work on California mountaineering first published in 1871 and filled with King’s writings of his pioneering and parilous adventures in the high Sierras while a member of the first geological survey in California. Included are his accounts of ascents on Mount Tyndall in 1864 through the Yosemite Valley in 1864 Mount Shasta in 1870 and added notes for Mount Whitney climbs. Surprisingly uncommon with or without dustjacket. W.W. Norton & Co., Inc,. hardcover
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[California]
MT. LOWE WORLD'S GREATEST MOUNTAIN SCENIC TROLLEY TRIP. A Magnificent Panorama of 2000 Square Miles of Mountains Valleys Islands and the Sea. Beautiful Vista of Southern California Presents Itself from the Famous Mountain Summit. Comfortable Accomodations at the Tavern or Housekeeping Cottages May Be Had at Moderate Prices. An Ideal Place for a Vacation. Through Cars at 8-9-10 a.m.; 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. from the Sixth and Main Station Los Angeles. Pacific Electric Railway
An advertising poster for the Mount Lowe Railway Southern California's iconic funicular which closed permanently in 1938. The railway opened on July 4 1893 and consisted of nearly seven miles of track starting in Altadena California to Mount Echo where a 70-room Victorian hotel the Echo Mountain House once stood. The hotel and subsequent replacements were destroyed by natural disasters and in 1938 a flood washed most everything off the mountainside.<br /> <br /> This poster features a hand-colored photographic image and is mounted on chipboard. It measures approximately 18" x 39 1/2" and was likely hanging at a railway station. It appears to be circa 1925 as the Tavern's name changed that year from Ye Alpine Tavern to Mount Lowe Tavern. The Tavern burned down in 1936 and was never rebuilt. There is a light tide mark along the lower edge of the panel with shallow chipping and loss to the corners not affecting the printed area.<br /> <br /> This is a rare survivor with no known holdings in special collections or private hands. It was acquired from a longtime collector of Mount Lowe material who prized it in his personal collection for more than 30 years. unknown
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[CALIFORNIA -- MT SHASTA]. KISER, Fred H
Mt. Shasta 2899. Colorgraph hand-colored in oil. . . Beautifully hand-painted silver gelatin image of the mountain reflected in lake below.
Grants Pass OR: Kiser’s Inc. ca. 1925. One original silver gelatin photograph sized 7.4 x 9.5 in. and mounted on gray cardstock signed in pencil below image hand-painted in colour minor toning to matte very slight edgewear NF exemplar. First edition of this scarce “Colorgraph†image by Fred H. Kiser an accomplished mountaineer and promoter who was one of the most successful and widely known landscape and commercial photographers in the American West during the opening decades of the 20th century. He and his brother Oscar operated the Lewis and Clark Official Photographic Company at the Exposition which gave them their start and he became well known for his images of National Parks and the picturesque Columbia River Gorge. Kiser’s Inc., unknown
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[California]: [Wine]
Napa Valley Wine Country Map. Travel Guide of 153 Wineries for Tasting and Tours.
Santa Rosa CA: Graphic Concepts 1989. Broadsheet cartoon map 22.25 x 16.75 inches with printed information on verso intended as a brochure but in this case unfolded. Some dampstaining along bottom portion mostly visible on verso with old tape at each corner of verso from previous mounting likely removed from a wall or bulletin board long ago. Otherwise minor wear. Good plus. Rolled. A lovely illustrated map of Napa Valley highlighting one of the region's most distinctive and iconic characteristics -- its robust viticulture industry. Numerous vineyards and wineries dot the fertile valley epitomized by an idyllic scene in the upper right corner. Notable names include Robert Mondavi Charles Krug Beringer Stag's Leap Sutter Home and Charles Shaw the source of Trader Joe's "Two Buck Chuck". The design and layout were executed by Ron Morales with artwork by Susan Clifford. This is one of several similar wine maps created by Morales though the emphasis on Napa Valley is an uncommon characteristic. The notice in the bottom margin reads "Copyright 1989 by Graphic Concepts" of Santa Rosa California. Charts on the verso lists the wineries by county and their various amenities and operating hours as well as local accommodations entertainment restaurants and so forth. This work was intended to be folded as a brochure for easy transport but the current example was never folded; it was likely posted at a winery or local business in Napa Valley and taken off the wall at some point. OCLC records just two copies of this delightful map fit for the wall of any wine enthusiast at the Library of Congress and the University of Utah though it is difficult to believe copies don't reside at various California especially northern California institutions. Graphic Concepts unknown
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[CALIFORNIA RAILROADS].
Narrow Gauge Postscript to The San Francisco News Letter Volume 23 Number 5.
San Francisco:: News Letter. Not illustrated; 4 pp. Folio bifolium outer pages browned inner pages less so. The bulk of this Postscript pages 1-3 contains the transcript of a letter from Eugene N. Richardson 1847–1889 to Charles Bruce Porter 1817–1894 joint publisher of the weekly newspaper the "Contra Costa Gazette" and a keen supporter of narrow gauge rail. Porter born in Taunton Massachusetts went to California in 1849 and soon entered politics serving as both a state Congressman and Senator.The author of the letter Robinson was referred to in a California newspaper at the time of probating his will as “Cornelius Vanderbilt’s ‘pet broker.’†He was born in New York state and his main area of expertize was mining but he was also along with Vanderbilt a director of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company and both men at different times served as President of that line.In great detail Robinson outlines the advantages of a narrow gauge rail-bed of 36 inches as opposed to the more commonly used gauge of 48 inches for both freight and passenger use. The coast of the narrower is shown to be considerably less in building the line in the equipment needed to run it and its future maintenance. He proves that the narrow gauge can equal and in some instances out-perform the regular gauge. He is extremely enthusiastic and sends all good wishes for the line’s success. This proposed line was apparently not built Union Pacific built a line in the 1890s.Numbers of this newspaper are very sketchily held and there seems to be some confusion as to when it was published. It was a weekly and therefore one might assume that a volume would contain 52 issues. This present number was the fifth of Volume 5 and was published on March 1—it is apparent that the paper was first published on Saturday February 1 of some year. Working backwards the first issue was published on Saturday February 1 1851 and ceased on Saturday August 25 1928. The Library of Congress has a notation that this publication was the organ of the Aerial Steam Navigation Company Frederick Marriott founded in 1856 to promote his attempt to launch an early flying machine. We can find no evidence to support this. Marriott the publisher of The San Francisco News Letter was an English-born American publisher and early promoter of aviation who came to the United States when news of the 1849 gold rush reached Britain. He had been one of the founders of the London Illustrated News and had considerable financial success until his last British venture Chat failed and led to his near-bankruptcy. In 1850 he left England for California traveling by the isthmus route over Panama an experience that led him to try and find a faster and safer route to California. To this end he created the Avitor Hermes Jr. the first unmanned aircraft to fly by its own power in the United States. He is credited as the person to coin the word “aeroplaneâ€. Marriott intended his steam-powered aircraft to fly coast to coast over the United States. The vehicle was named after the Greek Messenger of the Gods who was also regarded as a protector of travelers. Initial tests were successful but he failed in his attempt to prove its viability before the completion of the last section of the Trans-Continental Railroad which happened in May 1869—Marriott’s company ceased to exist that same year. San Francisco:: [News Letter],. unknown
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[CALIFORNIA POETS - WOMEN]. WELLER, Ella Fraser
Nestlings. A collection of poems. Illustrated by K.A. Fraser from pictures of children in the author's immediate circle of friends.
San Francisco: California Publishing 1892. 8vo. 6 46 leaves. Photo frntsp. numerous photo plates. Illust. tan cloth mnr rubbng & bmpng to crnrs shlfwr sml clsd tear to title still a nice copy. First edition of this scarce work by the Los Angeles poet. A scarce San Francisco imprint of a charming book. California Publishing, hardcover
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[California] [Brown & Deal]
Nevada Daily Transcript Vol XI No. 151 - Sunday Morning March 4 1866
Nevada City CA: Brown & Deal Proprietors 1866. Very Good. Nevada City CA: Brown & Deal Proprietors 1866. Folio 45cm; 4pp. printed in five columns on newsprint. Chips and tears to edges; general staining; folds. Ink annotation to page 2 else unmarked and text legible throughout. Scarce newspaper from the California Gold Rush town; includes advertisements local and national news an obituary for E.W. Smith a local judge as well as a brief story on a gunfight between two "Chilenos." No copies in retail as of September 2024. Brown & Deal, Proprietors unknown
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[California; Indian Peace Policy]
New York Observer: the new Peace Policy toward Native Americans in a speech by California Senator Eugene Casserly June 1870
New York 1870. Very good condition. Front page above the fold article with titled "Our Indian Policy" with the text of the speech of Senator Casserly of California before the Senate June 4 1870 regarding "the new policy of dealing with them Native Americans through a Board of Peace Commissioners selected from the Society of Friends". <br /> <br /> The new policy was a direct result of the massacre of Native Americans known as the Marias Massacre in which a friendly band of Piegan Blackfeet Indians was killed on January 23 1870 by the US Army in Montana Territory.<br /> <br /> Casserly speaks in favor of the Peace Board and cites the to him success of the mission system in California and the positive relations with Native Americans in his state: "It is true that since the cession of California her people to their credit be it said with very few exceptions have not been chargeable with cruelty or even harshness to the Indians. The consequence has been that there is no frontier State east or west of the Mississippi whose story is so little stained with Indian troubles as is that of the State of California". Casserly also commends Pennsylvania "with her Indians managed and humanized by her Quakers" and acknowledges that national sentiment is opposed to the new policy.<br /> <br /> Eugene Casserly 1820 - 1883 served as a Democratic Senator from California from 1869 to 1873. Casserly was chairman of the Committee on Pacific Railroads 42nd Congress and the Committee on Engrossed Bills 42nd & 43rd Congress. After serving in the Senate he returned to his law practice in San Francisco; he also served as member to the California Constitutional Convention 1878-1879. <br /> <br /> Approximately 43 column inches. The newspaper complete with two sections for June 30 1870 the "Secular Department" 4pp and the "Religious Department" 4pp. The newspaper unopened with a very small split at the juncture of the center folds at the front page Secular Department. unknown
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[California]
No. 4689. In the Supreme Court of the STATE OF CALIFORNIA. Martin Calixte et al. Plaintiffs and Respondents vs. Daniel Geary Defendant and Appellant. TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL From the Eighteenth District Court San Diego County
San Francisco: Steam Printing House of A. L. Bancroft & Company 1875. Wraps. Very good. Relates to the ownership of one thousand head of sheep at Vallecitos near the base of San Miguel Mountain in San Diego County. Octavo: 23 p. Original printed paper wrappers. Some toning along the extremities with minor splitting at the spine head; else very good. Together with a thirteen-page supplemental brief printed in 1875 by the "World" Book and Job Printing Office in San Diego. Steam Printing House of A. L. Bancroft & Company unknown
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[California – Orangevale – Sacramento County – City Planning] Landis, Charles W
Notebook Belonging to California Civil Engineer Charles W. Landis with Notes about the Planning of Orangevale Park
Orangevale 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
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[California] Henry E Huntington School
OASIS '36
San Marino California: Henry E. Huntington School 1936. A keepsake book for the Class of 1936 at Henry E. Huntington School in San Marino California with "sand pictures" of each of the 42 graduates. For instance:<br /> <br /> "BUSY BOY CARLOS HEINTZ --- ever present evervescent member of our class whose forehead denotes intelligence chin shows determination and lips denote the thinker. Has a standing record of 462 broken combs and 250 discouraged hairbrushes. Carlos is guaranteed to leave any subsitute flattened out in one hour."<br /> <br /> "MARILYN CAUNT --- Bud Norton will miss her. Marilyn hopes to become an artist and she spends much good time and much good paper making portraits even thus early in her career. Most of her masterpieces consist of nite club gals with enuf face paint to supply a fair sized building with several coats."<br /> <br /> Also includes often humorous descriptions of each of the school rooms their instructors and various classroom activities. There are also accounts of athletics music class and other extracurricular activities. The class poem and class song are also featured prominently along with congratulatory messages from District Superintendent Elmer C. Neher and Huntington Principal M. Edrys Nagle.<br /> <br /> Located at the corner of Huntington Drive and Del Mar Avenue Henry E. Huntington School was founded as the San Marino Grammar School in 1918 and renamed after the city's "first citizen" a decade later. The school expanded several times to meet growing student enrollment gradually transitioning into a middle school. The campus is now located a mile to the west on Huntington Drive adjacent to the San Marino Public Library.<br /> <br /> Mimeographed on the recto of 27 sheets of 8 1/2" x 11" white stock. The two full-page illustrations are neatly hand-colored perhaps as issued. Bound with staples in printed green paper wrappers which are toned and a trifle worn along the extremities. Henry E. Huntington School unknown
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[CALIFORNIA MIDWINTER EXPOSITION -- ART]. STANTON, John A
Official catalogue: Department of Fine Arts. California Midwinter International Exposition. . . .
San Francisco CA: Harvey Whitcher & Allen Publishers to the California Midtwinter International Exposition 1894. 12mo. 69 3 d pp. Including the 4 page added “Additional List.†Printed & illustrated tan sofcovers lettering in red & black edgewear chipping ghosting from old tape repairs archival tape repair to spine still G- copy. First edition of this very scarce handbook catalogue to the fine arts on display at the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition the first International Fair held in Golden Gate Park San Francisco which lists featured artwork from California the rest of the U.S. Canada England France Germany Italy Poland Russia & Spain. California artists displayed included R.D. Velland William Keith L.Z. Sleeth John Stanton Ernest Narjot Ernest Peixotto and more. Harvey, Whitcher & Allen, Publishers to the California Midtwinter International Exposition, unknown
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[CALIFORNIA]
Official Program Gold Show and Rodeo Auburn June 2-3.
Auburn California: California Mining Journal 1934. First edition. Quarto 12 x 9 inches. 20 pp. including wrappers. Illustrated throughout and with a double page color map of region surrounding Auburn including Nevada City Grass Valley and Sacramento Lake Tahoe etc. Publisher's pictorial gold/yellow wrappers. Map with some offsetting in the center due to a laid in newspaper article. Small scrape to upper rear wrapper. Light general wear but a very good copy.Scarce little promotional piece published as an issue of the California Mining Journal. Of special importance is a listing of active mines in the Auburn district. Fifty-four mines are listed. Also included are numerous ads for claims and mining equipment. No copies listed in OCLC/WorldCat. California Mining Journal unknown
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[California]
ORANGE CALIFORNIA = EIGHTY MINUTES FROM LOS ANGELES; THIRTY MINUTES FROM THE OCEAN; ONE HUNDRED MINUTES FROM THE MOUNTAIN RESORTS
1910. An early promotional broadsheet for the northern Orange County California city incorporated in 1888. Features photographic images of the city hall the American Legion Hall the plaza in the center of the Orange Business District the high school and the public library which appear alongside booster slogans like "The Charm of Southern California is Here in Rich Abundance" and "Queen Valencia's Court = An Annual Pageant Celebrating the Ripening of Orange County's $30000000.00 Orange Crop."<br /> <br /> Although undated the appearance of "The Public Library" suggests a date of around 1910 as the Carnegie Library at 407 East Chapman Avenue was opened in 1908.<br /> <br /> Broadsheet 9 3/8" x 12 1/4" printed on the recto only. Creasing from prior folds likely for mailing; else fresh and clean. Scarce OCLC locates only one holding at Yale. unknown
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[CALIFORNIA -- LAND PROMOTION]. [SLABAUGH, Dr FW (Ed).] F W
Orange County California: nature’s prolific wonderland.
Santa Ana CA: Orange County Board of Supervisors 1926. 4to. 24 pp unpaginated. printed in red & black. Photo frontisp. birds-eye of County Courthouse photo illustrations throughout including 2 centerfold panorama photos map of paved highways on back cover. Self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers birds-eye pictorial map of Orange County on front cover minor dustsoiling edgewear light rust marks to staples still VG copy. First edition thus of this land promotion for Orange County CA during the Roaring 20’s. This nicely illustrated piece details the the nearby beaches paved boulevards the advantages to automobile tourists and historic missions. In addition the advantages of Southern California Spanish Revival architecture are extolled and the oil industry growth touted. The map includes the major cities and towns in Orange County and photos and text include towns & cities such as Santa Ana Anaheim Fullerton Orange Huntington Beach Brea La Habra Newport Beach Laguna Beach Garden Grove and Placentia. Orange County Board of Supervisors, paperback
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[CALIFORNIA -- PACIFIC ELECTRIC RED CARS].
Orange Empire Trolley Trip through California’s orange kingdom operates Wednesdays & Sundays 9: A.M. . . ; Original lozenge shaped cabinet photo of a Pacific Electric Railway Motorman.
Los Angeles CA: Pacific Electric Railway July 1928. Two pieces. 1st -- Tall 8vo. 6 pp unpaginated. triptych which folds out into oblong 12 x 9 in. 4to. printed in orange & blue illust. of oranges & trolleys on covers photo illustrations of sights in side slight shelfwear; 2nd -- lozenge silver gelatin photo sized 2.5 x 3.5 in. mounted on 4 x 6 dark gray board rounded corners minor soiling lower spot on board still VG bright image. First edition thus of this nicely illustrated brochure for the “See America First†trolley trip overing 150 miles and traveling through Los Angeles and then the San Gabriel Valley viewing the citrus groves of Southern California as well as the cities of Wilmar El Monte Baldwin Park Covina San Dimas North Pamona Claremont Riverside San Bernardino and Redlands with a cost in 1926 of $ 4.00. Pacific Electric Railway operated electric-powered passenger and freight trains in Southern California and is best remembered as the Red Car mass transit system which reached its height of popularity in the 1920s. The Pacific Electric Railway photo of the Motorman shows him dressed in full uniform with hat facing front lapel pins indicating PERy brass buttons and a stylish Jazz Age silk tie. Pacific Electric Railway, unknown
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[CALIFORNIA] [CATTLE RANCHING] Munroe, Joseph (photographer)
ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH OF A CATTLE ROUND-UP
New York: Photo Researchers Inc 1964. Joseph J. "Joe" Munroe 1917-2014 was an Ohio-born photographer and filmmaker who studied with Ansel Adams early on in his career. After serving in the Air Force during World War II he settled in California where he developed an interest in agriculture and rural life. "Munroe's camera caught the last days of farmers driving teams of horses and picking cotton by hand. From the 1940s through the 1970s technology brought dramatic changes to farm life in the United States. There were still families operating small farms with manual labor but fewer of them. From family-operated farms in the Midwest to the vast fields of California's Central Valley the joys challenges and sheer hard work of rural life are seen in Joe's photographs" ref.Ohio Memory Joe Munroe Collection. A rugged powerful image capturing a cowboy on horseback rounding up cattle at the Van Vleck Ranch southeast of Sacramento family-owned since 1856. Original borderless double-weight silver gelatin photograph measuring 25.5cm x 34cm ca.10" x 13 3/8" and mounted on board. Photocopied sheet mounted on verso with photographer's stamp Photo Researchers sticker holograph snipe and the following note: ".at the Stanley Van Vleck Ranch at Sloughhouse Calif. SE of Sacramento.". Light wear to extremities some "spidering" to corners with a short crease toward lower right corner; Very Good. Photo Researchers, Inc unknown
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[CALIFORNIA MISSIONS]. THOMAS, PJ P J
Our centennial memoir. Founding of the missions. San Francisco de Assis in its hundredth year. The celebration of its foundation. Historical reminiscences of the Missions of California.
San Francisco: Compiled Printed and Published by P.J. Thomas No. 505 Clay Street 1877. 8vo. 192 pp. Woodcut-engraved frontisp. 9 plates 1 large folding of St. Mary’s College 1 folding map of The Laguna Pond of Dolores. Publisher’s brick-red cloth elaborate gilt decoration & lettering on front cover gilt lettering on spine minor bumping head & foot of spine corners minor wear to lower corners still a VG- copy w/ bookplate of the Gentlemen’s Sodality Library at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco on front pastedown w/ stamp of book number. First edition of this rare account of the impact of the Catholic and Jesuit missionaries in California. In addition Thomas has included extensive notes on early explorations of California as well as appendices on The Pious Fund. Of interest is the description and folding map of the Laguna of Dolores which commemorated the report by Gov. Neve of 1777 referring to a Lake Dolores that was located in San Francisco near where the Protestant Orphan Asylum stood in 1877 which site is today bounded by Haight Buchanan Hermann and Laguna Streets. Compiled, Printed and Published by P.J. Thomas, No. 505 Clay Street, hardcover
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[CALIFORNIA]. CHILD, Andrew
Overland route to California: description of the route via Council Bluffs Iowa; keeping the north side of the Platte River for the whole of the distance lying near that stream thence over the South Pass; via the Sublette and Bear River cut-offs and the Truckie River road over the Sierra Nevada to Sacramento Valley. Introduction by Lyle H. Wright.
Los Angeles CA: N.A. Kovach 1946. 8vo. iv 60 4 pp. Illustrated title in red & black plates 1 large folding map. Beige-coloured publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine slight shelfwear NF copy. First Kovach facsimile edition of this early California Trail guidebook first issued in 1852 and here reprinted from the Hunting Library copy as Vol. IV in the California Centennial Series. N.A. Kovach, hardcover
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[CALIFORNIA -- GOLDEN GATE EXPOSITION]. [FELIZ, Frank E (Ed)].
Pageant of the Pacific: Golden Gate International Exposition official DeLuxe views. World’s Fair on San Francisco Bay. . . .
San Francisco CA: H.S. Crocker Company Official Publishers G.G.I.E. 1939. Oblong folio. 13.5 x 10.75 in. 24 pp unpaginated. With photo plates throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art colour photos of the Exposition by Henry Wachs yapp edges very slight shelfwear w/ original printed mailing envelope minor toning shelfwear still F/NF copy. First edition of this beautifully printed photographic excursion through the Art Deco marvels of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition held on Treasure Island in San Francisco. Photographers included Roberts & Roberts Gabriel Moulin and George Grau. Worldcat locates 6 copies Cal. Hist. Soc. Cal State Library CS Fresno SF Public UC Berkeley Art Inst. Chicago. [H.S. Crocker Company, Official Publishers, G.G.I.E., paperback
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[California] [Maps]
PALM SPRINGS MAP GUIDE
Orange and Palm Springs California: Ken and Ruth Du Maurier The Palm Springs Map Guide 1976. Tourist map to the desort resort city in Riverside County California. In addition to a large street map of Palm Springs there are smaller maps of the city bus route Cathedral City and the Coachella Valley respectively. Also provides a list with addresses of movie star and celebrity homes a brief history of the region a description of the picturesque canyon areas and descriptive lists of local shops restaurants hotels golf courses activities service stations etc. Features photographic illustrations and numerous advertisements. Printed in green and desert rose on a 30" x 25 1/2" sheet of white paper that folds to 3 3/4" x 8 1/2" 48 panels. A fresh and clean example. Scarce OCLC locates only one holding at the Library of Congress. Ken and Ruth Du Maurier, The Palm Springs Map Guide unknown
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[California]
Panoramic Photograph of the Downtown Commercial District in Midcentury San Mateo
N.p. but likely in or near San Mateo Ca 1950. Good. Panoramic photograph 8 x 52.25 inches. Moderate scuffing soiling some small creases a few short closed tears one repaired on verso pinholes at corners and along edges. A wider-than-usual panoramic photograph capturing for posterity many of the commercial enterprises along Main Street in San Mateo California in the mid-20th century. The unnamed photographer seems to have stood directly across from the Tecco Electric Construction Company and shot that side of Main Street from San Mateo Florist and Mohawk Gasoline to the left to well beyond the B.F. Goodrich on the right. Some of the other businesses include Sarganis Brothers Custom Interiors Peninsula Wrought Iron Works H.H. MacDonald Homes offering houses in Glenwood Heights Ferreira Paints and L.K. Ward Home Appliances. A handful of blurry automobiles are pictured driving one way or another on the main thoroughfare. A wonderful snapshot of midcentury San Mateo that would make a striking display piece in any midcentury-styled home. unknown
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[California]
PASADENA CALIFORNIA: A Brief Description of an Ideal Home City
Pasadena California: Pasadena Board of Trade 1908. Wraps. Very good. Colorful brochure extolling the virtues of living in Pasadena from its tree-lined streets and idyllic climate to the hotels transportation and other attractions like the Cawston Ostrich Farm and the Tournament of Roses Parade. Oblong booklet 7" x 5": 32 p. Bound with staples in the original pictorial wrappers which are a little foxed; otherwise very good. Pasadena Board of Trade unknown
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[CALIFORNIA -- PASADENA LAND PROMOTION].
Pasadena: California at its best! Summer & Winter. . . .
Pasadena CA: Pasadena Chamber of Commerce 50 North Garfield 1931. 4to. 16 pp unpaginated. printed w/ green & orange borders photo-illustrated throughout. Self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers Art Deco cover art NF copy. First edition of this nicely printed photo-illustrated land promotion for Pasadena California in the depths of the Great Depression touting the advantages of traveling by auto over the new magnificent bridge the tournament of Roses on New Year’s Day with the Rose Bowl Game beautifully appointed homes the Huntington Library Mt. Wilson Observatory and wonderful hotels and theatre’s. Worldcat locates 2 copies Bancroft Yale. [Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, 50 North Garfield, paperback
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[California]
Pasadena: Home of the Tournament of Roses
Los Angeles 1943. Jumbo post card 13 cm x 17 cm printed in color. Near fine. This card features a nice bird's-eye view of Pasadena with City Hall at one end and the Rose Bowl at the other. <br /> <br /> "Now and Tomorrow: Her war tasks geared to the complete Victory that America and the Allies cannot be denied Pasadena is prepared to give her fighting sons and daughters and all citizens the future for which they have been most willing to sacrifice. As their dreams become hopes and their hopes become plans Pasadena is destined to continue her place as the city where the goodness of life is greatest. unknown
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[California – LGBTQ History – Pride] Unknown Photographer
Photo Album of the 1985 Pride Parade in West Hollywood
Los Angeles California 1985. 131 photos measuring 3 ½ x 5 inches with fourteen pieces of ephemera in a photo album. Near Fine. A photo album documenting West Hollywood’s 1985 Pride parade. Eighty-seven photos are of the parade and forty-four are of the photographer’s trip to Ventura with presumably her girlfriend. Marchers include feminist lawyer Gloria Allred The Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles Gay Vietnamese of Southern California actress and HIV/AIDS advocate Judith Light and drag queen mayoral candidate Kitty Cole. There is also one shot of protestors with signs such as “Repent Arrogant Sinners God’s Judgment and Hell are Comingâ€. The Times estimated about 8000 marchers and 50000 to 150000 “well-mannered spectatorsâ€.1<br /> <br /> The album also contains a small collection of ephemera including an admission ticket to the parade flyers for the “Girls Club†dating service and Papi’s Escandalo club a condom from The AIDS Project of Greater Los Angeles and various other events publications and so on.<br /> <br /> 1895 was the twenty-fifth anniversary of Pride in the LA area. The first LA Pride was held on Hollywood Boulevard in 1970 and commemorated the previous year’s Stonewall riot in New York City. The parade moved to West Hollywood now a notable LGBTQ neighborhood in 1979.2<br /> <br /> 1 Daryl Kelley “Thousands Turn Out for Festive Gay Pride Parade†Los Angeles Times Metro June 24 1985 1–2.<br /> 2 Shelby Grad “From gay bashing to AIDS to same-sex marriage L.A. pride parade reflects hopes dreams and despairs†Los Angeles Times June 9 2019 https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pride-parade-los-angeles-history-20190608-story.html. unknown
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[California – San Francisco – Chinese-Americana] Unknown Photographer
Photograph of San Francisco’s Dupont Street Grant Avenue at Night
New York City: Brown Brothers 1910. Photograph measuring 5 x 7 ¼ inches with manuscript caption and Brown Brothers stamps verso. Slight damage to edges else Near Fine. A photo of a nighttime scene in San Francisco’s Chinatown the oldest and largest in the US; the caption identifies the location as Dupont Street now Grant Avenue. Grant Avenue is one of the two main thoroughfares of the city’s Chinatown and a primary location where early Chinese immigrants mainly from Guangdong settled. The neighborhood was entirely destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire and had to be rebuilt; pictured here is the iconic Sing Fat building rebuilt by Ross and Burgren. The new buildings with Chinese-styled pagodas attracted tourists and presented a cleaned-up image of the neighborhood. Brown Brothers unknown
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[California – Early Photography – Calaveras County – San Andreas] Photographer Unknown
Photograph of Main St. San Andreas Showing Presidential Campaign Banners and Local Residents
California 1892. Albumen photograph on board very good contrast mount near fine with minimal wear. A photograph of Main St. in San Andreas in 1892 showing banners for the Democratic ticket of Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson and the Republican ticket of Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid hanging above the street. Despite Cleveland’s national victory the Republican incumbent Harrison narrowly carried California’s electoral votes as discontent—especially among farmers and laborers—boosted support for the People’s Populist Party in California splitting the anti-Republican vote. San Andreas the county seat of Calaveras County was adapting to the post-boom economy during the period. The photograph shows the local merchants who along with assay offices and transport links to larger markets supported the town’s transition to smaller-scale hard rock and quartz mining as larger-scale placer operations dwindled. unknown
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[California] Firks, Henry
PHOTOGRAPH OF ORIGINAL COLOR LITHOGRAPH CAPTIONED "SAN FRANCISCO 1849. DRAWN ON THE SPOT BY HENRY FIRKS FOR W.H. JONES ESQ. OF SAN FRANCISCO U.C.
0San Francisco: Bradley & Rulofson Photographers 1880. Albumen photograph 4-1/2" x 5-3/4" reproducing an early California print mounted on stiff 8" x 10" board. Image surrounded by gilt border. "Bradley & Rulofson Photographers S.F." printed beneath image within the border. Below the border is printed "San Francisco 1849. Drawn on the Spot by Henry Firks for W.H. Jones Esq. of San Francisco" followed by a legend identifying 51 items found in the picture. Light edgewear of backing minor dustsoiling. Very Good.<br /> <br /> Bancroft Library dates this photograph about 1880. A description of the original color lithograph found at the Bancroft website reads: "City and harbor looking from Rincon Point towards Telegraph Hill. Clustered buildings at left with US flag in center Portsmouth Square. Signs on buildings in foreground read 'Sherman & Ruckel' 'P.M.S.S. Co.' and 'S.H. Williams & Co.' Ships in bay one on fire names identified in legend; Yerba Buena Island at right; several tents among buildings and small military camp in right foreground." <br /> Thomas S. Sinclair is credited as the artist. Robert B. Honeyman Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material Bancroft Library UC Berkeley. <br /> OCLC 34275781 1-Bancroft Library as of February 2023. Bradley & Rulofson, Photographers unknown
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[CALIFORNIA -- CINEMA & FILM EDUCATION]. PALMER, Frederick [Arthur].
Photoplay writing: simplified and explained. A practical treatise on scenario writing as practiced at leading motion picture studios with cross-references to successful examples. . . No. M632.
Los Angeles CA: Palmer Photoplay Corporation 1920. 4to. 165 1 pp. Half-burgundy simulated calf over black cloth post-binder gilt lettering & lozenge stamped on front cover punch sewn at gutter margin w/ black braid as issued minor shelfwear rubbing slight scuffing still a VG copy w/ pencil manuscript at rear endpapers with extended quote from famed Hollywood screenplay writer Charles Gardner Sullivan 1884-1965. Revised and expanded edition of one of the most successful correspondence cars promising to prepare women and men for jobs in the ever-expanding and flourishing new movie industry Hollywood “Film Capital of the World.†This revised edition is significantly expanded by over 40 pages from the others issued before World War I and intended to offer the aspiring screenwriter not only a path to self-expression but a way to experience and appreciate this new art form. Palmer 1881-1961 himself had written silent film scripts for several movies released from 1911-1913 but proved to be far more successful in establishing his screenplay writer’s school whose advisory council included Cecil B. DeMille Lois Weber Thomas Ince and guest lectures by Sullivan himself. See: Anne Morey: ‘Have You the Power’ The Palmer Photoplay Corporation and the Film Viewer/Author in the 1920s Film History Vol. 9 No. 3 1997 pp. 300-319. Palmer Photoplay Corporation, hardcover
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[CALIFORNIA & THE WEST]. MUIR, John (Ed).
Picturesque California: the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Slope: California Oregon Nevada Washington Alaska Montana Idaho Arizona Colorado Utah Wyoming etc. Illustrated with etchings photogravures wood engravings etc. by eminent American artists Div. 1-10.
San Francisco & New York: The J.ames Dewing Company Publishers J. Dewing Publshing Co. changeover in 1888 1887-1888 i.e. 1890. Ten vols. Folio. 8 48; 2 49-96; 2 97-144; 2 145-192; 2 193-240; 2 241-288; 2 289-336; 2 337-384; 2 385-432; 2 433-478 8 pp. with titles Div. 1 & end of Div. 10 in red & black. With 120 sepia- and aqua-tinted photogravures and etchings along with illustrated printed tissue guards and 100’s of woodcut engravings etchings and tinted text engravings. Pictorial gray-blue publisher’s cloth cover art illustration of the Sierras and inset California Mission scene Div. 7 w/ ffep. as the original wrappers front & back covers couple minor closed tears to fore-edges minor gouge & chip to fore-edge of front cover Div. 4 occasional closed tears to a few leaves fore-edges occasional minor age toning some soiling & faint tide marks to a couple of the volumes dustsoiling & minor wear to a couple spines still a VG bright set. First edition thus of this version of John Muir’s Picturesque California which was originally issued in 30 monthly parts featuring hundreds of etchings photogravures and wood etchings of California and Western scenery drawing inspiration from Bryant’s Picturesque America. Featuring such authors alongside Muir as Joquin Miller Kate Field George Hamlin Titch Ernest Ingersoll Albert Gray C.C. Goodwin and others this wonderfully illustrated set fulfills “the mission of this work is to make the best possible representation of the marvelous scenery and sublime natural wonders of†California and West. Of additional interest is that this version includes Muir’s article on “Alaska†which appeared in all the 1888 editions but was omitted later in the 1894 printings. The array of artists and their photogravure’s opens with Thomas Moran’s “The Half Dome†and others of his as well as etchings and gravures from art by Keith Julian Rix Frederick Remington Arthir I. Keller John Durkin Frank Tabor Charles Dorman Robinson and more. See: Kimes John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes 187. The J.[ames] Dewing Company, Publishers, J. Dewing Publshing Co. (changeover in 1888), hardcover
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[California – Portraiture] Higgins & Hunt
Portrait of a Young Woman of Color in California c. 1870s
California: Higgins & Hunt 1870. Carte de visite measuring 2 ½ x 4 inches. Fine. A portrait of a well-dressed young woman taken by Higgins & Hunt a Californian photography studio active at least in the 1870s. No date or location information is given but newspapers from the time indicate that Higgins & Hunt were based in San Francisco and worked briefly in Fresno in 1877. Higgins & Hunt unknown
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[California] [Agriculture]
POST BROTHERS HEAVY DUTY PLOWS
Santa Ana California: Post Brothers Tractor Rental Service 1935. This scarce trade catalogue illustrates and provides the specifications for three heavy duty plows. Includes photographic images of the plows in use on agricultural land in Orange County California. The Post Brothers built what is thought to be the world's largest plow measuring 37 feet long 12 feet high and 11 feed wide with a blade of 86 inches. Built in 1937 it is now on display at the Westminster Historical Society. Quarto: 8 pp. including the wrappers 8 1/4" x 10 5/8". Light edgewear; else very good or better. OCLC locates no holdings. Accompanied by an original 8" x 10" photograph showing a Post Brothers plow in use in Westminster California. Post Brothers Tractor Rental Service unknown
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[California Gold Rush]. Anglo-Californian Gold Mining Company
Printed Circular Letter from the Anglo-Californian Gold Mining Company Regarding Company Stock
London: May 19 1855. About very good. 2pp. on a bifolium. Previously folded. Light wear along top edge; short closed tear at right margin. Scattered faint foxing. With original mailing envelope. This two-page printed circular dated May 19th 1855 from the Anglo-California Gold Mining Company in London offers to convert "unissued shares" of company stock into "preference shares." The first page of the circular reads in part:<br /> <br /> "You will observe from the enclosed report not present of the adjourned General Meeting that circumstances have arisen in California rendering it imperative that the Director should immediately have at his command a further sum of £6600. You will also observe that the Board have power to convert the unissued shares into preference shares at par to be offered in the first instance to the present holders of shares. The advantage offered to persons taking those Shares is that they are guaranteed a dividend of 25 per cent per annum before any dividend is paid on the other Shares."<br /> <br /> The second leaf of the bifolium prints a blank form for recipients to purchase said preferred shares. During the first years of the California gold rush approximately 120 companies formed in Great Britain to offer mining shares in the booming goldfields to the public. Many saw these companies as an opportunity to invest in the boom without facing the expense or the danger of traveling to California. Most however ended in failure and investors collectively lost almost £2 million at the time.<br /> <br /> The Anglo-California Gold Mining Company formed by Luke Williams in March 1849 was one of the first and largest of these British ventures and it sold thousands of ten shilling shares to the public. Williams sent a former Royal Navy Captain Henry Vere Huntley to the Calaveras River in early 1850 to start the operation. When he failed Williams arranged a deal with Fremont's Quartz Rock Mariposa Gold Company to crush and refine their ore and the ore of smaller ventures. To that end the company sent two steam-powered crushing mills to California and when those proved useless to the task the company failed. May 19 unknown
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[California]
PROCEEDINGS OF A PUBLIC MEETING OF THE DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF CALIFORNIA OPPOSED TO THE ELECTION OF A UNITED STATES SENATOR AT THE PRESENT SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE HELD IN THE SENATE CHAMBER AT BENICIA ON THURSDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 2 1854
San Francisco: Placer Times and Transcript Office 1854. 8pp bound in attractive modern quarter calf and marbled boards gilt spine lettering. Very Good. <br /> <br /> A significant chapter in the epic Gwin-Broderick struggle which split the California Democratic Party on the Kansas-Nebraska issue and ended only with Broderick's death in a duel with Chief Justice David Terry of the California Supreme Court. At the time of this public meeting Broderick was President of the California Senate. He sought to engineer his own election to the U.S. Senate to replace Senator Gwin whose term would expire on March 4 1855. These California Democrats resist the attempt to steamroll Broderick's election arguing that only "the Legislature next preceding a new senatorial term has the right to elect." <br /> Discussing this item Eberstadt says "The 'public meeting' was held in the Senate Chamber at Benicia and the proceedings give a clear insight into local politics just prior to vigilante days." <br /> Cowan 502. Greenwood 491 1- CU-B. 136 Eberstadt 157. Placer Times and Transcript Office unknown
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[California - Music - Prohibition Era] Jones, Eddie
Prohibition-Era Photograph Album of Eddie Jones a Touring Banjo Player and Lover of Life in 1920s Southern California
Southern California 1920. Limp leatherette album oblong 4to measuring 10 x 7 inches with seventy photographs most measuring 4 x 2 ½ inches. Wear to binding photographs with excellent contrast very good to near fine overall. Near Fine. An energetic album of photographs belonging to one Eddie Jones a fun-loving banjo player from Santa Ana mostly composed of photographs of musicians performing at small parties and functions during the prohibition era. Jones was apparently quite active on the local scene and the album is mostly made up of candid photographs of musicians all captioned some humorously. Many of the photographs show small bands playing guitars many of them playing with slides likely due to the popularity of Hawaiian music at the time. Also included are many photographs of parades in and around Los Angeles as well as photographs of the 1925 Santa Barbara Earthquake showing damaged buildings. Two photographs feature a glass of rye others show agricultural scenes. Newspaper clippings in the back center on the Santa Ana and it’s possible that Jones - who was the common name mentioned in these clippings - was also a farmer from the Santa Ana area when he wasn’t playing music. One photograph shows San Diego a couple show a bullfight in Tijuana. Overall an evocative and well preserved piece of California Prohibition-era history. unknown
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[California]
PROPERTIES OWNED AND OPERATED: Territory Served. Pacific Gas and Electric Company California Gas and Electric Corporation San Francisco Gas and Electric Company. California U.S.A.
San Francisco: Pacific Gas and Electric 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Oblong octavo: 268 2 pp. with numerous photographic illustrations and a folding color map. In the publisher's maroon leather binding with gilt-stamped titling and blind-stamped borders. All edges gilt with marbled endpapers. Some mild wear to the corners and tips; else near fine.<br /> <br /> From the library of William Henry Crocker with "W. H. Crocker" stamped in gilt on the front panel. William Henry Crocker 1861-1937 was part of the influential Crocker family one of the "Big Four" families associated with the Central Pacific Railroad. He was President of the Crocker National Bank one of California's leading financial institutions in the early 20th century and played an important role in rebuilding San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. Crocker also made various philanthropic contributions to the city's cultural and educational institutions.<br /> <br /> This publication provides a comprehensive overview of the infrastructure and service areas of major California utility companies including Pacific Gas and Electric Company PG&E California Gas and Electric Corporation CG&E and San Francisco Gas and Electric Company SFG&E. Pacific Gas and Electric hardcover
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[California]
RAND-MCNALLY & CO.’S INDEXED COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP POCKET MAP AND SHIPPERS’ GUIDE OF CALIFORNIA: Accompanied by a New and Original Compilation and Ready Reference Index Showing in Detail the Entire Railroad System The Express Company doing business over each Road and Accurately Locating All Cities Towns Post Offices Railroad Stations Villages Counties Islands Lakes Rivers etc.
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1914. Highly detailed color map of the Golden State with insets of San Francisco Los Angeles and San Diego. The booklet includes advertisements for 28 hotels in California and the West many of them operated by Fred Harvey.<br />  <br /> 86 p. with the folding map 33†x 39†and advertisements for hotels in California and elsewhere. Original printed brown paper wrappers bound with three staples. The map is detached and laid in loose with small splits and a few short tears along the folds. Mild edgewear to the wrappers; else very good. Rand McNally & Company unknown
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[CALIFORNIA - MARITIME]. LEALE, John & LEALE, Marion [Whitford].
Recollections of a Tule Sailor by John Leale 1850-1932 Master Mariner San Francisco Bay with interpolations by. . . .
San Francisco CA: George Fields 1939. Tall 8vo. 311 1 pp. Photo frontisp. 21 photo illustrations. Sailcloth publisher’s binding by Cardoza as issued cover illustrations by L.B. Haste slightly shaken w/ d.j. cover art of sidewheeler ferry on San Francisco Bay by Haste minor creasing couple minor closed tears slight rubbing still NF/VG bright copy inscribed by compiler and editor Marion Whitfield Leale September 1939. First edition 1 of 1000 copies and inscribed by the editor & compiler John Leale’s daughter Marion of this remarkable autobiography from the original manuscript of this pioneering steamboat and ferryboat captain venturing up the Sacramento River among the tule rushes and crisscrossing San Francisco Bay on ferryboats. Urged on by famed Alexander Robertson San Francisco bookseller John under the encouragement of his daughters had written his autobiography later substantially added and annotated with interpolations by his daughter. George Fields, hardcover
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[CALIFORNIA -- RAILROAD & AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL].
Redwood Empire Tour by rail and motor coach.
San Francisco CA: Southern Pacific Lines March 2 1929. 4to. 8 x 9 in. 8 pp unpaginated. which folds out leporello accordion style into oblong folio 31.5 x 9 in. printed in red blue & black. With photo illustrations 2 maps self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers Art Deco cover art by Maurice Logan 1886-1977 noted California expressionist & watercolour painter minor shelfwear slight dustsoiling still VG copy. First edition thus of this nicely illustrated and uncommon rail & automobile guide to the Southern Pacific Redwood Empire Tour with stops in Grants Pass Eureka & San Francisco with sidetrip to the Shasta area and through the majestic Redwoods long the Northern California coast. No copies in Worldcat 3 copies of 1930 edition Marin Bancroft SMU. Southern Pacific Lines, paperback
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[California]
Report to Mr. Asa Keyes District Attorney Los Angeles County California on the Failure of the St. Francis Dam
Los Angeles 1928. Good plus. 423 leaves plus forty-six photographs. Folio. Contemporary black leatherette cover gilt. Spine ends chipped and worn leather coming away from boards extremities worn. Small pen notation to title page contemporary ink stamps in text. Light wear. Report compiled by District Attorney Asa Keyes following the tragic and catastrophic failure of the St. Francis Dam. The St. Francis Dam was a concrete gravity dam located in the San Francisquito Canyon in northern Los Angeles County built between 1924 and 1926. Just before midnight on March 17 1928 the dam failed killing at least 431 people in the subsequent flood. It is considered one of the worst American civil engineering disasters of the 20th century and the third-greatest loss of life in California history. In the immediate aftermath of the disaster officials at all levels began enquiries into the causes. This typescript report produced within a month of the collapse and flood was ordered by Keyes as part of his investigations. The text is accompanied by six charts and thirty-six photographic views with captions. Though there were many theories about the cause of the collapse experts concluded that the failure was due to defective foundation materials "which while reasonably hard when dry became soft and yielding when saturated with water." The dam's failure ended the career of William Mulholland the general manager and chief engineer of the Bureau of Water Works and Supply which is now the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. When asked by Keyes if he would build the dam on the same spot again Mulholland replied "No I must be frank and say that now I would not." Formerly the property of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce this piece was acquired by author Tom Zimmerman along with other source material for his book on the city Paradise Promoted: The Booster Campaign That Created Los Angeles 1870-1930 2008. No copies noted in OCLC. unknown
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[California]. Ellis, Wilson R
Resources of San Joaquin County California. A Review of Its Agricultural Manufacturing and Commercial Interests cover title
San Francisco: Bacon & Company 1886. Good plus. 64pp. plus two folding plates. Original printed wrappers. Spine and wrapper corners chipped; relatively sympathetic tape repairs to spine. Contemporary ownership inscription on front wrapper. Plates separating at folds. Even tanning scattered foxing. Scarce 1886 promotional pamphlet for San Joaquin County and its county seat of Stockton "Addressed particularly to the stranger who wishes to know in what portion of California he may find combined those advantages in climate location and soil that would determine the fixing of his new home." The pamphlets contains two maps one double-page color map of the county by soil type chromolithographed by Britton and Rey the other a folding map of rail routes and connections of the Sierra Nevada & San Joaquin Railroad. The verso of this plate depicts the county exhibit at the 1886 California State Fair. The text itself is quite extensive with a focus soil and agriculture; numerous local advertisements throughout. OCLC locates seven copies; only one in auction records for the last fifty years. Bacon & Company unknown
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