A Collection of 14 Autobiographical Manuscripts of Early California Pioneers Who Became Major Political leaders in the State. These handwritten autobiographies represent the major California politicians, jurists and founders of the state. This unique collection reflects how all of these men began their careers in either the Midwest or Eastern..... More
Ca.1880. 3" X 3 1/2" Photo album with each page holding 4 tin type photographs each measuring 1" x 3/4" making a total of 48. These are students and a few faculty at San Jose Normal School in original blue case. We have been able to identify many of these..... More
Chicago(nd. ca.1920): Curt Teich. Oblong Quarto. unpaginated; 23 full-page sepia illustrations, mounted (including a folding double-page panorama), map, two pages of text containing illustration descriptions, (most copies record only 22 illustrations). Bound in tan pictorial wrappers lettered in green & gilt, photographic image mounted on upper cover entitled: "Crossing Great..... More
1851-1851. The only other known copy is at Yale University. It is an original lithograph that measures 11 x 19 cm on a sheet that is 13 x 22 cm. It depicts a street where a stagecoach is pulling away, three mules tied together are laden with packs, and two..... More
Oakland: Post-Enquirer Publishing Company, 1931. Octavo. 174 pages. Davie was mayor of Oakland from 1895-1897 and from 1915-1931, the longest-serving mayor. During his life, he was a canal boy, law student, butcher, buckaroo, rancher, inventor, actor, opera singer, bouncer, miner, lawyer, crusader, merchant, bookseller, organizer, ship owner and politician. Not..... More
Claremont, California: Saunders Press, 1947. Octavo. 12 pages. This delightful history of booksellers in early LA has a photographic image of Ernest Dawson taken about 1900 when he worked for Henry Ward and provides not only biographies of those booksellers but also his visits and meeting with most of them..... More
While William Jefferson Gatewood is known more prominently as the first publisher of the San Diego Union, his earlier history involved serving with the Illinois Mounted Volunteers during the Mexican-American War in 1847-1848. Once mustered out he headed to California for the Gold Rush ending up in San Andreas, where..... More
Chicago: Coronet, 1937. . 6 pages mimeographed, sent from Coronet Magazine (originally published June 1937) in original mailing envelope from Coronet. Accompanied with A.B. Lee's, Houses of Earth; an illustrated booklet on how to build rammed earth houses. 32 page booklet expands on Coronet article. Article was sent to William..... More