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$ 1250.00
Mhulack, E.; Friar, S. Historically Important Collection of Two Manuscript Letters Signed by California Pioneer Gold Miners “Esoch Mhulack” and “S. Friar” and Addressed to Their Business Associate “F. B. Haight,” Complaining About the Average Prices for 883 ½ Purity of Gold Dust and Calculating the Distribution of Income Among Stakeholders; also with Notes about Nicaragua Steamship Company’s High Second Cabin Fees and Operational Delays. San Francisco: 28 March 1857.
$ 3500.00
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Heilbronn, Alexander (ca. 1899-1966); Heilbronn, Margaret (ca. 1912-1985). Historically Significant Archive of Over 100 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs and Real Photo Postcards, ca. 60 Pages of Printed, Typewritten, and Handwritten Ephemera (Including Two German Passports and a Military Pass) from the Family of Krefeld-Based German Jewish Gynecologist Alexander Heilbronn, Offering Rare Insight into a Typical Oppressed Jewish Family’s Struggle to Escape Nazi Germany and Rebuild Their Lives Abroad. Ca. 1860s-1960s.
$ 2250.00
Graham Photo Company. Album with 36 Original Gelatin Silver Studio Photographs, Showing Los Angeles (Figueroa Street, a Street in St. James Park, House of Harrison Gray Otis), Pasadena (Orange Grove Avenue, Raymond Hotel, Mansions of William C. Stuart and Charles Richardson), Arcadia (Baldwin’s Ranch), Altadena (House of Colonel George G. Green), Redlands (Brookside Avenue, House of Albert C. Burrage), Riverside (Magnolia Avenue), San Gabriel, a Portrait of Actress Helena Modjeska in her “Arden Forest” House near Silverado, a Scene at an Ostrich Farm, &c. Ca. 1900s.
$ 750.00
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Martelli, Santina (ca. 1900-1975). A Keepsake Album of Santina ‘Tina’ Martelli of Genoa, Italy, Compiled by her Friends Prior to Family’s Departure to the United States, Consisting of Good Luck Wishes, Vows not to Forget Italy, and a Photograph of the Group. Ca. 1922.
$ 5250.00
Shashkov, Serafim Serafimovich (1841-1882). Rossiysko-Amerikanskaya Kompaniya [Russian American Company] // In: Istoricheskye Etudy/Izdaniye N.A. Shigina [Historical Sketches/Published by N.A. Shigin, Vol. 2, pp. 295-325]. Saint Petersburg: Typ. of A. Morigerovsky, 1872.
$ 1500.00
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Levy, Cecilia (ca. 1891-1973). Historically Interesting Extensive Diary of a German-Jewish Female Immigrant in San Francisco, Daughter of an Estranged Real Estate Businessman, Herself Diagnosed with One Year to Live, Describing Her Daily Life among German Friends and Relatives (Playing Bridge and Bingo, Shopping, Attending Luncheons and Popular Shows), the Poor State of Medicine, Early Treatments for Arthritis, Exorbitant Rent Prices, the Lack of Competent Maids, etc. Full-leather notebook, with gilt lettering ‘Diary’ on the front cover. [357] p. Ca. 1930.
[Prevaux, Francis Edward, Reverend, Attributed to] (1822-1860). An Interesting Original Autograph Letter Signed “Frank E. Prevaux,” Written by a Young New England Port Worker (Future Baptist Missionary in San Francisco and Principal of the San Francisco Academy, Rev. F.E. Prevaux), Mentioning His Dining in the “Seamen’s Home” (Possibly, in Providence, Rhode Island), Work in Port, His “Theological Course” and Interactions with “an Old Tar” Who “Has Lately Run Away from a British Man of War, Was in the Late War between England and China and is Pretty Well Scarred Up”. [Likely, Providence, R.I., ca. 1840s].
$ 2900.00
Two Manuscript Instruction Manuals. San Francisco: 1923.
$ 9500.00
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Morgan, Owen Richard (ca. 1829-1895). Historically Important Archive Including an Extensive Handwritten Journal, Ca. Eight Pages of Original Manuscripts, Five Printed Receipts, Two Printed Programs, Two Newspaper Clippings, and One Typescript, Documenting the Experiences of Welsh Carpenter Owen Richard Morgan and his Fellow Welshmen in the Victorian Gold Rush and 19th-Century California. Ca. 1864-1889.
$ 425.00
Farragut, David Glasgow (1801-1870). Secretarial Copy of an Autographed Letter Signed by David Glasgow Farragut Concerning a Seized Whaler, Copied by his Clerk and Signed by him: "D.E. Farragut, Comd'g.". La Paz, Mexico: 20 November 1855.
