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4[AMERICANS IN BURMA & INDIA – WW2]

[Historically Important Collection of 108 Large Original Gelatin Silver Photos in Two Albums, Taken by the Members of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in the China Burma India Theatre of WW2; the Photos Show the Recapture of Northern Myanmar around Myitkyina, Construction and Maintenance of the Ledo Road from Assam...

Ca. April 1944 – August 1945. Two oblong Folio albums, each ca. 22,5x32 cm (9 x 12 ½ in). Each.....

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8[SOUTH AMERICA - BRAZIL – RIO DE JANEIRO]

[Historically Interesting Album with ca. 293 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Rio de Janeiro].

Ca. 1930s. Oblong Folio album ca. 25,5x33,5 cm (10x13 in). 22 card stock leaves with tissue guards. With ca. 293.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - ALASKA - CRUISE] TEMBREULL, Christine Erma (1895-1961), attributed to

[Album with 114 Original Gelatin Silver Photos Taken During a Cruise to Alaska in 1938 and Showing Metlakatla, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Sitka, Skagway, Letnikof Cove, Haines Barracks, Famous Skagway Tour Guide Martin Itjen, Indigenous People, Filipino Steerage Passengers, American Military men from Haines Barracks, Cruiseship Passengers and Captain, &c.].

1938. Oblong Quarto album ca. 17x24 cm (6 ½ x 9 ½ in). 23 black stock leaves. With 114 original.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA – HOBART MILLS]

[Historically Important Album with 104 Original Gelatin Silver Photos and Real Photo Postcards of California, Showing the Town of Hobart Mills (non-Existent since 1938), Prosser Creek, Independence Lake, Tahoe Lake, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Gabriel Mission, Life Savers at Long Beach, &c.].

Ca. 1900s. Oblong Folio album ca. 26x34,5 cm (10 x 13 ½ in). 18 card stock leaves + 11 black.....

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7[SOUTH AMERICA - ARGENTINA - BAPTISTS]

[Album of 159 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Buenos Aires and Argentina, Including 147 Real Photo Postcards and Four Views of Baptist Theological Seminary and College in Buenos Aires, and a Baptist Church in Adrogue].

Ca. 1930s. Oblong Folio album (ca. 25,5x30,5 cm). 24 card stock album leaves with tissue guards. With eight large studio.....

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[AMERICANS IN GREENLAND – THULE US AIR BASE]

[Album of 145 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing the Premises and Personnel of the US Thule Air Base in Greenland, Nearby Dundas Village and Its Inuit Residents, Greenland Landscapes and Arctic Animals, &c.].

Ca. 1960s. Oblong Folio album (ca. 26x34 cm). 24 black card album leaves. With 145 mounted gelatin silver photos, including.....

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2[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA - SAN FRANCISCO – 1906 EARTHQUAKE & FIRE] [BULLOCK, Thomas Fontaine] (1872-1938); [ROSS, John] (ca. 1859-1929)

[Collection of 79 Loose Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing the Destruction of San Francisco and Environs about a Week after the Earthquake on April 18, 1906; With a Commemorative Issue of the “San Francisco Examiner” dated 18 April 1975, and Three Clippings from Californian Newspapers (1972, 1975 and 1976), Dedicated...

Ca. spring-summer 1906. Seventy-nine loose gelatin silver photos, including six larger ones, ca. 15,5x20,5 cm (6 ¼ x 8 in).....

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9[NORTH AMERICA - ALASKA - ALEUTIANS – UNALASKA, UMAKNAK & SHUMAGIN ISLANDS] [ENNIS, R.C.?]

[Album of 180 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Dutch Harbor (Unalaska), Sand Point (Popof Island) and Unga Village on Unga Island (a Ghost Town Since 1969), Taken and Collected by an American Resident During WW2].

Ca. 1940-1944. Oblong Folio album (ca. 29x38,5 cm). 16 black card album leaves. With 177 mounted and three loosely inserted.....

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[CENTRAL AMERICA - MEXICO] FIGUEROA, Fidel; OSUNA, Sabino; “MEXICO FOTOGRAFICO”; “NAVARRO FOT.,” and others

[Collection of 139 Real Photo Postcards of Mexico, Showing Mexico City, Taxco, Acapulco, Monterrey, Guernavaca, Mt. Iztacchihuatl, Chichen Itza, “Balneario de San Jose Purua,” &c.].

Ca. 1920s-1950s. 139 real photo postcards ca. 8,5x13,5 cm (3 ¼ x 5 ¼ in). Most photos captioned in negative.....

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Price: $2,250.00 USD
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[CENTRAL AMERICA - GUATEMALA] EICHENBERGER, Roberto (1902-?), and others

[Collection of 26 Real Photo Postcards of Guatemala, Showing Chichicastenango, Solola, Totonicapan, Santiago Atitlan, San Antonio Palopo, Lake Atitlan and La Antigua].

Ca. 1930s-1940s. Twenty-six real photo postcards ca. 8,5x13,5 cm (3 ¼ x 5 ¼ in). Six postcards with printed captions.....

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[AMERICANS IN THE PHILIPPINES - ILIGAN - PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN WAR] WOOD, Norman S., Private (ca. 1870-after 1903)

[Album of Twenty-Four Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Yligan (Iligan, Mindanao, Philippines), Taken by a Private of the Twenty-Third Infantry Regiment during the Philippine-American War].

Ca. 1900s. Oblong Small Octavo album (ca. 12x18 cm). 12 stiff card album leaves. With 24 gelatin silver photos mounted.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA - SANTA BARBARA – 1925 EARTHQUAKE]

[Collection of 75 Loose Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Showing the Destruction in Santa Barbara and Environs after the Earthquake on June 29, 1925].

Ca. 1925. Seventy-five loose gelatin silver photos: twenty larger ones (including one duplicate), ca. 11,5x16,5 cm (4 ½ x6 ½.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES – DOWNTOWN & INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT] CAWOOD, Albert E.; HUDDLESTON PHOTO CO.; PRESS PHOTO SERVICE; GRAHAM PHOTO CO.

[Collection of Twenty Loose Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Building and Businesses in the Historic Downtown and Industrial Districts of Los Angeles].

Ca. 1920s. Twenty loose gelatin silver photos from ca. 20,5x25,5 cm (8x10 in) to ca. 18,5x24 cm (7 ¼ x......

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3[NORTH AMERICA - NEVADA – PETROGLYPHS] [MILES, David (Dave) Francis] (1902-1977); JOHN W. WALKER ELECTRIC STUDIO

[Historically Significant Collection of 102 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Archaeological Excavations, Artefacts and Petroglyphs Discovered in Eastern Nevada by Members of the “National Cosmographic Society” (Ely), Which David Miles was a Secretary of; With a Later Manuscript Draft of a Letter (Most Likely, Authored by Miles) to an American...

Photographs: ca. 1920s. 102 loose gelatin silver photos, including eighty-one larger ones (including eleven duplicates), ca. 12,5x18 cm (5x7 in).....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA - SAN FRANCISCO BAY – 4TH OF JULY PARADE]

[Collection of Three Original Watercolours, Showing the Floats and Participants of the a 1907 Fourth of July Parade – Most Likely, a First Such Parade Held in South San Francisco].

Ca. 1907. Three original loose watercolours ca. 26x43,5 cm (10x17 in), ca. 25,5x41 cm (10x16 in) and ca. 22,5x39,5 cm.....

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5[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA - SAN FRANCISCO – 1906 EARTHQUAKE AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY] [NORVELL, LOUISE SEVIER] (1883-1973); PILLSBURY PICTURE CO.

[Historically Significant Collection of Five Original Autograph Letters Including Four Signed by Stanford University Student Louise Norvell, Including Her Emotional Eye-Witness Account of the Infamous Earthquake on April 18, 1906, Written Just a Few Hours Later; With Four Period Studio Photos, Showing the Destruction in Stanford after the Earthquake, and...

Five autograph letters signed: Stanford University & “Home,” [1903, 1905, 1906 & 1909]. Eighteen leaves of various size from ca.....

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[CARIBBEAN – EARLY CRUISE] [ARNOLDSON, Louise Griffin, née PATERSON] (1876-1956)

[Album with 165 Original Gelatin Silver Photos and Cyanotypes, Taken and Collected during the 1902 Cruise Around the Caribbean on Board the Hamburg-America Line Ship “Prinzessin Victoria Luise,” Including Several Images of St. Pierre and Morne Rouge on Martinique Shortly before Their Destruction during the Eruption of Mount Pelée in...

Ca. 1902. Oblong Folio album (ca. 25,5x30,5 cm). 22 card stock leaves. With 165 mounted original photographs (153 mounted and.....

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[AMERICAN TOURISTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, SRI LANKA & INDIA] HENSHAW CHICKERING, Alla [Sarah] (1887-1950); [HENSHAW, William Griffith] (1860-1924)

[Beautiful Custom Bound Keepsake Diary (Typewritten Manuscript) of a Leisure Trip of an Affluent California Family in ca. 1905 across the Mediterranean, Holy Land, Egypt, Sri Lanka, and India, Presented to the Compiler’s Father and Illustrated with Thirty-Four Original Photos Taken on the Trip; the Diary is Titled:] To Papa...

Ca. early 1900s & 1918. Octavo manuscript (ca. 22x16,5 cm). 35, [3], [9 - blank] leaves. Typewritten text on wove.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - TEXAS – DEMOCRATS & ELECTIONS] [HILL, James, Attributed to] (1836-1881)

[Original Autograph Letter Signed by a Gilmer Resident to His Sister “Mrs. Mary Key,” with the Account of the Debates before the Elections to the House of Representatives, the Loss of Lemuel Dale Evans, Whose Character is Nevertheless “One of the Most Spotless in Fact of any Man in the...

Gilmer [Upshur Co.], 16 July 1857. Large Octavo (ca. 24,5x19,5 cm). 3 pp. Brown ink on bluish laid paper. With.....

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[CARIBBEAN - JAMAICA - HURRICANE]

[Collection of Three Original Manuscripts, Reporting on the Voyage to Jamaica of a British Merchant Brig “Jane” in August 1780 – March 1781, Including a Detailed Account of “Jane’s” Wreck and Damage in the Mouth of the Great River during the Savanna-la-Mar Hurricane on October 3, 1780].

Montego Bay (Jamaica), 10 January 1781; London, 24 July and 31 August 1781. Three folded Folio manuscripts: two folio bifoliums.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - OREGON – FORTY-NINER] GUYLES, R.B.

[Original Autograph Letter Written by a Forty-Niner from Cayuga County (NY), Talking about His Voyage to the Oregon Territory Onboard the USS “Massachusetts” in Winter 1848-May 1849, Life and Work in the Oregon City, Local Climate, Prices, Plans to go to the Walla Walla Mines, &c.].

Oregon City, 25 June 1850. Quarto bifolium (ca. 25x19,5 cm). 2 pp. Dark brown ink on bluish wove paper. Addressed.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA – SACRAMENTO] SPURR, George Graham (1828-1903)

[Original Autograph Letter Signed by George Spurr - a Renowned Forty-Niner and Sacramento Pioneer, then the Owner of a “Tea and Coffee Saloon” on the K Street, Delivering the Latest News about His Correspondent’s Sons and Describing Sacramento’s “Deplorable Condition” during the 1853 Flood: “Streets are Like Swamp & Goods...

Sacramento City, 30 March 1853. Quarto bifolium (ca. 25,5x18,5 cm). 3 pp. Brown ink on bluish wove paper. Fold marks.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA – EL DORADO COUNTY] [CLARK, S.M.?]

[Original Autograph Letter Written by a Gold Miner in the Garden Valley (El Dorado County), Talking about His Sea Voyage, Being Fed with “Hard Bread & Stinking Meat,” Gold Mining in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Tree Cutting, Plans to Take a “Job of Fluming to Carry Water from one Hill...

Garden Valley, 17 April 185[8 or 9?]. Quarto bifolium (ca. 25x19,5 cm). 4 pp. Brown ink on bluish laid paper.....

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[NORTH AMERICA - CALIFORNIA – MILLERTON/FRESNO CO.] MORROW, Jessy (1827-1897); CARROLL, Hugh Augustus (1828-1899)

[Original Handwritten, Signed, and Notary Certified Deed of the Sale of the Millerton Ferry across the San Joaquin River (now the site of the Millerton Lake, Fresno County) from Jesse Morrow to Ira McGray on June 9, 1855].

Millerton, 9 June 1855. Quarto bifolium (ca. 24,5x19 cm). 2 pp. Brown ink on bluish wove paper. Annotated and docketed.....

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6[NORTH AMERICA - OREGON – ROGUE RIVER WAR] BARKWELL, M.C., Surgeon General of Oregon Territory; WIXOM, Henry Walker (1820-1888); COOMBS, L.J., Surgeon, Oregon Mounted Volunteers

[Collection of Two Original Autograph Letters Signed and Three Period Copies of Certificates of Service and Discharge, Detailing on the Medical Service and Supplies in the Second Regiment, Oregon Mounted Volunteers during the Rogue River War of 1855-56].

Jacksonville & Fort Leland, 8 May, 10, 16, 28 August, 4 September 1856. Five original Folio manuscripts, each ca. 30,5x19.....

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