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Album with ca. 260 Original Early Gelatin Silver Photos (mounted and loosely inserted) of the US...
Historically Important Early US Airforce Photos of Ellington Field Airbase.

[Album with ca. 260 Original Early Gelatin Silver Photos (mounted and loosely inserted) of the US Air Service Training Base at Ellington Field, Showing Aerial Views of the Base, Houston and Nearby Towns, Planes on the Ground and in Flying Formations, Numerous Wrecked Planes, Portraits of the Cadets, Mechanics, Commanders...

Ca. 1918-1919. Oblong Quarto album (ca. 18,5x27,5 cm). 45 card stock leaves (several blanks). With ca. 234 mounted gelatin silver.....

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Album with 219 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Illustrating Dr. L.E. Rozeboom’s Malaria...
Important Photos of the US Military and Malaria Research in Trinidad and Tobago.

[Album with 219 Original Gelatin Silver Photos, Illustrating Dr. L.E. Rozeboom’s Malaria Research Trip to Trinidad in 1941, Showing the Party Members, Interior of a Trinidad Medical Facility, a Village near the US Air Base in Cumuto where “We Collected Mosquitoes,” “Place where Rozeboom got Malaria,” also Port of Spain...

1941. Quarto album (ca. 30x25 cm). 41 card stock leaves. With 219 gelatin silver photographs (one loosely inserted, all other.....

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Original Autograph Letter to an Agent of a Potential Buyer for a Mining Property in California,...
California Gold Mining Letter

[Original Autograph Letter to an Agent of a Potential Buyer for a Mining Property in California, Urging Him to Make up His Mind and Complete the Negotiations Because the Repairs of Machinery Need to Be Done and the Mine Needs to be Pumped before the Winter Rains].

San Francisco: California, 21 September 1872. Quarto bifolium (ca. 23,5x18 cm). 3 pp. Pencil on laid paper, written in a......

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Autograph Note Signed by an American Engineer and Surveyor of Lower California and Sonora,...
Letter Regarding Ives’ Exploratory Expedition up the Colorado River in 1857-1858

[Autograph Note Signed by an American Engineer and Surveyor of Lower California and Sonora, Talking about Him Joining Lt. Ives’ Exploratory Expedition to the Colorado River].

San Francisco: 22 October [1857]. Small Octavo bifolium (ca. 19x12 cm). 1 p. Brown ink on blueish lined paper. Addressed.....

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Autograph Letter Signed with the Original Envelope, Talking about Farming in the Santa Clara...
Early Account of Farming in the Santa Clara Valley.

[Autograph Letter Signed with the Original Envelope, Talking about Farming in the Santa Clara Valley, Prices for Barley, Flour, Horses, Cattle and Milk Cows, Average Wages, the Increased “Emigration,” and Saying that “This Valy is Healthy and Pleasant and is Bound to Bee a Wealthy Place”].

Santa Clara Co., California: 12 September 1852. Quarto bifolium (ca. 25x20 cm). 3 pp. Brown ink on watermarked laid paper.....

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Album with 167 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Nome and Environs, Showing Nome Streets, Miners...
Extensive Collection of Early Photos of Nome, Alaska

[Album with 167 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Nome and Environs, Showing Nome Streets, Miners and Merchants’ Bank of Alaska, Alaska Dream Theatre, St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Golden Gate Hotel, Leo Seidenberg’s “Bon Marche” Store, Hotel Popular, Nome Coast Guard Station, “Ukiuwak”, “Silver Wave” and “Sea Wolf” Motor Boats, Gold...

Ca. late 1920s – early 1930s. Quarto album (ca. 27,5x19,5 cm). 54 card stock leaves (several blank). With 167 gelatin.....

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Album with 151 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Haida Gwaii, Northern BC, and the BC Interior,...
Interesting Photos of Haida Gwaii and Northern BC

[Album with 151 Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Haida Gwaii, Northern BC, and the BC Interior, Taken During WW2 by a Serviceman of the Pacific Coast Militia Rangers].

Ca. 1940s. Oblong Quarto album (ca. 18x30 cm). 31 card stock leaves. With 151 gelatin silver photographs, including ca. 59.....

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Album with 224 Original Gelatin Silver Photos with many Taken and Collected During Stype's Work...
Early Photos of the US-Administrated Construction of the Panama Canal.

[Album with 224 Original Gelatin Silver Photos with many Taken and Collected During Stype's Work at the Panama Canal in 1905-1906, Documenting the Digging of the Culebra Cut and Canal Zone Society Life, as Well as Stype’s Later Life in Louisiana, California and Oregon].

Ca. 1905-1910s. Oblong Folio album (ca. 28x37,5 cm). 50 card stock leaves. With 224 gelatin silver photographs, including three large.....

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Album with Fifty-five Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Construction of the Canadian Pacific...
Historically Interesting Early Photos of the CPR Extensions in Saskatchewan

[Album with Fifty-five Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway’s Extension in Saskatchewan, Showing Wolseley, Grenfell, Construction Camp and Party Members, Railway Tracks, Bridges under Construction, etc.].

Ca. 1906-1907. Oblong Octavo album (ca. 16x20 cm). 24 card stock leaves. With 55 gelatin silver photographs, including 48 mounted.....

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Album with Fifty-Nine Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Nicaragua before the US Occupation,...
Historically Important Photos Relating to the US Nicaragua Canal Commission

[Album with Fifty-Nine Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Nicaragua before the US Occupation, Showing Managua, Leon, Corinto, Lakes Managua and Nicaragua, Momotombo Volcano, San Juan River, the Feast of San Geronimo in Masaya, a Steamboat of the “Nicaraguan Navy,” a “Sham Battle, Nicaraguan Army,” Portraits of Native Residents of San...

Ca. 1890s. Oblong Quarto album (ca. 18x29,5 cm). 29 card stock leaves. With 59 mounted gelatin silver photographs, mostly ca.....

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Album with Fifty-Eight Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Puerto Rico Including a Large...
Early Photos of Porto Rico as a US Territory

[Album with Fifty-Eight Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Puerto Rico Including a Large Panorama of San Juan, and also Showing General Views, Streets and Sites of San Juan, Scenes from a Carnival, the Arrival in 1899 of General George Davis, Military Governor of Puerto Rico, Tobacco, Banana and Sugarcane Plantations...

Ca. 1900. Oblong Folio album (ca. 26x30,5 cm). 22 card stock leaves. With 58 mounted gelatin silver photographs, including a......

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Album with Twenty-Four Original Albumen Photos of Montevideo, Showing the City in General,...
Rare Large Early Photos of Montevideo

[Album with Twenty-Four Original Albumen Photos of Montevideo, Showing the City in General, Fortaleza del Cerro, Hotel Nacional, Plaza Constitucion, Estevez Palace, Post Office, Calle 25 de Mayo, Calle de 18 de Julio, Cabildo, Teatro Solis, Stock Exchange, Miguelete Prison, Plaza Cagancha, Spa Establishments on the Ramirez Beach, Italian Hospital...

Ca. 1890s. Oblong Folio album (ca. 26x35,5 cm). 12 card stock leaves. With 24 mounted albumen photographs, from ca. 22x25,5.....

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Album with Twenty-Eight Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Martinique, Showing Fort-de-France...
Rare Early Photos of Martinique

[Album with Twenty-Eight Original Gelatin Silver Photos of Martinique, Showing Fort-de-France (General Views, Streets, Public Library, “Grand Hotel Europe,” Public Ferry, Rivière Madame), Military Camp Balata and French Officers, “Martiniquaises,” et al.]

Ca. 1900. Oblong Quarto album (ca. 18x26 cm). 12 double stock leaves. With 28 mounted gelatin silver photographs, including 25.....

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Album with 141 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of the Bolivian Andes, Railway Tracks, Cars...
Rare Photo Collection of Bolivia and Its Railways in the 1910s

[Album with 141 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of the Bolivian Andes, Railway Tracks, Cars and Infrastructure, Potosi and Environs, Expedition Camps and Members, Bolivian Porters and Locals, etc.].

Ca. 1910s. Oblong Folio album (ca. 28x39,5 cm). 54 card stock leaves (several blank). With 138 mounted gelatin silver photographs.....

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Album with 132 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Cuba, Showing Streets and Landmarks of...
Extensive and Well-Annotated Collection of Lively Early Photos of Cuba

[Album with 132 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Cuba, Showing Streets and Landmarks of Havana, Several Street Scenes from the Havana Carnival, a Portrait of the President of the National Bank, Views of Guanajay, Matanzas, Cienfuegos, Guaos, Cumanayagua, Las Vegas, Guines, Yumuri River valley, Premises and Operations of the Manicaragua...

Ca. 1900. Oblong Folio album (ca. 28,5x37 cm). 25 card stock leaves (8 blank). With 130 gelatin silver photographs, ca.....

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Collection of 47 Large Mounted Gelatin Silver Photographs of Costa Rica, Showing the Craters of...
Rare Early Photos of Costa Rica

[Collection of 47 Large Mounted Gelatin Silver Photographs of Costa Rica, Showing the Craters of the Poás and Turrialba Volcanoes, Costa Rican Railway, Sites and Landmarks of San Jose, Ruins of the Church in Ujarras, Portraits of Native Farmers, Families, Schoolgirls, etc.]

Ca. 1900. Forty-seven large gelatin silver photos ca. 19x23 cm (7 ½ x 9 in), mounted on original studio cards.....

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Manuscript Journal and Letter Book, Compiled by California Argonaut and Columbia River Steamboat...
Historically Important California 49er Journal and Letterbook

[Manuscript Journal and Letter Book, Compiled by California Argonaut and Columbia River Steamboat Captain William Hall, and Containing Diary Entries on His Voyage to San Francisco on board Ship “New Jersey” around Cape Horn in May-October 1849, His First Months in California, and Several Travels to Vermont and Back; With...

The journal: ca. 1860s-1880s. Octavo journal (ca. 18x11,5 cm). 79 leaves. 58 leaves filled in manuscript ink, generally both on.....

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Interesting Collection of Twenty Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Panama and the Canal...
Early Photos of Panama and the Canal Construction

[Interesting Collection of Twenty Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Panama and the Canal During its Construction around 1900 (including two photos of Nicaragua)].

ca. 1890. 20 Gelatin Silver photos each ca. 12 x 16.5cm (4.5 x 6.5 in). All mounted recto and verso.....

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Interesting Collection of Twelve Albumen Photographs Documenting an Early Cruise by Steamship...
Interesting Photos Documenting an Early Cruise from Guayaquil to Lima

[Interesting Collection of Twelve Albumen Photographs Documenting an Early Cruise by Steamship from Guayaquil, Ecuador to Lima, Peru with Stops in Peru Along the way].

ca. 1890. 12 albumen photos each ca. 12 x 16.5cm (4.5 x 6.5 in). All mounted recto and verso on.....

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Autograph Letter Signed to the Secretaries of the American Home Missionary Society, Reporting on...
Early Content-Rich Letter on the History of the Establishment of the Presbyterian Church in Texas

[Autograph Letter Signed to the Secretaries of the American Home Missionary Society, Reporting on his Attempt to Establish a Church in Western Texas, and Talking about his Visits to Indian Point, Victoria, De Witt County, Gonzales, Seguin, and New Braunfels, and high Prices for food in Western Texas, &c.]

Near Sequin, Guadalupe Co., Texas: 5 March 1848. Quarto bifolium (ca. 25x20 cm). 3,4 pp. Brown ink on blueish wove.....

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Autograph Letter Signed Regarding the Defense of Dakota Outlaw “Laughing Sam” (Samuel S....
First Hand Account of the 1878 Trial of Notorious Deadwood, Dakota Outlaw "Laughing Sam"

[Autograph Letter Signed Regarding the Defense of Dakota Outlaw “Laughing Sam” (Samuel S. Hartman), and Mentioning the New Governor of the Dakota Territory William A. Howard, the First State’s Attorney of the Lawrence County A.J. Flanner, and Yankton’s Store Owner and Public Figure A.W. Lavender].

Yankton, D[akota]. T[erritory]. 25 April 1878. Quarto (ca. 27,5x21 cm). 2 pp. Brown ink on watermarked laid paper, West’s printed.....

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Autograph Letter Signed to His Aunt, Talking about His First Month in Los Angeles, Mission San...
Early Account of Los Angeles

[Autograph Letter Signed to His Aunt, Talking about His First Month in Los Angeles, Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the Capture of Los Angeles by John C. Fremont in August 1846, the City’s Active Business Life, His Attempt to find work Picking Grapes, Market Prices for Grapes and Wine, &c.]

Los Angeles: 5 November 1882. Two Octavo bifoliums (ca. 20x12,5 cm). 7 pp. Black ink on lined laid paper, blind-stamped.....

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Extensive Autograph Letter Signed by a Gold Miner from Michigan Bluff (Placer County,...
Unusual Extensive and Content-Rich Letter from a California Gold Rush Miner

[Extensive Autograph Letter Signed by a Gold Miner from Michigan Bluff (Placer County, California), Describing the Hardships of His Work on the Basin Mine, Sharing His Loneliness and Longing for Home, and Supplemented with His Original Verses about the Gold Rush].

The Basin (Placer County, California): 16 December 1855. Quarto bifolium(ca. 25x19,5 cm). 4 pp. Brown ink on blue-lined laid paper.....

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Autograph Letter Signed by the Owner of a Jewellery Store in Eddyville, Iowa, to His Brother in...
Historically Interesting Letter by a Pioneer Jeweler Describing the Pike's Peak Gold Rush

[Autograph Letter Signed by the Owner of a Jewellery Store in Eddyville, Iowa, to His Brother in Oriskany Falls, New York, Talking About his New Shop, the Construction of a Railroad Planned to Reach Eddyville, and a Description of the Recent Pike’s Peak Gold Rush].

Eddyville [Iowa]: 25 January 1859. Small Octavo bifolium (ca. 20x12,5 cm). 4 pp. Brown ink on lined laid paper, blind-stamped.....

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