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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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Historically Significant Private Archive Documenting the Experiences of a Gold Prospector during...
Historically Important Archive of the Kenai Peninsula Gold Rush

[Historically Significant Private Archive Documenting the Experiences of a Gold Prospector during the Kenai Peninsula Gold Rush (1895-98); the Archive Consists of Wiswell’s Pocket “Excelsior” Diary with over 60 Pages of Entries; Two “Notices of Location” for the Claims in the Turnagain Arm Mining District, Two Related Power of Attorney...

Diary: ca. 12,5x8 cm (4 ¾ x 3 ¼ in). Standard pocket full calf “Excelsior” diary with a closing flap.....

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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 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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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 ca. 300 Mounted and 45 Loosely Inserted Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing...
Historically Important Early Photos of the Hudson's Bay Company Outposts Along the Arctic Coast in Nunavut

[Album with ca. 300 Mounted and 45 Loosely Inserted Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Hudson’s Bay Company’s Posts in Nunavut, HBC Boats and Officers Voyaging along the Arctic Coast of the Northwest Territories and Yukon, and Portraits of Inuit People]

Ca. 1928-1941. Oblong Quarto (ca. 21,5x28 cm). 50 card stock leaves with tissue guards. With ca. 300 mounted original gelatin.....

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Autograph Letter Signed by Charles W. Foster, an 18-Year Old Serviceman of the Corps of...
Historically Important Content-Rich Mexican-American War letter

[Autograph Letter Signed by Charles W. Foster, an 18-Year Old Serviceman of the Corps of Engineers, Written in Mexico City in the Last Weeks of the Mexican-American War].

Cassa de Correa, City of Mexico: 7 April 1848. Quarto bifolium (ca. 24,5x19,5 cm). 4 pp. Brown ink on watermarked.....

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Original Autograph Letter Written on Printed Letterhead of the Juneau’s “Circle City Hotel”...
Interesting Klondike Gold Rush Letter from Juneau

[Original Autograph Letter Written on Printed Letterhead of the Juneau’s “Circle City Hotel” by an Alaskan Gold Miner, with Notes about Hard Living and Working in Juneau in Winter].

Juneau, Alaska: 11 January 1899. Quarto (ca. 27,5x21 cm or 10 ¾ x 8 ¼ in). Two leaves of watermarked.....

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Collection of Two Extensive Autograph Letters Signed by Gold Miner and Surveyor Albert Lascy,...
Historically Interesting Early Letters from a Gold Prospector on Kodiak Island

[Collection of Two Extensive Autograph Letters Signed by Gold Miner and Surveyor Albert Lascy, Giving a Detailed Account of His Gold Exploration near Karluk, Uyak and Uganik Bays on the Northern Kodiak Island].

1) Kodiak, Kodiak Island, 25 August 1893. Quarto (ca. 25x19 cm or 9 ¾ x 7 ½ in). 6 pp.....

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Collection of Thirty-Two Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Alaska and Yukon Territory During...
Rare Photos of Beach Gold Mining in Nome During the 1899-1909 Gold Rush

[Collection of Thirty-Two Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Alaska and Yukon Territory During the Nome Gold Rush, Including Over Twenty Photos of Nome, Showing Prospectors and Gold Mining Equipment on the Beach, Tent Camps, City Streets and Shops, Piper’s Bakery, a Dance Hall, “Eskimos Nome,” etc.]

Ca. 1899 – early 1900s. Thirty-two loose gelatin silver photographs (one photo in two copies) ca. 10,5x12,5 cm (4x5 in).....

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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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Historically Important Collection of 110 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of the Pribilof...
Important Early Photos of the Pribilof Islands and Their Settlements and Fur Seal Industry

[Historically Important Collection of 110 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of the Pribilof Islands, Showing St. Paul Village and Orthodox Church, American Sealers, the Fur Seal Industry, and Native People].

Ca. early 1900s. 110 loose gelatin silver prints of various size, including thirty-three larger photos ca. 11,5x16,5 cm (4 ½.....

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Original Autograph Letter Signed by Julia Haley, Daughter of Noted Sitka Pioneer and Miner...
Historically Significant Eye-Witness Account of the Burning of Baranof Castle in Sitka

[Original Autograph Letter Signed by Julia Haley, Daughter of Noted Sitka Pioneer and Miner Nicholas Haley, Giving an Eye-Witness Account of Burning of Sitka’s Baranof Castle on March 17, 1894].

Sitka, Alaska: 1 August 1894. One and half Octavo bifolium leaves (ca. 20x12,5 cm or 8 x 4 ¾ in).....

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Original Autograph Letter Signed by “Frank” to His Mother, Mentioning ACC’s Steamship...
Early Historically Interesting Unalaska Letter Mentioning the US Revenue Cutter “Corwin” (1876) and its Fruitless Search in the Bering Sea for George W. de Long’s Expedition Onboard the USS “Jeannette.”

[Original Autograph Letter Signed by “Frank” to His Mother, Mentioning ACC’s Steamship “Dora,” USRC “Corwin” and Its Search for USS “Jeannette” in the Bering Sea, Unalaska’s Sunsets, “Corwin” Capturing a Small Schooner Selling Liquor to the Indians,” etc.]

“Ounalaska Station”, Alaska: 18th July 1880, “Sunday eve – 9 o’clk.”. Quarto (ca. 26,5x20 cm or 10 ¼ x 7.....

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Collection of Three Original Autograph Letters Signed by W.D. Smith, Owner of the “Shumagin...
Historically Significant Collection of Three Early Letters Documenting the Beginning of the Salmon Canning Industry in Alaska.

[Collection of Three Original Autograph Letters Signed by W.D. Smith, Owner of the “Shumagin Packing Company” in the Chignik Bay (Alaska Peninsula), Addressed to His Agents in San Francisco and Discussing Financial Operations and Shipping of Supplies and Canned Salmon].

Karluck [sic!], 25 May 1889; Chignik Bay, 27 July 1889 and 16 August 1890. In all three leaves with 5.....

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Rare Printed Alaskan Hotel Stationery Leaf Issued During the Klondike Gold Rush (1896-99); the...
Rare Klondike Gold Rush Ephemera

[Rare Printed Alaskan Hotel Stationery Leaf Issued During the Klondike Gold Rush (1896-99); the Leaf has an Extensive Printed Promotional “Facts Concerning Alaska” on Verso and a Fragment of an Original Autograph Letter by a Traveller on Recto, Mentioning Fort Wrangell, Plans to Build a “Stikeen Railroad,” Mistreatment of Passengers...

Juneau, Alaska: 5[?] March 1898. Large Quarto (ca. 28x21,5 cm or 11 x 8 ½ in). 1 p. Black ink.....

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Album with Sixty Original Gelatin Silver Photograph Portraits Taken on a Voyage from St. John’s...
Early Arctic Photos of Labrador Taken on a Voyage of the Steamship 'Kite'

[Album with Sixty Original Gelatin Silver Photograph Portraits Taken on a Voyage from St. John’s in Newfoundland to Rowsell Harbour Located North of Saglek Bay in Northern Labrador, Including Views of Rowsell Harbour and Camp Headquarters, Moravian Missionary Station in Hebron, Bays and Inlets of Labrador, Icebergs and Packed Ice...

Ca. 1905. Oblong Folio (ca. 28,5x40 cm). 18 gray card stock album leaves. With sixty mounted gelatin silver prints, including.....

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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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Autograph Letter Signed Describing the Early Lumber Industry in Woodside (San Mateo County),...
Early Account of the Lumber Industry in Woodside, California

[Autograph Letter Signed Describing the Early Lumber Industry in Woodside (San Mateo County), Discussing Redwood Sawmills, His Co-Workers, His Financial Matters and Sickness of “Fever and Ague,” Vaccination, &c.]

Red Woods: 9 October 1854. Quarto (ca. 23,5x19 cm). 3 pp. Black ink on wove paper. Fold marks, paper slightly.....

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Attractive Collection of Over Seventy Rare Documents and Ephemera Illustrating the Early History...
Extensive Collection of Rare Early California Winery Ephemera

[Attractive Collection of Over Seventy Rare Documents and Ephemera Illustrating the Early History of Californian Wineries and Liquor Producers, Including Correspondence and Envelopes with the Official Letterheads, Postcards and Business Cards, Two Albumen Photos of the Wineries and Their Managers, Invoices and Receipts, Shares, Price Lists and Wine and Liquor...

Ca. 1877-1910. Collection of 73 various documents and ephemera (see detailed description below). One large chromolithographed ad with a corner.....

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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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