Adams, Amos (Compiler)

Journal of the Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Session of the California State Grange, Held at Grangers' Hall, Sacramento, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th, 1884

San Francisco, California, Carlos White Printing Co. Steam Printers, 1884. First Edition. First edition; 8 3/4 x 5 3/4; pp. [1], 4-71; off-white wraps, printed and ruled with an elaborate border; chips to tips of spine; faint spotting and foxing to wraps (not affecting readability); in good condition. A scarce work from an illusive San Francisco publisher, it documented the proceedings of the California branch of the Grange - officially named The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry. The social organization, being the oldest American agricultural advocacy group with a national scope, was founded after the Civil War - in 1867. It would claim credit for the ideas of rural free mail delivery, the Farm Credit System, etc. What was most unusual of the organization at the time was that women and teenagers, "old enough to draw a plow," were encouraged to participate in it. Furthermore, it was mandatory that four of the organization's elected positions could be held only by women. Many local granges were established, including the California State Grange, which was founded in 1873 in Napa. Good .

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Book number: 003685

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Anonymous

Crimes and Career of Tiburcio Vasquez. The Bandit of San Benito County and Notorious Early California Outlaw. Compiled from Newspaper Accounts of the Period and First Hand Information from Some of Those Who Played a Part in This Story

Hollister, California , San Benito County Historical Society, 1976. Limited bicentennial printing, this copy #26; 9 1/4 x 6; pp. [4], 1-40; textured red wraps, printed in black; illustrated with photographs, including frontis; small nicks to tips of spine, else very light wear; in very good to near fine condition. The story of Tiburcio Vasquez (1835 - 1875) - called the second-greatest bandit of California (Joaquin Murieta being, allegedly, the greatest one), who was active between 1854 and 1874. Near fine .

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Book number: 003772

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Anonymous

Original Photograph of a Victorian Family on the Front Porch of Their House in San Francisco

S. l. (San Francisco), By the photographer, 1900. Albumen photograph, mounted on stiff card stock, n. d. (ca 1900); image - 4 1/2 x 3 1/2, card stock - 5 1/4 x 4 1/4; a bit of spotting to card stock; photo with a small crease to upper right corner and a few minor scratches; very-faint, penciled-in note to verso; in about very good condition. A beautiful photo of a San Francisco family (provenance - previous owner) from a distance, lined on the steps of a large and elaborate Edwardian-style house. Very good .

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Book number: 003641

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Anonymous

Original Photograph of a Large Victorian Family Inside Their Home in San Francisco

S. l. (San Francisco), By the photographer, 1890. Albumen photograph, mounted on stiff card stock, n. d. (ca 1890); image - 4 x 5, card stock - 5 1/2 x 6 1/2; some spotting to card stock; photo with a few minor scratches; very-faint, penciled-in note to verso; in about very good condition. A beautiful, albeit a bit blurry, photo of a large San Francisco family (provenance - previous owner) in their, presumably, living room, dressd in their best. It includes mother, father, and seven children, of which one is a boy and the two youngest girls are clutching dolls. Very good .

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Book number: 003642

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Anonymous

Parlor, Bedroom, and Precinct. Mask and Dagger's Maddest Musical Show

S. l. (Berkeley), s. n. 1936. Broadside, n. d. (1936); 11 x 8; blue stock, printed in black and illustrated with cartoons; faint crease lines, else minor wear; in very good condition. Announcing a performance at Wheeler Auditorium, the broadside advertised the "Maddest Musical Show" - satirical skits, songs, etc. written by UC Berkeley students and performed by members of Mask and Dagger, a senior dramatic society at the university. Though not listed here, contemporary newspaper accounts wrote that the show was principally the work of William Engvick (1914 - 2012), renowned lyricist and alumnus of UC Berkeley. Very good .

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Book number: 003822

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Anonymous

Report on Grass Valley Gold Mining District

S. l. s. n. 1920. A copy of a typed report, n. d. (early 20th century); 11 x 8 1/2; loose sheets, pp. [12], text to recto only; a few minor nicks and chips to edges; in very good condition. Albeit anonymous, a fairly detailed write up on the Grass Valley gold mining district - "the oldest suvvessfully operating and the most productive" according to the author. It includes total revenues in dollars for the various companies and areas, their distinctive characteristics, etc. Very good .

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Book number: 003818

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Anonymous

Souvenir of the Unveiling of Marshall Monument, May 3rd 1890. Historical Sketches of Coloma and Placerville, from Tom Fitche's First Directory of El Dorado County, 1862

S. l. Mountain Democrat Press, 1947. Facsimile of the original souvenir, n. d. (1947); 9 x 6; pp. [1], 2-10, [2]; off-white wraps, printed and decorated in yellow and blue; illustrated with two plates - a photographic image and an engraving; a small crease to lower corner and a few minor spots; in very good condition. A handsome facsimile edition of the original souvenir, which commemorated the unveiling of Marshall Monument in Coloma. James Marshall (1810 - 1885) was a carpenter and sawmill operator, whose discovery of gold in January of 1848 would be the impetus for the California Gold Rush. Very good .

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Book number: 003812

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Aristo van Clespe, Philip, Major

Mimicry As an Art, or Wildlife-Calling and Birdsong-Whistling for Pastime or Profit. Harvested Amidst the Mystic Ruins of San Antonio de Padua of the Coastal Sierras of California [Manuscript "Debut-Edition"]

Little Rock, Arkansas, By the author, 1942. First edition; 9 x 12; pp. 1-33 (recto only); original bright red stapled wraps; mimeographed text; a few faint spots to covers; minor creasing to upper corners; small rubbed spot to back cover; internally fine; overall very good to near fine condition. An uncommon publication, it presented a study on the psychology of mimicry and gave lengthy explanations and examples of the different sounds and the precise way of executing them. The author was a major in the US Army and the Sponsor-Director of several Tropical Research Expeditions in the early 20th century. Ill.: 0. Very good .

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Book number: 000614

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Keywords: Animals, California 0

Blanchard, T.

Yee Olde Mustang Poker Club - Original Ink-and-Watercolor Folk Art

S. l. (Monterey, CA), By the artist. Original drawing, n. d. (mid-20th-century); 9 1/2 x 13 1/4; ink and watercolor on glossy, beige card stock; manuscript signatures of the people pictured bellow image; thin strips of residue on verso from previously being framed; in very good condition. A delightful and quite-accomplished piece of Northern California folk art (provenance - previous owner), it memorialized the members of a local poker club - all of them presumably serving with the Air Force at the Presidio of Monterey. Six anthropomorphic horses, three ladies and three gents, grinned widely - the men dressed in military uniforms and the women displaying stylized Air Force insignia on their dresses. The Presidio - US Army installation, which houses the Defence Language Institute Foreign Language Center - has been home to the 517th Training Group of the US Air Force (under various names), since WWII. Very good .

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Book number: 003566

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California Steam Navigation Company

Steamboat Helen Hensley Billhead

Stockton, CA, California Steam Navigation Company, 1861. Printed document, partially filled in manuscript in brown ink; 4 1/4 x 6 3/4; pale-blue stock, printed and ruled in black; old, intersecting crease lines; a bit of age toning along creases; in very good condition. The California Steam Navigation Company was founded and incorporated in 1854 with the purpose of consolidating competing steamship companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and along the San Joaquin and the Sacramento rivers. It quickly became very successful and gained near-monopoly of the trade by buying out bancrupted competitors. It would later also offer ocean routes from San Francisco to British Columbia and south to San Diego. Despite its early success, the rise of railroads began negatively impacting the company's profits and in 1871 - its assets were purchased by the Pacific Railroad and it ceased to exist. The Helen Hensley - a sidewheel steamer - was one of the original vessels consolidated into the company in 1854. The boat was built by Samuel J. Hensley (1817 - 1866), President of the California Steam Navigation Company. He had come overland to California from Kentucky in 1843 and had struck it rich during the Gold Rush. He would play an important role in early California politics and ultimately - in California achieving statehood. Very good .

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Book number: 003389

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Keywords: California, Americana

Cameron, Dr. Howard

A Letter, Regarding Then California Governor Hiram Warren

Sacramento, California, By the author, 1911. On the doctor's stationary, typed, and signed in manuscript; also included is the original envelope; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, text to recto only; two faint, vertical creases, else very minor wear; envelope with age-toning and spotting. A truly-bizarre letter, it was addressed to one E. F. Stewart, presumably an aide to the Governor, by Dr. Howard Cameron, Ocultist and Aurist (several period media advertisements and business directories alternately list Dr. Cameron as an eye-ear-nose-throat doctor). He informed Stewart he could possibly get the Governor admitted to the hospital at a reduced rate, as a previous eye surgery had not turned out quite up to the doctor's standards. Then, the letter took a weird turn, where the latter mentioned that on the previous visit, the Governor's clothes had been in bad shape, so Dr. Cameron had handed him a discarded suit of his own. Though research has not revealed much about this particular event in the Governor's life, it is a bit of a stretch to imagine the highly-successful and prominent Hiram Johnson (1866 - 1945) in tattered clothes and asking for a discount on a hospital visit. Very good .

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Book number: 003816

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Coblentz, E. D.

The Tale of Temelec Hall

S. l. By the author, 1953. First Edition. First edition; 9 x 6; pp. 1-10; glossy, white, pictorial wraps; illustrated with a photograph; light wear along spine; in very good or better condition. Written by pioneer journalist and editor Edmond Coblentz, whose entire professional career was associated with Hearst newspapers in San Francisco and New York, the booklet told the story of Temelec Hall in the Sonoma Valley, owned by the Coblentz' family in the early- to mid-1900s. The southern-plantation-style mansion was constructed in 1858 by frontiersman and Bear Flag revolutionary Granville Swift, who had made his fortune during the Gold Rush and used local stone and Native American labor during the construction. Very good .

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Book number: 003811

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Coleman, James W. (Inmate B-5269)

Manuscript Diagram / Maintenance Steam Fitting Shop / San Quentin Prison

San Quentin, By the author, 1960. Manuscript diagram, n. d. (1960s); 11 x 17; off-white paper and colored pencils; small unctures to top margin from removed staples; a few small cuts and nicks to edges; in very good condition. An interesting artifact from the oldest prison in California - a death row facility and, at one time, home to Merle Haggard and Charles Manson - it detailed various pipes and fittings from different sections of the prison, together with a detailed key below the diagram and was created by an imate worker at the prison's fitting shop. Very good .

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Book number: 003828

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Dunham, Murry

Cabinet Card by an Early California Photographer

Oakland, CA, By the photographer, 1878. Cabinet card; 6 x 4 1/4; small abrasion to left margin and a few minor glue spots to edges; manuscript subtitle and photographer name and address to both recto and verso; top edge possibly slightly cropped; in very good condition. A handsome photograph of a dashing young gentleman, identified as Frank Harding on verso and dated, it was taken by Murray (or Murry) Allen Dunham - an early California photographer in the mid- to late-19th century. Born in New York in 1834, Dunham moved West and worked for famous pioneer photographer William Shew in the latter's studio in San Francisco between 1862 and 1869. He would go on to co-establish the Palace Photograph Gallery in Oakland, where he would innovatively offer carriage transportation to and from his business for ladies and children. From the 1880s until his death in 1924, Dunham would establish multiple galleries in Reno, Carson City, Susanville, Hayward, Oakland, etc. Very good .

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Book number: 003392

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McEwe, Arthur

Arthur Mcewen's Letter. Vol. I, No. 2

San Francisco, By the author, 1894. First Edition. First edition; 14 x 10 1/2, folded in half; pp. [1], 2-4; small nick to upper left corner; second leaf with a closed tear and creasing to upper corner, affecting two words; very good- condition. A single issue of a short-lived, 19th-century San Francisco periodical, it was published from February, 1894 until June of 1895, for a total of 49 issues. A crusading newspaper, especially concerned with the corruption of city officials and the power and influence of "big-money" businesses, it targeted particularly often The Southern Pacific Railroad and the author's personal nemesis - Leland Stanford. Arthur McEwen (1851 - 1907) began his journalistic career with the Virginia City Evening Chronicle in the 1870s, before moving to San Francisco to become the Managing Editor of William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner. He also wrote several works of fiction, which were published in various periodicals. He would eventually move to the East Coast to help John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922) in his crusade against "political machines." . Very good .

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Book number: 002478

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Keywords: California, Periodical