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Previous|1|Next Lot #4 Program for the first major US exhibition of Black master painter and American emigre Henry Ossawa Tanner View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(African-American Art, 1908)Headline1908 1st US exhibition of Black master painter Henry Ossawa TannerDate Published1908 Lot #5 Original signed 1941 cartoon art by the first nationally-acclaimed Black cartoonist View details Estimate$200 - $400Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(African-American art, 1941)Headline1941 original cartoon art, 1st famed African-American cartoonistDate Published1941 Lot #6 Rare Civil Rights-era Chicago Black Art Calendar in the WPA woodcut style View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(African-American Art, 1963)AuthorMargaret T. Burroughs and Charles G. Burroughs, compilersHeadlineRare WPA-style 1963 Chicago Black Art CalendarPublisherEbony Museum of Negro HistoryDate Published1963 Lot #7 Images of Dignity, The Drawings of Charles White View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$237.50StatusSold Heading(African-American Art, 1968, inscribed)HeadlineMaster artist Charles White, inscribed book, 1967PublisherWard Ritchie PressDate Published1967 Lot #8 Manuscript receipt/bill for services rendered by Dr. William Van Buren, including an injection to a slave View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1802)HeadlineReceipt for injecting a slaveDate PublishedJune 1, 1802 Lot #9 Massachusetts teacher letter as Maryland Slave overseer View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1842)HeadlineYankee teacher to Maryland Slave overseer, 1842 letterDate Published1842 Lot #10 Kentucky legal documents in a suit over ownership of a young female slave and her infant daughter View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1850)Headline1850 Kentucky legal documents about ownership of a female slave and her babyDate Published1850 Lot #11 Payment to a Confederate General for his slave's labor on "military fortifications" in South Carolina View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$225StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1864 Civil War)Headline1864 Civil War Document, Confederate General's slave in military laborDate Published1864 Lot #12 Black prisoner in Massachusetts protests racist injusticd during the Reconstruction days View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$375StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1869)Headline1859 Black prisoner in Massachusetts protests racist injusticdDate Published1869 Lot #13 ‘Colored Printer’ proposes a Black Republican newspaper in Florida during the 1884 presidential election View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$200StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1884)Headline1884 Florida 'Colored Printer' proposes Black Republican newspaperDate Published1884 Lot #14 Letter, Boston ‘Colored Voters’ Republican club in the 1884 presidential election View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$137.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1884)Headline1884 Boston 'Colored Voters' Republican Club in the presidential electionDate PublishedSept. 20, 1884 Lot #15 Baltimore Blacks fight racist voter discrimination View details Estimate$700 - $1,000Sold for$437.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1909)AuthorW.M. AlexanderHeadline1909 letter, Baltimore Blacks fight racist voter discriminationDate Published1909 Lot #16 Norris Wright Cuney, A Tribune of the Black People View details Estimate$100 - $200Sold for$162.50StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1913)AuthorHare, Maud CuneyHeadlineTexas Black political “boss”, 1913 biographyPublisherCrisis Publishing CompanyDate Published1913 Lot #17 'Father of Black History'Carter Woodson on Black History Week, 1928 letter View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1928)AuthorWoodson, C[arter] G.Headline1928 'Father of Black History' Carter WoodsonDate PublishedJanuary 4, 1929 Lot #18 Who's Who in Colored America: a Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Persons of African Descent in America, 1928-1929 View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold HeadingAfrican-American, 1929)AuthorBoris, Joseph J, editorHeadlineWho's Who in Colored America, 1928-1929PublisherWho's Who in Colored America Corp.Date Published1929 Lot #19 Service Men’s Map of Washington / Full Information on Service Clubs, entertainment and Sightseeing... View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1944 Map)Headline1944 GI Map of segregated World War II Washington, DCPublisherWar Hospitality Committee, Civilian War Service, courtesy of the Pepsi Cola Co.Date PublishedMay 15, 1944 Lot #20 Influential Black New York publisher warns, during World War II, of the "danger" to Blacks demanding their civil rights View details Estimate$200 - $400Sold for$225StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1944)AuthorC.B.PowellHeadline1944 Black publisher warns of "danger" to Blacks seeking civil rightsDate Published1944 Lot #21 Early ephemera of a Black folk singer at San Francisco's famous "hungry i" Club View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSold Heading(African-American, 1953 San Francisco)HeadlineEphemera from famous SF "hungry i" ClubDate Publishedca. 1952 Lot #24 Letter linking anti-slavery cause to prophecy of the United Nations View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(American Peace Movement, 1849)Headline1840 Anti=slavery cause and the first American Peace MovementrDate Published1849 Lot #26 The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Margaret Chandler with a memoir of her life and character by Benjamin Lundy View details Estimate$150 - $250Sold for$100StatusSold Heading(Anti-slavery woman poet, 1836AuthorChandler, Elizabeth MargaretHeadline1836 Firstanti-slavery woman poet in AmericaDate Published1836 Lot #27 Letter, women's anti-slavery political demonstration in New York during the 1856 presidential election View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Anti-Slavery women, 1856 election)AuthorH.E. [Putel?]Headline1856 letter, anti-slavery women political demonstrationDate Published1856 Lot #28 Women Abolitionists of Philadelphia before the Mexican-American War View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Heading(Anti-Slavery, Women Abolitionists, 1845)HeadlineAnti-slavery women of Philadelphia in 1945Date Published1845 Lot #46 Joe Louis vs Billy Conn, Polo Grounds, New York. June 18, 1941 View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Boxing)HeadlineProgram for Joe Louis vs Billy ConnPublisherHarry M. StevensDate Published1941 Lot #48 Cloisters of California View details Estimate$250 - $350StatusUnsold AuthorBrowne, ClydeHeadlineCloisters of California 1917PublisherClyde BrowneDate Published1917 Lot #53 Three works on California and New Mexico from the Biblioteca Aportacion Historica View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(California & New Mexico)HeadlineEarly exploration of Caiifornia & New MexicoPublisherBiblioteca Aportacion HistoricaDate Published1944 & 1947 Lot #54 Construction Progress of the Hetch Hetchy Water Supply of San Francisco, California View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$100StatusSold Heading(California - Hetch-HetchyAuthorO'Shaughnessy, M.M.HeadlineProgress of the Hetch Hetchy Water Supply 1922PublisherAmerican Society of EngineersDate Published1922 Lot #55 Revised Ordinances, of the City of Los Angeles. Passed and Approved July 31, 1855 View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$1,875StatusSold Heading(California - Los Angeles)HeadlineRevised Ordinances of Los Angeles 1855PublisherPrinted at the "Southern Californian" OfficeDate Published1855 Lot #56 Vistas del Balloon Route (wrapper title) View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(California - Los Angeles)Headline"Balloon Route" of Los Angeles-Pacific Railroad 1897PublisherLos Angeles Pacific RailroadDate Published1897 Lot #57 Wood's Red book visitors' guide and directory to Los Angeles and vicinity View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$212.50StatusSold Heading(California - Los Angeles)HeadlineMap & Guide for Los Angeles 1920PublisherF.W. Wood (Coast Card Co.)Date Published1920 Lot #58 Notice of Improvement - Notice is hereby given that on the 20th day of January, A.D. 1913, the Board of Trustees of the Town of Mayfield passed Resolution of Intention No. 5 to order the following work to be done, to wit... View details Estimate$200 - $300Sold for$125StatusSold Heading(California - Mayfield/Palo Alto)HeadlineInfrastructure of Mayfield/Palo Alto improved 1913PublisherMelvin & Murgotten, Inc.Date Published1913 Lot #59 Membership certificate for Niles Searls in the Nevada City chapter of the Knights Templar View details Estimate$700 - $1,000StatusUnsold Heading(California - Nevada City)HeadlineKnights Templar certificate for Nevada City chapter 1866Date Published1866 Lot #60 Two panoramic silver photographs of Hobart's Mills in Nevada County, California View details Estimate$600 - $900StatusUnsold Heading(California - Nevada County)AuthorPillsbury Picture Co.HeadlinePanorama photos of Hobart's Mills Nevada County Cal.Date Published[c.1920] Lot #61 "Horace Gates at desk in City Hall, S.F." - pencil caption on verso View details Estimate$300 - $500StatusUnsold Heading(California - San Francisco - Horace Delphos Gates, Assistant in Office of City Engineer)HeadlinePhoto of S.F. City Asst. Engineer 1915Date Publishedc.1915 Lot #63 Report of the Secretary of War, communication... correspondence in relation to the proceedings of the Vigilance Committee in San Francisco, California View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Heading(California - San Francisco Vigilance Committee 1856)HeadlineSan Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856Date Published1857 Lot #64 Collection of approximately 95 photographs of the aftermath and reconstruction following the 1906 earthquake View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,375StatusSold Heading(California - San Francisco)HeadlineApproximately 95 photos after the San Francisco EarthquakePublisherR.J. Waters & Co.Date PublishedAfter 1906 Lot #65 [Approaching the Ferry Building] View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(California - San Francisco)AuthorDassonville, William E.HeadlineDassonville photo of San Francisco piersDate Published1920s Lot #66 Langley's San Francisco Directory for the Year commencing April, 1884. Embracing an Accurate Index of Residents and a Business Directory; also A Guide to Streets, Public Offices, Etc., and a reliable Map of the City... View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$500StatusSold Heading(California - San Francisco)HeadlineSan Francisco Directory 1884 with mapPublisherFrancis Valentine & Co., PrintersDate Published1884 Lot #69 Report upon the San Francisco and Ocean Shore Railroad Company, California View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(California - San Francisco)Headline"Paper Railroad" south from San FranciscoPublisherE. Wells Sackett & RankinDate Published1881 Lot #70 San Francisco Illustrated View details Estimate$150 - $250StatusUnsold Heading(California - San Francisco)HeadlineSan Francisco Illustrated 1890PublisherThe Albertype Co.Date Published1890 Lot #76 The First Trial & Execution in S. Francisco on the Night of 10th of June at 2 O'Clock View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$625StatusSold Heading(California Pictorial Letter Sheet)HeadlinePictorial Letter Sheet SF Vigilance CommitteePublisherJusth, Quirot & Co.Date Published[before June 12, 1851] Lot #78 Tremendous Excitement! Samuel Whittaker and Robert McKenzie Rescued from the Authorities, and Hung by the Vigilance Committee, on Sunday August 24th at 3 O'Clock P.M. in the Presence of Fifteen Thousand People View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$593.75StatusSold Heading(California Pictorial Letter Sheet)HeadlinePictorial Letter Sheet SF Vigilance CommitteePublisherJusth, Quirot & Co.Date Published[before Sept. 1, 1851] Lot #79 Organization Chart - California Wine Association. Effective July 9, 1917 View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(California Wine Association)HeadlineRare Calif. Wine Assn. organizaton chart 1917Date Published1917 Lot #80 Trails & Tales of San Antonio Canyon View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(California)AuthorAlexander, Dan P., publisherHeadlineSan Antonio Canyon in Angeles National ForestPublisherAlexander's StudioDate Published1924 Lot #81 Constitution of the State of California View details Estimate$4,000 - $6,000Sold for$5,312.50StatusSold Heading(California)HeadlineConstitution of the State of California 1849PublisherPrinted at the Office of the Alta CaliforniaDate Published1849 Lot #82 Massive collection of California travel ephemera, much to do with mountains, parks, etc. View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(California)HeadlineTwo boxes of California travel ephemeraDate PublishedEarly 20th century Lot #83 San Francisco Upper California, in November 1851 View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$468.75StatusSold Heading(California)HeadlineLithograph of San Francisco in 1851PublisherJusth, Quirot & Co.Date Published1851 Lot #88 Shanghai Low, 532 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, California... The finest Chinese Cafe on the Pacific Coast... View details Estimate$400 - $600StatusUnsold Heading(Chinatown - San Francisco)HeadlineShanghai Low in S.F. ChinatownPublisherPrinted by C.Y.M. Pub. Co., Inc.Date Published[c.1925] Lot #90 San Francisco historical lithograph, “Kealney Must Go” View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Chinese in California)HeadlineLitho of Chinese conflict in San Francisco c.1877PublisherI.N. ChoynskiDate Publishedc.1877 Lot #91 Rare Chinese San Francisco newspaper - first Chinese-American citizen? View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$937.50StatusSold Heading(Chinese San Francisco newspaper, 1876)HeadlineRare 1876 Chinese newspaper in San FranciscoDate Published1876 Lot #93 Roster of Officers & Civil Agents on duty in the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands [with] two circular letters relating to the Bureau - all framed together View details Estimate$800 - $1,200StatusUnsold Heading(Civil War - Reconstruction)HeadlineRoster of agents in Georgia Freedman's Bureau 1868Date Published1868 Lot #125 The Colonial History of the City of San Francisco: Being a Narrative Argument in the Circuit Court of the United States for the State of California, for Four Square Leagues of Land Claimed by that City and Confirmed to It By That Court View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000Sold for$2,812.50StatusSold AuthorDwinelle, John W.HeadlineDwinelle's Colonial History of San FranciscoPublisherTowne & BaconDate Published1867 Lot #143 History of Humboldt County California View details Estimate$250 - $350Sold for$162.50StatusSold AuthorIrvine, Leigh H.HeadlineHistory of Humboldt County California 1915PublisherHistoric Record CompanyDate Published1915 Lot #151 A Pictorial View of California; Including a Description of the Panama and Nicaragua Routes with Information and Advice Interesting to All, Particularly Those Who Intend to Visit the Golden Region by a Returned Californian View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500StatusUnsold Author[Letts, J. M.]HeadlineLetts' Pictorial View of CaliforniaPublisherHenry BillDate Published1853 Lot #158 Proclamation of Emancipation - lithographed portrait within the text View details Estimate$400 - $600Sold for$531.25StatusSold Heading(Lincoln, Abraham)AuthorPratt, W. H.HeadlineLincoln in Emancipation Proclamation textPublisherW. H. PrattDate Published1865 Lot #192 Two original silver photographs of the Chino sugar beet factory in San Bernardino, California View details Estimate$500 - $800StatusUnsold Heading(Oxnard, Henry T.)HeadlinePhotos of Chino Sugar Factory in San Bernardino 1891Date Published[c.1891] Lot #197 Two volumes from the library of Nancy Reagan View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$187.50StatusSold Heading(Reagan, Nancy, her copies)AuthorGraves, Jackson A.HeadlineCalifornia Memories, Nancy Reagan's CopyPublisherTimes-Mirror PressDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #215 To the Golden Goal and Other Sketches View details Estimate$800 - $1,200Sold for$687.50StatusSold AuthorTucker, Dr. J.C.HeadlineTo the Golden Goal and Other SketchesPublisherWilliam DoxeyDate Published1895 Lot #228 E.S. Denison's Yosemite Views View details Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Sold for$1,062.50StatusSold Heading(Yosemite)Author[Denison, E.S.]HeadlineDenison's Yosemite with 50 litho viewsPublisher[Lith. H.S. Crocker & Co.]Date Published[c.1880-1881] Lot #229 Oil painting of Yosemite View details Estimate$200 - $300StatusUnsold Heading(Yosemite)HeadlineOil Painting of YosemiteDate PublishedEarly 20th century Lot #230 Yosemite Valley Through the Stereoscope - with viewer View details Estimate$300 - $500Sold for$281.25StatusSold Heading(Yosemite)HeadlineYosemite through the Stereoscope with 24 viewsPublisherUnderwood & UnderwoodDate Published[1908] Lot #325 Printed broadside: "...El Presidente interino de la República Mexicana, a los habitantes de ella, sabed: Que el Congreso general ha decretado lo siguiente. Los diputados de la alta y baja California tendrán voz y voto en el actual congreso en la formacion de leyes y decretos..." View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(Mexico)AuthorGómez de la Cortina, JoséHeadlineRare Mexican broadside on California governanceDate Published1835 Lot #391 Berkeley Park Contra Costa County, Cal. Scale: 1 inch - 100 feet View details Estimate$500 - $800Sold for$312.50StatusSold Heading(California - Berkeley)HeadlineMap of Berkeley Park, 1913Date Published1913 Lot #466 The only correct & fully complete map of San Francisco. Compiled from the original map & the recent surveys, containing all the latest extensions & improvements, new streets, alleys, places, wharfs & division of wards, respectfully dedicated to the city authorities View details Estimate$3,000 - $5,000StatusUnsold AuthorZakreski, AlexanderHeadlineRare 1853 map of San FranciscoPublisherFor Sale by Cook, Kenny & Co.Date Published1853 Lot #490 Early postwar books on the Japanese-American internment View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$87.50StatusSold Heading(Japanese-American internment, World War II)Headline2 early books on Japanese-American internment, World War IIPublisherVarious publishersDate Published1947-1949 Lot #504 Picturesque California: The Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Slope... View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$250StatusSold AuthorMuir, John, editorHeadlinePicturesque California edited by John MuirPublisherJ. Dewing Publishing CompanyDate Published[1888] Lot #506 The Founding Documents of Los Angeles: A Bilingual Edition View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$12.50StatusSold AuthorNunis, Doyce B., Jr.HeadlineFounding Documents of Los Angeles by Doyce NunisPublisherZamorano ClubDate Published2004 Lot #516 Finds of Skis from Prehistoric Time in Swedish Bogs and Marshes View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$100StatusSold Heading(Skis - Prehistoric)HeadlineArcheology of SkiingPublisherGeneralstabens Litolgrafiska Anstalts ForlagDate Published[1950] Lot #536 Group of Books published by the Book Club of California View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$137.50StatusSold Heading(Book Club of California)HeadlineBook Club of CaliforniaPublisherBook Club of CaliforniaDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #538 Small shelf of Californiana View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$162.50StatusSold Heading(California)HeadlineShelf of CalifornianaDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #548 Collection of books on Death Valley, etc. View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$212.50StatusSold Heading(Western Americana)HeadlineDeath Valley, California, DesertDate PublishedVarious dates Lot #559 Group of books published by, about, or related to the Zamorano Club View details Estimate$10 - $100Sold for$137.50StatusSold Heading(Zamorano Club)HeadlineZamorano, CaliforniaDate PublishedVarious dates Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next Previous 1 Next