December 2017 Premier Auction

Lot of 5 different interior scenes, all by B.W. Kilburn: 9712--Flower Exhibit; 9739--Beauty & Grace in Art (hand-colored); 9760--Wonders of Wood...

Official Guide Book with foldout Expo map and many photos. 116 pages 8" x 5.5". 39er Scrip Book with ticket stubs from used scrip. 2 1940 ...

Rare booklet from the most important annual event promoting business in the West. Interesting staff page showing 19th century facial hair of the day.

Large 9.75" x 8" cabinet card of the trophy from California Mid Winter Fair. Bottom corners of card (not the photo) are clipped. "Jew...

B.W. Kilburn (New Hampshire) stereoview #10694. "Designs in Pottery, Negro Building, Atlanta Exposition." Copyright 1896. View shows a wel...

Lot of 12 hand-colored stereoviews by B.W. Kilburn for the Chicago World's Fair. Included: 8738-Pennsylvania's Bird Exhibit (x2), 8823-Cryst...

20 different, all by B.W. Kilburn (New Hampshire). These views are all of interiors to the buildings and specific exhibits/booths. Included: 8703-The

Lot of 26 stereoviews of exterior shots at the Columbian Exposition. Only one duplicate. 1) Two by Ingersoll (St. Paul): U.S. Life Saving Station and

Rare view of early bikes on display in the Dedication Parade at the Columbian Exposition. J.F. Jarvis, Underwood & Underwood. Medium contrast, s...

Kilburn stereoview #8198, Krupp's Great Exhibit of Guns, Columbian Exposition. Many cannons, including the world's largest cannon, featured ...

Lot of 5 B.W. Kilburn exposition stereoviews. Best is 7929-The Surging Sea of Humanity at the opening of the Columbian Exposition. View is slightly ab

Iconic view appropriately titled "The Wonder of the Age" (Kilburn #8480) showing a close-up of the Ferris Wheel at the Chicago World's...

B.W. Kilburn stereoview #8628, The Glass Dress, World's Columbian Exposition. View shows woman posing in white dress made of glass. Medium contr...

B.W. Kilburn stereoview #8139-Interior of Mining Building, Columbian Exposition. Raised view shows many displays of rock specimens. Medium contrast. S

Three different Kilburn stereoviews including: 8386-Samoan Maidens; 8146-Esquimaux children and dogs; and 7880-Esquimaux and their Summer Home. Medium

The North-Western Line Columbian Daily Record with compliments of the Passenger Department. 1893 calendar book with maps of Chicago and the World...

This bronze medal is a souvenir of the International Exposition held in Chicago in 1933: "A Century of Progress". Obv.: Research / Industr...

Lot of 17 different large format (4x7") strereoviews for the 1884/1885 World's Fair, also known as the World Cotton Centennial, held in New...

Lot of 10 different stereoviews. 1) Five Kilburn views: 16359-Dainty little Shetlands, 16228-Great Stock Show, 16239-different Great Stock Show, 16226

Lot of 9 different nicer stereoviews for the Louis & Clark Centennial Exhibition held in Portland, Oregon in 1905 to celebrate the centennial of...

Lot of 13 different smaller format (private firms) stereoviews. Most are interior views, including views of sculptures, pottery, ornate woodwork, a wi

Lot of 25 exterior large format (4x7") stereoviews by the Centennial Photographic Co. Views include: opening day ceremony, fairgrounds covered ...

Lot of 9 interior large format (4x7") stereoviews made by the Centennial Photographic Co. for the exhibition. One duplicate. Includes: 828-Belg...

Lot of 25 different interior larger format (4x7") stereoviews from the Centennial Photographic Co. Views include: fountains, the Corliss Engine...

Stereoview showing the elaborate glass display of the New England Glass Company at the exhibition. Medium contrast, some soiling. 4x7" Centenni...

This is a fabulous Colorado stereoview. View of Martha Maxwell's Rocky Mountain Museum exhibit at the Centennial Exhibition. Maxwell (1831-1881)...

Two large format (4x7") stereoviews featuring cannons on display at the exhibition. Cards include The 20 Ton Rodman Gun with cannon balls stack...

Lot of 40+ large format (4x7") stereoviews by the Centennial Photographic Co. This collection features the paintings, art, and sculptures at th...

Rare atypical souvenir ticket. 2" x 4". Date: Location: Seattle, Washington HWAC # 53275

Lot of 14: 7 stereoviews plus 7 Golden Gate Exposition postcards. Included: Underwood stereoview of The Twin Towers at Night, Trans-Mississippi Expo..

Two different stereoviews by the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Co. Included: No. 78 The Auflrian Court, No. 9., hand-colored; and No. 24 View i

Lot of 18 (17 different). 1) 13 are Underwood & Underwood. Views include: the street of foreign nations, a view from the second platform of the ...

This incredible original photograph was in the William Ashland family for decadess. Ashland worked for the Bonsall paper company in San Francisco and

This card stood out of the over 1,000 stereoviews sorted in this collection. It is a truly iconic view of President Theodore Roosevelt at Glacier Poin

Lot of 9 with only one duplicate view. 1) Six by Underwood & Underwood, c.1903: Roosevelt in Santa Fe; speaking in Lincoln, Nebraska; speaking a...

Group of 8 different. 1) Five cards of President McKinley: McKinley and Dewey at Sword Ceremony; McKinley sitting at his desk in the White House; port

Three different Bryan stereoviews. 1) Two c.1897 Keystone cards: # 5061 showing Bryan addressing the Christian Endeavor Convention in San Francisco an

Framed autograph note from Andrew Johnson. Datelined House of Reps, July 25, 1846, Johnson instructs John M Johnson payment to W.B. Dickanas $13. At t

Framed letter with ephemera of James Buchanan, 50th President of the Untied States, elected 1857. Approximately 18 x 24" frame of a full page ...

Choice period framed full page letter addressed to Hon. Arthur L. Thomas in Salt Lake (City), Utah, December 21, 1886 on House of Representatives US s

Lot of 9 different stereoviews memorializing McKinley after he was assassinated at the Pan. American Exposition on Sept. 6, 1901. Group includes: thre

Lot of 14 different including rare views. 1) Eleven by Underwood & Underwood, c.1898-1901. Includes: four different of McKinley at his desk in t...

1) Garfield Monument. Dedicated May 30 in 1890. 2) Harrison, wife, and White House. 3) Teddy Roosevelt, wife and White House. 4) Ten presidents compli

Lot of 6 different of the "President's Mansion." Includes: exterior view by J.F. Jarvis; different exterior (Underwood & Underwood...

Lot of 7. Includes: Interior of Red Room in White House (Keystone); exterior of the Post Office (EH Anthony & Co.); exterior of the US Patent Of...

Four items related to the death of Louis McHenry Howe. He was President Roosevelt's secretary. Howe started working for Roosevelt in 1911 and be...

Lot of five. 1) 1932 photograph with Mayor Angelo J. Rossi of San Francisco. 2-4) Gainesville's Roosevelt Day. March 23, 1938. Includes a new pa...

Lot of ten. 1) Light switch cover with "Save Energy / Turn Nixon Off." Nixon is quite unclothed and the light switch is where his private ...

This is an iconic Nellie Grant photograph glued to a CDV. It has been signed. She would marry an English singer/actor much to the disapproval of her f

Lot of seven. 1) San Francisco's celebration of the President's Birthday Ball on January 29, 1938. eight pages. 2) Abraham Lincoln, The Grea...