Montana Big Sky & Western Americana

Lot of 23 stereo views. Printed by "World Series, reproduced from original stereoscopic photographs." Views of the aftermath to the 1906 S...

"Directions for the Care and Adjustment of the Stearns Chainless Bicycles." E.C. Stearns & Co. 1899. Offices in Syracuse, San Francisc...

Two different for this athletic club organized in the 1860s. 1) Earliest is 1888 $25 bond that is punch cancelled. Printed by HS Crocker & Co. O...

Four checks, three different types, all signed by Comstock tunnel creator and SF mayor Sutro. 1) Three Nevada Bank of San Francisco: 1887 issued to a

Lot of 22, (11) stock certificates and (11) Debenture Certificates. The Debenture documents are typically 8 3/8% return over (40) years, with various

Rare. Two different certificates. No. C18, issued for 250 shares to John R. Postlethwaite on Aug. 9th, 1935 and No. P18, issued for 100 shares to Alic

Two collectible banking items from The First National Bank of San Jose. There is 1 tray with a lid and writing on the inside cover basically giving ad

59 pieces. Merchants include: Chas. Jaeger (Merchant Tailor), Peacock (Groceries), Johansen & Mahar (Paperhanging), Marin County Water Company, ...

San Jacinto is a neighbor to Palm Springs and noted for Gilman Hot Springs. 16 RPC's, 14 post 1940 RPC's. City: San Jacinto State: Calif...

Brochure from Board of Trade of San Pedro advertising the virtues of the seaside city, and yearbooks from San Pedro High School 1913 & 1914. Pra...

Includes: Shasta Zinc and Copper Co. (1924 stock, not cxl and two 1921 bonds) Shasta May Blossom Copper Co. (1908, not cxl, mining vignettes), Trinity

The two photos are by R. J. Waters, San Francisco, Cal. who specialized in California views. One is no. 449., Mt. Shasta fro Upper Soda Springs; the o

1) Wells Fargo Bldg. 2) Old Webber Lake Stage Wagon. (Prag Collection) City: Sierra City State: California Date: hwac# 30724

Lot of three pieces with fabulous Sierra Nevada vignettes. 1) The Sierra Nevada Water and Power Company. $1,000 bond issued 1905. Four vignettes, thre

The Smith's Flat post office opened in 1876 and was renamed to Smithflat in 1895.  The name honors Jeb Smith, a rancher who settled here ea...

Three views in what appears to be home fashioned stereo views. Views are of a house in the trees. (Prag Collection) City: Soda Bay State: Californ

Fourteen (14) stereo cards. Photographers: Underwood, Baker, keystone, others. Mixed condition. City: Southern California State: California Date

Lot of three checks signed by famous St. Helena winemaker Louis M. Martini. Dated 1935,1939, and 1944. City: St. Helena State: California Date: 1

The Rocco Saloon was owned by Rocco Scapolla and A. Giannini in the seaside city of Trinidad. The letter is written in Italian, and has little wear.

Stereoview by C. E. Watkins(1829-1916), photographer, California. Pleasant Valley, lower canon of Truckee. City: Truckee State: California Date:

Lot of 8. 1) Two stocks: West Tulare Land Co. (issued 1931, not cancelled) and Alpaugh Warehouse and Milling Co. (issued 1915, not cancelled). 2) Offi

Lot of 2. 1) Framed calendar art. Oliver Hardware. Frank G. Oliver. Sonora, California. March 1941. Watercolor is a view of a lake with mountains in t

Watercolor by unknown California artist of a road winding up a hill with houses along the way. Painting removed from original mat and frame to check f

A ledger page and 20 checks from 1909 from the rural community of Williams in Colusa County. City: Williams State: California Date: 1909 hwac#

One card, printed to the edge is a view of an open wagon is postmarked 1909. Another card shows the back of a wagon just past the opening, postmarked

Lot of 58. All the major sites can be found in the collection. (Ames Collection) City: Yosemite State: California Date: hwac# 2006

10 total, 8 different, stereoviews that feature the Mariposa and Calaveras Groves. Includes: "No. 23---Grizzly Giant 101 ft. Circumfrence 8 ft....

Lot of 39 small photographs detailing trips to Yosemite. Many views of waterfalls. Includes: 13 from a 1920 trip (3.5" x 5.5"), 16 from a ...

Lot of 13. Includes: five different Ahwahnee menus (8.5" x 6.25") featuring Ansel Adams photographs on the covers (c.1957-60); Doan's ...

Lot of 73. About half are very high quality. Most are 2.75" x 4.5." Views of Hotel Wawona, elk, lots of waterfalls, Mirror Lake, car thru ...

Lot of 31. Includes: a handbill (10" x 6.5") advertising the Nevada Stage Co.'s stagecoach to Yosemite (taken out of a book), eight sm...

Lot of three Taber photographs mounted on heavy cardstock. 1) No. 5157. Upper Yosemite Fall, A.D. 1890. Taber Photo, San Francisco, Cal. Measures 10...

Five different, reasonably high quality, photographs, possibly dating to 1880-90. They are all mounted and have pen notations describing them. One pho

Lot of 8. 1) Souvenir playing card set in box published by the Yosemite Park and Curry Company. 52 photographic cards plus one joker. c.1926. 2) Cabin

14 total. Seven different early (1941) Ahwahnee menus: Nevada Fall, Merced Lake, El Capitan, At the Badger Ski Fields, The Grizzly Giant, Vernal and N

Lot of 8. King of the early California cabernet sauvignon! 1) Two early cards with the same exterior view. One mailed in 1912 and the other in 1916. 2

Lot of 184. Huge group with many types of postcards (early, B+W, colorized, chrome) for the Italian Swiss Colony. 1) Twenty-eight early cards depictin

1 RPC from the BT Studio, Santa Barbara, Calif. Two cards from the Lyon Pony Express Museum in Arcadia, California. Note reads: "Old Overland S...

Death Valley, Furnace Creek area. 8 post-1940 PC's, 1 early PC, 32 post-1940 PC's, 2 Death valley RR coupons, 1915. (Prag Collection) Cit...

Very attractive and colorful pin-up calendar made to look like an Artist's Sketch Pad with playful tips on how to play different games under eac...

One gold color (possibly gold plated): Sheriff. Manufactured by Irvine & Jachens of San Francisco. One silver color: Scratched on back is "...

Lot of probably close to 100 pieces of assorted California ephemera. Earliest piece is an 1859 Napa County Land Transfer Deed. Other highlights: eight

Equitec Financial Group, Inc. (CA) Specimen stock certificate. 1972 printed on the corporate seal. The company was a real estate syndication firm that

Lot of three. 1) May 9, 1864 telegraph to Samuel Davis of Downieville. "Runyan has arrived." From Brown, Cox, & Rhodes. 2) Cover for f...

Fabric map created by the County Commissioners depicting the Salt Marsh Tidelands north of the boundary of Oakland. 41 x 50" with charts of the...

"Man's Prodigal Meddling with his Environment--The Southern California Experience." By Richard G. Lillard. 329 pages, indexed. Publish...

Lot of about 14 articles on The Golden State, published in the Southern California Automobile Club Magazine, Touring Topics, forerunner of Westways Ma

Color pencil sketch (14" H x 11.5" W) by Linwood Payson Ames (1870-1937). He was known for: landscapes, desert scenes and horse paintings,...

Over 150 post cards. Many are European. Includes (among hundreds of others) Paso Robles Hot Springs, Hotel Raymond in Pasadena. Casutin Ostrich Farm,

Find location in CDMG Stock certificate NUMBER 1 for 5 shares to J. B. Sears on February 4, 1888. Sears is also the president. M. D. Parker is the sec

Many documents for Bank of Italy, California branches. Includes: Twenty checks (1910s-1920s), most from the San Francisco branch. Three photo postcard

Lot of 9. 1) Military Poll Tax Receipt. Santa Clara County. 1863. 2) Poll Tax receipt from Sacramento, 1887. 3) School Poll Tax receipt for Butte Coun

Lot of four different: one check and three exchanges. 1) 1931 San Francisco check for May's Studio with Chinese characters. 2) 1918 2nd of Excha...

Includes: 1920, 1921 pictorial, 1923 pictorial, 1925 pictorial, 1927 pictorial, 1929 pictorial, 1931 pictorial, 1958 license stamp, and 1971. Most are

Includes: 1919 pictorial, 1922 pictorial, 1923, pictorial, 1925 pictorial, 1929 pictorial, 1932, 1942, 1945, 1948, 1954, and a deer license tag from 1

Only one view is labelled: Old Custom House, Monterey, Cal., by Richard Behrendt, California. (Prag Collection) City: State: California Date:

Lot of three, two different. 1) Suisun City Hotel Company. Two issued stocks 1889 and 1918, both pen cancelled. 4" x 9.75" 2) Unissued Waw...

Barstow, Baker, Bishop, Bodie, Banning, and more. 7 RPC's, 21 old pre-1920 PC's, 49 post-1940 PC's. (Prag Collection) City: State: ...

Rare. First ones seen by us. No information could be found on this company. Inc in Maine in 1920. No. 65, issued for 5,000 shares to J.A. Fraters and

B/w and color cards from Chula Vista, Chino, Calexico, Calico, Corona and more. (Prag Collection) City: State: California Date: hwac# 32035

Over 60 postcards from Agua Caliente, Apple Valley, Arlington, Antelope Valley, Brawley, Beaumont, Baker, Barstow and more. (Prag Collection) City:

Lot of three different. 1) California Navigation & Improvement Company. Issued for 50 shares on May 21, 1907. Signed by Newall (president) and t...

Eclectic group of 14. Includes: Truckee-Carson Farmer's Association (1908, not cxl), The Pickwick Corp. (two 1930, not cxl), Western Investment ...

Lot of 15. Includes: Los Angeles Improvement Co. (1887, pen cxl), Spring Street Market Co. (two 1929, not cxl), Lion Country Safari Inc. (two 19702, v

Lot of 14. Includes: Mariposa Development Co. (1933, not cxl), O.P. Downing & Co. (1907, not cxl), The City Store (San Jose, 1895, pen cxl), Nat...

Lot of 13. 1) Pajaro Valley Bank (four issued 1888-1904, all punch or stamp cancelled) and Pajaro Valley National Bank (two issued 1910, stamp cancell

Topographical Sketch showing the Outward and Inward Route of a Party, while examining as to the practicability of a Diversion of the Colorado River fo

Four pieces, all rare. Three checks, issued 1868-1869, all with elk pictorial and RN-B revenue imprint. Central City datelines. Spindle and punch hole

Marvelous views of the canon in the 1800's. All 8 x 5". All on card stock. 1-2) Nearly identical Jackson photographs of Seven Falls. On gre...

1) Jackson photograph of the creek itself. 7 x 4 1/2".2) W. H.Walker of West Denver. Shows tracks going under Hanging Rock. 8 x 5". Vertic...

Lot of nine. 1) The Acacia Hotel Corporation, stock issued in 1920 for 4 shares, pen cancelled. Photograph of hotel. 2) Four different City of Colorad

Made by The Whitehead & Hoag Co. Newark, NJ City: Colorado Springs State: Colorado Date: 1896 hwac# 35757

1) W. E. Hook, photographer. Back has ad for J. G. Hiestand, collector and dealer in mineral specimens. 2) Unknown artist. Helen Maria Hunt Jackson (

Inc. in Colorado. No. 17, issued for 50 shares to the company (and college) president, E.P. Tenney on March 21, 1882 in Colorado Springs. Also signed

1) A view of Pike's Peak from Colorado Springs. The photographer, W. E. Hook, has managed to catch a residential street with the Peak in the bac...

Rare small booklet: A Picture Story of The Cripple Creek Trip. Soft cover, 6" x 9". Published by The Smith-Brooks Press, 1915. Soft cover,...

Two Cripple Creek July 4th Celebration Buttons. One Grand Celebration of Teller Co. with a photo of two american flags with 13 stars each. The second

Lot of 14. 1) Four different checks for The Stratton Cripple Creek Mining & Development Company. Includes pictorial check with Stratton's po...

Six pictorial checks from the United States Depository in Denver. 1) Eagle vignette at left. January 30, 1886. Sam P. Barber is getting paid $52. Blue

"Automotive Supplies and Garage Equipment." 959 pages. Index at beginning by category.. Great source of information for early car tools an...

8 pages front and back. Edited and Published by the Carriers Association of the Denver Post. Unusual and rare softcover that features reproductions of

H.M. Teller's personal copy of a reprinted directory. History of the City of Denver From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time by J.E. Wha...

Four pictorial Colorado National Bank certificates of deposit, issued 1866-67, three signed "Kountze Co.," one signed Luther Kountze. All ...

This is a view of Golden taken from the other side of Clear Creek. The creek, bridge, men walking on the street, businesses, and residences along the

Two views of the same area. 1) Photograph by W. E. Hook of Colorado Springs. Shows large houses. Man sitting on horse in foreground. 2) Also a Hook ph

1) "782 Cliff House and Springs at Manitou." Jackson is the photographer. Overview of the area. 7 x 4 1/2."W. H. Jackson photograph o...

Two photographs on card stock taken by unknown photographer. Full page ad on back of each card for the Manitou Grand Caverns, George W. Snider, propri

All 8 x 5". Allglued to card stock. 1) Railroad bridge through canon. Denver Book & Stationary Company. light coloring. 2-6) Green backed J...

Martin's photographs often provide a different view from his contemporaries. He has climbed the mountains to get these similar, but slightly dif...

1) W. H. Jackson Photograph (see back). Titled Cliff House and Soda Springs. Nice detail. You can clearly make out the women in their Sunday best cros

Three photographers are known: A. W. Davis, W. E. Hook, and Stone & Company. One photograph has an add foe J. G. Hiestand, Mineral Specimens an...

1) The Narrows at Williams Canon. Four nicely dressed women in the photo. W. E. Hook Photograph. Ad on the back for the Half-way House. "a comf...

Lot of four pieces of Colorado ephemera: 1928 booklet about Mesa Verde National Park (62 pages with photographs, 6" x 9.25"), The Birds of...

Over 60 issues of The Anaconda Wire, "the purpose of this publication is to bring you news and information about industrial and utility develop...

23 unissued checks. Some pictorial. Later checks (post-1910) from: Ft. Collins, Denver, Ouray, Monte Vista, Burlington, Stratton, Flagler, Center, Ala

Lot of 23 pieces. 1) Railroad: two vouchers for Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (1892 & 1933), three vouchers for the Denver, Utah & Pacifi...

Lot of four unissued certificates from two companies. 1) Two unissued from Swansea & Central City Wagon Road Company. Miner Print. Georgetown da...

Lot of 25. Leadville: 3 issued (Manville Hardware with RN-G, 1880 and Tomkins Hardware, 1889) plus 2 unused. Golden: three issued, F.E. Everett, two t

Nine checks from four different towns. Denver: four pictorial United States Depository checks, 1883-1887, blue eagle vignette; green FNB check from 18

Lot of seven. 1) Three issued and cancelled certificates for the Bank of Idaho Springs. No. P7, P10 & P11. All issued Feb. 1, 1934. Stamp cancel...