Spooktacular Auction: Americana, Mining, Numismatics, & More (October 2020)

Handbook Bedford Springs. PA. Provided by the Bedford Springs Co. Booklet outlines the hotel, grounds, activities, the many uses of the mineral wat

Two of the same. View of Coining presses at work. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Pennsylvania City: Philadelphia Provenance: Ken Prag Col

Ultra rare billhead for the Star & Bullock Hardware Co., Dealers in Heavy and Shelf Hardware, Mine and Mill Supplies. Advertises Hercules Powder...

c1885. One shows a group of tents and in hand writing identifies it as "A camp on the North Fork of Little Laramie." Can you say GOLD? The...

Framed nautical map of the Bahamas and the southeast end of Cuba. E&GW Blunt, New York, 1844. 40 x 26-1/2. Shows signs of water damage, but enti...

There are five maps (1-5) of the Crowsnest Forest and Waterston Lakes area Rocky Mountain Reserve (Alberta), scale 62.5, surveys by Bridgland and Hyat

This is a reconnaissance map of the Mt. McKinley area of Alaska made by the U.S. Army in 1904, scale is 625, by Brooks and Reaburn in 1902 printed by

Two maps from the U.S. Geological Survey. Reconnaissance Map of the Fairbanks Quadrangle, 33 x 40 inches, showing rainfall and water supply. Part of R

Map of Northern California dated 1856 and measuring 32"x 32". Although very fragile with fold tears, it is intact and could easily be moun...

This is a map of the County of San Mateo, California dated 1927 and surveyed by George Kneese at a scale of 1:2500. This cloth backed-map is 56 in. X

1) Gunnison (D&RG) 1927 24" x 58" 2) Gunnison (C&S) 1918 24" x 58" 3) Silverton 1917 36" x 72" 4) Silvert...

A set of three framed maps of Hawaii, also called the Sandwich Islands, pre-statehood. Professionally mounted, exquisitely matted (see photos), and fr

Four maps for the Queen Mining and Milling property Elmore County Idaho. Original pen and ink on paper. Survey J.L. McPherson 1926. Three other small

State of Missouri. By M. Lewis Clark, Surveyor General, son of William Clark of Lewis and Clark fame. Titled, "Diagram of the State of Missouri...

Rare, possibly unique, map of the Gold Hill Mining District. 4 x 5 feet, mounted loosely on board with Plexiglas covering. Chips, fading, some conditi

This is the rare wall map version of the famous Parkinson map of the Comstock Lode. It pre-dates the published, yet different, pocket map of a similar

Rand McNally Standard Map of Nevada, about 28 x 20-1/2 inches, that was part of a bound volume, The New Commercial Atlas of America. Shows stylized to

Nicely framed Nevada map, 17 x 14", published by Encyclopedia, 9th edition with inset of Tahoe-Carson City region. Date: Country (if not USA...

This is a Water Resources Dept. land use map of the Rogue River Basin dated 1978. Printed in color by the WRD in 130000 scale. Originally taken in 19

Large map of the Republic lode claim mine shafts and workings. The neighbor property is the Aileen patent with two shafts within ten feet of the Repub

Lithographer Geoff Baker of San Francisco printed these early maps by L. L. Paulson of San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties. Each page is 6 x 9 inches an

One page, 18 x 15 inches, with maps of the states of Washington and Oregon and a map of the Territory of Alaska published by Warner & Beers. Mus...

April 3, 1860 From St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California. Shows all 156 stops along the route and the 102 riders that made them. 24" ...

11"x 38" geological map showing a railroad surveyed route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Map has some frayed edges, but...

About 40 maps issued by Shell and Chevron service stations, or the California State Automobile Association.Mostly western states including Mexico and

Souvenir photo album to commemorate the visit of the United States Fleet to Victoria Australia in 1925. "With the Compliments of the Government...

Lot of eighteen black and white real photo postcards of early 20th century Cuba. Street scenes, churches, fountains, people and animals. Date: Cou

Perhaps 400 original photos and photo post cards of Alaska and the Arctic. Bernard Rosecrans Hubbard (1888-1962) was a geologist and explorer who was

A very folksy photo of builders and family on a Sunday morning in 1920, after completion of a home in about three and a half hours, according to the n

9x7” B/W photo of hay press at J. Goularte Ranch, 1885 Antioch, California. Entire team of seven men and five horses. Joseph V. Goularte

Lot of two 6 x 4 inch black and white photos of Maurine at Calico Ghost Town, near Barstow, 1955. Walter Knott (of Knott's Berry Farm fame) owne...

A nice 5"x 7" photograph taken by W.R. Chapin at Gold Gulch, California. Gold Gulch as with several California Gold Rush towns, had severa...

An 8"x 10" production still featuring world famous magician/escape artist, Harry Houdini. The still appears to be from one of the few film...

Two large images of Lake Tahoe's spectacular Emerald Bay -- one an enlargement of a very old BW photo, one full-color photographic print showing...

48" panorama by West Coast Art Co of LA in 1910. Taken from the south east side of Owens Valley. Shows unnamed ranch in foreground. The Carson...

Multi-photo panorama in black and white, of a town thought to be somewhere north of Los Angeles, California. Handwritten note at the bottom left indic

A group of twelve vintage black& white photographs, mostly of the area around the Monterey Peninsula and the bay. Photos are mostly 7"x 9&q...

Lot of approx 50. 4 1/4x 6 1/2 “ B/W, sepia photographs of individuals ( men, women, children of all agesSan Francisco from various stud

Two 8"x 20" photographs of Pacific Gas & Electric Company employees in both 1932 & 1949. The group photos were taken by Larry O...

Lot of 22 photographs from the 1920-30s from San Francisco. Turk Murphy's Jazz Band, Playland at the Beach, Adolph Sutro for Mayor campaign post...

Lot of 15. 1) Twelve cabinet cards, most identified as SF photographers. Includes: Flaglor; Chas. Lainer (x2); Imperial Studio (x2); Elite Photographi

Lot of 47 CDVs by various Northern California photographers: Godeus, Peters, Luther, Vaughan, Olsen, Bush and others from San Francisco. Price of San

A collection of 24 very dramatic stereo views taken in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and fire that his San Francisco on the morning of

Collection of 67 stereo views showing the devastation that occurred on the morning of April 18, 1906. Views include Telegraph Hill, The Jewish Synago

This is a photo portrait of eight beautiful women by Willard E. Worden of San Francisco. The back of this frame lists Worden as the premiere photograp

Photo 9 1/2x 8”, B?W of car covered by thousands of cherries for the Cherry Festival. Six people in the car., including the owners the Vega

Three framed items with the common theme of the 1988 Lake Tahoe Summer Festival of Arts and Music. Valhalla poster is framed with glass at 22-1/4 x 33

Four vintage photos, from about 1880 of the Mowrry family of Stockton, California. Photos show the family and their stable, interior and exterior, wh

Lot of nine stereoviews and 31 vintage postcards from Yosemite. 16 of the post cards are unwritten, 15 were used and postmarks date back to 1907. Many

Two albums of over 100 pages with a few hundred photos of a family's vacations in Yosemite, Soda Springs and Napa. The photos depict a gentler ...

Lot of 10 stereoviews of the Golden State: Santa Barbara Mission Gardens; a young redwood tree; Orange groves in Riverside; Tokay grapes in Acampo; Ba

A 19 page album containing color and black & white RPC's of California scenes, including coastal and mountain settings. There also several i...

Lot of five vintage stereoviews: Oakland Wharf, San Francisco; Cliff House and Seal Rocks by Moonlight (1897); Mission Santa Barbara; Santa Barbara M

Exceptional group of pre1900 photographs, mostly stereo and cabinet cards from San Francisco plus one postal cover. San Francisco China Trading Compan

A rare printed Shasta store card for D. Jayne's Expectorant, and three stereoviews of Mt. Shasta, one dated 1902. Date: Country (if not USA)...

Lot of 2. 1. State of Montana Centennial 1864-1964 Jim Beam Decanter. Free from chips and Cracks, no contents, nut still has a broken seal. 11 3/4

Collection of 68 pages showing black & white photos of Yosemite National Park, Tahoe and the Orient. These are taken in a more innocent time and...

An 18"x 21" framed photo gallery of the 21st General Assembly of Colorado in 1917. Also included is a 9"x 12" photo of the asse...

Three vintage baby portraits from photographers in Denver and Aspen. Four stereoviews of Ouray; Burro Train, Aspen; Climbing the Rockies (ladies on ho

Steroview, titled "Fetters broken, but not all..." Image of the 'Negro Building" at the Exposition in 1895 The 1895 Cotton State...

Two beautiful images on stereo view of Hawaii. Included are images of Mauna Loa Creek and The Royal School in Honolulu. Both are taken by The Keystone

Photos taken by The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of the eruption of Muana Loa on the island of Hawaii on April 18, 1926. Six of the photos show the pr

Three aviation themed photographs, each measuring about 25"x 36" and in black and white. Photos include a Navy dirigible U.S.S. Macon over...

Founded in Chicago in 1869, the canned-goods company we know today as Libby's was originally Libby, McNeill and Libby. This is a black and white...

Stereo view cards showing various locations in the Sears & Roebuck Chicago based headquarters. The cards, 42 of them, show images of everything ...

Thirteen photos circa 1910 of houses and street of Concord, Massachusetts. Also photos of the memorials to "The Shot Heard 'Round the World...

Stereoview of The Great Bridge, St. Louis, Mo. with a paddlewheel steamboat. Photographed and published by B.W. Kilburn, Littleton, New Hampshire, 189

A nice collection of 70 stereo views of Yellowstone National Park. Scenes captured include The Golden Gate, Hayden Valley, Pulpit Terrance, The Old Fa

Six beautiful black & white photos depicting family life in the towns of Holdredge and Lincoln, Nebraska in the late 1800's to the early 190...

Lot of 12 photo portraits, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches, black and white by various photographers. Studios were in the towns of: Franklin, McCook, Holdrege...

20 or so photos from a 1980's calendar with black & white photos of Reno during the 1930's and 1940's. these are in very good condit...

Three framed black and white images from Lake Tahoe, probably from the 1930s, two of the Glenbrook Inn on the east side of the lake in Nevada, and one

Early 1920's hand-colored landscape photo. Photo is affixed to period construction paper backing. Some damage to edges, some smudging and discol...

Lot of 6. Envelope and five B/W photos. Four photos show group w/crosses whipping other individuals, possibly turn of the century. One photo show th

This is a photo album of the Boy Scout Camp Manatoc, in Peninsula, Ohio; date unknown. Order of the Arrow. There are seven photos in all. The inside c

This album contains 29 pages of photos and RPC's primarily of natural sites in Oregon. Several of the black & white images show various shot...

Seven stereo views by The Keystone View Company showing images from the capital in Washington D.C. Included are images of President Wilson addressing

Souvenir photo brochure from McKinley's inauguration in 1901. Photos of the capitol, the walls of Congress, the buildings that house branches of...

Mystery photo for research..B/W of what appears to be a capitol Bldg. with cannons antebellum. Written on back is West Point? which it wasn't....

Two photographs from J. F. Jarvis, publisher ( John Fillis Jarvis, 1849-1931): 1) Penna. Ave. from U.S. Treasury; 2) Washington's tomb at Mt. Ve...

A beautiful collection of 30 stereo views taken by world renown photographers W.H. Jackson and F.J. Haynes. Photos feature all the natural wonders of

Lot of fifteen black and white photographs of scenes from Yellowstone National Park, 1931. Produced by F.J. Hiscock of Cody Wyoming. Old Faithful, Mo

45 page personal Photo Album Of over 60 b/w photos of Payette Lakes Idaho, Blue Mountains Ore, Weiser Idaho. Individuals fishing, at home on the bea

Seven full moons from Bierstadt (fancy scroll work and strong detail), Kilburn bothers (five). And a most unusual stereoview of Mars. Copyright Yerkes

This is a lot of three photos depicting family life on the open Kansas and Oklahoma range. These are B&W photos; James Smith on his homestead i...

James Sylvester Curtis, brother to Ann Curtis Glen who died in the Civil War in 1862. Copper frame is 3 x 3 1/2 inches. Date: Country (if not USA):

A half dozen stereo views with images of Afro-American field workers picking cotton in the deep south. Images taken by both Works and Keystone Studies

Cabinet card, 4 x 7 inches. A portrait of Cyrus West Field (1819-1892) American financier who created the Atlantic Telegraph Company which sent the f

A very rare and unique tintype taken around the 1860s to 1870's. Photograph measures 7"x 10" and shows a small boy and a smaller girl ...

8 1/2 x 5 1/2 " Sepia photo of w/ black border of Sulky pace horse Silkwood and jockey. Signed H.L. Starmaker (?). very good condition. Da...

Lot of 28. Dogs, injured soldiers, Belgium refugees in WWII, poker, fabulous hotels and hovels, cartoons, manufacturing, children, Berlin, ships, Pope

Lot of 11. Glass printed color slides depicting different scenes of villages, children’s stories for storytelling showmen of time. Each mea

Color magic lantern slides used for advertising and distraction during movie matinees or at the beginning of the show, circa 1910-1930. Sailing and st

Modern Woodman of America is one of the largest fraternal organizations and was founded in Lyons, Iowa in 1883 and offered "Fraternal Insuranc...

Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) was a Polish pianist and composer as well as prime minister and signer of the Treaty of Versilles which ended World

Lot of 57 early 20th century color posts cards from all over the world. London, Paris, Stockholm, Havana, New Zealand, Egypt, Jamaica, Napoli, Kyoto,

A rare hand colored unframed tintype of two children. This is a post Civil War portrait and is in very nice condition, considering its age. Tintypes,

Lot of twelve photographs of ship wrecks. Seven are 11 x7, five are 7 x 5. Two are of the President Madison, one is of the Frank Buck which sank atMil

George Washington Cable (1844-1925) of New Orleans, wrote of Creole life and became the most important Southern writer of the 19th century. He wrote o

Stereoviews showing three national expositions in the late 1800's to early 1900's. Included are two steroviews from the Trans Mississippi Ex...