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 ...