Western Americana Auction April 2022

Lot of 6 mining letters addressed to Fred Searles. Searles was a famous mining geologist in Grass Valley/Nevada City and was one of the founders of Ne

Lot of 36 including 25 real photo. Choice collection. Nearly all different. RPPC include: Hogue Mine, NC; Lava Cap Mine; Central Mill, GV; Springhill

Lot of 25. Includes: Giant Powder Co. letterhead, 1907, Clipper Gap; North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Co. letterhead, 1904; Marysville Foundry pictorial

Lot of 11. Includes: 1880 Thomas Price Assay Memorandum for bullion deposited by the Deadwood Mining Co.; 1918 Annual Report of the Brunswick Consolid

2 rare panoramas. One is North Bloomfield mining camp and the other is in the nearby vicinity, location unknown. 2 photo panoramas 7.5"x18.5&qu...

Lot of 13. Some white borders, mostly RPC’s. Four postmarked 1907 : Williams Port R.I., Oroville,. Dredgers: El Oro #2, Baggett No 1,

Lot of 8 RPPC. Rare group. Some duplicate views. All are for the La Grange Mine at Weaverville, Trinity County, California. Started operating in 1862,

This lot is of a map Showing the Quartz Mining Properties belonging to the “Alameda Gold Mining Co.” situated in Placer Co., Califor

2 page letter with mention of Pony Express and Avawatz Crown Mine Co. near Silver Lake, CA, August 29, 1908. City: State:California Date:

Calif. State Div. of Mines Geologic Guidebooks: 1) San Francisco Bay Counties Bulletin 154, 1951 History, Landscape, Geology, Fossils, Minerals, Indus

Lot of 15. All but 3 are RPPC. A few duplicates. Includes: Big Meadows, CA, 1913; Plasser[sic.] Mine, Summerville; North Fork Placers, Helena, CA; pla

Lot of 6 b&w photos of California mines, c. late 19th century. Three mounted under glass and framed are: Whisky Bar Mine, 1897, photo size +/- ...

Five framed photographs of miners in California. A) Photograph of two miners posed with an ore cart outside of a mine. There are two sheds on either s

Pair of Colorful California Mining Maps: 1) Map of Mines & Locations in the vicinity of the Sierra Buttes, Sierra Co. Lithograph by Britton &...

Lot of 7. Few white borders, Two color. Three postmarked 1910-55 : Napa (double stamped). All STREET level view: Dredging Imperial Valley, Cotton

3 framed reproduction photos. Hydraulic mining in French Corral in Nevada, CA 9"x8". Malakoff Diggins 7.5"x9.5". Redding, CA pr...

Two metal catalogs containing "Application for Membership" cards for the Mine Workers Protective League. These cards are arranged alphabet...

A) Mounted photograph of a group of men and women at a picnic in Grass Valley. There is a man in the center who is serving some kind of stew out of a

Lot of 7. Includes: Miners Foundry & Supply Co. billhead (Nevada City, 1918); Geo. W. Pennington & Sons advertising pamphlet (c.1898, SF); I...

Three original photographs of hydraulic mining operations in California, c. 1905-1915. A) Mounted photograph of a hydraulic mining monitor spraying wa

Original photograph of a hydraulic mining operation in Reliese Hill, California around 1890. There are two men standing next to the hydraulic system t

Photograph probably of the Oat Hill mercury mine in Napa County. It was taken by M.H. Strong of the photo department of Napa, CA. The photograph depic

Two photographs of placer miners around the 1890s. A) Original photograph of eight placer miners using rockers. Soil was dumped into these rockers and

Really rare photograph of a modernized hydraulic mining system being used after it was outlawed. Hydraulic mining was banned in California in 1884 bec

Extremely rare photo of a mining camp by Moore, Nevada City, CA. Back of frame says "near Cisco, Baltimore City or Oroville, Spalding Lake Are...

Two framed photographs of the Red Dog Mine in Nevada County, California. The Red Dog was a hydraulic mine that got caught up in the battle to ban this

The first issue published by the California Mining Bureau Association. A monthly magazine devoted to the promotion of the Mining Interests of the Paci

WELL OVER 500 pieces! This is an account of what they spent and who they paid. As you might expect it included several different Bassick billheads. Bu

Original Mammoth plate photo, 17 1/4" x 13 1/4", in crude old frame. Photo appears to be c. 1880 of a mule train carrying mining supplies ...

U.S.G.S. Colorado State Professional Papers: 1) Geo. of the Aspen Mining Dist., w/Atlas, PP-94, by Josiah E. Spur, 1898, 43 plates, 11 figures, 30 Atl

Group of time cards and checks from the Amazon-Manhattan Mining Company in Beaver Creek District near Wallace, Idaho. The time cards show a table of d

This book of cancelled stock certificates are of the Sherman Lead Company of Moscow, Idaho. Stocks #501-749 inclusive. The stocks show a beautiful sea

Cleverly salted with quotes from Jay Gould and R. Kipling, this 1906 prospectus encourages investors to buy into the Bismark Copper Mining Company of

2 Anaconda company booklets. Great Falls Departments 1937, with lots of photos. Howdy, Here is Important Information for Employees 40pp. No date, pos

Great Falls Departments, Eighth Edition, published January 1937. This book contains descriptions and photographs of the Great Falls departments of the

Anaconda Copper v. Pilot Butte Mining, 1914 lawsuit hearing. Bound, 1.25" thick. City: State:Montana Date:

Plats of those Mining Claims in Butte, Sold by Metes and Bounds, of which there are no Official Plats of Record. Contains blueprint maps of unplatted

Two prospectuses from copper mining companies: 1) Andes Copper Mining Company sixth annual report, for the year ended 1932. 2) Blackfoot Copper Co. of

Montana Territory County of Lewis and Clark recorder issued this discovery claim on the west 1/2 of the Merrimac Lode in the name of Clara Kennedy, si

Three annual reports from the Granite Mountain Mining Company whose mines and works were at Granite and Rumsey, Deer Lodge County Montana. Corporate o

Album full of approximately 100 mine safety posters. These posters were drawn by John Gowers for the Anaconda Mining Company in the 1950s. These poste

Lot of two maps of mines in Montana and Illinois. Both maps are original pen and ink maps. A) Map of an unnamed mine in Silver Bow County, Montana sur

A) Detail Drawings for new Mine Cage for the Montana Company, Limited by S.H. Macomber. Detailed engineering blueprint of the parts of a mine cage. Ap

Articles of Incorporation and annual reports. Cape Nome Copper Mining, Bonanza Copper Mining, Butte Coeur-d'Alene Copper Mining, Davis Copper Mi...

Articles of Incorporation and annual reports from Kennedy Creek Gold Mining, Dennemora Gold and Copper Mining, French Bar Gold Mining, Montana Homesta

Twelve photo negatives c1933, including seven 6-7/8 x 10-3/4-inch negatives and five 7-3/4 x 9-3/4-inch negatives. Four images are pictures of an unna

2" stack in protective sleeves of important and valuable info by professionals on various mine properties. The Bland Group, Butte. Mountain Vie...

Miscellaneous Montana mining lot. Mining and Scientific Press newspaper 1894; The Electrical Engineer (Harnessing the Missouri River near Helena) 1898

About 31 Montana mining and geology booklets. 10 Empire Lode Mining Claim. Mineral Industry Surveys of Montana 1957, 1964, 1967.Inspector of Mines Rep

Lot of over 30 checks from Montana mining companies, dating back to the 1880s. Butte, Great Falls, Helena, Cooke City, Clinton, Marysville. City: S