Western Prospects: Discovering Americana & Numismatics

From events of the The Native Daughters of the Golden West (established 1886) is a fraternal and patriotic organization founded on the principles of L

Seven California Pamphlets including: Sacramento Valley and Foothill Counties; California History Nugget; Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument;

Druggist related documents include: A Journal for Druggists, 1911; companies: Pharmacraft-Kirk Geary & Co.; Ing & allee Co. ; George Z. Wai...

Group of approximately 50 invoices from Kimball-Upson Co., Wholesale Sporting Goods and Automobile Supplies; and Kirk, Geary & Co., Wholesale Dr...

Over 80 pieces of Hardware and Farm & Feed documents.Companies include: Baker & Hamilton, W. P. Fuller & Company, Roller Mills Neubourg ...

Group of approximately 20 receipts from the H.S. Crocker Company Stationers, Booksellers, Printers, Bookbinders and Office Outfitters; and from A.S. H

Lot of 69 billheads and receipts for men's clothing; 65 for Williams-Marvin Co., Boots and Shoes (w/ vignette), c.1916-1917; and 4 for L. Elkus ...

400+ billheads and receipts for Sacramento grocers. The vast majority are from Mebius & Drescher Co. (c. 1917-18), with earlier pieces from the ...

Collection of business cards from Sacramento Retailers and misc. Merchants. Included are D. A. Lancaster, A. R. Hutchinson, A. Lindsey and Meade &am...

Large collection of over 200 receipts, letters, and banking documents. Companies include: Baker & Hamilton, Capitol Candy Company, California St...

Over 70 food related documents. Companies include: Mebius & Dresgher, Capitol Candy & Cracker Company, Mohr & Yoerk Packing Company, Woo...

Group of hardware-related documents of receipts and invoices. Companies represented include Baker and Hamilton; Schaw-Batcher Company; Thomson-Diggs C

Varied ephemera from the Sacramento area including Constitution, By-Laws, and Rules of Order for Grand, Subordinate and District Lodges I.O.G.T (publi

Group of 9 items of booklets and cards include: a Cigarmakers International Union Pocket Memorandum; a treatise on Poultry Troubles; a Weinstock, Lubi

1) Allied Printing Trades Floor Committee ribbon. Sunday, August Fourth, 1912. Yellow with black text. 7.75" long with unraveling along top ed...

Softcover. 123 pages. This exhibition was held with paintings from the Carnegie Institute at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francis

Here is a chance to collect 13 cards at one time! Includes: Crosett carpenters and mechanics, Williams Marvin boots and shoes, Pacific Hospital, Murra

Published by U.S. Coast Survey, Benjamin Pierce, Superintendent. Price $1.50. Measures 29.5" x 18." Scale 1:40,000. Folds with major separ...

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

1) Wells, Fargo & Co. Bank check No. 73. Dateline San Francisco, Jan. 22, 1889. Bold signature of Sutro. 2) Stereoview of Sutro Baths. Right sid...

Lot of 11 checks: two are Nevada Bank of SF (1893, 1897), nine are Wells Fargo & Co. (three 1890, six 1892). Cut cancels. After leaving the Coms...

Eight checks signed by the famous Comstock figure and San Francisco mayor. Nevada Bank of San Francisco (1887, 1893, 1897). Wells Fargo & Co. (t...

Two different Nevada Bank of San Francisco checks and four different Wells, Fargo & Co. checks, all signed by Adolph Sutro. 1887, 1890, 1892, 18...

Three copies of The Argonaut, a newspaper named for "a person in quest of something dangerous but rewarding; adventurer, also a person who too...

Rare. "Giving Name, Business, and Address of Business and Professional Men of California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska, Nevada,...

San Francisco Directory used by the Pacific Bank, San Francisco, California. Includes: Alameda, Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco. Hard bound, with ad

A rare book, "A complete Business directory containing the names of all business firms and professional people of San Francisco, giving their c...

No. 47 Complimentary card for Hammam Baths (Turkish Baths) on Post Street, San Francisco. Good for one bath and accommodations. City: San Fran

Lot of ten checks all signed by Charles Lux. London & San Francisco Bank. RN-D. Along with Henry Miller, Lux became one of the largest cattle pr...

We have never seen this directory before! "Monthly Commercial Record and Business Directory of San Francisco." March 1867. Volume 1, Numb...

Lot of 25. Calling cards from members from the Duisenberg family and others: Mrs. Minna Duisenberg (wife of Charles, and a writer of poetry), C. A. C.

Hospital bill to the estate of Ephraim Bennett , after his passing during his stay in the hospital for services by Drs. Hungerfords and Bryant. Blue p

A letter written in Spanish from Manuel de Jesus Castro, prefect of the Monterey District, to attorney J. B. Felton. City: San Francisco St

1) May 1906. Vol 1 No 1. Headlines: "The Story of the Great Conflagration". Named "Salamander Number" Articles on San Francisco...

Two photographs of San Francisco. One showing earthquake damage and one showing city on fire. Photos are 18" x 4" and mounted on heavy car...

Fabulous extra-long (9" x 62") framed panorama taken perhaps a week after the earthquake. Minor damage in sky at center and along far righ...

Views of San Francisco, a booklet of photos before the earthquake, printed in 1905. Another booklet, "Ruins of San Francisco", dated April...

1-2) Uncommon postcards featuring the artwork of B. K. Leach, one of a series of cards documenting via cartoon the events of the 1906 San Francisco Ea

1) San Francisco Chronicle, January 3, 1897. Headline-"Coming of a Greater San Francisco", subheadline "The Future Seat of Commercial...

This map of San Francisco was engraved for the Langley San Francisco Directory that embraced a general directory of residents and a business directory

Newspaper ad for the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco: E. M. rosner's Augmented Hungarian Orchestra, The Bradshaw Brothers, W. H. St. James and ...

This Mutual Savings Bank pamphlet lists officers and directors. It is also an advertisement for why you should join. Located at 30 Montgomery Street.

Receipt from Ravenna, Ghirardelli & co. to B. Delleprane. Domenico "Domingo" Ghirardelli (February 21, 1817–January 17, 1894) was the ...

Over 30 receipts from German Hospital. Nice vignettes, most written in German. City: San Francisco State: California, Date: 1879

Letters, statements, etc. from Pacific Bank, The Sather Banking Company, Banking House of John Sime & Co., Banking House of Lazard Freres and ot...

Lot of 33 billheads/invoices. Includes: Williams-Marvin Co. (1897-1922), two different style illustrated billheads, 23 total; Cahn, Nickelsburg &...

60 billheads & receipts for Boot/Shoe dealers in San Francisco. The vast majority are pre-1900, with the earliest being 1875. Many issued to Joh...

Four billheads from three different companies: J.A. Folger & Co. (w/ miner vignette), 1886; The Lewin-Meyer Co. (w/ factory vignette), 1905; and...

200+ billheads and receipts for Dry Goods dealers in San Francisco and Oakland. Most date to the turn of the century to 1920, though there are some pr

100+ billheads and receipts for grocers, most in San Francisco with some in other areas of California (Loomis, Sacramento, Los Angeles). Many pictoria