Western Prospects: Discovering Americana & Numismatics

Non-locking. Canvas with leather top and wide bottom. Canvas stamped: "RY. EX. AGY." 13" x 15" Stains to canvas. (Ex-Parker Lyo...

Canvas. Non-locking. Leather top and strap. Canvas stamped: "RY EX AGY" Bottom of the bag has been removed. Has Railway Express Agency bad...

Non- locking. Leather maker is Jos. Kantor in Chicago. Canvas stamped: "PROPERTY OF RY. EX. AGY." (RY. EXP AGY. crossed out). 15" x 1...

Canvas with leather top and bottom. This one is similar to the other Railway Express mail bags, but it does not have a wide bottom. Canvas stamped: ...

Canvas with wide leather bottoms. Stamped: "Railway Express Agency" (crossed out). One bag is numbered 101 and the other 26. 20" x 13...

Non-locking. Canvas. Stamped: "Adams Express Company." 12.5' x 12.5" Heavily used: leather ripped and brittle, stain to canvas. ...

Locking. Leather. Unmarked, but likely used on railway or stagecoach. The lightweight handle at the top would indicate that this was to carry relative

Leather bag with strap and brass latch. In faint white lettering: "U.S. MAIL" Leather starting to chip and finish wearing off. 12" x ...

This leather bag has a different locking device (top center) and has handles at the top and bottom. While the bag is original, the labels "Well...

Booklet by A. J. Wells titled "The New Arizona (Homes and Wealth for Out-Of-Doors Folks)" published by Southern Pacific Railroad Company. ...

Unique RPC mailed from Independence to Alameda. Message reads: "This is the silver spike that marked the completion of the "New Road"...

Lot of four checks and one receipt. The checks are all Sather & Co., San Francisco, RN-G, 1877-83, made payable to Central Pacific. The receipt ...

A description of the route, the progress and the character of the work, its resources, and business prospects, with the foundation and advantages of i

c. 1870s. Central Pacific Railroad. Profile View Cape Horn. Illustrated by C.R. Savage. View of bend in track alongside steep drop-off. Reverse: Photo

California Edition. Map of Central Pacific Railroad surrounded by 24 beautiful lithographs of California and Nevada Scenes along Transcontinental Rout

For our proportion of wages paid conductor and brakeman in joint services month of November 1899. 8.5 x 7". City: Randsburg State: Ca

1) Seven Daily Telegraphic Register of Trains time sheets, 17" x 26.5", c.1914, Jamestown. 2) Six different time tables: Sierra Railway: N...

Lot of 8 different railroad pamphlets for Lake Tahoe, including very early. Most have photographs and maps. 1) 1902 brochure, California Resorts, with

Booklet by A. J. Wells titled" The Sacramento Valley of California" published by Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 1980. The booklet (6.5...

Booklet titled "California, San Joaquin Valley" by A. J. Wells, published by Southern Pacific Railroad Company in 1908. The booklet (6.5&q...