Western Prospects: Discovering Americana & Numismatics

Large Certificate(17 3/4" x 13 1/2") signed by Theodore Roosevelt as President appointing Elsie H. Newton as Notary Public for District o...

Rarest of all Taft buttons! September 22-24th train schedule of President Taft and party for the purpose of the opening of the Gunnison tunnel on the

Full color reproduction of portrait of Harry S. Truman with capital building in background. Painted by Greta Kempton 1947, with artist signature visib

Three newspapers: Nevada State Journal, San Jose Mercury and The California Weekly People that have articles after the assassination about Lee Harvey

Newspaper, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Thursday, August 8, 1974, headline. City: Las Vegas State: Nevada, Date: 1974 FHWAC#:

'Acropolis, 1933' Published by the Associated Students of Whittier College. Richard Nixon appears on eight pages including 'Orthogonian ...

Lot of 35 postcards, 33 of which are RPC. Riders such as: Jason Stanley ("world famous drunken ride"), Frank H. Lopez, Johnnie Hagen, Alle...

Lot of 15. Walla Walla, Ellensburg, and Toppenish. None were postally used. No duplicates. Riders such as Roy Hunter, Wynn Vickerman, Donnie Snyder, D

Lot of 22. Rodeo figures like Ed Scholtz, Earl Wofford, Don Aber, Pistol Pete, Andrew DeRock, Clarence Dunn, etc. No duplicates. Four linen, a few rea

Lot of 18. Thirteen are chrome litho. (c.1905-1920) and five are RPC. Cattle round-up, "cowboy mounting an 'out law' broncho," pio...

Lot of 11. No duplicates. Three are raised, color cards of the same cowgirl in different poses. Six are used. Fun collection! City: State:

Lot of 4. Clark Stanley was a snake-oil salesman. No, I really mean he was 'the' snake-oil salesman. Four different versions of his book. On...

1) "Deadwood Dick" and "Calamity Jane": A Thorough Sifting of Facts From Fiction. Written and published by Edward L. Senn. Deadw...

1) "Outlaw Album" by Fred and Jo Mazzulla. 1966. Signed by authors. 48 pages with index. Doc Holliday, Calamity Jane, Butch Cassidy and th...

1) "Dan Dillon Casement. The Abbreviated Autobiography of a Joyous Pagan." Book is about the cattle trade in Colorado, 1944. From the end ...

This charming booklet tells the stories of Bronco John, with illustrations. The introduction reads: I put this little work before the public in order

Proceedings of the Thirteenth annual Session of the Anti-Horse Thief Association, Oklahoma Division. Held at Enid, Oklahoma, October 4, 1907. Includes

Information of all members of the union throughout the U. S. Copyright secured and states chartered--no date. Express Publishing Co., Steam printers,

Catalog No. 24. 11" x 8 1/2". Catalog with pictures. Largest manufacturer of high Grade saddles in the World. City: Pueblo State: Co

1) Catalog No. 15. 11" x 8". with pictures. illustrative and descriptive catalog. 2)Three advertising flyers. 8" x 4". 8" x...

Lot of 5. Four are from Vallejo: three are to John Brownie from O.L. Henderson, Blacksmith and Wagonmaker, 1871; the fourth is John Brownie, Pioneer L

McClellan US calvary saddle, hand sewn, rawhide seat covering. Saddle has metal label that reads: "12 inch seat". Wood stirrups and covers...

Pack saddle probably used by prospectors. Gear intact, though dried out. City: State: United States, Date: FHWAC#: 278

General Description: Barbed wire spelled the end to open range grazing for stockmen in the west in the 1880's. Soon settlers began staking out ...

See General Desc.in 26501. Desc: 14 pieces, Inventors include Brotherton, Brinkerhoff, Haish, Glidden, Scutt, Unknown. City: State:

See General Desc.in 26501. 14 pieces. Inventors include Stubbe, Beers, Vosburgh, Ross, Washburn, Shinn, Huffman, and Miles. City: State:

See General Desc.in 26501. 16 pieces. Inventors include Jayne-Hill, Nadelhoffer, Frye, Brinkerhoff, Worchester, Kelly, Brink, Wing, Wilkes, Allis, and

See General Desc.in 26501. 16 pieces. Inventors include Meriwether, Scutt, Wilkes, Sunderlands, Merrill, Hallner, Brink, Stover, Watkins, and Cowell.

See General Desc.in 26501. 16 pieces. Inventors include Preston, Crandal, Decker, Curtis, Upham, Ellwood, Haish, Doerr, Shellaberger, and Rodgers.

See General Desc.in 26501. 16 pieces. Inventors include Kennedy, Billings, Ford, Ross, Baker, Dodge, Smith, Cleveland, Stubbe, and Nadelhoffer. C

Four photos of sled dogs and one photo of Turnagain Arm, Alaska (shows Northern Lights). City: Anchorage State: Alaska, Date: 19

Lot of 14. See photo. (Prag collection) City: Anchorage State: Alaska, Date: c1915-1940 FHWAC#: 27922

Lot of twenty-five. Two c1905-1915: Main Street and First Street. Also heavy snow in 1930 (Roark photo), a winter night with lots of telephone wires,

Lot of twenty-four. Views include the Principal Hotel, Government mansion, birds Eye views, Yukon & Klondyke Rivers, Officers of the steamer ...

Lot of 65. Early Federal building and second street, business district, iron bridge, Model Cafe, snow, St. Joseph's Hospital, snow of course, se...

22 cards total. Early chrome and hand-colored. Fifteen of Fairbanks, 7 of Seward. Photographers/publishers: Lowman & Hanford, A.J. Johnson &...

This certainly has the semblance of Green Hill, but we could not confirm this. Beautiful panorama showing the small town, hill, mountains and water. 4

Lot of twenty-six. Features 1905 Pacific Steamship postcard of Juneau. Also two Albertype postcards. One postcard by J. F. Eicherly. One Kern Skagway

Lot of thirty-five. Includes a 1910 Spickett's post office, log cabin church, governor's mansion, Baranof Hotel, high school wharf, cotton f...

Lot of 23. Features black and white and color versions of Ketchikan and Tongass Narrows. Also a Case Juneau photograph of the city. Kern Skagway postc

Lot of fifty-three. Seven c1905-1915. The rest c1915-1940. Several "Welcome to Ketchikan" sign. 1905 Case & Draper Front Street. Very ...

Lot of 24. Includes a nice scene of Front Street at midnight, June 21, 1905 (Land of the midnight Sun ya' know). A November 1, 1906 storm with w...

Lot of 10. Five c1905-1910 and five c1915-1940. Front Street, Jacobs, Nome photograph. October 6, 1918 storm. Lomen Brothers, Nome tents, back stamped

Lot of seventeen. Includes a May 1915 photo by Hetters. Postmarked 1915. Steam engine crossing a bridge on way into Seward. Haines and Fort Seward pho

Lot of forty-seven. Eighteen of Russian architecture (St. Michael's and other buildings). Indian town,Indian River Bridge, Thlingit Village, Rus...

Lot of twenty-five. Six pre-1915. These postcards focus on the Russian influence on the architecture and nature's influence on the scenery. Phot...

Lot of thirty. Includes a glittery overview with A. B. Mountain in the background. Note on back says "Jan's father had these made in German...

Lot of 35. Eight old RPC's. Includes Train going down street, Harriet S Pullen house and park, reprint of 1898 Skagway flood, Thwaites photo of ...

Lot of seven. Great 1907 with Valdez weak cancel of wharf. "Leaving here 4 a. m. " Please see photo. (Prag collection) City: Valdez St...

Lot of twenty-one. Older cards include hand-colored wharf and waterfront of a Pacific Coast Steamer Company card. Also Chief Shakes Island and several

Lot of 11. Nine RPC's. Fort Stephens, Native cemetery, Two main street views: old and new. One 1929 Fort Yukon postmark. (Prag collection) Cit...

Lot of twenty-three. Hand-colored street scene in Dawson City. Looks like a small stereo view. WAY early postcard. Says Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. H

75 real photo cards of rivers, mountains, airplanes, glaciers, Northern Lights, etc. Photographers: Robinson, Cann, Dempsey, Ordway, Roark, Dedman, Al

Lot of twenty-nine. Incredible (if light) Copper River Railway bucking snow! Fairbanks depot. Photograph of the Nome depot. Alaska RR, CR & NW R...

Lot of fifty-seven. Mostly White Pass & Yukon railroad with plenty of shots of the unbelievable 297' steel bridge that they built in the ver...

Lot of thirty-five. Teams of Huskies (on the road, in Skagway, in the Yukon), winter mail arriving in Nome, Dawson Mail Team (PE Kern), Mail team leav

Lot of ninety. Seven c1905-1915, fifty c1920-1940 and thirty-three c1940-1970. Plenty of cute; plenty of history. See all photos online! (Prag collect

Lot of thirty-three. Includes SS Corwin and dog sled teams, Santa Clara, SS Ohio, SS Yucatan, White Horse, SS Victoria, SS Jefferson, SS Spokane, City

Lot of eighteen. 1) 1910 F. E. Bagger photo of a rock being blown-up by a volcanic eruption. 2) Skagway in background from Rocky Point on the White Pa

Lot of four. 1) Double card of Ketchikan and Tongass Narrows. Ketchikan postmark. 2) Triple card of Juneau. Weak Juneau postmark. Winter & Pond,...

Lot of sixty! Cars, horses rafts, mountains, valleys, rivers, glaciers, scenery, Midnight Sun, bays, mules, Valdez & Fairbanks Trail, Ketchikan ...

5 Lot of 57. Three circa 1950-1910, twenty-five circa 1920-1940 and five circa 1940-1950. Twenty-nine RPC's. All the regulars are here. (Prag co...

Lot of nine. Two each of Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan, and Chief Ano-Tlosh of the Taku Tribe. One for you and one to sell! One of a totem in an Indian Cem

Lot of ninety-three. Official Canadian-American opening of the Alaska Highway approved by the Northwest Services Command, US Army. Dog sled team in Ke

150+ older chrome postcards with duplicates. Locations: Cape Prince of Wales, Siberia, Ketchikan, Keewalik, Howkan, Nome, etc. Totem poles, reindeer,

This lot includes forty-seven 1920's to 1940's, sixteen 1905-1910, and forty four 1940's to 1970's. One hundred and seven all togeth...

Lot of 149. Airports, ships, bays, floods, fishing, Golden Gate Hotel, Nordale Hotel, Cushman Street Fairbanks, Red Dog Saloon, Sitka Hotel, schools,

20 white border real photo postcards, including duplicates, plus 4 others. Ships include: "Bear" in the Arctic, S.S. Yukon at Columbia, S....

Lot of eighty. ten pre-1915. Includes 1) a photo that says 'City Water Supply.' The wagon is in front of a building that says 'Assay Off...

66 older cards from places such as Unalaska, Douglas, Valdez, Wrangell, Tanana, Douglas, and Metlakatla. Photographer: Lowman & Hanford, W.H. Ca...

Twenty-one cards. Includes a Lowman & Hanford Taku Glacier, a Winter & Pond Taku Inlet, a Winter & Pond Mendenhall, and a Case & Dra...

Lot of forty-six. Sixteen are chrome. Includes Lomen Bros. polar bear in swimming in the water, Ft. Liscom soldier and bear play fight over rifle, 191

Seventy-five pieces. Some postal: 1938 Hope, 1951 Barrow via Air Mail, 1939 Livengood, 1944 Bettles passed by U. S. Censor. Some hand colored. Some ol

Lot of 12 illustrated checks, all drawn on the First National Bank of Juneau. Six are from the Sitka Branch and 6 from Juneau. All date to 1939. Vigne

Alaska map measures 25 1/2" x 18 1/2". United States Dept. of the Interior Geological Survey map. VF. City: State: Alaska, Date:

Alaska map measures 33" x 26 1/2". Published by Knoll Map Company, Seattle, Washington. City index on the back as well as an index of Alas...

Lot of five. 1) Hughes Tool Division, "Everyday we make drilling history." Men drilling for oil with an oil rig int he background. Beautif...

Nice archive of a steamship line working Alaska and the gold regions. There are about 15 pieces of correspondence c 1902 on printed letterheads, and 4

Mounted birds-eye view panorama titled "Nogales, Arizona and Mexico, 1909." Four locations identified in ink: 1) Residence of A.J. Millik...

Fourteen checks drawn on various Arizona banks. Two checks drawn on L. M. Jacobs & Company, that later became Pima County Bank; four checks draw...

Five pointed silver badge made by the Lawman's Badge Co. Numbered 239. Says Deputy Marshal / Marshal's Office / City of Tombstone; Arizona s...

Group of 3 Tombstone booklets, including: 1) A Pictorial Souvenir & Historical Sketch of Tombstone Arizona, "The Town Too Tough To Die.&quo...

Four checks, 3 different. 1) Two same-style checks from Pima County Bank, Tucson, 1881, RN-G1. 2) Two different style checks from the Cochise Bank in

Lot of 12 Arizona checks. Includes: Pima County Bank, Tombstone, RN-G1 (1880 and 1881); Cochise County Bank, Tombstone (1884); Phoenix National Bank,

Reprint from an 1857 book. Mowry (for whom Mowry, Arizona is named) was an early pioneer. He was arrested as a traitor during the Civil War and was a

From Tombstone and Tucson. Lot of 6. Includes: Pima County Bank, Tombstone, 1880, RN-G1; blue Pima County Bank, Tombstone, 1881, RN-G1; Pima County Ba

Indexed County and Township Pocket Map and Shippers' Guide of Arizona, Accompanied by a New and Original Compilation and Ready Reference Index, ...

1) Map of the Gila River Valley From Oatman Flats to the Colorado River Showing Arable Lands Under the Proposed Storage Dam. Measures 17" x 28....

One of the board of directors of the Southwestern Slate and Manufacturing Company discovered the slate deposits in 1897, and the report indicates ther

130 pieces. Includes Robt. Rasmussen, JC Scribner, JP Peirano & Tyron, Peirano, Hauselt & Werly, M Arendt, Davis & Company, Please inspe...

28 unique billheds from these two merchants in Angels Camp. Demerest are from Altaville and Angels Camp. See photo for this diverese group.. City

About 40 different billheads including general merchandise, horse & carriage, and services. Names include Ellis Thomas, City Garage, Peachy &...

56 different billheads (10 additional pieces). Please inspect in person to see the content and magnitude of this collection. City: Angels Camp

While centered on Bakersfield and Kern County, the map features Rancho El Tejon, Rancho Castac, Rancho Los Alamos y Agua Caliente, Rancho La Liebre, R

Four items relating to a bank robbery that took place in Berkeley in 1930. 1) Newspaper clipping showing bank employees who were present for hold-up.

Latham King made a fortune in Virginia City in the 1860s while serving as the agent for Wells Fargo & Co., and relocated to San Francisco by the...

Inc. August 6, 1892. Dateline Bodie, California, Dec. 5, 1892. Certificate # 84, issued for ten shares to J.B. Vierra. Signed by Thos. H. Leggett as p

Lot of 16. From Bodie: seven Bodie Bank checks, all 1879, rough shape (rips, soiling); 1899 Bodie Miner's Union draft signed by Bell as presiden...

Message from Nevada and California Telegraph Company to Bodie Bank, apparently in code. Sent sometime in the 1880s. From the Weber Telephone & T...

15 pieces, including documents for the Carson City bank with Bodie transactions, a Bodie banker letterhead and 2 guide books to the High Sierra from 1