Western Trails & Treasures Auction (February 2022)

Lot of 15 stereograph cards, 14 of Alaska, 1 of Greenland. Each card 7" x 3 1/2". All but two have descriptions on back of card. Manufa...

Lot of 11 items related to Tombstone, Arizona. Oldest item is an invitation to a New Year's Ball on Dec. 31, 1880, unsigned. Collection also i...

When Anaheim was 21 by Leo J. Friss was published by Pioneer Press in 1968. It is an account of what Anaheim, California was like in 1878. The autho...

1)The Story of Bodie, by Ella M. Cain, Fearon Publisher, 1956 (6"x 9"HB, 196 pages) 2) Mining Camp Days, by Emil W. Billeb, Published by H...

Compliments of Cecil & Lee, Chico. The obverse looks like an advertising mirror, with a lovely nude; the reverse has a photo of a young man. So...

Lists town, farms, soil, climate and historical notes. Read about Grand Island, Mormon Basin, Arbuckle, Sulphur Creek, etc. Supplement of the Weekly C

Nice panoramic photograph of the Rainbow Bridge over Donner Pass. Titled, "Donner Lake from Donner Pass, Cal. #715" No photographer listed...

Fourteenth edition of this classic account of the Donner Party tragedy. Signed by author CF McGlashan in Truckee, Cal., July 27, 1928. First published

Lot of 20. 60th anniversary issue (1939 - 1999) of Disney's stereoscopic viewer for 3-D images of your favorite cartoon characters, tv stars, an...

Classic assortment of Disney animation prints, depicting various legendary original Disney Cartoon Animations, such Snow White, Disney Princess. All

Over 40 Vintage 1920s Hollywood actors photographs and an autograph book of movie stars' signatures. Actors include: Ramon Navarro, Gary Cooper,...

Lot of 20 Hollywood posters promoting movies, actors and actresses. Largest +/- 22" x 14", smaller posters +/- 15" x 12". One ...

Lot of 17 posters for surfing movies released in the 1960s - 1980s. (1) Surf Wars Cartoon 1978 US mini poster, +/- 10 1/2" x 17", directed...

Major archive of Hollywood movie posters all printed in America. About 35-40% are 1970s and the remainder early to mid 1980s. Titles include voyage of

Lot of two pieces of framed cowboy art: 1) "All of My Hero's are Cowboys" by Ivan Jesse Curtis. Signed number 570/2000. Framed 39 x 20...

Lot of about twenty vintage photographs of early Hollywood actresses. Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge, Betty Bronson, Marion Davies, Billie Dove, Dolor

Rare street scene photograph of Independence, California from 1908. Independence is the county seat of Inyo County, California. This photograph depict

1) 1882, Dixon Brabbon cashier. To Sam Lewis & Co. for $50. 2) 1884. Signed by Snailesw for Brabbon. $36.43 to W. T. Ellis. Date: 1882, 1884 C...

Ultra-rare brochure published jointly by Southern Pacific and the Lake Tahoe Railway & Transportation Company in 1906. Sunset Press. Unfolds to ...

Very rare business card for Strawberry Hotel, JT Scherrer, Prop., with Daily Auto Stage, Electric Heating, and Excellent Hunting & Fishing. Loca...

Lot of 10 different. This is a great group of different Tahoe area cancels. Includes 8 corner advertising covers: Glenbrook (1934, steamer vignette);

Over 50 maps, brochures, jumbo postcards and photographs of Lake Tahoe. B&W real photo postcard of Georges Gateway Club. Date: Country (if no...

The Tahoe-Sierra Dog Derby took place February 14-15, 1931 and here is a pinback made by Walter N. Brunt of San Francisco. 37 mm. Extremely rare Dat

Signed and dated 12/1970. Contains 78 descriptive articles from the newspaper, The Tahoe City World. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Californ

Large coffee table size book on the History of Los Angeles County as of 1880 by Thompson & West. Book has beautiful illustrations and maps. It i...

Lot of 1. LA HS 1899 yearbook. Unpaginated but approx. 170 pp. Leather front cover with Blue and White L.A.H.S. W. 99 and flower illustrations. S

Lot of over 130 items. Letterheads & billheads from various enterprises throughout Los Angeles, c. 1900 - 1920. Most are typewritten. Several ...

1903-05 Sun Insurance Office Register from the Los Angeles Agency. The Sun Insurance Office was founded in 1710 in London. The company came to the US

Fifty years of Banking service under Conservative Management. JA Graves, 34 pages. Early history of this terrific bank. Includes fold out photo of the

Rent collection records for unknown landlord in Los Angeles, California. This is a 1,000-page "Japanese Letter Copying Book" in which the ...

Brass plate, 3 x 2 inches. Thirteenth Annual / Soap Box Derby / Heat Winner Award / Chevrolet Dealers / And / Daily News / Los Angeles July 19,20, 22

Located in the Mohawk Valley, Plumas Co., California - Lot consists of ledger book registering all sales between September, 1896 & August, 1903...

This book includes maps and illustrated plates the depict scenes in daily life in a California Wester mining town. Reproduced by Howell-North Books, B

An 18"x 4" panoramic photo of the A.E. Scheiber Dairy Ranch in Nicolaus, California. There are a few blemishes on photo. Please see photos...

A variety of ad cards and postcards from the Oakland area. Includes some early pieces as well as some beautiful pictorial advertisement cards. Date:

Metal coin bank 4 x 2 1/2 inches 3 inches tall. Handle stamped U.S. Bank Note Co. / Indianapolis, Ind. Brass plate on side stamped Euclid Savings Bank

Choice. Published by the Chamber of Commerce and Civic Association of Pasadena, California. Fantastic group of amber printed photographs of buildings

Lot of 1. Hardbound book titled Illustrated Souvenir Book showing a few Pasadena Homes with Short Descriptive Data, by Board of Trade of Pasadena, CA

Lot of 10. Historical publications about various aspects of Pasadena, CA and surroundings. All softbound. Titles: (1) "Lake Vineyard" Ado...

Lot of 3 publications about various historical aspects of Pasadena, CA. Collection consists (1) hardbound book titled Picturesque Pasadena, by Pasade

Pasadena Illustrated Souvenir Book. Subtitle: Showing a Few Pasadena Homes, Schools, Churches, etc., with Short Descriptive Data. Issued by Pasaden

Lot of 1. Softbound booklet titled Pasadena Illustrated Souvenir Book. 1909. Published by The Thurston Company, Pasadena, CA. Unpaginated but 48 p

Southwest Museum Publication 1950. 78 pages. Illustrations of watercolors by Fenyes, text by Fages. 7 x 10.5 inches, softbound, rare. Date: Country

Lot of 1. Pasadena (CA) New Year's Day Tournament of Roses Parade softbound booklet. 1904-1905. Issued by Pasadena Daily News. Unpaginated b...

Gorgeous fully illustrated invitation to come to the Grand Electrical Carnival, commemorating "the successful installation by the Folsom Water ...

Compliments of The Annex Cafe, Schapp & Blackford, Props. 908 K Street Sacramento, Cal. in a leather case is a metallic collapsible coat hanger....

"Southern California: Comprising the Counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Ventura." Issued by ...

Portion of a letter handwritten/signed by Eugene Kelly, stating to the recipient that he was getting out of the dry goods business to go into the bank

Very rare billhead. James King of William was the son of James King of William, the infamous SF newspaper publisher. This billhead is dated 1873 and

Signature of John Bidwell on London & San Francisco Bank check #5069, payable to Baker and Hamilton, $201.00, dated Feb'y 20, 1874. Signed ...

Receipt for what looks like a shirt, dated 1912, San Francisco, slight staple rust. Second receipt from the Haas Brothers on Davis Street to J. A. Fol

Print of the famous Baldwin Hotel & Theatre in San Francisco, from "Harper's Weekly" newspaper (Circa 1898) – Built by Elias...

Gold Rush-era. Occidental Hall, Lodge No. 22. Issued to Robert S. Lammott on May 23rd, 1859. Signed by John B. Newton and secretary JR Richard. 7.75 x

A collection of seven (7) pieces of advertising for chocolate themed products. Included is a cardboard stand-up display for Russell Stover. It measure

Lot of 4 different. All are 4.5 x 6.5" and were removed from an album (with some paper residue on the reverses). Views include: beach with many...

Lot of 3 B&W photographs taken by San Francisco photographers c. 1900. Two by W. C. Billington/Sutro Heights Gallery titled Entrance to Golden...

Professional Photographer's Archive of San Francisco and the northern Redwood corridor, c1932-1935. Large scale personal archive of professiona...

The complete story of the greatest of American disasters. The American premium company, 1906, first edition, by Charles E Banks. 464 pages, generally

"That Was A Dream Worth Building," a tribute and retrospect by Louis J. Stellmann; published by H.S. Crocker Company, San Francisco, 1916....

Panama Pacific International Exposition / 1915 / San Francisco. Br., rd., 32 mm. Date: 1915 Country (if not USA): State: California City: San

Lot of 2 booklets. (1) Views of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in Natural Colors. Published by Pacific Novelty Co. of San Francisco. U

Presented by Clifford C. Fischer at the California Auditorium on Treasure Island at San Francisco. Choreography and all ensemble arrangements by Madam

Part of the 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition, held on Treasure Island, in S.F. Bay. This fabulous production which flows through and around w

Lot of 4. Softbound publications about the city/county of San Luis Obispo, CA. (1) Whale Primer, Cabrillo Historical Society, 58 pp, 1962; (2) La P

Lot of 36. No photographer listed. From an album (with some paper residue on the reverses). Vary in size from 3 x 3" to 5.5 x 8" Mostly ex...

Cloth map, likely c.1860. Township No. 9 South, Mount Diablo Meridian. Part of Rancho Shoquel Augmentation. Surveyed by John Wallace. Only one ranch s

Lot of 4. 1) Two-fold postcard showing a General View of Occidental, Cal. Mailed 1911. Taped repaired at fold. 2) St. Helena Sanitarium Health Exponen

Lot of 17. From the heart of California wine country. Fifteen are from St. Helena: IS Brown; AL Weil & Co.; JR Kettlewell & Son; J. Rutledge...

Photo shows wagon full of people moving through a tunnel in one of the sequoias at the Mariposa Grove. Copyright 1903 by JT Boysen of Yosemite. Photo

Rare 1916 photograph of a Sequoia tree titled "The Oldest Living Thing." Text printed in the lower left corner reads, "Copyright by N...

1) Tuolumne Co. Gold Centennial, publ. by Tuolumne Co. C. of C., 1949 - Profusely illustrated with photographs & maps Includes separate program ...

1) Down the Mother Lode, Pioneer Tales of California by Vivia Hemphill, 1922 - (5.25"x 7 .5" HB, 91 pages) 2) Ghost Towns of California, c...

Lot of 8 items. California Historical Publications. All softbound. Collection consists of (1) The Beginnings of Journalism in Southern California,

1) History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra by McGlashan. Reprint of the 1880 work. The first serious work on the Donner party. 2) History

Lot of about 22 pieces. 1) Five different Keystone stereoviews: San Luis Rey de Francia, San Juan Capistrano, San Gabriel, San Juan Bautista, and Miss

Lot of 10 items. 8 Billheads from CA wineries and the California Wine Association, dated 1898 - 1910.re: wine purchases and shipments. Vineyards/wine

Thirteen (13) large oil & gas maps from southern California with the following titles: 1) Blackburn's Map of San Diego County, Californi...

This booklet is a photographic copy of an original album of 28 B& W photos of Southern California island scenes entitled Our Log. The original p...

Lot of 4 California Brand Books dated 1944, 1944-45, 1960, 1969. All hardbound, spines and binding intact, no torn pages. Published by State of CA,

CA Fish & Game Code book, hardbound, dark green cover, 38th Ed., 1953 - 1955, Sacramento, 336 pp including foldout map of state's F&G d...

Lot of 1. CA State Bird Candidates booklet. Rare. Paperback. 1928. By Harriet Williams Myers/President, CA Audubon Society. 57 pp. 6 3/4"...

Lot of 160. Letterheads and billheads from a wide variety of companies/organizations doing business in California c. 1880s - 1920s. Most located in

Wooden Plaque: State Flag of California , full-colored image of the California Bear in center of plaque. This rustic flag design is printed directl

1) Looking Ahead at Cripple Creek, America's Richest Gold Camp, Miller & Kamp, 1949 ~ Teller Co. District known for it's famous Cresson ...

Rare. Pictorial letterhead for The Davis Wood Transportation Lines, operating the San Juan Stage and Express Lines for US Mail. "Carrying US Pa...

Lot of 11. 1)The Downtown District of Leadville, U.S.G.S. Bulletin 320, By Emmons & Irving, 1907~ 7 plates, (1 geo. map in pocket), 5 figures ~ ...

Souvenir oval pocket mirror from the summit of Pike's Peak. Photo by J. G. Hiestand. 70 x46 mm. J. G. Hiestand was an active photographer in th...

This edition is an exact reprint done 70 years later in 1969 ~ Consists of 39 pages of photographs of the major mines & mills, towns (includes p...

Lot of approx. 160 items. . Letterheads/billheads and a few manuscript letters from various enterprises throughout Colorado c 1880s - 1930s. Many

By L.G. France (Bourgeois). Hardcover. 224pp. Chain, Hardy & Co., Denver, 1887. First edition. Illustrations. Discusses the pleasures of hiking ...

1)Colorado River Ghost Towns, by Stanley W. Paher, 1976 Published by Nevada Publications (9"x 12"SC, 49 pgs.) 2) The Colorado Pass Book, ...

Lot of 12 illustrations, each 3 x 4.75", taken from an unknown view book. Printed on glossy paper. Views include: Oahu Prison; Avenue Queen'...

By Irving Jenkins, hardcover, published 1983 by The Daughters of Hawaii. 350 pages, with dust jacket. Color photographs by Michael D. Horikawa. Date

Large mounted calendar (21"x 26") sponsored by "Business Men of Coeur d' Alene City, Idaho. It is for the year 1913 and has all i...

Copyright 1906 by Art Folio Co. Includes 17 B&W photos mounted on pages. Each photo is 5.25 x 7.5" Views of Chicago locales including: post...

Chicago 1893 World's Fair building illustration fold-out booklet, nine buildings featured (e.g. Fisheries Bldg., Palace of Mechanical Arts, Elec...

Lot of 28 stereograph cards published by Sears, Roebuck & Co. c. 1900. Scenes of work inside the Chicago headquarters building as well as Chic...

This is a formal request to Judge William Hallam Tuck, written by Eleanor B. M. Hilleary, regarding her slave named George, as she is making sure she

Dates 1874-1903. Please inspect. Date: Country (if not USA): State: Massachusetts City: Boston Provenance:

1)Boston Map Guide, published by Boston & Albany R.R., C-1920 - Shows historical, civic & educational institutions & points of interest...