Los Angeles: 1924. 4to, folding brochure with four panels of illustrated text printed on both sides. Brochure published to raise funds for "a permanent Social Service Building for the Pacific Fleet, serving the the recreational, social, and housing needs of the 15,000 service men stationed on the battleships and in.....
Los Angeles: Standard Printing Co, 1913. 11.25 x 8", brown cloth, 22, 1-32, 25-56, [2], 57-80, [4], 81-107, [1] pp. Profusely illustrated wholesale trade catalog of musical instruments sold by the Southern California Music Company of Los Angeles. Staining and wear to covers, bit of foxing and smudging to covers.....
San Francisco: Bethel A.M.E. Church, 1965. 8vo, single folded leaf, 4 pp. Program for a Negro History Week event held in 1965 at the Bethen African Methodist Episcopal Church in San Francisco. The theme for the event was "Negro Pioneers in California History," and the program prints a schedule of.....
Mainly Los Angeles: 1880s. Autograph album binding of purple morocco leather measuring 7.5 x 4.5", titled "Autographs" to front cover, with the name "Della Baker" gilt stamped to rear cover, 73 pages of which contain inscriptions to "Della" by young men and women. An autograph album belonging to Della Baker.....
San Francisco: 1853. Bifolium, 10 x 8", 4 pp of ink manuscript, dated December 15, 1853 at San Francisco. A letter from Alexander M. Schell to his sister, detailing his elopement with a younger woman, Mary L. Durie, and the anger of Durie's mother upon hearing of the marriage. Schell.....
Berkeley: Published by the Junior Class, University of California, 1886. Octavo, blue cloth hardcover with gilt lettering, 310, 80 pp, illustrated. 1887 UC Berkeley yearbook. Includes the photographic frontispiece of the Presidents of the University of California and the tipped in albumen photo of the football team. Fading to spine.....
Los Angeles and Berkeley: California Corrugated Culvert Company, 1935. Beige ring binder measuring 10.75 x 8.5", titled in black lettering on spine, containing 15 illustrated booklets within. A bound collection of trade catalogs for equipment used in irrigation and for the construction of aqueducts, manufactured by the California Corrugated Culvert.....
Pasadena: Crandall, Circa 1890. Cabinet photo measuring 8.5 x 5.5", depicting the Mission San Gabriel in Los Angeles. Mount with photographer's stamp of C.J. Crandall & Co of Pasadena. Old clipping glued to back of photo, fading and light staining to image, lower corner chipped, wear to corners of mount.....
El Vista and Los Angeles, California: Cal-Acre Company, 1923. Two quarto booklets. Includes Volume 1, Number 1, issued in a 9 x 12" newspaper format, with four pages and one photographic illustration. Together with Volume 1, Numbers 2 and 3 (issued as one), 12 pp, with nine photographic illustrations. A......
San Francisco: California Fruit Canners Association, 1909. Octavo, orange wrappers with black lettering, seal of the California Fruit Canners Association to center of front cover, 32 pp, color plates from drawings, illustrations from photographs. A scarce booklet highlighting the California canning and fruit drying industry, with vibrant color illustrations, discussions.....
Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty, 1883. Stitched pamphlet measuring 8.25 x 5", 13 pp. Prospectus and shareholders list of The California Redwood Company, a lumber syndicate out of Edinburgh that accumulated 64,000 acres of timberlands in Northern California. In very good condition with bit of toning.....
Los Angeles: 1898. Broadside measuring 12 x 5.25", presenting California fruit growers with information on chemical fertilizers derived from Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid, and Potash. The text notes that "it is now a well recognized fact that commercial or chemical fertilizers are considered necessary to the successful growth of citrus fruits.".....
Berkeley: 1969. A collection of 12 newsletters, one booklet, and 16 flyers, published in May through July, 1969, alongside a wave of protests that arose at the University of California, Berkeley in response to an aggressive police response to a May 15, 1969 protest that left one protester dead and.....
San Francisco: 1972. A collection of seven ephemeral items, including three typed, mimeographed circular letters, (each 2pp), two flyers, and four sample ballots (each 1pp). A collection of promotional material for the "Choice '72 Presidential Preference Poll," sent by the student activist group "Northern California Young Socialists For Jenness &.....
Saratoga, California: 1902 to 1913. A collection of three programs for the Blossom Festival, an annual event held in Saratoga, California to enjoy the flowering prune and apricot trees in the city, which, by 1900, had the largest prune and apricot orchards in the country. The event was founded in.....
California and Wisconsin: Mainly 1882. A collection of 24 letters sent between members of the Hodges and Jones families of Walnut Creek, California and Platteville, Wisconsin. Benjamin and Emily Hodges were pioneers in Contra Costa County, moving from La Fayette County, Wisconsin to settle near Walnut Creek in 1852, where.....
Various Places, including Panama and California: 1849. Cloth journal binding measuring 5.5 x 3.25", of which 45 pages contain writing in pencil manuscript. The diary and day book of an unidentified 49'er, documenting his trip from New York, across the Isthmus of Panama, and up the west coast of Mexico.....
Long Beach, California: 1919-1920. Gray cloth journal binding measuring 7.25 x 4.25”, containing 52 pages of ink diary entries, together with a few pages of copied poems. Inscribed “Elsie M. Carlson Y.W.C.A. Long Beach, Cal.” to front endpaper. In very good condition with slight musty odor. A diary kept by.....
Los Angeles Steamship Co, 1932. Large 8vo, folded leaf of color printed glossy paper, art deco color printed front cover, interior prints a program of Hawaiian music and deck sports aboard the S.S. City of Los Angeles, sailing from Honolulu to Los Angeles, accompanied by color illustrations. Creasing and a......
No Place of Publication: Pacific Coast Borax Co, Circa 1917. Stapled booklet measuring 5 x 3.75", [16] pp, illustrations from sketches within text together with one photographic illustration within text. Promotional booklet issued by the Pacific Coast Borax Co, touting the qualities of soap made from Borax and telling the.....
Los Angeles: Sepia Productions, Circa 1948. Quarto, stapled booklet measuring 8.75 x 7.75", 12 pp, photographic illustrations. A well illustrated catalog of African American female models available for hire from Sepia Productions, a Los Angeles based talent agency. Sepia was the brainchild of Eddie Green, a famed African American actor.....
El Centro, California: [1924]. Stapled booklet measuring 9 x 6", [20] pp. A booklet telling the story of the murals located in the lobby of the Hotel Barbara Worth, a popular destination in El Centro, California that was finished in 1914 and burned down in 1962. The text is illustrated.....
San Francisco: James H. Barry, Printer, 1897. First Edition. 7.5 x 5.25", black cloth wrappers lettered in gilt, 92 pp. A very good copy with owner inscription to upper corner of title page, mild staining to covers, rear endpapers, and lower margin of pages, rear cover detached from staples but.....
Los Angeles: 1958. 10 x 7", stapled pictorial wrappers, 32 pp. A scarce program for a Los Angeles swim meet that featured leading swimmers from Japan, the United States, and Australia, sponsored by the Southern California Swimming Association together with the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Southern California. The meet.....
San Francisco: Nichibei Shimbun, 1953. Octavo, 8 x 5.5", grey stapled wrappers with brown titles in Japanese to front cover, [4], 47, [3] pp. "A citizenship pamphlet to assist the Issei to pass their naturalization examination" ("A Buried Past," 1447), published by a Japanese American newspaper in San Francisco. The.....