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A scarce clipper ship card card advertising the Talisman of the Cooley packet ship line, illustrated with a vivid image of Columbia printed in red and blue along the left side. Cooley boasts of a 111 day voyage to San Francisco, a guarantee of “prompt dispatch,” and the announcement that.....
This attractive folding brochure features evocative illustrations of the Historic Deadwood Days of ‘76 festival, including “Sioux Indian Battles and War Dances Every Day,” a covered wagon train, Paris Williams,”the most ensational Woman Rodeo Performer in America.” One image shows President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge taken into the Sioux Tribe.....
A scarce supplement to An Empire Illustrated, a special issue of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, intended at last in part to promote real estate investment in Texas. This supplement consists mainly of an article entitled “The Lone Star State”—a narrative of a two months’ trip through Texas taken by.....
This appealing and apparently unrecorded broadside advertises hiking excursions up Mt. Tamalpais, some 22 miles north of San Francisco in Marin County, California. “Personally conducted” by one Dawson Mayer, these excursions accommodated up to 60 people and cost $2.50, including a luncheon at the Tavern of Tamalpais. Offered between May.....
An engaging promotional brochure for the brand new town of Chula Vista, with a map of the San Diego Bay region. This very engaging brochure promotes the land, climate, crops, and cost of living in the San Diego Bay area and, particularly, the San Diego Land & Town Company’s newly-built.....
An attractive booklet advertising the “homes and scenes” of the town of Hemet in California’s San Jacinto Valley, with a folding plat map of the company’s lands. The town was developed during the first major Southern California land boom in 1887 by W. F. Whittier and E. L. Mayberry, who.....
A land promotion broadside advertising transportation via the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway to the company’s land grant and elsewhere. Promising the “shortest and quickest route” to points in Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, this broadside publishes the “liberal rates and allowance of baggage for Seekers of land in.....
A souvenir program for La Fiesta de Los Angeles, a celebration of the history of California, which took place between 10 April and 13 April 1894 in downtown Los Angeles. Includes an account of the grand carnival, with its origins and purpose, as well as an historical sketch of Southern.....
A scarce newspaper supplement brimming with California gold rush news, mixing grim reports of sickness, death, and discouragement with accounts of success in the gold fields, as well as a host of other matters. The first page of this two-page supplement is devoted almost entirely to the gold rush. It.....
A pamphlet promoting the developing town of Broken Bow, Nebraska including a large map, produced two years after the railroad arrived in the area. Platted in 1882, Broken Bow in Custer County, Nebraska allegedly took its name from the suggestion of a settler who found a broken bow in the.....
A rare inscribed prospectus for Captain Jack Crawford’s second book. Among the representative contents included are such poems as “The Heroes Departed,” “The Mountain Boy’s Letter,” “Mother’s Prayers,” and “Hood’s Children.” Also included are “pen portraits” of Crawford, composed by a retired Cavalry officer and an editor of a New.....
A promotional broadside centering on “poet-prospector” Clarence E. Eddy’s evocative narrative of his discovery of a new mine in central Idaho, which he now announces to the public. Featured at the top is “one of the few pictures thus far taken at the new Monte Cristo mine” in Custer.....
![Item #7629 $750 Reward! A Reward of $250 for each, will pe [sic] paid at the office of Wells...](/pictures/thumb/7629_1.jpg?v=1662669908)
An exceptionally rare and quintessential Wells, Fargo & Co. stagecoach holdup broadside, issued by the company’s office “at Kelton, Nevada” (i.e., Kelton, Utah) and printed in Salt Lake City. Wells Fargo agent H. M. Ellsworth advertises a reward of $750 for the arrest and conviction of robbers ($250 for each).....
An exceedingly rare pictorial broadside advertising Turner Brothers wines, syrups, and cordials. The broadside was drawn by John Ffooks, who depicts the manufacturing facilities of the Turner Brothers in New York City, Buffalo, and San Francisco in three separate insets. The latter depiction is especially interesting, as it sets.....
A large illustrated circular promoting a Wild West-cum-circus show in New York City produced by Adam Forepaugh. Adam Forepaugh (1831–1890) was one of the great circus organizers of 19th century America from immediately after the Civil War until his death in 1890. Forepaugh is generally credited with devising the “Wild.....
A scarce letter-sheet showing the Gold Rush town of Springfield, California during its heyday. This is the first and only nineteenth century view of Springfield, California, as noted by Reps. The image depicts the “town square, flagpole in center surrounded by scattered dwellings; goats on low knoll in foreground” (Peters.....
Stated 23rd edition of this travel guide and map issued by the Denver & Rio Grande and the Rio Grande Western railroads, with descriptions of numerous towns, cities, springs, resorts, boarding houses, roads, gorges, passes, and other points of interest located along the line. The map ranges from Chicago to.....
This entertaining program promotes the sixteenth season of Hoyt’s “A Texas Steer or Money Makes the Mare Go”—a humorous “collection of saws and incidents” about Texas politics. Act I takes place at “Maverick Brander’s” cattle ranch, while Act II and III are set at the Arlington hotel in Washington county.....
A handsomely produced brochure illustrating the Manitou Grand Caverns, with pictures of the following caves and formations: “the Narrows,” “Grant Monument,” “The Interior Cascades,” “The Dairy and Churn,” “The Organ,” “The Seven Columns,” “The Card Rack” and “In Grand Concert Hall.” The text, apparently a reprint of a 1 September.....
A broadsheet promoting bond investment in the Northern Pacific Railroad Company during its first great construction push on the line, with a map at verso showing the projected rail line. Founded in 1865, the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. only began breaking ground on construction in 1870 after receiving extensive financial.....
A rare photographic trade card for Henry J. Kruse, a German emigre drawn to Colorado in 1860 at the age of 22 by the lure of the gold fields. Failing to strike it rich, Kruse abandoned mining and took up baking, thus launching a career that would see him emerge.....
An interesting pamphlet promoting land along the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad, including former Indian reservation lands, with an appealing map of the rail line and its spurs. The text begins with a message to the public advertising the Elkhorn Valley Route on the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad, the.....
A scarce and attractive promotional broadsheet with map issued by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway, advertising special railway offers to emigrants headed to Texas. This broadsheet announces cheap excursion tickets, free baggage (up to 200 lbs.), and reduced emigrant rates for departures from St. Louis on.....
An unrecorded Kansas Pacific Railway broadside issued in the first year of the railroad’s operation under that name and promoting tourism and mining opportunities in Colorado and lands for sale in Kansas. Advertising a round trip fare of $38, this broadside advises passengers headed to Colorado to purchase tickets to.....
An unusually attractive, extensively illustrated pamphlet describing the various sites and destinations accessible via the Union Pacific Railway in the 1880s. Following an overview of the railroad and its main line, the text offers descriptions of Denver, Clear Creek Canyon, Platte Canyon, Gunnison, Colorado parks, Salt Lake City and vicinity.....