A scarce and appealing group of three large-format photographs picturing the town of Sierra City, California, its mining infrastructure, and a miner’s boarding house. One photo, taken from an elevated position and captioned “Sierra City, Sierra Co. Cal. 1883. Mr. Marshall was four years at the Sierra Butte’s mine,” shows.....
![Item #8690 [Lot of fifty-five dramatic photos documenting the San Francisco Earthquake.]. A....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8690_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1709508114)
A cache of photographs powerfully documenting the cataclysmic damage caused by the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, with many photos taken in the earthquake’s immediate aftermath while the fires were still burning. About half of these images are commercial photos while the other half are snapshots by an unidentified amateur photographer.....
![Item #7378 [Album of Northern California lumbering real photo postcards.]. A. W. Ericson, J. H....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7378_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1648594349)
An evocative album documenting the Northern California lumbering industry in the early 20th century. Comprising images by at least eight identified photographers, this album begins with a range of photos of lumberjacks posing in front of massive felled, or soon-to-be felled, Redwood trees in Humboldt County. Images show the transportation.....
A photo album documenting a 1905 western tour undertaken by a Czech American from Chicago who was active in the Freethinkers Movement. Adolf Hrusa was one of many Czechs who belonged to the Freethinkers Movement (or Society of Free-Thinkers), an organization that split from the Catholic Church as a result.....
![Item #8941 [Album of sixty-six photographs of southern California subjects.]. Bradford D....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8941_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1729026872)
A fine photo album, likely the photographer’s own, comprising sixty-six images picturing southern California’s mountains, seaside views, orange industry, tourist destinations, and more. The detailed pencil inscriptions below some of the images, such as “Camp Mt. Wilson Aug. 1906” and “Thanksgiving Day in Calif. 1901” (for a shot of a......
A collection of fifty-five photographs documenting the noted Oasis Ranch in Mono County, California, its environs, and the affluent Piper family. Born in Battle Creek, Michigan, Noah T. Piper (1843–1910) was the eleventh of fifteen children of a British family that emigrated to the U.S. in 1842. Piper came to.....
One of only two known photographs of Quong Sang Tong’s apothecary shop at 900 Dupont Street, San Francisco, this one picturing the interior. This evocative photograph shows Tong and a young child (presumably Tong’s) standing before a doorway—flanked by two calligraphic scrolls—within his shop, an embroidered banner hanging overhead. Revealing.....
One of four known Taber photographs of Cheong (a.k.a Chong) Wo & Co.’s grocery and butcher shop, considered by some “the most famous Chinatown butcher shop of the pre-1906 community” (Chan). Showing a proud Wo standing in the doorway of his store, Taber’s photograph documents this thriving vegetable and meat.....
A large and very appealing advertising photograph of Santa Barbara Beach and vicinity issued by the Southern Pacific Railway. This turn of the century photo, likely taken on the weekend, captures the lively scene at Plaza Del Mar (built in the 1890s), showing men, women, and children sitting on benches.....
![Item #5711 [Panama-Pacific International Exposition photo album.]. Betty Zamloch, compiler?](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5711.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1576100659)
An extensive photo album documenting the historic Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. The Panama-Pacific Exposition, a world’s fair held in San Francisco for nine months (Feb.–Dec. 1915), celebrated the opening of the newly-completed Panama Canal, and was also widely perceived in the city as an opportunity to demonstrate.....