![[Small-Format Panoramic Photograph Picturing a Funeral Scene for a Japanese American Youth]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/815/777/1563777815.0.l.jpg)
[Small-Format Panoramic Photograph Picturing a Funeral Scene for a Japanese American Youth]
by [Japanese-American Photographica]. [California]
Long Beach: Inman Co, 1940. Good.. Panoramic photograph, 7 x 17 inches. Small chip to right edge, small area of loss along left margin, just touching the image area, minor darkening to edges, minor surface wear. A small-format panoramic photograph picturing a few dozen mourners attending a Japanese-American child's funeral outside Mottell's Mortuary & Chapel in Long Beach, California. Along with the attendees, the scene captures several bouquets of flowers accompanied by messages written in Japanese. The image... Read More
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Report to Mr. Asa Keyes District Attorney, Los Angeles County, California on the Failure of the St. Francis Dam
by [California]
Los Angeles, 1928. Good plus.. [4],23 leaves, plus forty-six photographs. Folio. Contemporary black leatherette, cover gilt. Spine ends chipped and worn, leather coming away from boards, extremities worn. Small pen notation to title page, contemporary ink stamps in text. Light wear. Report compiled by District Attorney Asa Keyes following the tragic and catastrophic failure of the St. Francis Dam. The St. Francis Dam was a concrete gravity dam located in the San Francisquito Canyon in northern Los Angeles... Read More
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Scene at Crescent City California
by [California]
[Crescent City: A.W. Ericson, 1895. Very good.. Albumen photograph, 7.5 x 9.5 inches, mounted on a card 10.5 x 13.5 inches. Corners of mount lightly worn, minor soiling. Image crisp and clean. A handsome view by noted California photographer A.W. Ericson. Augustus William Ericson (1848-1927) was a Swedish immigrant who came to the United States in 1866. Trained as a printer but unable to speak English, Ericson worked as a laborer, finally landing in the woods of northern... Read More
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A Japanese American Soldier Boy
by [Japanese Americana]. [California]
New York: American Missionary Society, 1920. Very good.. 8pp. Pictorial self-wrappers, stapled. Small perforation at upper left corner. Even tanning. An ephemeral piece of pro-Japanese propaganda, published by the American Missionary Society during the early 1920s when limitations on immigration to the United States from Japan were eventually put into place. The pamphlet purports to be an interview with "Kiyoshi," pictured on the front wrapper, a second-generation Japanese American born in San Francisco and an Army volunteer during... Read More
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![[Panoramic Photograph of the Downtown Commercial District in Midcentury San Mateo]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/119/214/1547214119.0.l.jpg)
[Panoramic Photograph of the Downtown Commercial District in Midcentury San Mateo]
by [California]
[N.p., but likely in or near San Mateo, Ca, 1950. Good.. Panoramic photograph, 8 x 52.25 inches. Moderate scuffing, soiling, some small creases, a few short closed tears, one repaired on verso, pinholes at corners and along edges. A wider-than-usual panoramic photograph capturing for posterity many of the commercial enterprises along Main Street in San Mateo, California in the mid-20th century. The unnamed photographer seems to have stood directly across from the Tecco Electric Construction Company and shot... Read More
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Map of the Central Group of the Maywood Colonies at Corning, Tehama County) Sacramento Valley) California
by [California]
Corning, Ca, 1937. Very good.. Map, 13 x 14 inches. Text on verso. Old folds, minor wear. Later edition of this promotional map for the Maywood Colony near Corning, California. In the 1890s, real estaate entrepreneur Warren N. Woodson purchased the land that would become the Maywood Colony, which he plotted out and promoted. The present map shows the various land developments and plots surrounding the town of Corning bounded by the Sacramento River on the east. Text... Read More
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Central California. Pleasure Land for the Tourist. Automobile Tours "for the Stranger Within Our Gates
by [California]
San Francisco: Tourist Association of Central California, 1915. Very good.. 64pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Small chip to lower corner of front wrap. Internally clean. An uncommon guide to potential automobile excursions from the Bay Area, published for visitors to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco during 1915. The text describes over twenty routes and the attractions to be enjoyed along them, and is accompanied by maps for each tour and numerous halftone illustrations of motorists... Read More
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Santa Barbara Scenes and Scenery
by [California]
Santa Barbara: N.H. Reed, 1906. Good.. [17] leaves. Oblong 12mo. Original pictorial wrappers, string-tied. Wrappers heavily chipped at edges, some light soiling. Minor soiling to edges of a few leaves. A handsome viewbook of Santa Barbara featuring gravure views of the mission, hotels, and local sights. One image features Teddy Roosevelt visiting the mission; other images depict waves crashing at high tide, the home of the first governors of California, and the Plaza del Mar. An advertisement by... Read More
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![E-Z Guide Map of Los Angeles [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/612/163/1424163612.0.l.jpg)
E-Z Guide Map of Los Angeles [cover title]
by [California]
San Francisco: Fred S. Bain, Inc, 1922. Very good.. Folding map, approximately 13 x 17 inches. Light wear along folds. Minor staining and dust soiling. A neat promotional map of early-1920s Los Angeles, distributed by the Security Trust & Savings Bank. The reverse of the map carries a detailed street index as well as lists of hotels, railroad offices, and other significant municipal and commercial buildings. The map itself delineates Los Angeles from Hollywood and Highland Park in... Read More
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![[Japanese Textbook]. Approved by the California State Board of Education](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/348/025/1770025348.0.l.jpg)
[Japanese Textbook]. Approved by the California State Board of Education
by [Japanese Americana]. [California]
[San Francisco & Japan: Aoki Taisei-Do, 1929. Very good.. [56]pp. In Japanese. Original printed, stiff wrappers, cloth-backed. Minor wear and scattered staining to wraps. Light tanning internally. A fascinating and scarce Japanese-language textbook, intended for use by Japanese-American children in California during the late 1920s. The work was published by Aoki Taisei-Do, a San Francisco book and stationery store that catered to Japanese immigrants. The inside, rear wrapper states that this was was, "Approved by the California State... Read More
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An Absolutely Accurate Map of Berkeley, Prepared and Presented by Mason-McDuffie Company General Real Estate Agents
by [California]
San Francisco, 1917. Good plus.. Sheet map, 28 x 22.75 inches. Folded. Somewhat rumpled; a few small chips at edges, not affecting text of map image. Several scattered patches of staining. A scarce real estate map of Berkeley, California, printed for and distributed by local agents Mason-McDuffie Company in 1917. Blocks are overprinted with lot numbers and letters, as well as tract and neighborhood names, and a street index is printed at the foot of the map. A... Read More
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Mining and Scientific Press. A Journal of Mining, Agriculture, Manufactures, Science, Art, Chemistry, Inventions, Etc.
by [California]
San Francisco, 1863. Very good.. Six issues, each 8pp. Folio, on single folded sheets of newsprint. One issue separated along spine, minor foxing, creasing, and edge wear. A small collection of early issues of a notable scientific journal published in San Francisco beginning in 1860; the present issues were all issued during the opening years of the Civil War. The issues present here include Vol. V, No. 5 (April 9, 1862); Vol. V, No. 13 (June 9, 1862);... Read More
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![Vistas de Stockton [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/935/581/1605581935.0.l.jpg)
Vistas de Stockton [cover title]
by [California]
Los Angeles: M. Rieder, 1900. Good.. [18]pp., accordion folded into nine panels. Spine splitting; light wear and soiling to wraps. Separations beginning along accordion folds. Light toning and dust soiling internally. Handsome promotional viewbook for early 20th-century Stockton, featuring numerous views of the city. The work includes shots of local architecture, municipal buildings, agriculture, industry, and a four-panel panoramic view of the city. Part of a series of California city viewbooks published by M. Rieder under the title... Read More
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Map of Kings County, California
by [California]
Hanford, Ca: Hanford Morning Journal, 1909. Good plus.. Folding map, approximately 25.5 x 22 inches. Original printed card wrappers. A couple internal tears and separations along fold lines, repaired with tape on blank verso, with resultant minor losses, slightly affecting printed areas. Otherwise unrecorded, early 20th-century plat map of Kings County, California, published by the newspaper of its county seat, the Hanford Morning Journal. The county, south of Fresno and west of Visalia in the Central Valley, was... Read More
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Irvington Parent Teacher Association Collection of "Home Recipes." Compiled by Irma T. Bond
by [Cook Books]. [California]
Irvington, Ca: May, 1941. Very good.. [6],150pp. Original wooden boards decoratively illustrated and lettered in green, gray, and black paint on the front board, reading, "Recipes Irvington P.T.A." and bound by three separate rings. Text uniformly toned, with several leaves detached but present, a few with minor chipping. An exceedingly rare DIY cookbook produced by the Irvington Parent-Teachers Association just before the outbreak of World War II. The recipes were compiled by Irma T. Bond, "not for culinary... Read More
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Map Showing Subdivisions of the Ojai Valley Company
by [California]
[Ojai, Ca.]: Ojai Valley Company, 1925. About very good.. Lithographic map, 28 x 27 inches. Old olds, some creasing, a few small tears to margins, minor separations at crossfolds, seven-inch closed tear to upper portion of map, two-and-a-half-inch closed tear to lower portion of map, upper and lower margins of map trimmed. A rare and striking subdivision map by the Ojai Valley Company, founded in 1922 to develop the Arbolada neighborhood of Ojai in Ventura County. The map... Read More
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![[Large Format Photograph Featuring a Japanese American Organization]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/819/777/1563777819.0.l.jpg)
[Large Format Photograph Featuring a Japanese American Organization]
by [Japanese-American Photographica]. [California]
[N.p., likely Southern California, 1940. Good.. Silver gelatin photograph, 11 x 13.75 inches. Some creasing and dampstaining, a few creases and short closed tears, handful of small scuffs in image area, some darkening along right edge, some minor silvering. A substantial photograph featuring a large group of well-dressed Japanese-American youths and numerous adults posed in front of a line of cars with several oil derricks visible in the background. Neither the location of the photograph nor the photographer... Read More
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![Scale of Premiums and Discounts Assessed upon Lots to Be Distributed to the Shareholders of the San Francisco Homestead Union... [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/527/877/1700877527.0.l.jpg)
Scale of Premiums and Discounts Assessed upon Lots to Be Distributed to the Shareholders of the San Francisco Homestead Union... [caption title]
by [California]
San Francisco, 1862. Good.. Broadside, about 14 x 8.5 inches. Previously folded, with separation along horizontal fold line from right edge. Minor edge wear, plus short closed tear at center of left edge. Moderate staining and soiling. An unrecorded broadside concerning values on parcels of land in what is now San Francisco's Mission District that were set to be auctioned to shareholders in the San Francisco Homestead in April 1862. The broadside contains a table that displays lot... Read More
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The Inside Track. The Way Through the Wonderful Fruit and Flower Garden of Southern California
by [California]
San Francisco: Southern Pacific Company, 1907. Near fine.. 24pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor wear. Booklet promoting the Southern Pacific Railway and highlights along its route. With a map and numerous images of the handsome Southern California scenery.
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Map of Patterson Colony Sub-Tract No. One. Showing the Town of Patterson
by [California]
[N.p., perhaps Minneapolis], 1909. Very good.. Lithographed plat map, 19.75 x 30 inches. Folded. Minor wear, numerous plots rubber-stamped "Sold" and with additional shading of some portions in blue or green pencil, and with prices for different groups of lots boldly penciled in, ranging from $150 to $200. Stamp of a Minnesota real estate agent at bottom right. An unrecorded real estate plat map of the central valley town of Patterson, along the San Joaquin River, with the... Read More
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Japanese in Southern California "A History of 70 Years
by [Japanese Americana]. [California]
[Los Angeles]: Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Southern California, 1960. Very good.. [1],34,756,[1],67,xi,[2]pp., plus eleven pages of photographic plates. Quarto. Original limp green cloth, gilt spine titles. Minor rubbing and dust-soiling to boards, small bump to top edge, spine titles a bit worn and faded. Internally clean. A massive and detailed historical account of the Japanese American experience in Southern California, issued by the region's Japanese Chamber of Commerce. The work is printed in both Japanese and English,... Read More
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Chinese Telephone Directory. November 1929. San Francisco and Oakland California
by [Chinese Americana]. [California]
San Francisco: Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co, 1929. Very good.. 40pp. Original printed wrappers. Light vertical crease, minor wear and soiling. A rare issue of this San Francisco phone directory published by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company for the local Chinese community, printed almost entirely in Chinese aside from the front cover (which also bears the title in Chinese). The directory served the large but still somewhat isolated Chinese populations in the Bay Area, this issue with... Read More
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As We Are Going to a Feast." Cook Book Issued by the Ladies' Aid Society of the First Congregational Church of Ventura, California
by [Cook Books]. [California]
Ventura, Ca: Free Press Book and Job Office, 1897. Good.. 116,[20]pp. Original printed cloth wrappers. Moderate wear and soiling to wraps, rear wrapper detached. Scattered manuscript notes throughout, plus manuscript additions to rear blanks. Even toning and scattered staining, other signs of use. Extremely scarce, late 19th-century community cook book published in Ventura, California in 1897. Several hundred recipes are attributed to members of the local Ladies' Aid Society, and advertisements for local businesses are scattered throughout. One... Read More
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Heald-Menerey's Geographical, Commercial and Recreational Map of California
by [California]. [Maps]. Heald, Ralph P., compiler
[San Francisco and Los Angeles: The Heald-Menerey Company, 1928. Very good.. Large color map, measuring 44 x 64 inches, cut into eight sections and folded into book form. Original black limp textured cloth, yapp edges, titled in pale yellow on front cover. Moderate edge wear, titles on front cover almost completely worn away. Internally clean. A rare portable version of the large and impressive Heald-Menerey's Geographical, Commercial and Recreational Map of California, produced in the late-1920s. According to... Read More
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![To Man or Woman Who Holds a Job Now... [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/615/163/1424163615.0.l.jpg)
To Man or Woman Who Holds a Job Now... [caption title]
by [California]. [Sinclair, Upton]
[N.p., but California, 1934. Very good.. Broadside, approximately 11 x 5 inches. Previously folded. Minor wear and soiling. Scarce campaign literature in support of Frank Merriam but primarily against Upton Sinclair in the 1934 California gubernatorial election. Sinclair had formerly run for Congress as a Socialist, but won the Democratic nomination for this race, and although it was his most successful showing amongst his attempts to gain political office, he was still handily beaten by Merriam the Republican.... Read More
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