Rare hand-colored flag chart, including the maritime ensign of the Republic of Texas by Hinman and Dutton. The chart includes 98 flags of the world, including national flags, along with merchant, naval and city state flags. Several ensigns of...
Remarkable image showing Choctaw Indians playing lacrosse, from George Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio. In 1834, George Catlin witnessed Choctaw lacrosse in Indian Territory near present-day Oklahoma, and was captivated by the game. Ball-play...
An Iconic Gold Rush Image Rare edition of the class "Gold Hunter" image, published by Kellogg & Comstock. "The 'gold hunter' is a well dressed man, laden with gold mining tools, scales, link sausages, fish and a pot for a hat. In the background a...
Set of 9 lithographs drawn by John Hull and printed in Boston, setting Bret Harte's poem The Heathen Chinee, published in Boston in 1870. Originally published as Plain Language from Truthful James, the work is a narrative poem by American writer Bret...
Graphic broadside showing anti-Chinese activist Denis Kearney behind bars, while being tormented by a group of Chinese men, following his arrest for inciting a riot. "The Chinese Must Go!" was the slogan of the Working Man's Party of California during...
Rare advertising chromolithographic print of the White House, promoting the F.S. Chiampa & Sons of Rodi, Italy, one of a series of promotional prints published to promote the company's shipping services to America. The image provides a fine image...
High Society Party Supporting The Local Library -- Oroville, California Large broadside promoting a fund raiser for the benefit of the Oroville Free Reading Room, sponsored by the Young Ladies of the Bono Omnium Club. An example of an early...
Decorative promotional image, promoting Fogarty & Neill of Louisville, Kentucky. Other products include: Leather and Findings Harness and Saddle Leather Horse Collars Tanners and Curriers Supplies Rubber Belting, Hose Packing and Mill...
Capturing the Economic Vibrance of 19th-century San Francisco's Chinatown. Large, separately-issued Chinese-language business directory and lunar calendar, published by Horn Hong & Co. in San Francisco in 1892. The sheet is divided into three...
First State of Perris' Rare Mining Map of Southern California Rare map of the Desert Region of Southern California, focusing in on the regions Mining Districts, Forest Reserves and Indian Reservations. The map is criss-crossed with early Southern...
The Site of William McKinley's Assassination in September 1901 Finely executed plan of the Pan American Exposition grounds, which were to be held in Buffalo in 1901. As noted, the map shows the revisions of the plan as of August 15, 1900. The map...
Uncle Sam Reflecting Upon Aid To San Francisco Following The 1906 Earthquake Provocative image of Uncle Sam smoking a cigar and reflecting upon the $20,000,000 in aid contributed to San Francisco, following the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. The...
Financial Aid To San Francisco Following The 1906 Earthquake Fascinating Image Showing a Statue of Liberty-like image of San Francisco in the wake of the 1906 earthquake, with a caricature of a wave of financial aid coming to help the city, , drawn...
Birdseye View Calendar Showing the Schmidt Printing Works Against the San Francisco Sky Line Rare Calendar for 1908, published by the Schmidt Label & Litho. Co, and bearing the name of its sales agent in Portland, E. Shelley Morgan. In the late...
Interesting example of a Rebus -- a puzzle in which words are represented by combinations of pictures and individual letters. The present example was utilized by a church in Keene, New Hampshire, to attract attention to its call for members to attend...
Summer Camp In Yosemite For Hollywood's Elite -- Includes Black Face Images and Indian Costume! Urban Military Academy Yosemite summer camp photo album, containing 11 black and white photographs of the summer excursion to Yosemite. Urban Military...