Holabird’s Western Americana BONANZA

1) Letter, office of The Morey District Mining Co., regarding the Tybo Stage, for 50 lbs, of Corn Meal, 1881, note-there is some small tears, and a to

Lot of 12: 1) Billhead, W.O.H. Martin, Groceries, Provisions, Liquors, dated 1885, Reno, NV. 2) Partially used check book, Washoe County Bank, 1906,

Lot of 6: 1) Calendar, Flanagan Warehouse Co., Reno, 1912, Litho. Girl holding Pink Roses. 2) Calendar, Flanagan warehouse co., Litho. Girl with beaut

Lot of 8: 1) Christmas Greetings, Nevada Reo Co. Inc. 2) Deposit, J.R. Post, Reclamation Service, signed by Mudd, 1915. 3) Blotter, The Credit Bureau,

Lot of 38. All different. Riverside Mill, Reno Mill & Lumber-two different, Commercial Soap, Logan & Langevin merchandise-three different, N...

1939 B. D. Bee, 1939 yearbook of Billinghurst Junior High in Reno. Also a Block ‘B’. Yearbook is very worn, but still a nostalgic gift for that old ti

Yes, something for everyone: old record, books, photos! Lot of thirteen. 1) Ever heard of Ace Recording Studio in Reno. Here is a Man on the Street In

Lot of 7: 1) Reno Souvenir Cartoon Fun Map, 15 cents, from the Senator Coffee Shop Carson City. 2) Deed, dated 1907, between C.L. Diguonity & Ro...

RARE borax billhead from Rhodes Station on the Carson & Colorado Railroad. John Fleming, superintendent. To William Shimmin in Benton, Californi...

This March 4, 1907 billhead is an expense report from Lewis Harrell (cousin of Jasper) at the Brown Ranch. Jasper Harrell and John Sparks ran a major

Different bill head style from previous example. November 4, 1907 expense account for Lewis Harrell. San Jacinto was a major shipping point for sheep

1912. Addressed to Louis Harrell of Sparks-Harrell. From Thomas R. Beason, superintendent of said company. The Vineyard Land & Stock Company bou...

Lot of 5: 1) 4 Receipts from the Silver Peak Dairy, 1941. 2) Milk bottle Stoppers, from the Silver Peak Dairy, Stopper says, Silver Peak Dairy, Grade

1) W. C. Humphrey, Soda Market, 1896. 2) Zabriskie, Shockley & Edwards, general merchandise. Zabriskie is important to this area. Was the superi...

This is the only bill head from this saloon we have ever seen!!! George Money and T. W. Kendall proprietors. "Wines, Liquors, Cigars." &qu...

This 4 page letter showing Articles of Agreement, to issue an additional 108,000 shares of Capital Stock in the Sutro Tunnel Company, it is dated Nov.

Report of A. T. Russell. Rips in report. (Ames Collection) Date: City: Tonopah County: Nye State: NV

Over 90 pieces. 1901 teamster card for A. E. Gish for 31 sacks of ore from Candelaria. Mizpah Hotel material. Tonopah Stock & Exchange Board 190...

This lot of two Tonopah, Nevada Dairy Stoppers in used condition, says-Pioneer Dairy, We aim to please our customers, Tonopah Nevada. Date:

Certificate #402 for 100 shares. Issued to John S. Doughty and signed by C. Runge and Key Pitman. Date: 1903 City: Tonopah Cou

Gold Reef Mining District. Two volumes of unissued stock certificates. The first has stock numbers 43 through to 500. The second has numbers 3100 t

Lot of 2: 1) Letter, Requests a withdrawal from the Lodge, 1889. 2) Letter, Requests a weekly benefit be paid to Bro. Benny G. Ross, 1891. Date: 18

Find the history of the company and the Comstock in one collection. 75 billheads (1873-1896) for things like hauling pie, boarding horses, wood delive

Number 19 was issued February 1, 1877 to W. Lunning(?). Signed by mayor and clerk of city. Cancelled. All stamps used. Second bond is in excellent con

Dated October 11, 1889, shows that number of men working in each field for the last seven days: I foreman, 1 timekeeper, 1 chief engineer, 3 engineers

LOT of 10: Bill, County of Storey to Corner, for Mrs. Watson and John Schollar, dated 1880. 2) Statement, State of Nevada to County Assessor, for taxa

Lot of 6: 1) Report to the Stock Holders of the Savage, Hale & Norcross, Chollar, & Potosi, Mining Co's, 1916. 2) Savage Mine Check, fr...

Lot of 23: 1) H.C. Lillie & Co., 44 South C St., 1867. 2) J.C. Hampton & Co., 20 North C St., 1871. 3) J.P. Smith, B St., 1871, (stain). 4) ...

Lot of 15: 1) F. Boegle, 44 South C St., 1880. 2) J.& J.B. Mallon, South C St., 1882. 3) T.R. McGurn, 39 North C St., 1882. 4) T.R. McGurn, 106 ...

Lot of 10: 1) Letterhead, One Price Clothing Firm, 20 South C St., 1890. 2) billhead, Joseph Fredericks, 43 South C St., 1891.3) B.H., P. H. Ford, 54

1) Promissory Note, Virginia, Aug.16, 1867, to Palmer Knox & Co., S.F., $804.00, payable in U.S. Gold Coin, to the Summit Mill Co., has two brow...

This document deals with R.P. Keating, Manager of the Hale & Norcross, & Savage Mining Company's, where Keating is given the rights to u...

1) Thirteen older post cards-eleven Real Photo black and white (Steam hoist in C&C shaft, Hoist in Consolidated Virginia Mine, Pump and Fly Whee...

1) Mitchell & Adams importers and dealers in wines and liquors. August 1, 1864. 2) White's Canon Mill and Savage Gold & Silver Mining Co...

1) 1877 Virginia & Truckee Railroad Company: This is a request from the Carson City agent for reimbursement. Approved by Henry Yerington. Yering...

Collectors collect for a variety of reasons: make money, complete sets, find cool material. But I think all collectors love a story. One interesting s

1,700 Humboldt County Warrants from the 1920's. A treasure trove of names for the historian or a large lot of Nevada documents for less than 20c...

Twenty-six year old George Nixon, United States Senator from Nevada from 1905 to 1912, signs this letterhead as the cashier for the bank in 1886. (Ame

Four checks: 1876 Carson City Savings Bank, unused California-Nevada Creamery on a Carson City Bullion & Exchange Bank, two Bullion & Exchan...

LOT of 11: 1) Billhead, M.F. McGurn, Virginia, Nev., dated 1888. 2) Invoice, Lyon County, Dr., Dayton, Nev., dated 1896. 3) Notice, office of the Gran

1) Receipt from V. & T. R/R, dated 1877. 2) Receipt For Registered letter, dated 1877. 3) 3 Weekly ore Reports from the Savage Mine, dated 1867-...

Receipts, Checks, Deeds, Memorandum, Prescription, billhead, Wood and Lumber Co., Log Report, Notary Public letter, Typed Minutes of the Pacific Packi

1) Receipt, Registered Letter, from Carson City, dated 1877. 2) Two receipts from the V & T R/R, dated 1877. 3) Letterhead, from A. Nelson Cigar...

1) Letter from the old town of Genoa, NV., dated 1893, this 4 page, hand written letter is about a group of two members that are voicing their own vie

Lot of 26: 1) Bill for long distance switch, Pacific State Telephone, and Telegraph Co., Nevada?, 13 ea., 1902-1903. 2) Bill, Farr Telephone & C...

Lot of 40: The towns included in this group are, Ely, East Ely, McGill, STEPTOE, RUTH, KIMBERLY, & CHERRY CREEK. Please inspect. Date: 1892-19...

Notes on Rhodes-Salt Pools were discovered in Nevada, at Rhodes March, in 1862, later Borax was found, this led to a thriving business, delivering sal

Bullion & Exchange Bank, 1886-1887, Lot of 7: 1) Letter talks about, 1 Flask Quicksilver. 2) Letter talks about, 1 Sack of Bullion.3) Letter tal...

Receipt from C C Batterman Supt. For $5771.08 shipped to Alpheus Bull, Pres. G & C MC in San Francisco. G & C was Gould & Curry Mining ...

View Nevada history through the eyes of authors 40-60 years ago or Nevada as it actually was 40-60 years ago. Ninety issues from 1946 to 1980. Some of

Everything Nevada Historical Society! 1) Starting with the fourth Quarterly ever published: Volume 1, Number 4. Other early quarterlies: 1960 on the P

Fabulous reference materials for early Nevada. Articles on the development of Reno, reflections of the Truckee Meadows by George Peckham and one by F.

Visit Hercules, Fairview and Wonder with these ten documents. “lumber for Dicky-Wonder Company,” “Impossible to get cash…the mines all paid off in cer

Eleven teamster bills. Addressed to Nevada Mineral Mining Company of Chalk Mountain (extremely rare location east of Fallon), R. S. Brock and Brock ...

An eclectic group to be sure. From ale bottles dug in Johnstown, Prohibition bottles, and a large group of Reno Brewery labels. 1) Three ale bottles d

Lot of eleven mining related letterheads. 1) Pine Grove Nevada Gold Mining Company from Pine Grove. 1916 letterhead talking about a robbery that happe

Lot of 14. Did you ever what was being sold and bought one hundred years ago? Mercantile companies from around the state includes: G&K Drug Co. ...

These 15 lumbering related billheads tell the story of lumbering c1907. From Verdi; The Verdi Lumber Company with an extensive price list. From Hazen;

Lot of 14. Mercantile companies from around the state includes: G. B. Williams from Eastgate, Freiman’s from Fairview, Churchill County Mercantile Co.

15 pieces. Hotel Nevada(Ely) letterhead, Lincoln County sheriff's summons, Location of mine in Lincoln, Post office Department letter to Fallon ...

Lot of nine. Includes Cassidy & Skillman 1884 billhead from the Eureka Daily and Weekly Sentinel. 2) Western Union Telegraph Company billhead. S...

This just shy of one hundred piece collection starts with (1) a check register from the Donovan Reduction Works in Silver City. Includes wages, purcha

A hard to find ticket for the W. L. & B. Toll Road from Del Monte to Hawthorne. The Real Del Monte Gold and Silver Mining Company Mill was found...

This is the handwritten copy of the account of Joseph Hoag regarding the vision he had in 1803. This is a copy done in the 1840s by Ruth Battey a frie

The Sun newspaper of May 21, 1834 with a lead story on the Capture of Misses Hall from the Wakefield's "History of the war between the Sac ...

1) 1859 manuscript cancel from West Fremont, Ohio. Large UNION on top of cover and tree full of flags to left. 2) Three pieces of paper from, Cozzens

Father Glynn is writing Frank. Says he has just returned from "Sacred Heart & met with Father Abbott to receive you at the college." T...

Printed by the Government Printing office for the year ending June 30, 1895, this report was prepared for the Secretary of the Interior. 24 pages of t

U S Marshalls office Expense Account for C. Madsen. Chris Madsen was a famous U S Marshall in the Oklahoma Territory. Madsen was one of the first 7t

Wm. Tilghman signed certificate stating he used his own team to capture Jim Reed Date: 1895 City: Territory County:

Receipt to H. H. Thomas (his signature) foe boarding Heck Thomas signed by C. J. Anderson. Date: 1893 City: Tulsa County:

Three letters from the Eureka and Excelsior Mines, to P. Basche, Baker City, Oregon. Dated 1896. Date: 1896 City: Bourne County

Receipt is for a carpenter working on public buildings at New Post Fort Yamhill. Hazen was an 1855 West Point graduate and sent to California/Oregon f

1) Canyon City Stage Company way-bill. Names passengers (William Newfelt and china man) and freight from Baker City to Malheur. 1889. 2) Malheur Stage

Great group of five. 1) 1866 document where B. B. Griffin swears that according to law he has taken the following horses… 2) 1891 billhead for the Ore

1) Three letters all dating from 1883, from Pennsylvania Oil Company Limited, New York, dated 1883. 2) letter from Brazil Electric Light Company, Braz

Bill says, Providence R.I., July 19, 1859, Providence Tool Co., to Schooner E. Haight, Freight on 1708 Tons Coal from Port Even to Providence. Date:

1833: Receipt Providence Tool Co., On Board The PETREL, Says in Part- Jones Master for the present voyage , now in the harbor of Providence, and bound

Bank Letter signed by former Texas Ranger. T. C. Frost addressed this letter to Z. de Borra in Eagle Pass Texas on Banking House of T. C. Frost letter

1) The Texas Stockman and Farmer handbill for the only weekly live stock and farm paper in Texas. 2) 1874 letter addressed to Major John Boyle, United

Brigham Young American Bank Note Engraved Plate. By Mark Baldwin, 7" x 5½". The original envelope is present (soiled with several edg...

Rare bond from Utah. Vignette of train in valley. Number 184, but unused. No signatures but all stamps are intact. Excellent condition. Would make a g

1881 Ogden Telephone Exchange Company letterhead to John Morgan of Oxford, Idaho. They are quoting a price for a Bell Telephone Company Call Box for r

Presented by / Evans & Spencer / dealers in / guns, pistols, ammunition, sporting goods, playing cards, &c / Salt Lake City, Utah. Picture ...

The first certifies that Carl H. Carlson "as ordained an Elder …on the 6th day of August 1900," signed by Arthur W. Brown as president of ...

Lot of eight. 1) Eureka Banking Company stock. #34 for 8 shares to J. George Jones on February 15, 1924. Signed by president Jones! Eureka, Utah. 2) W

Checks, Stocks, Memorandum, Receipts and Billheads. Date: 1907-1967 City: County: State: UT

Stocks, Check, Letterheads, Billheads and Receipts. Date: 1895-1946 City: County: State: UT

Stocks, Check, Letterheads, Receipts and Billheads. Date: 1906-1957 City: County: State: UT

1) Weber Lower Canon. 2) Second of Sheeprock Canon on the Weber River. Date: City: County: State: UT

This is a fabulous and frustrating page two of a two page document. We know that this is a letter acknowledging the sale of arms to a sheriff C. H. Da

1) Letterhead from 'The Arlington' in Spokane Falls. Spokane Falls was originally settled in 1871 and sometime later the name was changed to...

This prescription archive consists of approximately 9,000-10,000 (20-30 per page) individual prescription forms adhered to about 4,330 pages of a 12...

4 page hand written letter with illustrations on each page, 1925, WYOMING: O.S. Alers was a Major in Co. I, R.I. Volunteers during the Civil War. He c

Nice mounted photo by Story titled, “(No Suggestions) Iron Co. Blast Furnace-Port Arthur”. Photo shows blast furnace located on a pier at the shore

20" x 2.7" Shows young man threatening an older gray haired man with an older lady looking on. The Great emotional play "The Little H...

Clowns getting ready for their performance. "Paramount, Week of December 12th." Date: City: County: State:

Location is unknown - possibly New Jersey or Delaware. Letter has been transcribed for easy reading. Much news about farming and references raising co

1) 1960 Pony Express so-called dollar. 2) Baltimore and Ohio Express freight way-bill, 1884. 3) The Pacific Express Co. freight receipt, 1898. 4) The

1) First Exchange for GOLD in 1871. 2) Two sets of Wells Fargo colorful advertising stamps. 3) Checks from Carson City 1902, unused Virginia 1860...