Western and Historical Americana

including: first Pacific Stage and Express Co., with monochrome image of stage and 4 horses; second has Overland via Los Angeles U.S. Mail on the side

5.75 x 7.5" unmounted platinum photograph, the scene identified in the negative, with Booth Photo. A fine photograph, capturing miners in the a...

lot of 2, including a Jackson photograph with his Denver, Colorado backmark, titled in the negative Burros Packed for the mts./ A Street Scene in Oura

three from the California and Oregon Stage Company/Line. Marysville to Sacramento dated 2 July 1866; Yreka to Marysville dated 21 Aug. 1866; and Marys

9.5 x 7.75" albumen print, mounted on larger cream board, with imprint of William Hall on verso, and manuscript title on recto: Landslide Helen...

anonymous albumen image, circa 1880. Engine, about a dozen ore cars and cars stacked with wood from the hills, presumably headed for the furnaces. T

1p, obl., 8.5 x 14", San Francisco, 10 Feb 1875. Waybill for 97 packages to be shipped from California to Yuma, AT for L. M. Jacobs & Co. o...

verso includes the imprint Photographic Tour From Minnesota to Montana, with Capt. Fisk's Expedition, 1866. Photographed and Published by Illing...

lot of 50 views, all arched-top albumen prints on yellow card stock Expeditions of 1871-1874, 1st Lt. Geo. M. Wheeler Corps of Engineers Commanding. C

lot of 48 images by F.J. Haynes, mounted on front and back of each page, app. 6.5" x 8.5", housed in a leather, small folio album with gil...

albumen on original printed card stock, taken during Hillers' 1872 or 1879 trip and printed in 1879; photograph shows two Zuni children leaning ...

19 silver gelatin and one albumen; including twelve multiple views of Mesa Verde's cliff dwellings and Mancos canyon; seven images showing Mimbr...

lot of seven views, all with Jackson's studio imprint and Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories mark on recto. A...

lot of 6, with Jackson's Denver, Colorado imprint on mount, verso with pasted descriptive labels of Santa Fe, titles in negatives include: Santa...

glass positive encased in a wooden window frame, original photograph taken in 1871 on the Hayden Expedition; glass image 22" x 23", window...

glass positive encased in a wooden window frame, studio portrait taken in January, 1879 in Bell's studio; glass image 22" x 23", windo...

glass positive encased in a wooden window frame, original portrait taken in Washington, D.C.; glass image 22" x 23", window 36.5" x 2...

a half plate of John Gulick at his brother Richard's grave, Benecia, California, 1852. An identical half plate was offered by Sotheby's (A...

attributed to George McKnown and Bishop, Vacaville, California. A sign identifying the establishment as E.F. Gillespie Store is prominent on a sign ab

a fine daguerreotype portrait of Close showing his pistol to the camera, in a half leather case, identified on verso with an inked paper label, and be

matted and framed with image of Sutter in his later years. 10 x 13.5" plus 5.25 x 7" visible; verso also visible with 13.5 x 15.25" o...

approx. 9.5" x 12" with worn gold seal, no. 80, for General Joseph W. Revere, in the Associated Pioneers of the Territorial Days of Califo...

16" x 11.5" executed on woven paper. Initialed and dated J.W.I. 84, lower left, with detailed manuscript key titled Del Oso Mines and Mill...

a gathering of photographs and ephemera related to B.F. Smith, a Colorado miner. The heart of this collection are 10 spectacular boudoir photographs o

an archive relating to John L. Stevenson, an Ohio Buckeye who sought his fortune in the gold and silver fields of Idaho Territory in the 1880s. Includ

lot of nine ca 1898 Case & Draper photographs, 4.5" x 6.5", mounted on gray board, 7" x 9", with Case & Draper's Ska...

16 photographs documenting the Sunrise Mine on Sawmill Creek, Alaska on the Turnagin Arm, Cook Inlet (near Hope) 1900-1903 belonging to L. E. Crary, 1

includes an extensive collection of pictures, mainly taken by Lindneux, approximately 383pp memoirs handwritten by the artist, and various other drawi

lot of two painted flu covers signed by Hartung, including a dramatic depiction of Plains Indians hunting buffalo; and a portrayal of two cowboys hunt

on U.S.Geological Survey mount with the William Henry Jackson's printed credit line. Taken by Zeno Shindler in Washington, D.C. between February...

albumen print on gold decorated mount with inscriptions in purple ink, U.S.G. and G. Survey, J.W. Powell in charge, the subject identified as A-sa-ma-

lot of 16 silver gelatin photographs taken by DeLancey Gill; consisting of various delegation portraits spanning the years 1898-1901; displayed as two

lot of 2, both with de Groffs' Sitka, Alaska backmark and each titled on recto below image; includes Witchcraft - Shaman and Sick Man (Tlingit),...

lot of three Alaskan views with Winter & Pond's Juneau, Alaska imprint below image and on verso, mounted on cardstock; including the followi...

lot of 5, all with Winter and Pond's Juneau, Alaska backmark, images include a group of Tlingit women with their baskets displayed, titled in ne...

ca 1870s. An exceptional image, possibly taken at Fort Lapwai, showing a warrior astride his horse. He holds a spontoon shaped tomahawk in one hand, a

cdv-sized image that shows an aged Palouse chief, tentatively identified as Yellow Bird, seated on his horse. He holds a single shot percussion pistol

ca 1859-60 on a Neff's patent tintype plate. Probably Nez Perce, she wears a dress heavily decorated with alternating rows of sequins and cowry ...

his police badge clearly visible on his vest. His wife wears a Pendleton blanket. Circa 1880s-90s. Sixth plate, housed in a full leather case from the

profile portrait of the Nez Perce Chief likely taken by Wells Moses Sawyer, photograph 7" x 9".  Condition:

ca late 1870s, with imprint of W.E. Service, Bridgeton, N.J. on verso. A fine image of a group of men and women, the central figure displays a Sharp...

lot of six, including four Hoard & Tenney stereoviews of the following: a Chippewa Man, ca 1873; a Wabesh-esch and family posed in front of thei...

lot of 5, on regular sized orange mounts, images from the Gems of Lake Superior series and titled on mounts; titles include The Rapids Pilot; Group of

lot of five, including the following Bennett stereoviews: a Winnebago Indian shooting at ducks from a riverbank; Wah-con-ja-z-gah (Yellow Thunder) War

lot of three views from S.J. Morrow's series The Great North-West with the following titles penciled below each image: 15 1st & 2d Chiefs of...

lot of six views from S.J. Morrow's series The Great North-West with the following titles written below each image: 39 Wabasha & Wife. Chief...

lot of two portraits of Medicine Bear from S.J. Morrow's series The Great North-West with the following titles written below each image: 101 Med...

lot of four views from S.J. Morrow's series The Great North-West with the following titles written below each image: 39 Santee Sioux; 110 Yankto...

lot of two views of the Ponca Orator from S.J. Morrow's series The Great North-West with the following titles penciled below each image: 66 Ponc...

a portrait of three Ponca Chiefs from S.J. Morrow's series The Great North-West with 67 Ponca Chiefs penciled below image and Morrow's Yankt...