Western and Historical Americana

7.25 x 4.25", identified in negative, lower right, and with pencil identification on recto.  The Thomas Minckler Collection of Western A...

silver gelatin on printing out paper and titled in negative, 4.25" x 6.5". Gold was discovered in 1902 in Goldfield, which was an operat...

anonymous 7 x 4.25" albumen print on slightly larger thin cream mount, removed from a scrap book. U.S. and partial lettering of ...prings visib...

titled in negative Oxx for the Woods 1892, photograph shows a family with their five hounds posed in and around their stage coach and house, 6.5&quo...

lot of 5 silver gelatin photographs, all showing various teams of oxen and horses hitched to wagons, including one 2.75" x 6.25" image mou...

Lot of 4, including 3.75" x 4.5" albumen image mounted on 5.5" x 6.25" card. Stage and horses in front of The Sheridan. Mountain...

exceptionally rare rubber stamp with wood handle from the Tombstone and Patagonia Express Line / J.D. Kinnear, Proprietor., as indicated on the stamp.

check written on Pima County Bank, Tucson, AZ, to H. H. Tuttle for $20, 10 Aug 1880. Countersigned to D.C. Hayward by Tuttle on verso. The Tombstone C

for Holbrook, Fort Apache Stage Line, for June 2 and 24, 1901 and Sept. 22, 1904. The first two list Rhoton & Co. as proprietors, the later one ...

both approx. 8.5" x 11"; earliest dated 27 July 1867; on letterhead of The Woolworth & Barton Overland Transportation Line, To all poi...

lot of 7. Includes receipt of Arizona Stage Company, Phoenix, AZ, 31 July 1891. Second is way bill Tucson & Patagonia Stage Co., Pantano, AZ, 1 ...

1p, 8" x 10.5", Santa Fe, NM, 23 Oct. 1878. On letterhead of Fisher Stage Line Company, signed by J. J. Hinds, Pres. of company, to Mr. Cl...

2.25" x 4", pass for Kansas and Nebraska Stage and Omnibus company for 1898, for Mr. E. Hornbeck, Supt. National City & Otay Railway. ...

3pp, 23 June 1862, including descriptions of stagecoach travel conditions and Mormon activity in Salt Lake City. Letterhead of Office of the Washoe Go

complementary Trip Pass for the Nevada Stage Company, 2.5" x 4.5", Milton to Yosemite, Nov. 1, 1884. Two years later, Nevada Stage sold th...

including J. & J. Raycraft, Livery and Feed Stables, Carson, 1891; William Harr, Blacksmith and Wagon Maker, Gold Hill, 1888; John Randall, Blac...

including typed letter on wonderful letterhead of Pacific Coast Borax Co., with illustration of 20-mule team and wagons, San Francisco, 1898. Waybill

on the Sidney, Cheyenne and Black Hills Stage & Express Co. out of Cheyenne, WY. 2.5" x 4", dated 13 Jan. 1879. Bullock was with the U...

for the California, Oregon & Idaho Stage Company, 2.5" x 4", for 1896 and 1897. Both for John Stearns, of the B.N. & O. Railway. T...

both unused. One for the California, Oregon & Idaho Stage Company and the Boise, Nampa and Owyhee Railway, journey from Nampa to Murphy, Idaho; ...

2.5" x 4.25", Boise City, IT, 1883. U, I & T Stage Co. formed in 1878 as a successor to Northwestern Stage Company (see lot 536) on We...

including a 12-month contract for James Robinett to provide food and bedding for 8 horses and board for hostler, drivers and road agents at Robinett S

and back, 10 July and 14 July, 1877, Texas & California Stage Company, 16.75" x 23". Passengers are listed as Maj. Wilson & Party,...

on the Orange Blossom Mining and Milling Co. Stage Line for 1908. Typed card for Mr. W.F. Cody and party. Probably not used, since back of card not si

including ticket stub 2.25" x 4.25", for Owenton and Monterey Stage Line from Owenton, 27 Dec. 1882. Second is ticket stub for Eureka, Ham...

lot of 14. Includes R. & J. Morton, Teamsters, San Francisco, 1896, illustrated; A. A. Beem, Proprietor of the Fort Jones Livery and Feed Stable...

lot of 2. California Stage ticket dated 13 Oct. 1859 and is good for three months; no holder specified. Second item is blank stock certificate for Wea

including blank form for U.S. Stage Co., illustration of stagecoach and horses; letter on letterhead of Tahoe Stage and Livery Company, Truckee, CA, 1

2.5" x 4", stagecoach "watermark." This pass was issued to Capt. L.E. Campbell. He appears to have been stationed at Fort Rile...

S. T. Scott's Stage Lines, 2" x 3.25". A relatively simple card with patterned background. One of the earliest stagecoach robberies ...

approx. 2.25" x 3.75", marked Complimentary and made out to the St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Rail Road. Manuscript note on verso in re...

including Omnibus Lines. Approx. 2.5" x 4", pass for 1882. North Western advertises that it serves California, Colorado, Dakota, Nevada, I...

2.5" x 4", both For Packages not exceeding twenty pounds, one for 1891, the other for 1898. Earlier one is for Mr. Frawley, passenger agen...

all for agents of the Memphis and Little Rock Railway. Arkansas Valley Stage and Express Company pass is for 1876, 2.5" x 4". Fisher's...

both approx. 2.25" x 4". One for 1879 and the other for 1881, both for railroad accounts. Latter has red stagecoach and horses in backgrou...

both approx. 2.25" x 3.75". National Mail and Transportation Company, St. Louis, MO., Annual pass for I & G N RR Co. for 1879. The Int...

including pass for Ferguson Stage Company, until 31 Aug. 1894, on account of ATTF? RR. Verso has miniature scene similar to the well-known "Cal...

approx. 1.5" x 3", on heavy paper stock, with orange "wash" and printed on one side only, Good for One Meal at any Station on th...

lot of 7, all unused. All with Holladay Overland Mail and Express Company name and/or logo. Includes waybill; receipt slip with lovely lithograph of s

1p, 8" x 10", 3 Oct. 1864. Claim for 160 acres of land to run one-quarter mile in all directions from the entrance to "Overland Park ...

obl. 8" x 14" account book, brown cloth boards. Each page preprinted with Wells, Fargo's information at top and 12 account lines below...

5.5" x 9" booklet, 8pp, blue cloth with gilt lettering Act of Incorporation of Wells, Fargo & Company over light cardstock cover. This...

earliest is Crested Butte, CO, May 10, 1886 on letterhead of Office of the Crested Butte and Aspen Stage and Express Co. and lists C.C. Pollard and F.

including: The David Wood Transportation Lines, Telluride, 1889, illustration of stage coach and four horses; F.H. Stockman, Wagon and Carriage Maker,

1p, 7.5" x 10", Concord, NH, 3 Apr. 1855. Shield embossed in upper left with trademark for J.S. & E.A. Abbot, Manufacturers of Coaches...

pair of leather gauntlets once worn by Pony Bob, or Robert H. Haslam, each thread-sewn with beadwork depicting a bald eagle grasping an olive branch i

lot of 3. First is Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express receipt, 8 Jan. 1867; for two 2 bars of bullion valued at Forty three Hundred and Firty seve...

both are approx. 2.5" x 4". One pass for 1894 for Gen. Mgr. of Williamsport & N? Branch RR Co. Other for 1896, for superintendent of N...

5.5" x 8.5", on California State Telegraph Company form. Sent 31 Aug. 1864 from John Green, Atchison, KS to H. S. Rumfield, Assistant Trea...

lot of 4. Earliest is 2pp, Wichita, KS, 27 July 1881. In this barely literate note John Keeran is writing to John Dorsey inquiring about who has the c

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...