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...
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...
![[Chinese-Language San Francisco Chinatown Business Directory and Lunar Calendar for 1892]](/map/small/66981jc.jpg)
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...
![[San Francisco Fire Satirical Cartoon] Uncle Sam -- Smoke Up Frisco! You're Bound To Be Bigger and Better Than Ever Before!](/map/small/70102.jpg)
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...
![[San Francisco Fire Satirical Cartoon] Judge -- Never Mind Sister; They're All Going To Help](/map/small/70101.jpg)
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...
![[San Francisco View] Schmidt Lithograph Co. Second and Bryant Sts. San Francisco, California](/map/small/64719.jpg)
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...
![[Photo Album: Urban Military Academy -- Yosemite Summer Camp -- Hollywood Boys School -- Black Face Images]](/map/small/68607.jpg)
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...
![[Post-Thanksgiving Troubles]](/map/small/68585.jpg)
Original Pen and Ink Cartoons on Artist's Board This is a great vintage cartoon showing repercussions from Thanksgiving festivities. This is a humorous work from the famed early 20th-century Californian cartoonist Frank Kettlewell and signed "Ket,"...
![[Charles Lindbergh - 1st Trans-Atlantic Flight - Printed on Linen]](/map/small/69233.jpg)
New York to Paris in 33 hr, 29 m is the name of this printed cotton textile depicting the solo flight of Charles Lindbergh from New York to Paris. Even before Lindbergh completed his 1927 flight, a cotton toile fabric was made by Passaic Print Works...
Breeding Chickens in the San Fernando Valley Finely executed advertising artwork for the Dunsmore Poultry Ranch of Van Nuys, California, likely drawn in the 1920s. On the left side of the coat of arms is a bird's-eye view looking westward from Van...
![[Santa's Telegram]](/map/small/68586.jpg)
Original Pen and Ink Cartoons on Artist's Board This is a great vintage cartoon reciting the many problems faced by Americans, Californians, and others on Christmas Eve, 1931. This is a great example of a work by the famed early 20th-century...
![[Three Vintage Frank Kettlewell Cartoons]](/map/small/68562.jpg)
Original Pen and Ink Cartoons on Artist's Board This is a fabulous example of three cartoons by Frank Kettlewell, the renowned Oakland Tribune humorist. Like many of Kettlewell's works, each of these cartoons are surprisingly accurate in today's...
Scarce Western Airlines travel poster for San Diego. We estimated the date based upon the San Diego skyline and the cars in the parking lot of the marina.
Rare map of the world, showing California as an island from a rare Jesuit emblem book, entitled Imago Prrimi Aaeculi Soc. Iesu a Provincia Flandro-Belgica Ejusdejm . . . representation of the baby Jesus is shown between the two hemisphere Within...
Illustrating the Major Commercial Sea Routes of the 17th Century First state of Pierre Du Val's scarce 17th Century map of the World, illustrating the most important world trade routes during the middle of the 17th Century. Du Val's map is...
