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Sale 2708 - Lot 47

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CALIFORNIA.) Group of California manuscripts and ephemera. 142 items, various sizes and conditions. Various places, 1864-1934
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Group of manuscript legal briefs in the Wilson v. Brannan case involving the California Central Rail Road. 3 manuscript documents, 22, [15] and [12] manuscript pages, each about 13 x 8 inches; folds, minimal wear. A substantial legal dispute between two important California pioneers. Charles Lincoln Wilson was the founding president in 1852 of the Sacramento Valley Railroad, the first railroad company incorporated in the state. His next project was a line from Folsom to Marysville dubbed the California Central Rail Road. He took a $85,000 loan from Samuel Brannan, a Mormon newspaper publisher and one of the state's wealthiest men. The project ran into trouble, and Brannan sued to get control of the company's assets, a case which went to the California Supreme Court. Included are a "Reply to Respondent's Brief"; "Brief for Appellant"; and an untitled brief which begins "In reply to the voluminous brief and points of the plaintiff." [Sacramento, CA], circa April 1864.

"Where California Fruits Grow / Sacramento County and Its Resources: A Souvenir of the Bee." Large folding map, numerous illustrations. 196, [4] pages. First edition. Original pictorial cloth, minor wear. Sacramento, CA, 1894.

W.H. Bryan. "Sacramento through the Camera / Souvenir of the Capital of California." [15] text pages, approximately 83 photomechanical plates. Illustrated gilt wrappers, minor wear. San Francisco, CA, 1901.

"Souvenir of Humboldt County." Frontispiece map, many illustrations. 192 pages. Worn wrappers with faint gilt title; minimal wear to contents. Eureka, CA, 1902.

"The University of California." One printed text leaf, 21 photographs mounted on leaves. Worn plain wrappers with seal of the University laid down on front; moderate dampstaining. Berkeley, CA: Students Co-Operative Society, circa 1911.

Series of photographs of a Grand Army of the Republic parade in downtown Los Angeles. 16 photographs, 3½ x 5½ inches, each inscribed with a reference number, laid down on 2 loose album leaves; the leaves worn, minimal wear to photos. This Grand Army of the Republic parade in downtown Los Angeles featured hundreds of grizzled veterans carrying their regimental banners. The date was most likely 11 September 1912, the culmination of the G.A.R.'s national encampment which was held in Los Angeles that week. Los Angeles, CA, circa 1911-1913.

"Tour de Luxe to the 46th National Encampment,' a guide book for the same Grand Army event in Los Angeles. 48 pages. Los Angeles, 31 August 1912.

Press photographs from the dynamite bombing of the Los Angeles Times building. 12 photographs, 6½ x 8½ inches or smaller, with various Brown Brothers stamps and manuscript captions on verso, plus 2 postcards; early copy prints, minor to moderate wear. Early on the morning of 1 October 1910, a dynamite explosion destroyed the offices and printing press of the Los Angeles Times, killing 21 workers. Months later, the crime was pinned on brothers John J. and James B. McNamara, leaders of the ironworkers union which was feuding with the newspaper. 2 of these photographs and the 2 postcards show the Times Building wreckage. 6 show the McNamara brothers (one of them with Gompers). One shows a bomb device and another shows the wagon delivering the McNamara brothers to the county jail. Los Angeles, CA, 1905-1911.

File of Wells Fargo & Company Express employment applications. 118 items: 15 partly printed employment applications completed in manuscript, 14 x 8½ inches, signed by the applicants, 1911-1915; plus 101 file copies of employment applications for employees hired between 1908 and 1911 (most typescript, a few manuscript carbon, a few secretarial manuscript); plus 2 character references for applicants on Wells Fargo forms, 1911 and 1912; condition varies with a few worn. Each applicant gives their date and place of birth, the names of their parents, father's occupation, home town, detailed employment history, and names of references. Los Angeles, CA, 1908-1915.

Correspondence file of the American Railway Express Co. on the planning for Los Angeles Union Station. 113 items bound with a brad at one corner, including 31 Letters Signed, 46 carbon copy letters, 27 mounted news clippings, and other memoranda; minor wear, most items with corporate inked stamps, manuscript notes, and other file markings. Los Angeles Union Station opened after years of controversy and planning in May 1939. Los Angeles, CA, 1917-1934.

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