Apr 12, 2018 - Sale 2473

Sale 2473 - Lot 55

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(CALIFORNIA.) Union Republican Ticket. Illustrated election ballot, 12 x 3 inches, printed in blue and red; folds and minor foxing, "San Joaquin Co" in manuscript in lower margin. Np, circa September 1861
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A colorful patriotic ballot or prox from the 1861 state election, illustrated with a Union flag and a firing cannon. It endorses Leland Stanford for governor; in this election he became the state's first Republican governor. It also includes candidates from San Joaquin County (east of San Francisco including Stockton) and a proposition to raise a tax for road construction. Not in OCLC or Greenwood's California imprints.