![Item #4234 [View Book] Album of Views of the Missions of California w. 26 Colored Illustrations....](/pictures/thumb/4234.jpg?v=1674158553)
Los Angeles, CA: Van Ornum Colorprint Co., 1914. Paperback. Title continues "Containing Twenty-Six Colored Illustrations, Giving Location, Date of Founding, and a Brief Description of Each." Oblong 12mo size (5.25 inches tall), pp. [16], map. Volume w. diagonal crease to front cover, some toning and minor spotting - mostly to..... More
![Item #4078 [Boxing] Image of Jack Johnson Standing over Jim Jeffries in 1910 World Heavyweight...](/pictures/thumb/4078.jpg?v=1663103642)
n.p. 1910. Glass Plate Negative. An amazing image, capturing an historical moment in the World of Heavyweight Boxing in Reno, Nevada, on July 4, 1910. Taken just seconds before the fight was called in the 15th round when, some say, Jeffries' corner would not let him return to the fight..... More
n.p., 1915. Unbound Photo Album Leaf. Seven vernacular snapshots of San Francisco's 1915 Pan-Pacific Exhibition - including one that captures showman Buffalo Bill Cody and aviator Art Smith as they chat with a small group of people, either pre or post-flight, while his pusher biplane is wheeled into place. This..... More
New Westminster, BC: W.T. Cooksley, 1909. An unusual RPPC gelatin silver image of a North Shore cedar shingle-bolt flume, unusual in that it has the exact spot of the image's capture rubber stamped by the photographer in red ink onto the upper left corner "Second Canyon, Capilano River, From Observation..... More
(c. 1916). Mounted Photograph. A circa 1916 wartime photo of politicians reviewing troops at Polson Park in Vernon, BC. Uncredited, sepia toned gelatin silver photograph, measuring 2.5 x 4.5 inches wide, mounted onto a decoratively embossed, beveled-edge card measuring 5.25 x 7.5 inches wide. Photo w. some fading, mount is..... More
North Vancouver, BC: John Wardlaw, [c. 1925]. Postcard. An uncommon, early North Shore climbing image, showing a stocking footed man doing a cliffside handstand. Titled in negative "Daredevil's Leap Grouse Mountain Park North Vancouver, B.C" and signed "T.W." mid-photo. A postally unused, sepia toned gelatin silver RPPC with an undivided..... More