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28.75 x 22.75 in. Southern Marin County – This Guide to Better Businesses.. This is an unrecorded 1977 pictorial promotional view of southern Marin County in the San Francisco Bay Area, illustrated by one B. Manson and issued by Community Services in Mill Valley. It covers from Mt. Tamalpais and Sir Francis Drake Blvd. In the north to the Golden Gate Bridge and Angel Island in the south. Several important local landmarks are illustrated and/or labelled including the College of Marin, several ferry landings, and the Waldo Tunnel (also known as the Rainbow Tunnel, now the Robin Williams Tunnel) leading north on the U. 101 Highway from the Golden Gate Bridge. Advertisements for local businesses surround the map, along with ferry schedules. The verso view looks southeast towards San Francisco, roughly an inverse of the recto view, over the Strawberry Area between Mill Valley and Tiburon. We have not been able to identify any other examples of this view in institutional collections or on the market.

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35.5 x 35.5 cm (14 x 14 in). Map of Novato Ranch. Owned by the Novato Ranch Co. This is a scarce c. 1910 promotional map and real-estate brochure for Novato Ranch, issued by the Novato Land Company at a pivotal moment in the suburban development of Marin County. Measuring 14 x 14 inches, the front presents a detailed subdivision plan, while the verso provides an extensive question-and-answer guide that markets the land to prospective settlers and small farmers. The map charts an ambitious early twentieth-century subdivision carved from the historic Novato Rancho. The plan depicts hundreds of numbered lots, organized along newly surveyed roads and anchored by irrigated areas, creeks, and pockets of cultivated land. A small inset at lower left outlines the component ranches: Home Ranch, A Ranch, B Ranch, C Ranch, etc. Reflecting the gradual dismantling of large Mexican-era holdings into smaller agricultural and residential parcels. At right appears an extended promotional text, excerpted from the Post-Globe, extolling the ranch’s virtues: fertile alluvial soil, gentle climate, good water, and proximity to the California Northwestern Railroad. The piece markets Novato as a place where “ten thousand acres of the most fertile land in California” await transformation into profitable orchards, poultry farms, vineyards, and dairy operations. This rhetoric typifies the boosterism of the post-1900 Bay Area, when ranchos north of San Francisco were rapidly subdivided for smallholders and commuter farmers. The Verso: “Questions and Answers About Novato Ranch Lands”. The verso is an extraordinarily detailed Q&A marketing sheet, one of the more complete surviving examples of early suburban agricultural promotion in Marin County. Nearly fifty questions provide practical guidance and persuasive copy. The rhetorical style is classic for its era, reassuring Easterners and Midwesterners that Novato’s mild climate, proximity to Petaluma’s poultry industry, and rail access to San Francisco make it an ideal site for both farming and suburban living. The repeated insistence that “Novato leads Marin County” and that “large tracts will be cut into small farms” reveals the underlying philosophy of progressive small-farm subdivision, part of a broader regional shift from cattle ranching to diversified agriculture. Developers like the Novato Land Company targeted a national audience of aspiring farmers and middle-class settlers, promising both rural independence and easy access to San Francisco’s metropolitan market. This map also captures Novato just before paved road networks, improved regional transit, and the eventual construction of Highway 101 transformed it into a fully integrated commuter town. As such, the brochure documents an intermediate stage in the evolution of the North Bay landscape. Ephemeral real estate promotional maps of Northern California from this era are rare survivals, especially when both the map and the printed text are intact. No institutional examples of this specific Novato Ranch brochure are recorded in OCLC, and it appears to be absent from standard bibliographies of Marin development materials.

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Medium: Vintage Silver Print. Size: 9 3/4 x 6 7/8″, (20 x 14″ matted). Provenance: Peter Fetterman Gallery Santa Monica CA. Linden Hayes Fine Art, San Francisco, CA. Sigismund Blumann was a prominent taste maker in Californian photography during the 1920s and 1930s. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area for his entire career, he edited magazines, wrote books, and made creative photographs. Between 1923 and 1932, his pictures were accepted at photographic salons in Amsterdam, Toronto, Rochester, Seattle, and Los Angeles. In 1927, a one-person exhibition of his bromoil prints traveled to camera clubs in Chicago, Akron, Cincinnati, and New York. In addition to bromoil, a process that yields pointillistic images, Blumann utilized such unusual processes as kallitype (Vandyke brown), lithobrome, and pastelograph (the latter two were probably his inventions) to create original photographs using chemical processes he invented. From 1924-33, Blumann edited. The leading West Coast photographic monthly. Subsequently, he established his periodical. Which he published until 1940. In these two magazines – for over 15 years – Blumann found a large audience of mainstream pictorial photographers. Thank You for Looking and Supporting our Small gallery.

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This is a Lot of 3 Antique / Vintage 1930s Karl A. Tamalpais Marin CA Signed Photos. Overall in matte it measures 20 x 16 inches with the window of the photos measuring 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Titles ” Spring Morning, Rhythm, and Arroyo Vaca” are on the lower left of and signed Baumgaertel lower right. They also have some info written on the backs with ” Spring Morning ” having many gallery exhibition labels on the back. Karl A. Baumgaertel was an accomplished salon photographer active in San Francisco and Utah in the 1930s. A very nice example of his work.

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Sept 28 1862 San Francisco date lined letter sent to Ohio. Have to go on the Sacramento river in the cars and stage, to get home. I like my new home Mer (muir) Woods… You ought to see some of the Chinamen that come to our store to trade perhaps a hundred and fifty in a day, with their long cues (hair) hanging down almost to their feet. Cover addressed to Miss Lucy Lanard Bazetta Ohio Trumbull Co.

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Vintage poster / flyer for the Marin Vietnam Committee Rally at the San Rafael Courthouse on Saturday, October 16 (which would date this poster to 1965, before many of the larger protests). 8 1/2″ x 14″. Classic hand-drawn graphics and lettering featuring a dove that looks a bit twisted and eagle-ish. Very good shape with a fold down the middle and mild dog earing on the corners. A rare and important piece of American history and an outstanding addition to any collection. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Historical Memorabilia\Political\US\Peace & Anti-War Movements”. The seller is “drummdrumm” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States.

• Type: anti war poster
• Year: 1965
• Theme: Political
• Event: Marin Vietnam Committee Rally
• Material: Paper
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Country/Region: United States

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