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Antique Historical Souvenir of San Francisco, Cal. With Views of Prominent Buildings, The Bay, Its Islands, Fortifications, Etc. Heininger – Publisher San Francisco, Cal. Hardcover booklet bound in decorated pictorial cloth, embossed on the back with an emblem “Eureka” and woman with a bear. 16 accordion pages of images (photographic style drawings) plus three pages of a bird’s eye view of the city. 30 page booklet discussing the history of the city and the tourist highlights and prominent buildings. Nearly all of the buildings and sites shown were destroyed in the 1906 Earthquake and fire. Ignatius Church, Mission Dolores, Masonic Temple. Flood, Leland Standford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker. The book measures about 5.75 x 7.5 inches. No other dates are printed. Boards have edge and corners wear and the pages are separated from the binding. The front cover gilt is dulled. There is a small tear at the end of the spine. There are stains along the edge of the back cover. The title page is chipped. The remaining booklet pages have minor chipping. Pages are moderately age toned. The concertina folded images are split at folds in several places. The pages are very fragile.

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1905 Travel Photo Album, Pre-earthquake San Francisco (Chinatown) Univ. Of Cal, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Ojai Valley, Montecito, and more.. Author: [CALIFORNIA] Title: 1905 Travel Photo Album, Pre-earthquake San Francisco (Chinatown) Univ. Of Cal, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Ojai Valley, Montecito, and more… Oblong album of limp faux alligator skin, overall 5 1/2 x 8 inches. The first leaf caption titled in ink at a later date Trip taken to California by Katharine J. Edgar as guest of Granger A. The album with approximately 92 small silver prints, each about 1 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches, mounted to the card album sheets. Some curling to the leaves and silvering to the images, minor showthrough of adhesive, well preserved overall. A small travel album including about 92 circa 1905 photographs of California and region including: Albuquerque, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Ojai Valley, Montecito, Monterey, the University of California, Salt Lake and 8-10 images of Chinatown in San Francisco. Items are 100% guaranteed. You may return for any reason by simply notifying us within 30 days of receiving item (subject to some very reasonable fine print below). Please notify us of your intentions within 30 days of receipt of item so we can help coordinate the return. You may return for any reason, with no quibbling. We value our international customers highly! Doing that is against U. This listing was created by Bibliopolis. This item is in the category “Books & Magazines\Antiquarian & Collectible”. The seller is “newyorkresident” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Author: CALIFORNIA
• Publisher: Unknown
• Year Printed: 1905
• Binding: Leather

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