Archives International Auctions Summer Auction June 25th, 2015

Archives International Auctions 79 June 25, 2015 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com CHECKS & DRAFTS - FOOD 399 399 Frank Crawford, Butter and Eggs, 1908. NewYork. FrankCrawford, Merchant in Butter and Eggs. Aetna National Bank form. ������ Est. $75-150 CHECKS & DRAFTS - SAMPLES & PROOFS 400 400 Check samples, intaglio or lithographic proofs, ca.1890-1920’s Check samples in black on white paper or card stock. Various sizes. 1880s-1900s. Some with bold designs. Mercantile National Bank; Chemical National bank; Bank of New York; Union Square Bank; Bowery Bank of New York; Corn Exchange Bank; United States Mortgage & Trust Co.; Nineteenth Ward Bank; Germania Bank; Seventh Ward Bank; Phenix National Bank; Astor Place Bank; National City Bank; Columbia Trust Co.; Bank of the Manhattan Company; Washington Trust Co. Union Square Bank, Murray Hill Bank. Variety of sizes, most with trim marks evident. 23 pieces. ����������������������������������������������������������������������������Est. $150-300 CORRESPONDENCE 401 401 Correspondence and Letters - Ernest Laubenheimer, ca.1870- 1920’s A lifetime of letters and correspondence. Regarding Ernest Laubenheimer. Early drawings of ships and on-board ship life. Lithographers union notice, references, letter of termination, watercolors, account books, notes on job projects and length of time it takes to do them. Many items. �����������������������������������������Est. $150-300 Philippines 402 402 Post Spanish-American Era War Correspondence from William Dietz in the Philippines to Ernest Laubenheimer, ca.1898- 1903 With Postal Covers Correspondence of William Dietz to Ernst Laubenheimer. Includes a carte-de-viste of William Dietz in uniform taken by Fotografia Pertierra in Manila. Dietz served in Co. E., Engineer Corps. U.S. Army, starting in January 1900, thru November 1902 when he is back stateside in California (a further letter states that he was discharged in February 1903.) Lastly a postcard from Dietz dated 1915. The Philippine correspondence consists of 12 letters written from Caloocan, Angeles, Povac, Santa Anna or San Fernando all in the Philippines and Benicia, Calif., all with their embossed stamped envelopes (one cut corner). The topics of the letters deal with the travel over from the states, housing, weather, impressions of the “natives”, how the friars pump up them full of religion, locals dressing up for the Cock-fights, the local girls and some of the trouble they can cause; roadbuilding projects near Angeles, Pampanga, Luzon (including a drawing of a stone arched bridge); the diet and pay of the natives; invasion of grasshoppers on a rice field; food customs of the natives and prices for mangos and chickens; laziness of some; money exchange, US for Mexican 1:2 ratio, in the hospital with an abscess, a mule drinking holy water from the church, cholera, the return to the states via Nagasaki. Finally, an old address book page with a Peekskill contact. ��������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $2000-3000 DIE SINKING & ENGRAVING New York 403 403 Ernst Laubenheimer Copper plates, ca.1890-1920’s Three copper visiting card plates. Plus another for Frederick Kald[]. 4 pieces. ������������������������������������������������������������������������������Est. $100-200