Archives International Auctions Sale 70 September 22, 2021 U.S., Chinese. & Worldwide Banknotes, Scripophily,

Archives International Auctions - Sale 70 106 September 22, 2021 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com EPHEMERA - WESTERN DOCUMENTS California 543 543 California State Telegraph Co. 1867 Issued Message Discussing Sending 10 “Chinamen”To HelpOpen the Road. California, 1867. Issued message on California State Telegraph Company header, Discusses the sending of 10 “Chinamen” in order to “open the road to the Summit in 10 days.” “If you will furnish that number, I will furnish the same number at the Company’s expense, Send twenty (20) and the Company will pay half the expense, Answer at once”. Red text with black handwriting. Fine-VF conditionwith toning. Chineseworkers were extremely important for the building of railroads, roads and construction in the west. Chinese miners tended to live in groups and work claims the Americans had abandoned. Initially, Americans found the newcomers peculiar and would visit Chinese camps for amusement. Then, in 1852, a year of serious crop failure in southern China, 20,026 Chinese flooded the San Francisco customs house. The previous year only 2,716 had arrived. By the end of the 1850s, Chinese immigrants made up one-fifth of the population of the four counties that constituted the Southern Mines. ����������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $250-500 California & Nevada 544 544 Early San Francisco and Nevada Ephemera and Purchase Order Assortment, ca.1870s-90s San Francisco, CA and Nevada..... Large group of items, mostly purchase order documents, highlights include: Latham V. King, Stock and Money Brokers documents; Bullion and Exchange Bank, 1897 Issued Stock order for 500 Shares; Pixley & McConnell, Stock Brokers, 1876 Issued Purchase Order; Carson City Savings Bank, 1877 Issued 2% Overdraft document; and Stauf & Cooper, 1893 Handwritten document. Over 15 pieces. ��������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $200-400 EPHEMERA - ZOO AND ANIMALS Ohio 545 545 Columbus Zoological Co. 1903 Used Letterhead & Cover Ohio, 1903. 2 pieces: Brief note written on Columbus Zoological Company letterhead, black text with tiger at top center, regards the mailing of stock certificates for a Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Jones, sent by J. W. Brown. Fine condition with some splitting along horizontal lines; Also included is a corresponding envelope cover, black text, with same tiger image at left, Columbus, Ohio stamp and red 2 cent postage stamp at top right corner. Fine condition with damage to margins, a large tear at right, and some staining. The Columbus Zoological Company established one of the first zoos in Columbus, known as “The Zoo”, that failed after only five months in 1905. ��������������������������������������������������� Est. $100-180