Archives International Auctions Auction 87 September 12, 2023

Archives International Auctions - Sale 87 89 September 12, 2023 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com EPHEMERA - EARLY CALIFORNIA CORRESPONDENCE California and Oregon 451 451 California State Telegraph Co. 1867 Issued Message about “Ill Chinaman” California and Eugene City and Portland, Oregon, 1867. Issued message on California State Telegraph Company header, Discusses the “Chinaman” that “came through from the south” and was ill for two (2) days. VF condition with light toning on edges. Chinese workers 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. $110-220 EPHEMERA - EARLY TEXAS LEGAL DOCUMENT Texas 452 452 Gonzalez County, Texas, 1857 Legal Document Law Suit County of Gonzales, Texas, 1857. 8 Page document from the County of Gonzalez, handwritten on blue lined paper. Front page features an Index of Record, bound with a pink seal and green ribbon. The pages are as follows: Petition on Note (1); Citation for J. Nations (3); Answer (4); Judgement (4); Petition for Writ of Error (4); Bonds for Writ of Error (6); Citation in Error (7); and Certificate (8). The case in question was James Nations et al. vs. David S. H. Durst. Very detailed piece with legal information and jargon. VF condition, front page has toning from ribbon, back page has toning from fold lines, otherwise in great condition for its age. �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $100-200 EPHEMERA - EXPOSITION ART & ENTERTAINMENT Louisiana 453 453 SouthernArt Exhibition Co., 1886, I/C Stock Certificate New Orleans, Louisiana, 1886. 1 Share I/C Stock Certificate. Black on brown underprint, Teacher and student with telescope at center, S/N 94, VF-XF condition, WBNC. In the late 19th century, it was popular in American to produce rotunda panoramas of historical scenes. These were the biggest paintings in the world, 50 x 400 feet, housed in their own rotundas which were 16-sided polygons. While these panoramas travelled to major cities and exhibitions, in 1893, Chicago had 6 panorama companies and 6 panorama rotundas. One is believed to have been located near the 1893 Columbian Exposition. The Battle of Gettysburg opened on October 22, 1883 in its Rotunda at Wabash and Hubbard (7th Street). The other three followed: Boston, December, 1884; Philadelphia, July, 1886; and Brooklyn, October, 1886. Mr. Pearl Wright was a New Orleans businessman who purchased 10 shares @ $1,000 of the Southern Art Exhibition Company to install Paul Philippoteaux’s SIEGE OF PARIS at the Louisiana (Inc. in Illinois). World’s Industrial & Cotton Centennial Exposition, New Orleans 1884-5, to replace Louis Braun’s BATTLE OF SEDAN. He would be chairman of the World’s Panorama Exposition 1915 and was a member for Louisiana of the Republican National Committee. The entrance fee to these remarkable illusions and pictures was 50 cents, and you could stay as long as you please, an interesting lecture being delivered meanwhile. Paris by Moonlight was the first cyclorama seen in Chicago. It was shown in the Exposition Building in 1875. Jerusalem, The Siege of Paris, Shiloh, and the Monitor and Merrimac have since been exhibited to admiring throngs. The artist who gained greatest celebrity in this work had the alarming name of Philippoteaux. Paul Philippoteaux (1846-1923), principal artist and creator of the Gettysburg Cyclorama, first visited the battlefield in 1882. To prepare the project, he built a 30 foot platform on site to view the landscape. He studied War Department maps and conducted interviews with participants— Generals Hancock, Webb, Gibbon, and Doubleday, among others. He also relied on photographs of the battlefield taken by William Tipton. Philippoteaux first created a 1/10 scale oil study. He then sketched the entire composition in pen and ink upon which he drew grid lines and projected the drawing, with grid lines, onto the full canvas. The process of planning and executing the project took about two years. ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $325-500 EPHEMERA - FISCAL DOCUMENTS & ADVERTISING ITEMS Missouri, Vermont 454 454 Missouri, Vermont, and France. Miscellaneous Items, 1859- 1901 Missouri....,.,, Vermont, and France. Collection of 6 Miscellaneous Fiscal and Advertising Items, Includes: International Land Credit Co. Ltd, I/U Certificate for 500 Francs; Adams Mineral Soap Pair (2) of Certificates, small ad notes; Hammer Bros. White Lead Co Issued Check, and Pair if Tax Receipts- one of which mentions slaves. (6). Sold “AS IS” no returns accepted ���������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $200-350