A Camera in the Gold Rush 1946, 12 Photos, History Letters California SLIP COVER

Description: Rare version where slip cover is included, which has protected the contents of this package wonderfully. A Camera in the Gold Rush Book Club of California 12 Sets of Photographs (c) 1946. 1) Mare Island Navy Yard, 2) Sacramento Flood, 3) Coloma, 4) Forest Hill, 5) Mining on the American River, 6) Riverside Camp (Maine Bar), 7) Freighting over the Sierra, 8) Swan’s Station, 9) Silver City, 10) Gold Canyon: Gateway to the Comstock, 11) Virginia City, the 12 photograph is of Robert H. Vance and his staff. Included are two letters of the gold discovery All are in Excellent Condition. Prints are 8.5” x 6”. A Series of Photographs of Pacific Coast Towns, Camps and Mining Operations of Pioneer Days. Printed on the back: A Camera in the Gold Rush, the tenth of the Club’s keepsake series, will consist of twelve reproductions of Far Western scenes by California’s pioneer photographer, Robert H. Vance, together with a photograph of Vance and his staff. The photographs, reproduced in collotype by the Meriden Gravure Company, are from originals owned by Flodden W. Heron. The series, edited by Edith M. Coulter and Jeanne Van Nostrand, has been designed and printed by Taylor and Taylor, San Francisco, and will be limited to six hundred sets. One part will be distributed each month during 1946 to members of The Book Club of California, 1125 Russ Building, San Francisco 4, California. Copyright 1946

Price: 51.95 USD

Location: Carlsbad, California

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