![Plano Topographico de la Vista de los Linderos del Pueblo de Colucán... [manuscript title]. Mexico](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1360.jpg?v=1588108805)
[Mexico: 1846]. Manuscript map, approximately 13 x 17.25 inches. Folded; original hand color. Moderate chipping and several short closed tears at edges; three minor losses within map area. Light ink offsetting; Light tanning and scattered faint foxing. A neat manuscript map that delineates the boundaries of the small Mexican town..... More
![Original Pen and Ink Manuscript Collection of Tarot and Esoteric Self-instruction Notebooks]. Tarot](/images/noimage.png)
[San Francisco? 1974-1980]. Four black binders. Approximately [130] leaves of handwritten text and pen/ink illustrations, some with ink washes. The notebooks are divided into four parts, A-D. The various parts total about 130 individual leaves of manuscript notes in blue and black ink with corresponding illustrations and various types of..... More
Tonopah, Nv. December 7 - 15, 1907. Ten letters, totaling 85pp. Mostly octavo sheets. Old fold lines, minor wear. Most with original envelope. With modern typed transcripts. Series of letters written by mining engineer and surveyor William Shockley to his fiancee, May Bradford, over the course of the week following..... More
![Archive of Three Diaries Documenting a Family's Life in California During the Civil War]. Jesse...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1354.jpg?v=1587384611)
[Petaluma: 1861-1863]. Three pocket diaries, totaling about 450pp., approximately 28,000 words. 12mo. Lacking covers, endpapers and stitching intact; contemporary ownership notations to endleaves. "Daily Pocket Remembrancers" for the year, with two or three daily entries per page. Light tanning, occasional foxing and ink offsetting internally. In a neat, legible hand..... More
New York: 1960. [4],97 leaves. Folio. Mimeographed typescript in original black folder, cover gilt. Cover heavily chipped with some loss. Light wear to contents. Mimeographed script of the off-Broadway play "Thistle in My Bed" by Gudrun Powers, noted in pencil as copy number four. The play opened in November 1963..... More
![Archive of Letters Written by a Czech Immigrant Family in California to Relatives in Illinois]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1352.jpg?v=1587074725)
Alhambra, Ca. [1951-1968]. Approximately 110 letters, about 70,000 words. Mostly typed, with original envelopes. Light wear and soiling. Archive of letters written by Otylka Petersen and her son, Carlton, from Alhambra, California, to her cousin Helen Jonas and her family in Brookfield, Illinois. The letters are filled with discussions of..... More
[Primarily Arizona, Colorado, and Montana: 1893-1932]. 101 letters, totaling 379pp., plus several other miscellaneous related documents. Mostly folio and octavo sheets, most letters with original envelopes. Old folds, some light wear and soiling. A large archive of over 100 letters, primarily written by brothers Nelson and Claude Logue to their..... More
![Autograph Letter, Signed, on Pictorial Lettersheet with a View of Camp Benton in St. Louis]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1318.jpg?v=1586817005)
[St. Louis]: Lith. & Publ. by A. McLean, [1861]. [3]pp., on a bifolium. Previously folded. Light wear along old folds. Scattered light staining. In a neat, legible hand. In this letter, Francis Flory of the 11th Iowa Infantry details the difficult journey of his unit from Camp McClellan in Davenport..... More
![Diary of Austin Lyons Documenting His Journey to California from Michigan in 1863]. Austin Lyons](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1189_01.jpg?v=1585600433)
[Various places: 1863]. [20]pp., in small diary. Original sheep, wallet-style, gilt lettered. Light wear to covers. Writing is light, but neat and legible. Travel diary of Austin E. Lyon, who journeyed from his hometown of Tecumseh, Michigan, to San Francisco in 1863, at the height of the Civil War. Lyon..... More
[Various places]: 1930-1931. 277 photographs on forty-four leaves, most 2.5 x 3.5 inches, a few larger. Oblong octavo. Original black cloth, string tied, cover gilt. Wear to covers, some chipping. Images with corner mounts, many captioned. Internally clean, some light chipping to a few leaves. A lovely vernacular album --..... More