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Auction archive: Lot number 269

Lot of 3 scrapbook albums, two containing photographs and one containing newsclippings, ephemera and memorabilia, kept by the H.J. Goethe family of Sacramento

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
US$5,400
Auction archive: Lot number 269

Lot of 3 scrapbook albums, two containing photographs and one containing newsclippings, ephemera and memorabilia, kept by the H.J. Goethe family of Sacramento

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
US$5,400
Beschreibung:

Title: Lot of 3 scrapbook albums, two containing photographs and one containing newsclippings, ephemera and memorabilia, kept by the H.J. Goethe family of Sacramento Author: ** Place: California Publisher: Date: Late 19th-early 20th century Description: Albums are 14x9, half leather and marbled boards. Marvelous collection of photographs and other material assembled by the family of Sacramento banker and businessman H.J. Goethe, many of the photographs taken on their vacations in the Lake Tahoe region, San Francisco, and other California locales. They include: “Memory Book, Lake Tahoe Region” (from title on spine strip, which is detached and laid in loose) – Scrapbook with approx. 155 small silver photographs, many sepiatone, most with inked captions, glued to 48 pages, with blank leaves at back; in additional there are some halftones, printed Tahoe ephemera (including a menu for the steamer “Tahoe,” etc. Most of the photographs are of sights, scenes, and activities in the Tahoe region, including “Lily Lake – Glen Alpine, the House of Mosquitoes!!”; rowing on Grass Lake; the summit of Mt. Tallac; a cabin on the shore of Lake Gilmore; a steamer on Lake Tahoe; Indians at the lake; Washoe Indian woman with papoose; brochure for Glen Alpine, California, near Lake Tahoe in the New National Park, and more. * “Photos 2” (from title on spine strip, which is detached and laid in loose)– Scrapbook with approx. 200 small silver photographs, many sepiatone, most with inked captions, many sepiatone, most with inked captions, glued to 42 leaves, with blank leaves at back. The earliest photographs are dated 1895, with portraits of C.M. and Taubner Goethe, picnicking, the water-gates at Folsom power house, “Car Town” in San Francisco, afterwards Ocean Beach, Golden Gate Park, the Cliff House, playing golf, a larger photograph of Goethe’s White Steamer automobile in 1903, etc. * “Memory Book No. 4” (from cover label) – Approx. 180 pages, some blank, numerous newsclippings, obituaries, illustrations, etc., many relating to the firm of H. J. Goethe fr Sacramento, Mortgage Loans, Real Estate Insurance, including broadsides printed in Chinese, German, etc. Goethe was also president of the Sacramento Tennis Club, with a notice affixed about oiling the courts; there are some pencil drawings including one of the “Hercules” Mine, signed C. Goethe; there is a broadside about the specifications of a boiler for the Live Oak Consolidated Gold Mining Company, managed by H.J. Goethe; maps and promotional material relating to Mt. Tamalpais and its railroad; material relating to the Wiet-Goethe Company, machinists; a Cliff House Menu from 1905, and much more. Lot Amendments Condition: Spines perished or detached, other wear, paper inside a little darkened and brittle; occasional normal fading to the photographs; overall very good. Item number: 176964

Auction archive: Lot number 269
Auction:
Datum:
19 Oct 2006
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Lot of 3 scrapbook albums, two containing photographs and one containing newsclippings, ephemera and memorabilia, kept by the H.J. Goethe family of Sacramento Author: ** Place: California Publisher: Date: Late 19th-early 20th century Description: Albums are 14x9, half leather and marbled boards. Marvelous collection of photographs and other material assembled by the family of Sacramento banker and businessman H.J. Goethe, many of the photographs taken on their vacations in the Lake Tahoe region, San Francisco, and other California locales. They include: “Memory Book, Lake Tahoe Region” (from title on spine strip, which is detached and laid in loose) – Scrapbook with approx. 155 small silver photographs, many sepiatone, most with inked captions, glued to 48 pages, with blank leaves at back; in additional there are some halftones, printed Tahoe ephemera (including a menu for the steamer “Tahoe,” etc. Most of the photographs are of sights, scenes, and activities in the Tahoe region, including “Lily Lake – Glen Alpine, the House of Mosquitoes!!”; rowing on Grass Lake; the summit of Mt. Tallac; a cabin on the shore of Lake Gilmore; a steamer on Lake Tahoe; Indians at the lake; Washoe Indian woman with papoose; brochure for Glen Alpine, California, near Lake Tahoe in the New National Park, and more. * “Photos 2” (from title on spine strip, which is detached and laid in loose)– Scrapbook with approx. 200 small silver photographs, many sepiatone, most with inked captions, many sepiatone, most with inked captions, glued to 42 leaves, with blank leaves at back. The earliest photographs are dated 1895, with portraits of C.M. and Taubner Goethe, picnicking, the water-gates at Folsom power house, “Car Town” in San Francisco, afterwards Ocean Beach, Golden Gate Park, the Cliff House, playing golf, a larger photograph of Goethe’s White Steamer automobile in 1903, etc. * “Memory Book No. 4” (from cover label) – Approx. 180 pages, some blank, numerous newsclippings, obituaries, illustrations, etc., many relating to the firm of H. J. Goethe fr Sacramento, Mortgage Loans, Real Estate Insurance, including broadsides printed in Chinese, German, etc. Goethe was also president of the Sacramento Tennis Club, with a notice affixed about oiling the courts; there are some pencil drawings including one of the “Hercules” Mine, signed C. Goethe; there is a broadside about the specifications of a boiler for the Live Oak Consolidated Gold Mining Company, managed by H.J. Goethe; maps and promotional material relating to Mt. Tamalpais and its railroad; material relating to the Wiet-Goethe Company, machinists; a Cliff House Menu from 1905, and much more. Lot Amendments Condition: Spines perished or detached, other wear, paper inside a little darkened and brittle; occasional normal fading to the photographs; overall very good. Item number: 176964

Auction archive: Lot number 269
Auction:
Datum:
19 Oct 2006
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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