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California lettersheet collection
Collection
Identifier: Kemble Spec Col 09
Abstract
Consists of California lettersheets, mostly pictorial, created approximately between the years 1850 and 1870, with the bulk dating from the 1850s. Pictorial lettersheets are illustrated with lithographs or wood engravings depicting California and Western themes. Intended to be used as stationery during and after the California Gold Rush, these lettersheets served as a kind of reportage, depicting important events and popular stories of the day. Common illustrated topics and scenes include:...
Dates:
circa 1850-1870
Found in:
California Historical Society
Kemble Z3 Ephemera Collection
Collection
Identifier: Kemble Z3
Dates:
1802-2013; Majority of material found within 1900-1970
Found in:
California Historical Society
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- Advertisements 1
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- Announcements 1
- Annual reports 1
- Artists 1
- Auction catalogs. 1
- Book catalogs. 1
- Book collecting. 1
- Book designers 1
- Bookbinders 1
- Bookbinding 1
- Bookmarks. 1
- Bookplates. 1
- Booksellers and bookselling 1
- Bookstores. 1
- Broadsides 1
- Brochures. 1
- Business cards 1
- California -- Gold discoveries -- Pictorial works 1
- California -- Pictorial works 1
- California Ephemera Project 1
- Clippings 1
- Direct mail 1
- Engravers 1
- Ephemera 1
- Executions and executioners -- California -- Pictorial works 1
- Fires -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works 1
- Fliers (printed matter). 1
- Floods -- California -- Sacramento -- Pictorial works 1
- Gold miners -- California -- Pictorial works 1
- Gold mines and mining -- California -- Pictorial works 1
- Graphic design. 1
- Greeting cards 1
- Illustrators 1
- Invitations 1
- Librarians 1
- Lithographers 1
- Lithography -- California 1
- Lithography. 1
- Newsletters 1
- Newspaper editors 1
- Newspaper publishing. 1
- Newspapers 1
- Obituaries 1
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- Periodicals 1
- Pictorial lettersheets 1
- Posters 1
- Price lists. 1
- Printers 1
- Printing -- History 1
- Printing equipment and supplies. 1
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- Programs 1
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- Publishers 1
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- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Pictorial works 1
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- Trade catalogs. 1
- Type and type-founding 1
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- Type specimens. 1
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