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14th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival 96: program

San Francisco : NAATA , 1996

1500 modern Chinese novels and plays... Present day fiction and drama in China by Su Hsueh-lin. Short biographies of authors by Chao Yen-sheng

by Schyns, Joseph; Su Xuelin; Zhao Yansheng

Peiping : Catholic University Press , 1948

新編對相四言 / 15th century illustrated Chinese primer. Hsin-pien tui-hsiang szu-yen. Facsimile reproduction with introduction and notes

by Goodrich, L. Carrington (intro)

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 1967

17 Real Photo Postcards by G.T. Sun Co. Fujiya and Kanaya Hotels.

by Ephemera.

17 de Octubre: Bolivia Derroto a la Gulf

by BOLIVIA

1700 Miles In Open Boats.

by Foster, Cecil.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1924

174 sheets of exquisite paintings of insects, using brush, ink, & washes of many colors, well mounted in 29 stiff paper folders of archival quality (each folder 396 x 350 mm. when closed), all preserved in a modern wooden box

by INSECTS

18 / Make your first vote count / Vote Socialist Workers [pinback button]

by [Socialist Workers Party]

n.p. : Socialist Workers Party , [197-]

18,000 kilometers across Africa. From the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean by Cameroon, Chad, Oubanghi, Nigeria, Niger, Sudan, Tademait and Sahara

by Gautier, Alphonse

Paris, nd : Jouve et Compagnie

18 Pen and Ink Illustrations for Stage Design and Promotion [for] Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

by BEMELMANS, Ludwig

1844 - Letter home from a man who traveled from New Hampshire to Alabama to retrieve the personal effects of his brother-in-law

by Horace Brooks

Gainesville, Alabama 1844

1853 & 1858 - A pair of items related to the "Father of Florida Tourism," Hubbard L. Hart: one letter to Hubbard regarding the purchase of a pocket watch and one Waybill from the Florida State Line

by Hubbard L. Hart

Tampa, Florida 1858

1854 – A newly arrived young railroad engineer hired by Chile sends a letter home to his mother raving about life in Santiago

by David W. Cunnningham

An 1859 Letter from Emile La Sére, President of the Louisiana Tehuantepec Company, to the Louisiana State Bank forwarding a copy of the official notification by the Postmaster General not to renew the Company’s mail contract that precipitated the formation of the Pony Express

by LA SÉRE, Emile

New Orleans 1859

1860 - Congressional pamphlet detailing the expedition to find a shortcut between the Great Salt Lake and the Oregon Trail

An 1861 Anti-Secessionist Letter from an Exuberant California Unionist, in the Original Rare ‘Internal’ Pony Express Envelope

by WARE, John

San Francisco 1861

1867 – Letter from an early settler in Cimarron, New Mexico, informing a friend back home in Ohio, that a gold rush had begun in earnest and that he might mine a claim and marry one “of these Black Eyed Mexican galls”

by A. J. Thomas

Cimarron, New Mexico Territory 1867

1867-1874 - Three letters from one of the worst (or unluckiest) sea captains who later established one of the most popular and long-lived ship chandleries on Martha's Vineyard

by Edward "Santa" St. Croix Oliver

Various 1874

An 1875 Journal of a Stagecoach Driver based in Downieville, a Rugged Gold Rush Town in Sierra County, California

by [DARLING, Columbus Cicero]

Downieville, California 1875

1887 Photo of the Park Avenue Hotel, located on 4th Avenue (which became Park Avenue) between 32nd and 33rd Street

New York 1887