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Attention pioneers! : facsimile reproductions of twelve rare California broadsides or posters, with explanatory comment by various authorities.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Book Club of California 147
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harding, George L. (George Laban), 1893-1976, author.
- Hall, Carroll D. (Carroll Douglas), 1902- author.
- Magee, David Bickersteth, 1905-1977, author.
- Jackson, Joseph Henry, 1894-1955, author.
- Wenzel, Caroline, 1886-1959, author.
- Wheat, Carl I. (Carl Irving), 1892-1966, author.
- Hammond, George P. (George Peter), 1896-1993, author.
- Cleland, Robert Glass, 1885-1957, author.
- Held, Walter J., author.
- Bromfield, Innis, author.
- Gardner, Frances T., author.
- Series:
- Keepsake series (Book Club of California) ; 1952.
- Fifteenth of the annual series of keepsakes ; [1952]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- California--History--Sources.
- California.
- Frontier and pioneer life--California--Sources.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Frontier and pioneer life--California--San Francisco--Sources.
- Broadsides--California--Facsimiles.
- Broadsides.
- California--San Francisco.
- Genre:
- Facsimiles.
- History.
- Sources.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Facsimiles (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Broadsides.
- Keepsakes.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 portfolio (12 folders) : illustrations, facsimiles ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco] : The Book Club of California, 1952.
- Contents:
- No. 1. Zamorano's announcement of the establishment of California's first printing press
- no. 2. S.F. town ordinance, 1847, designed to discourage sailors from deserting their ships
- no. 3. Eliza Farnham's bride-ship : an 1849 circular inviting young women of the East to go to California
- no. 4. Black Bart : "The PO8", confidential circular describing exploits of the noted stage robber
- no. 5 Sacramento proclamation urging citizens to cooperate in founding the first city government in 1849
- no. 6. S.F.'s first admission day : ode composed by Mrs. E.M. Wills & sung at Portsmouth Plaza, October 29, 1850
- no. 7. To California in '49 : announcing the departure of the Boston schooner Civilian for the gold fields
- no. 8. Doctor Cooper replies : a relic of a medical feud that amused San Franciscans in 1858
- no. 9. The flight of the Avitor : San Franciscans of 1869 view airship that really flies
- no. 10. A bargain in babies : an example of the uninhibited advertising of the 1850s
- no. 11. Birth of a metropolis? : announcing the founding of a new supply center for the Northern mines
- no. 12. On the sale of liquor to Indians : proclamation of Governor Mason dated Nov. 29, 1847.
- Notes:
- Facsimile laid in each folder.
- "Attention, pioneers! is the fifteenth of the annual series of keepsakes issued for its members by The Book Club of California, 549 Market Street, San Francisco 5, California. The series is edited by Oscar Lewis and its twelve parts are designed and printed by Jack Werner Stauffacher at the Greenwood Press, San Francisco."--Colophon of each folder.
- "Edition limited to 950 copies."--Book Club of California.
- Each folder has a deckled fore-edge.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: number five has laid in typescript letter dated 23 August 1952 from Elizabeth Downs, secretary of The Book Club of California, to members announcing the publication of numbers five through eight; number nine has laid in typescript letter dated 26 December 1952 from Elizabeth Downs, secretary of The Book Club of California, to members announcing the publication of numbers nine through twelve.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy without portfolio; housed in manila envelope with manuscript title ("BCC ATTENTION PIONEERS 1952") in ink and manuscript note ("C 1513 C") in pencil.
- Cited in:
- Book Club of California. The hundredth book http://www.bccbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/BCCvol1-The-Hundredth-Book.pdf XVI (page 64)
- Olmsted, Duncan H. Seventy years: a checklist of Book Club publications, 1914-1983, XVI (page 47-48)
- Contains:
- Zamorano's announcement of the establishment of California's first printing press. 1
- S. F. town ordinance. 1847. 2
- Eliza Farnham's bride-ship. 3
- Black Bart. 4
- Sacramento proclamation urging citizens to cooperate in founding the first city government in 1849. 5
- S. F.'s first admission day. 6
- To California in '49. 7
- Doctor Cooper replies. 8
- Flight of the avitor. 9
- Bargain in babies. 10
- Birth of a metropolis? 11
- On the sale of liquor to Indians. 12
- OCLC:
- 4248923
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