Potter and Potter Auctions: How History Unfolds on Paper: Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part IX, 1180, Chicago

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Auction Date
April 18, 2024 - April 18, 2024
Page Size: 554 items in 23 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
176 [BELL, Alexander Graham (1847-1922)].

Printed postcard telephone bill.

Buffalo 1883 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 96.00
177 [BELL, Alexander Graham (1847-1922)].

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Vol. XLIII, No. 1115

New York 1877 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 96.00
178

Massachusetts Spy: Or, The Worcester Gazette. Vol. 18, No. 846

Worcester 1789 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,640.00
179

A congressman's copy of a slip law working draft that proposes an amendment to the Bill of Rights, 11 March 1878.

1878 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
180

Autograph document signed, Albany, 12 June 1777.

Albany 1777 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 96.00
181 [POWNALL, Thomas (1722-1805), artist].

A View of the City of Boston the Capital of New England, in North America.

N.p. n.d. 1856. USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 72.00
182 BURR, Aaron (1756-1836).

Autograph letter twice signed ("A Burr") to his uncle Pierpont Edwards, Philadelphia, 30 April 1794.

Philadelphia 1794 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,440.00
183 [CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH].

Autograph letter signed, between two insurance agents, Tecumseh, Michigan, 29 January 1849.

Tecumseh Michigan 1849 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 120.00
184 [CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH].

Autograph document signed, for a saloon license at "Yankee Jims Dry Diggings", Auburn, California, 5 July 1851.

Auburn California 1851 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 330.00
185 [CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH].

Daily Pacific News.

San Francisco 1850 USD 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
186 [CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH].

The Sun.

San Francisco 1853 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
187 [CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH].

The New Orleans Weekly Delta.

New Orleans LA 1848 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
188 [CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH].

Group of Eight Issues of the Daily Alta California Newspaper. Vol. IV, Nos. 100-107, Inclusive.

San Francisco 1853 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
189 [ALASKA GOLD RUSH].

A Hand Book of Vacation Trips in Alaska and the Yukon on the White Pass and Yukon Route.

Chicago n.d. ca.1900s-1930s. USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 72.00
190 CHAUNCY, Charles (1705-1787).

A Discourse On "the good News from a far Country." Deliver'd July 24th. A Day of Thanks-giving to Almighty God, throughout the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, on Occasion of the Repeal of the Stamp-Act...

Boston 1766 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,080.00
191 CANARY, Martha Jane ("Calamity Jane") (1852-1903).

Life and Adventures.

N.p. n.d. ca.1896. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 180.00
192 [CATLIN, George (1796-1872)].

Catalogue of Catlin's Indian Gallery of Portraits, Landscapes, Manners and Customs, Costumes...Collected During Seven Years' Travel, Amongst Thirty-Eight Different Tribes, Speaking Different Languages.

New York 1837 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 510.00
193

A Group of 3 Orotone Photographs Depicting the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair.

1933-34 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 120.00
194

The New York Times. John Dillinger is Slain.

New York 1934 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 210.00
195

The Chicago Evening Post.

Chicago, IL 1929 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 60.00
196

Supplement to the Atlanta Journal. Vol. XII, No. 31

Atlanta, GA 1894 USD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
197

A group of 17 rare stereoviews showing views of pre-fire Chicago and the later destruction and aftermath caused by the fire.

V.p. n.d. ca.1870-72. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 480.00
198

New-York Tribune. Map of the burned district in Chicago.

New York 1871 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
199

The Illustrated Chicago News.

Chicago 1868 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
200

Chicago Sunday Tribune / The World's Greatest Newspaper / Picture Section.

Chicago, IL 1934 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 270.00
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