First Edition. "This contains essays, speeches, and commentaries on anti-Japanese exclusion and U.S.-Japan relations by Japanese immigrant leaders and white Americans. The appendix describes origins of various historical matters and Issei social customs, as well as pioneering individuals and organizations in the mainland and Hawaii."—Annotated Bibliography of Japanese Americans in.....

First Edition. "This contains essays, speeches, and commentaries on anti-Japanese exclusion and U.S.-Japan relations by Japanese immigrant leaders and white Americans. The appendix describes origins of various historical matters and Issei social customs, as well as pioneering individuals and organizations in the mainland and Hawaii."—Annotated Bibliography of Japanese Americans in.....

First Edition. "A work on the Japanese from Yamanashi Prefecture, especially in California. Presents a history of the Japanese from this Prefecture, including their contributions to Japanese language newspapers, financial institutions, the laundry business; five biographical sketches of leading pioneers; and an outline of the Yamanashi Prefectural Associations of Northern.....

The beginning of a Japanese immigrant's journey to a new life in the United States, a form partially printed in purple ink and completed in manuscript with an official orange stamp. This visa grants a Mr. Takahashi (高橋正業, the first name could be transliterated Shogyo, Seigyo, or Masaygyo) leave to.....

The March 1938 edition of this phone book listing of about 2000 Chinese residents and businesses on the Chinatown telephone exchange in San Francisco. Beginning in 1909, Cantonese-speaking operators served Chinatown and their office became a regular tourist attraction (accounting for the relatively large number of these Chinese-language phone directories.....

First Edition. A directory of members of the Hiroshima Prefecture Society (Kenjinkai) of Southern California along with an introduction about the group. Kenjinkai—prefecture societies—were influential parts of the Japanese American community, and the Hiroshima group was one of the largest. More than 100 businesses advertised in this directory. 20, 173 pages.....

A massive (nearly 1500 pages) national directory of Japanese Americans, primarily in California but with entries from around the United States. The directory is organized by state and then city, followed by the name, address, and phone number of the head of each household and of Japanese owned businesses. The.....

First Edition. An early Spanish-language issue of the annual report of the laws passed by the California legislature in 1857. For several decades after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the governments of the new US states and territories acquired from Mexico printed major government documents in English and Spanish translation.....

First Edition. A request to Congress from California for the "early establishment of a mail-route and daily mail from Auburn, Placer county, to Nevada city, Nevada county, via English's Bridge and Grass Valley. Also, a tri-weekly mail from Sacramento city, via Yolo city, Yolo county, to Cacheville, in Yolo county;.....

36 pages, each with five or so clippings of O'Brien's column on prison life and policy. In addition to being the publisher of the paper, he was a director of the California State Board of Prisons. Approximately 150 columns. String-bound into scrapbook covers, 8 by 11-1/2 inches. Very good; one.....

First Edition. 226 pages. 8-1/2 by 11-1/4 inches. The most detailed 19th century directory of Humboldt County, a remote region in far northwest California that at the time was only reachable by ship. This is also one of the only Western directories compiled and published by a woman. The first 126 pages.....

Two pages (single sheet). 8 by 10 inches, on ruled paper. A nice California business letter. This letter details a number of speculative business ventures in Southern California, and the writer and the recipient appear to be partners in a number of investments. There is a lengthy discussion of the purchase.....

Fourteen 5-by-7-inch sepia-tone photographs documenting logging operations in a long-gone company town in the redwood forest north of Eureka, on the California coast. Two of the images show logging camps (Camps 7 and 8); one shows a logging railroad; the rest depict scenes in the forest during the handsaw era. These.....