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Partially printed forms filled out in ink. Various sizes

Ephemera ranging from an 1850 permit to land goods in San Francisco, to a receipt from a Redwood City Market.

Includes:

• Permit to Land Foreign Merchandise, made out to Dickson de Wolf & Co., for landing 10 hogsheads of Brandy, imported from Liverpool. Signed by the Deputy Collector. Dec. 4, 1850.
• Receipt stub stating At Loy has paid 4 dollars for a mining license, "which entitles him to labor in the Mines One Month." Aug. 2, 1853.
• Waybill for West's Line of Packets, based in Alviso, California, but leaving from Long Wharf, S.F., made out to Santa Clara Mining Co., for shipping a barrel of something, with a nice woodcut of West's Warehouse. June 23, 1860.
• Receipt from the Jackson St. Wharf Co., San Francisco, for a week's berthing by the Brig Hidalgo, with a woodcut of a sailing ship. Oct. 5, 1863.
• Stock certificate for ten shares in the Chico Gold and Silver Mining Co., with engraved vignette and revenue stamp. Oct. 18, 1867.
• Account statement and receipt from the Pescadero Livery Stable, for 12 rentals of horses, saddles, etc, for a week in Many, 1873, with woodcut vignette of the stable. Printed at the Times Print, Santa Cruz.
• Receipt for dues paid to the Ocean View Lodge, No. 143, I.O.O.F. [i.e. Oddfellows], Spanishtown, San Mateo Co.  Cal. April 1, 1876.
• Receipt for goods bought of Davis Bros. City Market, Redwood City, over two dozen items purchased in August of 1878, for a total of $75.22.