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Billhead of Jonas Schoenfeld, San Francisco, California, March 19, 1878Billhead of Jonas Schoenfeld, San Francisco, California, March 19, 1878

Billhead from Jonas Schoenfeld's business at 423 and 425 Jackson Street, San Francisco, California, dated March 19, 1878. The billhead is made out to Salomen D. Schoenfeld of Red Bluff, California. The document includes an extensive biographical sketch of Salomen D. Schoenfeld, detailing his immigration from Westphalia, Germany in 1836, his early business ventures in New York and California, his successes in Red Bluff and other mining towns (Star City, Nevada; Silver City, Idaho), his real estate holdings, family life (marriage to Helena Myer and children David S. and Golda S.), and his involvement in the Masonic fraternity.

Bookseller's Broadside: A Sketch of the Life, Last Sickness and Death, of Mrs. Mary Jane Grosvenor (3rd ed.)Bookseller's Broadside: A Sketch of the Life, Last Sickness and Death, of Mrs. Mary Jane Grosvenor (3rd ed.)

Book/bookseller broadside: *A Sketch of the Life, Last Sickness and Death, of Mrs. Mary Jane Grosvenor* (3rd edition). 86 pages, with the last four pages being publisher's advertisements. Published in Baltimore by Coale in 1818. Bound in full tree calf. Features a bookseller's ticket from Benjamin Levy & Company, New Orleans, with text in both French and English. The ticket provides insight into book distribution between the East and Gulf Coasts. Contains an ownership inscription: "Abigail Bates's Book." The book itself is a tribute to the wife of Thomas Grosvenor, a three-term Congressman from New York who later practiced law in Maryland.