[Rarebooks] FS: 1884 Purple Tinted Celluloid California ‘Pioneer’ Wedding Anniversary Card

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1884 Purple Tinted Celluloid California ‘Pioneer’ Wedding Anniversary 
Card.

An unusual and rather wonderful piece of California Victoriana- a 15th 
Anniversary “Souvenir” card for George Katzenstein & Ida Richards, 
printed in gold on dark purple tinted clear celluloid. In addition, the 
subject of the card was an important early businessman in the Golden 
State. “History of the New California, Its Resources and People” (1905, 
Leigh H. Irvine, ed.) has a long note from which we quote:

“George B. Katzenstein certainly deserves representation among the men 
who have been the founders of the New California. Mr. Katzenstein was 
born in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 28, 1848 [and] was educated in 
public schools and high school of Marysville, California, being 
graduated with the class of 1865. He then came to Sacramento and joined 
William H. Mills in the conduct of the Rescue, a fraternal paper. He 
also assisted Mr. Mills in his duties as grand secretary of the Order of 
Good Templars, and they were likewise associated in an insurance 
business. At length Mr. Mills retired in order to take charge of the 
Record, while Mr. Katzenstein succeeded him in the secretaryship, also 
as editor of the Rescue, and in the insurance business, continuing his 
activities in these various lines until 1891. He then took up a plan of 
colonization and was one of the organizers of the Orange Vale 
Colonization Company, which purchased three thousand acres of land and 
improved it by establishing a piped water system. This land was then 
sold in ten-acre tracts to eastern people, whom they had induced to come 
to California. The company planted orchards and vineyards, setting out 
many varieties of oranges, lemons and deciduous fruits. They also 
planted table grapes, thereby demonstrating the feasability of producing 
citrus fruits in the northern as well as the southern section of 
California. In the summer of 1868 Mr. Katzenstein took charge of the 
Sacramento and northern California business of the Earl Fruit Company, 
the most extensive shippers of deciduous fruits in the state. In 1869 
Mr. Katzenstein was united in marriage to Miss Ida M. Richards, a native 
of Lowell, Massachusetts. Mr. Katzenstein is a member of the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows, and his prominence in the fraternity is indicated 
by the fact that he is a past grand. He is also past grand chancellor of 
the Knights of Pythias fraternity, having filled the highest office 
within the gift of that order in the state in 1885. He is likewise past 
grand master workmen of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and it will 
thus be seen that his prominence in fraternal circles is equal to that 
in his business career. He has done much to advance the wheels of 
progress, aiding materially in the development of business activity and 
energy wherein the prosperity and growth of the state always depend. He 
has found in each transition stage opportunity for further effort and 
broader labor, and his enterprise has not only contributed to his 
individual success, but has also been of marked value to the community 
in which he makes his home”.

Clear, dark-purple-tinted celluloid card. 4.5”x3”. Minor rubbing. 
[44010]  $175

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