[Rarebooks] FS: Holy California Purple Victorian Marriage Celluloid, Batboy!!

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, Ephemera & Photographs]

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1884 Clear-Purple 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”.

Card. 4.5”x3”. Minor rubbing.  [43919]  $125

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