Black Smiths Coal Store Wagon Boudoir Photo

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Marysville Yuba County, W.T. Ellis, 1880s, Cabinet Mount Photo

OLD, Some wear at corners and edges of mount. Marks or dirty

Two empty  W.T. Ellis envelopes and a 5 1/4 X 8 1/4 inches boudoir mount size photo of Marysville California First and D streets, manuscript writing at face of image... Some Ellis history - In 1852 he came to California because of the Gold Rush. Finding himself unsuccessful at gold mining, he took a job as head clerk for John C. Fall and Company, a general merchandising firm in Marysville. The company building was located on the bank of the Yuba River in a spot that is now under the levee at the eastern edge of Beckwourth Riverfront Park Complex, at approximately the corner of 1st and Willow Streets. In 1857, Ellis bought the company from John C. Fall. The Flood of 1862 drove Ellis to buy a new store building on higher ground, on 1st street between D and High Streets (across from where the Bok Kai Temple now stands), and in 1863, Ellis purchased a two-story brick home at the northwest corner of 8th and D Streets (Ramirez Castle Built 1851) , which became the family home for the next 57 years. The Ellises second child, W.T. Ellis Jr. was born in 1866