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Descriptive Summary

Title:
California. Department of Parks and Recreation. Adherble T.D. Button Collection, San Juan Bautista State Historic Park, 1848-1905 (bulk 1880-1886).

Collection number:
411.1

Collector:
California State Parks

Extent:
3.75 cubic ft.
(7 boxes)

Repository:
California State Parks
San Juan Bautista State Historic Park
P.O. Box 787
San Juan Bautista, CA 95045-0787
831-623-4526

Abstract:
The Adherble T. D. Button Collection consists of correspondence both to and from A.T.D. Button, and illuminates a particular period of history in San Benito County that has long since disappeared, the mining of quicksilver in support of the gold mining operations of the Sierras in the great decades of the Gold Rush in California, 1849-1879.

Physical location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please contact the Monterey District Museum Curator at 831-649-7118.

Language:
English.

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