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Guide to the Mary Sheldon Barnes Pacific Slope Collection, 1769-1898
Special Collections M0067
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Title: Mary Sheldon Barnes Pacific Slope Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1769-1898
Collection number: Special Collections M0067
Creator:
Barnes, Mary Sheldon
Extent:
1 linear foot
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections.
Abstract: Letters, reminiscences, interviews, and term papers written for and collected by Mary Sheldon Barnes and her students in Pacific
Slope history. Includes manuscripts of William B. Ide and others on the Bear Flag Revolt; a letter by Jessie Fremont; and
other materials pertaining to California mining and early life in the Pacific states.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least 24 hours in advance of intended use.
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of
the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please
contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
[Identification of item], Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Gift of Mary Sheldon Barnes.
Collected by Mary Sheldon Barnes and other Stanford faculty and students (1892-1896).
Ralph W. Hansen, 1963
This collection includes term papers, theses, interviews, letters, and reminiscences
written and collected for various courses at Stanford University pertaining to the
Pacific States. Original papers of particular interest deal with the Bear Flag Revolt and
California mining. The collection also includes a letter by Jessie B. Fremont; and Moses
Shallenberger letters, along with a transcript of an interview giving his account of the
journey to California in 1844.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Barnes, Mary Sheldon, 1850-1898.
Boggs, William M.
Cooper, Joseph Wright.
Easterby, Anthony Y.
Fremont, Jessie Benton, 1824-1902.
Hittell, Theodore Henry, 1830-1917.
Ide, William B.
Vasquez, Don Pablo.
New Coso Mining Co. (Calif.)
Bear Flag Revolt, 1846.
Miners--California.
Overland journeys to the Pacific.
Sheep--California.
California--History--1846-1850.
Napa (Calif.)
Oregon--History.
San Benito (Calif.)
Sonoma (Calif.)