San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 Papers, 1851-1852

Summary

Title:

San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 Papers,

Dates:

1851-1852

Creators:

San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851

Abstract:

Include constitution, name book, minutes of meetings, accounts, and other records. Also police reports, statements and depositions in criminal cases, especially those involving James Stuart and John Jenkins. Some correspondence and clippings.

Extent:

Number of containers: 8 boxes, 1 volume, and 1 oversize folder

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 papers, BANC MSS C-A 77, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Background

Physical location:

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Related resources

Other descriptive data:

These papers, from the original Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection, begin with the official constitution of the Committee, June 8, 1851. The bulk of the collection is from June through Sept. 1851, with records of a more sporadic nature through November 1852. The papers include minutes of meetings, statements of witnesses, some correspondence, police reports, reports on examination of passenger ships coming from Australia, accounts, and other records, as well as clippings from various San Francisco newspapers. The chronological arrangement, day by day, of most of these papers follows, in the main, the work edited by Mary Floyd Williams entitled: Papers of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 (Academy of Pacific Coast History. Publications, v. 4. University of California Press, Berkeley. 1919). An unbound copy of Miss Williams' book forms a part of the report, with pencilled notations giving folder number of documents.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Processed by The Bancroft Library staff

Date Prepared:

© 1997

Date Encoded:

Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding; finding aid encoded by Charlotte Gerstein. Date of source: Unknown.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851 papers, BANC MSS C-A 77, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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