Financial records of an unknown individual or firm, 1913-1940, for which some volumes have been partially or entirely re-used as scrapbooks, pasted over with newspaper clippings and photographs related to San Francisco public figures, buildings, parks, cultural institutions, politics, social...

Three deposit slips issued by Adams & Co. branch offices in Stockton, San Francisco, and Sacramento

Two original journals cover the voyage to California and Adam's first months in San Francisco (4/1/1849 - 3/18/1850). The bulk of the Adams papers comprises letters from Adams to his wife, business correspondence, and Mrs. Adams' letters to her son...

Personal correspondence of Addington, relating to the lives of several Iowa and New England families; together with correspondence of her relatives, including letters (1849-1853) of her father, Daniel Davis, a native of Vermont, describing his voyage to California via Cape...

Reports and letters giving overviews of mines either purchased by or of interest to the firm of Adelberg & Raymond. Includes gold, silver, iron, quicksilver, and tin mines.

Incoming correspondence (1853-1899), mostly relating to the Sutro Tunnel and the Pacific Railroad Funding Bill; and 66 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings (1866-1898) documenting the major interests of Sutro's business and political career. Major correspondents include Theodore Sutro, J.M. Bassett, F.B....

Primarily legal papers from Whitcomb's law practice (1847-1879) and papers pertaining to his real estate holdings (1860-1889), mostly in San Francisco; together with papers (1888-1900) from Whitcomb's estate, kept by Jerome Lincoln and James Otis, administrators of the estate. Includes...

Reports 881M #1, 2, and 3, with statistics, charts, and graphs.

Four typed letters from Cranston in his role as Senator. Three of the letters are to George R. Kane, of the Los Gatos Times. The fourth letter is to Joseph C. Houghteling, of San Francisco.

Two volumes of official minutes of monthly and special Board of Trustees meetings and annual stockholders meetings, along with a few related miscellaneous notes and papers. The volumes include information on bylaws, contracts, inventories, dividends and assessments, and other company...

Personal financial records consisting of two vols. of receipts (1879-1895) for services performed at Fern Hill, San Anselmo Valley, and Marin County, Calif.; a ledger of household expenses (1880-1885); and household accounts (1875-1879) kept by Dibblee's wife, Annie. Includes an...

Contains 66 scrapbook binders, approximately half of which consist of a chronology of San Francisco from 1769 to 1937, covering city institutions, businesses, persons, and events. The remaining volumes contain chronologies, essays, newspaper clippings, and some photographs concerning the history...

Fifteen account books recording personal and household expenses (1866-1875, 1878-1885); journals containing notes of trips taken in 1873 and 1880; two passports (1864, 1870); genealogical material on the Bancroft family compiled by A.L. Bancroft, including a five-notebook genealogy and a...

Typed transcript (33 leaves) of excerpts from Bee's diary, describing his voyage from N.Y. to Calif. aboard the ship South Carolina, Jan. 24-June 30, 1849. Daily entries describe sea sickness, the weather, the ship's progress, an outbreak of smallpox among...

Printed title page and typescript of Town and country : a book of lyrics on themes of California (1924); two printed title pages for Souls of things (1925 and 1927), with typed drafts of the poems "A seal of God"...

Primarily typed drafts and typescripts of poems Wheeler wrote and organized into a book intended for publication entitled Souls of things. Includes letters from Wheeler to his typist, Cornelius Leonard, primarily dealing with corrections to be made to his book...

Primarily letters received by Barstow while Secretary of Calif. State Republican Central Committee, 1861-1862, written by Republicans throughout the state, concerning membership of County Republican Central Committees, requests for political favors, plans for the upcoming 1862 elections, preservation of the...

Legal correspondence, court petitions, summaries, and summons; together with bound shorthand court notes, political pamphlets, and newspaper clippings relating to meetings of Sacramento Board of Freeholders, of which Worley was elected secretary in 1881, and his campaign for San Francisco...

Diary consisting of 1 v. (ca. 75 p.), with an eight-page addition on different paper, pages numbered 13-28, dated May 26-June 20; and a letter from Stiles' mother, Harriet W. Stiles, in Boylston, Mass., to Alfred in Calif. (1856). The...

A printed log book containing entries for Robinson's 1829 voyage from Boston to Monterey aboard the ship Brookline; and a second vol. containing a brief record of Robinson's subsequent activities at Monterey and along the Southern Calif. coast. The first...

Primarily business correspondence to and from Robinson, in his role as a San Francisco merchant and as agent for the firm Howland & Aspinwall of New York, including: a letter book (Dec. 1848-June 1849) concerning prices of goods in San...

Legal documents relating to a suit filed by Wheeler against his business partner, Frederick Marriott, and others of his creditors.

Two certificates, each appointing Wheeler Notary Public, in San Francisco and San Mateo Counties, respectively; a document issued by the Secretary's Office of Minnesota Territory in St. Paul, containing a copy of the law pertaining to Wheeler's appointment as Commissioner...

Five letters, four of which are from Alice to family members, giving an eyewitness account of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Discusses Hutchinson's arrangements to leave her home in Oakland to join her family in Portland, Oregon. Describes...

Correspondence, news clippings, ephemera, printed materials, and other documents pertaining to the discovery, investigation, and custody of Drake's Plate of Brass, found in Marin County in 1937, which carried an inscription declaring Sir Francis Drake's claim of the land on...

This collection consists of materials from the Ephraim Willard Burr and John Winslow Allyne families. The two families are interconnected through the marriage of John Winslow Allyne to E.W. Burr's daughter, Mary Newell. The personal material belongs mainly to the...

Business papers of Allyne & White, chiefly San Francisco billheads and receipts; stock certificates; correspondence and other material pertaining to the purchase and ownership of Rancho San Vicente in Santa Cruz County, Calif., by the Stanfords (1855-1869), along with some...

Consists of personal correspondence; Burr cemetery records; real estate deeds, mortgages, property tax forms, and receipts; business records and correspondence for Burr-Matoon and Allyne-White Pacific Oil Works; Burr family and business account books; lawsuit materials pertaining to the ship Henry...

Records chiefly covering the period from 1934, when the branch of the national organization was established in San Francisco, to the retirement in 1970 of Ernest Besig, Executive Director since July 1935; with some earlier material. Consists of correspondence with...

Chiefly billheads made out to American Salt Company from various San Francisco businesses. Includes a few miscellaneous receipts, a memo, and other records.

Chiefly billheads made out to American Salt Company from various San Francisco businesses, together with some merchandise orders, two merchandise licenses, and a few miscellaneous papers.

Two volumes of bylaws (1879 and 1885), a journal (1890-1895), a cashbook (1890-1903), and a general ledger (1890-1903).

Two volumes of bylaws (1879 and 1885), a journal (1890-1895), a cashbook (1890-1903), and a general ledger (1890-1903).

Consists of letters to Hallidie's wife, Martha Elizabeth (1884-1898); business correspondence (1871-1899); drafts of speeches, printed articles and certificates related to his role as a regent of the University of California and his involvement with the Mechanics' Institute, the American...

Two bound diaries containing brief daily entries, describing Hart's home, social, personal, and business activities. Mentions Board of Supervisors meetings, household repairs, renting and selling property, and her genealogical research.

Correspondence, printed materials, publications, and clippings relating to Draper's involvement with state and national women's labor organizations and issues, including Union WAGE, a Berkeley-based women's labor organization that Draper helped found; state protective labor legislation; labor unions; the Equal Rights...

Reports, correspondence, clippings, articles, and San Francisco Bay Area and national periodicals, pamphlets, and newsletters concerning women's labor issues and women's liberation, with emphasis on union activities and labor laws in Calif. Includes materials on affirmative action programs for women...

Personal correspondence with friends and other feminists and political activists; together with newspaper clippings, some personal business papers, and correspondence to relatives relating to Martin's death in 1951. Correspondents include labor organizers Katherine Schmidt and Kate Richards O'Hare, Los Gatos...

Founding documents, bylaws, handbooks, member rosters, board minutes and packets, annual reports, publications, and property and financial documents relating to Fillmore and Fell Corporation. Much of the collection concerns Fillmore and Fell Corporation's efforts to open a group home for...

This four-page typed copy of a letter written to "Laura" by "Ida" from San Francisco was begun on April 24, 1906 and continued on May 2, 1906. It gives an eyewitness account of the earthquake and its aftermath....

Consists of account ledgers, cash books, copybooks, invoices, and other financial and business records of Calif. quarry companies, including San Pablo Quarry Co., Blake and Bilger Company, Blake Brothers Company, and San Francisco Quarries Company. Includes some records of companies...

Consists chiefly of typescripts and manuscripts of Blake's speeches to San Francisco Bay Area social clubs and organizations, concerning Calif. history and contemporary issues, including labor relations, the cement and asphalt business, Berkeley, and other topics. Includes papers relating to...

Consists mainly of letters to Anthony Zellerbach from his brother, Marks Zellerbach, concerning their businesses in Moore's Flat, Nevada County, Calif. Letters discuss daily financial and stock transactions conducted, Marks' efforts to secure loans for their enterprises, business affairs in...

Signed by Crim's attorney, I.N. Thorne.

Monthly audit reports (Mar. 1940-Dec. 1941) conducted by Associated Accountants, of San Francisco; bankruptcy papers, and related records, notes, and correspondence.

Consists of ten handwritten letters, most of which are to Treat from aquaintances and relatives in Paris, New York, and San Francisco, concerning paintings, pictures, sculpture, and the Olympic Club in San Francisco. Correspondents include Matilda Lotz, Edward Bosqui, William...

Consists of correspondence, speeches, essays, plays, typescripts of stories, published articles, and pamphlets of Archibald Treat, relating to his various interests, particularly fishing and photography. Approximately half of the speeches concern photography. Includes theater ephemera, some of which relates to...

Three scrapbooks pertaining to the Argüello family. The first two vols., compiled in 1930 by Alexander Luis de Argüello, are handwritten and contain genealogical and biographical information, at least some of it gleaned from well-known secondary sources; with clippings, maps,...

Consists of one volume with six pages of stock transfer listings (1880-1897), one volume listing dividends paid to shareholders (Dec. 1881-Feb. 1893), and miscellaneous papers, including treasurer's reports (1894, 1901-1905), annual reports (1895), and four documents assigning power of attorney...

Personal and business correspondence, legal and financial papers, cancelled checks, newspaper clippings, and other documents and papers of Harpending. Much of the material pertains to Harpending's mining transactions in Calif., Nevada, Mexico, his home-state of Kentucky, and the Southwest; with...

Two documents assigning mortgages for real estate in Tuolumne County, Calif., one from B.F. Butterfield, the other from Logan McDowell. All three men are from Jamestown, Tuolumne County, Calif. The assignments are notarized.

The collection consists mainly of Atherton's business corrrespondence, invoices and receipts concerning the hide and tallow trade, commerce between Hawaii and the East coast, and between Valparaiso and California; correspondence, deeds, and other documents dealing with Atherton's commerical and real...

The papers include accounts from the years when David Bixler (1831-1908) ran the farm, 1879-1908, and from the years that the Augusta Bixler Estate held the farm, 1920-1944. Included also are family letters, especially from Elizabeth Augusta Bixler, and research...

Consists of account books, a ledger, a receipt book for wages, cash books, day books, and other business records dated 1879-1908, when the farm was owned and operated by David Bixler; farm land leases and time and payroll sheets for...

Seven photostat copies of autographs of theater professionals, including actors, actresses, and a playwright, 1875-1877. Each autograph is accompanied by a few lines written in the signer's hand. Some autographs were signed in "Frisco."

Agency history, legal records, correspondence (1922-1950), minutes (1919-1936, 1945-1949), financial records (1926-1949), reports, and a scrapbook of clippings. The correspondence deals with general operations and administration, and is primarily with the Community Chest and California Dept. of Social Welfare. Much...

The Baby Hygiene Committee of the Association of American University Women collection consists of documents recording fifty years of community health work between 1909 and 1959. Included in the papers is the history of the committee, financial records, various membership...

Consists of administrative records, including constitution and bylaws, minutes (1909-1950), correspondence (1909-1955), annual and monthly reports (1910-1958), financial records (1923-1949), case histories, and membership lists. With these are newspaper clippings and printed materials pertaining to the organization's activities and scope...

An undated letter from the ship's master, E.W. Ruggles, to his passengers, requesting their assistance in pumping water from the leaky ship; two statements certifying the ship's soundness, the first (Nov. 29, 1848) signed by Ezra Bucknam of N.Y., and...

The following is a partial transcript of the interview held with Clemmie Barry as part of the collection on trade union and left wing women. There was little preparation outside of the sending of a chronological outline which Ms. Barry...

Although I had not known Rene Battaglini before meeting him to discuss the pending interviews, I did know some of his history as a union leader of the thirties and early forties. In addition, I am a member of the...

Consists of family correspondence (1870-1947), including letters to Kinkead from her sons, Robin and David, as well as two letters from Kinkead, written while she was in the Soviet Union in 1934; autobiographical writing covering her childhood; and typescripts of...

Two copies each of a legal agreement between Brown and Samuel A. Morison and his wife, Ellen S. Morison, in which the Morisons agree to sell their 1/3 interest in the brig Ellenita to Brown; and a legal document filed...

Miscellaneous legal agreements, including a lease, a business partnership agreement with John H. Gihon to form Gihon & Butler book and stationery merchants, and a property agreement with William S. Main; a lithograph of a ship, with accompanying verse; an...

Consists of personal papers pertaining to Benjamin Parke Avery, including a two-page letter to his wife, Mary A. Fuller Avery, in which he describes a train ride taken on the unfinished Central Pacific Railroad with friends Charles Crocker and Leland...

Typescripts, scrapbooks, photographs, and miscellany of the writer Ella Costillo Bennett, her son, Ray Bennett, a screen actor and writer; and her daughter, Mary L. Bennett. Materials of Mary Bennett consist of photographs of family members and pets, correspondence concerning...

Correspondence, negotiations for contracts, copies of contracts, organizing documents, strike leaflets, and other union documents, together with transcripts of oral history interviews of Metro and her daughter, Phyllis Foley, also a union official; ephemera; and some personal correspondence. Includes material...

Letters from Clarke, mainly to his aunt, Mildred Clarke, written during his tour of duty in the United States Army in Vietnam. The letters begin during basic training in Fort Lewis, Wash. and continue to officers' training camp in Fort...

Two billheads from businesses in Montana, listing horse-and-wagon-related items purchased by Daugherty.

Three billheads, from a waterworks company, a livery business, and a tobacconist, for supplies sold to Savage Mining Company.

Two boxes of records, letters, newspaper clippings, photographs, and a published account of post-earthquake activities in San Francisco by a daughter are included in the private collection of Dr. René Bine. The collection was donated to California Historical Society in...

Consists of two billheads and nine account ledgers for a dry goods and general store in Birds Landing, Solano County, owned by John Bird and [Moris?] Dinkelspiel. The account ledgers record sales for 1886 - 1892, with gaps for July...

Samples of quarry company records including minutes of the Board of Directors, copybooks, ledgers, cash books, stock certificates, and invoices....

Consists chiefly of typescripts and manuscripts of Blake's speeches to San Francisco Bay Area social clubs and organizations, concerning California history and contemporary issues, including labor relations, the cement and asphalt business, Berkeley, and other topics. Includes papers relating to...

Consists of 70 handwritten letters from Blake to his parents and sister, a notebook listing mining supplies, and miscellaneous notes and drafts of monetary transactions. The letters describe Blake's 1849 voyage from New York to California via Nicaragua on the...

Diaries of a woman who lived in Minneapolis (1918), Charleston, S.C. (1947); and Berkeley, Calif. (1949-1970), containing brief entries concerning social visits, going to Mass, trips to France taken in 1931 and 1948, the weather, and daily activities. Also includes...

Four letters from officials at the New York office of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Bowman's employer. The first letter (2 p.), dated Oct. 2, 1865 and written by F.W.G. Bellows, Vice President, orders Bowman to report to Acapulco. The...

A receipt of payment dated July 8, 1863 issued by the 12th District Court of San Francisco, Calif., with reference to the case of Brennan vs. Brennan; and a letter (3 p.) from William F. Brennan to his wife, Emily...

Photostat copies of official correspondence from the Consulate General in San Francisco to the British Foreign Office, together with a typed copy of an article (21 leaves) by C.S. Forester titled: One hundred years of consular correspondence. Correspondence includes letters...

Diary (181 p.) handbound in six sections, describing Brown's voyage from New York to San Francisco via Cape Horn aboard the bark Selma with the Fremont Mining and Trading Company, of which he served as chairman of the board; and...

Approximately 35 letters, written in Martinez and San Francisco, Calif., to family members at home in Nantucket. A little over half of the letters are from Phebe Bunker Alley and her husband, Obed F. Alley, to Phebe's father, Asa G....

Contains photographs and postcards depicting views of specific locations, structures, people, events, and general subjects relating to cities and towns in every county of California from the 1850s to the 1980s except for San Francisco, which is collected separately.

A minute book containing typed minutes of the stockholders and Board of Directors and other documents pasted or tipped in; and a bill of sale for California Diamond Drill Exploration Company (Apr. 8, 1913), sold to M.A. Shairp. Much of...

Drafts and final copies of reports, notices of public hearings, memoranda, correspondence, and other papers, compiled while James Jones was Executive Director.

A bill of lading made out to California Pacific Railroad Company (July 13, 1870), with an attached Teamster's check (July 16, 1870) from Forwarding and Commission Fire-Proof Warehouse in Marysville, Calif.; together with a handwritten list of railroad signals (Feb....

Stereographs of Yosemite, Mendocino County, Calaveras Big Trees, and other California views by John P. Soule.

Bound volumes containing bylaws (1884) with amendments (1911); and minutes of directors' and stockholders' meetings (1902-1943).

The records of California Tomorrow document the organization's growth and influence from its initial meeting in 1961 through its dissolution in the spring of 1983. Linking the objectives of conservationists, planners, regulators and California residents, California Tomorrow called for comprehensive...

The ledgers of the California Wine Association consist of the minutes of Executive Committee meetings and the minutes of Board of Directors meetings. An additional folder contains annual reports, statements, reports, notices, etc....

Minutes of executive committee meetings (1903-1924), board of directors' meetings (1894-1936), and some stockholders' meetings; reports to stockholders, and other financial records (1896-1921).

Minutes of directors' meetings (1926-1933, 1938, 1941-1942), letters and legal papers relating to the dissolution of the corporation in 1942, and articles of incorporation and bylaws.

Correspondence, clippings, ephemera, certificates, and genealogical notes of and pertaining to the Martin and Cameron families. Family members represented include Mary Emma Cameron Martin, Ina Cameron Martin, John Ross Martin, and John Cameron. Includes a handwritten letter from James William...

Consists of correspondence, reports, advertisements, and printed materials, relating to state and local elections and neighborhood initiatives. Contains material relating to individual campaigns for positions on the San Francisco School Board, and the offices of County Sheriff and Supervisors, including...

Consists of correspondence, reports, advertisements, and printed materials, relating to state and local elections and neighborhood initiatives. Contains material relating to individual campaigns for positions on the San Francisco School Board, and the offices of County Sheriff and Supervisors, including...

Consists of a writing tablet, and a typed summary and manuscript of a radio play for Pen Women entitled Describing the beginning of schools in Santa Clara County. With these is a typed narration of a fashion show for the...

Personal correspondence relating to social engagements and philanthropy, with letters of condolence for her husband's death in 1939. Includes some correspondence to Ben P. Lilienthal, thanking him for the book, Ernest Reuben Lilienthal and his family, by Frederic Gordon O'Neill,...

The Estelle Carpenter papers, containing her correspondence, a variety of published material by and about her, some personal effects, and a small collection of sheet music and audio recordings reflect her long and illustrious career as Director of Music in...

A petition for probate of will for the estate of Elizabeth Cassar and a petition for letters of administration for the estate of her son, John F. Cassar, dated Sept. 22, 1903 and Mar. 20, 1907, respectively; both filed by...

Four documents pertaining to Caswell Davis, including two deeds for real estate in Santa Clara County, sold to him and his partners; an IOU to Owen Fallon, and a contract in which Davis and his party sell a mining claim...

Personal and business papers of Charles Ely, together with two diaries and eight letters written by Louise Ely. Personal papers include seven pocket-sized travel diaries of Calif., with sketches; three travel journals of the following voyages: to Chagres via Jamaica...

Three letters of introduction from professionals in San Francisco relating to Turrill's photographing oil fields in Calif. for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y.; a letter to Turrill, dated Oct. 16, 1900, from the Secretary of the California Petroleum...

Records of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce during Turrill's tenure as general manager,including correspondence, minutes, bylaws, resolutions, speeches, surveys, and financial statements. Includes statistics on the development of Southern Calif., a survey of San Diego county villages, and materials...

Legal correspondence from clients, who include several mining companies, merchants, and individuals.

Three letters to Mrs. William Fisk in London, describing the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. In the first letter, dated Apr. 18 (4 p.), and those of Apr. 22 (6 p.) and Apr. 27 (1 p.), Fisk describes the...

Letter book with copies of 24 letters from Winslow to relatives and friends, Apr. 17-Oct. 19, 1849, describing Winslow's journey from Nantucket to San Francisco via Panama. Includes detailed description of time spent in Panama, as well as several letters...

Legal papers pertaining to numerous lawsuits involving Hare as defendant. The bulk of the collection relates to the suit filed by Hare's attorney, Samuel W. Holladay, against him for collection of legal fees. Includes correspondence, legal documents, and Hare's accounts...

Miscellaneous documents, correspondence, and business papers, including Lux's certificate of citizenship (1848); two deeds (1853) for real estate in San Francisco, Calif. sold to Lux and business associates Charles D. Carter and Alfred Edmondson; a bill of exchange to Salomea...

Eleven letters from Brewster, written in San Francisco and Sacramento, to his father, Osmyn Brewster, in Boston, discussing his business ventures and personal wellbeing. The letters mention the Sacramento floods of 1830 and 1850, the San Francisco fires of 1837...

Consists of 70 handwritten letters from Blake to his parents and sister, a notebook listing mining supplies, and miscellaneous notes and drafts of monetary transactions. The letters describe Blake's 1849 voyage from New York to Calif. via Nicaragua on the...

Correspondence (1900-1905) pertaining to a loan Howard was attempting to recover from a business associate in New York, and to his son's financial situation; and indentures and other papers relating to Howard's investments in Natoma Vineyard Company, North and Sourth...

Twenty-one letters, dated Dec. 8-Nov. 11, written by Adams in the San Francisco Bay Area to his wife (15 letters) and daughter (6 letters) in Dixon, Calif., Dublin, N.H., and New York City. The letters discuss personal financial and family...

Copies of three letters, dated Nov.-July 1872, to Amanda Blake from her parents, while she was living in Napa and caring for the children of her daughter, Dr. Charlotte Brown, while Brown attended medical school in Philadelphia. The letters mainly...

Miscellaneous papers, chiefly legal and estate documents, of members of the Cheesman and Parry families, who are related by marriage. Consists of a muster roll (Nov. 8, 1864), discharging Surgeon Isaac Parry from his office with the 2nd Regiment of...

Correspondence, news clippings, ephemera, printed materials, and other documents pertaining to the discovery, investigation, and custody of Drake's Plate of Brasse, found in Marin County in 1937, which carried an inscription declaring Sir Francis Drake's claim of the land on...

Contains assorted legal documents, an envelope, and a newspaper clipping pertaining to Chinese in Calif. Also includes one letter and one legal document pertaining to Japanese in Calif. Material is mostly about persons in San Francisco, with one set of...

Typed reminiscence of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, an incomplete address (Sept. 15, 1906) to officers and members of the Pacific Coast Gas Association for the 16th annual meeting, a brief letter (1938) from J.L. McLaughlin, a hand-lettered...

Chiefly letters between Harry Clarke and Lulu Montrose of San Francisco, during their engagement in and immediately after their marriage in 1896. The letters arrange for meeting times and places, discuss their feelings for each other, their visits, and their...

Bills of lading for goods shipped aboard clippers bound for San Francisco, most of which originated in Boston, with one from Suison, Solano County, Calif. Ships represented include: Golden Light, Storm King, Indiaman, and P.M. Randall. Includes a receipt from...

Documents and letters relating to Buckel's activities as a nurse during the Civil War. Consists mainly of letters of reference and permission to pass through military lines, issued by various state and military officials in Kentucky, Mississippi, and Washington, D.C....

Copies of seven letters from members of the Coad and Strongman families, of Mineral Point, Wisc., written by family members who came to Calif. to mine for gold. Includes two letters from Charles Trenary Strongman, one to a friend (possibly...

Chiefly portraits of fellow students and others taken while Isabel Porter Collins attended the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco, Calif. Many of the photos appear to have been made in rooms and studios there. Contains identified and...

Bylaws, meeting minutes, and membership lists of a local women's organization affiliated with the Chautauqua Literary and Scientifc Circle (CLSC), an adult education book club with a four-year program of required reading. Includes a few newspaper clippings.

Bound volume containing bylaws, meeting minutes, and membership lists of a local women's organization, formed by graduates of the Columbia Chatauqua Scientific and Literary Circle (CSLC), an adult education book club with a four-year program of required reading.

Business correspondence (1922-1967); diaries (1909-1911) of club members Fred Trachsler and Harrington McGowan, documenting club tours of the South Pacific and Australia, the United States and Mexico, and the Eastern United States; two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings; and club ephemera,...

The Dr. Elias Samuel Cooper Papers consists of four feet of personal papers covering the period 1844-1862. The collection includes correspondence to and from Cooper regarding family matters, case reports, medical articles, lectures on medical and surgical procedures and the...

A copy of a complaint dated Jan. 18, 1890, filed in Calif. Superior Court in San Francisco by the plaintiff's attorney, W.C. Burnett; and a handwritten letter (1 p.) to Burnett, dated Aug. 12, 1890, concerning the taking of testimony....

Two letters from Cumpston to a radio program broadcast in Los Angeles by Standard Oil Company of California, which apparently had featured a story about forty-niners. In the letters, Cumpston claims herself to be a daughter of G.B. Crowley, a...

Loose papers that have been removed from nine volumes of scrapbooks kept by Older, including correspondence (1919-1965), picture postcards, ephemera, photographs, and newspaper and magazine clippings on subjects of interest to Mrs. Older, such as Fremont Older, women's rights, politics,...

Personal correspondence, chiefly relating to Indian affairs in Calif.; and related leaflets and pamphlets. Most of the letters are from field matrons with NCIA and deal with missionary work among Indians in Calif. The leaflets concern nationwide missionary work with...

The Cow Hollow Improvement Club records consists of a brief history, correspondence, minutes, reports, membership lists, court cases and newspaper clippings depicting the activities of the Club since the 1940's. Included are several zoning reports and maps....

Contains organizational papers, including constitution and bylaws, minutes, membership lists, correspondence, and reports, as well as cases before the Board of Appeals concerning new constructions and conversions, newspaper clippings, and several zoning reports and maps. Correspondence contains detailed accounts of...

Miscellaneous letters and envelopes to and from members of the Crittenden family, including two letters from A.P. Crittenden: one to his son, Tom, in Richmond, Va., and the other to R.B. Sanchez in Aurora, Calif; one letter to Tom as...

The Mary Virginia Ives Crocker Papers are made up of twenty scrapbooks and seven folders (containing loose materials removed from the scrapbooks) which consist of correspondence, programs, periodicals, ephemera, photographs and newspaper clippings which chronicle her life with Henry J....

Letters regarding the history of California hotels and stopping places before the completion of the trans-continental railroad. The letters are numbered with an index arranged by county. See drawers of 4 × 6 slips....

Legal documents and correspondence of or relating to J.O. Culver and other members of the Culver family, including: an insurance report; a bond for a deed; a warranty deed; four notices of location for site claims at the Pritchard Quicksilver...

Contains images of actors playing scenes in, and exterior and interior sets from, Cecil B. DeMille's The ten commandments. Most photos show Theodore Roberts as Moses, and several show Charles de Rochefort (Charles de Roche) as Ramses. Includes group scenes...

The documents in this collection (letters, receipts, checks and other business and legal documents) are dated from October 12, 1850 to August 31, 1871. The document descriptions below are in chronological order, with undated documents at the end. The documents...

Two copies of the newspaper, handwritten composed by San Francisco children and handwritten on lined legal-sized sheets with a hand-drawn masthead showing an ape under a tree thumbing his nose at an owl and an elephant, are dated September 1,...

Two issues of a handwritten newspaper printed on foolscap, with hand-drawn masthead and illustrations, and articles and advertisments that parody San Francisco people and events.

Consists of 16 letters written by brothers LeRoy P. and William P. Daingerfield to family members. The letters chronicle their sea voyage from Baltimore to San Francisco, discuss family matters, and describe LeRoy's experiences in gold mining, tavern keeping, ranching,...

Two narratives, one each by the father and mother of Francis Herbert Dam, with marginal annotations by him. The first narrative (5 leaves), dictated by Cyrus King Dam, Jr., describes Cyrus King Dam, Sr.'s voyage to Calif. and subsequent life...

Correspondence, notebook, and stories and sketches about Paiute Indians, life in the mining camps of the Comstock Lode, duck hunting near the Sacramento River, Calif., and other topics. Includes material on Wo-vo-kah, also known as Jack Wilson, a Paiute Indian...

Consists of a handwritten, undated reminiscence (54 leaves) of Clark's 1850 voyage from Rhode Island to Monterey, Calif. via Panama aboard the clipper ship Sarah & Eliza, and his subsequent gold mining experiences in Mariposa; several letters to Clark from...

Two daybooks converted into scrapbooks, containing obituary clippings, ostensibly of persons for whom Daniel and Pancoast built gravestones. Pages are annotated in ink. Vol. 1 contains clippings dated June-Oct. 1907 and includes lists of typed names and addresses. Vol. 2...

Consists of two diaries for the years 1854-1855 and 1857-1858, in which Mills describes his daily life working as a carpenter, miner, and lumberer in the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento areas, and in the foothills of the gold country...

Monthly audit reports, Nov. 1941-Nov. 1943, conducted by James O. Scully and Company, accountants and auditors of San Francisco. Includes balance sheets, income and profit and loss statements, departmental profit and loss statements, administrative expenses, utilities, and other incomes and...

Collection of six documents sent to R.H. Cross, President of the Board of Trustees of Dante Hospital, by the law firm Andriano & Lowery, with a cover letter dated Jan. 31, 1938. Documents include: a copy of the articles of...

Daily reports listing expenses, number of employees, hospital income, number and type of employees, and bank balances. Mid-June to mid-Dec. 1941 not included. Louis C. Levy is recorded as hospital administrator.

Two letters to Eleanor Davenport. The first letter is from Edward J. Hanna, of the Office of the Archbishop in San Francisco, concerning a visit. The second letter is from Marie Withrow in San Diego, Calif., giving news of Withrow's...

Broderick's passport (1849) and letters testamentary (Oct. 20, 1860), with attached copy of Broderick's will and a letter of certification of the copy (Oct. 18, 1860). The letters testamentary, issued by the Probate Court of the City and County of...

A leatherbound pocket-sized notebook (June 1866) listing miscellaneous liquor purchases, expenses, and gambling wins and losses; and an IOU (Aug. 15, 1878) issued to DeBernardi for $153.13. Notebook includes a clipping listing members of the Sacramento Fire Dept.

Personal and business correspondence; receipts, contracts, and agreements for San Francisco street improvements; business and financial papers; San Francisco real estate documents; billheads; and other papers. Includes real estate papers of John Hart, from the period Hewes served as administrator...

A collection of letters and receipts of William Heath Davis are dated between August 17, 1838 and March 13, 1871, as follows:...

Bound volumes containing administrative, financial, sales, and inventory records; together with incoming correspondence, 1911-1921. Many of the accounts represent busines with wine and liquor companies.

Don De Fremery explains in an introduction to this manuscript, which is typewritten on 16 legal sheets and bound at the top like a legal brief, that the items described below were found in Oakland, CA among the papers of...

Receipts and letters of James de la Montanya; an abstract of title (1899) for a lot at Battery and Jackson Sts., San Francisco, site of the family's hardware store; a newspaper article (1904) detailing family conflict concerning the store; a...

Born September 17, 1921...

One deed (1852) for the sale of property in Jamestown, Calif., sold by P.O. Riley to James Kelly and William Rainer; and four bills of sale (1854-1859) for horses and related supplies, furniture, and other items sold to Joseph Daigle.

Deed (Mar. 23, 1863) between John A. Johnson and John F. Crawford for a silver mining claim in El Dorado County Calif.; and seven stock certificates for shares in gold and silver mines in Sacramento and El Dorado Counties (1863-1868)....

Two deeds for land lots in San Francisco. The first was sold to Frederick Billings and Archibald Peachy by Lafayette Maynard; the second was sold to Billings by Peachy and James King of William and is signed by H.W. Halleck....

Two deeds for the sale of land in Santa Clara County, sold to Sherman Day, of San Jose, Calif., by Chester S. Lyman and his wife, of New Haven, Conn., and by Kimball H. Dimmick, respectively.

Two letters from the law firm Delmas & Shortridge in San Francisco, concerning business with a client, George E. Banon. The first letter, dated Oct. 9, 1894 and written on company letterhead, informs Banon that he must pay $2500 to...

Diaries of Oliver (9 v., 1854-1886); his wife, Bridget (2 v., 1848 and 1865); and their children: Joseph (4 v., 1884-1898); Anna Maria (1 v., 1870); and Minnie (3 v., 1874-1880). The diaries describe Dennis Oliver's business, Dennis' trips to...

Photos depict borax mining company grounds and surrounding area; operations, buildings, people, horses, wagons, and landscape. A few photos depict Chinese laborers, and one photo depicts a native American woman. Most (54) photos are on loose album sheets (up to...

The collection consists of correspondence and speeches relating to the positions Dill held with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco Housing Authority, San Francisco Grand Jury (Foreman), San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, and the Alien Enemy Hearing Board...

The Dick Dobbins collection includes materials pertaining mainly to the Pacific Coast League (PCL), and the teams that comprise the league. The bulk of the material was collected by others and purchased by Dobbins, and dates from 1902 to 1957;...

Seven bound volumes containing minutes of weekly meetings, with annual reports interspersed. Includes information on the organization's general business, as well as on donations collected from San Francisco businesses.

Passport, naturalization papers, and custom house appointment for Don Manuel Dutra de Vargas, issued by Juan Bautista Alvarado, Governor of the Californias.

Correspondence, articles, clippings, and original illustrations relating to Kelley's contribution to the design of the California Bear Flag. Includes copies of California Senate Bill No. 1014, which designated Kelley's drawings as those of the official California Bear. Also includes an...

Consists of De Losada's high school essay (1939) on American organized labor; her college psychology paper (1956) about an ILWU steward's conception of self; a memorandum and questionnaire from the union's Fair Employment Practices Committee; ILWU printed material, including a...

The John T. Doyle papers touch on law cases in which Doyle or his partner -- or partners successively adopted -- concerned themselves. Most of the documents touch on civil disputes in the San Francisco Bay Area, though some are...

Exemptions from compulsory military service for five men, based on medical examinations by Clark, who served as Acting Regimental Surgeon for the National Guard of New York in Genesee County.

The collection consists of personal papers and correspondence, including correspondence with labor union people; Christmas cards designed by Draper and her husband, Hal; manuscripts of speeches given at her memorial services by local labor and political leaders; newsletters and ephemera...

Consists of a corrected typescript (12 leaves) by Bliss's daughter, Hope Bliss, entitled "The career of Duane L. Bliss, in Nevada," undated; typed endnotes (2 leaves), presumably for an article on Bliss written by Dr. George D. Lyman; and a...

Collection includes his personal and business records, appointment book, 1873, clippings from newspapers for which JWD wrote; personal and business records of William Worthington Chipman; original survey and land transaction for the Encinal San Antonio, later to become the city...

Papers reflecting over 50 years of Behrens' life as a journalist, with emphasis on national and state politics and elections. Issues represented include labor, public works, power projects, pensions and retirement, communism, and individual politicians. Includes some personal materials, such...

The diary and 13 letters concern Eastland's overland trip from Nashville, Tenn. to Mazatlan where he boarded the steamer for the remainder of the trip to San Francisco....

Drafts of articles and related research materials on prominent nineteenth-century Jewish professional men in Calif.; ephemera, clippings, and other papers of E Clampus Vitus; research files, consisting of correspondence, notes, and drafts of Kahn's published books and articles; 15 scrapbooks,...

Consists of composition-style notebook of Milner's containing a handwritten, edited copy of a reminiscence by Milner's mother, Sallie Fox Allen, that Allen had written for a memorial booklet in honor of Edward O. Smith that was issued after his death...

Text of four letters describing the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire and its aftermath. Two letters are from Bonnell; the first, undated, is presumably to Mabel Symmes and describes her and her family's movements through the city on the...

Born March 14, 1914...

Twenty-six letters to Green, a close friend and Harvard classmate of Sears. The letters discuss Calif. and national politics, Sears' health, friendship, and social, religious, and medical subjects.

Office correspondence (1904-1907), annual statements (1917-1922), and sales and financial records (1895-1909) of Edmund Taylor & Sons. Includes fire insurance policies (1908-1913); check stubs, cancelled checks, and bank books; sales ledgers; order books; cash books; records of sales by company...

Typescripts, with some manuscript material, of Buckbee's historical novels, short stories, and sketches, most of which were published in the 1930s, and mostly relating to Gold Rush mining towns and discoveries, particularly in the Mother Lode area. Titles include: Bountiful...

Business papers pertaining to cases handled by Bergner, most of which concern the estate of Mark Hopkins, one of the investors in the Central Pacific Railroad; and a contest over the will of Frank G. Weber, a wealthy farmer of...

Contains two official passes issued soon after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The first, dated April 20, addressed to civil and military officials, allows Balling to pass through all lines; the second, dated April 21, by order of...

Two handwritten letters, with envelopes, from Bosqui to family members, each written on one side of a single, folded sheet. The first letter, dated July 30, 1896, is to Bosqui's daughter, Helen Augusta Bosqui Treat, wife of Archibald Treat. Bosqui...

Letters from or concerning Edward G.H. Anthony, a Gold Rush forty-niner who sailed aboard the bark, Susan, as a member of the New York and California Aurelian Company, a gold mining company formed by several individuals who sailed from New...

Letters written by a young merchant to his mother, E.A. Hotchkiss, describing his voyage to Calif., his activities in San Francisco where he spent 15 months investigating prospects for trade for his firm, Hotchkiss & Bros., of New Haven, Conn.,...

Six letters (1853-1862) from Fell, five to his mother in Philadelphia, Penn., and one to his brother, beginning during Fell's voyage to San Francisco and continuing during his life in San Francisco. The letters describe San Francisco, the death of...

Taylor's mayoral papers, consisting primarily of correspondence concerning the installation of electric streetcars, Hetch Hetchy water project, labor relations with city workers, street lighting, missing persons inquiries, requests for employment, and numerous parking and taxi permits. Includes some correspondence relating...

Letter (1 p.) from Bryant, dated Apr. 11, 1846, written from Louisville, [Kentucky], discussing his Calif. stock investments; and a writ (Mar. 8, 1847) issued by him as Chief Magistrate of San Francisco District, ordering the sheriff of San Francisco...

Miscellaneous documents relating to International Labor Defense, for which Yoneda was a fieldworker and secretary; papers relating to her candidacy for San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1939; and newspaper clippings relating to the trials of Leo Gallagher and Harry...

Letters (1820-1827) to Grimes while he was master of the brig Owhyhee, mostly from the owners, Josiah Marshall and Dixey Wildes, in Boston, Mass.; and an order book (1823-1824). Letters concern Grimes' business aboard the Owhyhee on its trading voyages...

Photographic, typescript, and microfilm copies of a journal kept by Daggy while on an overland journey from Greencastle, Indiana, to Calif. (March-Sept. 1850).

Chiefly lecture notes, speeches, and papers on numerous medical and surgical procedures; case records (1854-1862); account books (1852-1862) listing patients' names and payments; notes on operations and treatments, many of which were innovative; together with family and professional correspondence (1844-1862)....

The Interviewer: Carol Farley, age 19, History Major at Oberlin College...

Consists of a letter (1862) from Fred Hicks in Panama; a handwritten, partial draft and typed address (1887) delivered before Alameda Parlor No. 47, Native Sons of the Golden West; manuscript draft of reminiscences on the Calif. Constitutional Convention; court...

Copies of six letters written from San Francisco, Calif. to Brooks' parents in Medford, Mass., 1858-1859.

Describes the author's 1858-1859 overland journey from Tuscumba, Missouri via the Kansas plains, across the Missouri River, along the Platt River to the Utah Territory, then across the desert to Carson Valley, Nevada, and over the Sierras to Sacramento, Calif....

Correspondence, chiefly from Watson in Sunny Brae to her son-in-law, B. Grant Taylor, and his family in San Francisco, most of which was written after the death of her daughter, Lucretia Watson Taylor, in 1913; together with typed poems and...

Handwritten letters and legal documents, filed in Calif. courts in San Francisco, pertaining to the separation and divorce proceedings between Elizabeth Matilda (Benham) Burlingame and Orson Burlingame, and the custody of their son Orson Philip Burlingame; as well as Mrs....

Genealogies of the Paul and Stevens families; real estate records of the Paul family, including mortgages, contracts, real estate tax receipts, maps and descriptions of property, a mining claim, and other papers; and several documents (1891-1922) relating to Richard P....

Playbills, clippings, tickets, and other items pertaining to Badger's theater performances in San Francisco, Oakland, and Petaluma, at the California Theatre, Maguire's New Theatre, Dietz Opera House, and other venues. Includes an advertising card for Andrews' Diamond Palace with a...

Thirteen handwritten letters, 11 of which are to Ella Sterling Cummins Mighels (addressed as Mrs. Cummins) and dated Jan. 24-Dec. 26, 1892, in a clothbound portfolio. The letters pertain to her research for her book, The story of the files:...

Correspondence; diaries (1900-1927), called "soulbooks"; literary manuscripts; four scrapbooks; and miscellaneous papers. The bulk of the collection consists of typescripts and manuscripts of Mighels' writings and stories. Correspondence includes letters to and from her second husband, Philip V. Mighels, an...

Consists chiefly of handwritten letters, all but one of which are from Crawford to his father, James B. Crawford in Castine, Maine, dated 1852-1854. Crawford describes his voyage from Boston to San Francisco via Rio de Janeiro and Cape Horn,...

Two letters written by a twelve-year old girl to her friend, giving a firsthand account of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The first letter (4 p.) , dated May 17 and 18, describes the earthquake and her family's...

Diary concerns some reflections on her life-concerns for husband's health where they will eventually settle hints of pregnancy....

Diary (306 p., with 52 p. of entries) kept by Ellery on his voyage aboard the bark Gallego from New York to San Francisco. The entire voyage lasted from July 1852-Jan. 1853, with entries spanning Aug.-Oct. 1852. The ship was...

Miscellaneous correspondence, indentures, certificates, receipts, and other documents and papers of or pertaining to California, originally bound as a scrapbook.

Notebooks and papers containing drafts, typescripts, notes, and correspondence for books and other writings by Wiltsee on California history.

Personal and professional correspondence, ephemera, documents, and miscellaneous papers of Erskine Esdon. Includes material related to Soquel Union Grammar School, including a photo album of students (ca. 1925), a yearbook (1943), and miscellaneous ephemera, bills, and receipts; letters to Florence...

Six letters (1851-1853) copied by an unknown transcriptionist, written by Bullen to his wife, Catherine, and their children, describing his arrival in Calif. by way of Panama, and his experiences mining in the gold fields along the Feather River. Includes...

Consists of papers pertaining to Carpenter's career as a music educator, including biographical material, correspondence, programs, announcements, publications containing articles written by and about Carpenter, newspaper clippings, reports, speeches by Carpenter, and ephemera. Includes accounts of several musical pageants orchestrated...

Consists chiefly of postcards, tickets, flyers, and other items pertaining to the California Cycling Club. Includes a facsimile municipal ballot for the City and County of San Francisco, ephemera pertaining to other social organizations, and Boyle's record of his bicycle...

Describes Lesley's experience as a cadet during and immediately following the 1906 earthquake and fire. Includes details concerning damage in San Francisco and Berkeley, and description of his military duties keeping order in San Francisco.

Two volumes containing daily accounts, 1851-1852 and 1852-1854, respectively; and one promissory note (Nov. 1, 1853).

Family correspondence, photocopies of miscellaneous biographical and genealogical material, and a photostatic copy of Woods' will, with 42 codicils. Correspondence consists of 58 handwritten letters (1850-1862), 46 of which were written by Woods in San Francisco to his family in...

Pocket diary (1864) of Martha True Fargo, beginning from her home in Portage, Wisc., continuing through her voyage to Calif., and ending in San Francisco; two passports issued to Fannie Fargo (daughter of Martha) in 1880 and 1883, from Berlin...

Printed reports, serials, and other papers.

Thirty-six letters from Father Durán, in his role as administrator of Mission San Jose, to the fathers who held the office of Procurador of the Missions of California, concerning standing orders for supplies to the mission, and related financial and...

Business correspondence and papers concerning Atherton's involvement in the hide and tallow trade; correspondence, deeds, and other documents concerning his commercial and real estate investments in Calif.; and legal documents and other papers regarding his estate after his death. Correspondents...

Consists of copies of records and papers of Peoples Temple and its members, collected, copied, and held by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as evidence in the U.S. government's investigations and prosecutions for the assassination of Calif. Congressman Leo...

Family correspondence (1857-1871) from friends and relatives of Don Fernando to him and his wife, Pascuala Figueroa; and business papers (1857?-1896), mostly related to land use transactions, including deeds, leases, and mortgages, along with some receipts and miscellaneous contracts. Also...

Monthly cash statements, vouchers, and other fiscal records related to construction of Fort Point, under the direction of Lt. Col. R.E. De Russy, of the Army Corps of Engineers.

Interviewer: Carol Farley, age 19, History Major at Oberlin College, from Illinois...

Miscellaneous papers and ephemera of Florence Smart Daly and her family. Several items pertain to George C. Smart, including a membership certificate (1873) from the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Unity Lodge #131 of the fifth degree, San Francisco, issued...

Miscellaneous, undated, handwritten notes by a daughter of Halleck Van Pelt Deming, a Calif. pioneer who came overland from Iowa to San Francisco with his father and two brothers in 1850-1851. The Demings subsequently established several flour mills in Calif....

Carbon copy of a typed letter (May 3, 1906) from Sylvester to her friends, written from Los Angeles, describing her experience of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, including her care of victims; a snapshot photograph (1912) of Sylvester...

Interviewer: I first met Ms. Foley when I went to see her to ask about interviewing her mother. She is a tall, handsome, placid seeming woman whose looks are deceiving. Quoting Dorothy Parker, I believe she has a whim of...

Pamphlets containing constitutions, bylaws, and membership lists (1895-1957); annual reports from the presidents and section chairwomen (1897-1945); printed announcements for annual meetings (1944-1959); a few letters from recipients of the club's financial assistance (1918-1921); a minute book (1946-1960); and financial...

Notes, letters, and transcripts of historic documents.

Correspondence, reports, and other papers related to Francis P. Farquhar's role as member and then chairman of the Historic Landmarks Approval Committee of the California State Chamber of Commerce, Agriculture and Industry, 1932-1952. Includes lists of registered landmarks and rejected...

Small, leatherbound diary (45 p.) kept by Page during California's financial panic of 1855, discussing the legal struggle of Page, Bacon & Co., with frequent mention of Henry H. Haight, a partner whom Page blames for the company's troubles; together...

Six letters from Frank de las Casas to his parents, Francis B. and E.C. de las Casas in Boston, Mass. Includes brief accounts of San Francisco fires in 1855 and 1860, the assassination of James King of William, and the...

Consists of autobiographical and literary writings, journalism, and other materials by and belonging to Kester. Contains typescripts and drafts of short stories and poems, newspaper articles, and chapters of his autobiography, along with clippings, photographs, and research and field notes....

Consists of four handwritten letters to his wife, written from his home, in the aftermath of the Apr.18, 1906 earthquake. Frank describes the extent of damage to their household, as well as to those of friends and neighbors. He also...

Consists chiefly of correspondence and legal documents, particularly legal briefs dated 1905-1923. Includes suits against utility and railroad companies, mining cases, and fire and insurance claims following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Key cases include Kennedy Mining vs....

Chiefly legal correspondence of the law firm, Irwin & Irwin, from clients. Includes some deeds, receipts, interest payments, and discussions of land disputes and estate management. Also includes a small amount of personal correspondence.

Seven letters to Farr from Japanese-American friends from Calif. interned at assembly centers and relocation camps during World War II. Most of the letters are from Eiko Fujii, beginning shortly after her arrival at what seems to have been Tanforan...

Journal (1857-1869) containing dated entries relating to legal cases, presumably handled by Billings for his firm; together with an attorney's license (1850) issued to Billings, two land indentures for real estate in Sacramento and San Francisco (1854, 1863), and a...

Consists of correspondence, sermons, and other papers of Haynes, active in church affairs and in civil rights; his second wife, Charlie Mae (Crawford) Lomax Haynes, a singer, church worker, and successful candidate for the School Board, who was employed by...

Consists of typescripts of Bowlen's history of the San Francisco Fire Department, along with extensive research notes. The history covers officers and employees, fire stations, fire engines, horses, bells, notable fires, and engine companies, 1849-1934. Sources include magazine and newspaper...

Journal, comprising a daily log of Butler's professional activities in New York City (1851-1853), concerning projects (primarily churches and domestic buildings), drawings, contracts, accounts, and clients; and a later section (1858-1870) with newspaper clippings documenting his social and professional activities...

Two letter books (1864-1880) of correspondence from Frederick W. Macondray, Jr. mostly concerning business of the import company, Macondray & Co.; a small amount of family and business papers (1860-1879); and a log for the ship Panther, kept by Frederick...

Consists of a complete collection of the first series of the Friends of Perfection periodical Kaliflower, with some supplements; broadsides, posters, and other printed materials distributed with Kaliflower; an incomplete collection of "print-outs" published by the commune's Free Print Shop;...

This collection consists of a complete collection of the first series of the publication with some supplements, and an incomplete collection of other products of the Free Print Shop. There are also some miscellaneous related items, including one of the...

Consists of a passport for William Wallace Brier (Apr. 19, 1850) for William Wallace Brier and his wife, Elizabeth Ann Naylor Brier [1865], for shares in the missionary vessel Evening Star; a typed genealogical record (undated), with corrections and a...

Typed biographical sketch (four leaves) of General Allen, written by his grandson, Edward O. Allen, which was published in installments in The Morning Union newspaper of Grass Valley and Nevada City, Calif. The concluding installment of the sketch was printed...

Contains photographs and picture postcards depicting scenes of California places, people, activities, and cultural resources from the 1850s to the 1980s.

Correspondence pertaining to the association's efforts to purchase the home of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo at Sonoma, Calif., to make it a state park. The pages appear to have been removed from a notebook, and contain cardboard dividers with the...

Pocket diary (ca. 100 p.) for the year 1857, with entries on Beach's gold mining claim in Vallecito, Calaveras County. Brief, daily entries for Apr. 29-July 9, many of which simply state that Beach worked the claim that day, with...

Two letters written from aboard the British steamer S.S. Henley, giving a firsthand account of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The first letter (6 p.), to Musson's mother, describes conditions on the ship, which served as a floating...

Three passes identifying Boardman, who served with the Relief and Restoration Committee of Law and Order following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, and authorizing his passage across military and police lines. Two of the passes are signed by...

Papers of George C. Perkins, including personal and political correspondence, speeches in his role as Senator; and family papers. Family papers include correspondence of his wife, Ruth, and children, Fred, Mae, and Ruth; two diaries of his daughters, Fannie and...

Financial records of Kellogg, relating to his involvement as President and/or member of the board of directors of various businesses in Newcastle, Calif. Includes an account book of Newcastle Improvement Company (1903-1905); two minute books, of George D. Kellogg Packing...

Legal papers relating to Gordon's suit against San Francisco Sugar Refining Company, with some correspondence, receipts, and invoices interspersed; and documents dealing with Gordon's estate, including probate documents and claims of businesses and private parties against the estate.

Five letters from Bowen to Atherton, written while Bowen was in Valparaiso, Chile, where Atherton had been involved in trade since the 1830's.The letters discuss business, commerce, and politics. Includes a small clipping in Spanish.

Photostat copies (1931) of topographical survey reports by Lt. George Derby, of the U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers, for exploratory trips to Tulare Valley, Calif. (Apr. 10-June 8, 1850), the Colorado River (Oct. 12, 1850-Mar. 6, 1851), and the San...

Twelve letters from Fitch, in San Francisco, to Theodosia Hudson in Oakland, Calif., in the three months prior to their marriage in June 1881;a photocopy of clippings on the funeral of their son, Harold; and three marriage certificates. Marriage certificates...

Consists of papers pertaining to Cabaniss's naval career during World War II and to his law practice. The bulk of the papers pertain to execution of the estates of Sarah Elizabeth Chandler, Katherine M. Ball, Louise A. Sorbier and her...

Carbon copies of typed transcripts of correspondence, chiefly letters from Goddard to his brother, Augustus, dated 1850-1861; a typed document titled: General description of the Goddard collection of pictures, maps, and minerals (6 leaves); a typed excerpt from a reference...

Thirty-eight letters from Hollingsworth to his wife, Elizabeth Ann, in Woodlawn, Monroe County, Missouri, describing his experiences gold mining and then farming in El Dorado County, and later living in Sacramento and San Francisco, where he purchased a parcel of...

Ten letters to Brooks's niece, Nellie Goodhue, and one letter to his sister, Mary Brooks Goodhue. The first seven letters are written during a year-long trip to Calif. taken with another niece, also known as "Nellie," Ellen Brooks Goodhue. In...

Consists mainly of correspondence dealing with Harding's activities as a book collector and historian of printing, covering early Calif. printing history, Calif. printers, book purchases, and publishing. Correspondents include dealers, printers, librarians, collectors, historians, and related societies, such as Maurice...

Three items pertaining to the estate of George S. Banks, deceased. The first two documents are issued by the Superior Court of San Francisco City and County, Probate Dept. 9, and signed by attorney S.W. Holladay. One is a receipt...

Manuscripts, signed typescripts, and manuscript drafts of poems by Sterling; together with a few biographical clippings.

A handwritten letter dated July 23, 1906, from George Bromley to his daughter, written on Bohemian Club stationery; a folded sheet of printed stanzas read at the Bohemian Club on Apr. 14, 1909, in honor of George Bromley's birthday; a...

Correspondence and documents covering the period Wallace served as captain in the Third California Volunteers in Salt Lake City, Utah, during the Civil War; secretary for Calif. governors Milton S. Latham and John G. Downey; and president of California Mining...

Seventeen letters, chiefly from Atherton to the poet Ina Coolbrith, concerning Coolbrith's loss of manuscripts and possessions during the 1906 earthquake and fire, and subsequent efforts to raise money for her, including publication of a volume by the Spinners Club...

Printed program for a memorial exhibition of Boyle's work at the San Francisco Museum of Art (1937); an illustrated postcard featuring Boyle's bust of Luther Burbank; an article by Boyle, reprinted in The Trumpeteer (Mar. 1949); brief notes concerning Boyle-related...

Chiefly student records, which include name, address, age, birthplace, previous school, name and occupation of father, grades, and comments for each student. Each volume has students entered alphabetically, and includes a name index. Collection includes a small amount of correspondence...

Interviewer: Lucy Kendall...

This collection consists of 2 folders and three volumes documenting the history and financial aspects of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition. Folder 1 contains undated building and cost estimates, recommendations for estimates and drawings detailing cross sections of the...

Reports and papers concerning the construction of buildings and financing for the GGIE. Includes drawings of the sea wall construction; a 3-vol. report titled: Historical record of the Division of Estimates of San Francisco Bay Exposition in preparation of budgetary...

Billheads of various San Francisco merchants, issued to other San Francisco businessmen and businesses, including Pierce & Co., J.L. Martel & Co., and others; together with miscellaneous indentures, insurance documents, and an abstract of title for a lot at Shipley...

Ten letters from Christensen, who adopted the English name Samuel Norris. The first nine letters (1850-1855) are in Danish, with typed English translations; they are written from Christensen's farm, Norris Rancho, in Sacramento City, Calif., to his brothers Hans and...

A billhead listing supplies sold to Zeh by Nathaniel Gray, a San Francisco funeral equipment company; a receipt for payment by Zeh for the grave plot and burial of A. Rios in Mt. Cavalry Cemetery; and a certificate issued to...

Consists mostly of business papers of Grace A. Hilborn, concerning her investments, particularly in steamboat shipping vessels and mining companies; together with a scrapbook of clippings concerning Hilborn's father, Samuel G. Hilborn, specifically his activities as a congressman, and his...

Consists of a scrapbook, a notebook, and one folder of miscellaneous material related to Grant School activities. Includes a register of graduating classes, commencement programs, newspaper clippings, and school newsletters. The notebook (1922-1925) contains program outlines for holiday plays and...

Minute books and papers of meetings of the Board of Directors (1906-1967); together with records of the Merchants' Association, including annual reports (1904-1906), minutes of special committee meetings (1904-1906), and board minutes (1896-1911).

Articles of incorporation and bylaws; historical materials; office correspondence (1851-1856, 1943-1960); committee minutes (1911-1963); and articles, clippings, reports, transcripts, and pamphlets of or relating to the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. Also includes some papers from the Merchants Exchange (1905-1910)...

This collection consists of six ALS from Percy H. Gregory, carpenter and immigrant from Australia, to his mother in Australia. The letters give a good overall view of life in San Francisco during the period, with an exceptional eyewitness account...

Mainly photocopies of fliers, broadsides, poetry, manifestos, and other printed material distributed in the community, the bulk of which was printed by the Communications Company, a group created by several writers and Diggers; together with several issues of Free City...

Mainly photocopies of fliers, broadsides, poetry, manifestos, and other printed material distributed in the community, the bulk of which was printed by the Communications Company, a group created by several writers and Diggers; together with several issues of Free City...

Correspondence, miscellaneous papers (some of which are also printed in MS 3224), a bound vol. containing typed copies of a memorial statement (also printed in MS 3224) by the San Francisco Bar Association and a piece entitled An extract from...

Chiefly correspondence, reports, accounts, and other papers pertaining to Hall's irrigation projects in Calif., with some materials on projects in Nev. and Yakima, Wash. Includes some papers related to Hall's research and publications on irrigation, dams, and reservoirs; reports and...

Chiefly correspondence, reports, accounts, and other papers pertaining to Hall's irrigation projects in Calif., with some materials on projects in Nev. and Yakima, Wash. Includes some papers related to Hall's research and publications on irrigation, dams, and reservoirs; reports and...

The William Hammond Hall papers (MS915) consists of correspondence, technical reports, scrapbooks, and blueprints generated during his time as the first State Engineer of California (1879-1889), as a supervising engineer for the U.S. Geological Survey (1889), and as a private...

Consists of an original, leatherbound diary; a spiral-bound printed copy (ca. 80 leaves), with facsimile illustrations and a handmade cover, from a typed transcription by Cagwin's great-granddaughter, Louisa Dorsey Cagwin, transcribed 1971-1973 and printed in 1974; and a photocopy of...

Seven items concerning a dispute over the settlement of Birrell's estate. Includes a petition by Birrell's daughter, Emma J. Patison, for the revocation of the probate of Birrell's last will and testament; a subpoena to several parties to appear in...

City, state, and county tax bills for Calif. real estate owned by Bridges in Alameda, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz Counties. Some of the earlier bills are assessed to Bridges' father, John Wilson (1827-1917), and other individuals.

Consists chiefly of writings by Allen, including essays and reminiscences of trips taken alone, with his brother Lewis, and with his wife Alice to Europe, Hawaii, and various places abroad, as well as throughout California. Includes essays describing various events...

Consists of letters, song lyrics, sketches and other miscellany, mostly undated. Includes a note from Mary Pickford, a letter of introduction from Chaplin to H.G. Wells, draft letters by Chaplin, a page of notes on "civilism," and a sketch of...

Stereographs of the Central Pacific Railroad taken by Alfred A. Hart.

Consists of correspondence, sermons, and other papers of Haynes, a Baptist clergyman active in church affairs and civil rights; his second wife, Charlie Mae (Crawford) Lomax Haynes, a singer, church worker, and successful candidate for the School Board, who was...

Consists of diaries (1881-1882) from Hyde's adolescent years, letters to her family while living and working in Japan (1912-1914), records of her prints and exhibits, account books for prints sold, and printed catalogs and art journals.

Two typed letters from Keller to the wife of Andrew S. Rowan in San Francisco, Calif., expressing gratitude for the Rowans' friendship, inspiration, and donation to Keller's foundation, for research on employment for people who are blind. The first letter...

Contains newspaper clippings of letters written by Daniels to her family in the Netherlands, which were published in the Amersterdam newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad, written in Dutch from San Jose and San Francisco, July 4, 1892-Mar.11, 1898. The letters describe life...

Two brief letters from the actress Helena Modjeska, written from her ranch in Orange County, to Frick in Los Angeles, regarding an invitation for Modjeska to speak to students at Frick's high school.

Business papers, chiefly correspondence, pertaining to Hellman's activities in banking, electric and cable railway transportation, and real estate investment, particularly in southern California and San Francisco. Correspondence is with and about the banks and financial institutions with which Hellman was...

Consists of thirteen letters written to his mother, most of which describe Brown's experiences in Calif. Includes an account of his 1851 steamship voyage to San Francisco via Panama aboard the Ohio, the Falcon, and the New Orleans; living and...

Newspaper clippings (mostly undated) concerning the overhead cable system for street railroads, invented by Casebolt; together with a report card from San Francisco High School (May 1, 1858), a state education diploma certifying the bearer to teach public school in...

Three items pertaining to Clay, a national political figure and legislator. Consists of a ribbon from the Democratic Whig National Convention (1844); a handwritten letter (1 p.), dated Nov. 24, 1850, to W.R. Turner of Marysville, Calif., discussing the death...

Typed biographical sketches of Cogswell, some of which are cited excerpts from published sources. Includes information on Cogswell's philanthropic gifts of public drinking fountains and monuments to various U.S. cities, including San Francisco, to promote temperance. Also discusses his founding...

Consists of material removed from the time capsule placed under the Benjamin Franklin statue in Washington Square, San Francisco, Calif., in 1879, to be opened in 1979. Contains personal business papers of Henry Daniel Cogswell, including indentures and other papers...

Consists of letters, telegrams, and notes pertaining to Ellis's activities with the San Francisco police department. Contains material regarding the 1870 Alexander P. Crittenden murder case, including biographical information on the accused, Laura D. Fair. Includes letters dealing with the...

Chiefly correspondence with Helen Throop Purdy, another Calif. author, and Dorothy Huggins of the California Historical Society, concerning Purdy's review of Bland's book, Stevenson's California, published in 1924. Purdy's review, published in the Oct. 1924 issue of California Historical Society...

Three typed items related to Crocker, including a Boston Journal interview with Charles G. Stumcke of Dorchester, Mass., about his trip from Boston to San Francisco around Cape Horn on the ship New Jersey in 1849, the same ship taken...

Family and business correspondence, including four letters from architect David Farquharson; papers relating to Cleaveland's brother, Dr. Joseph Manning Cleaveland, of the New York State Asylum for the Insane; a map and report on Gold Hill Quartz and Mine in...

Consists of personal correspondence, chiefly letters in Spanish to Hipolita from relatives and friends in Guadalajara, Acapulco, and Mazatlan, Mexico. The letters discuss political and military conflict in Mexico, as well as family relations and events. Four of the letters...

Six typed letters from Johnson to E.M. Norton, in Healdsburg, Calif., written while Johnson was Governor of Calif. and U.S. Senator, discussing political affairs, Johnson's involvement with the presidential race of 1912, and his feelings about U.S. involvement in World...

Photographs, architectural drawings, and papers of the Historic American Buidling Survey (HABS), for Calif. counties and for other states of the U.S.

Consists of 22 letters, 12 of which are written by H.L. Hurlbut to his wife, Emmaline during the years 1852-1853. His letters describe his voyage from Vermont to San Francisco via Panama aboard various steamships, including the Georgia, the Ohio,...

Collection consists primarily of records of the Holbrook Building Company, together with legal and architectural materials relating to the construction and management of the building itself. Records include bylaws, articles of incorporation, and minutes of directors' and stockholders' meetings. Legal...

Organizational history, scattered correspondence (1867-1947), minutes of directors' and stockholders' meetings (1882-1920), legal papers, copy books, and financial records (1869-1922).

This certificate is dated in San Francisco on November 5, 1852. It certifies that W. W. Honey is an active member of Monumental Co. No. 6 as of the roll call on November 5, 1852. The document is signed by...

Correspondence, reports, financial statements, minutes, and other papers concerning the two schools, which shared premises when the Lux School first came into existence. Includes information on operations, salaries, student funds, and school real estate.

Notebook bound in marbled paper covers, containing glossary and phrase entries, as well as expository notes on languages of Native American peoples in Calif., with a focus on the Chinook language; and a leatherbound notebook containing notes on the languages...

Correspondence, minutes, bylaws, contracts, election material, publications, newspaper clippings, and other records of the union and its predecessors; together with papers, including oral history interviews conducted in the 1980s, documenting the hotel strikes of 1937, 1941-1942, 1978-1980, and 1980. Persons...

Several receipts for payment by H.S. Crocker & Co. to Central Pacific Railroad Company of California (Feb.-Nov. 1869); a brief letter (May 1866) from H.S. Crocker & Co. on company letterhead; a billhead (Aug. 1880) with an attached reimbursement form...

Contains images of San Francisco, including the Golden Gate Bridge; Treasure Island and the Golden Gate International Exposition; the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge; various ships; various locations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California. Includes a few photos...

Four letters (18 p.), giving a firsthand account of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire as experienced by Blight and her family in the Richmond district, along with living conditions immediately after. The letters mention damage to personal belongings;...

Correspondence concerning the Pediatrics Dept. at Children's Hospital, San Francisco, annual and project reports, and medical studies relating to the development and services of the department; correspondence, committee minutes and reports dealing with Thelander's work with American Academy of Pediatrics,...

Two typed letters, written on Alvarado's professional letterhead, concerning a photograph of Alvarado's father, who was Governor of Calif. from 1836-1842, under Mexican jurisdiction. Alvarado had enclosed the photograph with his first letter, then acknowledges its return in the second...

Contains two diaries (1881-1882) kept by Hyde at age 13, which primarily focus on everyday life of a well-educated daughter of a prosperous family, including social visits, art and dancing lessons, birthday and holiday celebrations as well as the death...

The Ina Coolbrith Circle collection contains correspondence, announcements, newsletters, legal papers, financial statements and newspaper clippings concerning the Circle, its members and activities between 1921 and 1969....

Consists of correspondence, announcements, minutes, newsletters, printed and typescript copies of members' poems and writings, newspaper clippings, articles, bylaws, membership lists, financial records, meeting registers, and related miscellany. With these is a binder with a handwritten poem by Ina Coolbrith,...

Fifteen handwritten letters from Coolbrith to Lena S. Simons (1907-1925); a handwritten copy of the poem Beside the dead, (herein titled Beside my dead), written after the death of Coolbrith's sister; and photocopies of two letters to Allen's Press Clipping...

Two brief, handwritten letters from Coolbrith, a handwritten poem, and an autographed calling card (1916). The letters, to Eleanor Davenport (1898) and Mrs. A.P. Black (1910), respectively, concern contributions of Coolbrith's poems. The poem, titled "Woman", was written for the...

Transcription of three booklets containing autobiographical anecdotes by Adams, describing his life in Calif. and Nevada Territory, 1848-1894. Stories describe experiences during the gold rush, including time spent working for a mining company near Uniontown in El Dorado County in...

Reproductions of several of Porter's drawings (ca. 1900) done for Shreve & Co. in San Francisco, where she was employed prior to the 1906 earthquake and fire; personal and professional correspondence; and original and photocopied documents and clippings belonging or...

Business papers, chiefly correspondence, pertaining to Hellman's activities in banking, electric and cable railway transportation, and real estate investment, particularly in southern Calif. and San Francisco. Correspondence is with and about the banks and financial institutions with which Hellman was...

Miscellaneous personal business documents of Choynski and his wife, Harriet Choynski. Includes three deeds for San Francisco real estate; three stock receipts issued by Howard and Folsom Streets Property Union; a receipt for property sold for taxes, 1878-79, issued by...

Letters from Emery to his parents and two sisters in Kendall Mills, Me., mostly concerning his hauling business in San Francisco, Calif., his daily life, and personal and family matters. A few early letters are written from Murphy's Camp, Calif.,...

Consists of personal and professional certificates, including the birth certificate of Conrich's maternal grandmother; and materials concerning the surveying, construction, and improvement of Oakland Harbor, including copies of legislation (1910-1912, 1922), architectural plans, and other papers.

Personal and professional papers, including clippings, books, slides, bank statements, maps, architectural plans and blueprints for commercial and residential buildings, and typescripts of stories.

Consists of a typescript titled The Mammy Pleasant legend [1954], with photocopy; copies and clippings of Conrich's letters to editors, people who are ill, salesmen, and others, compiled by Conrich with introductory notes under the title, Man of letters [undated];...

Consists chiefly of letters from Stillman to family members, many of which are written to his son, John Maxson. Of particular interest is an 18-page letter describing Stillman's 1849 sea voyage to Calif. Includes letters written from Asia and Europe...

Consists of personal and business correspondence of Leese and his partner Thomas Oliver Larkin regarding their ownership of the U.S.S. Eveline; Leese's personal and legal correspondence, including his naturalization papers; indentures for three Chinese workers; and documents pertaining to Leese's...

Five-page typed letter from James A. Warren, to his son, David Warren (addressed as "Pete" in the salutation), written from Portland on April 21, after escaping the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Describes the progress of the fire and...

Receipts for property taxes, a road tax, a military poll tax, and Oakland city taxes. The property tax receipts are for Bailey's property in Clinton, Calif. Includes one receipt, dated Oct. 12, 1866, paid by R. Wainright for property in...

Four pocket notebooks, three bound in leather and one in paper, chiefly recording day-to-day purchases and expenditures for business conducted by Barnes in Boston and Calif., particularly purchases pertaining to gold mining and his financial investments in copper, silver, and...

Consists of bylaws, correspondence, policy statements, minutes, reports, publications, guidelines, and notes relating to the Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Council (1966-1971) and the Mayor's Committee to Restore the Haight-Ashbury (1970-1971). Includes clippings, publications, and materials about the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.

Primarily social correspondence to Phelan from local and international figures, including thank you notes, congratulatory remarks, letters of introduction, and invitations. Also includes four letters from Albert Shaw, editor of the American Monthly, discussing articles submitted by Phelan; and three...

Legal documents concerning disputes over the estate of James Donahue, who died in 1862 and left his estate to his wife, Mary Anne, and his four children: Peter, Margaret, Mary Jane, and William E.

Five letters (1847-1849) from Fair to William B. West, written from Chicago, concerning Fair's business dealings and preparations for Calif.; two cancelled checks signed by Fair (1874-1875); and a brief business letter (1875) from an unknown sender crediting Fair's account...

Correspondence and receipts pertaining to business conducted and purchases made by James H. Borland. Includes two letters concerning receipt of an order from Huntington, Hopkins, and Co., Purveyors of Hardware, Iron, Steel, Etc., in Sacramento, Calif. Also includes two receipts...

Collection consists of a receipt book (1864), a bill of payment (1860) issued to Deering by Sather & Church, a receipt (1865) signed by Deering, and a letter (Sept. 19, 1887) to Deering in San Francisco, Calif. from his brother,...

Correspondence, receipts, and other papers, mostly pertaining to Smith and his wife Bettie's investments in mining companies and real estate in San Diego, Coronado Beach, Stockton, the San Joaquin Valley, and San Francisco. Much of the mining-related correspondence pertains to...

Maps, reports, legal briefs, and other documents related to the Municipal Railway and California Street Cable Railway Company, Fresno Interurban Railway Company, Pacific Electric Railway System, the Key System Transit Company, and other systems, including similar systems in Palo Alto...

Primarily legal papers from the files of Samuel W. Holladay, attorney for California Academy of Sciences, pertaining to the litigation between Richard S. Floyd and other Lick trustees, and the directors of several institutions that received bequests from Lick's estate....

Diary (70 p.) kept by Keeler on his sea voyage from New Haven, Conn. to San Francisco, Calif. aboard the bark Anna Reynolds. Brief entries describe weather, ship's coordinates, visits ashore, and prices. Includes many sketches and watercolor drawings and...

Contains family correspondence, primarily to and from James Phelan Cuddy, concerning family and financial matters. Includes letters from James D. Phelan to Vivienne Cuddy concerning her financial upkeep. Also includes memorabilia and newspaper clippings, chiefly pertaining to James D. Phelan.

Chiefly letters to Brown as author of the pamphlet The family of Silas Silverthorne, which argued against free silver, and requests for copies of the pamphlet (1896); together with material relating to Brown's employment with United Railroads of San Francisco...

Chiefly routine mayoral correspondence, dealing with requests for permits, licenses, appointments, and employment. Other letters relate to various issues affecting the city, including the establishment of municipal railway and water systems, construction of City Hall and Opera House, Panama-Pacific International...

James Walker's collection of photographs, mainly Civil War-related images. Contains photos of officers (including General Hooker, General J.W. Depayster(?), Lleut. Bulliad), and locations (including Lookout Mountain, Tennessee; Blackburn's Ford (Bull Run), Virginia; Anacotia Bridge). Contains four photos (two duplicates) of...

Two handwritten letters from Ellen D. Larnal in Thompson, Conn., dated Mar. 15, 1895 and Aug. 13, 1907, concerning Burnett's eligibility for membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR); several legal documents and unofficial typed copies concerning Burnett's...

Consists of correspondence, legal agreements, and mechanic's liens pertaining to a contract between Jane C. (aka Jennie) Burnett and S.C. Buzzell for the building of a house at the northeast corner of Broadway and Laguna.

Primarily correspondence of Peck and several family members, with some ephemera and business papers; together with correspondence and other papers of various Serbian relief organizations of World War I, including the Serbian Relief Society of California, of which Peck served...

The Jardine family collection consists primarily of personal and business correspondence between 1893 and 1941. The majority of the folders contain family letters, correspondence with friends, photographs, postcards, wedding invitations and poems. Also included are financial reports and statements from...

Ten letters (1844-1863) to and from O'Farrell, mostly concerning his work as a surveyor; together with a few miscellaneous documents. Correspondents include John A. Sutter, Washington Bartlett, Thomas O. Larkin, Lilburn W. Boggs, L. Quinton Washington, Mariano G. Vallejo, and...

Two typed transcripts, the second of which is incomplete, of depositions dated June 4, 1852 and Oct. 17, 1853, regarding the land claim of John A. Sutter; an admission ticket for the Grand Civic Ball held at the Hall of...

Drafts of Hart's manuscripts, including Vigilante girl (1910), In our second century (1931), Sardou and Sardou plays (1913), Vigilante time, The breadline, and writings on Edmond Rostand and other French authors; scattered personal correspondence (1879-1928); articles from the Argonaut; 34...

Three scrapbooks containing clippings of and about Hart's writing, women political figures in Wyoming, and other topics; together with typescripts, clippings, and other papers.

Eighteen letters, describing Cameron's sea voyage to Calif. via Liverpool, New York, Jamaica, and Panama with brothers Tom and George, and a niece, who is also named Jessie; her first jobs in Sacramento as a cook and a dressmaker; marriage...

Personal and business correspondence and miscellany of J.O. Culver, of Calistoga, Napa County, Calif., pertaining to his roles as U.S. Army Paymaster and Post Office Inspector during the 1860s; together with a small amount of family correspondence (1887-1905) and miscellany....

Consists of letters, poems, ephemera, and miscellany written by or concerning Miller, his second wife, Abigail Leland Miller, and their daughter Juanita Joaquina Miller. Includes one poem by Edwin Markham. Manuscript letters and poems by Joaquin Miller are accompanied typed...

Consists of journals (22 v.), correspondence, and case notes. Journals contain daily accounts of Robinson's expenses and activities, and include case notes of immigrants and resident aliens, mainly Chinese and Mexican, documenting names, nationalities, and immigration numbers assigned, as well...

Two deeds for land in Sutterville, Calif. (1848 and 1849); a letter of introduction (Feb. 26, 1857) for Lord Calthrope, on his way to the mines; a military order (June 15, 1855) to Lt. Col. Richard T.C. Linton; a list...

Ledger (1856-1862), account book (1861-1864), ledger of bonds and bills receivable (1866-1876), and a daybook (1877) of a real estate firm.

The bulk of the collection covers the period Hays served as sheriff and consists chiefly of legal papers and documents pertaining to his activities as tax collector and agent of the Superior Court. Includes two ledgers of state and county...

Chiefly miscellany relating to Works' death, including typed minutes of a memorial meeting of the Supreme Court of Calif. (Oct. 8, 1928); a typed resolution of sympathy from the City Council of Los Angeles; a telegram of condolence from Hiram...

Chiefly personal correspondence of Jardine and his family, and business papers of Jardine, together with some family ephemera, postcards, telegrams, and a small amount of genealogical information. Includes correspondence of Jardine's wife, Mary G. Peck; their children, Catherine (who married...

Consists of correspondence relating to politics, patronage, requests for assistance from former Union Army Soldiers, mining stocks, and family matters. Includes several letters from Miller to his wife, Mary, along with letters from Miller's brother, Clay, and Schuyler Colfax, who...

Draft and finished copy of diary documenting Stickney's voyage from Newburyport, Mass. to San Francisco, Calif. via Cape Horn aboard the ship Annah, Dec. 1849-May 1850. Describes Christmas and music aboard the ship, the island of Juan Fernandez, and means...

Receipts of payment dated May-June 1855, made out to Bardwell for wheat purchased by him of various merchants, including I.H. Ham, Almy & Richards, Delabigne Co., Bob Brown & Co., A.H. Todd, and Bob of John Johnson; a shipping invoice...

Letters from Lewers to his mother, Margaret Lewers, in Louisville, Kentucky, written on his voyage to California via Panama, and during his years in California. Includes typed transcriptions.

Materials used by Hall in preparation of, and cited in, his book, Gone from the promised land: Jonestown in American cultural history, published in 1987. Includes correspondence, legal documents, clippings, transcripts of conversations and broadcasts (1954-1983), and ephemera collected and...

Personal and business papers of John R. Sharpstein; genealogical and historical documents concerning the Sharpsteen, Crittenden, and Johnson families; and papers of William C. Sharpsteen. Papers of John Sharpstein include correspondence and other material relating to his 1874 appointment by...

Photocopied typed transcripts of 35 letters between Johan Lindtner and his wife, Henriette, written in 1874, while Lindtner was on tour through the Midwest, first with a German opera company and then with a travelling circus; his wife was living...

Consists of 98 letters, chiefly from Sherburne, written in San Francisco and other parts of Calif. and Nevada to his mother and his sister, Marion, in Boston. The letters discuss family concerns, Sherburne's attempts to establish himself financially in San...

Personal and legal correspondence, legal documents, and legal briefs relating to civil suits, particularly estate and probate cases, handled by Doyle, his law partners, and their associates in other firms. Most of the suits concern the San Francisco Bay Area,...

Business papers of Allyne & White, chiefly San Francisco billheads and receipts; stock certificates; correspondence and other material pertaining to the purchase and ownership of Rancho San Vicente in Santa Cruz County, Calif., by the Stanfords (1855-1869), along with some...

Scattered personal and business correspondence (1825-1879); an appointment book (1873); two scrapbooks of newspaper articles written by Dwinelle, covering his travels in Europe and the American South and West (1849-1870); a scrapbook of clippings concerning the water supply issue in...

Bound vol. (132 p.) serving successively as a daybook for Farren's Boston mercantile transactions, a logbook/diary recording his voyage to San Francisco aboard the ship Reindeer (Dec. 1849-Apr. 1850), and an account book containing scattered entries during his early employment...

Chiefly unbound "publicity scrapbooks" (1930-1968) containing newspaper clippings and ephemera related to the John W. Geary PTA and its activities; together with correspondence, minutes, reports, rosters, flyers, programs, newsletters, and other papers. Includes a small amount of material pertaining to...

The records of the John W. Geary School PTA begin in April 1930. Included are correspondence, minutes, flyers, programs, newsletters, and scrapbooks. The most revealing and complete materials from the early days of the school are the publicity scrapbooks which...

Diary (110 p.) kept by Griffith on his voyage from New York to San Francisco via Mexico aboard the bark Mara and the schooner Dolphin (May-July, 1849); and a vol. (36 p.) of reminiscences (undated) by Griffith describing the same...

Diary of John W. Watts, recounting his overland journey from Mo. to Calif. in 1850, his brief stay in Calif., and his return home in 1851; with an inverted second half of the vol. serving as a diary of his...

Four folios containing Jones' lectures written to accompany display of his Pantoscope during his tour of eastern cities. The lectures describe travel along the Emigrant Trail between the Missouri River and San Francisco, detailing scenery, life on the trail, encounters...

Three letters, now in fragile condition, were written by Sanford D. Johnson to various members of his immediate family. S. Johnson (also signed by Sophia Johnson) writes to Daniel Johnson of Gardiner, Maine on July 23, 1833. Sanford Johnson writes...

Typed copies of family and business correspondence dated 1829-1887. Correspondents include Peter Burnett, Ferdinand C. Ewer, Horace Greeley, charles Sumner, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. Includes a few original letters and receipts, along with a stock certificate.

Deeds, leases, printed court documents, maps, and other documents and papers of the widow of Salvador Espinoza, concerning the ranch in Monterey County granted to him in 1837.

Diary (May 1846-May 1849) beginning when Eastland was a 14-year-old schoolboy, written from home in Nashville, Tenn. and New Orleans, La., where his father, Thomas B. Eastland, was a political figure; continuing through the Mexican War, in which Joseph Eastland...

Primarily legal papers relating to the estate of William A. Leidesdorff, which Folsom purchased from Leidesdorff's mother, Anna Maria Spark, and to Folsom's suit against Mrs. Spark after she refused to accept the agreement she made to sell the estate...

Papers pertaining to relocation and internment of Japanese and Japanese-American residents of Calif. during World War II. Consists of records of the San Francisco chapter of the Japanese American Citizens' League and the Buchanan Street YMCA (Jan.-June 1942), including some...

Consists of over 50 years of correspondence, reports, articles, and printed materials concerning the development of Calif. during the first half of the twentieth century, chiefly documents from the various organizations to which Knowland belonged, with some personal material. Includes...

Collection consists of typescripts of Rowan's poems, manuscript notebooks, issues of periodicals in which her poems were published (1908-1909), other publications, ephemera, some correspondence, a few photographs, and three scrapbooks containing clippings of printed illustrations. Includes Rowan's copy of the...

Consists of correspondence, typescripts of fiction and articles by Ober, and miscellaneous personal papers. Most of the material dates from Ober's tenure as society editor of the newspaper New York World. Letters received include courtesy notes from interviewees such as...

Consists of Vincent's diary (ca. 100 p.), dated July 20, 1846 to Nov. 25, 1847, along with secondary material prepared and collected by Christopher D'Amanda. The diary describes Vincent's voyage from Elmira, New York to San Francisco via Cape Horn...

Four letters (1841-1845) to Belden's sister, Eliza M. Bowers; and an autobiographical account (1878, 70 p.) written for the Bancroft Library, describing Belden's journey to Calif. and his subsequent life there.

Diary (Jan. 1-Nov. 20, 1858), reminiscence (undated), and newspaper clippings (1858-1935) relating to the shipwreck in 1858 in Polynesia of the clipper Wild Wave, of which Knowles was master, en route from San Francisco, Calif., to Valparaiso, Chile; a copybook...

Two essays on the history of handball, titled: Early history of handball courts in San Francisco (5 leaves); and Handball history in the United States (12 leaves), covering the years ca. 1854-1902.

Collection consists of five facsimile copies of letters from Serra written in Sept. and Oct. 1774; a handwritten copy of another letter from Serra, written in May 1774 addressed to and copied by Pedro Fages on June 4, 1774, with...

Copies of correspondence with state and national political figures, including: Herbert Hoover, Gov. Goodwin J. Knight, Richard Nixon during his presidential campaign and then presidency, J. Thomason Phelps of the state Public Utilities Commission, and Congressman William S. Maillard.

Six letters to Clark's sister, Janie, and family, in Platteville, Wis., describing Clark's life in gold mining country in Georgetown and Mount Gregory, Calif., beginning shortly after Clark arrived via an overland journey. The letters describe climate, landscape, housing, provisions,...

The Paul Kagan collection consists almost entirely of publications, printed materials and newsletters published by each organization. Community members designed some of these for a general, interested audience and others only for their own edification. The various publications cover issues...

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Typed copies of two contract agreements relating to donations by Ball of her Oriental collection and her library of books on metaphysics, along with two newspaper clippings relating to these collections. The first agreement documents a donation to the M.H....

A contract between Kennedy Mining and Milling Company and California Powder Works, in which the parties agree that the former will buy its powder supply from the latter for one year; a billhead (1849) from Amador Plaining [sic] Mill; and...

The Frank Kester Papers provide a detailed account of the life of a dedicated reporter and nature lover. Included are chapters of his autobiography, short stories and poetry. Kester's research notes and stories highlight the histories of small California towns,...

Minutes, membership rolls, and constitution, bylaws, and amendments of a pioneer fire company.

The Joseph Russell Knowland Collection consists of over fifty years of correspondence, reports, articles and printed materials conerning the development of California during the first half of the 20th century. The collection is composed primarily of the documents of the...

Letters (1874-1875) from Virginia Knox Maddox to her mother, Sarah Knox Goodrich in San Jose, Calif., written from various cities during a trip to Europe with her husband, Harry, and their children, discussing people and places there; letters to Virginia...

Chiefly photocopied handbills addressed to union members.

Consists of a 1955 typescript of Land of gold: an ill-fated journey to California via Nicaragua made by Eri B. Hulbert and William W. Walker in 1852, prepared by Hulbert's great-granddaughter, Elizabeth Wyant Martin, and Louise Hulbert Prescott. Typescript is...

San Mateo County estates and residences of: Darius Odgen Mills (Millbrae); James C. Flood (Menlo Park); Faxon D. Atherton (Atherton); Timothy Hopkins (Menlo Park); Edgar Mills (Menlo Park); Col. William Harney (Menlo Park); Thomas H. Selby; Charles Lux. Includes images...

Correspondence related to Powers' work; her writings on Calif. history, including manuscripts, typescripts, drafts, and notes; miscellaneous papers from her work with the San Francisco Historical Committee and Monterey History and Art Association; letters from Powers to her daughter, Gwendolyn;...

Letters to family members (1872-1885), mostly from Laura Dakin and her sister Mary Jameson Locke in Santa Cruz, Calif.; together with a family biographical sketch (1 p.) and a typed copy of a poem by Laura Dakin, published in Godey's...

Administrative records, including minutes, correspondence reports, and financial records; project records; organizational records for local leagues; publications and printed materials; and scrapbooks of the League of Women Voters of California.

Correspondence, reports, financial records, ballot measures, project records, administrative records, bulletins, publications, and scrapbooks of the League of Women Voters of San Francisco.

The League of Women Voters extensive collection consists of over fifty years of correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, audio tapes and a documentary film. Included are League publications, printed materials and newspaper clippings depicting the development and achievements of the...

Two indentures, one written one each side of a single, oversized sheet. The first indenture is a lease between George Pound and Samuel Jones (July 26, 1826); the second is an indentured servant contract between Eliza King and George Robert...

Three legal documents, the first two pertaining to Charles Cavalletti vs. Guiseppi Cadenasso, filed in Calif. District Court, 15th Judicial District, in San Francisco, Calif., on Mar. 15, 1870; consisting of a copy summons and complaint, and attorney's notes on...

Legal documents and attorney's notes concerning a suit brought to the 12th District Court of the City and County of San Francisco by Brown, an African-American woman, against Omnibus Railroad Company, for ejecting her from one of their streetcars in...

Two documents for a case before the U.S. Circuit Court in Calif., consisting of: an authorization (Nov. 3) for the attorney for the defendants, S.W. Holladay, to appear in court for his clients; and a disputation (Nov. 15) for the...

Oppositions, an interrogation, an answer, a sheriff's receipt of assignment, and a few miscellaneous receipts. The legal documents, filed in California District Court, City and County of San Francisco, by attorneys of the creditors, who include Henry Miller and Henry...

Complaints, subpoenas, motions, affidavits, notices, petitions, a few scattered letters, attorney's notes, newspaper clippings of testimony in one of the cases, and other legal documents and papers from six of the stockholder suits filed by John H. Burke, a San...

Legal documents filed by attorneys Halleck, Peachy, and Billings in the Third Judicial District at Santa Clara, Calif. on behalf of Maria y Bernal de Berreyesa, concerning alleged trespasses on Berryesa land, a tract granted the Berreyesa family by Governor...

Complaints, deposition, demurrer, and notes for case involving divorce and related child custody and disposition of property, for a couple residing in Santa Cruz County, Calif.

Two legal documents. The first document, dated Sept. 16, 1867, states that the undersigned, J.M. Seawell, is the attorney for the defendant. In the second document, written on printed letterhead for the 15th District Court, Allen states through his attorney...

Copy of defendant's brief, draft of plaintiff's brief, legal notes, and a copy of an order extruding time to file and serve a statement on a motion for a new trial. Documents are for a civil suit heard in the...

Legal documents relating to the ownership of Rincon Point in San Francisco, Calif. Includes complaint, deposition, testimony, motions, and drafts of legal documents for the case, concerning possession of a fifty vara lot. Includes a small amount of material from...

Five handwritten and printed legal documents pertaining to Ah Seung, who was charged with grand larceny in San Francisco, including orders to appear in court, a bail bond, and an order of discharge.

A summons in ejectment (Nov. 14) with attached complaint (Oct. 25), and a copy of the defendant's answer (Dec. 14), for a case involving a real estate dispute in San Francisco. Besides Julia Bush, defendants include: her husband, John Bush,...

Legal documents concerning a case brought before the Calif. District Court, 15th Judicial District, in San Francisco, by Duck Kow against Chinese Tong Je: Poon Ki, Lew Kum, Leung Yung, Wong Won, Ki Kee, Wy Soong, Chung Yin, and Fy...

Briefs, transcripts of proceedings, court orders and rulings, memoranda, and other papers related to the seven-year legal battle (1945-1952) over ownership of controlling stock interest in Dollar Steamship Lines, whose name changed to American President Lines, Ltd. in 1938 when...

Bound typescripts of travel narratives, with accompanying snapshot photos, describing trips taken by Stanley as ship's doctor (28 v.), and his visits to U.S. prisons (3 v.),; together with bound typescripts of a novel and other writings by a prisoner...

Collection consists of a certificate of commission (1830) conferring Burnett to the rank of Captain of the Connecticut State Militia, 6th Company, 5th Infantry Regiment; election returns containing a list of voters in the Sept. 1, 1858 election in Precinct...

Letter (1 p.) to Perry, signed by 12 citizens, requesting that he deliver an address on the occasion of their departure overland for Calif., tipped into a notebook containing the handwritten text of the address.

Copies of letters written by James Inglis, Elizabeth Bowser, John McIntyre, May Callender, Jane Callender, John Inglis, Thomas Williamson, and others, to various persons. Most of the letters are written from Edinburgh, Scotland or various parts of England. Some letters...

Leatherbound volume containing 33 handwritten letters from Sherman to his friend John T. Doyle, a lawyer in San Francisco. The letters include reminiscences of Sherman's years (1853-1859) in San Francisco, discussion of national politics in the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction periods,...

Five letters, with envelopes, to Ellis in San Francisco, Calif., from her children and possibly in-laws, in Monterey and Pacific Grove, Calif., where they were looking to buy land and settle.

Administrative, faculty, and student records, chronicling the history of all three schools as both independent and combined institutions. Includes correspondence, minutes, financial records, scrapbooks, catalogs, and clippings.

Twelve pocket-sized diaries describing Dickson's marriage, relationship with her mother, household tasks, social life, health problems, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, learning to drive the Packard, and registering to vote in 1920, and other events and activities. Includes...

Consists of correspondence, minutes, financial records, scrapbooks, bulletins, member roster books, newspaper clippings, and miscellany related to the Association's activities, chiefly its annual banquet. A significant portion of the correspondence relates to the 1912 reunion of former students of the...

Newspaper clippings (including advertisements, society columns, obituaries); printed ephemera (including sales announcements, event invitations and programs, employee picnic ticket, 1962 catalog); letters to customers regarding sales (1916-1926); typescript obituary of David Livingston; typescript store history, corrected; pin from 75th anniversary...

Most of the collection was collected by longtime colonist, Walter Millsap, and includes papers from the early years of the colony in Calif. and La. (1911-1930), correspondence between Millsap and other colonists (1920-1958), and files from the assets recovery attempt...

Most of the collection was collected by longtime colonist, Walter Millsap, and includes papers from the early years of the colony in Calif. and La. (1911-1930), correspondence between Millsap and other colonists (1920-1958), and files from the assets recovery attempt...

Handwritten notes about Lola Montez, the bulk of which consists of copies of articles published in Calif. newspapers, 1853-1899, including the Alta California, San Francisco Herald, Sacramento Union, Shasta Courier, Golden Era, San Francisco Bulletin; typed transcriptions of book excerpts;...

Transcripts of 25 interviews of presidents of major firms based in Calif., on their adjustments to the postwar economy, conducted by Hughes for a series of radio public service announcements, sponsored by Sutro & Co. and aired over station KQW....

Collection consists of a letter from Crabtree to a friend (1897); Crabtree's autograph (undated); a roster of a San Francisco city block on which she owned a lot (undated); a Christmas card illustrated by a reproduction of a 1915 oil...

Correspondence and a receipt pertaining to the recovery of Mulgardt's harp and overcoat during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, correspondence with fellow architect John Galen Howard, and a membership certificate of the London Section of the Navy League...

Autobiographical account (12 p.) of Sweetland's overland journey from Wisc. to Calif. in 1863, together with two letters to the radio station KFRC, which broadcast programs on pioneers.

Correspondence, newspaper clippings from the San Francisco Call (1896-1925), and bound volumes, primarily concerning San Francisco civic and political organizations in which Sorbier actively participated, including: Women's Educational and Industrial Union, California State Woman Suffrage Educational Association, Arguello Boulevard Improvement...

Twelve letters written by Lucy when she was 25 years old, to her sister, Marianne Rutledge Willis, at home in Scott County, Iowa. The letters are written while Lucy is en route with her family to Calif. from Iowa as...

Two letters from Burbank (one with envelope) and a photostatic copy of a stock certificate in his name from Union Finance Company. The letters, typed on stationery with the letterhead for Burbank's Experiment Farms, in Santa Rosa, Calif., reply to...

Consists of brochures, bulletins, circulars, and other ephemeral publications produced by the school, describing its founder, facilities, courses, programs, and commencement ceremonies. Also contains papers pertaining to George Merrill, including biographical articles and clippings, articles belonging to and/or written by...

Recollections of Marshall's life, by Marshall and her daugher, Rosemary Green. Describes how Marshall's parents came to San Francisco, growing up in the city, her husband's work as Superintendent of Machinery at the U.S. Mint, and her experiences during and...

Six letters to Castañares, written while he was customs administrator in Monterey. Three of the letters concern finances, and three concern personal business. The former include: a letter from a private citizen, enquiring about an unpaid debt owed him by...

Correspondence and ephemera of Herrick and her sister, Florence H. Requa. Most of the letters to Herrick express appreciation for her donations of paintings and other goods to religious and war-time organizations during the 1940s. Letters to Requa concern the...

Typed copies of diaries (1921-1934) of Watson, written while she lived in New York (1921) and after she joined her partner, literary author Frederick O'Brien, in Calif. Describes her work as a writer, French translator, and teacher; other writers, literary...

Typed, signed letter to CHS, describing Folsom's experience of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. With this is a typed, signed copy of a letter by Folsom to television station KPIX, concerning an interview with an unidentified author of...

Correspondence and documents relating to the sale of the Mariposa Estate in Mariposa County, Calif., by John C. Frémont. Correspondence consists of seven letters exchanged between U.S. District Attorney Phillip R. Fendall; Thomas Hart Benton, who handled the legal arrangements...

Correspondence and reports from the San Francisco grand jury of 1935-1938, of which Dill served as foreman, including letters from Mayor Angelo Rossi to Dill, regarding Edwin N. Atherton's report and the grand jury's investigation of corruption and graft in...

Miscellaneous personal documents and papers of Martha Hankes and her husband, Abraham Peter Hankes. Includes old age security application papers for Martha Hankes; a statement of responsible relative of applicant under OAS law issued to Martha Hankes, for her husband;...

Consists of a handwritten letter (3 p.) from Naval and Marine Corps officers expressing gratitude to Mrs. Martin for the use of her home as a command post during the fire; a letter and receipt from the San Francisco Relief...

Consists of 30 letters, chiefly written to his home in the East, describing economic and living conditions in mining boom towns, including Reno, Shermantown, and Bullionville, Nevada. Includes a brief account of his journey to Calif. from New York on...

Consists of 30 letters, chiefly written to his home in the East, describing economic and living conditions in mining boom towns, including Reno, Shermantown, and Bullionville, Nevada. Includes a brief account of his journey to Calif. from New York on...

Copies of items pertaining to the Roberts and Moore families, who are related by marriage, including: a photocopy of a handwritten biographical essay (85 leaves) on Capt. M.R. Roberts, by his son, Martin R. Roberts, Jr.; typed transcripts of letters...

Seven letters from Crocker to a childhood friend in Mishawaka, Ind., discussing Crocker's arrival in Calif. from New York, her new life in Sacramento, her feelings about being away from home, and family news.

A printed pamphlet containing a statement by Department Commander of Kansas, Theodore Botkin, proclaiming July 19, 1897 to be Mother Bickerdyke Day, "in honor and in memory of the sacrifices and services of the Army Nurses"; and a letter (four...

Five handwritten letters from Richardson in San Francisco, four of which are to her friends, sisters Edythe and Carlena, along with one letter to an art patron, Miss Brenner; together with four Christmas cards from Richardson for the years 1924,...

Five letters to Keith, mostly concerning a portrait of Susan B. Anthony by William Keith, and its transport from Berkeley to Rochester, N.Y., in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Correspondents include Mary S. Anthony (sister...

Five letters, two of which are incomplete, from Keith to an unknown friend(s), chiefly personal, with mention of suffrage activities and her association with the Latham Foundation. Includes a letter (2 leaves) from Susan B. Anthony to Mrs. Watson, possibly...

Letters to family members from a twenty-year-old woman from Mass. during her voyage to San Francisco via Cape Horn aboard the ship Water Witch. Smith describes her daily life aboard the ship; her three-month stay in Brazil, where the ship...

Twenty scrapbooks and loose materials, including newspaper clippings, correspondence, ephemera, and miscellany related to Mary and Henry J. Crocker's lives as part of San Francisco society, and Henry Crocker's personal interests and business dealings. Significant topics include society news and...

The Alexander Campbell letters were written while en route from New Brunswick to the West Coast, and while in Portland, Oregon Territory.

Two letters and two items of ephemera. The first letter (Apr. 29, 1887), is from an unidentified woman in Lowell, Mass. to Leon Richardson in Calif., discussing family finances and news. The second letter (Sept. 27, 1891), is from Mary...

Correspondence, musical programs, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous personal documents and papers of Maude Fay Symington. Correspondence includes letters from her to her family while touring in Europe in 1902, and personal and business letters to Symington. Programs are for concerts...

A biographical sketch of Maynard Dixon, with bibliography, by James (6 leaves); a letter to Dixon (1906), responding to his request for information on the legends of the Orleans Bar Indians; a few letters from Dixon to James, concerning painting...

Papers, letters, and documents collected by Schweitzer, including material related to John C. Frémont's California Battalion of Mounted Riflemen and the Bear Flag revolt; a handwritten history of Howard Engine Company No. 3, a volunteer fire department of San Francisco...

Bound manuscript and typed transcription of the memoirs of a career army officer, covering his childhood in Germany, his family's immigration to Wisc. in 1850, his enrollment in the Union Army during the Civil War, his subsequent career as an...

Correspondence; diaries (1900-1927), called "soulbooks"; literary manuscripts; four scrapbooks; and miscellaneous papers. The bulk of the collection consists of typescripts and manuscripts of Mighels' writings and stories. Correspondence includes letters to and from her second husband, Philip V. Mighels, an...

Mainly letters written to Shinn as editor of the Overland Monthly, concerning her work, the magazine's poor financial condition, and articles and stories submitted by writers; together with several letters to her dealing with Lick Observatory (about which she wrote...

Military documents related to Curtis's role as a soldier and officer in the U.S. Army, 2nd Infantry, Company G, stationed in Calif. Includes a certificate of appointment to the office of Sergeant, miscellaneous orders, a letter of recommendation, a receipt...

Three one-page letters to Bartlett, Acting Master of various ships, from officers of the Mississippi Squadron of the U.S. Navy during the Civil War. The first letter is from Lt. Commander Byron Wilson, of the U.S. Steamer Onichita, off Donaldsonville,...

Social correspondence (1909-1939), including letters from Charles K. Field, Herbert Hoover and his wife, Lou Hoover, Florence P. Kahn, and Nicholas and Theodore Roosevelt; together with a few letters and documents pertaining to some of Esberg's civic and political activities,...

Consists of letters and documents pertaining to Latham's political and professional activities. Contains U.S. Senatorial correspondence, drafts of Senate bills, documents referring to political scandals in which Latham was involved, and legal documents, including deeds, a transcript of a lawsuit...

Papers apparently from a disbound looseleaf notebook, consisting of typed and photostat copies of correspondence between Henry Miller of the cattle ranch partnership, Miller & Lux, and his ranch superintendent, Henry N. Fulgham, concerning management of his Nev. ranches; business...

Personal correspondence (1882-1894), information on the Lux estate, biographical sketches of Lux family members and associates, and Lux genealogical material, most of which appears to have been compiled by Charles Lux Lewis, grandnephew of Miranda Lux. Most of the original,...

Consists of personal papers and documents, correspondence with Maynard Shipley, correspondence from publishers, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and manuscripts and typescripts of de Ford's plays, articles, stories, poems, biographies, and other writings. Includes typescripts of They were San Franciscans, Penultimates, Stone...

One deed (June 3, 1853) between Luis Saldibar and Isaac B. Pine, for property in Tuolumne County, Calif.; a quit claim deed (Dec. 26, 1857) between William H. Tetchstone and Philip Manipelt for property in Jamestown, Tuolumne County; and a...

Letters and documents pertaining to a legal complaint filed by Ezekiel C. Bowen against William R. Garrison in the 12th district court of San Francisco on July 31, 1858, in which Bowen claims that Garrison owes him $520.00, via a...

Bylaws, a minute book, a letter book, an inventory book, and financial records of Mission Feed Co. Financial records include journals, ledgers, daybooks, and checkstubs. Collection also includes some ledgers and miscellaneous records of Aigeltinger Co. and J.L. Vermeil &...

The collection consists of letters, journals, typescripts, government documents and microfiche, research materials, and ephemera related to the Moore family's investigations into the deaths in Guyana on November 18, 1978, which included three family members and California Congressman Leo J....

Consists of letters, journals, typescripts, government documents and microfiche, research materials, and ephemera related to the Moore family's investigations into the deaths in Guyana on November 18, 1978 that included three family members and California Congressman Leo J. Ryan. The...

Consists of letters, journals, typescripts, government documents and microfische, research materials, and ephemera related to the Moore family's investigations into the deaths in Guyana on November 18, 1978 that included three family members and California Congressman Leo J. Ryan. The...

Chiefly letters from Morris Shloss in San Francisco to family membersin England, dated 1850-1874. Includes one letter to his brother (1850), describing his new life in San Francisco; letters to his sister-in-law, Elizabeth (Betty or Betsy) Caro; and letters to...

A tax receipt for property owned by G.F. Barker, Napa County; two bills of exchange from N.M. Rothschild and Sons, London, ordering payment to L. and M. Sachs and Co., of San Francisco; an indenture for shares in the Gardner...

Contains administrative records, including correspondence, minutes, and reports of the Board of Directors; financial records, including statements, treasurers' reports, invoices, and bills; fundraising records, consisting of correspondence with foundations and individual donors, foundation proposals, and material relating to special events;...

Personal papers and records of national and state women's clubs, Sacramento-based organizations, and other public and organizational bodies to which Shoesmith belonged or in which she held office. Organizations represented include: California Federation of Women's Clubs (1931-1971), General Federation of...

Partial collection of muster rolls (1846-1848), chiefly of officers, for the Battalion of Mounted Riflemen, commanded by John C. Frémont during the Mexican War. Includes transcriptions of communications to and from the Battalion, apparently copied by the Battalion clerk in...

Stereographs of Yosemite Valley taken by Eadweard Muybridge.

Four unbound scrapbooks containing typewritten accounts of Gates' tourist travels through Calif., with accompanying picture and photographic postcards of landscapes, hotels, trains, and sights. Includes extensive material on the Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) and of San Francisco in the...

Personal and business correspondence, together with miscellaneous papers documenting Dobbins' membership and activities in various literary, civic, and religious groups, including Western Athenaeum of San Francisco, League of Western Writers, and Vedanta Society of San Francisco. Much of the correspondence...

Nine letters to or concerning Spear and his involvement with trade between Calif. and the Sandwich Islands, from persons in Oahu, Monterey, Yerba Buena, and Santa Barbara. Includes a letter of introduction for Spear by John C. Jones, U.S. Consul...

With an introduction, interpolations, and conclusion by Dolores Waldorf Bryant.

Records of J.S. Holliday's firing as Director of the Oakland Museum.

Six vols., including two minute books containing minutes of directors' and stockholders' meetings; two stock ledgers; bylaws and articles of incorporation, with amendments; and a book of blank stock certificates.

Chiefly personal correspondence with relatives and friends, concerning personal matters such as health, travel, death and friendship. The bulk of the correspondence is between Peck and Phoebe Apperson Hearst, who shares her feelings about her husband and son.

Four letters, two of which are partial and undated, describing Bennet's experience as a pioneer gold miner in Sacramento County. The first letter (4 p.), written from a mining camp on the North Fork of the Sacramento River, where he...

Chiefly financial records for Homewood Terrace, including receipt books, ledgers, children's payment records, ledgers for income property, and state aid applications, along with some admissions records. Records for the Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum consist of state aid applications (1911-1912) and...

Chiefly reports documenting the planning, construction, architecture, and finances of the 1915 Exposition. Includes labor contracts; budget estimates for building materials, sculptures, and other costs; and a few legal documents, blueprints, and maps. Also includes ephemera, bibliographies, and reports concerning...

Discusses the controversy about who built the first house in Yerba Buena.

General ledger of Parrott & Co. (1880-1884) and two ledgers relating to the company's marine underwriting as the Pacific coast agent of Canton Insurance Office in Hong Kong.

Bills of sale, receipts, and other business records, documenting the economics of the avocado and citrus industries; together with receipts concerning the family ranch. Citrus industry records are chiefly of the Yorba Linda Citrus Association.

Research materials pertaining to Llano del Rio, a socialist utopian community in Southern Calif. that moved to Louisiana in 1917. Consists of correspondence with Mellie Calvert on acquiring material related to Llano del Rio and to former colonist, Walter Millsap;...

Periodicals, pamphlets, and other publications, along with a small amount of correspondence and miscellany, produced by several Southern Calif. utopian communities of the early 20th century, collected by Kagan in preparation of his book, New world utopias: a photographic history...

Six handwritten letters (16 p.), describing living and working conditions in San Francisco. The second letter (4 p.) gives a firsthand account of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, and subsequent letters focus on the city's economic and structural...

Contains sketchbooks and loose sketches by Ilyin, many with his annotations. Includes correspondence pertaining to city campaign endorsements, immigration, an art exhibit, sales, and six letters in Russian from his brother, Gleb. Includes sketches and scrapbook material pertaining to the...

Photograph album of San Francisco, Calif., prior to and following the 1906 earthquake and fire. Pre-earthquake views show the Cliff House; the Chutes; Union Square; people engaged in various activities at many different sites in Golden Gate Park; views of...

Contains portraits of Captain Jack and his family, Schonchin, Steamboat Frank, Hooka Jim, Donald McKay (and Jack's capturers), Shacknasty Jim, Scar-Faced Charley, Black Jim, Bogus Charley, Ike, Boston Charley, and Curly-Headed Doctor. Includes a group portrait with a Caucasian man...

Portraits of well-known San Franciscans and other prominent people who came through San Francisco, ca. 1871-1876. Included are portraits of Andrew Hallidie, Darius Ogden Mills, William C. Ralston, William O' Brien, George Davidson, Horatio Stebbins, and Tomomi Iwakura. There are...

Portraits of Peckham, Lay, Patten, Addington, Hale, and Adams family members. Includes a few group portraits, including a class picture, Lincoln School, Osage, Iowa, 1906.

Consists of unidentified images of California quarry companies from the business papers of Anson Stiles Blake, which contain records for San Pablo Quarry Company, Blake and Bilger Company, Blake Brothers Company and the San Francisco Quarries Company.

Photo album (21 x 27 cm.) contains 16 photos of Blue Lakes in Lake County, Calif., including views of Laurel Dell lodge. Also photos of Clear Lake, Mt. Konocti, and Lakeport, and a sketched "cottage floorplan" dated 1940.

Most photos depict Kinkead and family. Includes a cabinet card of Kinkead as a girl, a carte de visite of a store, "Scudamore Reynolds & Co."; a copyprint of an 1872 photo of Kinkead's father "Pater Gallagher Reynolds M.D."; a...

Photos depict outdoor party with guests dressed in 1920s fashion. Some men are pretending to box. Identified persons are: Tito Schipa, Florence Macbeth, and Miss Meisle. One photo has note: Miltern Opera lunch. Photos were removed from an album.

Photos are mostly portraits, most unidentified or tentatively identified. Portraits include a lantern slide depicting a woman; carte de visite portrait of a woman by Bradley & Rulofson, San Francisco; two copyprints of a (daguerreotype?) "1840s? John Mitchell, grandfather of...

Mostly single and group portraits, some with notes on verso identifying subjects. One group photo dated 1916. One cabinet card (woman and three children) by "Brayton, Napa Cal." (possibly James G. Brayton who operated in Napa City in 1867, 1878-1888)....

Six individual portaits: Charles Murray, Chief Eleventh Battalion (from Folder 12); Walter Shaylor, Milton P. McMahon and Tom Hennig (from Folder 16, section titled "Chief's Operators"); Harry Newman, 1934 (from Folder 27); "Brother Will, Christmas 1887" (card mounted portrait, from...

Includes several photos of groups of children (teacher's name, students names, and the year 1914 noted on some); postcard depicting the Grant Primary School building; photos of children in costume for a performance (one photo dated 1924); children lined up...

Photos consist mainly of portraits and photos of buildings. Portraits include: Joe Greenberg, first president of the Lincoln Grammar School Association; E.H. Mitchell; Geo. H. Foree (or Force?), Lincoln School 1865; Mr. Robertson (with list of graduates of his class...

Portraits of deans Theresa M. Otto, Louise W. Mueller, Gladys I. Trevithick. Also portraits of George Clark Sargent, Charles Holbrook (photomechanical print), Louis Sloss, Thomas B. Bishop, Sarah B. Cooper, Geo. A. Merrill (1937), and Miranda Lux. Group portrait of...

Muriel Shoesmith appears in most photographs. Photos include: studio portraits, 1942-1945; 10th anniversary of founding of U.N. in San Francisco, 1955; Operation Understanding (including photos taken in White Sands, N.M., and Colorado Springs, Colo.), 1960; courtroom meeting regarding traffic, ca....

Consists mainly of portraits and family photos. Several portraits depict Orrin Peck as a young man; sitting at a piano; with an artist's palette; with a lace collar; in a Middle Eastern country. Other persons identified include: Mrs. Peck; Mr....

Three photos of a monument to the parents and grandparents of Henry Miller, in Brackenheim, Germany; one photo of "the fireplace in the library of Lux College, Charles Lux Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, grandnephews of Mrs. Lux, April 1952"; and...

Photos related to Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE): painting "Exposition site, Merced-Sutro Tract"; drawing of a monument; drawing of the planned "Marina Gardens" location for the monument; drawing of expo site; photo of man handing roll of paper to another man;...

Individual and group portraits, with annotation on versos. The individual portraits depict Lanette Crawford (cabinet card, 1879); Frederick G. Crawford (cabinet card, 1882); Russell Tracy Crawford (two portraits, 1918 and undated); Frank Ross, astronomer. The group portraits depict Mary Crawford...

Portraits, family photos, and photos taken in the Philippines. A few portrait subjects are identified, including Maria Glass Sawyer, Louis Glass, Anna Sawyer, and Louis E. Putnam Hendricks. One group portrait of a 4th of July picnic at Morris Ravine,...

Consists chiefly of publicity photos of unidentified infants, children, members of the Baby Hygiene Committee, and medical staff. Also includes a group portrait from the 35th Founder's Day of the Well Babies Center; a 1938 photomechanical print of Miss Kennedy's...

Includes portraits of Ellison L. Crawford, his first wife Lucinda, and their children, Effie, May, and Ida; a group portrait of Crawford's father, James B. Crawford, and Ellison's three daughters, ca. 1890; a group portrait including Dora Crawford, Crawford's second...

Portraits of individuals, some identified: Cousin May; Aunt Bessie; Aunt Bess and May; Maggie, grandmother's cook; Hannah; Hilie [?]; S.B. Pasken [?]; Linton King. Includes photo of two men in hats. Also includes one photograph (cabinet card) of an engineering...

The majority of photos are portraits depicting members of the Hendricks, Glass, and Sawyer families, including William C. Hendricks. Collection also includes portraits of "U.S. Grant," William Keith, Hugh Wiley, and the children of John Muir. Other photos depict a...

Contains photographs of primarily interiors and storefronts of Livingston Bros. retail clothing store (mainly women's apparel) in various locations in downtown San Francisco from the early 1900s to the 1970s. Most of the photos are from the 1920s. Along with...

Images of men, horses, and cattle at Rancho Santa Anita (Hollister Ranch) in the San Gabriel River Valley, Calif. Identified men include: George Coles, Pedro Romero, Billy Hollister, Bayard Thayer, Choreta Cota, Frank Stoddard, Joe Carmen, Pierre Lorillard, Herado Gutierrez,...

Photographs of the California Mother Lode region taken by Alma Lavenson during the 1930s through the 1960s.

Consists chiefly of publicity photographs and some reproductions used in Third Baptist Church (San Francisco, Calif.) publications including images of early founders, various committees, the congregation, and pastor Rev. Frederick D. Haynes, Sr.

All three pictures depict a metal badge of the Historical Society of the San Francisco Fire Dept.

Correspondence kept by company secretary and treasurer, Guy W. Campbell; together with annual reports (1905-1919), audits, stockholders' lists, and other administrative records.

Company bylaws, annual reports, minute books, stock certificates, account books, stock ledgers, and check stubs.

Five volumes of scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings documenting the reconstruction of San Francisco, California after the 1906 earthquake and fire, and subsequent city and architectural development. Commercial and public buildings represented include: the Civic Center, the Hobart Building, the Hallidie...

Includes typed English translations.

Contains 13 portraits, including five of artist William Keith, two of Moses A. Gunst, and one each of Benjamin Philip Lilienthal, Mrs. Hannah Isabelle (Sloss) Lilienthal, George Harding Whipple, Jeremiah Lynch, Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Julius R. Weber, and Sara...

Two cabinet cards of same portrait; photographs were removed from Cogswell Time Capsule, unearthed in 1979 from under the Ben Franklin statue in Washington Square, San Francisco, Calif.

Consists of unidentified portraits, chiefly taken in San Francisco, the bulk of which are Mexican American men, women and children.

Consists of mugshot photographs of criminals and immigrants, presumably used by Robinson in his work as an inspector for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in San Francisco, Calif. for documentation and identification. Many of the immigrants pictured are Chinese.

Correspondence, committee and board minutes, reports, speeches, circulars, newsletters, and clippings, dealing with administrative operations and programs.

One permit and three applications for permits to transport alcoholic beverages within San Francisco.

Correspondence, check stubs recording rent received for 1944-1947, tax receipts (1943-1946), and miscellaneous invoices and billheads.

Two minute books of stockholders' and directors' meetings, a cash book (1920-1947), and two account books.

Photocopy of three typed pages of excerpts from a diary kept by Brierly's mother, Rachel Enloe, Aug.-Sept. 1870, when Enloe was 16, with Brierly's commentary. Enloe describes hunting and camping activities on a trip with her brothers and her brother-in-law's...

Materials on the history of Calif. hotels and stopping places before the completion of the transcontinental railroad, compiled by Cross for his book, The early inns of California, 1844-1869 (published in 1954). Consists chiefly of correspondence, with carbon copies of...

Consists of a ledger (1868-1900) concerning the management of Bidwell's ranch, farm, and household. It itemizes wages, supplies, cattle sold, work performed, freight shipped, type of payment made, paper and periodical subscriptions, political party donations, and compensation received for broken...

Papers primarily relating to Weill's estate, including correspondence between the estate lawyer, Percy E. Towne, Weill's heirs in France, and the co-executors of his will, Herbert Fleishhacker and D.G. Davis, dealing with management of the estate and disbursement of the...

Two tax receipts for property owned by Adler in the city and county of San Francisco, Calif.

Minutes of directors' meetings (1910-1923), cashbook containing intermittent entries (1916-1919), and constitution and bylaws.

Papers of the committee to recall Roger Dearborn Lapham, the mayor of San Francisco in 1946. Includes a record of recall petition solicitors, a flyer, a press release, a petition, letterhead, and other documents.

Consists of business, political, and personal papers, including legal documents, letters, a scrapbook, a diary, a will, a historical sketch on Fr. Junipero Serra, papers pertaining to the Board of Water and Power, documents pertaining to del Valle's political career,...

Copy of an original registry, 1847-1901, recording brands for horses and cattle belonging to owners in San Francisco.

Published, typescript, and carbon copies of the book, The earthquake of 1906, written by Bine's daughter, Marie Louise Bine Rodriguez, and privately published in 1951; together with materials related to Bine's service as a relief camp commander in the aftermath...

Research notes, photographs, and correspondence relating to an article on individuals involved in the Young Ireland movement, 1847-1848. Includes some photocopies.

Photocopies of articles, archival documents, and other materials pertaining to George Henry Goddard, a surveyor and mapmaker of much of Calif., collected by Shumate during research for his book, The life of George Henry Goddard: artist, architect, surveyor, and map...

Sixteen looseleaf notebooks containing clippings, transcriptions, notes, and photocopies from San Francisco newspapers and other printed sources concerning the Sharon-Hill divorce case of the 1880s, which involved former Senator William Sharon, his alleged wife, Sarah Althea Hill, and Hill's husband...

Transcripts, photostats of clippings, and typed notes about Union Iron Works, of San Francisco, Calif., and its founders, James and Peter Donahue. Sources include books, San Francisco and Calif. newspapers, and periodicals published from the 1850s to the 1890s. Much...

Consists chiefly of correspondence, organizational records, speeches, blueprints, notes, telegrams, calling cards, newspaper clippings, and other materials pertaining to the organization and administration of the Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915. Correspondence addresses general and legal issues, as well as...

Typescripts of Kellogg's articles and monographs, and personal copies of books, magazines, and journals to which she contributed articles on children's art, particularly drawings, and its relationship to early childhood development; as well as on nursery schools, child care centers,...

Indentures, leases, receipts, and canceled checks (1849-1864), pertaining mainly to Sherman's real estate holdings in San Francisco and his mercantile business with his brother, William; along with photocopies of two earlier ship's logs: the first kept by Sherman while he...

Papers of Alfred Rix, judge and lawyer; his wife, Chastina; and their sons, Julian, an artist; and Edward, a businessman and inventor. Includes a diary kept by Alfred and Chastina from the time of their 1849 marriage in Peacham, Vt.,...

Forty-two letters from Wallace, written to members of his family at home in Penn. Discusses his voyage and arrival in San Francisco, living and working conditions there, his brief efforts at gold mining, and his subsequent search for other employment....

Handwritten copies of letters and documents issued by Stockton as commodore and later as military governor of California, during the Mexican War; together with a few letters addressed to him. Most of the material was written aboard the U.S. Frigate...

Handwritten diary (ca. 100 p.), written on Greer's voyage from New York to San Francisco aboard the ship Northern Light and across Nicaragua. Consists of brief entries in pencil noting the weather, navigational directions, meals, and other details; and miscellaneous...

Photostat copies no. 5 and no. 9 out of 20 of Ferrell's diary, one loose and one bound, with introductory notes for each copy by E.M. Francis, both dated 1926. The diary was kept by Ferrell on his voyage from...

Consists of 32 letters written by twenty-three year old Robert to family and friends in Ohio while en route to California, employed by the United States Boundary & Survey Commission, and during his stay in Califoria. The letters contain Effinger's...

Bound volumes of college reports (1909, 1924, 1934), and Panama Canal bonds and related correspondence (1908) of Frederick's father, Marcus White Frederick, a San Francisco physician who graduated from Harvard University in 1884; a European travel diary (1883-1884) of Charles...

Consists of newspaper clippings, the bulk of which concern San Francisco politics in the context of Lapham's mayoral activities, with emphasis on city labor disputes, public power, and city transit, particularly a controversy over whether to keep San Francisco cable...

The papers of James Rolph, Jr. include material from his five consecutive terms as San Francisco mayor from 1912-1931. Issues and events affecting the city that are reflected in the papers include: the Panama Pacific International Exposition (PPIE); World War...

Contains three of the same portfolios of five signed and matted prints each, except a Museum Edition which includes an additional print. Contents: Meg -- Two right hands -- Potato field Madonna, Kern County, California -- Eight lantern poppies --...

Approximately 100 letters, chiefly to Hugh Rose, Esq., at home in Ontario, Canada, from various members of the Rose and Milburn families, along with a small amount of assorted business documents and personal ephemera. About half of the letters are...

Postcard (May 1906) written from San Francisco; and a letter (July 18, 1906) written from Santa Clara, to a friend in London, England, describing Withrow's experience of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Focus is on personal psychological effects...

Personal papers, correspondence (1962-1984), Peoples Temple documents, church bulletins, magazines and clippings (1973-1982), affidavits, audiotapes, and other materials documenting Case's involvement with investigations as a founding member of The Truth Squad in Mendocino County, Calif., and as a participant in...

Consists of ephemera related to Crawford's life as an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, ephemera and papers related to his subsequent scholarly activity, and a small amount of correspondence that refers to or presumably...

Two leatherbound pocket diaries and one set of loose notebook pages. The first diary (Jan.-May 28, 1879), records Partridge's daily activities, such as going to school, work (which seems to be a paper route), and making and using bow and...

A two-volume, bound journal by Adams, describing his voyage from New York to San Francisco, Calif. via Cape Horn aboard the ship Mazeppa, and his first months in San Francisco; along with three volumes containing typewritten or longhand copies. The...

Chiefly abstracts of titles to tracts of land in the Potrero District of San Francisco; together with daybooks (1867-1879) and account journals (1862-1864, 1867-1879) for Crim's real estate holdings; deeds and indentures (1870-1892); and rent and tax receipts.

Three account books containing record of sales of Brookes' paintings and lists of purchasers, 1862-1876; a diary/daybook (1871) with very brief entries, some of which record sales and commissions for paintings, with an inventory of paintings for Apr. 1874 in...

Diary (181 p.) handbound in six sections, describing Brown's voyage from New York to San Francisco via Cape Horn aboard the bark Selma with the Fremont Mining and Trading Company, of which he served as chairman of the board; and...

Primarily documents and legal papers pertaining to tax suits filed against Holladay by both San Francisco and the state of California (1871-1880); and legal papers related to his suit against James E. Damon and others, concerning property in Alameda, Calif....

Chiefly reports, with some press releases and other papers, of the California Senate Interim Committee on Bay Area Rapid Transit Problems, including a small amount of correspondence of William J. Wilkin, the committee's former executive secretary; together with reports, pamphlets,...

Membership and financial records of the Twenty-third Company of the Vigilance Committee of 1856, under the command of Capt. John T. Little, consisting of miscellaneous bills, receipts, notices, letters, reports, minutes, a muster roll, and an account book; two resolutions...

Nine miscellaneous letters giving firsthand accounts of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Includes five handwritten letters; two typed transcriptions (one of which is missing the first page); one newspaper clipping of a letter from Anna Poston, from a...

Testimony taken by the 1907 and 1911 grand juries concerning investigation of the alleged bribery of city supervisors by Parkside Transit Company in 1907, and the practic of circumventing civil service regulations by making temporary appointments to city positions on...

Twenty-seven vols., including minute books (1854-1955), case histories (1871-1909), and registers (1880s-1890s, 1929) of San Francisco Ladies Protection and Relief Society; bylaws, case files, and financial records of Crocker Old People's Home; and records of the organizations after their merger...

Correspondence, bylaws, minutes, newsletters, newspapers, and proposals for civic improvements of over 80 neighborhood improvement associations in San Francisco, Calif.

Contains photographs and picture postcards with images of San Francisco street scenes depicting buildings, people, and events, as well as views of entire blocks and intersections that are identified, and general views of the city from the 1830s to the...

Contains photographs and picture postcards depicting scenes of San Francisco places, people and events from the 1850 to the 1980s

Biographical sketches and photographs of participants in the San Francisco Writer's Workshop, which met at the public library and was led for many years by Dean Lipton. Includes a small amount of flyers and other miscellany.

Published books, typescripts, and typed reports, most of which pertain to Stanley's work as a physician for San Quentin Prison. Includes the Register of State Prison at San Quentin, 1889; Reports of Directors on San Quentin, 1855-1912; typed copies of...

Three letters from Johnson to family members. The first letter (July 23, 1833) is written from an unknown location to Daniel Johnson in Maine and signed by Sophia Johnson. The other two letters, dated Jan. 25, 1851 and Jan. 8,...

Miscellaneous papers pertaining to Chandler, her family, and her estate. Includes a certificate of ownership, made out to Chandler's father, W.L. Chandler, for his cemetery plot in Tenn. (1866); scholarly and professional documents of Sarah Chandler, including her resume, teaching...

A duplicate copy of a receipt (1872) for money received by T.B. Sharp, Superintendent, for labor performed; and two checks (1876 and 1898) issued by Savage Mining Company to individuals.

Personal and business correspondence of John Jacob Sawyer, Maria Glass Sawyer, and Anna M. Sawyer Hargis, along with some personal and financial documents. John Jacob Sawyer correspondence consists chiefly of letters to him from various family members, including his sister,...

Correspondence with legislators and businessmen about the silver question (i.e. whether to reinstate U.S. silver as money); a typescript (with draft and carbon copy) of a monograph by Knapp, titled Observations and reminiscences of early days in the mining camps...

Contains correspondence, articles of incorporation, minutes of meetings, and related papers. The bulk of the collection consists of documents from public agencies and private community organizations whose work was relevant to SMYSC issues, including the San Francisco Youth Advocacy Project...

Primarily correspondence, along with annual financial reports, and a newspaper clipping about the construction of the Ocean Shore highway.

Correspondence, billheads, invoices, bids, estimates, reports, contracts, receipts, financial accounts, and receipts of Palmer, relating to his construction jobs throughout Calif., both in partnership, primarily as part of Palmer & McBryde and of S.H. Palmer & J.P. Holland, Inc., and...

Photostat copy of the last page of a letter written by Sir Francis Drake; and a typed transcript containing a copy of Drake's will dated Aug. 1595; its codicil dated the following Jan.; a copy of the will of Francis...

The collection consists of two handwritten diaries kept by Edward Stanly (1879 and 1877-1880); an inventory of the John A. Stanly estate (1914); and a typed transcript of the 1877-1880 diary by family friend and/or neighbor, Roxana Hilt, with related...

Consists of 38 pages from Curry's diary, prepared by his great-nephew Dr. James Hart Curry Martens. The diary details his ocean voyage from New York to San Francisco via Panama on the Ocean Queen. Also outlines his experience working on...

Carbon copy of typed trancript (2 leaves) of a "First draft of resolutions concerning Judge Field" by the Academic Senate of the University of California, on the occasion of Field's death; and three calling cards belonging to Field.

Eight letters from Culverwell concerning his business, family, and personal matters. The letters briefly describe San Francisco and Culverwell's feelings towards it; and mention his marriage and the birth of his son.

Two sales ledgers (1850-1851 and 1863-1867) and an account book from Smith's wholesale and retail lumber yard; and miscellaneous receipts and papers, including a complaint (1850) in the lawsuit James Lick vs. George C. Potter, Smith, and others, concerning ownership...

Stereographs of the San Francisco Bay Area, Pescadero, Santa Cruz, Point Reyes, and Mendocino County taken by Eadweard Muybridge.

Stereographs of San Francisco, Atherton, Mammoth Tree Grove, Yosemite, and Alaska taken by Eadweard Muybridge under the name Helios.

Contains views of San Francisco; Valparaiso Park in Atherton (identified by handwritten notes on verso); Mammoth Tree Grove; Yosemite; and Sitka and Fort Wrangle, Alaska. The majority of the images are of San Francisco, especially of Woodward's Gardens, and include...

Stereographs of California and Nevada taken by Lawrence & Houseworth.

Mostly northern California landscape and city views of San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, Mammoth Grove, The Geysers, Redwood City, Yosemite Valley, Monterey County, Santa Cruz County, Placer County, and Amador County. Includes one photo each of hydraulic mining on the Yuba...

Stereographs of Farallone Islands (i.e., Farallon Islands), Geyser Springs, Mariposa Grove, and other California views taken by Eadweard Muybridge.

Stereographs of San Francisco, Calif. taken by Thomas Houseworth & Co.

Various San Francisco images, including hotels, restaurants, businesses, churches, the Cliff House, San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz Island, Woodward's Gardens, the 1872 ceremony for laying the cornerstone of City Hall, and Joshua Norton riding a tricycle. Includes three Marin County photos.

Stereographs of San Francisco, Calif. taken by Eadweard Muybridge. Includes two Marin County images.

Images of San Francisco streets and buildings, including hotels, churches, and businesses. Many of the structures are identified by captions. There are a few photos of the Dry Dock at Hunter's Point and one photo each of Goat Island (now...

Stereographs of the Central Pacific Railroad taken by Thomas Houseworth & Co. Includes one stereo of the Western Pacific Railroad.

Primarily landscape images of the Central Pacific Railroad route, with some photos of railroad tracks, bridges, a snow plow, and a ferry boat. Includes photos of Donner Lake, Truckee River, Lake Angela, French Lake, and Cisco in winter. There is...

Stereographs of the Central Pacific Railroad taken by Eadweard Muybridge.

Views of the construction and surrounding landscape of the Central Pacific Railroad in northern California and Nevada. Includes a downtown San Francisco view, a photo of the interior hallway of E.B. Crocker's Sacramento residence, and a group portrait of Piute...

Stereographs of the Modoc War and surrounding Siskiyou County landscape taken by Eadweard Muybridge.

Stereographs taken by M.M. Hazeltine of the Sierra Nevada and other California views,including San Francisco, mining, and Native Americans. Contains a few landscapes of Oregon.

Stereographs of Yosemite, San Francisco, and other California locations, including images of the Central Pacific Railroad taken by J.J. Reilly. Contains one stereo of Utah.

Mostly images of Yosemite and San Francisco. There are also views of the Farallone Islands (i.e., Farallon Islands), Mono Lake, Devil's Tea Kettle at Geyser Springs, and various images of the Central Pacific Railroad. Includes one photo of Wasatch Mountains...

Stereographs of Yosemite Valley taken by Thomas Houseworth & Co.

Views of Yosemite Valley that include many of its mountains, lakes, and waterfalls.

Correspondence, minutes, program and financial reports and records, programs for events, and scrapbooks. Correspondence consists of letters between Rosalie Stern and Elise Haas--as presidents of the Board of Trustees--and musicians, conductors, performers, agents, dance and theater companies, and the San...

Eleven miscellaneous items, most of which pertain to Stewart Blanc, including a receipt (1867) for a deposit on his purchase of a parcel of land in San Francisco; a handwritten letter written by "Papa Blanc" to "Alex," written on a...

Eight complete letters and one letter fragment, written to the Branch family in La Grange, Stanislaus County by members of the Strentzel family in Alhambra Valley, Contra Costa County. Includes Texas land grant (Mar. 20, 1848), signed by Gov. George...

Legal documents pertaining to civil proceedings by the U.S. government to condemn and obtain title to land in the vicinity of the San Leandro and San Antonio estuaries in Alameda County, for the purpose of constructing a tidal canal for...

Three volumes containing meeting minutes of Sunset Transportation and Development Association, a neighborhood association of property owners, residents, and merchants of the Sunset district in San Francisco, Calif.

Chiefly correspondence of or pertaining to Anthony. Three letters are from Anthony, in the course of her business as part of the Women's National League and the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The first letter, dated Dec. 14, 1863, is...

Pocket diaries with daily entries written mostly from the family's home near Santa Clara, Calif., in what was then known as Lawrence Station. Braly records her religious reflections, details of household and family life, and accounts of trips to Missouri,...

Irving M. Scott, Jr. was General Manager of Union Iron Works, San Francisco, Calif.

Consists of two telegrams. The first, from Eugene J. Fuller, informs Abbott that the Bank of California has suspended payment, predicts that other banks will also fail, and describes the mood in San Francisco, Calif. The second, sent to the...

Five vols. of records, including an indexed membership roll (1874-1885), listing biographical information and dues paid; an indexed volume containing propositions for membership (1875-1885) for 262 persons, including at least two women, with accompanying signatures of voters for each entry;...

Two four-page letters written by Bisbee while working as a gold miner in Blue Nose, Siskiyou County. The letters mention his work, living and travel plans, provisions for winter, and family news. The first letter, dated Nov. 2, 1866, is...

A printed copy of an 1848 Act of Congress: "An Act to provide for the ventilation of passenger vessels, and for other purposes"; Barry's handwritten will, dated Sept. 25, 1851; a clipping from the periodical Forest and Stream about a...

Miscellaneous letters received by Hittell, a few personal documents, several railroad passes (1886-1894); and newspaper clippings concerning Hittell's life, book reviews, and articles dealing with Calif. history.

Diaries, account books, and laboratory notebooks of Thomas Varney, a scrapbook/diary of Maria Varney, and miscellaneous personal and business papers of both. Diaries include one from 1849, describing Varney's voyage to Calif. from Cincinnati, via Panama; and a travel diary...

Bound travel diary (May-Dec. 1849) describing Eastland's overland journey from Nashville, Tenn. to San Francisco, Calif. via New Orleans, El Paso, and Mexico (via steamer), travelling to the gold fields with his son, Joseph, and his Black slave, Dow; and...

Property records (Apr.-July 1896), including purchase agreements, receipts, a mortgage, a deed, and a survey map, pertaining to the sale and improvement of Howard Presbyterian Church and the lot on which it is located, at Third and Mission Sts. In...

Chiefly correspondence, invoices, and receipts from Calif. businesses.

Miscellaneous correspondence (1854-1857) and papers dealing with the appointment of Fred H. Growsand as administrator of Hayes' estate in 1896.

Letters from Hayes, primarily to Henry F. Williams of H.F. Williams Company, a real estate firm, regarding Hayes' property and a mortgage foreclosure against him by Hibernia Savings and Loan Society; lists of property owned, financial statements and receipts relating...

Papers used by Saunders in writing his book, Planned Parenthood Alameda/San Francisco, 1929-1994, published in 1995. Includes drafts of book chapters, bylaws, board packets, and correspondence; together with financial statements, narratives from former Board Presidents and clinicians, newsletters, and clippings...

Composite collection of original, photostat, and photocopied documents and papers of or relating to Thomas O. Larkin. Original documents include a note (1843) to Larkin from Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo; a contract (1849) between Larkin and Jacob P. Leese; articles of...

Miscellaneous deeds, powers of attorney, a letter, and other documents. Persons represented include Samuel C. Bigelow, Josiah Belden, George Gordon, and Arnold Engles, Jr.

Chiefly materials expressing opposition to legislation in which Starr was one of two persons designated to represent Calif. in Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C., 1927-1929. Consists of correspondence of Senator James D. Phelan, a few letters to Boutwell Dunlap, and...

Twelve letters from King to his friend Haven Ball, of Sacramento, Calif. and Gold Hill, Nevada Territory, discussing King's preaching and lecture tours in Calif., his personal business investments, matters relating to the First Unitarian Church of San Francisco, the...

Six letters (1860-1862, with the sixth letter undated) from King to his friend, Haven Ball, of Sacramento, Calif., Virginia City, and Gold Hill, Nevada Territory, discussing King's lecture tours, personal investments, and family matters; together with a telegram (Mar. 4,...

Correspondence, primarily with Seward's brother, R.J. Seward, in Boston; and Thomas Seward's wife, Lucy F. Seward, who lived in Weymouth, Mass., and then in Waldoboro, Maine. Letters discuss family news, health, and living conditions in Calif.

Chiefly papers of Harry Innes Thornton Creswell (1891-1964), military attache to Tokyo; together with papers of Harry Innes Thornton (1797-1861), member of California Land Commission for 1851; Harry Innes Thornton (1834-1895), lawyer, Calif. State Senator, and officer in the Confederate...

Correspondence, legal documents (primarily relating to real estate transactions), receipts, and ledgers and account books of the firm; together with records of other companies in which the brothers had a controlling interest (Gold Run Ditch and Mining Company, 1880-1897; Pioneer...

Two documents pertaining to service rendered by Turner as a Red Cross volunteer during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. The first document, undated, is a letter from Phillip King Brown at the Presidio Heights Relief Station, to Captain...

Letter (26 p.) written May 1, 1906 by Klauber to his sister, Alice, along with a printed copy in paper wrappers. Includes an introduction, supplement, epilogue dated Apr. 18, 1958, and footnotes. Klauber gives a firsthand account of the 1906...

Consists of organizational records, including bylaws, historians reports (1955, 1958, 1970, 1972, 1973), general meeting announcements (1955-1957),program announcements (1956-1976), committee reports (1957-1976), executive board meetings (1967-1975), financial reports (1967-1975), newsletters (1966-1976), minutes from general meetings (1968-1973), general correspondence (1969-1975), tax...

Five vols. containing copies of outgoing correspondence from the U.S. Consul in Hawaii, to U.S., Hawaiian, and foreign officials, as well as captains of commercial ships. Letters concern government, trade, and citizen relations; as well as financial matters.

Newspaper and magazine clippings, papers and portraits.

Mostly inventories of the San Francisco art dealer, including part of an account/inventory book (1902-1905) with listings for Yamanaka & Co., of New York; an inventory of porcelain and pottery (no year given); a copy of an inventory (1923-1924) of...

Two volumes (undated) containing handwritten listings of births, deaths, and marriages for the years 1869-1924 in the town of Arroyo Grande, near San Luis Obispo; and two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings (1887-1921), compiled by Wood.

The collection consists of five bound letterbooks of letters sent to W. P. Fuller & Co. from September 1896 to September 1921. The letters are from the Pioneer White Lead Works and the Pioneer Color Works, subsidiaries of the company;...

Eight books containing prescription slips filled at Wakelee's Pharmacy, allegedly at a branch located at 623 Clement St. Includes one vol. of prescriptions filled out on National Prohibition Act prescription blanks (1920-1922), another vol. containing prescriptions for narcotics (1916-1923), and...

Five typed letters on letterhead for the organization Crusade for Freedom, Inc., of New York, addressed to Hobart in San Francisco, Calif. The organization, founded in 1950, served as the fund-raising arm of Free Europe Committee, which operates Radio Free...

Correspondence; papers concerning Merchants Exchange Bank in San Francisco, Calif., including proxies (1885), a report, and lists of stockholders; and miscellaneous bills and receipts (1890s-1903). Includes a few items pertaining to individuals other than Kellogg, including a miniature pocket diary...

Correspondence, business papers, and financial records (1864-1920) of Wilson & Brother; business records (1885-1954) of California Door Company; and a small amount of Kellogg's personal and business correspondence (1945-1951). Much of his business correspondence is with John C. Pelton and...

Complaints, answers, subpoenas, briefs, summonses, affidavits, testimony, attorney's notes, a mortgage, a deed, letters, and other legal documents and papers pertaining to property and divorce suits handled by Burnett as part of his private law practice. Includes legal papers from...

Contains professional and family correspondence. Includes invitations to social and political events, billheads and receipts for family and business purchases, poems, and other personal and legal papers. Also includes professional licenses, a stock certificate, and a certificate of election to...

Handwritten notes and correspondence concerning distribution of Hanley's estate, for which Burnett served as San Francisco attorney. Includes letters from Hanley's daughter, Maggie Daly, as well as persons involved in Maggie Daly's financial affairs. Letters are annotated by Burnett.

Consists of an incomplete (20p.) photocopy of a letter to his wife, Abigail Charlotte Baldwin, describing his journey by ship then stagecoach from San Leandro to Yosemite Valley, July 22-27, 1867. Details terrain, plant and animal life, and quartz and...

Includes financial reports (1896-1898) for Western Sugar Refining Company, of San Francisco, Calif., formed as a result of a merger between Spreckels' California Refinery and U.S. sugar trust interests.

Western Development Company was formed by Leland Stanford, Charles, Crocker, Mark Hopkins, Collis P. Huntington, and David D. Colton to handle various financial and business transactions for the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroad companies.

Rough draft of a chapter (44 leaves) by Cross on the history of Continental Oil Company in the 1870s and 1880s; a photo-illustrated printed article by Cross surveying the company's history in terms of its locations, 1875-1972; and a photocopy...

Correspondence (1845-1847) as vice-consul; correspondence, account books, orders, and receipts (1834-1848) reflecting Leidesdorff's activities as a merchant in Yerba Buena (later San Francisco); papers relating to Leidesdorff's land grant, Rio de los Americanos, and the legal battle between Joseph L....

Deed for land in Marin County, granted to Richardson by Juan Bautista Alvarado, governor of Alta California; together with Richardson's petition and a manuscript map of the tract. Includes negative photostat copies of two other documents belonging to Richardson, dated...

Typed copies of ten letters from Hyde, dated 1869-1873, mainly concerning the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, for whom he worked as a Special Agent. Correspondents include Leland Stanford, C.P. Huntington, and others. Also includes a personal letter to his wife,...

Consists of personal and business correspondence, diaries, and legal documents relating to mining claims in Butte County, Calif., together with political correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other papers pertaining to Hendricks's terms as State Senator (1873-1877), State Prison Director (1883-1887), and...

Consists of a diary detailing the interests and travels of Borlase with companion Fleetwood Sandeman in the U.S., particularly in Calif., and Japan.

Consists of ca. 300 letters, invoices, receipts, checks, and other business, legal, financial, and personal documents, many of which pertain to transactions involving Wells, Fargo & Company; Northern Light Mining Company, and other businesses related to gold mining.

Chiefly letters to Daegener, with some receipts and other financial documents relating to his personal business. Includes a declaration of homestead (Feb. 6, 1860) for him and his wife, Marie, in Columbia.

Chiefly personal and business correspondence, with some receipts.

Eight letters (1848-1853) from Colman to his sister, Kate, describing his job as a mail clerk in Sacramento; three letters to his friend Robert I. Frothingham (1861-1862), including a letter about his experience in the Civil War; a copy of...

Correspondence, invoices, and receipts from pioneer Calif. residents, merchants, and companies, reflecting Howard's extensive commercial activities through his firm, Mellus & Howard Company, including letters to and from business partner Henry D. Mellus, Francis Mellus at the Los Angeles branch...

Certificate of membership to Badger from the Committee of Vigilance of 1851, dated 1852; and typed copies of three items printed in the Daily Alta California concerning Badger and his wife, Harriet Jane Badger. The first item, dated Aug. 13,...

Personal documents, including a marriage certificate and naturalization papers; personal letters from family and friends, and business correspondence. Includes information on relations with Hawaii, the expulsion of foreigners from Mexico in 1843, and the estate of Dana's cousin, William Heath...

Parts 1 and 3 of Ennis' journal (undated) recounting his voyage with the Russian-American Telegraph Exploring Expedition, which set out in 1865 to seek a route from Vancouver Island to Siberia over which Western Union could establish a telegraph line...

Correspondence, invoices, bills, a payroll ledger, and other records of Middleton Car Company (1906-1909) and Middleton & Holman (1910), Northern Calif. agents for Pennsylvania Motor Cars; and personal business papers of Middleton, including an abstract of title for land in...

Four volumes of letters, reports, and engineering estimates, written while Hall was state engineer of Calif., superintendent of Golden Gate Park, chief engineer of West Side Irrigation Commission, and a private engineer. Includes a single handwritten letter to Hall from...

Chiefly correspondence, reports, accounts, and other papers pertaining to Hall's irrigation projects in Calif., with some materials on projects in Nev. and Yakima, Wash. Includes some papers related to Hall's research and publications on irrigation, dams, and reservoirs; reports and...

Correspondence, reports, and clippings produced in Hall's capacities as a state official and engineer for water resources and water management in Calif. Includes correspondence (including four letter books) with Hall as State Engineer; USGS reports for Truckee Basin, Lahontan Division,...

Two letters written by Hancock to his sister, giving an eyewitness account of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, of conditions on the day of the earthquake and the following four days. Describes conditions in San Francisco and in...

Miscellaneous items by or pertaining to Hartnell, including: a handwritten announcement (Dec. 10, 1833) of the opening of Hartnell's school for boys near Monterey, Calif., whose student body consisted largely of his own 25 children; a hand-drawn map (undated) of...

Consists of a paperbound algebra textbook (183?), written by Hartnell and translated into Spanish by P. Nicholson; a daybook (1823-1827) kept in Monterey, and an account book (1826-1828), both kept by Hartnell while he was a mission produce merchant in...

Nine letters to Davis and two account books (1842-1846) kept by him while he was supercargo aboard the Don Quixote to Honolulu, and while he was agent for Paty, McKinley & Co.; and orders and receipts from several prominent Calif....

Two letters concerning the repair of a wagon wheel for Brewer, who was scheduled to travel from San Luis Obispo to Monterey, Calif. The first letter (4 p.), dated Apr. 10, 1861, is written by Brewer from Camp 24 on...

Consists of 13 letters and some incomplete letters to Burgess's mother in England; newspaper clippings and reminiscences of Burgess and the Burgess family; and notebooks and writings belonging to or written by Burgess. The letters (1851-1859) describe life in gold...

Consists of various materials collected and maintained by William J. Mountin, gathered in the course of his work in the Statistical Branch of the Wartime Civilian Control Administration (WCCA). Includes War Relocation Authority (WRA) and WCCA correspondence and memos concerning...

Twenty-six letters written by the brothers William, Samuel, Henry, and Seneca to their father, Captain Daniel Weston, in Bremen, Maine. William's letters mainly deal with family concerns, such as financial difficulties and health status; they also mention conditions in San...

Chronicles two different sea voyages by Carson: the first, Jan.-July 1849, from Baltimore to San Francisco via Cape Horn on the ship Jane Parker, and the second, Nov. 3-26, 1870, from San Francisco to New York via Panama on the...

Chiefly correspondence written during Gwin's terms of office as U.S. Senator. Includes a minority report (1849) from the committee responsible for planning the state constitution, recommending a preamble; a petition to Congress (1851) for the establishment of a branch of...

Brief daily entries on building projects, business-related travel, appointments, and related professional activities.

Office records for the architectural firm of W.P. Day, including correspondence, financial and personnel records, project files, and plans; together with some personal papers, and other documents. Projects represented include Golden Gate International Exposition (1939-1940) and San Francisco International Airport...

Two-volume daybook (1836-1844) for a business in which Clark was involved in Michigan City, Ind.; several deeds for property in San Francisco and Santa Clara County, Calif.; an abstract of title for a fifty-vara lot in San Francisco owned by...

Reports, blueprints, contracts, and specifications relating to construction of the Hetch Hetchy Water System, and papers dealing with construction of the Richmond sewer tunnel, Richmond-Sunset sewage treatment plant, Municipal Railway system, and other San Francisco municipal projects.

Collection consists of a typed decree settling and distributing Brier's estate, Oct. 13, 1890, issued by the Calif. Superior Court, Alameda County; and a carbon copy of a genealogy of Brier and his wife, Elizabeth Ann Naylor Brier, undated, compiled...

Legal documents and notes pertaining to Chipman's San Francisco law practice, deeds for property in Alameda, and papers pertaining to Chipman's estate. Legal documents include deeds, complaints, affidavits, and briefs from numerous suits in which Chipman was involved, either as...

Family and business correspondence, legal papers, a letter book, a scrapbook, and other papers of Thomas Hansford Williams, Jr., landowner and president of New California Jockey Club, and his wife, Beatrice Steele. Includes correspondence of Thomas H. Williams, Sr. and...

Five volumes of scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings documenting the reconstruction of San Francisco, Calif. after the 1906 earthquake and fire, and subsequent city and architectural development. Commercial and public buildings represented include: the Civic Center, the Hobart Building, the Hallidie...

Five letters to Lillie D. Blake from suffragists Carrie Chapman Catt, Susan B. Anthony, and Mary Wood Swift, of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the California State Suffrage Association; along with one letter to Swift from Sarah M....

Materials relating to the 1911 state campaign for women's suffrage in Calif., including typed copies of the constitution of the Men's League for Woman Suffrage, with member signatures; a handwritten petition in favor of Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 8 for...

Letters, pamphlets, billheads, advertising cards, and certificates.

Bound volumes containing copies of letters sent to the company from its subsidiaries, Pioneer White Lead Works and Pioneer Color Works; and from branch officers in Calif. and Portland, Or., primarily regarding orders for supplies and paints, reports, and other...

Twenty-three volumes of minutes of meetings of the board of directors, board of trustees and incorporators, annual meetings, the Y Tree at Big Tree Grove near Santa Cruz (1887), and the board of directors of the YMCA hotel (1943-1956). Includes...