This collection is a handwritten abstract of Thomas A Sanchez's deposition on behalf of the land claims of Andres Pico to the Rancho San Fernando, as remembered, ca. 1868. The deponant's recollections of the early days of the Rancho San...
Manuscript, handwritten and typewritten.
The George W. Nilsson collection contains a typed article (manuscript), "In, Through and Across the Grand Canyon," and photographs, which document Nilsson's trip across the Grand Canyon, August 28-30, 1921. Most of the photographs show scenes from the journey itself...
12 manuscript letters from Addison Newell of Sacramento, and later Pleasant Valley, California, to his brother Charles in Maine and in New York, speaking of mining, agriculture, a projected railroad project, the State Legislature, and general business conditions in California.
Correspondence, deeds, ephemeral materials, pamphlets, printed materials, receipts, typescripts, vouchers.
Majority of correspondence concerns the building of Sutro Tunnel. Includes newspapers seeking information and offering support on Tunnel project, contact with a manufacturing firm regarding building of mining railroad cars, etc. Last letter concerns excavation work being done on beach...
There are thirty items in the African Methodist Episcopal Church ephemera collection, including flyers, calling cards, tickets, etc. Some are annotated with names, dates and miscellaneous notes. Provenance of the collection is unknown but likely the collector was in some...
Pacheco Pass Wagon Road Company employed George H. Jones and William Price to complete a section of road. Jones and Price contracted with Ah Tem for laborers. Various parties went to court concerning payment of wages for those laborers.
Radio programs on Russians in early California, Russians at Fort Ross, Johann Sutter, Stanislaus the Indian Neophyte, Juvenile Delinquents, San Francisco earthquake....
Scripts of radio plays broadcast for Northern California school children in the late 1930's and early 1940's.
Correspondence; business papers; Chinese, military and mining company materials.
Diaries and notebooks, auto record books, records for Highland Park property, photographs
Correspondence
Includes bibliographies.
Diary and pay record book kept by Alfred E. Beaumont when he was serving in the 43rd Engineers, Co. F, during the 1st World War.
Account books, correspondence, diaries, files, notes and drafts, photographs, scrapbooks....
Copies of papers filed in court cases; copies of leases, agreements, sales contracts, eviction notices, etc....
Leases, agreements sales contracts, eviction notices
5 letters from Ambrose Bierce along with 5 typescript copies and a referral note to George Sterling letters collection.
The bulk of the collection consists of financial documents, primarily payment receipts, for the period ca. 1887-1911 and scattered later dates. The receipts document most aspects of the corporation: payroll, legal fees, purchases of building materials, advertising costs, etc. In...
The bulk of the collection consists of financial documents, primarily payment receipts, for the period ca. 1887-1911 and scattered later dates. The receipts document most aspects of the corporation: payroll, legal fees, purchases of building materials, advertising costs, etc. In...
Business papers, correspondence, legal papers, Natomas Company papers, scrapbooks.
This collection has been arranged into the following series: HAIKU MATERIALS: Correspondence with haiku poets; Writing -- haiku and tanka, renga (with Christopher Heron, Francine Porad), haibun, rengay (with John Thompson); Articles; Presentations; Awards; Correspondence as President of the Haiku...
Articles, correspondence, ephemera, scrapbooks, speeches
Early Spanish documents concerning the discovery and exploration of America, Mexico and California.
Correspondence, diaries, deeds, maps, newspapers, pictures, testimonials.
Title supplied by cataloger.
This collection consists of one letter, written at San Diego, April 17, 1908. The greeting is "Dear Father", the signature is "Yours, Henry." The letter contains a detailed description including small sketches of 4000 "bluejackets" (Navy) and 1000 marines formed...
Business and personal correspondence and a journal kept by Harriet J. Kirtland.
Four documents relating to Antonio María Suñol, 1854, 1865, 1869. Three of them deal posthumously with matters pertaining to his estate.
Son of California Supreme Court Justice Jessie W. Carter, he was born in San Francisco and raised in Redding. In early years practiced law in Redding and spent eight years as State Senator for Shasta and Trinity counties. In 1950...
Scrapbook consists of newspaper and magazine clippings; postcards; typescript histories of sanatorium; original typescript and carbon copies of reports of board meetings, treasurer's reports, articles of incorporation, etc.; invitations to exhibitions of pottery; pamphlets and brochures advertising sanatorium; original checks;...
Two proposals documenting articles of agreement between financeers and prospective gold miners. The financeers agree to finance the would-be miners in return for a share of the profits from their mining activities once they reach the California gold fields. Neither...
Letters of pioneers and early settlers of Lassen County used by Fairfield in preparing his county history
Typescript with proofreading marks.
Two letters from Charles Aull to F.I. Vassault (addressed as F.J. in one letter), dated Aug. 28 and Aug. 29, 1890. Letters are on stationery with the letterhead: Office of the Warden, State Prison at Folsom. They are typescript copies...
Manuscripts by California writers...
FHWA-CA-TL-2112-1-76-62.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Letters written by Lorain Bachtal and other family members in Nevada City, California to her sister, Mrs. Margaret Humbert in Green Spring, and, later, Elmore, Ohio. Other family members include Margaret's nieces Natilda Hecker, Lillie E. Hecker, Amanda Wagner, and...
Certificates, correspondence, photographs....
Seven letters to and from Billy & Nellie Barnum in Alpine County. Mostly family letters with some references to Mr. Barnum's job with the "Pacific Rural Press" of special interest. Also of note is a letter to Nellie from her...
Newspaper and periodical clippings, copies of court briefs, audio tape: "Hymn of the Embattled Taxpayer," position papers, correspondence, promotional material....
Photographs, flight logs, scrapbook, clippings, essay, constitution
Photographs, flight logs, scrapbook, clippings, essay, constitution...
Letters from family and friends, poll tax receipts....
During the years 1930 to 1948, Nellie Blair Greene corresponded with her friend, Mrs. Marshall Smith (Delia), in Jackson, Michigan. Mrs. Smith saved Nellie's letters and some years later they were given to Beverlee Calvert, who hoped to publish them...
Correspondence between John H. Beeckman, his wife Margaret, and other family members....
Correspondence
Correspondence to the law firm of Belcher and Belcher in Marysville, Yuba County, California....
Son of California Supreme Court Justice Jessie W. Carter, he was born in San Francisco and raised in Redding. In early years practiced law in Redding and spent eight years as State Senator for Shasta and Trinity counties. In 1950...
Business papers and correspondence
Correspondence
Correspondence, genealogy, photographs
Correspondence, journal, sermons, other papers....
Correspondence, diaries, deeds, maps, newspapers, pictures, testimonials....
Correspondence, notes, legal and business papers....
Business and personal papers, correspondence, certificates, contracts, receipts....
Correspondence, manuscripts and drafts, book reviews, photographs, contracts, royalty statements
Clippings, correspondence, photos, programs, publicity, scrapbooks, posters, postcards and posters concerning the career of Lillian Birmingham and her daughter Alma Birmingham. ...
Seven letters from Pine Grove, Sierra County (postmarked Table Rock), dated from Dec. 21, 1854 to Dec. 29, 1865. They are addressed to the Solomon Bisbee family in Sumner, Maine and written by members of the family. Four are from...
Business papers, correspondence....
Four-page letter from Mary A.B. to "Dear Cousin", Charley's Ranch Sept. 1 /56. Accompanied by: Fragment of letter signed "From your undutiful niece Mary"; three-page letter to "Ely Black, Esq.", dated Kingsburg Sept. 16, 1856, from G.B. Underhill; three envelopes...
The Black Panther Party was founded in October 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale as an organization dedicated to protecting and uplifting the Black population of Oakland. As the organization grew this focus spread to the rest of...
Pacific Lighting Corporation, a holding company was founded in 1886 by C.O.G. Miller and Walter B. Cline in San Francisco. Based in San Francisco, its holdings (primarily gas and electric utility companies) were in southern California.
Miscellaneous collection of items relating to the pioneering family of Kezia and Bradner Curtis. Three bound journals: 1. Entries by both Kezia and Bradner documenting their trip to California around Cape Horn in 1850-1851. 2. Entries by Bradner covering the...
Correspondence....
Correspondence, financial papers, legal papers, business cards, invitation....
Correspondence, financial papers, legal papers, business cards, invititations
Letters, receipts and mortgage papers....
All but two letters, written by Jared to his father, Charles Brown. Describes voyage around South America; life in Coloma and in California; mentions the violence, politics, Know-Nothing party, 2nd Vigilance Committee's activities; mentions General Richardson, Senator Welles, James King...
The collection is composed of two letters regarding the transfer of property over to the Unevida Gold Mining Company; two maps of the Brunswick Consolidated mine; a description of the Alturas mine; a statement of receipts, disbursements and liabilities; statements...
Correspondence, business cards, clippings
Lowell Vernon Cary was born in Sacramento on December 10, 1936 and was raised in that city, where he acted in a number of stage productions during his high school years. He subsequently worked in radio in the San Francisco...
Ms. records of Company includes 5 volumes of minutes; 1 volume recording stock issued by Company.
Career, clients, and cases at Morrison & Foerster; president Bar Association of San Francisco, State Bar of California, and American Bar Association. Interviews include recollections of Marshall L. Small, Peter J. Pfister, William Alsup, Preston Moore, Penelope A. Prevolos, Stanley...
Sketches, original art work and examples of Bull's work for the Southern Pacific Railroad....
There are nineteen items in the Bushnell family papers, dating from 1848 through 1860. The gold rush correspondence (1852-1857) includes nine letters from family members in California writing home to Westport, Conn.; all letters have been transcribed. One letter is...
Newspaper clippings collected by Governor C. C. Young
Letter written by C. Moody of Marion County, Ohio, to her brother. Letter features an engraving of Republican Presidential candidate John C. Fremont. The end of the letter states "you will see that this sheet and envelope have Fremont stamp...
Accounts, business and personal correspondence, diaries, photographs
This collection contains the records of the California Aviation Company (CAC), a partnership of two early pilots, Orvar S. T. Meyerhoffer and Edward H. Thompson, which catered primarily to independent "backyard" aviators.
The California Chamber of Commerce archives is a multi-media collection organized into two major series. The media series includes slides, photographs -- prints, negatives and proof sheets -- and film, including videos. These materials document Chamber activities and programs addressing...
Cover title.
Vols 1-64 have cover title California Revision of Laws Commission's reports.
Senate and Assembly concurrent resolutions approving amendments to the charters of California counties.
Invitation lists, press notices, briefings, program plans, dedication preliminary plans, correspondence....
Invitation lists, press notices, briefings, program plans, dedication plans, correspondence
"Newspaper file item": no. 1-18.
Business and member correspondence, invoices
Business and member correspondence, invoices....
Handwritten ledgers containing the dockets for the Justice Court, Coloma township. Dockets are for civil cases, assault, battery, debt, etc. Vol. 3 includes a copy of a presidential election ballot; v. 4 includes court accounts, affidavits for estray animals; all...
Deeds, court papers, agreements, bills of sale, mining claims....
Deeds, court papers, agreements, bills of sale, mining claims
Announcements, memoranda, plans, studies, etc.
Two letters sent from Mark Wooster in Sonoma, California, to friends back in Connecticut. The letter of July 7th, 1854 is addressed to F.W. Smith in Humphreysville. The July 27th letter has no address but the salutation reads "Friend Burton"....
Maps and charts of gold mines in El Dorado and Placer Counties, map of chrome mine in San Luis Obispo County, ore receipts from San Francisco mint and Selby Smelting and Lead Co., San Francisco, correspondence from a mining supply...
Business papers, maps and charts, correspondence, printed materials
Title supplied by cataloger.
Awards, information, files, minutes, reports
In 1918, the California State Council of Defense (first created in 1916) formed the War History Committee for the purpose of asembling the records of the war and preserving all material of historical value relating to California's part in that...
Mass mailings, brochures, clippings, newsletters....
Mass mailings, brochures, clippings, newsletters
The California Water Color Society was formed in Los Angeles in 1921 and, by the early 1930s, served as a prime catalyst for what became acclaimed nationally as the "California Watercolor School". After World War II the movement's stylistic cohesiveness...
Clippings, press releases, notes, flyers, photographs, reports, audio and video tapes regarding the campaign to remove Chief Justice Rose Bird from the California Supreme Court....
Clippings, press releases, notes, flyers, photographs, reports, audio and video tapes regarding the campaign to remove Chief Justice Rose Bird from the California Supreme Court.
Letters are addressed to his father, James Campbell, and his sister, Rebecca. Bulk of the letters are written from locations in Nevada and Sierra counties (Nevada City, Wolf Creek, Smith Flat, Brandy City, etc.). A few come from locations in...
Business papers, certificates, correspondence, legal papers and scrapbook of poetry....
Business papers, certificates, correspondence, legal papers and scrapbook of poetry
Artifact lists, acquisition lists, photocopies and photographic images of artifacts, accounts of the restoration process, minutes of the Interpretive Steering Committee, floor plans, memoranda and drawings of the historic Capitol Library....
Artifact lists, acquisition lists, photocopies and photographic images of artifacts, accounts of the restoration process, minutes of the Interpretive Steering Committee, floor plans, memos and drawings of the historic Capitol Library.
Correspondence, greeting cards, clippings, notes, speeches, receipts, State Library School materials, Pony Express information, photographs, notes on historic buildings, Caroline Wenzel School materials, tax receipts; Arthur, Florine, Jennie, George, Robert and Wenzel family materials.
Application and information cards, bills and invoices, correspondence, daily assay, mill & precipitation reports, detailed company costs, expenditures miscellany, general accounts, journal entries, memos, mining returns, operation & production records, pay roll, requisitions, statement of bullion sent to mint, mill...
Application and information cards, bills and invoices, correspondence, daily assay, mill & precipitation reports, detailed company cost, general accounts, journal entries, memos, mining returns, operation & production records, payroll, requisitions, statement of bullion sent to mint, mill report, timber inventory,...
Master calender orders, appellate decisions, opinions, briefs, bench books, correspondence....
78 cased photographs selected from the collections of the California State Library. Includes daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes (also called ferrotypes) dating from the late 1840s to the mid-1860s. Subject matter is chiefly portraits of California pioneers and mining scenes, mining...
Clippings, notes, articles, speeches, interviews, correspondence, drafts, manuscripts, periodicals, reprints, genealogy, personal journals, travel journals....
Library brought together because of David Magee's role in both productions.
Business papers, correspondence, legal papers, Natomas Company papers, scrapbooks....
Three letters from Cecil Trevithick to Arthur Carol Alvarez and 1 from Alvarez to Trevithcik, the fifth from Alvarez to J.K. Piggott Co. Two envelopes and dealer's summary also included. Trevithick writes about his fascination with the just-completed Golden Gate...
Miscellaneous correspondence, ephemera and papers of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, including one group of letters and reports related to the question of refunding Central Pacific Railroad Company debt....
Correspondence, ephemera, reports
Title supplied by cataloger.
Correspondence....
Correspondence, deeds, photographs
Legal papers, certificates, photographs, correspondence, notebook, ephemera, election results, account books.
Business and family papers, school land warrants
Diaries, account book, scrapbooks.
The collection documents the experiences of a California family during the First World War era. There are 109 holograph letters written by Charles E.H. Bates beginning in his childhood in Alameda, California, and ending in the late 1920s as he...
This collection consists of letters from Charles Gladding to his wife Ann during the Civil War, 1862-1863. These handwritten letters give insight to the life of a young officer in Civil War camp conditions as his regiment campaigns from Paducah,...
Correspondence, clippings, resolutions, letters of condolence, photographs
Letters written from Mississippi and Tennessee. Miller is serving with the Iowa 5th Infantry. Last letter comments on his brother's plans to leave for California.
Correspondence, notes and drafts, receipts
Correspondence, business, legal and mining papers, field notes and surveys, miscellaneous mining materials
6 reduced-size color photocopies of Chiura Obata prints.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Two diaries, leather bound. 1862 is 'Daily pocket remembrancer for 1862', 15 cm.; 1863 is 'Pocket diary 1863', 12 1/2 cm. Kept by James B. (Berry) Brown as a record of his military service in California during the Civil War...
Correspondence, lectures on art, and photographs....
This collection consists of 58 holograph letters, 55 of which were written by Lieut. Clarence Lininger to his wife, Ora, while she was residing at the Presidio in San Francisco, or visiting family back East. Letters from Sept. 15 to...
Business papers, clippings, notes and drafts, poetry, photographs, address books, date books, theatrical programs, theater reviews
Correspondence, 1919-1922, notes and drafts of speeches, poetry, scrapbooks....
Family correspondence....
Autograph book, clippings, correspondence, journal, photographs, poetry, scrapbook, sketches....
Correspondence, notes and drafts, radio scripts and scrapbook of a California journalist....
Title supplied by cataloger.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Commendation by a group of New Orleans citizens to Major General Zachary Taylor for his service in the Mexican War, February 17, 1847. Mentioned in the document is Louisiana governor Isaac Johnson's inability to preside at the ceremony "on account...
Two business letters from the firm of Crosby & Dibblee, dated May 15, 1855 and June 16, 1855, sent from San Francisco.
Primarily minutes of their meetings, copies of their constitution and its changes; minutes in later years included newspaper clippings reporting contents of their meetings, printed copies of papers read, correspondence, etc.; topics covered at these meetings included discussions of specific...
Pamphlets bound together by the library alphabetically by tribe into 6 volumes as follows: v. 1-5, 1935-1951; v. 6, 1943-1966.
This collection contains the records of a billboard advertising company operated in San Diego County by over three generations of the Cordtz family. The bulk of the material relates to 1950-1957 and there are ca. 200 black and white photographs....
The two letters from Manuel Coronel to Antonio Coronel are written in Spanish; they have been transcribed and translated. Due to difficulty in interpreting many references, particularly to proper names, much of the content of the letters is somewhat obscure.
1 manuscript diary dated June to December 1918, in which Scanavino writes about going to France by ship and being on the battle lines, giving detailed descriptions of combat.
Incoming and outgoing correspondence regarding the North Hill Placer Mine near Milton in Calaveras County, ca. 1901-1903. Mostly financial business and production data.
Photographs, scrapbooks, genealogical charts, biographical notes, Corum Family Association organizational materials and reports, Boy Scout book binding project, deeds, will, divorce papers....
Photographs, scrapbooks, genealogical charts, biographical notes, Corum Family Association organizational materials and reports, Boy Scout bookbinding project, deeds, will, divorce papers.
A collection of carbon copies of transcripts in Spanish from the Mexican archives used in research for the book THE FRENCH IN SONORA.
Thirty-two letters written to Alice F. Daggett (Mrs. John) of Northern California between 1871 and 1924. Includes other correspondence, clippings, pen and ink art originals on paper, "Address to the Citizens of East Quogue Long Island, New York," and "The...
Clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, manuscripts, plats, building plans, notes and directory information....
Correspondence, personal balance sheet, New York state legal documents...
Account books, assessor's notebook, typescript of journal, typescript of letters to "Placerville mountain democrat", obituary of Crawford and his wife....
Diaries of William Berry Cross, family papers, photographs....
The papers of John Currey represented in this collection include ten items of correspondence written from 1906 to 1912 and a manuscript of his essay titled Political history of California, signed and dated May 21, 1907. Nine letters and notes...
The Ada Florence White Curtis collection contains three folders, which include typescripts, photographs, family Bible pages with vital records, and assorted certificates.
Legal papers, certificates, photographs, correspondence, notebook, ephemera, election results and account books....
Correspondence, business papers, estate materials, John A. McIntire and mining investment materials
Business letters, legal instruments, accounts, scrapbooks, certificates....
Personal papers, business papers, certificates, correspondence....
Two series of letters, one from the 1840s and the other from the 1850s. Typescript of ms. for Introduction, with handwritten notes: Flush times in the diggins; or, lights and shades of Murphy's Camp in the fifties, being the lettters...
Letters of John Paul Dart to his brother and sister....
Frank Daubenbiss (the donor's great uncle) and Gladys Daubenbiss Thorp (the donor's grandmother) were grandchildren of John Daubenbiss, Soquel pioneer and one of the earliest white settlers in the area. He became a naturalized Mexican citizen before the American conquest,...
Correspondence and manuscript narrative of the life of David Hewes
Business papers, certificates, correspondence, legal papers, printed materials....
Correspondence, clippings and invitations, deeds, legal materials, minutes
Correspondence, clippings, brochures, cards, lists, programs, Whiskerino materials....
Correspondence, clippings, brochures, cards, lists, programs, Whiskerino materials
Business papers, certificates, correspondence, deeds, mining papers, sales of public land materials, tax receipts.
Business papers, certificates, correspondence, deeds, mining papers, sales of public land materials, tax receipts....
Travel itinerary, correspondence. Original manuscript material is in French; all having been translated into English except a marriage license and about one page of travels. Translation includes material the library did not receive in French....
The collection consists of original manuscripts in French. A journal details Delepine's journey on the Eduoard and his short stay with the California Native Americans. There is also a letter written to his father from Sonora in 1850 giving a...
Notes, itinerary of voyages, agreement, letter, document regarding marriage.
Diaries, account book, scrapbooks....
Mounted dimensions: 36 x 46 cm.
Samuel Denison letters. Mexico City. 1856-1857. Also, two letters to Thomas Denison from 1868-1869: one from his mother and the other from Marry[?] E. Wainwrights in Shanghai, China. Total 21 letters, 35 pages, and 3 envelopes.
Correspondence...
Business, military and family papers
Correspondence, clippings, reports, photographs, charts, maps, bulletins, forms, applications
The collection consists of disparate items relating to Phillip Dippel, Sr., and Philip Dippel, Jr.
Copy of dispositions sworn by F. B. Davis (true name Jefferson F. Howell). The dispositions were given to the Sheriff of Weaverville, California, in 1919. Davis recounts several robberies he committed over the course of several years. In each case,...
Photographs of San Francisco scenes and subjects, 1915-1925 and photographs of actors, actresses and boxers from this same time period....
Rhodes & Co. operated an express service in Northern California ca. 1852-1856; this collection consists of items relating to the company during that period. There are eleven transaction slips (checks and receipts) for the company under various names --eight for...
C.M. Goethe was businessman in Sacramento, California. In 1916 went to Gothenburg to study their method of handling the liquor system.
Six document facsimile reproductions of letters and paragraphs sent to the Viceroy of New Spain during early exploration of greater California; includes correspondence from early merchant Sebastian Vizcaino and Franciscan friar Fray Junipero Serra. Handwritten on documents 14, 16 and...
Official documents dealing with the Pious Fund set up to provide for missionaries sent to California. In Spanish--one translated.
Files on water: reports, notes, clippings, minutes, correspondence...
Letter is written to his brother, Peter Dorman, from Weber's Creek. Describes life among gold miners.
Audio recordings, news clippings, photos, and photocopied documents.
Correspondence and travel diary. Letters describe voyages to the Pacific Coast, daily activities, and comment upon the election of Lincoln and slavery. Diary describes Asa Taylor's 1969 trip east by van to see Taylor family homes....
Correspondence and travel diary. Letters desribe voyages to the Pacific Coast, daily activities, and comment upon the election of Lincoln and slavery. Diary describes Asa Taylor's 1969 trip east by van to see Taylor family homes.
Correspondence, leases, legal materials, notes and drafts, pamphlets, tax receipts....
Correspondence, business card, chinese order book
Correspondence; business papers; Chinese, military and mining company materials....
Folder 1: Allen through Comstock; folder 2: Conant through Farrell; folder 3: Fiedler through Holmes; folder 4: Karr through Reeves; folder 5: Scheible through Yeager.
Letters Craig sent to public officials during the 1940s, along with other documents. Reply letter from the White House signed William D. Hassett. Craig was the editor of the Home Front News Letter, and was involved with Thursday Evening Forum,...
System requirements: IBM PC compatible (386 minimum, 486/33 or higher recommended); color VGA monitor; double-speed CD-ROM drive; 4MB RAM, 2MB hard disk space; Windows 3.1 or later.
Personal papers, business papers, certificates, correspondence.
The bulk of this collection consists of correspondence, notes, maps, photographs, and video tapes relating to Bateson's outings along the Pony Express and Oregon-California Trails 1987-1993, plus genealogies and documents pertaining to J. A. "Snowshoe" Thompson. The collection is divided...
Certificates, diary, printed materials, materials about his daughter, Carrie M. Wadsworth
Correspondence, business and legal papers, certificates, stocks
Correspondence, business and legal papers, certificates, stocks, miscellaneous....
Large diaries: Vol. 1, 9/20/1849-3/31/1859; Vol. 2, 4/1/1859-9/13/1861; Vol. 3, 9/13/186-fall 1864; Vol. 4, January 1865-1870; Vol. 5, 1892; Vol. 6, 1/1-12/25/1893; Vol. 7, 1894; Vol. 8, 9/20/1903 to 3/1/1904. Small diaries: Vol. 1, 1/1-6/18/1900; Vol. 2, 6/18-9/20/1900; Vol. 3,...
Photos and negatives of State Printing Plant, correspondence, requisitions, sick leave forms, invasion currency, books
Edward Harvy Welch was born in Iowa, on December 31, 1870, married Mary A. Hardy (born in California in about 1869) before 1897and subsequently moved to Oakland, California , where he ran a candy store. In 1911 he moved to...
Clippings, notes, articles, speeches, interviews, correspondence, drafts, manuscripts, periodicals, reprints, genealogy, personal journals, travel journals.
Correspondence, 1919-1922, notes and drafts of speeches, poetry, scrapbooks
Records of the El Dorado Canal Company kept in small notebook, including articles of incorporation, money paid out, and progress of construction.
Deeds, grants, bills of sale in Georgetown and Greenwood....
Deeds, grants, bills of sale in Georgetown and Greenwood.
Correspondence, funeral notices, memorabilia
Correspondence, notes and drafts, poetry, and materials used in writing the book LITERARY CALIFORNIA.
Letters, diaries, account books, legal papers, photographs, postcards, etc....
Letters, diaries, account books, legal papers, photographs, postcards, etc.
Account book, assessor's notebook, typescript of journal, typescript of letters, obituary
Correspondence, 1861-1871; 1880-1881...
Correspondence, 1861-1871; 1880-1881
Correspondence, account books, legal papers, express and shipping receipts, Spanish and Mexican documents relating to mines in lower California.
Ernest I. Bulpitt was born in Round Valley, Inyo County, California in 1895, and graduated from the University of California in 1918 with a degree in Civil Engineering. This training led him to work in the early development of hydroelectric...
Business and personal correspondence; accounts, inventory, legal papers, monthly statements and vouchers for Plumas-Eureka Mine; proofs of labor upon various mining claims....
Mary Eudora Garoutte was born in Woodland, California. She began working in the California State Library in 1899. She was first placed in charge of bringing the California newspapers into order, and then of gathering other California material into a...
Certificates, correspondence, photographs.
Correspondence, Charles Couvillaud receipts and checks, diaries, scrapbooks of Emma and Mary McKinsey
Correspondence, clippings, accounts, receipts, scripts, press releaes, stock certificate, reviews, lists, notes....
Correspondence, clippings, accounts, receipts, scripts, press releases, stock certificates, reviews, lists, notes.
The story of the migration of California's state capital during the initial years of statehood is well documented. When the 1st Legislature (1849-1850) met in San Jose prior to statehood, it was decided that the location of the permanent seat...
Item consists of official form issued by Office of the Surveyor General attesting that attached sheets are accurate copy of originals contained in their office. Attached sheets consist of correspondence between Larkin and Mexican officials in Monterey regarding the naturalization...
Letters of pioneers and early settlers of Lassen County used by Fairfield in preparing his county history published by H. S. Crocker in 1916....
Correspondence and business papers of David, Patrick, Logan, and John Fay....
Correspondence and business papers of David, Patrick, Logan, and John Fay
Account books, annual reports, articles of incorporation and bylaws, checks, correspondence, deeds, receipts, reports, stocks, vouchers
Account books (1889-1897), annual reports (1890-1893), articles of incorporation and bylaws, checks, correspondence (1889-1892), deeds, receipts (1893-1898), reports, stocks, vouchers (1890-1897)....
Scrapbook of articles from various California newspapers dated April 5, 1939 to June 26, 1939. Title and identification of newspapers and dates are typewritten.
Ca. 30 items. Incomplete financial records, 1880-1893; bulk 1883. Primarily financial statements from the Nevada City office detailing expenditures (operating costs, payroll, etc.) and income from water sales. Also includes an annotated bill for legal services to establish the company...
Correspondence, genealogy, photographs....
Business papers, certificates, correspondence, Folsom estate materials, Leidesdorff estate materials, legal papers, Pulgas Rancho materials....
The collection has been organized into the following series: Personal papers: Biographical materials, family photographs. -- Haiku: Articles, children's haiku, contests and awards, correspondence with poets and haiku organizations. -- Renga: Completed renga, correspondence with renga poets. -- Publications: Correspondence...
Business papers, correspondence, pamphlets, photographs
Family correspondence
Title from cover.
Fred Uhl Ball was born in Oakland, California in 1945, son of illustrator and enamelist Kathryn Uhl, and ceramicist F. Carlton Ball. Fred's interest in enamel was fostered at an early age, and he received his bachelor's and master's degrees...
Letters to William E. Parrott in Boston
Business papers and memorabilia....
Letter written in French from an unknown party in French Camp to Monsieur de Boursier de la Riviere, a French official in Mokelumne Hill, dated September 20, 1853. Mentions payment for game and waterfowl delivered to San Francisco, retrieval of...
Author describes a journey beginning in Everett, through Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Grants Pass and the Rogue River Valley; entering California in Mt. Shasta area, coming down the Central Valley, crossing to San Jose and following coastal route to Los Angeles....
Correspondence, notes and drafts, radio scripts, scrapbook.
Account books, business papers, correspondence, photographs....
Campaign materials for State Proposition 13, a property tax reduction initiative passed in 1978, and other propositions, among them Proposition 8, the Victims' Bill of Rights, Propositions 24, 36 and 4, and the 1980 campaign for the United States Senate....
Correspondence, agreements, deeds, leases, lists, and reports concerning Black Oak Mine and Clark Mining Properties, Garden Valley, California....
Corespondence, agreements, deeds, leases, lists and reports concerning Black Oak Mine and Clark Mining Properties, Garden Valley, California.
Correspondence, clippings, certificates, receipts, book lists....
Correspondence....
Correspondence, August-September 1859
Contains correspondence, pamphlets, statistical surveys, ephemera: California State documents supporting internment, municipal resolutions supporting internment, citizens' organization documents against internment, citizens' organization documents supporting internment, individual communications to Rep. Outland, Resolution of the California Delegation to the House of Representatives...
Correspondence
Correspondence
This collection consists of correspondence from May 1861 to March 1862, between members of the Hiram Dwight Pierce family of Troy, New York, to son George H. Pierce during his service in the Civil War as a Private, later Colonel,...
The George H. Baker collection is an eclectic assortment of ca. 130 items associated with Baker. Materials date from 1848 through 1965 but individual dates are widely scattered throughout this period with no continuity. The collection is divided into two...
Family and business letters
Correspondence, business papers, clippings, legal documents, draft of petition to Congress.
Business papers, correspondence, legal papers, printed materials, Trustee of Hornitos records
Correspondence and diary
Letters, poems, and typescripts.
2 abstract books.
23 letters written by George Wharton James on everyday business matters, such as his books, pamphlets, and lectures.
The Gibson collection includes both business correspondence of George Wheeler Gibson and personal correspondence from his extended family during the late 1850s and early 1860s.
Correspondence, biographical materials, military papers, maps, deeds, diary, photographs, etc.
Correspondence
The collection consists of several apparently unconnected sets of correspondence written in German and Low German. Letters are addressed to friends and relatives in California mining towns during the period 1852-1888. Several sets were sent to Richard Vorlander in Jackson...
German letters, in the German and Low German languages, written to friends and relatives in California mining towns.
Letter and postcard written by Gertrude Atherton.
Personal correspondence to George Wheeler Gibson. Business correspondence to George Wheeler Gibson from D.O. Mills and Co. in connection with Mr. Gibson's interests in Sacramento....
Correspondence....
John S. Gildersleeve was associated with the California State Library from 1936-1947 and served as head of the Acquisitions Section during the later years. When he left in 1947 to accept an editorial position with the University of California Press,...
Correspondence relating to family and social life, business, political matters and law practice. Legal and business papers, ephemera, unidentified and non-California photographs, diaries, scrapbook, poetry and miscellaneous personal papers....
Letters, bills of sale, poll tax, receipts, subpoena, leases....
The Lincoln plant of Gladding McBean Company kept track of their terra-cotta product orders from ca. 1888 to ca. 1966 by assigning a job order number to each new order, with subsequent orders for the same job using the assigned...
Items relating to the conference held in Decatur, Illinois, April 14-16, 2000.
Correspondence....
A collection of fifteen items associated with Moses Thorpe. A journal which served as a ship's log was kept by Alden Powers during 1840 and 1841; Moses Thorp was listed as among the crew. Two voyages are recorded: in 1840...
Holograph diary ([34] p.), unbound and incomplete; 7 leaves of typed excerpts; photocopies of the ship's passenger list and biographical material, including a brief biographical sketch written by Dudley's great-grandson, George McLean; photograph identified as the Dudley store in Jacksonville.
Letter with envelope from Stevens in Sonora, Calif., sent to John Adams, Rockland, Maine, and addressed "Dear Cousen". Stevens reports on his current situation, having just concluded an unsuccessful mining venture at Poverty Hill. "I went astern 250 dollars while...
Three letters from Jacob Thrailkill to his wife, Sarah, and children in Fort Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa: April 29, 1849 from "Near Council Bluffs, Iowa"; Sept. 16, 1849 from "Columa California"; and Feb. 14, 1850 from "Georgetown sixty miles...
Four letters and a diary-type notebook. The first letter is dated March 4, 1849 and was written en route to California on the Brig Osceola. It is addressed to Brother A [Abrm for Abraham?; also a brother named Alexander] and...
There are five letters in this collection accompanied by transcriptions. Four of the letters are from Thomas G. Watters to his wife, Climena Watters, and Melissa Watters in Wassonville, Iowa. The fifth letter is from G.S. Shaff to his brother,...
Twelve letters from Boylan in California to his wife Margaret in Jackson Creek, Illinois; one letter from Boylan to his son, James. The collection documents Boylan's stay in California during the gold rush period, 1850 to 1853. It is clear...
Two letters: Nov. 2, 1852, San Juan del Sud, to "My Dear Sarah" from William; Dec. 12, 1852, Sacramento, to "My Dear Sarah" from William. With typed transcriptions.
Six letters from Edward Clyatt(?) Roberts in San Francisco to his father, Edward John Roberts in London, dated Aug. 14, 1852 - July 10, 1853, with an enclosure in the Aug. 14 letter from E.C.'s doctor, F. Montague. On the...
From February 26, 1852 through March 4, 1856, Henry A. Parker sent these 100 letters home to his family in Pepperell, Massachusetts. Most were addressed "My Dear Mother", although some are directed also to his brother and sister and the...
Two letters: Feb. 20, 1853, "In my Log Cabin", to "My Dear Sister" (Mrs. Amelia Bailey, New York City) from Charles C. Newton; Dec. 1, 1853, "Steep Hollow Creek, Up Cal", to "My dearest Sister" (Mrs. H.R. Worthington, Brooklyn, Long...
Gold rush letters: A collection of ten letters in two groups, three written in 1853 from the area around Murphys, and the remaining seven written from 1859 through 1861 from Grizzly Flat and Iowa Hill near Colfax. The letters are...
Seven letters from Edwin Fitzgerald in California to his wife, Frank (Frances), in Thomaston, Maine. All written in 1859: May 7 (sent from New York en route), June 3 (San Francisco), June 12 (Contra Costa County), July 24 (San Pablo),...
8 letters and 1 contract from various sources during the Gold Rush era. All but one have at least a partial typed transcription.
Typescript copy of Mark D. Manlove's reminiscences "An overland trip to the California gold fields". Seventeen pages, some handwritten annotations. The manuscript is undated so it is not known when Manlove wrote his reminiscences but certainly some passages have the...
Correspondence, legal papers, and miscellaneous corporation papers relating to the establishment, bankruptcy and dissolution of San Francisco Bay Exposition, sponsor of the Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 1939-1940.
Correspondence, legal papers, and miscellaneous corporation papers relating to the establishment, bankruptcy and dissolution of San Francisco Bay Exposition, sponsor of the Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 1939-1940....
Correspondence, business papers, legal papers, mining papers, miscellany....
The Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation was formed in 1923 as a partnership between the Goodyear Corporation and the Zeppelin Company to build rigid-frame airships in the United States. The company built an enormous hangar in Wingfoot Lake, near Akron Ohio, for this...
Correspondence....
Daily ledger of items obtained, mostly on credit, by customers who had accounts with the grocer. Some notations are marked "paid." The ledger begins on August 1, 1894 and ends on November 2, 1895.
Articles, correspondence, ephemera, scrapbooks, speeches....
Announcements, correspondence, and invitations....
Announcements, correspondence, checks, accounts, postcards, and invitations, 1860-1900....
Announcements, invitations, correspondence
The C.T. Gutleben Collection consists of the business and personal correspondence of C. T. Gutleben, a project engineer for industrial, governmental, corporate and private construction projects during the years of 1916 through 1959. The collection documents the building of bridges,...
Letter written by H. Works to his brother Rufus of New Sharon, Maine, dated March 4, 1855, in which he talks about prospecting near the Feather River.
Nineteen letters from San Francisco lawyer, George W. Haight to A.W. Smith in Grand Junction, Colorado, dated 1887 - 1897. All on letterhead printed with "Law offices of Taylor & Haight, 207 Sansome St., E.R. Taylor, G.W. Haight". Fifteen are...
Scrapbooks, photographs, rosary novenas, Wolf Head Society roster....
Manuscript haiku collections, most with accompanying letters sent to Elizabeth Searle Lamb by John Polozzolo (Zolo) during 1981-1985. All are untitled. Some typescript and some holograph; some illustrated by author.
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"Each poem in this box was handwritten and signed by the poet. One hundred seventy-five boxes were prepared and distributed."
Includes: Transmittal letter--Announcement--Program--Newspaper articles--Flyers: Haiku conference webthology.--Towards a defintion of the English haiku / George Swede.--Rengay structure and aesthetics / Ebba Story.--Workshop on Onitsura / Jerry Ball.--The Philosophy and purpose of the tea ceremony / DoShin Tei.
The collection consists of John Brandi's working papers relating to his haiku publications. This material was organized by Brandi and his content notes for each folder have been retained. Each folder pertains to one publication and includes items associated with...
The Haiku Society of America was founded by Harold G. Henderson and Leroy Kanterman in 1968. This nonprofit organization promotes English language haiku and is open to all who appreciate this form.
Diaries....
Correspondence, business and personal papers, notebooks, scrapbooks....
Manuscript reminiscences of Ezra M. Hamilton, with index and typescript of pages 1-184 and 491-617....
Photographs of San Francisco scences and subjects, 1915-1925; photos of actors and actresses; photos of individuals.
Correspondence of members of Hamilton family to Mrs. Hamilton's brother, Joseph Delliber, in Hartford, Connecticut....
Business papers of three generations of the Hammon family, focusing primarily on the activities of Wendell P. (Philucius) Hammon, 1854-1939, and his son, Wendell C. (Cooper) Hammon, 1890-1966. A grandson, Wendell Hammon, 1918- , was custodian of the family papers...
This collection consists of the personal and professional papers of Harriet G. Eddy. It is organized into the following series: Personal, Travel, Professional, Correspondence and Audiovisual.
Six letters written by Harry Wertz in California to his sister Mary E. Wertz in Dalton, Ohio, along with an envelope and a poem titled "My Ohio Home." In these letters Wertz writes about which former Ohio residents he has...
Collection consists of playbill for the Fifth Avenue Theatre dated Jan. 8, 1878 for the play Adrienne starring Helena Modjeska, a Los Angeles Express article dated April 12, 1909 titled Solemn funeral services for late Madame Modjeska, an newspaper article...
Correspondence, business, legal and mining papers, field notes and surveys, miscellaneous mining materials....
Letters of Rev. Henry B. Sheldon to his parents
Journal by Henry Curtiss written during 1852-53.
Henry Evans was born in Superior, Wisconsin in 1918. He came to San Francisco and opened the Porpoise Bookshop in 1944. Evans subsequently acquired an 1852 Washington hand press on which he printed books and pamphlets. In 1958 he began...
Scrapbooks, photographs, rosary novenas, Wolf Head Society roster
Letter written on June 20, 1846 from Henry Halleck to George W. Cullum that mentions upcoming U.S. Army expedition to California aboard the USS Lexington. Also covered is promotion for Halleck's newly-written book, and the possibility of more officers being...
Business papers, charts, correspondence, diaries, maps, photographs, railroad papers
This collection is a miscellany centering on Henry Sterling Bloom and his family. There are two letters written by Bloom to his wife, Eliza, in Illinois dated 1850 (from Deseret, Utah) and 1851 (from Downieville, Calif.); associated with the Downieville...
The documents include extracts of records, abstracts of titles, notices of location and deeds. A certificate application from Lewis Chalmers, Esquire, as an agent for Henry Syme of London, England, lists the mining lodes of the Isabella Gold and Silver...
Four photographs--2 portraits, 1 of Golden Gate Park Conservatory, 1 of California's 40th birthday celebration (September 9, 1890). Four letters--2 from 1890, 1 from 1891 and 1 from 1892 addressed to Fred O. Brown, Colchester, Connecticut. Content includes his impressions...
Research materials collected by Mr. and Mrs. Rensch for HISTORIC SPOTS IN CALIFORNIA and other works and projects.
Correspondence and manuscript narrative of the life of David Hewes....
Business papers, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, estate papers, legal papers, maps, newspapers and poems, Louis M. Hickman Corporation administrative records, legal affairs, correspondence....
Business papers, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, estate papers, legal papers, maps, newspapers and poems, Louis M. Hickman Corporation administrative records, legal affairs, correspondence.
Letters of William Higby to his mother and father....
One typewritten letter dated April 25, 1906, with handwritten signature, from Frank W. Higgins, Governor of New York, to Morris K. Jesup, Esq., President of the New York Chamber of Commerce. The letter acknowledges the raising of "large sums of...
Business papers, correspondence, pamphlets, and photos....
Business and personal papers of Stanley Hiller, Sr. The collection includes some of Stanley Hiller, Jr.'s papers concerning two of his inventions: a new type of die-casting process and the first practical coaxial helicopter. A separate key to the arrangement...
Shepard's diary of his overland journey in 1852, with entries on an 1880 trip from Santa Barbara to San Francisco added. Also included is an 1871 letter from Ella D. Chase of San Francisco to her niece Emily T. Shepard...
Correspondence
T. H. Hittell's business diary, 1869-74; legal documents relating to the settlement of T. H. Hittell's estate, 1917-19; family business papers; by J. S. Hittell....
In the California Room Richard J. Hoffman collection.
Correspondence, diaries, printing samples from "Georgetown Gazette", financial and legal documents, literary productions, clippings, genealogical information....
Correspondence relating to the California lumber firm of Pine and Houghton....
Drafts of three bills introduced by Assemblyman Howard A. Peairs in the 40th State Legislature, 1913-1914
Clippings, periodicals, awards, audio tapes, video tapes, photographs, correspondence, news releases
Records of the Humboldt Mining & Tunnel Co. in Sarahsville, Placer Co. Miscellaneous material entered in one ledger. Includes miners' compact signed by the members; minutes of the company; records of expenses, etc.
Business correspondence of Samuel J. Hume with California State Library....
Correspondence, background materials, notes and drafts for books on California history, vitae and career related materials at CSU, Chico and aboard ship, reprints of articles and short stories, books, photographs, periodicals, royalty statements, copyright clearances, speeches, microfilm copy of manuscript...
Documents and map relating to a talk given by J. C. Allison on December 18, 1915 about Imperial Valley irrigation and water supply diverted from the Colorado River, particularly regarding flooding and silt deposit. This was during the period when...
Correspondence (19 letters, 4 cards, and 3 envelopes) written by Ina Coolbrith to several people on a variety of topics.
Lodge records, 1858-1921: correspondence; I.O.O.F. publications; financial records; annual relief reports listing lodge members; trustees' and treasurers' bonds; committee reports; by-laws and amendments; resolutions, including condolences on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; 2 gavels; regalia. Proceedings from trials provide an...
3 typescripts, at least some of which are from members of the Ingalls family. First is a group of material from E. S. Ingalls: 2 copies of a 3-page journal titled "Journal of incidents enroute from Waukegan, Ill. to Pikes...
Fourteen letters and 16 pages of a diary which was written on the overland journey from Michigan to California....
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The colophon for the publication 'Brief memoir of Mr. Thomas Bewick' states "Letterpress by the In-Time Press which is an occasionally working partnership of Time, Inclination & John Borden". Borden began printing sometime in the 1940s and was still active...
Correspondence, annual reports, forms, certificates, pamphlets
Correspondence, annual reports, forms, certificates, pamphlets....
Lodge records, 1858-1921: correspondence; I.O.O.F. publications; financial records; annual relief reports; trustees' and treasurers' bonds; committee reports; by-laws and amendments; resolutions, including condolences on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; 2 gavels. Proceedings from trials provide an interesting glimpse at lodge...
The collection consists of nineteen items of regalia as detailed below. The various styles of draped shawls that comprise the collection are representative of this regalia common to most benevolent societies, including the I.O.O.F. They were worn to indicate rank...
1894 Capitol Lodge No. 87 I.O.O.F., Odd Fellows Temple, Sacramento, CA. 3-page Resolution admonishing a brother lodge for making false assertions about their lodge; 3 illustrated letterheads.
Completed questionnaires and letters of American playwrights
Letters and illustrated envelope. Letters addressed to Frazee from George Wharton James, John Steven McGroarty, and William Wendt. Other correspondents are Antony Anderson, Harry Carr, John Clinton, B.F. Coulter, Bill Henry, Garnet Holme, benjamin Horning, and Frank Miller.
Letters from Isaac Perkins to his brother Danell in Salem, Mass.
List of shareholders and legal papers, investigative files, photographs, notes, correspondence, resolution book
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Correspondence regarding efforts to build Bayshore Highway and Skyline Blvd.
Account books, 1862-66; correspondence, 1860-67; receipts, 1859-66.
Account books, 1862-66; correspondence, 1860-67; receipts, 1859-66....
Correspondence, articles, clippings, ephemera, pamphlets, personal records
The collection consists of pre- and post-election letters 1885-1886 to James C. Nealon, who was nominated and elected to serve the position of Assessor of San Francisco from 1887-1890. The first letter is a handwritten draft of the announcement to...
Letter from James Canney in San Jose to John Bell. Accompanied by "Bell's Real Estate Circular" dated 1882. Canney invites Bell to come to California and describes the farm equipment business and the status of a Quaker colony in San...
Business letters and diaries
Correspondence relating to the California lumber firm of Pine and Houghton
Correspondence, legal papers, appointments, petitions for land timber, deeds, contracts, business and military papers
Letter dated February 6, 1913 from State Librarian James L. Gillis to former Public Administrator Newton Spencer requesting authentification of James Marshall materials being offered to the library by John Sipp, plus envelope letter was sent in. Also included is...
Letter dated April 14, 1853 from Secretary of the Treasury James Guthrie to R. P. Hammond introducing Edward F. Beale as agent appointed by the President to make certain military reservations available for removal and protection of California Indians.
Business papers, legal documents, personal papers, letters, receipts
Correspondence, legal and business papers, ephemera, photographs, diaries, scrapbook, poetry and miscellaneous personal papers.
Correspondence
Papers relating to Marshall's estate, correspondence.
Deed written by Peter S. Van Wyck for plot in Lone Mountain Cemetery, San Francisco, of Mrs. Jane B. Hayes dated February 27, 1865. Copied from entry dated May 13, 1857 in Lone Mountain Cemetery Company book of records.
Mary Oshiro was interned at the Tule Lake Relocation center beginning in 1942. She did watercolors of the camp and its surroundings, and worked as an artist and stencil cutter for the camp newspaper, the Tulean Dispatch.
Papers and records arranged in the following subject areas: Age distribution, Athletic teams, Buddhist Reverends and Christian Minister lists, Community Activities Directory, Educational Personnel, Enlistee classification list, equipment list, High school enrollment, project chart, recreational activities list, Rules and Regulations,...
Age distribution, Athletic teams, Buddhist Reverends and Christian Minister lists, Community Activities Directory, Educational Personnel, Enlistee classification list, equipment list, high school enrollment, project chart, recreational activities list, Rules and Regulations, War Relocation Authority Personnel List, Ward Councilmen List.
Clippings, periodicals, awards, audio tapes, video tapes, photographs, correspondence, news releases....
Jay Eslick was born in Spokane, Washington on August 31, 1901, and in the 1920's became a drummer and bandleader in the Pacific Northwest. By 1928 he had joined a band in Tijuana and subsequently became a popular bandleader in...
Business papers, certificates and correspondence
Business papers, certificates, correspondence, legal papers, printed materials
Typescript and manuscript of Mankins' memoir, "Recollections of Early Days", detailing his experiences during the Gold Rush in the 1850s, and in the Visalia area during the 1860s and 1870s.
Business papers, clippings, correspondence, mining information, notes and drafts, photographs.
Business correspondence, Sutter claim materials, miscellaneous papers. Much of the collection typescripts, photostats, and facsimiles.
Business papers, legal papers, estate matters, manuscript statement of events occurring in Sacramento, 1848-1850.
Correspondence, personal balance sheet, New York State Legal documents
Box 2824: Schedules, transfers, company documents; Box 2825: Schedules, transfers, company documents; Box 2826: Schedules, transfers, company documents; Box 2727: Photos, postcards, and calendars.
Correspondence, notes, legal and business papers
Business and personal papers, correspondence, certificates, contracts, receipts
Originally founded in Sacramento around 1856 by John Breuner, company became one of largest furniture stores and chains of the era.
Correspondence
Mimeograph ms. for "Bear Valley Trip", 12 p. Holograph additions totalling 13 words. Privately printed, 21 copies. A pleasant, occasionally humorous and observant account of a Los Angeles resident's journey to and stay in the San Bernardino mountains.
Correspondence of the Meussdorffer family and to the J. C. Meussdorffer Hat Mfg. Co.
Business letters, legal instruments, accounts, scrapbooks, certificates
Correspondence, business papers, legal papers, mining papers, miscellany.
Business papers, certificates, checks, clippings, letters, calling cards, legal papers, pamphlets, menus, photographs
Business papers, receipts
Correspondence between John Beeckman, his wife Margaret, and other family members.
John L. Cooper's diary for the year 1852, and two-page document containing biographical information and highlights of diary.
Correspondence
Certificates, correspondence, diary and receipts
John Marshall Pierce was born on January 1, 1831 in Glasgow, MO. He traveled overland and arrived in Diamond Springs, CA in October of 1850. He spent the next 25 years mining and gambling in other parts of California as...
Letters of John Paul Dart to his brother and sister
Correspondence from John Steinbeck to Katherine (Trina) Groves, the daughter of Steinbeck's Stanford professor William Herbert Carruth, from whom he took Verse Writing and Prosody in the spring of 1923. This correspondence was written in the 1960s regarding Steinbeck's work...
Correspondence, leases, legal materials, notes and drafts, pamphlets, tax receipts
The John W. Borden ephemera collection consists of ca. 964 items collected by Mr. Borden during the 1960s through the 1990s. During these years he was an active amateur letterpress printer and participated in serveral clubs with a focus on...
Fourteen letters and 16 pages of a diary which was written on the overland journey from Michigan to California.
Letters from family and friends, poll tax receipts.
Accounts, business and personal correspondence, diaries, photographs....
Clippings, diary, correspondence, photographs, unemployment booklet, deeds, receipts, greeting cards, promisory notes....
Correspondence, books, pictures, newspaper copies.
Business papers, correspondence, land grant materials, legal papers, Mission Dolores accounts, receipts, promissory notes, tax assessments.
Correspondence, bills and other papers of Rowe and his associates
Correspondence.
Business papers, certificates, correspondence, Folsom estate materials, Leidesdorff estate materials, legal papers, Pulgas Rancho materials
Correspondence, clippings, certificates, personal papers, speech material, photographs
Letter written by Joseph Moore to Mr. Sutro on Risdon Iron and Locomotive Works stationary telling him that Mr. Sharon had agreed to sell two water engines for $50.00 "provided the smallest one is still at the hotel."
Business and personal papers of Joseph Mora Moss, including receipt, record, and ledger books, photographs also papers of Joseph Mora Moss III.
Letter written by Joseph P. Wheeler of Sacramento, dated the 28th of an unknown month in 1854, to his brother-in law Samuel Lafayette Brown with a note to his sister Martha (Wheeler) Brown. Wheeler apologizes for not writing sooner, and...
Correspondence
Letters written by Joshua H. Corwin of Mount Hope, NY to his father and brother during the Mexican War. Corwin was a private in Light Company, Second Regiment, U.S. Artillery. The letters relate his voyage out, his experiences at Corpus...
Account books, business papers, correspondence, photographs
Correspondence and receipts
Typescript copy.
Dennis H. Dutton is a writer, editor, and reviewer, has worked in the library field, and is a Viet Nam veteran. In 1998 he resumed writing Haiku after a 34-year hiatus. While in Viet Nam, Dutton became a Buddhist, is...
Clippings, correspondence, programs, poems, tributes, notes and drafts, pamphlets, reports, photographs.
Correspondence, notes from interviews, foreman's notebook, geology and production reports, annual reports, maps, charts.
Correspondence, clippings, certificates, personal papers, speech material, photographs...
Material in this series relates to projects Starr conceived of as publications, even though some were never published, and include speeches when they were a secondary aspect of that project. The series is divided into sub-series that reflect the type...
Correspondence, scrapbooks and memorabilia arranged in two series: Haiku Related Materials and Personal Papers....
Born February 25, 1930 in Denver, Colorado. Attended grammar and high schools affiliated with St. Mel Roman Catholic Parish in Chicago's west side, 1936-1948. United States Army, 1951-1953. Studied at the Kansas City Art Institute, Mexico City College, The School...
Family and business letters....
The Tokutomi papers fill 50 manuscript boxes with over 6000 items. In addition to documents and correspondence, there are ca. 1000 photographs and some ephemera. Much of the material is in Japanese. The papers are organized into two series: Personal...
Knox's legislative files, including letters to and from constituents, related papers, clippings, pamphlets, study reports, copies of bills introduced into the Assembly by Knox, excerpted sections of various codes, etc....
The collection is organized into five series: Correspondence - letters and ephemera from leading Haiku poets; Correspondence: China - documenting Lamb's involvement with the Haiku movement in China; Organizations - correspondence and related materials pertaining to Haiku organizations; Articles and...
Accounts, certificates, checks, correspondence, deeds, receipts....
Accounts, certificates, checks, correspondence, deeds, receipts
Letter and typescript.
This collection consists of records pertaining to mining claims collectively termed the Laurel Rand Mines, located near Laurel Mountain in the El Paso Mining District of eastern Kern County. Claims associated with the site include: Omega, Clark, Alpha, Junction, Meal...
Lease outlines conditions under with R.B. Woodward is to manage Gardens.
The Leask family papers collection includes several generations of correspondence collected from the lives and works of patriarch Samuel Leask, Sr. and granddaughter, Peggy Leask Epstein:
Correspondence, clippings, reports, photographs, charts, maps, bulletins, forms, applications....
San Francisco Mining Company and California Cygnet Company (1863-1902) list of shareholders and legal papers; Investigative files: Robert W. Souter (1973-1876), Charles G. Mugg (1874-1878, Joseph Wrigley (1858-1872), Piper-Baldwin (1863-1900), Fair-Craven Case (1890s); photographs; notes; correspondence; resolution book....
Blueprints, correspondence and notes, plans
55 holograph letters, 48 written by Brooks to family in San Francisco -- most to his sister, Lydia; a few to his brother, Theodore, or to his mother. Letters from Aug. 23, 1917 to Jan. 25, 1918 are from Kelly...
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Clippings, diary, correspondence, photographs, unemployment booklet, deeds, receipts, greeting cards, promisory notes.
Letter to "father and Mother" from Nevada City, dated July 6, 1852, which talks about local conditions, particularly regarding farming and lumber. The writer of this letter is unknown since all but the first sheet is missing.
Letter from Placerville, signature indecipherable. Account of sea voyage to Calif., with description of stop in Isle of Gemara (?) and women loading coal on the ship. Talk of agricultural abundance in California and of life at the mines, particularly...
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This collection includes two letters on "Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco Cala." letterhead stationery, and one Western Union telegram. One letter and the telegram are both dated October 21, 1865. The letter is to J.A. Donohoe, Esqr., President of...
Eleven letters dated April to July 1872 from a newly married couple traveling in California and Oregon on their honeymoon trip. Eight are addressed to "My dear Mother" and sent to William's family home somewhere near Poughkeepsie, New York. Two...
Photocopies and transcriptions of letters, most of which were written by Lauriat from California or aboard ship during his passage, between 1849 and 1857.
This collection consists of correspondence to and from Lewis Ransome Freeman, dated 1931-1955. 23 letters are incoming from various South American and North American locations; 7 letters are outgoing, written by Freeman to his brother Lynn and to his mother;...
Correspondence, blueprints, contracts, photographs, reports, specifications....
Correspondence, blueprints, contracts, photographs, reports, specifications
Clippings, correspondence, photos, programs, publicity, scrapbooks, posters, postcards.
Autograph book, clippings, correspondence, journal, photographs, poetry, scrapbook, sketches.
Diary of Micajah Littleton documenting his overland journey to California from Independence, Mo., May to October of 1850. In addition to a descriptive journal he appended a detailed directional mileage log as if recording for future immigrants. Of special interest...
Correspondence and diary....
Correspondence, articles, clippings, ephemera, pamphlets, personal records....
Correspondence of members of Hamilton family to Mrs. Hamilton's brother, Joseph Delliber, in Hartford, Connecticut.
The collection consists of eight letters sent to Lorenzo Palmer Latimer after the San Francisco earthquake and fire in the spring of 1906. One is from his brother, Hugh N. N. Latimer, and the remainder are from his students including:...
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Correspondence, advertising, employee records, legal materials....
Lottie Ruggles' letters to her parents written while on a trip to Europe, sent from Montreaux, Geneva, Pallanza, Milan, Venice, Florence, and Rome between October 17 and November 22, 1909.
Correspondence, clippings and invitations, deeds, legal materials, minutes...
Manuscripts for published and unpublished work, postcards, photographs, clippings
Correspondence, lectures on art, and photographs.
Correspondence; copies of land records; survey field notes and tables; stock certificates, receipts; notes on road work, travel sheets, ticket boxes for wagon road companies....
Mr. Lowden came to California in 1849, settling on Lowden Ranch on the Trinity River near Lewiston in 1851. In 1872 he moved to Weaverville setting himself up as surveyor and land attorney. He served as United States Deputy Surveyor...
Correspondence to and from Mabel Gillis, primarily to local and county librarians during the Great Depression. These letters reveal many of the problems facing libraries during hard financial times, among them the common reluctance of elected officials to provide funding.
Correspondence and receipts
Correspondence and receipts....
Letters to William E. Parrott in Boston....
Bills, invoices, correspondence, and other documents relating to the Manhattan Silver Mining Company's operations in and around Austin, Nevada during the period spanning 1863 to 1888.
Box 2748: biography and correspondence; Box 2749: correspondence; Box 2750: trip to France, demise of Poodle Dog, invoices; Box 2751; price lists and invoices; Box 2752: restaurant documentation; Box 2753: legal documents; Box 2754: personal and miscellaneous; Box 2755: Camille's...
Four page document, addressed to Commodore Smith, Superintendent of Docks and Yards, Washington, D.C. Circa 1854. Testimonial for James Warner, master mason and resident of California since 1849, for a permanent appointment at Mare Island Navy Yard as master mason....
Account book, correspondence, diaries, files, notes and drafts, photographs.
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War Department communications to signal Corps Sgt. M. M. Sickler in Sacramento from January 19 to December 9, 1880.
Document announcing a Sheriff's sale in Markleeville, Amador County. The Sheriff had confiscated various lots in the city from Mr. A. Von Every to pay off a $249.13 bill Von Every owed. (Markleeville and the land around it was transferred...
Correspondence....
Papers relating to Marshall's estate, correspondence....
2 typewritten and hand-signed letters from Mary Austin to James L. Gillis.
Twenty-eight letters, the majority written by Annie Mason, wife of John S. Mason who was serving in the U.S. Army and stationed in California during the period covered in the letters. The first letter is dated January 11th, 1852 and...
Correspondence...
Two 19th century photo albums, and 55 portrait photographs (carte-de-viste & tintype probably from the 1860s) that were formerly in the albums and are mostly unidentified. The subjects of the photos are descendants of the donors. Many have the photographer's...
Clippings, correspondence, programs, poems, tributes, notes and drafts, pamphlets, reports, photographs....
Mock book paste-up that Maynard Dixon sent to J. Frank Dobie for a book "The Lost Lipans". With envelope with printed Dixon letterhead. Later in the year Dixon visited Dobie, who asked about using some of Dixon's earlier illustrations for...
Correspondence, deeds, photographs....
Business papers, charts, correspondence, diaries, maps, photographs, railroad papers....
Business papers, clippings, correspondence, mining information, notes and drafts, photographs....
Correspondence, funeral notices, memorabilia....
Correspondence, business cards, clippings...
Correspondence, McNeill News, membership lists, music concert programs....
Correspondence, McNeill News, membership lists, music concert programs
Correspondence, articles of incorporation, contracts, deeds, mining claims, pre-emption claims, receipts and invoices, stock certificates, surveys.
Correspondence, articles of incorporation, contracts, deeds, mining claims, pre-emption claims, receipts and invoices, stock certificates, surveys....
Title supplied by cataloger.
Correspondence, minutes, speeches, manuscripts, receipts, ephemera....
Correspondence, minutes, speeches, manuscripts, receipts, ephemera
Business and personal correspondence; accounts, inventory, legal papers, monthly statements and vouchers for Plumas-Eureka Mine; proofs of labor upon various mining claims.
This collection of certificates gives insight to the Michael and Kitty Brophy family and the George and Mary Clark family in the Los Angeles area from the 1850s to the 1940s: grandparents and parents of Merle Agnes Clark McCaleb. Typewritten...
Correspondence of the Meussdorffer family and to the J. C. Meussdorffer Hat Manufacturing Company. Most of the correspondence is concerned with the business....
Autograph letter by H.P. Heintzelman signed, Chihuahua March 7th, 1847 to his father Doctor John J. Heintzelman of Philadelphia.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Correspondence, notes and drafts, poetry, and materials used in writing the book ...
Business papers, certificates, checks, clippings, letters, calling cards, legal papers, pamphlets, menus, photographs....
Papers of Edgar Mills, dating from 1852-1888, bulk 1880s, ca. 120 items. Primarily business papers (1852-1888); some personal correspondence (1879-1887).
Articles of agreement, bills, correspondence, receipts, invoices, deeds, production reports, Nevada County mining records.
Articles of agreement, bills, correspondence, receipts, invoices, deeds, production reports, Nevada County mining records....
Reports on mining companies, including maps, photos, and broadsides; pamphlets, attorney's briefs for court cases, and surveyor's notebooks....
Reports on mining companies, including maps, photos, and broadsides; pamphlets, attorney's briefs for court cases.
The collection consists primarily of the correspondence of Errol MacBoyle documenting his activities in evaluating, acquiring, and financing mining properties in Grass Valley, Nevada County, California, and in Sonora, Mexico. There are also a variety of mine reports concerning past...
Handwritten.
This collection is an assortment of 233 items relating to mineral and petroleum resources in 18 California counties. In most cases there is only a single document for an entry. Dates range from 1868 to 1944; types of documents include...
Includes Los Angeles City College faculty parking permit, business cards, programs, certificate of awards, club membership certificates. Many are for Los Angeles Junior College/Los Angeles City College and other organizations.
Court cases of civil suits, criminal trials, estate matters, records of county offices....
Court cases of civil suits, criminal trials, estate matters, records of county offices.
Some handwritten, some typewritten and signed.
Correspondence, account books, legal papers, express and shipping receipts, Spanish and Mexican documents relating to mines in lower California....
Business and personal papers of Joseph Mora Moss. The collection includes receipt, record and ledger books, photographs as well as papers of Dr. Joseph Mora Moss, III....
Correspondence, movie scripts, miscellaneous items relating to motion pictures
Correspondence, movie scripts, miscellaneous items relating to motion pictures....
Seven manuscript letters, most written from Sacramento, California (one from Folsom), and dated between April 16, 1860 and April 8, 1862 (with one undated and one partially dated). Letters are addressed from N. Corbin to a woman named Gertrude. The...
Printer and publisher of fine press books in San Francisco from about 1895 to 1940's.
When the California National Bank of Sacramento closed in 1931, this collection was listed among its assets. Materials in the collection had been accumulated primarily during the period when the bank was known as the National Bank of D. O....
Letters, deeds, stocks and bonds, pictures, estate papers, checks and other banking items....
Business papers, correspondence
Deed for sale of gold mine in Empire Flat near the town of Bridgeport in Nevada County, by Ah Moon, et. al. to William Warner, October 20, 1877.
Collection of forms issued by the State of Nevada, Executive Dept., requesting the signature of the Governor, Secretary of State and Private Secretary of each state, as well as each state's great seal. In addition, a letter from President Taft...
Correspondence, account books, production records, vouchers, receipts, invoices, canceled checks, bank statements...
Correspondence, account books, production records, vouchers, receipts, invoices, cancelled checks, bank statements
Accounts, deeds, certificates, statements, mining claims, testimony, letters
Accounts, deeds, certificates, statements, mining claims, testimony, letters...
Correspondence, reports, records, equipment information and catalogs, maps, photos...
Correspondence, reports, records, equipment information, catalogs, maps, charts, photographs.
A collection of newspaper articles including several letters to the editor, an essay and a poem by author George Moore as well as book reviews, obituaries, and miscellaneous commentaries on his life and work.
Business papers, receipts....
2 ledger books: a trial balance book (1909-1912), and a purchasing journal (1922-1923).
This collection consists of corporate records arranged in the following series. Records from 1877-1897 are sparse, those from 1898-1973 provide a wider range of data.
Habeas corpus document issued by Judge Ogeden Hoffman of the United States District Court, Northern District of California, in behalf of Anastasis Chaballa on Dec. 19, 1851.
Master calendar orders, apellate decisions, opinions, briefs, bench books, correspondence.
Business papers and memorabilia
The collection is organized into four series: Personal papers, including correspondence focusing on Ottley's literary and political interests; Articles and speeches, comprised of approximately thirty typescripts; Publications, documenting all phases of the production of John A. Sutter, Jr.: statement regarding...
Alan Ottley was born in Vancouver, B.C. in 1909 but has been a resident of California since he was 13. He graduated from Santa Barbara High School and Santa Barbara State College and completed library school in Riverside. He worked...
Clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, manuscripts, plats, building plans, notes and directory information.
This collection represents California's 28th Senatorial District Senator, Joe Riley's personal file (1925-1938) regarding the "Inyo County Matter," also referred to as the "Owens Valley Water Wars." Included are letters, telegrams, memos, proposals, property appraisal data, contracts, options, offers, counter-offers,...
The Pacific Coast League was formed in 1903 and consisted of baseball teams in California, Oregon, and Washington. After major league baseball came to California in 1958 (and after major league games began to be televised), the Pacific Coast League...
32 letters written to Alice F. (Mrs. John) Daggett of northern California between 1871 and 1924. Includes other correspondence, clippings, pen and ink art originals on paper, "Address to the Citizens of East Quogue, Long Island, New York," and "The...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Family, childhood in North Carolina and New Jersey; meeting Jack Peltason at University of Missouri, marriage and family; faculty wife at Smith College and University of Illinois, 1947-1959; UC Irvine, founding years, 1964-1967; wife of chancellor, University of Illinois, 1967-1977;...
Patent document issued by Patent Office with seal and ribbon to Alfred Ropp of Selby, California (who probably worked for Selby Smelters) in 1899 for "roasting and oxidizing furnaces". Accompanied by document discussing the Canadian patent and miscellaneous documents relating...
Petition to the [United States] Commissioner of Patents filed by Edward P. Coffin of Nantucket, Massachusetts for a "new and useful improvement in gold washing machines." A 3 -page description of the mechanism is attached to the petition along with...
Correspondence, notes and drafts, receipts....
Campaign materials for State Proposition 13, a property tax reduction initiative; Proposition 8, The Victims Bill of Rights; Propositions 24, 36, and 4, and the 1980 campaign for the United States Senate.
Drafts of three bills introduced by Assemblyman Howard A. Peairs in the 40th State Legislature, 1913-1914....
This collection consists of twenty-two detailed pencil drawings on a newsprint sketchpad, dated 1864-1868. Identified drawings include Fort Yuma in 1864, General Jillers [sp.?] mansion at the head of the Bayous Burrow, Niagara Falls and Mount Baker from Cedar Hill...
Family letters of William Doyle Pennell and his wife, Delila Ann....
Business papers and correspondence in connection with operation of the Amador Dispatch newspaper and the Amador Telegraph Company, both in Jackson, California....
Letters from Isaac Perkins to his brother Daniel in Salem, Mass....
The Philip A. Embury collection contains an assortment of World War I memorabilia and features the diaries that Embury kept during 1917-1918. The collection is organized into two series: Personal papers and Military papers.
Correspondence and diary....
Correspondence...
An article appearing in the column Summary and analysis (MDLR, Sept./Oct. 1981). (2 copies) -- Removing architectural barriers : the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 / M.F. Raffa. (MPDLR/vol. 9, no. 4) (3 copies). -- California disability coalition pushes for...
Correspondence....
Correspondence, family history, California Battalion accounts and correspondence, and grant and ranch materials.
Diary of Seth Babson; church records; photocopy of address by Loyal Lincoln Wirt, "Reminiscences of Rev. Joseph Augustine Benton, D.D."...
Diary of Seth Babson, church records, photocopies of church records.
Correspondence and miscellany. California and non-California material originally in the possession of California pioneers and early settlers, 1796-1897....
Correspondence, receipts, accounts
Correspondence, receipts, accounts....
Collection consists of many groups of photographs commemorating activities and events involving Pittman and the NAACP Regional Office during the years 1951-1970; publications issued by the Office or other organizations active in civil rights during this period; and Pittman's office...
The collection consists of: many groups of photographs commemorating activities and events involving Pittman and the NAACP Regional Office during the years 1951-1970; publications issued by the Office or other organizations active in civil rights during this period; and Pittman's...
Records of court cases, public administrator's reports, road overseer's reports, bonds....
Court cases, Public Administrator's Reports, Road Overseer's reports, bonds.
Eleven licenses issued by the Placer County Treasurer during August through November of 1851; each written on a slip of paper varying in size from 6x20 cm. to 15x20 cm. Licenses issued in August were signed by D. Bingham (Douglass...
10 assorted items relating to the Portuguese Protective and Benevolent Association including a bankbook, pamphlet with by-laws, dance programs, and several insurance policy documents with seals.
Correspondence....
Title supplied by cataloger.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Correspondence, manuscripts and drafts, book reviews, photographs, contracts, royalty statements....
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collection consists, primarily of publications of the Ebell Society of Los Angeles, with some from the Oakland and Santa Ana Valley chapters. Publications consist of programs, annual announcements, application for membership, by-laws, financial reports, invitations to events, etc.
Correspondence, clippings, resolutions, letters of condolence, photographs, graphs...
Letters and envelopes, cards, photos, pressed flowers, verse and poetry, and a program. This collection consists mostly of letters written by Eckhardt to his girlfriend Marie Jochumsen in San Francisco (the majority during his World War I service). There are...
Collection of questionnaires and their responses. Questionnaire was sent out by P. J. Healy, District Statistician, on April 23rd, 1886 at the request of District Master Workman to gather information on number of Chinese employed, the conditions of that employement...
Correspondence, notes from interviews, foreman`s notebook, geology and production reports, annual reports, microfilm of Congressional reports....
A collection of carbon copies of transcripts in Spanish from the Mexican archives used in research for the book ...
Correspondence, family history, California Battalion accounts and correspondence, and grant and ranch materials....
Typewritten form with handwritten descriptions.
Business papers, correspondence, legal papers, printed materials, Trustee of Hornitos records....
Correspondence, legal papers, appointments, petitions for land timber, deeds, contracts, business and military papers....
The collection is organized into three series: Correspondence --letters and ephemera from leading Haiku poets; Haiku societies --correspondence and related materials pertaining to Haiku organizations; Publications --ms. material from Jane Reichhold's works and from titles published by AHA Books....
The collection is organized into three series: Correspondence -- letters and ephemera from leading Haiku poets; Haiku societies -- correspondence and related materials pertaining to Haiku organizations; Publications -- ms. material from Jane Reichhold's works and from titles published by...
Two ms. documents with transcriptions. Each is two pages in length and consists of short factual entries. Marshal follows an idiosyncratic custom of ending each paragraph with the punctuation mark xc. The document referring to his Mexican War experiences has...
Letter (7 p.), two envelopes and two typescripts, one with a brief introduction and footnotes. The letter was written on Sept. 24, 1912 at the request of Goode's sister-in-law, Catherine McRae Goode and sent to her in Carson City, Nevada....
Collection of specifications for construction streets and sidewalks in the City of Los Angeles. Starts with Specifications No. 47 (new series) for the construction of pavement of vitrified brick class B in the City of Los Angeles dated January 21st,...
Document describing a mining site near the Enterprise Gold Mine in Madera County. The site was being tested for the presence of uranium. The report consists of copies of document, a map and several original photographs.
In 1978 Ethel L. Bornefeld published an article "Mrs. Elizabeth Hughes Butte County's Only Woman Legislator" in the Fall & Winter Edition of the Butte County Historical Society's Diggin's (v. 22, no. 3&4). During the next five years or so...
Photocopies of notes, correspondence, and articles relating to research on Vallejo's bookplate; for inclusion in new chapter in reprint of "Historic California in bookplates".
Small reward poster for escapees from Folsom Prison, signed by Charles Aull, warden and dated Aug. 19, 1890. Includes description and very faded photographs (1x1 in.) of four men described as "German, speaks English with broken accent". Captured is scrawled...
Files on water: reports, notes, clippings, minutes, correspondence
Six letters that relate to Cyrus Richmond's business dealings in California. Three letters are from Richmond to his family back in Maine. The first, dated June 3, 1849 details his early impressions of life in San Francisco and the impact...
Title from cover; subtitle supplied by cataloger.
Three articles appearing in the column Summary, analysis and commentary reviewing the Burger court / edited by J. Parry (MPDLR/vol.8, no.6, MPDLR/vol.9, no.1, MPDLR/vol. 10, no.4). -- Developments in Patients' Bill of Rights since the Mental Health Systems Act /...
Clippings, court briefs, audio tape, phone record, correspondence, promotional material
Interviews with various university officials and friends of Robert Gordon Sproul.
Letter written on February 2, 1848, the day that the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the Mexican War was signed. Besides describing the Louisiana countryside, McGuffey relates a conversation with General Zachary Taylor.
This collection is a sampling of some of the works by Robert Benjamin Stacy-Judd, an architect flourishing in Southern California from the 1920s through the 1960s. These samplings include a letter, a newspaper article, an announcement for a lecture series...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Correspondence, bills and other papers of Rowe and his associates....
Correspondence discusses family matters and details of Sacramento business. In addition, a letter, unsigned, dated Jan. 7, 1849, from Panama, describing voyage to California.
Letters from eastern liquor dealers in New York to S. C. Shaw concerning orders placed with them by him
Transcripts of sexton's registries from St. Joseph's Cemetery, Sacramento; St. Joseph's Cemetery, Woodland; Citrus Heights Cemetery; Sacramento Memorial Cemetery; and St. Mary's Cemetery, Sacramento....
Transcripts of sexton's registries from St. Joseph's Cemetery, Sacramento; St. Joseph's Cemetery, Woodland; Citrus Heights Cemetery, Sacramento Memorial Cemetery; and St. Mary's Cemetery, Sacramento.
Photos, flier, typed description of excursion, ledger book.
Dairy written in Pocket Memorandum Almanac, 1853.
Three documents: transfer of swamp and overflowed lands in San Joaquin County from Samuel Brannan to A.G. Kimbell on Oct. 25, 1865, transfer of same land from Kimbell to John Rueger on June 23, 1866, and transfer of same land...
Business correspondence of Samuel J. Hume with California State Library
This material relating to the San Francisco earthquake and fire is from the local history collection of Santa Barbara bibliophile, Clifton F. Smith. A noted botanist, Smith was also an avid book collector with a particular interest in the history...
Contains a tour brochure, several transfer tickets, holiday tour tickets, tickets for school children, accident report forms, car defect report forms, several leaflets on municipal railway services and how to use them, and a copy of The Bay Area electric...
Selected civil case records from the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco
Selected civil case records from the Superior Court of the City and the County of San Francisco, 1905-1922....
This collection of records from the contemporary San Juan Water District begins in 1854 with one of the state's early ditch companies and concludes in 1994 with the 140th anniversary of the company. There are approximately 600 items in the...
The Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company was incorporated in the summer of 1877, acquiring the rights and properties of the Semi-Tropic company. The company covered the territory of the former Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, including the Olive area, Orange,...
The Saturday Club was organized in 1893 to promote the advancement of music in Sacramento. It was active in bringing well-known musicians to Sacramento to perform. It has continued its activities to the present day.
Correspondence, constitution, by-laws, regulations, membership lists, musical programs....
Records of the Society
Records of the Society....
Correspondence, Charles Couvillaud receipts and checks, diaries, scrapbooks of Emma and Mary McKinsey....
Correspondence covers a period from May 19, 1882 through Aug. 1882 where author describes his army life. Assigned, at first, to Alcatraz Island; then to the St. Helena area where he visited several camps around St. Helena, Clear Lake, Cloverdale;...
Title from spine.
A collection of 29 articles on oceanography, published from 1926 to 1938, from several different scientific journals.
Assays, correspondence, deeds, minutes of meetings, receipts, reports and stocks....
Assays, correspondence, deeds, minutes of meetings, receipts, reports and stocks
Diaries and notebooks, auto record books, records for Highland Park property, photographs....
Correspondence, contracts, stock certificates, receipts, invoices, tax records, deeds, leases
Correspondence, contracts, stock certificates, receipts, invoices, tax records, deeds, leases....
Business and family papers, school land warrants....
The collection consists of a variety of records dating from 1874 to 1900, with the bulk 1875 to 1885. These records have been organized into five series: General Administrative; Accounts of Labor; Legal; Financial; and Related Ditch Companies. Graphics on...
Correspondence, records of proceedings of Democratic Party at district conventions in Butte County, abstract of vote (Butte County, 1853-54), bills, receipts, business papers....
Completed questionnaires and letters of American playwrights gathered by Irene Hoch in writing Modesto, California, Adobe Press, 1936....
Newspaper clippings, button, bumper sticker, news releases, San Francisco Library bond information, Sacramento Central Library information, correspondence regarding Butte County Library....
Newspaper clippings, button, bumper sticker, news releases, correspondence.
Letters from eastern liquor dealers in New York to S. C. Shaw concerning orders placed with them by him....
Letters of Rev. Henry B. Sheldon to his parents....
Business and personal papers of John Wesley Shenk, Sr., John Wesley, Jr., Susanne, Mary, William W., and Edmund Shenk and Henry Wilson including correspondence, deeds, receipts, bills, and photographs....
Primarily business papers of J.W. (John Wesley) Shenk, including some letters on letterheads. Early correspondence ca. 1900-1903 with S.W. Fergusson and L.M. Holt relates to Shenk's move from Omaha to the Imperial Valley to participate in the Imperial Land Company...
These 24 shikishi, or poem cards, were a gift from the Museum of Haiku Literature in Tokyo to the Haiku Society of America in honor of the Society's tenth anniversary, celebrated in 1978. Twenty-four of Japan's most renowned poets composed...
Business papers, legal documents, personal papers, letters, receipts....
War Department communications to signal Corps Sgt. M. M. Sickler in Sacramento from January 19 to December 9, 1880....
This collection consists primarily of financial data in bound volumes reflecting the operations of the last two, of three, owners of the Sierra Buttes Mine during the period 1869-1910. Neither the type of financial data provided or the methodology of...
Correspondence, petitions, applications, receipts, accounts, reports
Correspondence, petitions, applications, receipts, accounts, reports...
Large numbers of Chinese immigrants came to California during the early 1850s to hunt for gold, and many stayed to pursue other lines of work. They maintained customs of their homeland, and were also the object of much prejudice and...
Letters from Smith to his family describe his trip to San Francisco via Panama, his gold mining and his trip to Oregon. The collection also includes certificates, other correspondence, his diary and various receipts....
Business papers, correspondence, legal papers, notebooks and photographs.
Business papers, correspondence, legal papers, notebooks and photographs....
Title supplied by cataloger.
Title taken from caption of larger piece.
Correspondence and business papers of the Southworth brothers....
Correspondence and business papers of Southworth brothers
Title from cover.
The collection consists of the personal and professional papers of William P. Sowden, an attorney and notary public in Dutch Flat, Placer County, California, ca. 1890-1920. The documents relate to Sowden's legal practice as a small town attorney and mostly...
Small collection of letters from various persons, 1780-1850....
A collection of single issues of periodicals publishing haiku or discussion of the haiku movement.
A collection of single issues of periodicals publishing haiku or discussion of the haiku movement.
A collection of single issues of periodicals publishing haiku or discussion of the haiku movement.
A collection of single issues of periodicals publishing haiku or discussion of the haiku movement.
Handwritten title from spine.
Minutes of meetings, laws of company, bills of sale, accounts.
Minutes of meetings; laws of the company, bills of sale, accounts....
This collection documents the early days of hydroelectric power development in California as well as the infusion of eastern capital into California which occurred in the early 1900s. The collection includes the papers of two California businessmen, Howard P. Veeder...
Business and personal papers of Stanley Hiller, Sr., Papers concerning Stanley Hiller, Jr.'s inventions: a new type of die-casting process and the first practical coaxial helicopter.
19 letters and 11 envelopes, mostly written by Nathan S. Stanwood in Sacramento to Nancy Delano in Strong, ME. Another letter is to Stanwood from a woman named Abby (?) in Augusta, ME, and also included is a letter from...
Blueprints, correspondence and notes, plans...
Small collections of letters, typescripts and other documents....
Briefs and court decisions from 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and Supreme Court, listing and analysis of exhibits, exhibits, depositions and trial transcripts.
Briefs and court decisions from 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and Supreme Court, settlement agreement, trial briefs, complaints and answer motion for summary judgment, listing and analysis of exhibits, comments on navigability, plaintiff and defendant exhibits, depositions of witnesses, trial...
Manuscripts for published and unpublished work, postcards, photographs, clippings....
Stephen Davis was born near Dunstable, Massachusetts on February 16, 1833. After his father's death in 1844 Stephen moved with his mother and siblings to Nashua, New Hampshire, where he worked in a variety of jobs before and after his...
Correspondence, biographical materials, military papers, maps, deeds, diary, photographs, etc....
Photographs, correspondence, news clippings, programs, booklets, and other documents belonging to Augustus Stickney, Belzora Clark Stickney, Edgar Allen Stickney, and the related Clark, Golden, Rust, Welch, Robbins, Winn, Dada, Emuel, and Renfro families. Numerous family history notes are included throughout.
The collection consists of J.W. Stow's incoming correspondence, 1863 though 1869. There are 36 documents; three are on letterhead. Correspondents are primarily businessmen associated with the Russell and Erwin Manufacturing Company, including A.W. North, P. Oliver, Jason B. Ogden, and...
Photos and negatives of State Printing Plant, correspondence, requisitions, sick leave forms, invasion currency printed by State Printing Plant, books....
Business letters and diaries....
One letter on letterhead of the Niagara Mill and Mining Co. from Jas. Sutherland in French Gulch to W. S. Lowden in Weaverville, dated Nov. 24, 1888. The letter is accompanied by six black and white photographs 3 1/2 in....
Business papers, legal papers, estate matters, manuscript statement of events occurring in Sacramento, 1848-1850....
Correspondence, Sutter claim materials, miscellaneous papers....
Letter embossed with the logo of Sutton & Co. of 84 Wall Street, New York, agents for a dispatch line for San Francisco. The handwriting on the letter, dated June 16, 1855, is such that it is difficult to tell...
Marriage certificates, picture albums, family memoirs....
Marriage certificates, picture albums, family memoirs
Boy Scout records kept in a Nevada County Collateral Inheritance Tax ledger. Those from 1924 to 1932 are typed on paper, glued in, and are very detailed, giving the particulars of the yearly summer and winter camps, who participated in...
The collection consists of materials pertaining to titles published by the Press, including research materials, correspondence, typescripts, galleys, annotated printing copies, illustrations, reviews, financial records, etc.; materials relating to proposals for publications that the Press never published; miscellaneous corporate records...
The collection consists of materials pertaining to titles published by the Press, including research materials, correspondence, typescripts, annotated printing copies, illustrations, reviews, financial records, etc.; materials relating to proposals for publications that the Press never published; miscellaneous corporate records of...
Correspondence....
Deeds, agreements, legal documents, banking records, invoices, receipts, correspondence, accounting records, Taylorsville Creamery records, stock certificates...
Deeds, agreements, legal documents, banking records, invoices, receipts, correspondence, accounting records, Taylorsville Creamery records, stock certificates.
Ella Kelly's teaching notebook consists of 107 pages of notes organized under the following topics: Mental Philosophy; Work of Teacher; Definition of Education; Studies for Training; Reading; Spelling; Language; Grammar; Arithmetic. Pages 110 through 116 include the Constitution of the...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Letter, bills of sale, poll tax, receipts, subpoena, leases
8 Letters from Vano, who was stationed in Germany, to family members.
Business, military and family papers....
1 frame with 5 photographs (3 of T. Vasquez, 1 of Sheriff John H. Adams, 1 of Abdon Leiva); 1 framed photo of T. Vasquez; 1 framed engraving of Judge D. Belden of San Jose; 1 framed photo of the...
Correspondence, account books, membership lists, minutes of meetings, embroidery patterns...
Correspondence, account books, membership lists, minutes of meetings, embroidery patterns
Personal papers of internees: alien registration i.d.s, housing assignments, work assignments, clothing allowance receipts, recreation passes, co-op memberships, travel permits....
Personal papers of internees: alien registration i.d.s, housing assignments, clothing allowance receipts, recreation passes, co-op memberships, travel permits. Organization publications: yearbooks, memoranda, "Ben Kiroki's Story", "The American Observer", March 9, 1942 and May 4, 1942, audits of payroll
Payroll stub book, disbound, nos. 1-2243; 3 business letters; 1 shipping invoice.
Payroll stubs....
Title supplied by cataloger.
Miscellaneous collection of records from the United Spanish War Veterans organizations in Paradise, California. Material is primarily from the women's auxiliary, USWV Auxiliary No. 127; some from the veteran's group, USWV Paradise Camp No. 145.
Correspondence is between several employees of Institute of Governmental Studies (Stanley Scott and Ora Huth) and Joseph F. Zimmerman (editor, National Civic Review), William N. Cassella, Jr. (National Municipal League) and Warren Schmid (ABAG). Includes newspaper clippings from various Bay...
Title supplied by cataloger.
The EPIC collection was a gift from the Shaw family. Ida Noble and W. Lawrence Shaw met while Ida was working at the Pomona College Library after her graduation in 1931 and Lawrence was pursuing a degree in library science....
Manuscript of Edward C. Uren's survey of Dutch Flat. Includes 12 square blocks and 204 lots, including Dutch Flat Hotel and "Chinese lot". Each lot includes the owner's name and extensive property measurements.
Letter by Uriah Wood to Dr. J. Flint urging support of the West Side Irrigation Bill. Wood stated that Miller and Lux wanted to delete the land between the San Joaquin River and the San Joaquin and Kings River Canal...
The collection includes theatrical and musical announcements and programs and Urmy=s reviews for the period for 1910 through 1922 for works performed at San Jose=s Victory Theatre; also letters on personal and literary concerns for the period from 1900 through...
Correspondence, deeds, legal papers, mining papers
Correspondence, deeds, legal papers, mining papers....
Business papers, correspondence, land grant materials, legal papers, Mission Dolores accounts, receipts, promissory notes, tax assessments....
State of California incorporation papers for the Venice Club, Venice CA, dated July 8, 1907. Also, Venice Club meeting minutes for July 2 and July 11, 1907, dealing with incorporation.
Eighteen early Spanish documents concerning the discovery and exploration of America, Mexico and California, 1523-1735. Count Angel de Vera's family coat of arms: "Vera Ponce de Leon Family", a painted wood plaque; "Knight Commander of Mortalla in the very noble...
This collection consists of the correspondence, legal documents, financial records and receipts, and miscellaneous papers of Victor Forni and his wife, Mamie E. Forni. Most relate to mining activities and property in the Georgetown area of El Dorado County. Mines...
Correspondence, statement of ordinance, schedule of arms, items concerning military matters.
Correspondence, statement of ordinance, schedule of arms, items concerning military matters....
Business papers, certificates and correspondence....
Family papers including correspondence, greeting cards, business papers, newspaper clippings, diary, graduation and birth announcements, wedding invitations, Golden Sheaf Awards, deeds, naturalization paper, wills, newspapers, photographs, and genealogy notes....
Family papers including correspondence, greeting cards, business papers, newspaper clippings, diary, graduation and birth announcements, wedding invitations, Golden Sheaf Awards, deeds, naturalization papers, wills, newspapers, photographs, and genealogy notes.
William W. Light was born in Claremont County, Ohio on July 29, 1819, and was a boyhood friend of Ulysses S. Grant. He began studying medicine at age eighteen in Cincinnati, entered the practice of dentistry in 1840, and arrived...
Certificates, diary, printed materials, materials about his daughter, Carrie M. Wadsworth....
Letters written by Mr. and Mrs. William Warner of Sweetland, Calif. to family members
Letters written by Mr. and Mrs. William Warner of Sweetland, Calif. to family members....
Correspondence, records of proceedings of Democratic Party at district conventions in Butte County, abstract of vote (Butte County, 1853-54), bills, receipts, business papers
Correspondence regarding efforts to build Bayshore Highway and Skyline Boulevard....
Certificates, correspondence, envelopes, receipt books, etc.
Certificates, correspondence, envelopes, receipt books, etc....
Correspondence, greeting cards, clippings, notes, speeches, receipts, State Library School materials, Pony Express information, photographs, notes on historic buildings, Caroline Wenzel School materials, tax receipts; Arthur, Florine, Jennie, George, Robert and Wenzel family materials....
The Oregon-California Trails Association (OCTA) established the Western Overland Trails Collection at the California State Library in 2002. In addition to a substantial collection of published books and pamphlets, the Association donated copies of unpublished material such as diaries, journals,...
Correspondence, business papers, estate materials administered by his executor, John A. McIntire, and mining investment materials....
Two letters written by H.F. Wilkinson to Jake and sent from Auburn on Oct. 16, 1887 and Jan. 17, 1889. The 1889 letter is on an engraved lettersheet from Freeman's Hotel with the caption "Formerly Borland". Transcriptions of the letters...
Manuscripts of speeches, photos, ephemera, scrapbook, clippings, correspondence, banking papers.
Business papers and correspondence in connection with operation of the Amador Dispatch newspaper and the Amador Telegraph Company, both in Jackson, California
Manuscript journal and typescript.
Letter from Pittston, Maine businessman William Cooper to charter captain Moses I. Muliken of the brig Mary Wilder regarding plans to go to California and take part in mining operations, April 13, 1849.
Family letters of William Doyle Pennell and his wife, Delila Ann
The William Earp collection consists of: a leather satchel with "William Earp Pontiac Illinois" written on the side (the satchel he took to California according to family lore); a 90-page diary for the year 1862; three photographs of Earp (one...
Copybook kept by William G. Clark of Coloma CA. 1859. Includes essays and comment on social events in Coloma during this period, along with poetry and stories.
Family correspondence.
William H. Bull, 1861-1940, arrived in San Francisco in 1894. He was employed by Southern Pacific Railroad as their first commerical artist. He specialized in doing advertising and in painting pictures of California's beauty spots for Southern Pacific's promotional materials....
Correspondence
Correspondence, background materials, notes and drafts for books on California history; reprints of articles and short stories; photographs; periodicals; books; speeches; membership lists and correspondence for "The Family"; research material; radio and TV scripts.
Correspondence, business and personal papers, notebooks, scrapbooks.
Correspondence, legal papers.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Letters of William Higby to his mother and father
Correspondence, advertising, employee records, legal materials.
William Newell Davis, Jr. was born in Kingsburg, CA in 1915 and lived for a number of years in Dinuba. He received a Bachelor's in History from Fresno State College in 1936, a secondary teaching credential from U.C. Berkeley in...
William's letter home is a capsule summary of his overland journey to California. He describes setting out from St. Joseph after an overturned wagon and broken wheel caused several days of delay. He talks of sickness on the trail and...
Diary and photographs. Diary covers brief period during 1944-45 (?) when William R. Bryant was stationed in Italy (Foggia?) flying B17 bomber raids. Photographs include servicemen and aerial views of bombing targets. Some newspaper clippings.
Twenty-two letters from William Rodman Olden in California to his family in Bucks County, Pa.; 5 envelopes, 3 imprinted with business logos. The first letter is addressed to his wife and dated from Panama on May 13, 1849. The rest...
Correspondence; copies of land records; survey field notes and tables; stock certificates, receipts; notes on road work, travel sheets, ticket boxes for wagon road companies.
Correspondence
Correspondence, books, pictures, newspaper copies....
Mrs. Winchester's extraordinary "Spook Palace". Article from: San Francisco Examiner, April 1, 1928, "The American weekly" magazine section, pp 13, 14 and 25.
Published scrapbook. with wine labels from France and California wineries pasted and loose.
Letter guaranteeing safe passage for Mexican soldiers into the capital, accompanied by a typed translation in Spanish. Also a printed "Safeguard" issued by Scott placing a Mexican family and its property under protection of the Army.
Immigration materials of a Chinese woman, identified as Tam Moy on an 1894 Certificate of Residence, and as Mrs. Wong Mee Shee on a 1916 Certificate of Identity and its associated steamer ticket. Also included is a piece of paper...
The main body of the collection is approximately 100 typed manuscripts of speeches written by Wood, circa 1904-1931. There are photographs of Wood, and ephemera, for the period 1900-1939. The collection also contains 50 typewritten manuscripts of Wood's speeches, primarily...
Correspondence to Robert B. Woodward (although some is addressed to others at Woodward's Gardens) mostly about possible donation or sale of items and animals to the Gardens' collections, and file cards on books acquired for the collection. Many of the...
Thirty-one letters (30 holograph, 1 typewritten) primarily to Lyford's sister Lela, with a few to his mother, Minnie D. and his brother, Per -- all in Martinez, California. Letters beginning on August 27th, 1917 through October 18th, 1917 were from...
The collection includes 96 holograph letters and 61 photographs from Lingard to his family, chiefly his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Lingard in Berkeley, California. Letters from 1917, June 28th through July 29th, were written from American Lake, Washington, while...
The collection includes 49 holograph letters and postcards written by Newlove to his parents in Arroyo Grande, California. Letters from Feb. 21, 1918 to Apr. 26, 1918 are from Mare Island, California; 2 postcards and a letter dated May 11,...
This collection includes 19 holograph letters written by Ray Sweeney to his mother in San Francisco. Letters written from January through September 5, 1918 were sent from bases in California. A letter misdated June 18 (for Sept. 18) and subsequent...
Newspaper clippings....
A collection of 416 letters from Robert Grimm to his wife, Margaret. Letters from Jan. 8, 1942 through the end of 1943 were sent during service in the United States. Letters from 1945 were written during eight weeks on a...
This collection comprises 391 holograph letters, four photographs and 10 photograph negatives sent to Masters' wife, Rebecca Morris Masters in Long Beach, California. Letters from 1942, beginning May 2nd, and throughout 1943 were written while attending Basic Training, Officer Candidates'...
This collection includes 173 holograph letters and one photograph sent primarily to Emmon's mother, Mina F. Emmons, in Oakland, California, with a few letters to his sister, Eleanor Carpenter, also in Oakland. Letters from 1942, beginning February 23rd, and early...
This collection includes 207 letters (mostly holograph; some typed) and 12 photographs sent to Kinney's parents, Clinton P. and Maud Kinney of Stockton, California. Letters from 1942, beginning May 21st, were written during training in the United States; letters from...
115 holograph letters by Varner to Nell Wheat, the woman who became his fiancee during the time of this correspondence. Most letters were sent to her home in Roanoke, Virginia, but some were addressed in care of her brother, Forest...
This collection of letters and memorabilia richly documents the service career of James M. Brown. A scrapbook offers a complete record beginning with correspondence from the Selective Service Board in 1942 and concluding with discharge papers in 1945. In addition...
This collection consists primarily of correspondence from Robert L. Abreu to his wife, Violet M. Abreu, including 239 holograph letters, 3 typewritten letters, 4 telegrams, and various ephemera. During April-June 1943 Robert writes from Laredo, Tex., to Violet in Oakland,...
The bulk of this collection comprises 138 holograph letters and 9 postcards, 1 photograph and 4 photo negatives sent by George Dein to his wife, Dolores. The letters date from Jan. 5, 1943 through Nov. 5, 1945 and were sent...
The collection comprises 69 holograph letters and two photographs sent to Hassett's mother, Adele M., and to his father, James B., Sr., in San Francisco. Letters from 1943, beginning Feb. 21st, were written during training in the United States; letters...
This collection consists of 181 holograph letters, 28 typewritten letters, 4 greeting cards and 1 telegram sent by Charlie Widbin to his parents, Elmer and Blanche Widbin in Los Angeles, California. Correspondence from Sept. 14, 1944 through Nov. 15, 1944...
The contents of this collection includes 70 handwritten letters written by Edward "Bud" C. Wert (US Navy) during training to serve with the Pacific Fleet between 1944 and 1946. Forty-nine letters are written while studying at the Communications School at...
This collection comprises 309 holograph letters, four photographs andsix photographic negatives exchanged between Adolph F. Harpain and Edna Mae Clark. Harpain's letters from 1945, beginning April 30th, were sent from training camps in Arizona and Illinois to Clark at her...
A scrapbook containing articles from various California newspapers, newsletters, and magazines; programs from dedication ceremonies; and other documents related to the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Projects in California.
Title supplied by cataloger.
The Yellow Aster records are organized into the following series: LEGAL (bulk 1895-1918): Corporate, Property, Legal actions--Yellow Aster vs. O. B. Stanton (1898), Yellow Aster vs. Crane Company (1904). FINANCIAL (1898-1915): Accounting, Debits, Credits, Correspondence--R. L. Burcham to C. W....
Correspondence....
Correspondence
Newspaper clippings collected by Governor C.C. Young....