Negative and positive microfilm. Original in private possession.

Collection consists of an 1958 issue of Western Floors magazine dedicated to telling the history of D. N. & E. Walter & Company on its centennial; a 1902 company invoice, and photographs and prints of the various buildings the company...

Contains the financial records of a Salinas, Calif. florist and nursery. Receipts are only for businesses with names starting with the letters A-G.

Letters from James Dabney to his family concerning his experiences as an American soldier in the Spanish-American War, written from San Francisco, while en route to the Pacific, and from Hawaii, Guam and the Philippines. Also includes letters from Eliza...

Partial, handwritten card index of selected persons, places, and subjects found in the Daily evening bulletin. Made for use by Hubert Howe Bancroft and The History Company. Some modification of original subject headings made by The Bancroft Library to conform...

Primarily letters to Fauntleroy from his family and superior officers, including Commander William Mervine, in part while serving as a Captain in the U.S. Navy in charge of American occupation troops (1846) around Monterey. Also included: William A. Leidesdorff's note...

Manuscripts, correspondence, pamphlets, essays and reviews.

The papers of Fred H. Dakin, California mining engineer and antimony ore buyer for the Texas Mining and Smelting Company. Included are mine files, general correspondence and subject files, field notes and other notebooks, some mining financial records, personalia, and...

Collection of Dakin family photos including snapshots, studio portraits, school pictures, etc. California locations include: Mount Shasta region, Siskiyou Mountains, Butte County, Happy Camp, Bohemian Grove, Redding (estates and city views), and Mount Lassen (during eruption). Some photos of gold...

Includes correspondence, maps, articles of incorporation, minutes, etc. of Dakin Mining Co., San Francisco, California; genealogy of the Dakin family, account book for other mines, records of the Uncle Sam mine.

Included are signed copies of reports of Edward Kent, the U.S. consul at the port, and bills and accounts.

Comprised largely of correspondence from Graff to his friend, Elizabeth Elkus. Also includes photocopies of his poems, most of which appear in his book, 22 Poems, and stories. In addition, material relating to two of his art exhibitions, one of...

Typescript and photostat copies compiled by Dale L. Morgan regarding mountain man Austin I. Raines and the first U.S. Consulate in California at Monterey. Contains letters from Raines to Robert Campbell and to the Secretary of State concerning his trip...

Collection contains a large number of family photographs including snapshots, negatives and slides. Images are of vacations, outings, school pictures, group portraits, and family portraits. Many Smithsonian copy photographs of American Indians are found in the collection, as well as...

Includes the following works: Journal of the Southern Indian Mission (by Thomas D. Brown, 1857-1858), Record of J.L. Bunting, Kanab, Kane Co., Utah (by James Lovett Bunting, 1892), Diary and journal of James S. Bunting (Nov. 1879-Oct. 1881), Platte de...

Includes progress photos of the construction of a concrete dam.

Photoprints of documents, letters, signatures and other examples of Dama's handwriting, with notes as to their use in the case. Photoprints are pasted into volume.

Family snapshots in various New York and New Jersey area locations including South Orange, Atlantic City, Albany, Basin Harbor, etc. Also included is a group portrait of members of the New York Symphony (probably including Walter Damrosch), and scenes of...

Photos show land and projects of the Spring Valley Water Company in California. Includes: Crystal Springs Lake and Dam, San Andreas Dam, San Antonio resevoir site and watershed, Sunol Dam and water temple, La Honda and Santa Cruz mountains views,...

Photographs show the construction of the Exchequer Dam, the La Grange Dam (identification uncertain, possibly the Don Pedro Dam?), and related views.

Collection of material concerning the sugar industry, relating chiefly to California. Includes: material concerning the Western Sugar Refining Company, Bay Refinery, C & H at Crockett, Pacific Refinery, Gordon's, etc.; diary of operations in the sugar refinery, Paauha, Hawaii, 1880-1885;...

Correspondence, manuscripts, and publications concerning his interest and activity in writing about the sugar industry.

Sketch includes information on Sachman's journey to California in 1850; journey to Port Orchard, Washington; work in lumbering and as a hotel owner.

Photographs documenting queer culture of San Francisco, chiefly during the 1970s. Subjects include Nicoletta, Harvey Milk, Sylvester (Sylvester James), Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead), Edith Massey, San Francisco Gay Pride Parade, drag queens, Trocadero Transfer dance club, the Angels of Light...

Contains materials collected by the president of the San Francisco chapter of a national volunteer service organization made up of members from the telecommunication industry. Materials include those from Patterson's 1974 term as president and other related news clippings, newsletters,...

Notes from various research projects, particularly related to Stanislawski's study of historical geography in Italy, Portugal, Greece, Mexico, Central America, and South America.

Brief statements, chiefly concerning their portions of the Nipomo Rancho, from David A., Frank, Frederick A., Henry C., José Ramón H., and William C. Dana, sons of William G. Dana. Notes on the family of John F. Dana (another son)...

Includes copy photographs of 19th century California scenes. Postcard views picture Samoa and other Pacific islands, England, etc. Two drawings and a map reproduction are also included. Some items relate to R.L. Stevenson. 97 portraits of various celebrities and notable...

V. 1, interviews with Charles and Sulgwynn Quitzow; v. 2, with their children, OElóel Quitzow Braun and Vol Quitzow. Photographs and copies of documentary material included and appended. Comments on the Boynton, Treadwell and Quitzow families; their home, the Temple...

Scenes from works by several choreographers, including M. Gage, M. Graham, K. Jooss, E. Selden, D. Humphrey, R. von Laban and others. Most photo credits from New York; a few from Berlin, Dresden and Paris.

Many photographs taken in the Southwest. Includes scenes of cattle ranching, cowboys, Native Americans, shepherds, and mining and prospecting. Many images were used in publications by Dane Coolidge. Also includes some views of China.

Includes photos of California gold country, stage coaches, weapons of Black Bart[?], and a recreated[?] view of a stagecoach hold-up of the 1880s/1890s.

Letters from William Alvord, Newton Booth, Eugene Casserly, Cornelius Cole, George Davidson, Henry Edwards, Stephen J. Field, H.H. Haight, Martin Kellogg, Clarence King, W.I. Kip, John LeConte, Joseph LeConte, Charles Nordhoff, F.L. Olmstead, Daniel Rogers, B.F. Sands, A.A. Sargent, Leland...

Concerning commercial transactions, primarily in South America. Written from Lima, Peru, various cities in Europe, and Norwich, Connecticut. With typed transcripts of a part of the collection.

Scrapbooks re the various mining companies with which he was associated, strikes in the mines and the Western Federation of Miners, and his own career, ca. 1908-1914; photographs of operations of Alaska Gold Mines Co., 1912, and Mercur Mines Co.;...

Include letters from John Parrott, Howland & Aspinwall, Samuel L. M. Barlow and others, relating to property in St. Louis and San Francisco, the banking firm of Page, Bacon & Co., and the 1856 Vigilance Committee in San Francisco.

29 letters (& 3 framents of letters). Dole describes travel on the islands and provides information on the prices of goods, the lumber industry, the development of the sugar cane plantations and sugar manufacturing in general. Also mentioned is Dole's...

Chiefly correspondence; includes some reprints.

Chiefly letters to his family in the East, written from Sonoma, Santa Rosa and San Francisco, describing his trip across the Isthmus and experiences in California. A few have postscripts by his sister, Sarah.

The Daniel F. Castro collection of Ina Coolbrith and Eunice Lehmer correspondence, 1910-1955, is primarily comprised of correspondence by and to Ina Coolbrith and also by and to Eunice Lehmer. The collection also includes a poem by, writings sent to,...

Miscellaneous accounts of Daniel Gibb & Company, San Francisco, California, as general merchants.

v.1, scattered entries, San Francisco (1853)

Describes life from 1834 in what became Nauvoo, Illinois; arrival of the Mormons in 1839 and events until the exodus in 1846, at which time he joined the Church; removal to Utah, 1848, and pioneer life afterward, with especial attention...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Lectures, remininsces with family, and a recording of Arnon's memorial service.

Letters written to McLean's brother from Pike City, Yuba Co., pertaining to mining experiences.

Holograph and typescript notebooks containing poems, stories, notes on dreams, diary entries and other occasional writings, some illustrated with drawings; unbound manuscripts of poems; drawings; galley proofs and annotated copy of Dawn Visions; drawings and printed plates for This Body...

Five letters by a Rocky Mountain trapper, 1822-1828. Three, dated Rocky Mountains, July 7, 1824, Sweet [Bear] Lake, July 8, 1827, and St. Louis, October 3, 1828; one dated Rocky Mountains, July 16, 1826; one dated Sweet Lake, July 8,...

Recollections of voyage to California around the Horn on the John Enders in 1849, descriptions of San Francisco and Sacramento, gold mining ventures and travels in California.

Photocopy and originals. Written from South America, Europe, Mexico and California.

Correspondence, mss. of articles, clippings and papers relating primarily to his career as editor of the Alameda Daily Argus and the Oakland Tribune. A few papers of his daughter, Lulu (Daniells) Taylor included.

Journals and papers of Mormons and mormon activities in Denmark and Utah from film on deposit from the Utah Historical Society.

The J. Periam Danton Papers, 1928-2002, primarily consist of professional correspondence regarding organizational activities within the academic library and international librarianship professions. The collection has been divided into three series: Professional Activities; Writings; and Biographical materials. Correspondence with colleagues and...

Includes an essay (4 leaves) on the historical background of the play.

Includes business, personal, and family papers of Mrs. Annie Darbee (formerly Mrs. Annie Gooch), mostly within her lifetime from 1872-1956. Business records primarily relate to the family's flower shop in San Francisco, and many of the family papers consist of...

Family portraits, photograph albums, snapshots, etc.

Correspondence; diaries, 1852-1912; accounts, 1852-1890, relating mainly to farming and shopkeeping in El Dorado Co. Include letters from James Patterson, John Dougherty and others re soapstone business and one letter from A.A. Sargent.

Photographs depict scenes in the Panteón Civil de Dolores cemetery in Mexico City, including decorated graves and observants of Días de Muertos (All Souls Day).

Preferred citation: Data Center records, BANC MSS 99/329 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Information furnished H.H. Bancroft, enclosing copy of letter and statistical table sent to an unnamed correspondent, and blank questionnaire form (printed)

Concerns the establishment of the Supreme Court and Chief Justice William L. Lee; the Land Commission; royal succession; the Legislature; taxation and revenue; education; hospitals and charities; economic development; a trans-Pacific cable; Gerrit P., A.F., and Charles Judd; and Charles...

Notes by M. Fernández Martínez taken from the Spanish Archives of California, v. 1-2, 1768-1792; mainly relating to orders of Viceroy Bucareli concerning Alta California.

Includes clippings, programs, and photographs.

Includes 8 x 10 and 4 x 5 original prints of Martin's commercial male physique photography. Among the models are several noteworthy bodybuilders of the time, including Mike Sill, Bud Counts, Ray Routledge, Ken Dockter, Norman Tousley, Al Endriss, Zaro...

Contains the records of hearings conducted by the California Dept. of Agriculture and law suits in various courts regarding milk price litigation between local dairy farmers and the Dept. of Agriculture.

Collection contains laboratory notebooks, research notes, writings, computer printouts, and reprints. There are also small quantities of correspondence and photographs, and a copy of Lieselotte's Ph.D. dissertation.

Contents: Issues of the Cooperative Californian (Fresno, 1921-1923), poems, photographs and obituary clippings. Letter, 1938, from Alfred Sutro and list of members, 1928, of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco.

Correspondence and papers relating primarily to Magee's activities in the book trade, various California book clubs, and the Bohemian Club. Contains business records as well as personal papers.

Two white cotton t-shirts, one with printed image of planet Earth as an island in the ocean, with text: Earth Island brand, save it!; the other with printed portrait of David Brower, with text: David Brower 1912-2000.

Include letter, 1887, mentioning Chinese in Downieville, California and current prices for goods there; deeds for mining claims and other property in the vicinity of Downieville; papers of the Colored American Joint Stock Quartz Mining Company relating to delinquent assessments,...

Making Pinot Noir; Martin Ray; producing wine in Santa Cruz mountains; innovation in making White Zinfandel, malolactic fermentation, foot-crushing, late-harvest wines, whole-berry fermentation, extensive skin contact, rotary tanks, small-barrel fermentation; dermatology practice.

Original fine art linocut prints pertaining to the history and social status of the deaf, their struggle for civil rights, and persons and places associated with the development of sign language. Historical subject matter depicted or alluded to includes American...

The papers consist of a journal, 1878-1879; ledger, 1891-1892; a letterpress copy book, 1899-1900; and a document relating to litigation by John J. Crosby against the North Bonanza Silver Mining Company, 1895.

Mainly letters by Wemyss to Sir Henry Clinton concerning military activities in Ceylon, 1803-1805. Also included are military reports and letters from Welbore Ellis Doyle, John Taylor, Sir William Henry Clinton and others.

1) Biographical sketch (with copies of his will and of portions of evidence submitted in Mrs. Colton's suit against Leland Stanford et als.); 2) A letter of condolence, Oct. 29, 1878, from A.L. Converse (brother of the miner, Converse, killed...

To his brother, describing gold discovery and diggings in the Sacramento area. With typed transcript.

Includes articles, clippings and scrapbook, bibliography, bookplates, booksellers catalogs, photograph reproductions of Mencken, items found in books, and other ephemera concerning Mencken. Includes materials from the 100th anniversary celebration of Mencken's birth at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore,...

Mailers, flyers, clippings from or relating to Playboy magazine and its enterprises including the Playboy Club; parody issues of Playboy; miscellaneous Playboy publications; miscellaneous issues of other periodicals; and two Playboy cigarette lighters. Also includes materials related to a lawsuit...

Includes letters from Herbert C. Hoover, and clippings of letters to newspaper editors written by Bigelow.

Includes thirty-two letters written by Wilson chiefly to his mother, Rachel Wilson, in Maryland and brother (Bill?) concerning his travels and mining ventures. One of these letters concerns his experiences in Panama and, after sailing on the bark Equator, another...

Samples of drafts and vouchers used by the Southern Pacific and Northwestern Pacific Companies, and other railway and steamship lines in the West and in Mexico.

Documents mainly the professional life of F.N. David, although a scattering of personal items is included. Personal papers include notes and drawings from university course work, a high school autograph book, and some correspondence. Professional papers include curriculum vitae, writings,...

Preferred citation: David Graham Phillips letters, BANC MSS 74/135 z, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

The two friends discuss their lives, their writing, and philosophical issues. Occasional reference is made to contemporary authors, including mutual friend Witter Bynner. Also included is a snapshot of Anderson and his wife.

Written as Major in the Quartermaster Corps in California, describing effect of discovery of gold on economy and events relating to his duties.

Contains biographical material, correspondence, lecture and research notes. Also includes research articles on x-ray generators.

The collection consists of materials compiled by Henderson in the course of researching and writing his biography of Jimi Hendrix, "Jimi Hendrix : Voodoo Child of the Aquarian Age" (1978). Included are various drafts, research notes, correspondence, and interviews conducted...

Concerning his journey to California via Panama in 1850 and describing San Francisco and Sacramento, his experience as storekeeper and property owner in Sacramento, and his experiences as a miner in the gold fields.

Photograph of receipt for the finishing and engraving of 2 gold spikes, bought of Schultz & Fischer & Mohrig, San Francisco, May 4, 1869; original receipt on D. Hewes bill-head for a roan horse, saddle and bridle, dated April 19,...

Describes his experiences mining and life in French Gulch, Shasta county, California.

Brief daily record in several types of pocket diaries. Volume for 1902 missing. V. 1-2 records life in Illinois; v. 3 contains record of trip to California via the Isthmus of Panama; v. 4-5, odd jobs in California and return...

Notes on overland journey, 1849, with Boston and Newton Joint Stock Company; ranch life in the San Joaquin Valley; the Republican Party; Fireman's Fund Insurance Co.; association with James Lick; Mrs. Staples' activities. A characterization by B.B. Redding included.

Box 1: Miscellaneous letters to Kherdian re Saroyan, 1969-1981; postcard from Saroyan to Dan Burne Jones; photocopy of letter from Saroyan to Martha Foley; 7 letters from Saroyan to Mihran Saroyan, 1950-1953; 15 notes and letters from Saroyan to David...

Contains letters by David Kherdian to James L. Henry; letters about him; clippings; and oversize items (galley, poster, broadside, etc.).

Contains 28 letters to his mother, Juliana Gardiner, his brother Alexander Gardiner and two to his brother-in-law, former President John Tyler. The letters describe his journey from New York across Mexico to the gold fields of California in 1849; life...

Contain his correspondence, writings, and records concerning the Disabled International Support Effort (DISE), including correspondence, business records, flyers, posters, articles, and trip plans to Cuba and Nicaragua.

Contains mostly letters and typescripts sent to Meltzer's editor, Brian Kirby. Also includes 3 letters sent to Meltzer by avante-garde filmmaker, Stan Brakhage, and 1 letter on Totem Press letterhead stationery from LeRoi Jones [i.e. Amiri Baraka].

Consists of manuscripts of poems, correspondence, notebooks, journals, course notes, subject files and newsletters.

The collection contains: marriage documents; photographs, including some of the Oakland Chapter of the Workmen's Circle (1928 and 1931); biographical materials; testimonials to Riva Bronstein; newspaper clippings; and a copy of a history of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Berkeley...

.014: mainly The Philippines, showing native peoples, etc. -- .015: Zamboanga, Mindanao, 1903. -- .016: Philippines, mainly uncaptioned -- .017: Sudan, 1922-1923. -- .018: China and Japan, uncaptioned.

Collection contains snapshot photographic prints taken in San Francisco -- perhaps by David P. Flory -- following the earthquake and fire of 1906. The views show earthquake and fire damage, relief efforts, and reconstruction. Among the buildings pictured are City...

Includes videorecordings of a 1984 lecture, "The Soul and Spirit of Our University"; a 1985 Regents meeting; university events with Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Vaclav Havel, and Helmut Kohl; November 1991 press conference announcing his resignation as UC President; "A...

Materials relating to his career as publisher and bookseller in San Francisco.

The collection consists of Robinson's speeches, many of which reveal his interest in intergroup relations, anti-semitism, and war and peace; some files on the various organizations and individuals with which Robinson was associated, including Oregon's Americanism Coordinating Committee, the American...

Title and date supplied by cataloger.

In 27 letters to his brother Emmett and family (New York state) D.S. "Salvo" Hyde writes of his successful provisions business, financial details of the trade, and arrangements for ordering goods from the east. Other topics are Sacramento fires, heavy...

Contains press coverage of Parker and the Panama Canal Company.

Collection relates to David Schaff's periodical Cassiopeia, which became Ephemeris. Consists of correspondence to Schaff from literary figures active in the Bay Area and elsewhere including Robin Blaser, David Bromige, David Cole, Joanne Kyger, Stan Persky, Jack Spicer, and George...

Papers relating to David Simons's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Quit-claim to land in Silver City, by John B. Weymouth. Weiser, Idaho (1. l., 28 cm.) and Notice of Location of Dam Site on Jordan Creek, for use as ice pond (2 l., 33 cm).

Preferred citation: David Stacton letters to David Walker, circa 1966-1971, BANC MSS 78/102 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

The David Stacton Papers : Additions, 1944-1992, include correspondence, drafts, and notes. Correspondence to and from Stacton dates from 1960 to his death in 1968; also present are letters among his friends after his death, including some concerning posthumous copyright...

Preferred citation: David Stacton papers : additions, circa 1959-1961, BANC MSS 75/142 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Include letters by Stacton (1959-1963), one containing a bibliography; manuscript of his essay on J.P. Marquand, The Absence of Tragedy; typescript copies of two poems. Also includes correspondence of Albert Sperisen with various publishers seeking bibliographical information on Stacton (1961)...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Six volumes containing clippings of reviews of his books; dust jackets; snapshots and photographs; tearsheets of a few of his short stories.

Originals and photocopies, assembled from various sources. Include letters to Charles Fletcher Lummis and Milicent W. Shinn; draft of a speech; typescript of a poem.

Contains the incomplete interview transcripts conducted by David T. Wellman and others for his book "Portraits of White Racism" originally published in 1977. Also includes some of the recorded interviews and lectures pertaining to the research for the book.

V. 1. Copy of a typed transcript of Thompson's "Narrative of the Expedition to the Kootenae--Flat Bow Indian Countries, on the Sources of the Columbia River, Pacific Ocean, by D. Thompson on behalf of the N.W. Company 1807" (25 leaves)....

Contains handwritten, typescript, correspondence, prose, and poems by George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith sent to David Warren Ryder. George Sterling materials include two copies of a three page prose piece, handwritten and typescript, about Robinson Jeffers, titled, "A Tower...

Collection contains correspondence, papers, pamphlets, books, and reports relating to land use and water resources.

A record of his social life in San Francisco, theaters and concerts attended, activities at the Olympic Club, etc. Many newspaper clippings and programs pasted in.

Include notes on Phineas Banning, article on Sutro Tunnel, and transcripts, mainly from the National Archives, concerning various land grants: Los Cerritos, San Pedro, Santa Gertrudis and others.

The Donald Davidson Papers, 1935-2003, consist of the correspondence, course notes, writings, professional and administrative records, and research files of Donald Davidson, a world-renowned philosopher who served as a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at the University of...

Includes views of geographical features, especially of Davidson Glacier, Alaska, and scenes in Washington, Oregon, California, British Columbia, Nevada, and Louisiana. Images of vessels; Indians of British Columbia and their fishing houses, fish drying racks, etc.; forts; churches; and camps...

Letters, including family correspondence; diaries; personalia; financial papers; manuscripts of his writings and speeches; notebooks; lecture notes; computations and drawings; subject files; photographs; reports; sketches; maps; clippings. Service with the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Service and with various commissions, governmental...

Letterpress copy books for the surveying firm, Goldfield, Nevada, of Lee W. Davis and E.A. Byler. Many letters signed by Byler as a U.S. Mineral Surveyor, Nevada, included.

Folder includes order for Anthony H. Davis to report for duty; postcard addressed to Mary C. Davis reporting his safe arrival overseas; ration books for Amelia and Lee Davis, Oakland, Calif., dated 1942; and letters from James A. Davis to...

Vols. 1-5: clippings covering the period 1877-1893; Vols. 6-8: extracts from published sources and misc. notes on Chinese immigration.

Certificate of citizenship; and chattel mortgages and promissory notes to Daniel Asher.

Files from the California Indian Project at the Lowie Museum of Anthropology. Director of the project is Lee Davis, who organized and planned the conference.

Photographs show various vessels (ships, boats, steamers, barges), the waterfront, many dogsled teams, a hotel, views of the town, a bridge over the Klondike River, ice, hydraulic mining, and a group portrait of men in military uniform.

Includes a cartes de visite album of portraits, chiefly of women and children (ca. 1865-ca. 1890?); an album of snapshots and amateur photographs belonging to Roger Sherman Day and picturing sailing and other outdoor recreation (dating from ca. 1899-1902); and...

Daily records of sales of foodstuffs and general merchandise.

Letters from Wilson I. Day to his wife Nancy describing his overland journey to Shasta County and experiences in the mines; letters to Nancy Day from several relatives concerning family affairs and the death of her husband in California.

Daily record of sales of general merchandise, Sept. 19, 1857-July 14, 1859.

Include 1848-1853 diary of C.T.H. Palmer, recording voyage around the Horn, mining in California, law practice in San Francisco, description of great fires of 1851 in San Francisco, activities of the Vigilance Committee of 1851 and various proceedings against criminals,...

Recollections of his father, William A. Richardson, and his mother, Maria Antonia, daughter of Ignacio Martinez. Prepared for publication in the San Francisco Call or Bulletin by James H. Wilkins. Notes on early California and Californians.

Letterpress copy books containing letters re shipment of liquor, primarily to firms in San Francisco. Include letters written under former name Dayton, Sprague & Co.

Court calendar for the San Francisco Municipal Criminal Court, March 26, 1874; with receipts from the San Francisco Gas Light Company to F.J. Skelly, 1878-1881, pasted over first nine pages. Last few pages used for accounts, 1900.

Receipted bills from Yreka merchants and county license for store.

Collection includes a large number of family and other portraits, many unidentified, many taken in California. Identified portraits include Reimann and DeHay family members, (including Pauline and Edward DeHay) among numerous others. Includes many scenes from the Cloverdale DeHay Ranch:...

includes 11 letters, 1875, 1879, from H.H. Bancroft to General M.G. Vallejo.

Reflecting mining operations in Owyhee County. Includes cashbook, journal, and ledger with index.

Collection of contemporary copies and original documents relating to the estate of Buenaventura Ossorio. Include will, 1755; receipts for payments of promissory notes, 1753-1778; petitions of his parents claiming exemptions as descendants of Sacarias de Santiago, 1728; copy of baptismal...

Letters concerning the Territorial Enterprise, Mark Twain, and the writing of his book on the Big Bonanza ; manuscripts of sketches written for newspapers and magazines; clippings; notes and notebooks; a few papers of other members of his family. The...

Consists of personal and professional correspondence, field notes including Rorschach and Thematic Apperception Test results and tables, lecture notes and other course materials and De Vos' research and writings on cultural psychology and immigration studies.

This collection was originally part of the Alfred H. de Vries map collection. The map collection is available through UC Berkeley and contains 416 volumes in addition 106 individual sheet maps. This collection consists of original manuscript “Maps and their...

V.1 - Diaries, June 1, 1846-Feb. 19, 1847 (in notebook, 1836-1843, of his father, James Loudon as member, Ohio Legislature) and June 15, 1847-Aug. 2, 1848, kept while serving with the First Ohio Infantry in Mexico and as a returning...

Originals or contemporary copies, to his father and sister, mainly while on duty as a U.S. Army surgeon. From Fort Massachusetts, N.M., 1854-1856; from Paris, 1857; from various places, 1859-1869 (including Fort Davis, Texas, on the eve of the Civil...

Contents: journal kept by Alfred De Witt on his voyage around the Horn, Apr. 6 - Sept. 22, 1848; 26 letters, 1848-1867, written by Alfred and 30 letters, 1849-1851, by his wife, Margaret, to family in New York, relating to...

Title supplied by cataloger

Contains primarily minutes and material received by members of Boards of Directors for the Chronicle Publishing Company, Ortega Investment Company, and West Tacoma Newsprint Company. Includes the records for the Municipal Properties Company, a small amount of material related to...

Last five pages of the original manuscript, with autograph of the author, dated August 7, 1874, together with letter of S.P. Avery.

Three items transcribed from a Colorado Springs periodical, Out West, 1873 (in handwriting of Kate and Matilda G. Bancroft): 1. "Dead Men's Gulch" (October, 1873), 1 l. By William N. Byers, recounting the origin of the name, 1859. 2. "Trinidad...

The Deakin Tract album contains 54 photographic prints showing mining and timber lands in Butte, Plumas and Tehama counties, California circa 1889. The photographs are circular, about 6.5 cm. in diameter, and are possibly Kodak I prints. The title of...

Columbia's library school, New York Public Library, 1920s; the American Library Association, 1930-1933; University of Chicago's graduate library school, 1933-1935; university positions at Colby, Temple, Columbia; critique of library education, 1945; Dean of Berkeley's School of Librarianship, 1946-1961: colleagues, finances,...

Democrat of Greek parentage, and Dean of the California Legislature 1959-1996, Senator Nicholas Petris discusses his Oakland constituencies, culture and traditions of the Greek community, the rise of the California Democratic Party, California state politics and government, with particular attention...

Discusses his family background, and engineering education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkeley, 1928-1941. He also discusses his research, consulting with the military, and academic studies during World War II. Includes reminiscences of the...

Recollections of student days at the University of California, class of 1906; association with the University as assistant to, and, later, dean of women students.

The Death Valley Automobile Trip photograph album containing 76 prints appears to be the record of a sightseeing trip made from Los Angeles to Death Valley in 1926. A written record--in the form of diary entries--is also included and consists...

Chiefly snapshots of young people (presumably students from the College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif.) on outings to Death Valley and Boulder (Hoover) Dam in the late 1930's. Also includes sixteen views, with descriptive captions, of the Sacramento flood...

Three letters (9 p.) discussing business dealings in and around Death Valley including mining claims, finding mineral specimens for museums and oil for drilling.

Views depict 20-mule team borax wagon (dated 1907) and various Death Valley landmarks: Dante's View, sand dunes, Zabriskie Point region, Bad Water, and tombstone of gold prospectors Frank "Shorty" Harris and Jim Dayton. (Harris grave memorial erected 1936. cf. Inyo...

Includes subject files on adoption, infants with disabilities, parenting with disabilities, prenatal care, reproductive rights, Harlan Hahn articles and wheelchairs; records on organizations Kaplan is involved with including the Disability Rights Center, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund and World...

The Gerard Debreu papers, 1949-2001, consist of correspondence; professional activities, which include research notes, writing and editorial work, visiting scholar appointments, and speeches; organizational files; course notes; a small amount of papers pertaining to Debreu winning the Nobel Prize; and...

The Edward DeCelle Papers, 1969-2001, includes the correspondence, transaction records and research files of art collector and former San Francisco gallery owner Edward Brooks DeCelle.

The first document outlines the events and employment data forming the basis of the chairman's decision on a dispute beginning on October 23, 1943, between the San Pedro Local of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union and the Maritime Industry...

Includes printed materials and scrapbooks containing clippings, photographs, correspondence and notes.

Memoir covering period from 1930-1969, discusses history of the Department of Decorative Design from its origin in 1930 as Household Arts, developing into Decorative Art, and then Design, and how later it came to be transferred to the College of...

Decree from George III conferring the title of Lieutenant of and in the County of Sommerset on Lord Frederick North, March 16, 1774.

Copy of decree secularizing the missions of California, with notes and commentary of Father Narciso Durán, at the Mission San José, Dec. 31, 1831.

A collection of petitions, viceregal decrees, fiscal's statements, and related documents from Mexico, and a few from the Philippines, recording ex parte proceedings in cases which were brought before the Viceroy of New Spain during the period 1801-1811 and which...

Papers relating to the Sierra Club High Trip.

Recollection of growing up in San Francisco; her husband, Charles Porter, and her brother-in-law, Bruce Porter; involvement with the League of Women Voters; long service in local, state and national Democratic Party activities; women prominent in political circles, including Helen...

Interviews with: Vincent M. DeDomenico, Thomas D. DeDomenico, Anthony Victor DeDomenico, Donato Ferrigno, Lois M. DeDomenico, Dennis T. DeDomenico.

Contains deed and abstract of title for the property bordered by King and Berry, between 7th (formerly Harris) and 8th (formerly Price) Streets, and adjacent to Mission Creek. The deed, June 29, 1866, transfers ownership from Josiah Belden and James...

Part of a collection of deeds, agreements, leases, pre-emption notices, powers of attorney, and occasional correspondence, relating to land tenure, sale and transfer of houses and property, disputed land, etc.

Tracing of original deed of sale, Monterey, 1844 July 26, signed by Florencio Serrano, José Castro, Francisco Pacheco, and others; and certificate of authentication from the office of the U.S. Surveyor General, 1858 Sept. 29. Relates to land case 211...

Deeds convey property bounded by Eddy, Larkin, and Willow streets in the Western Addition, San Francisco, Calif. The 1862 deed transfers the property from Joseph P. Hoge of San Francisco to Robert Dudgeon of San Francisco. The 1863 deed transfers...

Deeds convey property in San Francisco, Calif. belonging to heirs of Henry D. Johnson of Cincinnati, Ohio to Louis Cohn of San Francisco, Calif. Nara lots conveyed were numbers 196, 232, and 1147.

Deeds for property in Georgetown, Calif. off Church Street acquired by Jacob Glassman and William Prindle, with sketch maps on tissue attached.

Some relate to mining property.

With these: quit claim deed and deed of gift for property in Sonoma Co., California, 1933-1934.

Ctn. 1: 1851-1911; Ctn. 2: 1911-1920; Ctn. 3: 1920-1935.

Includes one from Josiah Belden, 1869.

Part of a collection of deeds, agreements, leases, pre-emption notices, powers of attorney, and occasional correspondence, relating to land tenure, sale and transfer of houses and property, disputed land, etc.

Two deeds (4 p.) transferring land in Barnstable County, Massachusetts to Prince Jenkins. Signed by Roswell and Elizabeth Hatch and Eunice Hammond before Thomas Fish and George W. Donaldson, Justices of the Peace.

Part of a collection of deeds, agreements, leases, pre-emption notices, powers of attorney, and occasional correspondence, relating to land tenure, sale and transfer of houses and property, disputed land, etc.

Two views of the lodge (in summer and winter), one of boating on a lake, and one winter snow scene.

A treatise by the Jesuit, Arrillaga, in defense of the Mística Ciudad de Dios, a life of the Virgin written by the Spanish nun, María de Ágreda. Consists of 1) a general history of the work and a review of...

Collection of four documents relating to the residencia of Revilla Gigedo the Younger as viceroy of New Spain. Consists of: 1) the defense of Revilla Gigedo, Mexico City, 1795, presented by his attorney, Pedro de Basave, and by Bernal y...

Diploma for Master of Arts degree in history, University of California, 1924; honorary doctorate from Mills College, 1960; fellowship in the California Historical Society, 1959; and award from the American Library Association, 1961.

Contents: diary letters of Edward DeHay, describing his voyage from New York to New Orleans, and his life in California, 1915; miscellaneous correspondence and accounts for various members of the family; orders for Parker Hill Spring Water, 1939-1941; and deed...

The Anne Weymouth Deirup Collection on Desegregation of Berkeley Schools, 1954-1979, consists of reports, newsletters, pamphlets and materials relating to the integration of Berkeley public schools and the fight for racial justice and social change. The collection includes Deirup's correspondence,...

Three form letters (4 p.) discussing the merger of Del Monte Corp. with R.J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. Includes photocopies of newspaper clippings.

Contains 8 letters to family describing Chicago and his duties there as an American Army officer.

With this, in same volume, his suggestions for travellers, and also a later diary covering the same route kept by James Masterson, April 1853.

Includes description of the property and taxes owed the county. It was bought by Fred Grete.

Includes description of the property and taxes owed the county. It was bought by the County of Owyhee.

Contains letters describing time Della Murray Banks, her husband, and E.A. Vaughn spent in Alaska as sourdoughs during the gold rush in 1896-1897. Also includes diary of Hugh Rodman, which Banks wrote about.

Includes letters, 1853-1875, written by Charles E. DeLong to his brother, James, and to his wife and other members of his family, from California mining towns, Virginia City, Japan and Washington, D.C., relating to life in the mining country, his...

Three flyers and a letter (2 p.) describe the festival, organized by the poet Angelo Sikelianos, in Delphoi, Greece, May 9-10, 1927. The festival features theatrical and musical performances, games, and exhibitions.

Discusses interest in Democratic Party; work in several campaigns, including coordinating Adlai Stevenson's 1956 presidential campaign in southern California, Pat Brown's 1958 and 1966 gubernatorial campaigns, 1960 presidential campaign; working relationship with Pat Brown; assessment of the Brown administration.

Photographs document the demolition of San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway, which was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake.

Collection contains a letter (3 p., Jan. 2 1973) from Levertov to Philip Whalen, complementing Whalen's recent novel and discussing Robert Duncan and Carol Berge. Also includes an annotated galley proof for Levertov's Candles in Babylon, which was apparently given...

Correspondence; reports; speeches and publications; legal and financial papers; briefs, arguments and other legal documents; copies of judicial opinions; scrapbooks; clippings. Mainly concerning his legal and judicial career, his interest in politics and judicial and electoral reforms, his chairmanship of...

Papers relating to Denny Shaffer's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Minutes, correspondence, stock certificates, rolled plans and maps, and other records. Mine is located near Columbia, California.

Approximately 123 items: mainly indentures for property of the family in England, copies of portraits, genealogical material.

Claim for a mine, including petition, testimony of witnesses, copies of public announcements, and grant of the land signed by the petitioner and by officials.

Consists of personal, political, business and family correspondence of James William Denver and his family. Topics reflect the political focus of Denver and his family, with speculation about political success, discussion of the nuts and bolts of politicking, and the...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Education; early career at universities of Illinois, Stanford, and Washington; research on galactosemia, aldolase, RNA polymerase, pancreatic differentiation; Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco [UCSF]: recruitment, development of department, introducing molecular approach, administrative and science strategy,...

C-A 46 Tomos I-III; C-A 47 Tomos IV-VI; C-A 48 Tomos VII-VIII; C-A 49 Tomos IX-XIV.

Part of the Archives of California, extracts and copies of documents (273 v. and loose papers) assembled in the U.S. Surveyor General's Office, San Francisco. Made for H.H. Bancroft by and under the direction of Thomas Savage, 1876-1877. Originals destroyed,...

Part of Archives of California, extracts and copies of documents (273 v. and loose papers) assembled in the U.S. Surveyor General's Office, San Francisco. Made for H.H. Bancroft by and under the direction of Thomas Savage, 1876-1877. Originals destroyed, 1906.

Contains Tomos I-VIII.

C-A 44 Tomos I-III; C-A 45 Tomos IV-VII.

Part of Archives of California, extracts and copies of documents (273 v. and loose papers) assembled in the U.S. Surveyor General's Office, San Francisco. Made for H.H. Bancroft by and under the direction of Thomas Savage, 1876-1877. Originals destroyed, 1906.

Forms part of the Robert Ernest Cowan Collection.

Forms part of the Robert Ernest Cowan Collection.

Depositions from John Rowland, Barbara Slover, Rafael Sanchez and William G. Dryden in Los Angeles County, California, concerning Ewing Young, Maria Josepha Tafaya and their alleged child, Joaquín.

Copy, certified, Apr. 24, 1857, as made for the above case and copied into records of U.S. District Court Case no. 234 N D, by W.H. Chevers, Deputy Clerk (with bill for copying).

The Charles Derleth Papers, 1893-1953, include engineering project records, documents from Derleth's tenure at the University of California, Berkeley College of Civil Engineering, a personal scrapbook, scrapbooks from the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, and collected reference materials. Project...

The collection consists of four albums of views collected by Charles Derleth of fires and ruins immediately following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The albums have been divided by Derleth into 28 subject groupings that include seismographic records, geological views...

Scrapbook containing clippings, chiefly from newspapers, of articles by Manero and others relating to drainage projects in the Valley of Mexico, maps and charts, printed copy of statement by engineer Miguel Iglesias, 1866, printed decree of President Manuel González, and...

Report describing the Gulf and Isthmus of Darien, its people and its history, with plans and estimates for the construction of a fort on the Caimán River. With letter of transmittal from Diego de Tavares to Julian de Arriaga.

In two parts: 1. review, prose interspersed with verse, of the town of Puebla, its history, inhabitants, and natural features, with other information; 2. description of the diocese of Puebla, some events as late as 1765. Two watercolor pictorial maps...

Collection of documents (copies) dealing with the territorial subdivisions, commerce, and administration of the New World, including the Philippines, based largely on Pierre d'Avity's Le Monde; a confidential report, Madrid, September 3, 1709, from the Fiscal General to the king...

Report for Viceroy Revilla Gigedo describing five Indian villages in the jurisdiction of San Juan Bautista de Maloya in southern Sinaloa, with information on geography, crops, and owners of ranches.

Three files containing copies of documents relating to Ortega's 1632, 1633-1634, and 1636 expeditions along the California coast in search of pearl fisheries, aboard the Madre Luisa de la Ascención, including reports presented by Ortega, viceregal orders of the Marqués...

Report on voyage of exploration from Cadiz, Spain to California, with accompanying maps.

Album pages containing records pertaining to receipt of prisoners at California State Prison at San Quentin. Each page contains photographic "mug shot" portrait and typescript data for 3 prisoners, including name, prisoner no., date received, crime, sentence term, county, nativity,...

Report by Joseph Smith Speer describing the territory, its history, the English settlement, and projects for its future development, 1765. Account of Richard Jones of his negotiations with the Mosquito king, 1769; remarks by Robert Hodgson on the Bay of...

Include name of prisoner, commitment number, and date of arrival; information on nationality, crime, length of sentence, occupation, physical description, etc.; and information on discharge, parole, transfer, pardon, etc.

Include name of prisoner, commitment number, and date of arrival; information on nationality, crime, length of sentence, occupation, physical description, etc.; and information on discharge, parole, transfer, pardon, etc.

Contains original drafts and proofs for a book of poetry by Philip Whalen published by Desert Rose Press. Also includes copies of correspondence sent to Whalen, and a list of queries regarding wording and editing. Also includes related artwork for...

Includes desert studies, nature scenes, Hawaii, oil refineries, and other industrial views.

Mining drawings and maps are for the Angels Quartz Mining Co. in Angels Camp, Pearson Ditch from Chili Bar to Coloma, Gentle Annie Mines, Bovee-Fritz Mines and vicinity northwest of Utica Mine, and Cement Knob Placer Mine in Iowa Hill,...

Snapshot and portrait photographs depicting multiple generations of the Desmond and Mueller families in California and Switzerland. Also includes a small amount of photographs of the Uccelli and Whang families of California. Most photographs taken in family homes or during...

Include letters from William Arthur Beasly (mainly concerning the Lamson murder trial), Hiram W. Johnson, Clifford C. Cottrell, Robert R. Syer, Sanborn Young and others, and collection of pamphlets and handbills relating to various political campaigns in California.

Contains journals, diaries, scrapbooks, clippings, correspondence, legal documents, diplomas, certificates, photocopies, genealogical information, photocopy volumes of of selected excerpts from family member's stories, etc. of various members of an extended San Francisco, California family. One of the diaries (1899-1907), belonging...

Two permits issued under the authority of Miguel de Vallejo, Administrator General of Customs, for releasing from the Customs warehouses specified amounts of gold and silver belonging to Gaspar de Portolá; mentioning the vessel "Pájaro."

Includes views of Acapulco, New Granada, Cape Horn, a Chinese band (location unknown). Many items unidentified.

Comments on growing up in Tuskegee, Alabama, with her grandmother, a former slave; education at Tuskegee Institute and Howard University; move to Berkeley, Calif. in 1920; the local black community and patterns of discrimination; labor organizing activities and political action...

Correspondence, manuscripts, printed items, notes for speeches and articles, and clippings, of the Vice-President and Provost of the University of California. Some relate to the loyalty oath controversy at the University.

Include letters to Deutsch; tributes, awards, diplomas, etc.; clippings and scrapbook re an honorary luncheon, Dec. 1947; portfolio with holograph scores by composers Roger Sessions, Ernest Bloch and others; medals; obituaries; some letters of condolence addressed to Mrs. Deutsch.

To his cousin, regarding legal and financial matters.

The 1798 letter refers to sending troops, and the second re records for a retired fusilier.

Family background, education, career and marriage, Republican party organizing, service as National Committeewoman from California; also included: supporting documents in separate box.

Comments on his career in the U.S. Forest Service and on Forest Service chiefs Gifford Pinchot, Henry S. Graves and William B. Greeley; views on forestry education. Photographs inserted. Appended: copies of Mrs. Fry's letter to Dana relative to editing...

Interview of Harold C. Bryant and Newton B. Drury conducted 1964 by Amelia R. Fry for the Regional Cultural History Project, University of California Library, Berkeley. Photographs and snapshots inserted. Appended: Bulletin No. 17 of The American Nature Association: Nature...

Primarily family photographs and views of early San Francisco architecture (mostly copy prints) including: group portraits of the National Association of Railway Commissioners of San Francisco from 1915. Includes photos taken in Chico, California.

A treatise on the art of preaching and of administering the sacrament of penance.

V. 1: Letters (19) bound together. Written while serving in the Mexican War, also, en route to and from various places in California (including Sacramento, Coloma, Stockton, Coarse Gold, Four Creeks and Visalia). An undated and incomplete letter [1857?] tells...

Letters relating to Gaskill's voyage to California via Panama in 1849 and experiences as a miner; and to mercantile activities at Forbestown, with comments on business conditions, prices of goods, profits, etc.

Includes 2 deeds from Samuel Brannan, May, 1849 for lots in Stanislaus, and one from Charles V. Gillespie to Thompson and Frederick Billings for a lot in Benicia, June 1, 1849.

Contains correspondence between Charles Curtis DeWitt and his fiancée, Josie May Condon, describing life in Missouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Wyoming and Idaho. Also includes teachers' certificates, letters of recommendation, photographs, and a report drawn up by two daughters, containing genealogical information...

Discusses founding and early history of the Di Giorgio Fruit Corporation, and its operations and leaders from 1920-1962, when its business was strictly agricultural. He discusses reasons for corporate diversification, and the Di Giorgio Corporation's growth through 1983. In addition,...

Childhood and education in Minnesota; early work experiences, May's Department Store in Los Angeles; managing inventories, developing Standard Drug Distributors; Diamond Creek Vineyards setup, purchasing and developing the vineyards; importance of terroir; microclimates and differentiating the vineyards; quality and pricing...

The Marian Cleeves Diamond Papers, 1950-2004, document Diamond's career as a professor of anatomy at the University of California, Berkeley. The bulk of the collection focuses on her over forty year tenure at the University of California. Included are copies...

Consists of flyers, newsletters, leaflets, and miscellaneous papers related to the National Organization for Women, Women's Equity Action League, women's gay liberation, ecology, and Vietnam War protests.

Included an [audio] cassette.

Part of a collection of diaries of overland journeys to California.

Microfilm of diaries of William McKendree Carson, Handel Lund, and Charles Main. Each item catalogued separately.

Official copy, signed by Pico at Monterey, of diary for expedition to Tulare Lake area in search of runaway Indians and stolen horses.

Diary of expedition from Monterey into the San Joaquin Valley, circling Tulare Lake, to visit Indian villages in pursuit of runaways.

Copies of a report and related documents of the commander of the forces which captured Henry A. Crabb and other members of the Sonora filibustering expedition. Certified by Charles F. Gompertz, Guaymas, 1872. Explanatory letter by Gompertz, enclosing San Francisco...

Intermittent diary entries, printed news sheets, official and private, and pamphlets covering developments in Mexico from Bustamante's resignation through the adoption of the 1843 Consitutional Bases; stresses Santa Anna, Texas, Central America, and the Constituent Congress of 1842. Printed items...

Forty volumes of diary entries, printed news sheets, broadsides, government publications, pamphlets, etc.

Diary kept by Gonzalo López de Haro, captain of the packetboat San Carlos (alias the Filipino), recording a voyage from San Blas northward and back, taken in company with the frigate Princesa and under the command of the latter's captain,...

Compilation of materials relating to Bustamante's work and possibly prepared under his direction, as follows: anonymous diary, Mexico, 1847, on events in Mexico, including the activities of García Torres, owner of the Monitor Republicano, during the invasion under General Winfield...

Copy made at Ures, June 5-23, 1776, by Font of his diary, Sept. 29, 1775-June 2, 1776. With his corrections and additions. Records the second Anza expedition, September 29, 1775-June 5, 1776, from San Miguel de Horcasitas to San Francisco...

Diary relating to a reconnoitering expedition through the frontier region of Baja California, into Alta California as far as San Diego, and along the lower Colorado River area. Deals with condition of the Indians, inspection of missions and settlements, and...

Record of operations in Colusa, Lake and Napa counties. Included also are accounts, 1868-1893 recipes for various remedies, miscellaneous notes, poems.

Correspondence concerning personal and business activities of the family, farming and agriculture. Includes records of Benjamin Harrison Dibblee.

Includes views of Fort Ross, Calif., the Grand Canyon, various street scenes and market places in Europe, possibly France and Yugoslavia, and North Africa, unidentified portraits, photo of Benjamin Harrison Dibblee at Yale, together with his visa from Mexico (1930),...

The Eric Dibner Papers, 1973-1991 (bulk 1975-1985), document Dibner's work as an accessibility expert for persons with disabilities. Dibner was very active in the disability rights movement, and consulted for variety of institutions and organizations, including the University of California,...

Mainly San Francisco subjects; includes a large number of photographs of the Golden Gateway project. Apparently from the files of a stock photograph company, with miscellaneous views arranged by subject.

Photographs of birds, nests, etc. Locations and dates unknown.

Notes of university lectures in political economics.

Family and schooling; arrival in Colorado in 1880; real estate investments in Denver; cattle and ranching interests in Arizona and New Mexico; introduction of the cable road into Denver and his contributions to it.

Dictation by Moffat concerns his arrival in Denver, 1860, and his mining interests; accompanied by dictations from Walter Cheesman, S.T. Smith, Wilbur F. Stone, Henry R. Wolcott, and Sam Wood, respecting Moffat's mining, banking, and railroad interests.

Mining interests since 1880; service as San Juan County treasurer.

Medical practice in Colorado and Montana. With the dictation are copies of letters from The History Company and a biographical sketch.

Union army service, 1861-1865; experiences with the Indians, 1866; the Sweetwater Mines, 1868; placer-mining and sheep-raising; leader of 1870 raid against the Arapahos; role in cutting Fremont County out of Sweetwater County; county official. Attached is a letter to H.H....

With a list of queries in manuscript, and questionnaire, California As It Is.

V. 1: Copies of poems, with engraved portrait of King Philip IV tipped in and prefatory note concerning the poems. [318 p., Phillipps Ms. 2459] v. 2: Guerra de Granada - his account of the Moorish revolt (1568-1570) in and...

"Prologo" - comments on plan for government of the missions, with copies of communications, 1772, from the Viceroy, Bucareli, and Fiscal, Areche; "Estado de la poblacion de las misiones de la Sonora ... 1774"; map of the Provincias Internas, showing...

Includes construction photos of George R. Agassiz Radio Telescope of Harvard College Observatory and three portraits of Dieter.

Recollections of Harley C. Flournoy's boyhood experiences and associations.

Contains administrative files, and worship and liturgy files. Administrative files include correspondence, board and committee meeting minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, brochures, and Biennial Convention programs. Worship and Liturgy files include service scripts, schedules, lectionaries, readings, and programs for Sunday service....

Documents relating to Indian land named Opopeo including testimony of Spanish and Indian witnesses, an Indian genealogical chart, and a map. Signed by Pedro Gutiérrez de Cuevas, Lorenzo Suárez de Mendoza and others.

File of documents compiled in Mexico City in 1825 preliminary to the marriage of O'Gorman, Consul General of Great Britain in Mexico City, and Señorita Noriega y Vicario, a minor. Includes baptismal records, petitions, maternal permission, order for publications of...

Correspondence notebooks, subject file, and writings on his interest in botany.

Letters, written mainly to his wife, Sarah Holcomb Dimmick, concerning experiences as a member of Stevenson's regiment, 1846-48, gold mining, as alcalde of San Jose, as district attorney and judge in Los Angeles, 1852-1861. Included also: law licenses and military...

Photographs show members of the 51st Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade at a dinner at an unidentified location (probably San Francisco Bay Area). Some members are identified.

Correspondence and accounts with Baker & Hamilton, hardware, Sacramento; Wellman, Peck & Company, wholesale grocers, San Francisco; D.W. Earl, forwarding and commission merchant.

Certificate of graduation from the Board of Education of San Francisco to Coe Ellis, South San Francisco Grammar School; and certificate of promotion from Berkeley (Calif.) Public Schools for Roscoe E. McCabe.

Dispatches and related documents from Allen A. Hall, John W. Caldwell, Leopold Markbreit, and printed proclamations from General Mariano Melgarejo.

The papers are particularly valuable for two periods: 1728-1732, when Chesterfield was Ambassador at The Hague; and 1743-1748, when he was Ambassador on Special Mission to The Hague, Secretary of State for the North, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. An...

Childhood in Arkansas, Louisiana, and McCloud, California; Chico State University, 1954-1956; contracting polio, 1956, and rehab at Fairmount Hospital, San Leandro; majoring in speech therapy at an inaccessible San Francisco State University, 1958-1960; work for Volunteer Bureau of Alameda County;...

The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Inc., Washington, D.C. Office Records [1982 – on-going], depicts the leadership of the organization in the course of their struggle to bring comprehensive civil rights to the disabled community. The bulk of the...

The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund Records document the activities and policies of one of the first organizations advocating for civil rights for people with disabilities. The bulk of these records date from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s....

381 VHS videocassettes, one sound cassette, and transcripts of select video interviews in the collection. The collection is the result of a three-year grant-funded collaboration between the University of San Francisco and Access Video to collect archival documentation on disability,...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Contains by-laws for State organization, meeting minutes, announcements, questionnaires, articles, exhibit booklets and other miscellany relating to the Disabled Student Coalition at Sonoma State University collected by member Anthony Tusler.

The Disabled Students' Program Records, 1965-[on going], consist of materials created or collected by the leaders and administrators of the Disabled Students' Program at the University of California, Berkeley. The collection consists of records of the administration, services, and Susan...

Includes table of contents.

Typescripts, with holograph emendations, of three dispatches written during the Boxer Rebellion. Miller had been hired by the San Francisco Examiner to cover the rebellion.

Records of British companies, especially mining concerns, which have operated in Western America. Includes files on the White Pass and Yukon Railway Company, Ltd.; and the Exploration Company, Ltd.

Records of British companies, especially mining concerns, which have operated in Western America.

Photographs show Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.s) marching along railroad track from Bisbee, Ariz., marching from Lowell, passing Bakersfield, waiting for the train, loading strikers onto train, friends bidding strikers goodbye, and one photo of a striker resisting arrest....

Originals and photocopies of correspondence with artists, museums and publishers; manuscripts of poems by Dixon; articles by and about him; catalog of paintings and drawings; and autobiographical material. Includes correspondence with: Arizona Highways (magazine), the California State Library, the De...

Two letters written encouraging Thornton to join Coflin in his move to Grass Valley.

Family background, education in Italy; fellowships in DNA Chemistry, University of Leiden, Netherlands, 1974-1976; DNA synthesis capability research at Genentech; work with somatostatin, insulin, and growth hormones; Genentech history; decision to leave Genentech.

Correspondence; manuscripts of books, short stories, plays and articles; notes; clippings; biographical material and personalia; royalty statements; collected theater and opera programs, 1869-1941; announcements and invitations; Christmas and greeting cards. Correspondents include George Arliss, Gertrude Atherton, Robert Ernest Cowan, George...

The Abner Doble Papers consists of correspondence, drawings, reports, patents, photographs, and notebooks documenting Doble's role in the development of 20th century steam technology. Collection also includes papers relating to the Doble family, several of whom were also engineers and...

Photographs documenting the steam automobiles and engines created by Abner Doble and Warren Doble, especially as part of the Doble Steam Motors Corporation. Pictured are completed automobiles as well as engine and auto parts, photographic copies of design drawings, and...

Many pages wanting, torn and defaced. Repaired by Bancroft Library (?)

Chiefly studio portraits of Adler. Two silhouette portraits of Adler and wife Bertha made at the Panama Pacific Exposition by Baron Scotford are present. Ephemera includes Adler's cerificate of license to practice medicine, prescription scrip pads, telegrams of congratulations upon...

Documentation and draft copies for two interviews conducted by Regional Oral History Office as part of the Goodwin J. Knight-Edmund G. Brown, Sr. oral history project. With related clippings, copies of correspondence, etc.

These papers, originals and copies, consist of correspondence, documents, accounts, and vouchers relating mainly to General Placido Vega's secret mission to obtain articles of war and funds in San Francisco, California, for the republican government of Benito Juarez in Mexico...

A collection of documents, many of them certified contemporary copies, concerning the genealogies of the Bárcena and other interrelated families of Andalusia, several of whose members settled in Puebla, Mexico. Include two certificates of appointments made by the Mexican Inquisition...

Typed transcripts of three manuscripts concerning the province of Michoacán. One grants a coat of arms and the title of "city" to Pátzcuaro, July 21, 1553-May 28, 1642; another deals with forced labor among the Pátzcuaro Indians, April 27-May 20,...

(Tacuba and Mexico City) Records of criminal cases, mainly theft, heard before the Justice Court of Tacuba.

Collection of papers (originals, drafts, and copies) relating to the establishment, administration, and foreign relations of the Colonia Militar de la Frontera in Lower California, under the command of Manuel Castro and successors. The collection includes correspondence of Castro, Rafael...

Papers collected by Soberanes for Hubert Howe Bancroft, and used as source material for Bancroft's History of California.

Correspondence, accounts and other documents concerning governmental functions such as finance, land tenure and social conditions.

Copies of correspondence and financial materials concerning the interest and activity of the Moreno family (1846-1854). Includes an explanatory note in English at front of volume.

Correspondence, regulations, accounts, agreements, and expedientes concerning the interests and activities of Pico and his family.

Correspondence, reports, and financial materials concerning the interest and activity of Janssens in California (ca. 1840-1860). Transcriptions of originals that date from 1836-1867.

Includes notes on California history, pastorela manuscript, diary of events occurring in Monterey.

Correspondence, petitions, and financial records concerning the activities and interests of the Carrillo family.

Notes and transcripts of letters and documents belonging to Carrillo, made by Thomas Savage for H.H. Bancroft's History of California. They relate mainly to Carrillo's duties as customs officer at San Diego and Santa Barbara.

Documents relating to the history of California, particularly to the Los Angeles area, including an 1839 census for that area.

Letters and financial papers such as bills of lading, invoices, statements of account, etc., relating to Fitch's commercial transactions and business affairs in San Diego; trading voyages up and down the California coast, to Mexico and to Hawaii; otter hunting...

Letters, legal documents, land papers, accounts, proclamations, etc., relating primarily to Avila's position as alcalde and as juez at San Luis Obispo and to his claims for extensions to his grant of Rancho San Miguelito.

Primarily official letters and documents sent to Castro while prefect at Monterey, concerning military events, elections, mission matters, land transactions, Russians in California, quicksilver mining, the Bear Flag Revolt, claims of American citizens against the government, military events in Baja...

Correspondence and papers of an army surgeon, relating to his participation in the Battle of San Pasqual, including medical reports for the troops and correspondence with medical, military and naval acquaintances, some touching upon the effects of the gold rush.

Correspondence, decrees, petitions, and accounts for various aspects of government and church administration such as land tenure, budget, and elected representatives. Some printed items removed for separate cataloging.

Preferred citation: Documentos para la historia de California, BANC MSS C-B 59-65, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Correspondence and financial materials concerning the del Valle family (1830-1849)

Correspondence and financial materials concerning the interest and activity of The Pico family (1825-1852).

Correspondence and financial materials concerning the interest and activity of the Requena family (1831-1864).

Letters and documents obtained by H.H. Bancroft for his History of California, relating mainly to Bonilla's career as justice and alcalde of San Luis Obispo, and to lands in southern California, particularly those of the Mission San Miguel. A few...

Correspondence, financial, and legal materials concerning the development of California covering the years 1777-1879, collected and transcribed by Savage.

Copies of documents, 1689-1767, in various Mexican archives relating to Texas - its history, missions and Indians - projected as a supplement to Father Juan Agustín de Morfi's History of Texas. Indexed.

Documents relating to the Custodia de La Concepción in New Mexico, including order by Antonio de los Reyes, bishop of Sonora, copies of correspondence between the bishop and Felipe de Neve, and copies of royal decrees.

Includes diploma, medal, program and photocopies of clippings concerning the ceremony, and letter of transmittal from the American consul in Monterrey, Miro Morville.

Include padrón for 1813, documents relating to marriages, and letters concerning various mission activities.

A file of documents concerning the disorderly conduct of troops at the Nayarit mission. Included are reports and correspondence of the mission priest, Father Manuel Urbina; Viceroy Bucareli; and Antonio Alcalde y Barriga, bishop of Guadalajara.

Copies of royal orders, an ordinance of the Conde de Salvatierra, and petitions of members of the city government. They relate to dates of holding elections and eligibility of candidates and voters. With signatures of scribes and various officials.

Documents relating to the missions of Sonora and to the Yaqui Indians. Include a report on Sonoran missions, 1791; letter of Pedro de Nava, 1793, concerning salaries for missionary priests serving the presidios; padrones for 1796 for the missions of...

The prints in this collection are arranged into six legajos and relate chiefly to the missions of New Mexico in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. They were copied by the Library of Congress for Professor France V. Scholes. He...

Contemporary copies of documents relating to litigation with the Indians of Tlaxcalilla over ownership and water rights. With this, unsigned legal opinion on the case (6 p.)

Papers (originals and copies) relating to the settlement of the estate of Juan José Nieto and to the disposal of his property, especially Las Bolsas and Los Coyotes.

Record relating to the transfer of the remainder of Balboa's fleet to González Dávila; royal agreement with the pilot, Andrés Niño, for discoveries in the Pacific; and González Dávila's report of March 6, 1524, on his discoveries in Nicaragua.

Incomplete file of documents relating to mines in Nueva Galicia, signed by Manuel de Santayana y Velasco, administrator of the Bonanza mine.

Legal documents (originals, drafts, and contemporary copies)relating to transactions involving property in Mexico City belonging to two sisters, María Antonia and María Micaela Morales.

Documents relating to the ownership of a slave.

Miscellaneous documents, some incomplete, relating to property in Apan. Include two letters from Viceroy Ruiz de Apodaca.

Contains photocopies of documents (60 leaves) relating to Joaquin Castro's land claims in San Andres and their translations. Also includes items relating to saving the Castro Adobe and biographical information on Robert Becker.

Concerns a lot at the corner of Pine and Stockton Streets: abstract of title for James Papina, 1904 Jan. 11; decree restoring records, relating to the divorce of Albert J. Atkins and Josie Atkins, 1908 July 21; and findings and...

Original depositions, reports and replies to interrogatories, taken for the most part on oath before Juan de Ovando.

From the records of the Army commands and Quartermaster General in the National Archives, selected by Robert L. Reiter.

Material selected by Louis De Armond from the Archivo de Jesuitas and the Archivo Vicuña Mackenna in Chile. Used in De Armond's doctoral dissertation.

Originals and copies of documents by or about Gaspar de Portolá, relating primarily to his career as soldier, explorer, and administrator in Upper and Lower California, with some material on his career in Puebla, Mexico, and on his family and...

The record prints in this collection are of a miscellaneous nature and relate to such topics as Indian affairs, prohibition of pulque, clerical affairs, shipping from Mexican ports, and making beer in Mexico....

Compilation on marriage and related matters. Written in Mexico City, Puebla, Hidalgo, Sonora, and other parts of Mexico.

Includes letters from Juan de Ugarte, Joseph Sarmiento, and others.

Two bound documents: book of ceremonies for public occasions drawn up by the Regidor, Andrés Joseph Roxo (dated June 30, 1775); and ordinances (undated but after 1755) for governing the city of Manila, including rules for elections, procedures, and duties...

Leases of land by Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow to William Wells, executed by Gaty, agent; letter to Gaty from John Maguire; and statement in unidentified hand relating to St. Louis property.

Diplomatic, consular, and commercial correspondence. Selections and notes made by Abraham P. Nasatir.

Records from the municipal archive covering the entire scope of local affairs, together with reports on the entry of foreign vessels and their seizure, colonists from the United States, reports of the American consul, files of local newspapers, government decrees...

Folder 1. A report of the first Viceroy Revilla Gigedo from the Auditor General for War, Juan Rodríguez de Albuerne, Marqués de Altamira, mainly concerning proposed measures for the pacification of the Seris, Guaymis, Upanguaymis, Pimas Bajos, Tiburones, and other...

Draft of An act to lay out the City of Oakland into wards. With this a draft of a Letter requesting the resignation of Oakland City Council members, Lord and Dods, should they fail to represent public sentiment in support...

Official report for the San Cárlos, commanded by Gonzálo Gómez Ulloa, with information on officers, troops, weapons and ammunition, and provisions, dated November 9, 1819.

Letters and documents, both originals and copies, concerning the rebellion in Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, Cuautla, and Oaxaca. Includes reports on the army of Morelos and progress of the insurgents, a description of the geographical and economic features of Morelia,...

Selected materials from the Bibliothèque Nationale, the Archives du Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, and the Archives Nationales, Paris.

Typescripts of interviews and other materials, assembled about 1918, concerning various aspects of republican Mexico, including local government, revenues, public health, mining, foreign trade, race, labor, and land reform; and a microfilmed list of documents relating to Cortés, land titles,...

A great miscellany, from the time of Hernán Cortés through the exploration of the Pacific Coast and the occupation of Texas, the northern provinces, California, to the Gadsden Purchase. From the Archivo General de la Nación, Mexico (AGN).

Microfilm of miscellaneous items selected by J.L. and Mildred Luna from the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.

Documents selected by France V. Scholes and Francis S. Philbrick from Cartas de Indias and Papeles de Estado of the Archivo Histórico Nacional, Madrid. Subjects include ordinances governing the raising of livestock, exploration and foreign intrusions into the Californias, Lapérouse...

Cited in H.H. Bancroft's History of Arizona and New Mexico as "N. Mex. Doc., MS." They are transcripts from v. 25 and 26 of the Historia in the Mexican archives.

Microfilm made by UNESCO from printed and manuscript documents.

Material relating mainly to mines and mining in Potosí. Indian labor in the mines, banking and minting of coins.

Miscellaneous papers, incuding abstract of title for property in South Carolina; jail accounts for Orangeburg. (1775-1776); ferry charges; incomplete draft of the constitution of South Carolina. (1778); accounts for the stamping of money; military accounts; a resolution concerning pensions; contemporary...

Included are copies of 52 documents (letters, decrees, orders, proclamations, etc.) written by Larkin, Manuel Castro, John C. Fremont, John Parrott, Manuel Diaz, Jose Castro, Abel Stearns, Archibald H. Gillespie, William B. Ide, John D. Sloat, Pio Pico, and Juan...

Documents selected by Francis S. Philbrick, primarily from the Archivo Histórico Nacional, Madrid.

Primarily burial certificates; and documents relating to the transfer of cattle. From various villages of central Luzon.

Negative microfilm of volumes I-XVI of the records in the County Clerk's Office, Salinas.

Litigation: Elizabeth H. Martin vs. George W. Crane et. al., U.S. District Court, Northern District, San Francisco, over Rancho Las Animas. Includes petition for injunction by Elizabeth H. Martin, also signed by Edward Stanly, her attorney; writ of injunction; order...

Lands claimed include the La Gallina and Mesilla tracts, and Ranchos de los Rincones, Abique, Río Arriba, El Coyote, and San Antonio de las Huertas.

1. Plea for justice by Doroteo García de Bustamante, in a property dispute with Tomás Malo. Chihuahua, March 31 and April 13, 1796. 4 p.

Includes contemporary notes on expeditions with comments on Indians and missions; directives from Viceroy Bucareli to the head of the Colegio de San Fernando concerning the expeditions, 1774-1775; and an account by Ignacio Arteaga of the 1779 expedition.

Analytical calendar of materials in the Bancroft Library relating to the Third Mexican Provincial Council, 1585. The list is arranged by manuscript and folio numbers, with a brief explanatory foreword.

Selected transcripts from France (Archives Nationales, Archives des Colonies) and documents from St. Mary's College, Montreal. Orders, directives and reports of missionaries, 1603-1671? Also, biographies of Jesuit martyrs and a Marquette genealogy. With notes and lists by Gibson and communications...

Filmed by Lesley B. Simpson from the Manuscripts Collection of Don Ricardo Vázquez, Colombian Minister to Guatemala.

Selected items. Includes also letters of José María Chacón, Tapachula, 1846.

Part I - Tracing of Expediente 278 (now in the National Archives); copies of documents, 1830-1842, confirming grant to Ignacio Martinez, certified by Samuel D. King, U.S. Surveyor General for California. Documents include statements concerning loss of documents for 1823...

Documents pertaining to the release and quit claim of real and other property. They include signatures and/or mention of the following individuals: Samuel B. Tennent, Antonio María Peralta, [Hermenegildo] Ignacio Peralta, [José] Vicente Peralta, [José] Domingo Peralta, and James Alexander...

Lithograph shows town of Folsom and the train depot of the Sacramento Valley Railroad Company. Broadside advertises lots for sale in the town of Folsom, newly named after the late Capt. Joseph Libbey Folsom whose rancho made up the lots...

Miscellaneous documents relating to the presidential election in which Porfirio Díaz and Ramón Corral ran against Francisco Madero. Include minutes of meetings, 1909, of various political clubs supporting Díaz and Corral, and mimeographed copy of Madero's manifest, the "Plan de...

Include report on the San Martin and Santa Rosa silver mines by John D. Creigh and Charles D. Newbold, with information on topography, potential working of the mines, and methods of extracting the ore; sketch maps; notes and letters by...

Materials on the Walker expedition and correspondence of Joaquín de Arrillaga. Includes: 1) Appeal for funds to fight the French, 1795, Diego Borica; 2) Copy of letter, Xavier Aguilar to Lt. Col. Joaquin de Arrillaga, May 18, 1799, account of...

Translations of a file of documents copied by J.M. Mugarrieta in 1859. Include letters from B. Gómez Farias, J.J. Mörner, José Castro and Melchor Ocampo.

Selected by Professors Armando Sapori and Aldo Olschki from the Del Giudice, Del Bene and Peruzzi Collections, as examples of banking and commercial transactions, and of bookkeeping and accounting practices.

Materials from various sources, primarily the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress. Selected by Helen Rand Parrish.

Originals, transcripts, and contemporary copies of documents relating to the government of various islands of the British West Indies: Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Christopher, Nevis, Jamaica, Trinidad, Grenada, and others. Included are proclamations, many pertaining to slaves and free Negroes....

A collection of letters and documents addressed to town officials of Cuatro-Cienegas in Coahuila, transmitting orders and information from departmental and state officials concerning elections; financial, judicial and military matters; municipal government, etc.

Gives a lengthy "Indice de Congregaciones," with documents; "Documentación relativa a Tributos y Rentas de 1804." Also, "Huejotzingo, Puebla, Tributos y libros de comunidad, tasación y memoria de oficiales ... 1587;" and "Testimonio de la Matrícula de los tributarios de...

Official papers relating to the province or state of Durango, including notification of local appointments and documents relating to sending deputies to the national Congress.

"Viaje a la costa N.O. de America Septentrional por ... Bodega y Quadra en las frigatas de su mando, Santa Gertrudis, Aranzazu, Princessa y goleta, Activa ..." (HM 141) and selections from "Nootka Island: a collection ... " (HM 327)

Reports, orders, and letters from various archives.

Negative photostats of documents presumably in Dominican archives in Rome, concerning appointments for Fr. Juan de Santiago as prefect and preacher general for the Dominican province of Santiago de Mexico. With translations and notes by Sister Mary Aloysius and a...

Contemporary copy of documents relating to litigation over the Hacienda which belonged to the Jesuit college in Pátcuaro, including information on processes whereby Indians could sell their land.

Includes letter from Augustin Sicard to the Archbishop of Haiti and a writ of payment of debtor.

Petition, grants, and supporting documents for a location of Indians to enforced labor in the silver mines of Joseph Basilio de la Fuente y Aro. With typed transcript, 56 p., and explanatory note, 1878, by George R. Ghiselin.

Grants and commissions from James I, Charles I and Charles II to Robert Harcourt, Roger North, and Francis Willoughby (Baron Willoughby of Parham).

Originals and contemporary copies of materials related to land transactions in Baja California, including petitions, grants to Milatovich and others, deeds, receipts, some dise~nos, and related materials. Some pertain to Gochicoa y Compa~nia, a colonizing venture in Baja California.

Typed transcript, with notes, by Dale L. Morgan of documents chiefly in the National Archives. Journal kept by Philip St. George Cooke; correspondence of Bennet Riley; letter from Thomas Hart Benton.

Microfilm of materials from various sources, including a Mayan codex, hieroglyphics, and inscriptions.

The transcipts in this collection are arranged into two groups. They are titled "Papeles de Lancaster-Jones" and "Papeles del Padre Fischer" and are described in Herbert E. Bolton's Many are letters between José de Gálvez, Junípero Serra, Francisco Palou, and...

Documents concerning the administrative business of the city of Montemorelos, Nuevo León, Mexico. This includes marriages, property disputes, resident complaints and financial matters, among other issues. Of special note are materials that focus on the military history of the town...

Contracts, letters, accounts, and contemporary copies of documents association with the long-standing, complicated dispute over the mission lands, involving San Francisco Land Association of Philadelphia, Prudencio Santillan, Alfred Green, James Robert Bolton, Leonidas Haskell, and others.

Selected materials from the New York Public and Yale University Libraries, filmed for John H. Rowe concerning the Indians of Peru and the rebellion of Tupac-Amaru.

Includes photocopy of complete transcript of Port Chicago mutiny trial, 1944, entitled: "On review before Judge Advocate General, United States Navy, General Court Martial convened at U.S. Naval Training and Distribution Center, San Francisco, California, by order of the Commandant,...

Deeds, agreements and promissory notes, relating to sale of a portion of the Rancho.

Legal papers, copies and originals, relating to the rancho, owned by Santiago Argüello and Pilar Ortega de Argüello and other members of the Argüello family. Includes title to the rancho, presidential confirmation of title to the heirs, and subsequent litigation....

File of documents relating to recommendations by the ecclesiastic judges concerning undesirable persons in the area. Signed by various officials.

Transcripts, contemporary copies, and originals, relating to government under the Swedish rule. Included are passports, and proclamations mainly concerning trade and Negroes.

Copies of documents relating to the colonization of Texas; grants of lands to settlers; illegal trade; relations with neighboring areas; and decrees of the state of Coahuila y Texas (1824-1834, 1848-1876)

Files, both copies and originals, on events in or near San Felipe el Real, Chihuahua, coming directly or indirectly under the jurisdiction of the Guadalajara Real Audiencia. Includes royal decrees, orders issued by the Audiencia or by San Felipe officials,...

Originals in: Stadtsarchiv, Hamburg, Germany.

Letter to José Antonio Páez, September 26, 1822, asking for information and hoping for peace; and two signed appointments to office, July 18, 1825, and July 24, 1828.

Correspondence of the viceroys of Mexico, relating to Indian troubles in Texas and mainly to procuring military aid for the province. A few letters pertain to the Louisiana boundaries and to United States intervention in Spanish territories.

A collection of manuscripts and printed matter, with manuscript insertions, from Mexico and Spain, relating to the Bethlehemite Order in Mexico. Includes royal or viceregal commands and letters of transmittal to the head of the Order.

Include copy of translation of Padre Anzar's lease of land in the Santa Cruz Mission orchard to Thomas Fallon, his deed to Father Llebaria for the property, summons and complaint in the case, depositions of Father Anzar, G.W. Gunn, Thomas...

Letters, decrees, and similar documents relate to efforts on the part of the Mexican government to obtain loans or other financial assistance from the bishop of Guadalajara Diego Aranda and other church dioceses during the time of financial crisis caused...

Documents and official correspondence, mainly addressed to various governors of Chihuahua, relating to the civil and military administration of Chihuahua as a province of New Spain, and, subsequently, as a state or department of Mexico. They include documents concerning appointments,...

Two files of documents, copies and originals, relating to a royal decree of February 14, 1729, which provided for settlement of certain localities in the province of Texas by 400 families from the Canary Islands. This was in accordance with...

Folder 1 is a file on plans for the defense of the northern frontier, 1754-1755, including decrees of Viceroy Revilla Gigedo the Elder and Governor Mateo Antonio de Mendoza, and related documents concerning defense projects. 186 p.

Transcripts from various printed and manuscript sources, including Padre Lorenzo Pérez, Hakluyt Geronimo de Mendieta, Martin Fernandez de Navarrete, Joaquín García de Icazbalceta, Fray Agustín de Vetancur, Fray Lucas Waddingus.

Described in: Cortijo Ocaña, A. Cartas desde México y Guatemala (1540-1635). Cáceres, 2003 (Shelved as: F1231.C67 2003 BANC).

1 letter signed (contemporary copy) from Edward Marcus Despard to the Treasury Commissioners in London about paying the expenses of Major Trevor Hull to carry on explorations and surveys in Honduras. Three numbered vouchers signed by Despard for supplies and...

Copy of documents relating to a patent of nobility issued by King Philip II, 1585, to Don Sacarias de Santiago, Aztec Indian, for his services to Cortes in the conquest of Mexico, with petition from his descendants for tax exemptions.

File of documents relating to the sale or acquisition of lands belonging to the Hacienda, including deeds, wills, tax receipts, powers of attorney etc., mainly for the Camposano family.

Transcripts and excerpts of documents, 1833-1852, including Felipe de Neve's description of the founding of San Jose; ordinances for Monterey, Los Angeles and San Francisco; Mexican voting regulations, 1830; papers relating to the acquisition of land in Monterey and Los...

Documents from various Guatemalan archives, selected for filming by Lesley B. Simpson. Pt. I Municipal de Guatemala (film incomplete) Pt. II Antigua Guatemala (film incomplete) Pt. III Archivo Colonial de Guatemala (film incomplete) Pt. IV Archivo del Gobierno de Guatemala.

Materials, chiefly related to expenditures in the conquest of the Jicaque Indians, selected for filming by V.W. Von Hagen.

This collection contains record prints of documents selected from the and of the Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico City, by Professor L. B. Simpson....

Photocopies of transcripts of legal proceedings before the justice of th peace of Adin township, the Grand Jury of Modoc County, and the Superior Court of California, Modoc County.

Documents (copies) relating to the military career of Portolá; including commissions (or notification thereof) granted by Charles III or the Infante Philip for ranks ranging from second lieutenant (July 31, 1734) to colonel of dragoons (July 24, 1777), Portolá's military...

1. Garza, José Francisco Mariano. Descripcion geografica de la situacion, y terreno del Refugio, en donde los Indios Carancaquazes han pedido se les funde una Mission, à que se agrega un informe de sus favorables resultas. Misión del Espiritu Santo....

Included are an expediente concerning transfer of three Texas missions, Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción, San Francisco de los Neches, and San José de los Nazonis, to more suitable sites; a report on the Amarillas Presidio and on the...

Items relating to the Order of St. Hippolytus in Mexico. They deal with monastic abuses, property and other rights of members, and reform of the Order; notices on births in the royal family; and viceregal activities.

Letters and circulars addressed by Viceroys Revilla Gigedo the Second, Azanza, Garibay, and Venegas to the Abbess of the Convent, dealing principally with contributions solicited from the Convent.

Documents (originals and copies) concerning the pacification and Christianization of the Lacandon Indians, stressing the leadership of Manuel José Calderón, Palenque parish priest; written in Guatemala and San Lorenzo, Spain, with signatures of Bishop Olivares, Governor Tomás y Valle, Vicar...

Records of trials and inquiries, certificates of good conduct, and letters of application for positions in the Spanish navy. Documents relate chiefly to the naval base at Cavite.

Documents authored by Francisco Morazan and Rafael Carrera.

Microfilm of documents selected by Louis De Armond, and used for his M.A. thesis.

Ship's protest document accompanied by San Francisco Port Warden's Certificate for the ship Swallow, Capt. Baker, from New York, newly arrived with salt water damage to it's cargo. Both printed documents are filled out with elaborate details of the sea...

Miscellaneous official army papers, including correspondence, applications and petitions, complaints, appointments, and lists of personnel.

Documents and letters, both originals and copies, concerned with the 1740 uprising of the Yaquis and Mayos and their allies, its causes, and its political or religious consequences. Written in various localities of Sonora, Sinaloa, and in Mexico City.

Espediente 155 (grant to Silvestre de la Portilla, 1834); Espediente 228 (grant to Jose Antonio Pico, 1840); Espediente 407 (grant to Warner, 1844); Espediente 579 (grant to Warner, 1846)

These documents concern the various phases of tobacco culture and manufacture, and especially its sale and taxation.

Miscellaneous papers and clippings relating to pearl fisheries of Margarita, to the sinking of the San Pedro Alcántara in 1815 and subsequent efforts to salvage treasure aboard, to President Antonio Guzmán Blanco of Venezuela, and to the treasure hunting voyage...

Litigation over the March Ranch or Rancho Los Meganos.

Documents relating to the prime minister under the Spanish kings Philip III and Philip IV.

Typed transcripts of documents, or excerpts therefrom, made 1936-1938 form material in the U.S. Department of State Archives, the Division of Manuscripts and the Slavic Division of the Library of Congress, and the U.S. Department of the Interior. Russian documents...

Photocopy.

This small group of letters of condolence on the death of a prominent San Francisco merchant, sent to and by various members of the family, was given to The Bancroft Library on September 12, 1978 by Mr. the great grandson...

Collection contains incomplete corporate records from various companies the Dorhmanns were involved in; containing portions of each company's and Mr. Dorhmann's personal records relating to his business interests. These early California department store companies reflect San Francisco business history and...

Contains land documents for the family members of Charles F. Dohs in San Francisco, Calif.

Include records of the Bucksport and Elk River Railroad Company, Humboldt Northern Railway Company and William Carson Estate Company.

Family papers, including diaries, memoirs, and other writings of Robert Dollar; photographs; scrapbooks; clippings; etc., with some material relating to other members of the family. Business records of the Robert Dollar Company and its many divisions including Dollar Steamship Lines,...

Contains an information sheet outlining the legal definitions, benefits, and responsibilities of domestic partnerships, a blank City and County of San Francisco Declaration of Domestic Partnership application form, instructions for a special Valentine's Day (Feb. 14, 1991) registration for domestic...

Incomplete file on collection of a debt by the merchant Apresa from Peláez and his wife, containing certified copies and originals of commitments signed by Peláez, court orders, petitions, and related documents. With signatures of various officials and the litigants.

Instructions to Captain Juan Dominguez de Mendoza in conversion of Jumano Indians; and an order from Marqués de la Laguna, Viceroy of Mexico, citing Jurisdiction of governors of New Mexico and Nueva Viscaya.

Letters and documents, relating to his ecclesiastical career and to family and financial matters. Later material concerns the settlement of his estate in Holland.

from Scott Petersen;

Contains drafts and notes on his published articles. Also contains correspondence, collected articles, programs and flyers for mystery conventions held in San Francisco (Bouchercon, 1982; Left Coast Crime, 1991, 1992), promotional material for other San Francisco-based mystery writers, and items...

Original typescript (bound) and photocopy of revised typescript, including index not present in bound version. Revisions and annotations in the photocopy, as well as the index, were done by Robert Miller.

Contents: Class directory, 1958; and correspondence concerning the 1967 reunion, including letters from H.M. Albright, C.R. Barnes, R.M. Gidney and Earl Warren.

Collector's file (box) includes correspondence about his collection with Russell Edwards, Steve Hare and others; materials from the Penguin Collectors Society; bookseller catalogs; photographs of book collection while in Foley's possesion; and Penguin Books ephemera. Ephemera (carton) includes paper and...

Papers related to his service in the U.S. Signal Corps and work as an attorney specializing in radio and television patents. Includes materials concerning Philo T. Farnsworth, and some material of his wife, Ruth Lippencott.

Scrapbooks cover Stewarts time in the Navy during the Spanish-American War and World War I, his time as Post Master General, materials relating to water development, and politics in the San Diego region.

Hand written transcript of an interview with Donald MaCleay, made by an agent (?) of Hubert Howe Bancroft's History Company. Includes typescript copy dated 1888 August 7; and correspondence relating to a biography to be published in Chronicle of the...

Includes views of two California estates: Wyntoon and the Hacienda del Pozo de Verona. Photographs of mining are from the Homestake mine in South Dakota, and unindentified mines in Peru. Some mountaineering photos (Peru) and family portraits are also included.

Correspondence, notes, photographs and papers concerning his interest and activity in the field of genetics.

Contains register of titles for the Donald Sidney-Fryer collection of juvenile series or series books for boys, ca. 1900-1940, with emphasis on authors Victor Appleton, Percy Keese Fitzhugh, and Leo Edwards. Also includes a statement on the literary development of...

Primarily relates to his research in early southern Arizona, in particular to the Tumacacori Mission and Indian pictographs. Photos not from Arizona include India (showing funeral rites), Guatemala, Mexico, Jamaica (missions), Spain and other locations around the world. Family photographs...

Chiefly snapshot photographs of cats and their owners.

Includes photographs of dancers and dance performances associated with the Temple of the Wings in Berkeley, Calif., as well as portraits of members of the Boynton, Treadwell and Quitzow families, including Sulgwynn Quitzow, Charles Quitzow, OElóel Quitzow Braun, Vol Quitzow,...

Financial and record keeping information concerning salaries, ledgers, stock certificates, loans, dividends, deposits, and signatures, and clippings.

This collection consists of an album of 47 photoengravings produced from photographs taken by E. T. Dooley in 1902. It features views of Arbor Villa, the residence of Francis Marion Smith, in Oakland, California. Walter J. Mathews was the architect...

Papers relating to the writing and publication of "The University of California/Sotheby Book of California Wine," edited by Doris Muscatine, M.A. Amerine, and Bob Thompson (Berkeley: University of California Press; London: Sotheby Publications, 1984).

Contains a small, but rich group of letters, some with detailed sketches, sent to Dorothea Lange by Japanese Americans and other eye-witnesses during relocation. Includes day to day accounts of camp life in Manzanar (Calif.), Topaz (Utah), Heart Mountain (Wyo.),...

Contains typescript copies and drafts of several plays, screenplays, novels, television scripts, speeches, and articles written by Dorothy Baker and Howard Baker working alone and as partners. Includes a signed rejection letter from Elia Kazan on his letterhead stationery with...

Includes portraits and snapshots of the Bakers and their children, taken in Paris, California and other locations. Also includes photographs of unidentified typescript pages.

Chiefly mimeo and photocopies of miscellaneous typescript poems, annotated by the author, with some related materials.

Correspondence, notarized articles of incorporation, stock ledger and certificate, annual reports, Board meeting minutes, trust agreement, and bank receipts of Denver, Colo. mining company with operations in Sonora, Mexico. Also includes analysis of a mine in the same area owned...

Chiefly snapshots, both personal and pertaining to Doss' activities regarding walking and hiking trails in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Contains correspondence, manuscripts of poems, anthology: "Poems read in the spirit of peace and gladness," publicity materials, artwork and personal papers. Incoming correspondence includes letters from Lennart Bruce, Gene Fowler, Hilary Ayer Fowler, Len Fulton, Luis Garcia, D.R. Hazelton, Andrew...

Letter, dated Columbia River, October 3, 1825, describes voyage around the Horn from London. The second letter, dated on "la Riviere Winipeg," July 9, 1827, briefly recounts his return journey across Canada in the spring of 1827.

Contains files created during Wheeler's time as Secretary for Resources for the State of California, including correspondence, memoranda, reports, and clippings. Major topics include water rights issues, urban sprawl and development, biodiversity, wetlands preservation, and other conservation matters. Besides Wheeler's...

Papers relating to Wheeler's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Journal (1869-1874) of a United States Navy officer containing his handwritten observations, ruminations, quotations, verses, aphorisms, and essays on a wide variety of topics. Includes an account of a speech he attended given by George Francis Train in Benicia, California...

Images collected by Mildred Albronda for her biography of Tilden. Views show Douglas Tilden in his Paris studio, his family, playing rugby, many of his sculptures, his home in Oakland, and pictures of the California School for the Deaf and...

Album contains Tilden family pictures (many of Gladys), most taken in Oakland (but also Europe, etc.) Celebrations, leisure, vacations, family activities, baby pictures, costume parties, etc. Other photographs show the interior of Tilden's studio, sculpture by Tilden (many), photos of...

Papers relating to Douglas W. Scott's involvement in the Sierra Club.

This album appears to have been professionally produced as a promotional tool for the Blue Lake area around 1895. It has a title stamped on the cover and printed captions for some of the photographs. These captions are reprinted in...

Letters, Mss. of his writings and speeches; subject files; scrapbooks; and clippings, relating primarily to his political career as U.S. Senator from California, 1939-1950, with information on his investigation of the Central Valley Project. Included also are a few papers...

The Panorama of Downieville, Calif. was taken circa 1870 by an unidentified photographer. The mounted 2-plate albumen photograph pictures an eastward view of the town settled in 1849 by a group of prospectors led by "Major" William Downie, a native...

Part I: accounts of T.M. Eastman, 1863-1871; invoices and statements from various merchants in San Francisco, Marysville and Downieville; Part II: accounts of Adolph Cohn & Co. Invoices and statements from various merchants in San Francisco and Marysville, 1864-1873.

San Francisco buildings and street scenes are depicted. Photos show residences of Hopkins and Stanford, Bush St., the corner of Mission and New Montgomery, corner of 4th and Bryant, Market St.

Portrait of Dr. Charles B. Faulhaber, Director of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Portrait depicts Dr. Faulhaber posing before bookshelves containing the works of Hubert Howe Bancroft.

Collection includes correspondence, reports, laboratory reports, publications, minutes and transcripts of meetings, press releases, and ephemera.

Copies of sketches written for the Straw Hat Revue (Rhyme Without Reason and Nothing Ventured-Nothing Gained) and The Cat's Pajamas - a Revue. With these: music by Nathan Scott and lyrics by Mr. Engvick.

Drawing depicts humorous figures holding up a table lamp; cartoon shows two fat figures identified as Malenkov and Khrushchev.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Drawings show houses, street scenes, trees, and pottery in an unidentified location. Photographs show views from a trip taken in 1905 including the Bright Angel Hotel, picnicking, the Grand Canyon, Ash Fork (Arizona), scenery, the De Longpre House in Los...

Primarily pencil drawings of scenes and landscapes around California. Some color sketches and watercolors included, as well as Christmas greetings from C.R.M. to his friends. California locations include Berkeley, Healdsburg, Eureka, the Monterey Peninsula area, San Francisco Chinatown, Glen Ellen,...

1. Scene on the bark Galindo; watercolor, 1849 . -- 2-4. Pencil sketch of Praya Grande and watercolor views of the Cape Verde Islands, 1849. -- 5-9. Sketches in Rio de Janeiro and vicinity, 1849. -- 10-11. Watercolors of marine...

Contains reels 11, 12, 17 and 18 of original Library of Congress microfilm set.

Most items are studies of faces.

Includes Rollin Kirby's illustration for Irwin's Letters of a Japanese schoolboy.

Includes early depictions (ca. 1850?) of forts and Buffalo City, Wyoming, and a view captioned "Railroad builders' fort" (BANC PIC 1905.00545--A)

One image depicts street activity after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

organized in folders titled as followes: "California" [drawings of coastline], "Alaska" [sketches and photos of sketches by F. Whymper 1865-67], "Astronomical", "Alaska" [sketches by W.Hamel, 1867, and others], "Montecito, Mount Diablo" [sketches of scenery, etc.], "Sketches, foreign travel" [from 1875,...

Drawings show a boxing match (Tomlinson/Hall)

Maps with descriptive text in Portuguese.

Pencil drawings over grids drawn in ink. A bear and a spotted, long-tailed animal that appears to be feline.

Drawings show Anna Pavlova dancing.

Views depict: a port with a building and boats, dated "Avril[?] 1822" -- an interior of a blacksmith's shop and a black man -- a group of men, some wearing European clothes, labelled "Rio [de] Janeiro" -- a group of...

California Indians drawn at Pamblo's Campooda and Pleasant Valley, Calif.

Views show lighthouses at Alcatraz, the Farallones, Point Bonita, Point Conception, Point Loma, Point Pinos, and Santa Barbara, Calif.

Collection of landscapes, buildings, portraits, studies, many locations not identified. Identified locations include Pacific Grove, Stratford, Glen Ellen, Ben Lomond, Rice Beach, Port Herford[?], and Chinatown (possibly in San Francisco).

Contains three portraits (two of men and one of a woman) and two scenes involving friars or priests, presumably at Spanish missions. One of the portrait subjects is identified as Vicente P. Gomez, who served at Mission Purissima, 1842-1844.

Drawings show scenes from Chinatown: Chinese mourners, musicians, a water pipe, a tea bucket, cups, and a portrait.

One view is identified as being "from Fremont's Exploration, Doc. 243.27th Cong. [?] Sessn". Another identified as being "from Stansbury's Exploration & Survey [of the valley of the Great Salt Lake...], Philadelphia, 1852." The third is a general plan dated...

Views show scenery, rivers, buildings, etc. Identified locations include the Moramulco and Espana rivers, Omoa Castle, the church of San Antonio, the bridge of Tegucigalpa, and the plaza of Tegucigalpa.

Includes images of mining camps, mining activities and local Native American peoples chiefly from areas around Sacramento, Marysville, Nevada City, Shasta City and Coloma.

Drawings show the Mission of San Carlos, and a scene at the deserted orchard of San Luis Rey Mission.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Mainly from family in Germany to Mr. and Mrs. Adolph C. Weber. Includes a family genealogy in German.

Photographs, postcards and ephemera pertaining to the Dresel family of Sonoma County and San Francisco, and to Sacramento printer Roger E. Bancroft and family. Photographs depict the Dresel family and associates, and the majority date from 1906 to 1935. Of...

Letters, 1847-1894, (originals and typed transcripts) of William Dresser to his family, describing his overland journey from Wisconsin to California in 1850, experiences with Indians en route, mining at Kelsey's Diggings near Coloma, farming at Suisun, and life in Sacramento.

The Dressler's Pioneer Place album contains 21 black and white photographs dating from the 1920s. One photograph is dated September, 1929. Dressler's Pioneer Place was a business and apparent historical museum located at 2282 Fulton Street, Berkeley, California. The Place...

Photographs show views of and from Mount Wilson Observatory, Calif. Astronomical instruments are shown, as well as planets and stars. The area around the facility is also pictured. Clippings describe some of the history and activities of the observatory.

Contains correspondence, legal documents, diaries and family history. Correspondence includes that of Joseph W. Drew, some while paymaster of the U.S. Army, and of Edwin Pickering Drew. Legal documents date back to 1762 and including land dispute documents and hand...

Papers mostly relating to Drips's service as U.S. Indian Agent for the Upper Missouri, 1842-1846, and some for 1851 while Drips was trading for P. Chouteau, Jr., & Co. at their Scotts Bluff post, Fort John. One letter of 1830...

Letters, MSS and copies of his writings, drafts of speeches, reports, notes, scrapbooks, and clippings relating to his career as agricultural economist with the State Emergency Relief Administration and U.S. Resettlement Administration and U.S. Resettlement Administration, as California state senator...

This collection of 63 photographic prints of various sizes documents migrant labor camps in California. The photographs were taken in 1935-1936, many likely by Harry Everett Drobish. Included are photographs of groups and buildings at the Arvin Migratory Labor Camp...

Views of California migrant camp life including dwellings, children, vehicles, sanitary facilities, leisure, etc.

Materials relating to patents for improved bearings and pumps by Andrew P. Dron. (1919-1920); survey of lot in Big Oak Flat by J.A. Dron. (1953), memorial resolutions of the California State Assembly and Senate on the death of John Anderson...

Early family history, from Russia to San Fancisco; life and work of the California painter Theodore Wores, and Shenson patronage; medical school at Stanford and medical practice; association with the Merola Opera Program, San Francisco Opera and Symphony; thoughts on...

Collection consists of various items from members of the Druhe family, largely those of Leila Druhe, her husband, Rudolph, their son, David, and Leila's sister, Margaret Mackprang Mackay. Includes correspondence among family members and with friends, songs and stories by...

Correspondence concerning Merritt, his life and activities with the federal government such as War Relocation authority and special interest organizations such as Save-The-Redwoods League.

Primarily California views and scenery. In addition collection includes a small number of unidentified non-California views, photos of national parks, and portraits. Includes aerial views of Berkeley.

Correspondence, articles and stories by Drury, and newspaper clippings including obituaries.

Five handwritten letters (14 p.) by two different authors (possibly husband and wife) to friends and relatives addressed from various locations. Places include: South Bend [Wash.?], Walla Walla, Wash., Jacksonville, Or., and Yreka, Calif. Letters include details of departure and...

Contains military papers, correspondence, and other related materials of Duane M. Greene who served as a captain, assistant commisary of musters, and second lieutenant in the United States Army. Materials include printed and handwritten orders, notes, drafts, circulars, general reports,...

The Mark Dubois Papers document Dubois's work as an environmental advocate over the course of three decades (1970-2002). An avid river rafter, Dubois began his career as an environmental advocate in 1973, co-founding Friends of the River. Dubois went...

San Francisco importers of wines and spirits, etc.

Papers relating to John Charles Duchow, newspaper publisher in Tuolumne Co., Calif., and his family.

1: seven family members including John Charles (Johann Carl) Duchow, Sr., wife Lydia (Reaves) Duchow, son John Charles Duchow (later of Tuolumne Co., Calif.) and his younger brothers -- 2: two sisters of John Charles Duchow with their baby brother.

from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;

Childhood in Marin County, CA; living in International House, UC Berkeley, master's degree in Latin; School of Librarianship, 1935-1936: comments on Sydney Mitchell, Della Sisler, Edith Coulter; employed at Sausalito and Mill Valley public libraries; army librarian in California, 1943-1945;...

Includes letters from Charles F. Dulany and other members of the family relating to his trip to California and experiences there, with comments on prices of goods, mining in Trinity River area and in southern mines, Sacramento in 1849, and...

Includes 2 cartons of taped oral history interviews and 2 cartons of transcripts of those interviews (1976-1994), theater programs (1910-1988), bookplates (undated), scrapbooks of programs and clippings (1897-1903), and other ephemera.

Letters from friends in Elkton, Kentucky, describing the political climate and local events. Typed transcripts of originals in private possession.

Letters refer to their work in writing for and editing Ritual and its successor, Experimental Review. Included also; letter from Duncan to William Everson (ca. Nov. 1940); postcard from Everson to Russell (Feb. 13, 1945); postcard from Henry Miller to...

Ledgers, journals, private journals, consolidated accounts, tax records, business licenses, and related papers of the San Francisco wholesale hardware business.

Includes a letter written by J. Dickey Dunlap from Panama, May 6, 1850, describing his trip across the Isthmus, on the way to California.

The volumes contain brief descriptions of land and/or personal property, name of school district in which property is located, value of real estate and improvements, taxes assessed and collected. (v.1) 1883, A-L; (v.2) 1885, M-Z; (v.3) 1886, A-L. Indexed and...

Include letters written by Henry Durant, some relating to the establishment of the College of California in Oakland, and by his wife, one describing her voyage to California via Panama in 1853.

The collection consists of a flyer, in both Yiddish and English, for a performance of Dus Pintele Yud that was then playing at the Ebell Hall at 1440 Harrison Street in Oakland, California. The production featured a cast from Los...

Manuscripts on parchment, in Dutch, part with seals attached.

Views of Dutch Flat, Calif. show the train depot, the Placer Hotel, Main Street (during a parade), businesses, etc. Photographs not identified as being from Dutch Flat show Fred Hudson's freight team (a team of horses in Nevada City), the...

Notes on old buildings and residents of Dutch Flat, Calif. With copy of program for 4th of July celebration, 1925.

from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;

Comments on family and early years; marriage to Robert G. Sproul; her husband's advancement to the presidency; role as University hostess; Charter Day speakers and distinguished guests; UCLA, Santa Barbara and Davis; student groups; loyalty oath controversy. Photographs inserted.

Concerning a law case.

Containing clippings, typescripts and holographs concerning the Dyer family, in particular the work of Ebenezer H. Dyer and his son, Edward H. Dyer

Collection includes a large number of group and individual portraits of governmental officials (including Woodrow Wilson), World War I era military groups, etc. Other photographs show the U.S. Consulate at Coblenz, unidentified European residences, San Francisco burning after the 1906...

Relate primarily to his free-lance writing and service as U.S. consul. Included are letters addressed to him; copies of a few letters written by him; MSS and clippings of some of his articles; certificates of appointment, membership cards, invitations, memorabilia;...