Two letters concerning transportation of goods on the Pharsalia and the Herald of the Morning, steamships operated by Magoun & Son, Boston. The first letter is from John Dreyer, and the second from D.L. Ross; both were sent on the...
Biographical, financial, materials concerning his writing such as manuscripts, photographs, maps, certificates of honor, and a 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition medalion.
Principally materials relating to Louise Taber including transcripts of her radio broadcasts, correspondence and scrapbooks regarding opera, theater and her career in radio and as an author of San Francisco histories. Also contains diaries (1859, 1885) and other papers of...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Although issued by I.W. Taber, photographs are thought to be the work of Carleton E. Watkins, whose negatives were purchased by Taber.
Views of waterfalls: #1049: Virgin Tears, 3,000 ft. -- #3972: Bridal Veil Fall, 860 ft. -- #3985: Vernal Falls, 336 ft. -- #3988: Nevada Falls, 617 ft.
Heath discusses her Danish background and childhood in Iowa, and her studying and teaching at the Chicago Art Institute and San Francisco Art Institute; sales factors and labor issues with respect to Heath Ceramics; architectural interests; issues of design and...
Contains the day to day operations for building of a bridge by one of the engineers.
A series of articles arranged for publication in the Kankakee (Ill.) Daily Republic (May-June 1931)
31 items addressed to and sent by various people. Many of them refer to the difficulties experienced in San Francisco and other California cities during the 1894 Pullman strike.
Protested notes, promissory notes, requests for extension of time on loans, etc.
Contains handwritten business correspondence (3 letters, 5 p.) from a California banking firm to James Robb and his newly formed banking firm in New York City and related documents. Tallant & Wilde request assurances that Robb's firm is insured and...
Photographs show detailed scenes of tan oak harvesting in Mendocino County, as well as views of Rockport and Westport, Calif.
Discussion of redwoods, experiences as a cruiser, etc.
Mainly materials relating to her efforts in the establishment of the California Fair Employment Practices Commission in 1953. Include correspondence with John A. Despol, Eugene B. Block, Gordon R. Hahn, Cornelius J. Haggerty, Augustus F. Hawkins, Edward Howden and others;...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Photographs show general and detailed views of the San Carlos train depot (Calif.), exterior and interior, relating to its restoration and conservation.
Exterior views of the restored depot in San Carlos, completed in 1986.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Wilson, daughter of two immigrants from North Wales, was born and raised in San Francisco. She discusses her life and experiences in the Bay Area. Appended to the interview is a copy of the Eisteddfod souvenir program from the Golden...
From the Edwin Grabhorn Collection.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Clippings, primarily re his career as California State Senator.
John Taylor McLean (1823-1902) journal (Sept. 1843-Oct. 13, 1844; Nov. 26, 1848-Jan. 24, 1849): the early portion written while he was a student at Wesleyan University, later entries while a medical student at Tulane. (With descriptions of New Orleans, the...
Scenes of pickets and the signing of papers for foreclosed farm land during the California cotton strike of 1933.
Contains reports and records collected by T.B. McGinnis concerning municipal buildings including the City Hall and Civic Center in San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Four volume typescript on the history of savings banks and the Hibernia Savings and Loan Society (missing Part 1 of volumes 3 and 4). Index to all four volumes are in Volume 1, Part 1. Also includes photocopy records of...
Comments on her study of oriental art and Chinese and Japanese; her trip to Japan, Indochina and China (1939-40), and internment by the Japanese during World War II in a camp in the Shantung province; her career as founding head...
Allen Duncan discusses his family background and childhood in Oregon; his studies at Oberlin and Juilliard; teaching at Howard and Fisk Universities; accompanying various singers, including Todd Duncan, Paul Robeson, Adele Addison, William Warfield, and Betty Allen; and working as...
Family history, early music education, violin, in Hungary; studies with Carl Flesch and Fritz Busch in Berlin; playing at Bayreuth with Toscanini and Furtwängler, 1930, and in the U.S. with the Roth Quartet, 1937; from 1939-1949 teaching, performing at Westminster...
Views of excavations of Tebtunis, Egypt and environs. Some show Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt, working on behalf of the University of California.
Interviews conducted 1969 and 1973 by Ruth Teiser for the Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library. Introduction by Gordon Mackinney. Photograph inserted. Early interest in enology; work in food technology in the College of Agriculture, University of California, Berkeley; comments...
Albums contain snapshots taken of a teenaged Ted Joans (then Ted Jones), his friends and fellow band members, and the broader jazz milieu of Louisville, Ky. during the mid-1940s. The album's annotations and illustrations (including musical notation symbols) reflect both...
Ephemera on a wide variety of topics including gun control, the farm workers' struggle, dams and hydraulics, and environmental and social justice causes. The collection contains a wide variety of materials, including maps, reports, correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, mass mailings, local...
Pre-emption notices for land in Tehama County.
Include receipted bills, payrolls, wage receipts, hotel accounts of J.L Folsom, 1853-1855, and miscellaneous papers.
Includes a group portrait of surveyors in the field, as well as a photo of Enrique Guillermo Antonio Mexía.
Include a group of new items received by the Silver City Avalanche.
One volume lacking - telegrams sent, July 1-Oct. 1, 1899.
Interviews conducted by members of the Telegraph Hill Dwellers with longtime residents of the Telegraph Hill neighborhood.
Photographs of mining, the Melones Mill, telegraph towers and other equipment, the Federal Telegraph Station at Hunter's Point, and other views. California locations include Hunter's Point, Mt. Tamalpais, Palo Alto, Lake Tahoe, Calaveras County, as well as Round Mountain, Nevada.
Rolls of paper tapes, torn to varying lengths, as received from the wire service on the day of and immediately following the events in Dallas, Tex.
Photographs show views of the exterior of the building and of the grounds. Temelec Hall was built in 1858, and was the home of General Persifor F. Smith (military governor of California).
Histories; by-laws; correspondence; minutes and reports; scrapbooks; financial statements and membership lists; programs, announcements, and bulletins; and photographs, including incidents of antisemitic vandalism.
Histories of Temple Israel; bulletins; membership and burial lists (mostly photocopies); and photographs of the congregation's historic cemetery.
Photos show temples, ruins, mountainous scenery, and glaciers. Sites are identified as Templo de Xochicalco, Morelos; El Tepozteco, Tepozotlan; Pietra de Coatlinchan, Iztaccihuatl; El Popocateptl, and the interior of the Iglesia de Tepozotlan.
Collection contains snapshot and commercial photographic prints taken in San Francisco following the disaster of 1906. Views show refugees and refugee camps, with an emphasis on various types of refugee housing (tents, makeshift shelters, and cottages). Among the locations pictured...
Views along the Denver and Rio Grande Railroads, including trains and tracks. Specific locations include: gateway to the Garden of the Gods, Glenwood Springs, Cathedral Rocks, Summit of Pike's Peak, Marshall Pass, Toltec Gorge, Ute Pass, Manitou, Seven Falls, and...
Three of the letters and the enclosures are in another hand, but all have the signature of Halkett.
Postcards depict scenes from a play about the California Missions performed at the San Gabriel Mission.
One item printed.
Correspondence concerning elections of officials in various municipalities and districts within the state, with suggestions for and information on candidates, and proposed slates. Includes letters by Graciano Valenzuela, Juan Malpica Silva and others.
Typescripts of letters selected by Alfred B. Thomas from the Archivo General de Indias, Seville.
Contains diary of McManus' escape from Tasmania to San Francisco aboard the Barque Spartan. Also includes an incomplete transcription and the research notes and correspondence of Anne Chamberlain from 1972-1976 relating to the diary.
Bound scrapbook (55 x 41 cm) containing ephemera materials related to the singing career of California soprano opera singer, Teresina Monotti. Contains newspaper clippings, programs, correspondence, visas, photographs, etc. Also includes six printed broadsides for opera performances in Italy where...
Written by various members of the family, many from Lyons, to Amédée Barthélémy Terrasson who was in Spain. Describe social, political and commercial life in Lyons, and include information on Vienna and Warsaw.
Photographs depict aftermath of the Oakland-Berkeley hills fire of 1991, including ruins, building of new homes, and restoration of the natural environment.
Exam book of Tertius Chandler for Arabic language studies course (Semetic 13) while attending Harvard University. Contents include Semetic writing characters and possible translations of Semetic text into English (from essay type exam questions?).
Photographs show general views of mining facilities, living quarters, and surrounding hills.
Papers pertaining to the settlement of the estate of Don Mariano Terrazas, including copy of will, documents relating to property, inventory of estate, and accounts of administrators of the estate.
Including papers relating to Pietro Paulo Testi, 17th cent. guardian of Octavio and Valerio di Valerio Fabbroni, and letters to Giovan Battista Testi, 19th cent.
Proceedings of the viceroyalty against alleged members of the insurgent Guadalupe band, in 13 sections (cuadernos), as follows: vol. I, sections 1-5, relating to the case against Manuel Cortazar, Ignacio Adalid, Juan Vargas Machuca, and others; vols. II and III,...
Copies of documents relating to sale of Rancho San Rafael de Alamitos by Wellie S. Bell to George B. McAnemy. Signed by notary, Ignacio Elias González.
File relating to the royal decree of May 21, 1747, requesting annual reports to the Council of the Indies from civil and religious officials of New Spain, the Philippines, Peru, and New Granada, on the status and needs of missions...
Professional quality views of San Antonio and El Paso, Texas, and various Mexican regions and towns. The vast majority of views are in Mexico. Locations noted are: Guanajuato, Zacatecas, Guadalajara, Aguas Calientes, Mexico City, Silao, Queretaro, Gualajan[?], Puebla, Leon, Cholula,...
Each 1 leaf, except as noted. Concerns social life and customs in Texas. See individual records for content.
Primarily concerning land grants.
Typescript (152 p.) of correspondence titled "Letters from Fanny Osbourne Stevenson to Timothy H. Rearden" from "San Francisco - Belgium - Paris - Grez - Monterey - Davo." Includes printed works on Tennyson, Sappho, a graduation address at Hastings College...
Concerns such topics as photography, illustration, musicians, parties, speeches, concerts, theater, ballet, art, composers, motion pictures, and vaudeville. Single items, each cataloged separately. For individual records search under title: Theatre, music, dance and art miscellany; or under call number BANC...
Collection contains portraits of actors and actresses and photographs of performances at the Greek Theatre at the University of California, Berkeley. Some portraits are of James Fisk. A commemorative banquet menu with illustrations (inscribed by William H. Crane, the guest...
Concerns principally late 19th-century theatrical events and personalities in Colorado. Includes ca. 150 photographs of actors and actresses.
Images illustrate the arts of the theater, including stages, productions, costumes, designs, settings, etc. over history.
Chiefly posters and photographs of Theatre Rhinoceros stage productions. Includes some photographs of special events and of individuals active in the organization.
Contains press files, script files, grant applications, artistic directors' files, board of directors' minutes, and programs.
Includes many portrait photographs by Arnold Genthe.
Includes portraits of Ruthelma Stevens (by Maude Stinson), Eleanor Noteware, the hand of Henriette Blanding (by Johan Hagemeyer), Hawaiian "hula girls" (1880's?), the chapel at the Presidio at Monterey, the opera house in Richmond, Calif., and an unidentifed mountain forest...
Actors and sets for various productions, many of which were directed by Everett Glass. Some unidentified. Many (or all?) were Federal Theater productions (Oakland and San Francisco): some were at the San Francisco Players Club Theater, some at U.C. Berkeley....
Photographs show amateur theatrical productions of the Hillside Club in Berkeley, Calif.
Exteriors and interiors of Thelen house, designed by Julia Morgan; and pictures of the Paul Thelen family.
U.C. Berkeley photographs taken by students in Janet Delaney's photography class and submitted for exhibition in Bancroft Library's Spring 2003 exhibition: Then and now. Campus scenes and portraiture of Berkeley students and local residents. Series by William Duncanson is titled:...
Prints illustrate scenes from Christopher Columbus' voyages to the New World. No. 1 depicts scene on Hispaniola in 1500, when a new administrator imprisons Columbus and his brother Bartolome Colon and forces them to return to Spain (during Columbus' third...
Contains seven volumes of handwritten and typewritten recipes collected by Theodora Kroeber. Includes menus and Theodora's comments regarding the recipes and names of dinner guests.
v.1. ca. 1900-ca. 1916, Telluride and Denver, Colo. (including flood of 1914); Wyoming; Mesa Verde; Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 in San Francisco. and Panama-California Exposition of 1915-1916 in San Diego. -- v.2. ca. 1900-1914, Kracaw family, Telluride and other...
Chiefly snapshots, including some views of Telluride, Colorado after flood of 1908 and ca. 1970s. Also includes Quinwood (Theodora and John Quinn's home), woods, etc.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Papers relating to Theodore A. Snyder's involvement in the Sierra Club.
Collection consists of receipts, deeds, and correspondence regarding Brunswick and Ormand family plots in sections of two San Francisco area Jewish cemeteries: Hills of Eternity (Sherith Israel) and Eternal Home Cemetery (Ohabai Shalome). Both cemeteries are located in Colma, Calif....
Include insurance policy for house at Niagara, N.Y.; narrative of journey, San Francisco to New York, via Panama, in l858?, with advice on travel to California; pocket notebook, l860, with records of surveys in the Sierra Nevada, estimates of costs,...
The Theodore McCown papers include his research on the Kawaiisu Indians, the prehistoric caves on Mt. Carmel, and various other excavations sites in the Middle East, the Africa, India, and California. The collection also consists of ingoing and outgoing correspondence...
Album includes snapshot views and some commerically reproduced images depicting San Francisco during and shortly after the devastation of the 1906 earthquake and fire. Album also includes ms transcription of letter written by Theodore de Niedman on April 19, 1906...
Description of his voyage from Washington, D.C. around the Horn to San Francisco, July 1884-February 1885, stopping at the major South American ports; and from San Francisco to Alaska and return, doing survey work, April-November 1885.
From the C.K. Odgen Collection.
Contains transcriptions made by Theodore Hittell of the Spanish-Mexican Archives of California. Dates of original documents from 1767 to 1849.
Contains correspondence from attorney Fisher Ames concerning the disposition of Theodore L. Schell's estate, a copy of his will and other legal documents pertaining to his death and a book in memoriam to Schell's family from The Society of California...
Collection of printed ephemera related to early American mathematics books and publishing. Includes catalogs and flyers for Eaton and Bradbury's mathematical series and Greenleaf's new mathematical series, and announcements for examinations in plane trigonometry from the University of the State...
Materials relate mainly to Californians.
Written while he was serving in the U.S. Army in the Mexican War. Comments on the siege of Puebla, troop movements, peace negotiations. Descriptions of Mexico City and environs.
Experiences while a member of Frémont's expedition to California, 1845-1846, and in Veracruz with the American forces, with descriptions of the town and his life there; ocean voyage around the Horn to Hawaii, 1848-1849; sojourn in Oregon Territory, mainly in...
Honor roll testimonial and handwriting specimens executed while student at St. Matthew's Hall.
Include letters from Frank Duveneck, Percy Gray, Charles Rollo Peters, Orrin Peck and William Keith.
Correspondence as commander of the U.S. Storeship, Lexington, on duty on the coast of California and Mexico.
T. R. Countryman was a mining engineer who worked as a member of an engineering group which surveyed the Mexican national railroad in 1881. He later worked on surveys for for the Eastern railway in Uruguay, South America in 1889....
Graduate studies and work as research associate in Bureau of Public Administration, University of California, Berkeley; influence of Prof. Samuel C. May; acquaintance with Earl Warren as district attoney of Alameda County, California, and governor; work as executive director of...
General personal scrapbooks and others built around specific art or historical exhibits, and historical events, including World War II and Bonney's participation in war relief efforts.
Includes correspondence with Barth and members of his family, clippings, obituaries, photographs and a draft of the thesis, entitled: Carl G. Barth, a sketch.
Typed transcript included in each folder.
Includes correspondence (including invitations), program, budget.
Contains 4 letters and 1 postcard relating to an interview granted by Gunn to Dr. John Haffenden and published in Quarto, while Gunn was on a book tour in Britain. Also includes copy of chapbook "Thom Gunn" (The fantasy poets,...
Letters to Richard Gilbertson re publication of The Explorers; letter from Faber and Faber Ltd. to Gilbertson; typescript copy and galley proofs of The Explorers.
Correspondence; deeds, mortgages, tax receipts and other legal papers; accounts; briefs and opinions.
Two written from California comment on his mining experiences; one from Granada, Nicaragua, written while a member of Walker's filibuster expedition, comments on the war with Costa Rica.
Handwritten notes taken by Thomas B. Doyle on California place names. The materials are arranged into two groups. The first group is a strictly alphabetical list of California place names, which may or may not have annotations and notes on...
Contains 17 handwritten letters from a man working as a saw mill worker and supervisor in the gold rush areas of Toulumne County, California to his sisters, Lucretia and Christine, in New York state. Contents mostly concern daily pioneer life...
Clippings, campaign buttons and ribbons, etc. relating mainly to his activities in the Republican Party in Napa County.
Include letters to H.S. Randall and Charles W. Schoell.
Diary about life on a farm near Pacheco, Calif. Discusses purchases, chores, births, marriages and deaths, water including rain, flooding and the nearby creek. Also includes directions for firearms for the browning process, caseharden iron and to stain gun stocks,...
Mainly concerning the authenticity of William Squire's collection of Oliver Cromwell documents. Includes letters written by Carlyle and letters from Squire, John Bruce, Edward Fitzgerald, E.G. Squier, J.A. Froude, John Tyndall, John Childs, James Spedding, Alphonse Legros, William Charles Macready,...
Detailed description of his experiences during the Mexican War, serving under General Scott, in the battles centering around Mexico City in August and September, 1847.
Photocopy of typed transcripts of tape-recorded interviews with Church's wife, associates and clients.
Clippings, letters, memorabilia and photographs, concerning the family, life and career of Thomas Crowley, including life on the San Francisco waterfront.
Two handwritten letters from Thomas Cushing to an acquaintance mostly concerning the activities of his son, Frank Hamilton Cushing, who has friendly relations with Native Americans and tribes in New Mexico and Colorado. In the first letter (2 p.), dated...
Includes information about members of some of the first wagon trains to California, particularly members of the Crow and Eastin families.
Research materials collected in 1945 for his study regarding the Nisei attitude toward internment. Includes originals of personal correspondences between evacuees, 1942-1945, typescript extract of a 1940 diary of a young Nisei woman, and 1942 abstracts of (the same?) diary,...
Requests a loan; refers to a certain manuscript he is writing, possibly his Confessions of an Opium Eater; speaks of an estrangement from his mother. With this, a typed transcript and a letter.
Contains business correspondence between company representatives and their clients.
Written in 1849 from England, Leghorn Roads, and Rome; in 1850 from Salamis Bay; in 1851 from off Madeira, Rio de Janeiro, and Callao; in 1852 from Valparaiso, and Arctic Sea off Cape Lisburn; in 1853 from San Francisco; and...
Contains correspondence, writings and clippings. Correspondents include Art Hoppe and Carolyn Tawangyauma.
Collection includes 7 diaries (with transcripts and indexes), 1865-1902, of Marcus Washington Thomas, a rancher in Pope Valley near St. Helena, Calif. The diaries contain details of daily life, weather, people, etc. Also contains family correspondence and genealogical material.
Collection mainly contains portraits of members of the Thomas family, including Ruby Thomas, W. [Wade] H. Thomas, and others. Views of Thomas family homes in Camptonville, Calif. and Pope Valley, Napa County are also included. Some portraits show members of...
Contains shipping documents of Captain Thomas Farley of the schooner Eagle out of Boston, for trade with Yucatan and South America. Some of the documents state "Esado Libre de Yucatan" or "Free State of Yucatan." The Yucatan declared their independence...
Letters to Thomas H. Harvey, St. Louis, February 4, 1847, and June 24, 1848; to D.D. Mitchell, St. Louis, May 22, 1849; and letter from Mitchell as Superintendent of Indian Affairs, St. Louis, August 1, 1849; all relating to Fitzpatrick's...
Concerning his experiences with his printing press and his Arundo Press publications, comments on other printers especially in the Bay Area, and a few specimens of his work and clippings as enclosures.
Accounts with the San Francisco City Bank of Savings, Loan and Discount and with the Land Mortgage Union of California.
Letters between a couple while the husband was working in the mines near Somersville, California and the wife was back in Australia. Also includes a family history.
Chiefly copies of Jukes's correspondence, articles, speeches, and miscellaneous writings concerning his research and views regarding the use of pesticides, particularly DDT, which he sent to Prof. J. Gordon Edwards. Most of the materials have been annotated by both Jukes...
Papers relating to Thomas H. Juke's involvement in the Sierra Club.
Files relate to: correspondence, speeches, press releases, campaigns, invitations, Senate Committees, voting record, newspaper clippings, and personal papers. Extensive material relating to issues of the time at the federal level and for the state of California.
Nine handwritten letters from a shipmaster sailing along the Pacific coast in Chile and San Francisco to his mother containing mostly personal regards with some details about his locations and destinations. Two letters, both dated in 1875, are from aboard...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Volume, 1819-1822, letters as Military Store Keeper, St. Louis; volume, 1821-1823, letters relating to the Missouri Fur Company.
The papers include correspondence, writings by Graff and others, and subject files, mostly concerning water issues in California.
Photographic documentation of Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, 14311 Lark Street, San Leandro, Calif. This study was prepared for the San Leandro School District to the specifications of the Historic American Buildings Survey, although the project was not part of HABS.
Letters written by him, including one to James Monroe (May 29, l80l) and copy of one to the Earl of Buchan (July 10, l803); letters to him, including one from Samuel Smith (April 4, 1785); and miscellaneous documents signed by...
One concerns the age verification of Godeforis Choiniere and payment of his poll tax as written to Charles Choiniere.
Kay's first diary starts with his departure from Liverpool, in Apr. 1894, on the steamer Labrador, to Halifax, and via rail across Canada to B.C. Kay traveled with friends, Johnnie Holt, Charles Shepherd, Abraham Stott, and their wives. Kay joined...
Five letters concerning information for biography of Stephen Watts Kearny.
Contains three scrapbooks of an assistant manager at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, California. The scrapbooks contain numerous clippings, articles, and ephemera related to the career of Keating and activities at the hotel. Also includes one folder of...
Include account book, l844-1852, with information on grain sent to E.T. Bale's flour mill, wages paid and goods given to Indian laborers, accounts with Bale, Benjamin and Samuel Kelsey, George Yount, R.L. Kilburn, Nathan Spear, and others in Napa Valley;...
4 letters from his son, Wesley B. Littlefield, from California, 1857-58; 2 letters from David Foreman, from California, 1858; 1 letter each from John W. Cunningham and S. Radebaugh, 1858. Also includes one cover address to Thomas Littlefield, Highland Grove,...
Chiefly records as Justice of the Peace, French Gulch, Shasta Co., Calif. Some papers as Enumerator, 11th Census, 1890, and a few personal papers.
This collection consists chiefly of materials reflecting Jackson's involvement in civil rights organizations, especially those fighting for racial justice. Files include correspondence, petitions, by-law amendments, minutes, financial papers, press releases, bulletins, scrapbooks, and published material. The collection also includes Jackson...
Collection contains portraits of Jackson and family, family homes, and portraits of NAACP, AOF, and USPO groups.
The collection includes records of Anderson's military service during the Civil War but primarily concerns his activities during the Spanish-American War in the Philippines where, as Brigadier and Major General, he commanded the U.S. Volunteers.
One letter addressed to Francis Augustus Cox; and two typescripts of letters included.
Tapes relating to or recording Thomas M. Storke include a recording of his memorial services held at Mission Santa Barbara, Oct. 16, 1971. The service was presided over by Father Virgil Cordano of the mission and the Reverend Father Ayres...
Official correspondence of Thomas O. Larkin as U.S. Consul at Monterey, California, and later U.S. Navy Agent.
Correspondence, accounts and miscellaneous papers omitted from the volumes of Larkin's papers bound by H. H. Bancroft.
Pt. I, vol. 1: Record prints of letters to Abel Stearns, 1833-1858, regarding business and activities as U.S. consul at Monterey. Vol. 2: Letters from Pío Pico, J.P. Leese, James Buchanan, John Forsyth and others; petitions; bonds; accounts and vouchers...
Consists mostly of diaries kept by Walsh, 1892-1933, concerning details of his police work, such as calls, arrests, and daily activities.
Includes annotated typescripts, manuscripts, and variant copies of Eros: Poems for the city, and Thanatos: Earth Poems, along with an inscribed and corrected typescript of Forgeries. Also includes individual poems (filed alphabetically by title) and untitled poems (filed alphabetically by...
Postcards describe Pilkington's journey to Sacramento and Napa, from Santa Cruz.
The majority of the collection is comprised of Metcalf's course notes. There are also a few folders containing information about the U.C. Berkeley Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies and the Center for South Asia Studies.
Miscellaneous checks, bank notices and some material pertaining to Republican League of California, 1871-1880.
Contains correspondence of Sanchez with his first literary agent, Dorothea Oppenheimer and correspondence between Oppenheimer and literary agents, editors, and publishers relating to Sanchez's writings. Also includes legal agreements, financial records, excepts and clippings all relating to Sanchez's book "Rabbit...
Volume 1 record of a journey with a party of Americans from Tampico to Mazatlán, via San Luis Potosí and Tepatitlán [de Morelos]; then via ship to San Francisco. Records brief stay in San Francisco, then travel to gold mines...
Written from Boston and San Francisco, they relate to the building of his church in San Francisco, and to the raising of funds for the U.S. Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. Letter, Jan. 1863, gives account of a Negro...
Letters written to family and friends, from Boston and San Francisco, concerning activities as minister and lecturer, views on slavery, and description of life in San Francisco in the 1860's; and journal of voyage from New York to San Francisco,...
Contains 7 letters from Thomas Stillman's brother, Jacob Stillman, a doctor in Sacramento, Calif., discussing his medical practice, gold and silver mining in the Sierra Nevada's, Colonel Frémont and politics, including Leland Stanford, Governor of California, William Seward in the...
Letters written as Quartermaster General for California. Also letter to Swords from John Kellog relating to lots in San Diego.
Correspondence with agents and with Ballantine Books, Inc., and drafts of his novel, King of Abilene. With some autobiographical material.
Papers relating to Turner and Way's involvement in the Sierra Club.
A list of papers left with E.W.F. Sloan and receipted bill, 1879, from Doane & Henshelwood, dry goods merchants, San Francisco.
Contains the letters of Tom Wells to a young lady from his town, M.J. Harrington, alternately addressed as "Maggie" and "Josie". Wells describes his work in a photo gallery in San Francisco, and his observances of life in San Francisco...
Contains incoming correspondence from J.H. Thomas and George E. Waggoner and copies of outgoing correspondence from Wells, concerning the sale of a quartz mine near La Porte, Plumas County, Calif. Also includes a report concerning the mine, photograph order cards...
Photocopies of documents pertaining primarily to Thomas Wallace More's ownership of the Rancho Sespe, Ventura Co., Calif. Includes biographical sketches of More and the More family, including the events surrounding Thomas W. More's death in 1877 and the subsequent trial...
The papers include biographical information, correspondence, diaries, patient case files, and research files concerning tuberculosis. The collection includes papers from both Thomas Waterman Huntington, Sr. and Thomas Waterman Huntington, Jr.
Contents: Diary, 1876, concerning trip to California from New York via Panama; accounts; letters from James McAuliffe re working in Sutro Tunnel and in other Nevada mining communities, and from Richard Corbett in Kaweah, 1889-1891.
Written to the editor of the Sphere concerning publication of Crosland's poetry and critical works.
Letters written while Commissioner, General Land Office in Austin, Texas, relating to Surveys and to the retention of the government archives by the citizens of Austin during the "Archive War". Included are copies of letters and accounts with Anson Jones...
All are addressed to Sinclair from Wilder with the exception of one carbon typescript from Sinclair to Wilder, one from Wilder to Paul S. Bachman at the University of Hawaii, and one each from Wilder's mother and sister to Sinclair....
Concerning his writing; one letter regarding Gertrude Stein. Also included are letters of Wilder's sister Isabel, 1969-1977, some relating to the production of his plays; a letter of condolence from Abramson and a few obituary notices from various newspapers.
Chiefly concerning music.
Letters to Norman Unger concerning his writing; timetable and portions of holograph manuscript of Ides of March; holograph manuscripts of text for his broadcast on Gertrude Stein and an essay on G. B. Shaw; reprint of his article on Lope...
Juneau and Douglas Island[s] from the Basin Road, Alaska, #4586 -- Sitka from the Harbor Islands, #4562 -- The Steamer Ancon in Glacier Bay, Alaska, #4717.
Photographs captioned: Sheep-shearing on C.T. Romie Ranch, near Soledad, Monterey Co, Cal. -- J.C. Flood's residence, Menlo Park, Cal. -- Mt. Shasta from Butteville.
1: two men and three women posing in front of Yosemite Falls (by J.J. Reilly) -- 2: view entitled "Pitt [sic] River, Shasta Co." depicting a rough wooden house ("Good Friday's House") with group of Indians (by R.E. Wood of...
v.1 - The Revolution in Government: Miners and Merchants; v. 2 - Guanajuato.
Rough-edited typed transcript of a tape-recorded interview conducted Nov. 15, 1967 by Mrs. Fry re his childhood, study of forestry, and early days in the U.S. Forest Service; Mrs. Fry's correspondence with Clapp, 1964-67; Clapp's letter, Apr. 4 1963 to...
Preferred citation: Three letters written by members of the Cox family concerning the death of their sister, BANC MSS C-Y 247, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Photos of Snell Seminary in Berkeley, a San Francisco residence on Twelth Street, and a view of White House on Post and Kearny decorated for GAR (Grand Army of the Republic).
Includes views of the Golden Gate from Telegraph Hill and St. Ignatius College, San Francisco, Calif.; one photograph of "the mammoth tree."
Includes photos of water supply efforts on Little Rock Creek, Calif.
Autobiography and poetry.
Include scrapbook of testimonials, with copies and photocopies of letters from Ralph H. Lutz, Jacques Maritain, Joseph Pulitzer, Thomas J. Watson, Harold Butler, Edward Alden Jewell and others; clippings; samples of her work; and biographical information.
The Thérèse Bonney photograph collection at The Bancroft Library includes photographic portraits of artists and literary figures; photographs of World War II in Finland, Sweden, England, France, Spain, Portugal and Germany; the artist's pictorial manuscript of "Europe's Children", "War Comes...
The collection includes correspondence from Theresa Ehrman (later Thérèse Jelenko) to her mother (Jennie) and sister (Sally) sent during Theresa's stay in Paris with the Steins in the first decade of the 20th century. The collection also includes correspondence and...
Include a journal for 1781; playbills, 1777-1781; and a history of the theater from 1716 to 1783.
Contains typed transcripts (10 p.) of newspaper articles on Vásquez and typed transcripts (4 p.) of sentencing reports.
Records of mining claims, patents, notices of location, contracts, stock certificates, accounts, and some correspondence, 1882-1885, respecting mines in Grant and Socorro counties, New Mexico. The accounts, 1879-1882, are entered in a ledger volume which contains a list of the...
Career with U.S. Forest Service, Division of Timber Management, concerned with sales of federal timber to private operators. With this: copies of Lund's correspondence with Mrs. Fry and copies of supporting documents.
For hoeing celery, cutting lettuce, and working in a green house.
Interviews conducted in 1976-1978 by Anne Brower for the Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library. Copy of photograph inserted. Introduction by August Frugé. Growing up in mining town in Colorado; student days, UC Berkeley, 1915-1919; graduate work in anthropology; marriage...
Concern Mason's poem "Do They Miss Me?", a request for a contribution for the Stockton newspaper, acknowledgment of receipt of a copy of her book--Utterance-- and comments on prospects of its sale in California.
Material from San Francisco Theological Seminary, San Anselmo, Calif. Diaries, in 4 volumes, 1843-1855; reports, 1850 and 1860, on conditions in California; and letters, 1854, to his San Francisco congregation.
Business records of architect Timothy L. Pflueger, including architectual drawings.
Includes a few papers relating to his work as administrator of the Indians of San Rafael, with list of names of Indians at Nicasio (1851-1853); some accounts, papers relating to the settlement of his estate.
Consists of personal correspondence from family and friends discussing life in Northern Calif. including San Francisco, Oakland, and Stockton, where Eichelberger resided and from a friend who moved to Mass. Also includes correspondence to her father, Cyrus Eichelberger, and her...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Typed transcript and translation of copy of grazing rights, 1840, and title, 1841, for Mare Island, granted to Victor Castro.
Abstract of title for property in Puebla, with contemporary copies of documents dating back to 1747.
Files relating to the ranch property in the district of Tialpam, Coyacán, Mexico.
Legal notes, containing abstract of title and resumé of litigation, ca. 1681-1744, over boundaries and water rights for property near Mexico City, involving Indians and other owners.
Collection of documents (originals and contemporary copies) relating to title to Haciendas de Hueyapam, Rocaferro and Isclaguacán, near Tulancingo. Includes signatures of Luis de Velasco, local officials and others. Includes a typewritten index prepared in 1893.
Incomplete file (mainly contemporary copies) of documents relating to the claim of Francisco Xavier Corona for land near San Andrés, Chihuahua, and to later litigation over the property by his heirs.
Letters concerning the ownership, assessment, and taxation of real properties in Mexico City.
Contains correspondence, writings, lectures, photographs, illustrations, etc., of T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, including family papers related to his wife Anne Cobden-Sanderson and his children Richard and Stella Cobden-Sanderson. Also includes ephemera relating to the Doves Press and Doves Bindery, an archive of...
Largely bills from merchants in Marysville and San Francisco for wholesale purchases.
from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;
Recollections of travels to Missouri, 1839, and overland journey to Oregon. Begun March 4, 1897, addressed to his granddaughter, Rhoda Swinnerton, but never completed.
Included in: Northern California U.S. District Court oral history series.
Reports by Rufus Ingalls, including lists of camping places, included.
Photographs document the Tobin farm house, located at 965 Weeks Street, East Palo Alto, Calif., prior to its demolition, ca. 2007, to make way for the Clarke-Weeks Townhomes project.
Contains typescripts and photocopies of Lurie's unpublished sound poems, produced in limited runs and distributed to a few individuals. Several volumes are signed and numbered. Some titles appear in several versions. Also includes his notebooks, announcements of exhibits and performances,...
Includes California attorney's license for John M. Todd (July 10, 1865); letters to Frank M. Todd from S.S. McClure of McClure's Magazine, C.M. Gayley, and George Sterling; letter to Mrs. Frank M. Todd from Earl Warren on the death of...
Includes research notes, audio interviews, typed transcripts and mss. materials re: Gitlin's books, "Inside Prime Time," "The Sixties" and "Uptown). Also includes materials related to student protest movements, in particular, his participation in Students for Democratic Society.
Consists of personal correspondence to Toichi Domoto, most dating to his time in Illinois for school. Also includes some business correspondence of the Domoto Bros. and Toichi Domoto Nursery. There are few items from the relocation era ; a letter...
News of her health, mutual friends, etc.
Concerning their mutual friend, Thornton Wilder, and commenting on the work of William Faulkner.
Manuscripts of poems, books reviews, essays, correspondence, volumes formerly owned by Clark and containing his notes and annotations.
Collected by Tom Lantos.
Working manuscripts and final screenplay (holograph mss. and revised typescript) of Stoppard's adaptations of Laurens Van der Post's two novels, "Story Like the Wind" and "A Far Off Place."
Contains drafts, galley proofs and revised versions of the following works: Artist descending a staircase; The human factor; Jumpers; Travesties; Where are they now?
Manuscript typescript drafts of the following works: On the razzle; The dog it was that died; Squaring the circle; The frog prince; Jumpers; Love for three oranges. Also includes clippings about Stoddard and a few programs.
Correspondence, accounts, lists of supplies, legal papers relating to mining activities in Alaska, California (primarily around Angels Camp) and Nevada, and to oil ventures in southern California. Also, letters containing information concerning his brother Louis' experiences whaling off the coast...
Writings, consisting of some articles and editorials but mainly of drafts and other materials relating to Turner's books, Wild by Law: The Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund and the Places It Has Saved and Roadless Rules: The Struggle for the...
Contains names of members, with lists of shoots, number and species of game shot down.
Regarding the cattle business in California.
Description of property in the town of Albufeira, Portugal.
Primarily letters written by Edward Tompkins to his cousin Jane H. Searls, 1861-72. Included also are letters written by his wife, Sarah, and one by his son, Frederick; and a letter from a relative commenting on Tompkins' death.
Diary (May 20-25, 1858) kept by Sarah Haight (later Mrs. Edward Tompkins) on trip to the Calaveras Big Trees and Yosemite Valley in the wedding party of William C. Ralston and his bride; acceptance (Sept., 1872) by the Regents of...
Portfolio : William H. Avery's correspondence with his daughter, Xora (later Mrs. Perry T. Tompkins) and his son, Russ, relating mainly to activities at the University of California, Berkeley; letter from Frederick Slate to Perry T. Tompkins; and copy of...
Includes studio portraits (one by I.W. Taber), cartes-de-visite, and one newspaper clipping (wedding announcement) relating to the family of Edward Tompkins.
Includes some of Morales' papers as Peruvian minister to Mexico.
Contains: petition made by Santiago de Roibal, Vicar and Ecclesiastical Judge, relating to apprehension of Juan Bautista Duran; petition by Bernardo Miera y Pacheco to cast useless cannons; and complaint by Indians of San Agustín of extoriton committed by the...
Mainly letters (1850-1897) to John Henley Tone (1826-1903) from brother Theodore concerning his grocery, wood and coal buisinesses and the development of Manhattan, N.Y.; letter from W.F. Freeman describing his travels in India in 1886 (1), and clippings re John...
A register of way bills received, Millers Station, 1908-1909; record of cash received, Millers Station, 1909-1916; daily record of ticket sales, 1912-1913, with concurrent record for Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad; and a register of freight bills received, 1913-1914.
Contains correspondence between board members of Tonopah Divide Mining Company including B.F. Edward, E.B. Paxson, and E.J. Erickson concerning the running of the mines in Nevada.
Photographs show scenery at Torrey Pines (near Del Mar, Calif.), a house visible in the distance.
Correspondence between Toshio Mori and William Saroyan regarding the possible publication of Mori's short stories. Includes letter from Harcourt Brace publisher Frank Morley to Saroyan, with a carbon copy of Morley's letter to Mori, and 4 telegrams from Morley to...
Scenes and stage settings from Bohemian Club and other plays, some outdoors, which were staged in various locations.
Manuscript and galley proofs of her novel dealing with Los Angeles' Mexican-American community in the early l94Os. Also included, correspondence with publishers and agents, fan mail, research material, book jacket, and a watercolor design for the jacket.
Kept by optical and photographic firm. Contains names of tourists, their origin and destination.
Includes copies of her report of trip to Delano, California, and of her speech on behalf of the strikers. With this, announcements, proclamations, and other materials of the National Farm Workers' Association.
Regarding judgement.
Title from manuscript caption on mount. Each image also captioned: Drawn from nature by A. Schwartz.
Pennica discusses her work at Genentech, especially the cloning of t-PA, the "clot buster" tissue plasminogen activator. She also discusses work her other research, including work on urokinase, tumor necrosis factor, p53, uromodulin and cardiotropin.
Records of the Visalia, Tulare, Los Angeles and Goshen Division, for expenditures on personnel, repairs, fuel, etc.
Title supplied.
notebook of Cyrus Tracy, mainly concerning mathematics, navigation, and philosophy. Note on front cover: "... written by Cyrus Tracy of Windham, the father of Frederick P. Tracy ... 1888").
Album contains illustrated business advertising cards for a variety of San Francisco companies. Many are humorous in intent or depict popular caricatures and racial stereotypes of African Americans and others.
Correspondence and accounts, including as volume 1-2, letterpress copies of letters sent, 1905-1909, chiefly by Frederick Irwin, General Manager.
Research materials gathered and created by Keith Walker for his book on the Stephanie Bryan murder case; manuscript, court records, crime scene photos, clippings, notebooks, and other material.
Manuscript, with numerous additons and corrections.
Newspaper clippings primarily on the literary scene in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and transcripts of poetry and published poems (including articles on or about poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Theodore Dreiser, Robert Barlow,...
Views include shipping and freighting operations, the Russian mission and the cemetary at St. Sergis, Indians, and an Indian grave, Aniak River; also views of Yukon River, Tikchik River, and Iliamna Bay,
Drawn by: Engineering Materials Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley.
Album includes a map of the trip with camping spots indicated. Photos show scenes of camping and auto touring, as well as scenery at various national parks and other areas along the route. Accompanied by numerous maps upon which their...
Contains the transcript of proceedings of the Silverlake Power & Irrigation Company (plaintiff) vs. The City of Los Angeles (defendant) in the California State Superior Court for Mono County. The case involves the right to the waters of Rock Creek...
Selected items from volumes 4 and 6-9 of the Lowery transcripts in the Library of Congress. With separate chronological card index. From Vol. 4 - 1599-1602; Vol. 6 - -1617; Vol. 7 - 1621-1657; Vol. 8 - 1659-1676; Vol. 9...
Transcripts of documents supporting claim of M.G. Vallejo to Petaluma Rancho (15 sq. leagues) in Sonoma Co. Include copies of grant, 1834, by Governor Figueroa; confirmation of this, with additional grant, 1843-1844, by Governor Micheltorena, and related documents. Certified by...
1. Documents from the Archivo General de Indias, Seville, concerning José Antonio de Areche, Visitador General del Peru from 1777 to 1782, and Viceroy Manuel Guirior. 1781-1795. 2. Memorias relativas a la sublevación del Casique de Tunga-Saca José Gabriel Tupac-Amaro...
Typed transcripts of letters and reports addressed to colleagues or relatives by Jesuit missionaries Pyrrhus Gerardus, Maximilian von Stein, Victor Walter, Philippus Segesser, Georgius Haberl, Theophilus Aschenbrenner, Jacobus Sedelmayer, Franciscus Xaverius Wagner, Antonius Benz, [Franciscus] Hermannus Glandorff, and Benno Dumce....
From the office of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, counsel for the plaintiffs in actions to recover insurance for loss suffered, Apr. 18, 1906.
Handwritten document (2 p.) containing a Spanish translation of two papal bulls by Pope Clement XIII granting indulgences to the Capuchin nuns of the convent at Querétaro upon the renewal of their vows (Feb. 12 and April 30, 1765). Includes...
Documents relating to land transactions between Alonso Telles and Francisco Blas Ramírez in the vicinity of Napaluca Valley, Mexico.
Contemporary copies of documents relating to proof of nobility for Alonso Muñiz and his family.
Treatise on statics, with theorems, corallaries, and problems concerning motion, mechanics, pulleys, wedges and screws. Followed by a treatise on optics.
Album of travel snapshots shows scenes of beaches, homes, hotels, other buildings, scenery, etc. The California portion of the album focuses on Southern California including Redlands (mostly agricultural views), San Diego area views (Hotel del Coronado, etc.), Los Angeles houses,...
Snapshots of unidentified vacationers on hikes, boating, in Yosemite and vicinity, and on the coast. Includes several photographic postcards of the Blue Lakes and a New Almaden resort, and a brochure for Campbell Hot Springs, Sierraville, Calif.
Includes views from Arizona (Phoenix, Humboldt and Grand Canyon); Boston and Charleston, Massachusetts; and San Francisco, Calif. Views from Sonora, Mexico, depict general scenery, street scenes, people (many portraits of women), and buildings; photos from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, picture...
Chiefly snapshots of several young men and women in Fresno, Sacramento, Yosemite, giant sequoia groves, a lodge at Fish Camp (in the Sierra Nevada), Santa Cruz, and San Francisco. These views, dating from ca. 1919-1920, include photographs of their Jewett...
Vol. 1. Views of Bauer family trip from San Francisco to British Columbia, ca. 1900. (91 photoprints) -- v. 2. Views of trip around the U.S. and British Columbia. Historic sites, scenic views, and numerous hotels in the Southern U.S....
Album contains travel snapshots taken primarily in Puerto Rico (San Juan) and Cuba (Havana, Castillo del Morro, Matanzas, Santiago, Cienfuegos and Gibara). Other locations depicted include Morocco (Tangiers), Ceylon (i.e. Sri Lanka), Aden (i.e. South Yemen), and Singapore. Includes views...
Commercial tourist postcards depicting Native Americans, chiefly from Arizona, New Mexico and other regions of the Southwest. Postcards also depict pueblos, cliff dwellings and other aspects of Native American culture. Among the tribes and locations depicted are Navajo, Moki (Hopi),...
v. 1 - journal, 1869-1872; v. 2 - ledger, 1869-1872; v. 3 - index to stock ledger, n.d.
Photographs depict creation of Treasure Island and construction of grounds of Golden Gate International Exposition. Also includes views of completed exposition grounds, exhibits, artists, individual buildings and statues (including sculpture by Beniamino Bufano), an architecural model of the exposition, and...
Correspondence, reports, bills, receipts and related materials, May 18, 1914-March 31, 1916.
An incomplete outline of arithmetical principles and procedure. "Año de 1779", pencilled at top of p. 1, may be the date of the treatise.
Facsimile copies of the original draft copies of the Treaties of Velasco the public and the secret treaties with letter from the dealer, sketch giving historical background of the documents, etc.
Janet Spooner Trefethen: Colusa County family and background, Eshcol Ranch history, restoring the winery, 1968-1973, M & H Vineyards, marketing, distribution, prizes, public relations. John Vance Trefethen: family interests, archaeology, Kaiser Industries, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the...
Petition for cattle brand by Alberto Trescony, 1846; statement concerning her marriage by María Martina Labayen, 1847; statement by Talbot H. Green about the use of Trescony's brandy by U.S. authorities, 1848; miscellaneous correspondence and accounts, 1855-1938; papers relating to...
Correspondence, gallery announcements, sales inventories, artist files, personal notebooks of Van Hiele.
Original documents mainly from the Recorder's office, 1851-1859. Include petitions from citizens concerning roads; justice court papers; receipts for vendors' license fees; articles of incorporation of the Trinity Water Company; certificates of sale of property by Sheriff's office; deeds and...
Incomplete or unfinished memoir describing trip to California in 1852.
Record of trip from Denver, via New York, to Panama, Guatemala and Salvador, and return to Denver. Includes description of mines of Guatemala. Programs, clippings, invitations, calling cards, autographs, and letters pasted in.
Photographs of a trip to Dawson, in the Yukon Territory, by boat and the Dawson Trail. Includes street scenes and cabins at Dawson City, the Yukon River and numerous other scenes of the journey. Views of camp life show people...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Contains 7 diaries relating Daniel Leach's three cross-country train trips from Boston to the West Coast. Accounts include many descriptions of life in Calif. including San Gabriel, Santa Ana, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, San Diego and Yosemite. Other...
BANC; Phonotape 1187:1a-2a A: Tape copy. Original restricted. Not available for use. Stored at NRLF with call number BDISC 2 Box 3.
Brief account of journey to California, 1853, included.
Immigrant family background, UCLA, 1949-1953, work with Project India; Boalt Hall School of Law, 1953-1956; private law practice, 1960-1978; Marincello case, 1972, preserving Marin Headlands; impetus of Trust for Public Land (TPL), 1972: philosophy, goals, and ethics of TPL, relations...
Correspondence, printed material, subject file, receipts, notes, reports and scrapbook concerning the interest and activity of the organization in regards to conservation.
Requests from Waterman for permission to reprint items for his textbook on anthropology, with replies from George Hubbard Blakeslee, Frederick J. V. Skiff and others.
Includes Expediente relativo a un solar en Monterey (file concerning a lot in Monterey), 1835-1843, including petition of John Rainsford and other documents; another Expediente relativo a un solar in Monterey, 1836-1850, including transfer of title from María Victoria Beltrán...
Letterpress book includes a few letters of predecessor company of which Alfred L. Tubbs was also a principal, Folger & Tubbs. Most of the letters concern the business dealings of Tubbs & Co., a San Francisco cordage company which later...
Photographic documentation of Tudor Engineering projects, including mass transit lightrail systems, bridges, highways and freeways, dams and hydroelectric plants, and structures for municipalities, ports or harbors, and military installations. Many aerial overpass projects are documented. California projects predominate, with additional...
Career as tugboat man working for Thomas Crowley in San Francisco, and in San Pedro as manager of San Pedro Tugboat Co., a subsidiary of the Crowley Launch and Tugboat Co. of San Francisco. Photographs inserted. Appended: copies of letters...
Photos are of the remains of the camp, which was active during World War II.
Collection contains photos of the Tule Lake Relocation Center, workers, farm labor, leisure activites, babies, nurses, the bank, library, barber, school, and social activites.
Include mining claims, pre-emption claims and deeds for land in the county.
Photographs show wilderness areas including Peppermint Falls, Summit Falls, Summit Vally, etc. Also shown are the remains of the Hoffman Gravel Mine, a saw mill (buildings and equipment), and a broad view of the Tuolumne river with Stevens Bar ferry...
Box 1: Letters to Joseph Pownall, Secretary, mainly concerning dividends and transfer of stock; accounts including fees for law suits, vouchers, pay roll records, receipts, and orders for scrip; contracts for construction of reservoirs, lease of water power; stock certificates,...
Contains correspondence concerning the Tuolumne Lught & Power Co. in Tuolumne County, California.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Documents are pasted on two sides of single backing sheet.
Typed copies with corrections in manuscript of two articles entitled: The First Director and His Yosemite, and The Mather Mountain Party of 1915.
A Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Bancroft Library
Forms part of the Robert B. Honeyman Collection.
From the Robert B. Honeyman collection.
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.
Printed form, with ms. insertions, stating that Juan Cordero Rodriguéz grants power of attorney to Antonio Gallego and Martin Sarmiento Oseguera, to be excercised by them singly or jointly. Includes signatures of Cordero and the notary, Melchior de Molina.
Letter from Robert Duncan to James Alexander (4-7-67) enclosed with Pt. I with "form letter" on verso from James Alexander to Alan Corrici of UCB Library.
Letter, Nov. 11, 1862, received from J.D. Whitney and fragment of W.C. Ralston's handwriting, included.
From the Isaac Foot Library.
Letter, Jan. 30, 1849, to Col. Peter Force relates to formation of Washington City Mining Co. and plans for journey west; letter, Dec. 14, 1869, to Pioneer Association of California, relates to attempts to have his memoirs published. In it...
To John J. Anderson, New York City. Answering his correspondent's question, he replies that he expects a bill for the admission of California as a state to "pass Congress by the first of August; ... Of her admission, during the...
written in London and addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Head.
Concerning courses Smith and Jarrell were planning for a seminar in Salzburg.
From the Isaac Foot Library.
With this: a christmas card from Emma Mary and Charles Clinch Bubb.
Concerns Stone's activities while on ship and while travelling in Asia.
Writing as secretary of the Union Consolidated Silver Mining Company, concerning a suit against the company involving its predecessor, the United States Company, and seeking information on a former shareholder.
Includes details of 1. Chac-Mool with serpent head and 2. Temple of Venus.
One tan satin dress, one white cotton dress and one chemise.
Autobiographical sketches written by a retired minister of the United Methodist Church, explaining, in large part, his political actions and social concerns.
Postcard, June 15, expresses Croce's views on the philosophy of John Dewey and Josiah Royce.
Printed forms filled in.
Photographs inserted. Recollections of his father, John Howell, and his association with Paul Elder, John Henry Nash and the Grabhorns; comments on his own career as buyer, seller and publisher of books, and on writers, printers and book collectors in...
Removed from the Tram Combs Poetry Collection.
Includes two depictions of the vessel: one in calm, and the other in stormy waters; name of the ship painted on hull.
Scrapbooks containing original art work documenting the development of the "custom car" in California and the United States from the 1940s to 2000. The volumes contain photographs (in color, and black and white) as well as letters, comments, notes, autographs,...
Includes views of Crystal Springs Lake, San Andreas Lake, reservoir sites in Arroyo Vally and on Calaveras Creek.
Unpublished manuscript of his encyclopedia of typography.