Container List

Physical Description: carton 1; oversize folder 1

Files from H.H. North's work as U.S. Commission of Immigration for California and Nevada from 1898 to 1910. Contains incoming and outgoing correspondence, some financial records, files relating to Chinese and Japanese immigration, and a file on Chinese Highbinders, a subject North was called upon by his superiors to research in 1898. He later published an article entitled "Chinese Highbinder Societies in the West" in California Historical Quarterly in March of 1948. This file includes statements made to North by Mrs. Kate B. Lake, Maton of the Chinese Mission; Ah Yuk, "rescued Chinese slave girl;" Miss Donaldina Cameron, Matron of the Presbyterian Chinese Rescue Home; Chuh Ho, "rescued Chinese slave girl;" and San Francisco Police Lieutenant, William Price. Carton 1, folder 47 includes a few pieces of correspondence from the Treasury Department to North's predecessors, R.C. McPherson and W.P. Stradley. Oversize folder 1 includes a handwritten chart of Japanese immigration at the Port of San Francisco from 1890-1900 and North's Commission certificates.

Physical Description: carton 2-3; oversize box 1; oversize folder 1

North's files from his work with the Shasta Iron Company, which was owned by his father-in-law Charles Bill Morgan. Includes incorporation and administrative documents, correspondence, and financial materials on the Shasta Iron Company. Also includes some Company files belonging to Charles Bill Morgan and Morgan North, H.H. North's son. Oversize box includes a minute book for meetings of the Shasta Iron Company shareholders (1906-1966).

Physical Description: carton 4-10

Physical Description: carton 11, folder 1-5; oversize box 2-3

Clippings and some correspondence and ephemera relating to North's years as an Assemblyman in the California State Assembly. Oversize boxes 2 and 3 contain scrapbook of political clippings relating to California State Assembly politics (1894-1897).

Physical Description: carton 11, folder 6-24; oversize folder 2

Personal correspondence (circa 1900-1910); invitations, programs, and other ephemera mainly from Oakland High School and UC Berkeley; dance cards; a Preliminary Prospectus of Western Hills of Memorial City Incorporated, Landale, California; a file on the Canyon Cattle Company (1907-1908); persnal accounts, a file of correspondence with M. Sedych regarding the immgration of his wife from Harbin, China (1927-1928); and miscellany. Oversize folder 2 includes diplomas and certificates.