Finding Aid for the Pierce and Company, San Francisco Records, 1853-1902 LSC.2043
Finding aid prepared by Dan Luckenbill; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé
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Title: Pierce and Company, San Francisco Records
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2043
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear Feet
(3 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1853-1902
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Language of Material:
English
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General note
Ex libris Robert Ernest Cowan
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Scope and Content
Collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, bills, accounts, receipts, and other business papers of the baking
firm of Pierce and Company, San Francisco. Includes material relating to the wheat trade and shipping. Also includes personal
letters and papers for William, Henry, Ira, and Lewis Pierce.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Bakers and bakeries -- California -- San Francisco -- Archives.
Pierce and Company, San Francisco -- Archives
Pierce, Henry and William
box 1, folder 1
Letters to the Pierces from various persons.
1854-1865.
General Physical Description note: 86 letters, 89 pieces.
box 1, folder 2
Letters to the Pierces from various persons.
1866.
General Physical Description note: 96 letters, 96 pieces.
box 1, folder 3
Letters to the Pierces from various persons.
1867-1898.
General Physical Description note: 48 letters, 48 pieces. Some letters are undated.
box 1, folder 4
Drafts and copies of letters to various persons from the Pierces.
1868-1870.
General Physical Description note: 5 letters, 5 pieces.
box 1, folder 5
Letters to various persons from various persons.
1858-1881.
General Physical Description note: 18 letters, 21 pieces.
box 1, folder 6
Letters to Henry, William, Lewis and Ira Pierce from various persons. and
1853-1870 n.d.
General Physical Description note: 38 letters, 39 pieces.
box 1, folder 7
Legal papers.
1853-l903.
General Physical Description note: 23 documents.
Pierce & Company, San Francisco
box 1, folder 8
Business papers.
1857-1870.
General Physical Description note: 53 documents. 54 pieces.
box 1, folder 9
Miscellaneous papers: newspaper clippings, description of Pierces' warehouse in Suisin City, California, advertising cards,
etc.
1862, 1865 and n.d.
General Physical Description note: 25 pieces.
box 1, folder 10
Letters from various persons.
1865-1873.
General Physical Description note: 76 letters. 94 pieces. Some letters are undated.
box 1, folder 11
Letters from various persons.
1859-1864.
General Physical Description note: 76 letters. 76 pieces.
box 1, folder 12
Letters from Henry and William Pierce.
Jul-Dec 1866.
General Physical Description note: 17 letters. 18 pieces.
box 1, folder 13
Letters from various parsons.
1861-1371.
General Physical Description note: 67 letters. 67 pieces.
box 1, folder 14
Letters from various persons.
1859-1864.
General Physical Description note: 178 letters. 183 pieces.
box 1, folder 15
Letters from various persons.
1865-1871.
General Physical Description note: 92 letters. 111 pieces. Some letters are undated.
Bills, Accounts, Receipts
box 2, folder 1
1850.
General Physical Description note: 6 pieces.
box 2, folder 2
1852.
General Physical Description note: 193 pieces.
box 2, folder 3
1853.
General Physical Description note: 216 pieces.
box 2, folder 4
1854.
General Physical Description note: 168 pieces.
box 2, folder 5
1855.
General Physical Description note: 169 pieces.
box 2, folder 6
1856.
General Physical Description note: 115 pieces.
box 2, folder 7
1857.
General Physical Description note: 153 pieces.
box 2, folder 8
1858.
General Physical Description note: 143 pieces.
box 3, folder 1
1859.
General Physical Description note: 92 pieces.
box 3, folder 2
1860.
General Physical Description note: 95 pieces.
box 3, folder 3
1861.
General Physical Description note: 144 pieces.
box 3, folder 4
1862.
General Physical Description note: 104 pieces.
box 3, folder 5
1863.
General Physical Description note: 103 pieces.
box 3, folder 6
1864.
General Physical Description note: 107 pieces.
box 3, folder 7
1865.
General Physical Description note: 62 pieces.
box 3, folder 8
1866.
General Physical Description note: 20 pieces.
box 3, folder 9
1867.
General Physical Description note: 14 pieces.
box 3, folder 10
1868-1870.
General Physical Description note: 49 pieces.
box 3, folder 11
1872-1902.
General Physical Description note: 59 pieces.
box 3, folder 12
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 49 pieces.
