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EL DORADO COUNTY ARCHIVES 1850 - 1906
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Title: El Dorado County Archives
Date (inclusive): 1850 - 1906
Creator:
El Dorado County, (1850 - 1906)
Extent:
1,600 pieces
Number of bound volumes: 183
Number of upright document boxes: 9
Number of clamshell document boxes: 5
Number of oversize boxes: 1
Repository: The Huntington Library
San Marino, California 91108
Language:
English.
Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information
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In order to quote from, publish, or reproduce any of the manuscripts or visual materials, researchers must obtain formal permission
from the office of the Library Director. In most instances, permission is given by the Huntington as owner of the physical
property rights only, and researchers must also obtain permission from the holder of the literary rights. In some instances,
the Huntington owns the literary rights, as well as the physical property rights. Researchers may contact the appropriate
curator for further information.
Some of the documents are fragile and damaged due to fold lines wear, water and mold. Please handle them with care.
El Dorado County Archives, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Source of acquisition: James H. Sweeney, September 1945.
The collection numbers approximately 1,600 pieces.
Number of bound volumes: 183
Number of upright document boxes: 9
Number of clamshell document boxes: 5
Number of oversize boxes: 1
El Dorado County, California, in the Sierra Nevada east of Sacramento in the heart of the gold mining country, was established
in 1850 with Placerville as the county seat.
Inclusive dates: 1850-1906
The collection contains ledger books and documents related to El Dorado County government and administration, as seen in court
records, land records, school records, treasury records (including tax rolls and assessment rolls), merchandising accounts
(principally for mining camps), and mining papers and records. Many of the mining papers and records are from the El Dorado
Water and Deep Gravel Mining Company.
Although the collection has been sorted, it essentially remains uncataloged. The collection is arranged in the following series:
- Bound volumes [183 volumes]
Note
See attached container list (Q&A database completed in 1991 by PJB) - Civil court case files [9 boxes]
Note
See attached container list (initial folder list compiled c.1990 by Aldo Perdomo. Revisions and entry in a FileMakerPro database completed in 1999 by JLM) - Miscellaneous documents [5 boxes]
- Box 1: Grants, 1873-1879
- Box 2: 3 small bound volumes
- Box 3: Mining papers
- Box 4: Miscellaneous
- Certificates of sales, 1852-1869 [one oversize box]