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Title: George Holbrook Baker Papers
Dates: 1849-1893
Collection number: C057707
Creator:
Baker, George Holbrook
Collector:
Society of California Pioneers
Extent:
1 folder
Repository:
Society of California Pioneers
San Francisco, CA 94107
Abstract:
Includes numerous handwritten letters between George Holbrook Baker, his sister, mother, and father, John Baker. Also includes
business cards from Baker’s lithography business in San Francisco, a brief description of Baker’s life before and after coming
to California, diaries from Baker’s voyage through Mexico to California, and correspondence between the Society of California
Pioneers and Baker.
Physical location:
Alice Phelan Sullivan Library
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
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Property rights reside with The Society of California Pioneers. All requests for permissions to reproduce or publish must
be admitted in writing to the Librarian.
George Holbrook Baker Papers, The Society of California Pioneers
George Holbrook Baker was a pioneer who came out to California in 1849. Soon after his arrival, he came out to the mining
camps on the Sacramento River and finally became associated with General Winn and established a general merchandise business
in Sacramento. He was also one of the most successful newspaper artists of the pioneer’s days in the West Coast. Later, he
established a successful lithography business in San Francisco. In 1863, he was invited to join the Society of California
Pioneers.
Includes numerous handwritten letters between George Holbrook Baker, his sister, mother, and father, John Baker. Also includes
business cards from Baker’s lithography business in San Francisco, a brief description of Baker’s life before and after coming
to California, diaries from Baker’s voyage through Mexico to California, and correspondence between the Society of California
Pioneers and Baker.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library’s online public access catalog:
Baker, George Holbrook
Lithography--California
Correspondence