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Guide to the Charles B. Turrill papers as manager, Preliminary World's Fair Exhibit, 1892
BANC MSS C-B 545
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Collection Title: Charles B. Turrill Papers as Manager, Preliminary World's Fair Exhibit,
Date (inclusive): 1892
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 545
Creator: Turrill, Charles B. (Charles Beebe), 1854-1927
Extent:
Number of containers: 2 boxes and 13 v
Repository: The
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Copies of letters sent and received Apr.-Nov., 1892; drafts of rules and regulations, premium lists, applications for space,
and other materials.
Languages Represented:
English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
[Identification of item], Charles B. Turrill papers as manager, Preliminary World's Fair Exhibit, BANC MSS C-B 545, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Gift of Elliot A. P. Evans, February 3, 1955 and August, 1957.
Charles B. Turrill, Californian writer and businessman, was California Commissioner for the World's Cotton Exposition, New
Orleans, 1884-1885, and Director for California for the North, Central and South American Exposition also in New Orleans,
1885-1886. He was manager of the Preliminary World's Fair Exhibit of California, shown at the Mechanics Institute's 27th Industrial
Exposition, San Francisco, January 10-February 18, 1893, which was later shown at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago,
1893. His scrapbooks and papers reflect these activities.