Turrill (Charles B.) Papers, 1892

Summary

Title:

Charles B. Turrill Papers as Manager, Preliminary World's Fair Exhibit

Dates:

1892

Creators:

Turrill, Charles Beebe

Abstract:

Copies of letters sent and received Apr.-Nov., 1892; drafts of rules and regulations, premium lists, applications for space, and other materials.

Extent:

3.4 linear feet (2 boxes, 13 volumes, 1 oversize folder)

Language:

English .

Preferred citation:

[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.

Background

Acquisition information:

Gift of Elliot A. P. Evans, February 3, 1955 and August, 1957.

Physical location:

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Rules or conventions:

DACS

Related resources

Other descriptive data:

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.

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Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

[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.

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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