Guide to the Charles B. Turrill papers as manager, Preliminary World's Fair Exhibit, 1892
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Title: Charles B. Turrill Papers as Manager, Preliminary World's Fair Exhibit
Creator:
Turrill, Charles Beebe
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS .C-B 545
Physical Description:
3.4 linear feet
(2 boxes, 13 volumes, 1 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): 1892
Abstract: Copies of letters sent and received Apr.-Nov., 1892; drafts of rules and regulations, premium lists, applications for space,
and other materials.
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language of Material:
English
.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Elliot A. P. Evans, February 3, 1955 and August, 1957.
Scope and Content
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.
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.
Publication Rights
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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.
Scrapbooks
Physical Description: (13 volumes)
World's Cotton Exposition, New Orleans
1884-12-1885-05
volume 1
Newspaper clippings
1884-04-1885-01
volume 2
Newspaper clippings
1885-02-01-1885-03-27
volume 3
Newspaper clippings
1885-03-27-1885-05-30
volume 4
Newspaper clippings, circulars, stationery
1884-1891
volume 5
General items: rules, information, applications, circulars, passes, catalogues, etc.
1884-1885
1885-March, 1886
Physical Description: North, Central, and South American Exposition, New Orleans, November,
volume 6
Newspaper clippings
1885-07-01-1885-12-01
volume 7
Newspaper clippings
1885-12-03-1886-01-31
volume 8
Newspaper clippings
1886-01-01-1886-04-25
Volume 9
General items: information, circulars, applications, handbills, etc
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago
1893
volume 10
Classification, rules, circulars, etc
volume 11
Classification, rules, circulars, etc
volume 13
Notes on the California State Constitution
Correspondence and Papers
Physical Description: (2 boxes)
box 1, folder 1
Miscellaneous papers for the World's Cotton Exposition, New Orleans,
1884-1885
box 1, folder 2
Miscellaneous papers for the North, Central and South American Exposition, New Orleans,
1885-1886
box 1, folder 3
Correspondence, Preliminary World's Fair Exhibit of California, chiefly copies of letters sent
1892
box 2, folder 1-2
Correspondence, Preliminary World's Fair Exhibit of California, chiefly copies of letters received
1892
box 2, folder 3-5
Miscellaneous papers for the Preliminary World's Fair Exhibit of California, -- applications, rules and regulations, awards
1892
oversize_folder 1C
Miscellaneous papers for the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago (maps and oversize separated from Box 2, Folder 6)
1893
box 2, folder 7
Correspondence index labelled "Mechanics' Institute" and "California World's Fair Commission"
