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Guide to the Fish Family Papers, 1835-1913
BANC MSS C-B 388
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Collection Title: Fish Family Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1835-1913
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-B 388
Creator:
Fish family
Extent:
Number of containers: 1 album (46 items)
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: Scrapbook of letters, clippings, etc., chiefly from Charles Fish, his brother, Lafayette, and sisters, Caroline and Cornelia,
to members of their family. Many relate to ranching in Contra Costa Co., and to bringing of large herds of sheep overland
in the 1850's.
Journal, Jan. 17-Mar. 31, 1853, of Charles Fish's voyage to California via New Orleans and Nicaragua; to San Francisco on steamer, Independence, shipwrecked near Magdalena Bay, Lower California and rescue by whaler, Meteor.
Journal, Jan. 17-Mar. 31, 1853, of Charles Fish's voyage to California via New Orleans and Nicaragua; to San Francisco on steamer, Independence, shipwrecked near Magdalena Bay, Lower California and rescue by whaler, Meteor.
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], Fish family papers, BANC MSS C-B 388, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Lent for filming by Dr. C. J. Frederick, 2929 Ashby Ave., Berkeley 5, California, February 1955. Courtesy of Dr. Stanley A.
Hunter.