Materials from George Lawrence Rarick's tenure in the Department of Physical Education at the University of California, Berkeley, including correspondence (1978-1992), professional files, writings, and research files on topics relating mostly to Rarick's work on motor development in disabled children....

Correspondence, chiefly with Don Herron, 1974-1996, and George Haas, 1974-1976, and writings by Breiding, including dark fantasy poems and prose, notes, and fragments, along with reviews, articles, and announcements. Includes Breiding's manuscripts for Gothic twilight and Necklace of blood.

Written on the blank leaf of printed copy of the Constitution of the Gold Hill Democratic Club, which he had helped organize.

Contains correspondence mostly while Sovulewski was Superintendant of Yosemite National Park. Many of the letters were from Harry C. Benson, his superior in the Dept. of the Interior. The correspondence discusses Yosemite roads, trails, bridges, forestry, and the Sentinel Hotel,...

Original drawings of various Familia Burrón comic book characters.

Materials relate mainly to activities in the Democratic party; Los Angeles civic organizations, including the Free Harbor League and the Federated Tax Reduction Leagues of Los Angeles County; business interests in Los Angeles, Texas, and Mexico.

Included is one letter written by Fisher; remainder consists of letters addressed to him, reacting to a statement by the Northern California Committee on Fair Play for Citizens of Japanese Ancestry.

Chiefly correspondence, copied from the originals by several different scribes in the late eighteenth century, for an edition planned by Giovanni Battista Clemente Nelli, 1725-1793.

Collection includes scenes from the San Pedro raid of 1924 (victims of tarring and feathering, wreckage, wounded children); portraits of George Holmes, Mary Gallagher, Douglas Robson, Byron Kitto, Honore Joseph Jaxson (one is a tintype), William D. Haywood, and Lena...

These diaries record Gallardo's long courtship of Carlota Gil, and the exchange of letters between them. Very little mention of political or national affairs. Some parts signed. Index in each volume.

Contains institution, artist and client files, correspondence, press materials and photographic slides.

Published by Stanford University Press (c1948) under the same title and available at the Bancroft Library, BANC F866.W46.

Includes letters to Captain Joseph Galloway, one concerning shipping activities between Charleston, South Carolina and San Francisco, and one transmitting a gift in recognition of his work on the Washington Street Wharf in 1853; and letters of recommendation and teaching...

Correspondence, clippings, and miscellaneous promotional material relating to his participation in the Hoover presidential campaigns, and to his efforts to obtain gifts from various sources for the Lick Observatory.

Letters written by Martha and James Gally; diaries of Martha Gally, 1866-1871; and manuscripts of poems, stories, and articles by James Gally.

Includes views of sport fishermen posed with their catches, a hunter and his dog, boats, campers, and leisure groups.

Photographs show Mexicans, both in Mexico and in the United States; everyday life in the states of Jalisco and Michoacan (including streets, homes, churches, peddlers, fishermen, etc.); views of Tucson, Arizona including many homes, and children and adults at the...

Primarily material maintained by advertising and promotional department, including scrapbooks, price lists, merchandise catalogs, publicity material, etc.

Chiefly correspondence of William Gapen, who died of cholera June 13, 1850, en route to California from Dublin, Indiana. Seven letters are to his wife, 1839 and 1850; one to his father-in-law, 1850. Six letters to him, 1834-1850, mostly of...

Contains 45 letters to and from various Garcelon family members correspondents including C.C. Garcelon, Helen Kings Ley and the Steward family. Letters discuss being a railroad engineer in Calif., the Civil War in Calif. and Maine, Northern Democrats called Copperheads,...

Letters written by various family members in Chico and Susanville to family in Maine, describing social life and customs concerning the management of a hotel and livery service with the assistance of Chinese.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Originals and copies of 21 letters and telegrams concerning Owyhee County mining properties.

Contains Gardiner Johnson's campaign file for the primary election of May 16, 1944 and general election of November 7, 1944 for the California State Assembly. File includes correspondence, election ballots, tables, pamphlets, opponents literature, affidavits, campaign contributions and finances and...

Contains personal, professional, and family papers (including correspondence and papers of his wife, Libby Gardner) of David Pierpont Gardner, including writings, speeches, correspondence, committee papers, and photographs.

Photos of Spanish style residence of Garfield Merner (in Palo Alto[?]) showing interior and exterior views as well as the garden.

Contains correspondence, list of plays produced by Holmes, press notices for "Serra," excerpts from "Ersa," and clippings.

Five letters to Johan Maurits, Count of Nassau-Siegen, concerning Brazil.

Contents: copy of title to land near Santa Barbara, the proceeds of which had been divided between the widow and children of Cesareo Lataillade; account presented by Domingo Donglade against Lataillade's estate; letters to Oreña's mother in Spain; letter, 1854,...

Typescript copy of his poem and a photocopy of his letter to Gordon Allenbaugh (23 March 1971) and a photograph of Banks (circa 1970)

Part I, v. 1 - Testimonials and memorials for Bailey Gatzert (1829-1893), pioneer Seattle merchant. v. 2 - Messages of condolence received by Mrs. Babette Schwabacher Gatzert at her husband's death; letters received on death of her brother, Louis Schwabacher;...

Collection of 39 student papers from Eric Rofes' 1998 undergraduate class on gay and lesbian issues in schools taught at UC Berkeley's School of Education. Students interviewed and observed gay and lesbian teachers in their classrooms, predominantly in the San...

Album of snapshots documenting a tour of the jazz band Gay Jones and His Orchestra. Includes views taken in California, Arizona (espcially Phoenix), Washington, Idaho and Oregon. Scenes deipict band members at leisure during travel, on stage during performance, and...

Collection consists primarily of organization newsletters, publications for distribution at training conferences and schools, directories of student gay/straight alliances, brochures regarding the GLSEN and volunteer opportunities, an annual report, along with news articles and statistics on the country's response to...

Locations photographed include: Chicago, Mexico, Salt Lake City, Alaska, and many locales in the American West and Southwest, with California views predominating. California locations include Oakland and the San Francisco area, Sierra Nevada scenes, and mining districts. In addition to...

The A.H. Gayton Papers contains material relating primarily to her work as an anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley and especially to her research on the Yokuts Indians in California, including correspondence to and from other anthropologists, field notes,...

In letters to his sister Phoebe and brother-in-law Ira written from California locations of Jacksonville, Mountain Meadows above Big Oak Flat, and Cottonwood, G.B Worden writes of family and friends at home, and describes his mining claim and income. He...

Reporting on conditions in California, including his own ranching operations.

Letters describe mining life in Indian Creek and Brandy City, Sierra County, California.

Contains immigration documents for Gee Pon Bow's sons Gee Kim and Gee Shaw.

Nine letters written from France to Carolyn Wells, 1931-1933. Carbon copy of his letters to Mr. Frisbie, Nov. 30, 1932, commenting on Frisbie's use of acrostics to prove Edward de Vere wrote Shakespeare's plays. Also with these: letter, June 17,...

Covers his daily activities and social life from early adulthood until shortly before his death. Entries describe his student days at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, his work as a journalist and creative...

Original undated drawing inscribed by Burgess "To Charlie Stoddard, from his conceited friend," no doubt intended as an ironic comment upon the fame his original 1895 verse brought. Accompanied by a set of color progressive proofs by the Allied Arts...

Diaries, v. 1-5 (1868-1875), describe his life in Petaluma, California, his v. 6 (1884), experiences farming and hunting, his schooling; and, his work as surveyor in Oregon. Some accounts included.

Includes prints, slides and negatives taken by Anthony throughout his career. Projects represented by extensive holdings include Vacaville Prison (1960), Ernest Hemingway's funeral (1961), Richard M. Nixon and family (1962), Mendocino (1962, 1985), Brendan Behan (1965), protests (1965-1980), Admiral Chester...

Large-format photographs, most of the images of which are reproduced in Anthony's book Summer of love : Haight-Ashbury at its highest (published in 1980). Images document people, places, events and street scenes associated with the counter-culture movement of the mid-...

With this: Copy of covering letter (July 6-7, 1975) concerning her research in the archives at Cadereyta Jiménez (2 l.)

Preferred citation: Genealogical charts for the Mack, Lilienthal, Fleishhacker, Gerstle and Levison families, BANC MSS 73/129 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Notes and genealogical charts, typescript and photocopy.

Notes on the families of Hans Peter Emanuel Hoth and Joseph Waibel, who came to California from Germany.

Contains 26 volumes of "Records of the Families of California Pioneers," Volumes 1-8 and 10 of "Honor Roll: World War II Service Records 1941-1945," and miscellaneous chapter yearbooks. The volumes contain filled out forms of genealogical records, in either original...

Collection of genealogical documents (originals and certified copies) concerning interrelated families of Nueva Galicia-notably the Flores, de la Torre, Alvarado, Contreras, Angulo, Figueroa, Padilla, Bañuelos, and Oñate families. Composed principally of files on genealogical inquiries conducted by the Audiencia of...

Also enclosed: a postcard reproduction of Rembrandt Peale's portrait of Thomas Jefferson with explanatory note and two locks of hair.

Compilation of materials relating to his father, California pioneer Thomas Knight, including notes, typed transcripts of items in Bancroft Library, clippings, biographical information, and genealogies for the Knight, Haines and Kilburn families.

Education in chemical engineering, law; early experiences as patent examiner and patent solicitor; intellectual property trial lawyer, Lyon & Lyon; outside legal counsel to Genentech, 1976-1980; vice president and general counsel, Genentech, 1980-1988: Genentech's IPO, 1980; Diamond v. Chakrabarty Supreme...

Typescript, with signature on title page (75 leaves).

Images include pets, family members, Market Street (San Francisco) illuminated at night and during a parade (for a Masonic event?), home interiors, a curio cabinet, a football game, a view up "The Chutes" water slide, and a hotel or restaurant...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Photographs of anti-Vietnam War activist Tom Dunphy in costume as General Wastemoreland. Includes two copy photographs from Dunphy's younger years. Also includes original uniform costumes and props used by Wastemoreland. Poster, owned by Dunphy, bears a portrait and quotation of...

Images of the anti-Vietnam war street theater group that included "General Wastemoreland" (Tom Dunphy) and "General Hershey Bar". Most images are of the wedding of General Wastemoreland at the Lutheran University Chapel in Berkeley, March 7, 1970. Also inlcudes one...

Photographs include studio portraits, publicity photographs, snapshots and other photographs pertaining to the personal life and entertainment career of California actress and vaudeville singer Genevieve Davis. Davis is depicted chiefly from childhood through the end of her performing career. Also...

Manuscripts of plays and other writings; certificate of her marriage to Garret W. McEnerney; manuscript of a short story by Zoe Akins (Ms.S.); manuscript of a poem by Sara Bard Field (Ms.S.).

Contains the personal papers of Genny Schumacher Smith documenting the trans-Sierra-road controversy in the Mammoth Pass-Minaret Summit area and the subsequent establishment of the Ansel Adams Wilderness. Collection includes correspondence with Norman B. "Ike" Livermore, Jr., Raymond "Ray" Sherwin, W....

Photos of San Francisco's Chinatown including views of children, local vendors, the Chinese Salvation Army, and streets and alleys. Portraits of Isadora Duncan, Yone Noguchi, and two of Genthe (one on horseback at Ocean Beach, San Francsico, and one with...

The Helen Gentry and David Greenhood Papers, 1748-1988 (bulk 1930-1980) contain materials relating to Gentry's career as a printer and designer, and Greenhood's work as a writer.

The Geoffrey F. Chew papers contain materials related to his professional career as a Physics Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and his work on theoretical particle physics. These include correspondence, writings, course materials, administrative materials related to the...

Photographs show waterfalls and landscapes at Yellowstone National Park, a camp on the Snake River, and other views from the area.

Letters concerning the work of the Survey: Aug. 2, 186l, from J.D. Whitney to W.H. Brewer; Mar. 28, l864, from William Ashburner to Brewer; Apr. ll, l864, from Brewer to Whitney; June 2l, l866, from Charles F. Hoffmann to Whitney.

Fieldnotes and memoranda; notebooks concerning geological data, fossils, meteorology, roads and surveys; sketches, diagrams and parts of maps bound together with some items; reprints of scientific reports and other materials related to the survey are also included.

A group of three treatises prepared for the instruction of officials and surveyors in New Spain; with diagrams and charts. Sáenz is described on the title pages and in his own statement as merely the compiler of the work, but...

Drawings of various buildings, primarily in San Francisco [see list in portfolio]; copy of his proposal for a Cabrillo monument at Monterey Bay, with photographs of his sketches; genealogical information on the Applegarth family.

Box 1 contains correspondence and papers as member of the board of directors of the Bay Area Educational Television Association (BAETA) and its station, KQED, and material relating to the founding of the association, and BAETA clippings. Box 2 contains...

Include letters written to his daughter Minnie relating to mining ventures in Mexico and Arizona and to oil speculation in California; letters to him from John James Rivers (concerning zoological and botanical specimens sent him by Treadwell from Arizona), the...

Letters to his family include one from San Francisco, 1866; two from Slabtown, California, 1867; and eight from Montana, 1869-1871, 1898, written at Reynolds City, Bear Town, Yreka, and Bear Mouth, exhibiting the vicissitudes of mining, the activities of vigilante...

Written from Stockton, Carson Creek and San Francisco, with accounts of his experiences gold mining and storekeeping, and descriptions of San Francisco. With these: two letters, 1852, written to him by miners; bill from Pinto Jordan & Co. covering transactions,...

His account of the bombing of the U.S.S. Panay in China by the Japanese in December 1937 and related papers, including copies of statements of witnesses, U.S. Department of State letters and telegrams, and naval despatches, etc.; letters written by...

A series of letters to Mrs. F.F. Victor, usually in reply to queries, and one to H.H. Bancroft, 1879. A naval apprentice to the Hudson's Bay Company in Oregon from 1830 and for many years clerk at Fort Vancouver, Roberts...

Typed copy (four pages) of a letter Epstein wrote and sent to his father describing his experience in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, letter written by Epstein's father-in-law, Leopold Veith, on the occasion of his 90th birthday (c....

Primarily social correspondence. Includes letter to Horace Davis.

The bulk of the collection contains manuscripts, typescripts and drafts of articles written by journalist George Blowers. Also includes clippings of articles, correspondence and photographs.

Includes promissory notes for land and property, county records of lawsuits, letters regarding a Mormon wagon train's journey, family letters, certificate of church ordination.

Includes letters by John L. Davies and Fenton J.A. Hort.

Copies of transcripts of letters written by George and Helena Britton to their daughter, Elizabeth Britton Elkus, describing life in wartime England; snapshot inserted in v.1. v.1, 1983-1942; v.2, 1943-1945.

Contains letter to his family, while at anchor in San Francisco Bay. A crew member of the ship "Premier," he writes of shipboard activities and events. There is a brief description of San Francisco Bay, and a few sketches, one...

Works and notes compiled circa 1962-1972 for material circa 1850-1890. Carton 1: Papers on Contra Costa County government and departments, etc.; carton 2: ranchos - histories; carton 3: miscellaneous writings on Contra Costa County, other topics, primarily California related.

Describes work as a stonecutter including cutting stone for the San Quentin Penitentiary and the California State Capitol building. Also includes descriptions of the Chinese, a hanging, a vigilance committee, and the areas he lived and worked including San Francisco,...

Interviews, lectures, documentary films Pimentel participated in, video recording of his memorial service, video of dedication of Pimentel Hall in 1994.

Letters, diary, and family papers relating chiefly to Catlin's travels and the execution and exhibition of his Indian portraits.

Logbook of "a trip among the Siwash of British Columbia" (August 31-September 28, 1866), on the way to join, as surgeon, the Western Union Telegraph Company's expedition for the Russian Extension; record of a hunting trip to Old Tongass, March...

Include: journal of journey to Peace River Mines, British Columbia, June-Dec. 1871, with descriptions of mines and mining, encounters with Indians, and an account of performing surgery on an injured miner; eleven journals, 1883-1893, primarily of hunting trips to Rogue...

Chiefly portraits of Korean friends or colleagues taken in Japan and Washington, D.C. Includes one portrait of Foulk, one of Foulk and his Japanese wife, another of his wife, and one photo of tomb of G.C. Foulk.

v. 1: copies of letters, Sept. 1857-Mar. 1860, written to John G. Parke, chief astronomer and surveyor of the Northwest Boundary Commission, while serving as his assistant, describing progress of work in surveying the boundary along the 49th parallel, in...

Manuscripts of writings and related materials.

Includes letters from J.N. Bowman, John Howell, John N. LeConte and others; and writings by Cosgrave. Also contains an 1874 letter from Henry Ross to his siblings. Some materials relate to a biography of Robert Wood as told to George...

Copies of diary, Mar. 23-May 4, 1849, travel agreement, and miscellaneous papers. With notes supplied by Mrs. Henry Metcalf.

Relate to his career as illustrator, and to his work with the Temperance movement in England.

Letters from Whitney Darrow and John Hall Wheelock for Charles Scribner's Sons concerning the publication of Ralston's Ring; and genealogical notes entitled A Pedigree of John Marsh.

Chiefly concerning mining properties in the West.

Reel 1: May 1846-June 1850, 1850-51, 1867 "Book 12"; Reel 2: Oct. 1873-Dec. 1880; Reel 3: Dec. 1880-Nov. 1882; also letters and accounts, 1882.

Comments on his work with the U.S. Coast Survey, his family, life in San Francisco, etc.

Deals primarily with Louderback's geological trip to China for a survey of coal resources.

Preferred citation: George E. Grant deeds and tax records for property in Clinton, California, BANC MSS C-I 32, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

The album contains 17 photographic prints taken of the George E. Hyde & Co. canning operations between 1915 and 1921. The album includes a panoramic view of the George E. Hyde & Co. works, with various buildings labeled. Other views...

History of the observatories; theoretical and instrumental development of astrophysics; history of California Institute of Technology; science and government, particularly with respect to the affairs of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council; affairs of the scientific...

Consist of correspondence with family, friends, colleagues including Max Planck and University officials, laboratory notebooks, published professional work and that of his father and colleagues, translations of vedic texts, clippings and photographs. Also includes "Sanskrit-Worterbuch: Nach den Petersburger Worterbuchern Bearbeitet...

Correspondence, manuscripts, files regarding professional activities.

Letters from George F. Chamberlain (in Callao, San Francisco, Dry Town, Sacramento, Dry Creek, and Mokelumne Hill) to his father Isaac Chamberlain in Roxbury, Mass. describe life in California during the gold rush. Chamberlain describes the voyage around the horn...

The collection consists of anti-communist and other right-wing literature that was distributed in the U.S. from the late 1940s through the early 1960s (with the bulk of material from the early 1950s). George F. Malone's purpose in collecting these materials...

Contains 12 letters. Four letters written in 1855 by George F. Price to his mother, Mrs. Melissa Price (later, Knapp), and 1 letter to his grandmother, from Yreka, Calif. These include descriptions of mining conditions, concerns about nearby Indians, and...

Deed from Charles T. Botts, with abstract of title from William Richardson family, for property in Sausalito, 1849; letters, 1867-1877, from William L. Maury, John J. Almy, and George M. Colvocoresses, fellow naval officers and former members of the U.S....

Contains letters and legal documents of George Frederic Degen and family, many from Portland, Oregon and California. Includes letter from a small child with description and drawings of a neighbors dog.

Letters written by Gridley and his brother, John, to family members in Illinois, describing their journey overland to California; mining in Northern California gold fields; experiences as proprietors of several general stores and boarding houses; the gold trade; and cattle...

Two variants of revisions of his manuscript, published as The life of George Henry Goddard ..., Keepsake no. 17 of Friends of the Bancroft Library, BANC xf860.G618.S5. Account of Goddard's arrival in California, 1850; experiences during the Mariposa Indian War;...

Newspaper clippings concerning his campaigns for organizing the unemployed, for Mayor of Los Angeles and for old age pensions.

Kept while a prisoner of war (mainly at Stalag XVII in Austria) up to his release and return to America in May 1945.

Written while a prisoner of war at Stalag XVII. Also included: letters to his mother and other members of the family, and a few other letters addressed to Mrs. George Smith.

Includes two panoramic group portraits of employees of the George Haas & Sons candy factory. At least one of the photographs appears to be taken on the factory grounds at 54 Mint St., San Francisco, Calif.

Letters addressed to Major Crosman, Quartermaster, by Col. Robert T. Paine (San Francisco, May 16), Depot Superintendent A[rnold] Angell (San Francisco, May 19), and W.S. Gregory (Reynosa, Mexico, May 29); relating to the war with Mexico, particularly to supply vessels...

Written while a member of the U.S. military expedition into Utah Territory. Two letters, from John H. Dickinson and Carlos A. Waite, stationed at Camp Scott and Camp Floyd respectively, also addressed to Gordon, included. Comment on reaction of the...

Contains 13 letters, 1877-1879, written from Deadwood and Lead City, Dakota Territory [South Dakota], referring to the Homestake Mine among others in the Black Hills. Also includes one letter from Tucson, Arizona Territory in 1880 and one letter fragment discussing...

Letters while on duty as Lieut., Engineers, U.S.A., with the Coast Survey. Many in his handwriting.

Chiefly 19th century California views in and around Truckee, Donner Lake, the Tahoe basin, and San Francisco. Of particular note are numerous views of C.F. McGlashan's Rocking Stone Tower (Where he housed Donner Party relics), a series of views of...

Contains materials used to write Sierra-Nevada Lakes, by George and Bliss Hinkle. Also includes papers relating to Hinkle's teaching career; a scrapbook; and materials relating to C.F. McGlashan. The C.F. McGlashan materials include: items used by the Hinkles to revise...

Original manuscripts (mainly from the T.W. Norris Collection) and photocopies (from the National Archives), 1846-1859, assembled by Francis P. Farquhar and others. Contains letters and reports as U.S. topographical engineer, including report and map of a visit to the mines...

Preferred citation: George J. Hatfield papers, BANC MSS C-B 556, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Biographical sketches of his father, Charles J. Johnson and other members of his family; data on mines, the Chinese in the area and the political organization of El Dorado County, included. Four scrapbooks (volumes 29-32) relate mainly to California politics,...

Correspondence, business records, personal papers.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Photographs pertaining to the homes, haunts and travels of Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as research material pertaining to the photographs, and illustration layout mock-ups. Material was created and collected to illustrate Knight's book: Search for Stevenson: a biographic sketch...

Papers relating to the Alaska Hydraulic Gold Mines, Inc. and to mining property in Mexico. Also copies of original documents (1858-1921) relating to land in Baja California.

Appointment and list of duties as Assistant Keeper, Golden Gate Park, 1873, included.

V. 1. typed transcript of diary, Jan.-Nov. 1867, written at Campo Seco, Calaveras Co., Calif., describing life in mining camp. At the end is a list of his groceries and supplies--v. 2. photocopies of transcripts of letters addressed to him...

Collection includes correspondence, course files, subject files, tapes of lectures, and grant files.

v. 1 - Journal of voyage, New York to California, as a member of Stevenson's Regiment, and experiences in Calif. (Sept. 1846-June 1847) Detailed notes on plant and animal life included. v. 2 - Diary (Apr.-June 1847, portions of which...

Pasted clippings, 1871-1886, pertaining to Wheeler's explorations and "Surveys West of the 100th Meridian," including letters written from the field by various members of his parties. A few relate to the Hayden Survey; 11 letters written by Samuel R. Adams...

Contains 2 letters describing ranch life in Mont. including relationship with Native Americans. Also discusses Chief "Rain in the Face," General Custer and brother Thomas Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

Correspondence, including letters from H. B. Torrey, J.M. Baldwin, R.H. Gault, J.M. Cattell, E.B. McGilvary, D. Warnotte and Ira Remsen; manuscripts of writings; notes; and clippings relating to his career as professor psychology, University of California, Berkeley.

Contains the diagrams from his article "Studies on the axon membrane."

Written to Curtiss & Co., Hartfold, Conn., relating to merchandise damaged in trip from New York to San Francisco and to various business ventures in San Francisco and Sacramento.

Relating to his service as California state senator (Contra Costa County).

Include corrected page proof for Fragments from Héloïse and Abélard, and letters to Werner Laurie concerning the publication of the booklet.

Contains two letters written while aboard the ship Columbus of New London traveling around Cape Horn to Calif. Also contains two sketches, one of Fernando [de] Noronha Island, and one of Cape Frio at sea.

Manuscript journals (3) containing details of a trip to California via Panama from his home in Waterloo, Ill. and a railroad trip to Pilot Knob, Mo. on the St. Louis and Toon Mountain Railroad. A portion of the journal is...

Includes correspondence, subject files, publications, scrapbooks, and clippings relating primarily to California agricultural development, water resources, forestry, and conservation.

Primarily transcripts of documents from the National Archives and other repositores. In addition to records relating to the Navajo there are records concerning other Indian tribes, including the Hopi and Ute.

The George R. Taber papers consist primarily of his diaries dating from 1869-1895. The diaries record Taber's emigration from New Jersey to California in 1869 via Panama and the steamer Colorado. The diaries record his arrival in San Francisco, his...

Personal and professional correspondence (circa 200 letters) of a professor of Slavic language studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Correspondents include other scholars of 17th century literature and journal editors. Also includes correspondence related to revising his 1909 edition...

Promissory notes; power of attorney from Frederick Lux; deed for land in Kern County; bill of sale for mining property in Tuolumne County.

Material for the Yellow Jacket, Ophir, Crown Point, Belcher, and related Comstock Lode mining companies. Some papers of Edward B. Sturges included.

Includes drawings in pencil and watercolor depicting scenery of various locations throughout the Western United States and Canada, including prairie lands, Nevada plains, Monterey Bay, Rocky Mountains, and several locations in British Columbia (Victoria, Trail, Rossland, Arrow Lakes, Kootenay Mine)....

Interview begins with George Sandy's Indiana childhood and family, education, early interest in Socialism, and odd jobs and travel (hitchiking and catching trains) around the United States. The interview continues with his involvement in the Young Communist League as an...

Collection contains notes, programs, publicity materials, letters, photographs, and miscellaneous items relating to George and Mary Sandy's involvement in the Congress of California Seniors from 1981-1996. Most of the collection documents specific events such as the Congress' annual conventions, political...

Concerning ship design and yachting on the San Francisco Bay.

Twenty-one letters (57 p.) from George Sterling, mostly on Bohemian Club stationery, to Grace Warlock, who Sterling addresses as "niece" and "Jazette," at Oaks Resort in Applegate and elsewhere. Letters discuss pets, travels, Warlock's new home in "Wopland" North Beach,...

Transcripts by James D. Hart, with introduction by him.

Papers include typescripts and inscribed copies of books of poetry by Sterling; Box 2 also contains a typescript titled "A Life of George Sterling" by John G. Moore.

Snapshots & portraits of George Sterling, friends, and associated places. At least one portrait with Jack London.

Manuscript correspondence on letterhead stationery and envelope of May & Co. Hardware and Metals addressed to Waterman at the Grand Hotel in San Francisco. Stoddard writes that he left 100 shares "ophir" [i.e. Ophir Silver Mining Co.?] in a C....

Correspondence, including copies of letters written by him, and letters to him from Joseph W. Krutch; Benjamin H. Lehman; Margerie Lowry (re his dramatization of Under the Volcano); John D. MacDonald; Ira Wallach; his publisher, Simon and Schuster; and his...

For personal and real property owned by Swan such as Swan's Toll Road (from Kingsberry Road on the east to Strawberry Valley on the west), horses, oxen, wagon, buggy and watch.

Collection of briefs, petitions, testimony, exhibits, etc. related to various legal actions involving Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings. Includes testimony from the original trial in 1916-1917, petitions and arguments for Billings' pardon, documents pertaining to two suits Mooney...

Contains biographical information, correspondence, speeches, writings, scrapbooks, publicity materials, subject files and photographs. The major cases and topics covered in the collection include Caryl Chessman, capital punishment, Tom Mooney.

Written from Woods Creek, Tuolumne Co., to his brother, Charles, relating mainly to mining.

Biographical sketch, Christmas greeting cards, and obituary and probate notices.

Manuscripts relating to early California history, California state parks, and Korea.

Consists chiefly of letters written by Captain Balch while serving as an ordnance officer on the Sioux campaign, Apr.-Dec. 1855, and later from Ft. Pickens, Fla. and Wash., D.C. A copy of Special Orders No. 12, May 12, 1855, issued...

These two letters, in German, relate to Carson's life in California before coming to Nevada. One to a brother in Germany, Mount Pleasant Ranch, April 10, 1855, written on an illustrated lettersheet, "Crossing the Plains," discusses hard times in the...

Two letters from E.J. Hancock, Coupeville, Wash., with information about his uncle; letter from Joseph Schafer and notes from F.C. Matthews about the brigs, Kendall, G.W. Kendall, Eagle and Cayuga.

Kept while a farmer in Yolo County (1879-1880) and while working as a carpenter in San Francisco and Oakland (1902-1903) and (1905-1910). Two small "gem" tintype portraits of young men are present in v.2.

Contains business letters to George W. Gibson from A.K.P. Harmon in Boston and the Sacramento banking firm of D.O. Mills and Co. Harmon letters pertain to Gibson's business (a shoe store?), supplying goods, business in Boston, and mutual friends. D.O....

Scrapbook of clippings; notes on mines, ore deposits, mining geology, American cement, diamond mines, black sands, and Butte County; index of minerals in his collection; memorandum book of engineering notes; brief geological reports on mines in California; and field notes...

Contents: TLS from Charles Lummis, October 31, 1923, re an unspecified Lummis publication; TLS from Hiram Johnson, US Senate Committee on Imm igration, February 18, 1928, ackowledging receipt of telegram protesti ng the naval program of Secretary of the Navy...

Include single letters from the following: Mary Austin, Alfred L. Kroeber and C. Hart Merriam; and copies of letters written by Stewart, 1905-1907, re purchase of private land holdings in Sequoia National Park.

For toll road revenue, signed by Robert Steers (collector of Division no. 3 of the 4th District).

Contains correspondence, clippings, and miscellany, mostly concerning George Trippon's career as a fashion designer and host of the television show, "Sew What's New." Also includes three front page facsimile reprints of extra editions of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and the Honolulu...

Includes contents of scrapbook (vol. 1) documenting George W. Trippon's personal experience in the United States military during World War Two and his subsequent interest in the war, the military and related topics. Scrapbook includes original military documents, rations and...

Sterling, Illinois,1849 Mar. 21. Handwritten letter (4 p.) to mother, Agnes Woodburn, in Newtown, Pennsylvania. George W. Woodburn is about to embark on an overland journey to California to search for gold. Gives reasons for his decison and plans including...

Manuscripts of poems, stories and miscellaneous writings; incomplete journal of trip around the world, 1932-33. Includes typescript written in 1884 when Caldwell was 18 years old.

Letters written to his wife, Stella, describing train trip from Chicago to Seattle, getting outfitted, and getting to the Klondike mines via British Columbia. Collection of more than 28 letters, some written over a period of several days, details Walton's...

Assembled from various sources. Includes letters written by him to William Alexander (Lord Stirling), Col. Elias Dayton, and Lt. Col. Weltner; transcript of letter to James Madison; and army discharge certificate for Henry Vankleek.

Concerning his interest and activity in leatherwork, metal craft, and drawing in Seattle, San Francisco, and Honolulu. Correspondence, scrapbooks, catalogs, photographs, and notes.

Carbon typescript of work entitled "Three California Boys" (57 p.) n.d. ; plat map (blueprint, 36 x 34 cm. ) of Skillings Subdivision of the Mathews Tract. Berkeley, Cal. Aug. 22, 1906; invitation to opening of Skilling's "new quarters at...

Contains grant for 160 acres of land in California made by President Rutherford B. Hayes.

Letters to Mrs. Borton from Illinois attorneys, and others, re her husband's estate and move to Pasadena, Calif. from Illinois; letters from her son, written while assigned to U.S. Ambulance Service Company from Pasadena, encamped in Pennsylvania, 1917; miscellaneous family...

The papers include project reports, publications, field notes, maps, drawings, and correspondence. There are also photographs and photographic slides.

Chiefly images of petroglyphs and other rock art taken at Easter Island, Hawaii and at Lava Beds National Monument in California.

Framed, typescript letter (1 p.), signed and annotated ("Best greetings for 77") by O'Keefe, asking for confirmation of the ownership of her painting "Oak Leaves, Pink and Grey." O'Keeffe adds that she is including a photograph of the painting for...

Primarily concerning her work for the California Department of Education and the education of migrant and Indian children. Included are letters from Ralph Palmer Merritt, Katharine Conway Felton, and others; some reports and papers written by Miss Carden; and records...

Collection includes art by Gerald Cassidy, mainly of western subjects including Indians and scenes from the Southwest. Also includes photographs of simliar subjects (stereographs of New Mexico, etc.) and family scenes.

Includes reports and articles by and about Mr. Belchick and his work with disabled students at Cowell Hospital at the University of California, Berkeley.

The papers include drafts of article, books, reviews, and speeches; subject files; and class notes.

Correspondence, clippings, scrapbook, subject files, and photographs concerning his activities with the University of California as a regent, (including Board of Regent Executive session minutes) and Eli Katz Communist Party affiliation case. Also including records concerning his property in California,...

Includes writings, correspondence, and publicity materials from readings.

The collection documents Johnson's work as an activist and includes correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings and subject files relating to the numerous organizations she was involved with. Materials have been broken down according to relevant organization/ project with reference files and...

The papers include class notes for History 4B, 155B, 156A, and 156B, detailed course handouts and fragments of his one published work, "Politics and Exegesis: Origen and the Two Swords" (U.C. Press, 1979).

Included are letters by Peter Gerard, a sea captain, written to his father and to his brother, August, from various parts of the world (New Orleans, Bombay, South Africa, etc.), describing his travels; letters from Edward Gerard to his brother...

Consist of correspondence, writings, speeches, reports, interviews, subject files, clippings, a scrapbook, photographs and ephemera. Collection includes records of the European Bookshop (1931-1936), papers of her Civil Rights activities (1941-1984), including the focus of the collection, Japanese-American relocation (1942-1951), her...

Includes letter, ALS, 1925; and printed program for the Deutsches Volkfest (German folk festival) held in California Park, San Rafael, July 12, 1925. Program contains description of California Park.

Box 1: Correspondence and papers of Mexican officials with the consuls in Mexico City of Frankfurt, Bremen, and various German towns. Box 2: Outgoing correspondence of Etienne Benecke, consul of Prussia and later of Germany, 1850-1876, and other papers, 1838-1871,...

Chiefly Nazi propaganda material, including handbills, broadsides, and illustrated broadsides as well as posters. Many items are specifically anti-British or anti-American. A few items promoting other political parties during earlier German elections of the 1930s are present....

Documents in this collection concern armed forces, antiques, celebrations, awards, education, dogs, a proposed government in exile, and French medieval literature. Cataloged separately; see individual records for more complete description of collection content. Search under title: Germany: miscellaneous letters and...

Childhood in Breslau, Germany, and Berlin; emigration to Palestine in 1935; studies at Hebrew University, Jerusalem; spying for Haganah, night patrol, while undertaking pre-med studies at American University, Beirut; meeting and apprenticing with architect Eric Mendelsohn; with British army in...

Samuel Howard Gerrish (1834-1912) diaries, 1860-1912; (52 v. A.Ms.S. 12-18 cm.); and diaries of Charles Gerrish, Mrs. Sarah J. Gerrish, and Edward Gerrish.

Consists of research notes, laboratory results, manuscript notes, drafts and other documents related research on the antiproton-nucleon annihilation process.

Includes correspondence, reports, research files, lecture notes, and course materials documenting Professor Goldhaber's career in physics research and teaching at UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Principally correspondence and research materials pertaining to Mack's published and unpublished works, including an annotated typescript for The Land Divided. Includes some theater programs (ca. 1920s), mostly from San Francisco theaters, many listing Mack as one of the production designers....

Includes views of Spanish architecture, views of art works, the Panama Pacific International Exposition, Greek ruins, theatrical productions, and travel scenes in North America and Europe.

Volume 1 includes views of Sitka, Unalaska, the Russian Mission on the Yukon River, native Alaskans, canoes and paddle wheel steamers, and numerous views of camps and coastlines. Volume 2 includes shipboard scenes, Kodiak, St. Michael, the Apollo Mine on...

The collection consists of the papers, scrapbooks, photographs, and photo albums of the family of James Mack and Elizabeth Lilienthal Gerstley. The family papers include some correspondence, a small amount of material from James Mack Gerstley's tenure at Borax, and...

Volume 1: portfolio of loose items; volume 2-3: autobiography; volume 4: photo albume; volume 5: articles by Gertrud Themal Lovey and letters to the editor; volume 6: about and dedicated to General Douglas MacArthur; volume 7: about Kirsten Flagstad; volume...

Consists of correspondence of Gertrude Anthony pertaining to her time as a teacher for the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief (Near East Relief) in Armenia and Turkey following World War I. Correspondence from 1919 to 1922 is from...

Consists of 29 letters to New York Times Book Review literary critic, Clifford Smyth, written primarily from New York, as well as San Francisco, Chicago, London, and Frankfurt. The letters are mostly concerned with literary gossip, Atherton's health and activities,...

Letters of recommendation from Germany and England testifying to Gertrude's Block's skills as a nurse and kindergarten matron, including a letter from the Head Nurse of the Society of Jewish Nurses in Frankfurt, Germany; a 1939 Nazi passport; Gertrude Block's...

Include fifty-three letters and five postcards. Some of the letters written from Hollywood, 1921-1922, comment on her work for the film industry.

Typescript copies, with holograph corrections. Included are two plays, Not Sightly, and Old and Old. Latter also has holograph title page.

Chiefly portraits of Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas in the 1930s. Includes photographs taken at Bilignin Villa, Chambery, Stein's home at 27 Rue de Fleurus, in New York, and at University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary....

Postcard promoting congressional approval of San Francisco as the site for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Ilustrated with various symbolic figures and objects associated with California and the United States -- e.g. Liberty figure, miner with shovel, grizzly bear, bear flag,...

Photographs show groups of teachers, students, and officers of the Gethsemane Congregational Church School (possibly in Los Angeles) posed in front of the church.

Photographs show Sentinel Rock and Sentinel Falls in Yosemite National Park (B969), a lake at the Hotel del Monte in Monterey (B151), the conservatory at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco (B1707), and geysers at Devil's Canyon (B928).

Contains correspondence, transcriptions and notes concerning v. 3 of the 10 v., "The correspondence of Edmund Burke, 1774-1778." (1961) Also includes documents concerning Guttridge's service on the Academic Advisory Committee for the U.C. Santa Cruz campus, 1963-1964.

Contains transcripts of proceedings of stockholders' meetings & correspondence pertaining to the sale of the company; personal letters; reprints; company prospectus; mechanical drawing of pumping unit; clippings and printed ephemera; artifacts (e.g. pins); advertising posters; promotional cards of motion picture...

The D. Ghirardelli Co. Photograph Album of Chocolate Manufacturing Process contains 56 photographic prints taken of the D. Ghirardelli Company chocolate factory in San Francisco circa 1919. The album features views of the factory grounds, machinery, packaging areas, stock rooms,...

Consists of miscellaneous genealogical information on members of the Ghirardelli Family collected by Polly Ghirardelli Lawrence, and later by her son Sidney Smith Lawrence III. Information on most of the family members consists of the location and a photograph of...

Includes portraits and snapshots of members of the family of San Francisco chocolatiers. Many childhood photos, presumably of Ynez Ghirardelli, family, and friends, are present.

Includes architectural drawings, clippings, photographs, proposals, and other materials documenting the history and the development of the Ghirardelli Square commercial area in San Francisco. Volume 4 includes five photographs of the Ghirardelli pavilion at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition and one...

Includes some photographs of razing of box factory on site, some of completed commercial complex and opening night gala for Maxwell's Plum at Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco, Calif.

Views of: Hetch Hetchy Hospital; the Miners' Store, El Dorado; China Store ruins [?]; an unidentified scene with men, dogs, & women in a buggy; a dry goods store; and the first airplane in Amador County (1912).

Title supplied by cataloger.

Chiefly snapshot photographs depicting scenes from family outings, recreation, and other activities; various residential interiors and exteriors; views of Berkeley and the University of California campus, San Francisco Bay, New Orleans, Yellowstone National Park, San Francisco and other locations; scenes...

Correspondence of William Hawkins Gibson (who came to California in 1852 and settled in Santa Cruz Co.) chiefly with his family and friends in Indiana; correspondence and papers of his brother, David, and his sister, Lois, who married William L....

Photographs of Salton before and after flooding (1906); views of the Monterey area including the presidio, custom house, and others; and Truckee scenes including a train in a roundhouse.

With explanatory notes.

Pictures captioned: Rooster Rock -- Latourelle Falls -- Pillars of Hercules -- Cigar Rock at Cape Horn -- Multnomah Falls -- Castle Rock -- Lower Cascades and Steamer -- The Locks -- Memaloose Island -- North Abutment to Bridge of...

Views show the Berkeley fire of 1923, as well as efforts to combat the fire. Includes views of streets, cars, houses, ruins, smoke, people, fire engine, etc. Includes a view of the University of California campus.

Correspondence and sketch maps concerning an expedition against the Southern or Gila Apaches of New Mexico.

Consists of records from the Gila River Relocation Center, including pamphlets on the relocation program, anniversary booklets, and passes to leave camp.

Describes his experiences during the Civil War in campaigns in North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. 5 letters, 1864, from another brother, John, a letterpress copy of a letter by General Robert B. Potter, May 10, 1864, and miscellaneous other...

Includes lectures and manuscripts.

Includes 20 posters and 24 smaller format prints, often duplicating the imagery of the posters.

Photographs show military and political figures, parades, trial scenes, views of Nuremberg (Germany), Capt. Virginia Gill in uniform, sites related to Hitler's public speaking, exterior views of the Palace of Justice, and related scenes.

Includes views of Alaskan scenery, glaciers and Eskimo people.

Correspondence, accounts and papers relating to law and the Democratic party in Siskiyou County, Calif. Included are papers of Hudson B. Gillis and his son Claude E. Gillis.

Abstract of passenger way-bills, 1881-1888; daily record of freight and treasure way-bills to Dillon and Boulder and return, 1888, kept in a ledger of the Holladay Overland Mail and Express Company.

Includes laboratory notebooks documenting Ames' research on a variety of topics, including colloids, mutant cloning, purification, crosslinking, and the histidine permease transport system of the salmonella typhimurium. Also includes lecture notes, as well as grant materials relating to the Children's...

Contains bulletins and performance programs produced by Girls' Club members in the 1920s and 1930s, clippings about former members and the Mission District neighborhood and a personal scrapbook belonging to a former Girls' Club member. Also includes printed materials related...

Includes photos of club activities, dramatic productions, and views of the clubhouse on Capp street in San Francisco (including one block print by Pauline Shinazy, 1934). Also included are one 1915 Russian River flood photograph and one view of Alaska.

Interviews are with Gwendolyn Powers Applegarth, A. Appleton, Crystal Lake Bermel, Pauline Harris Bogart, Marion Brune Hayes Cain, Ray Ann Iverson Demiris, Sylvia Simons Marcus, Celene Cheldon Olsen, Pendleton Williams Quast, Federica Armstrong Rohrer, Hazel Gowan Salmi, Herbert Schirmer, Dorothy...

Contains 4 volumes of field notes by Gladys Reichard on the Wiyot Indian language. Also includes a Yurok Indian wordlist in the back of volume 3.

Waterfall (Vernal or Nevada Falls from high vantage point?), tree and lodge in Yosemite Valley (with opaque paper backing applied), Yosemite Valley, trees and river, El Capitan ("578" scratched at bottom).

The collection consists of Glazier family genealogy; family history materials, including materials on the history of J. Barth and Co.; family documents, including naturalization papers, Isaac and Simon Glaziers' birth certificates from 1829 and 1831, and Simon Glazier's Masonic certificate...

Material relating to Leander Ransom. Correspondence with Mrs. Amelia E. Neville, Ransom's daughter, 1925-1927; reminiscences of her father; letter from Ransom, Nov. 15, 1852, written from San Francisco to his children in Europe, describing his travels in California, the missions...

Portraits of two Nobel laureate physicists from the University of California, Berkeley: Glenn T. Seaborg and Luis W. Alvarez. Sittings were trial sessions for an intended project for the National Portrait Gallery that was never undertaken, according to the photographer....

Correspondence addressed to a friend and fellow painter discusses his life as an artist, reminisces about notable artists, and offers views on art criticism and tips on instruction. Included also is a handwritten letter from Wessels' widow, Rita, informing Oliveira...

One view shows two buildings, garden, and people posed near buildings, the other shows a man at the foot of a redwood tree.

Contains correspondence from John C. Thompson, R.P. Bland, and Jotham Newton, among others. Letters are mostly love letters but also discuss the Shakers, the Civil War in Calif. and an opinion on Oregon. Also includes family histories of the Rutledge,...

Wayburn discusses environmental issues in Alaska, particularly the Tongass National Forest, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and Alaska State government policy; his service on the National Parks Advisory Board; forests of the Pacific Northwest; the...

Mainly for groceries and hardware for resident of Forest City, Sierra County, California.

Include manuscripts of his writings, notebooks, and reprints and clippings of his published articles.

Family scenes including many photos of children, residences in Oakland, Calif. area, ships and shipping, logging, railroads, cyclists, picnics, Yosemite, San Francisco Bay area and other locales in California. Some non-California views taken on trips, including Hawaii in 1892. Many...

Chiefly snapshots of street scenes in Mexico City during the Mexican Revolution. Photographs primarily depict parades and other demonstrations, mostly taken from the second-story patio of the Godefroy residence. Also includes many commercial real photograph postcards of other subjects pertaining...

Books from library of C.M. Goethe (Sacramento, Calif.) with letters from Hichborn and copies of letters from Goethe tipped in, and annotations by Goethe.

Some items from the T.W. Norris Collection.

Letter from John Sutter to Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo ALS, Nuevo Helvetia, February 10, 1848; from BANC MSS C-B 12:332 and Californian clipping (March 15, 1848, p. 2, c. 3) concerning the discovery of gold at Coloma.

An unpublished work.

The Herbert Gold papers consist of writings (articles, essays, fiction, non-fiction, interviews, plays, poetry, screenplays, journals and notes), correspondence, legal files, news clippings and audio/visual materials which span the length of Gold's literary career.

Correspondence, minutes of meetings, financial reports, ledger and warrant books as an independent union and as Local no. 54, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers.

Contains examples of announcements, invitations, business cards and rubber stamps for Chinese businesses and persons living in Northern Calif. Rubber stamp examples also include prices and font names.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Contains correspondence, legal documents, reports and charts.

Volume (168 p.) by Cunningham concerning his travels from New York to California and life in Chile from Sept. 12, 1852 to Aug. 3, 1854. He provides a detailed account of his voyage via Cape Horn, Sept. 13, 1852-Mar. 12,...

Business cards of J. Goldberg and L. Lebenbaum; stationery of the Goldberg-Bowen store; photographs of Rena Goldberg and classmates at Pacific Heights School, in San Francisco (1907); a certificate from the Auburn and Rock Creek Gold Mining Company; a report...

Itemized invoice on pictorial lettersheet listing grocery items purchased and amounts due ($72.15 total). View of grocery building with firm name of "Goldberg - Bowen - Lebenbaum" at the top of it and people, horses, and carriages parked on street...

Collection consists of a handwritten 1860 Yolo County land deed for A. Goldberg.

Correspondence; over 5000 original drawings for comic strips and for editorial cartoons covering national political campaigns, World War II, and postwar international and domestic affairs; clippings; scrapbooks; Mss. of articles, stories and songs; books written by him; photographs; records; film;...

Various views of both bridges, including construction scenes.

The Golden Gate Bridge construction photographs were taken between 1933 and 1934. Some of the 2,054 photographs are stamped "Gabriel Moulin Photo." The other photographers are unknown. The collection is a thorough documentation of every phase of construction of the...

1: Main span from the south tower (photographed 1979?, published 1987) -- 2: From Presidio Bluffs (photographed 1993, published 2003).

Contains materials concerning a wide variety of aspects of the Exposition from the planning stages through the event itself. Includes fliers, press releases, brochures, maps, lecture and exposition guidelines, site proposal documents, copies of legislation, tickets and souvenirs, drama and...

Most photographs show snapshots from the Golden Gate International Exposition (grounds, people, sculpture, crews filming, etc.). One photograph shows the Grand Canyon and includes advertising text on verso. One postcard shows San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Newsclippings, professional photographs, snapshots, postcards, and ephemera documenting the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island, San Francisco. Most items document the creation of the "world's largest relief map" of 11 western states, for which Leo Burton was chief...

Letters, mainly from Marin County stores, and accounts with San Francisco firms.

Title from captions.

Photographs show ceremonial railroad spikes, and group portraits at the ceremony celebrating the completion of the transcontinental railroad.

To prospective investors containing prospectus and stock application.

The Richard and Rhoda Goldman papers document the lives and contributions of two of the most important figures in twentieth-century philanthropy. The papers are divided into 7 series: Personal and Family Papers; Richard Goldman's Chronological File, Richard Goldman's Travel Files;...

Letters written to him by colleagues and friends, some relating to his scientific work in Germany; copies of letters written by him; manuscripts of his writings; speeches and course lectures; notebooks; bibliography; publications about him, including eulogies and biographical material;...

For items on the Goliath (steamer)

Letters and reports relating to meetings at El Paso, attended by Major Generals Frederick Funston and Hugh Lennox Scott, and the Mexican representatives. Álvaro Obregón, Minister of War and Marine, and J.N. Amador, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, and others, together...

The Gomez de la Cortina collection consists of 32 stereographs collected by the Gomez de la Cortina family, apparently on a tour of the United States. The stereographs date from 1870-1906. The stereographs are photographic prints, except number 24, which...

Correspondence, discharge papers, leases, and accounts concerning the activities and interests of the Gonzalez family in California.

The papers and scrapbooks of the Goodman and Levy families of El Paso, Texas, Nashville, Tennessee, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Include deeds for land in Texas, 1838-1849, for mining property in the Esmeralda district, Nevada, 1861-1864, and for land in California, 1864-1866; and letter, Mar. 27, 1906, from J. H. McNatt concerning mining stocks belonging to the Goodman family.

Printed forms filled in with signature of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant.

Portraits of family and friends filed in Portrait boxes. Additional miscellaneous file includes portraits of Goodrich-Blanding, Hesketh and Pacheco families, many taken abroad. 1 album of family snapshots, consisting primarily of family and friends at home at Belvedere (in Marin),...

Primarily copies of letters written by Goodspeed and his associate, Helen-Mar Wheeler, to various botanists, museums, botanical gardens, government agencies; and replies, exchanging information on tobacco, plant specimens, and viable seed. Some comment on response of tobacco to X-rays. Appended...

Includes telegram from N. Greene Curtis and letter from George C. Perkins.

Interviewees, and titles of interviews, as follow: Dorothy Hewes Bell: Reminiscences of Goodwin Knight. From high school acquaintance who helped in his political campaigns. Harry Finks: California Labor and Goodwin Knight, the 1950s. John Lamar Hill First Minority Member of...

Six letters, 1857-1881, from Andrew Goodyear and his wife to his sister and niece in Connecticut; letter, 1853, from William Miles Goodyear (son of Miles M. Goodyear) with a letter from Charles M. Blake describing the boy's progress at the...

Notes made in preparation for writing his doctoral thesis (Berkeley, 1916) and published as The North West Company (Berkeley, 1918).

The Bancroft Library holds related collections of Sheldon Cheney papers. See also: BANC MSS 78/25, 78/37, 81/42, 83/13, 89/164, and 89/165.

Contains research materials used to write "The lobbyist : the story of George H. Maxwell, irrigation crusader," a biography of California attorney and water rights advocate, George Hebard Maxwell. Consists mostly of photocopies of Maxwell's correspondence, published articles, and other...

Shipbuilding history of the Matthews family, including biographical sketches of Gordon Matthews's father, Peter Matthews, and his brother-in-law, George H. Hitchings, as well as his own life and experiences in wooden ship construction, mainly at Eureka, Calif., and Hoquiam, Wash.

Correspondence relating to her career as newspaper woman and lawyer in California and to her work on behalf of woman suffrage movement at the state and national levels; clippings; ephemeral material re politics and the suffrage movement; miscellaneous papers.

Papers relating to Gordon Robinson's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Contains correspondence among members of the families, including James, Julia, Kate, Louise, Sterling, and William Bunnell, and Kate, Marion, Sterling, and William Gorrill, as well as a few miscellaneous personal papers, writings, printed materials relating to various family members. The...

Payroll, 1866-1875, with monthly lists of employees, time, rate, and amount of pay; and 8 receipts, 1862-1864.

Include three letters, Mar.-Nov. 1849, from Enoch Gove, Boston merchant, to his brother, Amos, and C.B. Phelps, in California, members of the Boston and California Mining and Trading Co., reporting on excitement in Boston re gold finds and giving advice;...

Interviews with three individuals concerned with the operation of the governor's office in California during the Earl Warren administration. Interviews include: Marguerite Gallagher: Administrative Procedures in Earl Warren's Office, 1938-1953. Includes comments also on the Attorney General's office and her...

Two letters written as Governor of California, concerning Assembly Bill 2162, a measure to abolish the position of Chief, Division of Immigration and Housing, the post held by Carey McWilliams, with a mimeographed copy of veto statement.

Records of the Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots, a body created by California Governor Edmund G. Brown on August 24, 1965 to conduct a thorough investigation of that summer's riots in Los Angeles.

Schooling in New Orleans and Sacramento; work as a guard at the Governor's mansion in the Earl Warren administration; impressions of the Governor and his family and Warren's influence on his life; discussions with Warren on integration and segregation, prison...

Forms part of: Government history documentation oral history series; and, Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Era Oral History Project.

Includes indexes.

Interviewees, and titles of interviews, as follows: photographs inserted. William Becker. Working for Civil Rights: With Unions, the Legislature, and Governor Pat Brown. Comments on National Farm Labor Union organizing in Imperial Valley, 1947-52; the California Committee for Fair Employment...

Interviews with five staff members. Interviewees (copies of photographs and of documentary material inserted), and titles of interviews, as follows: Douglas Barrett. Goodwin Knight's Governor's Office, 1953-1958, and the Youth Authority, 1958-1965. Press secretary and personal friend. Tom M. Bright....

Views taken in Mexico depicting people, homes, churches, natural scenery and crafts. Locations include El Paso del Norte (now Ciudad Juárez), Querétaro, Mexico City, Guadalupe, and Tipec. Also includes California views taken in San Jose and Los Angeles, including Thresher's...

Comments on their work for the Grabhorn Press, 1934-1962; the different personalities of Edwin and Robert Grabhorn; the establishment of their own press, the Grace Hoper Press; the small private press movement. Photographs inserted.

Contains correspondence, job, and project files including manuscripts, illustrations, and galleys, with various incomplete segments and trial pieces. The Grabhorns' correspondence with authors, artists, and other printers relates chiefly to the work of the Press, but also includes two letters...

Manuscripts, tear sheets and clippings of her articles and stories, with related correspondence. Some of the articles contain descriptions of her travels in the Southwest and in Latin America.

Relating to her work in obtaining legislation for the little farmers, her interest in the Democratic Party, her involvement in the Freedom from Hunger movement, agriculture, water, California consumer issues, utilities, natural resources, the fishing industry and other issues on...

Correspondence sent to Bird by friends, including Hildegarde Flanner and Frederick Mortimer ("Tim") Clapp; mss. notes written by Bird; sonnets and poems by and for Bird, from friends, including Porter Garnett and Wilder Bentley; misc. greeting cards with printed poems;...

25 volumes of minutes, service books, receipt books, descriptive books, and ledgers of the following posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of California and Nevada: Napa Post No. 192, Ellsworth Post No. 20, George H. Thomas Post...

Scenic views of the Grand Canyon (Ariz.) and other northern Arizona locales. Human figures present in many. One view includes landscape painter Thomas Moran.

Photograph of the Grand Central Hotel in Oakland, Calif. bears advertising text on verso about the hotel and about Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery.

Teagarden discusses her family history and early childhood in Texas and Oklahoma; jazz in the twenties and thirties in New York and the Southwest; touring in Hollywood during wartime; jazz greats, women's bands, life in northern California, Dixieland festivals, thoughts...

Two cassette tape recordings of the Grange family reunion at Stags' Leap Winery, taped by Theresa Whitehill and Paulo Ferreira, August 19, 2005-August 21, 2005; transcript of the recording by Theresa Whitehill, combined with notes taken during the recording. Participants...

Writing as acting director, Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, offering compensation to the Congressman for assistance in obtaining some land in Illinois for the railroad. With note by Rockwell assigning one half of the compensation to A.C. Corbert, Mar. 26,...

Two documents signed by officials of the Order of the Bath concerning a British general, Sir Robert John Hussey Vivian. One document, dated March 16, 1857, concerns the granting of a coat of arms and contains a description of the...

Concerning matters of strategy.

Concerning the apprehension of Memphis correspondent of the Chicago Times. With note by W.T. Sherman, Aug. 14. 1862.

Conveyed as alcalde of Monterey. Seals of alcalde's office affixed to the documents.

Autograph book and 28 letters to Libby's mother and brother Joseph in Portland, Maine from various places, including Virgin Bay, San Francisco, Auburn, Michigan City, China Bar and Portland, Oregon. The letters provide a picture of California during the Gold...

Part I: Describes voyage to California, arrival in San Francisco March 26, 1852, and mining on the American River. One letter is written in a Gregory Express letterbook; several written on illustrated lettersheets. (29 letters) Part II (portfolio): Letters re...

Photographic portraits of various artist members of San Francisco's Graphic Arts Workshop (GAW) cooperative, taken by printmaker Elinor Randall Keeney. Also includes examples of prints by Susan DeRenne Coerr (4 postcards), Stanley Koppel (print) and James B. Southard (print), as...

One exterior view of the Congregational Church, Grass Valley, Calif. and studio portraits of the Rev. W.A. Tenney, and congregation members Mrs. Norton, and Mrs. Abbie Wright.

Consists of business records from 1866 to 1937, relating to subscriptions, circulation statistics, and advertising, as well as financial operations of the newspaper, including daybooks, ledgers, cash blotters, invoices, cashbooks, and journals. Only one ledger (relating to subscriptions, 1894-1895) documents...

Political internship with Coro Foundation; her role as a leader in California Democratic party; working in various political campaigns - local, statewide and national - and planning campaign strategy; freindship and political association with Roger Kent; impressions of political figures,...

Letters, mss. of writings, reports, notes, scrapbooks and clippings of Adolphus E. Graupner and his wife, Annabel Elise (Wenzelburger) Graupner, relating to his law career and other activities involving the American Legion and the Republican party, and to her involvement...

Include journal kept by Samuel Graves, June-Aug. 1850, on his voyage to California around the Horn; extracts from the journal, with extended narrative, covering departure from New York, April 1850, to arrival in San Francisco in August, and departure in...

The Roy D. Graves Pictorial Collection contains circa 23,100 photographic prints classified and arranged by Graves into 96 volumes. Graves began collecting photographs circa 1902, and continued to develop his collection until his death in 1971. The general subject areas...

Cashbooks and ledger, for storage and commission firm in San Francisco owned by Francis Gray and Anthony Young Easterby, 1849-1853.

Views of wilderness outing groups. Location unknown, but may be the Mount Shasts and Castle Crags region of California.

Letters concern shipment of goods from San Francisco for their store in Benicia. Comments on ships arriving and prices and business prospects in San Francisco.

Pt.I Letters written to and by Grayson and his wife; diary of overland journey to California, 1846; field notebooks; manuscripts of his writings; water colors of birds of California and Mexico; photographs; and clippings relating primarily to his ornithological studies....

Consists of internal corporate and production files, and radio scripts of the "electronic transcriptions" that Grayson-Rosser Productions produced. The internal files include statements regarding the founding of the company, memos detailing the duties and expectations of the staff, production files...

Originals in: the Public Record Office, London, Admiralty Office 1 (Secretary - In letters) 5561 (Cape of Good Hope and Pacific) and 5577 (Pacific, nos. 2-110)

Records of the colony off the Mosquito Coast, British Honduras, sponsored by the Earl of Warwick. Book of entries, 1630-1641; journal, 1630- 1650. Filmed in the Public Record Office, London.

Photocopies of selected items, made in 1951, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the consulate in San Francisco. Included also are photocopies of some Admiralty records, 1849-1850, relating to California.

Typed transcript copies of records transferred to the Mitchell Library, Sydney, Australia, in 1936, relating to the "mutiny" on the Lucy Ann off Tahiti in 1842, when 11 seamen, including Herman Melville, refused to do duty. The records include copies...

Transcripts of correspondence between Lord Palmerston of the British Foreign Office, Frederick Chatfield from Guatemala, and others, respecting the boundaries of the Mosquito Territory, especially with respect to the line dividing it from New Granada and the states of Central...

Selected documents from Foreign Office 18 (Columbia) vol. 59. Letters from Sutherland, British consul in Columbia. From the Foreign Office files of the Public Record Office, London.

Single items, catalogued separately. Search under title: Great Britain: miscellaneous letters and documents.

Copies of mining notices, recorded in Book "B."

Include pay check for Emerie Reno and payroll for October, containing list of workers, with occupation, signature, number of days worked and salary.

The Production Photographs from "Greed" album contains 46 black and white photographic prints taken in 1923 during the production of the film Greed. The album consists primarily of production stills taken by Warren Lynch, a Hollywood still photographer of the...

Includes group and formal portraits of various committees and boards possibly related to Greene's activities and interests as an attorney and in education. Also depicted are family picnics, fishing, horseback riding, beach scenes (ca. 1900), social events, etc.

The collection includes a narrative providing genealogical information about the Greenebaum family and other California pioneer families related by marriage; and two 18th-century Hebrew and Judeo-German Prayer Books for women belonging to the Greenbaum family of San Francisco, bound together...

Postcard sent to Gust Tsangario, of Helper, Utah, from the firm of Greenebaum, Weil & Michels (located on 740 Mission St., San Francisco) for the selling of Crown Army Shirts. Card postmarked 4 Dec. 1921.

The collection relates mainly to ranches and other property owned and administered by the Greer family in the town of Mayfield (later Palo Alto), California, and in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Much of the property was inherited by...

Greeting cards are photographs of sculptures, reliefs, or paintings by Wallace, or are reproductions of relief prints made by him. Many have been mailed by the artist as holiday postcards.

Mainly relate to the settlement of his estate.

Contains correspondence, diaries, notebooks, and related material. Includes diary of Munson Gregory, 1850-1851; notebook and reminiscences of Mary McLean Hardy; correspondence between Warren Gregory and his mother, 1893-1895; and Civil War letters of Herbert Munson Gregory. Typed transcripts of some...

The H. Paul. Grice Papers (1947-1989) consist of publications, unpublished works, and correspondence from the notable English philosopher of language H. Paul Grice, during his years as Professor Emeritus at Oxford until 1967 and the University of California, Berkeley until...

Contains family genealogy of the Griest and Greene families, copies of Joseph Griest letters to family from Calif. during the gold rush, a letter from Richard Griest visiting Lake Tahoe on leave while serving in the Navy during World War...

Portraits of a young girl and a woman.

Kept by the son of Hubert Howe Bancroft from the age of eight, recording life of the Bancroft family in San Diego and in San Francisco, on a farm in Contra Costa County, in Mexico, in the East and in...

Includes views of Ketchikan, Juneau, Yakutat, Yakutaga; various glaciers, icebergs, settlements, and canneries; fishing on the Naknek River; and coastal views.

Photographs taken in Alaska of canning machinery at Egegik, shipboard views, and radio equipment.

Collection contains papers of George W. Evans II, son of Griffith Evans, and George W. Evans, father of Griffith Evans.

Collection includes photographs, postcards, several tintypes, and one book stamp with Griffith C.E. Evans' name. Mostly family portraits (some framed), many studio portraits and views of family houses in various locations. Also included are publicity photos from Rome and several...

Consists of materials reflecting the Grinnell's work in the fields of natural history and ecology. The bulk of the collection is made up of diaries, field notes, and materials relating to early conservation efforts in California. Also included are drafts...

Correspondence, accounts and manuscripts, relating mainly to the activities of the Cooper Ornithological Club and its publication, The Condor, and to the collection, preservation and identification of zoological specimens in Alaska and California.

Photographs of activities of the society, mainly taken during annual picnics, meetings and banquets. Some group portraits, but chiefly snapshots. Locations include Howell Mountain, Big Sur, Wildcat Canyon, Austin Creek, and Mt. Diablo, Calif.

Records of organization founded by students and staff members of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, including correspondence, minutes of meetings, file of newsletter, accounts, responses to questionnaires, etc.

Contains the articles of incorporation for a damming and mining company in California.

Typescript (carbon) transcriptions of letters written by Aaron Burt Grosh to Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke. The letters concern the claims of Grosh, the Frank Mining Company of California, the Utah Enterprise, and the Grosch Consolidated Mining Company to Comstock ores,...

from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;

Title supplied by cataloger.

Includes portraits taken at meetings at the Hotel Del Monte (Monterey) and at Dyerville (Humboldt Co.)

Collection contains 1948 Seals baseball team portrait and a group portrait of men and women outdoors

One item shows members of the Princeton University Bicentennial Conference (1946). One shows members of the 70e Colloque International du CNRS in Paris (1955). Some photographs from the USSR (1966).

Group portrait of Company "C". 1st Regt. Cal[ifornia] Vol[unteers], ca. 1899; group portrait of veterans at their annual dinner, Olympic Club [San Francisco], Nov. 16, 1935.

Snapshots of a group of young men and women on a large porch. Names from captions include: Elbert [P.?] Tuttle, Bernice Halstead, Janette Sharp, Malcolm Tuttle, Genevieve Taggart, and Dorothy Peterson.

Description of the project included.

Interviews with residents of San Francisco from various backgrounds and age-groups about their urban experiences prior to age 25.

Interviews with three generations of San Franciscans, with a variety of ethnic backgrounds and status, about their urban experiences prior to the age of 25. Conducted by Prof. Frederick M. Wirt. Subjects covered: religious training, schooling, political learning, ethnic awareness,...

Austin discusses the early history of Morrison: his early partners, The Crocker Bank and other firms; evolution of law practices in a large firm; hiring practices; women.

Originals and photocopies of miscellaneous materials relating to the German family residing in Mexico, including last will of Francisco Antonio José Monteverde, June l, l856; copy of marriage certificate of George Grunig, Mar. l3, l898; documents re his association with...

The Grunsky Family Papers consist of correspondence, documents, diaries, notebooks, and professional papers. Correspondence from German immigrant Charles (Carl) Grunsky and his first wife, Clotilde Camerer, describes California during and after the gold rush to family in Germany (written in...

from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;

Guide to documents filmed, Jan. 1959, at Hermosillo by Fr. Luis Baldonado, H.F. Dobyns and Bernard Fontana. Co-authors: Fray Luis Baldonado and Henry F. Dobyns.

Papers relating to the sale of property in San Jose. Connected with settlement of the estate of Luis Chabolla. Include deeds and copy of title to the property, with signatures of Zacariah Jones, Agustín Chabolla, Antonio Buján, J. R. Rivera,...

Correspondence, accounts and records of the Guadalupe quicksilver mine, Santa Clara County, Calif. Papers of the Guadalupe Mining Co., Santa Clara Mining Association of Baltimore, Davy Mining and Investment Co., D & C Mining Co., Century Mining Co., New Guadalupe...

Journal, Oct., 1868 - Oct., 1873; orders on the butcher, 1877 - 1878, by the Santa Clara Mining Association of Baltimore.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Album of snapshot and commercial views taken in Guatemala from the 1920s-1940s, depicting indigenous peoples, cities and villages, plantation estates (fincas), churches, landscapes and pre-Columbian ruins. Among the locations depicted are Antigua, Lago de Atitlan, Santo Tomas Chichicastenango, Solola, and...

This collection consists of an album of 44 photographic prints, plus ephemera, of the guayule rubber industry in Salinas, California, circa 1942. The photographer is unknown. Included in the photographs are images of workers planting, harvesting and manufacturing the guayule;...

Includes the German school report cards of Zimmerman's parents (Betty Blum and Manfred Zimmerman) and photocopied correspondence and newspaper and magazine clippings about Rabbi Josef Zeitin, the leader of Shanghai's Jewish community.

Mainly 19th century studio portraits of members of the de la Guerra family of Santa Barbara, California.

Includes letters from Josefa O. de Lugo and María de la Guerra Taylor to Trinidad Ortega de la Guerra, and letter from Joaquina de la Guerra to her uncle.

Banquet photographs taken at the Henry A. Wallace luncheon at the Biltmore Bowl, Los Angeles (photographed by Weaver, 1940) and at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. (Jan. 19, 1941)

Correspondence reflecting his interests in various humanitarian and liberal causes and in Scandinavian (particularly Danish) organizations, his association with the Society of Friends, and his writing and translating; manuscripts and clippings of articles written by him; biographical sketches and personalia;...

Primarily the papers of Anita Hinz Gundlach, the collection contains correspondence, memorabilia and family papers, documenting the history of the Gundlach and Hinz families. Both families were influential members of the German immigrant community in San Francisco and Sonoma Valley...

Contains studio portraits and snapshot photographs, mainly of Anita Hinz Gundlach, her husband Henry R. Gundlach, and their daughter Alexandra Gundlach. Also includes views of the family's Rhine Farm (Rhinefarm) vineyard in Sonoma County, the Gundlach-Bundschu Wine Company operations, and...

The Thom Gunn Papers consist of correspondence, personal papers (diaries and scrapbooks detailing his life and career), notebooks of poetry and prose, writings (both poetry and prose), professional papers, teaching materials, writings by other poets and authors, and a small...

Chiefly snapshots and portraits of poet Thom Gunn and his friends and family. Unidentified snapshots predominate. Many are of Gunn and his partner, Mike Kitay, from their stay in Texas in the mid-1950s through their later life in San Francisco,...

Original cartoon drawings by Gus Arriola for his comic strip Gordo, which ran from 1941 until 1985.

The papers include correspondence, newspaper clippings, promotional materials, and some personal papers. Professional activities include Arriola interviews, promotions, public appearances, and papers relating to proposed books,a movie, and a musical. Personal papers include information on family trips and small amounts...

The collection consists of correspondence between attorney Gus Ringolsky and convict Jacob Oppenheimer; legal documents, clippings and scrapbook pages relating to the Oppenheimer case; a letter (1913) to Ringolsky from Willis Van Devanter, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme...

A few letters, clippings, and miscellaneous notes relating primarily to agriculture in California and elsewhere.

Contents: Folders - blueprint drawings for the Insurance Exchange building, San Francisco, 1912; plans for San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition, 1936-1938; and working drawings for the Los Angeles Veterans' Administration Facility; Portfolio - three letters from Irving F. Morrow,...

Part of a collection of letters and documents relating to Spanish history.

Primarily portraits and snapshots of the Pearson and Meeks families, family homes, etc., with some views in Vallejo (Calif.), Hannibal (Mo.), Illinois, and elsewhere. Includes one interior of an unidentified woodworking shop with boy working on mission style furniture.

Contains by-laws and ledgers for a magnesite mining company.

Sending a copy of the first edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Parasite, and commenting on Doyle and his work.

Photographs of sugar industry buildings and mills in various stages of construction, and sugar processing equipment. Industries located in Hooper, Utah; Crosswell, Mich.; Preston, Idaho; and Miami, Florida. Group portraits of sugar industry meetings and others associated with the industry....

Included in: History of Science and Technology Collection.

Collection of material relating to medicine and public health in California. Partial contents: photocopies and transcripts of newspaper articles re the cholera epidemic, 1850; copy of report of Office of California State Registrar, Dec. 20, l858; transcript of diary of...

Letters to him from Hilaire Belloc, Clive Holland, Samuel Insull, Jeanette Rankin, and Gustav Regler; family letters written from Germany in 1938 and from wartime England written by his father, Prohibition leader Guy Hayler; personalia; and loose items removed from...

Two letters written in Gregory's Express pocket letter books discussing travel to Calif. overland and by sea, crime, gambling, and life in Sacramento, Calif. during the Calif. Gold Rush.

Includes portraits and snapshots of Brooks; her parents Keziah Wims Brooks and David Anderson Brooks; her husband Henry Blakely and his family; and her children Henry Blakely Jr. and Nora Blakely. Also contains snapshots of her family and friends in...

Mainly correspondence relating to political affairs in Mississippi, California and Mexico, to property in Panama for the Isthmus Pacific Railway, and to Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian claims. Includes letters from Jefferson Davis, 1875.

Consists chiefly of letters from Lt. Col. Rees from military bases in Calif., as well as Texas, Utah, and Wash., to his wife, Gertrude, in San Francisco. Most of the letters are written while stationed near Pasadena, and later from...