Printed legal mortgage form with manuscript entries containing details of an indenture for property in Santa Clara, California owned by Robert F. Stockton of Princeton, New Jersey by O. [Ottfried] Bendeleben in exchange for an $8000 dollar promissory note. The...
Davidson discusses her life in Wales and emigration to the U.S. and eventual relocation to California. Also discusses Welsh language and customs and her involvement in Welsh societies in California.
1: Pioneer Hotel and Sheep Ranch Gold Mine, Calaveras County (1890's?) -- 2: Oakland views at 10th and Broadway (ca.1890-1900?) -- 3: north on Broadway from 9th (1898)
A series of 47 interviews with veterans, former base employees, community members, and policy makers to document the core functions of the base during its period of operation (1941-1998); the social life and work culture on the base; the impact...
Includes the certificate from the California Secretary of State's Office officially recognizing the incorporation, signed on behalf of A.C. Hendricks (Secretary of State) by H.B. Davidson, dated March 15, 1890. Lithographed by H.S. Crocker & Co.
Recollections of her father, John Knox McLean, pastor of 1st Congregational Church of Oakland; description of life in Oakland and in Berkeley; life as a student at the University, 1891-1895. Photographs inserted.
Views show specific Oakland, Calif. buildings (owned or managed by the Lionel Wachs Co.?), and street corners. Also includes advertising photographs for the Lionel Wachs Co.
Bound ledgers for commercial businesses reused as scrapbooks containing political ephemera for mostly Oakland, California local offices and elections. Also includes some ephemera for state, and national elections. Ephemera includes numerous mounted candidate cards, letters, newspaper clippings, etc.
Contains 5 printed ledgers with manuscript entries of the Oakland Harbor Light Station. Ledgers track inventories received and used for supplies, forms, furniture, oil, wicks, chimneys, etc.
Views and documentation of two stone jetties constructed parallel to the Oakland estuary as part of harbor improvement projects between 1874 and 1894. Documentation was created prior to scheduled demilition of the north training wall. Includes contemporary views (1999), copies...
Comments on his business, the Lyon Storage and Moving Company; community services; philanthropic activities, etc. Photographs inserted. Photocopies of documentary material included and appended.
Views of aircraft dating from 1912 throught the 1930's, primarily in Oakland, California. Also includes views of other Bay Area locations and events, such as the U.S.S. Constitution in San Francisco and the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges under construction....
The Oakland Oral History Project aimed to collect the valuable oral histories of senior Oakland residents of different ethnic backgrounds for the present Oakland community. The project focused on race relations in Oakland with special emphasis on the areas of...
from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;
Clippings, press releases, drafts of articles and miscellany, arranged alphabetically by subject.
Photos show crews of horses, men, and vehicles constructing roads and bridges, primarily in Oakland, Calif. Many streets and bridges are identified. Hand labor is clearly visible, as are the laborers.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Oakland Technical High School materials collected by Andrew Peter Costelli include his 1922 diploma, 1922 graduation program and invitation, and a program for 1957 graduation. Also includes Costelli's diploma from Elmhurst School in 1918.
Contains photocopy of the official song, clippings, and city resolution to make song the official song of Oakland.
Two title insurance policies. One is dated Sept. 3, 1920; the assured are Jesse D. and Effie D. Cope, whose property in Piedmont, Calif. is insured for $2,500.00. The other is dated Jan. 11, 1924; the assured is the Mercantile...
Views include city streets, businesses, developing neighborhoods and residential lots, and hills in the San Francisco Bay Area. Several automotive factories under construction, or their projected sites, are also pictured. Images were apparently collected by a previous owner because they...
Three photograph albums depicting various aspects of construction of the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena, including broad views and detailed scenes. Some views show the city of Oakland in the background.
Album documents construction of the Oakland-Alameda Estuary Subway (later named the George A. Posey Tube). Photographs depict piling and setting of several segments of subway tunnel tube. Construction officials (probably including engineers George Posey and Lochiel M. King?) also depicted.
Includes reports, minutes, notes, and newspaper clippings concerning the 1991 Oakland-Berkeley hills fire.
Photographs, most taken by local residents, document the October 20, 1991 Oakland-Berkeley hills fire and aftermath. Some accompanied by narratives or descriptive information.
Correspondence, legal documents, and miscellany pertaining to the Hoag family in Sonoma County, California. Correspondence includes: unsigned draft of speech on O.H. Hoag letterhead stationery (likely written by Obadiah Haight Hoag) making "a few remarks about the Chinese" and recommending...
Included is typescript of an elaborate obituary authored by Eshelman.
Objects relating to cuisine program on Great Chefs of France at Mondavi Winery, including a group of 3 pig bladders with note: chicken boiling bladder, Alan Chapel; a chef's hat; a curio in the shape of a Dutch wooden clog,...
Chiefly pin-back buttons advocating various efforts of the antinuclear movement, primarily in California. Also includes 2 t-shirts ("Stop Diablo Canyon before it stops us", "SAFE nuclear energy ... Safer than sex!"); a key ring with a leather key fob ("No...
Includes Allen Ginsberg toy: sealed figurine, cut-out American flag hat and sealed audio disc of poetry readings in original packaging; City Lights Books San Francisco t-shirt depicting Allen Ginsberg; and two buttons, one pertaining to Ginsberg's poem Howl, the other...
Copies of his poems.
File on repairs for the Viceregal Palace, containing letters exchanged by Viceroy Branciforte, Ladron de Guevara, and builders Ignacio de Castera and José Joaquín García de Torres, as well as related documents.
Typed transcript. Excerpts from his diary, and reminiscences, relating mainly to rainfall in San Diego County, 1862-1916.
Comments on boyhood at lighthouse stations at Point Bonita, Farallones, and Southhampton Shoals; ferries and excursion boats; hydro-survey work with the Army Engineers in the Bay and other California harbors; changes in the Bay and its surroundings; building Treasure Island;...
Comments on judges, U.S. attorneys, prominent members of San Francisco bar, the court's jurisdiction, and leading cases argued before it. Copy of photograph inserted.
Individuals posed illustrating various occupations; most photos have description written on the verso in Spanish.
Covers family, boyhood, and education; Ellen Clark Revelle, graduate school, early research experiences; travel in 1936 to England and Norway; U.S. Navy, oceanographic responsibilities; Operation Crossroads, 1946, preparation and conduct of Tests Able and Baker, impact and lessons learned.
Photographs include city and town views, street markets, churches, cemeteries, harbors and ships. Locations identified include Santa Julia, Veracruz, San Juanico, Tacuba, Mexico City, Ojinaga, and El Paso. Numerous photos show wounds, corpses, starving children and adults, etc. Others depict...
Collection of correspondence (42 letters, 160 p.) between a married couple, family members, and friends. Most of the pre-Gold Rush letters (16 letters, 57 p.) are written to Octavia Hamblin [later Sexton] from her cousin, Eleanor Farrow, working as a...
Accompanied by manuscript translation, 7 p. and letter.
Collection of 9 typescript (mimeographed) protest letters with the same text addressed to "Monsieur le Directeur Général," each with holograph date (May 23, 1968) and signature, proclaiming the signee's affiliation with Comité d'action étudiants-écrivains and prohibiting the use of the...
Office interiors, showing G.W. Caswell, George Ott, Tom Ross, A.H. de Maniel, William G. Badger (in flamboyant, possibly military, uniform), Walter Brooks, and G.G. Sanchez.
Folder 1 contains documents, 1740-1752, concerning expenditures of Vildosola, Acting Governor and Captain General of Sinaloa, in connection with the conquest and pacification of the Yaquis, Mayos, and Baja Pimería Indians. They include official correspondence of Vildosola, of his predecessor,...
From Silva ;
Contains 3 reports relating to oil and gas in California: Lithologic variation of Kettleman Hills North Dome Reservoir Rocks / by Lester Curen; Manuel of California Oil and Gas Cases; untitled typescript about land held by Mexicans in California. Includes...
Snapshots in "albumette print" folders. Images include oil derricks, laying line on a ranch, ranch ownders, ICI rigs, artichokes, and a Fairfax fruit and vegetable truck.
Snapshot photograph album documenting 1938 trip of Frank Zartman and family from their home near Billings, Oklahoma, westward across the panhandle of Texas and northeastern New Mexico, and eastward through Kansas and Missouri. The great majority of the photographs depict...
Correspondence directed to commercial contacts, in Cádiz, Seville, Havana, Paris, New York, and other cities, concerning commercial matters and shipping. Includes letters to the writer's brother-in-law, Francisco de Borja Migoni, in London. The letters also discuss Mexican political events, such...
Photographic copy negatives only.
Labels depict 2 girls standing among rows of trees in a pear orchard. Taller girl is Nancy Weston, granddaughter of Old Orchard's founding owner.
Contains a large number of items related to food and wine service at the Old Poodle Dog Restaurant in San Francisco. Items include printed menus of various shapes and sizes, printed menu booklets, printed wine booklets, blank menu cards, wine...
Exterior views of hotel with people assembled on porch.
Aerial views chiefly depicting undeveloped areas of San Mateo County. Locations identified include Bear Gulch, Star Hill, San Gregorio, McCreery and Dyer properties, Pigeon Point lighthouse, Rockaway Beach, Half Moon Bay, El Granada, Bald Mountain, Irish Ridge, Skyline Trail, Crystal...
Correspondence, legal documents, reports, notes, press releases, and photographs documenting Olive Mayer's work as a peace activist and an environmental activist in San Mateo County.
Some to Dr. J.W. Henderson and others to Dr. and Mrs. W.H. Ivie concerning Christmas creche, immortality, medicine, and sunsets (Cloth of Gold)
Member of a prominent Mormon family, Huntington wrote up his journals in "historical style," with much information concerning his father William, brothers Dimick and William, and sisters Zina and Prescindia. Describes experiences from 1835 with the Mormons in Ohio, Missouri,...
Includes his own correspondence, 1870-1938; some papers of his father, Lindsay Applegate, and of his sisters and brothers; documents in family possession; correspondence and documents relating to the Modoc War, 1867-1874.
Contains correspondence, including a significant amount of correspondence with another Nobel Prize winner, Ronald Coase, research and writing, talks and lectures, and course notes.
Correspondence, cards, and clippings collected for the autographs. Includes autographs from Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Salmon Portland Chase, Henry Clay, Samuel Clemens, Grover Cleveland, Henry James, Abraham Lincoln, Joaquin Miller, John Philip Sousa, Daniel Webster.
Collection contains correspondence, account books, diaries, architectural drawings, clippings, and miscellaneous writings. Also contains a manuscript titled: Crossing the plains: a tale of 1849 / by an Emigrant Lady, possibly written by Harriet Helena Hunt.
Photographic prints and other prints show San Francisco scenes (especially architectural views of large Victorian homes and some public buildings), several of art works and artists' models, snapshots of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, and...
Collection of 12 letters written by Oliver R. Parvin, originally of Salem, New Jersey, to his uncle, Dr. Quinton Gibbon (July 4, 1813-June 6, 1894), also of Salem, New Jersey. The letters are mostly written from various places in California...
Assembled from various sources.
Background reports prepared by Olmsted during research for his 1950 general report to the State Park Commission. Reports deal with several different proposed park sites throughout the state.
Consist principally of Warren Olney, Sr. correspondence and writings. Correspondence documents his experiences in the Union Army, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and views on political issues, such as U.S. occupation of the Philippines, the Panama Canal and Yosemite Valley....
Letters from Warren Olney, Sr. to B.P. Wall and George C. Pardee (returned, with covering letters from the recipients, to Warren Olney, Jr.); list, by Warren Olney, Sr. of judges and lawyers he had known; speech by Warren Olney, Jr.,...
Includes scripts, public relations files, grant applications, financial records, tour files, production files, videotapes, audiotapes, and photographs.
Contains field notes on the Pomo Indians specifically the Yokayo and Kashaya in Mendocino County, California.
List of omissions in: Ivan Petrov's translation of Tikhmenev's "Historical Review ... of the Russian American Company ..." in Russian America, v. I-II (BANC MSS P-K 1 - BANC MSS P-K 2) and of "Materials for the History of Russian...
Afton Crooks, long-time Information Coordinator for the University of California, Berkeley, discusses her family background in Seattle, early jobs at the University, the Kerr Presidency, the Free Speech Movement, affirmaive action, conflict-of-interest, the Saxon and Gardner Presidencies, various state and...
from Marc Selvaggio ;
Family roots in Oakland, California; first AC Transit job as traffic checker, 1961; role of the schedule analyst; history of National City Lines; changing rail lines to bus lines; effects of drivers' contract; learning scheduling from Warren Robinson and Dick...
A spiral bound booklet.
Professional photographs depicting wild flowers of the Yosemite Valley region of the Sierra Nevada.
Interviews with two key state legislators involved in the 1966 reapportionment of California: Stephen P. Teale. The Impact of One Man-One Vote on the Senate: Senator Teale Reviews Reapportionment and Other Issues, 1953-1966. Comments also on his political career, Governor...
Comments on student days, University of California, Berkeley, class of 1916; participation in Republican Party politics, 1940s-'60s; fundraising for various campaigns, including Earl Warren's; involvement in California water issues and controversies, including state wide bond issue for the water project;...
Association with Berkeley League of Women Voters and interest in Berkeley City Council; campaign for California state assembly (1950); appointment to California Democratic State Central Committee and election as national committeewoman; participation in Kefauver presidential primary campaigns (1952 and 1956);...
Views of the Ontario Mill (Park City, Utah) including one detailed interior view showing machinery on the top floor, with large drive belts going through the floor. A general view of Park City, Utah is also included.
Includes bulb and cord.
Records of service and repairs of engines, kept by F.E. Jones.
Scrapbook of clippings relating to the career of E.A. Holmes, mainly concerning opium-smuggling cases on San Francisco Bay. These sensational accounts describe the creative tactics employed by Holmes in his arrests. The articles were collected by Holmes and chiefly taken...
Schawlow family background, Depression years in Toronto; early aptitudes in radio engineering; college and university studies in math and physics, and World War II interruption; Malcolm Crawford and thesis research on atomic beam light source; post-doc at Columbia University, 1949-1951;...
Beilenson discusses his family background and childhood, attending Harvard University, moving to California in 1957, joining the Beverly Hills Democratic Club and winning the Club's endorsement to run for the 59th Assembly District in 1962. He continues with the impact...
Bouche discusses his family history in Brittany, French education, the French army, and his apprenticeship in wood carving. He speaks about his experience as a immigrant and his decision to become an American citizen. He compares that experience to that...
This interview covers the duties and responsibilities of California's deputy and assistant attorneys general; law enforcement; state legislators; major problems of law enforcement in California during 1960s; Stanley Mosk, Thomas Lynch, George Miller, and other governmental officials.
Mulford discusses his career in the State Assembly from 1957-1970, including working with Jesse M. Unruh, becoming Republican caucus chair, Ronald Reagan's campaign and governorship, reactions to disruptions on university campuses (1964-1969), unsuccessful campaign against Ken Meade in 1970, legislative...
Ed Roberts tells of his decision to attend the University of California, Berkeley, and living at Cowell Hospital there, his interest in athletics, and his early contact with the California Department of Rehabilitation through its involvement in the Cowell Hospital...
Farr discusses his education, both formal and informal; his wartime work in Puerto Rico; and his private legal practice in Monterey County. He depicts the senate and senators during his service from 1955 to 1967. He discusses early environmental legislation...
General Smith's career in the Marine Corps from 1917 to his retirement in 1955.
Kline discusses the governorship of Jerry Brown, 1975-1983, particularly criminal justice issues including sentencing and prison reform, bail reform, the judiciary, and court reform; the Agricultural Labor Relations Act; water issues; California Supreme Court Chief Justice Rose Bird; and the...
Joe Russsell discusses his career as an airplane pilot before and after World War II: learning to fly in Idaho just after World War I, barnstorming in Idaho, eastern Washington and Oregon with his brother Basil "Bake" Russell, working as...
Burby discusses his family background, education, World War II military experience, his career in journalism, and service as press secretary to Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Sr., from 1961 to 1967. He comments on significant events and issues that impacted the...
Martin Huff's oral history discusses the history, organization and operations of the California Franchise Tax Board during his years as executive officer (1963-1979) including collection of personal income and business taxes, unitary system of corporate taxation, relations with supervisory board,...
Recollections of Herbert Hoover; comments on his own career as cartoonist and sculptor.
T. Anthony Quinn discusses reapportionment in California in 1961, the 1970 redistricting plan, drawing of the court plan in 1973, and reapportionment in 1980. He explains reapportionment issues from the point of view of the Republican Party and focuses on...
Mr. Lancaster recalls his 1958 election to the City Council of the recently incorporated City of Duarte, his service to the California State Assembly in 1972 until he decided to retire in 1992. Well known for his expertise in local...
Four oral history transcripts, a biographical masters thesis, and one volume of supplementary material relating to the history of the Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley.
Mrs. Meyer discusses life in Cincinatti, Ohio at the turn of the century before World War I, for an economically sound family, and the disruption and hardships caused by the war.
Early years in Centralia, Illinois; early teaching jobs, including Howard University; Bayesian approach; work on information theory; Berkeley and Berkeley's Dept. of Statistics.
Comments primarily on his work aiding the League with property acquisition.
Documentation of jail facilities, with emphasis on inadequacies.
Correspondence of a man traveling to the California Gold Rush, working as a gold miner, and his eventual return home to Coventry, New York (Chenango County). Details include the difficult conditions onboard the Brig Lalla on the way to San...
Copy of an order from an official in Mexico City to the Guadalajara Audiencia, requesting more care in the selection of settlers sent to the Californias, in place of the criminals hitherto sent. Preceded by copy of a document, Aug....
Viceregal order restricting for two years the sojourn and mercantile activities of transients, whether foreigners or newly arrived Spaniards, in mining regions, to prevent collusion and defrauding the Crown of its tax, "the royal fifth."
Original documents in: the Zavala Library, Chapultepec.
Data compiled by Sáenz on the basis of ordinances existing from the 16th century and relating to measurement and distribution of land or waters in North America; with interpretative comments and diagrams.
Bound ledger volumes for three chapters of the Order of the Eastern Star located in Berkeley, Calif.: Alethe #366 (South Berkeley), Berkeley #178, and Thousand Oaks (Berkeley) #375. Bound volumes consist of entries on chapter letterhead entry sheets listing dates...
Panoramic group portrait of members of the Order of the Sons of Hermann posing before the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park. On lawn before conservatory, flowers are arranged to spell out: Welcome Herman Sons Golden Jubilee 1879-1929.
Study of architecture at University of Pennsylvania, Rome and Paris; association with John Galen Howard, 1904-1908, in San Francisco; architects and architecture in the Bay Area; Bohemian Club; professor of architecture, University of California, Berkeley; architecture on Berkeley, San Francisco...
Collection of orders to Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Great Western Power Co., Sierra and San Francisco Power Co., and various other electric, gas, water, and mining companies. Topics of orders include: operating to capacity, power emergencies, amounts of water...
Photostats of a copy of the "Laws of Burgos" in the Archivo General de Indias, Seville. A contemporary copy, made for the Governor of Puerto Rico, of the code drafted for the government of Española. Includes copy of Indiferente General...
Images of campus buidlings, students, the Millrace, etc.
Photographs show snapshops along a road trip, including scenes of camping, fishing, a scout camp, towns, homes, pets, and several automobile wrecks. Appears to be photographs from Oregon and California, but identification uncertain.
A collection of letters and signatures of prominent Oregonians - mainly governors and U.S. senators and congressmen.
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Biographies of Oregon settlers. Dictation recorded by James A. Moore for Hubert Howe Bancroft. Individually cataloged; search under title: Oregon dictations, 1885-1887.
Dictations recorded in Klamath Co. for Hubert Howe Bancroft by John T. Fulkerson. Each item catalogued separately; search under title: Oregon Dictations for Klamath County.
Letters and documents assembled from various sources. Included is a facsimile of an Abraham Lincoln letter, Nov. 19, 1858.
Views of natural scenery, cities and towns, public and commercial buildings, roads and bridges, rivers, railroads, industry, logging, agriculture, and other views from regions throughout Oregon.
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Letters, waybills, instructions and receipts covering operations from Sacramento to Portland.
Consists of waybills, monthly abstracts, receipts and vouchers made by the Oregon Stage Co. Transactions include equipment for (and repair of) stagecoaches, as well as food and boarding for horses. Also included is correspondence of H.W. Corbett.
Printed way-bill of the Oregon Stage Company filled out for 6 stage coach passengers and dated November 11, 1866. Three of the passenger names are listed as "John China," two as "China", and one as "Chinaman." The second item is...
Records and proceedings in connection with project no. 170. Included are copies of proposal for the dam; studies; letters and reports supporting and protesting the project; transcripts of public hearings; applications of the Northwest Power Supply Co. and later of...
Transcript in the hand of J. Henry Brown, supplementary to The Oregon Archives (Salem, 1853).
Views of various sites along the route of the Oregon Trail, showing such features as wagon ruts and the remains of Fort Kearney as they appeared in the 1930's.
Views of Hotel Denny, Yaquina Bay, and Grand Ronde Valley, Oregon.
Work for the California Republican party, including involvement with Republican women's clubs and participation in conventions and campaigns; role as director of women's activities, Federal Civil Defense Administration, 1954-58, and with Western Training Center, Office of Civil Defense, 1960-65. With...
Donald Dickey discusses his family background and education; the history and development of the Oriental Mine, Alleghany, Calif.; management of a high-grade mine; security and safety; refining of gold and waste disposal; and geological research.
Three manuscripts, primarily Franciscan, relating to the origins, theogony, and history of the early inhabitants of Mexico: 1. Origen de los Mexicanos. [Mexico, 16th cent.] Copy of a fragment from a report on the first tribes to inhabit Mexico, prepared...
1 drawing with multiple female figures (1965) and 4 abstract paintings (1988-1989).
Chiefly color studies, demonstrating color types, interactions, progressions, unifying strategies, symbolic use of color, etc. Includes scales, charts, palettes and other guides, as well as color theory applied to miscellaneous subjects (plants, tea pot, a painting by Paul Klee).
Report made to the U.S. Attorney General, containing a list of documents shipped to the National Archives in 1937.
Original drawings by Sergio Sánchez Santamaría produced for his exhibition La república 150 años después, held in Mexico City from July, 2017 to June, 2018. The exhibition commemorated the 150th anniversary of the 1867 constitutional referendum of Mexico. Drawings depict...
Correspondence and stock records for mining operations in White Pine County, Nevada.
Includes drawings for Ruggles of Red Gap, by Harry Leon Wilson, published in the Saturday evening post.
Early years in St. Louis and Chicago; education with Alexander Sebald and Ottorino Respighi; creating a string quartet; music in the 1930s; composing for NBC and a WPA theater project; studying conducting with Pierre Monteux; performing as violinist with San...
Interviews conducted 1970 by Malca Chall for the Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library. Photograph and photocopies of clippings inserted. Introduction by Henry J. Ongerth. Comments on long career as first chief of the Bureau in the California State Department...
Study of the club, founded by Dr. Elmer E. Brown about 1893, for those interested in education. Included is information on the defunct Scholia Club and on the California Teachers' Association (5 leaves, typescript).
Folder 1: Photographs and snapshots of O.W. Wilson -- Folder 2: Chicago photographs -- Folder 3: Photographs of friends, unidentified -- Folder 4: Photographs of Chicago police banquets and other events, family and individual portraits, wedding pictures, etc.
Letters written to his brother, Jim, from Mare Island Navy Yard, San Francisco Bay, Panama, and the coast of Central America deal primarily with day-to-day concerns. They also offer references to local events and activities, such as the imprisonment of...
Photos of mine in San Jose de Bustos, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Articles of agreement between William A. Bolinger and Asbury Harpending, including certified copies of the articles of incorporation, of California Assembly Bill no. 716 concerning railroad bonds, and of power of attorney to General W.S. Rosecrans; abstracts from stockbook with...
Views of dam construction at Oroville, Calif., on the Feather River. One view of the Bidwell Bar area, soon to be flooded.
Correspondence and subject files chiefly concerning education and law.
Letters from Orrin (or Orvin?) to H.A. Avery in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio report on life in San Francisco, mutual friends, and business affairs. Although the letters do not focus on mining, mention is made of a Mr. Moulton whose machine...
Written mainly from Woodside, California, describing his logging work in the redwoods of San Mateo County.
Chiefly letters from friends in California, including D.S. Ruggles, W. Hall, C.E. Hutton, Joseph Clarke and Lewis J. Low. From Downieville, San Francisco and Strawberry Valley. One addressed to Peasley at Port Orford, Ore.
Two letters, June 10 and July 1, 1880 (with one from John Taylor, February 26, 1880), relate to Pratt's supplying Bancroft with Utah material in behalf of the Mormon church.
Agreement between Antonio María Ortega and Rafaela Ortega regarding the Rancho del Refugio, 1842 May 24; and documents regarding the sale of land called Tajiguas (San Isidro de Tajiguas?) in Santa Barbara County to Rafael Ortega.
Mainly papers relating to property of Rancho Santa Ysabel and Santa María.
Eight handwritten letters (30 p.) from a man living in Northern California to various family members back East and in Maine. One letter is co-signed by his brother, H.O. (Herbert O.) Lang. Most of the contents describe the mild weather...
Contains letters to Harlan and Madelyn Stelmach, including 3 letters from Barry Messer concerning resistance to the draft in 1968, and educational ventures at Sunnyvale and Santa Cruz, Calif. Also contains a postcard from "Dick"; 2 letters from "George" concerning...
Three letters, the first written July 17, 1863 by Oscar to his mother, Polly Spaulding, still in Lyndon, Vermont, regards life in California and his decision to remain in the Napa Valley. The second written Mar. 2, 1930 by Charlotte...
The collection consists of papers, documents, letters, and photographs of his work. Much of the correspondence consists of letters Oscar Hecht wrote to his wife Edith in 1959 and 1961 while he was in Israel and she remained in Berkeley,...
Papers concerning Caterpillar Tractor Company.
Include recommendations from former employers, and letters from the Company refusing his applications.
Miscellaneous papers removed from a scrapbook of the Berkeley photographer, including letters from E.E. Banard and E.W. Davis; announcement of meetings of the Pacific coast Amateur Photographic Association and the California Camera Club; and clippings.
Contains letter from agent of the Grant Powder Company on an order of Judson powder and how best to use it.
The collection contains handwritten scores, music, and librettos composed by Weil; correspondence about the Oscar Weil Scholarship Fund, established in 1921; letters about Weil from Albert I. Elkus, Harold Bauer, Efrem Zimbalist, Josef Lhevinne, and others; and Weil's broken cane.
Contains miscellaneous personal papers of Mary Spottiswood (Mrs. M. M.) O'Shaughnessy, and their five children: Margaret, Mary, Helen, Francis, and Elizabeth.
Typescript entitled, "Recollections of youth and the law", Part II, chapters 5 and 6.
Mainly concerning family matters.
An account of Daniel Bidwell, half brother of John Bidwell, who settled on Rancho Chico, Butte Co., in 1854, and his family and descendents, with genealogical information on the Bidwell and Reed families.
Paintings: coastal views, California hillside views, some Berkeley scenes. Photograph: unidentified residence, by photographer "Doowder". Also includes a letter written to Otis Carrington by Ambrose Bierce, dated January 5, 1896, and a snapshot photograph of two men -- perhaps Carrington...
Ledger books containing details of real estate, loans, and oil property transactions in the Los Angeles, Calif. area. Includes an account book for cattle breeding listing details on siring, milk production, birth information, lineage, and cattle sales. Small B&W photographs...
Letters from Otis L. Bridges to Mrs. E.E.P. Belton, concerning Bridges's daughter Alice.
V. 1: Notes for Latin grammar course given by Professor H. Osthoff (123 pages); v. 2: Notes on Old English from Prof. J. Zupitza's textbook (32 pages); v. 3: Notes on Old English grammar from Prof. Zupitza's course.
Includes complaint of Charles Lauff of Bolinas for non-payment for a horse, 1855; and bills and receipts relating to the settlement of his estate.
Letters sent to Smith, Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, from various opponents concerning his views on the Vietnam War and President Nixon, among other topics. Also includes a notebook/journal concerning harassment...
Includes papers regarding Mormon doctrine (originals and typed transcripts), clippings and other printed materials, including publications of Church of Christ (Temple Lot), and a small amount of correspondence. Letters from Ben T. Short [1939]; from J.W. Musser with copies of...
Includes correspondence, notes, and manuscripts of German émigré physicist Otto Stern whose work encompassed both theoretical and experimental physics in Germany and the United States. Photos and awards are included. Correspondents include Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, and other prominent physicists.
Typed transcripts of selected entries from Peterson's diary (1906-1919), reports and photographs of the Suribong Dam project, 1918-1920, and of the Peterson's family in Korea, 1918-1919. Also contains photocopies of United States census records (1900), signed by Peterson from Contra...
Contains unpublished manuscript on the government of the 13 American British Colonies and the start of the United States.
Views of Fairbanks and other Alaska scenes. Many show Eskimos and their sled dogs (including sled dog mail teams). Scenes of mining and boom towns are also present, including Dawson, Yukon Territory.
Snapshot photograph album documenting a cross-country road trip taken in the summer of 1956 by a California family who flew from Los Angeles to Detroit, then travelled by car to New England before driving westward. Well-documented highlights include the Henry...
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Various outdoor group activities, including picnics, swimming, outings; wilderness scenes (apparently Sierra Nevada), including one of Devil's Postpile.
From Schoyer's Books ;
Prepared by WPA personnel from records in the California Adjutant General's office and the state library. Includes list of guard organizations, and information on activities during World War I, Mexican border service, 1916, San Francisco earthquake and fire, Civil War,...
Illustrated posters promoting the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival held annually in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
She speaks of her background, family and early education in Mississippi and Louisiana, before the family's move to California. She relates her experiences as an undergraduate at the University of California, the founding of Alpha Kappa Alpha, in 1921, the...
Original transcript in: California State Library.
Illustrated journal describing overland journey from Iowa to California. Some sketches of California scenes at end of sketchbook.
Biographical sketch of Bela M. Hughes; letter, Feb. 9, 1902, from Frank A. Root to Nathan Stein, concerning publication of Overland stage to California (1891); letter, Dec. 28, 1902, from Nathan Stein to Dudley Evans, concerning the Pony Express and...
Record of journey from Kentucky to California with added note. Explanatory letter from her daughter, Mrs. Nannie S. Wills, bound in. Other copies available: typed transcript and carbon copy.
Various stories, some with photographs for illustrations, concerning early California, the West, particularly Idaho, and preparations for departure for the Klondike gold regions.
Promoting the Pacific City Colonization Company, a proposed colonization scheme with construction of a railroad in Topolobampo, Sinaloa, Mexico. Portion of a draft of a prospectus also included. With these: letter, Nov. 27, 1881, to the Senator from W. A....
Primarily research material on Adonijah Rambo, an early settler in Red Bluff, and on Isaac Rambo of Petaluma.
Includes two letters from Hollister, California, 1869, written as agent for a stage line.
Minute book, l v. (Mar.16-Dec.27, 1880), kept by Frank C. Radcliffe and W.M. Bowers, secretaries. Also included: copy of rules, lists of members and honorary members. A few clippings re club functions pasted in. With this, papers re resignation of...
James Wilder discusses building an earth-moving business after World War II, specializing in mining and mercury mining in San Mateo and Alameda Counties, Calif.; buying the Manhattan Mine in Napa Co., Calif.; negotiations with Homestake Mining Company when gold was...
Entries, Jan. 13-Mar. 15, 1895, by Frank M. Hunt; entries, Jan. 28, 1897-Feb. 17, 1899, by Simon Harris. A few accounts also.
Concerns assays, meat, mutton, hearts and tongue, stocks, correspondence, plans, land tenure and stationery. Items in this collection are cataloged individually and can be searched under title: Owyhee County Mining Miscellany.
Concerns voyages to the Pacific coast, land tenure, commerce, hotels, estate management, sheep, accounts, and dams.
Includes 12 volumes of account books, ledgers, and other financial documents of the Owyhee Meat Company, located in Silver City, Idaho.
Letters from the Nevada Transportation Company, Winnemucca, Nevada, 1871-1872, to W.D. Walbridge, Superintendent, or J.L. Gardiner, Secretary, pertaining to freight carriage between Silver City and Winnemucca. Also, receipts, invoices, bank statements, and checks, 1869-1872; and letters between E.M. Farnham and...