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Herbert and Palmer families papers, 1857-1959.
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Title:
Herbert and Palmer families papers, 1857-1959Herbert family papers
Palmer family papers
Creator/Contributor:
Herbert family.Creator/Contributor:
Palmer family.Creator/Contributor:
Herbert, William B., correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Barnes, Susanna, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Palmer, F. H. (Frank H.), correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Sons of Temperance of North AmericaAbstract:
Collection of correspondence exchanged between various family members and others. Two letters are written from San Francisco
to family members shortly after the 1906 earthquake. Also includes Calif. real estate legal documents, a Sons of Temperance
certificate affixed with a paper seal (Churchville Division No. 113. Sons of Temperance, State of Maryland), and other ephemera.
Date:
1857 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- n-us-mdHerbert family -- Archives
Palmer family -- Archives
Herbert, William B -- Correspondence
Palmer, F. H. (Frank H.) -- Correspondence
Barnes, Susanna -- Correspondence
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 -- Personal narratives
California -- Social life and customs
Havre de Grace (Md.) -- Social life and customs
Note:
Herbert and Palmer families papers, BANC MSS 2009/174, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 2010.085).
Objects transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library.
William Herbert and his fiance Susanna (sometimes called Susan) Barnes corresponded between Calif. and Havre de Grace, Md.
where she was a schoolteacher. They eventually married in California.
In English.
Container list available in the library.
Type:
Legal instruments.Certificates.
Physical Description:
print
1 box (0.4 linear feet)
Language:
English