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To California in 1850 : reminiscences, Salinas City, Calif., 1897.
BANC MSS C-D 5091LOCAL
Collection Overview

Title:

To California in 1850: reminiscences, Salinas City, Calif., 1897

Creator/Contributor:

Harvey, Isaac Julian, 1816-1899, creator

Creator/Contributor:

Baker, F. S.

Creator/Contributor:

Salinas (Calif.) Lincoln Avenue Street Commission

Abstract:

Recollections of travels to Missouri, 1839, and overland journey to Oregon. Begun March 4, 1897, addressed to his granddaughter, Rhoda Swinnerton, but never completed.
Written in a volume containing minutes of the Lincoln Avenue Street Commission, Salinas, Jan. 3-20, 1896, kept by F.S. Baker, Secretary.

Date:

1897 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-or
Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Personal narratives
Indians of North America -- Oregon
Voyages par terre jusqu'au Pacifique -- Récits personnels
Peuples autochtones -- Oregon
Indians of North America
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Travel
Oregon -- Description and travel
Oregon -- Descriptions et voyages
Oregon

Note:

Also available on microfilm.
A typed transcript with notes concerning Mr. Harvey, his later experiences and plans for his journal is available as C-D 5091 B.
Memoirs have published in Florence M. Baker's Isaac Julian Harvey, California Pioneer (F865.H33B3 1987 in book collection of The Bancroft Library).

Type:

Personal narratives.
Minutes.
Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

1 portfolio
1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 847:7)

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC MSS C-D 5091LOCAL

Origin:

California