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Davis Motor Mine Collection
D-701  
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Placer Claim Deed June 16, 1966

Physical Description: 1 item 8.5 x 13.5 inches
Physical Description: Folio, typewritten within the form, signed by all 6 family members. Soiling, edgewear, rust marks.
 

Manuscript and Location Directions

Physical Description: 1 item
Physical Description: In pen and pencil in hand of William Barquist
 

Letter from William Barquist to Alfred Columbine

Physical Description: 1 item
Physical Description: in pencil and ink. Tall octavo.

Scope and Contents

Includes original typed envelope
 

Letter from Forest Sheehan to William Barquist

Physical Description: 1 item
Physical Description: In ink. Tall octavo.
 

Maps

Physical Description: 19 items

Scope and Contents

19 maps, including 9 printed in color issued by USDA, and Dept. of Geology, sized from 18 x 22 in. to 22 x 28 in., 10 blueprint maps, oblong and portrait sized from 17 x 10.5 in., to 13 x 14.5 in., and 19 x 21 in. Many with pencil and ink annotations or, surveying directions.
 

Photographs and Color Slides

Physical Description: 120 items

Scope and Contents

67 original photos (40 black and white from 3.5 x 3.5 inches up to 4 x 5 inches with 27 color photos sized 3.5 x 3.5 inches), many with annotations on versos, 53 color photos printed from 53 color slides (preserving original slide cases, 2 with manuscript annotations), sized 4 x 6 inches.
 

American Gold News

Physical Description: 3 items

Scope and Contents

Three American Gold News issues, fold out into 4 page folios, with photo illustrations, text illustrations (some toning).
 

Legal Guide for California Prospectors & Miners 1965-1973

Physical Description: 3 items
 

Averill's Placer Mining for Gold in California

Physical Description: 1 book Octavo. 377, [1] pp. with 1 large folding diagram, photo illustrations

Scope and Contents

Includes three large folding maps in rear pocket.