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Title: Grahame Hardy Collection
Dates (inclusive): 1849-1909
Collection Number: mssHM 72670-72753
Creator:
Hardy, Grahame H.
Extent:
85 items in 4 boxes
Repository:
The Hunington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2129
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection contains documents, manuscripts, correspondence, and ephemera assembled by author and collector Grahame H.
Hardy
reflecting a range of legal, administrative, municipal, and real estate-related transactions
initiated by railroad and mining interests, businessmen, and municipalities in the
San Francisco Bay area, Northern California, and western Nevada in the second half of the 19th century. The correspondence
also contains letters between parties involved in
the construction of the Nicaragua Canal.
Language:
English.
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services
Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to
quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such
activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is
one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
[Identification of item]. Grahame Hardy Collection, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Purchased from Grahame Hardy, May 1945, August 1946, and July 1953.
The name of “B.F. Kenney,” which appears in 11 pieces of correspondence and one
document, was written in various forms, such as “Kenny” and “Kinney.” We settled
on using “Kenney,” a form that appears the greatest number of times, to avoid
confusion and uphold standards of uniformity.
The collection was assembled by author and collector Grahame H. Hardy, the
chronologically-arranged collection is divided into three series: documents and
manuscripts; correspondence; and ephemera.
The documents and manuscripts demonstrate
the range of legal, administrative, municipal, and real estate-related transactions
initiated by railroad and mining interests, businessmen, and municipalities in the
San Francisco Bay area, Northern California, and western Nevada. Included in this
series are legal proceedings, title deeds, mining reports and claims.
Correspondence
includes business and personal letters to and from Northern California lawyers,
railroad and mining entrepreneurs in California and Nevada, and parties involved in
the construction of the Nicaragua Canal. Included in this series are letters
pertaining to the case of Daniel Sill, a San Francisco-based blacksmith and the
trial of A.J. Jackson, an African American tried and acquitted in Marysville,
California.
Lastly, ephemera include four items: a Mission Homestead Association
certificate of stock; one check payable to Jack H. Haverly, a promoter of minstrel
shows, from theater producers and brothers, Gustave Frohman and Charles Frohman; the
baptism certificate of Everett Loftus Saxondale Kenna; and an undated glossary of
mining terms.
Prominent persons and organizations featured in the collection include:
- California Academy of Sciences, founded in 1853 as the one of the first scientific academies west of the Atlantic seaboard.
- Central Pacific Railroad Company, established in 1861 and financed in part by Leland Stanford and Collis P. Huntington, who are also mentioned in the collection.
- William Heath Davis (1822-1909), San Francisco merchant and author, spouse of Maria de Jesús Estudillo, who played a key role in the founding of the California cities of Oakland and San Diego.
- John Brooks Felton (1827-1877), San Francisco Bay Area lawyer and judge, as well as one-time mayor of Oakland, California.
- Joseph Pendleton Hoge (1810-1891), former U.S. Representative of Illinois and later lawyer and judge of the San Francisco Superior Court.
- M.G. Upton, former official reporter of the California Assembly and author of the urban planning critique, “The Plan of San Francisco” (1869).
The collection is divided into three series: Documents and manuscripts;
Correspondence; and Ephemera. Arranged chronologically.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Beideman, Jacob C.,
-1865.
Hardy, Grahame H.,
collector.
Huntington, Collis
Potter, 1821-1900.
Lick, James,
1796-1876.
Mulford, Thomas
W.
Selby, Thomas H.,
1820-1875.
Sill,
Daniel.
Stanford, Leland,
1824-1893 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Central Pacific
Railroad Company.
Mechanics' Institute
(San Francisco, Calif.)
Nicaragua Canal
Construction Company.
Sacramento Valley
Railroad.
San Francisco Water
Company.
San Pedro, Los Angeles
& Salt Lake Railroad Company -- History -- Sources.
Triunfo Silver Mining
and Commercial Company of Lower California.
Western Pacific
Railroad Company.
African Americans -- California,
Northern -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Electric railroads -- California,
Northern.
Mines and mineral resources --
California.
Mines and mineral resources --
Nevada.
Ores -- Sampling and
estimation.
Public works -- California -- San
Francisco.
Quartz mines and mining -- California
-- Mariposa County.
Railroads -- California.
Real property -- California.
Waterfronts -- California --
Oakland.
Alameda County
(Calif.)
California -- History
-- 19th century -- Sources.
California -- History
-- 20th century -- Sources.
Nicaragua Canal
(Nicaragua)
Oakland (Calif.) --
Trials, litigation, etc.
Placer County
(Calif.)
San Francisco
(Calif.)
Deeds -- California -- 19th century.
Ledgers (account books) -- California
-- 19th century.
Legal documents -- California -- 19th
century.
Letters (correspondence) -- California
-- 19th century.
Letters (correspondence) -- California
-- 20th century.
Manuscripts -- 19th century.
Crane, William W. (William Watrous)
Davis, William Heath, 1822-1909.
Felton, John Brooks, 1827-1877.
Frohman, Charles, 1860-1915.
Frohman, Gustave, 1854-1930.
Haight, Henry H., 1825-1878.
Haverly, Jack, 1837-1901, recipient.
Hoge, J. P. (Joseph Pendleton),
1810-1891.
Upton, M. G.
Bank of California.
California Academy of
Sciences.
New Almaden Mining Company.