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Irene Sewell Soberanes Collection
1989.43.2, 1987.35.1
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Title: Irene Sewell Soberanes Collection
Dates: 1920s-1950s
Collection Number: 1989.43.2, 1987.35.1
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 1 box and 1 scrapbook
Repository:
Contra Costa County Historical Society
Martinez, California 94553
Abstract: Mrs. Irene Soberanes was the former Irene Sewell, great-granddaughter of Dr. John Marsh. She married Paul Soberanes on 13
Dec 1913. The Soberanes Family was an early Spanish family in California. The box includes a collection of notes regarding
the Women’s Temperance Union in Contra Costa County, family history of early Californios, and notes of Natividad Battle of
November 16, 1846. The scrapbook includes newspaper clippings about the Soberanes family from the 1920s to the 1950s.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Contact the Contra Costa County Historical Society for publication permission.
Irene Sewell Soberanes Collection. Contra Costa County Historical Society
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