This folder contains 33 items: Two black & white Xerox copies of an 1881 ad for real estate in various parts of San Francisco by Maurice Dore & Co. Auctioneers. One black & white Xerox copy of an ad for real estate around 24th Ave. in San Francisco by Maurice Dore & Co. Auctioneers. Four black & white Xerox copies showing available lots on 22nd, 23rd, and 24th Ave. between Point Lobos Ave and California St. An envelope containing contracts and receipts concerning a lot on Dehon St. in San Francisco. A small booklet of the laws of the Young Men’s Catholic Union adopted December 1, 1887. 14 receipts acknowledging the payment of real estate and property taxes by John Campbell from 1893-1903. Vol. 1, No.3 of St. Joseph’s Union newspaper dated September 1887. A page of the Daily Examiner dated Sunday, September 28, 1884. A typed letter signed ‘Lester’ to his mother, mentioning a Judge Haynes and a Judge Mitchell, and well as a Marius.

The papers seem to deal with a Joseph Campbell who purchased real estate in San Francisco during the 1890s. Joseph, according to documents in a related Biographical File, was a teamster and a drayman in San Francscio, documented by a certificate dated, Jan. 26, 1878, from the Draymen's and Teamsters' Union of San Francisco, California, noting Campbell a member in good standing. This same file also includes his Municipal License, dated January 1st, 1891, licensing him to operate a vehicle drawn by more than two animals, his business address being "Pine and Front". John Campbell paid real estate and personal property taxes on his behalf from 1893-1903.

1.0 folder 33 documents (letters, receipts, booklets)

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