G.W. McNear Collection
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Title: G.W. McNear Collection
Dates: 1877-1889
Collection Number: 1984.4
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 4 boxes
Repository:
Contra Costa County Historical Society
Martinez, California 94553
Abstract: The boxes contain correspondence, shipping records and ledger books from George W. McNear’s grain brokerage business in San
Francisco and his grain shipping warehouse in Port Costa, which he opened in 1874 after working for his brother’s grain business
in Petaluma for several years.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Contact the Contra Costa County Historical Society for publication permission.
G.W. McNear Collection. Contra Costa County Historical Society
Scope and Content of Collection
Materials are stored in four boxes as described below.
Box 1
• Letters to G.W.McNear regarding grain shipping from Petaluma to local shippers, 1877.
• Shipping records for McNear, 1882-83. Indexed.
Box 2
• McNear ledger book, 1886-92.
• McNear ledger book, 1879-82.
Box 3
• McNear ledger book, 1878-79. Indexed.
• Port Costa Business Accounts book, containing sampling, weighing and shipping charges for McNear’s grain brokerage in San
Francisco, 1887-95.
Box 4
• Book of cables regarding prices and market conditions for wheat sales in Europe, 1893-94.
• Book of telegraph confirmations for McNear’s grain business, 1889. Indexed.
• 1976 calendar of “Old Concord” donated by Alice McNeil Russi. Note: Alice McNeil Russi’s middle name is sometimes given
as McNear. Accession number 84-9.
Agriculture
Business records
Correspondence
California Wharf and Warehouse
Port Costa
letters
ledger books
cables & telegrams