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Title: David Hewes family papers
Dates: 1868-1973
Collection Number: MS 714
Creator/Collector:
Hewes (Family: Hewes, David)
Extent: 1 folder
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Sacramento, California 95814
Abstract: Color photocopies made from a scrapbook in the possession of the San Francisco Bay Area branch of the David Hewes family.
Language of Material: English
This collection is open for research at our off-site storage facility with one week's notice. Contact Library & Archives
staff to arrange for access.
Copyright has not been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the CSRM Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the CSRM
as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must
also be obtained by the reader.
David Hewes family papers. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Scope and Content of Collection
Includes: correspondence, Simmerone Leasing and Mining Company stock certificates, typescript of an essay by Robert O'Brien
entitled "The Man Who Made San Francisco," documents concerning the award of a contract (1868-1869) to David Hewes for grading
San Francisco's Polk Street, correspondence with the Hewes family regarding the gold spikes once in the possession of the
Hewes famly, an invoice (May 4, 1869) to David Hewes for the finishing of two gold spikes, and articles about Oakland's Cameron-Stanford
House, once occupied by the David Hewes Family.