Guide to the Harry C. Peterson Papers, ca. 1880-1944
Guide to the Harry C. Peterson Papers, ca. 1880-1944
Collection number: M0649
Department of Special Collections and University ArchivesStanford University Libraries
Stanford, California
- Department of Special Collections
- Green Library
- Stanford University Libraries
- Stanford, CA 94305-6004
- Phone: (650) 725-1022
- Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
- URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
- Processed by:
- Special Collections staff
- Date Completed:
- 1993
- Encoded by:
- Steven Mandeville-Gamble
Collection Scope and Content Summary
Series 1. Peterson Family Material
Harry Claude Peterson biography and resumes n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Personal Correspondence1907-1937
Correspondence to H. C. Peterson, from Arthur S. Dudley family1909-1937
Stock certificate (gold mine), agreement to purchase (blank) 1933
Commemorative silk ribbons1889-1916
Photo album, Austin Petersonn.d.
Miscellany (Golden Gate Bridge ticket, H. C. Peterson business card, receipt 1932-1937
Series 2. Material Relating to Stanford University and Stanford Museum
"Founding of Stanford University (1891)"1931
Scope and Content Note
"Stanford University Opening Day Exercises" 1891
Stanford Circulars 1 & 2 (with personal card of Mrs. Leland [Jane] Stanford). 1891
Stanford University student testimonials, King-Richardson, Company 1899
Stanford University Commencement 1901
"Address to Stanford University Trustees," Jane L. Stanford 1899
"Address to Stanford University Trustees," Jane L. Stanford 1903
Letter to Jane L. Stanford, from F. W. Covey (Palo Alto Stock Farm), September 1, 1893
Letter to Jane L. Stanford, from H. H. Gross,July 21, 1893
Letters to Jane L. Stanford, from Francis Spencer (Stanford Trustee), C. F. Crocker, C. S. Lathrop, C. P. Huntington.August 17, 1890 and August 17, 1893
Letters to Jane L. Stanford, from Horace Davis (Stanford Trustee), July 13 and July 19, 1904
Letters to H. C. Nash (secretary to Leland W. Stanford), from R. O. Holzman, July 17, July 20, and August 5, 1893
Letter to H. C. Nash, from H. H. Gross, July 21, 1893
Letter to H. C. Nash, from Rupert Schmid,August 2, 1893
In Memoriam: Leland Stanford, Jr., book with letter attached to Mrs. Jane L. Stanford, from William Couper. 1885
"Memorial Address: Leland Stanford," U. S. Senate, Washington D. C., 1893
"In Memoriam: Anna Lathrop Hewes,"August 2, 1892
"Leland Stanford Junior Museum," Stanford University Press, 1903
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Letter to H. C. Peterson, Curator, Leland Stanford, Jr. Museum, from Bertha Berner (Secretary to Jane L. Stanford), August 19, 1903
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Letters to H. C. Peterson, from Charles G. Lathrop, July 6, 1901, and Mrs. Charles G. Lathrop, December 28, 1903
Letter to H. C. Peterson, from David [Starr] Jordan, November 14, 1902
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Letter to H. C. Peterson, from R. [Ray] L. [Lyman] Wilbur, September 29, 1916
Letter from H. C. Peterson to [Mr. Bube?], with invoice, October 14, 1907
Additional Stanford Museum correspondence to H. C. Peterson 1901-1917
Envelopes to H. C. Peterson 1910-1916
News clipping, "New Library at Stanford Has Browsing Room." [ July 26 1919?].
Scope and Content Note
Photo, note, and envelope re Herbert Hoover[1912]
Letter to Stanford student's parents, from Herbert Hoover, October 5, 1942
"Palo Stock Farm Catalog," auction, November 26, 1897
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of early Stanford University [1900]
Souvenir ticket to Stanford house, Michigan Bluff, Placer County, California, June 2, 1928
Scope and Content Note
"Scientific Physiognomist." Fragment, signed by Mary Olmstead Stanton . n.d.
Blank invoices,Vina Distillery 1890?
Series 3. Material Relating to Fort Sutter and the Discovery of Gold
Photographs of Sutter's Fort (n.d.) and H. C. Peterson, Curator (1932).
" Sutter's Fort Historical Museum," pamphlet[1944?]
"The Discovery of Gold in California," pamphlet1919
Letters by P. B .Beakart, stating that first gold found in 1848 was not nugget-sized 1921, 1931
"California Pioneers," speech, John C. Chambers,February 22, 1918
"Sutter's Fort Historical Museum," typescript, by H. C. Peterson 1925
"Hock Farm," partial typescript, by H. C. Peterson n.d.
"It Never Occurred To Me," typescript, by H.C. Peterson n.d.
Sutter's Fort Museum Collection, partial typescript, [by H. C. Peterson?] n.d.
"Benicia," typescript, H. C. Peterson, September 12, 1927
"Marysville," partial typescript, by H.C. Peterson, September 14,1935
Minutes, California State Historical Association, Sutter's Fort, H. C. Peterson, Acting Secretary,November 26, 1934
Lists of Fort Sutter display labels n.d.
Sutter's Fort Museum correspondence, to H. C. Peterson , 1920-1929
Sutter's Fort Museum correspondence, to H. C. Peterson, 1930-1940
Correspondence to/from B. F. Hall and H. C. Peterson 1930-1937
Correspondence from H.C Peterson 1927-1936
Letter from Karen Kearns (Huntington Library) to Gerald Lucero regarding authenticity of attached letter, purportedly written by John A. Sutter, May 17, 1988
Scope and Content Note
Photograph, John A. Sutter.n.d.
Copy of will, Anna Sutter, dated 1881 1926
Invitation to H. C. Peterson to visit branches of the Sutter Family, from M. Van Volbeck,January 18, 1928.
Letters from Paulita de Sutter to H.C. Peterson,1938
Photographs, John Bidwell n.d.
Letter to John Bidwell, from Mrs. T. Lynch Mineral Point, November 13, 1851
Letter to H.C. Peterson, from Charles E. Bancroft, regarding Bidwell's BarMarch 19, 1925,
Letters from Charles H.Davis regarding disposition of effects, May 1, 1928
Letters from/to A. William Lund and H. C. Peterson, May 19 and 26, 1928
Letter to H. C Peterson from E. Brown regarding C. H. Davis, July 9, 1928
Letter to H. C. Peterson from Capt. W.R. Scott regarding C. H. Davis, July 18, 1928
Typescript and handwritten draft regarding C. H. Davis n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence between H. C. Peterson and the Progressive Magazine, January 27 to February 14, 1928
The Progressive Magazine facsimile and book advertisement. n.d.
Correspondence between Julius Loeb and H. C. Peterson regarding the Pony Express,August 4 and 25,1927, and February 20, 1928
List of Candidates [for California Historical Society ?]. prepared by H. C. Peterson. n.d.
Program, Garden Fete, for delegates to Pan American Reciprocal Trade Conference, August 28, 1930. Replica: California Republic flag,
Illustrated card and poem, from E. A. Burbank (8x10 inches) to H. C. Peterson (and envelope)August 23, 1938.
Photographs commemorating "Days of the 49ers"[1939]
Scope and Content Note
Photograph (8x10 inches), Morgan Wallace as General John Fremont in film Sutter's Gold. n.d.
Luggage tag, H. C. Peterson, Sutter's Hotel, San Francisco, California. n.d.
Correspondence to H. C. Peterson regarding Whiskerinos Club, 1920s
Miscellaneous envelopes1928-1937
Correspondence to H. C. Peterson regarding early California history 1928, 1938
"Romance of California," [text by H. C. Peterson ?], Sacramento Chamber of Commerce (pamphlet, [1927]
"Romance of California," text by H. C. Peterson, Sacramento Chamber of Commerce (pamphlet,
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Crofutt's New Overland Tourist, and Pacific Coast Guide (partial copy). [1880]
Historical notes on crossing the plains by H. C. Peterson n.d.
"Captain Jean J Voiget," typescripts, [by H. C. Peterson ?] n.d.
Notebook, compiled by H. C. Peterson, relating to J.J. Voiget's first survey of Yerba Buena (San Francisco) in 1839-40. 1904
Scope and Content Note
Photograph of painting of Yerba Buena, [ by John J. Voiget . n.d.
Land grant testimony of John J. Voiget and Wm. I. Richardson, schedule of testimony, plot plan, San Francisco, 1848. 1848, 1854
Letter to H. C. Peterson from Alice Jeanette Voigetn.d.
Letter to Raphael Weill, from H. C. Peterson regarding Yerba Buena Cove, March 31, 1920
Photograph, U.S. Mint [San Francisco ?].1904
"The Highway of Romance" (Mother Lode State Highway), n.d.
Program, Dedication of Fremont Tablet, Buttes, California, April 15, 1923.
News clipping on John C. Fremont, New York Tribune, June 20, 1856.
Chinese Camp (California), typescript by H. C. Peterson n.d.
Chinese Camp (California), handwritten notes [by H.C. Peterson?] n.d.
Coloma (California), handwritten notes [by H. C. Peterson?] n.d.
Coyote Diggings (California), handwritten notes, [by H. C. Peterson], n.d.
Volcano (California), handwritten notes, [ by H. C. Peterson ?] n.d.
Announcement, State Mining Celebration, Mariposa, California, June 20-21,1 931
California history, handwritten notes, [H. C. Peterson ?] n.d.
California pioneer tombstones (8 photographs).n.d.
Gold mining towns n.d.
Letter from John B. Montgomery to E. L. Norton, from Boston August 7, 1862,
Monterey-Carmel (California), n.d
Letter to H. C. Peterson about San Mateo California from C. P Cooley, Palo Alto, California, January 1, 1928
Photograph taken at Mission San Jose, California,[ with H. C. Peterson?] n.d.
Handwritten notes on "A Threatened Offense." California Penal Code). n.d.
"Central Pacific Railroad," pamphlet 1913
Sun Valley, Idaho, typescript [by H. C. Peterson ?].1938
Series 4. Oversize materials
News clipping, "Mrs. Stanford Dies in Sudden Agony at a Honolulu Hotel, Declaring,'I am poisoned!'." San Francisco Chronicle, March 2, 1905.
News clipping, announcing 1849 centennial, Sacramento Union, March 22, 1936.
Policy statement to Jane L. Stanford from Stanford University Trustees, June 5, 1903.
Stanford University map.n.d.
Partial letter [to Jane L. Stanford ?] from Jesse Knight Jordan n.d.
The Resources of California, [ about Stanford University], September 1886.
News clipping. "The Dizzy Cycle that John A Sutter Executed in His Lifetime," by H. C. Peterson, Oakland Tribune, March 30, 1924.
"Life at Sutter's Fort," play script, with accompanying letter by Irene Clark to H. C. PetersonMarch 2, 1936
Letter by John A. Sutter [purported] to Ernesto Hopkins n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Letter, partial, [by H.C. Peterson] regarding Captain C. H. Davis n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Chattel mortgage agreement: Ralph Joines to Harry C. Peterson, regarding tools, Sutter's Fort. 1939
Boyd and Barber in San Francisco in mid-1800s, typescript n.d.
California Indians, partial typescriptn.d.
News clippings. Marysville Advertiser, 1854 and 1857
Handwritten copy of Sonoma (California) County law, 1857
Statement of charges incurred by patients of St. Luke's Hospital, San Francisco, September 1 to September 30, 1876.
Accounts record [in Spanish]. 1851
Proclamation [in Portugese], signed by Joaquin O. Alvarez and Jose de O Barbazo, April 26, 1826.
Statement from Mutuo Soccorso della Compagna Carabiniere Swizzeri [in Italian], San Francisco,December 1, 1888.
Series 5. Photoprints
Photoprints of Leland Stanford house at Michigan Bluff, California n.d.
Photoprint of Peter Slater's Saloon, Fort Sutter, (H.C. Peterson behind bar), n.d.