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Title: Bodie (Calif.) Collection
Dates (inclusive): 1879-1963
Bulk dates: 1879-1910
Collection Number: mssBodie collection
Extent: 61 items. 1 box.
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2129
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This small collection consists mostly of court and financial records from the mining town of Bodie, California, chiefly dating
from 1879 to 1910, as well
as some later articles and notes with information on Bodie's history.
Of particular interest are the minutes from meetings of the Degree of Honor of the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
Language: English.
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services
Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to
quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such
activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is
one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
[Identification of item]. Bodie (Calif.) Collection, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Gift of Marion Parks Patridge, August 16, 1937, purchase from, Dawson's Book
Shop, December 26, 1961 and gift of Roy P. McLaughlin, May 1963.
Bodie, California, was named after William S. Bodey who discovered placer gold there
in 1859. The first mill was established in 1861 and the town that once consisted of
20 miners eventually grew to an estimated 10,000 inhabitants by 1879. However by
1882 the boom was over and the town started to decline as many of the mines had
already paid out and many of the mining companies went bankrupt. Major fires in 1892
and 1932 destroyed much of the business district in town and by the 1940s Bodie had
become a ghost town. In 1964 Bodie was made into a California State Park.
This collection consists mostly of court and financial records from Bodie as well as
some later articles and notes with information on Bodie's history. Of particular
interest are the minutes from meetings of the Degree of Honor of the Ancient Order
of United Workmen.
The collection is arranged in one box and six series, each arranged chronologically:
- 1. Correspondence.
- 2. Court records.
- 3. Financial records.
- 4. Club and professional records.
- 5. Notes and articles.
- 6. Newspapers and ephemera.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Osborne, Henry Zenas,
1848-1923.
Ancient Order of United
Workmen. Grand Lodge of California -- Archives.
Independent Order of
Odd Fellows.
Clubs -- California -- Bodie.
Ghost towns -- California -- History --
Sources.
Mining camps -- California.
Bodie (Calif.) --
History -- Sources.
California -- History
-- 19th century -- Sources.
California -- History
-- 20th century -- Sources.
Articles -- California -- 20th century.
Financial records -- California -- Bodie.
Business records -- California -- Bodie.
Judicial records -- California -- Bodie.
Minutes -- California -- Bodie.
Notes -- California -- 20th century.