Henry D. Cogswell Time Capsule Collection, 1847-1879, 1979 (bulk
1855-1879)
Finding aid prepared by California Historical Society staff. Revised by
Marie Silva in 2010-2011.
California Historical Society
678 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA, 94105
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© 2000, revised 2010-2011
Title: Henry D. Cogswell time capsule collection
Collection Number: MS 559
Dates: 1847-1879, 1979 (bulk
1855-1879)
Creator:
Cogswell, Henry D. (Henry Daniel),
1820-1900
Extent:
4 boxes, 2 cartons, 1 oversize box
(5.0 linear feet)
Repository:
California Historical Society
678 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA, 94105
415-357-1848
reference@calhist.org
URL: http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/
Physical Location: Collection is stored onsite.
Language of Materials: The bulk of the material is in
English. Also includes newspapers in
German, French,
Norwegian, Italian, and Chinese.
Abstract: Consists of material removed from the time
capsule placed under the Benjamin Franklin statue in Washington Square, San
Francisco, California, in 1879, to be opened in 1979. Contains personal business
papers of Henry Daniel Cogswell, including indentures and other papers concerning
the proposed Cogswell Dental College, inventory of his property, copies of his will,
papers concerning his proposition to erect a drinking fountain and establish the
Women's Pioneer Hotel, and other miscellaneous material; also includes printed
publications, consisting primarily of San Francisco Bay Area (with some New York)
newspapers and periodicals, along with almanacs, merchandise catalogs, business
cards, advertisements, directories, pamphlets, Christian publications, railroad
timetables, business reports, ephemera, and books. Contributors include Sarah B.
Cooper, John S. Hittell, Thomas Harmonson Holt, and Charles Otto.
Access
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Cogswell Time Capsule Collection, MS 559, California
Historical Society.
Biography of Henry Daniel Cogswell
Dr. Henry Daniel Cogswell, dentist and temperance advocate, was born in Tolland,
Connecticut, on March 3, 1820. While working in a series of New England cotton mills
in his youth, he pursued his studies at night, and eventually became a teacher;
after one year, Cogswell began studying dentistry. He completed his dental training
in the early 1840s and, after earlier attempts in Providence and South Coventry, he
eventually set up a practice in Pawtucket in 1847. In 1846, Cogswell married
Caroline E. Richards, daughter of Ruel Richards, a manufacturer in Providence.
In response to the news of the discovery of gold in California, Cogswell joined the
gold rush and sailed from Philadelphia to San Francisco aboard the
Susan G. Owens, arriving on October 12, 1849. After early
success selling supplies and practicing dentistry in the gold fields in a tent in
Stockton, California, Cogswell returned to San Francisco, where he opened offices at
209 Washington Street. His accomplishments in the dental profession include credit
for both the design of the vacuum method of securing dental plates, and performing
the first dental operation using chloroform in California in 1853.
During this period, Cogswell also pursued business opportunities; his success in his
profession and his investments in real estate and mining stocks soon made him a
fortune estimated at over 2 million dollars. His wealth led him to endow a number of
philanthropic projects. In the 1870s, Cogswell donated both land and a building for
the founding of a Cogswell Dental College, and conveyed it in trust to the Regents
of the University of California. However, the college was never realized, possibly
due to the demands Cogswell made. (See Box 1 for legal documents and other papers
relating to the establishment of the dental college.) In March 19, 1887, Dr. and
Mrs. Cogswell executed a trust deed setting apart real property (valued at
approximately 1 million dollars) to establish and endow Cogswell Polytechnical
College. The school was opened in August 1888 as a high school with departments of
technical education for boys and business education for girls.
Cogswell was an avid supporter of temperance and the temperance movement, and devoted
much of his wealth to promote the cause by donating approximately fifty monuments to
cities across the United States, most with drinking fountains, from the 1870s
through the 1890s. Cogswell's hope was to construct one drinking fountain for every
100 saloons. The monuments, built at Cogswell's expense and often designed by him as
well, were donated to the cities of Washington, D.C., New York, Buffalo, Rochester,
Boston, and San Francisco, among others. Many cities, however, were not pleased with
the monuments Cogswell wished to donate; often topped by a figure that greatly
resembled Cogswell himself, the sculptures were rejected by some cities on the
grounds that they were self-promoting. Others were accepted, but later destroyed or
dismantled. San Francisco's own
statue of
Cogswell
, which originally stood on the corner of California, Market,
and Drumm Streets, was toppled by a group of writers and artists in 1894. Surviving
examples of the fountains can still be found in Washington, D.C., New York, and
other cities.
Included among the monuments donated by Cogswell to the city of San Francisco is the
statue of Benjamin Franklin, which originally stood at the corner of Montgomery and
Kearny Streets, and now stands in Washington Square. The time capsule Cogswell
created was entombed in the base of the statue, and dedicated "For our boys and
girls who will soon take our place and pass on," with the added inscription, "P O
Box with Mementos for the Historical Society in 1979 from H.D.C."
Cogswell's original intent with the creation of the time capsule is expressed in one
of his many letters to the Board of Supervisors, included within the contents of the
capsule along with designs for the fountain:
"To erect a plain polished Granit (sic) or Marble Fountain, to be of a historical
Character, dedicated 'To our Boys' who will soon succeed us, go on and give place to
others. (see plan and specification) herewith submitted. On the top to be cut a
recess for a copper box to receive the names of the present Officers of City, County
& State Government; also of the constitutional Convention now in session, Copies
of all daily and weekly City-papers, City Directory etc. Names of School Directors,
teachers and Officers of the Fire Department, Societies of California Pioneers, all
its members, Police Department also Reports of Mechanics Institute. The various
benevolent Societies also an autograph letter with the photograph of the writer to
be read before an antiquarian Society also the List of all churches and their
officers including any other interesting matter until the box is full, of such as
may be intended for persons to read 100 years from date, to be the property of any
Historical or antiquarian Society Existing at that time and to form an indisputable
connecting Link between the people of San Francisco of the day 1878 and 1978 that
they may see that there was a live people existing here at this date and tolerably
well civilized."
Cogswell died on July 8, 1900, and was buried at Mountain View Cemetery, in Oakland,
California.
Sources consulted for this biography include:
"The Intemperate Patronage of Henry D. Cogswell," by Frederick C. Moffatt. Winterthur
Portfolio, vol. 27, no. 2/3 (Summer-Autumn, 1992), pp. 123-143;
Henry D. Cogswell Biographical Research Notes, MS 690, California Historical
Society.
Scope and Contents
The Cogswell Time Capsule Collection contains personal papers of Henry Daniel
Cogswell, as well as general materials collected by Cogswell and others for
inclusion in the time capsule he assembled in 1879, housed in a 12-by-18-inch lead
box, and deposited in the pedestal of a statue of Ben Franklin originally standing
at the junction of Montgomery and Kearney Streets in San Francisco. The statue and
the time capsule were later moved to North Beach's Washington Square, where the
capsule was eventually unearthed and opened 100 years later, on April 22, 1979. In
acccordance with the wishes of Henry Daniel Cogswell, the contents were then given
to the California Historical Society.
Cogswell's personal papers include indentures and other papers concerning the
proposed Cogswell Dental College; inventories of his property; copies of his will;
papers concerning his proposition to erect a drinking fountain and establish the
Women's Pioneer Hotel; and other miscellaneous material.
General materials include local, regional, and national newspapers and periodicals in
a variety of languages; almanacs; business cards; advertisements; directories;
pamphlets; religious tracts; railroad timetables; business reports; ephemera;
by-laws; annual reports; merchandise catalogs; and a small number of books. The
collection also contains materials related to the practice of dentistry in the
United States in the 1870s. Contributors include Sarah B. Cooper, John S. Hittell,
Thomas Harmonson Holt, and Charles Otto.
The contents of the time capsule provide a glimpse into the economic, political, and
cultural life of San Francisco in the 1860s and 1870s. Often annotated in Cogswell's
hand, the contents of the time capsule document, in particular, the causes and civic
organizations in which Cogswell and his wife were themselves involved. Also included
are items that reflect some of the social controversies of the day in San Francisco,
including the women's and temperance movements. Items such as Laura De Force
Gordon's 1879 annotation in her book,
The Great Geysers of
California
-- "If this little book should see the light after its
hundred years of entombment, I would like its readers to know that the author was a
lover of her own sex and devoted the best years of her life in striving for the
Political, equal, and social and moral education of woman" -- show a growing
political movement and its efforts to secure equality for women. The materials also
provide some insight into daily life in the 1870s; literature and popular culture
are well represented in the many magazines and newspapers, as are the various
political and charitable causes that Cogswell aligned himself with, such as the
Cogswell Contingent Fund and his Dental College.
Related Archival Collections
Henry D. Cogswell Biographical Research Notes, [1959?], MS 690, California Historical
Society
Separated Materials
Photographs have been removed and shelved under MSP 559.
Artifacts have been removed and transferred to the fine arts collection. See box 3
for an inventory of these objects.
Langley's Oakland-Alameda directory, 1878-1879, and
Langley's San Francisco directory, 1878-1879,
have been removed and shelved with directories.
Alta California almanac, 1879, has been removed and
shelved with pamphlets (PAM 3249).
Two identical cabinet cards, 4 x 6 inches, of Henry D. Cogswell and his wife,
Caroline Elizabeth Cogswell, by I.W. Taber & Company, San Francisco, have been
removed and shelved in GS Box 057 under General Subjects--Photographers--San
Francisco--I.W. Taber & Co.
Carte-de-Viste of Pauline Gerkhardt by V. Wolfenstein, Los Angeles, has been removed
and shelved in GS Box 046 under General Subjects--Photographers--Los
Angeles--Wolfenstein, Valentin.
Processing Information
The following items have not been located:
Central Pacific Railroad. Timetable, 1876.
Great Western Railroad. Menu, 1876.
United Carriage Company. Rates, 1877.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Cooper, Sarah B.
Hittell, John S. , (John Shertzer),
1825-1901
Holt, Thomas Harmonson
Otto, Charles
Dental schools--California--San Francisco.
Dentistry--United States--History--19th century.
Dentists--California--San Francisco.
San Francisco (Calif.)--Social life and customs--19th
century.
Alternative publications.
Deeds.
Ephemera.
Periodicals.
Sales catalogs.
Time capsules.
Box 1
Materials relating to creation, entombment, and opening of the time
capsule,
1979, undated
Scope and Contents
Original list of time capsule contents; two round pinned badges with drawing
of Benjamin Franklin statue in Washington Square and "1849 - Cogswell Time
Capsule - April 22, 1979"; and two copies of program celebrating the opening
of the capsule 100 years after it was placed in statue, on April 21 and 22,
1979. Program contains 16 pages and articles on history of Benjamin Franklin
statue, Cogswell, Cogswell College, Telegraph Hill, Washington Square, as
well as a calendar of events for the capsule opening, listing of community
cultural centers and credits.
Personal papers of Henry D. Cogswell,
1847-1879
Extent:
29.0 folders
Scope and Contents
Contains personal papers of Henry D. Cogswell included in the Cogswell time
capsule.
Box 1, Folder 1
Letter written by Sackett Cornell about the future world of
1979
1879 June 3
Box 1, Folder 2
Indenture between Cogswell and the Regents of the University of
California
1879
Box 1, Folder 3
Indenture between Cogswell and the Regents of the University of
California for property bounded by Front and Jackson Streets
1879
Box 1, Folder 4
Indenture between Cogswell and the Regents of the University of
California for property on Front Street
1879
Box 1, Folder 5
Conditions by or under which H.D. Cogswell proposes to deed by
trust his Bank Building, Nos. 608, 610, 612, and 614 Front Street, to
the State University for a Dental College
undated
Box 1, Folder 6
Cogswell Contingent Fund
undated
Box 1, Folder 7
Memorandum regarding Dental College
undated
Box 1, Folder 9
Conditions on which Cogswell proposes to give his Front Street
property to the Regents of State University for the Cogswell Dental
College
undated
Box 1, Folder 10
Memorandum, University and College Clubs to be occupied as an
adjunct to the Cogswell Dental College
1873? May 3
Box 1, Folder 11
Requirements for the Cogswell Dental College
undated
Box 1, Folder 12
Memorandum of items in reference to founding a Dental
College
undated
Box 1, Folder 13
Cogswell's Proposition to the dentists to found a Dental
College
undated
Box 1, Folder 14
Correspondence
undated
Scope and contents
Includes note to the San Francisco Board of Equalization regarding
Cogswell's building at Front and Clark Streets; correspondence to and
from attorneys Winans, Belknap & Godoy; and a list of organized and
incorporated charities in San Francisco taken from the City Directory of
1876.
Box 1, Folder 15
Correspondence, notes, and legal records
1869-1878
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence to and from Cogswell; notes regarding Cogswell's
visit to Dr. Horatio Stebbins regarding his bequest for the "Benefit of
California"; inventory of Cogswell's property; indenture agreement; and
other documents.
Box 1, Folder 16
Insurance policies
1875-1879
Scope and Contents
Contains 14 insurance policies made out to Cogswell.
Box 1, Folder 17
Rental agreements and other documents
circa 1876-1879
Scope and Contents
Includes rental agreements between Cogswell and others; a subpoena issued
to Cogswell; notes; signatures; and receipts.
Box 1, Folder 18
Letters regarding Cogswell's proposition to erect a "Polished
Granite Drinking Fountain"
circa 1879
Scope and Contents
Contains letters by Cogswell to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors;
and a letter from architect William F. Smith.
Box 1, Folder 20
Construction plans, receipts, notes, and leaflets
circa 1875-1878
Box 2, Folder 21
Correspondence and notes regarding Cogswell's efforts to
establish a home for working women
1852-1878
Scope and Contents
Also contains miscellaneous checks, receipts, and legal documents.
Box 2, Folder 23
Proposition of H.D. Cogswell to the dentists and Regents of the
University of California to establish a Dental College and University
Club
undated
Scope and Contents
Also contains envelope and cabinet card bearing the logo of Morse's
Palace of Art, 417 Montgomery Street, San Francisco.
Box 2, Folder 24
Correspondence, notes, and other documents
1853-1879
Scope and Contents
Includes a letter by Cogswell addressed to the Historical Society of
1979; and plans to erect a funerary monument in Mountain View
Cemetery.
Box 2, Folder 25
Correspondence regarding time capsule and petition to the San
Francisco Board of Supervisors
1879
Box 2, Folder 26
Materials donated by others to the time capsule
1879
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence; the price list of the San Francisco Laundry
Association; and a "Remember me" card.
Box 2, Folder 27
Materials donated by others to the time capsule
1869-1879
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence; and programmes and annual reports of the
California Bible Society.
Box 2, Folder 28
Newspaper clippings and ephemera
1870-1879
Scope and Contents
Contains Cogswell's calling cards; reports of the Savings and Loan
Society; and newspaper clippings, including an article by Cogswell
titled "Dr. Cogswell's Drinking Fountain."
Box 2, Folder 29
Booklets
1847-1878
Physical Description:
6.0 volumes
Scope and Contents
Contains: two booklets commemorating the 1873 World Fair in Vienna
(1873);
The Gosepl According to Saint
John
(1878);
Manual of Specific
Homeopathy
(1869);
Christian Love: Or, Charity an
Essential Element of True Christian Character
(1847); and
Ordinances of the Fire Department of San
Francisco
(1876).
General materials,
1853-1879
Extent:
147.0 folders, 2 volumes
Scope and Contents
Contains general materials collected by Cogswell for inclusion in the time
capsule.
Carton 1, Folder 30-61
Newspapers
1877-1879
Physical Description:
31.0 folders
Language of Materials: Newspapers are in
English, Italian, French, German, and Norwegian.
Scope and Contents
Contains a sampling of local, regional, and national newspapers published
between the years 1877 and 1879.
Includes copies of:
The Argonaut;
The Berkeley Advocate;
Daily Alta;
Daily
Bulletin Supplement
;
Daily Evening
Post
;
The Daily Examiner;
Evening Bulletin;
Harper's Weekly;
The
Illustrated Wasp
;
The
Monitor
;
The Gem: Ladies Monthly Reform
Journal
;
Our Head Light;
Pacific Coast Free-Thinker;
San Francisco Chronicle;
San Francisco Fashion Courier;
San Francisco Real Estate Circular;
Weekly Alta California;
California Demokrat;
La Scintilla Italiana;
Le Petit
Journal
;
San Francisco Abend
Post
; and
Valkyrien.
Carton 1, Folder 62
Harper's Story Books: A Series of Narratives,
Dialogues, Biographies, and Tales for the Instruction and
Entertainment of the Young
, by Jacob Abbott, New York:
Harper & Brothers.
1855
Carton 1, Folder 63
Aida [libretto]. New York: Published at
the Academy of Music.
undated
Carton 1, Folder 64
The Alta California Alamanac and Book of
Facts
, edited by John S. Hittell. San Francisco: F.
MacCrellish & Co. Publishers.
1879
Carton 1, Folder 65
Quarterly Architectural
Review
1879 January
Carton 1, Folder 66
San Francisco Poll Tax Notice
1878
Carton 1, Folder 67
The Atlantic Monthly
1864 December
Carton 1, Folder 68
The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ
. Glasgow: W.R. M'Phun.
1855
Carton 1, Folder 69
Receipts and money orders
1876-1878
Carton 1, Folder 70
By-laws of the Boys and Girls Aid Society of San
Francisco
undated
Carton 1, Folder 71
Broadsides, Bridewell's Rotary Stamp Mill
1879
Carton 1, Folder 72
Bristol's Illustrated Almanac for 1879. Prepared
Expressly for California.
1879
Carton 1, Folder 73
Advertisement cards
1876, undated
Carton 1, Folder 75
E. Butterick & Co's Catalogue,
Spring 1878
Carton 1, Folder 76
Constitution of the State of California
1879
Carton 1, Folder 77
Brochure, California Institute of Book-keeping and
Penmanship
undated
Carton 1, Folder 78
First Annual Report of the California Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children
1877
Carton 1, Folder 79
Student card, Mechanic Arts College, University of
California
1870
Carton 1, Folder 80
Timetables, Lakeshore and Michigan Southern Railway; and Chicago
and Northwestern Railway
1876,
1878
Carton 1, Folder 81
Timetable, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
1876
Carton 1, Folder 82
Advertisement, First Ward Workingmen's Laundry Association: "The
Chinese Must Go!"
undated
Carton 1, Folder 83
Choice Selections from the Poetical Works of
Byron, Moore, Burns, and Other Celebrated Poets. Also, a Medical
Adviser of Useful and Instructive Knowledge, Making a Complete
Family Guide
. Philadelphia: Desmond & Co.
1874
Carton 1, Folder 84
A Compilation of the Laws Relating to Elections,
Citizenship and Naturalization Now in Force in the State of
California
, by Alfred Clarke. San Francisco: Board of
Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco.
1877
Carton 1, Folder 85
The Cottage Hearth: A Magazine of Home Arts and
Home Culture
(vol. 5, no. 10)
1878
Carton 1, Folder 86
Prospectus,
The Housekeeper's
Encyclopedia
undated
Carton 1, Folder 87
The Dental Cosmos: A Monthly Record of Dental
Science
1878 December
Carton 1, Folder 88
The Bonanza Mines of Nevada. Gross Frauds in the
Management Exposed
. Reply of S.P. Dewey
circa 1878
Carton 1, Folder 89
Prospectus,
For Our Boys: A Collection of
Original Literary Offerings by Popular Writers, at Home and
Abroad
; Youths' Directory Free Shelter and Intelligence
Bureau business card.
1878, undated
Carton 1, Folder 90
Booklets
1875,
1876,
1878, undated
Physical Description:
5.0 volumes
Scope and Contents
Includes Ordinances of the Fire Department of San Francisco (1876); and
Rates Adopted by the Water Rate Commissioners and the Rules and
Regulations Adopted by the Directors of the Spring Valley Water Works
(1878).
Carton 1, Folder 91
Relations of the Theological Seminary and the
Church. The Annual Address at the Anniversary of the Seminary, April
29, 1875, in St. John's Presbyterian Church of San Francisco,
Cal
. By Rev. James Eells, D.D., of Oakland, Cal. San
Francisco: Occident Print.
1875
Carton 1, Folder 92
Color lithograph, Synagogue of Congregation Emanu-El, San
Francisco,
Wasp
undated
Carton 1, Folder 93
Nature's Laws; New Ideas Concerning Them.
A Medical Lecture delivered in Wesleyan Hall, Boston, on Friday Evening,
March 30th, 1877.
1877
Carton 1, Folder 94
Praise Service on the National Birthday. First Congregational
Church, Rev. A.L. Stone, D.D. Pastor.
1875 July 4
Carton 1, Folder 95
Color lithograph, New Hospital of the German Benevolent Society
of San Francisco,
Wasp
July 28, 1877
Carton 1, Folder 96
The Great Geysers of California, and How
to Reach Them
, by Laura De Force Gordon. San Francisco:
Bacon & Company Printers, 1877. Signed copy.
May 1879
Scope and Contents
Includes the following inscription, written by the author in May 1879:
"If this little book should see light after its hundred years of
entombment, I would like its readers to know that the author was a lover
of her own self, and devoted the best years of her life in striving for
the Political equal [sic], and social and moral education of woman."
Carton 1, Folder 98
Description of A.S. Hallidie's Patent Wire Rope
Railway, for Street Railroads and Metropolitan Travel
. San
Francisco: Spaulding, Barto & Co.
1878
Cartons 1-2, Folder 99-111
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
1868-1869,
1872,
1877
Carton 2, Folder 112
Pamphlets (2) by C.T. Hopkins
1867,
1869
Scope and Contents
Includes:
Ship Building on the Pacific Coast. A
Report to the Board of Marine Underwriters of San Francisco
,
1867, and
Common Sense Applied to the Immigrant
Question: Showing Why the "California Immigrant Union" was
Founded
, 1869.
Carton 2, Folder 113
Programmes, the Hutchinson Family company of singers
undated
Carton 2, Folder 114-115
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly
Magazine
(vol. 51, no. 6)
1858 June-July
Carton 2, Folder 116
American Interests in Borneo, by Wm. E.F.
Krause. San Francisco: The Mercantile Gazette.
1867
Carton 2, Folder 117
Ladies' Christian Union manual and Band of Prayer membership
book
1874,
1876
Carton 2, Folder 118
Ladies' Seamen's Friend Society: Annual reports and advertisement
for the Seaman's Home
1877-1878
Carton 2, Folder 119
Advertisement for silver plated ware, O. Lawton & Co., San
Francisco
undated
Carton 2, Folder 120
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly (vol. 6,
no. 1)
1878 July
Carton 2, Folder 121
The Little Wanderer's Friend: The Quarterly Issue
of the Howard Mission and Home for Little Wanderers, No. 40 New
Bowery, New York
1869 July
Carton 2, Folder 122
The London Quarterly Review, American
ed.
1859 January
Carton 2, Folder 123
A Memoir on the Water Supply of the City of San
Francisco
, by Wm. J. McAlpine. San Francisco: C.A. Murdock
& Co.
1879
Carton 2, Folder 124
Mechanics' Institute of San Francisco: Constitution, By-Laws and
Rules of Order, 1876; and Report of the Thirteenth Industrial
Exhibition, 1878
1876,
1878
Carton 2, Folder 125
By-Laws of the Directors of the Metropolitan Railroad
Company
1862
Carton 2, Folder 126
The Missouri Dental Journal (vol. 8, no.
10)
1876 October 15
Carton 2, Folder 127
Murphy, Francis. Gospel temperance advocate and reformer. Lyrics
for temperance hymns.
1879
Carton 2, Folder 128
By-Laws of the North Beach & Mission Railroad
Company
1864
Carton 2, Folder 129
Advertisement for the North Beach Bathing House and Swimming
School
undated
Carton 2, Folder 130
Thirty-Third Annual Announcement of the Ohio College of Dental
Surgery
1878
Carton 2, Folder 131
Painter & Co. calendar, 1865-1866
circa 1864
Carton 2, Folder 132
Palace Hotel menu and Henry D. Cogswell's business
card
1876, undated
First Annual Announcement of the Dental Department of
Pennsylvania
1878-1879
Carton 2, Folder 134
Twenty-third Annual Announcement of the Pennsylvania College of
Dental Surgery
1878
Carton 2, Folder 135
Prospectus,
The Contemporary Biography of
California's Representative Men
, by Alonzo
Phelps.
1878
Carton 2, Folder 136
Sixteenth Annual Annoucement of the Philadelphia Dental
College
1878
Carton 2, Folder 137
Places of interest card
undated
Carton 2, Folder 138-139
Putnam's Monthly (vol. 2, no. 9; vol. 3,
no. 15)
1853 September,
1854 March
Carton 2, Folder 140
Railroad Gazetteer (vol. 14, no.
3)
1876 November
Carton 2, Folder 141
Portrait of Marie Roze-Perkins, drawn and printed expressly for
the
Folio, Cambridge: Armstrong & Co.
Riverside Press; and reward of merit for Caroline E.
Richards.
undated
Carton 2, Folder 142
St. Andrew's Society of San Francisco: By-laws and
ephemera
1877-1879
Carton 2, Folder 143
Ordinances of the City and County of San Francisco
1861,
1863
Carton 2, Folder 144
By-Laws of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco
1869
Carton 2, Folder 145
Report of the President of the Chamber of Commerce of San
Francisco
1867
Carton 2, Folder 146
Programme, Whitsunday Festival of the Children of the Church of
the Advent
1879
Carton 2, Folder 147
Programme, Centennial Concert of the First Presbyterian Sunday
School
1876
Carton 2, Folder 148
San Francisco Newsletter (vol. 29, no.
46)
1879 May 31
Carton 2, Folder 149
Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the Theological
Seminary, San Francisco, Cal., 1871-1874
1874
Carton 2, Folder 150
Prospectus, Santa Barbara Hot Sulpher Spring Company, San
Francisco
1867
Carton 2, Folder 151
Blank checks, Sather & Co., Bankers, San
Francisco
circa 1878
Carton 2, Folder 152
Forty-Second Semi-Annual Report of the Savings and Loan
Society
1878
Carton 2, Folder 153
Advertisements, Smith's effluvia ejector for water closets and
Smith's syphon jet water closet
circa 1878
Carton 2, Folder 154
Why Do I Live?, by the Rev. Thomas Smyth,
D.D. New York: American Tract Society
undated
Carton 2, Folder 155
Souvenirs of San Francisco
[viewbook]
circa 1879
Scope and Contents
Contains thirteen views of San Francisco.
Carton 2, Folder 156
Tax-Payers' Union committee reports
1861,
1869
Carton 2, Folder 157
Advertisements, George H. Tay & Co., San
Francisco
circa 1879
Carton 2, Folder 158
Quarantine Laws for the Bay and Harbor of San Francisco,
California. San Francisco: Turnbull & Smith, Book and Job Printers.
1866
Carton 2, Folder 159
"We Are Marching Through the Desert" [hymn]
undated
Carton 2, Folder 160
Pamphlet, Women's Pioneer Hotel
undated
Carton 2, Folder 161
Third Annual Report of the Young Women's Christian Association of
Montreal
1877
Carton 2, Folder 162
Advertisement, Dr. A. Zabaldano's Syrup of Eucalyptus
undated
Language of Materials: In English and
Spanish.
Oversize box 1, Folder 163
Janes & Kirtland's Illustrated Catalogue of Ornamental Iron
Work
undated
Oversize box 1, Folder 164
Main & Winchester catalogue and newspaper
clippings
undated
Oversize box 1, Folder 165
Promotional calendar, 1870
circa 1869
Oversize box 1, Folder 166
Commercial Herald and Market
Review
1879 June 5
Oversize box 1, Folder 167-170
The Morning Call
1879 May-June
Oversize box 1, Folder 171
The Resources of California
1879 June
Oversize box 1, Folder 172
The Mail
1877 February 22
Oversize box 1, Folder 173
Weekly Bulletin
1879 June 5
Oversize box 1, Folder 174
Weekly San Francisco
Chronicle
1879 June 5
Oversize box 1, Folder 175
The Hebrew Observer
1879 May 30
Language of Materials: In
German.
Oversize box 1, Folder 176
La Voce Del Popolo
1879 May 2
Language of Materials: In
Italian.
Oversize box 1, Folder 177
San Francisco China News and letter from
F.L. Gordan
1875 February 6,
1879 June 4
Scope and Contents
Letter from F.L. Gordon outlines the history of the
San Francisco China News, "the first
newspaper in the Chinese language ever published outside of the Chinese
empire."
Box 4
The Teachings of the Ages, by A.C.
Traveler. San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft & Co.
1874
Box 4
San Francisco Municipal Reports for the Fiscal
Year 1877-1878, Ending June 30, 1878
. Published by Order of
the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. San Francisco: W.M. Hinton &
Co.
1878
Fine arts materials,
1979
Physical Description:
1.0 box
Scope and Contents
Contains slides and accession sheets for artifacts separated from the Henry
D. Cogswell time capsule collection and transferred to the fine arts
collection.
