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Register of the Smith/Bacon Family Collection, 1821-1947
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Box Box 1

Jed Smith Biographical Materials

Folder Folder 1.1

Smith Family genealogy

Folder Folder 1.2

Jed Smith estate papers. Photo-copy of court costs, 1821. Discharge photo-copy of Patrick Glass, poll-book, for Ohio, 1821.

Folder Folder 1.3

Six page manifesto of Jedediah Smith (copy) dated July 11, 1831 from records in Mexican Archives, State of New Mexico, in Spanish.

Folder Folder 1.4

Account book of Peter Smith; photo-copies of accounts of Walter L. Smith and Jospeh Yarrer, W.L. Smith and Ralph Smith, accounts of Jed S. Smith, Dr. J.G. V. Simmons, Alexander Rice.

Folder Folder 1.5

Correspondence of Smith Family, 1877-1923.

Folder Folder 1.6

Correspondence of Smith Family, 1926-1927.

Folder Folder 1.7

Correspondence of Smith Family, 1928-1954.

folder Folder 1.8

Correspondence of Smith Family, 1970s; 1990s

Folder Folder 1.9

Notes on life of Jed S. Smith; Excerpts from papers on fur trade and Smith

 

-Zenas Leonard, 1839.

 

-History of San Francisco

 

-History of California

 

-Obituary of Jed Smith in Illinois Magazine, June 1832

 

-Boy's Book of Indian Warriors, by C.G.

 

-American Fur Trade in the Far West

 

-Capt. H. M. Chittenden, 1902

Folder Folder 1.9

Anonymous article on Jed S. Smith [ms.; missing end of paper]

Folder Folder 1.10

Miscellaneous manuscripts, with remarks by George Thurmon.

Folder Folder 1.11

Memorabilia: cards of Miss Evelyn Smith, Mr. and Mrs. J. Lyman, Josie E. M. Smith. Program of dedication of Smith Monument, 1924.

Folder Folder 1.12

Newspaper Clippings (1920s) [14 items]

Folder Folder 1.13

Newspaper and Magazine clippings (1930s) [6 items]

Folder Folder 1.14

Newspaper clippings dealing with dedication of Jed Smith Monument, 1939

Folder Folder 1.15

Magazine and News clippings: "Classmate," November 1947

folder Folder 1.16

Magazine and News clippings (1920s)

Box Box 2

Publications; Pictures of Jed Smith & his family

Folder Folder 2.1

Historical Society of California Annual Publication, 1900

Folder Folder 2.2

Historical Society of California Annual Publication, 1901

Folder Folder 2.3

Historical Society of California Annual Publication, 1905

Folder Folder 2.4

Historical Society of California Annual Publication, 1926

Folder Folder 2.5

"The American Mercury" September 1926

Folder Folder 2.6

Miscellaneous papers [incl. letter from San Diego Attorney Troy Tuggle re: Smith pistol and letters re: watch]

Folder Folder 2.7

Inventory of material donated to Jedediah Smith Society by Julian Smith Bacon, Jr.

Folder Folder 2.8

Paintings and Drawings of Jedediah Smith

 

Fredrick Remington Lithograph

 

Don Prechtel Painting

 

George Mathis Painting

 

R Haynes Drawing

 

Harvey Dunn Painting

 

Jack White drawing of Smith fighting a bear

 

Sketch “by friend” from memory

 

Engraving

Folder Folder 2.9

Photographs and Lithographs of Peter Smith

 

Tintype of Peter Smith (frame removed)

 

Lithograph

 

Cabinet card, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa

Folder Folder 2.10

Photographs of Smith Family

Folder Folder 2.11

Photographs of Bacon, Simons, Thummell and Jones families

 

Tintype of Evelyn Smith Bacon and Linda Smith Thummell, 1875

 

Photograph of Evelyn Smith Bacon

 

Silhouette of Dr. J. G. V. Simmons

 

Julian Smith Bacon

Folder Folder 2.12

Other Smith Related Images

 

Patrick Glass

 

Alexander Rice

 

Map of Ohio (pre-1846) was “map of west”

 

Artist’s rendition of Johnny Appleseed

 

Photographs of Jedediah Smith's pistol and holster (see Holt-Atherton’s Main photograph collection under “Firearms”)

Folder Folder 2.13

Object collection

 

Smith’s Shaving Mirror (Julian Smith Bacon donation)

 

Two snuff boxes “belonging to Jedediah Smith” (Julian Smith Bacon donation)

 

Two “Handcarved pocketbooks given to Peter Smith by Jedediah Smith” (Julian Smith Bacon donation)

 

“Jedediah Smith Watch” originally thought to belong to Smith. See Spring 2004 Castor Canadensis (Fred Kramer donation)

 

I.Wilson Knife (No documentation. Most likely donated by the family of Evelyn Bacon)

 

Victor Issa “A Welcome Sight” bronze statue (“Jed Smith Society” donation)