Guide to the Lillie Hitchcock Coit Collection, 1865-1880
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Guide to the Lillie Hitchcock Coit Collection, 1865-1880
California State Library
Sacramento, California
- California History Room
- California State Library
- Library and Courts Building II
- 900 N. Street, Room 200
- P.O. Box 942837
- Sacramento, California 94237-0001
- Phone: (916) 654-0176
- Fax: (916) 654-8777
- Email: cslcal@library.ca.gov
- URL: http://www.library.ca.gov/
- Processed by:
- The California State Library staff
- Encoded by:
- Xiuzhi Zhou
© 1999 California State Library. All rights reserved.
Title: Lillie Hitchcock Coit Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1865-1880
Box Number: Boxes 159-160
Collector:
Dressler, Albert, 1887-1960
Extent: 2 boxes
Repository:
California State Library
Sacramento, California
Language:
English.
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[Identification of item], Lillie Hitchcock Coit Collection, California State Library.
Coit, Lillie Hitchcock, 1843-1929
Fire fighters--California--San Francisco
Coit, Howard
Autograph book, clippings, correspondence, journal, photographs, poetry, scrapbook, sketches.
Lillie Hitchcock Coit came to San Francisco with her parents in 1851. She became the mascot for the "Knickerbocker 5" fire
fighters and in 1863 an honorary member of the company. One third of her fortune was left to the city of San Francisco, and
using this money, Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill was constructed.
- Mowry, Sylvester
- Gwin, William McKendree, 1805-1885.
- Hunter, Jane J.
- Hitchcock, Charles M.
- Reade, George
- Stanley, Edward
- Webb, Charles Henry, 1834-1905.
Material Transferred from the Collection
- Coit, Lillie Hitchcock: Scrapbook of clippings relating to San Francisco fire companies, Benjamin Coit, Charles M. Hitchcock, and poetry 1869-1888.
- Daguerrotype
- Ambrotype
Box 159
Correspondence, clippings, journal, poetry, and sketches.
Box 160
Autograph book, and photographs