Guide to the William Berry Cross Papers, 1847-1941
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Xiuzhi Zhou
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California State Library. All rights reserved.
Guide to the William Berry Cross Papers, 1847-1941
California State Library
Sacramento, California
Contact Information:
- 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.
Descriptive Summary
Title: William Berry Cross Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1847-1941
Box Number: 362-363, 1838-1841
Creator:
Cross, William Berry, 1826-1891
Repository:
California State Library
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Unrestricted.
Conditions of Use
Please credit California State Library.
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must be submitted in writing. Permission for publication is given on behalf of California State Library as the owner of the
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the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], William Berry Cross Papers, California State Library.
Access Points
Cross, William Berry, 1826-1891
Cross family
Voyages to the Pacific coast
Pioneers--California
Contents
Diaries of William Berry Cross, family papers, photographs.
Biography
William Berry Cross came to California via ship, arriving in San Francisco in May 1850. He was a machinist, ship's engineer,
and inventor. He lived in Sacramento and San Francisco.
Material Transferred from the Collection
Book
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Cross, William Berry.
Diaries with entries from Feb. 17 1847-March 24, 1891. 12 v. (**cF 865 C73)
Other
Box Box 362
Correspondence, miscellaneous papers and some photographs
Box Box 363
Family album, other loose photographs (mostly unidentified) and some identified non-Californians
Box Box 1838-1839
Five notebooks of genealogical research by Mrs. Arthur Dudley Cross on the Cross and Chapline families and Josiah Fox
Box Box 1840
Original documents, notes, photographs for the Hilton family, Felby, Thomas B.; Cross, Nelson P.; Cross, Jonathan; Cross family;
Forrester family and Little Shasta Valley, California
Box Box 1841
Coats of arms; photographs of people, castles and dwellings
