California As It Is: A Collection of Questionnaires, 1886-1889

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Title:: California As It Is: A Collection of Questionnaires,
Dates:: 1886-1889
Creators:: H. H. Bancroft and Company
Abstract:: Includes over three hundred printed questionnaires, apparently filled out by agents of H.H. Bancroft with information supplied by California settlers involved in agriculture or related industries. Responses to questions on printed side of form are chiefly statistical; verso of form usually contains a brief biography of interviewee.
Box 4 contains more completed questionnaire forms, usually without biographical information; some of these are captioned "Statistics of California Industries."
Extent:: Number of containers: 4 boxes
Language:: English
Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], California As It Is: A Collection of Questionnaires, BANC MSS C-D 989, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Acquisition information:: This collection forms part of the Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection.
Physical location:: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Collection Guide Author:: Processed by The Bancroft Library staff
Date Prepared:: © 1996
Date Encoded:: Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding; finding aid encoded by Xiuzhi Zhou. Date of source: Unknown.

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Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], California As It Is: A Collection of Questionnaires, BANC MSS C-D 989, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Location of this collection:: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US