Finding Aid to the Bancroft Reference Notes for the Western States, excluding California, circa 1870s-1890s

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Finding Aid to the Bancroft Reference Notes for the Western States, excluding California, circa 1870s-1890s

Collection number: BANC MSS B-C 8

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
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Processed by Carola De Rooy and Iris Donovan
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Collection Summary

Collection Title: Bancroft reference notes for the western states, excluding California
Date (inclusive): circa 1870s-1890s
Collection Number: BANC MSS B-C 8
Collector: Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918
Extent: Number of containers: 28 cartons Linear feet: 35
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: Consists of bibliographic and research notes pertaining to and used in preparation of v. 25-31 of Hubert Howe Bancroft's History of the Pacific states of North America. His research notes track the settlement and development by Europeans and American pioneers of the western states, including various political, religious, military, and economic upheavals, changes, and developments in each new state or territory between the 1450s and the 1890s. References are to both primary sources, including ship's logs, diaries, and military and church correspondence, and secondary sources, including pamphlets, journals, and newspapers. The variation in scripts found in these handwritten notes provide evidence of the team of researchers employed by H.H. Bancroft. The majority of notes were taken from manuscripts and books which were part of Bancroft's collection during the years 1879 to 1890.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.

Information for Researchers

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

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All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html .

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Bancroft Reference Notes for the Western States, excluding California, BANC MSS B-C 8, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

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Hubert Howe Bancroft, Records of the Library and Publishing Companies, BANC MSS B-C 7
Hofmann & Curtis Architects, Specifications ... in the erection of a … library building for H. H. Bancroft, 1881, BANC MSS 73/122 c: [no.] 64
Catalogue of the Bancroft Library of Pacific Coast Books, Maps, and Manuscripts, BANC MSS B-C 4
William Henry Knight, Bancroft Library MS Scrapbooks, 1860-64, BANC MSS C-E 200
San Francisco Bulletin index, 1855-1872, BANC MSS B-C 2
Publishing Companies
Hubert Howe Bancroft, In these Latter Days, BANC MSS B-A 1
John S. Hittell, A History of the City of San Francisco, 1878, BANC MSS 90/19 c
History Company. The History Company periodical index, BANC MSS B-C 3
Hubert Howe Bancroft, Letters and papers from Mexico, 1886-91, BANC MSS M-M 384
Porfirio Diaz Collection of Papers, 1881-93, BANC MSS M-M 392
Hubert Howe Bancroft, Authorities quoted in the History of California, BANC MSS B-C 1
Thomas Savage, Report of labors in archives and procuring material for the History of California, 1876-79, BANC MSS C-E 191
Hubert Howe Bancroft, Preliminary notes and plans for the Pioneer Register, BANC MSS C-E 170
Hubert Howe Bancroft, Correspondence relating to the History of Oregon, 1863-1889, BANC MSS P-A 169
Hubert Howe Bancroft, Correspondence, BANC MSS C-B 362
Bancroft Reference notes for Central America, BANC MSS B-C 9
Bancroft Reference notes for Mexico, BANC MSS B-C 10
Bancroft Reference notes for British Columbia and Alaska, BANC MSS B-C 11
Bancroft Reference notes for California, BANC MSS B-C 12
Bancroft Reference notes--Bibliography, BANC MSS B-C 13
Bancroft Reference notes on the conquest of Mexico, BANC MSS B-M 1
Bancroft Reference notes, BANC MSS 97/31 c
Bancroft Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings, 1860-1890, BANC MSS B-C 14
Henry Cerruti, Sketches of the California Pioneers, BANC MSS C-E 65
Ivan Petroff, Journal of Trip to Alaska in Search of Information for the Bancroft Library, 1878, BANC MSS P-K 62
Harry Bishop Hambly, Information for the Bancroft Library, 1936, BANC MSS C-D 5081
Henry Lebbeus Oak, Correspondence and papers, BANC MSS C-B 387
Henry Lebbeus Oak, Letters from H.H. Bancroft and diary, 1874-87, BANC MSS 67/153
Frances Fuller Victor, Correspondence and notes relating to the History of Oregon, 1865-[ca. 1886], BANC MSS P-A 170
A.L. Bancroft & Co., Account of stock, Jan. 1, 1879, BANC MSS C-E 195
A.L. Bancroft & Co., Resolutions for the year 1890, BANC MSS C-E 196
Bancroft family
Albert Little Bancroft, My Brother Hubert Howe Bancroft, 1907, BANC MSS 73/122 c:109
Hubert Howe Bancroft family papers, BANC MSS 73/64 c
Bancroft family, Family genealogical data, 1886-1907, BANC MSS 89/91 c
Hubert Howe Bancroft letters to his family, 1882-1918, BANC MSS 77/169 c

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog
Arizona--History
Colorado--History
Dakota Territory--History
Idaho--History
Montana--History
Nevada--History
New Mexico--History
Northwest Coast of North America--History
Oregon--History
Texas--History
Utah--History
Washington (State)--History
Wyoming--History
Notes

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

The Bancroft Reference Notes for the Western States, excluding California, were part of the Bancroft Collection purchased by the University of California in 1905.

Biography

Hubert Howe Bancroft was born in Granville, Ohio on May 5, 1832. After working for some time in the Buffalo, N.Y. book store owned by his brother-in-law, George H. Derby, Bancroft came to California in 1852 to establish a West Coast outlet for the shop. In 1855, after selling the initial stock, he went east and returned with sufficient books and stationery to open a San Francisco store the following year. Within two years, his firm on Montgomery Street began to grow into a publishing house, issuing such items as law books and legal stationery, texts and maps for schools, and music and piano sales.
In 1860, as an outgrowth of assembling research materials for publication of a Pacific Coast handbook, Bancroft began to collect regional writings: this was the beginning of his unparalleled collection of books and manuscripts on the West. Within a decade he had 16,000 volumes, encompassing not only California and the Pacific Coast as the central focus, but also British Columbia and Alaska to the north, the Rocky Mountains to the east, and Mexico and Central American to the south, extending back in time from the native Indian cultures of all these regions and the subsequent era of Spanish control. The collection continued to grow as a result of collecting trips to the east and Europe, as well as through extensive purchases at a number of major auctions. Eventually it included not only books and manuscripts, but pamphlets, maps, newspapers and other periodicals, and transcriptions of manuscripts made by his corps of copyists from originals still in private hands or in government and church archives. Bancroft and his staff also created original materials by interviewing pioneers whose recollections might not otherwise have been preserved, resulting in hundreds of early oral histories termed "dictations".
By 1868, a move became necessary to relieve overcrowding in Bancroft's expanding and prosperous Montgomery Street headquarters. He bought property on Market Street near Third, and began to build in 1869. In April 1870, the completed five-story building boasted a modernized steam engine in the basement to provide power for the printing presses. The first four floors accommodated nine departments, including wholesale and retail books, and stationary, music, law, and education sales; a subscription department; and a printing, bindery, and blank book production division. The fifth floor of the new Bancroft Building was a literary workshop, completely divorced from the business, where Bancroft's collections could be put to use. He engaged Librarian, Henry Lebbeus Oak, to catalog the works he had acquired.
Bancroft continued to collect materials as he planned a vast publication project of a series of histories of western North American, which in the end numbered 39 volumes: the History of the Pacific States of North America, also known as Bancroft's Works. First were five volumes on The Native Races (1874-1875), then three volumes on the History of Central America and six more on the History of Mexico, followed by two volumes on the Northern Mexican States and Texas, and one treating Arizona and New Mexico. All of these preceded his central topic, a seven-volume History of California (1886-1890), which were followed by nine more volumes on other parts of the west, and a number of more informal works, including Literary Industries, the author's biography.
Bancroft's ten year marriage to his beloved wife, Emily Ketchum Bancroft, ended upon her death in 1869. Left alone to raise their daughter, Kate, born in 1860, Bancroft devoted his energies to family and literary productions. He placed the full responsibility of managing the business interests of the firm with his younger brother, A. L. (Albert Little) Bancroft, creating a new partnership in 1860 under the title, A. L. Bancroft and Company. The business expanded and prospered under A. L. Bancroft's direction until a fire destroyed the Bancroft Building and its contents in 1886. Old resentments and quarrels erupted following the traumatic event which eventually severed the brothers personal and professional relationships.
Fortunately, the library (referred to as both the Bancroft Library and the Pacific Library) was spared. In 1881, it had been moved from the fifth floor of the Market Street location to a specially constructed fire-proofed brick building on Valencia Street. Following the fire and dissolution of his partnership with A. L. Bancroft in 1886, Hubert Howe Bancroft formed two new companies: The History Company, and the Bancroft Company. In August 1887, under these new imprints, the production, publication, and marketing of Bancroft's Works resumed in the rebuilt quarters at 723 Market Street, known thereafter as the History Building.
Throughout the West, Bancroft's numerous sales agents continued to sell subscriptions to his Works and the seven-volume Chronicles of the Builders. Following a successful marketing campaign which secured orders for more than 6,000 sets of volumes during the 1870's and 80's, the canvassing effort was abandoned in 1892. In the late 1880's, Bancroft's methods for writing and marketing his works came under attack by literary critics and several of his former employees, including Mr. Henry Oak and Mrs. Francis Fuller Victor. Oak and Victor claimed authorship for major portions of the Works that were credited solely to Bancroft, calling the historian's methods and reputation into question. The retail book and stationary store finally closed its doors in 1894, after a long and bitter price war had made the business unprofitable.
In 1905, Bancroft's accomplishments as an historian and collector were recognized by the University of California. The institution purchased the book and manuscript collections of the eminent historian, numbering over sixty-thousand items, for $250,000. Although the collector contributed $100,000 of the purchase price, the contents of the library had been appraised at twice the net cost to the University. The History of the Pacific States won recognition as an indispensable work for students of western history. The collection as a whole remains a distinguished primary source of unique books, maps, pamphlets, and documents on the early history of the West, from Alaska to Central America.
In his later years, Bancroft wrote several volumes (Retrospection, The New Pacific, In These Latter Days) expressing his political, moral, economic, and social concerns for a modernizing world. On March 3, 1918, at the age of 86, Hubert Howe Bancroft died at his home, having been struck by a street car several days earlier. He was survived by his daughter, Kate, and his four children (Paul, Philip, Griffing, and Lucy Bancroft) by his second wife, Matilida Griffing Bancroft. They were married in 1876 and she predeceased him in 1910.

Sources

  • Harry Clark, A Venture in History: The Production, Publication, and Sale of the Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. University of California Press, 1973.
  • John Walton Caughey, Hubert Howe Bancroft, Historian of the West. University of California Press, 1946.
  • The Bancroft Library, University of California, The Bancroft Collection of Western and Latin Americana , June 4, 1998, http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/bancroft.html .

Scope and Content of Collection

Bancroft Reference Notes for the Western States, excluding California, ca. 1870s-1890s, consist of bibliographic and research notes pertaining to and used in the preparation of volumes 25-31 of Hubert Howe Bancroft's, History of the Pacific States of North America, including the History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, the History of Utah, the History of Northwest Coast (v. I-II), the History of Oregon (v. I-II), and the History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana. The research notes as a whole track the settlement and development by Europeans and American pioneers of the western states. The notes follow, in a chronological manner, various political, religious, military, and economic upheavals, changes, and developments in each new state or territory between the 1450s and the 1890s.
The western states notes reflect primary sources, such as ship's logs, diaries, and military and church correspondence. Secondary source notes, such as pamphlets, journals, and newspapers, focus on the interaction of the settlers and the native races, as well as internal relations in establishing governmental regulations. Of note is the vast amount of research preserved for the History of Oregon; Utah also presents a remarkable quantity of research concerning Mormon history.
Notably, the variation in scripts found in these handwritten notes provide evidence of the team of researchers employed by H.H. Bancroft. While the assistants compiled notes using a systematic method of topic research, Bancroft himself collated and edited the notes, often in a literal cut-and-paste fashion. In this manner, he carefully documented the sources he intended to draw upon and quote as authorities while constructing chapter outlines and textual drafts for the history of the western states volumes.

 

Series 1: Bibliographic and Research Notes. ca. 1870s-1890s.

Physical Description: Cartons 1-28

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by state, then subject, and finally, chronologically.

Content/Description

The majority of notes were taken from manuscripts and books which were part of Bancroft's collection during the years 1870 to 1890. Bibliographic notes include title, author, volume, and page citations; many notes are simple, 1- to 4-line summaries of a specific region and date noted in the left hand margin. Research notes of one to ten pages are transcriptions or summaries of historical events or persons. The miscellany files represent, chronologically, items with singular or no subject headings. The subject headings listed under each state are not necessarily uniform, but were derived from the quantity of research notes found within each state.
 

Arizona

carton 1, folder 1

Agriculture. 1870-1889

carton 1, folder 2

Crime. 1860-1890

carton 1, folder 3-11

Indians and the Military. 1850-1889

carton 1, folder 12-13

Legislature and Governmental Affairs. 1820-1889

carton 1, folder 14-16

Mining and Minerals. 1840-1889

carton 2, folder 1

Mining and Minerals. 1840-1889

carton 2, folder 2

Missions and Churches. 1760-1889

carton 2, folder 3

Pioneers and Settlements. 1870-1889

carton 2, folder 4-13

Miscellany. 1800-1889

 

Colorado

carton 2, folder 14

Judges, Senators, Governors. 1876-1897

carton 2, folder 15

List of New Publications. 1860-1899

carton 2, folder 16

Newspaper Clippings. 1869-1884

carton 2, folder 17

Silver Bill, Mint, Mining Clippings. 1880-1888

carton 2, folder 18-23

Miscellany. 1800-1869 undated

carton 3, folder 1-5

Miscellany. 1870-1889

 

Dakota

carton 3, folder 6

Miscellany. 1850-1887

 

Idaho

carton 3, folder 7

Crime. 1850-1889

carton 3, folder 8-11

Indian and Military Affairs. 1850-1889

carton 3, folder 12-14

Mining and Minerals. 1850-1889

carton 3, folder 15-18

Miscellany. 1850-1889

carton 4, folder 1-15

Miscellany. 1850-1889

 

Lower California

carton 4, folder 16

Miscellany. 1704-1868

 

Montana

carton 5, folder 1-12

Miscellany. 1867-1887

 

Nevada

carton 5, folder 13

Agriculture. 1870-1887

carton 5, folder 14-15

Biography. 1850-1887

carton 5, folder 16

Climate and Natural Resources. 1860-1880

carton 5, folder 17

History, Annexation, and Legislation. 1850-1865

carton 5, folder 18

Indians and the Military. 1800-1865

carton 5, folder 19

Indians and the Military. 1866-1885

carton 6, folder 1

Land Survey and Land Use. 1865-1879

carton 6, folder 2-3

Legislature and Governmental Affairs. 1860-1880

carton 6, folder 4-13

Mining and Minerals. 1860-1880

carton 6, folder 14-15

Pioneers. 1850-1886

carton 6, folder 16-18

Railroads, Transportation, and Communication 1860-1880

carton 7, folder 1

Stock Raising. 1849-1885

carton 7, folder 2-13

Miscellany. 1800-1885

 

New Mexico

carton 8, folder 1

Administration of Justice. 1820-1840

carton 8, folder 2

Cities and Boundaries. 1810-1869

carton 8, folder 3

Conquest and Settlement. 1583-1589

carton 8, folder 4-5

Churches and Missions. 1550-1835

carton 8, folder 6

Education. 1810-1889

carton 8, folder 7-9

Exploration and Voyages. 1550-1859

carton 8, folder 10-11

Governors and Government. 1595-1846

carton 8, folder 12-16

Indian Affairs and Insurrections. 1550-1885

carton 9, folder 1-2

Indian Affairs and Insurrections. 1550-1885

carton 9, folder 3

Land Administration. 1850-1890

carton 9, folder 4-6

Military Affairs. 1820-1889

carton 9, folder 7-8

Mining. 1650-1870

carton 9, folder 9

Pioneers. 1820-1889

carton 9, folder 10

Railroads and Communication

carton 9, folder 11

U.S. Trade and Trade Routes. 1824-1825

carton 9, folder 12-19

Miscellany. 1502-1889

carton 10, folder 1-2

Miscellany. 1820-1889

 

North Mexican States and Texas

carton 10, folder 3-7

Miscellany. 1530-1786

 

Northwest Coast

carton 10, folder 8

Anson's Voyage. 1740-1777

carton 10, folder 9

Cortes' Voyage, Grijalvas' Voyage. 1530-1539

carton 10, folder 10-11

Early Exploration, Northern Mystery. 1500-1775

carton 10, folder 12

Fur Trade. 1750-1800

carton 10, folder 13

Guzman's Fate, Alavion's Voyage. 1532-1541

carton 10, folder 14

Hurtado's Voyage, Niza's Expedition. 1530-1539

carton 10, folder 15

NW Passage and Shipping. 1450-1825

carton 10, folder 16

Passes Through Mountainous Regions. 1839-1859

carton 10, folder 17

Miscellany. 1800-1850

 

Oregon

carton 11, folder 1-4

Agriculture. 1850-1889

carton 11, folder 5-21

Biography (A-R). 1800-1899

carton 12, folder 1-7

Biography (S-Z). 1800-1899

carton 12, folder 8-10

Biography Miscellany. 1820-1890

carton 12, folder 11

British America. 1800-1860

carton 12, folder 12-17

Churches and Missions. 1830-1860

carton 12, folder 18

Congressional Debates, Re-occupation. 1824-1825

carton 12, folder 19-24

Counties and Towns. 1820-1890

carton 13, folder 1-4

Counties and Towns. 1820-1890

carton 13, folder 5-10

Emigration and Immigration. 1835-1870

carton 13, folder 11

Forts in Astoria. 1811-1840

carton 13, folder 12

Fur Trade. 1830-1870

carton 13, folder 13

Fur Trappers and Traders. 1840-1850

carton 13, folder 14-16

Geography and Resources. 1835-1875

carton 13, folder 17

Gray's Voyage

carton 13, folder 18-20

Indians and Military. 1845-1870

carton 14, folder 1-14

Indians and Military. 1845-1870

carton 14, folder 15

John Jacob Astor and Astoria. 1810-1846

carton 14, folder 16-17

Manufacturers and Industries. 1840-1870

carton 15, folder 1-2

Manufacturers and Industries. 1840-1870

carton 15, folder 3-8

Mining. 1855-1870

carton 15, folder 9

Northwest Company. 1811-1832

carton 15, folder 10

Pacific Fur Company. 1810-1813

carton 15, folder 11-19

Politics and Government. 1840-1869

carton 16, folder 1-4

Politics and Government. 1840-1869

carton 16, folder 5-6

Printing and Newspapers. 1830-1889

carton 16, folder 7-8

Public Schools. 1830-1876

carton 16, folder 9

Sale of Astoria. 1813

carton 16, folder 10

Ships (Tonquin, Beaver, Lark). 1810-1813

carton 16, folder 11-12

Social Life. 1850-1875

carton 16, folder 13-19

Transportation and Communication. 1820-1875

carton 17, folder 1-8

Transportation and Communication. 1820-1875

carton 17, folder 9

Willamette Orthography. 1819-1874

carton 17, folder 10-13

Miscellany. 1810-1889

carton 18, folder 1-10

Miscellany. 1810-1889

 

Texas

carton 19, folder 1

Agriculture and Husbandry. 1828-1885

carton 19, folder 2-3

Annexation. 1830-1848

carton 19, folder 4

Biography. 1810-1885

carton 19, folder 5

Boundaries. 1815-1850

carton 19, folder 6

Colonization and Land Grants. 1800-1835

carton 19, folder 7

Education. 1835-1880

carton 19, folder 8

Expeditions and Voyages. 1689-1848

carton 19, folder 9-15

Indian and Military Affairs

carton 19, folder 16-20

Legislature and Governmental Affairs

carton 20, folder 1

Railroads and Communication

carton 20, folder 2-11

Miscellany. 1520-1870

carton 20, folder 12

United States- Pacific Coast. 1830-1867

 

Utah

carton 20, folder 13

Agriculture and Husbandry. 1860-1885

carton 20, folder 14-15

Biography. 1812-1880

carton 20, folder 16-17

Brigham Young. 1550-1586

carton 21, folder 1-2

Brigham Young. 1550-1586

carton 21, folder 3-4

Emigration and Immigration. 1831-1887

carton 21, folder 5-9

Indians and the Military. 1830-1889

carton 21, folder 10

Land. 1858-1879

carton 21, folder 11-12

Legislature and Government. 1830-1889

carton 21, folder 13-19

Mining and Minerals. 1840-1889

carton 22, folder 1-15

Mormonism. 1839-1889

carton 23, folder 1-5

Mormonism. 1839-1889

carton 23, folder 6

Mountain Meadows Massacre. 1857

carton 23, folder 7

Newspaper Clippings. 1820-1889

carton 23, folder 8

Pioneers and Settlement. 1860-1885

carton 23, folder 9

Poems and Songs. 1850-1860

carton 23, folder 10-13

Politics and Government

carton 23, folder 14-16

Polygamy. 1845-1880

carton 23, folder 17

Transportation and Railroads. 1860-1885

carton 23, folder 18-22

Miscellany. 1540-1879 undated

carton 24, folder 1-14

Miscellany. 1840-1889

 

Washington

carton 25, folder 1-3

Agriculture and Husbandry. 1830-1879

carton 25, folder 4-7

Biography. 1840-1885

carton 25, folder 8

Churches and Missions. 1830-1879

carton 25, folder 9

Clippings. 1875-1885

carton 25, folder 10

Crime. 1849-1879

carton 25, folder 11

Education. 1850-1885

carton 25, folder 12

Fisheries and Canning. 1848-1880

carton 25, folder 13-19

Indians and the Military. 1845-1885

carton 26, folder 1

Indians and the Military. 1845-1885

carton 26, folder 2-5

Legislature. 1840-1885

carton 26, folder 6

Libraries. 1850-1869

carton 26, folder 7-8

Lumbering. 1830-1880

carton 26, folder 9

Mail Matters. 1850-1885

carton 26, folder 10-12

Manufactures and Industries. 1845-1879

carton 26, folder 13-16

Mining and Minerals. 1850-1880

carton 27, folder 1

Mining and Minerals. 1850-1880

carton 27, folder 2

Olympia. 1845-1880

carton 27, folder 3-5

Pioneers and Settlement. 1830-1875

carton 27, folder 6

Printing. 1835-1885

carton 27, folder 7-8

Puget Sound. 1845-1880

carton 27, folder 9-12

Railroads and Passes. 1860-1885

carton 27, folder 13

Rivers and Bays. 1850-1880

carton 27, folder 14

San Juan. 1850-1879

carton 27, folder 15

Seattle. 1850-1885

carton 27, folder 16

Shipbuilding and Steamers. 1840-1880

carton 27, folder 17

Walla Walla. 1845-1875

carton 28, folder 1-7

Miscellany. 1840-1880

 

Washington Territory

carton 28, folder 8

History. 1851-1853

carton 28, folder 9

History Outlines. 1500-1882

carton 28, folder 10

Index and Notes Used

carton 28, folder 11

Indian Affairs. 1850-1875

carton 28, folder 12

Miscellany. 1830-85

 

Western States

carton 28, folder 13

Treatment of Indians. ca. 1858

 

Wyoming

carton 28, folder 14

Anti-Chinese Riots and Expulsion. 1885

carton 28, folder 15-17

Miscellany. 1800-1880

carton 28, folder 18

Unidentified pages. 1847-1885 undated