Chiefly snapshot portraits of Native Americans from Alaska, many of them apparently relatives, friends and/or associates of Strong.

Papers relating to graphite mining in northern Mexico (Sonora). Include correspondence, a ledger book, financial documents, and contracts.

Family snapshots of an infant girl growing up in the Sonora area.

Snapshots of family members, friends, homes, and scenery on outings. Locations include the Kansas towns of Miltonville and Manhattan, Hugo and other locations in Colorado, Oakdale (California), and the vicinity of Precott, Arizona. Views include the family homestead farm outside...

Collection contains family correspondence, scrapbooks, and other miscellaneous memorabilia. Correspondents' include: Ambrose Bierce, Ina Coolbrith, Timothy Rearden, Anne Rearden, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst.

Miscellaneous family papers, many relating to Joseph R. Redding and family, including correspondence, clippings, and materials relating to his "Natoma," "Fay-Yen-Fah," "Guardian of the Grove," and other writings.

Volume containing copies of documents relating to Baja California made for H.H. Bancroft.

Concerning threat of piracy in Baja California, 1853-1874; establishment of military posts, 1795-1820, with letters from Diego de Borica and Fernando de Rivera y Moncada; and Indian problems at Misión Santa Gertrudis, 1798.

30 original wood engravings, printed at Taller de Gráfica Popular, each 29.75 x 20.5 cm and signed by the artist.

Contains images of several major buildings designed by the firm, including San Francisco City Hall and Pasadena City Hall. Also pictured are some some residences, including Bakewell's own, portraits of John Bakewell, and reproductions of John Bakewell's student drawings. Also...

Discussion of Extension Division from the time he became director in 1942; program during the war years aiding industry; classes for professional groups; administrative problems - recruiting staff and teachers, liaison with faculty, finances. Photograph inserted.

Clippings, pictures, and miscellaneous papers relating to "Lucky" Baldwin and members of his family and to Robert Johnston and his wife.

Cartoon depicts large balls bearing the names of northern states rolling across the opposition. Banner bears the names Fremont/Dayton, and a rainbow carries the motto: Free soil, free speech, free press, free men, & Fremont. Issues allluded to include: railroad...

Photographs; pages from a family photo album; wedding invitations; and the ketubah of Julius Balzer and Augusta Marks signed by the rabbi of San Francisco's Congregation Sherith Israel, Falk Vidaver.

Recommending William C. Spencer and John M. Willard for scholarships.

Contains 345 receipts for supplies, services, and hardware from 65 firms, most located in the United States. The dated receipts, likely removed from the original receipt book, are in individual sleeves with business letterhead staionery of the firm and with...

Includes bill of sale from H.H. Bancroft to the Bancroft Company of New York (dated November 10, 1896), leases, financial records, a document proposing the incorporation of the Bancroft Company of New York (dated May 26, 1896), prospectus for Chronicles...

Volume 1, Letters written by Emily (Ketchum) Bancroft to her family, 1844-1868, including, also two letters, October 20 & 26, 1864, from H.H. Bancroft to Mrs. Ketchum.

Letterpress copybook of Hubert Howe Bancroft, 1869-1876, containing several letters concerning his publication and book collecting activities; letters from H.H. Bancroft to individuals, in particular his immediate family; miscellaneous receipts and legal documents, and related correspondence.

Letters from Daniel Chaplin (1884); J.F. Ellis (1884); William F. Hill (1863); John Cunningham Kelton (1884); Asahel Bush (1888); Samuel A. Clark per Son (1882); D.W. Craig (1889); Joseph W. Marsh (1888); A. Noltner (1882); W.H. Odell (1882); and C.H....

Contains photos of exhibits, social evens, speakers and attendees; dates and locations are not identified. Several views of the Bancroft Library building on Valencia Street in San Francisco are also included.

Manuscripts on a variety of topics brought together for storage purposes. Most now cataloged individually; search under title: Bancroft Library manuscript miscellany.

Topics include domestic economy, electricity, health, industry and commerce, newspapers and publishing, railway systems of the Southwest, the 1906 earthquake in San Francsico, science, silk, and transportation engineering (railroads, canals, etc.)

Two oversize prints are formal group portraits of California delegates to the 1912 Progressive National Convention in Chicago in support of that party's presidential candidate, Theodore Roosevelt. Among those pictured are then-California Governor Hiram Johnson (the Progressive candidate for Vice-President),...

Bibliographical reference citations, sorted by mostly by general subjects (with some by author), chiefly relating to Mexico, along with some other western states. Works cited date from 1550 to 1890s.

Reference notes pasted on sheets of manila paper.

Cartes de visite album containing portraits of the Bancroft and Howe families. Individuals identified by captions, but many, including portraits of Hubert Howe Bancroft, are missing from album.

Mainly concerning the location of her husband's letters to Lewis H. Morgan, his friendship with Morgan, and his conversion to Catholicism.

Bound daily accounting books for a house and sign painting business owned by Edward Bangle and George Chase containing daily entries for expenses and income involving labor and painting supplies. The earlier volume begins in Brooklyn [i.e. Oakland], California and...

Photographs show buildings designed by Bernard Maybeck, mainly in California. Also includes portraits of Bernard Maybeck.

Correspondence between Samuel Bangs, first printer of the provinces of Nuevo León and Tamaulipas, with José Alejandro Uro y Lozano, another printer, relating mainly to the sale of printing presses and type to the latter. The imprints include an advertisement...

No. 59 in France, miscellaneous letters and documents collection.

Set of prints, mounted on blotter paper cards, chiefly illustrating the early history of San Francisco. Also represented is the early history of the broader San Francisco Bay Area and other regions in California. Each card pertains to a different...

Three receipts from the Bank of the United States. The first one dated December 24, 1822 from Washington, D.C. is $343.55 paid to and signed by Senator John C. Calhoun from Thomas March & Co. The second receipt is dated...

Views of various banks and financial firms in California, exteriors and interiors; also includes photographs of coinage and bank certificates.

Experiences as a resident of San Diego from 1869; mainly as a banker.

Printed buttons pertaining to various political issues of the 1970s to the 2000s. Also includes cloth banner printed with logo of Data Center and text: Providing information in the public interest.

Reflecting a transfer of stock from Sarah K. Lamb by Dickson Q. Brown, 1934; with 29 stock certificates signed by T.S. Heer and (Peter) Steele.

Contains records of TecNICA member Barbara Atkinson including memos, policies, correspondence, programs, fliers, handouts, membership lists, newsletters and other documents relating to TecNICA; correspondence of Barbara Atkinson including letters to and from friends and family while working in Nicaragua for...

Typescript notes, transcripts, and other items compiled circa 1950s concerning the history of the area and pioneer residents covering 1848-1874. Includes a Columbia Registry of Deaths from the period.

Scenes from a wedding party involving Sacramento biker gang The Kinsmen.

Notes are responses to questions posed by Barbara Woolsey about John Steinbeck's literary career and associations. They are from Steinbeck's first wife Carol H. (Mrs. William B.) Brown and his sister Beth (Mrs. Eugene D.) Ainsworth.

Photograph albums and scrapbooks document the early life and family Barbara Zelinsky up to her honeymoon with Robert Zelinsky. Early albums show Barbara's parents, Rachel Rutherford Hortop and Leopold Levy, and other family (especially Hortop). These early views include the...

Mostly views of Barbary Coast neighborhood (San Francisco, Calif.) taverns, theaters, dance halls, and other establishments, many with crowds in front of them. Includes views of the Thalia, the Midway, Purcell's, and Sheehan's Tavern. Older views show Yosemite, an Indian...

Concerns his admittance into the Barber's Company (London) in 1845 including the registry notation (Book H, October 21, 1845), Oath of every freeman of the City of London, and excerpts of a letter from Doris Webster (granddaughter) to Fred Anderson...

Compiled by Anthony A. Barbieri.

Drawings and paintings of Barclay's Fort (New Mexico) and surrounding area. Includes the fort, buffalo cows and calves, a landscape with Barclay's horse and dog, a plowman and team at work, and a mounted "New Mexican."

Typed transcript of diary of a pioneer (1855) by James Bardin describing his overland journey from Independence, Missouri, to Yreka, California.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Contains correspondence between the "Barnabe mountain review" editor Gerald Fleming and contributors, original typescripts, marketing materials including flyers, advertisements, cover artwork, and form letters to subscribers and writers. Also includes published issues 2-5.

Mainly thanking Astle for copies of his books.

Contains account book and receipts, mostly in San Francisco, of sailing Barque John Potter, captained by D.C. Mitchell.

Collection of material related to the Barranco Bros. vaudeville show contains correspondence Murray & Co. of Chicago and the F.J. Burch Manufacturing Co. of Pueblo, Colorado (tent manufacturers) about orders. Also includes show passes and coupons, advertisements promoting the act,...

Box 1: includes portraits of S.A. Barrett, photographs relating to anthropological studies, including views of California Indians, their tools and other artifacts, Kashaya Pomo, Yurok, and Navaho photos, Deer Dance and Bear Dance photos, and views form an African expedition...

Includes portraits of Samuel A. Barrett; group portraits from the Cudahy-Massee-Milwaukee Museum African expedition (1928); a portrait of the young lion "Sim" at the Milwaukee Public Museum in 1929 (reportedly a cropped copy of Milwaukee Public Museum photo 405593); portraits...

Contains financial records and publishing information for the English language edition of the Nicaraguan publication Barricada Internacional. Also contains newsletters, publications, and other material concerning political activities in Nicaragua and other Central American countries. Also includes numerous photographic copy negatives...

Papers of Abraham Van Gelder and several descendants including Katherine A. Crocker and William C. Barry.

The maps, with annotations and explanatory notes, are primarily concerned with the exploration of the Pacific Northwest, including the Lewis and Clark Expedition; reproductions are of portions of maps by William Clark, Nicholas King, John Melish, Alexander Ross, David Thompson,...

Contains only pages 11-21, 29-32, 37-51, and plates 2, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 23, + 26. Later (after 1848) used as notebook for notes, signatures (José Antonio Carrillo and Juan Sepúlveda), accounts, and drawings (some of...

Correspondence of George Bartholomew, his son, Harry, and Harry's friend, Dan Headley, from various Calif. locations and Bristol, Conn. Also includes letters from Angeline Bartholomew, Adna Whiting, and H.H. Porter. The 24 letters discuss local news, work in the gold...

Contains letters from Everson to Bartlett; various Everson manuscripts; the archive of the Bartlett's biography of Everson, William Everson: The Life of Brother Antoninus; misc. Everson material.

Views of resort in Lake County, Calif, with small cabins, a main hotel, and visitors pictured.

Photographs of Karl Friedrich Meyer during his trip to the Soviet Union in 1965, depicted with Soviet colleagues and other unidentified associates. Also includes Russian tourist postcards, a menu, and other ephemera from the 1965 trip. Also includes slides of...

Includes a retrospective journal of the life of the Puerto Rican poet, with information on his parents and his schooling; and poems copied by him for Josephine Miles.

Views include small town, urban area, and wilderness scenes from various California locations. Eureka and Mono Lake are included.

Two letters, written from Blois and Milan, sending a copy of his book, Diplomatie Venitienne, and mentioning his current historical research.

Collection consists of correspondence; postcards from a 1909 postcard album belonging to Bashe Rosenbloom in Minsk; a 1955 program from the Jewish Cultural Club of Elsinore, Calif.; a poem celebrating Rosenbloom's fifty years in Petaluma, Calif.; and family photographs. Among...

Numerous family documents and mementos; pamphlets; and a scrapbook relating to San Francisco's Yiddish Literary and Drama Club (1927-1948); holding programs; announcements; newspaper clippings; posters; correspondence; fliers; photographs of actors, actresses, and productions; and a history of the literary club.

Batchelder family papers: Dr. Amos Batchelder's journal of overland journey to Calif., 1849, with transcript and notes by his grandson Edward Emil Nelson; several commonplace books and diaries, 1838-1886; book of medical prescriptions, 1835-1849.

Black and white and cyanotype snapshots of Yosemite (including the Wawona Hotel), Mariposa County, mines (including the Ophir and Princeton? Mines), and San Francisco. Outings and scenery in the Mt. Bullion area are also pictured.

Contains seven manuscript letters written by various men from Maine who ventured to California with the backing of the Crooker family of Bath, Maine. All of the letters are addressed to the Crooker family from the men who took various...

Invitations, press releases, and other pertinent materials related to the activities of the Batman Gallery in San Francisco.

Includes letters from relatives in Italy, and some from A. Domeniconi, Sonoma wine grower and supplier, relating to Frapolli's wine business in San Francisco.

Postcards depict the aftermath of the Battle of Tijuana, waged in 1911 during the Mexican Revolution. Images show U.S. officers, battle casualties, the Mexican customs house, a group of surrendered insurrectionists, and the main street of Tijuana.

Photographs include portraits of Bauer and family members, views from trips to Yosemite and Alaska, a few San Francisco views, and unidentified parlor interiors. Many views include wagons, carriages or automobiles. Also present is an oversize group portrait of Bauer...

Three accounting ledgers for what was to become the last producing malt house in San Francisco, California. Entries offer a glimpse into the economics of the malting and brewing industry on the West Coast, and bridge the period of the...

Postcards depict Navajo, Pueblo and Hopi Indians and their crafts, such as woven rugs and pottery; cattle herds; yucca and other plants indigenous to the southwestern Unite States; and animals such as burros and jack rabbits. Among the locations picured...

Family correspondence; citizenship papers and a certificate; booklets; a scrapbook of Doretta Baumann Muhlfelder; photographs; a membership card for the Associated Veterans of Farragut's Fleet (relating to Julius's service in the Civil War); and a letter signed by Admiral George...

Interviews with eleven persons involved in controversy over plans to build a racetrack and business park (denied) on a wetland site along the Hayward shoreline and approval to restore it as a wildlife sanctuary. Leslie Salt Division (Cargill Corporation); environmental...

Chiefly California and desert Southwest landscapes in a pictorialist style. Also includes Yosemite views, mountain landscapes in the Sierra Nevada and elsewhere, studies of rock forms, architectural details, and views at the Golden Gate International Exhibition of 1939.

Correspondence (letters from Alan Cranston, George Murphy and Peter McCloskey), minutes, financial reports, posters, clippings on Biafra, reports from Biafra and Nigeria, reprints, photographs, maps, and records of the San Francisco Branch of the United Friends of Biafra.

Each volume contains index.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Includes 10 views of home interiors and exteriors in San Jose, and views in Palo Alto, Sausalito, Monterey and Pacific Grove.

Contains newsletters, programs, articles, notebooks, financial records, brochures, course lists, etc. concerning the operations of socialist schools opened in 1974 by an East Bay chapter of the New American Movement (NAM). Also contains general materials on socialism and from other...

Various photographers/creators: California, Inc., Associated Oil Company, Standard Oil Co., and Walter G. Swanson (photographer).

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Contains financial records, scrapbook of company's history, charge sheets from 1942 and 1943, paint catalogs, brochures and color cards.

Interviews with former staff members of Bay Meadows Race Track, located in the city of San Mateo, California from 1934 to 2008.

Photographs documenting the Examiner-sponsored Bay to Breakers 12 kilometer foot race and "fun run" through San Francisco. Between 1912 and 1964, this race was known as the Cross City Race. The Examiner began sponsorship in 1966, but the earliest photographs...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Contains correspondence, legal documents, and ephemera of two capitalists who were investors and business partners in various fields incuding mining, water rights and hydroelectric power, and telegraphy, especially the Federal Telegraph Company. Also includes deeds, personal correspondence, genealogical information for...

Primarily concerning diplomatic relations with the United States and German infiltration.

Description of mining techniques, life at the mines and cost of living.

Excerpts from his diary letters, 1921-1923, describe his experiences in Alaska and Siberia and mention encounters with Eskimos.

Balance sheets, etc., association agreement for fig growers, contracts with California Packing Corporation and Libby, McNeil & Libby, and liquidation schedule.

Contents: v. 1 - Organizational records (1857-1883): charter, constitution and by-laws, minutes of meetings; v. 2 - accounts (1856-1858) erroneously noted as Mariposa County account book.

Materials relating to his work in exploration and development of domestic communication satellite systems and establishment of the Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT), and other endeavors.

Received as part of the Beatrice and William Eisman collection on Indochina after liberation (BANC PIC 2003.186--PIC).

A photographic history of the struggle of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia for peace, sovereignty and development in the Third Indochina War, following their liberation in 1975. Consists of photographic prints and illustrations from printed sources, with descriptive captions and accompanying...

The collection consists primarily of materials relating to Beatrice Lowenstein Magnes' extended family. Included are letters, notes and essays, poetry and plays, personal documents, Mendelson and Lowenstein family materials from mid-nineteenth-century Germany (including correspondence, a poem in honor of Sophia...

Contains correspondence, legal and financial records. Correspondence is mostly with Bain's family including her father Woodbridge Metcalf and also Margaret Papandeou, the First Lady of Greece (1981-1989). Also includes photographs and slides from her 1981 tour of China, a travel...

Enclosure: snapshot of Beatrice and Sidney Webb.

Copies of photographs inserted. Contents: From the Capitol Press Room, interview with Richard Rodda, political editor of the three McClatchy Bee newspapers; Perspectives of a Political Reporter, interview with Herbert L. Phillips, political reporter for the Sacramento Bee (1933-1963); An...

Includes images of rafting trips on the Stanislaus and Salmon Rivers; the environment and local people of the Stanislaus River region; the dedication of the New Melones Dam; and protests of the New Melones Dam, including some of protesters who...

Contains fifty-nine handwritten letters, mostly between sibling members of the Joseph and Wealthy Whiting Belcher family of Tioga County, New York. Thirty-six of the letters are from a son, Flavel Belcher, covering his time in San Francisco during the Gold...

Consists of original source material from 19th century Sonoma County Calif., and genealogy research pertaining to the original documents. The original documents of Frederick Blume and his Californiana wife Maria Antonia Caseres, and neighbors Gustavus Burghard and his family are:...

Genealogical research material including original and copy photographs pertaining to early Sonoma County, Calif. families of Frederick Blume and his wife Maria Antonia Caseres, and Gustavus Burghard and Mary Blume Burghard (i.e Maria Ignacia Valenzuela). Other family members depicted include...

Included are portraits of: John T. Bell; Howard K. Bell; Stanley J. Bell; and San Jose, Calif. schools. Also included is a view of the Varney & Green's Art Department, depicting people working at their desks, from 1905.

Contains several studio portraits of University of California, Berkeley students, including football players in uniform; photographic prints of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (with 2 snapshots of rubble during its destruction), an unidentified automobile race (ca. 1920?), large format photographs of...

The collection includes Bella Hurst Aaron's personal and family papers (1940s-1992), political and public service papers (1960s and 1970s), files (1957-1991) relating to Eugene Burns and the Holy Land foundation, files (1946-1990) on Aaron's involvement in John Owen's challenge to...

Recollections of her father, Charles A. Murdock, San Francisco printer, and his many civic activities; her education in San Francisco and the University of California; her administrative posts with the University, including assistant to the dean of women and counselor,...

Letters to Belle Randall from noted poet, Thom Gunn; with additional papers of Belle Randall. The bulk of the letters date from the 1960s through Gunn's death in 2004.

Primarily photos of student activities, athletic teams, and group portraits, some include William Thomas Reid, headmaster of the school and former president of the University of California.

Concerns work as a patent and pension lawyer in Washington, D.C., with mention of her activities as delegate of the Universal Peace Union and on behalf of the Association for the Promotion of Arbitration as a Prevention of War Between...

Flyleaf title: A record of life commenced at Fort John, California, September, 1854 ... Journal (Sept. 3, 1854 - Feb. 26, 1856); poems and commonplace entries; diary (Mar. 30 - Apr. 4, & May 13 - 16, 1859; a large...

Contains daily logs written while being a fire lookout in the Umpqua National Forest in Oregon. Also contains correspondence, sketches, cartoons, writings and subject files.

Photographs document various aspects of construction of Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River in eastern Washington. Many photographs emphasize actions of construction workers.

Consists of materials documenting Ben Weiss's Jewish-related activities.

Autobiographical ms. describing Kutcher's arrival in the U.S., the early years of his career, his experiences in the U.S. Army, and his associations with artists and designers.

Correspondence, memoranda, clippings, and papers relating to the redwood strike of 1945-1947, his work with the Redwood Region Conservation Council and the California Redwood Association, and his interest in tree farms. Letters and reprints by Emanuel Fritz and others included.

Contains mostly correspondence to and from the Portland, Oregon chapter of the Benares League of America and other chapters. Also includes a small amount of material concerning the founder of the Benares League, Mohan Singh (later Yogi Hari Rama), including...

Includes snapshots and group portraits depicting Benedict at various points throughout his career, including his being awarded an honorary degree by Clark Kerr on Charter Day, March 21, 1961 at the University of California, Berkeley. Also includes personal and family...

Advertising cards promoting the Beneficencia Pública lottery of 1890 in Mexico City. The front of each sheet depicts a person representing a different ethnic, cultural or occupational type of Mexican, some associated with particular regions of the country: aguador (Queretaro);...

Consists of four autobiographical notebooks by Bufano addressed to George Baker an editor of the San Francisco Argonaut. Journal 1 covers his education, his first meeting with Baker, and general life stories. Journal 2 covers his time in China in...

Exterior and interior views and blueprint of the arsenal (built in 1903), taken shortly before its demolition.

Manuscript letter (1 p.) concerning military dispositons of the Mexican Army of Independence and the French troops of the Emperor Maximillian. Juárez was in opposition at this time operating out of the city of Chihuahua. "The French who are between...

Handwritten letter, signed by Benito Juárez, on official letterhead stationery of the Governor of the state of Oaxaca, to the Ministro de Guerra y Marina concerning troop and munitions movements five weeks before a presidential transition in 1851. The munitions...

Photocopies of six letters, translated from the German originals, written primarily by William Benitz to members of the family, describing his farming and cattle raising operations at Fort Ross, California.

Gold rush journal of Benjamin B. Coit concerning his voyage from New York to California via Cape Horn aboard the ship, John. Gl Costar. Also includes approximately 21 letters to his wife Adelaide.

13 letters written while Howard was serving as first mate of clipper ships sailing in the Pacific and the south Atlantic. Letters written from San Francisco, aboard ship, Rio de Janero, and Hong Kong.

Mainly to family, describing his travels in Japan in 1907, experiences from 1909, surveying for the U.S. Bureau of Insular Affairs on Cebú and Samar in the Philippines, and his work compiling an English-Bisayan dictionary. Letter to his mother from...

Chiefly landsapes, most unidentified, in Southern California, with some (approximately 7) photographs of Brown's paintings. Views appear to be in Riverside County, the Mojave Desert, probably the San Gabriel Mountains and/or the San Bernardino Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and some...

Copies of letters written by him, including one from New York, 1849, prior to his departure for California, describing the steamer Crescent City and encounters with miners returning from California, and one, May 1851, re the San Francisco fire and...

Includes letters from A. Eberhart (his agent in San Francisco), J. De Barth Shorb, Francis P.F. Temple, and his son, John B. Wilson, relating to business matters and his vineyards; accounts; promissory notes; poll tax and internal revenue receipts; and...

Benjamin Dore diary describes his voyage on the ship "Cantero" from Maine to San Francisco, with stops at St. Catherine Island off the coast of Brazil, and at Valparaiso, Chile. Also includes accounts of the first steamboat voyage up Humboldt...

Contains case files, civil rights files, published materials, National Lawyers Guild files, materials concerning lawyer loyalty oaths, etc.

Account statement for the estate of his father, John Kern and receipts to Benjamin Kern for distribution of estate. One of the heirs was his brother, Edward M. Kern, an artist in the company of Fremont's Fourth Expedition to the...

Copies made in 1878.

The most extensive archive of Oregon documents among the Bancroft collections, especially concerned with the Oregon Indian wars, 1853-1856, but including printed material on politics and government, 1863-1864. The volume P-A 139 contains an autobiography.

Mainly written from the Yukon Territory, in the vicinity of Dawson, where he was employed as an engineer with the Bonanza Creek Gold Mining Company, Ltd. Comments on the trip from Skagway to Dawson City, his work, social activities in...

Letters report the arrivals and departures of ships, details of their voyages, news of specific captains and of striking crews. One letter depicts the damage sustained by the Greenwich during Green's passage on it of 156 days.

Written during the period he was employed by Libby, McNeill & Libby as a radio operator in the company's canneries in Alaska. The letters comment on the voyages to Alaska, setting up the station at Egegik, life and working conditions...

Mainly accounts, mostly with San Francisco and Stockton merchants for Harrison's store at Columbia, California, with some letters concerning payments and related matters.

Most of these twenty manuscripts probably belonged at one time to the private archive of José Matías Moreno. They consist mainly of personal letters, eight of them signed by Pío Pico. Included in the collection is a letter from John...

Claims against and receipts from the estate. Hill had lived in Sausalito.

With lists of committee members and officers and award recipients. Some related correspondence and a plaster model of the award are included.

Mainly legal papers relating to property in Sitka, Alaska, with signatures of William Sumner Dodge and W.H. Wood, and including two certificates signed by Prince Alexander Maksutov, Governor of Russian Colonies in America, and certificate of naturalization for Levy.

Copybook of letters sent as U.S. Indian Agent, Upper Missouri Agency, 1823-1826, to the Secretary of War, William Clark, Henry Atkinson, William H. Ashley, Henry Leavenworth, Joshua Pilcher, and others, reflecting life at Fort Atkinson, Council Bluffs; the Arikara campaign,...

Volume 1: Letters from William H. Dall, William Keith, Stephen Powers, Joseph Roos, Toby E. Rosenthal, Charles W. Stoddard, Peter Tofft; poem by Robert E.C. Stearns.

Photographs and descriptive typescript text documenting the history and historic buildings of Georgetown, Colo. Some ephemera present. Also includes television and play scripts by the compiler: The handkerchief trick, c1955; The big do, c1958; Hotel de Paris, c1957.

Relates to litigation over personal property, and with the San Francisco Manufacturing Company. Also included is a deed for property in Marin County for part of Rancho Punta de Quentin to James Ross and John Cowell.

Contents: letters from Josiah Griswold, 1849-1850, describing trip around Cape Horn to San Francisco and work in mines; letter from George Robins about business in San Francisco in 1850; letters from Hill to his children.

V. 1, "Log of the U.S.S. Marietta" (Nov. 26, 1898 - June 23, 1899) covering duty in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea.

Relate to Yerba Buena Island. Included are letters from J.M. Edmunds and Joseph S. Wilson of the U.S. General Land Office, lobbyists David S. Turner, S.M. Johnson and Samuel Ward, Senator C. Cole, W.M. Evarts, Egbert P. Judson and others;...

Seven letters (20 p.) from a dairy farmer to his mother concerning his business in Sacramento during the Gold Rush and the great flood and fire in Sacramento. He also responds to the news he has received from her regarging...

Photographs show: the Hotel Californian in Santa Barbara after major earthquake damage (ca. 1920?) -- ruins of Portwine, near Poker Flat (Sierra Co.) -- a house, man (Jonathan Wright) and buggy captioned "First brick building in California, built in 1847...

Views showing slag and ore dumps, blacksmith shop, sampling and feeding floors, and furnaces. Location formerly believed to be the Del Ray Mine, in the Jackson mining district, Amador Co., Calif. Views are probably of the smelter facilities at Benson,...

Collection comprises 1 card mounted albumen photograph and 13 snapshots. The card mounted photograph is an overview of the California School for the Deaf in the 1890s, taken from the hills to the east and providing an overview of the...

1: Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, Calif. (Aug. 16, 1947) -- 2: The Greek Theatre, Berkeley, Calif. -- 3: a copy photograph of the Peralta Hotel[?], Berkeley, Calif. -- 4: aerial view of the Mount Eden Home of the Jackson Home for...

Photos of Berkeley include portraits, street scenes, police, protests (some at University of California, Berkeley), People's Park, Telegraph Avenue, crowds, events, Nixon campaign audiences, musicians, Black Panthers, a gay liberation gathering, etc. Includes some scenes in Golden Gate Park, San...

Includes views of the Claremont hotel(Berkeley, Calif.) San Francisco bay from the Berkeley hills (day and night), U.C. Berkely campus, Lake Merritt (Oakland, Calif.), Lake Merritt boathouse, and Orinda, Calif.

Contains correspondence, requests for proposals, bids, signed contracts, budgets, expenses, etc. between various interested municipal and private entities involved with improving and expanding school facilities in Berkeley, California. Also includes some material that is generally related to the operation of...

Childhood in Berkeley, CA, and 1923 fire; B.A. in international relations, University of California, Berkeley, 1931; medical studies: Creighton University, 1931-1933, University of California, San Francisco, 1933-1935, University of Edinburgh, 1938-1939; reflections on Judaism and Yehudi Menuhin; navy doctor and...

Assessment and delinquent rolls.

Includes 33 v. of Transcripts of records, 1911-1942; assessment book of mortgages, 1880s (v. 34); transcript of mortgages, 1883 (v. 35)

Contains: folder labelled "Waterfront" containing correspondence and reports regarding harbor planning, mostly created by or addressed to City Engineer Harry Goodridge, 1933-1948; Report on a parking facility program for Berkeley central business district, prepared for the mayor and city council...

papers re Contra Costa Water Co. and Alameda Water Co., 1891-1898; papers re San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railway and resettlement franchise, ca. 1916-1918; copies of proposed charter amendments, sample ballots, 1916-1957, etc.

Volume includes index.

Consists of photocopies of the Berkeley City Club's articles of incorporation, land deed, and a version of the by-laws effective 1962 November 23, as well as a typescript copy of the by-laws as amended 1979 November 8. Also includes supplements...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Comments on long association with the University as professor in the Dept. of Latin and as director of University Extension; interests in Berkeley clubs, public library and musical events; friendship with John Muir, William Keith, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and others....

Files of the Berkeley Daily Planet includes subject files, administrative files, journalist notes, correspondence, etc.

Photos of children, staff and the nursery. Collection also includes some ephemera.

Album contains photos of the nursery in its early years. Primarily group photos of children. Remainder of photos span the years 1908-1967, with later years predominating.

Preferred citation: Berkeley Gray Panthers records, BANC MSS 2011/251, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Contains three printed programs of Berkeley High School activities. A Senior dinner menu for January 29, 1943, Graduation Exercises progam dated February 1943, and a Victory Parade program [undated but possibly 1945?]. The covers for each feature two-color red and...

AX folder: 2 group portraits of the Berkeley High School class of 1892, one taken in 1891 in a natural outdoor setting, the other taken in 1892 on the steps of the school building. Students are unidentified; principal is Mr....

Consists of printouts from the Berkeley Historical Society's Plaque Project website as it existed in mid-2021, and files related to the research and writing of text about Berkeley, California history that appears on physical plaques throughout the city and virtual...

Miscellaneous postcards published by Berkeley Historical Society: 1. It is no crime to kiss in Berkeley, Cal.; 2. Southern Pacific Station, Berkeley, California; 3. Sather Gate at Dusk (reproduction of Chiura Obata watercolor, 1939); 4. Breakfast at Cody's (reproduction of...

Collection consists of records of Berkeley Jewish Senior Citizens, including minutes, correspondence, attendance lists, files on aging, and files on legislation relevant to senior citizens.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Includes views of: St.Mark's church, Unitarian church, Stiles Hall, Hearst Hall, UC Berkeley campus grounds, a view of Berkeley and the San Francisco Bay from the hills.

Scrapbook contains copies of articles re origin of The Berkeley Playmakers; its constitution and by-laws; minutes of meetings of executive board, 1931-1940; promotional material re subscriptions; programs; clippings, including reviews of productions; announcements of its playwriting contests with related material;...

Photographs from Berkeley Poetry Conference, held at California Hall, U.C. Berkeley, 1965. Includes scenes of readings, informal group gatherings, and impromptu portraits of participants. Individuals pictured include Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Charles Olson, Peter Orlovsky, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, Richard...

Album compiled by Berkeley Police Department Inspector Charles O'Meara.

Includes letters to the Berkeley Relief Committee requesting aid in locating refugees in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire; meeting minutes of the San Francisco Citizen's Committee; food, clothing, and supply vouchers for refugees in the...

Photographs show the corners of Cedar and Spruce, and Vine and Scenic in Berkeley after the fire of 1923.

Chiefly photographs documenting the effects of the California earthquake of April 18, 1906 on the landscape and on buildings, roads and other structures. Numerous images were taken near the San Andreas Fault in various parts of the state shortly after...

Records pertaining to overall administration, including financing, site negotiations, theatrical productions, and reviews of a number of plays. Also includes files relating to educational outreach programs of the Festival. These records reflect, in particular, Dunbar H. Ogden's role as literary...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Letters, administrative files, financial records, scripts, and other papers documenting the organization and operations of the Berkeley, California, theater, Berkeley Stage Company, founded by Robert Goldsby, Angela Paton, and Drury Pifer. Included also are letters and papers relating to Poetry...

Photographs are portraits of identified subjects.

Berkeley views show various streets including Center, Shattuck, University, Milvia, Allston, College, Ellsworth, Channing, Dwight, Bowditch, and others. The residence of photographer O.V. Lange on Vine and Milvia is pictured as well as various views of the UCB campus. Other...

Consists of correspondence and flyers regarding B'nai B'rith presenting an award to S.I. Hayakawa; and a Statement of Principles for the Berkeley Union of Jewish Students;

Views include a group portrait of men in hats, possibly a University of California club or group; a group portrait of the Berkeley Merchants baseball team in uniform; a concert at the Greek Theatre; and numerous hand-colored photographs of the...

Photographs show Berkeley - looking south towards campus from Virginia St., and a view to the northeast, possibly from intersection of Derby St. and College Ave.

Contains the papers, books and pamphlets, 5 videos and 1 game used and collected by the Berkeley Y2K Resilience Network in order to prepare for any adverse outcome to the computer Y2K problem.

The records of a Bay Area socialist feminist organization in operation from 1973-1976. Contains minutes of meetings, reports, a survey of the membership, material related to focus groups and caucuses, publications, and newsletters. Publications include selected local feminist newspapers.

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Contains research notes, publications and employment history. The research notes include charts, drawings, lectures and photographs. Employment history also includes documents from a security clearance hearing. Photographs of a Bent Crystal Spectrometer and of Saunders.

Contains dictation concerning immigration to America from Germany in 1848 and to California via the Isthmus in 1850; business interests and Indian fighting in California; and political and mercantile activities after move to Portland in 1861; dictation by M.P. Deady...

The collection consists primarily of Cahill's professional, business, and personal papers, covering the years 1906 to 1942. Most of the material relates to his "Butterfly map projection," including extensive correspondence with cartographers, mathematicians, students, and publishers. Also included are records...

The collection consists of the 2004 memoir, Tales of the Kaufman Family, which describes the life and experiences of Dr. Bernard Kaufman, Jr. and of other family members. The memoir includes photocopies of photographs and various documents. Also included in...

Contains drawings, sketches, and blueprints for a Maybeck home known as the Charles Aikin House. Also includes two printed real estate brochures for two other Maybeck houses, also located in Berkeley, California. and one handwritten document (4 p.) containing construction...

Scrapbook of sketches given to Bernard Maybeck by classmates or associates during his time studying at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.

Snapshot photographs depicting architect Bernard Maybeck and Audrey Aikin during construction and decoration of the Charles Aikin house at 2750 Buena Vista Way, Berkeley, Calif.

Thirteen scrapbooks including clippings, correspondence and writings concerning Bernard Moses' role as Secretary of Public Education (1901-1908) for the Philippine Commission.

Contains copies of architectural drawings by Maybeck, done in collaboration with Julia Morgan for Mrs. A.H. Darbee. Consists principally of site plans developed for Western Hills (under Memorial City Corporation), a proposed cemetery in San Mateo County.

Includes letters to Alfred G. Gardiner, A.B. Walkley, Frederick H. Evans, and John Lane; photocopies of letters and telegrams to Gabriel Pascal about the filming of Pygmalion; typed transcripts of 11 poems written to Ellen Terry, with explanatory note by...

Includes correspondence, personal files; course materials; Berkeley Shakespeare Festival materials; California Shakespeare Festival materials; resumes; biographical material; drafts of essays; research notes for memoir on Taper's experience repatriating Nazi looted art in World War II; research materials on George Balanchine;...

Consists of 34 letters written to the artist Bernard Zakheim from members of his family. Many of them were written while Bernard Zakheim lived in the Western United States, and they provide a compelling testimony to his futile attempts to...

Original art works consisting of: 1: watercolor portrait of San Francisco County Sheriff Daniel C. Murphy -- 2: ink drawing of Diego Rivera at work on a mural at San Francisco Art Institute, with other figures -- 3: oil painting...

Seven communications, relating mostly to local affairs, received by Bonavía in his capacity as Governor-Intendant of Durango or as Commandant General of the Provincias Internas. They concern a smallpox epidemic in Papigochi, the absence of guilds and confraternities in Chiripas,...

Contains correspondence, memorandum, reports, speeches, photographs, brochures and subject files, documenting Bates's conservation efforts including the California Redwood Association's frequently adversarial relationship with the timber industry and the creation of Redwood National Park.

Correspondence that Bernhard Neustadter (who lived in California in the late 1880s) received from his family in Berlin and Posen (now Poznań, in Poland) and a letter which he sent to his wife, Adaline, during a visit to Germany (1881)....

Includes a biographical sketch, a Manhattan District certificate of participation, manuscript of her account, written in 1957, of family and social life at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1943-1945, miscellaneous photographs of the laboratory and personnel, 1943-1945, and photographs of...

The Bernice Hubbard May Papers contain material of interest to researchers of the history of women in politics, the conflict over housing discrimination in Berkeley, and the issue of regional government in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. The collection...

Contains correspondence (over 100 letters) sent to Miss Bernice Quarles in Oakland, California from family members and friends, some of whom are soldiers serving overseas during World War II. Letters reflect the concerns of ordinary African-Americans during the World War...

Ephemera pertaining to San Francisco seafood restaurant Bernstein's Fish Grotto: six printed matchbooks illustrated with images of seafood and the restaurant's ship hull exterior; and one postcard flier illustrated with similar imagery. Also includes a large-format original drawing (shelved in...

Letters written to him while he was California state assemblyman, including six from Governor Earl Warren and one from state senator Harry E. Drobish; and carbon copies of some of his outgoing letters.

The collection consists of a bound volume and sheets of loose paper containing the handwritten recipes of Bertha Greenebaum Haas (1861-1927) Bertha Haas compiled the recipes in the cookbook with her daughter Alice Haas Lilienthal (1885-1972). Showing that the family...

Correspondence, memos, clippings, speeches, and printed material concerning his interest and activity as a stock owner and public speaker for Pacific Gas and Electric Company, The American Right of Way Association, and Point Reyes and other recreational areas.

Portraits of various Hollywood actors and actresses, and production stills from various unidentified Western films. Includes portrait of Gary Cooper and self-portrait of Longworth.

Contains two letters (1933 and 1937) sent by Richard E. Gutstadt to his nephew, Bertram Wolfsohn, about prevailing antisemitism; a copy of a proposal Wolfsohn wrote and sent to the leaders of B'nai B'rith, entitled "Action designs for present day...

Item 1: A.L.S. from Joseph Ritson, 17 Septem[be]r 1789, to Mr. Ayre; Item 2: T.L.S. from R. W. Chapman (British bibliographer) to B. Bronson, 31 December 1931. Item 3: Explanatory note, undated, in hand of Bertrand H. Bronson, discussing provenance...

Contains personal and family correspondence; manuscripts, including his Child ballads manuscripts; and papers relating to his tenure at U.C. Berkeley.

Chiefly portraits and snapshots of the Bertrand and Winifred Bronson family and the preceding generations of each. Includes some albums of travels in North America and Europe.

Reports submitted to King Ferdinand VII, the Captain General of Cuba, and the Spanish finance minister, Francisco Tadeo Calomarde.

Letters written to Beryl Mercer by family, friends, and fans; scrapbooks of reviews of her work, playbills, souvenir programs; some miscellaneous items probably in Mercer's hand.

Photographs are of theatrical events, some showing Beryl Mercer. Some are from the Nora Bayes Theatre. One photo shows Rudolph Valentino, another shows Katharine Hepburn.

The collection contains newsletters and mailings to congregants, events, books of life and Yahrzeit materials, and congregation materials. It also includes volumes related to Congregation Beth Jacob's history and practices, as well as a Machzor (Czernowitz) from 1855.

Includes correspondence, membership lists, minutes of meetings, constitution and by-laws, annual reports, treasurer's records for the Sunday School and other church affiliated organizations.

Mainly in Armenian. Include workbook, l933, kept by Rebecca Avedikian while she was president of the Society; account books, l931-1945 (2 v.); minutes, l931-1964 (6 v.); and miscellaneous accounts and receipts, 1952-1963.

Images include: Phil and Sharon Draper's wedding, Judith Heumann, Mary Lester, Patrisha Wright, Michael Williams, Ken Stein, and Joan Breves.

Five scrapbooks containing clippings relating primarily to the publication and reception of Bettie Lowenberg's three novels and her work on the Women's Auxiliary of the Panama Pacific International Exposition in 1915; one folder of miscellany; and one folder of family...

Includes letters, 1808-1824, from William G. Betts, captain of vessels sailing from New York to various points along the eastern coast; papers relating to the army career of Frank B. Smith during the Civil War, 1862-1863; and 1930 patent for...

Scrapbook of photographic prints, clippings, and ephemera related to the vaudeville career of child performer Betty Ballach.

Color photocopy of diary kept by Betty Cole during her 1953 summer stock tour to New England with The Straw Hat Theatre, a theater company based in Berkeley, California. Also includes five soundtape reels (1/4 inch) one of which has...

Contains correspondence, essays, and other papers relating to her career as an art archivist and as a supplement to her book collection at Bancroft.

Photographs from Medsger's project files for an intended publication titled "I don't just cope, I live", that documented the activities of disabled activists Mark O'Brien, Tarri Tanaka, Judy Heumann, Don Scanlon, Denise Vancil and Vince Rios. Also includes typescript drafts...

Contains subject files for various projects of Betty Medsger including interviews of disabled persons, book proposals and correspondence, copies of student papers on the topic of disabilities, photocopies of photographs, etc.

Portraits documenting women at work in various professions, comprising a selection of images found in her publication Women at work: a photographic documentary (Sheed and Ward, 1975).

Contains mostly correspondence between Betty Millard and Margaret Wentworth Owings, some ephemera, and one hand-drawn Millard family tree, originally rendered by Owings with later additions made by Betty Millard.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Original drawings and paintings for illustrating bookplates, greeting cards, theater program covers, posters, calendars, etc. The following categories of material are present: reduced-size color reproductions of all, or most, items in the collection (B folder 1); color reproductions of theater...

Professional photographs of automobiles, perhaps to document automobile club activities and/or automobile shows, most taken at points of interest throughout San Francisco in the 1920s. Many automobiles are painted with text or outfitted with signs describing make, history, etc. Among...

Photographs depicting residential architecture of Los Angeles, with emphasis on apartment buildings from the dingbat era of the 1950s and 1960s. Also depicted are some houses. All images are formal views of exteriors facing the street. Views present are 1:...

Collection includes scrapbooks related to Hodghead's political activities and politics in Berkeley, including his time as mayor of Berkeley. Subjects covered include his defeat in 1911 by a Socialist candidate and attempts to annex Berkeley by Oakland. The collection also...

Interviews document the life and work of Beverly Willis, FAIA, an American architect known for her work as a designer and an urban planner, a real estate developer, and a philanthropist. An in-depth interview with Willis and supplemental interviews with...

Deed for land in Gold Hill, by William Bewick to Mr. and Mrs. George Bewick and Duncan G. Ross, 1893; membership and relief fund certificates of May Julia Bewick for Order of Chosen Friends, 1889.

Includes photographs taken by Heaton in Guatemala between 1986 and 2011, depicting people, including indigenous persons; religious ceremonies; and other events and scenery.

Contains 3 letters presumably about building projects in the San Jose area.

United States taxes.

Letters written to a friend, describing miner's existence, fluming, and local courts for the settlement of mining claims.

Letters from Carlotta Monterey, Francis McComas and Isobelle Sterling Rounthwaite.

Seven of the eight oversized portraits in the Portrait File bear exhibition labels from London or San Francisco on verso. The subjects, followed by their Bancroft Portrait file numbers, are: Coolbrith, Ina Donna (17); McComas, Francis (1); Monterey, Charlotte [O'Neill]...

Revised copy, letter (July 28, 1981) concerning Lawrence Ferlinghetti's introduction to the bibliography.

Manuscript notes on cards and in notebooks.

Portfolio contains lists giving sources. The cards are in two groups: by date, 1800-1930, and by author.

Manuscript, with printed title page.

Microfilm of material relating to Valdivia, a Jesuit who sought to implement a policy of defensive war against the Araucanians in Chile in the 17th century. Selected for filming by Louis De Armond from the Sala Medina of the Biblioteca...

The collection contains a centennial booklet describing the history of the congregation, an additional history written about the congregation in the late 1970s, and photocopies of the congregation's minutes from 1861 to 1889.

Record of bicycle trips from Fruitvale, California, to points in California and Nevada, with notes on type of bicycle used, time, distance, roads, weather, and expenses; and maps. Indexed.

Snapshots of a group of young men and women bicycling, hiking, picnicking, and exploring on various outings in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Includes views of the group, scenery, a box camera and photographer, bridges, etc. Various views...

Consists of the correspondence between immigrant Heinrich Biedermann in San Francisco and Oakland and his wife C. Biedermann-Leuzinger in Winterthur, Switzerland. Includes Heinrich's three diaries, correspondence between Heinrich and his children, as well as with friends, a purchase agreement and...

Photographs included.

Views: 3 sequoias, Cathedral Rocks, San Bernardino Valley, Cliff House at San Francisco, orange pickers (Los Angeles), Lick Obervatory (Mt. Hamilton).

Portraits. Identified subjects include John Fisk Bigelow, Emma P. Rulofson Bigelow, John Oliver Bigelow and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Currie Rulofson.

Photographs, postcards, a clipping, and two invitations related to American chamber of commerce visits to Japan at the time the Great White Fleet was visiting in October, 1908. Photographs include large group portraits of delegations, Japanese performers on stage, and...

Carton 1: Correspondence (including Adams' letters to Bell (1935-1953) and Bell's correspondence re Adams' writings (1953-1956); manuscripts of Adams' stories; photocopies of tear sheets of published stories.

One copy photograph of a portrait of author Bill Adams late in life, one photographic copy of a halftone print of him, and one original studio portrait of his daughter Inez Berryhill Adams, taken in a pictorialist style by Watson...

Undated transcripts of 3 taped reminiscences. "The Day We Tore the Nazi Flag off the Bremen," relates Bailey's experiences on the New York waterfront pre-World War II. The other transcripts are entitled, "Why I Shipped Out", and "My Mother". Also...

Two letters from Bill Bissett of Blewointmentpress to Eloyde Tovey, acquisitions librarian of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, concerning a typed order list of books. Includes 2 drawings by Bissett.

Includes manuscripts for Rahera and for Uncharted Voyage, by Bill Brown; manuscript for Whistle Punk, by Bill Brown and Rosalie Moore Brown; and manuscript for The Grasshopper's Man and Other Poems, by Rosalie Moore. Also included are related materials, such...

Mainly from Bay Area poets. Correspondents include Bob Arnold, William Bathurst, James R. Broughton, Norman Oliver Brown, Robert Creeley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Hoyem, James Koller, David Meltzer, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen and Jonathan Williams.

Contains 23 notebooks with manuscript entries of poems and poetic lines. The notebooks are undated and numbered sequentially from 1 to 23. Also contains one folder of miscellany including ephemera, programs, etc. from 1965-1969.

Material relating to the relocation center for Vietnamese refugees at Weimar, in Placer County, California. Includes correspondence with Roger Levenson; letters from Vietnamese after dissolution of the camp; clippings; slides; miscellaneous publications.

Includes drawings, posters, stamp art, and mail art from all over the world (on envelopes and postcards) by Gaglione and other artists; also some ephemera from events.

Bill Morgan's files of correspondence with various persons and organizations mostly concerning requests for assistance related to his work and research on Allen Ginsberg. Also contains a small number of poems, broadsides, typescript and manuscript drafts with edits, and correspondence...

Portraits by Allen Ginsberg of various writers and other figures associated with the Beat Generation or other spheres of Ginsberg's activities: Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Neil Cassady, Gregory Corso, Dalai Lama, Gelek Rimpoche, Elsa Dorfman, Robert Frank and June...

2 folders of newspaper clippings; 1 folder of photocopies of material related to Nye.

Collection of screenplay treatments for various novels written by Bill Pronzini.

March 30, 1850. Bill of lading for 750 ounces of gold (at $16 per) shipped from San Francisco to Panama for Macondray & Co. aboard the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. steamer, California, signed by Thomas Budd, the Captain. The value...

Family registers and records of marriages, births and deaths.

Primarily papers of Hiram Bingham I, pioneer Congregational missionary to the Sandwich Islands; his wife, Sybil; his son, Hiram Bingham II, missionary to Micronesia, and his wife, Clarissa. Include letters, diaries and journals, account books, reports, pamphlets, etc., relating to...

Early career at National Institutes of Health: nutrition research, mentored by Severo Ochoa and Carl Cori; chairman, microbiology, Washington University, St. Louis: C.B. van Niel's microbiology course, faculty, Erwin Chargaff, nucleotide chain synthesis research, DNA as genetic material; chairman, biochemistry,...

Material relating to the life of José María Iglesias, president of the Mexican Supreme Court. The three folders contain 1) an extract copied from Mexico City's El Federalista, May 17, 1873, and written under the pseudonym, "Orfeo," with an appended...

Notes and a tribute by his wife, Mary Simpson Sperry; dictations from Charles and James L. Sperry, Asa M. Simpson and E.R. Stockwell. Biographical sketch for H.H. Bancroft's Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth, in the handwriting of David...

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publication.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancrof and his staff for use in Bancroft's publication.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Part of a collection of biographical sketches, dictations, and notes, all relating to California pioneers, created or commissioned by Hubert Howe Bancroft and his staff for use in Bancroft's publications.

Chiefly in Taber's handwriting; a few letters and autobiographical sketches in the handwriting of the subjects.

Merchant and miner at Tuscarora, Elko County, from 1877; views on labor problems, Nevada mining, closing of the mint, the discount on silver, the cattle industry, agriculture, and Tuscarora.

Letters addressed to John Donovan of The History Company and biographical sketch prepared therefrom for Chronicles of the Builders.

Includes notes on relief of handcart emigrants, 1856.

Biographical sketch, prepared for Chronicles of the Builders, relating to his career as physician and surgeon in San Francisco from 1852, the founding of the Toland Medical College in 1862 and its subsequent transfer to the University of California. Information...

Statements concerning the Pacific Distillery Company, Bay Sugar Refinery and John Van Bergen, included. One sketch in the handwriting of Thomas Savage.

Two series, a record of the services of each priest and a character analysis, with an index and preliminary note.

Copies of obituary notices and biographical sketches prepared for H.H. Bancroft.

Judge Crocker's place in California's judiciary, his association with the Central Pacific Railroad, and his art collection in Sacramento, included.

Contents: dictated statements and answers to questionnaires by Irvin Ayres; biographical sketches of both brothers by Alfred Bates, G.H. Morrison and others; obituary notice for General Romeyn B. Ayres (order no. 70, Headquarters, 2d U.S. Artillery, signed by Eli D....

Extract of sketch in H. Quigley's The Irish Race in California, in the handwriting of W.H. White; sketch with notes on the Flood Building, SW corner, Market and Fourth Streets, under construction [1887?]; data concerning Mrs. Flood supplied by John...

Brief resumés of John and Joseph LeConte: their early life, scientific achievements and association with the University of California. In the handwriting of Alfred Bates.

Based on notes furnished by Peter L. Mallon to George H. Morrison concerning the art glass manufacturing company established by his father in San Francisco, 1858.

Sketches of Oscar E. Berninghaus, Ernest L. Blumenschein, E. Irving Couse, W. Herbert Duntan, Burt and Elizabeth Harwood, E. Martin Hennings, Victor Higgins, Bert G. Phillips, Joseph Henry Sharp, and Walter Ufer.

Information obtained by George H. Morrison; one sketch in the handwriting of Mrs. F.F. Victor; brief biography, in the handwriting of Thomas Savage, prepared for Chronicles of the Kings.

1. Manuel Lisandro Barillas, farmer and soldier, rose from the ranks to become president of the republic, 1885-1890. Summary of his life. N.p., n.d. 4 p.; 2. Statement of the career of Fernando Cruz of Guatemala (b. 1845), Ministro de...

Prepared for H.H. Bancroft: 1. Manuel Delgado, b. 1853 in Cojutepeque, El Salvador. Studied law and became a lawyer of the Supreme Court. Held various offices, visited California and returned to become vice-president of Salvador's Assembly. In 1886 he became...

Chiefly concerning Bartlett's arrival in California, 1849; job printing and newspapers; the Vigilance Committee, 1856; political life, including service as mayor of San Francisco and governor of California.

The biography includes an illustration of Secker by Hollsculp.

Notes on family background, enlistment of his father and brothers in Stevenson's Regiment, family business and real estate developments in San Francisco.

actually a memoir written in the late 1920s.

Statements by William Curtis, Charles Marvin, W.H. Mills, H.C. Nash and Henry Vrooman. Drafts, in the handwriting of Bancroft and Alfred Bates, and proof sheets included.

Statements obtained by George H. Morrison from Thomas Bell, Andrew B. Forbes, Stephen Franklin, Andrew J. Ralston and Edney S. Tibbey, and proof sheets of the biography.

Unpublished biography of William M. Gwin (482 p.) by Roy Bloss, accompanied by Bloss' research materials. These include letters of research questions to librarians, archivists and others; responses to Bloss; correspondence between William Gwin (grandson of W.M. Gwin) and Bloss;...

Childhood in northern California; graduation from Berkeley High School; naval training in radar and gunnery, and service with naval intelligence during WWII; undergraduate education at the University of California, Berkeley (B.S., physical chemistry, 1948); studies at University of Geneva and...

Mainly for the area around Altadena, California. With reprints from the Condor (articles by Law on bird-banding); additional records (1927-1937) kept by his wife (Laura Beatty Law; later Mrs. Harold Harris Bailey); and some of her correspondence (1933-1967) Her 1967...

Title from printed caption.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Two copies of birth certificate, accompanied by copy of birth certificate of her mother, Adelaida Blasco, dated November 14, 1823.

Postcards views include Bisbee, Ariz. (panoramic view); soldiers at Fort Liscum, Alaska; Natives Americans in Alaska; indigenous people in Siberia.

Mainly views of California's Spanish missions; also contains San Francisco views, Golden Gate Park, Monterey and vicinity (including the Chinese fishing village), coastal views near San Francisco, Santa Cruz County, and photos of sailboats. May include some Baja California views.

A report on an evangelical episcopal tour through several towns and settlements near Toluca. Discusses ecclesiastical matters, describes local conditions and means of travel, contains information on the Protestant Montes de Oca family. Ascribed to Creighton, Protestant missionary bishop from...

Album documents trip to various California points of interest by an unidentified woman -- the photographer -- and her girlfriend Cecyl during their summer vacation of 1911. Locations include Carmel and the Monterey Bay area, Mission San Carlos Borromeo, Stanford...

Consists of correspondence between several Bither family members, the bulk of which is from Ada and Ben Bither to his parents. Issues discussed mostly concern family, including talk of farming, money and taxes, health, births and deaths.

Professional individual and group portraits of Samoans in traditional attire, taken at the Samoan exhibition of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago. Traditional Samoan thatch-roofed shelter and boats, displayed in the exhibition, appear in backgrounds of many portraits.

Bound volume containing a running monthly inventory over several years for various supplies on hand and their corresponding value in dollars. Supplies listed include typical items found in a mining company store such as food staples, lumber, tools, mining supplies,...

Set of four illustrated posters promoting efforts of East Oakland Black Cultural Zone Collaborative, with the following slogans: 1) Elevate Black Space; 2) Support Black Culture; 3) Restore Black Economics ; 4) Create Black Joy.

Group portraits that include Clarence Grayson. Others unidentified.

Gathering outside the Saint Augustine Episcopal Church for the funeral of George Jackson, and a demonstration in a Safeway supermarket parking lot.

Photographs documenting United Automobile Workers (UAW) union members employed by General Motors Corporation during the union's 1970 strike, taken chiefly at automobile industry facilities in Fremont (UAW local 1364), Van Nuys (local 645) and South Gate (local 216) by Black...

Consists of the original and typescript journal of Aretas J. Blackman of his journey to Calif. during the gold rush, correspondence of A.J. Blackman, Ella Rose Blackman, Mary M. Bush, and Lola Belle Blackman Favor Simonson, original verse of Abbie...

Includes photos of Thomas C. Blaisdell and others; many during meetings and gatherings related to the activities of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute.

Includes portraits and snapshots of Anson Stiles Blake and his wife Anita Day Symmes Blake, as well as photographs of various University of California events in which Blake participated. Also includes a few photographs of the Blake House and Blake...

Contains financial records and legal documents, especially for the earliest and last few years of the company's existence, a scrapbook of photographs and clippings (1906-1963), maps, blue-line drawings and company calendars.

One of the checks is for The Bullfrog Bank and Trust Company, also of Rhyolite, Nevada.

Transcripts of papers of the Abbé Béliardi, "agent du commerce et de le marine a l'espagne, 1757-1771", (mss. 10766-10770 and 13418) They relate to the Family Compact; trade with Mexico, Louisiana, the West Indies, and the Philippines; and to war...

Onset of visual disability (Stargardt Disease), 1958; lack of accommodation in Kansas public schools; enrollment in the University of Kansas and rudimentary assistance from the Department of Rehabilitation, 1971-74; antiwar activism; discrimination in employment; Blind Services Director and Deputy Director...

Merced Golf Club: south and west elevations, first floor plan, second floor plan (pencil on tracing paper); James Flood residence, San Francisco: window detail; gate (pencil on tracing paper); Maud Lee Flood residence: front elevation, 5 October 1911 (blueprint).

The collection consists mainly of copies of articles, notes, photographs, and correspondence regarding genealogical research into the Blochman family, as well as the Rosenthal family. The research was primarily done by Mary Hoexter. The collection also contains Lazar Blochman's school...

Maps and listings for houses and residents of San Francisco, from the San Francisco Bank, stencilled with the name of Ted W. Steiger, Real Estate Appraiser. Volumes list residents' names in ink and include numerous annotations to the printed maps.

A potted plant (bamboo?) (61 x 29 cm ); 2 faces in profile (28 x 18 cm).

Manuscript of "Blood of silence" with a foreword in the hand of Tomiji Noguchi (Yoné's son) dated 1948 and undated typescript copies of several poems. A copy of a letter from Isamu Noguchi in folder 1 notes that the manuscript...

Chiefly studio portraits of the George Blount family of Illinois, Scottsdale Ariz., and Highland Park Calif., and their relatives. Includes photographs of George Blount from a boyhood daguerreotype to his retirement (ca. 1910) from a career as school principal. Includes...

With these: 3 sheets of specifications.

Blueprints of the mining company in Virginia City, Nevada; Designed by Lou M. Louis, September 30, 1935.

Blueprints traced by O.F. Cassidy, 1941, of equipment for lowering redwood trees over six feet in diameter, proposed by C.H. Wright in 1923.

Miscellaneous papers, including citizenship papers for Isaac Bluxome, Sr., June 27, 1828; letter to J. Bluxome from Philander Chase, 18 July 1839 re gift for Jubilee College in Illinois; copy of last will, 7 Feb. 1842, of John DeCamp, father-in-law...

This collection contains the lodge's constitution, by-laws, minutes, correspondence, and reports. It also includes photographs, the lodge's charter and seal, membership lists, and a centennial anniversary book.

The collection consists of materials assembled by B'nai B'rith, David Lubin Lodge No. 37, including a scrapbook.

The collection consists of Reno Lodge minutes (1933-1951); a Carson and Washoe Lodges initiation book (1895-1900) that lists the age and occupation of candidates; financial materials; a charter of Women's Auxiliary No. 9; and a constitution for District Grand Lodge...

The collection consists of the Lodge's by-laws from 1903; an initiation book (1879-1910), which includes members' ages and occupations; minutes of the lodge (1899-1904); and other general board materials.

Snapshot photographs, ephemera (programs, fliers, etc.) and clippings documenting activities of and individuals associated with B'nai B'rith Lodge 252 of Oakland, Calif. in the mid-1990s.

The collection consists of mainly administrative records, including minute books; financial records; membership rolls and invitation books; as well as general programs and bulletins.

The collection consists of the Lodge's initiation book (1897-1914), which includes members' ages and occupations.

The collection consists of the formal and signed charter of consolidation that resulted in the establishment of B'nai B'rith, San Francisco Lodge, Number 21 on May 8, 1922, newsletters, banners, scrapbooks, plaques, and awards. Most of these came from Golden...

The collection consists of two scrapbooks and some bulletins (1964-1968) produced by the Oakland, California chapter of B'nai B'rith Women. The scrapbooks document the activities of the Eleanor Roosevelt chapter of B'nai B'rith Women with newspaper clippings, invitations, telegrams, lists...

Mounted invoices - from individuals for labor, from various firms for supplies and equipment, from newspaper offices, etc. Primarily in San Francisco.

Contains copies of 3 poems by Bob Kaufman; a transcript of an interview of Eileen Kaufman; copyright registration of musical compositions with music, by Eileen Kaufman; journal and songs, by Eileen Kaufman; photographs including some of Bob Kaufman. Oversize folder...

Research notes primarily dealing with his work on clostridium pasteurianum. The notebooks are numbered 1-2 and 4-13.

Photographs documenting the everyday lives of the inhabitants of Happy Camp, Calif. in the 1990s.

Snapshots and more formal images, chiefly in the format of black & white and color negatives, taken by amateur photographer Bob Peterson. Images depict various locations in San Francisco -- with an emphasis on San Francisco State University, North Beach...

Self-published titles in this collection include: Cuban poems -- Poems about poetry -- Suicidal octopus -- That great field of gravity called love -- Walt Whitman, Arthur Rimbaud, François Villon and Vincent Van Gogh as seen through the eyes of...

Blueprints for the roller coaster at Playland at the Beach, San Francisco, designed by Arthur Loof.

Vocabulary of the language of the Pokoman Indians of Guatemala, for letters A-N only. 220 pages. This major section is followed by a vocabulary of parts of the human body, 11 p., and a vocabulary of Latin adverbs, prepositions, and...

This archive provides a view of the day-to-day activities of a San Francisco printing company located in the Chinatown district. Comprises approximately 839 pages of invoices and receipts dated 1922-1924, and an additional 230 invoices and receipts from 1930-1931. Most...

Mainly relate to property in Oakland. Also included are a few business papers of Leon Bocqueraz, with letters from Mortimer Fleishhacker and others, and documents concerning the estates of Pierre and Antoine Bocqueraz.

Photographs of Bodie show inhabitants (including many children and their pets), buildings, automobiles, other transportation (mules and horses), and general scenes. Some show Bodie in winter.

Statements, reports, accounts, etc., 1898-1908.

Views depict the residence of E.A. Bodwell (possibly Sonoma County), and Sonoma County scenes (some Petaluma River) including Donahue and Lakeville.

Consists of biographical and genealogical information concerning the Boggs family. Includes an undated family record of William M. and Sonora Boggs, a biographical sketch of Lilburn Boggs, and the "Boone Report," which lists the history of the Daniel Boone family...

Includes 4 portraits of 3 members of the Boggs family and 4 photographs of the old adobe rancho of Mariano Vallejo in Petaluma, Calif. Two of the portraits are inscribed to J.D. Boggs from his father "W.M.B.". Two of the...

Correspondence and printed music programs related to the Bohemian Club Sunday recitals music program. Materials were used for an article written by J.H. O'Rielly III, Russell Stepan, and Ronald Staeheli, published in Bohemian Library Club Notes (Number 48, Fall 1985)...

Many group portraits of gatherings at Stow Circle, in the Bohemian Grove (Sonoma County, Calif.) Includes campfire views at night, banquet tables in concentric circles, a play, etc. One cabin interior is pictured.

Photos taken at Bohemian Grove include two group portraits of unidentified men, one general view of the Bohemian Grove, and two views that include William Setchell.

Photos of Bolinas buildings mounted in a book form, sent as a holiday greeting to Tom and Angelica Clark, 1970/1971.

Photographs show Bolton family homes in Austin, Texas; Berkeley, Calif.; and Tunnel City, Wis.

PIC box 1: photographic print portraits of John H. Bolton, Sarah Fowler Bolton, George Bolton, Curtis Bolton, James E. Fowler and other members of the Bolton and Fowler families; photographs of Bolton residence in Peralta Park (Berkeley) and Healdsburg; and...

Contains genealogical information, correspondence, essays by Laura Bolton Brower and Ebenezer Tibbetts, newspaper clippings and other family information on the Bolton, Brower, Wilder, Tibbetts, Chase, Harkness and Treat families.

Captioned: Winter scene on Bonanza Creek -- Bonanza Creek above the Forks-Gold Hill in the distance [shows lumber yard and saw mill].

Fragments of letters by Priore Pandolfino, Ludovico Buonaccorsi, and unidentified correspondents.

One bond appointing David Higgins to the office of Notary Public in San Joaquin County on June 1, 1864; one bond appointing John Wallace as San Joaquin County surveyor, March 5, 1870; bond appointing Melville Cottle San Joaquin County Superintendent...

Forms part of: Henry J. Kaiser pictorial collection.

Views of book binding and mending operations.

Photographs by O.J. Heinemann. Photographer identified in ms. on page following photographs.

Records include pamphlets, brochures, newspaper articles, photographs, employee-owners manual, minutes, financials, articles of Incorporation, first invoice, blank distribution agreements and employment applications, materials from New School for Democratic Management.

Four handwritten pieces of correspondence concerning book reviews and recommendations. The June 12, 1895 letter, on The Daily Chronicle (of London) stationery, requests a review of the book, "Sonya Kovalevsky", that has been recently sent to the recipient. Addressed to...

The collection contains publication announcements, catalogs, price lists, correspondence, business cards, store related ephemera including Book Shook business cards, Book Shook wrapping, and branded store materials, and newspaper clippings.

Letters to A.E. Shumate, I.W. Hellman, and others. Also included are Washington's handwritten notes for an address at the University of California, Berkeley, January 13, 1903.

Formation of the Allen Press; discussion of handpress printing - materials, technique, presses, binding, etc. With this: copy of first draft of the Introduction to Printing with the Handpress by Lewis Allen; checklist of works produced by the Allen Press;...

Contains 8 letters to M'Cready, Madison Julius Cawein, Alexander Black, W.J. Crawford, Jr., R. Critchell Rimington, and Perriton Maxwell of "Leslie's Weekly."

Photographs show the following Mexican locations, among others: Teposcolula, San Juan Mixtepec, Chalcatongo, and Huendio. Views show broad city scenes, fields, mountains, general and close up views of the ruins of a church (or monestary or mission?) showing architectural details.

Photographs of borax teams, a steam tractor at borax mines, and a mine shaft at Randsburg, Calif.

Revised mss., some corrected galleys, page proof, and biographical notes for an unpublished anthology. Most of the authors from the Bay Area.

The collection consists of genealogies, correspondence (from the early 1920s); materials from Boris Bogen's relief work in Europe with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the American Relief Administration after World War I; a substantial number of family photographs;...

Contains photographs of members of the Borsuk and Helzel families in Oakland, Calif., and on Neptune Beach, the amusement park that was then located on the island of Alameda, in San Francisco Bay.

Primarily snapshot slides and negatives of friends, family, vacations and residences. Includes numerous slides of the Bossana family ranch, Rancho Canada de Oro, in Morgan Hill, Calif. (PIC folder) and one living room interior view of their residence in San...

A compilation from Boston newspapers of changes of ownership of vessels, etc. Copy made for the Peabody Museum from a card file belonging to the Bostonian Society.

Forms part of: California Land Trust Oral History Project.

The Bott & Smith ledgers (6 volumes), 1884-1896, contain records of customer accounts for supplies and services rendered, mainly for horseshoeing and blacksmithing. There are also accounts payable ledgers of H.W. Bott and Thomas Smith for office expenses and payments...

Typed transcripts of letters from Hannah (Bourn) Ingalls and her son, William, describing voyage to San Francisco via Panama in 1865, life in San Francisco, and travels in California, 1865-1866; reprints of F. Bourn Hayne's article, A Boy's Voyage to...

Correspondence, accounts, bills of lading, freight receipts, checks, promissory notes, customs clearances, and tax records of Bours' mining enterprises in the Sonora district of Mexico.

Views of San Francisco show buildings, the Panama Pacific International Exhibition, views of the 1906 earthquake and fire, parks, and other views. Other views show Monterey, Marin County, the University of California, etc.

This collection consists of various minutes; membership cards and records; troop rosters, records, and roll books; and assorted materials from San Francisco's Boy Scout Troop 17, which met at the city's congregation Emanu-El. The collection also contains an oversize metal...

Contains correspondence, property and legal records, writings, and genealogical materials and accounts of the Boyd family of Indiana. Chiefly correspondence and papers of Dr. Samuel S. Boyd, including his Civil War scrapbook with 3 photographs, documents, and newspaper articles written...

4 letters, 1850-1853, from Santa Anna to Henry Boyd of London, pertaining to plans for a canal on the Isthmus of Panama and to a project in Baja California; 6 letters from Henry Boyd's son concerning the letters and offering...

Multiple copies of some prints.

With envelope and later note.

Portrait of Arthur Stout, the ship's first surgeon. Portrait of William H. Webb, architect and builder of ship. A photographic montage of steamship pioneers surrounding the ship.

Mainly concerning the Bradley family, and land in Fayette County, Ohio, and elsewhere.

Typed transcript of diary, 1850-1854, of Henry Sewall Bradley, describing mining ventures in California with some accounts; scrapbook of clippings relating to the mining career of his son, Frederick Worthen Bradley, in Nevada, Idaho, and Alaska, 1924-1930; statements concerning F.W....

Prints from a series depicting the Virgen de Guadalupe against a backdrop of graffiti: Virgen #5 and Virgen #9.

Concerning his writings on Portuguese poetry and literature.

Mainly describing her experiences teaching in Massachusetts and New York. Included are a few letters from relatives and a biographical sketch of Mrs. Bramer by Achsa Snow Parker.

Regarding politics and religion.

Ceramic plaques with original hand-drawn images, perhaps depicting Indonesian motifs, and hand-written poetry; stoneware bowls decorated with calligraphic imagery; silk Japanese scarf with floral design, formerly owned by Nanao Sakaki. Later additions include Hermes Rocket portable typewriter used by Brandi,...

of Robert Easton;

Includes portraits of Simeon Stivers, his wife Anna Maria Jones Stivers, and a group portrait of multiple generations of Stivers family members. Also includes portraits of descendants and other relatives of both Simeon and Anna Stivers, and other individuals and...

Papers relating to Brant Calkin's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Concerning Bancroft's criticism of James Gay Sawkins. 1876 letters from Mayer offers congratulations on Bancroft's marriage to Matilda Griffing.

Script and sheet music for 6 songs for a dramatic adaptation of Huxley's book.

Copy of report to the King of Spain and his councillors on current taxation and government of Indians as compared with earlier native procedures, and on the desirability of moderating taxation. Probably begun in Mexico in 1554 and revised in...

Two portraits of Phoebe Apperson Hearst and seven professional views of the Hearst family estate Wyntoon in Siskiyou County, Calif.

Copies of Patrick Breen's naturalization certificate, Nov. 1, 1844, issued by Joel C. Walker, Clerk, Lee Co., Iowa Territory District Court, with note by W.M.R. Parker, Clerk, Monterey Co., Calif., of presentation for registration, Nov. 10, 1866; lining papers of...

Comments on career as Contra Costa Co. sheriff; labor agitation among fruit pickers (1934-35); the operation of the Brentwood plan for registering farm laborers; the LaFollette Committee hearings (1939). Photographs inserted.

These letters tell of Harte's travels and lecture tours, his duties as U.S. Consul, friends, literary acquaintances and family affairs.

Typescripts with autograph revisions, and signed, of the short stories "Chu Chu" and "Johnson's Old Woman."

Box l: Two letters written by him to his wife, Anna, 1889 and 1893 holograph manuscripts of Bohemian Days in San Francisco, A Bride of the Sierras, A Convert of the Mission, Flip, In a Pioneer Restaurant, The Indiscretion of...

Bret Harte papers, BANC MSS 77/166 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Originals in: Princeton University Library.

Includes letters to his wife, Anna, Charles W. Stoddard, [Joaquin] Miller, Edward M. Schaeffer, and James R. Osgood; manuscripts of Excelsior [a poem] with a related letter, Oct. l2, l877, by William P. Copeland, and The Man at the Semaphore;...

Notes on the indigenous inhabitants of Panama, particularly Panama City and neighboring regions, with material on local flora and fauna, mineral curiosities, and a special section on fruits. Follwed by a 76-page Spanish-Indian vocabulary of Durasque and three Guaymi dialects,...

Anonymous account of the discovery of America, with descriptions of the various provinces of New Spain, the West Indies, the Philippines, the Ladrones, and the Pelew Islands. Covers the period 1492-1767, with special attention to the history of cathedrals and...

Brief notes on his service as soldier at Monterey under Figueroa, Indian fighting and the death of Yoscolo, and preparation of sugar and salt by the Indians from marsh growing plants.

from Booklyn Artists Alliance ;

Posters illustrated with imagery of various Native American artists from California and pertaining to various events and topics, including Native politics and social issues, and art exhibitions featuring the work of Brian D. Tripp.

Register (376 p.) summarizing court proceedings, which includes names of relevant parties, date and nature of cases, and judgments. Most of the cases involve the recovery of money or property, or disputes over mining claims. Includes index to dockets for...

Includes letters from John Poyntz Spencer, fifth Earl of Spencer; Sir Robert George Crookshank Hamilton; Sir Michael Edward Hicks Beach, first Earl of St. Aldwyn; Frederick Sleigh Roberts, first Earl of Roberts; and J. Alfred Spender.

Three handwritten documents concerning military operations of the Brigada Cadena, which was brought from Orizaba, Mexico to the San Carlos Fortress in Perote by General José María Cadena as part of the Plan of Ayutla. All are countersigned or initialed...

Include deeds and surveys on record in Alameda County for property on San Leandro Road near 86th Avenue in Oakland; marriage license and certificate for G.C. Briggs in Copperopolis, 1867; pharmacy licenses, 1936-1954, and miscellaneous personal papers for Walter David...

Miscellany consisting of: Elder's certificate for Bingham Bement, signed by Young and J.C. Little at Peterboro, New Hampshire, 1844; a letter for Charles C. Rich, signed by Young and Willard Richards at Mount Pisgah, Iowa, 1846; printed invitation by Young...

Consists of letters between Brimblecom family members including the Rev. Samuel Brimblecom, his wife Harriet Buttrick Brimblecom, and their children Charles, Edward, Capt. Samuel A. and Lucy Brimblecom. Topics include temperance, anti-slavery, farming, China and the Opium trade, education of...

Consists of letters between Brimblecom family members and friends including the Rev. Samuel Brimblecom, his wife Harriet Buttrick Brimblecom, and their children Charles, Edward, Capt. Samuel A. and Lucy Brimblecom, Charles H. Todd, and others. Topics include temperance, anti-slavery, farming,...

Includes approximately 37 ink sketches attributed to Lindesay Brine relating to his travels in North and Central America (ca. 1866-1872) and his interest in the antiquities and archaeological sites of Native Americans. The bulk of these views are in Mexico,...

Photographs show life and scenes in Yreka, Calif. and vicinity. Various members of the Brinzer family are pictured. Other views show hydraulic mining, the Brinzer family store in Yreka, logging, agriculture, Yosemite, San Francisco (including the Mid-Winter Fair of 1894),...

English captions read: village, state of Mexico (showing children in front of cactus in native dress) -- Cholula, the mountain state of Puebla (showing a church on a mountain top, with fields in the foreground) -- Lake at Chalco, taken...

Views show the courtyard and front of the Hotel Iturbide, a grove of trees and castle at Chapultepec, general views of Mexico City, Avenida Juarez, park of Tacubaya, statue of Christopher Columbus (Cuahutemon), Viga Canal, Constitution Square, etc. Views of...

Collection of autographs of promenent Victorians (British).

Contains mining license in British Columbia, information for stock holders and some correspondence, all concerning coal.

Views of towns, scenery, and party members on steamers and visiting Vancouver, Wrangel, Muir Glacier, Glacier Bay, Juneau, Sitka, the White Pass, Lake Bennett, and other locales.

Albums contain photographs of mostly unidentified scenery and people in the Yukon region, miners and mining, mining towns around Phoenix and Headly, British Columbia, etc. Stereographs show harvest of giant sequoias in the Fresno Grove. Also includes two advertising cards,...

Statements of exports and imports for the year ending June 30, 1881; letters from Alexander C. Anderson, Thaddeus Harper, Thomas Russell and J.H. Todd & Son. Chiefly for the use of John S. Hittell.

Questionnaires for H.H. Bancroft's History of the Pacific States, answered by Thomas Earle, William Heathorn, John S. Helmcken, William Parsons Sayward, Jacob Sehl, Noah Shakespeare, Robert Stevenson and John Weiler.

Copies of correspondence and official records of proceedings of the agents of the East India Company at Manila, including official documents relating to the government at Manila and the Philippines. Originals, entitled "Manila Records," in the Record Office at Egmore,...

Materials concerning finance, business, commerce, taxation, legal and military affairs, and other subjects. These items are stored together for convenience, and each item has been cataloged separately. Search under title: British historical records and documents.

Contains leases, marriage settlement, deed of covenant, mortgages, deed of exchange, deed of exchange, and appointment of trustees. Includes deed of exchange, 1798 Jan. 17, between the Duke of Norfolk and William Mathews.

Includes snapshot scenes of the the British petroleum industry in Mexico: oil fields, oil tanks, oil pumps, boilers, oil gushers and oil tankers. Includes dramatic photographs of oil wells on fire, the aftermath of some fires, and the repair and...

Consists Britomar Lathrop's original three "road diaries," written from 1934-1936 when she and her parents were homeless in California during the Great Depression: "The beggars didn't fetch any crowns," an edited typescript of the diaries done in 1940 when the...

Correspondence, documents, accounts, and photographs of Morgan Lewis and John Wesley Brittan and their families; papers in case, Bowman vs. Brittan, re estate of M.L. Brittan; last will of Mary Burt Brittan and report of executors of her estate.

Samples of printed matter produced by Britton & Rey firm in late 19th and early 20th centuries, perhaps used for public display and/or internal reference. Materials include color postcards (vols. 1-2); letterhead and envelopes, chiefly for San Francisco and other...

Contains 3 letters to and from Britton family members discussing the advantages of living in Northern California over living in Jacksonville, Oregon.

Includes letter from Will Bromley to parents, from Antioch, 1881, and undated letter from John Bromley Slocum containing genealogical information on the Bromley family.

Includes letters by Thomas Bertrand Bronson to his parents, 1877-1880, describing his experiences teaching in a district shcool in Michigan; letter, April 25, 1925, by A.B. Houghton to him re the future of Germany; one letter by Bronson's daughter, Winifred,...

An Englishman befriended by the Estes', he describes his voyage to California via the Isthmus of Panama, Dec. 1849; arrival in San Francisco, Feb. 1850; digging for gold in vicinity of Barton's Ferry, Yuba River; mining in vicinity of Grass...

Most items unsigned. Some clearly signed "EM" for Edwin Moody, or "WB" for William Brooks. Others are in sketchbooks of William Brooks. Brook's stamp of ownership appears on many items apparently by Moody. In many cases it is unclear which...

Primarily correspondence in alphabetical order, but throughout there are also subject files. Carton 2 also contains Brother Cornelius miscellany and biographical materials and articles by and about Brother Cornelius (these materials are filed under "C" for Brother Cornelius). The book...

Letters from New York and other offices to the Pacific Coast Division, press releases and clippings, concerning the organization and plans of the union. Included is a letter from Charlotte Anita Whitney.

Interviews recording the personal history of the Brothers of the San Francisco District, with an emphasis on their lives as Brothers.

Discusses personal business.

Primarily Sierra Nevada scenery including many Mount Shasta views; several views of Palm Canyon, Calif.; and portraits of Brower on a proof sheet.

Contains 8 cookbooks from Elisabeth Brower's family, most of them handwritten. Cookbooks also include household hints and remedies.

Mainly concerning title to Bojorques Ranch (Rancho Laguna de San Antonio) in Sonoma and Marin counties and property in San Francisco.

Largely commercially produced slides of antiquities and art objects from major museums. Also includes many snapshots relating to Brown and her travels, friends, art installations, etc. Also present is 1 carton of objects such as swimming medals, religious images, and...

Miscellaneous photos including views of Castle Crags State Park and Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park in California, and park facilities and scenery.

Collection includes portraits of J. Ross Browne and family, personal sketches and caricatures, perhaps a few illustrations for J. Ross Browne's books, views of residences of the Browne family (Pagoda Hill, Oakland, Calif.), and sketches done by May Browne Hoffman....

Includes primarily lectures notes and consulting materials relating to Bolt's participation in a variety of national and international seismological projects, including the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, the Aswan High Dam, and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.

Contains reports, memorandum, correspondence and press releases concerning the tax of timber in California including bill AB 1258. Also includes information on timber taxes in other states including Oregon, Washington, and Georgia.

Contains interview transcripts, investigative reports, clippings, official documents, and political ephemera. Also includes items relating to the Cranston campaign.

Correspondence of Jay DeFeo with Bruce Conner, museum curators, and others, concerning conservation of her painting, "The Rose". Also includes conservation reports, invoices, DeFeo exhibition announcements, photographs, and clippings. Also includes a photocopy of the corrected typescript for Sombrero fallout,...

Portrait of Bruce Conner holding an unidentified circular painting at Smith Andersen Gallery (Palo Alto, Calif.).

Collection consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence with colleagues in the field of chemistry dating from 1960 to 1977. Correspondence files are arranged chronologically by year. A small amount of correspondence is filed alphabetically by correspondent. Also included are drafts...

Papers relating to Bruce Kilgore's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Contains correspondence, subject files, seminar information, drafts, publications, patent information, and VHS tapes and audiocassettes of lectures, presentations, radio and tv appearances, etc.

Contains a letter and envelope addressed to William "Billie" James, son of William James and Porter's brother-in-law, consoling him on the death of Alex, and giving him news of mutual friends living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Includes a...

Contains correspondence, poems, essays and manuscripts. Also includes biographical information on Bruce Porter and family.

Includes correspondence and a biographical sketch by Tim Mason. Correspondents include David Atkins and Ernest Atkins.

Letters written by him to his wife, Margaret (James) Porter, to his son, Robert Bruce and daughter-in-law Paula, to his brother-in-law William James, Jr. and wife Alice, and to his brother Robert C. Porter; letters to him from his wife,...

Letters written by him to members of his family; letters written to him by William E. Colby, Louise Imogen Guiney, Henry James and Lucy Stebbins; photographs and sketches; theater, opera and concert programs for San Francisco (ca. turn of the...

Box 1: letters written by Porter; letters to him from novelist Henry James and James' nephew, Henry, Witter Bynner, Horatio Stebbins and George P. West; manuscript of plays, other prose writings and poems, some with sketches; and clippings. Box 2:...

Includes recreational and home scenes, portraits (mostly unidentified), cartes de visite.

Includes sketches of California missions, portraits, and other subjects; personal and family photographs; photographs of Porter's and others' art works, of homes and of flower stands at Temple Emanu-El (San Francisco, Calif.) Among the photographs of artworks (PIC folder 4)...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Contains organizational files including articles of incorporation, by-laws, and other legal documents. Includes correspondence, newsletters, organizational history and philosophy. Also includes ephemera, some unrelated to the organization, such as catalogs, newspapers, flyers, and posters.

Bruce Rogers (May 14, 1870-May 21, 1957) was an American typographer and type designer, acclaimed by some as among the greatest book designers of the twentieth century.

Photographs used in a work written by Harold Gilliam published in 1967. Includes photographs not appearing in published version.

Transmitting copies of a report on Mexico by Antonio de Ulloa for distribution.

The atlas also known as "The Great South Sea of America," contains a description of the Sea Coasts in the South sea of America from the port of Alcapulco to the Le Maire straits, it being here following described at...

Lists of addresses, record of stock purchases and sales, and miscellaneous notes.

Herbert Leibowitz: Research and training specialist for the rehabilitation services administration, 1971-1990. Mary Lester: Grant writer for the early Center for Independent Living in Berkeley, 1974-1981. Bette McMuldren: Assistant to Judy Heumann and grant writer at the Center for Independent...

Career, clients, and cases at Morrison & Foerster; president Bar Association of San Francisco, State Bar of California, and American Bar Association. Interviews include recollections of Marshall L. Small, Peter J. Pfister, William Alsup, Preston Moore, Penelope A. Prevolos, Stanley...

Photographs of ongoing construction of the following buildings in San Francisco, California after the earthquake and fire of 1906: Welch Estate Building, MacDonough Estate Building, Royal Insurance Building, Delger Building, Eyre Building, Charles A. Schmitt Building, Jerome Garage, Rose Building,...

Title devised by cataloger.

Most photographs are captioned, dated, and numbered in the negative. Un-numbered prints have been arranged by the library by subject, after the numerical sequence.

Blueprints of four story building for J.D. Hannah: first, third and fourth floor plans and front elevation. Gardner's office was at 1507 Laguna Street.

Pioneer Idaho family background, World War I and influenza, Great Depression; Meadow Creek Mine, ID, stibnite metallurgy, developing a dependable reagent feeder for flotation process; marketing through American Cyanamid, 1936; construction and management of mines and mills in California and...

Concerns Kent's political activities as state chairman or Northern California chairman of the Democratic State Central committee, 1954-1964, with emphasis on political campaigns, 1954-1966, particularly Stevenson's 1956 presidential campaign and Pat Brown's gubernatorial canpaign's. Kent comments on his work with...

Family and youth in Mississippi; background in chemical engineering, graduate student at MIT, wartime service at Oak Ridge National Laboratory; co-founding the Department of Nuclear Engineering Education at MIT with Manson Benedict in 1952; developing the first nuclear engineering textbook,...

Interviewees include: Brock Evans, Environmental Campaigner: From the Northwest Forests to the Halls of Congress; and W. Lloyd Tupling, Sierra Club Washington Representative, 1967-1973.

With this: notes on transportation (railroads, stage coaches, river steamers, Pacific Mail Steamship Co., etc.) and on Claus Spreckels.

Collection contains commercial photographic prints taken by R.J. Waters & Co. in San Francisco following the disaster of 1906. Views show earthquake and fire damage to various locales. Buildings pictured include Mills Building, San Francisco Gas & Electric Building, Hotel...

Photographs show buildings designed by Perry, including residences in Berkeley, Belvedere, Marin County, San Francisco, and other California locations, as well as some outside of California. Also shows many University of California, Berkeley buildings and other public buildings as well....

Illustrations from a 1973 calender produced by the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association show residences and other buildings in Berkeley, Calif.

Mainly California residences and buildings. Includes views of Samuel Martin house in Suisun; Santa Cruz County Courthouse; Coleman and McCarthy houses, both in San Rafael; J. Neely Johnson house in Sacramento; First Bank of Courtland in Courtland; Robert P. Landon...

Incomplete typed transcript included in folder.

Two issues of amateur newspaper compiled, written and illustrated by Miss Hazel Snell, Ashbury St., San Francisco. Contributions by William Jones Hanlon included.

Chiefly house exterior photographs.

Primarily letters to Katherine Mapes Bunnell, including letters from her sister, Mary Mapes Dodge; Luther Burbank; Mary Hallock Foote; Ina Coolbrith; Kate Douglas Wiggin; Richard Watson Gilder; and various members of the Mapes and Bunnell families. Included also are articles...

5 v., including Southern Pacific logbooks for Truckee (1869-1872) and Russian River (1941-1942); correspondence of F.L. Burckhalter concerning his promotion to the vice presidency of the Southern Pacific Co., 1933, and letters of condolence on his death, 1936.

Miscellaneous programs of 1855 activities for Dr. G. Burdell; school programs etc. of M.J. Sweetser; notes on an around the world trip of James Burdell.

Three letters written by Mrs. W.H. Hawgood and Mrs. Carrol Beal.

1 letter from Joseph Burke to his wife, Lexington, Missouri, November 20, 1862 concerning his civil war experience and plant collecting; and obituary of Mary E. Burke Volle, daughter of Joseph Burke, dated 1909, Cass County Democrat, Harrisonville.

Mainly correspondence of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Burnett and of their sons, Edward W., a doctor, and Wellington C., a judge, and of Wellington's wife and children, relating mainly to family genealogy. Some also pertain to the war in the...

Album includes snapshots and professional views taken in the vicinity of Burney Falls, Calif. and several other locations in northern California and throughout the United States. California views include Burney Falls, Burney Creek, Burney Mountain, Sacramento River, Fall River, Pit...

Include letters by British musician Charles Burney and his daughter, the writer Frances (Burney) d'Arblay, with letters from William Seward, Richard Porson and John Young, and a receipt from engraver William Sharp.

Three of his talks relating to Mexican Americans and to his labor organizing activities. Copies of photographs inserted. Interviews discuss bilingual education and community development programs and his writings for children in Spanish. Appended: photocopy of documents supporting the interviews...

Photographs documenting attendees of the Burning Man festival in Black Rock Desert, Nevada in 2000. Most individuals depicted are nude and engaged in a variety of activities such as dancing, mud bathing, bike riding and yoga. Others are depicted posing...

Miscellaneous papers related to the anthropologist's research in Mauritius and the Seychelles, ca. 1950s - 1970s. Includes information on agricultural indebtedness of rural workers in Mauritius; census data from English River area of the Seychelles; papers related to the Social...

Photograph album of snapshot scenes pertaining to the Burt family of Aztec, New Mexico and Covina, California. Several images taken at or near W.S. Dalton's Indian Trading Post in Aztec, with a few depicting Navajo and perhaps other Native Americans...

Collection includes many portraits of Congressman Phillip Burton of California: at social events, in office (publicity shots), political events, with President Johnson, Ted Kennedy, President Ford, many with Robert Kennedy, and others. Also includes portraits of Hubert Humphrey, Ronald Reagan,...

Childhood in Oakland, California; first job as a mechanic with Key System in 1942; Navy service during WWII; returning to Key System, 1947; transition from Key System to AC Transit, 1960; general manager, Al Bingham; the bus fleet; changes to...

Mainly papers of Asahel Bush relating to his work as territorial and state printer in Oregon, his interests in Democratic Party politics, and his editorial career as publisher of the newspaper, The Statesman.

The collection consists of the records generated by Felix Warburg and the Bush Street Synagogue Cultural Center. The collection contains newsletters; photographs; financial records; materials generated while doing historical research on the building and Temple Ohabai Shalome which occupied the...

Bound ledger of an unidentified business firm containing various accounting records including accounts for customers, cash, dried fruit, hay, expenses, etc. Customer accounts contain name and date of debits and credits. Some of the larger accounts include several California fruit...

To mssrs. Schlüsser & Co., St. Petersburg, concerning continuing business after return from California.

Buildings and scenes pictured: the History Building (i.e. the Bancroft building), the Oriel Block, North side of California St. from Sansome to Montgomery, the Flood building, and a birds eye view of San Francisco from the tower of the new...

Advertisements for 22 San Francisco businesses, presumably compiled in album for the reference of guests at the Hotel St. Francis. Includes promotions for banks, milliners, departments stores, electrolysis, dance and riding instruction, John Howell Books, clothiers, jewellers, facial surgery, and...

Discusses family and early years in Peru, China, and Hong Kong; return to Peru and businesses there in 1951; being a business woman in Berkeley, Calif., since 1966; gives her thoughts on women in business, philanthropy, higher education; compares Chinese,...

Contains ephemera, correspondence, photographs,clippings, announcements, press releases, etc. related to an exhibition of women-owned businesses held annually in Oakland, California.

Picture postcards mailed from various locations throughout California containing personal correspondence to a California family. One postcard is addressed from Oregon. Also includes several blank postcards.

Molded red clay bust of James D. Hart, executed during the subject's youth.

Views of trees and plants of Butano Forest, San Mateo County, Calif., some with people. Some views related to measure C to create Butano State Park, and to the effort to preserve this forest of redwood trees.

Typed transcripts of ten letters centering on the 1853 overland journey of the Pierce Butler company, with an account of Polk County, Oregon, in 1853-1854. The letters are by E.D. Butler, Isaac & Margrit Smith, Ira F.M. Butler, Peter Butler,...

Reel 1: township maps (1887); assessment rolls (1859, 1867-68); and reel 2: assessment rolls (1876-77)

Includes copy of constitution and by-laws.

Tally list and Poll Book for Oroville precinct; Tally list for Ophir Precinct.

Buttons with printed slogans, aphorisms, etc. chiefly pertaining to legal aspects of psychiatry and ECT (electroconvulsive therapy, formerly known as electroshock therapy) and protesting against forced treatment and other potentially harmful aspects of the field.

Recollections of overland journey from Hannibal, Missouri, to California, 1859-1860, via Denver and Salt Lake City (238 l.).

Volume 1: Correspondence of various members of the family concerning overland journey from New Madrid, Missouri, to California in 1859, life in Oakland and Berkeley, and experiences reclaiming a tule farm on Venice Island.

Primarily letters (some incomplete) written to his wife, 1916-1918, while working as mine superintendent in El Tigre, Mexico. Includes descriptions of working conditions in mine, life in camp, attempts to evangelize Mexican workers, observations on Mexican politics & government (folders...