Four bound journals and day books containing daily entries for cash transactions and accounts for goods sold and services. Three of the journals appear to be property of or related to C. Agostini General Merchandise, a store located in San...

The primary focus of the collection is C. Diane Howell's role as producer of the Oakland Black Expo from 1996 until 2007, and as publisher of the Black Business Listings from 1989 until 2008.

Collection contains lantern slide images of Alaska (and other locations), land forms, bears, other wildlife, reproductions of maps and diagrams, etc.

Miscellany of photographs, chiefly copy prints, taken by C. Hart Merriam during his linguistic field work, and collected by Robert F. Heizer. Photographs depict members of various Native American groups in California and perhaps elsewhere. Identified tribes represented in collction...

Photographs and other pictorial material relating to Merriam's work in natural history, zoology, ornithology, geography, geographic distribution, and botany. Images from the Harriman Alaska expedition of 1899 (including glass plate positive transparencies by Edward Curtis) are present, as are numerous...

Includes correspondence, research papers and other writings, course materials and files documenting King's involvement in professional organizations.

Manuscripts of his writings, clippings etc., relating primarily to his career in forestry, including material on forest fires and forestry labor camps. Also included is biographical information and his reminiscences of Guerneville, California, San Francisco and Ishi.

Tentative attribution to Carleton E. Watkins.

A gold miner's letters addressed to his wife in Amesbury, Mass. from encampments at Mokelumne River and Rich Gulch, California. In one he provides price estimates for some gold which she will soon receive, and gives instructions for the dispensation,...

Scrapbooks contain press clippings related to stratospheric investigations, issues of medicine, and life sciences phenomena during the 1930s.

Includes correspondence, writings, research materials, psychological test forms, and materials relating to the American Society for Testing Materials.

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Portraits of poets and others associated with San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood including Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Michael McClure, Jack Hirschman, Richard Brautigan, Bob Kaufman, Jack Micheline, Harold Norse, Imamu Amiria Baraka, and Ruth Weiss....

Possibly a printer's copy, primarily typed, signed copies of poems, mounted on pages of an account book; some with corrections in Sterling's hand. Some clippings of poems included.

Letterpress copies of letters sent, 1887-1895 and statements and invoices, 1896-1898.

Papers sent with covering letter by Cornelius Cain, Special Officer of Wells, Fargo and Company, San Francisco, to Sheriff W.A. Ingalls at Goldfield, Nevada.

1: Stump House (Muybridge #120) view of house built over a giant sequoia stump in the Calaveras Grove -- 2: people posing in "Geyser Springs" carriage and on steps and porch of the Sonoma County Geyser Springs hotel.

Photographs captioned: The North Dome, Yosemite -- El Capitan, Yosemite Valley -- Sentinel Rock, Yosemite, Mirror Lake, Yosemite, Up the Valley, Yosemite -- Cathedral Rock, Yosemite -- South Dome from Little Yosemite Valley -- Yosemite Valley, from the Mariposa trail...

5 mine claims, 1 unsigned farm lease.

Includes proclamation naming Jackson as county seat and petition of Mokelumne Hill citizens.

Ledgers of a gold mining company in Calaveras, Calif.

Shows skull found by Josiah Dwight Whitney in 1866 in Calaveras mine shaft proposed to have been the remains of a prehistoric man.

Astrological forecast for the year 1750, prepared by the pilot and mathematician, Illarregui, a resident of Puebla; dedication signed by him and addressed to Guipuzcoans in the New World.

Chiefly concerning a venture into the production and sale of Philippine mahogany. Includes correspondence, particularly with Barg Lumber Company of San Francisco, Calif., subject files relating to technical manufacturing and marketing information, publicity clippings and photos, and completed questionnaires from...

Twelve leaves of color prints plus illustrated cover. Each print signed by the artist.

Descriptive list of documents in vols. III-V. Correspondence of the Governors General, communications received, Feb. 24, 1822-Apr. 15, 1827, of records of the Russian American Company, now in the National Archives (see Film P-K 225).

Formerly in the collection of Dr. Jerrold Peil, auctioned at PBA Galleries, 2005.

Notes, with a map, chiefly concerning the Jesuit missions and the Indians of Lower California and Northwestern Mexico, taken from Venegas, A natural and civil history of California (London. 1759).

Collection includes views of ranches, farms, agricultural land and dairy production. The majority are in California, but some are from Mid-Atlantic and New England regions. Examples of farm equipment, houses, barns and other sturctures are often used to show economic...

Collection consists of records of the California Alliance of Jewish Women, including articles of incorporation, by laws, scattered minutes, membership lists, programs, clippings, and miscellaneous financial documents.

Assorted technical drawings, station drawings, and photographs from several railways in California, Arizona, and perhaps elsewhere in the West. One album of 29 professional views (platinum or platinum-toned photoprints) documents stations, trestles, and rolling stock of the San Francisco &...

Contains views of Apache Indian camp; "Chief Ramon's camp ... "; exhibit of the "Native daughters of the Golden West"; parade in San Francisco; Pauma church for Indians; Coronel's residence; and views of the following California missions: San Juan Capistrano,...

Includes snapshots of San Francisco's Market Street, Golden Gate Park, the De Young Museum exterior, a Chinese parade and procession for President McKinley's visit to Los Angeles (May 9, 1901), Pasadena's Tournament of Roses parade, the Hotel Del Coronado, the...

Contains the specifications and receipts for building the hull of a water barge.

When received contained approximately 200 items, principally letters, pertaining to the Gold Rush and life in the gold region. Also includes documents pertaining to mining and mining companies in California and Nevada.

Includes photos along the Columbia River: Bridal Veil Falls, Multnomah Falls, Rooster Rock and rapids in Oregon. Also pictured are Camp Taylor (Paper Mill Creek, Marin Co.), and San Lorenzo Creek (Felton Big Tree Grove, Santa Cruz {or Humboldt Co.?}),...

California scenic montages composed of multiple rectangular and circular photographic views arranged along with identifying text, and re-photographed to create single photographic prints. Presumably these were created for reproduction in a print promotional publication, possibly by Sunset Magazine or the...

Watercolor landscapes of various locations. California scenes show Coronado beach views, scenery around Carmel, the Don Juarez Adobe in Napa, cows near Tracy, etc. Other scenes show mountains near Salt Lake City, Utah; a landscape in Victoria, British Columbia; and...

Includes pictorial postcards and other prints with scenic views, primarily of California, but also Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon and Washington. Views likely represent locations visited during a south-to-north tour of the region by the album's compiler. Among the specific locations...

Views show Indians in Mexico and Arizona, Yosemite National Park, the Hotel Del Monte (Monterey, Calif.), and San Francisco scenes (including Chinatown).

Primarily views of bridges and bridge construction and Southern Pacific Railroad construction work. Other views include building construction in San Francisco and vicinity, the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, the Golden Gate International Exposition, street scenes, ships, highways,...

Pages 3-18 of the draft of the essay, and one leaf of post-script, dated Jan. 20, 1853, concerning publication of the essay and the future of gold mining.

Copies of an account of the provinces of New Spain, written by a Spanish cosmographer, 1654, and descriptions of California by Father Fernando Consag, 1746, and Juan Bautista de Anza, 1773-1774.

Utah views show the Temple Block and the Saltair Pavillion in Salt Lake City, and salt beds. California views show the Feather River Inn, Feather River Canyon, the Great Western Power Co. plant, Williams Circle, and the State Capitol building.

Minutes, subject files, correspondence, newsletters and photographs concerning the Association.

Contains minutes, reports, correspondence and publications relating to the activities of the California Association of Women Deans and Vice Principals.

Student days at University of California, class of 1912; coaching in various high schools in the state and in Idaho; coaching at the University and position as general manager and athletic director. Photographs inserted. Included: copy of Salute to Clint...

Fragments, for handwriting comparison only.

Photographs show Amelia Earhart with her plane, and at a banquet in her honor. Other photos show a crash scene in Fairbanks, Alaska (crash of Will Rogers and Wiley Post). Some photos are publicity photos for "flying boats" (large planes)...

Ink stamp of photographer Herbert P. Bond of Burbank, Calif. on back of most. One stamped by Special Photographic Effects, apparently a U.S. military section.

Records of pay for various companies and miscellaneous personnel, United States troops commanded by Lt. Col. John C. Frémont.

Set of prints issued by Standard Oil Company of California commemorating California state bicentennial of 1969. Prints reproduce watercolors by artist France Carpentier depicting Franciscan missions and other historic structures of California. Backs of prints include extensive historical information on...

Views of churches, missions, residences, etc.

Buildings pictured include the Old Hotel de France building in Oakland (sign on building reads "John Lucas & Co."), the Tuolumne County courthouse in Sonora, George Pardee's residence, City Hall in Sonoma, Mission San Francisco Solano in Sonoma, and Scribners[?]...

Views of newly completed homes in the California bungalow style. Exterior and interior views, some with mission style furnishings.

Group portraits taken at 2nd California Camera Club dance, Native Sons Hall, San Francisco, January 27, 1914; at two later undated gatherings: posing atop a wagon near the base of a redwood tree at an unidentified location, and posing under...

Photograph depicts ranch scene in unidentified California foothill region, with cattle in foreground and ranch buildings in distance.

Include reports from census agents for El Dorado and San Francisco counties, and abstract of census of Indians of Nevada County. Sources noted on folders.

The collection contains articles, minutes, agendas, press releases, faxes, and correspondence.

Professional photographs of citrus displays at the Butte County Citrus Festival (Oroville, 1887-1888) and the Northern California Citrus Fair (Marysville, 1891). Also includes an illustrated promotional publication, Oroville: District incomparable (published in the 1920s by United Chamber of Commerce, Oroville),...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Album contains snapshots documenting a tourist trip through California, Colorado and Nevada at the turn of the twentieth century. Photographs depict the tourists (a large group, primarily women), scenic views and other points of interest, including Las Vegas, Hotel del...

164: gold dollar coin, 1915, commemorating the Panama Pacific International Exposition. Helmeted head of Athena and California motto "Eureka" on one side. Verso depicts California Grizzly Bear and poppies, with words "California Gold" and "One"--165: silver half dollar coin, 1925,...

Draft of preamble, in Spanish; declaration of rights as reported by the committee of the whole; engrossed copies of various articles as submitted by committees; minority report on the article regarding the judiciary; copies of the reports of the boundary...

Interviews documenting the Goodwin Knight/Edmund Brown, Sr. era. Copies of photographs and of documentary material inserted. Interviewees, and titles of interviews, as follows: A. Ronald Button. California Republican Party Official and State Treasurer of California, 1956-1958. Comments also aon Earl...

Reports from Congregational ministers in California to the American Home Missionary Society.

Recollections of experiences as blind student at California School for the Deaf and Blind and University of California; activities in organizing associations of the blind, promoting legislation to aid them, and attempting to improve economic opportunities open to them; experiences...

Includes snapshots of Yosemite, hot springs and Mission Can[y]on near Santa Barbara, cedars near Monterey, a buggy crossing river in a canyon near Nordhoff, and a buggy at The Dalles, near the Columbia River (Oregon).

Professional photographs, likely the work of a government agency, documenting the construction of dams, reservoirs and other structures associated with various water conservation, water reclamation and flood control projects in California overseen by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Identified projects...

Includes original poster art -- chiefly paintings -- designed to promote defense stamps and savings bonds during World War II. Imagery includes themes of United States patriotism (e.g. armed forces, Statue of Liberty, Uncle Sam, American flag) and savings bonds...

Photographs depict California delegates to the 1912 Progressive Party Convention in Chicago. Delegates are shown posing in groups at train stations (en route to convention?) and marching in parade. Among those pictured are California Governor Hiram W. Johnson and former...

Volume includes index.

Mimeographed monthly statements on activities of the Department, concerning conservation education, beaches and parks, forestry, mines, oil and gas, and soil conservation.

Correspondence relating primarily to nutrition programs, including material on nutrition of workers in war industries. Texts of a few speeches and articles also included.

Two blank stock certificates, Nos. 20 and 23. Printed by A. Carlisle & Co., San Francisco. Certificates each include three illustrative vignettes and a gold seal.

Portion of a file compiled for the Council of the Indies by order of Viceroy Lope Díaz de Armendáriz relating to exploration rights in Lower California. Contains copy dated November 24, 1635, of Philip II's decree of July 13, 1573,...

Includes summons to John Davis; affidavit and order in case of Stafford vs. Lick; and interrogatories and testimony of Washington A. Bartlett in the case of John B. Montgomery vs. S.S. Burt, with Bartlett's correspondence with Montgomery, 1854-1855, and letter...

Copies, including complaint of McDougal and Sharp, attorneys for the plaintiffs; and summons to Connelly.

Include summons and copy of complaint.

Stays of execution, complaints and summons in various cases.

Items pertaining to administration of the state parks from the files of Newton B. Drury. Includes reports submitted by Robert S. Coon, Northest District Parks Superintendent, covering the period Aug. 5 - Sept. 14 1940.

Two letters from Antonio María Bucareli y Ursúa, Viceroy of Mexico, to the Father Guardian of the Cologio; summary of the Juan Perez voyages, 1774-1775, with a brief report on the California missions and a narrative of the Ignacio Artéaga...

Primarily bills, receipts, stock certificates, promissory notes, miscellaneous business letters, tax receipts and assessment notices, by-laws of some mining companies, miscellaneous accounts, advertisements, etc.

Stock certificates, waybills, receipts, promissory notes, accounts and other documents related to economic activity in 19th century California.

from Tavistock Books;

From selected issues of the San Jose Pioneer.

Material pertaining to the history and genealogy of the Bernal, Berreyesa, Castro, Galindo, Higuera, Pacheco and Soberanes families.

Includes snapshots at Monte Rio on the Russian River, bridge games at a club, visits to the Mariposa sequoia grove 21 years apart (by wagon then by automobile, pictured), and an image with a black domestic servant and a baby.

Contains 21 billheads from California with fancy designs.

Contains two bills of lading, dated several months apart, for goods being shipped from S.D. Kempton in Boston, Massachusetts to C.M. Ford in Los Angeles, California. The earlier one, dated August 10, 1886, is for two large boxes of personal...

Includes correspondence, reports, newsletters, and other documents relating to club activities at the local and state levels.

Photos show women in costume outdoors at Yosemite, performing various historical reenactments or pageants.

Portfolio of artistic photographs depicting scenes from various California flea markets. Includes many portraits of vendors, often with emphasis upon their living conditions, their automobiles, their clothing fashions, and their goods for sale. Flea market locations are unidentified.

Title supplied by cataloger.

The Prune King, California Building (Kilburn # 8271) and the Los Angeles County exhibit (Kilburn # 9008).

Includes views in Hodson and Calaveras, the jumping frog competition at Calaveras, the Murphy's vicinity, etc. Also includes 8 photographs of indigienous people apparently in South America or Central America.

Collection of 141 business documents, inventories, and receipts with civil and political papers plus miscellanea detailing the establishment of ordered life in California Gold Rush towns. A good number relate to the Sierra County area: Rabbit Creek (later La Porte),...

Includes diaries of William Lampton, James Tate, G.A. Smith and Henry A. Stine.

Scenes include John Marshall's cabin in Coloma, Sutter's mill on the American River, a portrait of a '49er, a water wheel (gold crusher) at Angel's Camp, Mark Twain's cabin at Jackass Hill, Hangman's Tree, and ruins of a stage station...

Fifty original manuscript letters from persons living throughout the United States containing comments and observations on the effect the California Gold Rush is having in their lives. Also includes typescript transcriptions of each letter.

Photographs show interior and exterior views of Fort Point (San Francisco), the Winchester Mystery House (San Jose), various missions, historic sites, Holy City, Dayton (Nevada), many California mining towns, and many views related to the Virginia & Truckee Railroad.

Chiefly photographs of buildings, cars, store merchandise, and other property damaged during the Watts Riot. Most views include sequentially numbered placards placed in foreground of scene, apparently as part of systematic documentation of damage. Approximately 40 photographs, presumably taken by...

Collection includes correspondence, poetry, and drawings of botanical specimens. Oversize folder contains contents, scientific names and a family index for specimens featured in folder 3.

Bowles discusses family life on Russian Hill, Sarah Lawrence College, travel, marriage to Henry Miller Bowles, story of collecting porcelains in San Francisco, New York, London; gift of the Bowles Collection to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Includes 4 luncheon invitations with speakers on the post gold rush era in Calif., shell mounds and caves around San Francisco Bay, old ranchos and pioneer personalities.

Correspondence between Prof. Robert P. Utter, University of California, Berkeley, and Charles A. Keeler, Berkeley Chamber of Commerce, concerning zoning in Berkeley. Also includes a letter to Herbert Hoover, Washington, D.C., a letter to the editor of the Berkeley Gazette...

Production boards including original photographs, art and lettering; used in publication of postcards and greeting cards. Publishers include Edward H. Mitchell and Pacific Novelty Co.

Documents relating to civil and criminal cases, mainly in Sutter Creek under Justice of the Peace J.S. Porter.

California Justice Court San Francisco summons in various cases, BANC MSS C-A 397, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Chiefly printed ephemera, including catalogs, fliers, newsletters. Also includes press releases and curricula. Also includes 1 folder (catalogs) for the Tom Mooney Labor School.

Contains theater programs, play transcripts, and bulletins for the California Labor School Theater.

Legal documents, mostly deeds and agreements, regarding lands in Los Angeles, Berkeley, Sacramento, Modesto and Stanislaus County. Includes: agreement regarding the erection of a building by the San Pedro Lumber Co. in Los Angeles, 1895 Sept.; memorandum of agreement concerning...

Positive microfilm of transcripts and translations in the California State Archives of the "Spanish Archives of California" now in the National Archives, and related material. Also, journal of the California Constitutional Convention, 1849.

Positive and negative micofilm of index to records of the "Spanish Archives of California"

Collection consists of California land tenure documents collected and compiled by the Bancroft Library in the early to middle of the twentieth century. Included are homestead and other federal land grant documents, U.S. war bounty land warrants, expediente (Spanish and...

Title devised by cataloger.

California seashore, trees landscape, and California landscape.

Berkeley or Monterey Peninsula landscapes.

1: Landscape of a river, lake, or bay shoreline, with tree, by William Keith; oil on panel, approximately 10x14 inches, in ornate gilded frame. 2: Painting of wildflowers on a hillside, possibly with Marin County's Mount Tamalpais in background, by...

Interviews with legislative leaders during the Knight/Brown administrations. Copies of photographs and of supporting documentary material inserted. Issues discussed include party organization and campaigns; California water plan; legislative reapportionment; capital punishment and the Caryl Chessman case; mental health; civil rights;...

Signatures, with addresses, of members of the Assembly, 39th Legislative session.

The hearings were held to investigate allegations of brutality in the treatment of patients at the mental health facility. Included also are scrapbook pages of newspaper clippings covering the hearings.

Albums contain snaphot photographs documenting the travels, outings, gatherings and other leisure activities of an unidentified family and their friends, taken throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and many other California locations. Includes many scenes of camping, beaches and bathing....

Correspondence, minutes, reports, etc.

Group portraits taken at meetings of the California Library Association: Riverside 1920, Pasadena 1924 (both size G), an unidentified group circa 1920s (size B), and 1995 (size AX). The 1995 portrait, in color, is from the centennial celebration meeting in...

Photographs depict meetings, lectures, exhibits, etc.

Administrative and subject files concerning the interests and activities of the Association and its various committees and chapters. Includes publications, newsletters, committee files, materials related to conferences, annual meetings and legislation.

Administrative files concerning the interests and activities of the association with governments of all levels; institutions, corporations and special interest groups, and related groups.

Cartons 1-5 (1968-1969); 5-8 (1970); 9-12 (1971); 12-15 (1972)

Contains office files, committee files, council minutes, newsletters, information related to chapters, conferences, and other miscellaneous records.

Correspondence and subject file concerning the interest and activity of the association.

Administrative file concerning the activities of The Association with governments of all levels, institutions, corporations, special interest groups, and committees and agencies of The Association.

Administrative file concerning the activities of the association with government of all levels; institutions, corporations and special interest groups, and related groups.

Includes some views in Wisconsin, Niagara, and Chicago.

Title supplied by cataloger.

3 x 5 cards with author, title and subject entries.

Contains minutes, correspondence, studies, plans, and other miscellaneous background materials relating to Angel Island, including Winslow Cove and the Charles A. Winslow Memorial Fountain, as well as Bolinas Lagoon. Includes some printed items and architectural drawings for Winslow Cove. Also...

from Marc Selvaggio Bookseller ;

Hassard discusses his childhood in San Leandro, Calif.; student days at Boalt Hall School of Law; serving as council for the California Medical Association; landmark medical malpractice suits; controversy over group health and closed panel medical practice; Medicare, Medicaid (Medi-Cal);...

Mounts bear advertising imprint of [Myra] Sperry the Artist, Salem, Oregon.

Letters, mainly from army personnel in California. Some concern supplies for San Diego depot and Fort Yuma.

Commission of Adam Brooks as Junior Second Lietenant, National Guard, Second Infantry Battalion, Fourth Brigade, Company "D" on 1864 September 21. Also, 3 muster rolls of California Company "D", 2nd Battalion, 4th Brigade. Adam Brooks' name is listed on two...

Contains 5 documents relating to land bought and sold around Dunderberg Peak in Mono County and San Fernando in Los Angeles County, Calif., some of it dealing with the Dunderberg Mining Co. Also includes a list of expenditures for the...

Stock certificates from various sources, arranged alphabetically by name of company (67 folders in 1 portfolio).

Individual items cataloged separately. Search under title: California miscellany--additions.

Miscellaneous papers from the Hubert Howe Bancroft collection. Each item cataloged individually. Search under title: California Miscellany, 1835-1884.

Individual items, numbered serially; each cataloged separately. Search under title: California miscellany--additions.

Letters, documents and fragments related to the California missions and the Catholic Church. Among the items included are a fragment in the hand of Junípero Serra, fragments signed by Juan Crespí and Fermin Francisco de Lasuen, letters from Magin Catala,...

Correspondence, informes, circulars, and censuses concerning the interests and activities of the California missions. Each item cataloged separately.

Originals for use in Bancroft's history of the California missions.

Consists of 13 letters sent by the Franciscan missionaries in San Jose and Santa Clara Missions, to the Reverend Father Supply Master of the missions of California, mostly between 1806 and 1811. The letters chiefly concern the needs of the...

Letters from priests at various missions, chiefly to their superiors at the Apostolic College of San Fernando, Mexico. Each portfolio cataloged separately.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Slides of the various Spanish missions in California. Views include building exteriors, interiors and surrounding grounds.

Lists of population, births, marriages, deaths, livestock and crops for each mission, the presidios of San Diego, Monterey, San Francisco and Santa Barbara, the pueblos of San Jose and Los Angeles and the Villa Branciforte, with analyses by place and...

Files contain correspondence, programs, offprints of articles, conference materials, newsletters, etc.

Photographs show exterior views of the following missions: San Antonio de Pala, San Antonio de Padua, San Carlos Borromeo, San Fernando, San Gabriel, San Juan Bautista, San Miguel, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Barbara and Santa Inez.

Views show San Juan Capistrano, San Luis Rey, Mission Dolores, and San Antonio de Pala Mission.

Albums contain interior and exterior views in the pictorialist manner of several of the Franciscan missions of California, including San Juan Capistrano, Santa Barbara, Santa Inés, San Miguel, San Carlos Borromeo, San Francisco de Asís, San Diego, San Luis Rey...

Exterior views of the following missions: San Gabriel, San Buenaventura, San Diego, La Purissima, San Juan Capistrano, San Miguel, San Fernando, San Antonio, San Luis Rey, and Santa Inez.

Photos show exteriors of the following missions: San Antonio de Pala, Santa Ynez, San Diego (includes a group of Native American schoolgirls with nuns), San Gabriel, San Juan Capistrano, San Luis Rey, and Santa Barbara.

Large-format hand-made book including a drawn map of the California mission locations and drawings of 4 mission buildings: San Diego, San Carlos Borromeo, Santa Barbara and Dolores (San Francisco de Asís). Each drawing preceded by page of hand-lettered text with...

Photographs show interiors and exteriors of California missions, some adobes, and the graveyard of San Francisco's Mission Dolores as it appeared in 1890.

Some photos published in the Sunset Magazine volume: California missions, Lane Publishing Company, 1964.

Collection consists mostly of photographs, as well as a small number of postcards and transparencies. A newspaper article on mission painting by Will Spark is also present. California missions, both exterior and interior views, include: San Luis Rey, La Purisma,...

Three views of women carrying papoose; one view of a woman with pottery and baskets in Yosemite.

Includes 10 buttons and 2 bumper stickers promoting various efforts toward the legalization of marijuana, including the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and campaigns for the California Marijuana Iniative (CMI) of 1982 and California's Proposition 215...

California NORML records, BANC MSS 2009/122, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Photographs by an unidentified nurse taken in California during the first decade of the 20th century. Includes snapshot portraits of individual nurses and groups at various locations in California, including Pasadena Hospital Training School for Nurses (depicting graduating classes of...

Correspondence, reports, etc., prepared under the direction of California State Attorney General Earl Warren, including lists of persons of Japanese ancestry and property holdings in various California cities and counties.

Includes aerial photos of oil fields, refineries, and construction of pipe lines at the following locations: El Segundo, Fruitvale, Huntington Beach, Santa Barbara, and the Bakersfield and Richmond Refineries.

Snapshots of family or friends at various California places: Glenwood and Wrights (Santa Cruz), Mulberry (Butte County), Leona Heights, Vichy Springs (Mendocino), Paisines (San Benito), Tomales Bay, and Dillon's Bay (Marin). Many camping and beach scenes.

Professional photographs documenting the midway attractions of the California Pacific International Exposition, held in Balboa Park, San Diego, 1935-1936. Views include midway scenes, attractions, performers and visitors. Attractions depicted include an exhibit on monsters, Crime Never Pays (chiefly on gangster...

Samples of labels for dried fruit products. Labels are printed on paper, on cardboard boxes, and on plastic wrappers.

Photos cover a broad range of areas and subjects. Outdoor or recreational views (mainly California) include the Tuolumne River, sand dunes in Death Valley, Glacier National Park, Yosemite National Park, Catalina Island harbor, skiers at Badger Pass, golf players (in...

V.1: Aug. 8, 1917 - Nov. 22, 1921; v.2: Dec. 6, 1921 - Apr. 4, 1922; v.3: May 22, 1922 - Dec. 19, 1932. Typescript cpoies, signed by the secretary. Primarily meetings of the board of directors. V.3 also contains...

Snapshots around California.

1-2: the Bowers mansion, circa 1934 -- 3: (number not used; item transferred) -- 4: stereograph of Marysville Masons Building, by Woods -- 5: Point Richmond -- 6-7: (numbers not used?) -- 8: Nevada Falls and Snows' Hotel (Yosemite) by...

Images relate to early California history, from Cabrillo's landing at Point Loma, Russians establishing a colony at Fort Ross, proclamation of the California Republic, to pioneer routes, gold rush material, and mining ralted views. Includes images of maps, documents, and...

Includes and offfice scene, circa 1910, a family diniing outdoors, circa 1880s, Sierra Railway No. 3 engine and steam shovel, group at the Odd Fellows lodge in San Andreas, Hale Bros. shoe store interior (Sacramento), a large band (Sonora, 1892),...

Views from the 1860's and 1870's include Chinese Camp and vicinity, views of photographer George Fiske's carriage, with his advertising sign, several views of California Indians, and one view of the exterior of L.D. Currie's ambrotype studio (presumably in Chinese...

Includes a view of men in front of the rail station at Land's End (on the sightseeing route of the United Railroads, San Francisco) dated May 27, 1905, an albumen print of people grouped in front of a building ("Panoche...

Views show Cliff House in San Francisco; early views of Piedmont including Piedmont Springs Park, residences, cable cars, and public buildings; views of Monterey; and views of Oakland.

Red cross parade in Oakland, 1917; St. Mary's Cathedral, 1907; Alcatraz island, 1935; Tamalpais Mountain play "Robin Hood, ' 1918; glass negative of town of Locke along levee of Sacramento River, ca. 1880's?

1: A Chinese battle in California (Baird 27) -- 2: Chinese Buddhistic worship in San Francisco (Baird 28) -- 3: Doctor Shuler's hospital (Baird 56) -- 4: Flint's warehouses, San Francisco (Baird 80) -- 5: The miner's lamentations (Baird 163)...

Collection contains a card file of the research notes about place names and bibliography for the publication "California Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary" that was published by the University of California Press. The card file contains more extensive notes than...

Fine art prints, posters and other graphic works, chiefly by California artists, pertaining to various contemporary political and cultural topics pertinent to Mexico and the United States, including social justice, immigration, white supremacy, feminism, decolonialism, Mickey Mouse (as satirized by...

Five poll tax receipts: one national receipt for San Joaquin County, two for the state of California, and two for Alameda County.

Sources of population data available for various towns and missions. Compiled by Bancroft Library staff.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Postcards illustrate California towns and scenery, showing buildings, landscapes, attractions, and related scenes.

Emigration to United States in 1939; association with Christian Brothers and Paul Masson wineries; brandy making in California; development of Salinas Valley as a wine grape producing district; advertising programs, public relations and promoting California wines, etc.

Group and individual portraits : a banquet of the California Press Association (1919); and photos of the 1921 convention of the California Typothetae. Also includes portraits of California governor Friend W. Richardson.

Includes 5 clipper cards advertising ships departing for California, and 6 California views: 3 of San Francisco, 1 of San Jose, 1 of Tehachapi Pass and 1 scene of California gold miners.

Papers relating to the claim of Vicente Miramontes, et al (heirs of Candelario Miramontes for Rancho Arroyo de los Pilarcitos) to the Rancho Miramontes.

Include transcripts of proceedings before the Board of U.S. Land Commissioners, the U.S. District Court, and, occasionally, the U.S. Supreme Court, and subsequent related correspondence and documents from claimants, Surveyor General's Office, General Land Office, Secretary of the Interior, etc.

Typed transcript of Los Angeles County Court Records, File no. 4314?

Recollections of his law career in San Francisco; the Lincoln-Roosevelt Republican League in Berkeley; his work on the California State Railroad Commission (1911-1918); Hiram W. Johnson's administration as governor of Calif.; work with the War Dept., 1918-1919, as surveyor of...

Stickers, seals, and small labels illustrate and promote events in California (Olympic Games, fairs, conventions, shows, festivals, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Golden Gate International Exposition, etc.); California scenic locations (Yosemite, Death Valley, missions, redwoods, beaches, etc.); products (wine, fruit, manufactured goods);...

Documents.

Fragmentary files, consisting primarily of samples of such material as statistical tabulations and reports (stock sheets, weekly reports, mill reports, etc.); annual reports; shingle reports; distribution of shipments reports; grading rules; pattern books; and press and periodical digests.

Comments on role in the Republican party in California as chairman of the Republican Executive Committee in Southern California and Republican national committeeman; Earl Warren's career; William F. Knowland as state senator; gubernatorial and presidential campaigns, especially 1952 Republican convention....

Photograph shows instructors at Boone's University Preparatory School (on Durant Ave, Berkeley) where C. Madison was an instructor. Madison and Boone are pictured. Drawings show California scenery, coastal views, a scene at Willits, Ukiah landscapes, a stone cabin, and other...

California scenes show Yosemite, Lake Tahoe, Donner Lake, Shasta Springs, Crater and Klamath Lakes (Oregon), the Stanford campus, San Francisco Normal School graduation, and views of the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.

Collection contains views of various missions, adobes, Indians at Rancho Chico, scenery in Yosemite National Park and the Mt. Shasta area, a view of the town of Santa Barbara, a Montecito country road, and a photomechanical print (collotype) of a...

Snapshot views depicting leisure travel in California by a group of friends. Locations include Hetch Hetchy Valley, Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and other sections of Hetch Hetchy water delivery system; Yosemite Valley; Stanford University; Golden Gate Park and other San Francisco...

Photographs show the family home in Fairview, Ohio; E. Sheppard's home in Napa; portraits of Eliza Lewton and Eli T. Sheppard; a family group including Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard; and a cyanotype of Sheppard's house at 1654 Taylor St., San...

Photographs of various mission revival style buildings on the campus of the California School for the Deaf, Berkeley, Calif.

Three letters to Mrs. K.K. Bechtel (one with incorrect name in the greeting) and an invitation and parking voucher, related to the launching of the S.S. Benjamin Goodhue on Mar. 31, 1942. Also includes a caricature of K.K. Bechtel in...

Three views of Mammoth Tree Grove, 1 view of head waters of Truckee River, and 2 views of Cushing's Place settlement.

Concerning overland journey to Oregon, 1850; move to Yreka Creek, 1851; experiences in the Yreka mines.

Snapshots of various California locations, including San Francisco (Union Square, Hotel St. Francis, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco Bay); the University of California, Berkeley; Long Beach; Pasadena (Tournament of Roses parade); Los Angeles; Riverside; and Stanford University.

Articles of incorporation; board minutes; county chapters papers; legislative and social action papers; issues of Advance, the newsletter of the CSWO; scrapbooks with photos of meetings, awards, newspaper clippings, etc.

5 scrapbooks and 1 "volume" of loose clippings concerning the Socialist Party's activities California. Prominant subjects include: Party activities in Pasadena, California; Norman Thomas' candidacy for U.S. President, 1932; and Upton Sinclair's EPIC campaign in California in 1934. Also includes...

Contains three invitations to a reception for President William McKinley on May 16, 1901 at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, and one invitation to a reception at Mechanics' Pavilion, May 17, 1901. Also includes the Society's Circular no. 55, June...

Playing cards decorated with various views from around California including scenery, city views, hotels, missions, etc.

Mimeographed.

Correspondence and subject files of the Committee on Scientific Research. Oversize folder contains a photograph of members of the Committee on Labor, Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense, Washington, D.C., 1917.

Comments on teaching career; service as Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1945-62; working with State Board of Education, the legislature, and governors Warren, Knight and Brown; development of master plan for higher education; role as ex officio member of Regents of...

Included in: Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Era Oral History Project.

Includes circulars, memoranda and a collection of forms used by the agency.

Contain correspondence, reports, minutes, petitions, cartoons, news clippings, press releases and newsletters for the state-wide organization and for union locals in Northern and Southern California.

Interviews, Fred Links: An Overview of the Department of Finance, with comments on his long career as a key person in the department, Ellis Grff: Some Details of Public Revenue and Expenditure in the 1940's, with comments as a career...

Primarily Sierra Nevada landscapes in the Yosemite region, some with survey team members. Includes several Hetch Hetchy views. Three of the views present here are among the four views attributed to Harris published in The Yosemite Book (Plates 26-28). Also...

July 1850, with related correspondence and notes by Jacob N. Bowman.

Contains correspondence and printed programs relating to the operation of the school. Also includes course outlines, schedules, and files of student applications and grade cards, arranged chronologically by class.

Includes releases, 1852, by James M. Estill for John C. Hays and John Caperton from contracts with the prison; agreement between Estill and J.F. McCauley, 1857; letter from an inmate, notice of escaped prisoner; accounts, and other materials.

Contains correspondence concerning the creation of the California State Railroad Museum, report "The California State Railroad Museum : recommendations for planning and development", bylaws, articles of incorporation, prospectus, press releases and newspaper clippings. Also includes program and memorabilia for the...

Meeting minutes, agendas, and correspondence of the California State Reclamation Board. Correspondence is between the interested parties of various flood control and reclamation projects in California. Also includes a map of the San Joaquin River Flood Control Project (1955), some...

Photographs document many state owned buildings, including: state hosiptals, universities and colleges, schools, institutions (for the blind, for veterans, etc.), the Riverside Experiment Station, Lick Observatory, San Francisco piers and harbors, Folsom and San Quentin prisons, Davis University Farm, the...

Include receipts and bills.

Stereo views show oxen pulling a loaded wagon from the Chico Lumber Co. (photograph gallery visible also), ladies at Rev. Rodney Tabor's camp at Glenwood, a Sacramento street scene, many views of Sacramento during a flood (1862?). Cliff House and...

Contains views of San Francisco streets and interior of the Lick House's dining room; San Francisco Bay views, including ships and Alcatraz; a view of Vallejo; two views from the Pacific Railroad Series entitled "Giants Gap. American River" and "Alcove...

1: Geyser Hotel (Watkins no. 2308) 2: -- The Geyser Canon [Canyon], from near the Hotel, Sonoma Co. (Watkins no. 1571) -- Summitville[?] (depicts a group of people posing on a ladder (at the entrance to a cave or sinkhole?)

Various California views, including Zephyr Cove, Big Trees, Yosemite, the Pluton River (Sonoma county), a train leaving Oakland, the cabin of the Sacramento river steamer "Capital," and San Francisco scenes including views of Kearney and Stockton streets and the San...

An artificial collection, acquired individually from dealer.

Stereographs include views of Digger Indians at Ten Mile River, Mendocino Co.; Central Pacific Railroad and State House, Sacramento; Big Tree in the Mariposa Grove, Mariposa Co.; and the cutting of a section of Big Tree, Fresno Co. Stereocards are...

Stereoviews captioned: California threshing machine (photographer's no. 380) -- Residence of Mr. Hopkins of San Francisco, Cal. -- California cactus, blooms twenty four hours only.

1: Corner of Jackson and Hyde Streets, looking North, San Francisco -- 2: view from Rincon Hill, San Francisco; -- 3: Hayes Valley from Cal. Street, San Francisco; -- 4: corner Sansome and Val[l]ejo Street, San Francisco (hand carts and...

Views show a balloon ascension in Stockton, the Vallejo waterfront, Toll's steam wagon, the Cliff House and Ferry Railroad, a church in Santa Barbara, the San Jose Train depot, Streeter's Mill in Sonoma County, Weber Engine Co. #1, the Kearny...

Snapshot photograph album documenting electric railroad streetcars, other modes of transportation, and leisure activities throughout California in the early 20th century. Includes numerous photographs of streetcars in Oakland, as well as smaller numbers of images of streetcars from cities such...

Images of speakers and participants at a California Studies conference (held at U.C. Berkeley) with the theme "California since the 60s". Includes portraits of Angela Davis with her mother, Robert Hass, and "Dr. Loco" (José B. Cuellar.)

Material distributed to members of the Commission. Table of contents in v. 1.

Litigation involving land in Glenn County which was paid for by alleged worthless stock in the Pacific Coast Steel and Iron Manufacturing Company.

Complaints, summons and orders of the court in various cases.

Contains the probate records for San Francisco City and County.

Originals in: California, Office of the Secretary of State (1954)

Justice Carter's recollections of his family and early life in Trinity Co. and San Francisco; the Earthquake and Graft Prosecution; Progressive Era politics, legal training and practice; experiences as District Attorney, Shasta Co.; the State Bar; experiences and comment as...

Allen Broussard discusses growing up in Louisiana, and later attending Law School at Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley. He talks about his law practice, building a political base, and working with the NAACP, Bay Area African American political leaders,...

Includes photographs of the California Transportation Company's steamer Captain Weber at a Stockton dock and steamer Fort Sutter, during building, at Hunter's Point, San Francisco. Also includes a photograph of the front of the ticket office at Port 3 of...

Album of good quality amateur photographs taken during a trip through California in 1919. Landscapes, cityscapes, public buildings, and landmark attractions predominate, with two male traveling companions present in some views. Early views include trains and the ferryboat Solano on...

Scrapbook contains detailed description of an automobile trip to Santa Barbara from Sausalito, including amounts paid for gas, food and lodging and sights along the way. This account is illustrated with photographs and ephemera. A trip to Mendocino is also...

Album documents an Ohio family's leisure travels throughout California, including views taken in Berkeley, San Francisco, San Rafael, Mount Tamalpais, Santa Cruz, Monterey Bay, San Jose, Los Angeles. Also includes a few photographs taken in Albuquerque, N.M., as well as...

Views show the Maripose Grove of Big Trees, other views of trees, 17 Mile Drive, missions, and a view of the San Francisco Bay.

Places visited include the Oregon coast, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Carmel, Pacific Grove, Sacramento, and Redding. Chiefly tourist sites and motels are pictured.

Snapshots of a rail trip to California, primarily picturing Pasadena and Los Angeles scenes, San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland before 1906, and Yosemite. Included are views of the Lick Observatory, the U.C. Berkeley campus, the Mt. Lowe railway, Mt. Shasta,...

Album of chiefly snapshot by unidentified photographer taken at various points of interest during travels in California, Nevada and Utah. Several images document Hotel Del Monte in Monterey, Calif. Many other images depict railroad tracks, locomotive car interiors, depots and...

Album of small-format commercial views of San Francisco area points of interest. Subjects of photographs, as described by captions: Seal Rocks and Cliff House; Fort Point; Ocean Beach; life in Golden Gate Park; Golden Gate; Golden Gate Park from terrace;...

Photographs show natural attractions in California: sequoia trees, geysers, Yosemite, and the petrified forest (near Calistoga). Many missions are included, as are some photos relating to Indians. Towns pictured: San Jose, San Rafael, Sacramento, Berkeley, and many views of Oakland...

Engravings (or etchings) and photographic prints: 1. Golden Gate (from Telelgraph Hill); Jas. D. Smillie -- 2. Monterey in California [1858]; for ... Herrmann J. Meyer [N.Y] -- 3. Panorama of San Francisco; sold by Charles Magnus ... -- 4....

Bulk are commercially produced images of Santa Catalina (7 views); Santa Barbara (11 views); Santa Monica and Ocean Park (18 views); Los Angeles (6 views); Pasadena; San Jose; and Stanford University. Also present are views of New Orleans; Salt Lake...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Views by Watkins show the San Francisco Presidio (with people and horses), and six views of the Hotel del Monte building and grounds in Monterey. Other views include the Cliff House in San Francisco, and the Blue and Gold Gravel...

Includes Sierra Nevada views of Gillett Peak, Convict Lake, pack trips, and other scenes. Also, Mt. Tamalpais, an ostrich farm in South Pasadena, the Governor's Mansion and capitol building in Sacramento, the official motorcade of Gov. Gillett, the dedication of...

Views show scenes from various California locations, including missions, leisure, hotels, San Francisco Bay Area views, family, and nature-scenes.

Views of early San Francisco and other California towns and scenes.

Views of Southern California include Spanish mission buildings, and town views of Santa Barbara and San Diego after the Panama-California Exposition (1915-1916). Also includes San Francsico views.

Contains views of San Francisco (Chinatown, Golden Gate Park, City Hall, etc.); views of Monterey area (Hotel del Monte and scenery); Southern California (Hotel del Coronado, Redondo Beach, missions, etc.); and Yosemite.

Promotional views for Salvador grapes and the "Semi-fresca-pack" shipping method. Includes vineyard and harvest views, Mexican field workers, washing, processing and fresh-packing methods, and workers and facilities at various stages of the process.

One letter from Arthur J. Pillsbury to directors and shareholders, issued as Editor-Manager on September 14, 1910. Second letter to the shareholders, September 15, 1910, issued by the President and other Directors, appealing for funds.

Revised typescript with map and illustrations tipped in. History of the Wills and Archibald families; account of his family's grain ranch in Madera County; dry land grain farming; use of mules; mechanization of agriculture; gold mining at Michigan Bluff.

Part I: Burke H. Critchfield interview covering his association with Bank of America and loans to the wine industry; the Wine Institute; Central California Wineries, Inc.; the prorate program. Part II: photocopy of a speech, Economics of grape growing in...

14 views by I.W. Taber related to wineries and viticulture in California. Several views are of Gustav Niebaum's Inglenook vineyards in Napa County, for which the winery buildings were completed in 1887. The "Big Grape-vine" in Santa Barbara is pictured...

Felt pennant and cloth ribbon with pin, both from the California Woman Suffrage movement and campaign of 1911. Pennant bears slogan: Votes for Women. Ribbon bears text: Woman Suffrage Election Day Executive Committee San Francisco 1911.

Contains club correspondence, meeting minutes, photographs, manuscripts, scrapbooks and clippings. Also included are correspondence and writings documenting the origins of Woodminster Amphitheater and desribing the tree dedication ceremonies for the Writers Memorial Grove. Manuscripts include writings dedicating trees to Mary...

manuscripts with a hand-drawn map.

Miscellaneous materials (mainly mimeographed and newsprint) collected for the oral history project by Mr. Boris Raymond. Publications from the Museum of Russian Culture, Crusade for Truth, Autobiography of Aleksandr Lenkoff, and a copy of the newspaper Russian life.

A bound volume, in the form of a scrapbook, created to contain the first nugget of gold found in California in 1848 and documents pertaining to it. Documents include: affidavits of Elizabeth J. Wimmer (1885) and of Peter L. Wimmer...

Recollections of early interest in politics; affiliation with Young Democrats; Jerry Voorhis; Democratic Party conventions and campaigns; Chet Holifield; formation of California Democratic Council; chairmanship of Democratic State Central Committee, 1954-56. With this as v.2 (portfolio): photocopies of additional material...

Spiral bound reports, with color photographic prints.

Collection contains letters (some in Tagalog) from Cabaltero and his family members regarding his imprisonment, some letters written by other participants in the robbery on Cabaltero's innocence, and some materials from law enforcement and prison officials regarding Cabaltero's parole.

Contains 11 v., most from the Call family in Fort Ross. Includes a composition book and account books kept by Carlos A. Call, account and receipt books kept by G.W. Call, an account book of William C. Morgan and 2...

View includes the Larkin House, William T. Sherman headquarters, Señorita Rosanna Leese's boarding house, and House of the Four Winds (first Hall of Records, and home of the first Monterey recorder, W.C. Johnson).

Cards each bear a member's name and a color print of the logo of a chapter of the NSGW. Parlors represented are Dixon, Gridley, Oakland, Monterey, and the Sotoyome Kitchen of Healdsburg, Calif. Two cards are those of F.M. Hilby,...

Scrapbook album commemorating a reunion of Calvin Group alumni on February 3, 1989 in San Francsico, California. Album contains photographs which were exhibited at reunion, accompanied by transcripts of presentations and other dialogue; correspondence and other records documenting the organization...

Beneficiary certificate from Ancient Order of United Workmen, Nevada, 1884; Canadian patent for lamp burner, 1887.

Concerning his furniture business in San Francisco, importing merchandise from Boston, with information on prices, rental of office space, other businesses, arrival of ships, commercial climate.

Graduate students, postdocs, staff and observers of the Melvin Calvin bio-organic chemistry group at UC Berkeley from 1945-1963 are interviewed on the methods, management, community and culture of the Calvin lab; the Donner Laboratory-based group's work on organic reaction mechanisms...

Papers relating to his family inheritance and his association with Aircraft Accessories Corporation and his partnership in Jennings Radio Manufacturing Corporation. Includes extensive family correspondence, as well as papers regarding leasing of mineral rights to lands contained in estate of...

Statement sent to Paul H. Roberts. Comments on position as supervisor of U.S. Forest Service office in Safford, Arizona; his examination of Ralph Henry Cameron's mining claims in Grand Canyon. Typed transcript included.

Includes studio portraits and snapshots of multiple generations of the family of Donaldina Cameron, with an emphasis on her Scottish antecedents. Albums contain mounted 19th century portrait photographs. Folders contain snapshots and portraits. One snapshot with caption "Alley beside 920"...

Photocopies of letters addressed to Milicent Trent by W. R. Hearst, Jr., Bjarne C. Dahl and others concerning her father, Camille Charles Rossi, an engineer and architect who worked as superintendent of construction uder Julia Morgan for the Hearst Castle...

Unidentified camp scenes, and views of Black Butte, Mount San Antonio, and Fordyce Lake.

Many photographs of the Alaska Gold Rush are included in this collection, most from Juneau and Dyea. These include Alaskan harbor scenes; climbers on the Chilkoot summit; a large tent camp in snow with pack animals and climbers visible (at...

Collection of typewritten, mimeographed newsletters produced by campers. Also includes a few programs for camp performances, a color copy of a brochure for the Camp (circa 1954), and a letterhead for the camp listing its Executive Board. Denise Sherer Jacobson,...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Contains eight flyers and one petition page with signatures, related to the work of a committee formed to protest the arrest of 14 black marines who had been charged for beating up 4 whites and 2 Chicanos at Camp Pendleton,...

Photograph album of snapshots depicting everyday life of U.S. Army soldiers of the 160th Infantry Regiment, part of the 40th Divistion stationed at Camp San Luis Obispo during the early years of World War II. Images depict military and leisure...

Family camping in a wooded area. Leisure activities pictured.

1. Map showing the movements of the U.S. Army ... from Camargo to Monterey, Saltillo ... an exact copy of the chart of General Arista taken at the battle of Resaca de la Palma, May 9, 1846. By Charles R....

Political cartoons relate to Richard Nixon, Happy New Year's collage relates to the political career of Roger Kent (includes photographs and greeting cards)

This collection documents the construction of hydroelectric and other public works projects, particularly the North-East Mexico Hydroelectric Project, and port improvements in Tampico, Veracruz, Frontera, and Mazatlan.

Mainly letters from David L. and James Campbell to their family in Illinois, written on the journey to California, and from San Jose and San Francisco, commenting on their farm and crops and economic conditions in California.

Primarily correspondence, includes a business agreement between Ronald and Neil Campbell.

Recorded for H.H. Bancroft at a meeting of the Oregon Pioneer Association; remarks by W.C. Myer, Joseph Watt, John Minto and his wife, William Shaw, George W. Jackson, Col. White, J.W. Nesmith, William J. Herren, and James Morris.

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Photographs show the University buildings and grounds, including the old and new conservatories, the observatory, and others.

Contains mostly correspondence sent to the adjutant generals of the San Francisco chapter (Post No. 25) of the Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League from various other dignitaries and civic, government, military, and service organizations dedicated to supporting...

Papers, scrip, letters, documents, and promissary note concerning the 1830's Canadian Rebellion, finance, railroads, consular official of the United States, education, politics and government, Indians, and marriage.

Photographs from various places in Mexico, Central America, and South America, centered on mines in Cananea (Sonora, Mexico). Included are preparations for a miners' strike, a home with servants, General Urbelajo, Dr. Rembert H. Thigpen of the Cananea Copper Co.,...

Notes, clippings and miscellaneous material re Sausalito, Inverness and Point Reyes. Also included are papers of Alexander H. Baily, 1890-1899, concerning his property in Inverness.

Includes articles of incorporation, by-laws, minutes, 1861; accounts, 1861-1865, for mine in Devil's Gate District, Carson County, Nevada.

Includes 2 pages of bibliographic annotations.

Includes views of the steamer John L. Stephens, scenes in Mazatlan, Guaymas, Cape San Lucas, Arizona, and at the Colorado Mines. Some captions indicate a location of Colorado, but this may be a locale in Mexico or Arizona. Several views...

Includes studio portraits of Robertson, as well as snapshot photographs documenting Robertson and other survivors of the 1913 shipwreck of the State of California; the eruption of Mt. Lassen; the making of Alaskan Adventures and possibly other films; a 1928...

Log book of the ship "Samuel Russell" with dated entries for six runs between New York, San Francisco, and Whampoa, China from April 15, 1851 to July 21, 1853. Entries include weather observations, latitude and longitude, course, and sail settings....

Written mainly from Washington, D.C. while serving as Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court.

Study of economics at University of California, Berkeley (class of 1917), London School of Economics, Radcliffe and Harvard; comments on teachers of economics; teaching career at University of California, 1928-1961; research work for the Heller Committee; interest in consumer economics...

Peterson discusses his emigration from Sweden and childhood in Hilmar Colony, Turlock; college years; first trip to Sweden; his career with the Commercial Credit Company and the Bank of Hawaii; years with Transamerica, and the Bank of America, culminating with...

Childhood family background and education; University of Cincinnati medical school, internship, and residency at Marquette University and University of Wisconsin; Tuskegee Institute, 1971-1979; University of California, 1979-1999.

Discusses life and career at Dow Chemical and his development of Z200, a chemical reagent used by mining companies in the flotation process to separate copper minerals from waste minerals.

Volume includes index.

Early life in Germany; emigration, 1930, and education at Lowell High School, San Francisco, and UC Berkeley; School of Librarianship, 1936-1937: founder, Sydney B. Mitchell and early faculty, Edith M. Coulter and Della J. Sisler, students, coursework; positions at Sacramento,...

Recollections of years as secretary to Earl Warren, 1935-1953, spanning his career as Alameda County district attorney, California attorney general, and governor of California; her role as liaison to the Youth Authority, Department of Public Health, Department of Mental Hygiene,...

Experiences working with Italian Swiss Colony and the California Grape Products Company; effects of prohibition; comments on Joseph Di Giorgio, the Gianninis and other Italians. Bound with this: Selling California Wines in New Orleans. Photocopy of typed transcript of tape-recorded...

Interviews conducted in 1970-1971 by Harriet Nathan for the Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library. Introduction by Charles Meyer. Photographs inserted. Comments on Phoebe Apperson Hearst and George Hearst and Mrs. Hearst's estate at Pleasanton, Calif.; boyhood in Berkeley; study...

Two notes from McWilliams to a Mrs. Franklin; 2 letters and 2 postcards from McWilliams to UC Berkeley history professor Walton Bean; and copy of reply from Bean to McWilliams. Correspondence consists mostly of acknowledgments for various favors.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Sketches and caricatures of delegates to the Mexican constitutional congress of 1917, most identified by name and by the region they represented.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Contains writings, speeches, lecture notes, course outlines, reprints of articles, pamphlets, clippings and a few letters relating mainly to Carl Copping Plehn's career as professor of finance and statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Also includes two letterpress copybooks...

Primarily correspondence, University files, and materials related to his revision of The Berkeley Physics Course, Vol. 1: Mechanics, in 1973, including much correspondence with his publisher McGraw -Hill.

Includes letters to Hoffman while editor, Oakland Post Inquirer; and clippings and other materials relating to the Mooney case.

Chiefly letters from John Henry Nash.

Includes manuscripts, notes, correspondence, and research materials for Wheat's book Mapping the transmississippi West, volumes 2 and 3. Some notes include annotated maps.

Materials concerning the publication of Wheat's books (primarily on California history); his association with the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs; his interests in fine printing, books and antiques. A few papers concerning his law firm included. Contains correspondence, notes, manuscripts for...

Mainly correspondence concerning meetings of Commonwealth Club of California on proposed metropolitan rapid transit for San Francisco Bay Area, with related reports and memoranda.

Collection of photographic material comprising 3 apparently unrelated groups: 3 family photograph albums depicting the descendants of Carl Landauer, Professor of Economics at U.C. Berkeley; a collection of 19th century portraits -- primarily in the carte-de-visite format -- of African-Americans...

Contains manuscripts, drafts, and professional correspondence concerning Carl Ortwin Sauer's writings, interest and activities in the study of geography. Also contains his personal correspondence.

Correspondence, copies of lectures and articles by Russell relating to his career with the U.S. National Park Service. Also included: minutes of staff meetings for the National Park Service's Western Region, Dec. 1965-Dec. 1966.

A few letters addressed to him, many as National Park Service official; his Ms., One Hundred Years in Yosemite (1929); notes for, drafts of, and typed copies of his speeches and articles on national parks (particularly Yosemite), the Service's interpretive...

Papers relating to Carl Pope's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Letters of recommendations, patent agreements, papers relating to inventions by the danish-born engineer and his work in early electrical manufacturing, particularly with the Magnovox Company.

Primarily letters addressed to Dorothea and Leon Gelber.

Portrait photographs of African American women performers taken by New York City photographer Carl Van Vechten in the early to mid-1950s. Includes five portraits of singer and actress Ethel Waters, two of singer Eartha Kitt, two of opera singer Reri...

Portraits of Stein and Toklas.

Correspondence and papers regarding the budget of the Contra Costa County Committee of the California Taxpayers Association; constitution, by-laws and bulletins of the Industrial Association of Contra Costa County.

Relating to his positions as deputy clerk and clerk, U.S. District Court, Northern California, 1912-1960; his research in California land grant cases; and his leadership in the Federal Court Clerks' Association, 1957-1963. Included are letters addressed to him and copies...

The papers consist of an unpublished, undated manuscript, entitled "The Loochoo Islands" (i.e. Ryukyu Islands).

Includes a notebook recording pictures taken and some financial transactions, 1864; two letters written to him by his children, Nov. 11, 1890; telegram to his wife (Nov. 11, 1890); trade card, etc.

Mainly to his wife, describing his experiences while photographing in Arizona, Oregon and Montana.

Contains biographical information, typescript and manuscript dance performance scripts, notes, programs, costume sketch, etc. concerning African American choregrapher Carlo Fouchee and his dance activities.

Contains academic and professional papers, subject files, calendars, videocassettes, notebooks, research notes, articles and clippings, and personal papers including his dissertation and correspondence. Also includes materials on and by Jim Sagel and some materials on art in New Mexico.

Mainly correspondence with Joseph de Trigo concerning transfer of church ornaments of banished Jesuits to new missions in California.

Include communication from Domingo Antonio López to Croix, re reporting on the investigation of the alleged theft of a letter containing money and documents by mailman Antonio Govino, with annotations by Croix and the assessor clearing Govino of the charge;...

Include ledger, 1860-1882, for hotel, Big River House, kept by John E. Carlson at Mendocino, Calif.; souvenir album kept by Katie M. Carlson; and obituaries for various members of the family.

Views of: Muir Woods -- Yosemite -- Paradise Cove -- Dillon Beach -- Alum Rock -- Almanor -- Holy City.

Contains mostly correspondence of Carmelo Zito, in English and Italian, with some related materials such as Italian language newspapers, clippings, and a few snapshots. One letter of note is on Prisoner of War letterhead stationery from Antonio DeLeoni being held...

The collection contains materials about members of the Isaacs, Newmark, and Levey families, including photographs; correspondence; prayer books; and Freemason-related items, including aprons and membership certificates for the Royal Arch Masons.

Contains 14 printed playbills and numerous printed programs for various theatrical performances by the Company of the Golden Hind, a regional theater company based in Berkeley, California. Plays represented in the materials include, The comedy of errors, The knights of...

Include letters from Aug. Bruggeman de Byleved, Pierre Lavedan and Lewis Mumford, re city planning.

Photographs depict trees and other flora; barns, fences and other structures; coastal scenes; highways; and other subjects pertaining to the Hollister Ranch region of Santa Barbara county.

Olwell, Carol. A gift to the street. San Francisco : Antelope Island Press, 1976.

Album containing photographs and hand-written text documenting the early years of the relationship of Carol Peebley and Frank Ward Gallo of Oakland and Castro Valley, Calif. before they were married in August of 1955. The album's text, likely written by...

The collection contains Silver's manuscript for "The Diary of a Freedom Rider," as well as related correspondence with her mother while in prison during the summer of 1961. In addition, the collection also contains brochures and materials from Silver's political...

Materials relating to the integration of Berkeley schools, including reports, printed material, and correspondence the Board of Education received from the public on both sides of the issue. Drafts of Sibley's book, "Never a Dull Moment," as well as other...

Professional archive of Berkeley-based artist Carole Doyle Peel. Includes comprehensive photographic documentation of Peel's portrait art. Also includes some original drawings, sketchbooks, notebooks, personal photographs, professional papers. Also includes a file of postcards illustrated with fine art from various locations...

Mainly letters from Mary Anna Watts Hughes. Information on her life, Southey, mutual literary friends, etc. Also included, sometimes as enclosures, letters from Mrs. Hughes' son, John, her granddaughter, Jean (Hughes) Senior, Charles W.W. Wynn and William John Brodrick.

Correspondence with family and friends, writings, and a small amount of personal papers. The bulk of letters are from Jack, her husband, including some early correspondence written while he was in China before their marriage. Also of interest is some...

Consists of letters written almost weekly by Caroline Service to her friend and fellow wife of a Foreign Service Officer, Lisa (Lispenard) Green. The letters begin in Sept. 1950, during her stay in India while waiting for her husband, John...

The collection contains a copy of an interview with Carolyn Anspacher detailing her family's history, Jewish life in the early part of the century, and her experiences in the production of "The Dybbuk." In addition, the collection also contains genealogical...

Preferred citation: Carolyn Fraser Martin autograph album and other papers, BANC MSS 67/62 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Includes course materials, including audio tapes of lectures by Caroloyn Merchant. Also included are articles written by Merchant and reviews of her publications as well as awards and a small amount of material documenting her early career.

Contains correspondence with Carolyn Nuban; NOW history, chronology, organization materials, including the 20th anniversary souvenir book (1986) and photographs; California NOW materials and photographs of their 1984 election activities, primarily information sheet, news articles, and campaign ephemera related to Vice...

Headshot black and white portraits of Carpenter (chiefly by Dan Tooker), two conference group portraits of writers including Anne Lamott, color snapshots of family or friends, and 49 drawings or collages by Carpenter from an envelope marked "Cocaine Drawings, 1977"....

Letters written by members of the Carpenter and Curtis families including William Carpenter and his wife Lucretia M. (Curtis) Carpenter (later Mrs. O.F. Redfield) and A.A. Curtis describing life in Yuba County, Calif. and Austin, Nev. and lumbering in Humboldt...

Collection includes photographs of Scotia, Calif., Mt. Baker, and Pacific Lumber Company buildings. Also includes some unidentified portraits.

Includes Carpenter's letter, May 26, 1910, tendering his resignation as Taft's secretary, and two letters from Taft (May 26 and Oct. 10, 1910) re the resignation and Taft's attitude regarding Theodore Roosevelt, the 1912 election and New York politics.

Contains clippings from San Francisco area newspapers concerning carpenters strikes, starting with the strike in 1926. Clippings also chronicle the violence associated with the strikes.

Accompanying bridge dedication program dated May 21, 1927.

Consists mainly of diaries and letters written by Hammond while travelling in Europe (especially Spain) and Mexico with her husband, George. The diaries cover several trips over a period of 45 years and contain detailed entries of daily activities, as...

Letters of May 19 - June 5, 1916 are at end of series (out of chronological order)

Scrapbooks relating to dramatic arts compiled while a high school and university student.

Cartons 1-2, subject files A-Z chiefly concerning his activity as type founder in San Francisco; carton 3, Armed forces material, including correspondence; carton 4, financial papers. Oversize folder includes layout dummies, illustrations and ephemera.

Two sets of time-roll sheets for employees of the Carson and Colorado Railway Co., operating between Keeler, Calif. and Mound House, Nev. The first consists of a monthly sheet per station, which lists employees by name, occupation, number of days...

Research and subject files, lecture notes and other course materials, correspondence, and writings primarily relating to his career as Professor of Physics at U.C. Berkeley.

Accounts payable vouchers (43) with related invoices of a gold mining company based in Melones, Calif. Each of the blue colored enclosures on company letterhead list the amount, date, and general business expense category. Enclosed in each are the related...

Collection includes photographs and other material used by Professor Walter William Horn to research an article on the Carson Mansion of Eureka, Calif. Photographs depict various views of the mansion, a famous example of flamboyant Victorian architecture built by William...

Letter, granting power of attorney to Osío to care for Arce's property during Arce's absence.

Forms part of the Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection.

Concerning bill for José and Santa Clara missions (separated in binding).

Concerning the arrival of provisions for the Jesuit mission, with mention of colleague, Father Antonio Marini, and comment on poverty of the mission. Includes list of goods received (1 l.)

Letter, reporting decision to withhold requested promotion from Arce.

Letter addressed to Father Vasquez del Mercado requesting order for payment of cattle and naming Arce as agent.

Wall calendar for 1956 published by beer producer Carta Blanca, illustrated with images honoring various arts and craft industries of Mexico, including silverwork, textiles, fireworks, pottery, blacksmithing, hammock making, blown glass, sombrero making, woodworking, basket weaving, caning, etc. Illustration for...

Patent of nobility for José Cano Pulgarín y Peroso of Azuaga, Spain, with certification by Francisco Zazo y Rosillo, chronicler of the king, Feb. 19, 1753. (27 p.).

Miscellany of six main items, i.e., León y Gama's reply to an anonymous friend regarding his treatise on medical experiments involving lizards, Mexico, October, 1783; tables and formulas relating to taxation on silver mining and minting; formulas for the reduction...

Annual reports prepared by the Jesuit Provincial of Mexico and Visiting Inspector for Peru, these describe conditions, events, and personnel in the various Jesuit divisions of New Spain. Signature of Cabredo at end of volume I only. Portions of the...

A collection of five items, copies or translations, to the suppression of the Jesuits, including letters of Charles III of March 31 and May 2, 1767, one of Pope Clement XIII, April 16, 1767, a Consulta of the king's council,...

Photos show the St. Francis church on Vallejo St., a building damaged in the 1868 earthquake, and a view identified as the "earliest known photo" of Oakland High School, with students in the foreground.

Carte-de-visite portrait photographs of individuals and families residing in San Luis Potosí, Guanajuato and perhaps other locations in Mexico. Nine photographs are inscribed to Celina Carre de Ricard; five by members of the Aguerre family (Luis, Luisa, a mother and...

Included are letters to Roberta Camp Myers from William H. Bisbee (some referring to his activities during the Spanish American War) and from Edward F. Corson re General Bisbee; letters from G.D. Dishon to William H. Camp re Spanish American...

Includes portraits of John C. Fremont in military uniform, and one photograph of a drawing depicting Fremont on a rocking horse titled: Crossing the Rocky Mountains.

Contains sketches and proofs of syndicated newspaper cartoons, including They'll Do It Every Time, Little Iodine, and political cartoons. Also present are a small number of drawings apparently presented to Hatlo by others, including strips from the series: Beetle Bailey,...

One drawing is a comic strip about a dream machine. The other bears the following text "Barbarian killer funnies #1[copyright] 1974 by T. Bird. No reprint... This mess is published by Bud Plant...San Jose"

Title supplied by cataloger.

Binder's title. Manuscript copies of charters and other documents (1153-1787) in Latin with French translations, pertaining to the town of Compiègne and to nearby convents and monasteries. At the end is a list of trips made to Compiègne by Louis...

Typed transcripts of an exchange of telegrams between Mexican officials, Limantour and Jorge Vera Estañol, concerning Carvajal's secret mission to the U.S. to negotiate a treaty between Francisco I. Madero and Porfirio Díaz, with information on revolutionary activities.

Studio portrait photographs of Alaska Native women taken in the early 20th century. Groups represented include "Thlinget" (i.e. Tlingit), Taku and Eskimo. Subjects are depicted in traditional attire. Also includes an image of a woman and child weaving baskets; 3...

Contains testimony concerning the civil case portraying early San Francisoc commercial and legal enterprise.

Consists of pamphlets and newspaper clippings relating to street railways and cable cars of San Francisco; invoices, receipts, invitations, order forms for opium and miscellaneous family papers and diaries. One folder of materials relating to Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San...

Unidentified portraits: woman and 2 girls; baby; bearded man; seated woman; young man and woman.

Contains material related to the timber industry in Mendocino County, California. Included are deeds, mortgages, U. S. Patent Certificates, right of way agreements, land maps, audits, income tax returns, journals, registers, and other material related to Caspar Lumber and it's...

Certified copies of records (1464-1668) of the Castillo family in Granada, Málaga, Baeza, and other cities of Andalusia, Spain. Certified by Jerónimo García Coronel and Miguel Moreno. With an illustrated title page showing the coat of arms granted to the...

Maintenance and supply group; radar personnel; engineering section -- HQ and 328th Bombardment Squadron.

Taken by Earl A. McGarry, a photographer from Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia.

Letters, 1854-1860, written by Frances A. (Ferry) Castle from Amador County, one on a lettersheet commemorating the assassination of James King of William; Amador County property tax receipt for 1862; stock certificate and assessments on stock of the Amador Lafayette...

Compilation of copies of material relating to the Castle family in California. Includes Edmund Green's account of his overland journey, 1849, from Michigan to Sacramento, describing his experiences with Indians and gold mining (cf. 69/67 c); letters by Frances A....

Title in mss. on verso.

Primarily contain deeds and material relating to litigation over lands in Contra Costa County, especially San Pablo Rancho and El Sobrante. Also included are correspondence, accounts, claims, petitions, abstracts of title, agreements, wills, certificates of death and marriage, and newspaper...

Cartes de visite album of Castro and Bernal family and friends. Also two envelopes of loose cartes de visite and portraits: most identified.

Papers relating to Puebla, Mexico.

Photographs show interior views of the Caswell Coffee Company store at 412 Sacramento Street (San Francisco?). Views show customers and staff.

Possibly compiled by Daniel M. Burns.

Listing of papers now in the California Historical Society Library.

Apparently the original manuscript for Bergsma's pioneering bibliography on tea, published in Utrecht in 1825. The manuscript is unsigned. Recto of each leaf is a first draft, usually with extensive corrections. Contains approximately 300 bibliographic entries in order by date...

Comments on growing up in San Francisco; contributions to Jewish community as religious school educator; volunteer leader, organizer and fund raiser; working for Jewish Welfare Federation; affiliation with Temple Emanu-El; association with Sierra Club and chairmanship of its History Committee;...

A Quiché-Spanish catechism prepared for the instruction of the Indians in Zacapulas and vicinity; with preliminary and closing statements in Spanish on the importance of bilingual ability for such instruction.

Personal snapshot photograph albums documenting various events and activities pertaining to Cade's life in Berkeley and beyond. Subjects include activities associated with the 2011 exhibit Lesbians seeing lesbians, held at the Leslie/Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York,...

Archive of photographic negatives, work prints, project files, exhibition prints, and personal papers of San Francisco Bay Area photographer Cathy Cade. Cade's work documents lesbian and gay life, particularly in Oakland, Berkeley, and San Francisco, chiefly in the 1970s, 1980s,...

Photographs chiefly documenting social and political activity of women and lesbians in the San Francisco Bay Area, including such subjects as the Gay Pride Parade (Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day) in San Francisco; various demonstrations pertaining to gay rights, women's...

Bound with: Horace in english verse.

Letters from Latin American writers and poets directed to Carlotta Caulfield as editor of El Gato Tuerto.

Includes march from Mexico to California (1848) as Lieutenant, 1st U.S. Dragoons, under the command of Major L.P. Graham, and an expedition from San Diego to the Colorado River (1849) Two sketch maps pasted in.

Miscellaneous papers relating to the budget and pay record of the arsenal, and to various naval service records.

Caxton Club correspondence, BANC MSS 2011/265, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Father and son discuss their background, working family land in the Napa Valley; purchase of Liberty School property, 1943; Caymus Vineyards, from the point of view of two generations of management: building a winery, equipment, cooperage, marketing and distribution, grape...

Letters concern his experiences mining in the area.

Correspondence, invitations, programs, news clippings and other materials documenting Hutchison's tenure as mayor of Berkeley, California.

Photographs relating to Hutchison's tenure as mayor of Berkeley, California. Includes publicity photos of community events, ground breakings, etc. Some accompanied by text.

Contains research notebooks, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photocopies of plats (1869 and 1878), and genealogical information concerning the history of the Rancho Jurupa and Robidoux family in California. Also contains a small number of unrelated published articles by Baker.

Views of various gasoline stations that were part of C.C. Julian's Julian Petroleum Company chain. Locations are identified on the verso of each photograph. One enlarged copy photograph depicts a long line of Julian tanker trucks.

A collection of documents, copies and originals, from Mexico and Spain, relating to the mendicant orders in New Spain and primarily to the Franciscan Provincia del Santo Evangelio in the 16th century. Somewhat arbitrarily divided into 24 items, most of...

Printed form filled in.

Record of experiences of an Australian soldier in Egypt and France during the first World War.

Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of the Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1978.030--POR).

Contains typescript reviews of the exposition by assorted writers; correspondence on marketing and logistics; a report from the Philippine Board; correspondence, reports, ephemera, etc.

Manuscript copies of Spanish royal decrees, Mexican vice-regal orders, papal briefs, reports, official correspondence, etc., with one original letter (Viceroy Iturrigaray to the Intendant of Guadalajara, June 30, 1803). Materials concern regulations on various matters, such as: marriages, property transactions,...

Contains 136 letters, dated 1852 to 1897, to Celestin Hyacinthe Adnet's mother and family in France. The first is written from Le Havre, the second aboard the Magellan, and the remainder from California gold field towns, including Happy Valley, San...

The collection consists of a scrapbook for various organizational activities (Young Judaeans and Junior Hadassah), containing magazine pictures, in addition to clippings about Palestine during the 1920s and programs for dramatic productions and festival celebrations. It also contains articles that...

J.M. Andrade (with his bookplate); H.H. Bancroft.

Reel 1. Butte - El Dorado Counties; Reel 2. El Dorado - Placer Counties (Klamath filmed after Mariposa); Reel 3. Placer - San Francisco Counties; Reel 4. San Francisco - San Joaquin Counties; Reel 5. San Joaquin - Tulare Counties;...

Census schedules for deaths, 1850-1880; productions of agriculture, 1850-1880; products of industry, 1850-1870; social statistics, 1850-1870; special schedules for manufacturers, 1879/1880; and schedules for defective, dependent and delinquent classes, 1880.

A collection of copies of early maps and pictures of San Francisco, including the Richardson plan and De Haro survey; mounted typed Mss., notes and pamphlets re William A. Richardson and early history of San Francisco; mounted clippings re the...

Consists of a small amount of organizational records, including mission statements, annual reports, board meeting minutes, correspondence, funding proposals, press clippings, and publications and other printed materials from programs and events.

First impressions of Berkeley and the Center for Independent Living; Deaf Services Advisory Committee; integrating the deaf community into the Center for Independent Living; role of Dale Dahl in the deaf community and the Center for Independent Living; work with...

Prints: photographs documenting activities of and persons associated with the Center for Independent Living of Berkeley, Calif. Includes numerous photographs of CIL staff at work and attending various events including parties, demonstrations and fund-raising efforts. Also includes a small number...

The collection consists of ninety-five cartons of prisoner case files, acquired by the UC Berkeley Law School's Center for the Study of Law and Society from the California Department of Corrections in 1978-1979 and transferred to The Bancroft Library in...

Views of Central Pacific Railroad freight and passenger trains in Cape Horn [Placer County?] Calif.; a Southern Pacific Railroad snow plow and shed; construction of trestles and the Emigrant Gap Tunnel, etc. Some views are from the Colfax area.

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Primarily consists of waybills.

Two bound ledgers containing entries for Central Pacific Railroad Company employees receiving medical treatment at the company-owned hospital or by company doctors. The hospital admittance ledger (181 double pages, 58 x 44 cm) contains entries for approximately 2,700 railroad employees...

Title devised by cataloger.

Views of various fields and orchards in unidentified farming locations of California's Central Valley. Some crops appear to be untrellised vines. Some views depict an unidentified man posing among crops.

Excerpts from Volumes 66, 67, and 69 (new numbering) of the Muñoz Collection, Academia Real de la Historia, Madrid. These are transcripts and summaries of letters and documents addressed chiefly to Emperor Charles I of Spain or to the Council...

Louis Foppiano discusses farming in the Healdsburg area; early wineries; Prohibition and Depression eras; Sonoma County Grape Growers Association; Foppiano Vineyards. Includes reminiscences of Della Foppiano.

Volume includes index.

Contains two handwritten letters (one on the letterhead of the Arizona Milling and Mining Co.), one printed stockholders update for Cerbat mining operations in Arizona, and one printed booklet (8 pages; typesigned: Wm. Calver) titled, "Description of the Mines of...

v. 1: portfolio containing accounts, 1916-1920; correspondence; record of explosives issued, Nov. 1918; and employee forms. v. 2: check stubs, 1915-1916.

Part of a collection of certificates, diplomas, and similar documents, primarily from California.

Contains printed or engraved forms filled in, from the Mechanics Institute of San Francisco, the Geographical Society of the Pacific, and the World's Columbian Commission; and a photographic reproduction of a certificate from San Francisco business groups to President Porfirio...

Each item catalogued individually. Search under title: Certificates, diplomas, etc.

With signatures of sheriffs James R. Barton, David W. Alexander and William R. Rowland.

Signed by governors George C. Pardee and Hiram W. Johnson.

Printed forms filled in.

Certificates of title for property in San Jose, California, BANC MSS 67/119 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

For brands of Juana María Machado, Tomasa L. de Argüello and José de Garcia Colima. Drawings of the brands and marks included.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Consists chiefly of ledgers concerning C.G. Celio & Sons', including accounts payable, accounts receivable, and payroll, ca. 1913-1942. Volumes record names of customers and suppliers (mostly from El Dorado County, but also many from the San Francisco Bay Area), amount...

Scrapbook of C.G. (Charles) St. Clair contains personal ephemera and newspaper clippings pertaining to St. Clair's experience as a music teacher, organist, and performer. Includes handbills, programs, playbills, advertisements, a promotional card that includes St. Clair's portrait; a few manuscripts,...

Archive of correspondence from Hornby to Peirce, consisting of autograph letters, typescript letters, and a variety of receipts from the Ashendene Press. Much of the correspondence concerns copies of Ashendene Press books being purchased, or considered for purchase, by Peirce.

Consists of family documents and business documents. Family documents include genealogical information, the family Bible, marriage certificate, account books, and news clippings. Business documents for Vallejo Water Company, Contra Costa Water Company, and Chabot Water Company, include correspondence concerning Mare...

Studio portraits of Josephine, Mrs. Remi, Etta, Claire May, and other Chabot family members.

Includes his study, Mariano G. Vallejo's Petaluma Adobe, and guides to the following manuscript collections at Sutter's Fort: John Bidwell, James W. Marshall, John A. Sutter, James F. Reed, P.B. Reading and Joseph B. Chaffee.

Volume includes index.

Comments on family background, growing up and education in Alabama; move to Los Angeles in 1944; integration problems; continuing interest in equal rights; campaign for Los Angeles Southwest Junior College, 1965-69; her campaign for election to Board of Trustees, Los...

Typed lists, with manuscript emendations, containing information related to the exhibition and sale of photographs in his "Salon Prints" collection.

Many California views, including San Francisco, Yosemite, desert views, gold rush towns, Monterrey, etc. Also includes views of Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, the Soutwest (especially New Mexico), and various European lcations.

Contains letters written by different members of the Chamberlain family to family back east. Topics include a voyage to Calif. from Boston aboard the ship Hannibal, gold mines, and life in Calif. including education and church.

Seven handwritten letters of the Reuben Champion family. Five letters are written by Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Champion to his sister, Mrs. Paoli Lathrop (née Elizabeth Brewster Champion). Two of the five are addressed from Sacramento, two from California mining towns,...

6 certificates in 3 denominations printed in New York.

Childhood in Manhattan, Dartmouth College, A.B., Yale Law School, J.D. 1956; legislative assistant to Senator Irving Ives, 1950-1951; chief law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, 1958-1959; Marine Corps and Reserve, 1953-1958; marriage to Therese Thau; UC...

Contains correspondence, legal documents, and reports on Chancey Clark's mining operations in the Eureka Mining District in Yavapai County, Ariz.

Photographs documenting an auto tour in a Chandler, apparently sponsored by the automotive company. Locations include the Sierra Nevada foothills and Sequoia National Park. The Chandler automobile is featured in many views.

Contains speeches, correspondence, research notes, course materials, and writings.

Contains speeches, correspondence, research notes, course materials, and writings.

Views of two different rooms in the Chapel of the Chimes columbarium. Annotations on both images refer to prices of various urn niches as depicted in the images.

Includes letter on way to California and documentation on mining and copper works and ranching, primarily in Plumas Co.

Snapshots of a party of visitors to the cabin sites of California gold miners Alfred T. Jackson and "Campbell", at Selby Flat, Nevada County, Calif. (N.B.: the images depict no signs of cabins, but only the locations where they once...

Contains the expenditures for British troops at Minorca.

Contains one printed circular, dated January 3, 1849, announcing Charles A. Gurley's intention of sailing to California on January 15, 1849 to establish a general shipping business. The date is overwritten in ink to read January 30. Also includes one...

The papers include a ledger volume, "Lists of Indebtedness to the Avalanche as made out early in the year 1878." His correspondence includes letters sent in 1941 to Irving Hart, Carl P. Steele, R.J. Goodwin, Carl Brown, D. Worth Clark,...

Some of the letters relate to Darwin's Origin of the Species. Include letters from Frederick Orpen Bower, Julian S. Huxley, Harry B. Torrey, and Casey Al. Wood.

Mainly letters to him, making arrangements for big game hunting in India, while he was on a scientific expedition. With these: copy of memorandum May 29, 1981, prepared by Ralph I. Smith, concerning the documents.

Primarily regarding his work with the Office of Price Administration.

Includes Office of Price Administration Files, Hoover Commission Files, reports, writings, correspondence, and subject files.

Correspondence (originals and transcripts) with his wife and miscellaneous papers; letters written on overland journey and arrival in California, 1849-1850; letters from Maria Tuttle to her husband and sister, 1849-1853; biographical material.

Correspondence, copies of speeches, clippings, and papers relating to his work as Director of the California Division of Beaches and Parks; some re the Point Reyes hearings in 1960.

Collection of letters written from Coulterville, Eureka, Chico, Arcade Mill, Camden and Briggs Station, California, describing their experiences and seasonal jobs including lumbering, ranching, and quartz mining. Letters describe crime, weather, locales and social conditions.

Contents: Letters and postcards (1932) written on trip to Mexico; diaries (1931-1934) kept while student at Stanford, during Mexican trip, and later while instructor at the Hill Military Academy, Portland, Ore.; correspondence and papers relating to the relief of Mexican...

Commenting on his travels, publication of his poems, his readings and recitals, etc. With these: broadsides of some poems, programs for his readings and plays, clippings.

Contains mostly undated typescripts for dramatic works, including plays: "Art or love", "Castles in Spain", "Dream fire", "In the shadows of the gallows tree", "Karma, a cycle of dream dances", "On with the dance", and "The second wife"; and radio...

Typed transcript of a diary kept while bursar of the London, Ontario, insane asylum. Some comment on current affairs, but mainly concerns his work, family and church affairs, social activities, music, the theatre, and Irish Home Rule, and his association...

Preferred citation: Charles B. Richmond reconstructed plans for the U.S. Frigate Savannah, BANC MSS 69/169 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Commercial views of San Francisco, Yosemite Valley, various counties, and numerous other natural and urban landmarks throughout the state of California. Scenic beauty and agriculture are emphasized, as are significant urban buildings and hotels. Caption text emphasizes the tourist appeal...

A few manuscripts, articles and notes, and newspaper clippings concerning astronomy and the Lick Observatory. Obituary clippings included. Also, an obituary notice for Charles Barton Hill, III. A few clippings concerning Barton Hill and the theater.

Business career in Chicago from 1844; terms in Congress; election to the Senate, 1887; views as a Republican on capital and labor, protectionism, and the South; philanthropies; aspects of his character; Farwell genealogy; with newspaper accounts of senatorial contests of...

Two copy prints, one a manuscript poem and notes about Sterling's family, the other a portrait of him. Negatives of the copy prints are also in the folder.

Contents: Journal and commonplace book, ca. 1842-1852, with newspaper clippings pasted in; autobiographical writings concerning his service in U.S. navy during the Mexican War and his employment by T.O. Larkin after leaving the navy.

Correspondence, speeches, legislative and subject files concerning his interest and activity with the California Senate in such areas as water conservation, education, land tenure, and the 1960 Olympics.

Scrapbooks, biographical sketches, letters, invitations and memorabilia designated: The Charles and Jessie Butters Memorial Collection. Pertaining primarily to his career as an international mining engineer and metallurgist. Papers and many news clippings relating to his experiences in South Africa, including...

Photographs relating to his career in mining and metallurgy; many in Mexico, Central America, and South Africa. Some views of U.C. Berkeley and of Redding, Calif. in the 1880's.

Diaries, manuscript and typescript, providing details of Derby's work as a mining superintendent in Nevada City, Calif. (1911-1913), as a rancher in San Jose (Santa Clara County) Calif. (1923-1941), and yachting on San Francisco Bay.

Title devised by cataloger.

Describing his trip across Panama, the voyage to San Francisco, and life in San Francisco after arrival.

Autobiography by the Nevada governor, with a covering letter to George H. Morrison, 1889, and a dictation, 1888. Describes his overland journey in 1859 by way of Salt Lake and the Humboldt; mining at Gold Hill; early efforts to establish...

Approximately 120 letters addressed to members of his immediate family, recounting his experiences in his overland journey to California, as a bookkeeper, tax collector, Deputy Assessor, Deputy Sheriff, and finally Superintendent of Schools of Placer County, California. Chase remarks on...

Farm records and other accounts of Charles Hansen date from 1881-1908 and include detailed expense and income records, purchases, monthly and yearly financial summaries, and records relating to Hansen's work with Dike District No. 3. Account books record not only...

Describe life in Paris; voyage from Le Havre to New York, 1949; sojourn in New York; journey to California via Panama, 1851; mining in the vicinity of Nevada City; the flood and fire in Sacramento in 1852; his move to...

Carte de visite portrait of Nahl man and photograph of a drawing by Nahl. Drawing depicts a scene in what appears to be a bar or restaurant in gold-mining region. The scene shows Nahl at his easel painting the portrait...

Assembled from various sources. Includes letters to Asa Gray and to Benjamin Peirce.

Papers relating to his interests in and activities in behalf of American Indians.

Recollections of boyhood in Virginia, travels westward in 1841, overland journey to California in 1849, frontier life, mining ventures, travels in the state, sheep raising and political career as state senator.

Giving advice on acquisition of works by California artists. Contains lists of California artists and sculptors, with notes on those he has known personally, and including an autobiographical sketch (9 l.).

Contains two letters from Warner to Townsend. The first, Nov. 4, 1880, concerns optimism regarding the recent election of James Garfield as president. The second, July 31, 1892, is a response to an invitation from the Townsends.

(1) Notes on arrival in San Francisco in October 1849, life in San Francisco, anecdotes of pioneers, etc. (59 l. copied in a notebook, many pages of which are blank); (2) reminiscence of life of a New Hampshire couple. (4...

Includes his Calendar of Reports of the captain-generals of Chile, 1780-1791; letters and bibliography from Ruth Putnam; letters from Henry Elliot Malden and Esteban Gil Borges; and notes on early maps, some by Herbert Ingram Priestley.

Contains articles, notes, publications, tributes, correspondence, biographical information, photographs, University High School class schedule for 1938, and two tribute scrapbooks concerning the career of educator Charles Edward Rugh.

Correspondence, reprints, biographical information, clippings, appointment books, honors, and photographs concerning public health issues and the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health.

Dictation, recorded for H.H. Bancroft by George Howard Morrison, concerns his arrival at San Francisco via Cape Horn in 1851; work as superintendent of San Francisco water companies; recollections of William F. Babcock. (13 l.).

Correspondence with William Train Muir and deeds, chiefly relating to mining property on the Gunnell Lode, Gilpin Co., Colorado.

1: Studio portrait of Charles Erskine Scott Wood, with flower in lapel. 2: Snapshot image of Earl Warren and his former Departmental Secretary when Governor of Calfornia, Merrell Farnham Small.

Mainly memorabilia.

Primarily correspondence, with some miscellaneous clippings, publications, and other papers.

Photographs of Alaska include highway construction, railways, churches, cemeteries, airplanes, roadside scenes, dwellings, local population, Eskimos, glaciers, waterscapes, snow, frozen landscapes, cabins and camps, etc. Alaskan and Canadian locations include Yukon, Klondike, Lake Bennett area, Dawson, White Horse Rapids, Miles...

2 portraits of Charles F. Johnson in military uniform, 2 portraits of his daughter Clara Johnson, and a photograph of the Civil War-era etching "Jamison's Jayhawks" by B. Vlada (John Adalbert Volck). Photographs were reproduced for the book, The Civil...

Contains letters to his wife Mary while serving in the 81st Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and later in the 18th regiment of the Veteran Reserve Corps and the Freedmen's Bureau. Also includes documents relating to the Invalid Corps (later known as...

Chiefly fragments of correspondence and related documents concerning settlement of the Emma J. and John A. Regli estates by attorneys McGlashan and Searls. Includes three letters, 1888-1891, from the Truckee law offices of C. F. McGlashan to Fred Searls, Esq.,...

Letters, chiefly regarding Lepidoptera, from various individuals.

Mainly photographs acquired during the course of writing McGlashan's book, History of the Donner Party, published in Truckee, Calif., 1879. Includes views of plagues, historical monuments, sites. Also view of McGlashan's residence in Truckee, Calif., and portrait.

Three cyanotype photographs depicting Native Americans in New Mexico: 1) Aquéres girl, Pueblo of Laguna; 2) Dance, Pueblo Santa Clara; 3) Group playing game with stones, unidentified pueblo.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Consists of manuscripts and typescripts of poems, notebooks containing poems and original artwork, including collages; and typescripts for Dial Artemis and other publications.

Addressing someone in Bristol, Fox discusses household matters.

Mostly contains letters from Agee to his parents from various locations where he was stationed during World War II in the Army Air Force. Locations include Nebraska, Iowa, New York and places in Europe. Also includes a small amount of...

Correspondence, photographs, book inscriptions, and poems.

Included are lecture notes; manuscripts of his writings, including consultant reports; filed notebooks; syllabi and lab manuals for his courses; and his notebooks for courses taken as an undergraduate.

Professional files from Garry's legal office in San Francisco. Consists primarily of case files, trial transcripts and legal documents. Also includes administrative, subject, resource, and personal files.

Photographic negatives (approximately 83,000) and prints consisting of the personal archive of freelance photographer Charles Gatewood. Includes his work from New York in the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s, and his later San Francisco work, as well as photographs taken...

Snapshot photographs documenting the activities of Charles German during his years as a gold mining engineer in the vicinity of Nome Creek, Alaska -- north of Fairbanks -- in the 1920s and 1930s, following the 1910 discovery of gold in...

Letter copybook of Charles Gibbons Davis, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, kept while working for the Welsbach Incandescent Gas Light Company of Gloucester, New Jersey, in California at the Twenty-Third Industrial Exhibition of the Mechanics' Institute of San Francisco, and while traveling...

Collection includes: an image of a woman and child (made up of two connected photos) captioned "Port Washington 1912" -- a photo of a family on a porch captioned "Mill Valley 1898" -- a family group portrait captioned "Atlantic City...

Contains two letters from Norris to Birge M. Clark regarding construction of Norris' home in Palo Alto, California. One letter, May 26, 1928, questions estimates made by a landscape architect. Also includes a letter (signed "Ceegee"), March 30, 1937, to...

Record of Gould's overland journey from Boston to California as member of the Boston and Newton Joint Stock Association, via Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, South Pass, Humbolt River, and Carson Pass, to Sacramento, 1849 Apr. 16-Sept. 27.

The Charles H. Cheney papers primarily consist of Cheney's reference files pertaining to city planning in the United States. The papers also contain copies of his work as a city planner, most notably planning documents and protective covenants as well...

Contains the published writings of Gilman on oil in California.

Writing from New York, Jan. 9, 1852, Jones describes his trip by train from Readfield, Me., to New York City, where the next day he is to board the steamer Ohio for San Francisco. Writing from Panama City, Jan. 24th,...

Miscellaneous biographical materials, correspondence, and lists of publications.

Includes 4 cased daguerreotype portraits of Charles Hayden Gray (nos. 1-4), one of which depicted a second person who was erased from the image. Portraits show Gray's gradual change in appearance from clean-shaven, well-groomed youth to long-haired, unkempt gold-miner. Also...

Account book for general store, Moore's Flat, California, June 26-October 13, 1871, which includes some entries for equipment for mining companies. With this, miscellaneous papers of Charles Hegarty, including a receipt from the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad, 1898, and...

Written to his family in Virginia. Concerning his overland journey and experience in the mines. Also including family biographical information by Edmé Renouf Seton.

Two bound journals of Charles Henry Bennett of Pennsylvania who journeyed to California via ship, worked in the gold fields of California, and then sailed as a passenger on a freighter to Hawaii before his eventual voyage back home around...

Written from the ship Samoset on his way to California and from San Francisco, Sacramento, Montezuma Flats, etc. They describe his voyage around the Horn and his experiences mining, operating a ferry across the American River, and selling goods in...

11 letters describing overland journey from New York to Yuba City, California. Includes original letters and photocopies of typed transcripts of the originals.

Consists of original and typescript copies of letters written by Charles Hilton to his family in Nova Scotia. He describes California, his activities gold mining in Barton's Bar (Yuba County) and the Yuba River, and writes about settling permanently in...

Cash book and journal for building and contracting, chiefly in San Francisco.

Relates mainly to his distribution of seeds while inspector at the College of Agriculture, University of California, Berkeley. Includes letters from W. Atlee Burpee, Agapius Honcharenko, H.C. Raap and others.

Scrapbook of clippings of his writings, in which a snapshot of Shinn is pasted. With this, loose materials removed from scrapbook: letters to Shinn from Edward L. Burlingame, Clarence Gordon, Sidney L. Gulick, Rufus Steele, Adolph Sutro, Caspar Whitney, Edward...

Papers as U.S. Forester, with material relating to California, U.S. National Parks and Hawaii. Includes subject files, correspondence, drafts of writings, maps, and clippings.

Transferred from the Charles J. Kraebel papers (BANC MSS 71/234 c).

Relating primarily to his work as American Red Cross special representative in Mexico to aid destitute Mexicans, June-Nov. l9l5. Include copies of his letters and cables to ARC headquarters describing conditions in Vera Cruz and Mexico City, his negotiations with...

Thirteen letters, chiefly from San Francisco and Alviso, Calif., with one from New York prior to leaving for San Francisco. Jackson discusses financial affairs, working for a shipping company, possibility of becoming a steam boat captain, gold mining concerns, his...

Handwritten copies of correspondence relating to the attempted export of arms from San Francisco, 1864. Handwritten copies of Presidential and Treasury Dept. orders; correspondence as Collector of the Port and Customs, with E.F. Beale, Thomas Brown, Placido Vega, General McDowell...

Six handwritten letters (18 total pages) from a gold miner living in California addressed to his parents, siblings, and friends in Newton, Massachusetts. One of the letters is addressed from Panama where he crossed the Isthmus on foot. Two of...

Includes writings, files on the Energy Resources and Plasma Theory and Simulation Groups at the University of California, Berkeley, administrative files and some personal materials.

Stanford graduate, author, poet, radio personality (known as Cheerio), playwright, and Bohemian Club member.

Loose-leaf notebook of 3,000 names, alphabetically arranged, gathered from cliffs, rock outcroppings, etc., with key to geographical location of inscription. Names on Independence Rock, Rock Register Cliff, City of Rocks, Inscription Rock and 13 other sites.

1867 letters regarding his views on agricultural laborers and workers in factories.

Concern his arrival at San Francisco via Panama in 1853 and his brief musical career; work as viticulturist and wine merchant from 1854; other business activities in San Francisco; founding of Anaheim in 1857.

Intermittent diary describes Anderson's overland journey from Minnesota to Nevada via the north bank of the Platte and Salt Lake, May 13-August 29, 1862, and his practice of medicine in Carson City to December 31, 1863; v. 1-2,4 contain some...

Letters, 1850-1862, describe life, financial conditions, and political situation in Minnesota, especially in Minneapolis. Letter of 24 Sept. 1862 describes overland journey to Carson City, Nevada, and life there. This subject continues in the last letter, 1866, with additional comments...

Correspondence, official papers, maps, clippings etc. Preliminary report, Warner's Ranch Indian Advisory Commission, with letters from Charles F. Lummis and George Spining pasted in.

The bulk of the collection concerns Schwartz's political activities on the University of California, Berkeley campus, including the draft, anti-nuclear weapons protests, conflict of interest and corporate responsibility at UC. It also includes course materials, physics writings and research, and...

A short history of Peterson's enlistment covering the period 1901-1903. Biographical material (a photocopy of holographic material) is available as part II of this collection.

Photocopy.

Collotype plates of motion studies of humans and other animals, photographed by Eadweard Muybridge, from his portfolio Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements (published in 1887 by the photographer and the University of Pennsylvania in...

Mainly photos of paleontological expeditions, African wildlife and art, tribal peoples, fossils, and reptile skeletons as well as Camp's family portraits and snapshots. Four drawings by Huff for publication on the history (and pre-history) of California. A few letters and...

Images taken during Lummis' work at Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico: 1. [caption cropped] ... copyright 1890 [Isleta Pueblo man standing, holding gourd rattle] (CL/1253); 2. Offering for the dead, Isleta N.M. [Woman kneeling before basket of offerings, inside a home]...

86 letters are from Henry Balch regarding the American Mine, Sierra County, Calif., 1880-83, 1885. 18 letters are from H. Levy, 1877-1878, regarding speculation on stock for the Union Consolidated and Sierra Nevada mines, with information on activities of James...

The dictation (3 leaves) describes Bradshaw's emigration to Portland, 1852, and thence to Puget Sound; admission to the Washington bar; political career as sheriff, justice of the peace, legislative representative, prosecuting attorney, and mayor of Port Townsend; and his association...

Taken at Panama-Pacific International Exposition. 2 images depict MacTavish and MacDougal exhibition of bicycles, buggies and horseless carriages. 1 image depicts San Francisco car dealer, and later famous race horse owner, Charles Stewart Howard and an unidentified man admiring a...

A variety of albums compiled during the youth and early adulthood of Charles M. Weber. Volume 1: postcards sent to Weber from 1905-1907 while he attended St. Joseph's Academy in Berkeley. Volume 2: snapshots taken shortly before and after First...

Chiefly studio portrait photographs of Charles Martin, Sr. (or Carlo Martinoia, as his name appears on the versos of some prints); his wife Catherine Traversi Martin; their sons Charles Gilbert Martin and Arnold Martin; and other Martin family members and...

Passport, 1844, signed by Edward Everett, U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain; and correspondence, chiefly concerning horticulture.

Two journals of whaling voyages, 1853-1863; family and personal correspondence, accounts and papers, 1849-1910; correspondence and papers relating to the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, 1863-1911; correspondence and papers concerning the Western Union Telegraph Company's expedition for the Russian Extension, 1865-1867....

All letters, save one, are addressed to Charles Miller. Twenty-one are from his friend, author Ethel Duffy Turner. Other correspondents include fellow I.W.W. workers Earl R. Noldin and W.H. Westman. One letter from Miller, a carbon typescript, is addressed to...

Materials for an autobiography assembled by him in 1921 and later revised, with letters, clippings and other illustrative material, covering his career as professor and author; a few letters written to him and by him; outline and draft of A...

The collection contains newspaper clippings and materials regarding politics and railroads in nineteenth century Delaware and Massachusetts, as well as political, business, and cultural issues in Arizona. The collection also contains a copy of the "Lincoln Catechism"--A pro-slavery critique of...

Includes 44 photographic prints taken in June of 1956 by philosopher and mathematician Charles Musès and his associates, documenting a group of Lacandon Indians of Lago Naha (in Southern Chiapas, Mexico), their dwellings and handicrafts, natural surroundings at the lake,...

Photographs by philosopher and mathematician Charles Musès documenting his interests in indigenous peoples and their material culture (temples, sculpture, carvings) in various locations in Mexico. Also includes a small number of photographs by anthropologist and ethnographer Roberta Montagu. General topics...

Contains letters home to family in Vermont, from Alto, Blue Canyon, and Towle, California. Jewett describes his work, travels, politics, his Spanish girl friend and local customs.

Handwritten extracts in English and Maori of laments from Davis' book: Maori Mementos; being A series of addresses, presented by the native people, to Sir George Grey, Late Governor of New Zealand ... (Auckland, 1855). Apparently in the handwriting of...

Account books, correspondence, identification/birth records concerning his activity and financial interest.

Record of voyage from New York to San Francisco in 1859 via Panama; experiences mining around Oregon Bar and Georgetown; bricklaying and building, mainly in the Bay Area; ranching, lumbering and growing grapes near Windsor, in Sebastapol and Clayton.

Contains research notes on California theaters and actors, mostly in the San Francisco area from the 1850's. Theaters include the American Theater, Forrest Theater, Metropolitan Theater, Stockton Theater, Frisbie & Bains Theater, and the Union Theater. Also includes information on...

4 photographic portraits of various unidentified women, and an oil painting of an unidentified building.

Views of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.

Charles Potts correspondence, BANC MSS 74/197 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Diaries in German, kept on John Charles Frémont's Western expeditions of 1842, 1843-1844, and 1848-1849. The Bancroft Library also has supplementary material usedby Erwin G. and Elisabeth K. Gudde in editing the diaries for publication in 1958.

Materials relating to environmental and conservation issues, gathered by Charles Batten while director of communications for the California Forest Protective Association. Concerns controversies surrounding Redwood National Park, the Sierra Club, land use regulations and the Forest Practice Act, and aerial...

Primarily teaching materials, correspondence, and reprints of articles written by Wilke and others.

Military documents (two signed by Rear Admiral George Dewey), union membership documents, personal and official U.S. government correspondence, certificate of continuous service, California National Guard certificate, Christmas and New Year card, lithographs of several U.S. Navy ships with descriptive captions,...

Contains portraits and snapshots of Sheaff, his wife Ellen "Nellie" Ginsell and their family, including 3 tintype family portraits in cases and frames, as well as 2 empty photograph cases. Also includes group portraits of U.S. Navy crews -- including...

Contains invitations from Oakland High School and University of California, Berkeley; clippings including some on an Oakland Public Library scandal.

Charles Seim papers, BANC MSS 2016/250, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Interview by Washington Davis at Crystal Lake, Illinois, July 3, 1890, concerning Dole's family and boyhood in Michigan, and his varied business experiences, especially in Chicago; supplementary dictation, 1890, mainly recollections of the grain trade; and related material.

Includes affidavits of Juan Peralta and Stanislaus Cibrian in his case against Cibrian concerning ownership of property in Marin County; his last will; and paper relating to the settlement of his estate.

One page handwritten note on embossed House of Commons Library stationery, signed by Parnell, asking Corbett to "kindly hand inclosed to Mr. Stryss" [item not in the collection] who will be attending a meeting of the Society of Engineers in...

1846-47 letters refer to his military service during the Mexican War. Letters from April 1849 on, were written on his overland journey from Vicksburg, Miss. to California, and from Sacramento and vicinity, describing experiences mining.

Include letters from Edward Weeks (Atlantic Monthly), D. Laurance Chambers (Bobbs Merrill Company), A. Proctor (Adventure) and Austin Olney (Houghton Mifflin Company); manuscripts of unpublished stories, novels and a play; clippings on Seminole Indians and hurricanes.

The collection consists of two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings from Washington, DC and San Francisco, California. DuRell did not arrange the clippings chronologically or by their subject, but there is a personal name and subject index at the beginning of...

A series of letters and two articles, written under pseudonym, Phil Brengle, apparently intended for publication, describing life in the mines and his travels in California. Also, check, 1865, and promissory note, 1864, signed by Palmer, per Edward Roland Sill.

Notes on materials for the history of the Americas in the archives of Spain, made by Clark while resident investigator in Europe for the Smithsonian Institution written during one of Clark's visits to Europe to investigate archival matters. Useful as...

Three diaries (1851,1854,1854: some dated entries) and personal correspondence of Gold Rush miner, Charles van Houten, describing his travels from Sunbury, Ohio to Marysville, Calif. via Panama and experiences in California. Diaries provide details of travel, costs, dates of departure...

Photograph album depicting social and leisure activities of Charles Vanina and his friends in California prior to and perhaps after his joining the Engineer Corps and participating in the First World War. Also includes a small number of photographs taken...

Primarily family photographs from England and the United States. Included are cased photographs (ambrotypes), tintypes, albumen prints, an album of cartes-de-visite portraits, and later snapshots. Some albumen prints of unidentified English scenes present. Among snapshots are two photographs depicting Charles...

Three, written enroute, describe the overland journey to California, commenting on Indians, buffalo hunting, etc. Two written from California (near Sacramento and from the middle fork of the Feather River) comment on the difficulty of the journey from Salt Lake,...

Group of thirty-seven autograph letters, signed, from prospector and cook, Charles W. Leach, to his wife and son as he hunted for gold during the Klondike Gold Rush on the Copper River near Port Valdez, Alaska, with extensive descriptions of...

Contains five letters from Charles W. Nyström to family members. Three letters are addressed to his aunt (10 pages) and two are addressed to his sister, Emilie (8 pages). Details include lumber prices in 1854, "Cable Comet" celebrations in 1858,...

Contains course materials, correspondence, subject files, reprints, proposals, committee files, project files, various awards and appointments, personal biography of his youth in Hungary, photographs,newsletters, research in batteries and other related topics, etc. Also includes materials concerning his music training and...

Contains mostly personal correspondence between Charles Wagner family members. Twenty-six letters are from Charles Wagner to his daughter, Bertha, written on various letterhead stationery of his companies, Pacific Tannery, Pacific Oak Extract Works, and the Wagner Leather Company. Eleven letters...

Sixty-eight letters to Frank Putnam, most of them concerning sketches he wrote for The National Magazine, edited by Putnam; mention of Yoné Noguchi, Joaquin Miller and other mutual friends. Also included: manuscripts of three poems by Stoddard, and manuscript of...

Speeches and memoirs relating to the orgainzation of Independent Order of Odd Fellows lodges at Gilroy, San Jose and Garden City; and genealogical information concerning the Pomeroy family.

Includes letters received from William H.L. Barnes, William W. Campbell, Mary H. Foote, Gustav A. Gotzen, James D. Hague, John S. Hittell, Francis G. Newlands, William C. Quilter, William R. Shafter, Horatio Stebbins, and Benjamin I. Wheeler. Some written to...

Includes a few letters written by him, and letters written to him by Elmer Edgar Hall, Nels Christian Nelson, and others, relating mainly to the work of Canadian Methodist missionaries in China, and to arrangements for his departure to China.

Clippings concerning his career as lawyer and judge in San Francisco, relating in large part to the contest of the will of James G. Fair, and some material on his work as Regent of the University of California from 1894.

Contains record books from U.S. Army Lieutenant Charles William Whipple's work with the Wheeler Survey including three manuscript diaries, one typographical record book (Book No. 194, 1875) of pencil sketches and maps pertaining to the area just north of Los...

Miscellaneous papers of professor of entomology, University of California, Berkeley, including postcards addressed to E.O. Essig; accounts; photographs; 1910 sewer map for Piedmont, California; manuscript of talk given before the Farmers' Institute, n.d.; and a set of the Entomologist's Daily...

Three handwritten letters written from Grass Valley, California after crossing the Isthmus of Panama.

Primarily views of Samoa and the Sandwich Islands. Includes 7 watercolor portraits of indigenous peoples by G.E. Cooke (most signed and and dated 1847-1850), watercolor copies of views by [T. or J.?] Weld (ca. 1850-1856), an engraving of the Sandwich...

Papers relating to Charlotte Mauk's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Some letters, written while she was in Europe, comment on increased interest in Jack London abroad and foreign publication of his novels; some incorporate news notes for publication in San Francisco newspapers.

Sixteen pages (incomplete from p. 185 to p. 210) containing minutes of the near weekly meetings, May 20 to Aug. 1, 1879. The meeting minutes discuss actions by the New Constitution Party, and the club's plans. The text of a...

Consists of letters from Erastus B. Chase, shipmaster of the Radiant [II], and the Helen Morris, to his father and sister Eliza. Also includes letters from his wife Ellen (who traveled at times with him) to her parents, letters from...

v.1 - Account book of George Chase, 1879-1880; v.2 - ledger kept by George Chase, 1879; v.3 - scrapbook containing sample forms for real-estate transactions and copies of leases, etc., for property in Alameda and San Francisco Counties, 1904-1916, compiled...

Include letter from James G. Fair, Feb. 25, 1875; stock certificates for mines in Nevada and California; photograph of family ore reduction mill in Virginia City, Nevada.

Concerns business dealings of Clarke including mining in Arizona, and Utah, property in Los Angeles, Calif., and building of tramways.

Correspondence, notes, drafts of articles and clippings documenting his work as lawyer, for Indians and against billboards. Also included, correspondence of his wife, Henriette de Saussure Blanding, papers of Gordon Blanding relating to W.T. Coleman estate, and records relating to...

Originals in: private possession.

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Jensen discussions his childhood and education in Washington State; woring for Standard Oil of California and Stuart Oxygen Co.; service during World War II; his professional career, 1986-1941.

Childhood and education in Pomona, B.S. from Caltech; College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 1935-1997: graduate student years, G.N. Lewis, William Giauque, Wendell Latimer; postwar expansion and reorganization of the college; Director of Research, Atomic Energy Commission, 1949-1951; research:...

From Cheney and his wife Mary Ann, to her family in Pennsylvania, August 21, 1850; and from Cheney after his wife's death, February 10, 1851. He mentions his service in the Morman Battalion, and discusses mining and general economic conditions...

File of material compiled by George F. Ritchie (receipts, correspondence, drafts, etc.) relating to the publication of Janet Flanner's translation of Cheri, by Colette, published by Ritchie in 1983, and printed by Black Stone Press. Correspondents include: Wallace Fowlie, who...

Cheryl Marie Wade papers, BANC MSS 2017/263, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Includes typescript of an untitled short article on a Sierra outing; clippings concerning the California ornithologist; a letter from Joseph Grinnell; and miscellaneous postcards addressed to the Nicholls, members of his wife's family.

Notes, interviews, and writings on Mexico's resources, economy, history, and people. Possibly related to his book: Mexico and its reconstruction (1921).

Includes correspondence, course notes, conference and committee files, laboratory notes, biographical information, consulting files, and writings.

Contains letters from a man traveling throughout the state of California to his wife Ada Warren in Berkeley and Dunsmuir, Calif.

A publisher's paste-up of an unpublished guidebook to San Francisco, apparently intended for visitors to the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Includes descriptions of points of interest; half-tone photographs of scenes in the city; and a fold-out map of the exposition...

This collection consists of the following records for Chevra Shaare Refooah: articles of incorporation; bylaws; a ritual book; volumes containing minutes and documentation of other organizational business; candidate declaration forms; a 1939 resolution for David Lande, the organziation's secretary from...

Contains photographs and other pictorial material documenting the Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse and the career of its founder Alice Waters. Consists chiefly of snapshots of Chez Panisse staff and events, restaurant views, and miscellaneous persons and events associated with Chez...

The collection consists of scrapbooks that document the activities of Chi Phi Sigma, a teenage girls club based in Oakland, California, for the years 1937-1943. The scrapbooks have photographs, club documents, newsletters, and copies of newspaper clippings. The collection also...

Chiefly unused iron-on image transfers on paper, with designs depicting various themes of Chicano and Latino youth culture: slang, low rider cars, salsa music, graffiti, pachucos, cholo gangsters, bad girls, brown pride, La Virgen de Guadalupe, etc. Also includes patches...

Correspondence, financial records, and family letters from M. L. Mery of Chico Iron Works.

Forms part of: California Supreme Court Oral History Project.

The collection includes correspondence, financial records, government documents, pamphlets and publications and newspapers. Newspapers include "Diario Oficial: Organo del gobierno constitucional de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos," circa 1917 and "Peridico Oficial del gobierno del Estado de Chihuahua," circa 1917-1931.

Treasury notes for one and ten pesos, as ordered by military decree, Feb. 1914.

Imprint on back of mounts: Addis e Hijo.

Description of family and social life in San Francisco; student days at University of California; volunteer settlement work; 1906 earthquake; professional career as children's agent for the State Board of Control, 1913-1924; volunteer social service with various agencies; minority group...

Statement of purposes, organization, and history included in volume 1.

Views of Chili Bar Bridge, spanning the South Fork of the American River at State Highway 193, Placerville vicinity, El Dorado County, Calif.

Contains petition for U.S. passport for Chin Yem Poy's son Chin Gen Fee, a letter to U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service concerning Chin Yem Poy's children, an application for an immigrant visa for Chin Gen Fee's wife Chin Yuet Ping,...

Chiefly snapshots taken and views acquired on Standard Oil's exploratory expedition to China, 1914-1916, led by University of California geologist George Davis Louderback. Earlier and later views also present. Many views of local sites and people, antiquities, temples, the Great...

Photographs taken during an expedition led by geologist Louderback to survey coal resources in China. Photographs primarily depict subjects of general tourist interest, including landscapes, waterways, architecture, street scenes, people, and technology. Also includes portraits of Chinese military leaders, expedition...

Individual oral histories cataloged separately. Search under title: China missionaries oral history project.

Pages mounted in a scrapbook.

Collection of postcards featuring views and attractions of San Francisco's commercial Chinatown district. Other Chinatowns -- most notably that of Los Angeles -- are also depicted, as is Grauman's Chinese Theatre (Hollywood, Calif.) and other Chinese-American communities and establishments.

1: In Gum Gook Alley, May 1901 [Possibly Com Coak Alley, also known as Sullivan's Alley, between Jackson and Pacific Streets.] -- 2: Opium Den, Rag Picker's Alley, 1901 [Probably off Washington Street, near Kearny Street, and also known as...

Contains business cards of Chinese business owners in California, including Sun Chong Lung & Co., wholesale and retail dealers in tea, sugar, rice, oil and opium, and Yan Tie Co., dealers in Chinese and Japanses Fancy goods.

Identification photographs and other portraits of Chinese American men mounted on two album leaves. A few images were taken against a backdrop of cell bars, perhaps at the immigration and/or detention facilities of Ellis Island. A few men are depicted...

Album of a Chinese American student and athlete, from his San Francisco school days and on the campuses of U.C. Berkeley and Stanford. Comparison of images to Berkeley's annuals suggests David Harfong Lee as the compiler, a civil engineering student...

Freight bills, Southern Pacific Railway, and miscellaneous business papers, Wing On Wo, presumably in Dutch Flat (C-G 53); accounts and a few letters, Kwang Yuen Company, Dutch Flat, ca. 1890 (C-G 54).

Taber number 3111: Chinese grocers stand among baskets and bins in a produce store open to the sidewalk. Meat and vegetables are displayed -- Taber number 3991: Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls framed between trees on the valley floor.

Chiefly real photo postcards, apparently by an amateur photographer, of a Chinese Dragon Parade held in Chinatown, Los Angeles, Calif. in October of 1902. Includes photographs of various parade participants and crowds. Several larger photographs depict and unidentified shrine with...

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Photograph depicting funeral ceremony in unidentified street or alley, with onlookers along sidewalk, in San Francisco's Chinatown.

An account of Chinese outlaws prepared by W.C. Pond?; a letter to A.L. Bancroft; and criticisms of a manuscript (possibly an early draft of H.H. Bancroft's essay, Mongolianism in America) included.

Collection of unrelated ephemera, printed materials, and correspondence pertaining to the life and history of Chinese people in California. Includes materials related to Chinatown tourism, Weaverville Joss House, Chinese Historical Society, mission schools for girls (Ming Quong Home) and boys...

Muybridge half-stereo views show Oakland (including the Tubbs Hotel and Grand Central), and Chinese in San Francisco. Large format Taber views are of Calaveras Big Trees.

Contains 11 keno tickets from Sacramento's last Chinese gambling palace.

Early life and education in China; student years in the U.S.; interest in linguistics; work as interpreter for Bertrand Russell and Dora Black in China; linguistic studies and teaching career in China and U.S.; Agassiz professorship of oriental languages and...

Includes five cyanotype images on both sides of one mount, probably a page from an album. Two images (recto) are of Hing Lee Chinese Goods storefront and the interior of a natatorium. Three images (verso) are of a log cabin,...

The Alliance was organized in Honolulu in 1906, a branch of the "World's Chinese Students' Federation" founded in China for the advancement and welfare of that country. The papers, in English, consist of correspondence, resolutions, reports of committees, minutes of...

Contains examples of invitations and announcements for Chinese living in Northern Calif. Also includes ledgers of customer's orders.

Includes group portraits of members of the Oakland Chinese War Relief Association and the Chinese Famine Relief Association of Oakland. Also includes 2 panoramic group portraits, perhaps depicting members of the same or similar organizations.

Collection of original artworks -- 14 drawings and 2 fabric collages -- by pupils of the Chinle Boarding School for Navajo children in Chinle, Arizona. Drawings depict regional Arizona desert landscapes, including Monument Valley; horses; and traditional Navajo structures. Collages...

Landscape and nature drawings depicting mountains, rivers, trees, blossoms, birds, etc.

Includes two paintings affixed to greeting cards, one depicting a fish, the other a bucking horse. Also includes a framed sumi painting depicting a bucking horse.

Souvenir album of professional photographic views of Yellowstone National Park.

Includes record of hydraulic pumping engine at the "Combination Shaft", Oct. 10, 1881-July 10, 1882, and payroll check to O. Huff, July 2, 1884, drawn on Bank of California, with mutilated signature of Isaac L. Requa, Superintendent.

Primarily concerned with fur trade and Indian affairs on the Missouri River and its tributaries; letters by P.L. Chouteau, 1830-1833; William B. Astor, 1831; Marston G. Clark, 1831; Frederick Chouteau, 1833; William Clark, 1833; M. Stoker, 1837-1839; [unidentified, 1839]; Isaac...

Contains correspondence with friends and family, including Annette Rosenshine, Paul Padgette, Robin Blaser, Desmond Arthur, and Evelyn Statsinger-Cohen, concerning daily life, psychotherapy, and other personal interests. Of note, are two letters from Alice B. Toklas, and one from Pauline Kael,...

Comments on the beginning of winemaking at Martinez and the move to Napa Valley; development of a commercial winery and its expansion, etc. Appended: photocopies of several articles--The History of the Christian Brothers Wineries in California by Brother Justin Meyer,...

Account of his voyage to California around Cape Horn on the Mason; description of Rio de Janeiro and Valparaiso; arrival in San Francisco; experiences mining in Tuolumne and Calaveras Counties.

Many snapshots and professional views of the staff and facilites of the Christian Science Benevolent Association in San Francisco. Also includes snapshots of California scenery and young people on outings.

Correspondence and research files concerning Thomas Hill, including reference photographs and slides of Hill paintings. Includes correspondence with Ansel Adams and Shirley Sargent.

Contains two separate stamp collecting albums for Christmas and Easter Seals. Albums contain single stamps and sheets. Christmas Seals album contents include the first seal issued in 1907 by the American Red Cross through 1983 by the American Lung Association....

Birthday card is for "Mother Hawkins"

Christmas cards include caricatures of the Earl Warren family, and other scenes.

Snapshots, photographic postcards, professionally produced photographs and clippings related to early aviation in on the west coast and the activities of Christofferson family members in particular. Photographs depict aviators Silas Christofferson, Harry Christofferson, Goodselll Christofferson, and possibly Harvey Christofferson. Others...

Photographs document poet Ferlinghetti's visit to Nicaragua in January of 1984 during the aftermath of that country's 1979 socialist revolution. Photographs depict Ferlinghetti and Father Ernesto Cardenal, who accompanied them throughout their visit, as well as many other subjects: workers,...

Portraits of literary figures and artists, chiefly with California or Beat movement associations. Includes Joan Didion, Philip Whalen, Whalen with Gregory Corso, Thom Gunn, Philip Lamantia, Ishmael Reed, Maxine Hong Kingston, Michael McClure, Diane di Prima, McClure with Di Prima,...

2 ALS to Joan Wescott, 1965 February 15 & 21; photocopy typescript of a radio script by Middleton entitled "How Papaguano met with a grievous stranger at sea, Nov. 26, 1964.

Three handwritten letters from a man to his friend at home back East.

Chronological history of the theater, including information on operatic and dramatic productions, biographical notes on performers, dramatists and composers.

Newspaper clippings, 1860, of articles by Taylor and the oration by Edmund Randolph for the Society of California Pioneers' 10th Anniversary are pasted in this copy of the index.

Includes also notes on early explorations around Humboldt Bay and settlement of Humboldt County; biographical sketches of men associated with the company; and bibliography.

Includes photos of Church's architectural office; copy photos from his scrapbook; Church's house on Josephine St. in Berkeley, Calif.; and views of areas that Church worked on at Longwood Gardens, Kennet, Penn.

Contains correspondence, an essay, receipts, calling cards and photographs. Correspondence discusses obscenity laws, speaking with Chinese prisoners in San Quentin and activities with Fairmont Lodge in San Francisco. Essay is on the origin of chop suey. Receipts are for Chinese...

Account of his emigration to Oregon by sea, 1851, and his extensive merchandising interests there, afterward.

Receipts for money sent to Paris.

Series of documents (from lxmiquilpan in Hidalgo; Governor of state of Hidalgo Miguel Lara and President of municipality of lxmiquilpan, Antonio Carrillo) relating to the Decena Tragica in which Francisco I. Madero and part of his cabinet died, with news...

Photographs taken in Guatemala from circa 1910 to 1986, depicting individual and group portraits, including indigenous Guatemalans; street scenes; and views of night life, religious ceremonies and other events.

Comments on San Francisco and New York Jewish communities; her San Francisco grandmother, Delia Fleishhacker; work with the Liague of Women Voters; educational interests. Photographs included. Appended: copies of letters and clippings relevant to the interview.

Comments on long association with Stiles Hall, the University of California YMCA in Berkeley; service in China with the International YMCA, 1921-27; loyalty oath controversy at the University; interest in helping the Japanese-American evacuees during World War II; service as...

Contains by-laws, membership rosters, program minutes and files, bulletins, correspondence, general files, two VHS tapes, 12 audiocassette tapes, etc.

Contains "in good standing" certificate for Louis R. Townsend, company orders for parade on Sept. 9, 1874, invitation to former members of City Guard to march in 4th of July parade in 1876 and a letter concerning payment for new...

City Hall building and intersection of Fourteenth and Broadway Sts., Oakland, Calif.

Contains the architectural plans for an earthquake retrofitting project of the City Hall building in San Francisco, California that was completed in 1998.

Metz discusses Richmond during World War II: Ford tank depot, Kaiser Shipyards, new population, changes in racial composition, local entertainment, war housing; Richmond School Department, 1940s; postwar housing; decline of downtown; with an appended interview on family background and early...

Includes portraits of Andrei Voznesensky, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Yevgeni Yevtushenko, Jack Hirschman, William Burroughs, the Floating Lotus Magic Opera Co., Sam Cherry, and Paddy (Padriec Suemus) O'Sullivan.

Includes photographs used in the production of periodical City Miner. Many photographs bear layout markings and other evidence of use in publication. Among the people and subjects depicted are Gary Snyder, Stewart Brand, Robert Anton Wilson, Moe Moskowitz and his...

Contains editorial correspondence, book manuscripts, articles, reviews, news clippings, promotional materials and interviews by Michael Helm of Peter Coyote, David Brower and others.

from Tavistock Books,

Comments on her marriage to Harvey B. Lyon; residence in Oakland; volunteer work with Oakland Symphony, Children's Hospital, Hospitality House during World War II, and other organizations; her DAR activities; and her interest in conservation, particularly redwoods. Taped recollections of...

Interviews include: Francis Heisler and Friedy B. Heisler with supplementary papers in separate container.

Handwritten notes (likely circa 1868) used to write reviews published in the the Sacramento Bee and San Francisco Bulletin about a book on California civil procedures. Includes a photocopy of the clippings from the Sacramento Bee ("Sept. 2, '68" added...

Childhood and education; military service; private law practice in San Francisco; Assistant U.S. District Attorney, Northern District, California, 1951-58; Legal Secretary to California Governor Edmund G. Brown, 1958-61; U.S. District Attorney, Northern District, California, 1961-70; Federal Judge, U.S. District Court,...

Childhood, studying architecture at Columbia; involvement in Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1969; teaching architecture at UC Berkeley, 1970-1979; starting Urban Habitat, working with David Brower and Earth Island Institute, leaving Earth Island Institute in 1997 due to lack of support for...

Pocket diary, accompanied by transcript of military record and clippings of poems and anecdotes.

Diary (1862-1863) and letter (dated December 12, 1862) that summarize his army service from time of enlistment through the battle of Prairie Grove. With transcripts and notes.

Chiefly cartes de visite portraits of Civil War generals and officers, senators, judges, and members of Lincoln's Cabinet. One portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and one of his daughters (from a drawing?) is present. Most of those pictured are Union...

Album contains many carte de visite photographs of Civil War soldiers, officers, and generals (Union army). Others show celebrities not associated with the war. Pictures of members of the Stewart family are also included.

Letters from Walker to his sister, Hannah, concerning his military duties and news of family and friends. With several miscellaneous items relating to other members of the family.

Letter from Willis Arnold Gorman (1814-1876); letter from E.A. Hall to Joseph A. Sanders (enclosing samples for jackets for Company F, 24th Indiana Volunteers); and a cover note concerning gift of letters.

Typed copy by his daughter Mary Heath Lee in 1904.

Contains clippings concerning the beginnings of the American Civil War, mostly from reports in New York newspapers.

An overview of Oak Glen Camp from the hillside, a panoramic view of tents of the camp (photograph numbered 78), and a panoramic group portrait of approximately 100 young men of Company 538 holding mess kits in front of a...

Includes views of young men in camps and at work on trails or roads, chiefly in the Nevada desert. They pose with jackhammers and dynamite, with a mule, and stirring a tub on a stove. Includes views of a dam...

Collection of documents (62 pages) which includes testimonies, surveys, publication of claims, and certification of compliance with official standards regarding claims to six mines in Coahuila: San Estanislao, Los Nunez, San Antonio, San Rafael, Las Animas, and Pabellon. The documents...

Copies of claims recorded by Joseph Vansickles, Joseph Rickard, J.H. Johnston and Andrew S. Cooley, Recorders for the District.

Contains brochures, bumper stickers, pins, flyers, press kit, and campaign posters for successful 1957 Senate campaign from California.

Contains two letters addressed to Claire Thursby, both discussing family genealogy.

Twenty-three letters written between 1977 and 1988. Some envelopes are addressed to Fred Hegeman and others to Stationarius. Fred Hegeman appears to have been one of Claire Van Vliet's patrons.

Contains 5 letters to, and 1 letter from, Chinese American Clara Chan from family and friends. Letters discuss travel to London, including a visit to the Chinese Embassy, money borrowed from her mother for European travel, an admirer in Italy...

Etchings depict scenic views of Charleston, West Virginia, including its capitol building and waterfront ; the Kanawha River (West Virginia); the University of Kentucky; the Baltimore Maru steamship; and a covered bridge in an unidentified location.

Three letters (April 11, 1864 ; June 2, 1864 ; Oct. 17, 1865) generally describing life in the San Francisco Bay Area, California including brief accounts of recent earthquakes Harkness has experienced.

Includes letter to Mrs. Hazel Z. Weller, a poem on Yosemite by Mrs. Bradner, and a biographical note on Mrs. Bradner, an early Sacramento resident.

Consists of papers relating to her political activities including correspondence, clippings, memorabilia for the 1961 and 1965 inaugurals, scrapbooks and photographs. Also includes supplemental material for Oral History "One woman's role in Democratic Party politics," and original drawings and pastels,...

Snapshots, many on "real photo postcard" stock, apparently sent to Clara Stravens of Portland, Oregon, who was a native of Colfax in eastern Washington. Noteworthy is a series of 9 views of the 1913 flood of the Palouse River at...

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Includes three letters, May 2, 3, 19, 1932, to George Sylvester Viereck, Washington, D.C., acknowledging receipt of letters and publications.

Correspondence mainly relates to the dispersal of his library of French literature and theater; and typescript copies of reviews (1938-1948) of some of his professional writings.

Hansen's operations on the "De Lamar Cleanup," including lease, assayers' and smelter reports; with a few personal letters.

Clippings, photographs, some correspondence, and certificates of achievement relating to Muse's career as a performer and promoter of the arts. Some related family material, as well as a few items (clippings, programs, etc.) relating to other Black celebrities.

Studio portraits and snapshots pertaining to Clarence Thomas Simpson -- a middle-class African American man of Kansas City, Missouri and, later, Los Angeles, California -- and multiple generations of his family. Portraits depict Clarence, his mother Eliza, his sisters Siddonia...

The Clarence W. Whitney Papers, 1905-1948, principally document his involvement in Berkeley civic activities from 1919 through 1939. The collection has been divided into two series: Civic Activities and Personal Files. The Civic Activities series has been divided by organization:...

Primarily letters from his family, newspapermen, buisness firms, etc. relating to family matters, his newspaper career in Illinois and San Diego, his various government positions, etc. Letter from George C. Pardee included.

Contains personal correspondence from writer Clark Ashton Smith to his friend, writer and book dealer Samuel Loveman. Also includes correspondence concerning the Smith letters from Loveman, Carol Jones Smith (widow of Smith), and purchaser of the letters Gerry de la...

Ink and watercolor drawings, produced as potential illustrations for Samuel Loveman's poem The sphinx, depicting various creatures and characters from the poem.

Most are letters from Edward H. Clark, Jr. to his parents while enrolled at the Hill School, a prep academy in Pottstown, Pa. Also included are several letters, one addressed to Mrs. [Phoebe Apperson] Hearst, from a portrait painter named...

Reminiscences and genealogical information re Oregon and California pioneers, Thomas and James Clark. With this, transcripts of letters from Thomas Clark, 1902, re Rogue Indian Wars.

Chiefly Civil War letters from Joseph S. Clark, 1861-1863, to his parents (15 letters and 3 fragments), 3 letters to his mother, and 1 to his sister Hannah, along with 3 envelopes addressed to David Clark and 1 to Robert...

Views include Yosemite and San Francisco after the earthquake and fire of 1906. Also present are slides of portraits and European architectural monuments, ships, various sites in the U.S. and Canada, Hawaiian scenes, and a few photos of native women...

Views of historic buildings, hotels, adobes in various mining towns, and mining operations, throughout California.

Mainly diaries, accounts, tax records, deeds, of William Clarke, re property in Mendocino Co.

Portraits of Clarke family members (of Ukiah, California?) include William Clarke, Jos. Henry Clarke, Eliza Carpenter Clarke, and James Fen[?]zer.

Drafts and some printed versions of his short stories and novels.

Sketchbook contains ca. 75 pages of pencil sketches and watercolors done by Blake at various locations along her grand tour of Europe in 1890. Sketches depict scenery in Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy. Watercolor paintings by Blake...

Original caricature and cartoon images by Clay Geerdes, drawn by the artist when he was an employee at Ashkenaz, the international folk dancing venue founded by his close friend David Nadel. Numerous drawings are caricatures of well-known characters from comic...

Chiefly concerning his father, William Greene, '49er and prominent San Franciscan. Some notes on his own family and career as a dramatist.

Primarily accounts, medical notes and clippings. Included also: a few items (cards for admission to medical lectures, etc.) for her father, Cornelius D. Mosher.

As Secretary of Nevada Territory, transmits lists of officials, delegates to the 1863 constitutional convention, and the Territorial militiamen.

A few family letters, campaign speeches (mainly, 1934), clippings, certificates and diplomas (in v. 2) and photographs.

Contains correspondence, subject and legislative files, speeches, newsletters, press releases, campaign file, publications, and party study notebooks. Also includes other files concerning atomic energy, military, natural resources, public lands, agriculture, education, and Hoopa Indians.

Mainly letters to Clementine Norton from her fiancé, Seneca R. Flint, written during the Civil War, 1861-1864, while serving in the cavalry with the Wisconsin Volunteers.

Includes photographic portraits taken in 1887 of students and faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, believed to be teachers and classmates of Russell Montague Clement; views of various cable cars, power houses and other railway subjects in San Francisco,...

Include lease of mining rights in the American Hill Quartz Mine, Sierra Co.; notices of location of quartz claims; agreement as president of the San Juan Ridge Water Users Association, and application to obtain unappropriated water.

Letters from San Francisco and San Diego informing his friend about California and of his writings, particularly about the Chinese in California, a work he expects to be published by H.H. Bancroft.

Clif Ross papers, BANC MSS 87/159 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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Chiefly street portraiture of people, mainly men, attending gay community events such as Gay Pride Day parades (1984-2001), the Castro Street Fair, Castro Halloween (1988-1990), the Folsom Street Fair (1984-2001), and the Dore Alley Street Fair. Also present are views...

Includes photographs of lobby and dining room.

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Includes information on Mayne's work as a telegraph operator and train dispatcher in Kansas, Colorado, and Iowa; to Omaha, 1876; newspaper publisher and Omaha publicist; real estate operations in Omaha and California.

Includes correspondence, course materials, research notebooks, and grants relating to Professor Ballou's career in the UC Berkeley Department of Molecular and Cell Biology.

Collection of 18th-century Spanish and Latin verses, largely anonymous, including many anagrams, acrostics, and similar pieces, with a few prose sermons or addresses. They relate primarily to religious topics or to public events of special interest for the Diocese (later...

An extension of his work which was published in 1938. Includes comments and corrections, maps, illustrations, etc.

Newspaper clippings and magazine articles in several languages, printed versions of Hesse's works, and articles written about Hesse by others.

Articles from the Los Angeles Herald, Nov. 9, 1904; Los Angeles Star, Jan. 23, 1904, San Francisco Call, June 3, 1849; Argonaut, Sept. 9, 1895; and miscellaneous pasted clippings.

Clipping files compiled in the Sacramento office of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Internal evidence suggests that these files were circulated routinely among the staff; many clippings contain holograph comments and annotations by staff.

Photographs show club events of E Clampus Vitus - Yerba Buena Chapter. Views include group portraits, photos of historical markers, and various activities around California.

Minutes of two meetings, with signatures of club officials. The club was formed to promote the candidacy of Bernardo Reyes as president of Mexico.

Contains two journals kept by a Berkeley, California teenager mostly documenting his activities and trips taken as a member of Troop 40 of the Boy Scouts of America. The first journal covers a cross-country trip by train to Philadelphia, New...

Transferred from the Clyde A. Wilson journals (BANC MSS 2015/207).

Mainly clippings, documenting his political career as city manager of Sacramento and as member of the California State Board of Examiners, the California State Board of Control, California Tax Commission, California Railroad Commission, and the U.S. Federal Power Commission.

Preliminary list of contents

Photography notes include date of picture, time of day, type of film used and view photographed.

Contains 3 letters concerning the business of Coast Line Stage Company as well as for the parent company Flint, Bixby & Company. Letter of May 30, 1867 from William Lovett to Dr. Thomas Flint, one of the Flint-Bixby partners, concerning...

Letterbooks, ledgers, manuals, and other materials concerning the Oakland-based safety fuse making firm. Box includes 2 ledgers (1867-1875 and 1867-1872) and 1 folder of complaints to the company (1910); volume 1, ledger, 1867-1872; volume 2, ledger, 1867-1875; carton, six adhesive...

Oakland childhood, University of California, Berkeley, 1940-1943; ROTC experience, Army Ordnance officer, England, France; graduate studies in coastal and ocean engineering at UCB: wave and beach research, tsunamis, risk analysis, turbulent motion; thoughts on synergy of sharing ideas, value of...

Includes a copy of diary kept by Charles H. Springer, July - Nov. 1865, while serving with 12th Missouri Volunteer Cavalry in the Powder River Campaign.

Includes a carte de visite portrait of T.J. Cobden-Sanderson (on verso: "Uncle Tom Cobden-Sanderson"), a portrait of Annie Cobden-Sanderson inscribed: Washington, November 17, 1907, and a carte de visite portrait of an unidentified man.

Correspondence, agreements and leases, memoranda and papers in various lawsuits. Also included are a few documents from earlier litigation, 1935-1955.

Contains a photocopy of a Coca-Cola of Los Angeles self-guided "programmed course in profit" given to sales people titled, "Understanding & Figuring Profit," previously completed by an employee, Al Irish, whose name is written in ink at the top. Users...

Mounted on both sides of a linen strip and folded to form 77 pages. (p.p. 1-21 & 57-77 only)

Typescript copy of a presentation given before the California Academy of Sciences, describing the Codex. The slides illustrating the lecture have been cataloged separately.

A collection of laws on ecclesiastical and kindred affairs in the Spanish Indies, apparently corresponding to Book I of a 19th-century version of the Recopilación de leyes de los reinos de las Indias; marginal citations written in the same hand...

Contains a copy of the Berkeley City Manager's Aug. 1968 proposal for Telegraph Avenue improvements, part of the South Campus Urban Renewal Plan, and a copy of the draft report, "Community participation in design, planning and construction of neighborhood parks...

Includes photographs of Cody's Books store locations in Berkeley, Calif., including their first store at 1838 Euclid Avenue and their subsequent stores at 2476 Telegraph Avenue and 2454 Telegraph Avenue. Also includes photographs of the intersection of Telegraph Avenue and...

Portraits of authors taken during readings and other appearances at Cody's Books, Berkeley, Calif., and which were formerly displayed in the bookstore.

Contains records, ephemera, publications, catalogues, fliers, poems, newsletters, articles, correspondence, a cloth banner, etc. concerning the founding, operations, events, and activities of Cody's Books located on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California.

Individual items catalogued separately. Search under title: Bransten Coffee and Tea Collection.

Mainly letters written to Elizabeth Hutching Coffee, including several from her husband, Andrew J. Coffee, one in l854 from San Francisco concerning his work surveying in California and advice on her coming to the area; two letters written by her;...

Illustrated trade cards issued by coffee manufacturers and retailers, chiefly American, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Printed text of cards pertains to advertising of coffee products, coffee preparation and/or the benefits of coffee drinking. Very few illustrations...

Family and athletic childhood in Queens, New York; spinal cord injury, University of Colorado, 1971; Physically Disabled Students' Program, University of California, Berkeley 1973: accessibility to sports programs for disabled children and adults; Disabled Women's Coalition; Berkeley Outreach Recreation Program;...

Family and childhood in Louisville, KY; contracting polio, 1955, and rehabilitation at Georgia Warm Springs Polio Foundation; University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1962-1966; work for civil rights, anti-Vietnam war 1960s-1970s; job counselor, University of California, Berkeley Physically Disabled Students' Program; growth...

Photographs of productions which took place in Leipzig and Paris. Productions: Galileo, Mutter Courage, and Threepenny Opera.

from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;

Consists chiefly of letters to William Colby regarding his work as secretary of the Sierra Club, mostly concerning actions to prevent the flooding of the Hetch Hetchy Valley by the city of San Francisco. Includes some letters addressed to other...

Primarily California views including scenic photographs of the Pfeiffer Redwoods State Park and other California state parks. A number of snapshots of Big Sur and Point Lobos areas, as well as Danie Muir's Fountain Lake farm in Wisconsin are also...

Primarily originals and authenticated copies of Spanish and Portuguese royal decrees, orders of the Guatemalan Audiencia issued in the name of the king, correspondence transmitting decrees, and related documents, concerning the ecclesiastical and civil government of the Indies, particularly in...

A collection of numbered documents and official communications, chiefly printed, relating for the most part to political and military developments in the northern states of Mexico. Volume I contains several Mss., among them a "Reglamento" for a commissariat of war,...

Collection of 743 items, originals and copies, relating to Mexican history during the period between proclamation of the Plan de Iguala and the adoption of the 1843 Bases Orgánicas, with an additional item, no. 743, dated 1865. Covers recognitiion of...

Description of President Soto's collection of woods, minerals, and fibrous plants from Honduras and, in a few instances, from Nicaragua. Fifty-seven cases are described individually.

Original mission records collected in Sonora by Pinart in 1878 (see also his diaries and journals for this period).

An anthology containing selections from major and minor Spanish or Latin American poets, drawn from published and unpublished sources, including translations and adaptations from other languages as well as some Latin verses; citations and explanatory notes by the compiler.

Selection of fine art prints from the body of work Los Nadies, issued by Colectivo Subterráneos. Each print depicts a different figure.

Correspondence and imprints relating to the operations and activities of the Jesuit church and eventual university, La Santisma Trinidad de Guanajuato, including reports on physical property, vice-regal orders, imprints related to the restoration of the church cupoloa and a speech...

Written as commercial agent for the San Francisco & Pacific Sugar Company to the manager of the refinery concerning business matters.

Album of professional photographic views of construction of the original Colgate Powerhouse, built 1899 to1900 by Yuba Electric Power Company on the Yuba River in Yuba County, Calif. Images document detailed construction of powerhouse and related structures, as well as...

A collage, created over many years, of material pinned to walls in the study of poet Thom Gunn at his San Francisco home on Cole Street. The great majority of items are magazine clippings and postcards or greeting cards. Also...

Original collages are entitled: Rubber American flag and The great fence sitter [Eisenhower]. Photographs are of collages apparently exhibited in New Zealand, 1973.

From the C.K. Ogden Library.

Contains incoming correspondence and invitations; ephemera relating to Sutro's involvement with politics; information on the Sutro Library and on the Sutro Baths; records from the Sutro Tunnel Company including correspondence, legal documents and financial documents; pamphlets and posters relating to...

The Gastronomy Collection of George Hall.

Collection of miscellaneous real estate deeds, mortgages, leases, receipts, etc., for properties in California. Includes 2 deeds, dated June 10 and 19, 1861, for mining properties in Tuolumne County owned by Benjamin Soulsby and George C. Soulsby.

Peformance programs, postcards, brochures, and other printed ephemera related to Las Vegas and its casinos, hotels, and night life in the 1950s and 1960s. Includes: Programs for Le Lido de Paris and Cafe Continental Stardust; programs for Folies Bergere at...

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Mildly homoerotic or sexually suggestive cards with illustrations (chiefly line drawings or linocuts) of young men. Images include sailors, Tarzan, and other "beefcake" types.

Collection of greeting cards for Christmas and New Year's. Several are printed or mounted on cloth. Includes one original watercolor sketch.

Assembled from various sources.

Contains a wide variety of printed ephemera covering various topics mostly related to progressive and radical political organizations concerned with worker's rights and other political issues such as economic justice and civil rights cases such as the Scottsboro trial. Most...

Contains correspondence, circulars and broadsides, military documents, household administration documents, and other offical documents from the administration of Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico.

Record of voyage from England to the West Indies with navigational drawings of coast lines, directions for sailing into Boston, and return to England.

Mexico. Sercretaría de Fomento, Colonization e Industria. Transcripts of documents concerning California, Texas, and Mexico, 1821-1856.

Chiefly commercial, real photograph postcards of touristic views taken throughout Mexico.

Flyers, posters, issues of journals, and other printed ephemera related to the 2006 federal elections in Mexico that were distributed on the streets of Mexico City.

Swedish recipes in manuscript, but written in German script.

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels" ([1] l. Ms. 101 x 76 cm.)

Photographs of Ynez Tillinghast Estudillo, and perhaps of the Peralta family, both prominent early families in the San Francisco Bay Area, Calif. Includes portraits, residences of these early California families in San Leandro and El Cerrito, and family snapshots. Unidentified...

From Barney Chapman;

Contains completed biographical questionnaires and/or newspaper clippings glued to unlined leaves of paper (28 pages, 18 x 12 inches) for seven San Francisco-born women writers, likely compiled by Emily Parkhurst. Pages are organized by author name and contain newsclippings of...

An English scrap book kept by a Mr. Macdonald from 1847 to 1906.

Contains incomplete photocopies of official documents from the Viceroy of New Spain, including documents of Bucareli y Ursúa, Martin de Mayorga, Matias de Galvez, Revillagigedo and Branciforte.

Contains 20 letters mostly written from Saxony in the 17th and 18th centuries including Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and Saxe-Eisenberg, as well as other German states including Rappoltsweiler (or Ribeauvillé) and Württemberg. Some of the correspondents are included in the subject listing....

Includes views of the Cliff House, Chinatown, the bay and wharves, ferries, Sutro Baths, the Presidio, the 1906 earthquake and fire, construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, and the Golden Gate International Exposition.

Collection of wedding and birth announcements from San Jose, California, BANC MSS C-B 998, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Includes 2 letters from Jackson to Mr. Niles writing from Colorado Springs and Mr. Alden writing from Berkeley.

Include revised constitutions and correspondence relating to meetings and to a 1964 survey on the teaching curriculum of English departments in California junior colleges and universities. The association, formed to improve the teaching of English at college and university levels,...

Chiefly wilderness outing and travel views. Several photographs of fraternity members and Berkeley scenes.

Comments on agricultural education; beginnings of College of Agriculture; directorship of Northern Branch of College at Davis (1922-24); work with the Rockefeller Foundation surveying agricultural education in Europe (1924-28); establishment of Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics; deanship of College of...

Comments also on deanship of School of Architecture and Planning, M.I.T., 1944, and membership on National Capitol Park and Planning Commission, 1948.

Two certificates, both signed by Sister M. Cornelius, dated June 23, 1870 and June 27, 1871.

Administrative files including articles of incorporation, by-laws, annual reports; meeting minutes; scrapbooks.

For grocery and liquor store on Main Street, Grass Valley, kept by Daniel Collins.

Primarily photographs of landscape paintings ; includes one poloroid view of a painter's studio[?]. Also includes 5 portraits of Collins in his youth.

Series I, Incoming correspondence, 1856-1904, including letters from David D. Colton, Charles Crocker, Edwin B. Crocker, Mark Hopkins and Leland Stanford. Reels 1-54. Series II, Letterpress copy books, 1868-1901. Reels 1-35. Series III, Legal and financial records, 1797-1901. Reels 1-23....

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Chiefly snapshot views taken in Colorado and Mexico, many of which pertain to power generation and mining. Colorado views include prominent buildings and streets scenes in Denver; scenes taken near El Dorado Springs, Boulder and Clear Creek Canyon; and various...

A collection of dictations concerning people and events of Colorado's frontier era; each 1-4 leaves.

Concerning people and events involved in the early days of Colorado; each 1 or 2 leaves.

A collection of dictations concerning people and events of Colorado's frontier era.

A collection of dictations concerning people and events of Colorado's frontier era; each 1 or 2 leaves.

A collection of dictations concerning people and events of Colorado's frontier era; each 1 leaf.

A collection of dictations concerning people and events of Colorado's frontier era; each 1-2 pages.

A collection of dictations from Colorado pioneers, some containing the report of the H.H. Bancroft & Co. agent.

A collection of dictations concerning people and events of Colorado's frontier era; each 1-3 pages.

A collection of dictations from Colorado pioneers living in various parts of the state.

At McMillin, J.M. McMillin (1833-), 1 l.; at West Las Animas, Henry Kellogg (1829-), 3 l.

Each item cataloged separately; search under title: Colorado Dictations for Boulder County.

Each item cataloged separately; search under title: Colorado dictations for Chaffee County.

Each item cataloged separately; search under title: Colorado dictations for Conejos County.

Contains dictations from Louis Cohn, Charles John, William Meyer, and Edmond C. Van Diest.

Dictations and some agent notes. Each item cataloged separately; search under title: Colorado dictations for Custer County.

Dictations from Gus Cohen, W.P. Dewey, M.N. Edwards, W.H. Evans, O.G. Mays, J.F. Squire, T.H. Simonton, and C.M. White.

Each item cataloged separately; search under title: Colorado dictations for El Paso County.

Dictation from Lyman Robinson, 1885; and dictation from A.F. Alexander, 1886.

Either or both agent reports and dictations. Some written on stationery lithographed by John Morris Company of Chicago for the La Veta Hotel of Gunnison, owned by the Lewis Hotel and Improvement Co. and managed by a Mr. Rolney. Each...

Dictations from Henry A. Avery and D.S. Hoffman.

Each 1 or 2 l. At Arvada, Lyman Cole (1832- ); at Evergreen, W.L.F. Andrews (1831- ); at Golden, C.C. Carpenter (1834- ); Alfred A. Mitchell (1858- ); John Nicholls (1842- ); Reuben Calvin Wells (1833- ).

Dictations and some agent reports. Some written on stationery from the Grand Central Hotel with Springdale Watermark.

30 dictations for residents of Lake County, arranged alphabetically.

Dictations and some agent notes. Each item cataloged separately; search under title: Colorado Dictations for Larimer County.

Each item cataloged separately; search under title: Colorado dictations for Park County.

Each item cataloged separately; search under title: Colorado Dictations for Pitkin County.

Some with agent's report. At Del Norte, F.B. Crocker (1828-, 4 l.); George M. Darley (1847-, 4 p.); Ambrose S. Goodrich (1826-, 2 p.); James Byron Grubb (1851-, 3 p.); Asa F. Middaugh (1840-, 1 l.); J.W. Schiffer (1861-, 1...

Dictations from Charles A. Finding, Samuel W. Jones, J.D. Rankin, John D. Roby and W.F. Forman

Dictations and some agent reports. Each item cataloged separately; search under title: Colorado Dictations for Weld County.

Collection contains views of Manitou and Pikes Peak Railway train, Pike's Peak, Pike's Peak Avenue, Colorado Springs, carriages and horses on a mountain road, sightseers, Broadmoor Casino, Manitou Springs, rock formations, scenery, etc.

Photographs depict comprehensive and detailed array of silver, coal and other mines and mining operations in various locations throughout Colorado, including Leadville, Cokedale, Durango and Creede. General views of these mining towns are also included.

Concerns mines and mineral resources, actions and defenses, land tenure, description and travel, stocks, and maps.

Impressions of Colorado; society in Denver; the Rocky Mountain News and known files; William N. Byers and Wilbur F. Stone (and their dictations); H.A.W. Tabor, John Evans, his son-in-law Samuel H. Elbert, and John L. Daily, former partner of Byers.

Scenic landscapes and geological features, including: Pikes Peak, Garden of the Gods, the Manitou vicinity, Glen Eyre, Cheyenne Canyon, Monument Park, Snake River, the Georgetown vicinity, the Snake, Platte and Arkansas River Canyons, Boulder Pass, Canyon City, Estes Park, and...

Title from album cover.

Views show scenery along the Colorado river: boats on the water, cliffs, camp, petroglyphs, etc.

Collection contains views of the Garden of the Gods (rocks, scenery), Cheyenne Mountain and vicinity, Broadmoor resort, and the residence at Pike's Peak summit.

Stereographs captioned: The pride of Leadville, Col., USA [street scene] -- Leadville, Col., USA [general view] -- Loading the great burro train, Aspen, USA [pack burros and men] -- Smelting works, near Georgetown, Col. (by Reilly) -- Loading the miners...

Index of plays performed in Colorado from 1859 to 1940, arranged alphabetically by title, with introduction by the compiler.

Correspondence (letters from Jane Grabhorn, American Institute of Graphic Arts, Gotham Book Mart, Jackson Burke and others); bank statements; check stubs; sales records; accounts, journal, trial balances.

Collection contains correspondence with poets and other writers and an account book.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Contains 6 documents of mining claims transfer of ownership in Columbia, Calif.

Photographs of club affairs, walking trips, camps, marching band, athletic events, and the club's camp at Carmel. Volume 3 also includes newsclippings about the club and its founder, Sidney Peixotto, and the impact of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

The records Include material relating to the "State of Columbia," the club's summer camp. Volume 1 is a small, leatherbound book from 1906: Columbia Park Boys' Club "Charades, prepared by Eugene Richards for John M. Brewer." Volume 2 consists of...

A view from Donner Lake along the Central Pacific Railroad, a view of a tree near Lake Tahoe, Cape Horn from Colfax along the Central Pacific Railroad, the Cliff House in San Francisco, views of waterfalls at Yosemite, and views...

Brown faux leather cover.

Views of scenery along the Columbia River.

Mainly pre-emption notices and deeds.

Photographs of various newsworthy subjects pertaining to University of California, Berkeley, as collected by Colvig during his career in the Office of Public Information. Majority of photographs document events from the U.C. Berkeley Free Speech Movement of November and December...

Describes his experiences as a West Point graduate in the Mexican-American War, including a voyage to California, arrival and life in Monterey. Included are a letter from Edward O.C. Ord to Minor, and one from María Angustias de la Guerra...

Portraits include: Lawrence Ferlinghetti (3), Lenore Kandel, and Gary Snyder. Also included is a view of a storefront of the City Lights Pocket Bookshop, San Francisco, with Luke Gibney and Paul Dreykus visible inside.

A report and covering letter of April 5, 1774, with related documents, addressed by the Governor of Darien to Viceroy Manuel Guirior of Nueva Granada and dealing with current conditions in the Province of Darien, the causes of its decline,...

Scenes of comic situations befalling passengers on a voyage. Each is captioned and numbered in the artist's hand, and it is likely they illustrated a journal or text account of the voyage. No clues to locations or names are present,...

Gives maps of Chalcatongo and nearby towns included in the survey, with lists of owners of cattle and hogs, and census of these animals. Filmed for the Library of Congress.

Contains five letters, 1872-1875, directed to the city council of Muzquiz, Coahuila, concerning the works of the Comision Pesquisidora de la Frontera del Norte. Also includes fourteen letters concerning the efforts led by private citizens and local authorities from other...

Compiled and edited by Doris M. Johnson and Elizabeth S. Calciano, Regional History Office, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Notes early conservation movements; influential organizations and individuals; national and state parks and wilderness areas. Photographs added.

Autobiography and data concerning the Standard Soap Company. A letter from J.P. Cogswell, who started the enterprise, included. Material gathered for Hubert Howe Bancroft by George H. Morrison.

Views of various locations including San Francisco, Catalina Island, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Monterey, Calif.; Manitou, Colo.; Tampa, Fla.; Salt Lake City, Utah; and numerous views of Mexico. Includes photos of hotels, buildings, events and tourist attractions, as well...

With holograph signatures: by the president, James Madison; secretary of state, Jas. Monroe. 1812.

Oath of allegiance, administered at Hillsborough, N.H., Nov. 4, 1799; Acceptance of the resignation of the above commission, June 5, 1801, signed J.T. Gilman, captain general.

With state seal attached.

Part of a collection of certificates, diplomas, and similar documents, primarily from California.

Two printed forms filled in.

Includes materials about the organization's efforts throughout the U.S. to affect policy relating to Franco in Spain. Also includes material relating to Northern California Committee members and activities. Correspondents in the collection include Frieda Wolff, Chairperson of the CDS; Milton...

Early years and family in the Midwest, exposure to music, University of Iowa, and move to Berkeley; early years of the Committee for Arts and Lectures (CAL): first chairmen, committee members, performance locations; discusses William Popper, Baldwin Woods, Albert Elkus,...

Consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence of the Northern California Chapter of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies (CDAAA), outgoing correspondence of Dr. Chauncey D. Leake, a member of the group, reports and minutes, policy statements and...

Committee to Minimize Toxic Waste records, BANC MSS 2010/147, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Contains early drafts of letters, original poetry, notes on the drama and for an article 'On the design and end of tragedy', a Dramatis Personae of Shakespeare's T̀he Tempest', and numerous extracts from other authors.

Include letters from Eugen Neuhaus, Matthew I. Sullivan, William F. Cheney, Thomas W. Leland, Mason B. Starring, Joseph M. Gwinn, Wells Drury, Max Thelen, Harvey M. Toy, William Kent, William H. Waste, Earle A. Walcott, Edward Allen, Stuart R. Ward,...

Includes letters of the section's chairman, G.X. Wendling, and a paper read by Willis L. Jepson.

Incomplete file of minutes of the Board of Governors, and of membership, executive and luncheon program committees.

Views of Commonwealth College in Mena, Ark. show buildings and grounds, some dormitory interiors, students during lectures, etc.

Comments on journalism background; Pat Brown's gubernatorial re-election campaigns, 1962 and 1966; work as State Director of Finance; reorganization of state government in the Brown administration; etc. Appended: copy of an article written for The Reporter.

Broadsides, flyers, and similar items printed by Chester Anderson's Communication Company reflect the public events, politics, social events, and general activities in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. Many of the items bear the Underground Press Syndicate logo.

Childhood in Chicago, involvement with the International Workers' and the Communist Party, the Spanish Civil War, service in World War II, political organizing in the United States, leaving the Communist Party, career in the trucking industry. With this: supporting documentation...

Family background; early work and volunteer experience; getting involved in the environmental justice movement; rise and fall of the National Toxics Campaign; effects of activism on family; work at UC Berkeley's Occupational Health Program; California Comparative Risk Project; current perspectives...

Board of directors meeting minutes, 1923 April-1925 Dec.; Annual Meeting: minutes, memos, notes, and treasurer's reports, 1930-1951 (30 folders); Silver Anniversary report, 1923-1948; 1942 campaign: true stories - thoughts for England, 1942; War Chest correspondence, 1942; War Chest bulletins -...

Contains by-laws, minutes of the trustees, a contact with Bennet Symons, and assessment of the capital stock and a sample report by the Nevada Metallurgical Works.

Documents relating to the steamship company founded by Adolfo E. Cavaillon, with headquarters in Guadalajara. Included are a notary's statement and draft of statutes on formation of the company; a note concerning election of the company's board of directors; and...

The records of Compass, a pacifist journal published at three different Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps during World War II. Compass was considered the Time Magazine of consciountious objectors. The collection documents the magazine's production under three different editors at...

Study of the internment camps for Japanese-Americans established by the U.S. War Relocation Authority during World War II. Includes diagrams of buildings, layout of camps, and maps of the areas and regions surrounding the camps.

List of Mexican chiefs of state during the period 1824-1867, allegedly based on Manuel Rivera's history of Jalapa, but probably compiled from Volume II of his work on Los Gobernantes de México, Mexico City, 1873. Gives dates of each president's...

File of documents presented by José Sánchez y Espinosa, nephew of th6 deceased Dr. José de Torres y Vergara, Archdean of Mexico City Cathedral, and his son, the Count of Santa María de Guadalupe del Peñasco, as administrators of the...

Photographs transferred to the Bancroft Pictorial Collections (BANC PIC 1978.178--PIC)

Parents' background and effects of Holocaust; Judy Heumann's organizing in elementary school; summer at Haverstraw Rehab, 1965; summer at Camp Jened; years at Hofstra, 1970-74: PUSH, ABCD, and DIA boycott of President's Committee; riding the New York subway; move to...

Contains materials from a marketing packet of Comstol Air Transit, Inc., offering air taxi services using short take-off and landing aircraft (STOL) to the Sierra Club and its members. Includes a cover letter signed by the chief pilot, Gerald E....

Includes views of Tahoe region, Yosemite, Riverside, San Bernadino, Berkeley, Stanford, Shasta region, San Jose, Hotel Del Monte (Monterey Peninsula), and orchards.

Comments on relationships of the Brandenstein and Arnstein families; growing up in San Francisco; Presidio Open Air School; marriage to James D. Hart; role as faculty wife, University of California, Berkeley; loyalty oath controversy; working with Berkeley Community YWCA; interest...

Contains nine mimeographed or mechanically reproduced letters, press releases, and internal memos documenting the Concerned Market Street Merchants organization, proposals, and activities. Includes four photographs (as well as two duplicate photographs) depicting homeless persons sleeping on or near Market Street,...

Program for "Mystery of a Misfit Monarch," (1897) which includes a listing of the play's cast (i.e. club members) and a copy of photograph of the club; clippings relating to a fire in 1982 that destroyed the Concordia-Argonaut Club, the...

Family background and education: undergraduate, University of Wisconsin, Madison; graduate student, California Institute of Technology, 1975-1980; postdoctoral fellow in neurosciences, Columbia, 1981-1982; faculty member at Stanford, 1982-2000: assistant professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences; Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and...

Growing up in France, 1927-1949; the beginnings of a career in South America, 1950-1959; settling in San Francisco, 1960; the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, 1971-1988, and conducting assignments in San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s. Includes reminiscences on...

A collection of 92 manuscripts relating to the Italian cities of Genoa and Recco. Housed in a contemporary vellum portfolio.

Bound portfolio volume with large imperial wax seal attached with cord, containing signed official documents conferring a title of nobility upon Carl Ochs von Tillwerth. Also includes 1 folder of other handwritten documents related to his military career.

Collection contains printed notification to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors of bond issue by the Central Pacific Railroad Company signed by Leland Stanford and dated Sep. 22, 1864; official verification that the attached order providing for issue of bonds...

Marchers, police on the streets of downtown Oakland; sit-in at the induction center protesting the draft.

Minutes of the congregation (1972-1984); by-laws; reports; materials relating to its religious school; fliers and brochures; and lists of the congregation's officers and members; together with a report from the Congregation's Committee on Affiliation (1972), which examined the possibilities of...

The bulk of the collection consists of copies of clippings, including biographies of congregants and rabbis, congregation activities, and stories related to the ground breaking ceremony at the Carmel location. In addition, the collection also contains a 25th anniversary booklet...

Correspondence; minutes (1909-1930); bulletins; membership lists; financial records; programs; photographs; newspaper clippings, a handwritten minute book (1940-1943); and a history of the early years of the First Hebrew Congregation and the Berkeley Hebrew Center.

The collection contains the congregation's constitution and by-laws from 1857; minutes; correspondence; photographs; a ketubah from 1859 of Louis Feder and Sophia Hirsch; commemorative books; and a letter from Sir Moses Montefiore (1859) to Moses Hyman that expresses Montefiore's appreciation...

The collection contains by-laws, correspondence, membership lists, a contract with the congregation's Rabbi Morris Schwartz, memorial materials, photographs, rubbings from a bronze plaque that was in the last synagogue building, and two posters for visiting Cantor Ben-Menachim's high holiday services...

The collection consists of financial materials and some minutes of the congregation. It also contains some financial materials from the Jewish Women's Helping Hand Society and the Portland Hebrew Sick Benefit Association.

The collection contains a single, undated volume that has both a birth register and Yahrzeit register, as well as an award plaque and copies of the congregation's newsletter, "The Chronicle."

Letters to the American Home Missionary Society from ministers on their way to Oregon and in the Islands. Letters from: George H. Atkinson, Elias Bond, William P. Alexander, Samuel C. Damon, Charles S. Kittredge, and others.

Reports from Congregational ministers in Oregon to the American Home Missionary Society.

Reports from Congregational ministers in Washington to the American Home Missionary Society.

Concerning his position as special assistant to the chief of the Service in handling the agency's relations with Congress, other agencies and the timber industry, and in program planning. Photographs and copies of documentary material included.

Collection of 84 handwritten life insurance policy application letters, with integral stampless address leaves, dated January 5, 1849 to January 14, 1852. Most letters were written by agents of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company to company Secretary (later President)...

An epic in 31 cantos of 10 octaves each by a member of the Dominican Convent of Rosario in Guadalajara, describing the Spanish conquest of Jalisco and also the founding and development of Guadalajara, during the period 1530-1547. There are...

An account of her association with Junior League, State Relief Administration, League of Women Voters and Farm Bureau Federation, and her political career as member of Board of Supervisors, Santa Cruz Co., 1956-62. Comments also on her uncle, Herbert Hoover,...

Discussion of interest in preserving California historical landmarks and work with State Park Commission; review of political career in state assembly and senate and as U.S. congressman. Included also: interviewer's correspondence with Knowland, Drury and state archivist; chronology and legislative...

Photographs show San Francisco Bay Area scenery. Some are of Butano Forest, showing Dorothy Erskine acting as chair of "Save the Butano Forest Citizens' Committee of San Francisco." Other photos show views of and from Billy Goat Hill in San...

Comments on working with Republican women's groups; positions held in the party; campaigns; and the 1976 national Republican convention. Copy of photograph inserted.

An account of her association with Junior League, State Relief Administration, League of Women Voters and Farm Bureau Federation, and her political career as member of Board of Supervisors, Santa Cruz Co., 1956-62. Comments also on her uncle, Herbert Hoover,...

The Constance Reid research materials on Jerzy Neyman comprise correspondence, notebooks, research notes, and interviews that Reid either gathered or conducted in support of research on her book, "Neyman--from life," published in 1982 about the Polish-American mathematician and statistician Jerzy...

Scrapbooks, 1913-1920 (3 v.); European travel diaries, 1925-1930 (5 v.); diaries, 1913-1935 (15 v.).

A collection of documents relating primarily to the Franciscan order in America and comprising copies of the Constituciones of the Colegio, March 1, 1756, revised from the 1702 text; briefs of Pope Innocent XI, May 11 and October 16, 1686,...

Photographs of colonial architecture in Mexico along the route; many taken in Cuernavaca, Temixco, Taxco, and various smaller towns.

Unidentified photos, presumably of ore processing plant construction on steep hillside near inlet of water; in some views a town is visible on flat land near water, with steep mountain opposite. Includes interior and exterior views featuring buildings, machinery, workers,...

Photographs show various stages of dam construction.

from Michael Fairley;

Photographs show the construction of the tunnel linking Oakland and the island of Alameda, California.

Photographs document numerous stages of construction of the office building of an unidentified African American physician in Oakland, Calif. Some photographs depict the temporary office of Oakland architect George E. Ellinger adjacent to the construction site. Also includes photographs depicting...

Photographs document the construction process of the interchange of United States Highways 92 and 101 in San Mateo, California. Photographs depict planning diagrams, highway models, pre-construction views, a groundbreaking ceremony, construction scenes, and views of the area after completion of...

Includes construction of bridges in Dimond [sic] Can[y]on, Hayward, Calif., the Exchequer Reservoir, Donner Summit, and Hunter's Point. Also includes 3 loose copy photographs (and 1 p. text) documenting the creation of Treasure Island, in the San Francisco Bay.

Photographs include general views of the site before the exposition, manufacture of statuary, large scale landscaping, architectural details showing construction of various elements, individual buildings, electrical control rooms, the telephone system (including "telephone girls"), and related views.

Contains construction views of the Pardee Dam along the Mokelunme River drainage showing the area before the reservoir was built (including the Lancha Planta dredge fields), construction process, the Pardee work camps, and the flood of 1928. Also includes construction...

Includes South of Market district street scenes, especially around First Street, track laying for street cars, and constuction of the Transbay Transit Terminal.

Contains photo-report showing construction progress of the Alcan (Alaska) Highway, from Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, north. Views of Alaskan and Yukon Territory scenery, especially along the White River and Whitehorse area; vegetation; the Utah Construction Company camps and workers; road building...

Photographs documenting construction of an office building for the Ford J. Twaits Company, Construction Engineers, at corner of Maryland and Boylston Streets, Los Angeles, between August and November of 1941. According to photograph captions, the architect of the building was...

Eight views of the Grand Coulee Dam (Washington state) under construction. Two photographs show the Bonneville Dam from an elevated perspective.

Views show grocery stores, consumers, office groups, celebrations, and other scenes related to the Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley.

Continuation of the 5 volumes of Voz de la Patria; contains a record of principal events in Mexico October 1831 to March 1839, with special attention to the defeat and death of Vicente Guerrero, the activities of Santa Anna and...

Reminiscences of childhood in the Philippines; her father, David Prescott Barrows; schooling in Berkeley; student days at the University of California, 1915-1919; living in the president's home on campus; social life and friends in Berkeley; marriage to Gerald H. Hagar...

V.1-List of cattle brands registered in the county, 1845-1868 (photocopy); v.2-assessment roll, 1858; v.3-index to assessment roll, 1898; v.4-minutes of meetings of board of trustees for the Walnut Creek school, 1860-1875.

Tax assessment records for the years 1870-1943.

Include deeds and other documents.

Consists of 1 volume of 1877 Contra Costa County tax assessment lists for Township #3 (Pacheco land grant and Todos Santos [Concord]), and 3 volumes of 1876, 1877, and 1881 assessment lists for Township #5 (including Byron, Brentwood, south and...

Contains correspondence, committee minutes, financial records, reports, and four articles about the committee published in the East Bay Water Company's Bubbles and Property Owners Magazine. Also includes a map of Berkeley and Oakland prior to the formation of the regional...

Include information on expenditures, receipts, assessments, and on amount of water used in fire hydrants in Oakland.

Contract and specifications for furnishing an organ for Festival Hall, BANC MSS 2017/87, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Comments on his role as the contracting officer for the Regents of the University of California in negotiations regarding U.S. government laboratories administered by the University, with major emphasis on the contract for the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.

13 v.

Transcripts of the notes taken by stenographers during conversations held by Díaz and Bancroft in Díaz's house, from December 26, 1883, through early January, 1884; partially in dialogue form, but chiefly a third-person paraphrase of information supplied by Díaz. Deals...

Four essays by the parish priest of Tepecuacuilco, an Inquisition official, designed to guide other priests in expounding the bases of spiritual and temporal felicity to the Indians in accordance with instructions circulated by Archbishop Lorenzana in 1768; preceded by...

Comments on early interest in typography and work in the east before coming to California; his work for the Monotype Composition Company in San Francisco, and the formation of Mackenzie and Harris; San Francisco fine printing tradition; Bruce Rogers, Frederic...

Recollections of suffrage work in Great Britain; U.S. suffrage campaign; formation of the National Woman's Party; the equal rights amendment campaign. Appended: copies of documentary material, including letters, suffragists' songs, articles, etc. With this: material relating to the National Woman's...

Discussion of service as Alameda Co. District Attorney and as California Attorney General; reorganization and expansion of the Attorney General's office; his gubernatorial years and new programs initiated by him; national campaigns; and appointment to the Supreme Court.

Typed transcript of tape-recorded interviews, with photographs pasted in at end, containing information concerning Mrs. Cassidy's father, Eber Rockwell Sizer; his association, as guide and interpreter, with Kit Carson during the Indian wars, 1864-1868; Sizer family genealogy; San Ildefonso Indians,...

Unrevised and unedited typed transcripts of tape-recorded interviews conducted by Eloyde Tovey. Comments on his work, other poets, presses, magazines, anthologies, etc.

Concerning loan of material for an exhibition at South Place Institute relating to Tom Paine and his contemporaries (3 items). With these: clipping from The Times re the exhibition and [a list of items loaned?]

Photograph of house in Congress Springs where Stoddard roomed, photographs of Stoddard indoors and outdoors. One studio portrait signed by Stoddard's [foster?] son.

Coolbrith pictorial miscellany includes views of her various residences, some family members and associates, as well as some vintage copy photos of San Francisco scenes. Also includes views of Berkeley, Oakland, and Beckwith (i.e. Beckwourth, Plumas County, CA.) Some photographs...

Includes letter from Joseph Aram to his daughter, Mrs. Sarah M. Coole, relating to the California Constitutional Convention in 1849.

Concerns rents collected on land and household expenses.

Physical materials contain the correspondence, journals, and genealogical information of the Cooper family. Correspondence is dated from 1829 through 1877 with the bulk of the letters dating from 1835 through 1853. Most of the correspondence is to and from William...

Cooperation in Documentation & Communication records, BANC MSS 99/348 cz, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Microfilm copies of the Cooper-Molera family papers held by the Society of California Pioneers in San Francisco, California. Includes correspondence as well as business and legal papers relating to John (Juan) B. Rogers. Among these materials are log books and...

Photographs related to ranch operations in California, including snapshots of crop harvesting, irrigation, flood damage (all in PIC box 1) and livestock (PIC box 2). Many were taken around the Salinas River and Moro Cojo area. Also included is a...

The larger print (albumen) shows San Pablo Ave. ca. 1900, then open country, with a view of Berkeley, Calif. in the background; the two smaller prints (platinum) are portraits of Libby and Kate Armstrong, owners of Armstrong Grove.

Letterbook containing copies of reports and tabular data on primary education in the State of Jalisco from September 23, 1848, to December 20, 1849.

Copies of editorial comment in the Tegucigalpa newspaper, La Paz, inspired by correspondence between President Marco Aurelio Soto of Honduras and José Milla, in which the former questioned the theory that Columbus landed in Honduras or any other part of...

Copied by Thomas Savage.

Volumes I and II contain copies or references to documents and some original documents. Part III (oversize) contains 2 ms. broadsides signed by Governor Micheltorena in 1843 and a proclamation issued in 1846 signed by R.F. Stockton.

Selections from the works of Görres, mostly relating to European politics and government, all copied in manuscript by the same unidentified person, probably H. Roudil of Koblenz, Germany.

Copies of documents relating to the Fourth Mexican Provincial Council held under the presidency of Archbishop, later Cardinal, Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana.

Includes copies of the following: first issue of The Panama Star; muster roll, pay roll receipts, contracts, etc. relating to California Battalion; William B. Ide's Bear Flag Proclamation; lists of vessels in port of San Francisco, 1849; letters of Alfred...

Forms part of the Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection.

Originals in: records of the General Land, National Archives (RG 49)

Photographic copy negatives only.

J. Bake v. c. annotationes in Homeri librum XI & XII Odÿsseae, 1816-1817. Annotationes in Plutarchi vitam Ciceronis. Interpretatio Plutarchi vitae Ciceronis. n.p., 1817.

Photograph album of small format, professional views of construction of the Copper River and Northwestern Railway and associated subjects, taken at various stages and locations during the challenging project that connected the Kennecott Copper Mines with the port town of...

Biography of George Selth Coppin, Australian actor, with information on Coppin's American tour omitted from the published version entitled Coppin the Great (published 1965).

Copy of decree regarding secularization of the San Luis Obispo mission.

Typescript English translations, with numerous manuscript corrections, of original Spanish language documents concerning the presence of American beaver traders along the Gila River in 1826. They include a general statement of findings (4 p.) by the mayor of Tucson [Arizona],...

contains diary, June 8-Aug. 10, and relates incidents on crossing the Isthmus and voyage to San Francisco.

Copies of photographic prints on paper mounts that possibly formed an album. Each original was captioned in manuscript, in Spanish, on the bottom edge of the mount. Views include group portraits of expedition members and views taken in South America,...

Records of books, maps, and prints entered for copyright in California from 1851 to 1870. Also includes copyrights issued to H.H. Bancroft & Co., 1859-1870.

Contains writings of Rowe including the unpublished work "The Enduring Quest," about the experiences of her family after her husband was fired for not signing the Loyalty Oath, essays about D-Day and Nuclear Waste and a poem about the Atom...

Contains 51 volumes of a daily record of her activities, with comments, also, about her husband, Fremont Older.

Correspondence, invoices, receipts, bills, and statements of the hardware firm operated by Henry W. Corbett and James F. Failing. Some papers are from antecedent firms: H.W. Corbett & Company; Failing & Hyatt; and J. Failing & Company.

Contains correspondence and family history documents of the Coridon Bemont Phelps family. Also includes scrapbook of poems belonging to Mary Alice Phelps.

Contains snapshots of unidentified group taken at Oakland Municipal Airport (Calif.). Also includes carte-de-visite portrait of Julia Ward Howe (author of Battle Hymn of the Republic), as well as postcards of Salt Lake City, Utah; Abbey Island, Washington; and Grand...

Copies of family citizenship papers; bills of sale; stock certificates; a season book from the Panama Pacific International Exposition (1915); and photographs of the Corinson family, buildings in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake, and of the firm of Sanborn...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Contains poems and clippings mostly concerning the removal of her parents graves because of the building of Folsom Dam.

Primarily her research notes on California history, and on the Stratton family, especially her grandfather, James T. Stratton, and her father, Frederick S. Stratton. Fragments of her incomplete manuscript concerning them, What a Time, What a Place, and a small...

Includes letters to Estelle P. Crane; MSS of ten Sterling poems; transcripts of the letters with related notes; letter from Mrs. Crane to Sterling; letter from H.L. Mencken to Cornelia Christenson re the Sterling letters; and clippings.

typescript transcript of interviews conducted by Sally Smith Hughes, 1979-1980, with her editorial marks. The transcript was never fully reviewed by the interviewee. Tobias discusses his career as a biophysics professor at UC Berkeley and medical physic researcher for Lawrence...

Contains four binders of materials related to the effects of radiation on the human body. Includes Tobias's original notes and selected chapter drafts for, "Space Radiation Biology and Related Topics" (1974), co-authored with Paul Todd, his lecture notes for a...

Papers relating to Cornelius B. Bradley's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Box 1 Contains diaries kept by a professor of English, University of California, Berkeley, recording his experiences teaching; life in Berkeley and Oakland; interest in local politics; work in his church; vacations in the California mountains. Accounts in some of...

Consists of notices and memoranda of Berkeley Club and manuscript of "A Russian method of multiplication."

For Lot no. 3 on Queen Street (Manhattan) as shown on map made by Francis Maerschalckm, on June 8, 1751.

Includes a photo of a bust, a photographic portrait and a group portrait including William Keith, Brother Cornelius[?] in front of one of Keith's paintings, and a photo of Keith's portrait of Collis P. Huntington. Also includes a photo of...

Administrative and program records/

Lists of the development organizations, with names of the officers, accomplishments and plans for the future.

Photocopy of letters written by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1539. Also includes a typescript transcription of the letters.

Primarily papers of Antonio F. Coronel but including also some papers of his father, Ignacio Coronel.

Contains 9 letters written by Elie Frederic Forey, Marques de Rivas Cacho, Juan de Dios Peza, Jose Salazar Ylarregui, Felix Douay and E. Vialla, concerning military matters during Emperor Maximilian's reign, including the fortifications for Veracruz, baggage, muleteers, provisions, and...

Contents: v. 1 (film) - Proceedings of a Naval Court-martial held aboard the U.S.S. Warren ... [Oct. 5-19, 1849] (200 exp. neg.); v. 2 (portfolio) - Negative photostats of letters and reports, Sept. - Oct., 1849, to A.D. Bache, Superintendent,...

Letters and postcards from British writers concerning publication of their works. The bulk of the letters are addressed to a Mr. Metcalfe, Mr. Bowles, G. Johnson, and a publication titled The Reader. Writers are Morley Roberts, Ernest William Hornung, Mrs....

Copies, made in 1875 for H.H. Bancroft, of correspondence of Franciscan Father José María de Jesús González Rubio, concerning his ecclesiastical career. Included are letters from Bishop García Diego, Fathers Mariano Sosa, José Pérez, Angel Martínez, Rafael Espinosa, Rafael Soría...

The papers are notable for 114 letters by William A. Carter and his wife Mary E. to their daughter Ada and her husband, Dr. Joseph K. Corson, May 28, 1858-July 21, 1886, and include two letters of 1866 by Ada...

Dictation recorded by Henry Cerruti for H.H. Bancroft.

Snapshots of home exteriors, a group in an automobile, an ox cart, children, public buildings in San José (Costa Rica), trains, a sugar cane field and coffee curing facility (1 or 2 views) and 12 construction views of the Panama...

Women's (size 34) designed by Lucy Barton, official costume designer for the commission.

Cotati Company accounts journals (11 v.) include day books, time and wage books, and a sales book for the Cotati Ranch, Sonoma County, California. Also includes a small amount of correspondence between W. D. Page and Fred Keppel interfiled with...

Comments on his work as head of the Cotton Section; his assistant, Wofford B. Camp and other members of the program; the use of agricultural extension forces, etc. Appended: copies of letters written by Cobb to people studying the AAA...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Contains minutes of board meetings, open discussions and press conferences.

Growing up in Oregon, Washington, and California; marriage to Verne Roberts and raising four sons; PTA work in San Mateo; polio of son Edward V. Roberts at age 15: medical care, iron lung, therapy, transition to home; Ed's continuing education:...

Transferred from Law Library, UC Berkeley.

Notices of the location of mines, Pendencies of action, Minutes. Court Sessions.

V. 1-2: reporter's transcript, Lilienthal Co. v. M.C. Cole, et al, Nov. 1916.

Typescript prepared for publication of Zakin's book on the environmental group Earth First! Includes comments by Dave Foreman, founder of the organization.

Title devised by cataloger.

Consists of family papers from the descendents of William and Ellen Craft and James M. Trotter, including a small amount of correspondence and original documents, as well as genealogical research notes and clippings gathered by various members of the families,...

Partial inventory available.

Mainly court actions.

Concerns the years of litigation between Kathleen M. Crandall and her former domestic partner Lisa Wagner over guardianship and visitation rights of their two children. These records are mainly litigation documents and case-related correspondence, along with corroborative letters and materials...

Photographs of the Crane and Berg families also include McCoy, Scott, Adams, and Mitchell family portraits, taken chiefly in Missouri studios. Also includes family snapshot albums (1920's) of activities in and around Corning, Calif. in the 1920's, and an album...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Correspondence, subject, investments, and clipped articles concerning his activities and interests as an attorney and in education. Scrapbooks contain correspondence, clippings, articles, publications, pamphlets, personalia.

Albums 1-3 contain mainly snapshots of family activities, leisure, outings, etc. Many photos of children and people dressed in distinctive clothes are included. Album 4 consists mainly of formal portraits of James Coffin and family (some by Genthe), several taken...

Notebook used as student identification album of Escuela Magnetico Espiritual de la Comuna Universal, kept by the "Maestro de Credenciales" (title crossed out on front cover). Contains small, chiefly oval photographic portraits annotated with names and towns of origin of...

Winiarski discusses his academic background, St. John's College, University of Chicago, and Italy; choosing a career in winemaking, Martin Ray winery; Souverain winery, 1964-1966, and Lee Stewart; mid-1960s technology, cold fermentation for white wines; Robert Mondavi winery startup, 1966-1968; making...

Positive photostats of the documents signed by Peter H. Burnett and William Van Voorhies; and of report, June 28, 1950, of Sherwood Morrill, Examiner of Questioned Documents; photographs of impressions of the Great Seal of California. With explanatory note, The...

A list of persons with amounts owed to the mission.

Portraits, some mug shot style, of law officers, district attorney, and presumably suspects involved in bank robbery. Some are posed in profile, and all are posed against a blank wall. Annotations on back identify some subjects as Sheriff Jack Breen,...

Letters to Cyrus Mendenhall and other Crescent Silver Co. officials are mainly from A.F. Curtis but also from H.M. & W. Teller, J.W. Horner, Wm. H. Cushman, Edward Reilly, and E.W. Stephens, Jr. Letters from Curtis and Reilly, agents of...

Contains letters from Crescent Silver Company agents in Bakerville, Clear Creek Co., Colo. reporting to the Executive Committee in Cincinnati. 78 lengthy letters, chiefly from William Mendenhall, give a detailed picture of the everyday workings of the mines, and his...

A property report and a project study for ore production featuring history of the area, geological analysis, stipulations of deed of sale and marketing contract, production charts, machinery diagrams and specifications, ore production forecasts, photographs and illus flow charts, photographs...

Notes assembled by Hayes and given to H.H. Bancroft, 1877, with occasional copies of legal papers. Mainly concerning murder trials. Included also are papers in the case, Eulogio Celis vs. Benjamin D. Wilson, Pio Pico and Albert Packard, concerning land...

Contain copies of her articles and poems on conservation, the California redwoods, Yosemite, Mt. Tamalpais, and Muir Woods.

Images depict Cristero soldiers, priests, followers, an encampment, and various group or crowd scenes from the Cristero Rebellion in Mexico. Locations include Mexico City and Hidalgo.

Some photographs are of the Crites family, Kern County, Calif. pioneers. Others are of hunting trips in Canada, Alaska, and Africa.

Excerpts from Vols. IX, X, and XI of the Mexican National Archives, section on History, outlining the history, religious development, and natural resources of New Spain, with emphasis on the province of Michoacán and the work of the Franciscans. Printed...

Papers relating to the administration of the Provincias Internas (principally in Nueva Vizcaya and Coahuila) under Commandant General Croix, primarily concerning Indian disturbances and finances. Includes information on many Lipan and Mescalero leaders.

Photoprints, clippings, and notes related to the Minnie Church family, with material on related individuals of the Church, Ledbetter, Cromberg, and Langhorst families. Many views of turn of the century San Francisco and damage from the 1906 earthquake and fire....

Letters and bills to the restaurant/bakery from wholesale suppliers in California and Nevada.

Archive of Harry W. Crosby's photographs pertaining to his travels throughout Mexico, containing portraits, views and everyday scenes taken in various locations, including Sonora, Sinaloa, Jalisco, Baja California, Colima, Nayarit, Michoacán, Chihuahua, Zacatecas, Durango, Guanajuato, Pinacate, Trincheras, Batuc, Los Alamos...

Fine art prints pertaining to various subjects and themes.

Hectographed scripts for radio program with Laurence L. Cross, in form of minstrel shows. With this, poem, Cross Cuts, by Elmer Clark.

Small snapshots documenting the earliest years of Charles Mumaw Cross, the son of Charles Norman Cross, an engineer on the faculty of Stanford University. Photographs depict young Cross, a few relations and family friends, the family's Palo Alto neighborhood, the...

Letters written by James Henry Gower Croswell, Mary Croswell Gower, John T. Gower, Andrew Croswell and others mainly concerning their steam flour mill and other business interests on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands and in Oakland, California. Some letters discuss...

Chiefly studio portrait photographs of various members of the Crow family, early settlers in Stanislaus County, including William Parker Crow, Clara Crow Boudreaux, Charlotta Boudreaux, Myrtie Crow, Charlotte Dawson Crow, Hammie Crow, Jane Thrilkell Crow, Minnie Crow and Bob Crow.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Interviews with seven men who worked as policy makers in various branches of the corporation, covering timber management, accounting procedures, technological innovations, personnel management and public relations. Conducted 1965-66 by Amelia R. Fry for the Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft...

A letter to the publishers of the "Semanario Político y Literario," submitting for publication Fernández's translation of the Cremona, 1781-1782, edition of Count Giovanni Rinaldo Carli's Cartas Americanas, reviewing the content of the Cartas, and praising them as an important...

Chiefly snapshots on board the Princess Louise and in ports between San Francisco and Alaska. Includes Seattle, Victoria B.C., Alert Bay, Indians, scenery, travelling companions, etc.

On cover: F.A. Dunsmoor.

Comments on French's work timber cruising in the redwoods, experiences as first ranger-supervisor for the Northern California Redwood State Parks (1931-1953) and interest in the Save-the-Redwoods League. Photographs inserted.

Contains the report from members of the San Francisco division of the Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women about the rift between their office and that of the national office in Seattle, Wash. Also contains the responses back and forth...

Primarily portraits of C.S. Forester and others. Also includes one engraving of a British ship (18th century?).

Volumes I and III of records relating to the Department Revenue Guard for Guadalajara under Captain Felipe Pesquera.

Miscellaneous notes and reminiscences concerning historical events inCalifornia.

Copy of a report on Cuba prepared by a commission headed by Francisco Dionisio Vives. Includes a brief history of the island, geographical description, information on the flora and fauna, minerals and other natural resources, climate, government, population and agriculture.

Album includes many snapshots and fewer professional photographs. The snapshots, which may primarily be of Cuba, are views of shoreline, ships and boats (some with American flags), dock workers hauling in boats, passengers, countryside, a couple in a buggy, interior...

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A collection of accounts and related documents concerning the new Guanajuato Alhóndiga, or public granary, now famous for its use as a fortress in 1810. Includes receipts and expense statements for construction, 1797-1809, acknowledgments and orders for transmittal signed by...

Accounts relating to the settlement of the estate of Catarina Marroquín of Quezaltenango, Mexico, including evaluation of the estate, distribution to heirs, and expenditures of the administrator.

Accounts for the confraternity, for money received but also for expenditures and information on election of officials of the organization.

Chiefly his private papers as Governor of California, 1939-1943. Material concerning the Democratic Party, his term as State Senator, off-shore oil, unemployment relief, prisons, savings and loan associations, etc., and a few items relating to his term as Utah State...

Interior scenes of the Hearst residence.

Most are addressed from France. Concern her Negro Anthology, with commentary concerning Langston Hughes and other black writers; education; art; politics and civil rights issues.

San Joaquin County criminal mug shots, with some accompanying documentation.

Written from Sacramento, describing life there and his work as a teamster for the miners.

One album, and one folder containing loose items removed from the album.

Contains research notes and articles on the Apinagé Indians, Canella Indians, Cayapo Indians, Masakarí Indians, Ramkokamekrá Indians, Sherente Indians, Tapajó Indians, and Tucuna Indians.

Consists of two research notebooks spanning the years 1920-1929, as well as materials relating to his book The Principles of Human Genetics.

Letters, answers to Mrs. Schlichtmann's questionnaires, and extended recollections, in which he comments, as a long-time resident of Tuolumne County, on mining towns, stage drivers, freighters and teamsters, stage routes, pioneer families, Yosemite National Park, the "cattle war" of the...

Includes letters to William F. Curtis from his parents, Anna Maria and John W. Curtis, and his brothers, Edwin and Alfred, mainly describing life in Australia and the gold mining there; a journal, May-Sept. 1864, kept by W.F. Curtis, recording...

Correspondence, legal papers, autograph album, and miscellany.

Transcripts of documents relating to Brazil in the mid-18th century treating such diverse subjects as agriculture, Jesuit administration of temporalities, multitude of native dialects, treaty of limits of 1757, rents, and finances. Most are from the Colecçāo Pombalina, Biblioteca Nacional,...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Chiefly unidentified family snapshots and studio portraits. The name of Dominic Cutrera of San Francisco, Calif. appears on some material.

Correspondence, Cutter site history material, corporate documents, meeting minutes and files, annual reports, research project reports, financial records, employee handbooks, public relations material, product catalogs and literature, medicine advertisements, price lists, and other material.

Photos show portions of Mission San Juan Capistrano in ruins.

Includes the following vessels: the Pensecola, the Yorktown, the Pawtucket, the Vallejo, and the Independence. Some locations identified as Mare Island and Vallejo, Calif. Most locations unidentified, but probably San Francisco Bay. Several launching and dock scenes.

Photograph album consists of small snapshots, mounted one per leaf, of men and women bicyclists on outings around the San Francisco Bay Area. San Francisco scenes include Golden Gate Park, waterfront, harbor, Market Street, street railroads, Chronicle Building, Jefferson Square,...

Included in: History of Science and Technology Collection.

Correspondence, including letters from Leland Whitman Cutler, Taliesin Evans, Edward Howard Griggs, and David Starr Jordan; financial records, 1899-1917; minutes, 1933-1941; resolutions, programs, etc.

Letters written to Clemens by Sterling's sisters and by people who knew him, including Stanton A. Coblentz, Adolphe De Castro, Miriam Allen De Ford, James Hopper, Rolfe Humphries, Una Jeffers, Charmian London, Mira Maclay, Elsie Martinez, Haig Patigian, Noël Sullivan,...

Chiefly materials documenting Cyril Eugene Smith's education and teaching career, along with a few family papers. The bulk of the collection consists of daily journals for the years 1920 to 1968, which include accounts of his years as a student...

Contains 16 handwritten letters, 3 pocket diaries (May 1849-May 1850, April-June,1851, July-September, 1851),1 typescript autobiography of Cyril Hawkins, 2 handwritten biographical sketches written for the McConnelsville Herald, 1 handwritten copy of a proposed bill in Ohio concerning elevator safety, 5...

Letters, telegrams, and a few invoices reflecting the affairs of an active Portland, Oregon lawyer. Many are from his brother, Joseph Norton Dolph, U.S. Senator from Oregon, 1882-1895.

Written from the time he left East Troy, Wisconsin, describing overland journey to California; mining in and near Placerville; purchasing property, water races, and grocery stores; raising cattle; trading gold dust. Letters reflect economic life and mining activities, locally and...

Contains material related to the formation of the San Antonio Light and Power Company. Includes contracts and agreements with the City of Riverside and others. The bulk of the collection consists of photostats of correspondence, deeds, appropriations, and other material...

Boyhood in Virginia; early inventions, including the McCormick reaper; growth of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company.

Describes journey from Portland, Maine to San Francisco aboard the steamer Daniel Webster in 1852; working as a gold miner near Stockton and Sonora; working in a mill yard in San Andreas before returning home sometime in 1855. Also includes...

Abstract of title and deeds to property in Yuba County. Letters, Aug. 22 & 29, 1876, from Jo Hamilton, Attorney General, Calif., and reply from J.H. Keys concerning proposed litigation for damages from mining debris on Bear River bottom lands.

Contains 30 handwritten letters of the Cyrus Stedman family of Medfield, Massachusetts. Twenty-one of the letters are from Cyrus Stedman, on his way to and living in California, to his wife, Mary, and children in Medfield, Massachusetts. Eight of the...