Includes a list of questions for jurors during selection, military discharge papers from 1917, and a certificate of work under the Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II from 1945. Some items discussing the trial reference interviews,...

The J. California Cooper papers document her literary life. The collection contains correspondence with, personalia from, and writings by the award-winning African American author. Correspondence is personal and professional, incoming and outgoing. It includes cards and letters to family members,...

Written from Murphy's Bar, Calif. to Juan de Dios Sepulveda in San Francisco to obtain certified copies of documents in Spain concerning inheritance of family estate.

Correspondence, writings, conference and course materials, research notes subject files, papers by others, maps and rock art drawings. The collection includes a significant amount of material related to his work in Africa, particularly on Ethiopia and Kalambo Falls.

Letters from C.B. Lewis and R.D.S. Taylor, his publisher, concerning Lewis's book, Quad's odd.

Diaries, 1877-1889 (5 v.), field notebooks, 1857-1889 (22 v.), reports, accounts, legal papers, manuscript maps. Also includes correspondence (incoming and outgoing), 1857-1891.

Files relating to Johnson's biography of Justices of the California Supreme Court, published as History of the Supreme Court Justices of California.

Written from Sacramento, two appended to lettersheets of the second and third issues of Sacramento News-Letter, a fortnightly publication. Relate to his business, that of selling goods on commission.

Front facade of adobe house later called the Gutiérrez Hubbell House (hacienda) in Pajarito, New Mexico. Store and post office shown at the right end of building, with sign for "J. Felipe Hubbell, General Merchandise, Post Office".

Deals with accounts, filling orders, transport of goods, retaining customers and underselling competitors for the Navarro Mill Co.

Date books and diaries recording engagements of the Mackey Amusement Enterprises, handling bookings for theater, vaudeville, and talking pictures (actors performing scripts during silent film showings). Some volumes include accounts and addresses.

The early letters describe his activities while a member of the Isaac Ingalls Stevens' party to explore a route for the Pacific Railroad, life at Fort Vancouver, the collecting of specimens and gold washing. Later letters relate to his work...

Describes his 1847 overland journey; the Rogue River Indian wars of 1855-1856; adventures in Oregon and California, to which he trailed cattle in 1858; Civil War service with the 1st Oregon Cavalry Volunteers in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Bound in...

Letterpress copybook of J. Henry Strachan in his role as superintendant of Francis Marion Smith's mining company, Teels Marsh Borax Mining Company, containing letters dated from July 9, 1887 to August 24, 1890. All letters are signed by J. Henry...

Santa Fe, New Mexico.Contains invoice, order form, and correspondance for trees sent on consignment to F.J. Gormley's grocery store in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Describing overland journey from Missouri to California in 1850, experiences mining in Nevada City and farming on Skull Bone Ranch near Colusa. Also included are a few letters from his brother Henry who joined him on his farm in 1853.

Three letters relating to the exchange of books with the Hawaiian Government Library.

Printed shipping receipt of the steamer Julia with manuscript entries for 2 trunks and 3 boxes received from a freight forwarding company, J. Pache & Co., to be shipped from Stockton to M. Eldredge at 36 Clay Street in San...

Includes photographs pertaining to the early logging and lumbering of giant sequoia in the Sierra Nevada of California; Converse Basin grove, Calaveras Big Tree grove, and other giant sequoia habitats; early figures in the movement to conserve the giant sequoia;...

Includes a few portraits of J. Ross Browne, a few dozen portraits of his daughter Lucy Mayotta Browne Hoffman, and other portraits and snapshots. Other descendants of Browne and Hoffmann are also depicted. Also includes a self-portrait caricature drawing by...

Describe California in 1849 and concern property in Oakland; some to J.W. Denver regarding the condition of California Indians. Also photocopy of letter to James A. Garfield, protesting the liquor tax.

Notes his family and early life, including experiences as a bondsalesman; his own firm in San Francisco; his ideas on irrigation and municipal bond issues and government controls; theories of taxation; interest in and work for various water and power...

Papers and correspondence of San Francisco banker and bond broker J. Rupert Mason, primarily regarding single tax and business aspects of California irrigation, water, and land use.

Collection mainly consists of clippings of magazine and newspaper articles by Oakland author J. Torrey Connor from the 1890's-ca. 1930. Many of these were published in Los Angeles newspapers or in national publications. Also contains clippings from society pages about...

Letters written by him, mostly from the Yukon Territory, describing his work mining gold. Comments on weather, trip from Skagway to Dawson City, Dawson City, life in mining camp, difficulties with cooks, etc.

Papers relating to Futrell's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Contains two handwritten letters to a friend back home concerning J. William Schuchert's life in California. In the first letter (3 p.), dated Oct. 22,1852, Schuchert describes his overland trip to California, the town of Marysville, California, including finding work...

J.A. Drinkhouse papers, BANC MSS 2017/88, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Posters, announcements, and a calendar of events (for June 1967) held at Jabberwock from January-August 1967.

Assignments to military duty in Zapopan and other places in the state of Jalisco.

Research, correspondence, subject, teaching related records and materials, university related records and materials, works and notes, and professional organization materials concerning his interests and activities.

Letters to Ken Pettitt, and poems by him.

Includes materials reflecting Craemer's career as a journalist, editor and publisher as well as his activities on various boards and foundations in Marin County, California. Also contains correspondence and other materials pertaining to the Redwood Empire Association, which was formed...

Includes photographs depicting views of Folsom Prison taken at the turn of the twentieth century, evidently following the construction of many new facilities at the prison. Also includes several views of the California State Prison at San Quentin. Views depict...

Ephemera, correspondence, and other materials relating to California prisons, the Tom Mooney case, Black history and the Ku Klux Klan. Also includes a box of letters and cards sent to Charles Manson following an incident in 1984 in which Manson...

Includes two items by Foley: "Indeed the name was Irish," a St. Patrick's Day address (with Adelle Foley) to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, delivered March 14, 1990; and the text of a reading at Cody's Books, Berkeley, June...

Photographs show views related to Earl Warren, including the Governor's Mansion, press photos, official functions, family gatherings, portraits of Warren, photos of his gravestone, etc.

Contains letters and mss. poems. Letters discuss fellow poets Charles Bukowski, and Allen Ginsberg, Hirschman's work on the magazine "Phoenix," and his translation work.

Contains correspondence, translations, manuscripts, publicity materials, and photographs. Also contains three vinyl sound discs (Jack Hirschman EP vol. 1, Beats by Inverse Cinematics and Electrosacher and 2 copies of Jack Hirschmann EP vol. 2, Beats by Inverse Cinematics and Electrosacher).

Nine letters to Frank Putnam (Nov. 15, 1902 - Mar. 7, 1905) relating to the controversy over publication of his story, The One Thousand Dozen, in the National Magazine. With these: carbon of a letter from Putnam to London, Feb....

Compiled by the library from various sources.

The Jack London family, including grandmother Eliza London Shepard and father Irving Shepard; memories of growing up on the London "Beauty" Ranch and of Charmian Kittredge London; London daughters Joan Abbot and Becky London; the controversy surrounding the London estate...

Includes the personal and professional papers relating to Hession's work as Sierra Club field representative in Anchorage, Alaska.

Collection contains the notice of the March 3, 1998 memorial at 439 Guerrero St. in San Francisco, a program, a printed email description of event from Jesse Beagle sent to Jack Foley, flyers, broadsides, obituaries, and related newspaper clippings.

Jack Micheline reading in San Francisco, 2/7/89 and 8/9/97.

The collection contains correspondence (1915-1928); an undated newspaper clipping that states Jack Richmond received a Master of Science from the University of California, Berkeley; and a newspaper clipping about a new group of individuals receiving their Scottish Rite degrees from...

Doug Ballinger and John (Jack) Rowan in front of Berkeley's Center for Independent Living, and Rowan on Telegraph Ave. carrying Christmas tree on his wheelchair.

Chiefly snapshots of Jack Spicer and Spicer family members taken during the poet's toddler years when the family lived in Glendale and Los Angeles. Domestic scenes of Jack and his younger brother Holt Spicer crawling, playing, reading, posing, etc. Also...

Also included: Manhattan [poem] written on a postcard addressed to Allan Joyce; and some notes on Whitman for Allan Joyce [1 l.].

Letters written from Boston and New York to a student friend at Berkeley.

Letters to Graham F. Mackintosh; letters to Donald M. Allen, with carbons of Allen's letters; Mss of poems, published and unpublished; galleys for Book of magazine verse; typescript and galleys for Language; typescript of Lament for the Makers; unpublished book...

Consists chiefly of typescripts and manuscripts of single and collected poems, all undated. Includes typescripts of 9 poems, including 3 signed by Spicer, and poems collected under the titles: Billy the Kid; The heads of the town up to the...

Letters, notes, reports, statements, and other material relating mainly to the Central Valley Project and to water problems in California.

Papers include correspondence, work samples, project files, teaching materials, photographs, broadsides.

Letters written by him, 1930-1948; a few letters to him, mainly on behalf of the Murder Club of Los Angeles; manuscripts of short stories, brief articles and poems by him; clippings re his paintings; obituary clippings; and miscellaneous personalia.

Correspondence, manuscripts, course notes and plans concerning his interests and activities as a professor of English at U.C. Berkeley.

Receipts, coroner's reports and fee bills; and bridge commissioner's report.

Correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, and legal files relating to Jackson's career in international law. Major topics include the Single Tax and the Pious Fund case of 1902.

Views of eleven missions, featuring buildings, friars in mission gardens, cemeteries, etc.

An 1862 engagement agreement for Jacob Blumlein and Phillipine Hellman and a document providing details about the power of attorney.

Consists of letters and legal documents including real estate agreements, builder's bonds, remodeling specifications, claim of lien, attorney for lien claimant letter, U.S. citizenship papers, grant deeds, tax payments, and the last will of William Fredericks (dated Jan. 5, 1951)....

Relating to his service as San Francisco agent for the Elk River and Arcata Mill and Lumber Companies and for the steamer Arcata, concerned with shipping along the coast and in Hawaii.

Contains correspondence, legal documents and financial records pertaining to mining and other business dealings in California.

Typescript copies of two works by Jacobsen: "Family History," a short biography of his father, Jacob Christian Jacobsen, containing information on his arrival in Montana in 1889 from Denmark, farming in Montana, and growing potatoes in Idaho. And "Recollections," concerning...

Mostly drafts and fragments relating to Holeman's service as Indian Agent in Utah, 1851-1853, including letters to Luke Lea, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, May 1 and 8-11, 1852, and May 14, 1853; to R.M. Halliday, February 1, 1853; and a...

Correspondence; reports; rabbinical and congregational materials; documents; articles; newspaper clippings; speeches and sermons; photographs; and genealogical materials.

Collection consists of correspondence and documents (dating from 1862-1863) relating to obtaining a concession from the Mexican Government for Baja California lands for the purpose of colonization, exploration, and mining. This correspondence deals with the Guano Islands, a copper mine...

Account books, one in Spanish, recording goods sold to William S. Hinckley, Nathan Spear, A.B. Thompson and others; cargo book for the brig Eveline; inventory of stock in store; drafts of letters to Sherman Peck and A.B. Thompson; letter from...

The collection consists of genealogical information, a small amount of correspondence, Jacob Rosenberg's journal and notebook (which includes his memoir of his childhood and his experiences leaving Prussia and then settling and working in Northern California), handwritten prayer books Jacob...

Correspondence; photographs; college transcripts; newspaper clippings; essays and sketches from when Rubel was a student; articles about the mail order business; and patents for powdered antiseptics.

Includes marriage certificate, passports, citizenship certificate, etc.

The collection consists of a copy of an undated photograph of Voorsanger and photocopies of essays that he wrote and published in the Emanu-El newspaper.

Papers of a bio-statistician who taught at the University of California, containing correspondence and subject files concerning his interest in public health.

Complementary reports (one a continuous narrative, the other written as 22 daily entries) concerning an exploring expedition in the Southwest undertaken by Sedelmayr and twenty-four soldiers, from Busani, near Caborca, to the Gila-Colorado River area of Southern Arizona, then descending...

Consists of correspondence; manuscripts; professional papers, lectures, conference papers, and notes; newspaper articles by La Harpe; datebooks; and personalia. Much of the material is from La Harpe's tenure at University of California, Berkeley. Subjects include French literature, religion, philosophy, and...

Snapshot photograph album documenting the youth and young adulthood of Jacqueline "Jac" Gibson of Tacoma, Washington, particularly her family and home life, social and leisure activities, local outings and broader travels in the Northwestern U.S. Images reflect Gibson's mixed-race family...

Comprises press clippings, exhibition planning materials, and lectures created and collected by Jacquelynn Baas, curator and Director Emeritus of the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. The bulk of material documents Baas' involvement in exhibition creation...

This collection consists of personal family materials; architectural drawings and contracts related to building the new space for the Berkeley Hillel and Lehrhaus Judaica; Berkeley Hillel financials and bylaws; Berkeley Hillel Board of Directors minutes and agendas; and materials related...

Contains daily entries of requests, hearings, actions, and accounts of the municipal government of the capital of Veracruz, Xalapa. Reflection of city administration during early republic.

Correspondence concerning his interest and activity as a merchant and member of the community in Santa Clara County with such individuals as family, Juan Bautista Alvarado, Bishop Alemany, Santiago Arguello, Ygnacio Peralta, and Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. Also includes biographical information...

Written to the author's brother, John B. and his sister, Sarah A. Chase Stone, Michigan. Content consists chiefly of routine details of daily life (prices of goods, wages, Chase's daily activities, health and family matters, the mails, religion), with some...

Record of voyages on various British ships, mainly along the African Coast. Journal ends with arrival in Jamaica, May 1870.

Snapshots and some commercial photographs of shipboard scenes, British sites, family members, and social gatherings in Scotland and England. Includes views of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, and one photograph of Mark Twain and his daughter Clara in London.

Collection of programs, posters, flyers, and ticket stubs for annual Mountain Play performances in Mill Valley, California, on Mount Tamalpais. Some are in a scrapbook with comments made by James B. Roof. Several of the plays performed were written by...

Include letters to Haggin, relating mainly to financial investments; records, 1887-1910 (reports, accounts, stock certificates, etc.) of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company; copies of agreements with George and Phoebe Apperson Hearst; miscellaneous materials, some relating to Kern County.

For information on main collection, see collection-level record (search under call number: BANC MSS 71/295 c).

Contains 2 letters from Sacramento and Deadwood, Siskiyou County, Calif. describing the mail service, running a grocery in Sacramento, travel overland to Calif., gold mining, Diamond Spring and Hangtown, and talk of going to Oregon.

Chemistry notebooks of the chemist; Also includes the manuscript of his book, Organic Chemistry for Modern Biologists.

Ledgers concern, in part, family orange groves in Ontario, California. Until 1921, compiled by James Cathcart Snodgrass; thereafter by Annie Evans Snodgrass.

Annotated bibliography of his personal collection of Mormon books; photocopies of letters to him by Mrs. Josephine R. Secord, granddaughter of Sidney Rigdon (1955), and George G. Shurtz, 1960; photograph of "Kinderhook plate" in Chicago Historical Society museum.

Copy photographs reproduced for illustrating various entries in Hart's A Companion to California, first published in 1978 by University of California Press. Also includes an inventory of images, perhaps prepared by U.C. Press.

Chiefly correspondence between James D. Hart and Jesse S. Crisler (1984-1987), and including correspondence with others, all regarding an edition of the collected letters of Frank Norris, compiled and annotated by Crisler, and published by the Book Club of California...

Consists primarily of letters from James D. Hart, as director of The Bancroft Library, to James L. Henry. The correspondence concerns the sale or donation of Henry's collections of material relating to 20th-century American authors to The Bancroft Library. Also...

Manuscripts and writings, working drafts, notes, research files, book proposals, correspondence, personal appearance announcements, and teaching materials.

Primarily California locations, including: Weaverville, Bodie, Mare Island, Berkeley, Petaluma, Columbia, Downieville, Fort Ross, San Francisco, Monterey, Palo Alto (Stanford Univ.), Sutter's Fort, Yosemite National Park, Oakland, and others. Also included are Bryce Canyon, Utah; Fort Churchill and Aurora, Nevada,...

Correspondence, including letters from his son James Duval Phelan and from George L. Duval; miscellaneous receipts; and powers of attorney made out to Phelan.

Buildings (including Phelan office building and Phelan residence), sculptures of Robert Aitken, and parades in San Francisco; events at Bohemian Grove; Joaquin Miller cabin; rice farming near Chico, and other California views. Also 11 views of the Phelan residence (including...

Includes portraits and snapshots, many unidentified. Individuals pictured include Helen Wills, Anna Pavlova, Noël Sullivan, and many others. Scenes of tennis and archery, and social events at the Phelan estate (Villa Montalvo). Miscellaneous scenes from California, Washington, D.C., and Europe.

Contains letter reports and addresses about the ERP mission to Italy in 1948-1950. Includes report to United States Congress for extension of the ERP.

Include his last will and testament Oct. 10, 1844, witnessed by J. O'Farrel and William Blaisdell; statement by J.P. Leese for his widow, Nov. 1844, and by Antonio M. Pico, 1847, re the rancho she inherited.

Includes Perpetual Diary for the Pacific Coast (1 vol.), ca. 1875.

James de T. Abajian African American bibliography correspondence, BANC MSS 85/137 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Comprises James de Tarr Abajian's collection of printed ephemera, much of it related to the San Francisco Bay Area African-American community, as well as photocopies, notes, and original documents pertaining to Abajian's research interests. Organizations represented include the Black Filmmakers...

Includes California History Index as well as indexes to photographers, architects, gunsmiths, furniture makers, clock/watchmakers, and actors and those in other theater related occupations. Also includes index files of Afro-American biography and numerous obituary scrapbooks, and misc. index files pertaining...

The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, ephemera, manuscripts, and research materials related to Abajian's work on the history of, and bibliographies of source material for, African Americans in California and the West. This includes materials from the African...

v.1 (1 portfolio) - letters written to his brother from Europe, 1862-1863; v.2 (in box) - scrapbook of clippings and related material re his campaign for congress, San Francisco, 1894.

Reports on irrigation projects, dams and power companies, in California, Arizona, Mexico, Utah and Texas, written while consulting hydraulic engineer.

Letters of March 20th and August 4th concern receipt of money.

Various legal documents including a certificate of United States citizenship, with photograph affixed, for a British-born civil engineer, a United States naturalization judgment for a French-born cook, a warranty deed for land in Missouri sold to a California resident, two...

Various legal documents and papers including certificate of residence for Hang Jung; citizenship papers of Cheung Hung Fon; marriage certificate and divorce proceedings for Mary Young Chan and Jack Chan.

Contains miscellaneous research correspondence, including letters from Paul Green, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Sydney Clark, written in response to inquiries from Sisson, as well as numerous letters from The Bancroft Library and Dr. James Hart concerning Sisson's many gifts to the...

Oil paintings of adobe dwellings in San Diego (:1) and Monterey (:2). According to the donor, these have been known by the titles "Earliest known adobe dwellings" in San Diego and in Monterrey. Both scenes include figures in traditional Spanish,...

This collection contains materials related to the professional career of James F. Bell in solid mechanics, biomedical research and the physics of music. The bulk of this collection consists of Bell's research materials. Included are data and graphs from more...

Included in: History of Science and Technology Collection.

Includes correspondence, printed and manuscript maps, financial records, reports, and related materials. Oversize folder contains: Color illustrated poster/map of the Gage Canal Systen and Arlington Heights, Riverside, Calif.; 2 maps of the Phillips Tract in Rancho La Puente, Los Angeles,...

Letters from member of the Donner Party to his brother-in-law, James W. Keyes, describing his journey to California and gold mining ventures there. Two of the letters were published in the Illinois State Register. Also included: letter from another brother-in-law,...

Relate to Hunnewell's bibliography of the Hawaiian Islands.

Two letters addressed to Brantz Mayer in Baltimore, describing the tombs and temple at Mitla, Mexico, as seen by Sawkins in 1837. This material was utilized in Mayer's Observations on Mexican History and Archaeology ... (Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1856).

Materials relating to James Giambruno's union organizing activities and the operations of his business, The Miner's Store, in El Dorado, California. Union materials, dating from circa 1910 to 1950, include, most notably, correspondence and other files relating to the Hetch-Hetchy...

Describe his voyage to California, his impressions of San Francisco, experiences mining in the Wachusett Valley, California.

Written to his wife, Easter Jane Pearce, both before and after their marriage, froim Douglass Flat, Calif., and Austin, Nevada, where he worked in mining. Include descriptions of everyday life and discussions of family matters. With this: biographical sketch of...

Papers relating to James H. Gardner and Louise Virginie Thouvenin Gardner, including passport, marriage license, letters, and other items.

Includes agreement by Thomas H. Loehr, Jackson, Calif., to drop libel suit (witnessed by T.A. Springer); deed from Charles Marshall for property in Grass Valley; deeds from Caroline M. Robertson for property in El Dorado Co. (including canals and ditches);...

Three handwritten letters with integral address leaves from a baker who is also working as a gold miner in California gold rush country to his wife and a friend in Milan, Ohio. Contains descriptions of miner life, bakery and gold...

Photographs taken at a Bancroft Library reception, one with the Codex Fernández Leal hanging in background.

Diary, despatches and correspondence while in command of the army in the Concan.

Chiefly letters from and about his nephews, John O. and Thomas J. Oxley, California gold seekers and members of Crabb's illfated expedition into Sonora. Letters, 1852-1857, from Columbia, Calif.

Two bound accounting ledgers. The earlier one has a spine title of "Harriman & Co., 1874" with entries dated 1874-1875 for wharf and lumber account expenses, and customers who are buying lumber. It is unclear if the spine title is...

Consists of businessman James Himrod's letters to his nieces, Minnie, Lizzie, Julia, and Anna Himrod, chronicling his 10 years of life in Sacramento, Colusa, and Truckee, Calif. Himrod describes his experiences with the weather and earthquakes, and the differences between...

Letterbook (volume) written from both ends. Contains copies (in his handwriting and mostly signed with initials) of letters as purser on U.S. naval vessels, Portsmouth, Perry and Constitution. Letters from the Portsmouth reflect service on the Pacific Coast, 1845-1847. The...

Two letters to his wife, Mary Jane. The first (2 p.) describes the scene at Portland, Maine, as his ship prepares to sail around the Horn to San Francisco. The second (4 p.), written after arriving at last in San...

Folder 1. Copies of items ascribed to or concerning Bull, as follows: a letter, Hermosillo, Mexico, September 3, 1843, from William Keith to Abel Stearns, introducing Bull as a visitor to Los Angeles en route to Oregon Territory; a letter,...

Comprises 31 letters (7 original, 24 photocopies + typescript transcripts of each letter): 7 original handwritten letters from the emancipated slaves of Dr. James Hunter Terrell currently living in Careysburg, Liberia to the executor of Terrell's estate, James Hunter Minor;...

Photograph albums documenting James I. Long Sr.'s affiliation with the Hidalgo Mining Company's silver mine operations in Chihuahua, Mexico in the 1890s and early 1900s, and multiple generations of Long family life through the 1940s. Volume 1 (1890s, early 1900s):...

Two love letters (5 p.) on embossed stationery. In the first, the writer declares his love for Carrie; in the second, he laments that Carrie has not written to him or returned his affection.

Correspondence, manuscripts, theater programs and playbills, speeches, papers, syllabi, and resources on a variety of English authors and playwrights including Samuel Johnson, Boswell, and Shakespeare. Includes early drafts and "author index copy" (galleys) of published book "Box, pit, and gallery:...

Letters to him from D.K. Allen and others, re the gold mines of El Alamo, Baja California, and possible use of Smith's pulverizing machine.

Concerning the publication of his books, Chamber Music and Dubliners.

Consists of correspondence, scrapbooks, posters, newspaper articles, writings and memorabilia concerning James K. Fisk, the Players Club of San Francisco, its productions, the local theater scene, and Berkeley's Greek Theater. Correspondents include Margaret Anglin.

Consists chiefly of Keilty's plays, and materials relating to his creation of a new language which he called "Prashad". A small amount of correspondence concerns attempts at publication by both Keilty and his estate, along with several autobiographical sketches and...

Family snapshots and studio portraits, largely unidentified. Includes locations and portraits from studios in Michigan and California. Albums, presumably of Keilty in his youth and his parents in their student days, include collegiate activities ca. 1907, and family and boyhood...

Correspondence, mainly relating to his book collecting. Material concerning Horace include copies of correspondence, a bibliography, and translations of Horace's poetry by Thomas Hamilton Breeze. Also includes 4 volumes of record notebooks (1874-1955) listing books in sequence by date acquired...

Includes letter from Banking House of James King of William & Company; check endorsed to the company; copy of an article by King of William relating to the trial of James Casey in New York; letter from Mrs. King of...

The diaries, beginning August 10, 1864, record a journey from Chicago to Salt Lake City, a winter among the Mormons; on to Virginia City, Montana, as an employee of J.C. Rockfellow, 1865; life in western Montana to June, 1867; by...

Albums containing photographs of electric sign designs by James L. Dix, a Los Angeles-based designer, and photographs of actual signs based on his designs. Signs depicted, chiefly in the Southern California region, are representative of midcentury modern commercial design. Some...

163 letters from Sterling to the Herons, dated 1908-1923, plus typed transcripts of same prepared by James L. Henry; 2 letters from Opal to Herbert Heron (1917); Herbert Heron diary; James L. Henry notes on Heron's diary.

Manuscripts of seventy-one poems and two plays. Most of the works are in holograph; some unpublished. With these: bibliographic notes by James L. Henry.

Contains collector's notes and bibliography concerning his collection. Includes short story and article by Kesey, as well as copy of screenplay of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Also, various clippings and ephemera regarding appearances by Kesey and reviews of...

:1 print of boy magician altered to read "The Grate [sic] Henry" -- :2 printed posted for Ovie the Magician performance -- :3 poster for performances at the Empire Theatre in Peterborough (Scotland?) which includes Chris Charlton, "conjuror to H.M....

Two letters from Gold to James L. Henry; manuscript of one short story by Gold; tear sheets of articles by and/or about Gold; reviews of Gold's work; bibliography on Gold compiled by James L. Henry.

Collector's notes on his Jack Kerouac collection, including book reviews, newspaper clippings, publication notes, and bookseller catalogs.

Collector's notes on his Steinbeck collection, with a small amount of ephemera and clippings about Steinbeck.

Collector's notes on his Thomas Wolfe collection, including ephemera, periodical clippings, periodical issues, bookdealer catalogs, correspondence, etc.

Consists of James L. Henry's bibliography of Stafford writings, correspondence between Henry and Stafford, signed ephemera and clippings, published poems, articles, book reviews, biographical information.

Collector's notes on his Max Brand (Frederick Schiller Faust) collection, including publication notes on Max Brand publications and Western Story magazine, and some correspondence with book dealers and publishers.

Includes note-book with copies of songs and his own poems; cargo book mentioning various vessels; poem by W.H. Campbell, "The Dale at Mulegé", and receipts.

Three letters written by Sperry, including an 1852 letter describing his trip across the Isthmus of Panama; letters addressed to him and to his family from Asa Gray, William H. Holmes, John J. Hay and others; deeds and miscellaneous documents...

Diaries, clippings, and other papers, relating to his life farming in Illinois and California; drilling for oil in the vicinity of Santa Paula, California from 1887; and drilling for water in Hawaii, 1902, and in South Africa from 1902 to...

Copy of the original deed of trust and other legal papers; clippings, etc., concerning the operation of the trust and its beneficiaries; pictures; notes by the compiler, Secretary of the Trustees. Letter, June 28, 1869, from James Lick, at the...

Letter of December 6, 1977 concerns completion and particulars regarding publication of Allhands' autobiography, which includes a mention of Maxon in the chapter on Fort Davis. Two letters from February and October, 1978 are written by Allhands' wife Peggy, following...

Miscellaneous items, mostly legal papers and receipts. Includes: shipping articles of the schooner Star, of San Francisco, containing a list of the crew members and their salaries, 1848 Aug. 8; papers relating to a case of non-payment involving the San...

Excerpts.

The bulk of the collection consists of copies of letters that Maas sent to his granddaughter, Julia, from 1989-2007. The letters may include photocopies of other correspondence, photographs, programs, family trees, and additional documents and writings. The collection also contains...

Gerstley recalls his early years, his career with Pacific Coast Borax Company and U.S. Borax and Chemical Corporation, and his activities on the San Francisco Art Commission of the Asian Art Museum, securing the Brundage collection for San Francisco.

Diary, 1854, of voyage, New York to California, via Nicaragua, on steamers, Prometheus and Pacific, and recollections (1905) of voyage and experiences in San Francisco and Mokelumne Hill. Notes of family and early life, California associates, mining ventures, Vigilance Committee...

Letters from friends in New York, including one from K.H. Dimmick reporting on politics in New York state; petition from Columbia Fusiliers for funds; copy of complaint and summons in case, U.S. vs. Niles Mills, J.W. Mandeville and John Warren;...

Includes letters to E.D. Girdlestone re interpretation of Plato and on the freewill controversy.

Contains 28 handwritten letters addressed to James Masterson from various persons located in gold mining camps in Northern California. Twenty-one of the letters are from a friend, Denis Hanly. Also includes handwitten dictation notes of Masterson written by his daughter...

Diary begins July 4, 1846, 100 miles west of Fort Laramie. Journey continues via Fort Laramie, Sweetwater River, South Pass, Fort Bridger, Salt Lake, Hastings Cut-off, Humboldt River, Truckee River to Mission San Jose. (Nov. 7, 1846) The diary records...

Contents: Part I - letters (8) 1849-1851, to his mother and stepfather, Dr. & Mrs. J.L. Hornsby in Louisiana, concerning his activities as delegate to the California Constitutional Convention, legal practice with John B. Weller and business ventures. With these:...

Includes papers relating to ownership of Rancho Punta de Reyes (Marin County) 1851-1865, and accounts, 1876-1885.

For property in Marin County, including portions of Nicasio from James Black and Daniel Frink, and part of Rancho San Pedro, Santa Margarita y Las Gallinas from John Lucas.

Contains letters with family members in New York City while serving as the acting Purser aboard the SS Georgia at Panama, describing Panama, Chile and other parts of Central and South America. Also includes passport, a cyanotype of the family,...

Three letters written from Solano County, California to his sister in Pittsfield, Massachusetts about his life as a school teacher and recurring illness. The third letter tells of his marriage in 1860. A fourth letter in 1861 is from Hannah...

from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;

List of convictions in the February Sessions, and a statement of disbursements made for the city jail.

Contains handwritten, typescript, and carbon copies of various articles and poems written by James Noble Hatch. Most of the materials concern public civil engineering and transportation projects. Some of the materials were likely submitted to engineering journals and various newspapers...

Miscellaneous bills and receipts for hotels, medical services, household expenses, and bank transactions. Also includes 2 postcards to Mrs. J.N. Gillett from Emma M. North, and invitation, and a poem printed on satin.

Papers relating to the research and production of Walsh's book San Jose State University : an Interpretive History include correspondence between the Office of the President of SJSU, project editor Carol Beddo, and a number of reviewers and friends Walsh...

Includes 17 diaries written by James Parker growing up on a family farm near Chico, Calif. Records daily life of growing up on a farm and then on a career in teaching and school administration. Also includes photocopies of Luther...

Photocopies of three handwritten articles (one partial) on subjects pertaining to California. Written for an unidentified newspaper, the articles contain edits, notes, and instructions to editors and printers for the placement of images and photographs. In "A California Robin Hood"...

Papers accompanying his collection of books on guns and firearms. Sales catalogs (many from F. Theodore Dexter, antique firearms collector and dealer), lists and a few letters and drafts.

Contains correspondence and a few manuscripts of Purdy's work to his editor. Also includes reviews of Purdy's work.

Letters to his wife from London while attempting to secure British financial support for railroad and mining interests in California. Accompanied by a biographical sketch by his great-grandson, John C. Howard, and typed transcripts of the letters.

Contains a poem, a page of journal entries, and a letter from James Quimby, who attempts to go to California via Cornelius Vanderbilt's Accessory Transit Company, presumably for the gold rush, but has to turn back in Nicaragua and return...

Contains general correspondence, bound and in chronological order. Also includes information concerning the 1940 Democratic National Convention, the Fight for Freedom and the Committee to Defend America, and some family papers, mostly correspondence, 1860-1893, but including some papers of his...

of Mike Pincus ;

Description of mining on the Fraser River, life in San Francisco, and mention of the duel between Broderick and Terry.

Written primarily from Sacramento, but include also letters from Panama, San Francisco and the mining country.

Written from Sacramento and San Francisco, describe voyage via Panama, illness during voyage, experiences mining and with the California legislature.

Contains receipts and correspondence of James Samuel Todd, and the love letters of Firgie Todd. Also includes a description of the papers with some biographical information.

The collection consists of James Shideler's research materials on the development of farm cooperatives in California in the early twentieth century, especially in California under the leadership of Aaron Sapiro and David Lubin. Included in the collection is a folder...

Correspondence primarily concerned with his invention of the electrial typebar typewriter in 1913. Detailed letters to longtime friend, Mrs. Edgar Sherman, document his experiences with the realities of patent rights, royalities, production and marketing.

Autobiographical information concerning early life in Iowa and family history; missions undertaken for the Mormon church in Nebraska Territory, among the Indians, in England, in the eastern United States and in the Marquesas Islands.

Collection of 25 items including business receipts, invoices for mining supplies and various sundries, and letters and forms related to Cain's mining, oil and gas, livestock, and agricultural interests in and around Bodie, California.

Contains research materials used for James T. Jones's book "Use my name: Jack Kerouac's forgotten families." Includes articles, notes, unpublished manuscripts, correspondence, photocopies of legal documents, photocopies of early correspondence by Kerouac family members, book reviews, poetry, typescripts, etc. Includes...

School journals (1917-1925) Kept when a teacher of the deaf at California Institution for the Deaf and Blind in Berkeley. (5 v.)

Letters and accounts of the Constable of Big Oak Flat, including one letter from his wife signed Elviria Mecartea. With these are 4 copies of the Tuolomne County Democratic ticket for 1884, some with notes on verso by McCarthy. McCarthy...

Naturalization certificate for his father, 1835; marriage certificate, 1857; genealogy and family history by his wife, Mary Elizabeth (Beattie) Walker; photographs of Walker's pencil sketches made during the Civil War.

Written by a young army officer, describing life at military posts in Louisiana and Michigan; experiences (1846-1848) in Mexico during the Mexican-American War; voyage around the Horn (Dec. 1848-July 1849) on the ship Mary and Adeline, via Rio and Valparaiso;...

Includes correspondence, property files, property maps, reports, advertisements, and general office files of James Warren & Son Realtors. Also includes informational files regarding land use in the St. Helena and Napa Valley areas. Oversize folders contain aerial photographs.

To an unnamed correspondent, concerning the whereabouts of a Mr. Woodward in India and business transactions. Included is a letter from Thomas Saunders concerning Mr. Woodward.

First letter, from New York, discusses his desire to return to Sacramento, commenting on steamship fares, and the gold rush on the Frazer River. The second and third letters find him writing from Sacramento. They are very newsy, mentioning a...

Certificates of appointments to California District Board of Agriculture, 1883, and to the Board of Trustees of the Northern Branch State Normal School of California, 1887; and papers relating to his leave of absence from the National Guard in 1888.

Handwritten personal and professional correspondence of James William Denver with various persons over the course of his career covering a range of topics including politics, family matters, etc. Correspondents include Denver's brothers, Arthur and Frank, his wife Louise, constituents, friends,...

Handwritten letters of a seaman from Beverly, Massachusetts, James William Foster, to various family members. Written from various ports of call from Alabama, New York, Jamaica, and Charleston, South Carolina, among others, the letters describe ship names, ports of call,...

Includes: two letters by Alfred Jamison, one describing his voyage around the Horn in 1849, the city of Lima, and a bull fight; the other concerning his experiences gold mining in the Feather River area in 1851; and genealogical material...

Contains seventeen undated typescripts of short stories and novels written by Jane Bouse. Also includes one folder of handwritten notes and draft pages.

By Cardinell-Vincent and the Paul C. Koeber Co.

Posters, drawings, and related documentation in 1 carton, 6 oversize boxes, 1 oversize portfolio (size D), 2 oversize folders (size D), 1 oversize folder (size F), and 4 rolls.

Includes exhibit files, business files, examples of Norling's work on social justice issues, public health projects, and publications.

Included is a letter to Henry Fothergill Chorley on receipt of his first book.

Letters, articles, notes, and correspondence relating to noted anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, his wife Theodora, and son Karl, from a former graduate student of his at the University of California, Berkeley. Three small handwritten notes (3 p.) on University of California,...

Materials relating to writer Allan Seager. Includes: correspondence between Seager and Sherman, ca. 1934-1947; correspondence between Sherman and Stephen Connelly regarding Connelly's dissertation on Seager, 1973-1974; writings by Sherman; writings by Seager, including typescript of his story "Pro Arte"; and...

Janet Adelman papers, BANC MSS 2012/197, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Photographs of the family of Cecilia Bancroft Derby Kenny and her first husband, George Derby, including her parents Azariah Ashley Bancroft and Lucy (Howe) Bancroft and her brother, Hubert Howe Bancroft. 1: George Derby and Cecilia (Bancroft) Derby, approximately 1849-1850...

Archive of Janet Delaney's photographic survey of her South of Market neighborhood (SOMA) in San Francisco. Photographic prints and slides document residential interiors of artists and other neighbors, local small businesses, various buildings, streets, construction scenes and general neighborhood views...

Contains 75 typescript poems, 5 handwritten poems, 72 letters (dated 1912-1926), and 4 postcards, signed by George Sterling. Also include 132 unsigned typescript poems by Sterling and some clippings. The letters are effusive in Sterling's obvious affection for Janet Winship...

The collection contains promotional materials about the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society's sanatorium in Spivak, Colordado: Thirty Years of Saving Lives: The Sanatorium of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 'Denver Sanatorium' 1904-1934; a pamphlet, from 1947, entitled Keep them Living! and...

In addition to her articles there are excerpts from early postal records of Livermore and Murray Township.

Contains mostly typescript drafts and original manuscripts for both published and unpublished works. Also includes correspondence, etc.

Contains poems, ephemera, snapshots, publications, books, paintings, audiocassetes, miscellany, etc. of the poet Janice Blue.

Play scripts by Janice Marie Clark and related material. Includes: "Match Makers Ltd.", book and lyrics by Janice Clark, music by Arthurine Thornton, written for the U.C. Treble Clef play contest, April 26, 1923, and performed at the Oakland Auditorium...

Album of studio portraits and snapshots depiciting Japanese Americans and Japanese, most unidentified. Mounted to inside of front cover is a group portrait taken outside the office of "The Japanese American, a daily newspaper" (location unidentified) suggesting the album belonged...

Contents: V. l - minutes of committee meetings, memoranda, reports, press releases, interviews, lists of supporters, background material, etc.; V. 2 - drafts of summary sheet and pamphlet about the case prepared by the committee; V. 3 - press clippings;...

Contains the oral histories, transcriptions, drafts, and other records used to write The Japanese of the Monterey Peninsula. Interviewees are listed in the subjects with the subdivision interviews.

Correspondence, reports, memoranda, minutes of meetings, position papers, campaign literature, newspaper clippings, press releases and newsletters, copies of congressional documents, etc., relating to the national campaign efforts to repeal title II (the emergency detention measure) of the Internal Security Act...

Oral history interviews with fourteen Japanese Americans who attended UC Berkeley before--and in some cases after--incarceration during World War II. Includes interviews with two hearing impaired subjects, Nancy Ikdea Baldwin and Ronald M. Hirano, that were conducted in American Sign...

Artistically compiled album of photographs, chiefly snapshots, depicting domestic scenes and leisure activities of a Japanese American family in California from roughly the 1920s to the early 1940s. Includes many scenes of travel in California. Also includes some studio portraits....

Snapshots of family life in San Francisco, during internment at Heart Mountain (Wyoming), and during the military service of a friend or family member. Many include an apparent young couple, Mitsi and Toshi. Chiefly snapshot portraits or group portraits, often...

Photographs document the Japanese American evacuation of World War II and its effects. Shown are children and adults at various relocation centers throughout the west. Includes one view of Eleanor Roosevelt visiting the Gila River camp.

These interviews highlight the lives of eleven Japanese American coeds (chiefly women) who studied at the University of California Berkeley from the 1930's to 1951, and includes their options available during the World War II evacuation/exclusion of all persons of...

Includes numerous cartes de visite of Japanese dignitaries and consular staff from Europe and America, scenes in Japan and China (including town views, antiquities, etc.), and portraits of Chinese people.

Includes group portraits, entertainments, evens, etc., perhaps relating to the visit of Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko to California, and the broader celebration of the centennial of the treaty between the United States and Japan.

Three posed crowd portraits in the snowy streets of Atlin and at McKee Creek. Two include a sign reading : Mayor Kirkland / White men's rights without violence / General Ward. One view shows town in background, another shows the...

7 letters, 1 manual, and 1 envelope. Materials concern commercial transactions, mostly relating to buying or selling of food.

Domoto discusses his family background; early nursery business and garden shows; Japanese-American Relocation period; work with California Association of Nurserymen and California Horticultural Society.

Interviews with individuals primarily in the federal and state government, involved in the evacuation of Japanese-Americans from California during World War II. Photographs and copies of documentary material inserted and appended. V. 1, Decision and Exodus; v. II, the Interment.

Includes snapshot and formal portraits of numerous young Japanese-American men and women taken during the mid-1940s to early 1950s. Some photographs were possibly taken in San Francisco and Sacramento. Others appear to have been taken in an unidentified World War...

One box comprised primarily of correspondence from Kenneth Anger to Jarett Kobek; ephemera from various outings with Anger with explanatory notes by Kobek, including printouts of snapshots of Anger taken by Kobek; an interview proposal from Kobek; two internet blog...

Collection includes materials on the work of the Photoelastic Research Laboratory that Polivka set up within the University of California, Berkeley's Department of Civil Engineering and materials on Jaroslav's design of a proposed Southern Crossing of the Bay, a toll...

Letters from Henry Dalton, Abel Stearns, James Van Ness, Ambrose J. Hooper, and others, mainly relating to business affairs and to purchase of lands. Also deed issued by James Black for a San Francisco lot.

Contains correspondence and reports concerning Dr. Ball's work as an Army Doctor performing discharge examinations at the Presidio of San Francisco during World War I. The bulk of the collection, however, relates to his consulting work for local industry and...

Mainly letters of Ernest Jaudin and his brother, Ulysse, written from San Francisco to family in France, describing journey to California, life in San Francisco, the French colony there, business conditions, etc. Also includes copy of revised typescript, La Famille...

Photograph album of snapshots documenting lowrider cars; shows and competitions pertaining to lowrider culture, chiefly in the southern San Francisco Bay Area; and the Mexican American milieu of the album's compiler, Javier Escobedo, then a teenager living in Gilroy. A...

Correspondence, business, and personal records. While the collection focuses on Jay DeFeo's life after the completion of The Rose, it also includes some materials from before she started The Rose. The collection contains her business and exhibition correspondence and papers,...

Includes correspondence, writings, subject files, photographs, and other materials relating to Neilands' professional activities, including his work to prevent human disease and animal cruelty, and to protect public ownership and access to energy and water resources. Neilands' participation on the...

Contains deeds and legal contracts (one notarized) between various parties for shares of mining claims in Nevada. Includes printed booklet prospectus for Groome Company, Limited. Also contains a notary public statement, signed by notary A. Koenig for a resident of...

Contains 7 sets of legal documents of J.C. Beideman relating to land titles, services rendered and estate in San Francisco, Calif. Including a land dispute with John K. Moore.

Four letters of affection and devotion are addressed to Miss Violet Cole in Spanish Ranch, Plumas County, Calif. from J.C. Kastner and contain friendly greetings, news about planting flowers and the difficulty of trusting flower catalog descriptions, and advice not...

A San Francisco wholesale hat business.

Contains 3 letters between father and son. Discusses 1856 Walker invasion of Nicaragua.

Consists of materials from involvement with the California Crusaders organization, the campaigns against the Single Tax and the Ham and Eggs initiative. Crusaders materials include national and local materials relating to the mission and history of the group and public...

Printer's copy of The Quick Years. (1958) (box 1); Printer's copy of The Shattered Glass (1962) (original title, If Two Lie Together), with corrected galleys (box 2).

Contains high school yearbooks with signatures and notes, and a scrapbook covering school events for Balboa High School in San Francisco, Calif.

Contains six journals with sketches and drawings (some in color) of batik patterns, figures, and other subjects such as her travels in Europe, personal reflections, poetry, pressed flowers, and samples of yarn dyed with a variety of natural plant extracts....

Includes Bangs' notes and unpublished manuscript on Maybeck, correspondence, receipts and other papers relating to a survey of Maybeck's work conducted by Bangs for the University of California, Berkeley.

Letter to his sister (January 19, 1778); and transcript of letter concerning money due him (July 3, 1783), With transcripts and translations.

Photographs of Jean-Michel Basquiat at work, painting on a mattress, in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Research materials and correspondence for her books on early California artists: "Edward Vischer's drawings of the California missions, 1861-1878"; "The first hundred years of painting in California, 1775-1875"; "San Francisco, 1806-1906, in contemporary paintings, drawings and watercolors"; an article: "Jean...

Includes letterbook describing mining in California and experiences as a gardener in Portland, Oregon, 1853-1858; letter concerning his trip from New York to Oregon via rail in 1883; letters from his brothers, one giving an account of his voyage around...

Portrait photographs of Imogen Cunningham taken in various San Francisco locations.

Originals and photocopies of documents relating to the family of Jedediah Strong Smith (1799-1831), one of the most remarkable figures of the Western fur trade era; an explorer in the Rocky Mountains, the Great Basin, California, and the Pacific Northwest,...

Primarily portraits of Smith, Yetter, Helman and Isbell family members, with other individuals presumed to be friends and relations.

Includes subject files of correspondence, writings, miscellaneous printed materials, and clippings. Also includes 2 scrapbooks for 1965-1967 and 1966-1968.

Primarily field notes. Also includes draft manuscript materials and reprints, publicity and research materials for his talks and course, "Spirits and the Sex War: African Witchcraft and Women," and a photocopy of the original Kimeru manuscript and English translation of...

Include letters from Frederick W. Coleman (re World War I), U.S. Senator Samuel M. Shortridge and others; mementos from international fairs held in San Francisco in 1894, 1915 and 1939, and in Chicago in 1893; passenger list and menu of...

Association with the Bear Valley Mutual Water Company in San Bernardino County; interest in water conservation, construction and maintenance of dams, canals and irrigation projects; cultivation of oranges; flood control; water levels; agriculture; forestry conservation; trips to Mexico.

Contains reference materials and the work of graphic design artist Jenne Mowry, primarily for New Student Services at the University of California, Berkeley. Collection includes campus and student photographs; Welcome Week materials, including t-shirts, posters, and buttons; Cal Student Orientation...

Correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, resolutions, clippings etc. of the organization formed to oppose dredging and development at the mouth of the Russian River near Jenner.

Notebook diary (55 p.) containing handwritten transcriptions by Jennie (Jane) Cullum of "interesting parts of Hattie and Ned's letters to the family that I wish to remember." The letters were written from California and Japan, 1858-1862, by Edwin (Ned) H....

Collection consists primarily of a typed manuscript of Harris' detailed and evocative autobiography, in which she describes her early life and her experience as a businesswoman in the 1920s and 1930s. The collection also includes newspaper and magazine clippings about...

Account of early life in Hungary to 1905; arrival in New York, 1905; work in garment industry in New York from 1911; her career in the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union from its inception, with comments on communist infiltration, union...

Personal interest in conservation: river conservation and kayaking, landscaping with native plants; California Native Plant Society: early members and events, the plant sale, fund-raising; CNPS Bay Chapter: since 1976, presidency, changes, formation of [Tilden] Botanic Garden Volunteers, Rare Plant Project;...

Personal photographs, chiefly unidentified, pertaining to Emil Jensen, his family, and Olsen family relatives of his wife. Includes two card photograph albums of studio portraits, apparently taken in Denmark (ca. 1870s) and in San Francisco, Ukiah, and other Northern California...

Portraits, chiefly of unidentified individuals by unknown photographers. Assembled by a San Francisco Bay Area collector in the middle of the 20th century.

Chiefly snapshots of Hofmann instructing art classes at his school in Provincetown, Mass. Images show Hofmann drawing, critiquing and otherwise interacting with students. A couple other images are snapshot portraits of Hofmann. Among the students depicted is Hank Jensen.

Snapshots of ranch, east of Hayward, include ranchers using horse powered thresher and loading hay, and apricots drying in the sun.

Papers of a Black family in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The case files and research material document the central legal challenges to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) by lawyers, academics, and activists from numerous organizations. The complex of legal cases document the significant rulings relating to HUAC's impact on...

Receipt for merchandise in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

Accompanied by a letter written by Chauncey F. Black and a biographical sketch.

Typed transcripts (carbon) to John Quincy Adams as Secretary of State and President James Monroe. Written from various cities in South America, the letters report on political conditions and events. Originals in Library of Congress.

Legal records and attorney's work, including client correspondence, from the trial and appeals of Caryl Chessman, chiefly between 1954-1956. Also includes a file of press clippings following the case from 1954-1960.

Diaries kept by the operator of the Mendocino Lumber Co. sawmill. The diaries comment on the weather, arrival of ships, sawmill operations, etc. Some accounts included also. The 1854 diary includes a brief account of his voyage via the Isthmus...

This collection consists of Jerome Bayer's autobiographical writings; his manuscripts, poems, plays, and articles; personal and family documents and correspondence; correspondence to and from Jerome; books; and photographs of family and friends.

Contains subject files, correspondence, committee files, and newspaper clippings.

Contains correspondence, research notes, class materials, reprints and reports, and Sackman's student materials from Columbia University.

Papers consist of certificates of appointment as Southern Pacific Railroad Company land agent from 1875 and resolutions of the board of directors; three letters from Charles Crocker; miscellaneous clippings and personalia.

Correspondence; subject, legislative, campaign and personal files, clippings, district office files, invitations and scrapbooks concerning his activity as a congressman from California's 14th District (Contra Costa County).

Correspondence is mostly incoming with some letters concerning publishing and politics. Also includes some political memorabilia with an article from an interview O'Connell did with Edmund G. "Pat" Brown in 1992.

Contains prose, poetry, correspondence, journals, and publications.

Biographical material collected by Joseph Hodges relating to Jerzy Neyman consists of a piece included in "Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society," correspondence between E.S. Pearson and J.M. Hammersley relating to Hammersley's biography of Neyman, and a copy...

Collection contains materials related to Neyman's professional career as a mathematician and statistician. Includes correspondence, writings, conference and grant materials, financial records, reports, and materials related to his professional activites and his work at UC Berkeley.

Concern the efforts of General González Ortega to recruit men and obtain munitions in the United States to oppose Emperor Maximilian in Mexico.

Accounts for forwarding agency and pack train operator. A few miscellaneous bills and receipts of other members of the family included.

Four diaries (10-25 cm) kept by Jesús María Estudillo for the years 1861, 1862, 1864, and 1867. Includes description of life in San Leandro, California, education at Santa Clara College, his friendship with and work for John Nugent in Virginia...

Fliers promoting concerts by punk bands and other performers at numerous venues in San Francisco and other Bay Area locations. Several venues from Los Angeles are also represented. Among the hundreds of performers listed on fliers are Mutants, Flipper, Romeo...

Correspondence, clippings, of the son of Ulysses S. Grant.

Contains mostly correspondence between Hagedorn and Vincent (founder of Momo's Press). Topics covered include her appearances and publishing activities with Momo's Press. Also includes two issues of Shocks magazine (No. 3-4, and 5), programs, brochures, announcements, and book reviews pertaining...

Collection documents career of Jessica Hagedorn from the early 1970s onward. Includes portraits and snapshots of Hagedorn and other writers, actors, and musicians. Also depicts readings, performances and other events. Among the noteworthy figures represented in the collection are Miles...

Collection consists principally of scrapbooks documenting Grayson's career as an actress and her involvement in many civic activities. Contains stills from motion pictures, including "The Little Foxes," "Syncopation," and "Cass Timberlane"; clippings about Grayson and reviews of movies in which...

Primarily stills from various motion pictures in which Grayson appeared, including Our very own, Syncopation, The little foxes; also includes the play Deep are the roots. Other persons include Joan Evans, Farley Granger, Gus Schilling, Jane Wyatt, Donald Cook, Ann...

Contains small amounts of correspondence, speeches, reports, articles, notes, awards, clippings, and other printed materials relating to the work of Dr. Jessie Bierman in Montana, California, and internationally, particularly in the areas of maternal and child health. Also includes correspondence...

Comments on childhood in San Francisco; family relationships (Koshland, Sinsheimer, etc.) and friendships; University of California, Berkeley, Class of 1910; practice of law in San Francisco; philanthropic activities; Jewish charities and organizations; etc. Copies of documentary material, including genealogies, appended....

By-laws, minutes, and agendas; proposals; newsletters and programs; publicity-related materials, posters, and fliers; copies of its publication, "Directory of San Francisco/Bay Area Jewish Artists and Resources" (1984); memorandums and correspondence; rubber stamps; office subject files; financial materials (i.e. cancelled checks,...

Collection consists of photographs of the Berkeley Jewish Community Center (founded in 1951). Photographs document youth activities, senior activities, and the JCC's buildings.

Collection consists of two scrapbooks containing clippings, photographs, programs, and calendars that document the Center's activities in the 1950s, including those of a senior citizens group that was co-sponsored by the local chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women.

Documents; minutes; correspondence; newsletters, fliers, and programs; posters; membership lists, rosters, and descriptions of affiliated organizations; financial materials; press releases and newspaper clippings; a dissolution certificate (1982); and a banner. The papers provide a model for an autonomous Jewish community...

Correspondence; minutes; by-laws; bulletins; reports; awards; officer and membership lists; financial items; information about postwar resettlement; news about Shanghai Jews; lists of public debates sponsored by the Council; advertisements of Jewish businesses located in the San Francisco Bay Area during...

This collection contains copies of the organization's annual reports and newsletters that document how this organization provided social services to the inhabitants of San Francisco.

Correspondence; minutes; annual reports; historical and financial materials; newspapers and bulletins; membership and donor lists; information on fundraising and on religious/cultural community activities; and papers from the early 1970s on a proposed merger of the B'nai Israel and Mosaic Law...

Includes programs and posters of annual concerts given by the Jewish Folk Chorus of San Francisco, in addition to photographs and printing blocks that this organization has used; an "Annual Program Journal" for a performance of the Jewish Folk Chorus...

Formerly: Western Jewish History Center Collection Number 154

Leatherbound diary with brief dated entries by a man traveling with a company of men, the Bath Cal Company, from their home in Summit County, Ohio to the gold rush region of California. The first pages of the diary contain...

Ten handwritten letters (15 p.) written from two gold mining areas in California, Gold Hill and Bart Mill. Most are addressed to "Dear Mort" from J.H. Beeman and his likely spouse, Hattie. One letter, addressed to "Mac" from E.P. Wilson,...

Correspondence and a contract concerning his activities and interests in publishing industry.

Contains Jill Lerner's matriculation materials for the University of California at Berkeley, including her letter of acceptance and documents and forms for new students, and related ephemera.

Fine art prints by Jim Dong.

Correspondence, papers and clippings relating to his activities as a California labor leader and member of the International Labor Defense and the Workers (Communist) Party of America; primarily his efforts to relieve striking miners in Colorado and Pennsylvania, and to...

Contains the journals, poems, correspondence, etc. of street poet Jim Thurber.

Two letters (5 p.) relating to St. Lawerence Island Eskimo Jimmie Otiyohok and life in Gambell, Alaska since Edward D Jones' last trip (1920's?).

Chiefly submitted manuscripts, paste-ups, and master copies of three journals edited and published by Andrew Schelling and Ben Friedlander, including Jimmy & Lucy's House of "K", Chumolungma Globe, and Dark Ages Clasp the Daisy Root. Includes editor's notes, correspondence, unpublished...

Containing sketches and proofs of syndicated newspaper cartoons.

Contains 7 handwritten letters from Jirah Luce to his sister. They include numerous details about life in California in San Francisco and Marin County. In the last letter, dated February 11, 1861, Jirah's wife Mary writes on the last page...

from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;

Includes letters relating to mining in Tuolumne County.

For an undertaking and furniture business in Selma, California. v.1 - ledger, 1909-1915; v. 2 - trial balance, 1921-1922.

1848-1849 diary records voyage from Liverpool, England to New York, and his subsequent overland journey to California from New Orleans, describing encounters with Indians and concluding with a list of names of those whose graves he found along the way...

Contains material relating to cattle breeding in Israel; the Jewish Community Center in Ontario, Calif., including newspaper clippings, a dedication program, and a yearbook (1956-1959); and B'nai B'rith, Ontario and Pomona Lodge, Number 1187.

Eight handwritten letters (circa 63 p.) from an Indian agent to the governor of New Mexico concerning the various issues and concerns the Apache Indians are bringing to him for his attention and their interactions with government and civil officials....

Concerning Macomb's service constructing military roads in New Mexico and his expedition of 1859 to survey the Spanish Trail as far as the junction of the Grand and Green Rivers in Utah. Also included: letters from Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives...

Mainly clippings of poems; some written material concerning Austrian Benevolent Society in San Francisco.

Records of the Terwilliger Nature Education Center (TNEC) and, partially, the Elizabeth Terwilliger Nature Education Foundation (ETNEF) and WildCare as collected by Joan Bekins, professional and personal acquaintance of TNEC founder Elizabeth Terwilliger. Includes administrative, Board of Directors, and program...

Six handwritten notes dated August 30, 1978, May 2, 1981, November 10, 1984, October 5, 1996, February 18, 2004, and one undated. In all Didion thanks Yellin for various kindnesses, and in one she mentions stories she will be sending...

Contains six letters written in 1955 covering Joan Didion's travels by train from New York to Boston, Quebec, Chicago, and Sacramento and at the University of California, Berkeley. She describes her encounters with other people aboard trains, life at home...

Contains article drafts, interview notes and scripts for radio programs, workshop plans and handouts, and research material relating to the women's movement. Also includes material relating to her political action in Berkeley movements including the New School Network for alternative...

Joan Merryman collection of book ephemera, BANC MSS 2008/280, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Includes photographs of fair-goers, performers, arts and crafts, food, etc. of the 1968 and 1969 Renaissance Pleasure Faires, held in China Camp, Marin County, Calif.

Two handwritten letters from Joaquim de Araújo to one or multiple friends. The first, dated April 2, 1900, concerns events in Portugal, his official consular salary, post cards, the poetry of Almeida Garrett in "Dona Braca" and the book he...

Commercial views of various locations in Hawai'i, and of native Hawaiians. Subjects include portraits of a native Hawaiian woman in traditional attire, and a native family in the studio; Avenue of the Palms, Ainahu, Waikiki; Peepee Falls, Hilo; the Hawaiian...

Seven handwritten letters and notes (9 p.), two on letterhead stationery of Miller, concerning a variety of topics. One letterhead, titled "Joaquin Miller Lecture Season, 1900-1901", has a lithograph reproduction of Miller's home and the caption "The Hights in Oakland,...

Contains manuscripts of "How to get married," and of two poems. Also includes three letters from Miller to friends.

Handwritten note of Joaquin Miller to his friend, Henry (Harry) Edwards: "My dear Harry, I am beginning to find that almost any mechanic can make the form of a man; but it takes a god to breathe a Soul into...

Includes 18 letters and 1 postcard, many to the California author Howard Sutherland concerning articles he was writing on Miller's books. Also includes 2 autograph manuscript copies of poems or portions of poems by Miller.

Contains correspondence, legal documents, receipts, inventory lists, publications, etc. Of note in the collection is a letter dated May 31, 1882 to Joaquín Terrazas from his son, Ygnacio Terrazas, concerning the capture of the Apache leader, Juh,and a 15-page manuscript...

Thirty-six typescript letters, dated June 29, 1929-April 7, 1930, from a gold miner working the Hand-Rolleri Mine located near Placerville, California, to investors, Dryden and Young, reporting on his gold mining operations and actions he has taken. He addresses the...

Collection of correspondence between Joe R. Christopher and Phyllis White, widow of Anthony Boucher. Includes drafts and copies of essays and presentations by Christopher on topics related to Boucher's life and career.

Papers relating to Joe R. Momyer's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Thirteen letters from family members addressed to Joel Bolster in Parks Bar, California, which is located on the Yuba River, and Rough and Ready, California. The letters are dated from July 1851 through December 1852 and included among them are...

Scrapbook containing Bryan's reports, proposals for funding, description of campus facilities, and other materials regarding his tenure as Director for Special Services and project director for Handicapped Opportunity Program for Education (H.O.P.E.) at the University of California, Riverside.

Still Life and Mass Media series (ffALB box): fine art photographs, some with autobiographical references, others pertaining to imagery found in such media sources as newspaper and television. After Eden series (fffALB box): nudism in the Englisher Garten (English Gardens)...

Contains a handwritten journal of Joel Grover(8 pages) with dated entries from May 9-July 15, 1851 for an overland journey from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, west towards California, and points along the Platte River Road through Nebraska, Fort Laramie and western...

Correspondence of the marine biologist, director of the Pacific Marine Station at Bodega, California, concerning Pacific Gas and Electric Company's proposed nuclear plant there; scrapbooks of clippings; miscellaneous articles and related papers, with information on effects of radioactivity on marine...

Contains materials relating to Joel Henry Hildebrand's professional activities as a professor and researcher, primarily from the latter part of his career. The correspondence includes interchanges with journals, professional organizations, and colleagues, many of whom were also personal friends. Documents...

Accounts for his photography business, Carmel and Berkeley, Calif. A few letters from customers included.

Collection consists of an 1856 letter written by Johanna Mayer Hirschfelder from her Downieville home to her family in Europe describing in detail her journey by ship and train to California via the Isthmus of Panama. In the letter, Johanna...

A signed autographed letter from Dreibelbis, Shasta City [Calif.], February 7, 1854, to an un-named addressee, written to suggest the examination of a possible route for a Pacific railroad (2 p.) Two enclosures are a manuscript map of his route...

Chiefly photograph albums and portfolios pertaining to McCone's career, particularly his roles as an executive of the California Shipbuilding Corporation (1941-1945), as Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (1958-1961), and as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (1961-1965)....

Two letters written while seeking Congressional settlement of his accounts for transporting the mails from Placerville to Genoa, Nevada, 1856-1857.

V.1: Letters from C.R. Sessions, Standard Oil of California, and H. Bowman Hawkes; v.2: a copy of his doctoral thesis in mechanical engineering; v.3-8: proceedings of the annual University Faculty Seminars sponsored by Standard Oil Company of California, 1952-1957.

Papers of the famous "Chaffee and Chamberlain" partners in Tuolumne County. Diaries, 1853-1903, of J. P. Chamberlain included. Also includes account books, correspondence, and a guest book, Second Garrote, 1895-1903.

Ambrotype portrait of James Blair (or possibly John Blair) as a young man (ca. 1855-1860), and an album of portraits of Blair family members. Surnames of other friends or family members include McClure, Turney, Schooley, Alderson, Watt, Reynolds, and Ellis....

v. 1 (portfolio) includes letter from John Anderson to his wife and family, May 13, 1850, commenting on passage up the Sacramento River and impressions of California; two letters to his children, 1875; certificates of promotion for William B. Anderson,...

Contains two diaries of a California gold rush miner originally from Illinois. Dated entries contain brief descriptions of daily events, weather, lists of goods and prices, and other personal observations. The first diary, from 1850, covers App's journey from his...

Correspondence re proposed legislation to enlarge Sequoia National Park. Include letters from the following: Horace M. Albright, Scott Ferris, California Civic League, William W. Hastings, Stephen T. Mather (U.S. National Park Service), James D. Phelan, Sierra Club (William F. Badè),...

Letters addressed to the British biologist from J.M. Dent, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, William P. Paterson, W.R. Sorley, Chalmers Watson, James Ward, J.T. Merz and others; manuscripts and corrected proofs of articles and portions of some of his books; and...

Portraits of California gold miner John Augustus Blanchard. Daguerreotype: bust-length portrait in formal dress. Ambrotype: full-length standing portrait in miner's attire.

Contains 30 abstracts of title for land in Sacramento owned by Sutter.

Extracts from Sutter's letters to Antonio Suñol, relating mainly to business transactions, with some references to Russians in California.

Relating to his service as a sutler to U.S. forces in Mexico; correspondence, 1848, concerning challenge to a duel with Lt. Charles Deas, U.S.N.; correspondence and papers concerning his financial affairs.

Contains letters from Jefferson Davis, as Secretary of War and others about Colonel John B. Harmon's appointment to the Board of Visitors at West Point Academy.

Includes letters from his father in Australia, relating to business, farming and gold mining there, and one from his brother William, concerning his experiences mining in California.

Materials created when Weller was U.S. Senator and as Governor of California.

Re a joke.

Copies of letters sent, october 4, 1844 - November 21, 1848, as commander, USS. Portsmouth, preparatory to sailing, en route, and from various stations on the California and Mexican coasts. A few notes and memoranda encluded. Some drafts in his...

Handwritten bound journal of a gold miner from Illinois mostly containing brief daily entries (Feb. 25, 1853 to April 12, 1854) of his final year working a mining claim along Amador Creek in Amador County, California. The entries note the...

Mainly written to Professor Rockwell D. Hunt, re his recollections of early California history. Also included: three cancelled checks.

Six letters from Bidwell, written from Chico, California, to Haskell (probably Edward Wilder Haskell), in Marysville, California. Letters concern Bidwell's political career, his defeat at the state convention, the campaign of 1867, and his speech regarding the inadvisability of a...

Letters written by Bigler; letters from Indian Commissioner Oliver W. Wozencraft concerning an attack upon Indians in the Kings River area, and from Milton S. Latham; photoreproduction of letters from Harry Love relating to the arrest of Joaquín Murrieta; certificates...

V.1: summary of life before 1910 with biographical information on parents; schooling in Germany, San Jose, and at University of California at Berkeley; work with U.S. Bureau of Immigration at Portland. Vols. 2-5: 1911-1936, cover his work with Immigration Bureau...

Contains documents related to Sawyer's work dealing with immigration, Chinese immigration in particular, including official forms, procedures, correspondence, and his experiences. Also includes papers regarding his career advancement, and a couple of letters to and from his daughter Josephine Sawyer...

Chiefly group portraits depicting John Birge Sawyer: with cadets and Psi Upsilon fraternity brothers at University of California, Berkeley; and with fellow officials of U.S. Immigration Service in Portland, Oregon and Hong Kong, China. One print (a photographic enlargement of...

Portrait of John Bolton Alvarado (1890s) and stereograph of John Bolton Alvarado accompanied by a man (possibly Juan Bautista Alvarado?) and two women in Yosemite Valley (1870s).

Record of experiences as a member of the Mormon Battalion in southern California; life in San Francisco; gold mining in 1848; return to Utah in July 1848; life in and near Salt Lake City. Entries are sporadic after 1856.

The papers reflect Sir John Bowring's service in London and on the Continent as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary for the Kingdom of Hawaii, 1859-1871, negotiating treaties to safeguard the independence of Hawaii. Predominantly they consist of correspondence with Robert...

Letters, Valparaiso, Feb. 25, 1849, and Aspinwall, Mar. 29, [1855?] on voyages to California; the rest from San Francisco.

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections

Contains mostly handwritten letters and postcards of John Brandi with some other related materials such as printed poems and printouts of emails. The correspondence is signed variously as "John", "Juan 2Shoe", "Two Shoe", or just "2." Topics covered mostly concern...

Contains published and unpublished manuscripts of prose, poetry, drafts of books, and illustrations. Also includes correspondence with publishers and other poets and authors, such as Jack Hirschman, David Meltzer, Michael McClure, Janine Pommy-Vega, Nanao Sakaki, Naomi Shihab Nye, Arthur Sze,...

The collection contains 70 letters written by John Brannan to his wife Mary from various ports around the world, including New York, Havana, Gibralter, Acapulco, Rio de Janeiro, and San Francisco. Included also are 30 letters to Mary from other...

Mainly relate to case, Sill vs. Reese, over ownership of lot on Kearney St., San Francisco. Include letters from Joaquin Torres, W.J. Reynolds and others, and questionnaire answered by Benito Diaz containing references to the Castro revolution. Also complaint in...

Six ledgers for a grocery store, possibly named Base Line Store and/or located on Base Line Street in San Bernardino, California. Five of the ledgers contain running daily entries for groceries and supplies charged to various individuals. One ledger is...

6 letters.

For a general merchandise store in Castroville, California. (v. 1) Jan. 1867-May 4, 1869; (v. 2) May 17, 1869-July 1873. (Miscellaneous clippings pasted over many entries in v. 2).

Two copies of the same portrait of Burroughs at age 83, taken in Pasadena, Calif.

Account of his activities as bishop in the Mormon Church, principally in Utah and Arizona. Some genealogical information and family history included.

Four handwritten letters with integral address leaves from a 36-year old man working aboard a ship docking in California ports to his sister. The letters contain mostly personal expressions of affection for his siblings, wife, and children back home, along...

Fifteen letters relating to his voyage to California around the Horn on the ship Mentor, arrival in San Francisco on June 30, 1849 and experiences as a miner and farmer. Letter, 1859, describes his journey to the Fraser River gold...

Title supplied by cataloger.

Half-portrait of J.C. Frémont, and group portrait J.C. Frémont, W.C. Rosencrans, N.P. Banks, J. Pope, O.M. Mitchel, J. Hooker, and G.G. Meade, all in uniform.

Includes the correspondence, lecture notes, professional files, and writings of Nobel Prize winning economist John C. Harsanyi. Subjects include Harsanyi's groundbreaking work in game theory, for which he shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. The collection also includes...

Materials concerning the Panama Canal and the French Canal Company. Include letters from General Victor Vifquain, U.S. Consul at Colón, and newspaper clippings of two articles by Klein.

Letters from J. Wilson removed from first edition of Cruquius' Horace (1578) offer the volume to C. Cookson, and discuss Oxford University politics.

Letters concerning Canfield's life in California and his mining experiences. Included is an explanation of hydraulic piping.

Contains 11 letters from an Englishman in San Juan del Rio and Mexico City, Mexico, to his brother back in England describing life in Mexico and his work trying to run a textile business. Also includes a clipping about Cash's...

Includes letters by S. G. Haven, U.S. Postmaster General N. K. Hall, and Dennis Bowen, concerning the appointment; and letters by Chapin to his brother describing his voyage to California via Panama in l85l.

Pt. I: 18 items including copy of General Orders, no. 28, June 18, 1862; letter to Zachariah Chandler; agreement with Edgar Conkling; letter from Santiago Ainsa; letters to Rutherford B. Hayes and William K. Rogers. Also, letters from Mrs. Frémont...

Two letters containing biographical information on his father, Benjamin I. Hayes. Bliss' thesis for the University of California Berkeley was titled "Report on the Hayes papers in the Bancroft Library with special reference to the attitude of the native Californians...

Contains primarily letters and resolutions of condolence upon Steven's death; a University of California, Berkeley diploma, other awards and certificates. A small amount of personal and family correspondence is included.

Contents: Letter, Sept. 10, 1845, from Clar to George Bancroft, requesting disability pay, enclosing copy of statements by William Maxwell Wood, fleet surgeon, and John D. Sloat; reply from Bancroft; letter, Nov. 22, 1881, from James Alexander Forbes, to William...

Primarily correspondence addressed to his family describing his gold mining experiences, running a sawmill, and other events in his life in California. Also included are correspondence, clippings, sketches, and genealogical material pertaining to the Birdseye and Brewer families. Featured are...

Seventy-six original letters and transcriptions of seventy-seven letters (transcribed by Joan Jaques Sextro, great-great granddaughter of John Clarke Jaques) documenting in detail John Clarke Jaques' land/sea voyage to San Francisco and his experience as a miner in various locations in...

A treatment for a film based on Cowles' novel The Whispering Buddha, accompanied by portions of the novel, and The Value of Great Art to the State (29 pages).

Mainly papers as Sheriff of San Francisco. Includes court orders and receipts for sale of property.

Consists of correspondence and accounts receipts of various residents of Southern Calif., including Pio Pico and his Pico House Hotel in Los Angeles, John Forster, Stephen C. Foster, Jose Sepulveda, Abel Stearns, Thomas A. Garey, George Stoneman, and the law...

Seven handwritten letters (14 p.) addressed to a lawyer in Plumas County, California regarding various legal and business matters including railroads, elections, diamond investing (in what later became known as the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872), and witness testimony concerning...

Letters from Van Wyck Brooks and Josephine W. Duveneck; and file of letters written to Short re John Steinbeck's sources for Tortilla Flat, including letters from Carol (Henning) Steinbeck and Elaine (Scott) Steinbeck.

Include abstract of title, deed and tax receipts.

Letters written by him; clippings of his column from the San Francisco News; clippings about him.

Describe his activities in the U.S. National Park Service, Branch of Forestry, as fire control expert and as chief forester in the CCC program; his work relating to blister-rust control and other problems in national parks; his association with the...

Collection includes correspondence, physics course materials, research notes, and other materials, including some in digital format, relating to Professor Jackson's teaching career at University of California Berkeley and the University of Illinois.

Some as member of the firm of Galloway & Markwart: v.1--on properties of the Oro Water, Light and Power Co., 1910; v.2--on the properties of the California Western Railway and Navigation Co., 1911; v.3--a comparison of the San Pablo Reservoir...

Regarding John Denton Carter's paper, titled "The early career of George K. Fitch, pioneer California journalist." Also contains photostats of clippings and letters by or about Fitch dating from 1849, 1897, and 1906.

Relating to his study of the San Francisco Bulletin, and of two of its editors, James King of William and his brother, Thomas Sim King. Included are correspondence, newspaper clippings (mainly transcripts), and a revised typescript copy of his paper...

Also included: accounts of an unnamed contractor, working in Oakland and Berkeley from 1908 to 1911.

Diary concerning his voyage to California via Nicaragua in 1852 and experiences as a miner in and around Volcano; letters relating mainly to activities in Volcano, with descriptions of mining camps and social events, and in San Francisco from 1863;...

Correspondence, notes, manuscripts, honors, course notes, trip diaries, and subject files concerning his career in Department of History, University of California, Berkeley.

Copyflo.

Includes bills for sheriffs fees and lawyers fees.

Complaint about costs of shipping to California.

Contains drafts of publications, research materials, correspondence, conference papers, and course materials.

Contain clippings documenting his activities as city attorney and police commissioner in Oakland, California, covering such matters as water problems, gambling, garbage disposal, etc. (v. 1): 1896-1902; (v. 2): 1903-1905. :

Concerning missionary work among the Choctaw Indians in present Oklahoma; four letters, 1858-1867, from Cyrus Byington, about the Choctaws and his work on a Choctaw grammar and translations from the Bible into that tongue; a copy of a contract, 1860,...

Collection consists primarily of scenic landscape views in the American West. Mountains and wilderness landscapes predominate. 452 California views are present, including Mount Lassen and vicinity (34 views), Mono Lake and vicinity (109 views), Siskiyou and Shasta Counties (68 views),...

Volume 1-2, diaries, 1876-1877, as Special Indian Agent, Cimarron, New Mexico; volume 3, diary, January-November 1878, as Farmer-in-Charge of the Jicarilla Apache Agency at Cimarron and as Navajo Indian Agent at Fort Defiance, Arizona, April-November 1878, with miscellaneous accounts and...

2 boxes, 2 oversize boxes containing 31 logbooks, 1 traffic citation and arrest ticket book, and 1 mug shot book. All volumes were created by Mexican-American Deputy Sheriff John Esparzo while on patrol in rural Cowlitz County, Washington between 1951...

Statements by Evans, his wife Margaret P. (Gray) Evans, a Mrs. Dickinson, and Lionel A. Sheldon, concerning his contributions to education in Indiana and Illinois; Illinois politics before and during the Civil War; term as second governor of Colorado Territory;...

Records pertaining to the political career of Congressman Baldwin, representative for Contra Costa County. Records include correspondence, press releases, committee reports, campaign files, clippings, and subject files.

from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;

Some relate to his position as Chief of Police, San Francisco. Includes letters from Judge Elijah C. Hart, copies of correspondence between the mayor's office and the Presidio re granting licenses to saloons near the Presidio gates, and letters and...

Contains a bound volume diary of Willis's overland trip to California along the Platte River and other related materials from his life and family including legal documents, correspondence, and funeral receipts. Willis traveled from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to St. Louis, Missouri...

Chiefly postcards depicting scenes of downtown Berkeley and the University of California campus. Other subjects include the Berkeley fire of 1923, Southern Pacific ferry steamer Berkeley, Presidio of San Francisco and Mt. Tamalpais. Negatives (box 1) depict scenes from San...

Contains an official certificate of United States citizenship (42 x 28 cm) issued to J.F. Bigelow by the District Court of the First Judicial District of Nevada on February 20, 1882. Signed by the clerk of the court, J.A. Mahoney,...

Papers relating to Flannery's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Include letters of the British sculptor to Prince Hoare and others, mainly relating to the payment for General Simcoe's monument in Exeter Cathedral, and accounts, one with George Romney.

Relates to Llebaria vs. Peck, California District Court (3rd District), Santa Cruz, California. The litigation was over land in the Santa Cruz Mission orchard. Include: receipt for costs of court, demurrer to complaint, answer of defendant Henry W. Peck by...

Diaries, accounts and memoranda as farmer in Santa Clara Co., Calif.

Contains business and personal correspondence concerning his career as an accountant, attorney and lecturer at UC Berkeley. Also includes CPA certificates, speeches, teaching materials, legal documents, clippings and ephemera.

Includes four letters from Lewis Gerstle and one letter from A. Wassermann written on behalf of Alaska Commercial Company, giving reports of company operations re fur trade and market conditions, and activities of its agents; also with these, a newspaper...

from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;

Materials created when Downey was Governor of California.

Carbon copy of transcript of letter to the Monterey County Treasurer (Dec. 31, 1853) from Marvin in his capacity as California Superintendent of Public Instruction, transmitting a statement of state school money for 1853. Also includes a statement of each...

Contains 2 letters describing living in San Francisco and California at the time of the gold rush.

Chiefly letters received by Tyler in the context of his ornithological studies in California and the activities of the Cooper Ornithological Club. Includes a large group from Joseph and Hilda (Wood) Grinnell.

Original drawings (and one photograph) for building designs by John Galen Howard. 1: an auditorium in a park, dated 1891 (France) -- 2: an open air pavilion, dated 1892 (France) -- 3: grand staircase in a street façade, perhaps for...

From the collection of Elinor Raas Heller.

Record of voyage to California (Mar. 10 - Sept. 1, 1852) in company with John C. Morrill and James Fife, on ship, North American; experiences in California to Apr. 29, 1853, chiefly in Sacramento, including the fire (Nov. 2); mining,...

Contains a handwritten letter (1 page), dated August 28, 1846, from Daingerfield Fauntleroy, concerning John Gilroy's appointment as a United States justice of the peace of San Juan Bautista, California, along with the enclosed official appointment orders (1 page), dated...

Contains part of a collection of autographs of Episcopal Bishops from correspondence collected by Librarians of the John Gordon Wright Library at the Episcopal Theological School. Includes only Bishops from California, the location of the remainder of the collection is...

Correspondence signature, and clipping concerning his life and activities involved with writing and publication.

Collection contains notes, drafts, manuscripts, proofs, etc. for his works: The Studio; Vegas; True Confessions; Dutch Shea, Jr.; and The Red, White and Blue.

Mainly letters from his parents and brothers. A letter, Jan. 1880, from his father, Robert Hodge Wetmore, Sr., to his mother, included.

Some relate to his career as public school teacher in California. Included is letter from John H.C. Bonte.

Recorded in letterpress copybook, while he was acting manager of the wharfage and storage business of the Union Steam Navigation Co. at Shanghai, and as agent for several steamships. Accounts also included.

Steinhart recalls his activities in various Jewish civic and charitable organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Contains letters from Williams to his wife Nettie while he was on the road. He describes Oregon, Washington and California as well as publishing his work "Yosemite and its High Sierra" (1914), payment problems with the Christian Science Monitor, and...

Contains correspondence, exhibition announcements and catalogs, writings and notes on art theory and technique, other biographical material, photographs, slides, a sketchbook and clippings, relating to the career of John Haley. A significant part of the collection concerns his mentor Hans...

Includes correspondence, research files, and course materials relating to John H. Reynold's career as professor and researcher in the Department of Physics at UC Berkeley.

Series 1: chiefly large-format, exhibition quality photographs of street scenes in San Francisco, with an aesthetic emphasis on color. Images depict various aspects of the city's social and cultural diversity, focusing on everyday people in public spaces, and including such...

Includes photographs documenting depression-era migrant workers camps and the relocation of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Photographs were commissioned by the Farm Security Administration, Federal Works Agency, U.S. Forest Service, House Select Committee to Investigate the Interstate Migration of Destitute...

Collection includes: 1. Agreement, in writing of W.A. Bartlett, between Albert Packard and J.H. Brown for the settlement of debts of the firm of Brown, Packard, and Joel P. Dedmond, due to Henry Mellus, William D. Phelps, and William Fisher,...

Letters to his wife concerning his voyage to California via Panama in 1849, and his mercantile activities, mainly at Coloma; letters from his wife and family in New York relate to family and friends.

Commemorative medals or medallions, chiefly with portraits of British, French, and other European literary figures. Several exposition souvenirs are present, including the Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary, the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, and the Golden Gate International Exposition. One item represents the...

Chiefly portraits of British nobility of the seventeenth century, with some earlier figures depicted. Several queens, princes, bishops, and generals are included and some Holbein portraits from the Tudor era.

Title devised by cataloger.

Letter of Feb. 28 1933 to J. Paget Fredericks discusses a visit Paget Fredericks is to pay to Nash, with his drawings, and mentions a book that Nash plans to give to him. Letter of June 13 1934 to the...

Chiefly graphic material related to Nash's fine press productions. Includes original ink, pencil & watercolor drawings for borders, vignettes, illustrations, frontispiece portraits, monograms, initial letters and bookplates, plus various etchings and stats. Also present are offset prints from the Golden...

One portrait each of Jean Hersholt and William A. Magee; 3 portraits of A. Edward Newton (2 inscribed photos of sculptural portraits, 1 photographic portrait) One portrait of John Henry Nash by Georges Pussin, dated 1928.

English religious leader and cardinal.

Primarily letters responding to his reviews. Include letters from Thornton Wilder, John Steinbeck, Eugene O'Neill, Robinson Jeffers, and from motion picture actors (Janet Blair, Nanette Fabray, Betty Hutton, Charles Ruggles, Loretta Young, Vera Zorina).

Papers relating to John Hooper's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Association with Paul Elder; establishment of his own bookselling business; his collection of rare Bibles; publishing ventures; comments on collectors, libraries and authors, and famous people he knew; Bohemian Club.

The collection documents Rowe's decades long career as a professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Included are correspondence, research materials, lecture notes and departmental records.

blueprints for the H.I. Randall house in Berkeley. George T. Plowman and John H. Thomas. 1909. (13 sheets)

Diary (Mar. 25, 1852-Mar. 25, 1853) records Dr. Wayman's overland journey from Indiana to California and later experiences mining, mainly in the southern region; and letters (1852-1862) written to family while en route, Shaws Flat and Forest City, California and...

Relate to his work as state supervisor, emergency farm labor, for the California Co-operative Extension work in Agriculture and Home Economics. Include copies of his letters, minutes of meetings, memoranda issued by his office, and circulars issued by the California...

Consists of a group of marriage licenses from weddings that Zucker performed in 1944 and 1945 while serving as a rabbi at a synagogue in Reno, Nev., prior to his becoming rabbi of San Leandro's Temple Beth Sholom.

Diary, May 16-Nov. 4, 1841, recording John's journey from Westport, Mo. to California with the Bartleson-Bidwell party. Differs somewhat from the version in Pt. II. Extracts from John Bidwell's journal, Oct. 20-Nov. 5, 1841, also copied into the volume. Also...

Correspondnence to family in Scotland describing his activity and surroundings while working in England (1848-1850), California (1850-1858), Chile (1859-1875), and South Africa (1887-1893) Some correspondence concerns the settlement of a family estate (1918-1919).

Include letters to Jones, deeds of sale, agreements, accounts and promissory notes.

Personal and professional papers relating to his political career, primarily as U.S. Representative from California. Also included is a volume of personal reminiscences, which features extensive genealogies and family history.

Congressman John Joseph Allen Jr.'s photograph collection shows social and political events, publicity photos, etc.

Includes information on Karner's experiences travelling from Germany to New York as a youth; to Texas, 1835; member of Houston's army and at Gonzales when news arrived of the fall of the Alamo; Houston's campaign against Santa Anna, and the...

Collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and other materials relating to John Kent Blanche's service in the 7th Infantry Division in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Materials include 71 letters (1941-1944) from John Kent Blanche to his wife, Monica...

Contains correspondence, guide books, phrase books, postcards, military documents, etc. of a physician, John Alan Kapstein (later John Alan Kerner), who served as a combat medic with the 35th Infantry in Europe during World War II. Also includes a meticulously...

Contains documents pertaining to land held in Contra Costa County and Oakland, Calif. Also includes letter and document pertaining to voyage to California.

Thirteen letters, plus corrresponding photocopies of typed transcripts, from a California gold miner to his wife, brother, and sister; addressed from various digging venues including Sarahsville, Hunts Hill, Volcano Hill and Eaton Rapids.

Contains materials from a 1985 presentation and correspondence concerning the preservation of Mineral King now in Sequoia National Park, Calif.

Includes copy of the article, correspondence with magazine publishers and related material.

The diaries, 47 and 127 p., descibe a journey to California in 1852 overland from Lockhart, Texas, via Eagle Pass to Mazatlán, by sea to San Francisco, thence to Stockton, Columbia, Sonora, and Mokelumne Hill, where Lane mined through 1853....

Journal of a cruise in the U.S. Ship Vincennes.

Professional correspondence, research notes, field notes, climatic graphs and charts, manuscripts for publication, course notes and transcripts of talks given.

Three letters to his father John Lewis (born Jean Louis) Andre in London, England while living in Genoa [Italy?].

Letters of the American historian and diplomat, written to Emory Washburn, David Douglas and Dr. John Brown.

Mainly records pertaining to his property (a portion of Rancho Petaluma), including deeds from Mariano G. Vallejo and others, abstracts of title, etc. Also included are a few records of the Sonoma Mountain Irrigation Company.

Transcripts of five letters describing experiences en route from Missouri to California.

Include letters written by John M. Lewis to his wife, Sophie Borel, 1898-1912 (most of them before their marriage); letters written by Mrs. Lewis, l898-1907, many commenting on family activities; letter to Lewis from Aylett R. Cotton, Sept. 24, 1906;...

The John M. Miller and H.E. Burke papers on western forest entomology document their work with the United States Department of Agriculture's Forest Service and Bureau of Entomology in California and Oregon. Included are field diaries, notebooks, calendars, and reports....

Snapshots taken in various California and Oregon forests by John M. Miller during his work as a ranger and entomologist. Photographs depict general views of the forests, as well as insect (and in one view, rattlesnake) control efforts, and camp...

John M. Wedemeyer served as the Director of the California State Department of Social Welfare under Governor Edmund G. Brown. His papers include personal correspondence, from that period, speeches, publications, and materials regarding his resignation from the position in 1966.

Snapshots of scenes and people from the trips of a mining engineer in Latin America and Oregon. Some professionally produced photographs included. Of note are views of Zacatecas and mines in the region, a few images of artillery practice in...

Includes two letters from John Marsh, one in 1832 describing his experiences in the Black Hawk Indian War and one in 1852; letters by Miguel de Pedrorena, William Lewis and Cesáreo Lataillade on business matters; letters by Mrs. John Marsh;...

Manuscript letter replying to a friend's request for information on the prospects of opening a butcher shop in Petaluma, Calif. McCausland believes the prospects to be good despite the presence of two butcher shops already due to the growth of...

Letters describe his voyage from New York around the Horn to San Francisco on the ship Balance, with extensive comment on fellow passengers and crew, bird and marine life, stops in Talcahuano and Concepción, Chile; legal practice in San Francisco...

Documents and letters as Governor of California; with letters and petitions from Alex W. Hope, Rodman M. Price, Persifor F. Smith, San Francisco Bar (85 signatures), and others.

Contains ledger of accounts from John McGrath's grocery in Virginia City, Nev., located on C Street. The second ledger with an inventory is assumed to be from John McGrath as C Street locations are specified.

Contains legal documents including agreements, subpoenas, land surveys, fire insurance policies, deeds, and other assorted legal documents relating to McHenry's legal practice. Also includes receipts for the legal practice and clippings.

The collection consists of a diary, a letter to John McLallen Thompson from his wife, Sarah, two cartes-de-visite of Thompson (taken in Trumansburg, New York) and a printed 1877 wedding invitation for Thompson's daughter. The diary entries start in April...

Reflecting McLeod's labors in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company in western Canada and the Pacific Northwest, prefaced by a brief biographical sketch prepared by the Public Archives of Canada. Includes his journal, Kamloops to Edmonton, February 19-May 17,...

Contains letters to Meinecke, a miner, while serving in the Army in Missouri during World War II. Includes letters from his mother Ann Thompson, many discussing discharge from military because of the need for miners at home.

Correspondence (carton 1); drafts (for both editions) (carton 2).

Manuscripts of his fiction. Includes drafts of Populism and drafts of unpublished children's books, a novel, London Journal (1942-1944), and other writings.

Accounts for wholesale and retail hat business in San Francisco.

Mainly decrees as alcalde and judge of San Luis Obispo. Include public notices re land, school and elections; letters from Walter Colton, A.B. Thompson and Wm. G. Dana; and inventory of documents handed over by Price to Charles Freeman in...

John Montgomery papers, BANC MSS 2011/217, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Concerning daily activities, writings, travels, etc.

Items captioned: John Muir's last trip to the Sierra [at entrance to Sequoia National Park] -- Stage from Wawona into Yosemite carrying John Muir and Frank W. Kellogg -- Top of General Sherman tree.

Manuscripts, clippings, scrapbooks, pictures, and some correspondence, reflecting Murray's career as labor leader and journalist. Include material concerning miners' strikes in the West, the Mexican Revolution, and the Pan American Federation of Labor.

Comments on experiences mining and on conditions in California.

Six letters of correspondence to a history professor at Northern Arizona University from various people including U.S. Senators, an Italian diplomat, and the broadcaster, Edward R. Murrow. Most contain brief responses to inquiries or comments directed to them by Nicolson....

Contains approximately 150 items, including commencement programs, calling cards, newspaper clippings, pictorial clippings, correspondence, ephemera, etc, Some of the material is related to John Force's tour of duty as a medical doctor in the Panama Canal Zone. One of the...

Contains 47 handwritten letters primarily between John N.L. Cummings and his wife, Mary Susan Cummings (nee Wright) and other related family members. Includes love letters, and general correspondence including letters concerning an American merchant ship running a British blockade. Includes...

Includes journals, drafts, published copies of writings, and correspondence.

Larger album contains chiefly travel snapshots taken in Europe (Italy, France, England, etc.) and San Francisco during the 1910s. Smaller album contains travel snapshots taken in Eastern United States (especially New York and Washington D.C.) during a 1938 trip. Also...

Twenty-three letters written from Tuolumne County, to his wife, Anna, in Berkeley, describe his efforts to homestead on timber land: clearing land, building and furnishing a cabin; assistance of neighbors; attempts at finding outside work to supplement income. Also includes...

Mostly stories written by the radio engineer re the early days of radio and various radio pioneers for whom he worked.

Contains correspondence and writings

Contains mostly correspondence between John Otto Haman and his parents in the 1920s. Also includes newspaper clippings, notes on cable cars, and other miscellany. Miscellany includes post cards, a wedding announcement, a certificate of promotion to 7th grade for his...

Includes letters from San Francisco Chronicle literary editor, Joseph Henry Jackson, and from Irish authors, Frank O'Connor and Seán O'Faoláin. Some refer to book reviews O'Reilly wrote for the Chronicle.

Correspondence related to his role as host of the television show "Books and Authors" that aired on KQED San Francisco, California. Letter topics include responses to appearance requests, program content, funding, and commentary. Also includes a pencil sketch drawing of...

Collection contains correspondence, contracts, bills, and other records of Piper's Opera House mainly from 1884-1898. Business letters to Piper are from actors, theatrical agents and syndicates concerning bookings for performances at opera houses in Nevada, chiefly the Piper Opera House...

Diary kept daily while on journey to California aboard the ship Hannibal out of Boston on Nov. 21, 1849 and arriving in San Francisco on May 6, 1850. Dutiful log of activities aboard ship including helping with repairs, and a...

Brodie's journals and notes, with relevant letters, grouped as follows: (folder 1); J.A. Waldteufel to Herbert E. Bolton. Ukiah, California, October 20-29, 1917; March 11, 1919. 3 p. L.S. Concerns use of the Brodie Mss. and scrapbook by the California...

Primarily reports, studies, maps, and correspondence relating to Copper mining and Oil exploration in Chile and the United States. Includes many materials on the Quebrada Blanca and Collahusi Projects, exploration for Minera Rayrock, Inc., and projects in the Butte, Montana,...

Checks, Oregon Pacific Railroad pass and photocopy of attorney's oath, Nevada, and certificate for expenses as candidate, Congressman at Large, Washington.

Contains speeches given by John R. May at the Chit Chat Club and the San Francisco Foundation, concerning charitable foundations and the government, the Hoopa Valley community, Jim Crow laws, on Bernard Shaw, on communication of the blind and deaf,...

Letters written by a Union soldier from Louisiana during the Civil War describing his day-to-day experiences and complaints. One letter speaks of the siege of Vicksburg, and another on July 4th of the rebel surrender. Also contains his discharge certificate,...

Collection of material by and about author Graham Greene, organized in 14 binders and 1 oversize portfolio. Includes: 3 binders of booksellers' and auction catalogs offering copies of Greene's works for sale; 6 binders of book reviews of Greene's works...

Consists of correspondence, research notes, and course materials for classes taught at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, and Stanford. Also includes drafts for articles, materials relating to microwave tube research, and files relating to the UC Berkeley Department of Engineering.

Contains doctoral dissertation on Klystron development, lecture notes of W.W. Hansen on microwave devices, coursework and exams in Physics and Mathematics, correspondence, drawings, photographs and blueprints created while engaged in physical electronics research at Stanford University, Sperry Gyroscope Company, and...

Of Mary Woodyard;

Letters written from Tombstone, Arizona, San Francisco, Unalaska and Yukon River area, Alaska; those from Alaska written when he went gold prospecting.

Bound notebook used by the owner of a carriage making and repair business to record various transactions and expenses, from January 1, 1856 to January 9, 1858, including costs of parts and labor, credits, debits, money received, cash balances, customer...

Contains the letters of a gold miner in Rough & Ready (Nevada County), then Iowa Hill (Placer County) and Lost Camp (Placer County), California to his wife back East.

Includes bonds for administrators and guardians signed by Benjamin Buckelew, Williams S. Clark, Timothy Murphy, et. al., accounts and receipts, and material reganrding litigation over Rancho Corte de Madera and guardian James McCormick.

Written from the trapper's rendezvous; brief account of his experiences of the past year and plans for the next.

Includes autobiographical note, untitled poem, poem "To a Mockingbird," and clipping re the Indian poet.

Material from C-B 637, Elisha Oscar Crosby papers; C-B 466, George D. Roberts correspondence; C-B 678, J. Ross Browne letters.

Contains biographical, personal, and subject files; correspondence, articles, book manuscripts, poetry, and notes. Oversize materials are posters.

The John S. Eastwood papers contain materials relating to Eastwood's career as a civil/hydraulic engineer, particularly in the field of dam design and construction. The collection consists of professional correspondence, agreements, proposals, reports, surveys, specifications, field notes, articles, writings, and...

Mainly letters from John S. McLean to Griffen B. Halsted describing his life and travels in Florida in 1849; letter to him from his cousin, John T. McLean, Feb. 24-26, 1849, concerning his proposed journey to California. With these: certificate...

Chiefly snapshots and travel photographs taken or collected by Service during his time in China in the 1930s and 1940s, and upon return visits in the 1970s and 1980s. Some copy photographs of historical views are also present. Boxes 1-7:...

Typescripts of short essays prepared in connection with the California Historical Landmarks Series of the Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks and the Works Projects Administration's Federal Writers' Project of Northern California. Includes one report by Lois Ann Woodward.

Correspondence and subject files concerning his interest and activity with agriculture and politics in California.

Collection contains correspondence and biographical materials. Also includes subject files, mainly relating to promotion and tenure at the University of California, Berkeley, and some relating to the University's loyalty oath controversy.

Contains correspondence, journals, and student papers. Includes a significant amount of correspondence from his father Norman B. Livermore, Sr. There are also reports and subject files on mining, particularly about the Dee Gold Mining Company and Rayrock Mines, Inc.

Some are recommendations for schoolmasters for the local school.

Letters received by Day from Steinbeck: three typescript letters signed, John, three typescript letters signed with a typescript signature, John, and one handwritten letter signed, John.

Includes 2 letters from John Steinbeck to Anne Dare; 1 letter to Norma Beatly (Photocopy); 2 letters to Joseph Fontenrose; 1 letter to Robert S. Vance; an essay, Argument of Phalanx (photocopy); a document regarding transfer of literary rights from...

Argument of Phalanx; letters Feb. 23, 1938; Feb. 2, 1949; Aug. 26, 1958; Dec. 22, 1944; first theatrical production of Of Mice and Men (reprint).

Contains correspondence, but chiefly consists of records concerning operations and finances of John Swett & Son, owners of Hill Girt Farm and Hill Girt Winery in Martinez, Calif. Of particular interest are the daybooks and ledger which record wine purchased...

Letter from Ladd & Tilton to Apperson at Oregon City, and a copy of a contract with the Hinckley Company of San Francisco, 1865, for building a steamboat.

Mainly the papers of John T. Bell, many relating to his Civil War experiences, including army reports and orders, signed by E.D. Townsend and others, and a diary, Nov. 1864 - May 1865, describing Sherman's march to Savannah; account book,...

Chiefly letters to Malone from friends, including Thomas B. Shapter and Nicholas Bowden.

Bills and receipts, mainly from business establishments in Santa Cruz, California.

Letters to his family prior to sailing and on voyage, New York to San Francisco, on bark, Belvedere, as member, Cayuga Joint Stock Company; letters to his family from California describing his experiences in the mines and stock raising. Also,...

Correspondence, estimates, financial reports, a few records of Union Iron Works, clippings, blueprints of ships, etc. Mainly relate to his association with the Pacific Coast Shipbuilding Company.

Mainly correspondence, including letter from A.D. McDonald.

Letterpress copies of private and business letters of a California lawyer. Many relate to the Pious Fund litigation, the estate of Peter Donahue and other important cases in his extensive legal practice. Also includes references to his vineyards and winery.

Includes Townsend's application for Mexican citizenship, 15 January 1846, with supporting testimony by José Abrego, William E.P. Hartnell, David Spence, and Manuel Castro, and signatures of Ambrosio Gómez, Manuel Díaz, and Nicanor del Castillo; letter of same date by José...

British physicist.

Campaign and legislative materials, press-related materials, speeches and lectures, some correspondence, and subject and clipping files on various political issues relevant during Tunney's career from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s.

Photographic portraits of legislator John V. Tunney.

Microfilm.

Includes correspondence, memoranda, and personnel records regarding Mr. Velton's work with the Disabled Students Program, University of California, Berkeley and the California State Department of Rehabilitation.

Contains seven handwritten letters from a man working on a farm near the Sacramento River, California. Five are addressed to his childhood sweetheart, Minnie, and two are addressed to an unnamed friend. Details include descriptions of farm life and agricultural...

3 letters, quarto, 9 pages.

Portraits and other photographs of John W. Butterworth. Some taken during Butterworth's employment as a police officer in San Francisco at the time of the 1906 earthquake and fire. Also pictured is San Francisco police chief Jeremiah Dinan, as well...

Contains correspondence, research files, lab notebooks, writings, articles, speeches, book drafts, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings relating to all aspects of Dr. Gofman's career. Also includes records, correspondence, and publications of the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, including the work of Gofman's...

Collection consists primarily of location files and well records for oil field development in California from the 1920s to the 1960s. Location files contain correspondence, maps, legal documents and notes; well records are standarized forms documenting exploration of particular sites....

Letters describe his experiences in California, including bee keeping near San Diego; impressions of San Francisco and Eureka.

The papers include letters not only to Troy but to J.H. Guffey, A.L. Shoup, J.F.A. Strong, James Wickersham, and government officials in Washington, especially on political matters, the first World War, and Indian lands near Sitka; correspondents are James Hamilton...

Contains correspondence, research notes and manuscript drafts. Correspondents include William E. Colby and Eleanor Lee Reading Templeman.

Concerning the Roosevelt Progressive Republican League of California (of which he was president), the Progressive and Republican Parties and the election of 1912. Chiefly carbon copies of League organizational papers and letters sent or pertaining to the Afro-American Council, C.L....

Correspondence, invitations, subject files, and clippings; materials concerning J.W. Mailliard Jr., and memorial materials of J.W. Mailliard addressed to others. Also, some correspondence of Mrs. J.W. Mailliard (received after his death) and genealogical material concerning the Mailliard and Ward families.

Collection of 17 letters (54 pages + 1 original envelope) written in ink by John Wesley Clement of Exeter, New Hampshire, between November 7, 1849 and June 28, 1954, from various locations in California to his parents and siblings back...

Letters to his wife and sister, written from Virginia City and Carson City, Nevada.

Papers relating to the U.S. occupation of California, including letter by Livingston to R.F. Stockton, letters from William Speiden and James Biddle, documents relating to the U.S.S. Frigate Congress, copy of Stockton's Address to Californias, etc.

Contains a handwritten agreement (1 p.) concerning property owned by John Wilson and signed by Luis T. Burton [a renter?]. It is also countersigned by Juan Camarillo and has an added note in the margin signed by Antonio Rodriguez. Also...

Clippings; a few reflecting his service as U.S. Army Chaplin in New Mexico and California.

The Bancroft Library holds additional collections of John R. Woodyard papers: BANC MSS 82/40 and BANC MSS 87/150.

The journals are: (1) Journal ... From Fort George (Astoria) Northward [to explore the lower Fraser River, under James McMillan, November 18-December 30, 1824] (2) Journal of a Trip from F. Vancouver to the Interior in the year 1826 [to...

Stereographs show the Sierra Buttes mine, and the Plumas Eureka mine. Other photoprints show Plumas Eureka miners and related subjects; the original Amador mine; etc.

Photographs from various sources depicting: Seventeen Mile Drive (at Cypress Point), Hotel del Monte, and the Spanish mission of Monterey ("Royal chapel" of the Presidio)

Mission Carmel (July 3, 1882) on the occassion of the opening of the graves and the identification of the remains of the Franciscan Friars: Juan Crespi, Julian Lopes, Firemen Francisco Lascuen, and Junipero Serra. Primarily group photos of St. Patrick's...

Correspondence, reports, calendar, subject file, notes, maps, address books, receipts, diaries and daybooks concerning the Johnson family.

Letters to Thomas L. Carpenter, Andrew Gross, and others; with a letter from Henry M. Teller, president of the Colorado Central Railroad, 1872, together with circulars. A satirical broadside and other printed items reflect the debacle in which the Emma...

Includes views of the University of California, Berkeley campus and related subjects, taken during the 1960s: buildings, events, campus scenes, faculty and students.

Includes correspondence, poetry, and manuscripts for two unpublished novels, "Nuclear Bliss" and "Sticks and Stones."

Consists primarily of material relating to Else's career in documentary filmmaking and cinematography. Of note in this collection are annotated scripts and transcripts from many of his films including Palace of Delights, Eyes on the Prize I and II, Yosemite:...

Contains the typescripts of short stories many of which appeared in the WPA and Sutro Library sponsored publication "Golden Mountain: Chinese Tales Told in California." The stories were gathered by Jon Lee in San Francisco's Chinatown in Chinese and translated...

Includes correspondence, lecture notes, course notes, publications, writings, seminar notes, and administrative files.

The collection consists of papers, audiotapes, photographs and books belonging to Irving and Stefani Jonas and to Stefani's mother, Antonie. Papers include biographical information, correspondence and family documents. The bulk of the collection documents the Jonas family's emigration from Nazi...

Part I. Letters, case files, and other papers relating mainly to activities in San Francisco from about 1849 as an attorney and claim agent.

Contents: diary, 1849, of voyage from Boston to San Francisco, with accounts at end for 1856; letters (some written on illustrated lettersheets), including a few from his son George A. Locke who accompanied him, describing voyage, mining in Calaveras Co.,...

Certificate of sale of property to Samuel R. Mills, San Francisco; and papers in two cases in the District Court: H. Hoag vs. Jonathan Hunt, tax collector for the City and County of San Francisco; and James Ross vs. Jonathan...

Newspaper clippings and related material, mainly concerning his career as Alameda County supervisor from 1898, containing information on election campaigns, controversy on use of funds for road work, incorporation of Fruitvale, proposed new roads, county taxes, sale of his property,...

Letters describe Rensselaer's life at the "State University"; letter, Dec. 16, relates experiences at the inauguration of Governor Booth, Dec. 8, 1871.

Consists of materials documenting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender activism on the University of California campuses and in the East Bay. There are conference materials, directories, email, leaflets and other ephemera, meeting minutes, news clippings, newsletters and other publications, and reports....

Includes letters from W.F. Bliss, Galen Clark and John Muir.

Clippings, chiefly articles from various religious periodicals, concerning Christian life and theology, and the Baptists in Berkeley, California, together with some poetry.

Family photographs of R.W. Jones family, foreman on the David Hewes ranch and orange groves in Orange County. Also photographs of McPherson family members, relations of Jones's wife, who were also California pioneers and Orange County land owners. Also includes...

Photographs and photocopies of photographs taken and/or collected by Jones as research material for his book Use my name: Jack Kekrouac's forgotten families (published 1999). Includes numerous snapshots and professional portraits of Jan Kerouac, as well as photographs depicting Joan...

Two handwritten letters addressed to Jones P. Veazie in Bangor, Maine, from persons traveling aboard ships in the Pacific containing details of their trips, conditions on ship, and observations of ship traffic and the market for commodities in California. One...

Collection includes materials relating to Jacob's 1991 San Francisco mayoral campaign, including correspondence, subject files (on abortion rights, homelessness and crime, and LGB rights), clippings, press releases, campaign management materials, and posters and other ephemera.

Letters from Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Manuel Avila Camacho and his brother Maximino, touching upon educational needs and funds for roads in the state, on illiteracy and on effects of World War II on Mexico. Some with notes of Cerdán's replies.

Correspondence and memoranda of the governor of Veracruz and related clippings re efforts to obtain aid for victims of a cyclone and floods in the area, Sept. l944.

Mainly correspondence relating to his political party, El Partido Liberal Evolucionista, to political events in Mexico, and to the assassination of Francisco I. Madero and J. M. Pino Suárez. Include letters from Miguel Salvador Macedo, Francisco I. Madero, Isidro Mendicuti...

Mainly letters of Florence Orr Jorgensen to her mother, 1924-1925, describing her travels in Europe.

Includes three European travel diaries, 1924-1925, kept by California artist Virgil W. Jorgensen, with mention of his Italian relatives, members of the Ghirardelli family; 1954 European travel diary of his wife, Florence Orr Jorgensen; and letters to her from her...

Family photographs including portraits, vacation snapshots, pets, etc., from California (Laurel Brook, Yosemite, Sonoma Co.,) and other U.S. locations. Many unidentified and unprinted 35mm negatives may be from the desert southwest or Mexico, circa 1940. Virgil William Jorgensen (California artist),...

Correspondence (personal and financial), legal materials, clippings, gift cards, scrapbook, and invitations concerning the life and activities of the Jorgensen family of which Angela Ghirardelli Jorgensen was a member. Also includes litigation materials concerning Norman Littell.

Pictorial material relating to the life of California artist Chris Jorgensen and to the family of Katherine Littell. Includes family phtographs, travel snapshots, postcards, etc.

Miscellaneous documents relating mainly to José Amesti, including a copy of his baptismal record; his request for a permit to leave Lima on the Margarita for Panama, 1809; certificate by Cesáreo Lataillade, 1847, re Amesti's nationality; Mexican passport, 1848, signed...

Papers as alcalde of Los Angeles, relating to marriage permits for Julian Vargas and Salvador Armijo.

Copies of letters (v.1: cartas despachadas a la corte; v.2: cartas escritas a particulares) written while Spanish governor on the island of Elba, containing reports on his activities there, remarks on the garrison at Porto Longone, comments on expenditures, commerce...

Documents signed as Viceroy of Mexico: one concerning the ownership of Rancho Bejarano near Horcasitas (1804); and a letter of Juan Francisco Domínguez requesting a copy of laws regulating the sale of liquor on feast days, with draft of Domínquez's...

Documents as Juez de Paz of San Luis Obispo. Include letter from José M. Bonilla; proclamation concerning unregistered cattle brands and irrigation water; and land grant to Victor Linares. Also, letter from José Castro to José María Villavicencio, 1845, pertaining...

Include letter from San Francisco lawyer, F.P. Tracy, relating to the confirmation of title to Mallacomes y Plano de Agua Caliente; copy of decree of confirmation for the property; and typed transcript of letter from Berreyesa to the editor of...

Typescripts of José Dolores Gámez, including a memoir (1912) and History of the Mosquitia (1915).

Letters and promissory note by José D. Peralta; letters from Victor Castro, Joaquín I. Castro and others.

Contents: Letters and documents by Figueroa as Governor of Alta California; diary of expedition from Monterey to Fort Ross and vicinity, Aug. 9 - Sept. 12, 1834; and letter from J.B. de Jesus Perez concerning abuses of Indians in Santa...

Correspondence as an official of Querétaro, Mexico.

Relate to politics in Mexico. Some correspondence of Jesús Camarena also included.

Includes letter from Dávila to President Venustiano Carranza, Dec. ll, l9l4, requesting weapons and ammunition for use in fighting revolutionaries, and official typed transcripts made by the Secretaría de Guerra y Marina of documents relating to politics in Oaxaca, 19l9-19l9,...

Letters written as Governor of Alta California to Macario Castro, and letter from F.M. Calleja, Viceroy of Mexico, concerning Russian deserters and illicit Russian trading in California. In Spanish.

Chiefly family portraits.

Letter to Manuel Castañares, 1845, describes conditions in California pertaining to the revolt of the Californians. Also certificate concerning appointment of Francisco Figueroa.

Reminiscences of career as soldier in southern California under the governorships of Sola, Arguello, Arrillaga and Borica, including an account of the pirate Bouchard at Santa Barbara, and anecdotes concerning Junípero Serra and the life of Indians at the missions.

Mainly correspondence and papers as governor of Alta California. Letters from Ignacio Martinez, Tiburcio Vasquez, and others included.

Mainly public notices as alcalde and juez de paz of San Luis Obispo. Letter from Walter Colton included.

Papers as military commandant at Monterey. Include regulations concerning army personnel entering pueblos of San José and Branciforte, and appointment of Manuel Pacheco, Rafael de Villavicencio, Ramon Borjorques and Antonio Buelna as corporals of the Guard at San Jose.

Report, 16 January 1824, to Antonio Narbona from Palm Springs, on his activities in Alta California, and on the expedition undertaken with José María Estudillo to locate a trail to the Colorado River, and on the conditions that forced them...

Documents relating to Gastañeta's career, including expediente concerning trial to clear him of charges of collaboration with Hidalgo's insurgents, April 8-June, 1811, and army commission, January 6, 1813.

Papers of José Yrineo Magallanes and his sons, Mariano, Francisco and Juan, relating to the sale, inheritance, or transfer of lands and estates mainly in Tlaltenango and Jérez, province of Zacatecas, Mexico.

Articles, holograph and typescript, by a professor of Spanish, University of California, Berkeley, relating to Spanish literature, and including information on Luis Coloma, Jorge de Montemayor, Miguel de Unamuno, and Francisco G. de Quevedo.

Miscellaneous views of the American West, collected by Joseph A. Baird. Locations include: Yosemite Valley, Arizona (Hopi and Navajo Indians), Colorado (Pikes Peak, Garden of the Gods, etc.), Yellowstone, amd two views of Indians in Wyoming.

Consists of legal documents relating to the life and property San Francisco residents Joseph and Eda M. Federlein, including deeds to property in the Reis Tract, and Brooklyn Township [i.e. Oakland], California Other documents include a workmen's compensation claim and...

Includes a wide survey of Spanish, Portuguese and pre-Conquest era in Mexican architecture, as well as some coverage of major 19th and 20th century work (especially Art Nouveau). The emphasis is on religious architecture (exteriors and interiors), however, examples of...

The California Palace of the Legion of Honor: A short history and guide to the collections (1969) -- California Dept. Parks & Recreation - Museum Collections Oil Painting Inventory, by artist (1987).

Series I: Joseph C. Houghteling later life autobiographical overviews, and earlier childhood, youth, college, WWII-era, and early post-War papers; Series II: Joseph C. Houghteling's marriage, fatherhood, Frances Fisher Houghteling death, second marriage papers; Series III: Joseph C. Houghteling business papers;...

Diary (Nov. 8, 1849-Jan. 27, 1851?) of voyage from Boston to San Francisco and experiences in the Southern mines; list of passengers and crew of the Euphrasia, Captain Charles Buntin, master; certificate of membership, Sons of Temperance, Sonora, Calif.

Includes letter 20 May, l856, written to his brother from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, describing traveling in Nicaragua in the wake of Walker's expedition, and his interest in Honduras, especially in its silver. Also included are portions of the manuscript of his...

Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924) [copy of three paragraphs to W.C. Beaumont, Nov. 17, 1910] (2 l. ; 26 cm.).

Primarily portraits of Myra and Josephine Redding. Also includes views of "the Atonement of Pan: A Music Drama" performance at Bohemian Grove, and a few other items.

Personal papers; papers relating to the administration of his wife's estate; two mining leases 1918 and 1920, in the Robinson Mining District White Pine County, Nevada; smelting contract, 1919.

Court documents, attorneys files, and correspondence concerning two cases: Communist Party USA vs. Subversive Activities Control Board, and CPUSA vs. Attorney General of the US and Columbia Broadcasting System. Also Forer's report on the alleged practices of the FBI.

Consists of Joseph Ryan's research files as well as original Murphy family papers collected during the research and writing of Ice and Oil: The Life and Legacy of Dan Murphy California's Unlikely Titan (2021)

Views include scenes of Alaska, steamships, San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, Chinese, Yosemite, Mexico, Indians of the Southwest, mountains, hunting, logging, etc. Among the photographers featured in the collection are Arnold Genthe, Charles Weidner, Oscar Maurer, and A.G....

Primarily the papers of Joseph G. Baldwin, including correspondence (1838-1865), family letters, legal papers, typescript of his "Flush times of California" and other writings; miscellaneous papers. Also includes correspondence of Robert M. Lester and Cornelia Baldwin Gray (1922-1949) relating to...

Snapshot photograph album chiefly documenting leisure activities of members of the Civilian Conservation Corps Company 569, while they were stationed for forestry work at Camp Horse Heaven near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; at Camp Kenworthy and Keen Camp near Hemet and...

Consists of correspondence between Joseph Hauck and Ty Cobb, Cobb's family and business dealings made on Cobb's behalf. Also includes clippings about Cobb and a signed photograph of Cobb to Hauck.

Subject file, works submitted or published, and correspondence.

Concerning botanical explorations in Canada, the old Oregon country, Utah, Montana, and Nevada, in 1843-1846; also five letters from Alexander Gordon to Hooker mainly concerning his collecting activities with Sir William Drummond Stewart's excursion to the Rocky Mountains in 1843.

Bound book containing pages of printed shipping receipt forms for goods received for delivery aboard ships to other persons, ships, and places throughout California. Each page contains an original and duplicate receipt. Both sides were filled in and the original...

Typescript drafts of chapters, bibliography and miscellaneous material; published with title: Ewing Young in the fur trade of the far Southwest, 1822-1834. With this: Letters from Margaret Mary McBride and transcripts of various documents relating to Catholic missions in the...

Relate mainly to efforts to secure San Francisco as the site for the exposition commemorating the completion of the Panama Canal, and the role California played in its development.

Includes unpublished biography of Joseph R. Walker and unpublished history of American fur trade of the Southwest, with related correspondence, separately published excerpts, transcripts of published and unpublished source materials, etc.; also notes on California mining towns.

Collection of material relating to early telephone lines in the mining country of California. Include chronological record of early telephone lines in Northern California and Nevada; map showing lines; copies of newspaper articles; and clippings.

1905 volumes contain account of travels in South America, around the Horn, to San Francisco. Remaining diaries describe his life in San Francisco.

Experiences as an army surgeon at Forts Fred Steele and Bridger, 1869-1873. An appendix contains incomplete reminiscences by Miss Fanny Tomlinson, W.A. Carter family governess, of a trip across the Plains in 1864, with a note by Dr. Edward F....

The papers include correspondence and reports.

Contains 3 letters from a Calif. gold miner to his sister Augusta Davis in Maine describing life in and around the Calif. gold mines.

Collection includes from Sax's career at the University of California, Berkeley, writings, reviews, and some files from his work in Michigan.

Includes personal correspondence and correspondence with colleagues at other institutions.

Papers relating to Joseph LeConte's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Letters and accounts relating to duties as quartermaster and customs collector in San Francisco and to business affairs. Report of discovery of gold in California. A few papers concerning property in San Francisco. Some data pertaining to the Folsom estate.

Collection consists of materials accumulated during Backus's research on Burgess for his doctoral dissertation. It includes copies of his letters soliciting information about Burgess; copies of reports on interviews with people in San Francisco, Carmel, Big Sur, etc., who were...

Contains correspondence, legal documents and clippings, concerning land and construction throughout the state of California. Also includes clippings from election fraud cases in 1894.

Accounts of owners of a steam marble sawmill on Battery St.

The collection consists primarily of photographs taken in the Sierra Nevada, but also includes LeConte family photographs and photographs taken at various spots in California (including UC Berkeley views and views after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.) Some...

As agent of the Accessory Transit Company, protesting William Walker's seizure of a box of gold from the steamer San Carlos. Signed before the American minister to Nicaragua, John H. Wheeler, and confirmed by William Walker; with additional note by...

Joseph Phelps discusses growing up in Missouri and Colorado; the Hensel Phelps Construction Company; the Joseph Phelps Vineyards; winemaking philosophy, management, techniques and distribution; and other activities.

Contains correspondence, receipts and biographical information. Correspondence is primarily between Joseph Pownall and his wife Mary C. Pownall with their children Joseph B. Pownall (Benny) and Lucy Pownall Senger (Daisy). Correspondence also includes letters from Leonidas B. Benchley, John Bensley...

Contains several hundred typewritten and handwritten letters on business letterhead stationery from a wide array of organizations and persons located in California and the United States. Many are from newspapers, magazines, and newspapermen. The letterheads themselves form a significant aspect...

Amateur travel views in stereographic format, chiefly taken in California and other western states. Among California locations are San Francisco and other Bay Area cities, Yosemite National Park and other Sierra Nevada locations, Shasta Dam, Redwood Highway, Golden Gate Park,...

Contains 2 letters to his brother about his son's departure and experiences mining gold in California, other family member news and life in Westerly, R.I. Also includes genealogical information.

The collection contains copies of photographs of Cantor Rabinowitz; a telegram he received from the San Francisco Zionist District Committee after serving as a cantor for 40 years (1930); photocopies of newspaper clippings about the Cantor's 45 years of service...

Four letters from Joseph S. Pike in Columbia and Albany Flat, Calif. are to his father Joseph F. Pike, apparently in West Chelmsford, Mass. The letters mention health, weather, and lack of fortune. In one Pike mentions that he is...

Relate mainly to theatrical productions in the Bohemian Grove, and include publications and photographs.

Photos of Bohemian Grove, Bohemian Club banquets, and various Grove plays, taken by Gabriel Moulin, especially the 24th, Wings, by Joseph S. Thompson, produced in 1925. Some photos of Thompson and his staff at Pacific Electric Manufacturing Corporation, of which...

Emigration to California, 1853; removal to Oregon, 1857; mercantile experiences; law practice; and political career, especially as U.S. Senator from Oregon, Portland city councilman, and State senator.

Contains account and invoice books and receipts for a general store.

Copies of letters as Lieutenant, 3d Regiment of Artillery, U.S. Army and assistant commissary of subsistance at Sinaloa, Ceralvo and Monterrey.

Four letters written by Joseph T. Chase [?] from Forest City and Volcano, California to his friend Latinus Blaisdell in Frankfort, Maine. Discusses his efforts at gold mining in California and things he plans to do when he returns home...

Includes letters from Sam Davis, discussing financial matters and his campaign for Nevada state controller in 1910, from Miriam Michelson, some of which refer to her writing efforts, and from Gustav Eisen; legal and financial papers; fragmentary MSS for some...

Concern his interest and activity with the U.S. Bureau of the Budget and the Pacific Coast Board of Intergovernmental Relations.

Personal and business correspondence, accounts, and day books. Included are records of the South Eureka Mining Company, of which Mather was president.

Includes letters from Mr. and Mrs. Francis Marion Smith, relating primarily to the shipment and sales of borax to concerns in the East, and to the marketing of California prunes and bricks; articles of agreement with Israel Lawton, l885-l886, re...

Diaries kept by a farmer in San Benito County, California, presenting a detailed picture of rural life for the period. Comments on weather; farming operations; happenings in the community; economic conditions; social life; trips the family took in their wagon...

Obituary and resolutions passed by the Society of California Pioneers and by the University of California Pioneers and by the University of California College of Dentistry.

college class notes; drafts and clippings of speeches (some re Chinese immigration and the University of California), poems and editorials by him; and an agreement with David N. Hawley over disputed claim for a portion of Seal Rock Rancho in...

Contains papers of William Randolph Hearst collected by his personal assistant Joseph Willicombe including editorials on a variety of subjects with annotations made by Hearst, copies of outgoing correspondence, memoranda, schedules and notes on various topics written. The documents in...

Contains mining claims, a document outlining a partnership at a mining claim, accounting record of music students and clipping of 4th of July Celebration performance.

Contains genealogical information on the Falkenberg, Murphy, and Dunne families. Includes a copy of the 1875 map of the Murphy-Dunne ranches in San Martin, Morgan Hill, and Gilroy, California.

Includes: two letters, 1913, addressed to Juanita Goldmann; clippings; issues of magazine articles containing articles written by her, etc.

Includes 25 photographs of people at San Francisco amusement park Playland at the Beach, likely taken in the 1960s and/or early 1970s. Most images depict couples or larger groups posing while visiting various rides and attractions. Many images depict African...

Contains drawings for mining equipment used in the gold rush town of Dayton, Nevada.

Contains 30 letters written by Joshua Spriggs to his 2-year-old grandson Eddie Leroy Tigh about his time in Calif. and Or. The letters describe his account by sea through Panama to San Francisco, the harbor and city of San Francisco...

Include letters from Sir William Reynell, 3rd baronet Anson; Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, and Sir William Milbourne James.

Clippings from Virginia City and other newspapers, 1879-1880, when Harlow was a printer with the Territorial Enterprise, and an Assemblyman from Storey County. Also letters from Wells Drury, 1879, and from W.H. Pratt, 1885.

5 letters written by McLellan from California to his family in Maine. Also includes a signed document assigning power of attorney for McLellan to his brother, Hugh D. McLellan. Also includes a letter written to Col. Hugh D. McLellan from...

V.1 contains his account of a whaling voyage from New Bedford, Mass., around the Horn to the Sandwich Islands and return (Aug. 1846-May 1849) autobiographical notes; reflections on his whaling experiences; moral precepts; Illinois diary (May 3, 1852-Mar. 23, 1853)...

Part of a collection of Chinese business records from Nevada County, Calif.

Description of voyage from San Francisco to Panama on steamship, Colorado, crossing the Isthmus and voyage to New York on steamship, Arizona.

Record of journey from Iowa (Apr. 10-Aug. 5, 1850) with additional note (Feb. 2, 1851) concerning Placerville, Sacramento and the mines.

Account of voyage on the bark Belvedere from New York City via Cape Horn, stopping over in Callao; description of San Francisco; experiences mining gold around Agua Fino; and return to San Francisco.

Journal, commencing, Jan., 1825, with commissioning of the Blossom, and ending, July 20, 1828, at Rio de Janeiro, of the voyage under Capt. F.W. Beechey.

Record of a voyage (June 25, 1844-February 15, 1846) on the Charles Phelps; sojourn at Lahaina; and transfer, August 16, 1846, to the ship, Drome, Captain Steel. The journal ends March 7, 1847, when near home. The Charles Phelps sought...

Diary, Apr. 27-Sept. 26, 1846, of overland journey from Andrew Co., Missouri, to California. Records births and deaths (including those of his father and sister-in-law) en route and arduous crossing of the Sierra Nevada. Mentions other emigrant parties. Part of...

Typescript transcription of journal titled "Notes connected with Clallum Expedition fitted out under the command of Alex. R. McLeod, Esq., Chief Trader at Fort Vancouver on the 17th of June, 1828, by Frank Ermatinger, Clerk." The expedition was to avenge...

Related materials, received by The Bancroft Library in 1965, are shelved as BANC MSS C-F 226.

Copies of correspondence and reports while in command of the Western Union Telegraph Company's expedition for the Russian Extension. Reports chiefly from various members of the expedition.

Daily accounts of a voyage from Boston, Mass., to San Francisco, Calif., via Cape Horn, by an unnamed narrator aboard the brig Wellingsley. Written as letters to his wife, Gussy, these entries describe the weather, sailing conditions, various locations, and...

Daily record, Mar. 22-Aug. 11, 1849 (first entry off the coast of Brazil) of voyage as a member of the Providence Mining Company. Earlier accounts, poems, etc., included. Newspaper clippings pasted on some pages.

Regarding family life and schooling in India, education at the University of California, career as a journalist and science writer, influences and beliefs.

Concerns Mary Ellen Leary's work as reporter and editor on the San Francisco News, with comments on politics, legislative leaders, governors, lobbyists, etc., changes in San Francisco and issues such as city planning, housing, regional planning, rapid transit, etc.; civic...

Kept while naturalist and artist on Charles Wilkes' U.S. exploring expedition to the South Seas. Occasional drawings included. Journals 1 and 2 cover voyage from Norfolk, Va. to the South Pacific. Journal, Sept. 22, 1841-Feb. 19, 1842 (filmed out of...

Originals held in records of the General Land Office, National Archives (RG 49)

Preferred citation: Journals, cash books and accounts receivable for the general merchandise firm Chung Tai, BANC MSS C-G 44, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Diaries kept by a doctor in Switzerland during and after World War I, commenting on the effects of the war on his country, changing economic conditions, and the international political scene. With these: loose clippings removed from the journals.

Aerial photographs of the Higuito River region, mounted to pages with typescript descriptions and hand drawn keys to the features pictured.

Record of her journey by wagon train, 1862 Apr. 27-Oct 8, to Stockton, Calif. by way of north bank of the Platte River, Fort Laramie, Sweetwater River, Lander Cut-off, Humboldt River, Carson Valley, Ebbetts Pass Road, and Murphy's. Besides a...

African American athlete, air pilot, and educator, Williams discusses his childhood in Oakland and education at UC, Berkeley; the 1936 Olympics in Berlin; his career in the U.S. Air Force; and teaching and coaching in Marin County, Calif.

The collection consists of camp flyers, announcements, photographs, correspondence, member lists, program schedules, and course descriptions.

Contains business correspondence including issues of embezzlement by politicians, the Drainage Claims Act, railroad taxes, Chinese railroad workers, and requests for references concerning positions and parole.

Contains materials concerning Challacombe's research on 19th century logging of giant sequoias in California and his subsequent sequoia preservation efforts. Materials include correspondence, publications, articles, etc. Also includes some promotional materials and narration scripts for the documentary film, Conquest of...

Collection includes some personalia; correspondence; materials relating to the ILWU, including manuals, bulletins, Bloody July Fifth memorial stamps, and materials on the perjury trial of Harry Bridges, Henry Schmidt, and J.R. Robertson; mementos of Robertson's 1963 and 1969 trips to...

Contains J.R.K. Kantor's personal papers, correspondence, graduate student notebooks and bluebooks, miscellany, etc. The bulk of the correspondence is with Robert D. Armstrong, Special Collections Librarian at the University of Nevada-Reno. Also includes one folder of correspondence with former chancellor...

for water from J.S. Hay to the Idaho Hotel (Regan Bros. proprietors) May 1, 1875, printed by Kane & Cook, 412 Commercial Street, Silver City, Idaho.

Includes slides, snapshot photographs, film negatives, and other images of people and activities of East Bay Japanese for Action, East Bay Issei Housing, and Japanese Services for the East Bay, and successor organization J-Sei.

Two sets of Yosemite views mounted on accordion-folded black paper.

Collection of letters between Juan B. Cantua and his attorney Hamilton Gay Howard relate to Cantua's efforts to revive his grandfather Vincente Cantua's claim for reimbursement for property (horses, cattle, guns, and supplies) taken by the United States Army in...

Letters and documents by Manuel Fernández Leal, Adolfo Díaz Rugama and others relating to litigation over irrigation rights to water from Tepotzotlán River for his Hacienda de Xuchimanga in Mexico.

Includes the following: C-B 1, nos. 175, 244; C-B 3, no. 274; C-B 4, no. 309; C-B 7, no. 341; C-B 9, no. 217; C-B 12, no. 264a; C-B 14, no. 49; C-B 29, nos. 108, 253, 378, 393, 436,...

Mainly proclamations relating to procedures for claiming land, and documents issued as Governor of California, with a few letters to and from Alvarado. Mostly in Spanish.

Letters from Nentuig to Father Provincial Francisco Zeballos, Salvador de la Gándara, or the Marqués de Croix, from Opata, Ures and Guásavas.

Includes an account book, certificate of election as alderman, and letters written to Juan Bautista Rogers Cooper dated 1855-1873. Also includes letters to Encarnacion (Vallejo) Cooper 1874-1886 and genealogical information about the Cooper and Vallejo families.

Part I: Naturalization papers; letter from Robert J. Elwell concerning the Joaquín Solis Revolt; documents relating to land claim for Bolsa del Potrero y Moro Cojo, Monterey County, and to boundaries of Rancho de Punta de Quintin, Marin County; agreements...

Four letters from Father Juan Bautista Zappa, three of them apparently entirely in his hand, another in a secretarial hand, to Father Juan María de Salvatierra, one of the founders of the California Mission, discussing their work as missionaries in...

Letters to the Count of Sessa and the Count of Cabra, with a copy of the letter to Cordoba from the Viceroy of New Mexico.

Letters by the Jesuit missionary, written from Mexico and Baja California, relating mainly to his missionary efforts and to the founding of the Nuestra Señora de Loreto Concho Mission in Baja California.

Includes petitions from heirs regarding dividing the estate; statement from commissioners Timothy Murphy and James Miller appointed by the probate court regarding the feasibility of selling the property; accounts with signatures of William Carey Jones, James Black, Samuel C. Childs,...

Incomplete file relating to evaluation of the estate of the Marqués de Ayza, Mexico and Bolaños, 1792; and a letter to the magistrate of Mexico City regarding abuses in the taverns (pulquerías), Mexico, January 18, 1793, both signed by the...

Official communications as viceroy of Mexico. Include letter to the bishop of Guadalajara concerning pensions for librarians, 1818; letter concerning funds allotted to certain deputies for a voyage to Spain, 1820; printed circular communicating a royal decree on the establishment...

Includes drawings, sketchbooks, paintings, mural design materials such as enlargements and templates, ceramic tiles, and some photographs.

Papers document Juanita Miller's life as a poetess, songwriter, performer, and steward of her father's (Joaquin Miller's) legacy. Includes correspondence; papers regarding her dispute with Harr Wagner Publishing Co. over copyrights to her father's work; programs of her performances in...

Collection includes portraits and publicity photographs of Juanita Joaquina Miller, scenes from San Francisco Bay Area theatrical productions, views taken in Oakland, Calif. (including Joaquin Miller Park and Woodminster Amphitheatre), snapshots and commercial photographs depicting various dinners and other social...

This collection of papers and records documents Judah Jacobson's affiliations, activities and interests: the Mosaic Law Congregation; B'nai Zdokah, Home of Peace Cemetery; B'nai B'rith, Israel Bonds; Zionist Organization of America; the Jewish National Fund; Sacramento Jewish Federation; and the...

Much of this collection pertains to the Museum's founding and history and contains correspondence; minutes and by-laws of the Museum's Board of Trustees; photographs, blueprints, and floor plans; and information about the acquisition of its collections. The largest part of...

The collection consists of copies of photographs taken of Miriam Gerstle, her immediate family, and members of her father's family - many of them were the children and grandchildren of Miriam's paternal grandparents, Lewis Gerstle and Hannah Greenebaum. The collection...

Collection consists of records, ephemera, and photographs of the Judeans dating from 1908 to 1949. Among the records are member rosters, articles of incorporation, and a few pieces of correspondence. Ephemera consists of a program for The Judeans First Grand...

Contains a two-volume bound typescript cookbook titled, Kitchen Friend, by J. [Jessie] Rosenfeld and a one-volume bound typescript cookbook titled, San Francisco Cook Book, also by Rosenfeld. Includes one folder of ephemera and correspondence.

Collection includes snapshots and portraits relating to Judith Heumann's early years, and career as a Disability Rights activist. Also includes photos of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Justin Dart, Jr. and other Disability Rights activists.

Papers relating to Judith Kunofsky's involvement in the Sierra Club.

Includes materials collected in the course of researching several of her books, including The Hearsts: An American Dynasty and You're in Your Mother's Arms: The LIfe and Legacy of Congressman Phil Burton.

Abstract intaglio prints: Map Facsimile #3 and Map Facsimile #4, from Von Euer's Licorice Suite series.

Includes photographs by Edward S. Curtis, Janet Fries, Ted Orland, T. Harmon Parkhurst, Joel Singer, Deborah Smith, and David Stephens. Subjects include unidentified Hamatsa (Koskimo) and Apache; Imogen Cunningham; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Ansel Adams; Uerry Uelsmann; Richard Martinez of San Idelfonso...

Scenes of archeological sites, markets, street life, and informal portraits of indigenous peoples and other village inhabitants. Items 1-7: Yagul archeological site, East of Oaxaca City, Mexico, Friday, October 2, 2009. Images of the site and restoration workers. -- Items...

Portraits of artists with disabilities, taken at various California locations, including the Alan Short Center (Sacramento and Stockton), Institute of Art and Disabilities (Richmond), Napa State Hospital (Imola), Pattons State Hospital (Patton), Exceptional Children's Foundation (Los Angeles) and Creativity Explored...

Studio portraits. 2 images depict Kingston with sword; 1 depicts her holding her hair up.

The Judy Wells papers contain materials related to her teaching and writing, and to her work as a graduate student and participant in the Women's Studies Movement at the University of California, Berkeley. The collection includes files related to "Berkeley...

Bound typescript (255 p.) of dissertation by Warren Ramsey on the life and works of the French poet, Jules Laforgue, which was the winner of the MLA-Oxford Award. This was returned by the award committee in order to make corrections...

Written late in life, feature reminiscences and discuss mutual friends.

Includes holograph letter (1882) from H.J. Carr to Alexander Hill concerning Moore's photograph; and a poem (1877).

This collection contains professional correspondence, most notably with Soviet colleague, Yuri V. Matiyasevich, along with Robinson's articles and research materials concerning Hilbert's 10th problem.

The Julia Cooley Altrocchi papers provide researchers with insight into early-mid 20th century literary life in the San Francisco Bay Area and Cooley Altrocchi's development as a writer. Highlights of the papers include unpublished original manuscripts, poetry, lectures, notes, as...

Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1988.044--PIC).

Photographs show Julia Gorman Porter from childhood to retirement, some with family or friends. Others pictured: Charles B. Porter, John Gorman, Julia's mother, et al. Many vacation and leisure activities (ca. 1909-1920s) are shown, including boating, picnics, other outings in...

Contains 71 handwritten and typescript letters written by Japanese Americans, before, during, and after World War II, most of whom spent time in the relocation camps. The wartime letters contain descriptions of camp life, news of other Japanese Americans in...

V. 1: interviews with Walter Steilberg, Robert and Evelyn P. Ratcliff, Norman Jensen, Jack Wagstaff, Edward Hussey and George Hodges re the work of Steilberg and Morgan, with comments also on John G. Howard, University of California, William R. Hearst...

66 architectural drawings consisting of 48 pencil drawings and 3 blue line prints by Julia Morgan of elevations, floor plans, and architechtural details for the Bend, and Bridge houses at William Randolph Hearst's Wyntoon estate, McCloud, California. Included are 10...

Cartson 1 and 2 contain correspondence, poetry by Vinograd and others, autiobiography, and clippings about Vinograd. Cartons 3-7 contain Shallet family, primarily Vinograd's grandfather's, correspondence.

Contains correspondence regarding literary publications and business ventures, manuscripts (including short story, Cyriack Skene, published in Temple Bar, 77 (1886:May/Aug.), p. 58), typescripts, a prospectus promoting Hawthorne Silver and Iron Mines, Limited (the venture for which Hawthorne was convicted of...

Collection includes photos of Hawthorne and Harkness meeting people, inspecting agriculture, in a white car in front of the Hotel Del Coronado, stuck in the mud, at various missions, etc.

Correspondence mainly concerns the development of the University of California's modern poetry collection in the Library at Berkeley. Also included are typescripts by poet Jean Osiris.

Photographic negative archive of commercial photographer Julian P. Graham. The archive is rich in images of sporting and social life in the Monterey Peninsula vicinity, from the 1920s until 1942. Views include golf courses and golfers, tennis, polo, country club...

Letters and enclosures addressed to Arriaga, Spanish Minister of Marine Affairs and the Indies, concerning the repair of Philippine fortifications and munitions for various parts of the empire.

The collection contains documents, scrapbooks, photographs, and photo albums relating to the family of Julius Behrend and his wife Carrie Reese Behrend. Documents consist primarily of a small number of vital records and narrative family histories written by Constance Mastores...

Letter from Julius Eckman, Rabbi of San Francisco's Congregation Emanu-El, to Solomon Nunes Carvalho, who served as the official photographer of John C. Fremont's expedition (1853-1854). In the letter, Eckman discusses the situation and level of observance of Jews in...

Correspondence; biographical material; photographs, including those of World War II holiday celebrations and military gatherings; speeches; articles; and sermons.

Contains scrapbook, correspondence, fencing documents, writings, and fencing equipment and other realia. The scrapbook covers Palffy-Alper's professional career as a fencing instructor for the U.S. Army in Europe, France, Toronto, Canada, San Francisco and as a professor at U.C. Berkeley....

Drawings depict various scenes in Mexico: men on horseback in the countryside; a man being dragged by a horse; a soldier; a gathering outside of a pulqueria; a group of soldiers, one playing a bugle which causes a horse to...

Letters concern lithographs Hollinshead ordered. Included also: receipt signed by Jump in payment for a sketch, June 22, 1865.

Disbound pages from a professional business women's organization scrapbook with mounted photographs, ephemera, clippings, announcements, and several issues of their newsletter, The Scratch Pad. Laid in issues of The Scratch Pad in the scrapbook have been removed and housed separately.

Warren Fenzi discusses his family history, Santa Barbara boyhood, education at California Institute of Technology; World War II and Korean War demand for copper; working for Phelps Dodge in Arizona, including being their representative to Southern Peru Copper Corp., and...

Includes report of Rezanov to Alexander I, June 17, 1806.

Photocopies of letters, reports and diary. (Diary in portfolio).

Rating sheets by Wheaton Hale Brewer evaluating works of fiction and non-fiction being considered for annual literary award by the Club.

Records of civil and criminal cases tried at Colfax (Township No. 4 (later No. 13)) in Placer County, California, December 20, 1873-February 19, 1930. Judges presiding include: Jacob Kuenzly, Amos Stevens, Edward Kilgo, Lee Gray, W.J. Butler, John Davis, Charles...

Documents and papers relating to civil and criminal court cases tried in the State of California County of Alameda Justice's Court in Oakland. Arranged by year. A list of the cases by year is included.

Dockets of Justices (for Township No. 2) Samuel Barney, A.V. Hinchman, John A. Vidal, C.R.V. Lee, R.G. Glenn and Antonio de la Palma y Mesa.

Lillie discusses her childhood and education, work for the U.S. Attorney's Office, Los Angeles, tenure on various courts, and thoughts on women in the legal profession. Some discussion of the career of her husband Cameron Lillie is also included.

Growing up in Bakersfield, CA; Christian Brothers novice, St. Mary's College; Christian Bros. Winery 1964-1972: Brother Timothy, enology studies, UC Davis, vineyard management, negotiating with Cesar Chavez; evolution of wine consumption 1960s to 1990s; Silver Oak Cellars, 1972, in partnership...

Received with the Thomas C. Finney diaries (BANC MSS 2004/203 c).

Views of the High Sierras, Yosemite Valley, Pacific Coast, and Carmel, Calif.

15 manuscript letters and receipt.

Correspondence with Ivan J. Donaldson, regarding Carleton E. Watkins photographs in Oregon, and copy of Johnson's paper, Carleton E. Watkins, Pioneer Pacific Coast Photographer.

Accounts for a mill, mining timbers and lumber business located in Bodie, California.