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Casebolt family papers, 1854-1918.
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Casebolt family papers, 1854-1918Creator/Contributor:
Casebolt (Family, San Francisco, Calif, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Casebolt, Henry, 1816-1892, creator.Abstract:
Consists of pamphlets and newspaper clippings relating to street railways and cable cars of San Francisco; invoices, receipts,
invitations, order forms for opium and miscellaneous family papers and diaries. One folder of materials relating to Panama-Pacific
International Exposition in San Francisco in 1914-1915.
Included also: Brass plaque (patent applied for H. Casebolt & Co. Builders, S.F.).
Date:
1854 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caStreet-railroads -- California -- San Francisco
Cable cars (Streetcars) -- California -- San Francisco
Opium trade -- California
Véhicules tractés par câble -- Californie -- San Francisco
Opium -- Commerce -- Californie
Families
Cable cars (Streetcars)
Opium trade
Street-railroads
California
California -- San Francisco
Casebolt family -- Archives
Casebolt, Henry -- 1816-1892 -- Family -- Archives
Casebolt family
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
Note:
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
Henry Casebolt (January 9, 1816-September 23, 1892) was a Virginia blacksmith who emigrated to San Francisco with his family
in 1851. Initially, he engaged in blacksmithing and carriage-making. He then went into partnership with David Kerr and established
a large shop on the corner of Fifth and Market streets. In this new shop the first railroad cars used in San Francisco were
built. Casebolt was the inventor of the device by which one cable car is enabled to cross a transverse cable line. In 1865,
he built an Italianate manor house on Pacific Heights (2727 Pierce Street, between Vallejo and Green), which still stands
today. He was married to Susan R. (Goodrich) Casebolt (1818-1905) and had nine children.
Casebolt family papers, BANC MSS C-B 451, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Type:
Diaryfamily papers.
plaques (flat objects)
diaries.
Diaries.
Archives.
Diaries.
Journaux intimes.
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print
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Language:
English