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Cosas de California : Santa Clara, Calif. : ms. S, 1874 Aug. 19.
BANC MSS C-D 10LOCAL
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Title:

Cosas de California: Santa Clara, Calif. : ms. S, 1874 Aug. 19
Hubert Howe Bancroft collection

Creator/Contributor:

Fernández, José, 1799-approximately 1875, creator

Creator/Contributor:

Alvarado, Juan Bautista, 1809-1882

Creator/Contributor:

Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe, 1808-1890

Creator/Contributor:

Cerruti, Henry, 1836-1876

Creator/Contributor:

Online Archive of California

Abstract:

Dictation recorded by Henry Cerruti for H.H. Bancroft.
Reminiscences containing information about early California, the missions, presidios, Indians, the sack of Monterey by Hippolyte Bouchard in 1818, experiences as a member of Argüello's expedition to explore northern California in 1820, early governors, Russians at Bodega and Ross, commerce and contraband, the arrival of foreigners, M.G. Vallejo and the northern frontier, various political revolts, the Padres-Hijar Colony, the Pious Fund, American intervention and its effect on California, the Bear Flag Revolt, alcalde land grants, the building of adobe and wooden houses, his election as justice of the peace in 1847, the discovery of gold, fires in San Francisco, recent politics.
Clippings pasted in. Letter from J.B. Alvarado to M.G. Vallejo, June 5, 1839, concerning proposed establishment of a mission at Santa Rosa, bound in.

Date:

1874 (issued)

Subject:

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Indians of North America -- California
Russians -- California
Gold mines and mining -- California
Fortification -- California
Missions -- California
Adobe houses
Architecture -- California
Bear Flag Revolt, 1846
Fires -- California -- San Francisco
Peuples autochtones -- Californie
Russes -- Californie
Fortifications -- Californie
Incendies -- Californie -- San Francisco
Architecture -- Californie
Adobe houses
Architecture
Commerce
Fires
Fortification
Gold mines and mining
Indians of North America
Missions
Politics and government
Russians
California -- History -- To 1846
California -- Politics and government
California -- Commerce
Californie -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 1846
Californie -- Politique et gouvernement
Californie -- Commerce
California
California -- San Francisco
Pious Fund of the Californias.
Pious Fund of the Californias.
Bouchard, Hippolyte -- 1785-1843
Padrés, José María
Hijar, José María de
Hijar, José María de
Padrés, José María

Note:

Also available on microfilm.
Also available in digital format: accessible through Online Archive of California.
Forms part of the Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection.

Type:

History.
Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

print
193 pages ; 31 cm
partial microfilm reel (102 exposures) : negative (Rich. 92:8) and positive (Film C-D, reel 2)

Language:

Spanish

Identifier:

BANC MSS C-D 10LOCAL

Origin:

California