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Carpenter family papers, 1852-1929.
BANC MSS C-B 892LOCAL
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Title:
Carpenter family papers, 1852-1929Creator/Contributor:
Carpenter family., creatorAbstract:
Letters written by members of the Carpenter and Curtis families including William Carpenter and his wife Lucretia M. (Curtis)
Carpenter (later Mrs. O.F. Redfield) and A.A. Curtis describing life in Yuba County, Calif. and Austin, Nev. and lumbering
in Humboldt Co., Calif.; diaries (with typed transcripts) of William Carpenter re his trip from Guadalajara to San Blas en
route to California in 1849 (v. I) and voyage to California via Nicaragua in 1851 (v. II); miscellaneous household financial
records, invitations, clippings, etc.
Diaries (originals) are also on microfilm.
Date:
1852 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- n-us-nv -- n-mx--- -- ncnq---Voyages to the Pacific coast
Lumbering -- California -- Humboldt County
Voyages vers la côte du Pacifique
Forêts -- Exploitation -- Californie -- Humboldt
Lumbering
Travel
Voyages to the Pacific coast
Yuba County (Calif.)
Austin (Nev.)
Mexico -- Description and travel
Nicaragua -- Description and travel
Mexique -- Descriptions et voyages
Nicaragua -- Descriptions et voyages
California -- Humboldt County
California -- Yuba County
Mexico
Nevada -- Austin
Nicaragua
Curtis, Allen Allsopp -- 1838-1928
Carpenter, William
Carpenter, William
Note:
Notebooks : Also available on microfilm.
Photographs have been removed to the Pictorial Collections of the Bancroft Library.
Type:
Diaries.Overland journals-1849.
Clippings.
Family papers.
Physical Description:
2 boxes
1 microfilm reel (106 exposures) : negative (Rich. 90:13) and positive
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS C-B 892LOCAL