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H.M.T. Powell journal, 1849-1852.
BANC MSS C-F 115 v.1; BANC MSS C-F 115 FILM
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Title:

H.M.T. Powell journal, 1849-1852

Creator/Contributor:

Powell, H. M. T., 1824-, creator

Abstract:

Notes on California; diary, April 3, 1849-March 14, 1852, of journey to California via the Santa Fe Trail, experiences in California, and return home via the Isthmus, Nicaragua and New Orleans.

Date:

1849 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Powell, H. M. T -- 1824- -- Diaries
Powell, H. M. T -- 1824- -- Archives
Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Personal narratives
Missions -- California
Santa Fe National Historic Trail
California -- Description and travel

Note:

RESTRICTED ORIGINAL. USE MICROFILM COPY ONLY. Inquiries regarding these materials should be directed, in writing, to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library.
Also available on microfilm.
H.M.T. Powell journal, BANC MSS C-F 115, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Sketchbook of California towns and missions: transferred to the Pictorial Collections of the Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1954.024--PIC).
H.M.T. Powell was born in Illinois in 1824. A townscape and landscape painter, Powell went West with a wagon train from Illinois, arriving in San Diego in December 1849; while there he attemped to open an art school and did drawings of the missions at San Diego and San Luis Rey; he was also a portrait painter and did some of the earliest known views of Los Angeles; after a few weeks, he traveled to northern California and was active in Yuba County until 1860; he wrote and illustrated his day-by-day diary, Santa Fe Trail to California, published in 1931, about his travels from east to west beginning April 3, 1849 and ending March 24, 1852.
Forms part of the Thomas W. Norris Collection.

Type:

biography
Overland journals-19th century.
Diaries.

Physical Description:

print
1 volume.
1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 1956) and positive.

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC MSS C-F 115 v.1
BANC MSS C-F 115 FILM

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

RESTRICTED ORIGINAL. USE MICROFILM COPY ONLY. Inquiries regarding these materials should be directed, in writing, to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library.