The papers consist primarily of correspondence. Letters to Adolph Sutro in the 1860s and 1870s document his attempts to build the Sutro Tunnel with assistance from federal legislation and foreign capital. Letters from the 1880s are personal, covering...
Description:
Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), mining engineer, mayor of San Francisco, 1894-98.
Subject (Geographic):
California and San Francisco.
Subject (Name):
Lynch, Edward., Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898., and Sutro Tunnel Company.
Letters to Wilson Hart Clark chiefly from his older brother, Warren Vester Clark, and his younger brother, Rodney Clark that include information about their experiences in northeastern California, 1850-1868, as well as related enclosures of promissory...
Description:
The sons of William Clark (1795-1862) and Minerva Higgins Clark (1799-1875) born in Woodbridge, Connecticut, included Warren Vester Clark (1821-1898), Wilson Hart Clark (1824-1887), and Rodney Clark (1829-1887). Warren Vester Clark emigrated to Califo...
Subject (Geographic):
California, Calaveras County., California., and Calaveras County (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Candes, Charles A., Clark family., Clark, Rodney, 1824-1887., Clark, Warren Vester, 1821-1898., Clark, Wilson Hart, 1824-1887., Higgins, Burr., and Higgins, Sylvester Noyes.
Subject (Topic):
Canals, Frontier and pioneer life, Gold mines and mining, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Water-supply, and Social life and customs
The collection contains John Gish's correspondence, 1850-51, which describes his journey west and experiences in California, letters to Gish from associates in the mines, 1852-56, describing life in the mines and conditions in California, and an 1850 ...
Description:
John Gish, of Logan County, Ohio, formed a partnership in 1850 with four friends to go to California. The partnership broke up on the trip west, but Gish made it to California and returned home by sea in 1851.
Subject (Geographic):
California.
Subject (Name):
Gish, John., Gish, Mary., Mekemson, Joseph S., and Wise, John H.
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining and Overland journeys to the Pacific
Sixty-three documents relating to real estate transactions of Elbert P. Jones in San Francisco, California, between 1847 and 1851. The papers include thirty printed bonds and receipts issued by the Town of San Francisco and completed in manuscript an...
Subject (Geographic):
California, San Francisco., and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Canty, Jeremiah., Eddy, William M., Hyde, George, 1819-1890., Jones, Elbert P., Leidesdorff, William Alexander, 1809 or 10-1848., O'Farrell, Jasper., Parker, William C., and Stevenson, J. D. 1800-1894. (Jonathan Drake),
Thirteen volumes, some signed or stamped with Mason's name, containing holograph diaries for 1858, 1861, 1863-1865, 1872-1874, 1876, 1878, 1880-1881, and 1887-1888; and a volume containing holograph accounts, listing Mason's expenses while living in S...
Description:
John T. Mason emigrated to California in 1854. He worked on river steamers in the area of Sacramento, and in 1861 he began ranching in Colusa County.
Subject (Geographic):
California, Colusa County., West (U.S.), California., California National Historic Trail., Colusa County (Calif.), Princeton (Colusa County, Calif.), Princeton (San Mateo County, Calif.), and Sacramento (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Mason, John T., b. 1822., Mason, Liz., Mason, Mabel., Mason, Maud., and Cooper Medical College.
Subject (Topic):
Chinese, Cholera, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Ranch life, River steamers, and Social life and customs
Thirteen volumes, some signed or stamped with Mason's name, containing holograph diaries for 1858, 1861, 1863-1865, 1872-1874, 1876, 1878, 1880-1881, and 1887-1888; and a volume containing holograph accounts, listing Mason's expenses while living in S...
Description:
John T. Mason emigrated to California in 1854. He worked on river steamers in the area of Sacramento, and in 1861 he began ranching in Colusa County.
Subject (Geographic):
California, Colusa County., West (U.S.), California., California National Historic Trail., Colusa County (Calif.), Princeton (Colusa County, Calif.), Princeton (San Mateo County, Calif.), and Sacramento (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Mason, John T., b. 1822., Mason, Liz., Mason, Mabel., Mason, Maud., and Cooper Medical College.
Subject (Topic):
Chinese, Cholera, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Ranch life, River steamers, and Social life and customs
The journal records an 1849 trip from Missouri, beginning on the ship Highland Mary to old Fort Kearney, overland by the Platte and Sweetwater, Fort Bridger, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, the southern trail, Virgin River, Cajon Pass, and Sacramento. H...
Description:
Hamelin had been in the Southwest as early as 1842 and in Santa Fé as an employee of James Aull.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.), California, Fort Laramie (Wyo.), Los Angeles (Calif.), and Salt Lake City (Utah)
Subject (Name):
Hamelin, Joseph P., Jr., 1823-, Highland Mary (Ship), and Russell, Majors and Waddell.
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life, Overland journeys to the Pacific, and Description and travel
The journals and letters to his family and friends describe an 1849 trip from New York to California, by way of the Lakes, Chicago, St. Louis, and Independence. It notes preparations for the overland journey and traveling with the Wolverine Rangers to...
Description:
In 1849, Swain, with F. A. Bailey, M. Hutchinson, and J. Root,left Youngstown, New York, to join the California gold rush. After a few months at the mines, he returned to New York by Panama. He was a farmer in Youngstown and became prominent in local ...
Subject (Geographic):
California., California, Feather River Valley (Calif.), and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Bailey, Frederick A., Hutchinson, Michael., Root, John, fl. 1849., Swain, George, 1819-1892., Swain, Patience., Swain, Sabrina., Swain, William, 1821-1904., and Wolverine Rangers (Firm)
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life, Gold mines and mining, Ocean travel, Gold discoveries, and Description and travel
Two journals describe trips in 1849 and 1854 from Rushville to California, and a return journey in 1856 by way of the Isthmus of Panama. Doyle describes the routes and his experiences from 1849 to 1851 at Long's Bar, Oregon Bar, Union Bar, in the Fea...
Description:
Doyle, son of Edward Doyle of Rushville, Illinois, served in the Mexican War as 2d Lt. in Dunlap's Company of Illinois Cavalry. He traveled to California with his brother James and a company of Rushville friends in 1849, returned home, and traveled a ...
Subject (Geographic):
California., California, Feather River Valley (Calif.), Panama, Isthmus of (Panama), and West (U.S.)
Mammoth-plate photographs of California, including views in Yosemite of Half Dome, North Dome, the Royal Arches, Washington Column, Cathedral Rock, the Cathedral Spires, Mount Broderick, Mount Starr King, Nevada Fall, the Bridal Veil, the Yosemite Fal...
Description:
Carleton E. Watkins was a San Francisco photographer who worked both with official surveys and independently to photograph California, Nevada and Utah. In 1867 he served with Clarence King as the official photographer to the California Geological Sur...
Subject (Geographic):
California, Yosemite Valley (Calif.), and San Francisco (Calif.)
