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Bisbee Family
This collection contains seven letters from Pine Grove, Sierra County, dated from December 21, 1854, to December 29, 1865, addressed to the Solomon Bisbee family in Sumner, Maine and written by members of the family corresponding about the ongoings in each other’s lives. This last letter has an...
Bushnell Family Papers
There are nineteen items in the Bushnell family papers, dating from 1848 through 1860. The Gold Rush correspondence (1852-1857) includes nine letters from family members in California writing home to Westport, Connecticut. One letter is on a pictorial letter sheet depicting the 1853 flood in...
California Miners' Correspondence, 1850-1855.
This collection contains twenty-six letters sent from Mark Wooster in Sonoma, California, to friends back in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. ** Please note that historical materials may include viewpoints and values that are not consistent with the values of the California State...
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Cyrus Richmond
In this collection of letters Cyrus Richmond writes to his family in Maine, about his business dealings in California during the Gold Rush. He details his first impressions of life in San Francisco and the impact of gold mining. **Please note that historical materials in the Gold Rush...
Henry Syme
The collection consists of 18 handwritten legal documents related to mining in Alpine County from 1862 through 1882. The documents include extracts of records, abstracts of titles, notices of location and deeds. A certificate application from Lewis Chalmers, Esquire, as an agent for Henry Syme...
Hosea Dudley
This collection consists of 34 pages of an unbound diary documenting Hosea Dudley’s trip aboard the ship Pharsalia which departed Boston for San Francisco and carried 160 passengers and crew. Dudley begins his diary on February 2, 1849, and much of the diary describes the voyage and daily life...
J. H. Mankins’ Recollections of Early Days
Manuscript of Mankins' memoir, "Recollections of Early Days", detailing his experiences during the Gold Rush in the 1850s, and in the Visalia area during the 1860s and 1870s. ** Please note that historical materials may include viewpoints and values that are not consistent with the values of the...
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J. Ross Browne Gold Rush Letter
Letter from J. Ross Browne to General J. W. Denver discussing the treatment of Indians in California. ** Please note that historical materials may include viewpoints and values that are not consistent with the values of the California State Library or the State of California and may be...
Letter from Placerville, 1854 March 20
Letter from Placerville, signature indecipherable. Account of sea voyage to California. Talk of agricultural abundance in California and of life at the mines. ** Please note that historical materials may include viewpoints and values that are not consistent with the values of the California...
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