This collection consists primarily of Addie Viola Smith's correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, genealogy, speeches, newspaper clippings, photographs, and notebooks. Topics include trade and commerce in Shanghai, motors and highways in China, international and Chinese law, the United Nations, tourism development in...
This collection consists of postcards from around the world primarily written in Esperanto, mostly addressed to Mrs. W. B. [Alice] Howard (1860-1940) of Omaha, Nebraska. Almost all are pictorial works, featuring photographs and illustrations. Most postcards portray landmarks and...
This collection includes personal letters sent between the Allen family and their extended relatives between 1812-1957. Also featured are 32 cabinet card portraits of various Allen family members and 21 additional photographs documenting family homesteads, scenes from towns and countrysides...
Collection contains 121 letters, primarily composed of correspondence sent between the members of the Fuller and Swain families, and between Alphonso Fuller and his business correspondents between 1788 and 1853....
This collection contains 517 original proof sheets for Lord Kingsborough (Edward King, 1795-1837)'s landmark publication, , was published between 1830-1848. made available facsimiles of Mesoamerican pictorial codices, many for the first time. Kingsborough employed the Italian artist Agostino Aglio to...
This collection contains approximately 10,000 documents by and/or relating to Sir Joseph Banks. These items document the immense scope of Banks' activities in the world of science, exploration, and the growth of the British Empire's trade and commerce.
This collection contains approximately 10,000 documents by and relating to Sir Joseph Banks. These items document the immense scope of Banks' activities during a pivotal point in British history.
This collection consists of photographs and diaries that belonged to Clarence Tucker Beckett, a Presidio soldier, and help to document the immense changes that occurred in the machinery of war at a nascent era of American military power.
The collection contains posters and small ephemeral items primarily from the San Jose, California Womens March held on January 20, 2018. One folder of ephemeral items from the Orange County Women's March held the same day is included....
The bulk of this collection consists of 288 posters collected from various Women’s Marches in California, plus some ephemera and artifacts that accompanied or supplements the posters. The ephemera includes testimonials, photographs, and media coverage. The artifacts include pussy hats,...
This collection consists primarily of Charlotte Anne Boon Ferretti's family history and genealogical work on her ancestors. The materials encompassed in this collection include photographs, letters, hair, newspaper clippings, publications, handwritten notes, ephemera, and scrapbook-like pages....
This collection includes portraits created throughout Sir Joseph Banks' lifetime "...including proof copies, separately issued prints and the Gillray caricature of Banks as 'The Great South Sea Caterpillar.' Also included is a signed vellum lease document dated 1801 and a...
This collection consists of approximately 196 pieces of advertising materials created and distributed by sewing machine companies in the late 19th century. Advertisement trade cards make up the majority of the collection, but catalogues, periodicals, and assorted novelty items are...
An artificial archive of 56 issues from six different daily and weekly New York newspapers covering the six weeks after Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865.
This collection consists primarily of newspaper clippings and personal photographs from the Salinas Valley Chapter of the National Organization for Women. There is also a publication, program, and several miscellaneous outreach items....
Handwritten journals of an anonymous soldier in the British campaign in Flanders and Northern France after the French Revolution, from 1793-1795.
A collection of 40 early modern indentures from the United States, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
An artificial collection created by the Sutro Library staff in 2017 that allows students to have a hands on experience with various formats and artifacts that embody the transmission of information throughout time. The samples in this collection are not...
This collection consists of primarily papers of lawyer and author Theodore H. Hittell pertaining primarily to his writings on California and his speeches. There are letters, research notes, legal papers, and manuscripts of his writings (including unpublished account of Walker's...
A collection of 168 Italian manuscript documents on parchment from Venice, Padua, etc., mainly from the 16th century.
This collections contains materials pertaining to Maunsell White Sr. and his family up until 1888. Contents include business letters and records, personal letters, photographs, miscellaous legal documents, and Civil War memorabilia. Highlights include a handwritten note and hair from Confederate...
A collection of 53 black and white, carte-de-visite cards (photographic prints) of prominent Mexican military and political figures from the mid 19th century measuring approximately 100 mm x 64 mm each.
This collection consists of information related to the history of Mexican culture, religion, and politics.
This collection consists of information related to the history of Mexican culture, religion, and politics from 1540 to 1889.
This collection includes book leaves and facsimiles of title pages from rare books collected by Stanley S. Slotkin. Most of the leaves are from religious texts and are written in a variety of languages including Old English, Hebrew, German, Latin,...
This collection contains bible fragments and scrolls,as well as books and documents ranging in subject matter from Bible commenteries to hermenueutcs, lexicons, prayerbooks, philosophy, Cabalistic works, poetry, and medicine.
Consists of correspondence, books, receipts, ephemera, printed matter, and photographs relating to the Anti-Railroad Funding Bill, Sutro's book buying activities, San Francisco mayoral campaign, Sutro Baths, Sutro Heights, and the Sutro Tunnel.
This collection contains sermon outlines, fiction and nonfiction essays, articles, flyers, and poetry....
The collection consists of two series: correspondence and filecards pertaining to the Woodward's Gardens library. series 1 contains correspondence to Robert B. Woodward (although some are addressed to others at Woodward's Gardens) about possible donations or sale of items and...