Covered wagons, teams, and men in front of a stone building. Identified individuals are: Major Noyes Baldwin, P.M. Wil son, and A. Bancroft [Albert Little Bancroft?].
Written to friends in California, on his return voyage to the East. Letter, Oct. 13, comments at length on the Walker filibuster expedition.
Includes material on various dams in the state, Spring Valley Water Co., gas rate suits, involving Pacific Gas and Electric Company and others.
Publisher's typescript and two sets of revised galleys for his The Names.
Correspondence with publishers - Harper & Row, Oxford University Press, University of New Mexico Press; manuscript of House of Dawn, essays and poems, etc.
Comments on early life in Bakersfield, Calif.; position of Negroes in the city; the Earl Warren family; student days at University of California, Berkeley, in the 1920's; social work; work with the California Association of Negro Women's Clubs, the California...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Region 1 photograph collection consists of photographs from records of the NAACP Region 1 Office, and includes material from NAACP branches in the Western United States, the NAACP National Office and...
The Records of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Region I document the daily work of the NAACP in the Western United States from 1942-1986 (bulk 1945-1977). Regular additions to the collection are expected. Although the...
The collection consists of papers and photographs relating to the Naftaly family. Family papers include genealogy; certificates; a small amount of correspondence; ephemera (advertisements, clippings, broadsides, sketches) from the family's anatomical show, which traveled around the world in the 1890s;...
Carte de visite albums compiled by Kanae Nagasawa, containing studio portraits of Nagasawa and other Japanese students, many associated with the 1865 Satsuma student mission to Great Britain; and of Thomas Lake Harris and others associated with the Brotherhood of...
The Naglee family collection, the gift of Mrs. Marie R. Robins, Naglee's daughter, and Mrs. Antoinette N. Spruyt, his grand-daughter, in December 1960 and August 22, 1961, contains originals, some photocopy and a partial typed transcript of correspondence and papers...
Includes original Henry Morris Naglee materials, files of Antoinette Naglee Spruyt and William T. Arms, mainly relating to the cataloging of the Naglee papers.
Correspondence, accounts, deeds and tax records, relation primarily to the operation of Rancho El Pescadero, to the Henry M. Naglee estate and to property in San Francisco, Santa Clara, San Joaquin and Sacramento counties. Included also are accounts for Naglee...
Genealogy compiled by Miss Turner, May 1963; letters from libraries, county officials, etc., relating to her researches on the families; letters from her cousin containing family information; photographs of the Turner homestead, etc.; article from the California Historical Quarterly on...
Photographs reproduce original paintings and drawings of ca. 1849-1870. Views depict mining during the California Gold Rush, and related activites such as scenes along the route via Panama. Mining views show miners working and relaxing, the mining town of Rough...
Drawings, dated 1851, show ocean travel, scenes along the way, views of Panama, and ship's passengers.
Includes letters from Henriette, Arthur and Charles Nahl, concerning the Nahl family in San Francisco, the Nahl Brothers business in lithography and photography, and their work with I.W. Taber. Letter, Oct. 22, 1867, from Charles Nahl is illustrated and contains...
From the C.K. Ogden Library.
Primarily a collection of definitions of the names of garments used in Mexico during the colonial period. Attention has been given to the Spanish antecedents of the garments.
Lists of names, by county, including town of residence and number of acres held. Related material includes names and addresses of persons outside California, presumably compiled for some type of mass mailing or other related purpose.
View of town and sea inlet from elevated perspective, with photographic equipment (possibly a large format camera or a portable dark tent) on tripod visible in foreground. A fort or blockhouse is visible in distance.
The Nancy Bayley Research Papers (1925-1982) include correspondence, publications, awards, and research papers documenting Bayley's career as a developmental psychologist, spanning from her graduate studies at the University of Seattle in 1925 and position as research associate at the University...
Commercially produced postcards depicting subjects in California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska.
Journalistic photographs documenting various aspects of political unrest and conflict in Honduras and the neighboring region in the 1980s. Specific subjects include soldiers and bases of the Contras, the United States-backed counterrevolutionary group which aimed to overthrow the Sandinista government...
Photographs show Nancy Reagan, Queen Elizabeth, and Prince Philip at Mission Santa Barbara.
Correspondence and papers relating primarily to her 1961 campaign for president of the California Democratic Council. Also included are some C.D.C. financial records and organization charts.
Primarily correspondence, course notebooks, lecture notes, and photographs regarding thesis work at Harvard and career as radio astronomer.
Photograph album of Coos Bay, Oregon student at the University of California in Berkeley contains snapshots of student activities, leisure outings, soldiers in Texas and Oregon, and the Panama Pacific International Exhibition. Locales inlcude the U.C. Berkeley campus, San Francisco,...
Snapshot photographs documenting pageants, drag performances, parades and other events of San Francisco's gay community between the early 1970s and the mid-1980s. Identified events include the Great Tricycle Race, the 1974 Gay Freedom Day Parade, Madness 71 revue, and Mr....
Includes a general view of the city of Napa and a view of Sprout Farm, six miles from Napa.
Proceedings before the Napa County Board of Equalization, July 14 - August 24, 1909. Typed transcript of hearings before the Supervisors, sitting as County Board of Equalization, concerning taxable property escaping assessment of falsely reported. Includes questions, arguments and testimony...
Views show the Napa Hotel before and after fire damage, and the Napa-Sacramento stage coach.
View of vineyard, small farmhouse among trees, a large barn, and the hills behind.
Part of a collection of manuscript materials associated with the Franciscan missions in California. For other items in the collection, search under title: California mission miscellany, 1630-1830.
Describes the journey in 1847, life in the Columbia Basin to 1869, and in the Southern mines of California in 1849. Some items from contemporary newspapers are copied into his narrative, especially from 1855 to 1858.
His account of his family' experiences as pioneers in California in the 1880's. Also included: "The Southwestern Troubador," a cycle of 54 ballads, and "Five Southwestern plays."
The Abraham Phineas Nasatir document collection consists of research materials from Spanish and American archives that were copied and annotated by Nasatir over the course of his career.
1: Johann Gutenberg -- 2: Johann Gutenberg (print of portraits -- 3: Aldus Manutius -- 4: Christophe Plantin -- 5: Giambattista Bodoni -- 6: Benjamin Franklin -- 7: William Morris -- 8: Theodore Low De Vinne -- 9: Claude Garamond...
Albums contain mounted cabinet card and carte de visite portrait photographs of members of the Nast, Stone, Needles and Comfort families of Missouri, Colorado and California. Volume 1 chiefly includes portraits of Stone and Nast family members, many of them...
Nat Stein's scrapbook includes published material in the Corrine Daily Reporter and the Corrine Weekly Reporter with notes on the articles from the author. Stein wrote many odes and epic poems on the occasion of New Year's, 4th of July...
Personal papers of founders of the Black Think Tank, Nathan and Julia Hare. The collection includes correspondence, writings, and personalia.
The collection consists of two photo albums, loose photos, and family documents from Nathan Feldman's life in Russia and the Soviet Union in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Some photos document Feldman's work as a Bolshevik pilot (including a...
The collection contains correspondence; constitution and rules of the lodge; schedules of events; lists of the lodge's officers and members; reports; The Shofar newspaper for the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization; yearbooks and bulletins; convention materials; photographs; memorandums; and manuals and...
Includes transcription. Also includes notes by Neustädter about his family history, one letter from S.H. Ball to his sister-in-law Mary Ballin, dated Apr. 21, 1867 (all photocopies), and miscellaneous unidentified notes.
Drafts and bills of exchange; one receipt.
Nathaniel Knight writes to Ambrose Knight (May 6, 1871) about a former employee of Ambrose's finding work among Nathaniel's aquaintances, about health and illnesses, farm work and crops. He describes a fire in detail, which damanged a number of buildings...
Letters to U.S. Quartermaster General, T.S. Jesup, relating to duties as Quartermaster, San Diego. Includes personnel reports and accounts.
Contains fifty-six handwritten letters between Nathaniel Miller and numerous other correspondents including his future wife, Ellen Carman, and Richard M. Jessup, who was a member of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856. Also contains a small amount of...
The NAACP El Cerrito Branch Records contain a wide variety of documents from the branch's activities under the leadership of Patricia Freeman. Also represented is the branch's participation in NAACP business at a regional and national level. Materials include correspondence,...
The collection contains correspondence, subject files, survivor histories, medical records, and NARS administrative files. The bulk of the records pertain to two lawsuits, NARS v. Walters and NARS v. Turnage.
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW), California Chapter records provide early background information, dating from the 1930s to 1950s, for various professional associations and also includes materials of NASW Golden Gate Chapter, NASW Los Angeles Chapter, and California Council...
Photos show several NBC stations, including some interior views showing live programs. Collection also contains aerial views of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. Locations unidentified.
Photographs show the first residence in National City (Frank Kimball) with a bicycle and carriage in front; the California Southern Railroad, later known as the Santa Fe Depot; the wharf built by Kimball Bros., an overhead view of the business...
The National Council of Jewish Women, San Francisco Section records document over a century of pioneering social welfare work for the betterment of women, children, and families.
Includes migrant farm workers and their children, their dwellings, rural housing, workers in fields, etc.
The National Council on Agricultural Life and Labor records, 1937-1967, consists of correspondence, notes, original outlines, printed materials, and clippings illustrating the founding of the National Citizens Council for Migrant Labor, and its evolution into the National Council on Agricultural...
As regional forester, U.S. Forest Service, in charge of California national forests, discusses the development and operation of the Civilian Conservation Corps, recreation use of national forests, and relations between the Forest Service and the U.S. National Park Service, particularly...
Received in conjunction with the National Institute of Art and Disabilities records (BANC MSS 2004/236).
The collection contains files on shows, events, meetings and conferences, publications, and audiotapes. There are also board minutes. scrapbooks, articles, and newspaper clippings.
Collection consists of mostly ephemeral materials from the National Jewish Hospital in Denver, Colorado, including brochures, articles, and newsletters. Especially noteworthy is a nicely illustrated 1915 brochure.
Chiefly portraits and images relating to Robert W. Kenny. Also includes National Lawyers Guild banquets and other group portraits.
National Lawyers Guild Records, 1936-1999, contains the organizations founding documents and annual convention records; national, regional and chapter publications, amicus briefs, and executive, legal and committee documents and correspondence. Also, eighteen NLG attorney's correspondence, legal case and office files. Reports...
Maryjean Suelzle's Collection of National Organization for Women (NOW), Berkeley Chapter Files contains correspondence, bylaws, organization information, meeting materials, conference and workshop materials, speeches, papers, notes, newsletters, brochures, flyers, posters, articles, and newsclippings. The collection includes conference papers from "Women:...
Elizabeth Jetter's Collection of San Fernando Valley Chapter of National Organization of Women (NOW) Files contains correspondence, bylaws, organization information and guidelines, meeting minutes, conference and workshop materials, speeches, papers, notes, newsletters, brochures, flyers, articles, and newsclippings. The collection includes...
Evison's comments on work as supervisor of state park emergency conservation work (CCC) and as chief information officer of the U.S. National Park Service; and Drury's discussion of administration and policy in the National Park Service while he was director....
Interviews of officials, active and retired, associated primarily with the Western Regional Office and with western national parks (Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, Kings Canyon, Death Valley, etc.). Conductd by Herbert Evison. Interviewees include Thomas J. Allen, Harold C. Bryant, Blanton Clement,...
Comments on career in the U.S. National Park Service as attorney, superintendent of various parks, associate director, and director; problems of park protection, congressional relations, etc. Photographs inserted. Appended: photocopies of texts of speeches and statements, letters and othe documentary...
Landscape and wilderness views from the following parks: Banff National Park, Waterton Lakes National Park, and Kootenay National Park.
The National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards (NUMCS) records documents union-related activity from the 1930s to the 1950s. The collection includes correspondence; files related to arbitration; War Labor and National Labor Relations Board cases; agreements with various companies; NUMCS...
[1] James C. Blair -- [2] Walter J.P. Curley -- [3] Peter O. Crisp -- [4] William H. Draper III -- [5] Anthony B. Evnin -- [6] Alan Frazier -- [7] Edward F. Glassmeyer -- [8] C. Richard Kramlich --...
This collection documents the growth and activities of the National Writing Project, a nationwide professional development network for teachers of writing, from its inception as the Bay Area Writing Project in 1974 to its programs in 2014. Collection material includes...
Native American baskets made by groups from various California and Arizona regions, including areas associated with Pima, Papago, Yuman, Klamath River, Maidu and Pomo peoples. Some possibly crafted for the tourist trade.
Album containing chiefly color commercial postcards depicting Native Americans of various tribes and locations throughout the United States. Includes many portraits.
Two portraits of Mandans; Manchsi-Karede and Hoto Kaveh Ho. One of these portraits has also been identified as "A Blackfoot Indian with medicine pipe."
Includes photos of men, women, and children, primarily Hopi. Some appear to have been taken on Vroman's 1895 trip to the Walpi Pueblo.
Family, childhood, early education, the Sisters of Notre Dame, presidency of the College of Notre Dame, the college and contemporary social issues; also included: annual catalogs for the College of Notre Dame and supporting documentation.
Interviews conducted 1974 by Gabrielle Morris for the Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library. Introduction by Winifred Heard. Copies of photographs and documentary material included. Recollections of growing up in Berkeley; student days at University of California, 1914-1918; work for...
Contains seven bound ledgers of meeting minutes, membership dues, and attendence records of the Vallejo Parlor No. 195 of the Native Daugthers of the Golden West.
Street scenes of a parade, possibly in Sacramento or San Francisco. Also, group portraits of NSGW chapters and night views of illuminated streets and buildings (including the State Capitol?)
Official records of parlor's weekly meetings, except for period in 1918 because of the influenza epidemic. Includes resolution on the "Japanese Menace," and the need for laws regarding narcotic use and trafficking.
Includes views of Natoma vineyard (the residence of B.N. Bugbey), with people in foreground and houses visible in the distance.
Scenes in the Glacier Peak wilderness, Washington state, California, and the desert Southwest (Colorado River and Grand Canyon). Some photographs dated 1940 and 1941.
Contains: memoranda reports concerning estimates for clients' relocation benefits and source of funds for same; types of government funds used to acquire clients' replacement homes; relocation program information and statistics; new lands chronology. All are issued by David Shaw-Serdar and...
Correspondence, reports, sketch maps and other documents concerning the U.S. Army campaign against the Navajo tribe in 1858-1859. Documents originally from files of the Adjutant General's Office, the U.S. Army, the Dept. of New Mexico and the Secretary of War.
"Noted medicine man" Hosteen Badugai -- "A noted gentleman" Hosteen Joe -- a man wrapped in a blanket captioned as "Half breed Navajo chief" -- "Navajo shepherdess" ("Hosteen Joe's number one wife...") -- "Charlie Ten Strike".
Photograph album documenting student life and other activities at Navajo Lutheran Mission (aka Rock Point Mission) in Rock Point, Arizona. Includes numerous formal school portraits of individual pupils -- most identified by full name -- and snapshots of daily activities...
Views relating to the navy and the military include ships, sailors, early construction at Fort Ord, the ship Star of England, signs from a ship in Japanese and English, etc. Views of auto racing at the Bonneville Salt Flats show...
A shouting, scar-faced German soldier's head dominates the foreground, with his shadow cast over a map of the Netherlands in background.
Original transcript in: California State Library.
Collection includes annotated typescripts for three books written by Neal Harlow: The Maps of San Francisco Bay, 1769-1847 (Book Club of California, 1950); Maps and Surveys of the Pueblo Lands of Los Angeles (Dawson's Book Shop, 1976); and, Maps of...
Photos from Columbia, Calif. including an office interior (possibly the Wells Fargo Express Office?), the home of John Wallace (taken in 1856), scene outside of the Gold Ore Saloon, and other views.
Correspondence and material used in preparation of her booklet, The Seropians, and in the reprinting of Wilson D. Wallis' Fresno Armenians. Includes scrapbook of clippings of reviews.
Paul Robert Needham was a professor of zoology at the University of California, Berkeley from 1949 to 1963. The focus of his research and teaching was ichthyology and fisheries management. The collection includes general files relating to Needham's fisheries management...
Negatives of photographic material collected for "Redwooods and Reminiscences", a book edited by Lois Stone and published by Save the Redwoods League.
Photographs of Alan MacGregor Cranston taken during various functions and activities associated with his term as United States Senator for California.
Photographs of John V. Tunney taken during various functions and activities associated with his term as United States Senator from California.
Photographs of Thomas H. Kuchel taken during various functions and activities associated with his term as United States Senator for California.
Photographs of William F. Knowland taken during various functions and activities associated with his term as United States Senator.
The preface contains a short history of the role of the Negro in the discovery and the development of California. Indexed.
Contains letter from Henry Durant, Byfield, Mass., Dec. 12, 1852; portion of a letter from Henry W. Cleaveland; letter from John Payne Cleaveland to Nehemiah Cleaveland, 1853 Mar. 8 (6 p. AL ; 25 cm. [incomplete]); and letter from Henry...
Consists of materials relating to Bartlett's professional career, including correspondence; UC administrative and teaching materials, such as committee work, assignments and bio-bibliographies; materials related to professional organizations; financial records; writings; research materials; and data.
Contains correspondence concerning St. David's Day and Welsh in the West exhibit in the library at the University of California, Berkeley. Includes black and white photograph of Neil Morgan.
Fine art photographic prints by Neil Folberg, including landscapes, architecture, still lifes, and nudes. Taken in Yosmite Valley, Bodie, Inyo National Bristlecone Pine Forest and other California locations. Also includes portrait of Ansel Adams by Andra Entrum.
Neil J. Smelser papers contain correspondence, research files, writings, course materials and other material documenting the professional activities of Smelser, a sociology professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Chiefly copy photographs of the residences of prominent Californians associated with the Bay Area: Leland Stanford, James C. Flood, Mark Hopkins, Milton Latham, Charles Crocker and James G. Fair: 9 views of Stanford residence on Nob Hill (known to be...
Satirical political cartoons, most published in periodicals, pertaining to Denis Kearney, the Workingmen's Party of California, and anti-Chinese sentiment in San Francisco. Illustrations are from various sources, including Harper's Weekly ("The ides of March", March 20, 1880; Social Science Solved,...
Neil Marcus, who lives with the neurological disorder dystonia, discusses via instant messaging and speech his life and work as a performance artist.
Aerial views of Mount Saint Helens, one taken in 1980 prior to the volcano's eruption in May, the other views taken later that year following the eruption.
Contains an inventory book of bridal gifts received by Nell Walter.
Collection includes diaries, 1905-1912; carbon copies of some of her correspondence, 1905; scrapbooks, 1905-1943; an Umbundu/English hymnal. Box 3 is a photograph album (ca. 1900-1912) of missionary activities in Africa.
Contains earthquake materials including letters from Nellie May Brown to her mother, Estella L. Brown, detailing her anxiety about being in the Bay Area; her concern for her brother, Ralph Brown; and her experiences as a nurse in the Relief...
Chiefly snapshots of refugees leaving San Francisco, nurses with the Examiner Relief Corps, and relief camps and hospitals, including the W.R. Hearst Tent City in Oakland. Also present are four commercial photographs of ruins: the interior of the Emporium store,...
Research notes, drafts of manuscript and final report on the physiological effects of freezing temperatures on men during Antarctic expedition (Operation Deepfreeze)
Contains Graburn's research, writings, and correspondence on tourism, Circumpolar peoples, Japan. There is also a significant amount of materials relating to his work at the Lowie Museum of Anthropology (now the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum).
The Helen E. Nelson Papers consist of records pertaining to Helen Nelson's career as a consumer activist and document her participation in the national consumer movement. The bulk of the records pertain to her activities with various consumer organizations and...
Volume 1 contains Dr. Bird's diary. Writing extensively only now and then, rather than continously day-to-day, what appears is usually of some importance in his life: travels, illnesses, career or life changes. Volume 2 records his meditations and his speeches/addresses...
Contains correspondence, lecture notes, publications, and research files. Also includes drafts of writings and speeches, administrative records for the Institue of Governmental Studies at University of California, Berkeley, biographical material, interviews of public figures and politicians, etc.
Part I: 13 letters, 1915-1916, from Nemos to Aksel Andersson. In Swedish. Part II: Letters from H.H. Bancroft to Nemos; memoranda and letters from Nemos to G. Klemming and E.W. Dahlgren, former heads of the Swedish Royal Library, and testimonial...
Photographs show Indonesian tropical scenery, a train route, industry, homes, a temple, agriculture, and people.
The collection consists of Congregation Netivot Shalom's archive from 1989 to 2007. Included are files on congregational buildings, education programs, events, membership, and committees, as well as a full run of the Congregation's newsletter.
Engineering notes by Lyman Bridges, Chief Engineer ; and schedules of local freight tariffs and of passenger tariffs between Battle Mountain and Austin.
Contains a letter and minutes of a copper mine in California.
Photographs of various gold mining operations, chiefly in Nevada County, Calif. Mines pictured include Manzanita Mine, Kate Hayes Mine, Relief Hill Mine and Badger Hill Mine. Some photographs depict hydraulic mining. Also includes views of Nevada County mining towns North...
list of capital stock subscribers; report to Bd of Directors by R. Hoge of constitutionality of California legislation of 1874; statement of expenses to C.W. Kilts, 1890.
Contains memorandum class ledger of participant companies, class ledger of participants with payroll figure and premium costs, cash journal with credits and balances by participant company, and list of paid claims of accidents causing permanent to partial disability.
Contains 7 miscellaneous legal documents, some on letterhead stationery of Nevada courts, including a summons, sheriff's certificate of sale, lawsuits, deed, legal briefs, incorporation (certified in San Francisco, California for a Nevada mining company), and 1 manuscript letter inquring about...
Consists of abstracts to the titles of mining claims including background information on the mine and copies of legal documents relating to the land claims for Caledonia Silver Mining Company (1939), also included are land claims for Alta, Choata, Capital,...
Contains articles of incorporation, receipts, brochures, mining claims, etc. from various mines in Nevada.
Many general and detailed views of Virginia City, Silver City, and Gold Hill; views of Comstock Lode mines and vicinity; and various mining companies. Also depicted are Gould & Curry Mill (various views, workers, machinery, etc.), Wells Fargo Express Building,...
Miscellaneous letters, documents, financial and legal papers, etc., acquired from various sources.
Miscellaneous letters and financial records collected by T.W. Norris. Include letter from James G. Fair to George Wallace.
Includes views of mining in Dayton, Ely, and Bannock (Nevada). Some show a cyanide plant (including interiors), others show interiors of rock mills. One shows the Mason Valley Mines Co. smelter. Well-dressed men and woman, as well as family groups....
Shares for various amounts, some blank, for mostly Nevada mining concerns although there are a few from various places in the Western United States, and a few Nevada transportation companies. See the individual records for contents.
from University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center;
Shipping receipt, 1893; and inventory of engine and coach castings, 1909.
Typed manuscript of an unpublished autobiographical novel (43 chapters; 389 pages). Written upon the theme of the female Jewish outsider and set in the 1930s, the novel introduces the woman character, Toby Hart, who mirrors some aspects of Mish's own...
Correspondence, including a letter, Nov. 9, l9l8, from J.H. Hennings, of the U.S. Bureau of Mines; specifications for a furnace and a pump; receipts and bills; license from R.F. Knox to the company to use a patent right.
The New City Hall, San Francisco, California album contains 62 photographic prints taken in 1915 by John Channing. The album features the newly-constructed San Francisco City Hall, built to replace the previous structure which was destroyed in the earthquake and...
California gubernatorial candidate John Bidwell shown laid to rest in a funerary boat decorated with grapes. The body is supported by a whiskey keg and a Chico Spring Water keg. Bidwell is accompanied by Gov. Newton Booth. Three men, including...
Documents on the Negro slave trade and the institution of slavery in the mines and plantations, free Negroes, and colonial administration in the 17th and 18th centuries. Selected by James F. King, 1938.
Include letters from J. J. Papy, Preston K. Woodside, Darius Ogden Mills and others to the superintendent of the quicksilver mine, William Neely Thompson; accounts, reports and agreements. Also included: notebook kept by the Fresno County Notary Public residing at...
The collection contains flyers, publicity, brochures, various other ephemera and clippings, correspondence, and mailings from the Bay Area New Jewish Agenda chapter, other New Jewish Agenda chapters, and the national New Jewish Agenda organization.
Scenic views of San Francisco and San Francisco Bay taken from newly constructed World Headquarters Building of Bank of America in financial district of San Francisco.
Documents of the Spanish and Mexican periods of administration, deposited in the Museum of New Mexico at Santa Fe.
Prepared by the Federal Writers' Projects, New Mexico, under direction of Ina Sizer Cassidy and Claribel Fischer Walker.
Typescript compiled by Coe Hayne from the American Baptist Home Mission Society's Home Mission Record, December, 1849-January, 1852.
Letters, petition, documents, and patterns concerning such topics as artists, settlement, Indian warfare, and the Coronado Quarto Centennial.
Includes two views of Inscription Rock (El Morro National Monument): 1. a full southern view and 2. a detail of a Spanish inscription by Joseph de Payba [Paiva] Basconzelos [Vasconcelos], dated February 18, 1726.
Collection includes photographs of Native Americans in New Mexico, their homes, rituals, etc. Some photographs are of the San Geronimo feast. Some portraits of D.C. Parrott and Harvey Fergusson are also included.
A collection of stereographs, cabinet cards, and boudoir cards that depict the New Mexico region from about 1872-1910.
The New San Francisco album contains 24 mounted prints taken by Edward N. Sewell in 1909 representing the state of recovery of San Francisco three years after the devastating earthquake and fire of 1906 which destroyed much of the city....
Photographs recording the operations and facilities of an unidentified copper mining and ore processing company in the American West. Many stages of operation are depicted in detail. Views include machinery, workers, the smelting process, vats of molten ore, packing and...
Growing up in Corning, New York; first contact with people with disabilities at Camp Oakhurst; Camp Jened and the work-camp experience; founding the 504 Democratic Club, 1975-1981; Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities, 1973; American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities;...
Childhood and family; onset of polio; work with the Rusk Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; gasoline crisis demonstration, 1974; formation of the American Coalition of Citizens with Disability; 504 regulations; formation of Center for Independence of the Disabled in...
From the Honeyman Collection.
Contains resolutions, minutes, and related documents concerning his work with the California Council for the Blind, as well as correspondence, speeches, and miscellaneous materials relating to his work to secure legislative funding for the blind in New York and Calif....
Contains ephemera collected by Newell Hart representing a broad spectrum of issues in Berkeley, Calif., and the nation during the 1960s, including the Vietnam war, student unrest, civil rights, migrant labor, and women's roles. The leaflets, mailers, programs, advertisements, rally...
Stories and notebooks concerning various incidents in California history such as 1935 San Diego Exposition, Cache Valley dance halls, and the 1966 Delano March.
1. Arizona Republic, [Pheonix?, Arizona] August 11-October 16, 1935. An article on the discovery of a plot to assassinate President Lázaro Cárdenas, and several reports on an uprising in Sonora against Governor Ramón Ramos and the religious and agrarian policies...
Title supplied by cataloger.
Correspondence of A. Edward Newton and Flodden W. Heron. Chiefly concerning book collecting and fine printing. Letters from John Henry Nash, William Clarkson Van Antwerp and Babette Edelheim Newton included. Some correspondence relates to the Book Club of California and...
Contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches, articles, clippings, scrapbooks and printed material relating to: his work as chairman of the California State Board of Control during Hiram Johnson's administration; as publisher of the ; Neylan's work on the Board of Regents...
Includes views of Santa Barbara; scenes at Mission Santa Barbara (some depicting a friar, Anthony, and another unidentified Franciscan friar); scenes from the 1893 Battle of Flowers parade; the home of early California settler and governor José de la Guerra...
Náhuatl documents, apparently land titles, written in the Spanish alphabet on maguey fibre. Dated in the 16th century, but apparently all forming part of the so-called "Techialoyan group," and classified as forgeries by Donald Robertson in his book on Mexican...
Prints chiefly pertaining to contemporary social and political issues concerning Mexico and its relationship to the United States. Created by artists in both countries, works feature a wide diversity of printmaking techniques.
The records of the Nicaragua Information Center span the decade of its operation, beginning in 1980 through its closure in 1991. They consist primarily of NIC's operational, working files, including information about other organizations and political events of the decade,...
Nicaraguan posters, 1979-1989, representing a wide range of themes, including literacy campaigns, commemorations of revolutionary book releases, land reform, and cultural events.
Notebook kept on journey to California in the Bartleson party, 1841, with observations also of California in 1842; diary of second journey in 1849; manuscript and printer's copy of reminiscences, California in 1841, Texas in 1851, published in 1901, with...
Carton 1: correspondence, subject files, newsclippings and campaign literature. Volume 1: Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, 1966. Volume 2: Scrapbook of newspaper clippings, 1969. Volume 3: photo album of trip to Greece, 1983. Oversize folder 1: campaign posters (two for district...
Subject files of photographs used primarily to illustrate stories appearing in Our paper. Photographs chiefly depict persons and events associated with various political, legal and social issues concerning the gay and lesbian communities of Santa Clara County in particular, but...
Vol. 1. Spanish-American War: mounted photographs, engravings, and clippings showing crowds, troops, ships; clippings from English language newspapers; flags, broadsides, and pamphlets. Interspersed with ms. diary in English of wartime events.
Correspondence received from various public officials including, Lou Henry Hoover, Fremont Older, and Theodore Roosevelt concerning suffrage and capital punishment. They have been arranged chronologically. An alphabetical list of correspondents follows....
Letter of 26 November 1905 (6 p.) from Ches Nicholson to Jennie Nicholson in east Oakland, Calif., tells of cold weather and bleak living conditions in Toano, Nev., and his uncertain plans for leaving. A second letter of 5 December...
Posters issued by Cody's Books, including literary broadsides, reproductions of illustrations from Harper's Bazar, bookstore events, and miscellaneous quotations; and several calendars published by the bookstore, including a few pertaining to Henry David Thoreau. Posters by other publishers refer to...
One of three hand-lettered copies made by John Catlin, 1920, and presented to John Henry Nash. Photographs of members of the cast included. Letter of transmittal from Catlin to Nash, July 5, l920, at the end of the volume. With...
Snaphot photographs primarily documenting Bulgakoff's years as an undergraduate mechanical engineering student at the Univeristy of California, Berkeley from approximately 1919-1923. Images depict Bulgakoff, his friends and classmates, student activities on the Berkeley campus, Berkeley town views, and leisure outings....
Woodblock prints and other artworks pertaining to political issues such as immigration, Dreamers (DACA recipients), anti-racism, anti-colonialism and the Black Lives Matter movement. Includes a 2-part hand-painted shield (forming a single image) used in BLM demonstrations of 2020. One side...
Contemporary copy of last will and testament of a Mexican Indian, re disposition of his property in Tacubaya, signed by official witnesses.
John Sanders is also the compiler of the two volumes.
The Bernard Nietschmann papers document his professional career as a cultural geographer, scholar, teacher, and activist. The bulk of the collection concerns his work with the Miskito Indians and other indigenous peoples in Central America and worldwide. The collection includes...
Includes photographs taken by Nietschmann pertaining to his research on the Miskito of eastern Nicaragua; on the Maya Atlas and the Maya Mapping Project (Belize); and on sea turtles of Central America and the Carribbean. Also includes earlier U.S. Navy...
Images chiefly depict scenes of nightlife in clubs, bars, casinos and other establishments associated with the entertainment, gambling and resort industries of the Lake Tahoe area, Palm Springs, the Salton Sea and other western locations in the 1950s and 1960s....
Views of buildings and architectural details in Los Angeles and San Francisco, represented in artistically abstract compositions.
Record of overland journey to California in a wagon train outfitted by the "Pioneer Line" operated by Allen and Turner, St. Louis, Mo.
Manuscripts on development of the alphabet and historical linguistics. Also, manuscripts, reprints and clippings concerning early theories of electromagnetism, the theory of ether, "astatic pendulums", and other aspects of the physical sciences.
Chiefly photographs of indigenous peoples of Brazil, and their material culture, used as illustrations in publications by Nimuendajú. The collection1 comprises two groups of photographs, each associated with an unidentified work, at least one of which pertains to the Tucuna...
Includes letters from Philip K. Brown, Anita Blake, E.L. Furlong, Amada Mexia Gonzalez Rubio, Nell Haley, and E.P. Killip, Adela A. Mexia, some relating to Ynés Mexía; Mrs. Bracelin's card files and related notes on specimens from the Anson Blake...
Photographs depict members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (Sister Boom Boom, Sister Vicious Power Hungry Bitch, Sister Mary Media and others) in various humorous poses, chiefly of a sexually and religiously provocative nature. Taken at unidentified locations, some of...
Contains correspondence, manuscripts, biographical material, scrapbooks, plaques, and page proofs.
Typed transcript included in each folder.
The Ninia Baehr et al. v. Lawrence Miike records, 1980-2000, comprise materials gathered and created by Judge Daniel R. Foley of Hawaii for three couples denied licenses based on the state's reluctance to recognize same-sex marriages. Pleadings, amicus curiae briefs,...
Contains: Invitation from the Consul of Japan to a reception in honor of Vice Admiral Teijiro Kuroi and the officers and cadets of the ships Asama and Azuma, June 27, 1919, New Washington Hotel, Seattle; invitation and menu to a...
Letters written about his work to his representative in the United States. Also included are letters from his wife, Anna, and from Ivan S. Tchekounoff, and manuscripts of two translations of Evreinov's works into English by Julia Grill.
Includes photographs taken by Nowinski and research files compiled by the photographer. Material documents the impact of urban renewal efforts on the low-income elderly population of the South of Market district of San Francisco during the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency's...
Childhood in pre-WWII Budapest; studies in leather chemistry, pharmacy, sociology; German invasion, 1944, escape from Communist Hungary to Austria; Australia, 1950-1961: studies in economics, teaching at U. of Queensland, Wayne State University, Yale; Institute of Behavioral Science, Stanford, 1965-1966; professor...
Contains the files of Nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts records, a literary journal published annually in Oakland, California. Materials include: issues, drafts, galleys, and proof copies, correspondence, business and publicity records, funding and grant proposals, calls for submissions, submissions...
Some legal papers relating to mining property in Nevada, but mainly correspondence of Solomon and Warren Noel. Correspondents include W.H. Armstrong, Lindsey Miller, J.P. Noel, "Norton," Sarah Ponce, Joshua F. Smith, A.B. Thompson, and C.A. Wetherill, family members and former...
The Bancroft Library holds additional Nolan Northern Pacific Railroad collections: BANC MSS P-B 220 and BANC MSS 69/7 p.
Receipts, certificates, calendars, photographs, timetables, postcards, menus, pamphlets, time books, regulation books, clippings, deeds, permits and posters relating to the operation of the railroad.
Two lists of Dominican missions and missionary fathers in Baja California. One, headed "Nómina" and undated, was evidently written before April, 1794, since it omits the Mission of San Pedro Mártir founded in that month, besides listing two missions suppressed...
This collection provides a rich intergenerational account of women's history in California. The memoirs of Nora Lynch, the central figure in the collection, provide engaging accounts of ranch life near Paso Robles in the 1930s and of San Jose in...
Transferred from the Nora M. Lynch papers (BANC MSS 2009/104).
Official letters, written while acting Spanish consul in Mexico City, describing the French intervention in Mexico, the arrival of Maximilian and Carlota, the Juárez government, activities of the French and Mexican armies, diplomatic relations with other countries, etc.
Autographs from individuals from a wide variety of fields including politics, entertainment, literature, education and military. They range from very famous individuals to those that are less well known. Norine asked people for their signatures by saying "I am making...
Contains family correspondence, scrapbooks, numerous family photographs, etc. which depict middle class life in the Fruitvale neighborhood in Oakland, California. Two of the scrapbooks are dedicated to theatrical presentations and similar related materials. Also includes materials related to Cogswell's work...
Snapshots and more formal views taken by Norman A. Forsyth of Native Americans in various outdoor locations, likely in Montana. Images depict unidentified individuals and groups posing for portraits; teepees; dances and various unidentified gatherings; and a reenactment of a...
Contains approximately 107 bound diaries kept by Norman Hyams for a continuous period of years from the mid-1930s to the mid-1990s. Also includes several unpublished typescript stories and plays, 10 audiocassettes containing interviews, and miscellaneous files.
Includes images taken by Livermore during a hunting safari in the Tanganyika territory (now Tanzania) of Africa in 1923. Photographs depict game such as lions and antelopes; hunting camps; the Maasai and Mkalama, as well as other indigenous peoples, villagers,...
Includes diaries kept by Raab, 1948-1963, reports to him about the construction of the San Rafael-Richmond Bridge, the re-construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and the Hayward-San Mateo Bridge. Also contains several sketches and 1 plan/profile of the State...
Contains Coliver's files relating to his activities with San Francisco Bay Area volunteer organizations including the Bay Area Social Planning Council minutes, memos and other documents, United Community Fund, Social Planning Committee meetings, and San Francisco Association for Mental Health,...
Correspondence, notes for his Disiecta Membra (circa 1905), and miscellaneous. Correspondents include James D. Hart, Robin Douglas, and Mr. M. Terzian (of San Francisco, Calif.), postmarked from Italy. Includes a small selection of photographs.
Contains book manuscripts, Dharma talks, journals, and correspondence regarding Fischer's poetry and his activities as a student and teacher of Zen Buddhism, Director of Green Gulch Farm, and co-abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center.
Contains a "Tercentenary Souvenir Program Commemorating 300 Years Jewish Settlement in America" (1954) from the Jewish Community Center of Petaluma; a 25th Anniversary Program for the Jewish Community Center of Petaluma (1950); a program for the Annual Dinner of the...
Included in: History of Science and Technology Collection.
Contains numerous samples of bookplates from various bookplate designers around the world. Also contains a letter from renowned typographer and book designer Bruce Rogers on his letterhead stationery, responding to a request from a collector for a sample bookplate. Rogers...
Contains subject files, including correspondence and information regarding printing presses and bookbinders, bibliographies, course notes, transcripts of speeches, and a scrapbook. The oversize folders contain a Kalapasutra text, Jaina, Western India, early 16th-century; a parcel map, Vailima Estates, St. Helena,...
Documentation of Norman J. Levinson house, Fresno, Calif.
The papers document Norman Jacobson's professional career as a professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, and the University of South Carolina. The bulk of the materials consist of Jacobson's scholarly writings in the field...
Professional files, including correspondence and notes, datebooks, reports and dockets, and exhibit materials, of Norman M. Littell. Most files relate to his tenure as General Council for the Navajo Indians from 1947 to 1967, including files relating to the Hopi-Navajo...
Four typescript letters; one holograph letter to Stephen [Spender], Aug. 24, 1960. Screenplay (1957) for The Naked and the Dead, by Denis and Terry Sanders, also included.
Professional views chiefly of sites, artifacts, and art from antiquity, and also scenic views of towns and countryside. These photographs appear to have been issued in souvenir albums or collected and compiled into portfolios. Contents, by volume: v. 1: Italian...
Chiefly architectural drawings by Norman R. Coulter, including pencil drawing of the banking room of the First National Bank of San Jose (1908); two watercolor drawings of a building for the proposed Los Gatos Union High School (undated); blueprint drawing...
Letters, papers, and maps relating to surveys for proposed canal routes in Panama and as agent for the Gold Mines of Cana.
The Kathleen Norris and Charles Gilman Norris family photograph collection contains approximately 2,300 photographs and assorted clippings, drawings, manuscript notes and other miscellaneous documents dating from the 1860s to the 1960s. The material represents six generations of the families of...
The Harold Norse papers, [1921]-2009; undated [bulk 1960s-2006] consist of correspondence, writings, professional papers, legal papers, personal papers and artworks that chart Norse's literary trajectory from his time in college to his death.
Chiefly portraits and snapshots of Harold Norse, taken throughout the poet's lifetime. Also includes photographs of family members, friends and lovers. Includes a relatively small number of photographs of Norse's literary associates. Noteworthy individuals depicted include Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg,...
Photographer's documentation of appearances, social life and customs observed in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco, a location familiar to him since the 1950s. Main portfolio (box 1) divided into sections: "Street scenes"; "Businesses boutiques"; "Sounds of music"; "Eat,...
Streets and homes in Thousand Oaks, Kensington Park, Berkeley Highlands, and Northbrae areas of Berkeley and Kensington, Calif. Two photos show streetcars.
Printed captions: Bowman Dam -- Under currents -- Iron pipe -- Piping or hydraulicing.
Photographs show Alaska, Angel Island, Chinese in the San Francisco Bay Area, Yellowstone, California views, Oregon, and places outside the United States. Views of Alaska (ca. 1900?) show Sitka, Juneau, the Treadwell Mine on Douglas Island, Muir Glacier, landscapes, many...
Collection includes many immigration related photos, collected during North's tenure with the U.S. Immigration Service in San Francisco. Most are studio portraits of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean subjects.
Contains church calendars, bulletins, hymn sheets, correspondence, financial statements, newsletters, flyers, printed pamphlets, 1972 church roster, miscellany, ephemera, etc.
Accounts, memoranda, and letters.
Board minutes, general meeting minutes, business meeting minutes, reports, club history, and scrapbooks.
Membership lists, notes on structure and governance, reports, agendas, meeting minutes, study guides, newsletters and flyers. Materials on the San Francisco Liberation School include notes on the history, structure, and ideology of the school; letters and memos; course outlines; agendas;...
Member of early Negro family settling in the state before WWI; childhood in Vallejo; work with State Relief Administration and California State Employment Service; interracial work, discrimination in employment; William B Rumford; fair employment practices legislation; fair housing campaigns; California...
The goal of the Northern California Jews from Harbin, Manchuria project (1973-1975) was to document the history of the Jews living in Northern California who had emigrated from Harbin, Manchuria. The project was undertaken by Mildred Mogulof and Helen Bonapart,...
Includes many photographs from 1880s to 1890s. Most items are captioned and arranged by subject. Subjects include: locomotives, rolling stock, bridges, wrecks, cities and towns, depots, work crews, logging, ports, and images related to right-of-way issues. There are also some...
Photographs show views along the Columbia River, Mt. Hood (Oregon), the Missoula River [Clark Fork], and the town of Spokane Falls.
The collection consists of photographs taken chiefly in Washington Territory and along the 49th parallel by British photographers in the Corps of Royal Engineers, as part of the survey to identify and mark the international boundary between British Columbia and...
9 instruction books for the electrical equipment, photographs and blueprints of equipment.
Drug store interiors, with proprietors and many products visible. A bar with taps (soda fountain?) is presents along one wall.
Concerning the Archaeological Institute of America and work done by Adolph Bandelier in Mexico.
Collection includes views relating to the Black Diamond Railway, especially showing the area around Nortonville and Somersville, Calif. Most images show the general vicinity, the rail bed, and other traces of the railway as they appeared ca. 1930-1946, after operation...
The bulk of the collection contains materials related to Smith's work as Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs at UC Berkeley. These include letters congratulating him on his appointment; administrative materials; materials about student affirmative action programs; incoming and outgoing memos...
Related collections: BANC MSS 76/60 z and BANC MSS 80/25 cz.
Dictation recorded for H.H. Bancroft by Thomas Savage, concerning his life as a soldier, Indian skirmishes, the governorships of Sola and Victoria, and his participation in Luis Antonio Argüello's expedition to the Columbia River in 1821.
Includes diary entries re trip from Berkeley, with information on plant and animal specimens collected, comments on Indians and their customs, description of work at the Cunningham salmon cannery, etc.
Contains names of ranchos and claimants; partially in the hand of Henry Wager Halleck.
Images and text relating to the history of Cape Flattery, Tatoosh Island, Neah Bay, the Makah tribe (and possibly other Native Americans of the region), Mount Rainier, Tumwater Canyon, and other locations in the Cascade Mountains.
Based on interviews, 1958, for a brochure to be published in connection with the dedication in Las Vegas of the temple, Beth Sholem.
Activities of the bandit from 1853 newspapers. Negative photostatic copies of clippings and typescript transcriptions.
Notes on his family and early life; experiences as a playwright; observations on National Theatre; the Screen Writers' Guild, communism and the blacklist; problems of a Catholic writer.
Chiefly relating to California and Nevada mining areas. Vol. 1 entitled "The Placerville Road." Vol. 5, entitled "The Bodie Era."
Vol. 1, Notebook 1-4 page 213.
Diary of an overland journey, Ohio to California, via southern route, and subsequent travels in California, Mar.-Sept. 1849. Included also are portions of letters written by Jordan, copy of a letter addressed to him, his photograph, and an account of...
Notes about former owner of the adobe: A.S. Ensworth, who built it from timbers of the "Clarissa Andrews," disposed of by J.C. Bogart, and Rufus K. Porter, who purchased the property from Ensworth; letter from Rufina Porter Crosby; W.F. Clarke's...
Typed transcript of memorandum book in the possession of Mrs. A. Hyatt.
The notes deal with Frederick West Lander, the Pacific Wagon Road, and three place names in southern Oregon adjacent to Humboldt County-Denio, Pueblo, and White Horse Creek and Ranch, with biographical information about Aaron Denio.
Hawkins, Helen L. Notes for a one-act play, The New Idea, based on the life of Lotta Crabtree in the 1860's, BANC MSS C-R 46, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Handwritten transcriptions of newspaper clippings, used as source material for Boggs' book, My playhouse was a Concord coach, published by Howell-North Press in 1942. Loose sheets gathered together into 18 "volumes," housed in slipcases. Transcriptions made at The Bancroft Library...
The notes are for volume 2 of the bibliography, which is concerned with works held by The Bancroft Library.
Arranged alphabetically by grant names. Compiled during the 1930's and 1940's from original records, now missing. With explanatory notes by Jacob N. Bowman.
Includes interviews, case histories, notes and folklore material. Some sketches and translations appear to be incomplete, and/or include duplicate pages, with only slight variations.
Experiences as a Mexican soldier in Baja California, 1825-1837, and at San Diego from 1837.
Compilation of published letters (newspaper clippings), including information on train journey across the U.S., travels in Europe, and description of Santa Cruz with letter from Dwinelle presenting the volume to Wm. Mitchell.
Entries from Feb. 5 to March 26, 1849 describe his trip from New York to Fort Smith, Arkansas and preparations for the overland journey as a member of the Knickerbocker Company. Later entries contain detailed descriptions of his experiences on...
Holograph, signed, 220 pages, written for his family, as he explains in the Oct. 19 entry, an "epiloque." Experiences prospecting for gold at Spanish Bar and later at Murderer's Bar, with information about various methods of mining; impressions of various...
Description of life and customs in Uruguay and Argentina in the 1860's. With partial draft of lecture on tour of France and Switzerland.
Biographical and bibliographical information obtained from the Library of Congress and the California State Library.
Notes on proposed military colony at Santo Tomás, 1849-1850; on Ensenada filibustering scheme, 1889-1890; biographies of people associated with Lower California colonization ventures; notes on recent economic history.
Removed from the Henry E. Erdman papers.
Notes on the state court system as established by the constitution of 1849, and the various changes made by the legislature and the 1879 constitution; chronological list of the district courts showing the counties included in each district; alphabetical list...
Contents: (1) History of the Mexican archives of Monterey Co., with note of index compiled by A.S. Taylor; (2) notes on Rancho el Alisal (or Nuestra Señora de la Carmen) and the Soberanes, Hartnell and Castro families; (3) notes on...
Partially arranged by subject--e.g. Indians, houses, boats and navigation, grants, illiteracy, etc.
Contents: v. 1, notes on Stanislaus Co. and Stockton pioneers, based on conversations with them; v. 2, notes on David M. Lock and the bridge and saw mill at Knights Ferry, based on conversations with Alex Lock, his son; v....
Concerning purchase of the pianos (brought to California in 1843) by José Abrego and General Vallejo, and the terms of agreement by which Vallejo secured a German professor of music as instructor for his family.
Describing materials in the "cut" file of two Missoula newspapers and the library of the Montana Historical Society.
Author unknown.
With these: copies of some Sterling poems and a book inscription; also, copies of letters regarding Sterling.
Includes a chronology, compiled in 1938, of significant dates and events, a genealogical chart, and a 1940 letter to Professor Herbert I. Priestley.
Pencil notes (52 l.) of interview with Washakie, Shoshoni Chief; notes on Arapaho folklore (9 l.); printed record of Ray's military career.
Mainly notes and transcripts relating to his thesis, John A. Sutter, His career in California before the American Conquest.
Notes concerning Juan Napoleon Zerman and his filibustering activities in Mexico, ca. 1850-1900, such as his expedition in support of the Plan de Ayutla of 1854. Together with miscellaneous notes on Mexican history.
Included in History of Science and Technology Collection.
Re microwave generation and propagation; related to work in the M.I.T. Radiation Laboratory. Edited by S. Seely and E.C. Pollard. Mimeographed, with separate tables of contents.
Excerpt from a letterpress copybook, commenting upon proposals for financial reform submitted by the ex-Minister of Finance, M. Plasagarre; dealing in particular with payments to the British Bondholders.
Contents: v. 1, Do You Remember? When Single Steamer Crossed the Bay - descriptions of ferry steamers and the city of Oakland; v. 2, Do You Remember? Oakland's Old Ferries; How Fares Became 10 cents - an account of competition...
Include list of points along the line and names of passengers for given runs.
Bound journal containing several handwritten transcriptions of newspaper articles from early California newspapers (1851-1861). The articles mostly concern the activities and death of an Irish rebel, Terence Bellew McManus, in 1861. Also contains a transcribed article, "The Irish in California"...
His paper on the genealogy of the Blake family, including biographical information on the Anson Stiles Blake family. The appendix contains copies of articles concerning various members of the family and a genealogical table for the American branch of the...
Information primarily concerning James Cockrell (d.1843), his newphew Jeremiah Vardaman Cockrell (1832-1915), and their experiences trapping and freighting in the West; with commentary by Sardis W. Templeton, 1961.
From 1872 a lawyer and newspaper publisher at Snohomish, Washington, Morse traveled extensively about the Puget Sound country and filled these notebooks with historical gleanings. There are two on "Settlement", 12 on the Indian war of 1855-1856, three on the...
Addressed to J. Ross Browne. Notes on the ethnology, linguistics, and natural history of Alaska.
Concerning his experiences in the Mexican War, his assignment to California in 1849 in command of the Pacific Division, his command of the Department of the West, and descriptions of San Francisco and Sonoma.
Typescript carbon includes manuscript additions.
Questionnaire and answers obtained by Ben S. Allen from company employees and residents of Scotia and vicinity; interview with A.P. Alexanderson, Aug. 23, 1944; history of the Pacific Lumber Company, as told by George Douglas to Derby Bendorf; notes by...
In two parts: My Journey West describes travels in west in 1882; Notes of My Visit to California, 1887, describes Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Oakland, and Berkeley and comments on prices, cost of living, wages, etc.
With a covering letter to the "Knave", Oakland Tribune, Aug. 20, 1949.
Contains the weekly memorandum sent to Tudor's company, reporting his activities in Washington, D.C.
Photographs transferred to the Portrait Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1978.152--POR)
Notes appear to relate to the text of the book and the history of rock art in this region.
Diary, Apr. 11, 1858-Oct. 25, 1859, kept as scientific assistant on Captain J.H. Simpson's expedition to Utah and across the Great Basin from Camp Floyd to Genoa, and return to Washington, D.C., with sojourns at Fort Bridger, Camp Floyd and...
Comments on his support for Earl Warren in his political campaigns, particularly in fund raising. A few comments about Richard Nixon also.
Cards sent by J.T. Lippincott, Secretary, to Earl H. and Leila H. Cameron.
Careful description and analysis of the port of Amapala, Honduras, with a map of the harbor with scale and key to all placenames.
Illustrations relate to James Cook, Sir Francis Drake, etc.
An extensive survey of contemporary California Native American groups with emphasis on festivals and other gatherings which demonstrate the preservation and/or revival of traditional cultures throughout the state.
Collection included personal correspondence, including letters from Mirov's mother in the Soviet Union during the 1930s, other family correspondence, professional correspondence, a manuscript of Mirov's autobiography, and other professional papers. The collection also includes photo albums documenting Mirov's life in...
Scrapbook mostly containing mounted black and white photographs of young Chinese American schoolgirls rehearsing and performing dance postures and routines in various types of ethnic and dance costumes. The costumes includes Chinese, Mexican, Russian, Dutch, Hawaiian, ballet, and tap dance....
Digital prints of photographic images taken in the 1980s at various nuclear weapons test sites, including Nevada Test Site, Hanford Site and the Marshall Islands. Photographs document the lasting impact of the production facilities and bomb tests on the surrounding...
Mr. & Mrs. A.F. Nunes; Countess Doheny (Mrs. Estelle L. Doheny) with Mrs. A.F. Nunes.
Manuscript copies of poems published in London. v.1: Elmiro. (1813); v.2: Agostinheida, a mock-heroic poem concerning José Agostinho de Macedo. (1817)
Comments on her work in the field of nursery school education and child development; research and teaching, University of California, Berkeley; directorship of the Nursery School (1938-58).
Photos taken during Ruth Lipman's nurses' training at San Francisco City Hospital.
Photographs show the Port of Oakland (Howard Terminals, Jack London Square, Grove Street Terminals, Seventh Street Terminal, and outer harbor terminals) from the air at various dates. Other views include a portrait of Ben Nutter, and a picture taken of...
Professional views of Diamond Head and Nuuanu Pali on Island of Oahu, Hawaii.
Amateur photographs of homes, landscapes, and people in the vicinties of Coloma, Oakland, Menlo Park, Monterey, Highland and Clear Lake (Lake County) and "Ainsworth's, Pagoda Hill" (probably the residence of Capt. John C. Ainsworth in Oakland - formerly the J....
Minutes of meetings of the Society, and form letters for Girls' Town of which Mrs. Nystrom was president and founder, with related notes.