Includes correspondence, ship manifests, etc., and miscellaneous records of the Customs Service in the Monterey area.
Album contains views of Ubero Plantation Co. grounds and vicinity in Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico. Views show indigenous persons who worked on plantation, their villages, and the surrounding towns and landscapes of the Coatzacoalcos River region. Photos also depict rubber...
Peter Newell discusses growing up in Los Angeles, his career as a basketball coach at Loyola University of Los Angeles, University of San Francisco, Michigan State University, University of California, Berkeley, and being Cal Athletic Director, and managing the San...
Henry Bruyn: Director, Student Health Services, 1959-1972. Edna Brean: Nurse coordinator, Cowell Residence Program, 1969-1975. Lucile Withington: Department of Rehabilitation counselor, Cowell Residence Program, 1969-1971. Karen Topp Goodwyn: Department of Rehabilitation counselor in Berkeley, 1972-1983. Gerald Belchick: Department of Rehabilitation...
2 postcards depicting U.C. Pup vendor in chef's clothing with mobile hot dog stand wagon. One view shows advertising on cart: The U.C. Pup - Romeos - Sandwiches - Tamales. Other view shows cart prepared for customers (with stools, counter,...
In blue binding with gold "C" on cover.
Consists of Uchida's correspondence, writings, and professional files, along with a small amount of personal and family papers, providing insight into the life of a successful and distinguished author, as well as her experiences as a Japanese-American growing up in...
Photographs related to the life and work of Japanese American author Yoshiko Uchida, including photographs of family and friends, as well as photographs related to her career as a writer. Some images are of Tanforan, Heart Mountain and Topaz Japanese...
Portraits of distinguished literary figures associated with Utah: Edward Abbey, Fawn Brodie, Juanita Brooks, Neal Cassady, Bernard DeVoto, Raymond F. Jones, Charles Kelly, Dale Morgan, Wallace Stegner, May Swenson, Wallace Thurman, Maurine Whipple. Prints appear to be reproductions of paintings...
Photographs of plants in laboratory and other research settings, with an emphasis on sugar beets, but also tomatoes, strawberries, barley, grapes, various beans, clover, lettuce, rice and potatoes, among others. Accompanied by extensive research notes in multiple series of binders...
Dictation recorded, with explanatory notes, by Thomas Savage at Rancho San Isidro, near the San Gabriel Mission, Dec. 10, 1877.
Paper hat, printed in red white and blue. Placard has hand-written text and illustrations in marking pen on cardboard, with wooden handle.
Three letters (13 p.) containing advice and encouragement on mining in Calif., including information on the Slug Gulch and Eagle mines.
The papers include correspondence, subject files, legal documents and annotated survey maps. There are also correspondence and drafts of his biography of Thomas O. Larkin, entitled , which was originally published by Stanford University Press in 1939.
Contains constitution, by-laws, reports, accounting, resolutions, meeting minutes, correspondence, documents of a subgroup of women called the White Hyacinth League, clippings, and ephemera. Correspondence includes outgoing letters of E.J. Krueger, and C.M. Christoffersen, tracts explaining and promoting the organization, administrative...
Partial segment of a diary kept by an anonymous author in the Caribbean. Diary entries are dated June [17?]-July 16, but the year is unknown. Discusses the company barque and the company plantation, and describes departures, arrivals, and cargoes of...
1 portrait of unidentified man; 1 portrait of unidentified family; 1 portrait of unidentified group of young men. Group portrait apparently taken in a makeshift outdoor studio.
Includes minutes, copy of articles of incorporation, bylaws, signatures of members and final statement of account of the Union Club of Oakland. Balance of volume used as an account book, 1904-1905, for stationery and book store.
Photographs document the 1920-1921 progress of construction of hulls no. 16 and 17 of two unidentified ships, presumably at Union Construction Company's Oakland shipyard. Also includes a draft of an unsigned 1924 contract between Union Construction Co. and British Columbia...
Commercially produced photograph album documenting construction of the Chitose, an armored cruiser built by Union Iron Works of San Francisco, Calif. for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Photographs depict construction views; officials of U.I.W., officers the I.J.N., and other figures associated...
Photographs depict members of the Union League Club of San Francisco in group portraits and during various leisure activities such as dining, smoking, billiards, reading, and conversation.
The collection contains correspondence, office files, and financial records. The bulk of the collection is composed of stock and financial records, 1854-1952, including such items as lists of stockholders, financial statements, invoices, various ledgers, and payroll sheets. Another substantial portion...
Jenkins discusses his family background and maternal history of radicalism; Greenwich Village, Communist Party and his later disenchantment and break with the Party; CIO organizing; race relations; work with the National Maritime Union; life in San Francisco, including directing the...
Photos show a shipwreck at Seal Rocks, captioned: Union Oil Co. Tanker SS Lyman Stewart near Cliff House after collision with SS Walter Lachenback October 1923.
Photographs of Los Angeles, including aerial views of downtown (depicting Los Angeles Public Library in the foreground and City Hall in the distance) and the studios of Paramount Pictures and its surrounding neighborhood, as well as a view of Union...
Aulbach's career as a journalist in Utah Territory, 1865-1870, after crossing the plains to Montana, 1862, and enlisting in the California-Nevada Volunteers.
1 box; 355 invoices and other documents of the Union Water Company, Calaveras County, 1890-1898. Invoices document the Union Water Company's operations at Angels Camp and Murphys and include payments for monthly water usage, tending to ditches, fire fighting, food...
Contains 21 ledgers with various information related to the activities and financial status of a fraternal charitable organization with meetings located throughout northern California. Also contains a number of annual and semi-annual financial reports and one mechanical bingo card with...
Album contains 117 handbills, broadsides, cartoons, posters, pamphlets, clippings, buttons, and other ephemera, most produced by United California Industries in their anti-prohibition campaign to defeat Propositions 1 and 2 in California's election of November 1916. Most of the propaganda refers...
Church records for the Northern California Nevada Conference of the United Church of Christ. Includes copies of sermons, pastor reports for various parishes, as well as other records of individual parishes and the conference.
Collection consists of records and correspondence documenting the administration of United Finnish Kaleva Brothers and Sisters Berkeley Lodge No. 21 and its relationship to the United Finnish Kaleva Brothers and Sisters Grand Lodge in Astoria, Oregon; records of the Lodge's...
Contains a copy of the association's constitution and by-laws from 1885 (with a list of members).
United Railroads of San Francisco records of payments, 1909, BANC MSS C-G 243, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
5 pages of written documents.
Contains a manuscript list of Senators and Representatives for the 32nd Congress. Also includes printed report of the seventh United States census.
Views of soldiers of the 4th Cavalry on horseback in the Mojave Desert, Sequoia National Park, and Yosemite. Includes squadron maneuvers, scouting parties on mountain peaks, various officers, supply wagons, camps; and photos of James F.J. Archibald, commanding officer General...
Photocopy from the National Archives of appointment papers as Cadet, U.S. Military Academy, for Du Bois, enlistment papers for Heger and muster roll of Company K, 1st Regiment of Mounted Riflemen.
Clippings, published histories, enlistment records, training manuals, blueprints, scrapbooks, and service related miscellanea, documenting the activities of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, 18th Engineer Regiment (Railway) during training and while stationed in France during World War I. Also includes...
Photograph album documenting activities pertaining to the Aerial Photographic Section of the U.S. Army Air Forces stationed in Alaska and Western Canada during the second World War. Album includes professional photographs, personal snapshots and commercial photographic postcards. Wide range of...
Muster rolls for Companies A-H and Artillery Company, California Battalion, U.S. Forces commanded by Lt. Col. J.C. Frémont.
Muster rolls of staff, of Companies A-G. Artillery Companies A & B, Major Gillespie's and Capt. B.D. Wilson's companies (Southern Division) Capt. Maddox' and Capt. Arom's companies, U.S. forces commanded by Lt. Col. J.C. Frémont.
Typed transcripts and excerpts furnished H.H. Bancroft by the War Department, including an extract from an 1870 report by Assistant Surgeon H.S. Schell, U.S. Army; extracts from Frémont and Stansbury; reports from Fort Kearny by C.F. Ruff in 1848-1849, and...
Fragmentary pages from an orderly book. Most of them emanating from headquarters, 8th Dept., San Antonio.
Typed transcripts made from originals in the National Archives, of communications from the Army and from Indian agents. They describe Army relations with various Indian tribes in the southwest, including Apache, Jicarilla, Mescalero, and Ute Indians. Includes descriptions of various...
Includes views of show troops, camps, activities, artilery, scenes from Mexican towns, and forts and other views in Texas.
Record of Quartermaster's Department stores transferred, issued, etc., 1873-1875; box of retained copies of invoices of stores, property returns of various officers, 1865-1867 (principally for Nashville, Tennessee, and Fort Sedgwick, Colorado) Includes ledgers of William A. Carter. With the papers...
Includes reports of Infantry and Dragoon expeditions, authored by the following individuals: Bvt. Capt. Nathaniel Lyon, commander of the Clear Lake and Pit River expeditions (1850); Capt. John W.T. Gardiner and Capt. Henry Judah, expedition against Indians of the Pit...
Documents filmed, 1964-1965, were selected by Bryron Ivancovich and Kieran McCarty.
Includes unratified treaties, talks and minutes of council proceedings of the commissioners treating with California Indians.
List of contents and Accumulated Index available at Reference Desk.
Two hand written court documents: deposition of Patrick Murphy, 1855 Dec. 29; and order to discharge defendant, 1855 Nov. 12. Case involved disputed title to property.
Order, summons, and complaint in a law suit to recover property on Harrison Street in San Francisco.
Originals in: records of the General Land Office, National Archives (RG 49)
Album of photographs documenting cross-country road trips taken in 1930 and 1931 by two young men living in the Midwest, probably Indiana. Their first trip, beginning July 1, 1930, is documented with scenes of points of interest in Ohio, Pennsylvania,...
Contains shillings from the colony of New Jersey (1776), four dollars from Rhode Island (1780), 20,000 dollar loan to Treasurer of the United States from the Bank of New York (1789), 10-cent postage currency with George Washington (1862-1863), a city...
Chiefly records, 1850-1875, of bills of sale, mortgages, registers, arrivals, clearances and coasting licenses for various vessels. Includes City of Rio de Janeiro (steamship), [Manifest on her last voyage, Feb., 1901.
Primarily cargo records for ships entering and leaving San Francisco, 1849-1865; a few for the years, 1866-1897.
Transmitting copies of opinions of the Attorney General relative to the Collector of Customs of Alaska and New Orleans. Signed by Hugh McCulloch.
Two documents: ejectment, 1853 Jan. 25; and summons, 1853 Jan. 25-28. Case involved dispute over land tenure at Rincon Point, San Francisco.
List of books and records of the U.S. District Court (BANC MSS C-A 146),
Blueprints, itemized list of materials and cost, etc.
Photos show migrant camps at Tulare, Shafter, and Farmersville, Calif. Views show children being treated by medical staff, recreational activities for children and adults, the nursery school, and general views of the camps. Includes 1 image of a posted notice...
Snapshots depicting unidentified construction projects in the Sierra Nevada, likely by United States Forest Service crews. Views show construction of dams and associated bridges in multiple, chiefly unidentified areas; construction workers on site and at leisure; and work camps. Other...
records for grants of La Arebac and Rancho Arebac, Arizona, and Rancho Pacheco, New Mexico, Docket numbers 10, 15, and 163.
Reel 1: docket of cases, corrected docket and claim maps; Reel 2: letters, indentures, pre-emption affidavits, patents, briefs, etc.; Reel 3: copies of letters sent by the Comissioner of the General Land Office relating to the cases, and opinions of...
Negative microfilm from National Archives, RG 49, and Bureau of Land Management, Dept. of Interior.
Copies of records made under the direction of Ynez Haase for a report on the land claim of the Jicarilla Apaches.
Chiefly snapshots documenting a United States Geological Survey group's activitities at various locations throught California, with an emphasis on the southern desert regions, and a few locations in Nevada. One photograph caption identifies most of the surveyors depicted in the...
Materials concerning commerce, taxation, death, land tenure, copyright, military affairs and other subjects. These items are stored together for convenience, and each item has been cataloged separately. Search under title: United States historical records and documents, 1681-1919.
Album documenting a visit to Mexico by potential gold mine investors from the United States. Party members, railroad stations, local scenes and people, and mine facilities are pictured.
Folders 1-2: snapshot photographs and real photograph postcards of scenes of United States Army camp life in various Texas locations along the Mexican-American border during the Mexican Revolution. Photographs depict soldiers on and off duty. Locations depicted include Corpus Christi,...
Real photograph postcards depicting the United States invasion of Veracruz, Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. Postcards depict U.S. and Mexican soldiers, Veracruz street scenes, artillery damage to buildings, battle casualties, and a few scenes of combat.
Letters by John J. Crittenden, Thomas Starr King and William Gouverneur Morris, recommending employees; petitions for appointments, contracts, proposals, reports and receipts.
Copies of records for war housing programs. v. 1-4: California; v. 5: Nevada and Oregon; v. 6: Arizona.
Reporter's transcripts (14 v.) of the conspiracy trial of George T. Davis and Lee Gim Keong, a.k.a. Dickson Lee, held in Dec. 1950. Davis and Lee were accused of defrauding the United States government by falsifying birth certificates in order...
Letterpress copybooks, 1880-1900 (with some gaps), of letters and financial reports sent by Agents at Fort Defiance, Arizona, respecting affairs of Navaho and Hopi Indians (29 v.) Also letterbooks for Navaho Boarding School, Fort Defiance, 1899-1902, and Western Navaho Training...
These superintendency records, sometimes called the William Clark papers, include record copies of letters sent and received, accounts and other fiscal records relating to the superintendency and various agents and subagents, many miscellaneous records, an office diary kept for William...
Printed forms filled in and signed by Frederick C. Lord, Collector.
Contains printed forms filled in. Includes list, 1863, for Division 1; list, 1863-1869, for Division 7 (kept by J.G. Bleak, with some signatures of taxpayers); lists, 1866-1872 for various divisions; a few receipts signed by R.T. Burton, Collector, pasted in.
Letters to John P. Taggart, Assessor, Salt Lake City, from various missioners, supervisors, etc., October 3, 1870-May 3, 1873. 160 leaves. 121 letters, chiefly relating to the conduct of the Salt Lake Office, but also concerning Corinne, Provo, E.T. City,...
Cerified copy, made Sept. 23, 1879, signed by W.H. Doolittle acting comissioner. Includes description of invention for improvement in lime kilns and drawings explaining it.
Report of activities and proposals of the Commission, with description of existing conditions on the Islands; signed by William H. Taft, Dean C. Worcester, Luke E. Wright, Henry C. Ide and Bernard Moses. Copies of related documents appended as exhibits.
Illustrated United States government propaganda posters intended for use on the civilian homefront during World War I and World War II. First World War posters promote liberty loans and monetary donations. Second World War posters promote awareness of espionage, manufacture...
Correspondence, reports and related papers re establishement of Fort Weller in California, BANC MSS C-A 211, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Primarily reports, tabulations and photographs relating to San Francisco housing survey. Included also are statistics on juvenile delinquency, San Francisco; statistics on traffic survey, Santa Barbara; and reports and maps for San Diego County real property survey.
Correspondence reports, budgets, manuals, subject files and minutes pertaining to the charitable programs of the San Francisco branch of the United Way. Also includes the records of predecessor agencies.
Views of the UC Berkeley campus and various activities: the Mechanical Building on Labor Day (students digging); the UC Band; the North Hall, the Civil Engineering Building, the Library, and the South Hall. Two views depicting students holding signs indicating...
Family background and childhood, Stockton, CA; B.S. and M.S. in civil engineering, UC Berkeley, 1942-1948: V-12 program, U.S. Navy service; University of Illinois, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Ph. D., 1951; research in structural mechanics, earthquake and aero nautical engineering; professor...
Contains charts and notebooks concerning meteorological observations.
Small format commercial views of buildings and other landmarks of the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
Assorted papers in bibliography in honor of Edith M. Coulter prepared and signed by the Class in Advanced Bibliography, 1949-1950; presented to Miss Coulter May 26, 1950. Contains short biographical sketch of Miss Coulter and bibliography of her work; bio-bibliographies...
The University Art Museum collection of Hans Hofmann papers contain materials relating to his career as a painter and art teacher, the bulk being exhibit catalogs and announcements, but also includes writings, lectures, speeches, notes, correspondence, clippings, papers relating to...
Views of the UCB campus show South Hall, North Hall, the mining building, and general views. A theatrical or ceremonial event in the eucalyptus grove is also pictured.
Photographs comprise seven views (one panoramic) of the site of a new Citrus Experiment Station (later run by U.C. Riverside), as well as views of the former station. Item 258: display mount with four views; Entrance to grounds, Office entrance,...
Reports written by University of California students in Mining 4 (later 104a): Summer Class in Practical Mining between circa 1902 and 1914. Reports document students' summer experience working in a range of underground mines in California and other western states...
Correspondence, Faculty Bulletins, reports, and 2 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings.
Transcript of interview (2 copies) with Mary Harter and Jane Murray, in San Francisco, January 23, 1997 about Cyril and Virginia Smith and the town of Merced in the early 1900s. The Cyril Smith Trust and Virginia Smith Trust lands...
Interviews with Stephen A. Arditti, director of State Government Relations; William B. Baker, vice president, Budget and University Relations; Ronald W. Brady, senior vice president, Administration; William R. Frazer, senior vice president, Academic Affairs; and Cornelius L. Hopper, M.D., vice...
Include two petitions from Steffens to the president and faculty of the College of Letters, and memorandum from Edward S. Holden, president, to the Academic Council mentioning Steffens. With these: letter, April 18, 1962, from Arthur E. Hutson, secretary, Academic...
Snapshots and photo postcards chiefly of a trip on the steamer Admiral Rogers taken in August, 1931. Includes views of the fishing industry, Indian villages, and coastal scenes. Locations include the Inside Passage, Ketchikan, Metlakatla, Wrangell, Petersburg, Kake, Juneau, the...
Student days at University of California, Berkeley; working and camping at Yosemite National Park; career in investment banking, with Blyth, Witter & Co. and with Dean Witter & Co.; presidency of California Alumni Association and membership on Board of Regents;...
Student days at University of California, class of 1912; founding the firm of Blyth, Witter & Co. in 1914; his role in investment banking enterprises. Copies of photographs inserted.
Experiences as student, University of California, Berkeley, and as a campus administrative officer - in the Dean of Women's Office, as Supervisor of Housing Services, and as Dean, University Housing. Photographs inserted.
Interviews with 42 individuals conducted by Stephen Fox, 1985-1988, as research for his book. 33 of the interviews are transcribed.
Typescript (carbon), of John Colter's unpublished biography of William Ghent. With this (v. 2): typescript copies of letters related to Ghent's researches, primarily correspondence with John G. White; typescript copies of notes by Ghent; notes on Colter by Dale L....
Correspondence with contributors and subscribers, manuscripts, mock-ups for pamphlets, accounts, clippings of reviews, mailing lists, etc., relating to the publication of The Illiterati and of books of poems.
Letters from Sinclair to various correspondents, primarily Mr. Herbert Feinstein.
The Urban Habitat Program (UHP) Records (1970-2001) primarily contain materials accumulated by Carl Anthony, co-founder in 1989, and Executive Director for twelve years. The collection includes Anthony's correspondence; professional activities materials, mainly relating to his numerous speaking engagements, conferences, meetings...
Photograph album documenting the summer camp activities in Yosemite Valley of the Los Angeles-based boy's school Urban Military Academy. Images are chiefly group portraits of the boys in uniform in various settings: with camp staff; on horseback before the Yosemite...
Professional views of Guatemala City, taken from various vantage points. Among the points of interest depicted are Castillo de San José (or Fuerte de San José), the Central Penitentiary and El Calvario (Church of Our Lady of the Remedies), all...
Contains photographic prints, slides, negatives, postcards and other pictorial items collected by Ursula Griswold Bingham throughout her lifetime. Collection is particularly rich in its documentation of the ancestries of both Ursula and Woodbridge Bingham, and of the couple's various travels...
Snapshots documenting a comprehensive variety of activities and events pertaining to the U.S. Army's 4th Cavalry while they were stationed on Oahu, Hawaii Territory, during the first world war. Subjects include military maneuvers; scenes of various units performing characteristic activities;...
Album of photographs taken by member(s) of U.S. Army Signal Corps during early years of establishment of Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System (WAMCATS). Locations depicted include U.S. Army base in Fort Gibbon near Tanana; St. Michael; Tanana; and Fairbanks...
Includes account ledger (2 p.) for U.S. Marshal E. Stunter, Los Angeles, California, 1855 May 8-June 25.
Rule book in equity, April 12, 1870-May 18, 1911, with copies of correspondence, August 22, 1855.
Four court documents relating to land tenure issues: list of cases of land claims in which no notices of appeal were filed, 1856 Feb. 16 (7 leaves); letter from the U.S. Attorney General's office, 1857 July 13, requesting a list...
Comments on his 40 years service with U.S. Forest Service, primarily in research; role of forestry in the FAO and his experience with FAO mission in Chile; conservation movement; views on schools of forestry, including the University of California; his...
This collection consists of 35 stereographs of the U.S. Geographical Survey Expedition West of the 100th Meridian of 1872, photographed by William Bell. Includes views from the Utah Series, the Colorado River Series, and the Geological Series. The locations photographed...
This collection from the U.S. Geographical Survey Expedition of 1873 consists of 44 stereographs, photographed by Timothy H. O'Sullivan. Includes views from the Arizona Series, the New Mexico Series, the Colorado River Series, the Geological Series, the Indian Series, and...
Scenes of Mancos Canyon Site, including ancient ruins, and other views in Colorado, with 5 group portraits of members of the survey party.
Collection includes portraits of named individuals of the Bannock, Comanche, Dakota, Hunkpapa, Oglala and Pawnee tribes. Also includes B. Bayhylle, interpreter, and B. Hamilton, guide.
Various images of natural and geological features, chiefly in the Yellowstone region. Also includes one view captioned: Hydraulic mining, Virginia City, M.T.
Photos of various sites in Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico taken during U.S Geological Surveys west of the 100th meridian. Includes views along the Colorado River; the Grand Canyon; Apache Lake; various sites in the Sierra Blanca Range; several views...
Three handwritten receipts for assay and return of gold dust to Patrick Kelly and F.S. Rogers, of Coloma, Calif.
Views, apparently by the same photographer, depict a Navy blimp on the ground at an air field and the Masonic Building and Oakland Tribune building viewed from across Lake Merritt.
Diaries and notes, in Russian, kept by a clerk for the North Western Trading Company in Sitka, Alaska, recording local events, particularly church affairs.
Lowell, Currier pioneer families in Arizona; working in father's mines during Depression years; Arizona School of Mines, 1945-1949; mine engineer for ASARCO, 1949-1951; geologist, AEC, 1951-1954; a year at Stanford University; exploration geologist, Ranwick, Southwest Ventures, Utah Construction, 1955-1959; independent...
Photograph album documenting journey of battleship U.S.S. Oregon from San Francisco to Port Angeles, Puget Sound, during the First World War, while under the command of A.H. Woodbine.
Album of snapshot and commercial views chiefly taken during the United States invasion and occupation of Veracruz, Mexico in 1914 during the Mexican Revolution. Views depict U.S. Navy soldiers assigned to the Vermont during training exercises, miscellaneous activities aboard the...
Biographical sketches of pioneers prepared by the Historical Records Survey and Federal Writers' Projects in Utah. Copies of original manuscripts in private hands and information obtained by interviews included. Partially duplicated on film from the Library of Congress. A few...
Minutes of organizational meetings; articles of association and by-laws; and minutes of regular and directors' meetings. Part of the volume has been used for records of the Salt Lake City Mining Institute, October 5, 1883-March 27, 1884 (16 p.). In...
Pioneer personal histories obtained by interviewers of the Historical Records Survey, Utah Work Projects Administration; mostly typewritten; answers to Questionnaire 314.
Pioneer personal histories obtained by interviewers of the Historical Records Survey, Utah Work Projects Administration; answers to Questionnaire 314 (Revised), 1937.
Copies of the histories of 38 settlements, compiled chiefly by the bishops, supplied by the Church Historian's Office.