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Essays and photographs concerning the origin of the flag of the California Republic, 1946-1951.

Title: Essays and photographs concerning the origin of the flag of the California Republic, 1946-1951.

Two versions of an essay, "The Origin of the Bear Flag," written by Henry Fowler Mallett, typescript; an essay by an unidentified author, "More Light on the Original Bear Flag," typescript; a drawing and a photograph of versions of the Bear Flag; and three photographs and a negative of reproductions of versions of the Flag. The essays concern the identity of the original flag raised at Sonoma in 1846, comparing evidence for origins of flags made by Peter George Storm, William Todd, and John Berrien Montgomery. One version of Mallett's essay, dated Jun 14, 1946, is briefly annotated by A. H. Greenly. The second version, dated Feb. 1, 1949, is also briefly annotated, apparently by Greenly, and is inscribed by Roy B. Gudmundson to Greenly, Jul 31, 1951. Accompanied by photocopies of documents concerning the disposition of the original flag.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80908705 View

Montgomery, John Berrien, b. 1794. John B. Montgomery letter : [Yerba Buena, Calif.?], to William A. Leidesdorff, Yerba Buena, Calif. : ALS (photocopy), [184-?].

Title: John B. Montgomery letter : [Yerba Buena, Calif.?], to William A. Leidesdorff, Yerba Buena, Calif. : ALS (photocopy), [184-?].

Montgomery discusses firing a 21 gun salute from his ship, Portsmouth, in Yerba Buena, and the reading of a proclamation of Commander Sloat.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55691302 View

Montgomery, John Berrien, b. 1794. John Berrien Montgomery papers 1869-1873.

Title: John Berrien Montgomery papers 1869-1873.

The papers concern the attempt to secure title to lots granted to John B. Montgomery and his sons in San Francisco in 1846.

ArchivalResource: 73 p. (in 1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702128373 View

California. District Court (12th District). California, District Court (12th District) documents, 1854-1857.

Title: California, District Court (12th District) documents, 1854-1857.

Includes summons to John Davis; affidavit and order in case of Stafford vs. Lick; and interrogatories and testimony of Washington A. Bartlett in the case of John B. Montgomery vs. S.S. Burt, with Bartlett's correspondence with Montgomery, 1854-1855, and letter from Andrew J. Grayson.

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26276542 View

Samuel Lockwood papers, 1822-1885

Title: Samuel Lockwood papers 1822-1885

Correspondence, letterbooks, orders, journals, commissions, log extracts, mess receipts, handbook of naval rules and regulations, and other papers of Commodore Samuel Lockwood of the U.S. Navy. The papers relate principally to Lockwood's service in the War with Mexico, his command of the sloop in the Pacific Squadron, 1858-1860, and his command of the steamer Daylight as part of the Union blockade of the Confederate coast. Correspondents include Matthew C. Perry, Isaac Toucey, Gideon Welles, and John Percival. Cyane

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot (2 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0726 View

Montgomery, John Berrien, b. 1794. John Berrian Montgomery papers, 1844-1848.

Title: John Berrian Montgomery papers, 1844-1848.

Copies of letters sent, october 4, 1844 - November 21, 1848, as commander, USS. Portsmouth, preparatory to sailing, en route, and from various stations on the California and Mexican coasts. A few notes and memoranda encluded. Some drafts in his own handwriting. Reel 1: Oct. 4, 1844 - Sept. 15, 1846; Reel 2: Sept. 16, 1846 - Dec. 7, 1846; Reel 3: Jan. 14, 1847 - Dec. 4, 1847; Reel 4: Feb. 14, 1845 - Nov. 21, 1848. Records prints of selected items from correspondecce.

ArchivalResource: Part I : 1 microfilm reel : negative and positive.Part II : 1 vol.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214984466 View

Portsmouth (Sloop-of-war). Logbooks of the Portsmouth, 1844-1847.

Title: Logbooks of the Portsmouth, 1844-1847.

Official logbooks of the U.S. sloop of war Portsmouth, 1844 Nov. 19 - 1847 Dec. 31. Also logbook kept aboard the Portsmouth, 1845 May 12 - 1846 Oct. 5, presumably by Midshipman Stanwix Gansevoort.

ArchivalResource: 5 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214990328 View

Lockwood, Samuel, 1803-1893. Samuel Lockwood papers, 1822-1885 (inclusive).

Title: Samuel Lockwood papers, 1822-1885 (inclusive).

Correspondence, letterbooks, orders, journals, commissions, log extracts, mess receipts, handbook of naval rules and regulations, and other papers of Commodore Samuel Lockwood of the U.S. Navy. The papers relate principally to Lockwood's service in the War with Mexico, his command of the sloop Cyane in the Pacific Squadron, 1858-1860, and his command of the steamer Daylight as part of the Union blockade of the Confederate coast. Correspondents include Matthew C. Perry, Isaac Toucey, Gideon Welles, and John Percival.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702168217 View

United States. Navy Dept. Telegram : ms. : Washington, D.C., to J.B. Montgomery, 1865 Apr. 15.

Title: Telegram : ms. : Washington, D.C., to J.B. Montgomery, 1865 Apr. 15.

Telegram from Secretary Gideon Welles ordering the commandant of the Washington Navy Yard to make preparations for detaining John Wilkes Booth if he is captured.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122580991 View

Fort Sutter collection, 1845-1862.

Title: Fort Sutter collection, 1845-1862.

The collection contains letters, documents and 3 maps, in English and Spanish, mounted in 39 bound volumes. An additional volume contains a printed introduction to the collection. Subjects covered in the collection include: Edward M. Kern and his activities at Fort Sutter, chiefly between 1846-47; the Bear Flag Revolt and subsequent military actions; Indian insurrections; the establishment of mail service in California; relief of the Donner Party; and Kern's attachment to the 3rd and 4th Frémont Exploring Expeditions. One of the volumes contains engravings of drawings by Edward and his brother, Richard Kern, made during the Simpson and Sitgreaves Expeditions in the region of the Zuni, Little Colorado, Colorado, and Gila Rivers in 1849-53.

ArchivalResource: 161 pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122499613 View

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1865-1891

Title: Correspondence, 1865-1891

This record unit consists of outgoing correspondence from the Office of the Secretary during the tenures of Joseph, Henry, 1846-1878; Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1878-1887; and Samuel Pierpoint Langley, 1887-1906.

ArchivalResource: 46.06 cu. ft. (62 document boxes) (68 3x5 boxes) (243 microfilm reels)

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_216647 View

Essays and photographs concerning the origin of the flag of the California Republic, 1946-1951.

Title: Essays and photographs concerning the origin of the flag of the California Republic, 1946-1951.

Two versions of an essay, "The Origin of the Bear Flag," written by Henry Fowler Mallett, typescript; an essay by an unidentified author, "More Light on the Original Bear Flag," typescript; a drawing and a photograph of versions of the Bear Flag; and three photographs and a negative of reproductions of versions of the Flag. The essays concern the identity of the original flag raised at Sonoma in 1846, comparing evidence for origins of flags made by Peter George Storm, William Todd, and John Berrien Montgomery. One version of Mallett's essay, dated Jun 14, 1946, is briefly annotated by A. H. Greenly. The second version, dated Feb. 1, 1949, is also briefly annotated, apparently by Greenly, and is inscribed by Roy B. Gudmundson to Greenly, Jul 31, 1951. Accompanied by photocopies of documents concerning the disposition of the original flag.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702161059 View

Leidesdorff, William A. (William Alexander), 1810-1848. William A. Leidesdorff papers, 1843-1848.

Title: William A. Leidesdorff papers, 1843-1848.

Includes receipts, accounts, and financial correspondence from George Hyde, John B. Montgomery, John A. Sutter, John C. Fremont, and others.

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio (20 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34883833 View

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1863-1879

Title: SIA RU000026, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Correspondence, 1863-1879

This series consists mostly of correspondence addressed to Joseph Henry, much of which received his personal attention; also included are some copies of Henry letters, occasional returned original Henry letters, and a considerable number of letters to Spencer Fullerton Baird.

ArchivalResource: 59.56 cubic feet

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_216640 View

Montgomery, John Berrien, 1794-1873. Letter : U.S.S. Portsmouth, Yerba Buena, Calif., to Edward Meyer Kern, Fort Sacramento, Calif., 1846 Aug 6.

Title: Letter : U.S.S. Portsmouth, Yerba Buena, Calif., to Edward Meyer Kern, Fort Sacramento, Calif., 1846 Aug 6.

ALS regarding occupation of California during the Mexican War. Montgomery briefly discusses communications sent to Kern at Fort Sacramento, parole of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, and operations of Joseph W. Revere at Sonoma. The letter is bound with a typed transcript.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 25 cm., bound in v., 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78915132 View

Devens, Edward F., ca. 1833-1885. Papers, 1862-1866.

Title: Papers, 1862-1866.

Letter copybooks and journal produced by Devens as commander of several U.S. Navy vessels participating in the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 4 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70948134 View

Parker, Foxhall Alexander, 1821-1879. Autograph telegram signed : St. Inigoes, Md., to Comm. Montgomery at the Washington Navy Yard, 1864 Jun. 15.

Title: Autograph telegram signed : St. Inigoes, Md., to Comm. Montgomery at the Washington Navy Yard, 1864 Jun. 15.

Telling him that Acting Ensign J.A. Merrill has been dismissed as a traitor and is not to be permitted to enter the Yard.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270612354 View

Leidesdorff, William A. (William Alexander), 1810-1848. Papers of William A. Leidesdorff, 1840-1867.

Title: Papers of William A. Leidesdorff, 1840-1867.

The collection consists of letters, mostly received by Leidesdorff in the 1840s, concerning coastal trade and life in the mercantile business in San Francisco. There are also materials related to the Bear Flag revolt (1846) and the American occupation and establishment of American government in California.

ArchivalResource: 502 pieces.6 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122593650 View

Montgomery, John Berrien, b. 1794. Letter : U.S.S. Portsmouth, Yerba Buena, Calif., to Edward Meyer Kern, Fort Sacramento, Calif., 1846 Aug 6.

Title: Letter : U.S.S. Portsmouth, Yerba Buena, Calif., to Edward Meyer Kern, Fort Sacramento, Calif., 1846 Aug 6.

ALS regarding occupation of California during the Mexican War. Montgomery briefly discusses communications sent to Kern at Fort Sacramento, parole of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, and operations of Joseph W. Revere at Sonoma. The letter is bound with a typed transcript.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 25 cm., bound in v., 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702148709 View

Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890. Letters, 1846.

Title: Letters, 1846.

A letter to Quartermaster Snyder, dated Monterey, California, Nov. 5, 1846 requests he retain two mules for the wagon. A letter to Captain John B. Montgomery, dated Yerba Buena, California, Nov. 4, 1846 instructs him to pay W. H. Davis the value of 15,000 percussion caps.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702129397 View