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Wilson, Benjamin Davis, 1811-1878. Collection of Benjamin Davis Wilson, 1836-1941 (bulk 1847-1894).

Title: Collection of Benjamin Davis Wilson, 1836-1941 (bulk 1847-1894).

The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents and maps related to the life and business affairs of Benjamin D. Wilson. Subject matter includes business and social life in California (1850-90), Indian affairs in Southern California (1852-56), the wine industry, the Santa Fe trade, the estate settlement of Solomon Sublette, and the early history of Pasadena, San Marino, and Wilmington, California. There is also a great deal of personal correspondence from Wilson's wife Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson, his daughters Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Ruth Wilson Patton, and Annie Wilson, his son John B. Wilson, Ruth's husband George S. Patton, Sr., and many of Margaret's Hereford relatives. Also included are diaries kept by Margaret, Ruth, and Annie Wilson. Other individuals represented in the collection include Phineas Banning, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Cave Johnson Couts, Stephen Clark Foster, John Charles Fŕemont, John S. Griffin, William McKendree Gwin, Benjamin Hayes, Henry Edwards Huntington, George S. Patton, Jr., and Jonathan Trumbull Warner.

ArchivalResource: 2,394 items.41 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/767525959 View

Wilson, Benjamin Davis, 1811-1878. Some facts about Isaac Graham and John A. Sutter by a pioneer of 1841, ms., 1877 Nov. 30.

Title: Some facts about Isaac Graham and John A. Sutter by a pioneer of 1841, ms., 1877 Nov. 30.

Comments unfavorably on Graham's reputation and Sutter's alleged fraudulent business dealings with a group of Germans in Santa Fe.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 7 leaves ; 31 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 530:1) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26518502 View

Brent, Joseph Lancaster, 1826-1905. Papers of Joseph Lancaster Brent, 1850-1939.

Title: Papers of Joseph Lancaster Brent, 1850-1939.

The collection consists of letters, documents, and manuscripts related to the life and activities of Joseph Lancaster Brent. Subject matter includes Brent's experiences and life in Southern California from 1850-1861; Brent's social and business affairs in California, Louisiana, and Maryland; the Civil War (the Confederate war effort in particular), the capture of the U.S. ironclad, "Indianola," and Brent's military promotions; United States foreign affairs, national defense, and economy.

ArchivalResource: 460 pieces.8 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228721071 View

Downey, John G., 1827-1894. Papers relating to pre-emption claims for land in Los Angeles Co., Calif., 1853-1858.

Title: Papers relating to pre-emption claims for land in Los Angeles Co., Calif., 1853-1858.

Include affidavits and claims by Thomas Burdick, 1853; John G. Downey, 1854; José Joaquín Jimeno and Francisco de Jesús Sánchez for a portion of San Gabriel Mission, recorded by B.D. Wilson, 1857; and John Goller, 1858.

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26150923 View

Wilson, Benjamin Davis, 1811-1878. Observations on early days in California and New Mexico : Lake Vineyard : ms.S, 1877 Dec.

Title: Observations on early days in California and New Mexico : Lake Vineyard : ms.S, 1877 Dec.

Concerning experiences as trapper and trader, mainly out of Santa Fe, 1833-1841; New Mexico affairs; Apache Indians; arrival in California, 1841; land purchase and marriage; expeditions against the Indians; participation in California affairs (pre-conquest, conquest and state). Notes on many fur traders and early California pioneers.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 113 leaves ; 32 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel (117 exposures) : negative (Rich. 395:5) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/215088516 View

Arthur M. Ellis Collection of Photographic Negatives, 1849-1923, bulk 1880s-1890s

Title: Arthur M. Ellis Collection of Photographic Negatives 1849-1923 bulk 1880s-1890s

The collection consists of 1366 photographic prints (mostly copy prints from 8 x 10 inch glass plate and film negatives), 1520 4 x 5 inch and smaller glass negatives, glass positives, film negatives and lantern slides, 203 8 x 10 inch glass plate negatives, and 734 8 x10 inch film negatives depicting Southern California (mainly Los Angeles and nearby communities) and spanning the years ca. 1850 to the 1920s. The collection provides quite a comprehensive picture of the growth and development of Los Angeles at the turn of the twentieth century.

ArchivalResource: 28 linear feet,; 67 boxes

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Los Angeles County Prefecture Records

Title: Los Angeles County Prefecture Records

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Wilson, Benjamin Davis, 1811-1878. Benjamin Davis Wilson papers, 1855-1868.

Title: Benjamin Davis Wilson papers, 1855-1868.

Includes letters from A. Eberhart (his agent in San Francisco), J. De Barth Shorb, Francis P.F. Temple, and his son, John B. Wilson, relating to business matters and his vineyards; accounts; promissory notes; poll tax and internal revenue receipts; and business licenses.

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26650280 View

Shorb, James De Barth. Papers of James De Barth Shorb, 1794-1957 (bulk) 1870-1910.

Title: Papers of James De Barth Shorb, 1794-1957 (bulk) 1870-1910.

The collection, which contains 10,844 items, consists of correspondence, letter books, manuscripts, speeches, diaries, account books, published articles, legal papers, financial statements and business records. The 10,528 pieces of correspondence are chiefly addressed to James De Barth Shorb, James M. Tiernan and Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb. The 17 letter books are related to the business and financial affairs of Shorb and Benjamin Davis Wilson. The 75 manuscripts consist of items chiefly written by Shorb and Wilson family members. The 224 items in the Business Papers include material related to Shorb's many companies including the San Gabriel Wine Company. The following subjects are covered in the Shorb collection: the Shorb, Wilson, and Patton families, David Jacks, Mariano Vallejo, Santa Catalina Island, the Mount Wilson Observatory, California government and politics, African Americans and the Chinese in California, agriculture, the citrus fruit industry, Indians of California, irrigation, lend tenure, mining, railroads, ranching, water rights, and the wine industry. The collection also documents the history and development of the following California cities: Alhambra, Elsinore, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Ramona, San Gabriel, San Marino, and Wilmington. Notable authors include: Pelham Ames, Hubert Bancroft, Phineas Banning, Thomas Robert Bard, Charles F. Crocker, Ignacio Del Valle, Stephen Johnson Field, William McKendree Gwin, George Hearst, Isaias W. Hellman, Charles Webb Howard, O. Shafter Howard, Collis Huntington, Henry Huntington, Helen Hunt Jackson, Abbot Kinney, William Morrow, John Singleton Mosby, Francis G. Newlands, Harris Gray Otis, George Smith Patton, William T. Sherman, J. Campbell Shorb, Southern Pacific Company, Leland Stanford, Adlai Stevenson, George Stoneman, Harriet Strong, James M. Tiernan, Benjamin Truman, Stephen Mallory White, and Benjamin Davis Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 10,844 items.149 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79458017 View

Ehrman, Sidney M. Escritura de venta de una casa a favor de D. Santiago MaKinly [sic], 1836-1844.

Title: Escritura de venta de una casa a favor de D. Santiago MaKinly [sic], 1836-1844.

File of documents (originals and copies) of title search and bill of sale to James McKinlay for a house in Los Angeles. Added, at end, record of sale of the house, Aug. 9, 1848, by McKinlay to Benjamin D. Wilson (1 leaf). Documents signed by Casildo Aguilar, Narciso Botello, Ignacio Coronel, William G. Chard, Juan J. Domínguez, Marcelin Giraudeau, William Gregory, José Vicente Guerrero, Manuel Gutiérrez, J.J. Guarner, José María Herrera, Francisco de P. Johnson, James McKinlay, Samuel Prentice, Hugo Reid, Manuel Requena, John Rhea, Abel Stearns, Francis Temple, John Temple, Basilio Valdéz, and William Wolfskill.

ArchivalResource: [13] p. in 1 portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122502401 View

Patton Family Property Papers, 1909-1938

Title: Patton Family Property Papers, 1909-1938

This collection contains papers having to do with land plots in the Wilmington area of Los Angeles, California owned by sisters Maria Jesus De Shorb, Annie Wilson, and Ruth Patton. Included in the collection are declaration of trust papers, deeds and title papers, tax reports, receipts, statements, court papers, and correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 1 box; [.25 linear ft]

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Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1856-1927. Patton family papers, 1856-1934.

Title: Patton family papers, 1856-1934.

The collection consists of personal and business correspondence, political papers, account books, legal documents, and land papers related to the Patton family, and is particularly focused on the activities of George Smith Patton (1856-1927). Topics covered include railroads, Patton's senate campaign, irrigation, land sales, and the development of the San Marino area. Notable businesses represented in the collection include the Wilmington Transportation Company, Porter Brothers Co., San Gabriel Wine Company, Alhambra Addition Water Company, the Lindsay Water Development Company, Garvey Water Company, Huntington Land and Improvement Company, Banning Company, Pasadena Electric Light and Water Company, and the Santa Catalina Island Company. Notable individuals represented in the collection include Ruth Wilson, Annie Wilson, Anne Wilson Patton, James DeBarth Shorb, George Hugh Smith, Collis P. Huntington, Henry E. Huntington, Arthur J. Hutchinson, William Banning, William Reeves Banning, James P. Donahue, Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, William Howard Taft, Frank Putnam Flint, Ellen Banning Ayer, Robert W. Patton, Arvin Harrington Brown, and Benjamin Davis Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 356 items.

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Benjamin Davis Wilson Collection, 1836-1941, 1847-1894

Title: Benjamin Davis Wilson Collection 1836-1941 1847-1894

Collected business and personal correspondence relating to southern California landowner Benjamin Davis Wilson and his family. The collection also includes account books, diaries (kept by Wilson's wife Margaret and their daughters Annie and Ruth), and assorted ephemera. The Shorb and Patton families are also heavily represented in the correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 2,394 items

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Wilson, Benjamin Davis, 1811-1878. The Indians of Southern California : Los Angeles, Calif. : ms., 1852.

Title: The Indians of Southern California : Los Angeles, Calif. : ms., 1852.

Copy of letter and report, Dec. 20, 1852, to Edward F. Beale, U.S. Superintendent of Indian Affairs. In the handwriting of Benjamin Ignatius Hayes. Deals with conditions and prospects of the Mohave, Yuma, Tulareño, Cahuilla, Luiseño and Diegueño tribes. Published in the Los Angeles Star beginning Aug. 1, 1868.

ArchivalResource: Original : 66 p. ; 32 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 530:6) and positive (C-E, reel 20)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26337326 View

Wilson, Benjamin Davis, 1811-1878. [Account of frontier life in New Mexico and California between 1833 and 1877] : typescript, [between 1901 and 1920?].

Title: [Account of frontier life in New Mexico and California between 1833 and 1877] : typescript, [between 1901 and 1920?].

Negative photostatic copy of a typed transcription, possibly made between 1901 and 1920, of an account dictated by B.D. Wilson in Dec. 1877 of his life and adventures in New Mexico and California between 1833 and 1877.

ArchivalResource: 67 leaves, bound ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51043349 View

Ellis, Arthur M. (Arthur McDonald), 1875-1932,. Arthur M. Ellis Photographic Negative Collection [graphic], 1849-1923, (bulk 1880s-1890s)

Title: Arthur M. Ellis Photographic Negative Collection [graphic], 1849-1923, (bulk 1880s-1890s)

The collection consists of photographic prints and 4 x 5 inch and smaller glass negatives, glass positives, film negatives and lantern slides depicting Southern California (mainly Los Angeles and nearby communities). The collection provides quite a comprehensive picture of the growth and development of Los Angeles at the turn of the twentieth century. The smaller format items are mostly copy negatives (not originals) taken by Ellis of images in other collections. Ellis copied the photographic holdings of, among others, Bancroft, Behrendt, Tyler, Hill, Ingersoll, Forman, Rowan, Foxley, Guinn, Fryer, A.W. Francisco, McPherson, Charles Prudhomme and William Burton. The collection is particularly strong in images of Central Los Angeles from the 1880s to the 1910s and Los Angeles County beach communities in the 1900s and 1910s. Also of note are images of sites and themes of historic or cultural significance, and portraits. In addition to images of central Los Angeles, the collection includes images of Los Angeles County beach communities, Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley, and Orange, Ventura, San Bernardino and San Diego Counties. The historic and cultural sites include photographs of missions and churches; commercial, municipal and residential buildings, including historic adobes; schools and parks; railroads, emigration, and stagecoach routes; Campo de Cahuenga; Busch Gardens in Pasadena; the Modjeska home in Santa Ana; the Lake Vineyard, Sunnyslope, and the Rowland properties in the San Gabriel Valley; and images of Native Americans and Native American culture. Portraits include those of California pioneers, prominent Angelinos and San Diegans, including J. Lancaster Brent, George Horatio Derby, Hillard Dorsey, the Ellis Family, Judge A.J. King and family, Vicente Lugo, Charles Prudhomme, Truman H. Rose, William Rubottom, Abel Stearns, 1st Worshipful Master of the California Masonic Lodge Levi Stowall, and the Workman family. Some of the 4 x 5 inch and smaller glass negatives and lantern slides depict historic sites of Northern California, including mining camps of the California Gold Rush. There are also miscellaneous images pertaining to themes with no direct relationship to California or the American West, such as Freemasonry and general United States history. The United States history images include copies of Abraham Lincoln portraits and the Lincoln home in Kentucky as well as early American figures including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

ArchivalResource: 1366 photographic prints and 1378 glass plate negatives, glass positives, film negatives and lantern slides in 41 boxes (20.91 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85025815 View

Newmark, J. P. Receipt for Benjamin Davis Wilson, 1855, Oct. 1.

Title: Receipt for Benjamin Davis Wilson, 1855, Oct. 1.

The receipt to B. D. Wilson is for "Sixty two 30/100 Dollars" which was "interest for the month of September on a certain promise note of twenty five hundred dollars." It is signed "J. P. Newmark per Harris Newmark." It is dated 1855, October 1 and was written in Los Angeles.

ArchivalResource: 1 item, 11 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/696173447 View

Granger, Lewis, 1819-1890. Papers of Lewis Granger, 1851-1874.

Title: Papers of Lewis Granger, 1851-1874.

The collection is made up of legal documents, correspondence, business receipts and miscellaneous notes. The legal documents include land deeds and leases for land in El Monte, California, and Los Angles County in general, and judicial records from various lawsuits in which Granger was involved; also included is a copy of an undated legal complaint against Benjamin D. Wilson. The correspondence, of which Lewis Granger and his wife Isabel are addressees, deals with land sales and money owned to the Grangers. A few pieces of the correspondence are personal in nature, but they are chiefly business related.

ArchivalResource: 24 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78684609 View

Patton Family Papers, 1856-1934

Title: Patton Family Papers 1856-1934

The collection consists of personal and business correspondence, political papers, account books, legal documents, and land papers related to the Patton family, and is particularly focused on the activities of George Smith Patton (1856-1927). Topics covered include railroads, Patton’s senate campaign, irrigation, land sales, and the development of the San Marino area.

ArchivalResource: 356 items

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Bradbury, L. L. Documents related to Hastings Ranch and Rancho Santa Anita, California, 1847-1889.

Title: Documents related to Hastings Ranch and Rancho Santa Anita, California, 1847-1889.

The four volumes are entitled: 1. "Hastings Ranch - Chapman Tract;" 2. "Hastings Ranch - Learned Place, U.S. Govt Lands;" 3. "Hastings Ranch - Bailey Tract and U.S. Lands;" and 4. "Hastings Ranch - Learned Place, Sierra Madre Tract." The volumes contain handwritten and printed copies of the following documents: agreements, abstracts of title, land deeds, land grants (patents), legal documents, mortgages, plats, wills, tax documents, survey results, estate records, and inventories of property. The documents cover a 42-year history of Rancho Santa Anita and Hastings Ranch, California. All of the various owners of the property are represented in the volumes including: Hugo Reid, Henry Dalton, Lewis L. Bradbury, Alfred and William Chapman, Albert and Thomas Dibble, William Corbett, Lewis and William Wolfskill, Benjamin Davis Wilson, Leonard J. Rose, Joseph A. Rowe, and Charles Cook Hastings. More specifically there are several documents dealing with the estates of Hugo and Victoria Reid, the Chapmans, the Wolfskills and Charles Cook Hastings. There are also documents involving the Southern Pacific Railroad Company of California. Volume 4 includes one letter about a survey of the land.

ArchivalResource: 4 bound volumes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/769770003 View