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George Horatio Derby Collection, 1847-1933

Title: George Horatio Derby Collection 1847-1933

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Derby, George Horatio, 1823-1861. Report of the expedition to the river Colorado made in the U.S. Schooner "Invincible", Capt. A.H. Wilcox, from November [1850] to March 1851 : by order of Maj. Genl. P.F. Smith, comdg. Pacific Division, 1851 Mar. 31.

Title: Report of the expedition to the river Colorado made in the U.S. Schooner "Invincible", Capt. A.H. Wilcox, from November [1850] to March 1851 : by order of Maj. Genl. P.F. Smith, comdg. Pacific Division, 1851 Mar. 31.

A copy of the original manuscript report, in the author's own hand, of Lt. George H. Derby's exploration of the lower Colorado River, done from November 1850 to March 1851. The expedition was prompted by the United States' acquisition of the area at the conclusion of the Mexican War. The text is substantially the same as in the printed version of the report, published in 1852 as Senate Executive Document no. 81, though there are a few minor changes. Manuscript includes thirteen illustrations, only four of which appeared in the published version. Includes Derby's map of the mouth of the Colorado River.

ArchivalResource: 52 p.

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Bulliet, C. J. (Clarence Joseph), 1883-1952. C. J.Bulliet papers, 1899-1952.

Title: C. J.Bulliet papers, 1899-1952.

Correspondence, manuscripts, press releases, notes, notebooks, photographs, scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed material concerning the theatrical career of Robert Bruce Mantell.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft. ( 17 boxes)

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Dolley, Frank S. Collection of Frank S. Dolley, 1862-1957.

Title: Collection of Frank S. Dolley, 1862-1957.

This collection consists of research materials collected by Dr. Frank Dolley for his study of the lower Colorado River, especially related to steam navigation. Included are two manuscripts written by Dr. Dolley. The first is a history of navigation on the lower Colorado River that includes a brief discussion of Spanish explorations of the Delta region but emphasizes the region's nineteenth-century history, with particular attention paid to steamboat design and pilots. Included in this manuscript are discussions of the Chemehuevi, Cocopah, and Yuma Indians, the Colorado Steam Navigation Company, Captains George H. Derby and William H. Hardy, J.C. Ives, and A. H. Wilcox. The second manuscript is an edited version of Ellen M. Robinson's letters, most between Ellen at Port Isabel on the Colorado Delta and her family in Maryland. These letters depict the experiences of a young woman moving across the country in 1869 with David Robinson, a husband she barely knew, as she tried to narrate the journey and describe her new home to her family. Among the notable experiences she relayed in her letters was a visit to the unfinished Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, a parade in San Francisco featuring General William T. Sherman, and a visit to Woodward's Gardens while staying in that city. The correspondence section includes Ellen Robinson's letters from the 1870s and Frank Dolley's correspondence with Ellen's daughter Margaret Robinson in the 1950s. Also included in the collection are copies of Ellen Robinson's letters, made by Dr. Dolley, photographs, and other ephemera. Three of Dr. Dolley's research notebooks are included, covering numerous subjects related to the lower Colorado River region and the Colorado Delta, with particular focus on the river's steamboat activity. These notebooks have been divided for preservation and ease of use, but remain in the order in which they were found, which is loosely alphabetical by subject. There is repetition from one notebook to the other, though each also includes unique material. Most of these notes represent Dr. Dolley's research in published sources, including periodicals, narrative accounts, and regional histories, but also includes correspondence with Percy Carter Linss, a descendent of Colorado River ferry operator and landowner Hall Hanlon.

ArchivalResource: 150 items.

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Selected items from the Hitchcock-Coit papers

Title: Selected items from the Hitchcock-Coit papers

Material relating to George Horatio Derby and Stephen Massett. Included are: two letters, with typescripts, undated and 1851, to Hitchcock from Derby and a typescript of a letter, 1855 to his wife, Martha Taliaferro Hunter Hitchcock from Derby, an obituary clipping on Derby, and a scrapbook containing a manuscript fragment and clippings of Derby's writings under the pen name "John Phoenix"; and a letter, 1871, from Massett (aka Jeems Pipes of Pipesville) to the Hitchcocks enclosing sketches and a manuscript "All About Pipesville," a clipping on Massett, a sketch, and two of his calling cards.

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Derby, George Horation, 1823-1861. George H. Derby collection, 1931-1969.

Title: George H. Derby collection, 1931-1969.

Photostat copies (1931) of topographical survey reports by Lt. George Derby, of the U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers, for exploratory trips to Tulare Valley, Calif. (Apr. 10-June 8, 1850), the Colorado River (Oct. 12, 1850-Mar. 6, 1851), and the San Diego River (reported Mar. 30, 1853). The first two trips include copies of the reports as printed in the Congressional Record. The Colorado River trip report includes printed maps. Also includes a newspaper clipping (Oct. 1969) featuring a humorous anecdote about Derby.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (0.1 linear ft.)

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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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Derby, George Horatio, 1823-1861. Letter to an unidentified recipient [manuscript] : Medfield, Massachusetts, 1847 August 2.

Title: Letter to an unidentified recipient [manuscript] : Medfield, Massachusetts, 1847 August 2.

Derby discusses his trip to Saratoga, his planned return to Mexico, and a meeting with a Mr. Schouler in New York City. A letter, 1933 July 23, from George R. Stewart, Jr. to a Dr. Pleadwell discusses the first letter [1 item].

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

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Derby, George. Correspondence to Franklin Baldwin Wiley, 1926.

Title: Correspondence to Franklin Baldwin Wiley, 1926.

Request from managing editor, George Derby for Wiley's biographical information.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf)

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Derby, George Horatio, 1823-1861. George Horatio Derby Reports [manuscript], 1855-1856.

Title: George Horatio Derby Reports [manuscript], 1855-1856.

Photostatic copies of reports by George Horatio Derby, Lieutenant, U.S. Corps of Topographical Engineers, to Harman Bache concerning survey of a military road from Astoria to Salem, including letters from Bache transmitting the reports to John J. Abert, Chief Topographical Engineer, Washington, D.C.

ArchivalResource: 0.04 cubic feet (3 folders)

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Derby, George Horatio, 1823-1861. Letters to John James Abert [facsimiles], 1850-1859.

Title: Letters to John James Abert [facsimiles], 1850-1859.

Set of facsimile letters written from George Horatio Derby to Colonel J.J. Abert, mainly regarding work on the San Diego River levee. Derby writes of his activities at Monterey, his appointment to San Diego, his various expenses, his "long and tedious passage" from New York to San Diego, the results of his levee building survey for the San Diego River, the difficulties of acquiring funding for the project, his troubles trying to carry equipment on horseback, the completion of work on the San Diego River, Abert's unhappiness with modifications made by Derby to original levee plans ("I believe I am the only officer on this coast whose official drafts have ever been dishonored" writes Derby of the incident), his appointment as Aide-de-Camp of General Wool, and his work in the Cascades (Washington state). Derby also writes of being delayed on his travels by the birth of his child aboard a ship and his request to "improve in my profession...by examining the fortifications of Europe" with the hope of achieving the rank of Captain. Also includes a letter to Secretary of War Jefferson Davis in which Derby asks to be sent east to be near his ailing mother, a list of equipment lost in the Punta River, and various plans and estimates relating to the San Diego River.

ArchivalResource: 34 pieces.

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Derby, George Horation, 1823-1861. George H. Derby collection, 1931-1969.

Title: George H. Derby collection, 1931-1969.

Photostat copies (1931) of topographical survey reports by Lt. George Derby, of the U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers, for exploratory trips to Tulare Valley, Calif. (Apr. 10-June 8, 1850), the Colorado River (Oct. 12, 1850-Mar. 6, 1851), and the San Diego River (reported Mar. 30, 1853). The first two trips include copies of the reports as printed in the Congressional Record. The Colorado River trip report includes printed maps. Also includes a newspaper clipping (Oct. 1969) featuring a humorous anecdote about Derby.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (0.1 linear ft.)

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Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780-1866. Geological reports.

Title: Geological reports. 1835-[1850].

ArchivalResource: 4 items in 1 v. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 23 cm.

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Monterey Public Library. California History Room. Authors clippings : California Literary Centennial, 1950 folder 1840-1912.

Title: Authors clippings : California Literary Centennial, 1950 folder 1840-1912.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

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Derby, George Horatio, 1823-1861. Quit-claim deed for beach lots at La Playa, San Diego, California, 1853, December 10.

Title: Quit-claim deed for beach lots at La Playa, San Diego, California, 1853, December 10.

Quit-claim deed in which George Horatio Derby, U.S. Army, sells to Charles M. Hitchcock, Surgeon of San Francisco, beach lots in La Playa, San Diego, for $10,000.00. Printed form, filled in. Signed by George H. Derby.

ArchivalResource: 1 manuscript, 2 pages.

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James T. White & Company. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1899-1949.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1899-1949.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from the editors at James T. White, publishers.

ArchivalResource: 11 items (16 leaves).

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Hubbard family. Genealogical records, 1850-1957.

Title: Genealogical records, 1850-1957.

Genealogical records of the Hubbard family. Also includes genealogical records, 1730-1830, of the McChesney family; letter, 1928 of Joseph B. Hubbard to George Derby, Editor of National Cyclopedia of American Biography; and printed Message of Governor Hubbard, to both branches of the Legislature of the State of Maine, 1850.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

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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)

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Derby, George Horatio, 1823-1861. Map of the town of Kearney, situated on Bear River, Cal. : long. 121 W, lat. 39°02 N / surveyed and drawn under direction of Lieut. Derby, T. Engrs., Oct. 1849.

Title: Map of the town of Kearney, situated on Bear River, Cal. : long. 121 W, lat. 39°02 N / surveyed and drawn under direction of Lieut. Derby, T. Engrs., Oct. 1849. 1849.

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. map ; on sheet 58 x 38 cm.

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Derby, George. Letter and photograph, 1929.

Title: Letter and photograph, 1929.

Letter, written by Derby, a New Hampshire veteran, to "my dear brother Bokelmann" discussing the use of balloons during the Battle of Santiago (Cuba).

ArchivalResource: Papers 0.1 linear ft. (1 folder) and.Photographs 0.1 linear ft. (1 folder)

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Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Western authors material from the Huntington Library : ms.

Title: Western authors material from the Huntington Library : ms.

Manuscripts, typescripts, music score, illustrations, printed material concerning Jack London, George Sterling, Joaquin Miller, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Helen Hunt Jackson, John Muir, Ina Coolbrith, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Warren Stoddard, Edwin Markham, Stewart Edward White, Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Edward Robeson Taylor, George Horatio Derby, Frank Norris, and Charles F. Lummis.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder in 1 portfolio.

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Derby, George Horatio, 1823-1861. Letter, 1842 March 15, West Point [to] William S. Robinson, Lowell, Mass.

Title: Letter, 1842 March 15, West Point [to] William S. Robinson, Lowell, Mass.

Humorist. Letter, talking of mutual friends and how Derby is getting along at the Academy.

ArchivalResource: 4 p. ; 25 cm.

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Derby, George Horatio, 1823-1861. George Horatio Derby papers, 1846-1870.

Title: George Horatio Derby papers, 1846-1870.

Original manuscripts (mainly from the T.W. Norris Collection) and photocopies (from the National Archives), 1846-1859, assembled by Francis P. Farquhar and others. Contains letters and reports as U.S. topographical engineer, including report and map of a visit to the mines with General Bennet Riley, 1849; and a report on wagon roads and watering places between San Diego and Fort Yuma, April 1855. With these: letter to Dr. and Mrs. Charles M. Hitchcock from Derby and members of his family, 1857-1870; humorous articles published in the San Diego Herald, 1852-1854; some original manuscripots and drawings; and notes by Farquhar, Winifred Davidson, and George R. Stewart respecting Derby's Phoenixiana, his pen-name, John P. Squibob, etc.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 1 box (.5 linear ft.).Copy of "Report of a Reconnaisance of a part of the vallies of the Sacramento and San Joaquin, Cal. in the months of July & August 1849 (1 folder) : 1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 3337, 48 frames) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214932498 View

Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material

Title: Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material

ArchivalResource: 2371 items: oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, lithographs, engravings, etchings, lettersheets, clipper cards, ephemera, objects, etc.; 2271 digital objects

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Warner, William Horace. Military reserve selected by virtue of instructions dated March 29th, 1848 by Capt. J.L. Folsom / Surveyed by Lieut. W.H. Warner, U.S. Topogl. Engineers ; a true copy [by] Geo. H. Derby.

Title: Military reserve selected by virtue of instructions dated March 29th, 1848 by Capt. J.L. Folsom / Surveyed by Lieut. W.H. Warner, U.S. Topogl. Engineers ; a true copy [by] Geo. H. Derby. [19--]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. map ; on sheet 28 x 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21821620 View

James T. White & Company. Correspondence with Henry Charles Lea, 1890-1904.

Title: Correspondence with Henry Charles Lea, 1890-1904.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (3 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63556074 View