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Pacific Improvement Company. Pacific Improvement Company records, 1901-1966.

Title: Pacific Improvement Company records, 1901-1966.

Contains business records of the Pacific Improvement Company and its subsidiaries. Includes business and legal documents, correspondence, reports, minutes, deeds, annual reports, maps, and blurprints. Contains materials related to the Monterey Peninsula and its development. Business areas covered include land development, coal and iron mining, railroads, and hotels.

ArchivalResource: 78 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/462018798 View

Pacific Improvement Company. Records, 1869-1931 (bulk 1883-1927).

Title: Records, 1869-1931 (bulk 1883-1927).

Contains business records of the Pacific Improvement Company and its subsidiaries. Includes business and legal documents, correspondence, reports, minutes, deeds, annual reports, maps, and blueprints. Contains materials related to the development of the Monterey Peninsula and to the general business areas of land development, coal and iron mining, railroads, and hotels.

ArchivalResource: 180 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122540868 View

Peter Palmquist cased photographs collection., circa 1844-1899

Title: Peter Palmquist cased photographs collection. circa 1844-1899

This collection consists of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and collodion processes primarily mounted in contemporary decorative cases, collected by Peter Palmquist to document photographers, photographic processes and presentation techniques in the United States, especially in California, and in Great Britain, ca. 1844-1899.

ArchivalResource: Total: 410 Items

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.palmcase View

Lewis, Oscar, 1893-1992. Men against mountains / by Oscar Lewis.

Title: Men against mountains / by Oscar Lewis. 1938.

ArchivalResource: 557-584, 703-730, 351-376, 119-142 : ill. ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123093006 View

Small Nevada Collections, 1868-1882

Title: Small Nevada Collections, 1868-1882

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http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf9489p2zc View

Crocker, Charles, 1822-1888. Facts obtained from the lips of Charles Crocker, regarding his identification with the Central Pacific Railroad, and other roads growing of it : dictation and related material assembled in preparing his biography for H.H. Bancroft's Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth ..., 1865-1890.

Title: Facts obtained from the lips of Charles Crocker, regarding his identification with the Central Pacific Railroad, and other roads growing of it : dictation and related material assembled in preparing his biography for H.H. Bancroft's Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth ..., 1865-1890.

Contents: copies of Crocker's statement; Mrs. Crocker's letter of thanks for the original; recollections of G.B.V. DeLamater concerning overland journey (1850) with Crocker; Rev. J.A. Benton's draft of his eulogy of Crocker (portion on verso of a letter from Ira P. Rankin); copies of letters (1865) from L.L. Robinson and A.A. Sargent concerning T.D. Judah and the railroad; dictation from L.M. Clement; notes by Frances F. Victor; drafts of biography by Alfred Bates and others; notes from Bancroft, G.H. Morrison and other History Company staff; copy of tribute by "A Sacramento Pioneer" and newspaper articles concerning Mr. and Mrs. Crocker.

ArchivalResource: Originals : 19 folders in box.Copies : partial microfilm reel (404 exposures) : negative (Rich. 98:3) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/215455594 View

Sligo iron forge account book; Kephart, McElrath family papers, 1845-ca. 1919; bulk 1845-1880.

Title: Sligo iron forge account book; Kephart, McElrath family papers, 1845-ca. 1919; bulk 1845-1880.

The collection contains a ledger for Charles Crocker's iron forge at Sligo, Indiana, circa 1845-circa 1847. The entries are arranged by customer name. The volume also includes pencilled annotations, poems, and musings likely written by several generations of women from the McElrath, Kephart, and related families. The entries date from the 1840s to circa 1880, and include single statements, poems, and confessionals concerning unrequated love.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders, 1 bound v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48625511 View

Sligo iron forge account book; Kephart, McElrath family papers 1845-ca. 1919, bulk 1845-ca. 1880.

Title: Sligo iron forge account book; Kephart, McElrath family papers 1845-ca. 1919, bulk 1845-ca. 1880.

The collection contains an account book believed to be kept for Charles Crocker by Elizabeth Kephart of Sligo, Marshall County, Indiana. The account book is arranged by customer name. The volume also contains annotations, poems, letters and musings written in pencil between ledger entries. Several generations of women of the McElrath, Kephart, Rinehart, and Hoover families may have been responsible for the annotations. The entries mainly concern romantic love. A china plate commemorating the driving of the last spike in the Union Pacific Railroad is included in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder and 1 bound volume.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48472764 View

Leland and Jane L. Stanford documents, 1880-1905

Title: Leland and Jane L. Stanford documents 1880-1905

Collection consists of a printed portrait of Leland Stanford; two Central Pacific Railroad deeds signed by Stanford, 1880 and 1886, and one CPR deed signed by Charles Crocker, 1884; and an article on the death of Jane Stanford from the San Francisco Chronicle, March2 5, 1905.

ArchivalResource: 5 Items

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Unidentified San Francisco Bay Area family photograph album [graphic], circa 1878-1929.

Title: Unidentified San Francisco Bay Area family photograph album [graphic], circa 1878-1929.

73 black and white photographs in 1 album, ca. 1878-1929, of members of an unidentified family in the San Francisco Bay Area. Subjects include: Sheep and cattle ranching; Goose hunting; a flood; steamships and sailboats; the Pacific coast; Woodville, Oregon; Berkeley California; The Chutes at Idora Park in Oakland, California; The Cliff House in San Francisco; Buildings in Nob Hill, San Francisco including the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art and the Charles Crocker residence; a 33 year old horse.

ArchivalResource: .29 cubic feet (1 album)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779943706 View

Crocker, Charles, 1822-1888. Correspondence of Charles Crocker 1881-1883.

Title: Correspondence of Charles Crocker 1881-1883.

The collection contains letters from Charles Crocker to Collis Huntington and Huntington's secretary Isaac Gates written between August 1881 and December 1883. The letters were dictated by Crocker to private secretaries in San Francisco and sent to Huntington in New York City. The items sent to Isaac Gates are of adminstrative in nature. Most of the items sent to Huntington are business-related, including Crocker and Huntington's interests in the Southern Pacific Railroad, the Central Pacific Railroad, the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company, and other railroads and mines scattered through the Southwest, Oregon, and Mexico. The letters have been arranged chronologically.

ArchivalResource: 675 pieces.3 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228770294 View

Crocker, Charles, 1822-1888. Letter, May 5th 1872, Venice [Italy] / C. Crocker.

Title: Letter, May 5th 1872, Venice [Italy] / C. Crocker. May 5th 1872.

ArchivalResource: [8] p. on 2 folded leaves ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/291090338 View

Crocker, Charles, 1822-1888. Letter to John W. Dwinelle : San Francisco : ALS, 1879 Oct. 17.

Title: Letter to John W. Dwinelle : San Francisco : ALS, 1879 Oct. 17.

Concerning the meaning of the word Tahoe.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf. 19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25572360 View

Maclay, Charles, 1822-1890. Papers of Charles Maclay, 1841-1922.

Title: Papers of Charles Maclay, 1841-1922.

The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Charles Maclay. Subject matter includes the development of the town of San Fernando, California politics in the 1860s and 1870s, Methodism in both Pennsylvania and California, and the Southern and Central Pacific Railroads.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 850 pieces.9 boxes.30 volumes.1 large folder.1 envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228718398 View

Collis Potter Huntington Papers, 1797-1904

Title: Collis Potter Huntington Papers 1797-1904

Papers of the American railroad magnate and capitalist, whose financial interests included steamship, manufacturing, construction, and land companies. Philanthropist, trustee of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and supporter of Tuskegee Institute. Collection includes incoming correspondence (1856-1904); letterpress copybooks (1868-1901); legal and financial (including real estate) records (1797-1901); amd personal papers (1862-1901). Notable among the real estate records are documents relating to the furnishing and household expenses of Huntington's San Francisco residence, and records relating to the design, construction, decoration, furnishing, and maintenance of Huntington's palatial home on 57th St. in New York City.

ArchivalResource: 120 linear ft.

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/h/huntington_cp.htm View

Jervis, John B. (John Bloomfield), 1795-1885. Papers, 1820-1884 [microform].

Title: Papers, 1820-1884 [microform].

The papers include family and business correspondence, maps, plans, engineering diagrams, reports on labor and construction costs and other materials bearing on Jervis' engineering commissions. The papers are an excellent source for the early evolution of railroad, canal and hydraulic technology in the United States and for the formative years of the American civil engineering profession.

ArchivalResource: 13 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86123462 View

Sligo Iron Forge account book; Kephart, McElrath family papers, 1845-ca. 1919, bulk 1845-ca. 1880.

Title: Sligo Iron Forge account book; Kephart, McElrath family papers, 1845-ca. 1919, bulk 1845-ca. 1880.

The collection contains an account book believed to be kept for Charles Crocker by Elizabeth Kephart of Sligo, Marshall County, Indiana. The account book is arranged by customer name. The volume also contains annotations, poems, letters, and musings written in pencil between ledger entries. Several generations of women from the McElrath, Kephart, Rinehart, and Hoover families may be been responsible for the annotations. The entries mainly concern romantic love. A china plate commemorating the driving of the last spike in the Union Pacific Railroad is included in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder and 1 bound v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48409776 View

Residence of Charles Crocker [graphic] : N.W. corner California and Taylor Streets, San Francisco, Calif.

Title: Residence of Charles Crocker [graphic] : N.W. corner California and Taylor Streets, San Francisco, Calif. [188-?]

ArchivalResource: 1 printing plate : flexible plastic ; 11.5 x 15.5.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43771191 View

California. Superior Court (Sonoma County). Case 905 : Ellen M. Colton vs. Leland Stanford, C.P. Huntington, Charles Crocker and Wells, Fargo & Co., 1883-1885.

Title: Case 905 : Ellen M. Colton vs. Leland Stanford, C.P. Huntington, Charles Crocker and Wells, Fargo & Co., 1883-1885.

With a copy of the action in the San Francisco Court and final disposition of the case, 1882-1891.

ArchivalResource: 3 microfilm reels (1242 exposures) : negative (Rich. 83:11-13) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/215444766 View

Madden, Jerome. Jerome Madden papers, 1875-1902.

Title: Jerome Madden papers, 1875-1902.

Papers consist of certificates of appointment as Southern Pacific Railroad Company land agent from 1875 and resolutions of the board of directors; three letters from Charles Crocker; miscellaneous clippings and personalia.

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26119086 View

"The Real West: Empire Builders" [videorecording], 1993

Title: "The Real West: Empire Builders" [videorecording] 1993

This episode, produced by Brian Coughlin, of the series "The Real West" tells the history of Collis P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins (the Big Four) and the development of the railroads in the West. It also mentions the lives of Jane Stanford and Leland Stanford Jr., the history of Stanford University, Eadweard Muybridge, and the development of motion pictures.

ArchivalResource: 1 videotape (VHS)

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0k4034tf View

Reynard, Michael,. Leland and Jane L. Stanford documents, 1880-1905.

Title: Leland and Jane L. Stanford documents, 1880-1905.

Collection consists of a printed portrait of Leland Stanford; two Central Pacific Railroad deeds signed by Stanford, 1880 and 1886, and one CPR deed signed by Charles Crocker, 1884; and an article on the death of Jane Stanford from the San Francisco Chronicle, March2 5, 1905.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/464997505 View

Banning Company. Records of the Banning Company, 1859-1948.

Title: Records of the Banning Company, 1859-1948.

The collection consists of legal papers, correspondence, letter books, ledgers, and account books related chiefly to the Banning Company, Wilmington harbor, Wilmington property, and Santa Catalina Island. There are also papers of the various subsidiary firms of the Banning Company, as well as Banning family letters, and receipts of William and Hancock Banning. Subject matter in the collection includes: land in Southern California (Wilmington, San Pedro, Pasadena, Compton, Newport Beach, and Los Angeles), Santa Catalina Island, Railroads (Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, and the California Pacific), Inter-urban lines (Los Angeles Inter-urban and the Pacific Electric), Los Angeles harbor, the petroleum industry, the city of Yuma, Arizona, and Fort Yuma, California. Persons represented in the collection include: Adelaida Banning, Anne Ophelia Banning, Hancock Banning (1865-1925), Hancock Banning (b. 1892), Joseph Brent Banning, Phineas Banning, William Banning, William L. Banning, Thomas Robert Bard, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Charles Frederick Crocker, F.S. Douty, T.H. Goodman, Winfield Scott Hancock, Eldridge Edwards Hewitt, J.W. Horter, William Gates LeDuc, Hayden McLellan, George Smith Patton (1856-1927), Albert Alexander Polhamus, George Hugh Smith, and Walter Vail. There are also materials in the collection related to the following businesses and organizations: the Central Pacific Railroad Company, Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill and Lumber Company, Los Angeles and Independece Railroad Company, Los Angeles Trust Company, Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and the Mayor and Common Council of the city of Yuma, Arizona.

ArchivalResource: 12,104 pieces.33 boxes.203 volumes.1 rolled map.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122499691 View

Crocker, Charles, 1822-1888. Charles Crocker deed, 1868.

Title: Charles Crocker deed, 1868.

Deed between Charles Crocker of Sacramento and W.T.C. Elliott of Reno, Nev. conveying town lots in latter city (May 5, 1868).

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34919034 View

Monterey Public Library. California History Room. Biography clippings : "C" [surname] folder 1872-1989.

Title: Biography clippings : "C" [surname] folder 1872-1989.

ArchivalResource: 6 folders.

https://www.montereylibrary.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=88798 View