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Colby, William Edward, 1875-1964. Letters concerning Hetch Hetchy, 1908-1910.

Title: Letters concerning Hetch Hetchy, 1908-1910.

Consists chiefly of letters to William Colby regarding his work as secretary of the Sierra Club, mostly concerning actions to prevent the flooding of the Hetch Hetchy Valley by the city of San Francisco. Includes some letters addressed to other individuals, most notably John Muir.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.2 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48928813 View

Farquhar, Francis Peloubet, 1887-1974. Francis P. Farquhar collection of material relating to Clarence King.

Title: Francis P. Farquhar collection of material relating to Clarence King.

Letters of King to J.T. Fields, W.H. Brewer, and J.T. Gardiner and reports of the 40th Parallel Exploration; material concerning the Century Association memorial and the republication of The Helmet of Mambrino and poems, The Three Lakes. Copies of letters from J.T. Gardiner to his mother and portions of reports. Correspondence concerning King biography. Draft of letter from W.H. Brewer concerning ascent and naming of Mt. Tyndall included. Miscellaneous photographs and maps with the papers.

ArchivalResource: Partial microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 532:15) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/215381618 View

D'Heureuse, R. (Rudolph). Photographic views of the Mojave route, El Dorado Canyon and Fort Mojave [graphic].

Title: Photographic views of the Mojave route, El Dorado Canyon and Fort Mojave [graphic]. 1863.

Primarily views of Mojave Desert, Fort Mojave and El Dorado Canyon landscapes, scenery, vegetation, surveyors, camps, and Indians.

ArchivalResource: 44 photographic prints :$balbumen ;$cvarious sizes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43699949 View

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

Farquhar, Francis Peloubet, 1887-1974. Francis P. Farquhar Sierra Club papers, 1901-1954.

Title: Francis P. Farquhar Sierra Club papers, 1901-1954.

Papers relating to Farquhar's involvement in the Sierra Club.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.4 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122575581 View

King, Clarence, 1842-1901. Arizona and Fort Mojave photographs [graphic]

Title: Arizona and Fort Mojave photographs [graphic] 1866.

Photographs of Arizona desert country made during the U.S. military exploration for roads under General McDowell, Clarence King, and James T. Gardiner. Includes views of Fort Mojave (Arizona), Mojave Indians, surveyors' camps, scenery of the Granite Moutains, the town of Prescott, and other Arizona locations.

ArchivalResource: 26 photographic prints : albumen ; various sizes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81171599 View

A Collection of offprints, periodical issues, and ephemera from the Francis P. Farquhar collection, ca. 1850-1950.

Title: A Collection of offprints, periodical issues, and ephemera from the Francis P. Farquhar collection, ca. 1850-1950.

Collection consists of a group of miscellaneous publications, brochures, flyers, announcements, and ephemera, as well as materials relating to the American Alpine Club.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40477618 View

Farquhar, Francis Peloubet, 1887-1974. Francis P. Farquhar papers, 1862-1952.

Title: Francis P. Farquhar papers, 1862-1952.

Correspondence, reports, and other papers related to Francis P. Farquhar's role as member and then chairman of the Historic Landmarks Approval Committee of the California State Chamber of Commerce, Agriculture and Industry, 1932-1952. Includes lists of registered landmarks and rejected applications for registration of landmarks of the 1940s. Includes a diary (1862-1864) of Francis P. Farquhar's father, David Webber Farquhar, kept on his sea voyages from Boston to San Francisco via Panama, and back again. Diary is accompanied by a notebook, presumably belonging to Francis Farquhar, containing biographical notes, a typed transcript of the diary, and ephemera.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122441539 View

Read, Georgia Willis. Papers of Georgia Willis Read, 1849-1951 (bulk 1932-1951)

Title: Papers of Georgia Willis Read, 1849-1951 (bulk 1932-1951)

The research material includes the material that Read and Gaines collected for their publication of the Bruff journal. The majority of it is arranged alphabetically by topic. This series is made up mostly of research notes by Read and Gaines. The research material also includes copies of the book's acknowledgement, bibliography, introduction, and index as well as Read and Gaines' correspondence with Columbia University Press. There are a few folders of material organized by type: miscellaneous notes (4 folders) and research notebooks (7 items, one of which is in oversize). Correspondence by Read and Gaines are mostly their retained, unsigned, copies. The correspondence is chiefly letters written between them and research libraries or other scholars to obtain information for or to obtain permission to publish material in their book. Notable participants are: Herbert Eugene Bolton, Frederick Coykendall, Edward Eberstadt, Francis Farquhar, Max Farrand, Frederick Webb Hodge, C. Hart Merriam, Herbert Priestley, the Bancroft Library, California Historical Society, California State Library, Henry E. Huntington Library, Library of Congress, United States National Archives, the Newberry Library, Smithsonian Institution, Southwest Museum and Yale University Library. The ephemera contains scholarly publications, clippings, maps, index cards, an oversize sheet with copies of several of Bruff's sketches, and several photostats. The photostats include 19th century newspapers (including two Native American publications: Cherokee advocate and Vinita leader), maps (including all four parts of the "Map of the Emigrant Road from Independence, Mo. To S. Francisco" by T. H. Jefferson), and Bruff's journal. Many of the photostats are rolled. Subjects covered by the collection are: Hubert Howe Bancroft, Joseph Goldsborough Bruff, Bruff's journey, camp, sketches and journal, Edwin Bryant, Alonzo Delano, John Charles Frémont, Peter Lassen, John Muir, Fort Hall (Idaho), frontier and pioneer life in early California, Indians in North America, overland journeys to the Pacific, the California Trail, the Lassen cutoff and National Park, and California history including the Gold Rush.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 4,000 items.15 boxes and three oversize folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/694518498 View

Marston, Otis R., 1894-. Running the Colorado River : oral history transcript / Otis Reed Marston ; tape recorded interview conducted by Francis P. Farguhar in 1965. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1965.

Title: Running the Colorado River : oral history transcript / Otis Reed Marston ; tape recorded interview conducted by Francis P. Farguhar in 1965. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1965.

Comments on the beginning of his interest in running rivers in 1942; difficulties in running the Colorado through the Grand Canyon; John W. Powell's trip and other early explorations of the Canyon. Biographical material and bibliography of Marston's writings included.

ArchivalResource: [3], 26 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26644160 View

Bucknall, Mary Davis, b. 1845. Mary Davis Bucknall papers, [ca. 1856-1924].

Title: Mary Davis Bucknall papers, [ca. 1856-1924].

Primarily letters written to her father while she was in school. A few letters from Edward R. Taylor (1895) also included, and some accounts, photographs, and clippings.

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26631739 View

Miscellaneous mammoth plate photographs by Carleton E. Watkins, 1859-circa 1890

Title: Miscellaneous mammoth plate photographs by Carleton E. Watkins 1859-circa 1890

A miscellaneous grouping of mammoth plate photographic prints by or attributed to Carleton E. Watkins. Chiefly California landscape views.

ArchivalResource: 16 photographic prints : albumen; 10 digital objects (16 images)

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Clinch, Nicholas B. A tribute paid to Francis P. Farquhar, 1887-1974, at the memorial service held in Tilden Park, Berkeley, California : typescript, 1974 Dec. 8 / Nicholas B. Clinch.

Title: A tribute paid to Francis P. Farquhar, 1887-1974, at the memorial service held in Tilden Park, Berkeley, California : typescript, 1974 Dec. 8 / Nicholas B. Clinch.

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54712142 View

Elston, John Arthur, 1874-1921. John Arthur Elston papers, 1918-1921.

Title: John Arthur Elston papers, 1918-1921.

Correspondence re proposed legislation to enlarge Sequoia National Park. Include letters from the following: Horace M. Albright, Scott Ferris, California Civic League, William W. Hastings, Stephen T. Mather (U.S. National Park Service), James D. Phelan, Sierra Club (William F. Badè), U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Forest Service, and Harry A. Wishard; and copies of congressional bills, with related maps and reports.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.25 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122576192 View

Grabhorn Press. Grabhorn Press records, 1917-1973.

Title: Grabhorn Press records, 1917-1973.

Contains correspondence, job, and project files including manuscripts, illustrations, and galleys, with various incomplete segments and trial pieces. The Grabhorns' correspondence with authors, artists, and other printers relates chiefly to the work of the Press, but also includes two letters written by Edwin in 1918-1919, while he was still in Indianapolis. Also includes extensive business and financial records, with a few miscellaneous papers, including awards and clippings the Grabhorn's kept about the press.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes, 6 cartons, 3 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folder (11 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82842847 View

Blake, Gorham. Letter to Louisa : Unionville, Nevada Territory : ALS, 1862 June 21.

Title: Letter to Louisa : Unionville, Nevada Territory : ALS, 1862 June 21.

Description of his travels in Nevada and comments on mining potential.

ArchivalResource: 8 p. ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26196617 View

Mammoth plate photographs of Yosemite Valley, between 1861 and 1881

Title: Mammoth plate photographs of Yosemite Valley between 1861 and 1881

Yosemite views, with one image of the Columbia River, Oregon.

ArchivalResource: 27 photographic prints : albumen ; images 40 x 54 cm. or smaller, mounts 48 x 61 cm.; 13 digital objects

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf82900695 View