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Californian and Western manuscripts collection, ca. 1760-1963.

Title: Californian and Western manuscripts collection, ca. 1760-1963.

Small collections and miscellaneous single items pertaining to various periods, persons, and phases of California history (1760-1963). Includes letters, journals, diaries, reports, financial and legal documents, pictures and maps, some typescripts and photostats. General subject matter includes description and travel, politics, economics, social issues, biographical information, exploration, mining, and the military. Specific subject areas covered include the British Consulate in San Francisco, the California election of 1884, Spanish in California, and individuals such as Franklin Hichborn, W. C. Jones, Juan B. Alvarado, and Alfred Wheeler.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122595071 View

Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason), 1820-1902. Autobiography and Reminiscence of James Mason Hutchings, San Francisco, 1901.

Title: Autobiography and Reminiscence of James Mason Hutchings, San Francisco, 1901.

Autobiographies and Reminiscences of California Pioneers, p.5-11, Vol. 2. This is a typed transcript of the member's autobiographical reminiscence created as an institutional record for the Society of California Pioneers. The transcription includes a reference to a photograph of the member in a set of bound volumes. This reminiscence begins with some background information regarding Hutchings' childhood in England. It then describes his motivation for moving to New Orleans and his passion for adventure, which inspired his overland journey to California. The reminiscence provides details concerning Hutchings life as a miner as well as his early business pursuits. It also describes how he came to write the famous "Miners Ten Commandments", a letter sheet of which more than 97 thousand copies were sold. Some mention is made of Hutchings' conflict with the U.S. Government over his right to settle in land that became part of Yosemite National Park. The years covered by this reminiscence are roughly 1840 to 1880.

ArchivalResource: [7] p. ; 35 x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55979173 View

Howard, William J.,. Letters to William J. Howard, 1854-1879.

Title: Letters to William J. Howard, 1854-1879.

The seven letters, which are all addressed to William J. Howard, are written by Patrick Edward Connor, William Proctor Hughey, James Mason Hutchings, and John Ricketson. The letters by Patrick Edward Connor, who was also a California Ranger, discuss Harry Love and the act that was passed May 13, 1854 giving Captain Love his reward money for killing Murieta. William Hughey's letter (1879, June 16) discusses Denis Kearney, the Workingmen's Party of California, and the state constitutional convention of 1878. James Mason Hutchings' three letters (1879) are about tourism in the Yosemite Valley, the Yosemite commission, and the state constitution. John Ricketson's letter (1879, Feb. 27) discusses land in Sonora, Mexico.

ArchivalResource: 7 letters.

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Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason), 1820-1902. Papers of J. M. Hutchings, 1848-1855.

Title: Papers of J. M. Hutchings, 1848-1855.

Diaries describing a journey from Liverpool to New York on the ship Gertrude (1848), an overland trip to California from New Orleans via the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers (1849), and travels within California from Hutchings' home at Placerville (1855), including information on Indians, ranches, schools, newspapers, mining camps, and religious and political conditions. Also includes some receipts and letters.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.1 container.1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71068865 View

Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason), 1820-1902. James M. Hutchings scrapbook [microform], [185-?]

Title: James M. Hutchings scrapbook [microform], [185-?]

Hutchings personal scrapbook consists of 156 pages (some blank). Pasted down are numerous newspaper articles written by him, some with his hand-written annotations. Topics include gold mining and descriptions of Yosemite Valley and many Californian towns. Also included are approximately thirty-eight original California lettersheets published by Hutchings and others. These include several of Hutchings' "California Scenes," mining scenes, and other California views.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel : negative (Box 2673) and positive ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83686309 View

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916. Stereographs of Yosemite Valley and Hutchings' Hotel [graphic] / by Carleton E. Watkins.

Title: Stereographs of Yosemite Valley and Hutchings' Hotel [graphic] / by Carleton E. Watkins. 186-.

Includes In Camp Grove (an unidentified outing group: 2 copies), Hutchings, Hutchings Hotel, Royal Arches, and Lake View (with small boat in foreground and a seated man fishing.)

ArchivalResource: 6 photographic prints : stereograph, albumen ; 9 x 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80751392 View

Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937. Robert Underwood Johnson papers, 1889-1924.

Title: Robert Underwood Johnson papers, 1889-1924.

Chiefly concerning conservation of the Yosemite area, including campaign, 1913, against Hetch Hetchy reservoir. Material relating to Sequoia, General Grant and other national parks and to forest reserves included. A few printed items: reports, circulars, copies of laws, etc., with the papers. Includes 146 letters of John Muir and letters from General and Mrs. John Bidwell, Mr. and Mrs. James Mason Hutchings, Charles D. Robinson, George G. Mackenzie, Edward T. Parsons, William E. Colby, Charles Howard Shinn, and other Californians, and John W. Noble, Gifford Pinchot, Oliver Wolcott Gibbs, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Theodore Roosevelt. George Bird Grinnell and others prominent on the national scene.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (1245 folders) + 1 portfolio (O.S.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26760293 View

Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason), 1820-1902. James M. Hutchings overland diary of 1849 from New Orleans to Carson River, and 49er guide.

Title: James M. Hutchings overland diary of 1849 from New Orleans to Carson River, and 49er guide.

ArchivalResource: Partial microfilm reel : (35 exposures) : negative (Rich. 539:14) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/215450930 View

Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason), 1820-1902. Diaries, 1848-1855.

Title: Diaries, 1848-1855.

Photocopies of microfilm copies of handwritten diaries. Hutchings writes about his migration to California in 1849 and about his activities there. On his overland journey, he stopped at Salt Lake City, Utah. He also visited many towns in northern California in 1855 and gave desriptions of them. The towns included Sacramento, San Jose, and San Francisco. Apparently, he was doing research for some of his books. He also mentions meeting with a publisher in San Francisco to discuss one of his projects.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (ca. 300 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51599503 View

Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason), 1820-1902. J.M. Hutchings diaries, 1848-1855.

Title: J.M. Hutchings diaries, 1848-1855.

1848-1849 diary records voyage from Liverpool, England to New York, and his subsequent overland journey to California from New Orleans, describing encounters with Indians and concluding with a list of names of those whose graves he found along the way (p. 205-353). [cf. C-F 24]. 1855 diary describes travels in the mining regions of California, and in the Rogue River area of Oregon, mentioning available accommodations and anecdotes pertaining to the sites, and relating his experiences with Indians and Chinese. Includes "list of views" sent from Shasta to Placerville, Dec. 25, 1855, and names of towns in California in 1855 (p. 1-204). Also included: copies of three letters, 1849-1851, concerning conditions in the mines, mainly around Placerville (p. 354-361).

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.8 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26151156 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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Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason), 1820-1902. J.M. Hutchings diary : ms., 1841-1850.

Title: J.M. Hutchings diary : ms., 1841-1850.

Written in The Gentleman's Pocket Book Almanack 1841, Penny & Son, London. Record of journey from Salt Lake City to California and experiences in the mining region near Pleasant Valley, "Weaverville" and "Hangtown" in El Dorado Co. (Sept. 6, 1849-Jan. 26, 1850) With list of those who died enroute. Scattered memoranda (1841-1848).

ArchivalResource: Originals : 30 p. ; 13 cm.Copies : 1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 486:2) and positive.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/215451933 View

Eaton, N. A. A. Letter : Wolf Creek, Sierra Co., Cal[if.], to Lute [Eaton], 1855 Dec. 2.

Title: Letter : Wolf Creek, Sierra Co., Cal[if.], to Lute [Eaton], 1855 Dec. 2.

Dec. 2, 1855, letter from gold seeker N.A.A. Eaton on Wolf Creek in Sierra County, California, to his brother, Lute, probably in New Hampshire or Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 sheet folded to 4 p.) ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34463789 View

Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason), 1820-1902. James Mason Hutchings diary : photocopy, 1848-1855.

Title: James Mason Hutchings diary : photocopy, 1848-1855.

Concerns Hutchings journey from Liverpool to New York and on to Calif. On his overland journey, he stopped at Salt Lake City, Utah. He also visited many towns in northern Calif. doing research for some of his books, including Sacramento, San Francisco and San Jose.

ArchivalResource: 361 p. ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52015112 View

Weed, Charles L. Photographs of the Middle Fork of the American River and Forest Hill, the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Trees, Coloma and Placerville [graphic].

Title: Photographs of the Middle Fork of the American River and Forest Hill, the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Trees, Coloma and Placerville [graphic]. Oct. 1858-July 1859.

This collection, formerly housed in the Arthur S. Rosenblatt scrapbook, consists of 26 views of mining districts in California's gold country, 17 views of Yosemite, and 5 views of trees in sequoia groves or other forests. To these have been added 3 later copy photographs; 1 of a mining scene and 2 of Yosemite. The mining district views are chiefly from the Middle Fork of the American River, with several of Forest Hill in Placer County. These were made by Weed in October 1858 while employed by Robert H. Vance, and they were collectively promoted as Vance's "American River panorama" (cf. Palmquist, Pioneer photographers of the far west, 2000.) The views taken near Coloma and Placerville may be from different photographic trips. The Yosemite views are considered the first photographs taken in Yosemite Valley and environs. They were taken between June 18 and June 22, 1859, on an excursion described by J.M. Hutchings in his Hutchings California magazine (Oct.-Dec. 1859). At the time of creation, they were known as the "Yosemite Panorama".

ArchivalResource: 3 mounted l. on 2 l. (typescript letters), 1 mounted color drawing, 3 copy photographs, and 48 photographic prints : salted paper prints ; mounts 41 x 51 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82307976 View

The Society of California Pioneers collection of autobiographies and reminiscences of early pioneers, 1900-1904

Title: The Society of California Pioneers collection of autobiographies and reminiscences of early pioneers 1900-1904

The Autobiographies and Reminiscences are made up of 153 documents varying in length from one page to over sixty pages, the average being around five pages in length. Most include details from the writer's early life, but the bulk of each document tends to be their overland journeys or voyages to the Pacific Coast and California in pre-Gold Rush times and then accounts of their lives after arrival. Many of the writer's - all are men - talk of their families, education, occupations before and after arriving out West, as well as experiences mining, businesses, farming and ranching. Other aspects of their new lives are discussed: law and politics, the military and wars, social events, agriculture, literature and theater, shipping and leisure activities. The time period covered by the accounts is from the 1840s through 1904 - when the project was completed. The geographic location discussed range from all over the United States: New England, New York, the south, the Midwest - especially Missouri - and of course locations along both the overland trails to the West, as well as ports of call in South and Central America. Many accounts are looking back at their lives, and some are accurate and others may or may not be embellished as the writer relates a life some fifty or sixty years earlier.

ArchivalResource: 8 v. (1661 p.); 36 cm. and 63 items (755 leaves); 36 cm. or smaller.; 152 online items

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McCaull, Peter. Peter McCaull letter : Sacramento City, Calif., to brothers, 1858 June 15.

Title: Peter McCaull letter : Sacramento City, Calif., to brothers, 1858 June 15.

Three page handwritten letter from a miner to his brothers, written on pictorial lettersheet, on two different days, June 15 and June 17, 1858. Describes the miner's daily life and experiences as the need for labor is diminishing in the declining days of the Gold Rush including the amounts paid him for laboring ($60 dollars per month), the prospects of a gold find on the Frasers River in Hudson Bay (British possession) that has encouraged other miners to leave California, and his plans to go to Placerville to secure work. The miner also describes ways he sought to save money by rooming with another man where they fixed their own food, and did their own laundry except for his "fine socks" which he gave to "Chinamen to wash, price $3 per doz." "Hutchings' California scenes. --- Methods of mining" (Baird, J.A. California's pictorial letter sheets, 1849-1869, 107; gray laid paper). 12 engraved vignettes of various mining procedures and equipment with explanatory text. A sidebar lists the names of mining localities. Pictorial engravings include miners at work and depictions of equipment including a Guyaskutus, a gold saving machine invented by Joseph Patterson. Four of the scenes are signed by noted California Gold Rush artist Charles Nahl and engraved by T.C. Boyd. At bottom of sheet: "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1855 by James M. Hutchings, in the Clerk's office of the U.S. District Court for California. Address J F Larrabee. San Francisco. Printed by Hanna & Co."

ArchivalResource: 4 p.

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Waddilove, Henry B. Henry B. Waddilove papers, 1859-1864.

Title: Henry B. Waddilove papers, 1859-1864.

A diary, June 12-25, 1859, describes his trip to Yosemite and mentions Rev. Frederick C. Ewer, James M. Hutchings and Charles L. Weed. Papers also include a letter written by him, Mason demit, receipts, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122552027 View

[James Mason Hutchings and others next to fallen giant redwood tree, Calaveras County, Calif.] [graphic].

Title: [James Mason Hutchings and others next to fallen giant redwood tree, Calaveras County, Calif.] [graphic]. 1883.

Photograph depicts James Mason Hutchings posing with unidentified man, women and children next to fallen redwood tree "Old Dominion" in the North Calaveras Grove of giant sequoia trees, Calaveras County, Calif.

ArchivalResource: 1 photographic print on card mount : albumen ; print 19 x 24 cm, mount 20 x 26 cm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/488782547 View

The Chinese in California, 1850-1925

Title: The Chinese in California 1850-1925

The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters, excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other printed matter. These documents describe the experiences of Chinese immigrants in California, including the nature of inter-ethnic tensions. They also document the specific contributions of Chinese immigrants to commerce and business, architecture and art, agriculture and other industries, and cultural and social life in California. Chinatown in San Francisco receives special treatment as the oldest and largest community of Chinese in the United States. Also included is documentation of smaller Chinese communities throughout California, as well as material reflecting on the experiences of individuals. Although necessarily selective, such a large body of materials presents a full spectrum of representation and opinion. The materials in this online compilation are drawn from collections at The Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley; The Ethnic Studies Library, University of California Berkeley; and The California Historical Society, San Francisco.

ArchivalResource: 2710 digital library objects (5349 items)

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