California. Department of Parks and Recreation. Adherble T.D. Button Collection, San Juan Bautista State Historic Park, 1848-1905 (bulk 1880-1886).

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California. Department of Parks and Recreation. Adherble T.D. Button Collection, San Juan Bautista State Historic Park, 1848-1905 (bulk 1880-1886).

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The Adherble T. D. Button Collection consists of correspondence both to and from A.T.D. Button, and illuminates a particular period of history in San Benito County that has long since disappeared, the mining of quicksilver in support of the gold mining operations of the Sierras in the great decades of the Gold Rush in California, 1849-1879.

3.75 cubic ft.; (7 boxes)

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Button, Adherble Thomas Dale, 1832 - 1904.

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