California history : scrapbook and miscellaneous pamphlets, 1857-1955.

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California history : scrapbook and miscellaneous pamphlets, 1857-1955.

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The scrapbook consists primarily of clippings about Santa Clara County history, as well as Monterey, Stanford, and Yosemite. There are also two poems by John E. Richards (pp. 123 & 146). In addition there is a typescript of the proceedings of the Superior Court of the City & County of San Francisco, Hon. James M. Troutt, Judge, in the matter of the estate of James G. Fair, deceased, 1899; two newspapers: The Sonoma Democrat, 22 Oct. 1857, and the San Francisco Chronicle, 13 May 1903 (the latter about the visit of President Roosevelt to San Francisco); and pamphlets including: Henry Evans. Curious lore of San Francisco's Chinatown. San Francisco : The Porpoise Bookshop, 1955; Riding and Driving School, 701 7th Ave., San Francisco : brochure, nd.; and the Supplement to the San Francisco telephone directory, 12 May 1906 (issued after the 1906 earthquake).

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Evans, Henry Herman, 1918-1990

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Henry Evans was born in Superior, Wisconsin in 1918. He came to San Francisco and opened the Porpoise Bookshop in 1944. Evans subsequently acquired an 1852 Washington hand press on which he printed books and pamphlets. In 1958 he began printing linoleum block botanical prints on the same press, for which he gained worldwide renown. Evans passed away in 1990. From the description of Henry Evans memorabilia, 1962-1971. (California State Library). WorldCat record id: 224492374 ...

Duffy, Philip George,

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Riding and Driving School.

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Richards, John Edward, 1952-

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Kept by two wealthy men, an uncle and his nephew, John Richards who lived near Forty Hill and Enfield, Middlesex Co., [now London] Eng. The uncle died in 1729. From the description of Account book, 1717-1729. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). WorldCat record id: 19931817 John Richards was a lecturer in mechanical engineering at Stanford University, 1895-96. From the description of Works administration: lectures before the student of the Leland Stanford Junior U...

Fair, James Graham, 1831-1894

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