Joseph Libby Folsom papers, 1846-1855.

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Joseph Libby Folsom papers, 1846-1855.

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Letters and accounts relating to duties as quartermaster and customs collector in San Francisco and to business affairs. Report of discovery of gold in California. A few papers concerning property in San Francisco. Some data pertaining to the Folsom estate.

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Folsom, Joseph Libby, 1817-1855.

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Norris, Thomas W. (Thomas Wayne)

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United States. Quartermaster's Dept.

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Cowan, Robert Ernest, 1862-1942

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Robert Ernest Cowan was born in 1862 in Toronto, Canada; came to San Francisco in 1870; student at UC Berkeley 1882-84; San Francisco bookseller from 1895-1920 and author of bibliographies of history of California and the Pacific Coast; librarian for William Andrews Clark, Jr., 1919-33; moved to Los Angeles at Clark's request in 1926; Cowan's collection of books and manuscripts form the nucleus of the UCLA Dept. of Special Collections' holdings in Californiana; married Marie Margaret Fleissner i...

United States. Custom House, San Francisco.

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