Robert Ernest Cowan Collection of early California manuscripts, 1551-1932.

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Robert Ernest Cowan Collection of early California manuscripts, 1551-1932.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41269651

Collection consists of early California manuscripts collected by Robert Ernest Cowan. Researchers on 19th century California may be especially drawn to the collection's extensive legal documents, property records, San Francisco materials, and documents relating to Spanish-Mexican California. The collection is comprised of materials mainly written in English, with a fair amount of documents written in Spanish and a few items written in Chinese and French. A few of the more interesting items in this collection are two manuscripts from 16th century Mexico, a deposition written in Chinese that was submitted as an exhibit in a U.S. District Court case, account ledgers showing mercantile transactions involving Spanish-Mexican families, requests for reimbursements stemming from the Mexican-American War, and property transactions involving women.

1 oversized box.

eng,

spa,

chi,

fre,

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7435463

University of California, Los Angeles

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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...

Ackerman, Fremont.

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Ackerman graduated from Ohio State Univ. in 1883; worked as an engineer for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in MT; moved to Los Angeles, CA, and established his own business as a civil engineer and surveyor in the Southern California area. From the description of Papers, 1890-1945. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 38988886 ...