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History of the title of the San Francisco Homestead Union : to a tract of land in the city and county of San Francisco: being a portion of the Pioneer Race Course tract, distributed to the shareholders April 30th, 1862, and February 15th, 1864. From abstract of title prepared by Boyd & Morrison, December, 1861, and March and July, 1862, and other sources, February 1st, 1864
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Address delivered before Washington Council No. 1, Union League of America. : Thursday Evening, February 18th, 1864, in San Francisco
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Title Insurance and Trust Company (1893-1968) to First National Bank of San Francisco
Manuscripts
The collection, which contains 10,844 items, consists of correspondence, letter books, manuscripts, speeches, diaries, account books, published articles, legal papers, financial statements and business records. The 10,528 pieces of correspondence are chiefly addressed to James De Barth Shorb, James M. Tiernan and Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb. The 17 letter books are related to the business and financial affairs of Shorb and Benjamin Davis Wilson. The 75 manuscripts consist of items chiefly written by Shorb and Wilson family members. The 224 items in the Business Papers include material related to Shorb's many companies including the San Gabriel Wine Company. The following subjects are covered in the Shorb collection: the Shorb, Wilson, and Patton families, David Jacks, Mariano Vallejo, Santa Catalina Island, the Mount Wilson Observatory, California government and politics, African Americans and the Chinese in California, agriculture, the citrus fruit industry, Indians of California, irrigation, lend tenure, mining, railroads, ranching, water rights, and the wine industry. The collection also documents the history and development of the following California cities: Alhambra, Elsinore, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Ramona, San Gabriel, San Marino, and Wilmington.
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