Rare Books
Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines : during 1848, 1849, and 1850
Image not available
You might also be interested in
Image not available
Recollections of a visit to the United States and British provinces of North America, in the years 1847, 1848, and 1849
Rare Books
224801
Image not available
Hong Kong to Manilla and the lakes of Luzon, in the Philippine Isles, in the year 1856
Rare Books
635660
Image not available
1849-1850
Manuscripts
The collection contains 62 letters by 26 different authors including Milton B. Stevens, C. K. Dixon and Byron Whitcomb. The letters mention various mining camps throughout Northern California, such as Fosters Bar, Galena Hill, Murderers Bar, Pilot Hill, Salmon Falls, Weber Creek, and the Klamath River Valley Mines, as well as several California cities including Benicia, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, and Stockton. The letters illustrate several aspects of the Gold Rush experience: the journey to California through Panama and Rio de Janeiro; life in California and the gold camps; women in California; gold discoveries or the lack thereof; the techniques and equipment used in mining; loneliness and longing for home. The letters from Milton B. Stevens' mother, from Shushan, tell of the experience of the miners' families back at home in the East. Eighteen of the letters have handwritten or typed transcripts.
mssHM 59471-59532
Image not available
Philippine Islands : physical economic political / John Bach & Hugo Miller, Manilla 1937
Rare Books
Ten submaps of specific products and physical information. Submaps: Population; Minerals and Metals; Soil Cover; Climate; Sugar cane; rice; abaca; coconut palm; tobacco; corn. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: color. Graphic Scale: Miles, kilometers. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.
278274