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CERGRO blue book : key price book
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Jordan & Brother, wholesale grocers, No. 121, North Third Street, Philadelphia
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Peter Frederick Hummel letter to "Dear Wife & Children,"
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In this 3-page letter, Hummel describes his overland journey to California from Illnois. He talks about arriving in Fort Laramie and describes in detail the bad weather he encountered, the deaths of mules, cattle and horses along the way, and the physical landscape of the desert and the Sierra Nevadas. He also talks about his life in Sacramento, the gold he has found at Sutter's Mill and the difficulty of gold mining. Hummel gives prices for items and suggests that his wife and children come to California to be with him and states that they "could get rich in 2 years time." The letters is on letterhead from "J. M. Hummel Wholesale and Retail" in Sandwich, Illinois.
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Correspondence to H. H. Sinclair
Manuscripts
Correspondents include: Arnold, Joseph A. (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture); Bogaardis, J.C. (William R. Staats Co.); Booge, J.H. (First National Bank, Pasadena); Bradley, Lucy N.; Brown, Frank L. (Palmer Oil Company); Brown Walker Simmons Company; Bumgarner, J.A. (Mr. & Mrs.); Chase, Harry L. (Brown Walker Simmons Company); Cook, Harold S. (United Mines Company); Dicey, E.C.; Doan, A.C. (Transfer Agent, Great Western Power Company, New York, NY); Duke, Minnie [?] Woodward; Ellis, George B.; Freeman, Lewis R. ; Freeman, M. (aide of Robert C. Gillis) ; French, M.H. (general contractor); Gregg, Wellington, Jr. (Crocker National Bank); Hilborn, Lewis A. (Palmer Oil Company); Hobron, Thomas W. ; Johnson, Milbank (United Mines Company); Kelsey, (N.E.?) (L.H. Freymuth, Co.); Martin, T.C. (National Electric Light Assn.); McCrillis, John (clerk, Superior Court of New Hampshire, Sullivan County); Midway Royal Petroleum Company; Montgomery, Charles C. (attorney); Mulligan, Edward H. (Southern California Edison Company) ; Naphtaly, S.L.; Newberry, J.R. (Newberry's Wholesale & Retail Grocers) ; Norberg, C.F. (G. Lawrence Stimson Co.); Penna, W.E. (Union Engineering Co.); Ralphs, W.D. (Ralphs Plumbing and Electric Co.) ; Robbins, Edward F. ; Schaefer, Leo (United Mines Company); Spence, Jay (Cashier, Los Angeles Trust & Savings Bank) ; Staats, William R. (William R. Staats Co.); Stimson, G. Lawrence (G. Lawrence Stimson Co., builders, real estate, fire insurance); Stimson, George W. (G. Lawrence Stimson Co., builders); Stratton, H.C. (Palmer Oil Company, secretary); Tomkins, F.M. (Western Power Company, New York, NY); Union Home Telephone & Telegraph Corp. and Walker, George L. (Brown Walker Simmons Company).
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