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San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Geographical index to Hubert Howe Bancroft's History of California : (7 vols., San Francisco, 1886-91)
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents and maps related to the life and business affairs of Benjamin D. Wilson. Subject matter includes business and social life in California (1850-90), Indian affairs in Southern California (1852-56), the wine industry, the Santa Fe trade, the estate settlement of Solomon Sublette, and the early history of Pasadena, San Marino, and Wilmington, California. There is also a great deal of personal correspondence from Wilson's wife Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson, his daughters Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Ruth Wilson Patton, and Annie Wilson, his son John B. Wilson, Ruth's husband George S. Patton, Sr., and many of Margaret's Hereford relatives. Also included are diaries kept by Margaret, Ruth, and Annie Wilson. Other individuals represented in the collection include Phineas Banning, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Cave Johnson Couts, Stephen Clark Foster, John Charles Fŕemont, John S. Griffin, William McKendree Gwin, Benjamin Hayes, Henry Edwards Huntington, George S. Patton, Jr., and Jonathan Trumbull Warner.
WN 1154.
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Numerous advertisements printed in red on the face of the map. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Numerous advertisements.
353215
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E178 .A95 Index
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Marriage licenses for San Francisco CA for 1850 to 1858 as published in the Daily Alta California Newspaper, the Sacramento Daily Bee, the San Francisco Evening Bulletin, Wide West, and divorce lists, to replace civil records which were destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire. Many residents re-entered their marriage records after the tragedy.
F869.S353 A22 1992 Index
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Manuscripts
The collection includes literary manuscripts of most of London's works, extensive correspondence files, documents, photographs, ephemera, and scrapbooks.
JLE 87
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F869.S22 S6 Index