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    Chipman-Dwinelle papers

    Manuscripts

    A collection of approximately 435 items covering the years 1845 to 1943, which consists of letters, documents, and maps. The material is related to the defense of titles in the Encinal San Antonio-Alameda City land transactions; the law practice of John Dwinelle; the lawsuits regarding the will of Josephine A. Phelps; the papers of Fanny J. Chipman, daughter of William Worthington Chipman; and a few mining papers from the years 1862 to 1867. There are also materials in the collection by William F. Chipman, son of William W. Chipman and nephew of Josephine A. Phelps.

    mssChipman

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    Volumes and legal papers

    Manuscripts

    A collection of approximately 435 items covering the years 1845 to 1943, which consists of letters, documents, and maps. The material is related to the defense of titles in the Encinal San Antonio-Alameda City land transactions; the law practice of John Dwinelle; the lawsuits regarding the will of Josephine A. Phelps; the papers of Fanny J. Chipman, daughter of William Worthington Chipman; and a few mining papers from the years 1862 to 1867. There are also materials in the collection by William F. Chipman, son of William W. Chipman and nephew of Josephine A. Phelps.

    mssChipman

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    Volumes - Abstracts of title, Alameda, California

    Manuscripts

    A collection of approximately 435 items covering the years 1845 to 1943, which consists of letters, documents, and maps. The material is related to the defense of titles in the Encinal San Antonio-Alameda City land transactions; the law practice of John Dwinelle; the lawsuits regarding the will of Josephine A. Phelps; the papers of Fanny J. Chipman, daughter of William Worthington Chipman; and a few mining papers from the years 1862 to 1867. There are also materials in the collection by William F. Chipman, son of William W. Chipman and nephew of Josephine A. Phelps.

    mssChipman

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    Business correspondence and of Cave J. Couts b

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists of the personal, family and business papers of Cave Johnson Couts (1821-1874) and his son, Cave Johnson Couts, Jr. (1856-1943). There is personal and business correspondence, army papers of Cave J. Couts (1837-1855), accounts, land papers, legal papers, survey correspondence and field notes of Cave J. Couts, Jr., family papers, photographs, ephemera, and 250 maps.

    mssCT 1-2613

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    Correspondence and business papers

    Manuscripts

    Includes personal and business correspondence, business papers, account books and records, and printed material.

    mssChapman

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    Correspondence and business records

    Manuscripts

    This collection consists of business records, correspondence, and maps; the majority of which deal with the purchase of Boschke's Island (or Smith's Island) by the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Company from Albert and Martha Ellen Boschke. There were subsequent legal complications regardnig this purchase with the Southern Pacific Railroad Company and the Banning Company, primarily Joseph Brent Banning and William Banning (1858-1946).

    mssKC