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Vista, California

Manuscripts

Vista, California

Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1926-1934
Call number: mssCT 2600 (1-6)
Creator: Couts, Cave Johnson (1821-1874)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Mrs. Ida Richardson, 1958.

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Bandini (Family) (1856-1943.)

Couts, Cave Johnson, (1814-1882.)

Couts (Family) (1816-1898.)

Forster, John, (1815-1877.)

Griffin, John S. (1823-1906.)

Hayes, Benjamin, (1806-1895.)

Johnson, Charles Robinson. (1798-1871.)

Morse, Ephraim W.,

Pendleton, George Allan.

Robinson, Alfred,

Stearns, Abel,

Warner, Jonathan Trumbull.

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