Manuscripts
William Hayes Hilton sketches
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- Description
- Nine sketchbooks containing sketches done by William Hayes Hilton during his travel around California, Arizona, Nevada, and Mexico from 1850-1870. The most common subjects of his drawings are gold miners in California; San Francisco and Monterey, California; and Tepic and Mazatlan, Mexico. His sketches include people, churches, and landscapes, and in several of them he drew the indigenous people of California and Mexico as well as Chinese people in California. Several of the sketchbooks have loose sketches and are in fragile condition.
- Production date
- 1850-1870.
- Call number
- mssHilton
- Provenance
- Purchased from Rose Elliot, July 1949.
- Purchased from Denver Public Library, February 1950.
