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Sketch of the early history of Bakersfield and how it came into existence
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Map of Bakersfield and vicinity : showing property of J.B. Haggin
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Old shelf number: eph J4-8(1). "At Auction Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday May 14th, 15th, and 16th, 1889." Central Bakersfield. Verso shows "colony" lands for sale for farming lands south of the city. Submap: Union Addition to Bakersfield. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: See map ephMPCALIFT0064a showing lands for sale south of Bakersfield.
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Ridge route, Bakersfield and Los Angeles, Cal
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Image of the Ridge Route highway (also known as the Castaic-Tejon Route) between Bakersfield and Los Angeles, California, with an automobile coming through a cut in the mountain.
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Notes on the early history of Riverside, California
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James Roe's notes, which include a (separate) history of water in the Riverside valley and a thorough index, cover the history of Riverside from the purchase of land by the colony founders in 1870 to the arrival of the Santa Fe Railroad in the city in 1885. The three subjects most heavily addressed are the development of area water systems, the development of the citrus fruit industry, and local marriages, although the notes touch on everything from encounters with American Indians to the wingspan of a stray pelican at the park. Prominent figures in the document include John W. North, Matthew Gage, and Frank Miller; Virgil Earp makes an appearance in a confrontation between railroads. Roe intended the manuscript for publication, and two readers added notes to the piece before it was typed. The document is a typescript copy of the original, which is held by the Riverside Public Library.
mssHM 68688
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Early memories: [reminiscences]
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This photocopy of a typescript written by Herbert E. Lougheed a few years before his death, was for his son and daughter about his early memories in Los Angeles from the 1870s-1880s.
mssHM 80473
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Daniel M. Evans letter to editors of the People's Advocate
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In this letter, Daniel M. Evans, who was a journalist in London, England before moving to Stockton, California in 1879, is offering his services as a journalist to the Stockton weekly newspaper People's Advocate. The newspaper had just published its first issue and Evans liked it so much that he wanted to work for them.
mssHM 67908
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Memoir of Early Life to the Mexican War
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A collection of the personal and professional papers of Edward Davis Townsend. Included in the collection are official and private correspondence, chiefly letters addressed to him, military records, journals, memoirs, and a few photographs. Two journals cover the 2nd Seminole War from 1837 to 1838, and his service in California from 1851 to 1856. The latter was incorporated into a memoir entitled "A Trip to California;" both accounts are accompanied by pencil sketches. An unfinished memoir covers Townsend's life and career until the beginning of the Mexican War. The collection also contains a group of personal and political correspondence of Elbridge Gerry, including pieces related to his diplomatic and political career from 1772 to 1814, and the correspondence of Ann Thompson Gerry and Eliza Gerry Townsend. Also included are a copy of Samuel Auchmuty's 1761 sermon on 1 John 5:7, and contemporary copies of Jefferson Davis's letters to his wife Varina Howell Davis from 1861 to 1865. The collection also includes a spool of thread with a hidden note in it, 1861 February 10, and a cotton ball from the steamer Emma, which was loaded with cotton when its crew burned it at Fort Pulaski on August 31, 1862, to prevent its capture by the Union forces under the command of William B. Barton.
mssHM 41697